New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 8, 1918, Page 1

NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, S AUGUS] M.T.WHITEESTATE |GERMAN DEF FIGHTS WITH POLICE VALUED AT$82663 'NDER ATTACK IN PICARDY Wawzyk Carried Bodily Into Greater Part of Property Repre- s—— T S ==y Courtroom by Six Officers | sented in His Liquor Business. RUSSIA DECLARES WAR ON ENGLAND |British Infantry Strikes | g | gy o | o+ | England and Russia, according to a | @t Dflwn Tanks BATTLE ON WAY OUT, ALSO MANY ~ STOCK HOLDINGS| siocinoim. aue s.-mne nussian dishaich o' the Lokt Anseizer ot il ) — | = | that a state of war exists between | tion.” Cgeariflg Pathway Af Retailer In- ) Insane Man Will Be Bound Over to | ¥Wormer Wholesaler and Superior Court and Commitied | vested in Mamutaceuring Stoves 22| EYTENSION OF DRAFT SYSTEM ter Artillery Activity | : Asylum—D>Miss Cascy Now Expected| Well as Realty—Accounts Receiv- - to Recover. able 56,382.72. TO NA%’Y lS NGT DESH]QABLE FRENCH JOIN FRAY While Dbeing taken to the court-| The estate of the late Michael T. room at police headquarters this|White has been inventoried by Pa- R SOON AFTER START | Rear Admiral Palmer Tells morning Joseph Wawzyk, charged |4rick J. Murray and James M. Curtin, Licut. Roosevelt's Grave with assault with intent to kill Miss | appraisers at $82,663.44 3 i - . . : = any Found by American Flyer, Senate Commiitee Service With the British Army in France, b 4 (By Jfle £ 4 Aug. 8, (By The Associated Press.)— Giving the Germans'no time separate valuation of the liquor | With the American army on Has All the Men It Needs| Tn their offensive on the front east | their crushing defeat on the Aismesivi | Florence Casey of 80 Dwight street, | The appraisal does not make made a maniacal resistance just as he | was going up the stairway. SiX Po- | jjcenses in which the late Mr. White the Vesle Aug. 7 (By the Asso- of Amiens today the British have| |aunched a fresh blow against them 8 2 E E gains 1 lice afficers carried him hodily into the i clated Press).—On a wooden SR UR aken Hahner Wood, Dodo Wood, and = Rt courtroom and deposited him in the cross at the head of a grave at For Present. probably have possession of the The attack started at dawn today)on 34w prisoners’ pen. He was then hand- | Tremont street stands in the name of the edge of a wood at Chamery, towns of Marcelecave and La Motte- | €ast and southeast of Amiens. The French cuffed and two policemen sat beside | Mrs, White so is not listed as an as- | east of Fere-cniTardenois, is en-Santerre. British Fourth army are engaged in this new. offel him during the session of court. When e this inscription: “Lieut. Quen- Vashington, Aug. 8.—Extensio Tha line attacked this nihs et : A : . L ch el When | gt of the estate S it SR T Washington, Aug. 8. tension of The line attacked this morning ex- | js under the immediate direction’of ~Meld: . Marshal 3 Je e cmiored JratheRcel IEIoo ) The probate court has no record of in Roosgvelt, buried by the the draft system to the navy is not | tends roughly from the neighborhood Britisk ler-in-chief. s & " SEnin resisted and bad Io be eartied | " utstanding claims assinst the Cenians regarded as necessary at this time by | of Morlancourt, about three miles and | ©11ti1Sh commander-in-chief. i down stairs. Police officials are now,.| "o, =500 appraisal foliows: German newspapers an- the navy department. Rear Admiral|a half southwest of Albert, to the Both the Paris and London official statements annouhee the i | was interested. The residence more than cver, frmly ("(\H\\I:\](‘;y(% Rill stace, Beriia .$ 3,000.00 nounced several days ago that Palmer, chief of the bureau of navi- [ Avre valley south of Moreuil. opening of the attack and report satisfactory progress invits early ‘r)\w zyK’s ir R T e $00.00 | Lieut. Roosevelt, who disap- || gation, told the senate military com-| Details of the fighting are coming stages 2 : taken for his immediate committmen Bl o Thl e e e nitttee today the navy virtually I 10 the rear=lonivE (Golh et Ao A IEOkeEEs. Sk . e pre- | Real estate Allen St. peared z an aerial combat | o the rear slowly. “Going fine,” con =N S } 0 s e Sy TN A FlaIll b e ntes 1,000.00 on July 17, had been buried by all the men it needs and that enlist- | stitutes the best available informa- I'he field of the fighting is the scene of the most pronounced i courtRomorTom morinE R0 e s e the JGermans at Chamery, but || ments would not De affected by | tion. The British launched thetr—at- | German success in this year’s series of enemy offensives. It was that he can be committed 2 until today the g was not ||changing the army draft ages tack in a mist after only three min- | in the first German blow, delivered against the British front be- ¥ 1 following the stabbing of Miss Casev, | Liquor and fixtures, Rail- x‘m“:“]:’q‘” ‘,l\: b f[f.!::""ly‘;(z,;“'r’ AMERICAN STEAMER | s @ eolET R, tween Cambrai and La Fere on March 21, that the enemy broke % vn and was taken befors| road Arcade ....... 3 ] AN STREAR ! Tanks Lead the Wa; into the Allied lines and was not stopped until he had pushed the ter his arrest yesterday afternoon, mereial | St calmed d tion is in English. his vietim f dentificatio nd late 4 T Aanc xtures 283 i a t secrecy sur: - s : s . ¢ o 3 his victi iientinontiopamd e or o uon R ROt = i SUNK OFF HATTERAS| The sreatest secrecy surrounded | head of his assaulting columns down to the region of Montdidier. submitt 1 cxamination by the| Main St. beir three- plans for the attack. During the e 2 ! SR 0 Eoheoee el Rt Along the Vesle French and American troops have crossed police I behaved himself during| fourths interest AEEIET) A i ki = Al 2 : the night. This morning he appeared | Sherwood Whiskey cer Merak, Unarmed, Destroyed by Sub- | ed the British lines, but their shells | the river successfully on a front of about five miles between Braisne e e B AMER![IANS STHE %MiNfi ;i i were ineffective. An extraordinarily | and Fismes. North of Rheims, on the eastern end of this sector toward thencourtroom. Falice. offieers. Accounts Receivable - A4l marine—Bont With 18 of Crew [S1er Durber of tanss desompanlen | iLe French have moved 400 vards between the railroads running were about JustTEIVARZY Kk st Deposits, New Britain Trust Uy the storming troops, clearing the way o 7 g Unaccounted for. to Laon and Bethel. ed up the stairs he turned suddenly Co. M. T. White & Co. ; for them in the gray light of dawn e . : and put up a fight. The officers went | paposits, New Britain Trust AGR“SS RiVER VESLE Washinsion Ay S.—Sinking of | and helping to overcome strong British troops at the apex of the Lys salient have pushed for- to Officer Emglish’'s aid r\""_“"" \‘”‘\ Co. M. T. White, special 7 the small unarmed American steamer | POIntS: i 2 ward their lines more than half a mile on a front of almost five {\'fi,’\:\‘\;(‘lm ,\”':: e S Im‘:‘mmj{ ‘:;j""\'\“<""\"?“&T"‘f:‘ “l‘lm,x,\( by a German submarine off | l'l(‘ll?o:;“(nnflx" w"“;;_;:“;: ‘_rfr:'t'“lfl‘} 101:1: miles beetween the Lawe and Clarence rivers. Apparently the T e (e e oo s e A T SR SRR g e of Nt Qexoling s fre sl L e Som s They sainaq anf|BGerman! resistance fwas not preatiasiBicld Marshal Haig doesgnot but never completely freed himself. | :rtmar"-( ‘I\TU:\V?;'\ __m]‘ Ber Sent to North Bank to Sup- ’\)?‘W\Y“m‘] l‘\“\';‘,,”.‘.‘,y\ s fdementmest | b, 0|’v](mi\'os ithiin o ot and | report any heavy fighting. It is on this sector the enemy with{ Finally he was thrown down and po- 3 . have captured a considerable number | drew slightly several days ago. 2 [Totetane Mo DTS orces Previous! sida i ‘licemen grabbed him by the legs and 5 ort Forces Previously : i ) 5 e £ g i . e S e i e sl : | P New York, Aug. S§.—Information |©f prisoners and guns Thus far Marshal Foch has not thrown large forces to the carried him up stairs. He grabbed | T«.uil;‘vlnl,mlz‘ljml\f an l‘{:m Sent Over. {-!7‘< _<(1'r“ .\;:_\(«’l_{( \\\ ”.::‘;}f ];\\hm!(_ Froneh o Batte north of the Vesle. The units which have crossed are stretched railing of banisters and held on 2 SIS OGRS 1 P <4 tons gross, w sunk a Ger- i 4 B 3 z e Phe e T s e 1) L . 4 :"{,Lm,’ Xfy:‘x‘; Ll i z,.“‘_‘\\.: S IngiCon i 1,170.03 man submarine off Cape Hatteras on With the British Army in France, | 310Dg the Rheims-Soissons highway and are meeting with stub- B D L U R B SR | Tuesday night, was received today in | Aug. 8, (via Reuter's)—French and b»m'n resistance from German infantry and machine gun organiza- Wild-eyed and panting he finally| Co '.. e . 1,026. With the Amerfcan Army on the | marine insurance circles here. One | British tanks have crossed the Avre- | tions. Several enemy counter attacks have been withstood success gubmitted after handcuffs were | 10 Shares, it Vesle, Aug. 7, (By The Associated | ;w]nmll Imn!((l‘;m:nmm: 18 n‘\n';nh\"rs of | Luce valley in the new drive begun fully by the French and Americans who are striving to dislodge the : 1 E i fng- Trust Co. . The siver Ves | > crew still is unaccounted for. this morning. o . : . : enapped on his wrists and Officer Eng- [ Trust Co. Press.)—The river Vesle was crossed j W% Crew . e g H . enemy from the low hills bordering the river. lish and Officer Liebler sat beside him | 7 Shares, e e e The captain and 23 members of the German positions just south of the S el e and Rhei e e e e e | 0day BY | orew have been landed at Norfolk. Ancre river were heavily attacked by y ver the entire ront between Soissons and Rheims the age another outburst | 25 Shar Booth & additional infantrymen. West of The Merak, one of the former |the British. Their assault extended to | tillery duel continues intense. TChe Allied artillery has been Court finally convened after Assist-| Co. ............. A 500. Fismes the Americans are breaking | Dutch cargo u\\.;r{ which )\\'morlak(-nl the south ‘“.h”lo ;‘h,\;v v,r;]g;)( wing | aiding the infantry north of the river by breaking up some of the ant Prosecutor Woods had finished the | 20 Shares, Southern Pacific 2 up counter-attacks by German in-|OVer a few months ago by nited | joins the French lines. iree quar- { CGerman infantry attack Tnemy ouns i se 2 ar > pre ion of a minor case. The! 10 Shares. -Union Paci [tantry and are holding their srounal| Stites’ shipping board, was on her |ters of an hour atter the British at-| = i e G s L';““-“ guns in use appear to be only prisoner’s attendants assisted Wawzyk | 51 Share el reed 2 e : way from an American port for Chile | tacked the Germans, the French took | Of medium calibre and it is. u’I{uu] the _Germans have their i despite the enemy efforts. carrying coal up the battle. heavy guns north of the Aisne in preparation for an eventual re- seemed that he would again figsht.| Ohio o . | In suvport of the Amerieans who . N . The main weight to the Allled blow | tirement from between the rivers. ,Clerk Danberg read the charge, which | personal effects . .. .. .. .. had crossed the river Tuesday night Washington, Aug. §—German sub- | was directed against Gen. von Hutier's The French movement north of Rheims is local in character was interpreted to the prisoner, who and Wednesday morning a detach- | marines operating off the French | 18th army. A but any advance by t} Allie 1 i S ¢ stood, bleary-eyed and as if uncon- $82,663.44 | ment of infantry crossed the Vesle |coast on fug. 3 sank the small Amer- In the district north of the Somme | aS yet, but any advance by the Allies here adds to the danger of mefous of what was being said to him., o - junder a Franco-American barrage | ican steamship Lake Portage and the | the Germans are reported to have [ the German position within the angle formed by the Vesle and He did not plead and Judge Kirkham | { just before noon today. Two other de- | British steamer Berwind. A belated | launched two counter-attacks. The \isne rivers. West of Soissons, the other end of the sector. the = # . i ner < t s. : Sois 5 3 o sector, the ordered a plea of not gullt ENGINE CREW KILLED | tachments reached the north bank | official report announced here today |British artillery fire broke them 1D Germans are showing signs of nervousness and have carried out St ares: g sig sness and have carri to his feet and for an instant it| 3 Shares, Baltimore & Prasecutor Woods stated that the AhEnEliie ories oD told of the sinkings without details. | The prisoners taken by the British i e : s a police communicated with the hospital | TN WESTBROOK CRASH | The Germans counter-attacked the | The Lake Portage. of 1, gross are so numerous that they are having | tWo surprise attacks. Both were checked by the French. officials and tained that Miss : | Americans west of Ilismes this after- | tons, was built last year at Duluth, |difficulty in handling them. Berlin says that nearly 300 prisoners were taken from the sted an adjournment until August | Freight Trains Collide on Shore Line, | have advanced under & heavy fire and | GREENWICH MAY Paris, Aug. 8.—The allied attack on 2sgmansspatned andiost ihcitishiiront line positions. Regarding 9, which was ordered. No bond was | ) i ) in bitter fighting in which the men BEACH FOR BATHING |the Albert-Montdidier front today ap- y the fighting along the Vesle it reports that all Allied attacks have fixed Ten Cars Being Hurled off from overseas used their bayonet Greenwich, Aug. $—To have a pub- |parently was unexpected by the Ger- | been repulsed. Another Outbreak. | racke effectively. | A few Germans were | jjc bathing beach here is the demand |mans and many prisoners were taken. On the Italian front isolated artillery fire continues with some Because of the first autbreak the | taken prisoners while the others re-|of the townspeople who .in town One German division was surprised as| o ccessful work by Italian patrols in the mountain police were prepared for trouble and| New Haven, Aug. 8.—Engineer | tired. meeting last night approved of a r it was coming up to relieve the front ¥ Wawzyk was quickly controlled when | cjarence W. Dane and Fireman L. P.| The stiffest resistance now facing | olution which in effect demands that |line troops. = region. | kicked and struggled and was hard | Green, both of New London, were | vy Shoat (B AT BOEE oF ¢ is | handle. In the cell room he was | kilied In a rear-end coilicion of freleht | from & knoll norih of Bazoches, Here | 1o beach the - Comucetiout lesianiace | London, Ats 5. Bccording to ad- T ~ Epscinotilore enclas et e e e A SR s e e SR R sl R elihe o ol ess | T oncon TR e e s e edingiiad. INVASION OF HOME | Chiet Rawlings tmmediately | o gyvigion of the New Haven rail- | cOmpanies have dug in and are clins- | tnority to take land by condemnation § and British forces which attacked this ] Gale Uproots Trees, Tears Down tosee about Sprocuring i Testbrook last night, | .18 desperately to the hill despite the | proceedings. It was estimated that a | morning in the Picardy sector have Wawzyk’s committment to an insane | road just east of Westbrook last night. | yre of the heavy Allied guns. One | thousand persons were gt the meet- | advanced at some points to a depth of psylur Being a criminal under | The early report of the collision!of the American detachments which | e Shate i rharges, the probate court, which has | naqe to the company’s operating | crossed the river today reinforced the _ . A very considerable number of power to commit Insane persons Was' .. .¢ here falls to mention te|Americans along the Rhelms-Sois- | LONG RANGE GUN ATTACK lages have been captured in the Fran- Westbrook, Aug, S—Trees wers bl powerless to act and he submitted a | : ) { sons highway who are endeavoring to ON PARIS CONTINUED | co-British offensive, and _substantial called For Ordeal ooted, troll statement of facts to Judge Kirkham, | cause. Railroad officers are making | grive the Germans from the knoll, . N P! 3 o L e rooted, trolle oy e BoE RSt s 20 RAC R Dok SR e e ol e BN Ataone eneRpriEcniers i enfnvthol | IEaris fiAn s e o inerelivias fal fur news received here this afternoon. Reading, Pa., Aug. 8.—Thun, presi- | Fic light service out of cammis. brought into court tomorrow morning. | accident a sharp electrical storm was | Americans today were an officer and | ther bombardment of the Paris region e e | sion ana telephone service crippled by In the meatime a prima facie case|sweeping through the Saybrook Junc- | soveral privates from a fresh division | by the German long range cannon to- | Several thousand prisences have ; |@ terrific thunder and hail pgainst the accused will be established | tion section which is near the mouth | which has just arrived from the | day forees in their offensive in Pleardy, [at Wyomissing, and chief promoter | which swei Westhrook du for presentation in court and in the(of the Connecticut river. The storm rman front in Flanders. e == the Eveninz Standard learns with Henry J. Junssen of the textile |iNg the nig much rain fell but of probable cause being found | did not reach this city and was only INDUCTION FOR PAQUIITT According to reports received this |industries of that suburb, allowed an | 1€ Wind ble ga Several large premises he will be bound over | indicated by lightning flashes in a Joseph F. Paquette, who registered ies have lcantiiad | elm trees were blown down on Main DI SUNSTROKI. in this city and was called for seryice |2fternoor | : ‘ . Rhk . cil e fowia of Moreull s Demuin, ‘Ab mty jail the county sheriff can | 7he Railroad reports show that 0,| Waterbur. 8.—Thomas Leary |in the National Army lnst June, bug fiNe towns €f FiOCl (M0 B o : ts of his condition to the| p freight from Maybrook to Provi- | of Hoadley reet, Naugatuck, died atl failed to report, will be inducted into west of Cerisy and the heights south [ment agents, armed with search wa € tem down. A result no cars superior court, who can| genco passed Westbrook at 9:26 p.|St. Mary's hospital here ”]“I" Too .t rervies without eny formalitles g conyt {rants, on Wednesday. Mr. Thun ad a commission for the examini- |y “gollgwed by N. M. 10 freight trom |43 the result of the heat. He suffered | immediately. The second draft dis- News from the Solssons-Rheims | # tion of the man, and order his com- | |2 dunstroke fin | Naugaticl Syesterdayi] trict had hisdiasy addresst asiDewton, ||l 0000 oot 15 thatl o R Gare Sticrmoan and was pemoved 16 i Io- | Hemilton, Ta., but he did pof respond |02 (0L e north Bank of |cal hospital Jast night. This is tho|4o the notice sent him at the time. ”’” Vesle in considerable strength first death caused directly by the heat | Today a card was received from him, | Wires and Interrupts,Lighting and Reading Manufacturer Says Scarchers 2, Trolley Scrvice Duri Storm. Subjected His Wife to Un- wires torn down, elec- dent of the Berkshire Knitting Mills, interview today following the search v superior court. When lodged in 1k of clouds in the northern sky. ntervi lowing I ATCh | gireet, and falling across the wires of of his office and residence by govern- | the Shore Electric railway dr: running today between West mits various contributions to papers | g New Haven to Midway at 9:39 on the | same track. The collision of the ter with the former was between | Westbrook and Saybrook Junction. | The engine of N. M. 10 freight after striking the rear of the Providence —_— 3 " ) i train toppled over the embankment.| THUNDER STORMS TONIGHT. oS s hakin omalon TRl vy l | mittment to an asylum. That proce- ind periodicals which have been un- | i € dure vill undoubtedly be followed In somewhat rational moments w talks freely with the police. Fle still admits ownership of the knife and tells of having made it from a Fle while employed at the Corbin Berew corporation factory. As far as he- assault is concerned he says he l w.‘\ l'n‘!’h]‘nn‘ .\yxyurmy”n} J‘rw( }yw:m x:r) 12 cars were smasped, blocking tracks | cool New Fngland and the middle At- callection of having taken the knife | one of which was clearcd at 2:30 a. | jantic coast region, where the scorch | on i the federal prohibi« from home vesterday. He says he | m., so that traffic east and west was|ing heat wave persisted today after ||l Thunderstorms this afternoon { Auz. 8 (By the Astociated Press, 11 |we had any guns or ammunition con- |tion amendment Ratfcatibn: i does not know Miss Casey and there is | made possible over one track The | temporary relief last night through || or tonight. cooler. Friday a. m.)—A combined attack b the {cealed,” said Mr. Thun, “and they sub [voted today by fhe ho o SR night expresses were detoured by way | widely scattered wind and rain Il partly cloudy. e jected My Wife to an ordeal whicki |following favorable action early in t¥a (Continued on Sixth Page) ot Middletown, &storms. e e (Continuedton s MLk Eaxe) as absolutely uncalled for. iweek by the senats, e der the clo scrutiny of the govern r damage was doi i 3 with a1 and one reported in this vicinity giving his present address as Mag- |} " licveq to have destroyed. some ot with ¢ | large number of guns. They |ment but declares that all his giving | | was tor charity o y nolia, Ma f the bridges over the Aisne anc of the bridg ver 2 He declared that the worst about the whole affair was LOUISIANA RATIFIES THE PROBIBITION AMENDMENT, | His assoclates | Baton Rouge, La.. Aug. 8.—Louisi. | The crew were caught under it. Their | Washington, Aug. 8. — Thunder guns across the river = o ion aof homes of himself o riro ores it Immediate Success Scored. bodigs were extricated today. Ten of | showers are expected again tonight to | WEATHER | for New Britain and vicinity: On the French Front in France They went so far as to ask whether jana has ratified