New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 6, 1918, Page 1

CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, AU(‘;UST 6, 1918. *TENrP;(EES. ESTABLISHED 1876 AMERICANS IN FISMES STANDING TER OUR CASUALTIES IN MARNE BATTL 'GOL. WM. P. BAGON R FRANCO-AMERIGANS | AMERICAN SOLDIERS (L in PASSES ON AT 811 PRESS OVER VESLE |LAND AT ARGHANGEL IN RMN []F STEEL Allied Navam{fitary Forces Reach Russian Port on Arciic 498 ON CASUALTY LISTS; 358 ARMY, 140 MARINES Total Thus Far From Marne | CORP. G. C. WELD IS Veteran of Over 50 Battles of Battle 1,213 and Since| SERIOUSLY WOUNDED the Civil War : : United States Entered War — {Germans Foiled in Attempt to b, 00, e T e conmmiee var | CLASS SECRETARY 60 YEARS | Clar North Bank of Allied Sol- | CHEERED BY THE POPULACE | “7iher movemed S Prince Rupprech: i ey Graduate of Yale in '58—Manufac- diel‘s Ahead Oi Mflm CO]UHH]S London Rcports Event Taking Place | To the British he: é Washington, Aug. 6.—Army and ) rensive azainst : Ifarly in the great offensive agains e on August 2—Washington Tearns | canal in the apex o For 3 —Prominent Citi- i i the Huns Corp. Gardner C. Weld,| turer and Author—FPro British are organizis whose homie is on Park place in this | ,on__puncral Will Be Held Thurs- PERSHING HOLDS FISMES Tosn T aAsasens s g oratchce ito of the Somme in Picaf lic today by the war department num- ]«-n\. received serious wounds. An offi- State Department. Heavy artillery dgf rines, This brought the total since the | | McCain’s office in Washington con- Colonel William Plumb Bacon, of ]N FACE OF ARTILLERY s e PR llannonncss the Vesle. French 3nd‘ ¥ = i ment was made today of the landing s, P i, toll of victory began to arrive yes- | ) . Y L crossed to the north e terday to 1,213 and the number of |veved the news to his family last even- [ 50 Lexington street, aged $1 years, s of Allied forces, naval and military, orth of ti : = e RanE i and. | reconnoitering expediti all casualties since American forces |ing. The officlal information is that| died this morning ‘at the Hartford |y, Reported to be Center of Fighting at Archangel, on August 2. The land (_‘ - i ! \‘I C_Q!UO!_‘I first landed in France to 16,409. i hospital and his death removes one . S| ing was in concurrence with the | prevent these incursions. The army casualty list today shows: : mm—— of the oldest Yale graduates of Con- | on Solssons-Rheims Line—Encmy | Wishes of the R“sstlm; B ons | Which is held by the Amegi led In action, 3; dled of wounds necticut, a well known veteran of i 5 stated, ‘and‘created ‘general “en—|l e} German gunne Siled s gad Sl anbhe the Civil war and one of New Brit.| Turns Loose with Flame Projectors | thusiasm. ot German gunners and they g ¥ wounded de- A 'he Americans, however maintain theif —Critics Say Crown Prince Must| Washington, Aug. 6.—The first of- [ Sent patrols across the river at this poing, ' ficlal report on the landing of Amer- Tl Aliedlcasitaiciic ; Py ican and Allied troops at Archangel pitals it is not believed:the/Germ! tho hospital two weeks ago. Ranks. reached the stato department today | Will attempt to stand long on the northern bank of§ Sergeant Claude A. Stephens, An- . In the Civil war, Col. Bacon had through diplomatic channels. The dis- | Soon will retire to prepared positions north of the A% rRon BN G B Corno i Malraiminc i e Al e Paris, Aug. 6.—Narth of the Vesle | patch said the populace glrc(:lcd the | Vesle line is capable of being outflanked without much feffor | Jarticipated in more than 50 battles |the Germans have been repulsed in | troops with great enthuslasm. it would seem the pz is r the end I . 1 ore 50 ba v eem the part of wisdom for the enemy to withdraw to { behind the Aisne. _ General Foch has given no indication of his plans. The ! activity along the Vesle lends color to the opinion that he is not N B A T l yet through with the Crown Prince and that the Germans be- i, tween Soissons and th!nu»\\x]] have to give more ground. Around the ends of this sector of the battleficld there has | been little activity, although it is from the regions of Rheims and No Desire to Harm Industry | * m.sgl(‘nj.\ that 1'1‘\n]‘\mh movements will have to be launched. ‘xcept for occupying 1_hu ground given up by the Germans along the Ancre and west of the Avre, the Allies have made no move against the enemy on these sectors. = That the retirement from west of the Ancre was not an isolated move is shown by the withdrawals along the Avre and from the La Bassee canal .is marine corps casualties in the fightin on the Marne-Aisne salient made pub- r I 35 3 ay o * Private. bered 498—358 soldiers and 140 ma- | oo\’ telegram from Adjutant-General| @y @nd Will Be Priva wounded sever Srea nrdeternitned o, o ain’s leading citizens. Col. Bacon had not been in rugged health for a few years but his final illness was only | Give Further Ground with Shattered three weeks' duration. He went to Killed in Action. Krabtree, Toppenish, Wash.; Edwin H. Jelley, Wood Haven, N. Y.; Bill & S and engagements. He served under |efforts to dislodge French and Ameri- R Walters, Thealka, Ky.; Mechanic . o ; General Sheridan in the Shenandoah |can units which crossed from the []E EXEMPTI"N Theodore Sprice, Bay St. Louls, Miss.; | Ei . Valley, with General Grant before |gouth bank. The official statement| Privates Tony Albino, Brooklyn; Lo - Petersburg, was in the second battle |rrom the war office today also reports Frank Altobell, Berlin, N. I1.; Edward et g of Bulll Run and ‘fought at Gettys-{la8tranah advance o) the Avre! north F. Fowman, Wheeling, W. Va.; Stanley : R LR burg. He was with Pope in the Vir- |or Montdidier, F. Briot, Tonasket, Wash.; Francis X. | & @8 | | ginia cumpalgn and participated in | Prisaners were taken by the French Conley, Philadelphia Jesso TL Cot- | [He 5 i i the raid on Richmond in 1864 With [in the repulse of a German raid south- trell, Sonol Glen, Cal; Andy L. Es- 3 S J | Kilpatric. He was also under Gen- |east of Montdidier slinger, Danville, 11.; Wiliam &, Guin, fa KRR 3 3 : eral Wilson in the Virginia Central : Ink, Ark lsrnest C. Hartman, San | S s 3 railroad raids. Amcricans Cling to Fismes. N L]‘[O:' Alt‘\ ': \wv\- \]Vlw'nn mu] 1“: s.~, o 5 o SR i Col. Bacon ans an author of no With the American Army on the B Calhng Necessary ‘coperstown, .+ Albert S, John- TS B ¥ g g mean repute. ie was forthe past 60 |ves] Aug. b 3 e As ate ston, Homer City, Pa; Maxwell 1. | QU R el Yeiin dhorelaryl o) o ivaIN Aot e s o e asenciated Workmen to Arms. Katz, Worcester, Mass.; John Kelley, % o : 1858 of which he was a member. He [onto Fismes and all other gains, not- Ol Detroit Mich.; Robert Kelley, Flan-| [ LR was the biographer of the class and |withstanding tervifiic artillery action Washington, Aug. 6.—Broader pro- dreau, S. D. Bruno Korasciewiez, | Bercay, Ohio; I'red Marten, Onaga, Kas.; Michael J. Nee, Shrewshury, Mass.; John Nemchick, South Bethle- hem, Pa Russell Parr, Encampment, Wyo. Mike Polenski, I’hiladelphia; Harry Rhoads, Iteading, Pa.; Frank Schafelke pleton, Wis.; Daniel K. Shedd, Manchester, N. H.; John H. Tatro, Harrisville, R. I James W, ‘Williams Bangor, Me. Died From Wounds Received in Action Corporal Harold E. Simmons, Worcester, Mass.; Privates Percy M. Brothers, Randolph Center, Vt. Clyde Colvin, Kevil, Ky.; Willis I ,Chamberlain, Griswoldville, Mas John Seraphin, Hartford, Conn James V. Welr, Litchfield, Conn, Severely Wounded. 10 severely wounded include iptain Roland G. Findlay, Houl- tary of the class, he was presented ger, St. Paul, Minn.; Willam E. | | States commussioner of education for published books for the class in 1865- 69-83-98 and 1908 In 1908, upon the completion of 50 years as secre- with a handsome loving cup by sur- viving classmates, who assembled for the annual reunion in New York. The graduating class of which he was a member numbered 104 members and now there are less than 25 living. Among the number were some of Yalo's most distinguished graduates, including such men as Josiah Williard Gibbs of New Haven, who was one of the three or four distinguished math- ematicians in the world at the time of his death; Daniel Garrison Brinton of Pennsylvania the noted ethnologist; the Hon. William T. Harris, United seventeen years, the first beneficiary of the Carnegie foundation for ad- vancement of education; Fred Hewitt, who died last August, bequeathing by the Germans and in face of every opposition threw patrols across the, Vesle at several places. French troops to their right and left also moved pa- | trols across the river, the German a tillery failing to stop them American parties also crossed the river west of Fismes early today. Oneo over the river the men dug in or found other cover along the banks, The Germans have made strong ef. forts to dislodge the Americans from is the most active along the whole the Vesle to enfilade an advance into Fismes. Several German artillery men also were captured The Americans who captured TFis- mes were members of the same organ- ization that occupied Coulonges, Co- Fismes. For the time belng that point | the words ions for exemptions have been written into the new man-power bill, now before congress, so that the nation’s war industrial fabric may not be upset by unduly large withdrawals of men over 32 years of age for mili- tary service. Provost Marshal General Crowder, appearing today before the senate military committee, explained that he had deemed it advisable to substitute occupations and employ- ments” for the word “industries” used . in the existing laws in the section af- In the capture of Fismes tho Ameri- | fecting industrial exemptions. This cans took 17 guns, With their crews | would make possible a more liberal theso weapons had heen left south of | interpretation of the law and prevent the induction into the army of many men performing essential work at home and vet not actually in indus- trial occupations Senator Chamberlain said it was the purpose of the committee to investi- Crew of British Schooner Lands in Flanders. In the north the Germans withdrew from the canal in the region of Pacaut Wood, northwest of Bethune. This position marked the German farthest point west in the L alient. Else- where on the western front there has been no activity of im- portance. ’ Resumption of the bombardment of Paris by enemy long range cannon was followed Monday night by an attempt by German airships to raid England. The hostile aircraft did not succeed in getting far inland. The bombardment of Paris continued today. SUNK BY SUBMARINE IEARL OF READING i ARRIVES IN LONDON Nova Scotin and Describes Suc- . British Ambassador to United States cessful Attack by U-Boat. Goes Home to Confer With “the apparent change ‘of front™ A Canadian Atlantic Port, Aug. 6.— ¥ Me.; Lieut. Haroid . Bidwell, [he was “seriously wounded in action | half a million dollars to Yale, two | han and Dravizny during the advance | &3te r Cabinet tford, Conn.; Sergeants Ray C.|July million to the New York Post Gradu- | north from the Marne. on'the part of war department offi- | The British schooner Gladys J. Hol- | ,Ames, La Grange, Me.; Emmanuel H. Corporal Weld is a member of Com- | #te Medical school and hospital and a The Germans increased the inten- | 1318 land has been sunk by a German sub- New York, Aug. 6.—The Earl of} Pr w, Huff, Pa.; Corporals Al- million and a half and his residuary | gity of their artillery fire opposite the Che committeal desires ol ascer | atine) The crow. which landed! to-|| Readine, British ambassador, has ar- van ickman, Skowhesan, Me.; estate to the Metropolitan Museum of D[ ke el 102 e, Bt iy Samuel Donnelly, Ambler, Pa.; Clifs | While serving in the common council | art jn New York, and Addison Van | jon guns of 150 Millimeters against ford A. Lara, Lebanon, N. Il; Bug- {as representative from the Third ward | Name, & brother-in-law of Gibbs, val- | qof 5L C (70 G CEERCTE, P8R ler Herbert A. Bailey, Nashua, N. H.; |ne saw his patriotic duty and in ten- [ edictorian of his class, who recently [ oo oo™ S ™ imang employed Privates Arthur C. Appleton, Man- retired as Hibrarian at Yale after for- | gun ' toiectors from the slopes north chester, N. H.; Hower Beaulne, ty \.\'"'“5 of »\f"‘“'“‘(_‘ T 1 Lot the Vesle, where they appeared to Lynn, Mass.; Thomas Berry, Phila- Much of Col. Bacon's time was g, .. oeconized. Machine guns also delphia; Forest G. Boutwell, Mea- FRantyiniinterestinsfnosesnchiv onib N A el encatedls dows, N. H.; Francis D. Carrigan, connection with gencalogies and he Thetiim e I e e e WortedlertiMuns’ Mases (Tl Gl as the author of numerous pam- | s s gl > L. Cilley, was the author rous Pam- ;o ted to a heavy firo from German phlets. In his research work Col. Ba- ) AL War 105's and late in the afternoon the|ilargea army program being worked sta- enemy raked the hill tops with va- | out could be presented to congress rious kinds of gas shells. The hig gun| General Crowder told {he commit- duel soon hecame so violent thaf ob- | tee today that he did not know the pany B, 101st Machine Gun Battalion. Americans today, bringing into a (TR By i 0 e day at a Nova Scotian town, said the [ rived In London, it was announced draft bill passed when before there |attack took place yesterday morning. | here today by the British bureau of 15 no hur When the question of A Canadian Atlantic Port, Aug. 6 information. His mission is to con- tending the draft was before €on-|ge,ich was made In Canadian waters | fer Wwith the British war cabinet, it! gress in connection with consideration 2 was stated the army appropriation bill, Sec- | PV government vessels today for a Ger- During his absence, Colville Bar- retary Baker and other war depart- |man submarine which since Friday, | clay will be in charge of the British ment officials told congressional | has destroyed five sailing vesscls and [ embassy, the bureau announced. Sir e 4 rh”;‘\w ot 1”“. Wraft | siandard Oil tanker Luz Blanca, sunk | Richard Crawford will continue in ages was undesirable until an en- charge of commercial affairs s ’ kel e SR e ‘rn\”xu ‘1‘ commercial affairs and Sir{ miles off the coast of Nova Scotia [ Fioroaeoabineton S el ch, S aarAEIES Two hoat loads of survivars of the | '!&h commissioner, will be in charge Luz Blanca torpedoed by a German | of the British war mission in the submarinc yesterday were brought into | United States this port foday. Among the rescued £ A L The G aR TR Washington, Aug. 6.—Lord Reading born in Westfleld. Col. Bacon was | German positions observed during the | men for military service. R e u e sl left Washington qujetly recently and y Gray, Lebanon, N. H.; Al- | T D ber carsen, Dorchester, Mass; | ZEPPELIN DOWNED born in Middletown and spent the | day. ) - o Walte Houston, Penacook, N. IlL; | carly years of his life there. After = = Instructions to Gov. Holcomb. GAPT FELSTFDT WRITES port. Correspondents were informed PEllip © Jaodlies) Ekinner, Me RAIDING ENGLAND | graduation from Yale he spent a year | Believe German Position Untenable. Hartford, Aug. 6.— Anticipating . ] { of hls movements with a request that Frank W. Jordan, Washburn, Me.; abroad in study and then settled in Paris, Aug. .—German resistance | passage of the new selective service | e they ‘bo given no publicity. Thera Willlam J. Lawrence, West Fitchburg, - — New York and engaged in the stock | north of the Vesle ix being continued, | law which will extend the dratt ages | . Lo any T Appreci. | 138 been No announcement ag to the Mass, Arthur M 'kief, Lawrence, | — 4 ; orgp, | MArket business. For twenty-five | says the Havas agency's review of the [and require the registration of large | {OMIMaNC OIMpaNY DDLCCA | nature of the questions he is to dig= ) David bideu wshua, German Dirigible Brought to Earth | voap he was very successful and was | battle front situation today. The Ger- | numbers of new selectives, the draft ates Gift of §100 From Athletic | €SS With the British war cabinet. Leonard Roswell, alls \'“; the owner of a seat in the New York | mans are trying to prevent further |[authorities at Washington today ad- vl b o PARIS JEERS HUN SHELLS Conn.; William M. Ward, Mor stock exchange. Allied crossings. Military critics agree | vised Governor Holcomb to preparc Committee of City. Utter Contempt Shown for Long dering his resignation said that he felt that he could best serve the govern- ment at this time. Company B, which was formerly |Troop B. Cavalry, was in the thick of the fighting. Private A. S. Wellington jisi S e, geiviendall Clough, | ¢ pittsfield, Mass.. wha enlisted from Contoocook, N. iL; Fred J. Davis, Al- | {japtford, Brivate William A. Bruton | con delved deeply into Civil War toona, Pa.y Roscoe E. Doane, Glouces- | of Hartford and Private Paul 3. But- | tistics and his papers were of inter. sor i Willlam W. Dooley, Paw- {ler also of Hartford, who were killed, | €st Seen Col. Bacon was the son of William of Gunner ] Mid- | servation was difficult and maps had | reason for the haste but that he was | tu seph A. Hgo, Newark, N..J.i |ivera battalion comrades | to be used, the Americang picking out | merely carrying out orders to get the | Herman L. Foster Athol, Mass.: |[yweld Walter Bacon, who was born in H Gauthier, Laconia, N. H.; dletown, and Jane Plumb, who was | soon afterward set sail for a British and Sccond Limps Back to Base risville, Vt.; Warren L. Wheeler, Or- Badly Damaged. Col. Bacon came to New Britain | that the Germans will not be able to | the registration machinery before leans, Vt.; Harold White, North An- from New York and for 17 years was | remain long in the region between | hand. Aover n Wallace H. Williams, | London, Aug. 6.—In last night's rald | gssociated with his brother-in-law, | the Vesle and the Aisne The first week in September, it is | man of the athletic committee of Grafton Center H.; Herbert Wil- {on Engand by German airships one of | the late John H. Wnittemors ot anu— Hanks, | (HOUEBE, will seo the new resistration [iha war Duveni, 1 o tensipt or 50 rckman, N on craf a Zeppelin, was | gatuck in the management of the | Crown Prince Filling Holes in Ranks. [ inachinery in motion. Plans for it | 3 o/ S e o S 3 . H. Crowell, Sa- |the enmy craft ppelin 2 e i W oo e s e ey {mn-.- oAty botnlibesunll They: willl {otter rrom® Gantaln Felstedt, Range Gun—Public Sits Outdoors Neilly, Brad- | " Lo change of ownership i “‘I”T MT. | Aug. 6, (By the Associated Press)— [be so extensive that It has not been | Pa.; James W. Rogers, Bangor, | nounced toca Bacon retired from active business. | o Gep srown prince now is en- [though lvisable to wait for the ac rited States 1z v ance e ;. Fagnora0. Swenson: Wordestar || Anotheriof the (ermantairshine wast|lsroess b ottt o e 85 ekt ol o nan s [ (o e GermAN ferown, DXin s mdl”‘[!“ t i th Nl b bboaee. | Dnima cines Inisnb Uty famagetybu P orobablyiay ceced e Bl BT vin g th el GIV I v sl C ol iBaton (a1 s e s e R i s S | B G o ot in other statc j reaching its base served with the Fifth New York Cav- | (¥ 3ot Men e B0€ B 0 recruits, | the governor will be the central au- | Ielstedt Kulpmont, I Dan De Roche, Mont — ulry He was commissioned a lieu- | 0 opinion of Gen. Mangin, whose | thority of the ministrative system | 100 from the commitiee and gives | long 1 ell in the Paris regiop mouth, Me.; Krrol F. I . Brown- |FALL CAUSES LOCKJAW, tenant and battalion adjutunt October | oy, & 2v ™ (o M ittiant part in | of the new registration, through tne ° o o o8 BT R EHE B umpti the ville Junction, Me.; Ralph W. Ham ENOCH HILL SUCCUMBES. [ 6, 1861, and in September 1862 Wus | ¢ cing the German retreat from the [executive officer of the draft. mhis [ HSUEEE - 5 . ' | bombardment this timetwas: & nd, Holden, Mass.; George Keltos, i Egpe promoted to be rezimental adjutant. | 0% 08 means that Major John Buckley will | company fund for the use of the boys [ uetly what the population expected y City; Charles T. Miller, Por New Milford, Aug. 6.—Enoch Hill, [ o nonthy later be became a major Some of (he German divisions | supervise the whole work in this{in I company, most of whom are |the Germans to do. Despite the ine Me.; Roman Rozek, Westport, |68 years old, a farmer, died at thelang jn March, 1864, was promoted to 3 LS = state. from this city clement weather scores of Earl G. Stevens, Whitefleld, | Danbury hospital today from lockjaw. | be lieutenant colonel. He was honor (Cottintied on Niwth B Al draft boards already existing | | S G | indifferently on the terrace Wagoner John A. Colbert, Re- |15t Tuesday he was taking In his [ ably discharged September 12, 1864 : will supervise the registration. For DS en Sk sates >~ | the cafes saluting each sl rivates Walter A, An- | * The Bacon ramily, of ~which the ((,*; = every town and ward of each city, [ CentY mel Captain Whitney Judge William F. Mangan, chair- brought dawn, it was officially an- ! commanding Company , 102d and Makes Caustlc Remarks, Paris, Aug Contemptuous smilos and jocular remarks greeted the first explosion of German gaged in reconstituting his Mas Corporals Warren Carberg, | | Under the date of July wtaln | umbridge, Mas Anthony Chesney, i acknowledges the receipt of 1 caustic comments hay, the helper being on top of a load Expressions of rage and Lowell, Mass.; Krnest L. Bar- " colonel was a member, fought in the new registrars will be appointed, and | mander of Company [, and th Bedford, Mass.; Charles A. |Mr. Hill got a glass of water to hand By reason of his WEATITER. it is anticipated that one and one. | taln of 1 company stated that third as many registrars will be re- | trench phonograph was received by [ when it became known that quired for the new registration 1 [ his company and was greatly appre- | where in the vicinity of Paris women were employed for the registration | clated. Because E and I are In dif- [and children had been murder Tune 5. 1917 ferent battallons there is no opDOr- { tonly by the shells Detailed instuctions are @xmr,mlwnny for an exchange in the use of | The German long range bombard. to come latar. the machine, ment of Parls was cor revense soon were however some- Revolutionary ‘war Philadelphia: Raymond Car- |to his hetper, standing upon_a ladder. | ancestry he was entitled to member- Lebanon, N. H.; Henry K. P.|He was thrown to the groUnd when | ship in the Society of Cincinnati of Worcester; Irvin Chaffee, |the ladder slipped, his left wrist be- | Connecticut, his grandsire having u eter Cooper, |ing bLroken and an artery severed. | heen an officer in the Revolution. e Polsoning set in soon after. Mr. Hill leaves a widow. Il Hartford, Aug. 6.—Fore- || cast for New Britain and vi- \ cinity: Fair tonight and Wed- { nesday, continued warm | - | (Continued on Ninth Page) it ed wan of Ninth Page). inued today Yai L)