New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 16, 1918, Page 1

m HI'FEAIJ) l 2 INEW BRYTAIN HERALD HERALD “ADS” MEAN A BETTER BUSINESa "TTO THE SERVICE. LSIAB[ {\HL[) 187, 18 ——T\VELVE PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS. PRESADENT EXTENDS AMERICA’S GREETINGS TO PEOPLE OF FRANCE; ITALIANS ARE WILLING TO AGREE TO ALLIED PLAN OF PAYING WAR COST IF ALLIES ABANDON MAY/ AMERIGA ENTERED RUSSIA, GOUNTRY IS ARMS THAN OTHER NATIONS, BATTLE T0 FIGHT “ABSOLUTELY RUINED CONSIDERING ITS POPULATION FOR WORLD RIGHTS - s Premier Orlando Tkils Senators Country is in No Posi- President Wilson Speaking i ousin of Former Czar Declares tion to Demobilize a Single Man—15,600 : : Paris, Says U. §. Has Estab- That the World Does Not Officers Killed in War. lished Pelowship With Understand People of Liberty Loving Peoples Her Native Land EDUCATION WILL SPEAKS FOR NATION ACROSS THE OCEA TAKE HALF CENTURY 6. NEW BRITAIN, (,ONNECTICUT MONDA\ DFCEMBER 16 19 FIVE HELD BY POLICE MAY BE BOLSHEVIK FORERUNNERS, PROSECUTOR KLETT BELIEVES Men Arrested For Distributing Handbills Advertising Rally May Later Face Serious Charges—Authorities ITALY HAD MORE MEN UNDER| FRANCE HAS PLAN FOR ESTABLISHING FINANCIAL UNIDN | i | {Purpose Would Be to Have | | | Conducting Investigation. Nations Pay War Costs on Basis of Population and Power {0 Gomribute be tried in court tomorrow morning on this charge only, although the may later develop into a more charg:. Prosecutor G. W. Klett says the men held by the police are Felix Karp, 8 Sheldon street, Hartford Mike Paroc 31 Lyman siree New Britain; ike Denechck, Union Place, Hartford; Max Grisduk, 508 Sheldon strect, Hartford; Fred | Madens, 18 Booth street, New Brit- ain, The translation What forerunner is considered as a possible that Ttaly was not in a position to de- ! mobilize a single man and that all war | material should be kept intact. The immediate difficulties to be surmount- ed, he said, had not diminished but had increased. He added that repar- ation for damages was a qm:nm\ out- MAY CONSIDER IDEA indemni in the fl'ddl'\mml sense of | 16.~ army L During the ‘war 15,600 war declared in 30,000 Ttaly, Rome, Dec. Italian case rious | of Bolshevism, if not Bol- the Jost officer ghevism itself, made its appearance in thi five and began the Polish was printed the killed, the minister of More than when iuns appeared on Man street distributing literature to The in the Russian only English words hall at 2 o’clock.’ were arrested cn a char of the city ordnance regarding peddling of handbills, and they city yesterday afternoon the senate today. officers were wounded seriously. Rus the minister, General Zupelli con- | tinued, had more men under arms, proportionate to population, than any other nation. The war, he said, had cost Ttaly 54,000,000,000 lire. The public debt at the end of October was 64,000,000,000 | lire. | Premier Orlando told the senate | Note | (ONE i LED, SIX HURT citizens, literature language, being *“Dud- The men of violation the will { Sufferings Forced on France and Bels| by Finl Al American Hearts With Indignation, He French| the word, but doubtless Italy would | dopt the same poli regarding reparations the other Allies. A commission has been appointed to es- | War tablish Italy’s damages. ! @ of the pamphlets gium Central Powers People Do Not Even Understand = Expenses of Allies Expected to | (Continued on Eleventh Page) Whiic Meaning of Words “Rcepublic” and Says—Welcomed by WINTER WHEAT CROP IS jTHl]Rl]UfiH SURVEY OF LARGEST EVER RAISED HOG ISLAND SHIPYARD | Total 121.000,000.000 Irancs, I ASSERTS ANOTHER MAN e T Official as Man Whose Diplomacy I Central Powers’ Debt Aggregates | Made of Loyalty. Paris, Dec. 16 M and Help Russia Before it is Too i 870.000,000,000 Francs—Some ‘[n- —President Wilso: delivered an address today at the Cit! hall, where ceremonies had been ar- Late, is Appeal of Grand Duchess tual Financial Understanding \'m-. Anastasie. Genova, Dec. 15, (By the Associat ed Press)—Germany made blunder in entering the should admit that she was wrong, deciared the Grand Anastasie, of Mecklenburg- & mother of the former G princess, in an interview grand duchess, who is a Russian an a cousin of the late Russian empero came here at the outbreak of the w and now is about to go to the for her health. She had many r tives fightirg against each other on fronts. Declines to Discuss Kaiser. The was the iper man she had. talked wit the beginning of the war. Re plying to a question about the forme emperor and the former crown prin she said pathetically The your a war in an th rman today. Th crow la at a correspondent n sinec xim i N whe! ndid language: ‘Don't hit down'. Let us obs this sporting principle tion. Asked 5 soon military m L du why s 11 began replied War Came As Grea “I could not remain in a which had declared war on country—Rust This war gre surprise to me and “rederick Franz IV., Mecklenburg-Schwerin, veral weeks ago,) although were in constant touch with al families of Germany, Russia an Denn It has been said that nc more 20 persons in G what a cruel mistake s going to be. I was one of them 2s T never meddled in pol never intend to, I was nc inteifere coun o she Surprise. ow my sor W wa i However, abla cs and says Germans Blundered. “But I continue to think many na a great blunde ing this terrible struggle, not on from humane point of view bu political and commercial rea as her cominerce wa prospe Now she has lost all. create a political, stic ration by openly in ente also fo sons s - ous should and art financi admi i ‘We acted wrongly; we are so y* e The aews crown = grand duchess sald she from her daughter, the fo princess, since Septembe except through a letter from dest daughter, the queen of both of them were w She made an appeal for help for country of her birth, saying: Allies Must Save Russi Aliies alPandon Russi The Allies do not seem the situation clearl per of the Ru v spect fqr only two thin nd thz czar The pessants now ‘We have no czar whom shall It ears no Der tY f the is lost. understand Abc 78 will take the population understand the meaning words ‘republic’ and ‘presiden Russian 1 ple want someor ship becaus 1 is their old tom, their religion and their lives. the Allies stake note and help Russia before it 1¢ too lat HAMBURG SAILORS DEMAND MERCHANT MARINE CON 3 to the The Vo T po - RC Dec, 16.—Control hant marine is demanded t council formed at Hambu Bierlin dispatch to ti ke Tidende, of this city. threateng to sink all the shi not complied wit « that the financing hipowners. Copenhagen, the mer u sailo accord Berltng counc if 1 e be bor s to a il na in council Ly the great Duchess chwering, | Riveriz rin- tions countr; ame as grand duke of | who abdicat- the rov. rmany that Ger- Germany had | her | wa The | n « a4 T, Madrid, Deec. manones, L - after a called to consider Catalonia, h: the king ha ending h a colli tween the police socialist avor a democratic s killed and si r trouble there was a Agitation for mands of Catalonia recentl tion ¢ n n occ el 1t been active ternal situs cav i by Alhucemas and cabinet headed Decembe December 9 great demonstratio Catalonia in Madrid, that Senor er, v n on h. | on ° It was - Cambc a ot Catalonia. it 0 i ot Leviathan Docks - 1y 1t Refuge New York, Dec. Teviathan, with diers aboard, is in long delay due to hung over ew days. The transp Hook Saturday to anchor on conditions. {aboard was Barnett, command al t= | Amo ) 1. | he | Swedish-American erty brought refugees he to ¥ Bolsheviki in 50 of to ot or Germans Fear Armistice Will | Am Berlin, Dec. | Press.)— Discuss son’s trip to 1 Reventlow, chief the Tages Zeitung, oL | . The | price, no matter of | United States nam the resumption of . [ relations with the | Count von v | | i | aitions hound ence of and amo ps h. imposdd the Unitec g its ass A autonomy ernment concerning 8,000 night, account ng rope Count Reventlow cabinet rliament. sion of were for 1sed the n in For Autonomy. 16.—Premier Sunday and a crowd after republican meeting at Barna | of the autonomy | republic. « d IN POLITICAL RIOTING | Spanish Government Split on Catalonia’s Demand ssued a note declaring | s heen asked to sign a de- be. a talor One person injured. rred in Bilbao, where Rasque manifestation. ind against the autonomy The Span downfall | of the government of the Marquis de sment Count Romanones | Madrid dispatch | announce opposition to | had taken place | announced Catalonian was preparing to question the gov- the demands of | Sim- de- in- by a that a also lea% 8,000 ARRIYE IN NEW YORK Today—American 16. port tod a heav ort ng the er of th line, < from Petrograd Also York harbor reached but was forced of the weather Major-General he States Marine Corps abroad. The steamship Stockholm, which forced to anchor off the Statue of Lib- Iast night on account of the fog, home a number of Americ who were badly treated Petrograd, Wilson's Consent Re- turn to U. S, on Swedish Steamer. ~The transport American sol- ay after a fog that for two Sandy notables George United of the was an by HUNS HATE T0 PAY PRICE to Prove Inimical to (By Pr editorial says: how writer German people must hij ica’s Influence Among Allies, the Associated sident Wil- von of ns pay zh, any tho as a condition for their world.” on d States ociates.” position in and believes Mr. Wilson’s consent to the armistice con- Germany to prove inimical to the is influ- Europe Ro- | meeting | serious outbreaks in { Hamilton, has | With Murder, questioning today wealthy insurance man honeymoon, ince Piper's arrest ont. Piper was ought Hamilton yesterday mystery aring h man in mar e don”, adding that threats of trouble, Miss Weichman from relatives | few weeks later hers only by earthed near Iiggleston township, whereabouts at the known here and Chicago, Detroit and was finally arrested by in A a bod a Iroz timr | th Rupture With German tion of German cupicd Provinces. Amsterdam, Dec. 16. severed relations with cording to a telegrs Berlin from Warsaw. Poland, as a re accuses the German cupied provinees as Bolsheviki. = At | Polish | von the German mission territory of the Polish i | BILL HAD 598 Lo Ser Dec. 15 An don, ce.) in Berlin and Potsdam discovery - of the wardrobe, including foreign military and n Berlin. Several thous: Hohenzollern | soldier nd workmen’ Prince Eitel Frederich, <uf(<*u rding of the vy fortunes It d an ag tramed month, SMUTS R 16. s has r London, Dec, Christian Smu ber of the at the end of the nated the need of his cording to the Express. Insurance Agent, Muskegon, Mich., Dec. of Milo H. Piper, | | delegates gave this man’s name as was the clothing d he was other & inventory mperor William’s private belongings s led to the imperial 598 German and farms, according to the Boersen Zeitung horses famous stables formerly belonging have beea Xcgotiations between WED UNDER HIS NAME Charged | Makes 16.—Fu charged here “Joh his objections the use of his name were silenced by last ugust v ident 19 i was e were citie rough a Follow Authoritics in Poland German will 1 SUIT of h aval unt and to coun Hohenz wre progressing reement FROM SH WAR CABINET Tieutenant igned as r has crossing Michigan. sought will Astounding Statement. irther with | killing Frieda Weichman after a short | although he had a wife living, was expected to clarify several obscure points developed in the ca Saturday at from and added to the surrounding the case by name was used by ing Miss Weichman. de- another He Shel- to heard 16. ed in Piper’s un- in He letter sent to him under the name of John Carlson at the general deli of the Hamilton post office. POLAND SEVERS RELATIONS s Ac- Oe- ha c- in on for the rupture, wuthorities in oc- acting contrary to Polish interests and working with the the request of government, Governor Beseler and the entire staff the General Inventory of Kaiser's Private Belong- | ings Shows He Had “Some” Wardrobe (British Wireless former Jan mem war cabinet on the ground termis services, a ot in Herr confiscated. Postdam, tho and looking to the llern slow- be | | ery window | internatior | be { Stern establishing among | be distributed cessary to Aviod Bankruptey. Paris, Dec. 15.—The French gov- ernment is considering with a proba- bility of presenting before the cham- ber of deputies on December 24 a bill proposed by Deputy Jacques the Allies an international financial union. Tho purpose of this union would be distribute the expenses of the war he- tween the nations on the basis of populations and power to cantribute. The proposition d by 100 of all is uader- stood a similar plan is under consid- eration by the British government, but no definite steps have as yet heeu taken in London. Fear International Bankruptey. It is estimated that the penses af the Allies totalled 000,000 franc hile the Powers’' expenses aggreg: 000,000,000 francs. Annual at 5 per cent. with a one-half per cent. premium for amortiz would total 42,000,000,000 franc avoid international bankruptcy declared such an ociation essary to float an international loan, estimated at 518%,000,000,000 franecs to on a | popula- production state war ex- 424,000,- Central of of I guar: tach tion ion a would from Would Settle All Questions, ht terian the cen- ciatéon. admission the (§ntral hed by the re-establishing is held to the world. the bill, rence will principle, on to ar- and | 1 agency ’rovision for the of neutral Evea Powers, upon terms pre Allies, may join, thus credit, which condition 1ent of the author of peace confer at least i al commi details. ugh of the a is made states 1 an essent nomic develop M. Stern, the hopes that the adopt the plan leaving a spe range the LINIT WAR DAMAGES ment, to eco- Belgian Gover bmits Bill Providing Compensation for Mate- rial Losses Only. Brussels, Dec. 15—The ernment has submitted a bill limiting compensation damages to material losses, ing those sed on moral The senate, in its address replying to the speech from the throne, has de clared strongly in favor of the rest ration of the duchy of Luxembour to Belgium. Belgian gov- to parliament for war exclud grounds KAISER LIK HOLLAND. Attached to es to Leave. He Is So fle Ref Amsterdam, Dec. 16. Hehenzollern, the former emperor, the Telegraaf savs it under- stands, has refused to leave Holland {after official represeatations had been made that his continued presence in Iin Fact Place -William German | Holland was likely lo involve the | country in serious difficulties. The former emperor, the adds, was told that his free ure would he a matter of g {to the Dutch government. paper ] ATHER. Hartford. Dee. 16.—Fore- casts for New Britain and vi- cinity: Unsettled tonight Tuesday fa to Department of Agriculture in Report Today. Dec. 16.— winter wheat crop ever history of tho United States is prom- ised the enormous acreage sown this fall. The acreage per cent. larger than totals 49,027,000 acres. A crop of 765,000,000 bushels, or 80,000,000 bushels more than the best record, is forecast by the depart- nient of agriculture as next year's winter wheat yield, allowing for win- ter ling and spring abandonment. Tast year's crop was 25,000 bushels. ‘Washington, ‘The largest 4 Was With Machine Gun Battalion— Private John J. Coffey Also on Casualty List As Wounded in Action Sergeant Howard J. Bruemmer of Co. B, 101st Machine Gun Battalion, has been wounded in action, accord- ing to a telegram received by his father, Charles A. Bruemmer of 81 Church street. He was wounded on October Sergeant Bruemmer has a sister, Miss Gertude Bruemmer of 11 Trinity street and a brother, Fred, of New York. Another war department {elegram has been received by John J. Coffey of 48 Cottage Place, advising him that his son, John J. Coffey, was wounded in action on October 2. The degree of his wounds is undetermined. Pri- e Coffey was a former .rving with that unit at the Mexican Lorder. lLater he was discharged for physical disability, but subsequently accepted for service and went to \mp Devens several months ago. WILSON AS MEDIATOR Pope Benedict May Ask Him to Settle Controy Between the and the Va 16 (Havas.)—Pope request President Wil- in Rome, Dec. Benedict may :on to consent to act as mediator an effort to reach a reciprocal which will solve the dissent which has existed between the Quirinal and the Vatican, according to the Popolo Ro- mano. This question, the paper states, will in no case be brought before the peace conference. FIVE TRANSPORTS L pected to Arrive Home Chy Washington, Dec. 16 partment ounced today the sailing from Irance of the transports Man- churia, Per Maru, Carillo and Nansemond, returning American | troops. Aboard Amcrican Troops Before stmas, The war de- ia W the Manchur the 116t and 117th field artillery, head- quarters h6th field illery brigade, 106th ammunitioa train, headquarters 624 infantry brigade, training cadets from the 21st division and 966 sick ,and wounded. are grown in the | SERGT. BRUEMMER WOUNDED | Co. E man, | Quirinal | ‘an—Not a Peace Issue. | pact | its exact officials mine | vard, | Fleet building plant. This was m: Charles Piez, | | a week and vard is not ard, changes i | government operation will mended. Charges made of M Vardaman competence at motive behind according to M Main street | small boys, his Saturday the cafe when the back door. tl several ski The boy returned in time to see same size makir money through It is belleved the d boy who | police proprietor xed the was expect t Clement Kalkowski, saloon, | Munch's saloon, this morning at receipts leaving the money small boy offered to sell him some bot- minutes after to the ruse to rob him. cription given to the police of the selling the Philadelphia, Dec. 16. status as of the ade known t director general fleet corporation, the investigation will ir up to the required stand- management of recom- who intim. it is found n the b recently by the the x. Ples proposed propri forme: was robbed he heard a —To be made o'clock oday ated that e Ser Toss not 0ol SMALL BOYS STEAL $334 FROM SALOO tion While Other Sncaks In and Confiscates Roll. etor rly of by 765,000,000 is Forecasted By | If it is Not Up to Standard, Changes Will Be Recommended. deter- a producing mergency corporation will make a thor- { ough survey of the Hog Island ship- by of the tha within the hator in- the vey, | One Engages Proprietor in Conversa- of a two Kalkowski was counting in the office knock at He went to the door, as it wa argued with which front of another bhoy a ng hi the door. that the counting ba his o make s, an him d a for Kalkow- the bout seeing mo bottles, arrests tod fe the c retaway with the ney, .From the the The hoy is known to the police as be- ing connected with several other schemes. such .STANDARD TOLL LINE RATES Washington, | order published will be es country involve cent. slight next incre. cheaper, being rate from The basic rate ice Costs—Basic of Postmaster Gen. todas midnight Rate Dec. ¥, standard 1 through 21. about Lnug one-half of to 4:3 on rate call Will 6 1-4 Mills Per Air Line Mile. ong out 70 o the 0 a. will Postmaster General Cuts Night Serv- Be 16.—Under an Burleson, dis- tance and toll rates on telephone calls blished Js E reductions in of the rates now the This will per charged and a > in about 30 per Night service rates are made much | ent. day m. be 6 1-4 mills a mile figured on an air 1line mileage. of { t | the | emotions within | began, ranged for. The president replied to greeting extended him. “Your greeting has raised me,” the man president Speaks for “It is with no that the people American People. ordinary sympathy| of the United States, for whom I have the privilege of speaking, have viewed the sufferingd of the people of France. Many o our own people have been themselve: witnesses of these sufferings. Wi were the more deeply moved by th wrongs of the war because we knewv the manner in which they were per: petrated. “I beg because a wide space we were nesses of the tha us i will not suppose ocean separated not in effect e wit shameful ruin that wad wrought and the cruel and unnece sary sufferings that were brough upon you. These sufferings havd filled our hearts with indignation| We know what they w not_only] but we knew what they signified, an: our hearts were touched to the quich by them, our imaginations filled wit the whole picture of what France an Belgium in particular d experi enced. Tells Why you U. S. Entered War, “When the United States entere the war, therefore, they tered i not only because they were moved b a conviction that the purposes of thi Central Empires were wrong ang must be resisted by everywher who loved liberty the right, bu also because the illicit ambitions which they were entertaining and at tempting to realize had led to th practices which shocked our hearts a much as they offended our principle “Our resolution formed bel we how profoundly gred ght ufected, with our reso| men and was AUSE knew principles of were our hearts mc lution Represents “You have ous in what you have enough to say about me, beyond my personal deserts, but 3 have interpreted with real insight o the motives and resolution of thi people of the United States. Wha ever influence 1 exercise, whateve authority I speak with, I derive from them. I 'know what they havy thought, I know what they have d sired, and when I have spoken wh 1 know was in their minds it has beel delightful to see how the conscicncel and purposes of free men everywher responded We. have merely estal lished our right to the full fellowshi ved also als. gener rcion| A American Id been exceedin been enerous = of those peoples here and througho the world the ‘right nuine liberty Justice Thanks French People. You have madec me feel very at home here, not merely lightful warmth of your weicome, b also by the manner in which you h made me realize to the utmost the timate community of thought ideal which characterizes your peop and the at nation which I haw the honor for the time to represen Your welcome to Paris I shall aiway remember as one of the unique an inspiring experiences of my life a while 1 feel that you are honor the people of the United States in person, I shall nevertheless carr with me a very keen personal cation in looking back upon memorable days. e to who reverence d and mue by the de ir an| the: thank you from full h FRENCH OFFICIAL'S * WELCOME ADDRES Paris, Dec. 16.—In addressing Pred ident Wilson at the city hall cerd (Continued on Elethh Page)