New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 21, 1918, Page 1

FIOM TrT P S x x 3 % » NEW BRITAIN. CONNECTICUT, :PTEMBER 21, 1918. —TEN PAGES. SAY HIRED GUNMEN HELD UP GAMBLERS Theory of Revenge Advanced in Connection With Robbery AUTHORITIES AT 0DDS Was Prosccutor Gibney Says Crime Committed in Mcriden and Chief Bowen Calls It Berli Offense— One Present Lost $600. T so-called sit of the highv Lake $1 aymen to the silver club, resulting in a about leved to of a clean-up of $1,500 in cash and $1,000 worth of jewelry, is be- have been at the instigation poor loser, who lost money in the The unar gambling games of the piayved there. members the club are almost mous on point. They be- lieve that the disgruntled loser came to the conclusion that 4 the he would “get ind hired gunmen to make visit There are some, however, who be- lieve that the gunmen are profession- als who are visiting the places exclusively. They do « itate any h tage with A few like sort Three not hes. at risk, ving advan- of an their pairs RuNS weeks there wa on a club in New men dropped in and procedure was practically iden- with the action of the visitors Silver Lake club. The New York gamesters recovered more quickly than the Silver Lake club members and rushing out complained to the police. The New York police- man the complaint also used rounding up the party and marching them to the police st “Why don’t you go after the wailed one of the men un- 7 policeman replied: fellows and there’s lit- of getting them Come They went Providence equally gunmen ago a it Yorlk tical to the receiving his head tion thievc de I'v tle irrest got you At was the another ful made such In each comfortable job succes caso a The who man with was upstairs were contributing oftering himself the big bank roll while those below to the robbers is congratulations. It turns out that he was the president and manager of the club and his in the upstairs room was accidental. One of the pa- having his roll settled the couch in the library. president was annoyed for two 1f he played the house per centage would be larger and presidtnt preferred to room to presence pure trons, los himself The reason be in watch the pro- his comfortable made a sarcastic individual and went eral 0 as Finding occupied he to the ceedir couch a remark aloft Some big fellows 7 could easily of members they dared up” the club were and had have “‘mopped robbers. Two of the biz the party lost the heavie: shimmering light of them $600 the hat and then nearly fainted. The other tried to save hi gold watch. But he didn't. Then 395 forthcoming. William H. Gibney of Ber this afternoon that no complaint of the hold-up was made to and denied the incident with the Meriden police. “Its a question if the place where this thing was in the town of Rerlin He entertains the theor was the result of to ‘“get the men in In the passed st st one nto more was lin said him he occurred said that the t of a he job poor loser A Meriden paper ester- day the effect that man and woman of that city, whose police declined to divulge, that they had been held up on the North Colony road, which is also the Berlin turnpike. The po- lice Investigated and found an land 7-passenger touring car on the of which wasa New Hampshire No 22,084 In the was registration card i to McReel, Exeter, N Bowen of the Meriden said thi fternoon police Jdepartment case only insofar to co-operate in The place took place in Chief that to the had los with said morning story to T carried a names t complained bod 1i Albert B Chief partment e Meriden car ted H nse nd a wa interested in the a is always re the where the xaid plaint ment the officers punishment of crime. hold-up is of the Bowen no com- depart- Berlin, He also added had been madc One man who hold-up had talkec Chief Bowen { there were not many Meriden in the party. Most of them were from Mew Britain, he claimed town money po that men gaming | the | the gen- | they i that he discussed | Oak-' police ! that | ! | | Kaiser'’s Hopes Wrecked, Cause Lost, By Allied Victories in Six Months o today the great began. For weeks to perch on the the Allied Six months a offensive emed | (By the Associated Press.) | man | tory { banne | the ascendancy | Germ oday Anxiety and encouragement, depres- and joy, have succeeded since at’ dawn on March 21 battle of history began. has been a period of almost ince: | fighting and of hewlldering changes in the situations that developed from ! day to day and from week to week. The Allies knew they faced Ger- many’s mightiest effort last Harch, but stood unafraid. Released hy the abso- | Jute collapse of Russia as a belligerent | power, vast numbers of German vet- | erans had been rushed to the western ! front and been given intensive train- ing far the offensive by which the Teu- | tonic war lords dreamed that they { might force upon the world a German | peace. Germany made no secret of | her iatention. Tt was known great i hodies of men and tremendous stores munitions had beea concentrated | at strategic points behind the German [lines. Tt was known where the | Germans lauach their first at- | tack, and for weeks before March 21 the of the Allies had been fixed lon the long curving line from La Fere to Arras as the stage where the first [:I(" of the great drama would be enact- ed sion other sreatest Ui | of | also would eves Maving with a swiftness that car- ried concern to every Entente natioa the German forces swept over the Brit- |ish lines in Picardy and rolled west- ward like a tidal wave during the closing days of March, until at last the British. reached positions where they could stand at bay and the Freach had come to form a living wall before the gray-clad hosts of the German em- peror. Then the offensive stopped. Hardly had its rush been checked than the line between Lens and Ypres attacked by the Germans and the British lines swayed back- ward., This advance of the enemy went on until it reached the high ground to the southwest of Ypres and then it, tao, was stopped by the stub- borp fighting of the Allied armies. was again 27, the Germans through the French the Aisne river and smashed their way southward until they had reached the Marne over a wide front east of Chateau Thierry. No sooner had the momentum of this drive been taken up by the vielding defense of the French troops than a new assault was made by the Germans, who this time tried to break French lines between Montdidier Novon and link up the Picardy Marne sectars, It was here that the world had the first intimation that the Allied armies, which since late in March had been under the supreme command of Mar shal Foch, had been pursuing a defi mite policy and had conserved their strength against time when it might be used with good effect. The German attack east of Montdidier came to a pause after six days of terrible fight- ing in which Germans suffered fright- | ful losses, and the French, for the first | time since the German offensive be- gan, struck back at the invaders. American forces had taken part in the final phases of the battle along the Marne and had heen instrumental in stopping the Germans at Chateau Thierry. In this battle me the first notable contribution of America to the militavy fortunes of the Allies. Since March, however, there had been l'a flood tide of khaki-clad men cross- ing the Atlantic and during May, June and the first part of July they rapidly moved up to the battle zone. The sanguinary check of the Ger- man offensive east of Montdidier gave the Allies hope that the German tide would be safely stemmed, and this feeling was heightened during the succeeding three or four weeks by a series of local actions aong the front from Soissons to Chateau Thierry by which the Germans were driven back steadily from points of tactical value. What not known by the lay world was the fact, that by these very actions, Marshal Foch virtually forc- ed the Germans to attack somewhere in the Marne region, where prepara- tions were made for a new phase of the struggle. On July 15 the new drive, called by the “the of- fensive of peace from Chateau Thierry eastward far into the Cham b ‘o sooner had hed the came that American lines vere standing firmly in every vital part of the front and that it only by the greatest effort that the Germans pounded their way ahead in the region southwest of Rheims and astride the Marne west of Epernay. Tt then was known that the Allies had solved the German of- fensive and were able to hold around On July and then, oa May suddenly broke lines north of and and was Germans made a the world the ne sector. No news of the than the French subjected ttack rea tidings Italian to ind assault was their Mar "och aunched each the | ant | has changed the of the situation Fontenoy, on the Aisne, west | of Soissons, to Chateau Thierry, on the Marne, the German lines were torn to ipieces and the Marne salient threatened to collapse. It was only | by the most savage fighting that the | Germans succeeded in saving their | army from disaster and finally suc- ceeded in retreating across the Vesle Tiver. attack which complexion an whole From | On August 8, the French and Brt- stormed Picardy from ish the the German lines in enemy reelinz back toward the me. The next day, the T'rench crushed in the German front south of Mont- didier and then linking their lines with those of the British, farther north, forced the invaders back to the eastward. Less than two weeks later the Ger- man lines southwest of Arras were ATpause followed for nearly a month | the attacked and these gave way and the forces holding them joined their comrades farther south in a retreat which: now ‘has virtuallyreached the German lines as they were on March 21 from Arras the Chemin des Dames, southiwest Soissons. While this retreat was going on, the Germans hegan a withdrawal from the Flanders salient and today they are nearly back to the lines from which they sallied to their attack late in April. Thus far the Allied drive might have been considered in the light of defensive operations but the work has not paused with the mecre repulse of the enemy. His positions along the Hindenbunz line east of Arras have been wrested from him, while far- ther south, near St. Quentin, the British have in recent days fought their way into the enemy’s lines where he had planned to stand on the defensive The First Americ obliterated the St. Mihiel salient straightened the line east of Verdun and now stands before Metz, into which American shells are falling. Before the Allies there now stands ~the lines constructed by the ‘Germans during four years of war- fare. These are not simple trenches, vast field fortifications which stretch from the North Sea, with few inter- ruptions, to the Swiss frontie { This general line of defensive posi- | tions has become known as the Hin- | denburg line, but to different sections| of it have been given names from the Jold German epic of the Niebelungen- !lied. Thus the Wotan, iegfried, !Brunhid and Kriemhiid lines have {heen mentioned in reports from the {front. They are carefully construct- 7ed with all the science at the com- Imand of the German @eneral staff, {and present a formidable barrier to ! further Allied attacks, | Six months of the warfare of mo- { tion, however, has taught the Allies {that a trench is no stronger than the | troops that man it In this fact lies the hope of the Entente nations. New methods of attack, the employment of {“tanks” and a higher morale than ever before in the history of the war Y will be relied upon in the fighting to (break the enemy’s defensive lines and [ force new retreats. Germany has her chance to to of an field army has lost Ancre river to Mo- | reuil north of Montdidier and sent the } Som- | i co-operation {1ittle | theria { pupils i have | culture | force peace upon the Allies before (American armies enter the fight with 1 all their strength. This was her hope in March. Losses of a serious nature were suffered by the (Allies during the long battle, but they have been more than doubly offset by the inflowing American legions. Germany's losses on the other hand, cannot be made good. Hopes blasted, crack divisions broken up and seeming victories turn- ed into defeats have sapped the morale of the German armies, which today are the defensive every- where. BOLSHEVIK SHIPS SUNK Two War Vessels Operating on Dwina on River Accounted for by Allied Naval Units and Troops. London, Sept. 21.—Entente and Allied troops the river Dwina, Russia, nd naval units operating along Buropean enemy ships in northern sunk two ave captured three guns, says British war office state ment today. Heavy losses were in- Hicted on the Bolshevik forces by the Entente allies. have RUMANIAN IN CROWN PRINCE FLIGHT TO ODESSA\. Copenhagen, The Ruman- jan crawa prince has fled from Ru- manian territory and arrived in Odes- sa, nccording to the Ukranian newspa- per Krewskaia Mzl HUN PUTS TORCH TO ST. QUENTIN AND ORDERS Paris, Sept. 21.—The Germans ap- pear to be hastening the removal of the civil pepulation af St. Quentin and fi have been ohserved in different parts of the city, Marcel Hutin in the Echo de Paris. The Germans, he adds, are placing numerous bat- teries in St. Quentin Fires in Donmartin. With the American Army on the CIVILIANS SENT OUT Lor 2 (By Fires were ob- | served today i nthe town of Donmar- | tin, the German front, together with heavy move- ment of men and wagon trains behind the line. These were tawen to indi- ‘(m a possible further retirement of the Germans. ine Front, the Associated Sept. Press).- , Noon behind line on this a U. S. HAS SENT 1,750,000 FIGHTERS TO FOREIGN SOIL DIPHTHERIA GLAIMS LITTLE GIRL VICTIY Five New Cases at Children’ Home—18 Influenza Patient and is this city officials, with of Dr. T. Eben ate epidemiologist, are taking im- mediate steps to prevent if possible any epedemic of of these diseases. During past 24 there has been one death from diph- theria and five new have been reported at the Children's Home, making a total eight po ive cases at that institution. There is also a total of 18 positive cases of Spanish influenza that have the health department. The fatality resulting from theria occured in the of two and one half year old Sadie Krof, an inmate at the Children’s Home, the girl was stricken with diph- on Wednesday smuch the 300 at the Lincoln s been exposed to thi health department officials terday took cultures from the throats of 150 pupils, but found only positive Today the remaining pupils were called back to school where cul- tures were taken from their throa Another United States soldier, home on a furlough, hs stricl with Spanish influenza. He is Priv Lester Williams of 163 Clark street, attached to the third Depot Brigade at Camp Devens. He is the Devens soldier, home on a furlough, to be stricken with the ailment. The 18 reported cases of Spanish influenza are on the following streets: Lafayet- te street, four in one block; Seymour street, two cases; Rlm street, High- land street, Pleasant street, Broad street, Jubilee street, Clark Orange street, Francis street, cas , Carlton street, Main street, Parkview avenue and Stanley street. This afternoon the health department completed the examination of the en- tire 300 children at the Lincoln school and found only three positive cultures of the diphtheria germs. These children will be isolated until the period of contagion has passed Spanish influenza slowly spreading in health department diphtheria the Reeks, either two the hours is diph- case Ins more school the or reet disease been two PVT. HAY KILLED ¥lm Hill Youth of 20 Years Makes Supreme Sacrifice On French Bat- tlefield. of Mr. and Hill, was An official death was Clifford Earl May, son Mrs. Lincoln May of Elm recently killed in action telegram announcing his received today. Private May 20 vears old. He enlisted in Company H, of Hartford just after the national Guard was called out He went to France a year ago. When the 102d. infantry by the com- was was organized Dbination of various commands he went | to Company M of Winsted Private May leaves his parents, four brothers, Charles F. and Clarence K both of whom are in the army; Lin coln C., a special policeman rt and Mrs Doughiy or and Florence May, home. Rol sisters, Tdith York at two New who is Sept RBritain cooler Hartford, cast for New cinity; Fair, Sunday fair. and the | been reported to | little | hird Camp | street, | wnd | Miss | Americans in St. Mihiel Sec- tor Only Ten Miles From Metz, General March Re- veals. ept. 21 mbarkation soldiers for all fronts has passed the 1, March announced to- day. He said military news during the past week from all fronts has been continuously good. On the Lorraine front where Gen- eral Pershing’s First American army 1as completed its operation to elim- inate the St. Mihiel salient, the uation has become stabilized, the enemy hurriedly perfecting a line in front of the Americans. line stretches for 20 miles from Maiz- | eray to the Moselle at Vandieres. The Americans now are 10 miles from Washington, of American overseas now mark, General sit- new 50,000 | with | This { b o’clock T Long burg lin€ of Epehy, says Hi ¢ ot Paris, Sept. 218 Quentin on the sou Benay and made prog office announcement. f At Castres, where the Fre miles from St. Quet/ftiu, a German M’any Desert to Serbian Army. * " London, Sept. 21.—The Serbian troops east of Mo} advanced more thafin nine miles in one day and are now eight miles from jthe main highway connecting Prilep witht 4] Vardar river. 4 A Serbian r»}[ficia] statement received here says a great nuf ber of prisonersfhave been captured and that the Allies. hal taken Godiyak, west of the Cerna river and 15 miles southeast Prilep. In their advance northward the Serbians line Krnyovo-Strigovo-Drogojel-Poloshko. Soldiers who have been forced to enlist in the [ during the occupation of southern Serbia, are throw arms and joining the army of liberation have passed Julgarian arn] ng away thg - —— — have are the left the fortress from since but neut Surprise, No Panic, in prohibited departing. I 20.—“The Metz. Yeneva, Sept. bombard- { Metz and an equal distance from Con- ! lams | General March read a cablegram | citing a general order issued by Major Sen. H. L. Reed, commanding the | 15th. Scottish division, British army, | praising the First Artillery Brigade of | the First American division (regulars) | for work in co-operation with the | S The order said the fifteen had ! never received such perfect assistance in operations, although that the time must strain and ots. “taking over was realized at that it American have been had suffered Qivision under severe severe casualties. Answering questions | specific American units, March said the 90th. division and Oklahoma National Army troops) in the Vosges, while the 36th. (Texas and Oklahoma National Gu:r i troops) is in a training sector wifl the French. | No commander has yet been select- | ed for the 18th. regular division which i still is in this countrsy at | Camp Travis, Texas, en-! { gineers, of the 39th. (ar-| kansas, M na Na- | tional landed | in France. | Gen. March sald that more detailed reports of the American operations at St. Mihiel spoke highly of the work of the French troops which par- | ticipated. In Picardy, the chief of staff ex- plained, the French now are within | one-half a mile of the junction of the | Chemin des Dames with the road | from Maubeuge and are within ten | miles of Laon which is being shelled. | North of there the British Third and | Fourth armies with the French First | army, as a result of renewed attacks | on the St. Quentin-Camb front, | and in spite of strong opposition by | | | regarding | General | (Texas | a training The 114th division, ppi and Louis Guard troops) has just | | as the Germans, have made important progress. The capture of 10,000 pris- | oners since Wednesday by the Brit- | ish, reported in press dispatches, | was officially confirmed In Macedonia, Gen. Mz Serbian attack on a front has forced back the Bulgarians nearly 20 miles very difficult and mountainous region. as h said, the ! of 25 miles over HONITOR SUNK One Officer and 59 Men Killed and 57 Missing After British | Warship | i Blows Up in Harbor. London, Sept. 21.—A British mon- itor was sunk on Monday, as she was | lving In harbor, the admiralty nounced One officer and men were killed and 57 men missing and are presumead to Kkilled an- | 9 L9 are | have | today been 7 9 | LABAREL LIEUTENANT IN' BALLOON DIVISION | | W. Tabaree of Grove Hill | commissioned second lieu- the Air balloon He is de Leonard has been tenant in Service, vision. tailed to at| service the 17 Army achool cadia halloon Ar- | ment of Metz by | 3 This Is Order From Crowder Concern- | sha the date from which draft boards shall istered on exemption first time 1870 that M been under artillery fire, i American heavy ar- | has but Zeitung, tillery caused surprise no panic, Seven Hold Out Two Day London, Sept. 21.—A British tachment of seven men was surrouy ed and believed to have been d tured when the Germans took Mo vres. Their post was in the north| part of the village and they held | for two days during the German | cupation, inflicting losses on the e} When the village was r entire party rejoined its | without los says the Metzer “the enemy merely copying the method of few of the Paris persons were killed and the damage was in- significant. It German bombardments The paper adds that is learned from that the American bombardment of Metz caused an enormous sensation in Germany. Many of the inhabitants Basle, however, MAYOR FIGHTS PLAN FOR BOARD CONTR( SEEKS SUPPRESSION | OF PRO-ENEMY BOOK | Senator Demands Discontinuance of Docs Not Think Committee W fublicat:on Which Distorts Lusi- Favor Putting Commissions tania Case Facts, Under Common Couneil, 21 senate for suppression “Two Washington, Sept — mand in the the Another de- o Questions War,"” Mayor George A who Quigley, been Mond| apd matter: secured a resu of the the last meet of the himg as unalterably opposed to the propos ordinance which place mel of city under jurisdiction comy ill at his home since book Thousand Abaut the alleged returned to his office today and Answers which | mediately city bu plunged = ivities into has been to contain German iness propaganda, was made today by Sen- a it tor Brandegee of Connecticut. Ay Referring to the recent of the publication by Senator Mr Brandegee had read into the record a letter from a New York correspondent | criticism vould | bers dire council. The think Lodge, commissions of the mayor that the will even seriou proposal, for, | commissions | the 1 doo that T ordinance did 1 commit ler such to put ithority open a wi would 1 of "the depa make thd that if wou competent mj regarding an alleged advertising cicu- | lar offering the book on a subscription | basis with the Review of Reviews mag- azine. The senator said he understood the book had been revised as o malke it “fit for publication but ths its advertising circular intenc to convey the impression that sinking of the Lusitania was justified if her pasengers had en warned, and ex pressed the hope that the government would stop circulation of the objec- tlonable matter. he believes, under the would be t cheap politi hamper the | ments, but would positions dista counc o to s and was edl | : | only work be imposible to | for the p secure G. E. CRANEMEN TO STRIKE, Action Will Be Protest DISCOUNT MARRIAGES AFTER AUGUST 5 Against Ignd ing of Wage Appeal. Pittsfield, Mass. ! Cranemen’s union af tric plant o'clock on tember Dissa fact that an appeal of the wage scale given in the war labor board ha upon is the for tion It short ¢ Ser the Gen d to t. 21— ral El4 strike at 1ng, § over August 6 frd the award s not been act] the union s vot Wednesc moz tisfaction ing Registration of Men on September 12. Washington, Sept New 2 tions of revised selective service regu- lations issued by Provost Mar General fix August 5 as 21.— edi- believed ti iration as the ordered to return tc hey hope by striking mediate action on their appeal st will be n expect te d will get 1 today o Crowder Kk a 80, disregard marriages of men September 12 who sround for 15 BRITISH 'CASUALTIES, STEAMER ST. PAULFLOATED. | Total Quiney, Mass,, 21.—After heing stranded on bar near for 34 hours the big excursic steamer St. Paul was floated at o'clock this morning and proceeded northward. The §t. Paul suffered only minor damage, of Dead, for Past Wounded Week Ts Sept. 21 and Missi Sept i~ a sand Londan, for the Officers men, Officers British casualti today follow: dead of wound here ! week ending Killed 3,153 wouned or_missing, nen wounded or missing, 17,3 1,91 6,