New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 22, 1919, Page 11

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, | “BURLESON REMOVES HEAD AND AIDES OF = POSTAL TELEGRAPH from First Fage) (Continued unify these services so | might.be operated as a na- having for the public and owners or It continues 1e president of the Clarence counsel, W. William carry out of the have conducted with ordinate that they tional interest and system regard the rs of «the propertie; then ‘Whereas Companies, Mackay, general and its secretary, have failed to and instructions and ore the public of the said ‘system as to materially ana affect the interests government in the operation nd other telegraph and systems under government saic H. W J the post Mackay its Cook Deegan arders master themselves be operating force Buch a manner disadvantageously of the of this phone control Now, Clarence W. Cook, Deegan, trustees or are relieved “pertaining vision, tion of phone session, which dent and therefore, H That W ordered: president; general counsel; Wm. J retary and the board of directors and the owners of any and all duties ap- incident of the supe control and said telegraph and the supervision, and operation was assumed by the presi- in his said proclamation of July 22, 1918 and I hercby substitute A F. Adams for id Clarence H. Mackay and said owners and saic board of trustees or directors in the Tnanagement of said system and direct said A. F. Adams to take possession for me of all records, hooks and papers, made and used in the opera- tion of said system since midnight of July 31, 1918, and also the net balance or balances of the funds de- rived from the operation thereof since midnight of July 31, 1918. All officers and employes of the said telegraph and telephone systems ex- cept in the capacity which herein before relieved therefrom, will con- tinue in the performance of their present duties, reporting to their re- spective suner offices and on the same employment heretofore, being with respect to and with respect to all aph and telephone sys. government control to said & S0 to main- tain its integrity and value as a going concern, the efficiency of or- ganization and adequate to the public. it is Mackay, ec or < possession, the system, control opera- | tele- Dos- s0 terms purpose this stem other teleg tems under operate stems the as a the service GUARD OVER WOM.A\Y n in Hartford IHospital With | Serions Razor Slashes, g | Hartford, March 22.—Guigeppa Va- lenti of 66 Flower streot, is in a ho pital here in a serions condition the vesult of heing slashed with a razor by Vincenzio J. Morano of the same address. The assanlt took place \sylum street, and, according to injured man, was due to troublo over Mrs. Morano. Valenti boarded in the Morano family. Morano is held pending the outcome of his vie- tim’s injuries. as the GETS NEWS OF POLAND. Supreme War Council Receives Fresh Report of Commission. Paris, March 22.—The council of ten, or supreme war council, received today, a fresh report from the com- mission on Polish affairs which was discnssed and reserved for final ex- amination later, it was officially an- nounced after the close of the sion. This examination will take place 4n connection with the subsequent fixing of boundary lines affecting Ger- many. The ses- next meeting of the council i DRiAUTMAN };ROMOTED ?PLAN:S‘ACHA (}ED SO Former Local Man Was Promoted At Camp Travis—Has Re-opened Of- fice At Hot Springs. Mrs, Sara M. Cunard of 95 Hart street has been notifieq of the promo- tion of her son Dr. Maurice Lautman from flrst lieutenant to a captaincy. Captain Lautman is at Camp Travis, Texas. Dr. Lautman is a former local boy, having graduated from the New Brit- ain iigh school in the class of 13807 and {from Yale with the class of 1911 After his graduation he was stationed t the Mount Smai hospital for thred ve 1d then opened an office on Fifth avenue where he continued his practice for one year. After leaving New York city he became connected with the Leo N. levi Memorial hos- pital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, in the capacity of Medical Director. TLater he an office in that city continued to practice until the break of the war, when he was com- missioned a first lieutenant. The local doctos was in vear and after receiving his dis- charge returned to Hot Springs where he has re-opened his office. He ex- pects to come to this city soon to visit a stationed opened out- the service one his mother. DEATHS AND FUNERALS Ca 1. Ih rd of Thanks. eXpress our thanks to our neighbors and friends for the many acts of kindness and sympathy extended us during the ill- ness and death of our beloved brother, August Johnson. We especial- ly wish to thank Andre lodge, I. 0. 0. and the donors of the beau- tiful tributes, MR. AND MRS, to sincere VICTOR JOHNSON. Card of Thanks. We are thankful to all our neighbors and friends for thoughtfulness, help, kind expres- siéns of their sympathy. also for floral tributes received at the time of the recent illness and death of our beloved baby Ruth and in a special manner do we wish to thank the Lady Wallace lodge of New Britain and the employees of the Berlin Con- struction Co. Ine. MR. AND MRS. JAMES THOMSON CITY ITEMS. are spending a week 5. kind their S Mrs. White York Marion in New ¢ One family house for sale on eas terms only $1,650. On East street, lot nearly 300 feet ep. The Bod- well Realty Company.—Advt. d Seven cases of influenza. and three cases of measles were reported to the board of health today. REDS JOIN MOSLEMS. Bolsheviki and fanatics, the state department was informed today in advices from Cairo have joined forces in Iigypt and are now almost entirely responsible for the disorder which prevails m that country. The disturbances have lost their political character entirely. The The 10V Mohammedan stigated the demonstrations, assisting the government in tempt to restore order. GERMANS INTENDED TO BOMB ENGLAND are now an at- nt Gun Was to Have Been Moved to Ostend and Shoot Across Channel. 1 London, intention a giant to be able coast last March the with to boml 22.-—It was the Germans to mount which they hoped d the English summer. It was to be mounted the neighborhood of Os- tend, and this design was only frus- of gun in held Monday. will be PASTOR WILL REPORT Rev. Dr. 8. G. Ohman, pastor of the gwedish Lutheran church will read the report for the third week of the church’s campaign for the Swedish Lutheran fund following the morn- ing services tomorrow morning The reports of the preceding two weeks have been gratifying to the wards and their and it is expected that hday's report will come up to their expectations for the third week. The campaign is to run one month and ofie week longer, and half already raised. teams, about is “Y” ANNUAL The annual meeting of the Y. M. C, is to be held Tuesday evennig at 8 the “Y" building, and at MEETING A o'clock that run out @ three in re-clected for a term Those whose terms have run out are William H. Hart, G. Platt and H. H. Pease. The annual meeting of the board of directors was week. will be a held last WANT CLOTHING FOR BELGIANS. An appeal for 10,000 tons of cloth- ing and used shoes to be sent to the <estitute countries of all Europe, has been asked by Herbert Hoover, through the agency of the Red Cross. The people of this city are asked to send clothing of any sort to the Red Cross headquarters at 20 Court street, from it will be packed and shipped overseas. where OFFERS $50,000 PRIZE, Melbourne, Australia, March (via Montreal).—The government of the commonwealth teday announced a prize of $50,000 for the first suc- cessful flight from Great Britain to Australig by Australian aviators. The Lady Foresters’ minstrel will meet at 2:30 sharp tomorrow after- moon. A full attendance is requested. i time three directors whose terms | trated by the vigilance of the British air force, who trained destruction | incessantly on the specially prepared | track by which it was alone possible convey the monster. The gun which a pigmy e weapon specially designed for the edification of the British. Had it been mounted at Ostend its ange would have inchi:ded Hythe and “anterbury, and the towns through- yut the Isle of Thanet would have had o be evacuated. When fired 2t an angle of 15 de- zrees the sheil would pass through at a maximum height of over | twenty miles. At this altitude “skin friction” is reduced to minimum, as there is believed to be no air there, and through this void of space the shell could travel for over thirty miles before the forco of gravity would again draw it swithin the air belt, where it would begin its down- h toward the objective. bombarded pared to this great 1 s is T C « | | | | | i | | { the ai a CHARG Paris, March ~How the tele- graph service of France was operated ing the war has just been revealed an official investigation made by committee of the chamber of depu- ties which appointed to inquire into war contracts. The report shows that the “telegraphic vontrols tion” of which M head and Captains Georges and Pierre Lenoir the active hers, was responsible for abuses, ABUSE OF WIRES, was Ladoux re scandalous LINER BRINGING TROOPS. > Breakwater, Del., March 5 American liner Haverford, bringing 2.084 troops from passed in the Delaware today. Among the troops ara c from Pennsylvania. The liner pected to dock at Philadelphia 1y after noon today. Franc rly asnal is e | | | 22.—The | Capes Machinist hall, Sun leaders of the national party, who in-j short- i Iy and | | Tannery was the | mem- | - | ARMY TO PA { a chief operating surgeon of Bellevue | Brooks { hundred and WIL CAN ATTEND League of Nations Mecting Held T Afternoon and Council Session This Morning, Paris, March 22 ident Wilson's desire attend the | ons both of the council of ten and the league of nations commission today's peace conferencs program was reversed. The council met at 11 o’clock this morning while tho league of nations body whose session origi- nally had been set for 10 o’clock this forenoon will at three o’clock thiz afternoon In connection with commission’s session various amendments to the league's | covenant which have been proposed the text of the amendment proposed | the Swiss delegation to the con- ference of neutrals was gziven out this morning. It reads “This covenant =hall not inter- preted as containing anythinz con- trary to the sovercignty of states ex- cept in so far as the state itself, by adhering to the covenant, shall con- sent, and the covenant itself shall not interfére with the internal affairs of any of its members.” While the amendment mention the Monroe Doctrine tacitly understood to apply Some of the members of the can delegation are inciined accept an amendment on such lines, feeling that it would meet the demand of the United States for some declara- tion in the spirit of the Monroe Doc- trine. CRIPPLE IS CURED BY BONE GRAFTING —Bceause of Pres- mect the 1 to consider the | ague's he does not it is| to it. Ameri to Unusual Operation Restore Man So He Can Walk After Two Years, New March —Thomas of Harrison, Conn., is able to walk again after having Deen a cripple for two vears becauso of spinal trouble. He was cured by an operation performed recently by Dr. Charles W. Walker of Rye, N. Y., York, yan, a painter hospital, and Dr. Adolph Hoer of Mamaroneclk. Ten vears with painter came affected. hospital, in New ago Ryan was stricken colic, and his spine be- He went to St. Luke's York, for \1'(11(!11(‘11}; and two years ago he was paralyzed from the hips down. Dr. Swenson J called Dr. Walker and Dr, Hoer in consultation, and Dr. Walk- { er decided to perform an unusual hone grafting operation. The surgeons sawed off the tibia of one of Ryan's le; about eight inches long and ha an inch thick, and with it supplanted the dis- cased part of the spine It was tied with kangaroo tendons, and eventual- 1y grew in place. Ryan’s condition immediately be to nprove, and one day rvecently he found that he could move a toc. A few days later he moved a foot, d within a few weeks he had recovered the full use | of both his legs. The leg from which | the bone was taken now is as strong | as ever. NEXT LOAN WILL BE LAST, GLASS STATES a piece of an Sceretary of Treasury Thinks Victory : Campaign Will Be the Most ! Popular of All —Secretary in Libert Chicago, March the Treasury Carter Gla appearances here beforc organizations yesterday, gav ance that the Fifth Victory Loan would the last popular loan, | to be supplanted by bond burecau of the Treasury department, and con- fidently predicted that the American | people “will make it the greatest suc- cess in the financial history of the world.” “The Victory Liberty Loan should be subscribed by the people from their | savings and earnings,” said the sec- | retary in one address, adding that the | people in one way or another must | | several | Loan L.lmrl,\f; a meet the government’s obligations. “They may on the one hand lend to their government and receive their | capital with interest,” he continued, “or the government will have to funds by direct taxation, which takes away the funds entirely the people. “The Victory Liberty Loan will he the last popular loan. At the close of the approaching drive, the organiza- tion which has so successtully ducted the government’s war fnanc- will be disbanded.” from con- ing 640 OF BELLEAU WOOD VICTORS RECEIVE D. S. C. Washington, D. €., March Six forty-four Distinguished Service Crosses have been awarded to men of the American Second Divi- sion, who stopped the Germans at Belleau Wood. A war department statement today shows that of decor- awarded infantrymen the division up to March 17 the Fifth Regiment (Marines), won 206; tho Sixth (Marines), 1 the Ninth (Regulars), 124, and 23d (Regu- lars), 66 of the Y BILLS BVEN T IT MEANS JATL. Washington, D. €., March AL | obligations of the war department will be paid, Acting Secretary Crowell | announced. in spite of the failure of | congress of the big deficiency appro- priation bill, carr ing funds meet claims amounting to millions of dol- lars. Payment of ever obligation Mr. Crowell said, would involve the “shifting’” of the department ac count to a sgreat degree, “We may { all have to go to jail, he added, “hut will pay every obligation of tHe | tepartment when ‘dv we | weeks | to | values, | not | Ge Henry CI g Weekly Leli (Special to Herald.) York, March 22,18 announced that the peace treaf the League of Nations will 14 complished facts within a ve This is highly encal information which, let us hop# prove truc. The transcendent portance of these events, so de desired, can hardly be undé cd. Only four short months clapsed since e mistiee red, 1o one believ of peace following cataclysm would be within so brief a period. When is demobilization proceed more rapidly than \rmies will be dishanded; millions men will turn from wasteful to pi§ ductive occupations; idlé industri d commerce will resume, and’ ] civilized world will once more free to operate under normal con Of course, grave difficult and innumerable readj must incite no little friction Considerable losses will have to b@ written off; labor is sure to b_e mor: or S5 ruffled by the return millions sceking re-employment; dustr reorg | % > | New mat sigr and the terms huge ever accomplished, ditions will ments e, in=, will still have fo he suitablyi anized; transportation cannot by c-established without delays; nvere will be many differcnces how much what old in business should he re comr const and to s new of tained and crce will have to be largely re- ucted upon new lines. But these many other proliems are sure of opinion§ to be attacked in an unshaken belief | that gers despite present risks and dan- the civilized world is moving ir- resistibly forward to a new and more stable social and economic order than the which the war sgv- agely uprooted. of the war is marked spirit iness world; being faced would have recklessness ever distur one so r is the devclopment of a of courage in the bus- all of difliculties with a confidence that bheen considered sheer four vears a How- g the outlook still evident Kinds is that thd 3 One striking result | may seem | stepf! lessened® in the nounced Investmen ous and to a few Railr tween the af of the | benefiting from 1d shares unfavorable relatiéns them ofc aff wh gove; and the worst has heen passed and that the [ Well as by the fact that their fingnof condition was such as to suspend all tide not has turned he reached dangers and Home af! traordinary albeit the goal may without some further Josses lirs are flux in on |'improvements and betterments. Seel | shares declined on the expectation of | state of ex- | lower prices for steel government | the belief in has been thrown info a condition of | bedrock intense perplexity the to make priations before adjournment opinion and session by neglect congress necessary appro- is cons carly may more urgent for an of congre which than he desired; may nced its only pilot at aat Ma the necessary functions of government's now the ar funds; being delayed for being ventenced want roads very seriously incon- the and De ity tion demands which them meet. in opers government is mortally mobilization imposed upon obliged to of the wrmy comparatively which dantly pulsor; ment enterprise by wchine ie: but our milits able to ha withdrawal of the govern- from the innumerable businesy into which it was drawn far more complicated and process. All inflated; too, are receding: though the downward movement is slow, and will be yvears the pre-war basis is reached, Wages not receding, may be expe indefinitely until values drop materially be no material change in wages is conceded that iahor will receive a larger share in the total product than heretofore. This heen partialh ployers, the war delicate ire enormously is our industries =0, which it hefore if and ever. e labor there can object has a accomplished by the ght and intelligent change hout tha capital and leave labor worse position than Time, of fair dealing and mutual consideration, if allowed free play, will solve these difficulti resisted em- provided able and instead of imply destroy in a rea- €0 bro by violence spir surely not a and while optimistic, but, conditior couraged, generally k in spots; prices on a fairly stable quic chants cautious Tndustry 1 given steady well are lower as as labor s v revive. in oy are orally t a similar position carrying small | stocks of finished goods, and are pre- pared that basis. the to buy frecly when satisfied more stable producers, such of urers, are upon Some large copper men and some ng textile manufa ognized this factor made start pric 5 the have and deliberate- es at a loss in order moving ac re Iv th Over a < and stabilize s million picees of print during 1 last ten P Steel manu- made of in meet for agriculturists, 3 by them another cloths were at the new facturers have 11 tuation sold th days ces concessions As per prices to the they Their prosperity fc vear We and must that crops. to the individual for the starving mil- the sens least is Eu means positively all prices hould their 1ssured feed rope. high farmers utmost well cross at haz md b Our produce od Tion fond which ordinarily pluses for export. will only enough to keep them hence in ther cline 1 this and prices need for own Russia and other growing sections of Eurdne produce large sur. have food this v will be littla vear, if any no s alive foodstuffs prices higher canse Something should he a hefore meet e for the of ancial the failure their fi ati control nt railroads to needs gov- roads creates a serious sit n. Our the time $800.000.000 higher ernment seized the mes ing wages n of economie as a war sure, z same advan over a year. spite rates nded enormously increased find themselves and to offset obligation faced with various in th the roads Public | quently growing more | tle effect pecial | tomatic of conditions in local trac- | affairs. ! pel President Wilson to return t‘A!Tli"ri time being should be made with close v the ship of state | discrimination Loan difficubties | hecauso | neglect | the | that adunlly, | Suffering from ] d vermin | Horace | swore Ve | The Business men, though perplexed, ara | Luq i com- | no distant | tory of | would of New new tion | earnest rail- | 1t | mitted | Bass Prevention « Iready | told of havin wiil | children t society’s | that asked care, | be erving of and with, another ery, malnutrition , it would | tion Biz distributing mer- | ¥ n wretched Richard defense rates court $5! n i BABI abun- | \visnesses at Trial ol com- | Attc Whi Physic dren rs day he supre Annic slaught tho they had Dy ~old taker test Mrs. Ty, sery, on died if 1use fendant W evidence. CANNOT Massachusetts misses Suit In Telephone Rate Boston, the by offect party suecd London ctary ish ships during t accurately bhe York Murphy nurse o and death the that from ! nourished ana haQa child, vermin. who Margaret who testified 1gland which conipel ordered Burleson held involved loss me reached et by The wa such a orde Railw: though placing regarded All purchases for Before long campaign will begin HENRY S NEGLECTED, CLEWS. IS CHARGE MADE ndant Declare All Were Underfed. chil Plains, and Y., March the relatives of rsery testified me court here the tr the aged matron is on trial for man having caused througlh ill feeding, it is charged onc the babies com Dr. Mwray H Society for the to yesterday ir , who in of her care New York Cruelty examined the elever ken from the nursery place in Manhattan found to have neglect, were of were G. Keith of William Barry, the child who died after the nursery, ulcers and sores unclean A. Beck autopsy he said, Dr. Syd pertormed an who died in the that death was due brought on by Mills, sister five children as to their of Mr: had and whos Ty two-year-old the nu told the jury child had had had not had a doctor baby died from continuat s mother. a against the on Monday its presentation de the of losed and n n SUE U. S. Supreme Court Dis- ase. March 22.—The full bench state supreme court today dis missed a petition of the Mas: public ser: New [ Co. ice inst & Telegraph the commission sought company to cancel toll by Postmaster General return to the schedule to January 21 the United States and could not commission a Telephone the ind prior that was be 000,000 PAID FOR LOST SHIPS BY BRITISH GOVT. 2—While the mon- the March from the government known, up to this time has paid to British ship owners A few « Union Sunday.— approximately ases 000,000 nain to be setted Church— men wanted Avt. the | ho had been kept at the Yonlk- n > n to and been filthy, and | on nurs- to starva- | | products despite quarters that when losses liberal influx of the s company had lit- as symp- the the Vic- in f Yonkers Nursery Children, | al of | of | N | Baldwin Loco ... % 8914 | Yonlers| two- being was under- | | in the| general| unnurtured condition. | Peterson, in Miss Murphy the that she the for people’s et told him, when he| medical | The | i | | | sinking of Brit- | e war will never be | WALL'STR EXCHANGE R R 22.—The actua ng house hankd tru Binies for the weeld show the $43,666,540 reserve ir excass of 18gal requirements. This, is a decrease of $15,116,970 from lasy week. New York, March An ear] rise in today's market was met by® heavy profit taking, incidental to the week-end session. U. §. Steel re- acted from its additional advance to { the new high record of 1005-8 for the current movement, falling to 99 1-4, a fraction under vesterday's fina]l price and other steels declined provortionately. Oils also vielded | with metals and the further weakness of local tractions and other utilities encouraged an extension of short sell- ir Later an inguiry for several| speculative issues caused partial ral- lies. The closing was heavy. Sales approximated 600,000 shares. Bonds| were inclined to ease. | 22, BLINDED IN BATTLF: WINS YOUNG BRIDZ Veteran of Famous “Princess Pat.f and New York Girl Married— May Regain Sight. New York, March 22.—One of thel many unusual romances resulting] from the war camec to light vesterdayi { when the marriage Miss Annaf | Chelma of Little Neck, L. I, to Ser- geant Major Leo C. MecMahon, of thel famous Princess Pat regiment of Can- ada was announced The bridegroom is blind and has re= covered from severe wounds received in France. His blindness was caused by two severe gas attacks. The couple met at a dance in this city when the soldier was pointed out to Miss Chelma as the most severely wounded man of all those present. She Am Tel & Tel sought an introduction and the ro=- Anaconda Cop .. - | mance followed. 4 | The husband singing New York Stock Exchange quota- tions furnished by Richter & members of the New York Stock Ex- Am Beet Sugar Alaska Gold Am Agri Chem Am Car & Fdy Am Ice Am Can .. Am Loco Am Smelting Am Sugar Am Tobacco is now earning in an oper & a book on the war. He was Toronto at outbreak of although born in this coung enlisted in the Princess He went to France in S. 8. Victoria, which during the voyage. He his | living housa | and selli living in the war, | try, and by B &0, % BRT Beth Steel Butte Superior Canadian Pac : 15916 | regiment Cent ather ou H, M. Chesa & Ohio torpedoed ‘Chino Copper . served in operations around Verdun, Chi Mil & St Paul. St. Mihiel and St. Quentin and now Col & & T ¢ | wears & silver plate on his skull, caus« Crucible Steel ed by a wound, and was also wounded Distillers C by shrapnel in his right knee. Tirle M Specialists have expressed the opin Erie 1st pfd .. ion that his sight may be restored General Elec .....156 5 | Goodrich Rub Great Nor pfd Gt Nor Ore Ctf. Inspiration Interboro Interboro pfd Kansas City so Kennee Copper Lack Steel Lehigh Valiey Louis & Nash Max Motor com Mex Petroleum tional Lead N Y C & Hudson NYNH&HR Northern Pac Penn R R People's Gas g Pressed Steel Car . Ray Cons Reading ... Rep I & 8 com Southern Pac the 1914 was 1 DEBT OF GERMANY IS TEN BILLION FRANCS 8 Brussels, March Germany’s debt to Belgium equisition’ cash made by the Germans and other money transactions 10,000,000,000f., of 000f. reprecent G for of alone aggregates which 5,000,000~ rman marks circis lating in Belgium after the armistics and taken by the Belgian Banque Nationale and 2,000,000,000f. confis- eated by the German from Banque Nationale and the Generale during the The balance is made up of fine monthly payments levied upon tows provinces and public institu- up 141 1811 the 86 Societe 68 68 occupation 754 30 R cities, tions These figures were made public day by the Belgian Financial tee on Reparation to- commit Unjon men Sunday.—advt. wanted Connecticut Trust and Safe Deposit Co. | A STRONG, RELIABLE CORPORATION organized and qualified through years of efficient, trustworthy service, to act as Conservator, Guardian, cutor or Administrator. Capital $750,000. Surplus and Profits $1,000,000 Connecticut Trust and Safe Deposit Co. HARTFORD, CONN. M. H. WHAPLES, Pres't,