New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 26, 1918, Page 1

NEW BR ITAIN, C()NNEC’II 0k MUIE SI‘A\ HERALD “ADS” MEAN BETTER BUSLNESS AUSTRO GM{MAN SITUATION DECIDEDLY COMPLEX DUAL MONARCHY WILL ACCEPT ANY PEACE TERMS; HOHENZOLLERNS BLAMED FOR BRINGING ON RUIN LIEUT. JACKSON NOW. LISTED AS MISSING * Former Herald Man First Re- ported Capmred by Huns Oct. 29 LATER MENTIONFD AS FREE Now His Mother, Mrs, Thomas Jack- Is Informed That 1Ic son, Missing in Action Since Scptem- W isoner. War Dept: at Karlsruhe. 13—Red Cross at. Villengen Nov. 21—War Dept probably free and on way join company Nov. 25—War ng in action Dept. report, » report, prisoner Nov. prisoner report, report, to re- Dept. since report, m Septem- Wherc Fir. this city? Mrs. nut Lieut. Thomas Jackson of mother, Thomas is has received the War from the Red and she is s become prisoner of 367 Ch street, for Tc repor and rrom Depart- Cro at a Jos: of her son. in Germany, back to France to re- ny, or among the uni- of the batt nd nt I contradictc to know h one al Ty what h e Wh is or on 1y join compz €ified dead not know from Washington use the situation lkson went to been officer had New Jer mp Gordon, rder to and o nece last sraduated trair had 2cond ng Dix red en came “Over he mil cived particips were not shock describin ted, the revealed. to his etters were vhich he which the first triends. Word was 1 his mother on October 29 ad been taken prisoner by T date and location of were not announced, but been en prisoner in he last letter rec the storming of American troops. cek ormation con- Jocation was recéived by November there frou the War De- Lieut. Jackson was a rlsruhe, in Baden. Six s later on November 13, the offi- mother received a cablegram fra Red Cross at Geneva, Switz- erland, saying he had been located at Camp Vil in good health. Villengen also in Baden and is near the border of Switzerland. Since the signing of the armistice on November 11 a large number of Americans held in German prison | camps have been freed and permit-| ted to depart for the Allied lines. apparent that the War Department lieved ut. Jackson hese released prisone ber 21 mother r tior not dispatch gen. Friends Juckson would thi side the was informed Department that in action since contrary to all information re viously and are be- influential friends to de- what become in of me anc ived by tion 1en ¢ mily > ener ure h red by no i on sone 1 the and was on Novem- ceived instruc- mail to Villen- his s to in hopes that Lieut. son be heard from on line, but Mrs. Jackson ast night by the War son has been September were 5 of her n Th ived pre fforts g made t termine, of the offic possible has TROUBLE IN SOUTH AMERICA. Peru and Chile Sever Diplomatic Re- Iations—Consuls Recalled. “The peru received offic )nsular repre for 48 hours, though it b \lled its consuls from Chile. It is believed that a strict cable censorship is in"force Reports from South American cap:- Monday night were to the effect Chile and Peru had ered re- by recalling their consuls other country. There have ministers exchanged since sion of the provinces These provinces Alsace-Lorraine have led 10 between Peru and Nov. 2 not , Peru, has Lim government sentatives in s ve X: lations from the been no ile took poss and Aric: called the America and not only between of Tac have been of South controversi and Chilc Chile. but Bolivia ived | It | Has Been | STOCH EXCHANGE 1S VISITED BY PALMER ‘Allen Property Custodlau Seizes 14 Enemy Owned Seats T0 BE SOLD TO AMERIGANS Public Sale Is Not Practicable—Cot- ton Exchange Also Affected—Own- ers Were Mostly German, Only One Being Austrian. W York, Nov. 26.—TFourteen | enemy-owned seats on the New Yor | order F. Jackson | | by | New | chs | Claus Heinrich Wilhelm Volckens, the Orleans cotton exchange, the New York cotton exchange and other markets have been A. Mitchell alien custodian, The s to American citizens. Sale Will Be Private. 1 of the seats will be made under a recent executive President Wilson, a state- id which was issued at Mr. s office here. “The pure was explained, “must be satis- factory to the exchanges, a considera- tion which makes a public sale not practicable.” Owned Mostly stock exchange, New Palmer, was will seized by property here today. shortly be sold privatels by ment s: by Germans. The New York stock exchange seat taken over of Hamburg, Orleans cotton ex were held by Emanue Schutte, Jr., and Alfred Niepenberg, 2ll of Bremen, Germany. The New York cotton exchange scats were held Schutte and Haes and by Heinrich Muller Pearse, Paul P. Schmitz, and Herman Hagedorn, all residents of Bremen. The other follow Maritime Germany seats taken over were as association of the port of (now dead), of West Baden, York butter, cheese and egg ex nge, estate of Carl (now dead) of Mannheim, Germa New York produce exchange, Strauss, of Budapest, Hungary Germany; and, Hamburg; New York coffee exchange, Edward Ludwig Behrens, of Hambur, NEW ENGLAND PAYS HOMAGE TG EDWARDS Former Commander of 26th Di Tendered Great Reception in Boston Today. Boston, Nov. 26,—All New Eng. Jand wus represented in the welcome given today to Major Gen. Clarence R. Edwards ,organizer and former commander of the 26th (Yankee) division who recently returned from. France. At a series of receptions in was among | this city the general greeted by { thousands of relatives and friends of the soldiers who made up his com- mand. Governors of states and may ors of cities joined in paying him hon or. “Edwards” Day will end tonight with a meeting in the Boston Arene. at which Gen. Edwards will relato some of the deeds of the men undes his leadership in heavy fighting over seas. The day begun with a breakfast ir honor of Gen. and Mrs. HEdwards, tendered by the city of Boston throush Mayor Peters with 50 prominent citi zens as guests. Later the general, escorted by a troop of calalry, visited the state house where he was official ly greeted by Governor McCall. I« then attended a public reception ir the hall of flags at the state house {ywhere for two hours he shook hands with thousands of persons. A\t the mayor's breakfast Gen. Fd wards said that when the soldier came home they would be leaders, they would run the country, and, he added, “there is no body of men un- der whom I would be prouder to live.” His greatest sorrow, he said, was that he couid not lead the Yan- division home. He spoke enthu- lly in favor of universal mili- tary training. DEMOBILIZING a jastic: RED CROSS, Nov. -Orders today demobilization of the automotive and mechanical section of the Red Cross men in Camp King, Sound Beach and about 228 men will leave at once for Chicago and there- abouts for the section was recruited in the middle west. hundred men ive gone the camp in recent re expected to sail amford, provided for ral from month: the shortly, nd | cepted | bassador | tirst | Difficulties in the learned | | forts to ¢ e was held by Henry Budge, | v York, estate of Herman Sielcken | Thalmann : of { between the conservative elements and { the i cialists j pendents won i are 'NEW HUNGARIAN AMBASSADOR SAYS FOOD NEEDS OF HER COUNTRY ARE “NOWHERE NEAR URGENT”; EXTREMIST PARTY LOSING POWER IN GERMANY | Movement in Coast Cities: Turns Toward Mere Con-! Re- | servative Channels, ports From Bremen Show. | (By Associated ka Schwimmer, of Peace party fame, who has ac- the post of Hungarian to Switzerland, being to receive such an declared to the cori that the food needs “nowhere ur- Ime. Ro Ford am- the wor pointment, pondent today of Hungary were gent."” However, she danger, owing near added, there is some | to the lack of coal. northern and south- of the old Autro-Hun- have prevented Hun- its full amount of ern &2 gary coal. sctions an empire from getting ria Utterly Helplg The situation in Hungary is she continued, that the government would he willing to abide by any de- Ausf | | | cision of a peace conference "no mat- | | such ter how unfavorable,” because the government is helple Hungarians, both actionaries, she sa s and re- ef- xtrem joined an or v and de srnment. Flungary has Fiume and other dis- | he recognized they belonged elsewher Perfect or- | der has pre iled in Hungary ik time, but there is increa zer from troops returning battle front cratic go en up Croatia, tricts becay from the | bLeing the originator plan Madame reported etashrdl was reported to of the dissen- Credited with the Ford Pea hwimmer was Schwimmer also have caused the tion in the par her arbitrary mecthods of directing affairs. Final when the dissention was at its height | Madame Schwimmer retired from the Ford Permanent Peace board at -Stockholm. of Trend Toward Conservation. Berlin, Nov. (By the Associated Press.)—Repotts of tests of strength independent and ‘“bolshevik in various places in Germs continue to indicate that as far as niere numbers go, the extremists are almost negligible. The clection to the soldiers and workmen's council in Dresden on Sunday show {he oxtremists polled only 4,300 votes against 56,400 for the old socialists. th groups of ind three or four seats the council of 50. Fuller reports from Bremen show the movement in the coast cit- already has turned into a more conservative channel. Demand National Assembly. A meeting of soldier and peasants’ councils, Bremen, Hanover, burg, Flensburg, helmshaven and in tha ies workmen representing | Hamburg, Olden- Osnabrueck, Wil- number of smaller places in the provinces of Hanov and Schloswig-Holstein passed a reso- ! lution declaring these councils would stand behind the present government and demand the convocation of a na tional ass bl The resolution w adopted by a vote of 81 to 20. There also was a crushing defeat for the ex tremists at a meeting representing the Tenth army corps at Hanover, where by a vote of 140 to 4 a resolution was passed against efforts to establish | a dictatorship and demanding the summoning of a constituent assembly. Flag Reappears. Soldiers from the front are begin- ning to arrive in Berlin and men who have conversed with them express themselves optimistically as to the re- sult of their ari s regards its effect on the pr ation of order. These men declare the great bulk of soldiers reject Bolshevism in all | its phas: perhaps, also may an indication of the general public's | faith in the conversation of the sol- diers that German and Prussian flags beginning to reappear all over Berlin, after having made way for the red flag since November 10. Only in one of the suburbs was any ohjection raised to the flying of the national flags. Certain elements there tore the Pru n banners from the street cars. Elsewhere the emblems were not disturbed. REV. D. A. BAILEY DEAD. v. D. A. Bailey, formerly a priest at St. Mary’s church in this city, died at 12:30 o'clock today at St. Joseph's parish house in Shelton. He was pa tor of St. Joseph's church in that city and the funeral will take place from there at 10:30 o’clock Friday morning. Prussian be considered ap- | ! sent l‘ Fifth | and Company c, | men who went to Fr | of the GERMAN NAVY been ruined for all time, Allies. He said today: “Now we have only ently neglected for a tim and nondescript. IS FOREVER RUINED; HAS ONLY DISHONORABLE RECORD Firth of Forth, Nov. 25.—Germany’s navy has in the opinion of a German lieutenant on one of the warships surrendered to the a dishonorable record. No one will want to serve in a disgraced service.” Inspection of the German vessels They are in a dep orabl'* state, having been ent a miserable appearance, their clothes being dirty | proceeding. appar- The German sailors pres- is | 'PEACE HALTS WOR O CONTRACTS OF BILLION A. E. F. Cancels Enormous Al- lies Pool Interests. Tours, Nov. 26.-—Contracts agg ating $1,000,000,000 have been the forces since the signing of the In and French can- celled by American expedition- ry ar- mistice. future, the American, rill and will buy ent in be British governments pool their surplus stock: through a common pur Forty thousand men the American supply service to advanced are as troops for the army of The supply department will its routine work long asing engaged will replace- ment tion. continne necessary. Forty-three including a deep dock for 20 ships, terminals, warehouses and rail- roads have been cancelled. Orders for 2,500 locomotiv cars nd hundre of cranc barges and derricks also have recalled. The transport program has reduced materiall while the ord- nance department has been cut down by two-thirds. The reduction in the air service has not been as yet an- nounced ' STATE GUARD D SBANDING as construction projes rter tug been Co. of New Haven, Sixth Co. of Cheshire and Co. C. of Granby First to Be Released. 26.—Major Gen. Connecticut that he ¥ from Fifth h Hartford, Nov. Lu- F. Burpee, said cien guard today orders releasing service in the the the S first battalion, Granby. Gen. Burpee said other or ganizations of the state guard were likely to be disbanded as soon as oc- casion and circumstances warranted. About 10,000 men make up the guards, which is about 5000 more than composed the Connecticut tional Guavd 96TH DIVISION CUT IN HALF Went state of New forces Haven; company, of Cheshire, of Fifty Per Cent. of Those Who to France Have Been Killed, Wounded or Reported Missing. Washington, Nov. nce as members 26th Division have been killed, wounded or reported missin ing to estimates made her ion left it numbered )00 men. It has seen months’ continuous fighting. The attacks on the heights alor Meuse, the latter part Octobe believed to have heen the most costly The reports of ualties in tho actions vet far from comple , accord- Wien more n nearly nine ihe of are as THER. Hartford, Nov. 26.—Forecast | for New Britzin and Fair. continued cold Wednesday with temperature, tonig | October occupa- | | police she 61,000 Tailroad | | senate finance committec tods | month | censor 26.—Half of the | | their | Gazette. { names of HELD AS SPY AN 1S FOUND T0 BE FEMALE “Bert” Schmidt Had Draft Card, Also a Wife, and Everything. i | | | St. Louis, V. 26.—Suspected of Bert Schmidt arrested here last night and it de- | “Bert” Upon this discovery the police arrested *“his” | whom “Bert” was 12 Jast by being a German spy, wa veloped is a woman. wife to married a justice of the ! ce. | jert” gave his age as 23 years and substantiated the assertion that “he"” offered his” services to the government by producing a draft reg- | istration d. The woman told the | masqueraded as a man to obtain a man’s salary are natives of Hungar “Bert” sad her name was Bertha | Schmidt and the “wife” gave her ! name as Mary Assate. Bertha is held | for the federal authorities on al charge of false registration. The | “wife” was relea 4 | The spy ch against Bertha, could not be ntiated. | NO FEDERAL AUTO TAX enate Finace Committee Kills Clause pe: Taxing Automobiles and Motorcy- cles Which Was Previonsly Recom- mended by Congress. 26— In further ill, the v struck | proposed federal li- use of automobiles and motoreycles ,which ranged from $10 to $50 annually in the house bill, ac- cording to horsepower, and from $5 to $25 under the plan previously adopted by the senate committee. Washington, of the Nov. revision war revenue out ce entirely the e tax on BE GONE President Wilson Will Be in KEurope Only Month. ston, About one | the time President Wilson expects to be in lurope for the open- | ing of the peace conference, and pre- | liminar; discussions. No definite | | | One Washi Nov. is fixed today limit has been but it was said | authoritatively that the presi- dent plans to be back on American | il within six weeks after his ship | for the other side. was said today that there was no | ation whatever for talk of a hip over news of the peace con- ference, and that American ne' paper correspondents would be given all facilities possible for transmitting dispatches. Tt foun LUDENDORFF AISO L Copenhagen, Nov. 26. dendorff, reputed to have been lons the ctual direc head of Ger- m military has qult Ger- m il, according to the Frankfort It he has left Sassnitz, for Sweden. His titular posi- the German military system of f t quartermaster gens n vs Prussia tion in was that eral | fore ON CANADIAN LIf Nov w Engla | erees The following nd men appear in casualty list: Pris- 11, New Bedford, \Whooten, Lynn, Ottawa, N today’s ove oner of Ma. Mas: war, gassed | Private | ing the complicity | other | to absolve Germany Both women | sur iz | ing officer OF 76TH DIVISION ALREADY HEADED HOME American Army Headquarters in Irance, Nov. 26 (by the As sociated Press.)—The 76th divi- sion of the American army, re- duced by replacement drafts to 61 officers and 1,000 men, has ar- rived at the port of St. N and is embarking for home. The 27th division, totalling 484 officers and 12,099 men, has been with- drawn from the Le Mans area and probably will embark in a few days. Both these divisions operated on the British Iront. DEMAND KAISER BE TRIED FOR TREASON Reds Also Gall for Arrest of German Crown Prince {VON BETHMANN HOLLWEG 100 Fortune of Hohenzollerns Must Be Confiscated, Liebknecht’s Paper Avers—Other Officials Subject of Socialists” Wrath. Berlin, Nov. 25, (By the Associatea Press)—"'We demand the convening of a revolutionary tribunal for the purpose of passing sentence on the Hohenzollerrs, iather and son and on von Bethmeznn-Holl g,’ say: the Red Flag, the organ of Dr. Karl Liebknecht in commenting on disclosures made in Munich concern- of Germany bringing about the war. ‘William II. must be commanded to return give an acount before this tribunal.” The Spartacus organ also demands a reckoning with the socialist lead- ers Ebert, David Molkenbuhr, for participation in propaganda from responsibil- ity for causing the war. “We have been told that Ger- many had no knowledge of Austria’ ultimatum to Serbia. It was a lie, s the Vorwaerts. “Berlin was said admonished Vienna to go Tt was a lie.” The organ of the independent socialists, Die Frei- heit says: “They committed high treason. We cannot lay hands on Willlam and hi son, but it is to be hoped that they will vet be brought to justice. Their fortunes however, must be confiscated. Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, von Ja- gow and Zimmerman (all former German foreign secretaries) who were their tools, must forthwith be arrested and brought into court.” The conservative Taeglische Rund- schau asserts that the disclosures not only are inopportune in view of the negotiations “for a revision of the ar. mistice conditions” but primarily are intended to stimulate a revolutionary sentiment. Count Reventlow in the Tage. tung says that neither Bethn Hollweg nor his assoclates desired a world war .’ul'rl that they were not prepared for it. The count adds ‘it is not to be denied, howeve: that their jumbling responsible for complications which ultimately in- volved Geriaany.” was DANIELS SURPRISED AT LONDON REPORT Suggestion That German Fleet May B¢ Sunk to Avoid Argument New to Washington, Washington, Nov. The sugges- tion from London that G be me vessels endered by rmany under the armistice may sunk to avoid pos- sible disagre nt among the S0~ ted nations as was received by naval with evident surprise. tels said today that the proposition ever had been mentioned to him d he was certain American naval representatives had suggested no such plan. No intimation the policy of this regard. to their dispc offic has been given as the United S Admiral Benson, rank- among the American egates, received full instructions he- his departure, however, and un- doubtedly this point was covered in his conference with Secretary Dan- icls, Ii the Versailles confer that the German pro-rated among the to naval loss States would obtain onl cr and one ship Italy. to be Allies, ac- the United one destroy- armored cruiser, the major going to England, France and cording Also | immediate | the | in | and | and | ition, here | Secretary Dan- | | wire mill department of the del- | building warships are | CBNVICT CONFESSES, EXONERATES WOMAN Murderer Could Not See Girl Die for His Crime {DIST. ATTY INVESTIGATING Sing Sing Prisoner Admits Killing Woman in New York After He Ha Been Cross-Questioned For More Than 10 Hours, ew York, Nov Sing convict hat it was he Hamel in her boardin last ruary, exoner: beth Baksa, 19 years mansburg, Pa., now with the murder. Regan dec also to kill Mis: came into Mrs. she roomed, strangled the eld James sed Mrs. house ting Miss ol ¥ on trial ch Regan, today Helen hera ag conie it vho killed e rged he 1 intended Baksa when she Hamel’s house, where ter he had woman to death. The pleadings of a “pal” in the crima who said “don’t do that, Jim, one is enough” induced him, he said, to lew Miss Baksa go Now in Sing Sing Pr Convicted six times of burglary andy grand larceny and ntenced last May, three months after the murders to the term he now is serving, Regan| told the district attorney, after 104 hours of questioning which terminated at two o'clock this morning, that he could not allow an innocent girl to go to the electric chair for a crima which he had committed. He refused to divulge the identity of kis accom- plice b d they we bbing Mrs. Hame he discovered them and to scream. Regan killed he ¢onfessed, by knotting a towel 3 her throat to sup- press her Confession Being Investigated. Regan wrote from his cell to Judge Rosalsky asserting that Miss Baksa did not commit the murder and that he would tell who did after he h read in the newspape the trial. He refused at first to give any details of the crime unless he was promised immunity from prosecution, but final- ly made a full confession which he said he would swear to in coupt. It is understood that if his story, on in- vestigation is found to be true he will be permitted to plead guilty to man- slaughter. Pending this inquiry, the Baksa trial was recessed until next Monday. - In the meantime, the district at- tornev who stated that he was not satisfied with some parts of Re= gan’s confession will check up its various features with other evidenca in the case. Regan will be subjected to an examination by alienists to de= termine his mental condition. 11 Pleads Innocence. aksa fled to Freemansburg murder. When she re- days later, impelled aa . to tcli what she Kknewt of the Kkilling, che was arrested and later indicted for the crime. She maintained from the start o her trial recently that an unknown mas had strangled Mrs. Hamel and had threat ened to kill he unless -he “‘wenf away and kept .,uicx' BIG FIRE IN PITTSBURGH began he und cri of 3 Miss F after the turned four she declared plosion Starts Disastrous Blaze Af{ Plant of Crucible Steel Co.~—Toss i Estimated to Be About $75,000. Pittsburgh, Nov. 26.—Fire which{ followed an explosion of oil destroyed| about half of the big Crescent plant of the Crucible Steel Co. here today. Two hundred engaged in the plant when »sion occurr- escaped their number being slighfly burved A break in an oil pipe line caused the fuel to run into an open furnace, and the explosion which followed ripped a large section of roof off the plant. The flames spread rapidly. Valuable machinery and finished materials were ruined Company officials estimated the damagze at $75,000, including $25,000 on the plant buildings and $50,000 on machinery only one LINGFORD. this framey d station ing store of B caph gallery, garage, several stor( tenement house un-¢ der rvepairs from a preyious fire bef longing to Dr. Wilson, of Hartford The losses probably were about $10,: 000, ) $10,000 FIRE Wallingf; noon de IN W4 No —Fire roup near which were S. adwin, dental office, a age and a the dry photc sheds