New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 19, 1918, Page 1

o GESTABLISHED 1876. NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY . SEPTEMB]%R 19, 1918. ~—TEkN PAGES. ALL FIGHTING ME MUST LEAVE OCT. 10 72 Men Called Takes All Eligibles, <Exclusive of September Class GOING TO ‘GR_E-ENLEAF, GA. In Addition to This Call For Gen¢ Service, Seven Mcn For Army Work Are Going On ber 2 On October N Britain duty 10 man in rery wvailable for general militar those who 12 exclusive of tered on September and who now receiving their for final Camp This means that from th classification, will be sent t Greenleaf, Ga., for 47 be district, men will second while will go from the first. In addition t four second district limited service will October 2, while will go from the this call, special t I't. “Sloc in this district Last quested him of the and g0 im on class £ firs week the general the adjutant local boards to total number of registrants available for general serv ice. “The first board reported of 2 while the second board ed 47. Today's call fakes of these,men, leaving only tember 2 re to later. a report on Ser calle 1 i every the ants be District Soldiers. list of men from not yet been second district to Second The complete Afirst district piled, but in following men leaf th the will th be sent Registrants of 1917. 24 Maple St Salvatore Squillace, 189 Oak Hadfield, 41 Clark Hubert Reynolds, 10 Center Harold T. Marth, 435 Stanley John Schroeder,” 202 Hartford Harold Sjolander, 343 Church St. Christopher Rategan, 3 Pearl Ct William Jurgen, Judd Ave. June 5, 1918, Class. William McMahon, Hotel Paul Zink, care of tion Cq Str George Tvor Johnson, St t St. Charles Bronsor Commercial § Fitzeimmons, 30 Union S Starzeneerkj, 115 North § 79 Pleasant St. 107 Ann St tos Karalis, 98 . Joseph Harol George Conn b Rollins, Krech, den Claus town Edwa Clarence Banner, Walter Wojak, 4 Rich Holleran Michael Butler Fre 76 Prospect St +10 State rison ed Johnson, Conn. Reinholdt. 49 st. 166 Park Union™ St. 1 Belden St Stanley S Main St St ast B Linden Stanley South 79 705 154 erick Moore, Harold Robbins, Albert Perondini, 8t. William Harry Cronin, 1 Harold Steed, 12 Carl Holmberg, Carlyle Perkins, 605 East 3alincki, 91 hurch August 21 Registrants. Norkum, 312 Church St Marz 178 Oak St Gube 103 Brighton Mass McGrath mond McKnerney, Main St. Hartford Cherry St. Ash St Wilbur, 17 34 Ave. 70 Steve St. Frank Attili saul Allstor John & Ra le t Joseph Paul Koslosky 0 East St. 1184 Fairview St. Winter St. 36 Silver St 79 Smalley St 1082 Stanley Lawlor St. 476 Quarter. St St 137 hio, Crosby, Francis Kory Alexander § Horwitz, Gussman, erry ward St M Anthony P Sinkiewic 1B Stanley Howard Guning, 37 Elm Christian Hepp, Wilson ¥rank Cazzetto Hartford rence Sandstrom, 400 Park Limited Service Men. four limited or spect men who have called Fort ael A xe ] 20 110 Av St. « The ervice the cum 8 heen ond district to g0 to October 2 are Harttord Main 8 Schenect on John Croston < Geo Rolf, Nil Mi John d Pleasant St 91 Hart Erickson hael 154 Tohns St FIRED ON. Norw rne-Bjornse Belzian reli t o Norw ha RELIEF STEAMER Copenhagen, S 1 The eamer ic nst th avrived gian or n the commission, B pian 4 ‘fired sutside war the Betlingske Tidende. for repalrs ing German e, according port npon the ar Special Octo- - regis- e questionnaires o service. sent o men for o three t re- advise 1 total e d com- e Green- Ave. 1 Berlin Construc- t t. t. Meri- t. t. Main Main St. Ave., Stan- East St. e. al in Slo- n of heen submarine to SENA tion of po tivities of ordered to he directe that the Washingto | unprecede | fuds, influ and obtair | of | It is alle ting :he{ and the merce an facturer's brewing a terests ha ganization enator Washington, | advertising { citizens and even government congress. to sub-organiz TE ORDERS INVESTIGATION OF BIG BREWERS’ ACTIVITIES resolution the judiciary and it was adopted by with little discussion. Charges re- cited in the preamble cover a wide | range and are based on evidence un- derstood to be in the possession of the department of justice or its agents. The action follows the publication here yesterday and today of state- ments by Arthur Brisbane, editor and owner of the Washington Times, disclosing that to buy the Times, Mr. Brisbane was furnished $375,000 as a loan by C. W. Feiganspan, a brewer, president of the Newark N. J. fed- eral trust company, acting for a group of Mr. Brishane' satements were in answer to editorial discussion of an assertion by A, Mitchell Palmer, alien property cus- todian, that the brewing interests had bought a newspaper under the shadow of the capitol. authorizing an committee the senate troduced a inquiry b; 19.—TInvesfiga- Sept litical and propasganda ac- interests was It the brewing the senate. will 2d particaury at charges brewers have bought a newspaper, contributed nted Sums campaign enced newspapers through contracts, paid money to officials members day by n to red pledges from ged the brewers were alled tions, among them De- ferman-American Alliance, tional seiation of Com- Labor, and the Manu- Assocation, and that the ssociation and brewing in- ramificatios in other or- As! d an ve Jones of New Mexico in- But Ita cept Rome, & 1 Austrian 1 { ernment 40 a confs of the graphic a Stefani governmer the opening st agenc: gested t It the agency sta { ment Y poir posals see! peace consistenc practical ¢ The agen tions t i Austro-Hu by ernments, “the inig Litovsk opening a “The United St tinues, “hi for the e peace. Or note ys remark a tions. “Until shows itse special gen which Ttaly ai ¥ will Justice.” In a lor reflecting ficials, if Correre ¢ should be larations, “The o ne the Alliec doubt tha Berlin. bu return to The note of milita that the them, wh Allies’ pe I dn 't peace, no continues. ask It with r proposals, was pope is when ask Howeve matic vey from would it desir entation. if VIENNA [GNORED ROME IN PEACE NOTE PLEA document News negotiations, concessions and seek to make binding and definite of impossible. B the lasting pe; Vatican Organ Sces Teuton Cause Lost organ of the Vatican, declares Austria undoubtedly With unsuccessful, peace ? to act one | AMERICAN AIR KING SHOT DOWN BY HUNS Lieut. Putman of Newton, Mass.,, Was Credited With 12 Victories. lians Would Not Ac- Proposal Outlined In Press. With the American ept. 18.—The Itallan gov- ! Lorraine Front, Sept. 19. (By the As- of the!sociated Press)—First Licut. David 1ot invifing the belligerents | B Putnam of Newton, Mass., Ameri- {can ace of aces, was killed late Wed- erence. exvept for the -text | giong the American lines. Lieut. Putam was fiving with Lieut. | Wendella Robertson of Fort Smith, Ark., when they were attacked by seven German machines. Four of made for Putnam's airplane | three attacked Robertson's. The was sudden and unexpect- | ed and the enemy was able to fire | from above. | Lieut. Putnam through the, he glided to earth at Limey within | the American lines, where he was | { found by his comrades. Lieut. Rob- ertson returned safely Army on the has no knowledge carried by the tele- semi-official The by for ations as are sug- | text. the | gencies, | i Agency announces, it, however, is indicated y to be in no mood wh the text nesot un-official the is correct, was shot twice itement, the Italian govern- His machine | nts out that k create art. Austria’s semblance of pro- to a real of without any y or the possibility a sutcome. Lieut. David ant of Gen. ed with 12 | listed as an German gov-| oitq flying territorial | his E. Putnam a descend- Israel Putnam was credit- aerial victories. He en- aviator with the Lafay- squadron and brought [ down first enemy machine on | January 19 1918. He was awarded the ¥rench war cross on March 23, after having won five victoriies in the air. He later was decorated with | the military Medal by the French government. Lieut. Putnam was transferred to the American aerial corps as first lieutenant early in June. Hig achieve- ment on June 10 of bringing down five German airplanes in one day has heen eclipsed only once during. the war, Aviator Rene Fonck of the French army having destroyed machines in one day. Lieut. nam’s last aerial victory was r ed on September 2. TURKS RECOVER BAKU City Awarded to Russia Said to Have adds that recent declara- men at the head of the cy | he | ingarian and which bar any by the Central Powe of Brest- Bucharest,” make the any useful negotiations uituous treaties nd the | con ntente nations and ate: the statement ave made known their terms | ssential basis for a just 1 these points the Austrian not a word. The same pplies to the Itallan aspira- Put- the Austrian government port- elf disposed to recognize her as well as the other particular objectives for Allles are jointly fighting. continue to struggle for ace founded on Liberty and ms, nd a Been Wrested From British Force s taken as Vatican of- himself, the semi-official ng article, which the views of not the pope I'Italia, the by Sultan’s Army. . Paris, Sept. 1S. have taken Baku, according to a Basel dispatch quoting a telegram | from Constantinople under date of September 17. It is pointed out by the Temp that the treaty of of Brest- Litovsk left Baku to the Russians, ! but that this does not prevent the Turks frbm continuing their advnce. Turkish troops > more explicit in her dec- 10 subterfuges that the note carries show the des- sed of peace,” the article here no need for secret when President Wilson already have set forth 1 conditions. There is no at the note was inspired by the cannon of Hinden- we will now see the subtleties of diplomacy. is equivalent to a confession ry weakness. Lt sign fatal hour has begun for en they must submit to is from Constantinople vould seem to indicate the British | have suffered a reverse in the Baku region. It was reported on August a |16 that British forces had entered | Baku having reached that city from their base by the way of Persia. No | fighting in the Baku region has been reported recently This report is a the EARN 82,000 PAY U. S. ace. he offered articls do they ask 1916 they it,” the spirit year W they “But in what res All Persons in Country Whose In- t the Vatican rence subject of peace , that the preference of the such matter only ed to A0 so by both parties r. it was added, if a diplo- yresentation were received of the parties, ingui made of the other party red to receive such a repre- stater w today, come Reaches That TPoint Must Pay Tax of $10. in a Washington, Sept. 1%.—Exteasion of the praposed special war tax of ten vear on business or occupa to include all persons in and trades earing $2,000 was reported by the comittee. so as ions annually ways and means ouse { FIGHTS DESPERATELY TO CHECK A EPIDEMIC OF SPANISH INFLUENZA EXPECTED HERE BY HEALTH CHIEF nosed and Dr. H tendent of health, that he honestly looks forward to an epidemic in this city but hopes, by precautionary meaures, to keep it well within bounds, Two cases of Spanish influenza have F. been reported to the board of health and each case has been put under Moore, superin- regulation quarantine. The | ated this morning patients, both soldiers home on furlov from Camp Devens, we ricken the disease after they arrived at homes here. They are Private Samuel Weiner of Willow street and Prive Anthony Czuprenski, of Silver ree It was stated at the Vatican toda there e other cases in the t1 have not yet been reported ROWLAND PROMOTED TO MAJOR AND OTHERS TO 2D LIEUTENANTS NORWALK MAN SHORT 32,000 IN ACCOUNTS gh with their - Hartford. Sept. 19.—Thirteen cases of Spanish influenza had been report- at the local board of health up to noon today. None was reported as partict serious. Many more are expected city ly or . New Britain Men Come Back From Plattsburg Wearing Gold Bar After Course of Training, Chester S. Sclleck, As Bank Cashier, Approved Own Accounts As City Official. W chemi Rowland, formerly head at the Stanley Works who left several months ago to enter gov- ernment work, has been commis sioned a major and will be stationed at American University in charge of small. scales work experimental sta- tion. Major Rowland’s home on Lincoln street Emory Corbin and Clesson Parker have been awarded commissions second lieutenants in the United States army, having completed the prescribed course at the student army training camp at Plattsburs. Lieut. Corbin is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert F. Gorbin of Vine street. He graduated from the High school in 1917 and last year studied at Dart- mouth college. He has been assigned to the students’ training camp at Syracuse college an instructor. Lieut. Parker is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton A. Parker of Vine street. He graduated from the High school in 1916 and has been a student at Middlebury Academy for two vears. He has not received his camp assignment. Three sons of 19. Chester As scrutiny of Selleck, Norwalk, Sept the treasurer accounts of of under the first taxing district, charged with mis- his charge, now arrest appropriation of funds in shortage has Probably the be finished been will come Candee proceeds the $39 apparent 000. will not Selleck reached ex- £ untit bailed up on amination tomorrow. in $7,500 and his case before Judge Nehemiah September 23. The annual meeting taxing districts were held last night but the electors of the first district merely agreed to postponement for two weeks upon a statement that there were no figures ready. In this connection it became known that leck. told Fred S. Buckley, clerk the district, a week ago, that owing | to a shortage in his funds he W unable to prepare a report. Mr. Buckley notified the district commis- and after a meeting they saw Selleck. As an outcome of that in- terview an officer was sent to Sel- Jeck's house vesterday And a warrant served. Selleck has Judge W. T. Tammany for counsel. Selleck, as cashier of the County National bank, approved own accounts 2 the district treasur- er. His hond of $12,000 held by the bank, the commissioners understand serves Selleck’s surety treasur- er. has of the three t a sioners Mrs. Mary Kerwin of 3 Sexton street are doing their bit ! for Uncle Sam. William J. has been commissioned as a second lieutenant in the chemical warfare service re- search division in the small scale mfg. section of the American univer- sity experiment station, where he is also the purchasing agent. His brother, George, will enter the Cath- olic University at’ Washington as a student for an army commission. He graduated from the High school last vear, completing the four years’ course in three years. To his class- mates he was known as the class in- fant. Both boys were formerly em- ployed at the Stanley Works, William as the buyer and seller of machinery and George was in the electrical de- partment. Sergeant John F. Kerin, who iss in the medical corps, sailed overseas last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Nelson of 140 Jubilee street have received word that Louis G. Nelson, has been promoted to be a second lieutenant. Lieut. Nelson was among the first draftees that went to Camp Devens in September last year. He was in training for only a short time when he was promoted, being made a non- commissioned officer with the rank of sergeant. In June he was transferred to the officers training school at Camp Hancock, Georgia Previous to his induction army he was employed as a by the New Departure Mfg. Sristol. William F. Lamb, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Lamb of Park place, has been commissioned a second | lieutenant in the army and is spend- ing a few days in this city after which he will go to City Collegze of New York to act as instructor in that school in the S. A. T. C. Lamb went from Syracuse to the Plattsburg training camp which opened this summer and is one of a class of 600 second lieutenants graduated. This is the second time that Lamb has donned the uniform. Last year while a student at Syracuse he en- listed the American Ambulance | Corps and was sent to France where he drove a KFren army ambulance 1 six month returned to this country in the early part of this year. \While in France Lamb drove his car in the thick of the fighting and at all was but a short distance be- hind the lines. Leo St. Thomas, formerly of this city, who went to Camp Upton several months with a draft increment, Fairfield his as as SERBS SOLD INTO SLAVERY Thousands of Prisoners Turned Over to Turkey by Bulgaria, Austria- Hungary and Germany, Claims. he gov- docu- ques- Paris, 18 Serbian ernment in possession of ments proving beyvond possible tion that thousands of Serbian oners have been sold slaves for specified period to Turkey by Bul- garia, Austria-Hungary and Germany, according to a Balk agency dis- patch from Corfu. The prisoners, it is stated, were de- livered to contractors who arq en- gaged in work in Asia Minor and Anatolid. Tteys said they were sub- jected to terrible treatment and that thousands have died from typhus, cholera and hunger. Sept is pris- their son, n in the foreman Co. of BACK Gotsard Arrives in City Tresh From Game of Hun Driving. FROM FRANCE. Pvt. Private Gotsard, member of the Twenty-third United States Infantry, regulars arrived in the city this noon for a visit with his uncle, Charles | Bohnert of 262 Hartford avenue. He has just returned from France, hav- ing been detailed with other gmerican army camps. Private Gotsard was first of the American in France and wears indicating a full year's foreign soil. He has been trenches and over the top ent occasions.- Personal iences are very carefully evaded b the strapping young soldier, hut he is loud in his praise the American sport of pushing Huns. Private Gotsard has been In thé United States army six year | | among the troops to land his chevrons service on in the on differ- exper- in of He the times P Sept. 19.—Fore- Britain_and Hartford, cast for New ago vi- on as | | ance encountered by ' Fren ers of Ba Britig into the Cambrai tl The enemy'§ 30 mile front St. Quentin 3 In Macg the Serbia enemy now has tinues. How &eérious| w? burg line by the /British the strong counter-attal British lines from Gouz exteniding the battle linie nea the front attacked Wednesday against bitter resistange toward ported to be in thefmature of a stores and villages /in his path. ditional prisoners so fast has been tHeir advance. villages have beenf reconquered driven beyond Rasfmbey on the Prilep, the immed{ate objective. le British Capture 8,000. With the British Forces in France; Sept. 19 (By the Associated Press. Field Marshal Haig's forces up te midnight last night had captured a total of more than 8,000 Germans as the result of their drive of yesterday jon the Cambrai front. Several thousand vards of the Hin- denburg outpost line was in British hands this morning in the Villeret sector, southwest of Le Catelet. Forty guns were captured by the British yesterday. In the 8,000 pris- oners taken, 23 German regiments in 11 divisions were represented. French Near St. Quentin. Paris, Sept. 19.—French troops last night continued their progress in the region of St. Quentin and pene- trated the German positions at Con- tescourt, three miles southwest of St. Quentin. Australians Surge Forward. London, Sept. 19.—The British last night made further progr in their drive into the Hindenburg line in the St. Quentin region, aimed at the en- circlement of that town, according to Field Marshal Haig's official state- ment-today. In a continued advance north of Pontruet they reached the outpost positions of the Hindenburg line The Australians renewed their at- tacks and carried the Hindenburg outposts. Many prisoners and a number of machine guns were taken by them. The town of Lempiere was captured 1t is not unlikkly the Bulgars will continue their st to the improved road running th roadl‘railway and cangl—three important ene T'he Bulgarian gétreat from the Serbo-Grei flight and the enemy The Allies have captured " at ind war material which have not been counted, A score or more and the Bulgarians Cerna river, 15 miles *of Serbias havé gheen sou th’vg}flv retirement at east and west through Prilep. s was Gauche Wood. (Lempiere is| four miles west of Le Catelet.) The Germans late yesterday started 2 heavy bombardment on the nopthe | ern'part of the battle front sotith- | west of Cambrai, between Gouzeat- | court and the Arras-Cambrai road. | The fire was of extreme intensity. The enemy followed his bombards ment by a strong infantry attack on a wide front northward from the vicinity of Trescault. He was coms pletely repulsed af, points, with great was He heavy asualties he launched when north of Moeuvres. that al | driven off with soon afterwards a strogs attack Some German. parties at points in entering the British trenches were en- tirely dispersed with counter-attacks, succeeded Bulgarians in Flight. London, Sept. 19.—The Bulgariangf are in flight in Macedonia and are| | burning stores and villages, according to a Serbian official statment received here. i The Allied troop now have advanced more than 12 miles and their progress is so rapid that they have not been| able to count the prisoners and war material taken New regiments thrown in by the Bulgarians have been forced to retreat with the othe The Bulgarians completely, the are pursuing them a The Serbian and have tal th Potshisht I Vitolishta and have t#ken the Kamem defeated rbian troops and night. n troops of Topolets, Melynitsa, They also Kuchkov have been and Se ¥ town Rasimbey. 1cight en of LOW SPIRIT IN GERMANY Prisoners Assert Public Ts Discouraged and Country Ts Hard Pressed for Man Power—NMorale Weak. on the the As- be- bat- With the American Larraine Front, Sept. 18, sociated Press.)—Five prisoners longing to the Fourteenth storm talion, were captured by the Ameri- cans northeast of Woel today. All| agreed that even these crack troops | are discouraged by the Franco-Ameri- can success They declared Ger- many is hard pressed for men, and that the low morale of the German army was the reason that the resist- the Ameri Army 8, (By ans was not stronge: One of the prisoners, a socialist, said the civillans in Germany are dis- couraged and look upon the struggle as a capitalistic effort. He said the German troops mated the Americans equal to Germans as they were in 1914 esti- the KAISER STILL CONFIDENT O} WINNING WAR, HE DECLARES 19 To union Amsterdam, Sept the Christian Metal Workers' Essen, Emperor William, according to theh Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin, hus ttelegraphed his gratifications their avoval of unshakable lovalty the emperor and the empire. He confidence *“that with God's help to voiced the ECONOMY EFFECTED BY NEW R. R. METHODS About $36.000.000 Saved in FEastern District, Regional Director Smith eports to McAdoo Washington, Sept. 19, - Coordina~ tion and consolidation of facilities and trafile district: the esti- improved methods of handling into effect in the eastern put since the government took over railroads, have resulted in an mated annual saving of In General approximately reporting this today McAdoo, H. that dis- had been $36,000,000 to Director Smith trict, said another result APPROVES 14 POINTS Allied for service regional director improved of the chan Committee of Inte Labor Cons« fere Recommends Endorsing Wilson's War Program. t. 19.—The Internatione tee of the Inter- rence today made a| that the con-! the fourteen President Wil- policy of clear- Londor relations comm 3 La conf recommending 1 Allied repo ference thus subscribe formulated by adopting is home a 10 days' furlough, tonight and to to his family. After cinity: Fair Friday owing iln . | (Continued on Ninth Page) united strong will of the entirc man people, ready for all will acomplish the attainmeat happy and free future.” rifices, of a nd mc dictated war map. as el opposed to, a changes ration exclusi policy the