New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 1, 1918, Page 1

'EN PAGES. 'FRANCO-AMERICANS LAUNCH BLOW A IN ATTEMPT TO OUTFLANK ENEMY T I ok (! GERMAN MOVE ON FRENCH AT LANDERS, FRARY & CLARK MAY BUY SPRING BED CO. erose s Y CRUSHED ONDER. e FALLING WALL AT FIRE Negotiations In Progress And Transaction I To Go Through Without Hitch. ‘ S Incendiarism S Fire At Yeast Plant In Peekskill. ~ uspected In | IDENT MINOR § DECLINES TO PRE TALK | Peekskill. N. Y., Aug. 1.—Five worl were Killed in warchouse today. | x wall, | ltl}lll’\‘rl: Stockholders Will { Report, Circulated Ao 2 which oved a Fleis Yeust Co. here were caught under a fall seriously blaze, which broke out at’ 1idnight was not under control growth of Naiional Wir L e & S otning This is the second fire within a week the plant. Officials suspect incen- dic ism. The warehouse contained 100 15 of cattle feed which also wa Washington o)y destroyed. The loss is $60,000 the s £ The firemen killed belonged to the Cordtlandt hook und ladder company, volunteer organization comprising members of well-known Pecks kil families. The missing men are Dr. | C. R. F. Greene. George H. Casscles, ! Louis Barmore, Clarence Tock- " wood, J. R. Silleck, members of the compuany i ' TOTDY. a of ar Valne fire dest Be Paid Por shares at Par Valne— hmann New Owners Expected to Fill War men we Contracts There—Concern is shting the and Co. Organized in 1868, purcl National Sprin Bed Negotiations 1 re now in but progres iave not progressed the point many where officials concerncd in the trans- il B action dai matter, Minor - t of John tional confirm el tia- | FLAMES BREAK OUT AGAIN AT HOD fire md of the nothin there given & this time, Whe cial ~ )¢ he atement “mith of Lan- | as out town rred Minor. the Na- in their tiations Kimball re I'resident Damage of $50,000 Caused by Two Som stockhold of tional Spring Bed (‘o Tires at Waterbury Hotel—Guests mplied 1 i : . Flee. vere in s and t ihe trans er of o The 1f he pur 1d pla quoted ho- bad- the v shin wo take e, Hodson's which wa Waterbury Aug. 1 tel. in Exchange place, ‘e 1y damaged by fire last night, wa of a more sérious blaze at 5 g place o'clock this morning. The trauble I utilized night was caused by an overheated | flue and the fire worked into the par Landc Frar rk ma slant wanufacturir vill cease ta be ' scene spring e tor: lildings will be for manufacture of war iSchneicler &WRubenstein Must | | ON’S BAKERY IS CLOSED | BY FOOD DIRECTOR | { Suspend Business lor 8 Days VIOLATED REGULATIONS Administrator Robert Scovill Finds Local Firm Guilty of Exchanging Fresh Bread for Stale Loaves, they were found guilty of overnment food admin- istration rules, Schneider & Ruben- stein, with a bakeshop at 105 Hart- ford avenue, has becn ordered to sus- pend busines three days, begin- ning at midnight Sunday. It is said that numerous complaints haye been made about the manner m which Schneider & Rubenstein have been observing the government regu- lations and the matter was finally brought to the attention of an investi- gator. He took the matter in hand and caused an investigation to be made and, it is understood, secured ample proof that the bakers were cepting stale loaves of bread in change for fresh loaves. This is in di- rect opposition to the rules of the food administration. Long ago the gov- ernment issued orders to all bakers forbidding the exchange of fresh Joaves for stule ones, believing that such a practice was contrary to the spirit of food comservation and would tend to encourage wastefulnes Because violating the g for AMERICANS FIGHT FOR CHAMERY, WHERE LIEUT. ROOSEVELT FELL Germans Use New Gas With White Flame and Smoke— At Barbed Wire Defenses. MOTHER OF WOUNDED BOY IS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL ole, mother of of Maple street. reported seriously wounded in action last week, has been removed the Hartford Hospital to unde o treatment for nervous shock brought about by the of the wounding: of her son. Mrs. Cole futile efforts Cross to learn the condition her boy, and has found that peysonal letter is the way that she will be able definitely to Mrs. Cole is resting fairly c fortably at the hospital morning. COTTON PREDICTION OFF 1,760,000 BALES| Drought In West Part Of Belt Forces Reduction Allies Pound Eugene who Cole, was as in France to With Aisne The A American front continued of straightening scored advance: American the Am n the (By anco- battle terday the process out the line. They in this effort, the pushing beyond Sergy to within two kilometers of Chamery. The Allied forces effected their progress against stubborn German re- sistance. Chamery Army 1, 2 Press).—The the on m i Marne Front, Au <ociated Er through the has made Red ferces on main of s only to learn as his condition. , the town now are approaching, { where Lieut. Quentin to his death recently plane. thePAsne marks the Roosevelt with his cans spot fell air- Allies Attack Barbed With the American Marne Front, Wednesday, July y The Associated Press.)— American and French troops launched an attack Wednesday afternoon from Seringes to Clerges, on the center of the Marne front, for the purpose of strightening the line and demolishing barbed wire entanglements which the Germans have placed through to the hills, forests and open places. The Germans Wednesday used new having a white flame Wire Lines. Army on the In Forec: Washington, # 760,000 Aug in the 1.—T.oss of 1.} prospective cot- | gas, bales Food Expert Called In. this week Schneider Rubenstein were given hearing by | State Food Administrator Rgbert Sco- | vill and upon the evidence presented were found guilty, The bakers main- | tained their innocence, however, and | attempted to explain that the loaves! they did exchange were in reality | hread made that same day Mr. Sco- vill immediately called in a food ex- pert: who after examining the loaves in question he willing to take aflidavit the bread had been made at least Today Schneider ceived official notice from of his decision and are On Tuesday of 48 hours. & Ruhenstein Mr. Scovill ordered to re- materials, | flue Clark will ! titions and out anew this morn- 1t of the , ing used to cen- The hotel of the |other guests and all were awakened outside and left the building without A large share of the damage and dining v been remodeled, and th 7 7% ltotal damage caused by both fires Utilities Co., | tot# : : manufietured | estimated at not less than $50,000. zave employment | L IS SMOKELESS POWDER AND MAGAZINE BURN La Fray broke »r the governme I make f building will probably be was filled with actors and New Britain ts of the ity ralize in some company madc at once {accident. lis in the cafc had recently produ months ago 1 & | purchased the National Electric Danbury. This electric rar and 50 people three ders, Frary business firm o about rially in mate ur- Clark o iting rm & g0 owns Colum- of manufacture wnd novelties, ) 30 operators 1 elec- Pounds of Explosive - The Half Million | Destroyed at Du Pont Plant at ed about four years | Caruey’s Poi Deal Will Go Aug., 1.—A mag and its contents, 500,000 pounc smokeless powder, at the Carney’s plant of the Du Pont were burned about 12:5 loss Chrough, Wilmington, Del.. azine ‘ of he contemplat- confident of the deal interest« etion are the e Point ion of Powder Co “lock thi approximattely Wi lacks the National paid for re. The stock market The $150,000. » report, waich con- of son morning causing i 2250,000. per- A motor on railroad, standing become o which com- A motor freight car illuminated and the stock of at o injured. car a narrow in front of heated gauge the Tocal magazine, caught municated to the building car and another small were hurned. The the sky many much apprehenson and fire \pitalized at tiona Bed (o., e city list is for $99,100. | at $40, mechanical flash assessed in plant for miles causer estment 1 aused $15,000 ire: President, John T3 = - ille; treasurer and sec- CERTIFICATES GO PAST MARK SET BY 8$84,750,000 tto Burckl lirectors, Minor AT Otto dt and Judze John H. Kirk- Lrdt Sloper, Washington, 000,000 block debtedness; closed two was oversub- scribed $84,750,000 making a total of Aug. 1.—The 5 of certificates of subscriptions to 00,- in- The late principal losely vas one of the days ago, Ri ring Bed ( was the old National hich was organi ding was invented | Long Sleep For pation of the 2,183,835,000. All federal districts except Richmond, Atlanta, Minneapolis and Dallas oversubscribed their tentative v Fourth Liberty Loan reserve Villiam 1. Fie o it uotas manufa It elobrated Another nnot of the certificates will treasury within 2 issu by be lay or (wo LIKUT. BOYAN GETTING AT BATE OF 6 PE M HOUR Paris, " Aug., 1.—Su five additional torics, thr which Lieut. Bovan lias gained aerial vie- were won in spapers re 29. Lieut string o n mir the new nd | i port M Lietoris (Captinued on Ninth Pagze) . which | which | certificates now outstanding in antici- | close up their business at midnight Sunday and to remain closed during Monday, Tuesday and \Wednesday next week penalty. as a | PFirst Drastic This is Action Here, the first time that any New Britain food dealers have occasioned the food administration any serious trouble and it is the first time that such drastic steps have had to be | taken in this eity. Schneider | benstein is one of the largest | firms in the city tu- More Trouble Today has been a bad t For Firm, | | Schneider & Rubenstein, for | day for not only have they been ordered by the food administration to suspend business days, but also they were | defendants this morning in a lawsuit 1 $1,500. Property has been i tached on a writ issued by Lawyer M. D. three at- Saxe. | The plaintiff is Samuel Abrahamson | who claims that the hakers have vio- lated their centract with him. He | sets forth that on October 18, 1916, bakers agreed to sell him bread and other foodstuffs at 75 per cent. of the retail price, and that on July 9 of the present year they declined ve him any more articles for sale The writ is returnable before the superior court on the first Tuesday of September. the s to YERATERINBURG FALLS, ks Take Important Town In Province of Perm. The town in the province of Siberian border, has the Czecho-Slovacks, newspaper Investia Czecho-Slova | Amsterdam, of Yekaterinburg, | Perm, near the been taken by according to the 1 of Moscow. With this new development of the Czecho-Slovak movement the Bol- i shevik aising cries of alarm. { The Pravda declares the Czecho-Sio- vak danger is growing like an aval- inche and that the counter revolu- ionar movement Is extendi Aug., 1- press is MORI: CARGO SHIPS, of made | ton crop, due conditions in cotion belt, today principally the western especially in in the department agriculture’s August 4 ing the e 619,000 equivalent compared with 15,32 July Tast s brought artillery, having into their action aviators | patrols reported mile of ! . [ mile of barbed wire standing fore- | ihe German lines. The heav : soon found the range of the {ments. Some infantry had behind the wires, bul the the most part manned chine gunners. The German sisted chiefly of was 1. |ond 106 The machine guns, with ¢ tho | the heavier pleces indicated were ac- 707 1ive in an effort to prevent an Allied of a normal, the previous|advance. and the ten year average| T1® Qate 77.0 { F'rench attack which is in a north- e { easterly direction probably is for the 073,000, | purpose of outflanking the Wood and cutting off the blunt edged salient in the line between Romingny ‘DEATH OR VICTOR e land Cierges. This salient was made BOIAS}IE‘7IK SLOGAN i'nl(vy'«" acute by the American morth from Cierges to their and after along guns entangle- dug lines i | smoke. to droughty 1 ™ gy " () part of the! Texas, was | 12V shown production timated 500 pound 5,000 bales op at bales, . in for ma- for were b month Y 85.8 the per condition cent of a normal amounted to 11.- and the average for 1912-1916, The condition last year of cot- fon was : o artillery reply shells from the last con hales rop 54 the five ha Jul, crop on eent was per year 72.3 that The this year is 3 purpose of the American on is planted to the crop advance Seringes. French Repulse Morning Attack. Aug. 1. attacked “Mass Terror” Program Adopted at T Adopted a Paris, he Germans the French the region of Bligny Rheims. The attack was re- vs the official statement to- the war office. ) morning tions in west of pulsed, day from Meeting of Lenine and Trotzky Adherents. Moscow, July 31 Amsterdam), Aug. session last night main committece, the Moscow coun- cil and the labor organ tions, in which 2,000 members participated Premier Lenine and War Minister Trotzky spoke and the following resolutions were passed: “First—The socialist (via 1—At plenary of the executive Berlin to a Enemy Lic were Actillery lon, Active During Night. Aug. 1.—The German guns active Jast night in the Somme | ragion Villers-Bretonneux, to- ¢ day’'s war office announcement shows. Activity also was displayed by the enemy artillery farther north near 3ocquoy and in Flanders, In the Mer- Meteren sector. near fatheviand is in danger. econd chief tasks at the present are the repulse of the (zecho-Slovaks and the obtaining of grain “Third—The most powerful agiti- tion must Dbe started amongst the Jaboring classes (o explain the gravity of the situation “Fourth-—Vigilance he creased againstithe bourgeoise. everywhere are joining revolutionists, The Soviet ment must protect itself and end the bourgeoise must be placed under control and mass terror put into practice against them. “Fifth-—The general watchword must be death or victory, with mass expeditions for bread, mass military organization, the arming of workmen and the exertion of all strength to fight against the counter-revolution- ary bourgeoise.” The moment Little Rest For Germans Paris Aug. 1., (Havas)—In the fighting on the Soissons-Rheims front July 15 to July 31, the Germans used 45 divisions, according to the Kcho de Paris. Many of these were used sev- { eral times, being brought into the fight after a of only one or two days. mugst in- who counter sovern to that the y rest Quiet On British’ Front With the British Army Aug. 1, (By the Except for the in Flanders, Associated laying down of rages here and there along the and the usual harassing fire both sides, the front this was quiet ba line from morning otch Perform Gallant Work. HOLD INTERNED SLEaMbiG With the French Santiago, Chile, Aug. 1.—Difficul- | Ayg, 1, (By the ties have arigen in the chartering of | (saljlant work wa three interned German the |ificht dixisiohd which Memphis, Alda and Westphalia, | tp¢ French and which was arranged by Adolph Ortu- | \uek on west zar, who had contracted for the Mem- | jj,0 pelow Soisso This division Army in ssociated Press) done by the Scot- participated with Americans in the at 1 pivor of German France, steamers, 10 TUGS, CONTRACTED FOR. Witshington, Aug. l.—Contracts additional steel cargo ) tugs were awarded last week by fleet corporation the announced toda steame Shipbuilai cight and the ship- Four- will 10 emergency ping board teen of the built by the Seattle, and be cargo s Ames the other Shipbuilding I | i i i n 4 | z teact fons Beach Cal. phis with the intent to ship saltpeter nposed of famot Rizhinna and i lowland regiments, entered the Il relicve American division 1t took the three days of traveling in miles with full packs. its place on nights lories front after sant WEATHER. S o \ march of ten The Scots im \ttack Hartford. \ug, 1. —Forecast for New Britain and vicinity Generally fair tonight and ¥'r daxy: warmer i the canduct mediately m an Germans front of the has highest from the French generals hack drove on somew division for the = —— ment that, if a wide sector @& Soissons-Rheim They have d side of the vill the Americans push and approached CI#4 Although the ax straightening out of thes really is secondary to the's ward. The enemy is hold and St. Gemme, where his™ the Marne, and a continued a would force him to fall back to esca This seems to be the only sector when ing with their infantry. Reports from the artillery fire along the most of the line betwe Rheims. . The Germans attacked the Allied line on the Bligny southwest of Rheims on Tuesday night but were The methods adopted by the Germans since their re from the Marne began are being followed by the enemy a line of the hardest fighting. Machine gunners, for the m man the lines. This may indicate a further retirement of mans, for machine gunners have borne the brunt of t and | and | Meuniere | this | posi- | south- | guard fighting during the past two weeks. Along the British front, the German artillery has bee The enemy’s heavy guns have carried out especially hea bardments at Villers-Bretonneux, east of Amiens; near I on the northern side of the Picardy salient, and in the n hood of Meteren and Merris, on the western side of the Ly Allied gunners are hurling shells of all i German positions and in the communication area the Vesle to blast a path for the infantry when they The enemy is retaliating with high explosives and gas she What the infantry lull portends is not cl are many. But the fact stands out that the Germans ¢ anxious to meet the hard hitting Allies oftener than is ne or they have not taken the opportunity to counter-attack tempt to re-take important positions on the center, held calibres ir north ir. The | move tiremert long thd ost part the Ger he rea n active] vy bom 3ucquoy | eighbor] S sector.| 1to the ward to again, yossibilities) ire not cessary, and at- by the Americans and on the west flank in the hands of the French and British. This may bear out the opinion in some that the Germans fully intend to retire to the Vesle or bey soon as their plans have been perfected and that the enemy of the past three or four days have been wholly for the of covering important movements As long as they remain south of a line running g between Rheims and Soissons the Germans are subject to bombardments from the Allied which can demorali communications more or less However, the bulge in the guns Allied quarters ond, as efforts purpose enerally violent ze their salient has been lessened and the Germans are on higher ground than formerly. But at two vital points—Seringes Rozoy—there are deep indentations in the German line points offer good “jumping off” places for the the French when they again are ready to move forward On the whole, the most significant straw seems to failure of the Germans to attack when they relaxed momer Berlin, while reporting the results of the repulse of and especially American efforts Tuesday on the Marne bat admits the loss of Merris to the British. The German claims that the prisoners captured in the fighting since now aggregate 24,000. The latest un-official total of ( taken the Allies was 30,000. and north o )y $308,696.72 IN TAXES Tax Collector Loomis® Report Shows their | lament An Increase of $61,536.08 in This yeare Contemplates Recalling Collections, - Unfil Situa Bt ev Be During nfil Situation at Kiev F in July tax col lections taken Bernadotte A. $808,696.72 536.08 by Tax Collector More Settled lL.oomis amounted e S London Aug., 1 gain s in templating the $747 —German An which over that taken when the figures On Tuesday ot lections amounted vesterday they General brought Sewer is a recall of were thi to i von the 1 the Mumm from of from ra week th $506,000 $192 handing s to totalled 500 bassado the Ukraine for July $796,089.93. tax coliections pending the clearing up of the taxes (7 ek i tion in Kie according to f amounted street improvement assessment brought in $1,652.71 more and street sprinkling collections were 083.22. This is a substantial in department of a year ago to §$3,920.86; | change Telegraph dispatch Wedne retary had the sterdam dated day T Foreign Se von H increase ong message the says a every over record | with the amba on Wednesday Austrian ter the lor from th ind then rec With sending the Uk possibility BONAR LAW ASKS CREDIT OF 700,600,000 rounds reinforcements discus to ed London, Aug. 1—In asking for a vote of credit of 700,000,000 pound in the house of commons A Bonar L. exchequer drew L said the ¢ the due largeness of to the amount was that no be finaneial increased cxpenditure i Ya pondent son s lioved, one vote the said would of the rey than befare peasants resistance th to ‘German are characterize necessary end Veai! 2 Americans war o the f Grand These and be the ntarily. Allied, tlefield, ce July 15 rermans GERMANY MAY BREAK WITH THE UKRAINE Ambassador "comes v is con<j nbassador and the am- Berlin situa- ine in an Ex- rom Am- intze, the interview e Ukraine eived the the lat- military | line were are tricts in Kiev dis- of Ham- ph corre: The organize usurpers'