New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 2, 1919, Page 9

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDH POLES HEADED FOR BERLIN WITH ARMY OF 30,000 SOLDIERS When Request is Refused They Rebel and Institute Schedule Them- selves in Defiance. Cleveland, Jan. 2~—Two-thirds the local fire department force of 5 { men were off duty yesterday as a re- sult of the Firemen's Union's plan to stitute an eight-hour working *dule. The amendment to the city charter granting the firemen and po- licemen an eight-hour day was ap- proved by the voters in 1917 It was | ne enforced, clty administration | officials say, because of lack of fi- | nances. One hundred one-third S . 8 left their Paderewski, who arriv-| night Another one-third walked out veral days ago, 1s at 8 o'clock vesterday morning. The nir:}uru fux ,“ :u’:«x\\’ remainder were relieved at 4 o’clock Ws«}‘j':;:]\f\}';;':““;j kel | vesterday afternoon by the first unit, ’ 2 { which will remain on duty until mid- | night, when the second group will re- | lieve them. According to union officials, all the firemen will report in any great emer- gency. Mayor . - of (Continued fron and is surrounded in barracks within the city. German troops seat into the city were disarmed on their arrival at the railway station. The entire Polish pogulation is reported to be aiding e Polish troops. They include Boy Scouts and young women The fighting is of a house-to-house nature and there is no wate nate of the number killed wounded. gnace Jan n Posen ing his dc er to have 1 deleg: esti- and | | acc 2 and ninety members of of the fire department: posts at midnight Ilast de- in Ger- WANT TO DEVELOP WATER POW! FOR ELECTRIC Hartford, Jan A petition been filed with the retary of state addressed to the general assembly by the Connecticut Light and Power Co. seeking authority to divert waters of the Housatonic river at Bulls Bridge and the waters of Ten Mile rive Rocky river for utilization 5; also to build di power houses, be allowed to the Housanic below Southville and above the old bridge at Little York. The bill creating this company from the Rock) - com- “b3py, the Housatonic Powe tide New Milford Power Co. the general assembly of 19 sponsored by J. Henry Roraback, who was its attorney. R CO. has Davis has issued a state- ing that *‘the city will fill as soon possible the vacancies of those who have voluntarily taken it upon themselves {o leave their post of duty.” Discharged soldiers and sailors and ! men out of employment are appecaled to take thelr place: for ns tunnels, to abutments on Ik build RUSSIAN AFFAIRS WORRYING BRITISH | | | | Pefinite Settled— Policy Must Be = First Matter to Comec Up at VANQUISHES IS VICTIM OF THE “FLU Peace Conference. London, Jan. 2. af S are causing the British foreign office considerable anxiety, says the Mail. The necessity of farmulating a defl- nite allied polic as to Russia is ex- tremely urgent and It has beea de- cided that the Russian question will be the first to be discussed at the peace’ conference, it is said. “It is presumed that all the Allied nations are overwhelmingly against armed intervention by an expedition- ary force,” says the newspaper. “The British government has also decided that an ekpedition is impossible, pre- ferring to encourage the creation of a stable government in Russia, al- though the origin of such a govern- * ment is at present quite abscure. In : the meantime, munitions aad instruc- | tors are being sent to the true Rus- | sian armies in the south, in Siberia | ana the forces on the borders of Po- {land and Finland. Large cargoes of | food were recent sent to northern | Russia for the people lving in dis- | tricts under Allied control. Thare is no likelihood of the Allied forces on the Russian coast being withdrawn. FAVORS PROHIBITION. —Russian —William the bt Leefe best-known the Roy ying Corps, 1, following an attack of influ- Robinson, to whom was award- ed the Victoria Cross in 1916 for bringing down a Zeppelin which was raiding London, was captured by the Germans last April and returned to England on December 14. During his Pmprisonment, TRobinson attempted everal tim. to escape, but was re- captured. The Germans placed him in solitary confinement in a small cell, it i5 said. Since returning he is re- ported to have suffered severely from the hardships he endured while captive. Dec. London, Robinson, megab is de enza of MIDDLEMAN BLAMED. rymen’s League Says Distribution System Causes High Prices. Da New York, Jan. 2—The Dairymen's League issued a statement today plac- | ing on middlemen the blame for the milk situation which, in relation to high prices, 18 under investigation here. #“The farmer on one side receiv too little for his product and the co. sumer on the other pays too much,” the statement d in part. “Both par- ties concluded that the other is taking mlvantage, when as a matte if is the man in betwe umbersome and expe and I arbitrar; source of the trou | i | b | Governor Tells His Address. s New Hampshire Views in Inaugural Concord, N. H., Jan. John H. Bartlett in his | dress to the s —Governor naugural ad- legislature today, sug- gested that the public service com- mission be gradually reduced to a { single member and urged that there | should be one member of the tax | commission instead of three. Oppor- tunities for elementa education should be the same everywhere in the state, even if the state itself paid for it in the poorer towns Governor Bart- lett declared. ¢ He urged una nous ratification of the federal prohibition amendment; efforts to kcep all workers employed during the transition period; care for the interest of returning soldiers and dependents of soldiers who fell; budget em for ate fi- TRIPLE TAX ON ALL WAR PLANTS, NEW GERMAN PLAN Amsterdam, Jan. 2. dispatch from Berlin says that the people's commissioners, in agreement with the secretary of finance, have decided that war profits shall be collected in the shape of an extraordinary war levy for the year 1919; second, that there shall be an extraordinary levy on the increased value of pro and third, that all’ property remaining after the collection of war protits shall be sub- jected to a large general levy. and nances, | KEEP WASHTUB FIRE BURNING IN W Washington, Jan. 2. national HINGTON, Several mem- women’ party, seamen’s slickers, stood in 1 on the sidewalk before { the White House today to keep burn- ing in a metal washtub their “watch- | fire” which they say will burn until the senate acts favorably on the wo- man suffrage amendment. Relays of women had attended the fire since it | was lighted in the tub last night, after a crowd of citizens and men in uni- form had extinguished one started in a decorated urn in Lafayette Square. Half a dozen women arrested during the disturbance, and released without bond, did not appear in the police " | court. MARKET EMPLOYES DINE. A ‘banquet was held last night in the | Hotel Washington by the emploves of “the Mohican Market. Seventcen were in attendance, 16 of them cmployes of the company in its local store, amd Mrs. Ashland, wife of Manager R. A. Ashland, guest of honor. Willlam Wilsh was toastmaster. n excellent supper was served, followed by an en- tertainment given by the ecmployes. Among the performers were Iddie Ottette, William Walsh, Michael Campbell and R. A. Ashland, who fa- vored with vocal selections, and Miss Sadie Erwin and (Charles Mad who performed on the piano TRYING TO SETTLE STRIKIE, Pittsfield, Jan. Wood the state tion olding a conf with a comr Blectric plant strikers. He 10ld 2 conference with rep- of the company if he can same In event a meet- plant management can- ced Mr. Wood will ord iring at which the burden upon the strikers to show justified in going out on t they aro justified EDUCATORS IN SESSION. Hartfor largd atte —Charle G. board of arbitrs rence this tee from P ternoo the | The v of presided forenoon ¢ afternoo = noon rafr noon on aining. session t ng t ecretary Hine made | would they strike public fall wer OF INFLUENZA HE PAS 206 CASE DURING MONTH | in naining out 0.000.000 SAVING. 3 The total ton expeditionary . salvage depart- has saved during the past six $3,500.000 worth of war recavering pairing io jected ceordix ters’ dc enza reported ror December was 206 ew wases reported toda Ther aver PRESTDENT AT FRONTIER. Rome, Ja f1sc and his part M odanc on omtier. hy Presi¢ th nt mornir n ar 5 of the here. ing pres <oldi quarterma ved ment of the sers | partment TWO DESTROYERS RETURN Boston, Jan. destroyers r and Drayton and the convert- ed yacht Tsabel arrived here todas from overseas, where they have been on patrol These are the first AN Wa vessels to come direct port European wat | T A. B. DANCE FRL EVE. 50c Ameri to th > orm !'to which Americ ARMY SIGNAL CORPS BOES GREAT WOR Instails Thousands of Telephone z Stations—Strings Miles of Wire American ance, Nov. Headquarters, xpedi- E tionary Force, 28, (Cor- respondence of The Associated Press.) —In an army the size of this, scat- tered throughout the length and breadth of France from the seacoast to the Sy border, the problem of cormamunication is second only if not of equal importance to that of sup- plies When the American forces c France it was one of the first n ingenuity and in- directed and the which communics falls, met it as have the other ganizations of the American tionary Force. Sxisting telegraph and telephone systems wer overburdened. There was litilc for us and Brigadier General sell, chief signal officer, and of experts tackled the job. What they have done in tion is shown in some statistics fur- nished to The Associated Pr The Signal Corps has built approximately 1,750 miles of poles on which it has strung 4,175 miles of wire. In ad- dition about 2,000 miles of American | wire has been strung on existing s tems for our use and it has leased and operates more than 3,000 miles of French wire. Exchange lines to the extent of 750 miles have been built and to operate these lines it has 244 telephone offices, 7,995 tele- | phone stations and 102 telegraph | offices. All through France, from the base ports to the frant lines occupied by the American forces, throughout our training areas, in fact nearly every- where, the shining copper wires on American cross bar poles, so differ- ent from the European system, aro a new feature of the landscape and frequently one heard newly arrived American soldiers exclaim “That’s American.” On main line systoms with many wires the French custom- arily use two pales side by side and the wires are strung on cross bars between, and others on single Insu- lators fastened direct to the pole. The long distance telegraph and telophone system constructed by the Signal corps is entirely maintained by its own personnel and in addition some 8,000 miles of leased wires are maintained by it. All this construction has been msde by Signal corps battalions with im- plements and material from tho United States with the single excep- tion of poles, most of which were ob- tained in France. In construction, maintenance and operation tho stand- ard practices of the United States have been followed and the American expeditionary force has been given service equal to the best obtainable In the commercial world. and admitted- ly unrivalled in any army. Its men have followed troops wherever troops went, down front 1 trenches, ovw shell swept and machine gun raked areas to lay and keep their wires so that communications might be main- tained. The Signal carps has a loag list of brave dead and brave wound- ed, more honored perhaps, because they could not fight The telephone service of the Corps was opened on June 24, 1917, and since then there have been handled nearly nineteen million local calls and more than one million long distance calls. Since the stem begar me to vention was corps, under his construc Signal Corps telegraph E to function on August | 19 of last year more than five and one-half million messags have been handled, gating more than one- third of a billion words Manning these wi formed membe: of partment of the graduates of the wires in the world. Among them Sergeant J. L. Belden, formerly Dallas, who has charge of the base signal office at Bordeaux. Among the fifty men under his direction are | Percy Hall, formerly at St. Louis and W. E. Ryan of Burlington, Ia. Sergeant Ben Yon, formerly New York office of The ciated Press, is in change of the base signal office at Tours and several Associated Press “stars” also are attached to that | office. Corporal B. Phares, of Fort Worth, Tex: is stationed at Bar-le- duc. Other former Associated Press men scattered along the lines of com- | munication include H, A. Goethe, of Duluth; W. €. Doody, of Indianapolis; F. R. Kazmarek, of Houston; O. A.| Rosenauer, of Detroit; E. E. Truxton, ! higan and Montana; B. J. Mor- nd Ben Hail, of Philadelphia; nk P, Johnson and J. E. Johnson, Kansas 5} her, of ampaign, and Madison, Kansas i When the corps of newspaper cor- responden moved up to the front lines with the beginning of the American action in the Argonne, cer tain wires were turned over for their use nd one there walked in Corporal J. 1", Wilson, who was long stationed at Salt Lake City and other stern div n ations of The As- pd Pr brought his side or “bug’ in operator's par- Jance, quietly cut it In on a table in the French telegraph office, and be- n business. The second night, when the French operators had watched copy melt in Phillips code to a recelver of equal training they e claimed: “HMe is the ace of opera- are many the Traft ciated Pr key and the fastest in the I, Gite tors.” HEAUIH BOARD MEETS, There will be a special the health board at 5 The purpose of the meeting is to ap- point someone to fill the vacancy in the office of the superintendent of health, which wa left vacant when Dr. Henry F. Moorc went to Eng- 1 eeting »f o'clock today SATRIONAS ORCH. conclusion of hostilitie d to do res; ch work for the Br ish government, . efforts | 1ito | American { have kept { January last is 600,000 tons, includiag RISKS NECK T0 KISS TH OLD BLARNEY STONE { | American Sailor Loses Balance, o Falls, But Is Uninjured { this afterndo lof Vice-Admis cruiser and | boken, who sta McGuire, { the men to arm; now of ' proceeding rapidiy London, Jan. 2. of ¥Francisco, the United States Navy, imperilled h for to tell his admir- 7 S e ' DEATHS AND ing friends at home “I've kissed the | B her Peter sometime San neck the righ Mrs, Margaret The funeral of Mrs. M ! nis was held at 8 o’cloch | at St. Andrew’'s Lithu#} Rev. Bdward V. Grikis the m: Burial was | Catholic cemetery, of a party of American conducted by the Young Men's Chris | tian Association to Blarney Castle. “It’s of after climbed the bit vid to the top looked a a drop, Peter of down a “Tt's way of addihg a little sport to the | gamo. in® i he had castle wall and - Miss Mabel Wright The body of Miss Mabel Wright ¥ brought to Lawrence for bul s Wright died of pneumanta at tifa hospital last night following [a illness. She came to Néw on Christmas day to act as t the wedding of hev te Albin B. Wright' of { the U. 8. Marine corps to Miss Fran- ces Fritzman of this eity, taken ill the next d Mrs. Elizabeth Wright, mother 6f Miss Wright, is seriously i1l at the hospital | pneumonia. e knew he could | {he ledge and kiss the | cross the way without | he had almost at- | sheer by one hundred and ten feet. be Mis Pete jackets 1 approved grasp arm, W blite- The ankee e, wtched other s the Bla mathod is for & strong man the candidate’s left leg and vhile another grasps his right leg and arm, then they swing him out abyss far as they can rach and let the intrepid one houn s nose ag the ely atiain- able Tock, a and let it go at that. No reach out over Blarney Stone assi As tained his goal, and started do ney & 3ritain des brother, inst ! il c it k Mre. Annie Carroll. M Annie Carroll, formerly New York, died at St. Mary's home. I los £ a | i neonrh b 5 = ”‘:‘0"“{ ]‘;ir({‘y::i\namnm. vesterday morning. Mr: and ten feet straight through the air. | Toyol v FeBrelo osejan mas m\"“‘lfi ik;f";’ “:-‘““:{]‘" ““”;*r -1” ; | of this city. The funeral will be held ¢ ntending to pick ur dead | {,morrow morning at 9 o'clock from 5 sailor. What he saw Was | g \inry's Home, and interment will McGuire rubbing himself and polnting | 1. ¢ ‘St Macy's now comtors heavenward with a sort of a sheepish | grin The keeper saw where McGuire aft- er falling sixty feet hit well out on a tree limb and broke it off. Below that was another bough to which he had | caromed and helow still another, also | breaking the fall so that the last drop of fifteen feet was very minor. The custodian became very angry. “What do you mean?’ eald he, “breaking off the limbs of the trees. Don't you see that sign? ‘Do not in- jure shrubbery CITY ITEMS Frank Dunigan is spending a2t his home on North Privat furlough treot spending ! a Privs Reuben Bosley furlough in this cit William Linn, coxswain on the U | Amphritite, is spending a few day his home on Chestnut street. John and Thomas Wright are visit- {ing in this city. Both are stationed | ! ahoard the U. S. S. A | John Keever: -entered the employ of the Connecticut company, having received an honorable dis- charge from the army at Camp Bustis. | The New Britain chapter of Theta Sigma held a dance in Booth’s hall last night. Mus furnished by | Parker’s orche; T against local HOPE TO END DRAFT BOARD WORK SOON | Two or Three Months May Be Re- quired Before All Duties Are Ended. Mitchell & Co. | tried this common | action to | due for o case of T. W. Samuel Iverson wa in the court of as. The plaintiff brought | recover $105 alleged to be he fact that the Despite draft boards expected to have all their records complete and ready to close | January 1, it now appears that the v‘f;‘:’rme’("gi;::(t(;n_ J",gfo‘;,} '&]" i;’;:{:; boards will not finish their work for | represented the plaintiff and Judge | Or- | W. F. Mangaa the defendant | received which will Dudley Nearing of Lenox Place, | keep the boards going and the final or- | tioned at the naval aviation gas en- ders in regard to the work of the | Ine school at Columbia University, | S gard to the work of the p,g returned to his duties there aft- boards are expected in the near fu- ture. These final orders are now un- er spending a week’s furlough at his derstood to be in the hands of the i home in this city. printers and are ecxpected to be in | Walter Kopf has resumed his the hands of the boards of the state | Studies at Dartmouth college after a Ly the end of the month. week’'s vacation spent at his home on Major John Buckley, draft exscu- | tive for Connecticut, s in eipt of | a proof copy of the new regulations of the war department in regard to the closing work of the boards. If the figures of the war department are | taken as a 1 it may be estimated that it will be two vears before the | draft work is completed in this state, | but Major Buckley feels that it can be done in th months in view of the fact that the Connecticut boards their work up to date. Among other things, the new resu lations will require the local hoare of the state to certify to the c ness of ‘all dates and entries concern- ing each registrant so that mistake made in the haste of the summer's ! great mobilization may be corrected in justice to the men. Under the expected new regulations it is evident that much thought wiil be taken of delinquents and deserters. These men will be the ohj of the | work of the many boards and it will Le necessary that the records con- cerning these men shall be correct. possibly two or three months. ders have been | | i J. Laflamme, of Whiting | enlisted in the TUnited and will report Tuesday Frederick cet, has States Navy for duty Mrs, nurse, street. Margaret Hart, a well known is ill at her home on A\l'aph\; | OPPOSE GERMAN RULR. | None of the Pacific Islanders Want to Return to Old Regime, Australla, Jan. 2.—In not a | sing d in the Pacific formerly ruled by Germany do the natives de- sire a return to the German domin: tion, says Thomas J. McMahon, Australian authority on the affai the Pacif islands, who has recently | returned from an extended tour in the Central Pacific. He visited uru ]\'-‘ land and the Marshall Group, which | German po ons before the | rever he traveled among German colonies in the Pac fic, Mr. MeMahon said, he found that | the Germans had made effort | properly to develop comme vantages, but had in several c themselves to the st = — = former JAPANESE SHIPBUILDING. Tokio, new no n. 2 5 —Tte total tonnage of 1s laur nched in Japan since cial ves voted those to be completed by the end of this vear. Compared with last year this shows an increase of 200,000 tons. f Nauru have asked | to preserve them ishment of German said Mr. McMa- government a i government there,” hon. “In the McMahon Japanes already bring nothir body. The G re-est FROZEN TO DIEATH. Sendai, Japan, Jan A party of and all Tsiar much impr What they in the rshalls will but praise from every- mans shamefully neg lected the Marshall Islanders as they did all other natives. but during thn: ! past three or four v the Japanese | | have been sys the people, ing of them a very creditable race. | Mr. McMahon said. in speaking of the S ar i | relation of the Central Pacific islands names are being promi- | ( Ty ratia that “they were the half- | for appointment as | to San Franeisco and to that of T | Japan.” Officer M o indust nine Japanese students teach 2 who went mountain climbing on a ; done way 1ro; to the bodies wvine, etfort in near-by range lost their a snow-storm and were death. Searchers found huddled together in a arms entwined in a vain keep off the cold the to KING MENTIONED FOR JOB. Among those members of the police force whos: nently mentioned a house police sergeant i - John J. Kir ing been a member of the regular dep: ment for the past 10 and for | the past three or four years has been | permanently ned to traflic duty e O ¥ TRAIN NEW MARIN Jan In preparation an after-the-war mer- chant marine, the United tes Nav- | al School of Turbine Engineering has been established at the Carnegle In- stitute of Technology here under di- rection of naval officers. Several detachments of naval men, who have | seen service as enginers of steame ng steam engine TO Plttsburgh, for the Ameri v, a BULLEN IS MENTIONED. Local friends of W. W. Bullen have become active in his interests as suc. cessor to Bernadotte Loomis in the tax collector office. Mr. Bullen would, his friends believe, Make an ideal col lector, | | reciproca { operatir ¢ the cours { have with ister of the late Mrs. John Brennan | ! erfean Can { the | tions and was | R s SRR S Financial T e ( Interboro Interboro Kennec | Lack Ste | | MEXICAN PETROLEUM JUMPS TEN POINTS Other Aifiliéléd WSmcks Score Substantial Gains ptd 31 Lehigh Valley Max Dotor com Mex Petroleum NYc&H NYNH&EHRR N Y Ont Norfolk & Penn R R . People's ¢ Pressed St Ray ‘Cons Reading S | Rep I & S com Southern Pacific Southern Ry | Southern Ry pfd . Wall 10:30 a. | Studebaker trom local tractions, which continued | Texas Oil to weaken the SioniBaciy Transit receivership, coited hinuns 1h Copper S Rubber Co U S Steel S Steel pfd Va Car Chem Westinghouse ! Willys Overl Sears Rotk Street, on ot Brooklyn Rapid ruled ! t =ession of firmness : at the opening of the firs the New Year on the stock exchange. Brooklyn Transit shaves dropped 4 1-4 points and the 7 per cent. notes | points, Interborough Consolidated preferred losing 11-4. Reactions were confined to fractions, Petroleum which shippings and especially Pa- the moderate list, steels xcepting fell 1 1- high grade contributed to ngth of the geners otors also stiffening. Wall Street Noon raliied 13-4 poiats and 7 pe notes 1 1-2 but other local utilities held around hottom prices. Oils were sold on unfavorable advices regard ing Mexican conditions, Mexican P\ troleum reacting 33-4 and Royal Dutch 3 1- Tncluded among the avy equipments and meta were ldwin Locomotlve, Americ neral Motors, American Smelting and U. 8. Rubber. TU. S. Steel also- T dropping a point from its best. ils and shippings vielded 1 to on very moderate pressure, but and minor coppers relatively strong. Wall Street, 1:30 p. m.—Tr: continued to undermine the gene list during the dull session, Brookl Transit extending its reaction to 6% points. Paciflc rails also turned heavy with equipments and specialties, par ticularly American Car and S Rubber. Wall Street, Close. leum was the conspic later dealings, points, with substantia tocks of that group. m Sales approximated 500,000 shares. New York Stock Exchange quota furnished hy Richter & members of the New York Stock change. Mr. and Mrs, James M. Curtin Cele. brate st Weddir rooklyn Tr 17 th ding 3 Cur- James| this) o is in ice in n Car, of ¥ W 2 poi Am- were the leading| He is en- and furni- ture also president of] ihe Trust Commerecia U. 8. EMPLOYMENT BURBAU 2 ING SERVICE MEN,| ¥ The 1 office’ o nited Employment| has been of the armi liers and charges| seeking Beebe s many service Mia visit Me: an Petro- ous feature of ng almost ten gains in other The closing was tice, by nd is meet- from the the city in The se Co., ble to a Jan h tself he reconstruction superintendent hopes 1 the applicants. Hi n 65 nor in period, and be able Am Beet 8§ Alaska Gold .. 3% Am Agri Chem 101 Am Car & Fdy Co 937% Am Tce 4014 Am Can 49 Am Loco melf sonda Cop S Fe Ry win Loco v to o pl 47 61 751 100 % POLICE ACTIVITIES, menski £ 1 -old ome t, report her two nights Caesar Impullusi of ington s reported that his barbe had during th missing walc Loan Tlling 1t 7 15-ve ...1007% from I Tel 1222 1 Co 2 th been eet ente following war hop is one amp. T Butte § Can Pac Cen Leather Ches & Ohio no Cop Wwo boy > acti od with - rifles T. A. B. DANCE FRI. EVE. 50¢ (o) Erie 1st pfd Gen Elec Goodrich Rub Great Nor pfd Gt Nor Ore Cet Inspiration Connecticut Trust and Safe Deposit Co. A STRONG, RELIABLE CORPORATION organized and qualified through years of efficient, trustworthy service, to act as Conservator, Guardian, Executor or Administrator. Capital $750,000. Surplus and Profits $1,000,000 Connecticut Trust and Safe Deposit Co. HARTFORD, CONN. M. H. WHAPLES, Pres't,