New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 12, 1919, Page 11

UNDER TWO FLAGS, | TE 1S BROWN'S RECORD Local Man Served With Briti Then United States Army shi Q | After hav navy, the erican army great war, sery British | 1k of the | | British army ar sinc outbre at 18 Com- mercial from hom street discharged fought ia| and t ia the last servic returned | Brown battles and in this cit erdun, ( Argonne farest uring ti battle ateau shting ttached divi the American much service with 1so n arti army | th served in | in the | twic saw s althou Brit ar a4 was the the e with part wounded uniform while wearin he Englist British 16 y \elish Joins who E Army. of in 19 Brown in is rs \ge on ind ! listed th navy served T osteams? ead o p for th months t od was 1¢ and enliste Jish mmed land f to the 14th ith this assigned Mancheste infantry Franc vear wher rved for two He was the left 1 confined to a hospital. ¥ the hospital waunded in the hip and knee and months W iven his discharge from to Br Stat arriving field ind December in Am- artillery in| vance,| Ten general ceived the e was sent back ve- ned to the United 1917. Soon after erica he enlisted in tachment was sent ove v, 1918 at Brest, F ivate I experiences in France are the ex-soldier follows ! “The fleld artillery detachment of | fourth army corps landed in the rdeaux camps with complete artil- equipment, including horses and immediately sent to the Marne | sector. We arrived at Chateau Thier- | ten days after the battle of the and landing row told a Ten [ decoration from Petain at | American General Headquarters, Chaumont, France. teading left to right they are Lieut. Gen. Hunter Lig- by ‘, were struction of this section of After a 24 hour rest we were sent to ¥ Vesle river where we nvl\‘i st action under terrific shell fire and | continual bombardment from enemy | aeroplanes. For fifteen days this was | iremen; to permit Hamden to con- yntinued and the fourth army corps | tract with New Haven on sewage dis- was then relieved by the fifth corps posal; amending the Danbury char At St. Mihiel Battle. ter concerning salaries of certain Toule and St. Mihiel officers; to permit a vote on various long remembered public matters at Middletown; amend- army corps. The St ing the Wallingford charter relating was one of the most to the tax collections. the war, and was the No Pay increase Allowed. Hun downfall. Here the American S aiorabloll rooort oy Million Dollar Barrage’ was set up e R i with big guns standing hub-to-hub st o e and lasting from 1 a. m. to 6 D. M. | and other court office of this barrage, the Favorable reports to the senate on were able to drive ahead ) pills included the following: of twelve miles, and take Aeals For Veterans: of prisoners. To place all naturalization records ‘At the Argonne forest, in Fairfield county with the superior lery corps was held up ten hours at | court; to compensate state’s attorneys Dead Man’s Hill’ which Was Very | for actual expenses when on state ppropriately namfed, inasmuch as| pysiness in other counties but their 100,000 died defending Verdun to pay the Fairfield county law hill it this point that association $3,500; to provide heaviest losses | connecticut men who served in the having In | China relief and Philippines expedi- of the tles | tions with medals; authorizing Water- 26th bury to issue fire department and we went into action and were | jiolation hospital bonds. 7 days under fire. On the first day, From its calendar the senate adopt- the Germans were driven back seven | oq in concurrence hills validating kilometres, and later at Hill 820 sev- | ;1o p0r of the Terryville Savings bank eral hundred Americans gave tp their | Bristol Trust Co., and a measure ves Int o) mammothe drive METE was [l 2 sy @ ol ool Jies el re that Hun trickery cost _'hfl lves rines, On this latter measure Senator a large number of American sol-| gopenway wished an amendment to So thick was the underbrush | gnotje gunts, cousins and possibly the opposing armies did mnot| c41or dependent relatives to be pro- know just where the enemy Was Un- | yiqeq for if occasion arose, but it was til someone arose. During the fight | J ot >0 4 iRy T esent law and veral German foldlers arose and | o gy the board of control hrowing up their hands, shouted | cia " S9SN P doment tn Kamerad.’ . Several American sol- | Lol B Rt 8 O e ¥ would then to take the| ;¢ rjen who have in the war. prisoners and the Germans would | g 50 WS LAY O ected. WAR REVENUE BILL ain. The hill was finally taken with saw (Continued from Iirst Page) hattles byastthe Mihiel important th The will be fourth drive cause of An 12 aid 1sands the artil- while It was had their war, 5,000 men minutes in one Verdun. On the own; o1, this fibrar the French of the eleven before tember died ba of Sep- | and a gives among served rs arise reat life.” Private Brown’s experiences, how- not end in France. He left Christmas day on the Pacific, the ship which was | Less off Fire Island. After | Christmas dinner aboard g uneventf the water, the ship was tos Fire Island and all drowning. The men wer the Coast and all hospital ss of r, did rance on Northern Than Dozen Scnators Present m o cating a njoying W hen Discussion is Opened By Sen- and ¢ an trip ed | were ator Penrose, Republican Leader. ross Washington, Feb. 12.—Less than a senators attended today war revenue bill, roc n danger of dozen s open- emoved later by t Gua without a casualty, to the Greenhut ing discussion of the which was begun by Senator Penrose ing were in Kk P New ¥ of Pennsylvan Lectures. wears number on his uniform. strip hot u to Give soldie Plans marks of Although he eas wise or threc lor is a the fourth div bar Allied vice and an Expeditionary Force ribbon S well as an honordble discharge pin | En sovernment. On his | ischarge pin Is inscribed, “For | Empire. Service Rendered.” | to hi elsewher. v of the senate manager % | Addition of “riders” to the measure | designed to effect social or economic reforms was especially eriticized by Senator Pen Naming the pro- ions to lev taxes of servic several s for rates cars one and over wears one and e it one wound his left shoul- the stripe | woun On contributions, the confer- prohibition the District of labor clause and pistols, Senator should be practice of to revenue on campaign elimi “bone fecting child on the rules prevent {he matters amrock insignia He also wears gream which was by the amendment | Columbia, the the special Penrose a e of se the ! | from th s list Iyen to adding unrelated lation “I am King and Brown o lectures on i is city and in th T > to regulate expenditurc Mr. Penrose “and nearly to the point of entirely. The elec- intelligent, and no won that does not their reason.’ ready to legisla _ WHAT BELGIUM WANTS | them in be DESPONDENT, TRIES SUICIDR Springficid Man P Asks Return of Territory by to Huns, F Navigation of Scheldt e and Some Dutch Lands. FeD IVIV) ~Belgium's Pa ims, pre supreme B res Bullet Into His mant ouncil for th territory ddition to tion of the of certain te The Mon Head as He Stands Over the Graves SHuestsSlorlreesnaieds His Children. ind the restitution | held Dutch districts de Ui are > present B man border. | vember, The population dist mainly Walloon o by Belgium, it deprive Germany new in of Scheldt German mand tim melancholy since the death of his four children of influenza last No- John Melcher, aged 62, went to their graves today and fired a bullet his head. His condition is cr | ical. The children all died within four of an outlet for a | days and the shock affected his men- asion of Belgium, | tal condition. 5 joie and Imedy, i of the victs s | and their sion | into was pointed out, would ust after they had re- ; gett, republican | one hundred per cent. | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD commanding First Army; Fen. Robert L. Bullard, commanding Second Army; Major Gen. James W. McAndrew, Chief of Staff, A. E. T. Major Gen. James G. Harbord, Com- Lieut. N AMERICAN GENERALS MADE COMMANDERS OF THE FAMOUS o SRR s Major Gen. commanding Major Gen. John Charles P. Fifth Army Corps; L. Hines, commandir Third Arn Corps; Major Gen. dward M. Lewis, commanding Thirtieth Division; Brig, Summerall, B T Gen. Michael J. Lenihan of the Sev- enty-Seventh ivision; Brig. Gen. Wil- liam Mitchell, commanding Air Serv- ice, Army of Occupation in Germany; Brig. Gen. Frank Parker of the First Division. MINERS QUIT WORK Jerome, Ariz., Workers Simply Re- main Idle—Strike Not To Be Called Until Federal Mediator Arrives. Feb. left the Jerome d ag the resuit of the troubles following the 7 cut last Jerome, Ariz., il Scores of miners trict today 5 announced cent wage Monday by the copper companies. Last | night the radicals held several meet- ings and the bulk of the union men refrained from reporting for work, j fearing a clash with the element which the mino officials class as I. W. W. members. Federal Mediato® Heywell Davis Is expected ! here before the end of the week, and the miners’ union state that no strike | order will be officially issued appea THAW GREATEST AVIATOR Ranks First, According to War partment Honor Rickenbacker Third on List. Washington, Feb. for distinguished the today 1 service reward action department e overseas war n- unced that advanced flying ratings had been recommended 20 for of whom Lic American are dead. Headi Col. William Thaw, Pittsburgh jor David McK. Peterson, Honc and Captain Bdward V. Ric Columbus, O. The others Lieuts. Robert F. Raymond, Newton Center, Mass.; Donald b. Warner (bomber) Swampscott, Mass., and Charles W. Drew iphia Amang the officers listed dead i First Lieut. Lloyd A. Hamilton, lington, YV 8 aviators, the six ng it g list are back First are Philad as Bur- OBJECTS T0 WILLIAS Senator Weeks Opposes Tis Renomi- nation as Comptrolicr of Treasu Says He Ts Temperamentally Washington, Feb Weeks, of Massachusetts, | fore the senate banking which is considering the renomination of John Skelton Williams comp- troller of the treasury, in support his bill abolishing the office o comptroller and vesting its | the federal reserve be The powers exercised the troller, the senator contended too great and too ant vested in one man and contli the authority of Even were the off he declared, Mr. peramentally unfi MACY STRIKE UNPIRE Labor as powers were to be impor he reserve board e not so important, Williams " for was “‘tem- the position War, Board Appoints Tiim to Take Charge of Settling Strile of New York Harbor Workers, *hicago, Feb. telegram of Board tod v New 12.—Upon acceptance, War ap- T the announced the ntment of the GENERAL HOLIDAY OBSERVANCE Tod birthday, was generally observed in this city. The stores were closed and the schools closed at noon. Cieneral holiday hours were observed at the post office Most of the offices in City hall were closed all day, some a half day, while a few were open as usual. The banks also observed the holiday, Trafic on trolleys and trains we heavs The theaters did an extra large busi- ness. Lincoln's and police | until he | De- | Roll—Captain | comp- ! @ Duane Hall. Duane Hall, aged v local resident, died night at her home in Rock funeral will be held from home tomorrow at 2 o'clock ent will be in thi Hugins of Collinsville, of the deceased, will of the f1 and Mrs. wedding 77 and Mon- ! Hill. | 1ate | inte Farold ow arge My golden nera Hall celebrated anniver 1917 Anteinette Lanza. Antoinette Lanz daughter of Se Beaver aged six bastian Lanza died last months, of 54 siree night. Jutius Rodin. Julius Rodin noon at his home ing iilne lication of the you was years of i Mrs. Josephine mother, is roth ter. nd two The funeral died yesterday \ley over after- Quarter a yea respor th. He son of his in s of diceases Sta. llov an com was for de: tho Be by and ze, and Rodin. survived (ot Anna des he P Pe three Martin, and Josephine. held tomorrow afternoon at 1:00 from his late home, Rev. Dr, ¢ and ! tery Ohm be n officiating. will in Fairview i — Marcia Jane Baker. { The Ma ! Paker her home on ferment w Lyman Johnson, and I fune Mrs. Jane from a in- metery. ev. Stein- was held noon cet iew c Wir ) s in the I Ruth Brink. Miss Ruth home on The funer he held from tomorrow and at 3 Lutheran man will be in T of Brink will her Ash street ernoc 2:30 o'clock S (& o'clock 1 1 lish chur 0 offi Fairview and ceme inte ment w NEW YORKERS BLAMED { Success of Bolshevik Movement In Russia Attributed to Aid From Peo- ple In Lower Fast Side. Washington, the Bolshevik attributad form 1l opal chur today t committec The witness nating iafluence wnda h the Bol Yiddi th in gener Tmme revoluti sentimec was but wid mor Bolshev strong with Kerensky Simons i pro-Aliy the movement de cur ent cloped, Racing Car One Mile in Sceonds, Shatter- ing Burman's Record of 1911, Daytona, IMla., Feb. 12.—Ralph do e world’s automobile S cor s a mile aad a kilo- away The by dash timo toda for tl officials of the of against 25.40 L beach 1s announced yeiation mile \utomobile 02 As America, 3o0b Bur man's record o seconds, made n 1911. De Palma’s kilometer time was 15.86 seconds, or two seconds be- the record. 1 was 24 geconds, I low A their | CITY GUARD PLANS 3 SEVERAL SOCIALS | Indoor Baseball Game Scheduled for Tomorrow Night: Program at M. C. A. Next Week, Tomorrow evening the New Brita City Guard will hold its weekly m ing and a number of recruits will be | wceepted into the ranks. There will | also be an indoor baseball game be- tween the City Guard team and a picked team from the city. The 1ardsmen done consid game and have preparing the time is promise On Thursda v 20, the for a n evening, F is to be the guest M. €. &, Guard of the Service club of the Y. and it is hoped all memhe v can will attend. A > Guard working rittee to 1 comr com insure committee of the a time to be | some time i 4 will be given | men will be | o Guard is lay for held by month of which out later. All this ents of the City Guard. mced that a lease has rifle range so that the Rifle club and | have the advantage | rifle practice during the | Work of erecting hutts | ye begun just as soon permits. The services range master have been that marksmen the best in | nz pl Guard details ex-ser ins the ne: welc: s well as to all other | entertainr | It is also annc sighed for s nembers of yeen the ity ¢ ua ut-door pr coming year gots will veather pert 4 it will is hope turn out WANT RIGHT T0 STRIKE President of Order of Railvoad Comn- | ductors Says Men Will Insist on | This Unddr Government Control. The right of | ves stri would be | under government own- | Garretson, president Iroad nductors, his exami- before Washington, Feb. 12 empl ir upon ership B ted e the O ihe course on raiiroad problems - commerce committee. to the govern- v "toward s was expressed | opposed | effective said toda nation the sharp opposition nt s employ tson, who wage ettiing the proposed that 18 rmined tribunal 1 in which one inte of the que ment poli organi- | zation of it Gar: s BE Mr. o he minimur as ques shouid fairly 1 elem method of ag He det by bal- | ent | | est AND STILL THEY COMI. i steamer Regina Arrives This After- With noon 2027 Troopers. | ~The steamer | fternoon with included | talion, supply company | ctachment of the 569th New York; medi- | second lion and | D of the 163rd in- | Yo arrived 15 New eb. 12 t Re his gina 157 troor ntry of detachmen ies E and r and cal compz casuals. | T'he war departine Jater announced that the transport America would | reach New York February 22 with 1 a 1,98 inc the tillery; detachment of the 35th ades, coast artilley; and hment of the 63rd coast artiller 1ding head- | and o ar men 67th regh quarters ent of coast ar a 2 | i DOCKS. Six SHIP Feb OVERDUE wdelphia the 12.— days nsport nd 20 enlisted | today from La France. The men | Phi overdue, carrying one men, arrived Fallice, Rochelle, board, who gassed or wounded of casual company York, rmy Bristol officer here had been either are all s No. 24, on membe from New | | The conclusion in the adjustmeént is the problem. | nace, but i equalization | also sounding the mar! 70 | € - T. SLORER Landers, Frary &-Clark American Hardware Stanley Works American Chain Co. Great shoe values. counter.—Advt. There will Steel and Pig fron Markets Long’s bargai be a meeting of th ‘Woodmen of the World at 8 o'cloc] 2 :‘ - tonight in Turner hall on Arch stree N New York, Feb. 12. An inventory of the esiate of Pa The Fron Age says: | Kohnle, recently filed in the probat hows the ests valued & Further cutting of prices is now be- | office, inz admitted by producers as neces- | $%.924.59. Property is listed at $4,00 sary to kindle the interest of buyers, | ¢2Sh at $374.59, death benefit at $50 reached 1s that ieen | end furniture at $50 of Important inquiry in the past nine | 1N mortuary report weeks of open market conditions is in | SIOWS there e 54 deat part due to maintaining a level of _ LN suit of Frank Slapski againg prices too ‘high to encourage barter. Jon Pajor was heard in city o How o get labor {0 recosniss tte part thiS aftornoon. The plaintifft broms action to recover $1i for beer { leged to have been bought by the dd fendant W G plaintift the de No is for Januar] we hs. al] ght The low total of the present inflow emergency orders points to shut- downs here and there in two or three months’ time. In the severity of such | happenings, a rewriting of costs would Whether the trade con- proposed by the secreta of commerce could before then develop understandings looking to establishing prices likely to attract depends lanze on securing official sanction and road co-operation of the ‘manufac- turers and the steel workers. | Meanwhile the buying elements need to remember that the country is proceeding on the theory that it is no longer an isolated nation. Fixed iron and steel export prices of England, its chief competitor for the world’s mar- 3 kets, are anywhere up to 40 per cent. | —advt. higher than own, and only rela- | tively slight shifts in ocean freight charges will serve to throw the advan- | tage to these shores. Forcign trade | requires little concession, so lonz as | | Lawyer represented the ". B. Hungerford Engine of eenstei Jud and company responded for a fire Vibberts property A building permit has b erection Stanley done Alfano. permit Henry 482 $600. e possible Dame to wfternoon ferences in the . by of st bric The «¢ E. Bengston cost will been for The the re to L by A The has Feingeld Park for $500 ranted t alterations a will b Fran be also cost - M. B. carnival opens Feb 14 its William tion as he Charles Connors employ of Patrick ton as bartender. McGuire was the winner i a game of pool at the T. A. B. rooms t night, winning Joh J. Riley by a 100-97 score, Walsh a has accepted a posi Emmons’ cafe has entered thd Kelly of Kensing waiter in England’'s costs do not come down. sale of 4,000 tons of pig iron is noted for export and Cleveland reports | an inquiry for 5,000 tons for China. | On 300 tons a cut of $1.80 from $31 per ton was made by an Bastern fur- 3,000 tons for.Italy was with- drawn on the price account The dis- cting of furnaces instituted in the seriod of government operation for of selling opportunity s passing out and the old order is being stored. - The demand of the antomobile trade m @qa is the outstanding feature of the do- | | For Paid or Partly Paid LIBERYY ning at 75 cent. of mostly for motor cars Some of the alloy full for R E B BONDS WAR SAVINGS 16,000 tons of material, mostly plates | STAMPS and shapes. Surprise is shown over a as resulted in cuts of 75c and $1 per prompt furnace coke selling at James close R v over TOO LATE FOR CLASSIFICATION FOR ind mantel SALE- shelf good condition Second b at ire range, front. In 65 Arch St. 2-12-3d. and w Inq kot run- capacity and and trucks makers are though the were only per hooked six s, operations wee! on | early January 25 per cent. of capacity. Steel ingot production for January, estimated by the American Iron a Steel Institute, was 3,082,427 tons, request from the Navy for 20,000 kezs | SECURITY INVESTMENT of wire nails, as the War department | COMPANY is supposed to have on hand 160,000 | COMPANY A large Detroit truck maker is T S b e il 166 MAIN STREET “tural mill products to the extent B B Shop. Open Evenings. 90,000 tons more than December. kegs. of 15,000 tons, Some test of market ideas will be made February 18, when bids will be received azainst a Navy inquiry for irplus production of coke, because of curtailed furnace and foundry op- =ik s ions and the need of moving it, TOCKS AND BONDS WHAT TO BUY OR SELL AND WHY T t on, TRMAN PRESIDENT WILL GET ROYAL WAGE Basel, Feb. 12.—The 1l salary of the president of the German repul lic, will be limited to 1,000,000 marks (approximately $286,000), according to a dispatch from Berlin. The pres- ident will reside in Rerlin. He will choose his executives from all parties. Analysis to sell Write For Our It is just as know why and securities as when buy them. It is a poor that does not cut both Wa L FRIEOMAN & CO., INC. New York City Free important when to and why to sword Engine company No. 4 was called out this afternoon to extinguish a grass fire on North Burritt street. Several patches of grass had taken fire and were burining for about quarter of an hour before the fireme were able to put it out. 20 Broad St.