New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 3, 1918, Page 1

FRIOM TOE HERALD HRALD"‘ADS” MEAN BETTER BUSINESS ESTABLISHED 1876. NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1918. --TWELVE PAGES. PRICE THREE CENTS. REPUBLICAN MEMBERS OF HO USE DO NOT INTEND . TO CAUSE PRESIDENT EMBARASSMENT WHILE HE - ATTENDS CONFERENCE; SENATE GRILLS SEC.BAKER BAKER EXPLAINS DELAY IN FORWARDING ENTIRE LIST - Declares no Attempt Has Been Made to Hide Figures —Thinks the 100,000 Mis- sing Names Men Slightly Wounded. W Bake milit committee 2 the delay in completing the tion of American casualtie said he thought most of the ed names were those of me wounded and would come ¢ Puzzles Sc Senators were unable to understand why only something over 100,000 names have published, when it has been offici announced thai tho qusualties nun 693. The sec- fefaryisaid every effort consistent with accuracy made to prevent delay and that Gen. Pershing had o urged repeatedly to expedite his lists, sending the names of the dead first “The department from the ning,” Mr. E r said, “has never held 1p, withheld ed giving wut alty lists. icy has been to > a_complete as soon as ble. en. March Makes Sta n. March, Dec 3 before the today to shing —Se ppearing s¢ expl publi overse unrepor! slighily mail. ators. ry been 111y ber was hegin - or de Our pol statement ment, chief of s f, and sistant Secretary Keppel were with the etary. Mr. Keppel the syvs- tem of obtaining and verifying casual- ty reports in France had been slow at and if it had to be done ot in it prob would be dene dif- ferently Gen tio units \s- March aid Gen. Pershing was selc the occupational for 0,000 men, and that Amer in be ra; shipping discussing demohiliza- ting for about 1,2 other ican soldiers would brought could be provided. 5 Hospitals for Wounded Men. 4 The seventy-five hospitals to be em- ployed do not include those at the ports of debarkation, New York and Newport News. There the wounded will be received upon their arrival in 15 institutions now ready for with a bed capacity of 22,068 om the po will be taken on specially fitted trains to one of the 16 localized hospital zroups ,where assignments will be wnade in such a way that each of the wounded men will go hack to the on from he entered the ice. The groups include No. 1—General hospitals at ton, New Haven, East Norfolk, Plattsburg bar and the hospital at Camp Deavens. No. 3—General hospitals at Coloni \ex. 5} Fort Porter, Fort Ontario, Otis ville, N. Y.; Lakewood, N. J.; Cape May, N. J.; Dansville, Madi- son Barracks and Base hospital, Camp Dix home as from F re- which serv- Bos M ha General Md. hospitalss at Fort McHenry Rov nd Park, D H arlisle, and Walter Reed Washington, D. ., and Camp Meade General Pa gh, pital, Base Qospital, A No hospitals at Mar- eton, Richmond, Va., Pitts- ittshur Pa., and Camp Lee, Va. List Not Being Held Up. ker said many com- been hased upon misun- suspicions that the held up,.and that dis- caused among relatives reports in soldiers pri- He told in detail of the on plan under which a tel- s sent immediately to the next name is put on the ansmitted by mail to the news- for simultaneous publication out the country. there been any the ator Weeks “I don't feel Disker answered ‘Has General expedite tt “Repeatedly, “There have to Se Secretary plaints had lerstanding lists were bein and ress had hec inaccurat lett be a is unwarranted " asked on other side Sen- free to say that”, Mr Pershing been reports repeatedly been so many stem w Weeks observed. Mail Delayed. central headquar- rs was too slow at the outset,”” Mr, coutinued, “but it has been 1 We had to choose between 1d reliable information and a but reliable. too much time and accuracy there might asked to cases it me the ineffi- ator Soldi system cient,’ “The slowe mewhs stem Whether spent on reliability on. which of opinion Hitcheock, of we’ve had yiestion fdifference (Continued on Ninth Prge) OF AMERICAN CASUALTIES Are Those of | MURDER AND PILLAGE BOLSHEVIK WATGHWORD Only Arrival of Allied Forces Can Stop Reign of Terror. (By few T British 3erlin, Dec, e Associated It a light torpedo | boats or cruisers, with even a small landing force, could reach Re this week they could dam the Bolshe | burning and plundering Esthonia and the men [ vist flood which has been murdering, Livonia, according to declaration made to the correspondent by Baron Aexkuell, of Esthonia, who escaped from that country on Thursday in ¢ guise. Baron a Aexkuell reports that Ger- man forces had begun to evacuate Narva when they were attacked and | defeated by Russian troops. 1 Last Tuesday White Guards com-} manded by former Russian officers, | under the leadership of Count Keller, of the old Russian regime, were tacked by a superior Bolshevist for The guards gave protection ago to Russians who allezed the had deserted from the Bolshevi army because of bad treatment. They brought 25 machine guns with them While the attack was proceeding last Tuesday, three Russians fired upon the White Guards from the rear, con- at [TALIANS DEMAND PEACE A LA WILSON Deputy Ginseppe Insists Imperial- ism Be Excluded From World | FOR COMPLETE DISARMAMENT | Declares “Out of Th Peace Must Arise a World Without Soldiers and Without Ileets”—Urge Bissolati as Envo; demand a imperial- | Rome, Dec. “Wo Wilson peice excluding an | declared Deputy Giuseppe Ca- former food controller, at a meeting today of the socialist par(y favorable to the war to discuss its at- titude toward the conclusion of peace | and problems after the war. | ccks Complete Disarmament. “Out of this peace,” he added, “must arise a world without soldiers | and without fleets. Any germ of new | wars must be destroyed absolutely During the war we socialists were represented in the government by Bissolati (leader of the reform social- ists) and must demand that Bissolati also represent democracy at the pence conference.” ism,” nepa, AMERICAN TROOPS SLEEP IN GERMANY Are Now Continuing Their March To- ward the Rhine, With Coblenz natio; the Des American Army of Occupation, Dec. tributing materially to their defoat, The White Guards, half-annihilated, tired. thonian Jolshe kuell, thonia same zeoisie workmen are nearly all according to Baron Ae the middle classes of 1s- | Livonia cing the of terror that the hou Russia have suffered. METHODISTS CONVENE Spiritual and and reign of Expansion Should Follow War's ‘nd Conference Speaker Asserts, Boston, Dec. Ministers and lay- men representing virtually every Methodist church in New England at- tended the world program conference the Methodist Fpiscopal church today when plans for raising §80,000,000 within the next four years were outlined. The program is to be carried out in connection with the 100th anniversary of the first mission of the church, and the money is to be used for extending the church's worlk {hroughout the world John L. Stone, chairman of the committee in charge of raising the tund, said that with the business ex- pansion which will follow the declar- ation of peace there also must be spiritual e i “Shall activities in this new day of peace be solely commenr- cial?” he asked. Such an outcome would give the lie to our present pro- testations of unselfishness and could be internreted as proof of lon sighted mercenary shrewdness.” of he CROWN PRINCE DOES NOT SIGN ANYTHING Tells Interviewer He Has Renounced Nothing—Says Germans Lost War in 1914, Oosterland, Holland, Dec. 3 (By The ‘Associated Press).-——"I have not anything and I have re- nounced not signed any former Ge to the cor document whatever,” the man crown prince declarcd espondent toda “lam convinced,” the Prince said to his interviewer, “that we lost the war early in October 1974, 1 considered our posiion hopeless should not have lost if the chiefs of our general staff had not suffered a e of nerves. I tried to persuade the g to seek peace then, even : t sacrifice, going so far as to give up Alsace-Torraaine. Eut I was told to mind my own business and confing my activities to commanding my mies. I have proof of this.” ar- i ormer Crown | af- | ter the bafttle of the Marne which we | 2, (By the Associated Press) their first night's sleep in ( the troops - to resume Rhine, Coblenz, the Americans moving ahead astride the Mo traveling in a northeasterly direction. Across the Rhine the American army will take up a iine a little over 60 miles long. It will describe an arc of a circle having Coblenz as a cen- ter and with a radius of 18 6-10 miles in length. This circle pitotigg upon Coblenz is the bridgehead which the, Germans conceded in the armistice. The line leaves the Riine at a point northwest of Coblenz, swings ecast- ward through Rahms and Oberlahr and turns to the south just beyond Rossbach. It continues through Woelferlingen, Molsberg, Diez, Schon- bron, Katzenelnbogen and Welteroth, and reaches the RRhine again at Caub. Along the Rhine the Americans will cccupy a line about 43 miles long. The front will extend a few miles be- vond either end of the semi-circle de- scribed above, thus overlapping In places the lines of the British on the left and the French on the right. During the advance toward Coblenz the American lines extend about 21 miles on each side of the Meselle. The Americans expect to travel from 17 | miles each marching day with a day or two of rest at intervals. After rmany, American were ready their In advancing to- | are | elle, at, dawn toda toward the ward C march { BAVARIAN PREMIER LOSING PRESTIGE | Indications Are That Bavaria Wil Elect to Retain Unity With Germany. London, Dec, 3.—Kurt Eisner, tho Bavarian premier, is losing prestige, according to Munich advices received | here by way of Amsterdam, Copen- | | Railway Co. hagen and Berne. A Copenhagen dis- | patch says Elsner was hissed by hig | own partisans at Munich during a cel- | ebration in honor of returning sol ' diers. Tater a supporter of Kisner was not allowed to make a speech and | was obliged to flee from an crowd which removed the red {along the streets and stormed { ministry of the interior, shouting, “Down with Eisner.” Guards fred | over the heads of the crowd, which | | dispersed. { 1A Berne dispatch to the Mail : Bavaria gradually | reaching a conclusion to retain unity with the rest of Germany rather ! than seekinz a separate neace. This also reports evidence of growing hostility toward Eisner, add- | there are signs in Munich crisis apy aching and tha favoring some form of non may be taken within three i angry | | flags | the | 1t is believed ia its | | ge | ir “h'u 3 neton archy weeks. CLEVELAND RAILWAY GERMANS ARE READY LIEUT. JACKSON WRITES FROM Fmployed Since August 2 2,400 NEN IN BIG WALKOUT Claim Company Agreed to Replace | Women by Dee. 1 and Did Not Do It—Oflicials Blame War Industrics Board. Cleveland demand Co. fov ployed gust, Dec To enfor upon the Cleveland I the dismissal of women em- as conductors since last Au- 10 motormen and conducto: went on strike at 5 o'clock this morn- ing. The last n their lway it car from downtown left the center of the city at 5 o'clock, | the employes agreeing to take their | care of the barn. Mayor Wants Arbitr Mayor Davis left for W last night to put the question the war labor board for arbit ifter the street car employes voted down a proposition by the mayor to defer action until the war labor board could consider the questions at issue. The employes justify their quitting | work the ground that an agree- ment with the company for the remoy- al of the women on November 1 recently extended until December was ignored. War Industrics Board Blamed. The company asserts it received telegram Saturday from the tary of the national war labor bo at Washington asking it to retain the women in its employ until their status s determined by the abor board. tion. hington beforo ition | on sec Secs Effort to Union. Detroit, Dec. 3 k he Cleveland up to agreement concerning the employment failed to live the | of women and there was nothing left for the men to do but | strike,”” said W. D. Mahon, president | of the amalgamated ociation of street and electric railway emploves today. He said the street car men had more than kept their part of the | agreement in extending until Decem- ber 1, the time for the company to dis- continue employing women on the cars. The company in continuing the en- | gage women, Mahon added, was carr ing out “‘a determined effort to break up the street car men’s union lower wages.” The car mediation and the deadlock pect of a on street cars and | men rejecred offer of by the city this morning, ituation was one absolute with no immediate settlement. an of pros- Nol The annual fee of one dollar is now due and will be collect- ed during the week, December 16 to 24, by a Red Cross “Roll Call” Campaign. The public press full details. No bills will be sent. You pay one dollar and receive 1919 button receint badge of membership. We st enroll new in this paign. will print your as a and 10,000 cam- also mu members Everybody in the country is going to be a Red (ross men ber before Christr The Red Cros great part to play Britain must show backs construction 1e has the war. has still and that as 19, a as s in the war at not. leave 1f we were not the first, let us Allies untii they no longer By joining the Red per cent. strong we substantial proof brotherhood tion of our eed Cross will ur us 100 give common our determi our true part burden. and of to vet their reat Bean ear | portead | ing of the | bridge | work in Copenhagen, | substantial | Switzer . OPERATIVES STRIKE O FREE PRISONERS ‘Demand Dismissal of Al Women ' 2,300 Americans at Rastatt Will | Be Released Very Soon IN CHARG 19 Commissioned Men W From Karls- ruhe 1 Escort Men to Freedom —Many Yanks Entering Switzer- land From Enemy Camps. Washington, Dec. 3.—Twenaty-three hundréd American prisoners of war at Camp Rastatt, Germany, were re- “well organized, well clothed ind morale excellent,” in a cablegram today to the merican Red from Lem G. Levy, of the prisoners relief section, wha has just Rastatt. The German reported, are prisoners at once under charge of 19 American officers to be transferred from the prison at Karlsruhe and he recommended that a train be ordered sent for them at once. This message from Mr. Levy brought the first definite news re- ceived on this side of the situation at the big Rastatt camp since the sign- armistice. Its favorable nature was regarded as particuularly atifying in view of varying reports concerning the treatment accorded prisoners by the Germans. The dispatch follows: authorities, 2,300 Americans Located “Found 2,300 well organized, excellent, at Rastatt well provisioned. “The German general inspector of the Fourteenth army corps is willing to deliver them at Rastatt railroad at once, American officers from Karlsruhe to take charge during the journey. Recommend that train be ordered well clothed, morale | to the point immediately so that de- forthwith with of American may be made probable number prisoners. Many Yanks in “W. W. American Switzerland. Husband, head of the Ted Cross prisoners relief is s rting into northern Germany and we hope to complete arrangements to send a delegation into southern Germany. “We have received advices of a number of American coming from Villengen into and and are making all ar- ments in our power for their ption.” prisone: re NEARLY 5,000 MORE YANKEES RETURNING mpress of Britain and Adriatic Headed for United States With Acrial Units. Dec. 3 wo steam- of Britain and the from Liverpool yes York with returning the war department The Impress of 76 officers, 10 nurses The Adriatic carries )8 men. npress of Britain are 140th, 337th, th and 834th aero squadrons; the 10th, 13th, 17th and 14th air service con struction companies, and a number of uals and sick and wounded. There are 11 officers and 241 men among the casuals, not requiring spe- cial attention and 154 enlisted men who are bed-ridden from wounds or illness. The Washi ers, the Adriatic terday for New American troops, announced Britain car on, and 80 officers Aboard the 307th, Adriatic carries 36th, 334th, 472d, 877th and the 637th aero squadrons; the 4th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th air service con- struction companies. There are 30 officers and one enlisted maa among the casu on the Adriatic. BANDITS STEAL $125,000 the 82S8th, W For ol the BROOKS, Chairman Exccutive Committee. Tartford, ts for New tain and \vi- ¥: Rain tonight and Wed- nesday. 4! Five Masked Men Murder Mesican Customs Collector and Two Guavds, Then Escape With Spoils, Bisbee, Ariz., Dec. 3.—TFive masked bandits killed Customs Collector Car- Prieta, Sonora, guards, wound los Caty Mexico, and two of h ed a third and then escaped wiih $125,000 in gold last night. They are believed to have crossed to the Amer- ican side. Cross | visited | willing to release the | American prisoners | and found the large camp and will transfer 19 | MEDDLE WITH WILSON Leader Mann Voices Senti- ment of House of Representatives. Washington, Dec. 3—1In a statement declaring factional strife should be permitted to interfere with >nt Wilson’s mission abroad, entative Mann of Tllinois, re- leader in the house, said there would be no concerted effort on the part of the house republicans to embarrass the president and that he did not believe the American peo- ple would “tolerate any meddling in that which so vitally concerns them.” | publican Senator Sherman of Illinois, repub- lican, introduced today his resolution proposing that the office of president be declared vacant upon President Wilson’s departure for Europe, and that the vice-president assume the executive’s duties. He was given unanimous consent for an address criticizing the President’s course. Postponment until after the peacs conference of questions regarding forming a legue of nations and any “sweeping changes” in ancient inte national laws of freedom of the seas, is proposed in a resolution introduced | today by Senator Knox of Pennsyl- | vana, republican, former secretary of | state. TWO CHILDREN DIE FROM GAS FUMES | While Father and Sister Have Narrow Escape at Home on Silver Street. Tony and Walter H. Glepk and 2 years, respectively, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Glepki, of 46 street, are dead and the father { daughter Lottie are in a serious con- dition today as a result of gas oning. Mrs. Glepki left the house shortiy after supper last night to visit friends and the father and daughter retired, the children staying in the kitchen to play. It is supposed that one of them turned on the gas jet while playing. ‘The children then went into the room where their father and sister. were sleep and all four were found by Tony Tell, a boarder, who came home late. He notified the police, and two of the unfortunate victims were re- suscitated after an hour's work, but the two younger children were be- yond aid. Mr. Glepki is puzzled as to how the gas coming from the kitchen affected four people in another room. The jet was a large one and situated low on the stove. The boarder who discov- ered the tragedy had been overtime for the last few weeks and finding that the house was filled with the fumes of escaping gas, wasted no time in investigating and securing aid WILSON T0 VISIT POPE While in Rome He Will Be the Guest aged 4 pois- working of King and Queen—Wil! Go to Vatican Himself. Rome, Dec. 3.—President Wilson during his stay at the capital. will pay 1 visit to Pope Benedict, it is announ ed by the newspapers her He £o to the Vactian, it is stated the American embussy ad o m the Quirinal, where the president and Wilson will he the guests of the and Queen while in Rome. | ill from inst King WOUNDED SOLDIERS TO GO TO HOSPITALS NEAR HOME. Washington, Dec. 3 which 11 wounded from T nce will go to hospitals within three hundred miles of the homes of their nearest relatives, were nnounced today the war depart- ment. To this end base hospitals at t ing camps have been turned j the surgeon general, providing 75 hos- |y with facilities to care for 104, { 281 men. Fifty thousand men are ex- pected to be sent to these institutions ~Plans men under returning by nin- over to | Silver and | fit before cold within the next four months. GERMAN PRISON CAMP THAT HE IS WELL; WANTS CLOTHING REPUBLICANS WILL NOT | Says He Went Inte Battle Hatless and Coatless and ig Still in Same Condition— at Karlsurhe, in Germany, Praises U. S. Soldiers. First Lieut. Thomas F. the 119th S. Infantry whose safety grave fears have beer entertained since he was first re< ported a prisoner, later reported transferred, still later reported o his way to rejoin his company an then, last week, reported by the war department as “missing in action since September 29,, was safe and well at the German prison camp a% Karlsruhe, Germany, on October 15 The young, officer’s mother, Mrs./ Thomas Jackson of 376 Chestnuty street, today received two letterst Jackson of concerning LIEUT. THOMAS F. JACKSON written by her son from ‘Prison camp in which he graphically out- lined his experiences and assured her that he was fe and well, al- though his clothing was badly tat- tered and he hoped the Red Cross would provide him with a new out- weather sets in Lieut. Jackson states that he was captured in action on September 29 but does not mention- the particular engage- ment. He adds that he went into battle hatless, coatless and in his shirt sleeves because the boys ex- pected a “hot fight”—anrd they got it. Concerning the condition of his wardrobe, Licut. Jackson writes that it is just the same as when he went into action on the twenty-ninth Lieut. Jaekson's letter is the first one to be received in this city, as far is known, from New Britain oldier who h been captured by the enemy. These letters, intensely interresting and breathi the at- mosphere of the sordid prison camp, vet made light and buoyant by the ever humorous spirit of the writer, formerly on the Herald staff, are herewith printed, in pari Says Boys Did Themselves Proud. “Karlsruhe (Baden) Germany, “October 9, 1918. “Arrived at Officers’ Prison C Karlsruhe, Germany, yesterday. ave time to write since aptured in battle September I am unhurt, have a good place to live, enough to eat, thanks to the Red Cros 1 o why wo There are a American oflicer to have a pretty solutely no ne. I unhurt going into battle belt to the chaplain of the 119th T fantry, He will send it to you, My bedding roll will be sent home, as may my trunk and it which I stored in Boulogne, K Should the Red’Cross ask you for money give it to them, as it will be for money I have borrowed from them as a pris- of war. I am allowed to write only four letters and four post-cards a month, so don’t worry if you ‘§on’t rom me often. rding th ed, 1 vich prese to a good scr did ti lluropean you on dc num wve no work So er \ere ar time to and well ave my mon d ood am Be o nee. oner ttle wait ng fr , Will he ay for the which nti I after m the o onaslon will jud ditions Suffice it it tainly Ay was nd our proud militar ap bo msel careot, (Continued on Ninth Page)