New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 2, 1918, Page 1

h Xxxxax | ¥ ¥ ¥ x x ¥ TO THE SERV] l( E. - HERALD “ADS” MEAN BETTER BUSINESS ESTABLISHED 1876. NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1918, = TWELVEIPAGES: PRICE THREF CENTS. N HIS ANNUAL MESSAGE TO CONGRESS, WILSON AYS IT IS HIS DUTY TO ATTEND CONFERENCE SINCE ALLIES HAVE ACCEPTED HIS PRINCIPLE! PLOT TO RESTORE IMPERTALISM AND RETURN WILHELM [iscovered in Berlin—Plans Frus- trated Dby Secrel Service Agent Who Overheard Telephone Conference LONG LIST OF SUSPECTS; MANY ARRESTS ARE MADE General von Mackensen and Othe: High Officials Headed Conspiracy, Though There Is No Direct Evi- dence That Kaiser Was An Active Party to the Plans—von Hinden- burg Invited to Join,Refuses. 2 London, Dec. 2.—A plot to restore imperialism and secure the return of Emperor William has been discoverad in Berlin, according to a dispatc! from Amsterday to the Expres: Von Mackensen Heads Move. According to the dispatch, whic was filed at Amsterday on Friday. tho chief men behind the plot were Field Marshal von Mackensen, Gen. von Born and Gen. Count Sixt von Ar nim. It is said that they instructed the Prussian officers’ corps to carry on a pro-emperor agitation, begl ning immediately after the demobil ization’ of**fHe troops was completed. Large sums of money are said to have been placed at the disposal of the leaders by munition makers. The plot collapsed, owing to the fact that a secret service agent over- heard a telephone conversation. Many arrests have been made in Berlin and other ecities, while the government has long lists of suspects who had planned to seize members of the pres- ent government. No Evidence Against William. No direct evidence of William Ho- henzollern's connection with the plot has been found, it is said, but it is pelieved that the outline of the plan was brought to Berlin by two of his suite, who recently went to the Ger- man capital for the ostensible pur- pose of taking the wife of the former emperor to Amerongen, Holland. Hindenburg Refuses to Act. Lieut. Dr. Gustay Krupp von Boh- Jen is said to have been in control of the financial arrangements. Field Marshal von Hindenburg to join but to have attempted to induce TField Marshal von Hndenburg to join but the latter refused, saying he intended to retire after the demobilization of the army. The whole Prussian court, it is stated, was in sympathy with the plotters and it is said Prince von Bue- low and Dr. George Michaelis, former imperial chancellor, had promised to help The plan was to organize a provisional government under Field Marshal von Mackensen or some other military leader and then urge Wil- liam Hohenzollern to return. SOLDIER@’ COUNCIL DEMANDS ASSEMBLY Vote Favors Na Meeting Soon; Radicals Hold Smaller Wircless Stations in Germany. The favor Berlin, Dec (By Press.)—A resolution ynvening of the ional sem bl the earliest possible moment, passed by a meeting of soldiers workmen's council the R chambers yesterday. Radical socialists have not yet tained control of the greater German wireless stations at Nauen and nigswusterhausen, but independent in company with the 2 s group, have secured control of all home stations with a restricted radius. Only the refusal of Philip Scheidemann to approve an order transferring the entire wireless sys- tem to the jurisdiction of the and workmen’ council tem halted a raid on the larger station 1t \as and at ichsing ob- Ko- solc orar over: NEW COMET Cambridge, Dec. 2.—The a comet by Prof. Schorr, of the Hamburg observatory, was ranounced in a cablegram r raived at Harvard college obse: ¥atory from Copenhagen. DISCOVERE director today the discovery | Left to right, tmnil 34 e By SRR IR ot - In order to insure more comfort on 'AMERICAN PEACE DELEGATION AND STEAMER WHICH WILL TAKE PRESIDENT WILSON TO FRANCE Robert Lansing, Tas- ker H. Bliss, w -uummn-mmmmnxmunn fa winter President V voyage TN ident Wilson, Col-onel House and Henry White. G across the Atlantic, e transport George Washing i ashington. n has decided to sail | (C) Underwood & Underwood. ENDING OF WAR MEANS [AUSTRIA ANXIOUS FOR $7,343,415,838 SAVING Principal Reduction is For Military Establishment, McAdoo Reports. 2.—C tion of reduction of gov- for the fiscal year Dec. in Washington, war will result ernment expens 1920, starting next July 1, to $ 415,838 from the $14,599,000,000 propriated for the current year, ac- cording to tentative estimates sub- mitted to congress today by Secretary McAdoo, transmitting the reports of the various departments. The principal reduction was for the military establishment, which esti- mates its needs at $1,992,000,000 in 1920, as compared with the $12,274- 000,000 appropriated for this year. Before the signing of the armistice with Germany it had been figured that the army alone would need more than $19,000,000,000 for 1920. The navy's estimates for 1929 are $2,595,000,000, as compared with $1,591,000,000 appropriated for the current year, an increase of a billion dollars, despite the closing of the war. There is nothing to show what it was estimated the nvy would have needed had the war continued. These estimates may be pared down considerably later when the actuai needs of the government in closing out war contracts hecome clearer. Including 7,000 estimated for fortifications, the total contem- plated outlay on the army amounts (o $2,497,000,000. A striking figure in the army esti- mates is the $144,943,000 for air serv- ice production. The appropriatiors last year under this head were - 000,000. Tt is evident that in reducing | war estimates the war department proposing not to lose ail that has been | gained in aircraft development duri | the war, but plans to continue and manufacture on a scale. largest ropriations army is in pay, ap- con- “truction fairly large The the the cxpenditure single reduction from | for this for | travel and general | the new estimate for | eing $327,678,000, as 367,000,000 approprinted | Similarly large auarterm clothin, 3 year next inst this year vear for tion mates for is made in Dblies pplies, (Continued On Tenth Page), | I preted | inhabit AMERIGAN OCCUPATION Wants United States Troops | Sent to Big Centers to Preserve Order. Vienna, Nov all empire one American (By sides The Associated the the ple be sent to the Press.)—On in Austrian th troops centers of population hears to held, tendencies keep order. Such a step, it against the caused by the boundary dis is would worlk to unrest countless political and putes among the nun:er- ous races and help prevent that to 1y trend toward Bolshevism disorderly conditions might act promote. is urged by Jewish residents here from Przemy the presence of would be sufficient such anti-Semitic outbreaks as occurred recently at those places. The word “Bolshevism” loosely used here, but the only authentic e mple of outbreaks taking. on 1his complexion appears to he furnished among the Slovak population of northwestern Hungary, where the former ruling cla the Magyar country gentlemen, virtuall have andoned their estates. It is repori- ed that efforts by the Czechs to talc possession of th territory fol- lowed by an uprising of the peasan.s and also outhreaks against the Jews. The most recent literalness with which the old dual monarchy President W self-determination ever people of the same tor to be found among nts in the region of ( abont 30 miles northeast of body about 20,000 German-s ing people living in the heart of via the otts- chee grous explained that they hed the protection of Americ \inst the Jugo-Slavs so that they might declare They sz they werd the Jugo- bu President Wilson's notes had a their frecdom ed to exist arriving soldiers azninst have American protection were example the peoples of have inter- on's conception among of of body and of race is Representatives of a republic a friendly to view of felt they political in they right to own and w (Continued On Tenth Page), former | It | 1 and Lemberg that ! the | (GRUSHED T0 BEATH BY | AMERICAN PRISONERS ELEVATOR IN FACTORY i Body Then Drops Five Stories Into Pit. of Salvatore Puzzi Housing Conditions Bad and Food Scanty is Worst Complaint. Washington, Dec. 2.—The war de- partn t today issued the following statement based on a cable from Gen. Pershing dated November 9 and sent in reply to an inquiry cabled by Gen. March | salvatore Puzzi 11 was instantly about 0 cclock this morn- the | Russell | kitled | ‘}ih': when he w pinned in it & to | under the elevator the | Brwm plant. He “American prisoners | death and his body was removed a ;-r‘l’m:m lm S0 vmps | ; »oor and scanty food and bad hous- | ri time after with vut a few bones |ing condition Only a small per- | unbroken. Undertaker M. J. Kenney | centage of those who are sick are his- | vemoved the body and is making ar- | pital The majority are suffer- [ 1anzements for burial. The vietim of | ing from t colds and the pros- | tre aceident started to work only this | pect is that all will recover rapidly riorning as elevator man and had | with proper food and housing. There nearly completed his first Ralf-day no evidence of diserimination work. A young lady who was on the | against the Americans. elevator when it dropped was “Among 7,000 prisoners St tionalitics who have been T¥ictly How. the accident ypened | there is no authenticated 15 not known, as no one seems to have | brutality against the Amer seen elevator man just i ,The majority of the the fatally, ‘The firet report eie. | Drisoners was cut off before culaced was to the effect that the dicls-gisoqEuen 1909 elevator operator, thinking his car bu il i S uhercithe gone bevond control and was going fo | L0900 Was I clentiiong crash through the roof, mads an af- | Brisoners e L e tempt to jump. When he jumped he | the German soldiers ceiling above the floor « which 1t was crushed released from complain or K of unin- of all na- released, ance of ans. American that for privations, supply of for that the previous to ne 1d ins was the for car e nto he h=d intended to jump, and as the car con‘inued to rise it crushed his hody SUFFER NO BRUTALITY President Announces Willingness to Retur Railroads to Private Ownership As Soo As Satisfactory System Can Be Agreed Upon Washington, Dec. 2+—In an address to congress in joint session today President Wilson formally announced his inten- tion to go to Paris for the peace conference, saying the Allied gov- erminents have accepted principles enunciated by him for peace and it is his paramount duty to be present. The President said he will be in close touch wireless and that congress will know all that he other side. e Referring to his announcement that the French and governments had removed all cable restrictions upon the trans- mission of news of the conference to America, the President said he had taken over the American cable systems on expert advice so as to make a unified system available. Hopes for Co-operation of Congress. He expressed the hope that he would have the co-operation of the public and of congress, saying through the cables and wire- less constant counsel and advice would be possible. Much of the address was devoted to the railroad problem, for which the President said he now had no solution to offer. He recommended careful study by congress, saying it would be a dis- service to the country, and to the railroads to permit a return to old conditions under private management without modifications. The President declared he stood ready to release the railroads from government control whenever a satisfactory plan of re- adjustment could be worked out. Looks for Peace by Spring. The President said he hoped to see a formal peace by treaty “by the time the spring has come.” No definite program of reconstruction can be outlined now, Mr. Wilson said, but as soon as the armistice was signed, govern- ment control of business and industry was released as far as possible He expressed the hope tha tcongress would not object to conferring upon the war trade board or some other agency the right of fixing expert priorities to assure shipment of food to starving people abroad. As to taxation, the President endorsed the plan for levying $6,000,000,000 in 1919 and for notifying the public in advance that the 1920 levy will be $4,000,000,000. President Favors New Naval Program The new three year naval building program was endorsed be- cause the President said, it would be unwise to attempt to adjust the American program to a future world policy as yet undeter- mined. Paying tribute to the people’s conduct in war, he spoke par- ticularly of the work of women and again appealed for woman suffrage by federal amendment. Declaring he had no “private thought or purpose” France, but that he regarded it as his highest duty. added : “Tt is now my duty to play my full part in making good what § they (America’s soldiers) offered their life’s blood to obtain.” Democrats Applaud President. Democratic representatvies arose and applauded vociferously when the president announced his intention of going in person to the peace conference. The republican side was silent and so were many senators on both sides of the chamber The President concluded after speaking 42 minut and the chamber amidst applause limited to the democratic side terruptions of the address for questions which had been threaténed by some republican members of the house did not materialize YANKEE DIVISIONS FILE INTO GERMANY Neither Friendly Nor Hostile Dem- onstrations Greet Dickman’s Men | TEUTONS KEEP OUT OF SIGHT and the cable on by does British declaration of in going to the President Text of Presiden The president soid “Gentlemen of the year that has elapsed since I stood before you to fulfill con stitutional duty to give congress from time to time information on the statd of the union has with great events, great proces and great results that I cannot hope give yvou an adequate picture tions or of the farcreac changes which have been wroug) the life of our nation and of the world You have yourselves things, as I have. Ii s them; and we who s of them and s qualified thai generation will mean even wl But unmistaka Enthusi- | a part of which it s Message. Th last Congress my been so crowded 1 transs witnessed t is too and art of an what [ s0on te th arc of e o Streets Are cally Deserted Fx- or some cept For a Few Discharged Ger- the ind man Soldiers—Children’s is our d ve floors The car then hegan to descend slowly and going bayond the fiocr bore down on him in the pit. breaking every bone in his hody Had the voung lady ‘n the car : tempted to jump she might have t the same fate. The elevator is one of Wwo used on the Washing o1 st | site of the plant and ‘s for passen | Zers. The other elevator 1 for frcight, uzzi wi unma ried. with the law. R Allies Are Expected to Demand Co- | nad S - | lonial Posscssions at Peace Confer- | | | and tien let him drop | | | i i ence—Nations Favor Such Action. | London, Dec. | Walter ate 1 Long, via Montreal- Hume retary speaking at Br fact that he was “olonic toduy osed the a member of the committee mention- ed by the premier on November consider the terins that should be demanded from Germaay. Therefore, he could emphasize the empire neesl have no anxicty on the ground of due tendern on the part of Gr Britain and the Allies. He said that althou desir enl s he saw al Dec of the problem Britain and Siee by tonight. empire. Whe rising temperature. consnlted they 4 ed that cou for disc ot} i is used main s about middle He leaves exception of no un- n sh he did British ¢ to ne pire, 1t to no ive the inc the t th German lusion * in tives had Tmingly he said, Hartford, for New Unsettled snow, of colo- the ht-('ni fayor- vicinity Tues save thei overwhe L | | Gen asm Quickly Squelched. th executive out of them to shape | them is to set lative and msut grow have yet America’s American Army Dec. 1, (By the ociated Press)— No demonstrations, either friendly or hostile, marked the entry of Major Dickman’'s army into Germany The frontier was crossed early and by nightfall the Amer- icans had moved ward 12 miles, reaching Radgen the left, and Saurholzbach on the right. The line extended along the Saar river and through Saarburg and Treves Streets Almost Deserted, reets of the villages were al Perhaps 85 per cent. | of the populution remained within | supplies wheir homes and in a majority of | extraordinary cases the blinds were drawn nun; dangers which were thet a German in 1lnl‘nyulx difficult tc watching the this movement lly groups by enemy corners, but there upon of Occupation, and and deiermir Great Feat. had sent then “A | men sent year ago w overseas. iace 1,950,651 n each month, the ing in May last to 278,760, in July to 307,182 tinuing to reach similar | August and September | 289,570 and in Septembc movement of before across hy ind e 145,19 havd 162,54 fact ris June tg d con fi 1 ~in we ave of number in 245 sk in the d on N¢ ever tool 3,000 miles of e 1c ;,m. tollowed troops The | most deserted i adeq epuipmic carried dan of and stood troop: guard against. Iy men wo doo and ¢ streot 1y a1l only 75 lost were casion ttacks single 630 whonal English trpnspos (Continued on Lleventn Pag ntinued ok Eleventh Pagey