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NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD " LOCAL BOY HOME, | MINUS RIGHT ARM Private Kellberg Is Yet to Hear of | Parent’s Recent Death Stll Ignorant of the fact that his father died and was buried while he was serving in France with the Amer ican army. Private Oscar Kellberg ar rived in New York Saturday morning on the 8. 8. Louisville, minus an arn I vate Kellberg's right arm was mputated becuuse of injuries ustained on the N e front during the last bat of Verdun, blood pois oning having t into a wound re- ceived Kellberg he son of the late John sKellberg of Fust Main strect and went fo France with the 30Lst Ma ine Gun Battalion He left Camp Devens with this division of the army ind.ajter reaching France was trans | DEATHS aND FUNERALS CAMPAIGN PASSES (Gt s HALF-WAY MARK | Charle Parsons was buried in Ban- | tam Saturday aftegroen, he having! = died of pneumoiia on Wednesday| hospital in Torrington. His wife, w hn! was formerly Miss Eleanor Hart of this city is at the same hospital but talled $19 is improving. Drive Fund Has Alrcady To- e ' The campaign repo Rev, Dr George W. Ward £ G. Oliman read followinr the morn George W. Ward of 2 Andrews|ing services in the Swedish Luther- street died vesterday morning| an church vesterda shows following _an illness that necessi-i{ amount already raised to be $1u, tated his leaving his employment at whicn puts the camp; the Landers. Frary & Clark factory| well over the half-way mark last Christmas. The funeral Will bel cuppaign was instituted to raisc held tomorrow afternoon At 2:30| 500 and during the p: o'élock from his late home and at 3} paifowavy mark was reached {o'clock from the Trwin Memorial{ pace | chapel. Rev. W. F. Cook will offic fate " RO S T i, | and interment will be in Pairview ear away the existing church cometery | i being collocted hy @ system of Mr. Ward w of the most teams. ench headed by a cap- prominent members of the all ain, and pledges ars being | Methodist church and was also promi- h oA | nent in Masonic eircles. He Joined all families of the Swedish i.uth I New York lodge of Masons 27 yearsi apan .on o and when he moved to this citvi \ . of the Red Cross taken house-{o-hoise canvass of zation 25 years ago he transferred to HAav-| ¢ the church is 1o bg held tomor mony lod \. F. & A. M. He was ‘ 1 row afternoon and cvening in the also nember of Giddings - chapter. | chureh parlors. A mect ¢ the ferred to an Ohio division on active Auty He participated in many } tles of the last six months of the wa and cight hours before the armis was slgned was struck by machine .sui_bullet. - He was given steaid treatment after five hours of waiting nd placed back in the lines where | he.wus left until relicved after the | siguing of the armistice Upon being sent to a pital higs wounds were redressed and parts of the bullet metal were removed. Un- known to the attending surgeons, »f metal was left in the woun 1 blood poisoning set in over t The condition of his arm on the following day made amputa- tion necessary and he was éonfined to serformed until given orders to sail | bout two weeks ago ptember 24, 1917, and was Camp Devens. On December his name appeared on th lisis under the verely wounded.” He is 24 | Sister Philemon was for many years | and is well known in the voung soldier is now in the hespital in New York city for treatment, and expecis soon to be given a furlough to visit at his home hert s probable that he will be given an artificial arm, ana tri ined in its use before receiving hi final dischdrge from the service PRIVATE RIVERS BACK. Clark Street Soldier Was in France With Medieal Corps 13 Months. rivate Bdward Rivers avrived in Newport News today 2board the U S. S. Princess Motoika and will 1 decharged from the srmy in about L week. Private Rivers was a mem- QJer of an early draft increment to Camp Devens, and volunteered fo overseas service soon after reaching he camy He- has been in France | 18 months with a mecdical corps. Rivers the son of Mrs. Julia Rivers of 132 Clark streef, and he are being calied into the service was cmployed a8 a mason by the B. H Hibbard company. He is a prominent member of the Y. M A. B. society CHEAPER FOOD IS PREDICTED SOON | Chairman Peek of Commerce Indus- * (rinl Board Thinks Prices Will Drop In Near Future Washington, March 24.—Cheaper teod in the near future was predicted | 6day by Chairman Peek- of the d partment of commerce industrial board as result of a conference 4ith food administration officils in ew York Mr. Peek said there had been gen-| dpal misunderstanding of a recent sfstement by Mr. Hoover that whea might go to $3.50 a hushel, and add- ed that the billion dollar grain ap- propriation was made by congress to enable the public to met wheat pro- #ucts at reasonable prices, as well as 0 make good the guarantee to the Producer With wheat prices reasonable, Mr Peek said, reasanable prices of other | nroducts could be expected because Wheat was the barometer of the food trade. SCHOOT, BOYS NOT WORKING IHRING THIS EASTER VACATION The Easter vacation is being enjoy- @d all this week by the pupils in tho local schools. Contrary to custom therc e more boys on the streets than ¢ where and it is due to the fact that work is not as plentiful as ¢ was formerly. In years zone by the boys with ambition used to get| gprik for the period of their vacation and for the past two years during the grceat work of furnishing material for | The funeral was held this afternoon M Dorie council. Washington| congrezaiion will be held fonight for wdery, Knights Templar, and| g, iners. having been a member A. Order of Nobles of the Mystic | purpcse of eollecting membhe ship rine. | Wid., Mr Ward leaves the following children Mrs. 2 ar C. Stockwell, Mrs. Williaim D. Calvert, Mrs. Harvey | New Britain Machin \. Wooster of Columbial Mo., Mrs, W . Judd of Wallingford. the Misses Works Teame Will Play in-iartford Clara and Ruth N. Ward and George b, Ward Tomorrow Night. i | | i 1 | | | And Stanley The New Britain Machine compan of the local lactory and the Stanley Woriss team wen second honeis in the local will g0 to Fnrtford tomorrow 13 to play the 2. K team : Jrene Cochrane, ne Cochrane aged six 12 days. died this morning at | home of her parents. Mr. and ! Samuel Cochrane, S1 Fairview street. Billings & Spencer teams oceup, and burial was m Fairview cemetery. L edmSIoCoNDY similar poszitions in the ilariford s 1strial leag mmes wil Sister Mavy Philemon, o u zan) i1l Sister Mary Philemon died IPebrn- e LULE tween 7. in a convent at Melle, Belgi- | i 2 according to advices received by ‘ paiet anning : | attend the game 1o er the loc Charles Coppens, her brother. | - feams fo victory an md sp | cial cors will make | in a convent in Belgium Congo. Afri- | AN eyt ca, and just before the outbreak of the war she returned to Belgium. Be tions are to bhe made in the [ ford Migh schoo! gymnasiur | loeal rooters e games other brothers Alex and Alphonese fPlaved starting at 8 o'clock and Dick i | stdes RRev. Charies Coppens, two | i Dillon wili referce { Coppens survive her. A requiem mass | was celebrated at 8 o’clock this morn- | ! played in Hartford a few woeks ngo the Hariford teams won hoth games. and in the games plaved he two weeks ago ihe New Britain teams won. In the first game of ling at t. Peter's church. Rev. Charles Coppens was celebrant, Rev | Louis Van Der Smi was deacon | Rev. Arthur Veillard. sub-deacon and | | Rev. Arthur Cavanaugh, of St Thnm,i | as’ Seminnry, musrer of CETEMONIAS: : TEEEET i i TROUBLE NOT NEW | Nelson A. Ciane. - e ) | Nelson A. Crane who was a well | Budapest Outbrealc Result of Tumul- | known carpenter in this city for tuous Conditions of Past. number_of years. died last Saturd Yeriin Morchi o1 ‘n\-;‘m at his home on Kelsey street | | | (By the Associat- t ed Press)-—Recent events at Buda- 0ld—age. -was -respensible- —for- his | jo. o Gl LT aci of the En death, My Crane having assed his | 75th birthday some time ago Re- | s his wife. one son, Louis N.. of | Syracuse N Y., and one daughter H Mrs. G. A Francis. ! survive m 5 Funeral services will <] f‘nnlh'.(“"‘l tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 from t | family residence at 15 Kelsey street and interment will be Bloomfield l« Warren F. Cook, pastor of the | . 5ap “qenonstrations besan last I v Methodist. chu~ch will. offi ciate. tente note outlining the new hound- ary between Hungary and Ruman according 1o the Vossische Zeltung. which says the sifuation there wus nrv,whv hefore the note was deliy Communists were unemployed an have heen ignored by the sociali ministers according (o the newspa- Wednesdavy ~ when demands wers made that every employed person Card of Thanks. We wish to thank all kind friends { and neighbors. for their sympathy ex- tended to us at the time of the deat? of our heloved husband and fathe \so shopmates and all who contrib- uted 11 | MRS, LAGERLOF AND FAMILY | }‘Q‘\’[FRI(/ \\v OPFI(‘ER \\'ll‘.l. FIGHT TO KEND. | PLACED ON TRIAL |, S | Iungarian Revolution _ Government Will Oppose Any Armed Force. receive five hundred crowns for relief besides payment of house rent and a reduction of food prices by one-half. The newspaper declares the revolu- Iin | tente note-arrived and Count Michael | Karolyi. the premier, seized the op- poriunity in his farewell prociar { | | | | i | tion was impending when (1 flowers tion to represent himself as a frier ‘ of the proletariat | ! Charged With Hindering America and h 23-—In concludi | England and \iding Germany roclamation annovneing the pro | riat dictatorship there the new | During War. ngarian. government said “The Czecho-Slovak, bourgeois, Ru- nanians and annexationist classes wish to overthrow the Hungarian Workers' revolution by force of arm We are determined, however, to de- fend oursclves to the last drop of blood against all attacks. With onr determination to dcfend the republi zoes the wish to concliude as speedily tain Edwin C. Weistgerber, of Pitts- burgh, attached to the army engincer corps, on chargts involving acts al- | leged to have been detrime to the | ¢ | military interests of the United N:xtv\\l i New York, March 24 il of Cap- | | ana Great Britun and favorable to | those of Germany. was begun before { a eourt martial today at Governors | | Island. The defendant, said to hold a degree from Heidelbers university was known in private life as an ex- |'for them to live at peace with all |aBestin thegusegoueascs, ! pcoples of the world. | Defended by Judge D. W. Sims, of | = | as possible a nence which will assure means of existence for the Hungarian working classes and make it possiile Lafayette, Ind., and Major E. Lowry | $900,000 SUIT CALLED. Humes, of Pitisburgh, recently ap- | 5 | pmnls‘d a : ml;ul .\‘lr.'\uw‘d\s-‘:v.-ml attor- | pasimore INedeorals Demand This From | ney, Weistgerber faced accusa- | tions. Thirteen had to do with his | offering to the British government a | Washir March synthetic fuel which it was satd | the §°00,0 yeble da would have resulicd in damages 10 | der the Shorman anti-i1 h it was empioyed. | tie Baltimore Federal baseb wnd in recommending adonfion by | club against National and Amc National and. American Le engines in whic this government of gas applinnces o league clubs and former I whose use would have resul in the { Jeague ofii A% ordered tod destruction of vroperty and in dan- | | gerous consequences fo numan life. i tice Stafford, of the District of Colum | The fourteenth was a ch e of im- | bia (federal) suvreme count bhegin tomorrow before Associut war nearly every hoy of working age| proper personal conduct The litisation is siilar to s ged fore vacation time came BOLSHEVIKI CROSS RIVER. e of 70,000 Men Arve Advancing South of Lemberg. London, Marc¢h Z4.—A Holshevik army of 70,000 men has crossed the River Dniester, south of nhers accordinz t Zurich dispateh 1 Seivec forwarded by the ;:\‘ hange Telegraph Co. The army is I to ommanded by Major org I to be compoged mainly D? Huugarians s 1 Bui rians ~ho Were priconers of war in Russia 108 GIVEN DEGRELES. mbric Mass., March 24.—De. FHarvard univ todny. The -mid- $ear awards, in moest cases, were to B wiio had attended classe Wirougli the :tummer months, the Latest number being in the medical school | eS = = the federal distriet court & 5 GIRL SCOUT NOTE | phin twe years ago, which wa A = in the midst of tri The Baltimore Miss. Agnes Johnston Fotertatns at | elab claims an actual loss of 300,000 | | Week-end Party. fr t uption of the I Miss . Agnes Johnston of Wes Main street, entertained tiR members 4 the Girl Scout troop of the Cen- | (W yp RISK BUREAU ISy ter Congregational chucch at a week- GIVEN SUFFICIENT FPUNDS. end house party Those who were present were Mis ) §.—Financia Helen [ancock, Miss Flora Hir i risk in Miss Caroline Smith, Aiss Cordel by Kilbourne, Miss Ada Pieffer. i Martha Clark, Miss Luey Clarkson r ng e pres Misg Marion Goodell, AMiss Dorothy | made a lotiaent fro and Miss Esther Bottemley | war fund to pa Saturday evening, the Girl Scouts | the bureau until coaz | ates at the next s enjoyed a specially prepared enter- tainment An origina sketeh was | alloted wa not presented by Mi Martha Clark - Miss Robina Blair, and Miss Ada | EX-EMPEROR CHA Pieffer, - Miss Robina Blair gave an Copenhs Nia interpretative dance. A marshmallow | kmberor < of race was won by Miss Ada Pieffer, { und his y leit and peanut races were won by Miss | Sunday ¢ r on u | Martha Clark, Miss Caroline Smith Switherfand, @ dispat tand Miss Lucy Clarkson night ¢ the Charlotte Hunkerford| Pr.- Ohman Reports Swedish Lutheran | SITU ATIO‘\ QE FRENCH PAPER Just As Grave \s 100 Yea When Napoleon Retur om Klba. Paris, March 24 (By the ciated Press)-—"The situation § serious as that which arose wii wgress of Vienna leurned . 0 poleon’s return from Elba. as 4 hundred years ago, nego have provoked and have heend prised by destiny.” writes St, in the Journal “The problem Lefore the of 1en is not the fate of man cables, or the Teschen sion, but the imperative n having IPoland nd Rumania build he watertight comf n'lm hich i ollipsed.” he contindl imherwis ermany declaring hes self alone in Josition o save wes ern civilizaiion will lay down her owil % instead of those the Al ics propose to dictate to her, or willl Bolshewik movement. £ This extract from an editorial ae= cnratoly reflects the views of Gl foreign editors of Irench newspaperss S0 may express reserve as to m,w v ithe movement is inspired by Ger= many b they generally agree in rlacing the principal blame for - th event on the procrastination of thel peace conferen nd insisting upom mmediate steps to fight Bolshevismg ig CITY ITEMS %% | Am i I Am Joseph Donlan is speidtivg | AnGoH this city ElaTs Baldwin / Mrs. Mary | g p o o were the guests | geth Steelg Buite Supes afternoon i Can Pac e, of 61 Garden in i Mury's schoot | CF : Ohio 4 evenine at 8 o’clock hino Cop ( } nt Wiilian Kelly of Chi Mil’ & St Pal 1 Regiment, who recently { Cons Gas ..... S8 Crucible w...v/.,h.,- the honie of relatives en Broad street, | Del & Hud .. !"l"‘lOéVz 1 Sdward Holly., of 76 Stanley | Distillers S - BT 621 " o street "]m”.-w io the police that ”;'i; )‘ ee 2 281 through [l g ooarich fab strect, but was not injured = Ore Cetfs Inspiration + Independents and the South will play basketball at the Y A. this evening interboro Interboro Kenn Co [ a8 ‘of~2 Lymanr sireet. Lack Ste omplail to the police vesterday | Lehigh ¥ hat he room was entere and $75 Max Mot taken. She suspected Andrew Miez- | Mex Pe of Terryville, ho was taken into | N Y C 3 vid i no v oL Y N H N X O warrant holding him, and he was re- treet 1 o y Michelina | Norfolk faictta of this eity biin Barl Kisselbrach of ihe war bureau | Pre where he | Ray nis vesude on a farm | Rep T town and it is understood that c destroyed fire. 1ealth departm port for| S nid the mn includes six cases of influen- | Studebaker za, 12 cases of me (8 fo Texas Oil of chicken pox, ar ise of | Union Pac diphtheria United Fruoit A daughter has b born o Arr,| Utah Cop and Mre Patrick Lyncl 95Robexts (RUSSIRULICO street Donald Gaffne Harry O'Connor Abraham Schacfer and Tsvael Nair of Yale colleze sendis taster| Western e e Wiliys Oy e Tawar DIVIDEND REDUCED nsselier arehome for the! New York, March 24.—-The Ana- | tior conda Copper Co. today ueed its Hartford po picked up Lad- | quarterly dividend of $1 \ share to Barbyruk of 77 Broad. street| one dollar a share Albert Mankus of 92 Booth both about nine years old, in were notified by the local police Markham who served with the Corps France has been | Anthony Krvowerzk Found pead On m the service, and is o home in this cit Railroad Fracks Near Flm Strect rratlic cer ¢ les McCarthy re- Crossing larly Yesterday Morning. sumed duty after week's illness 5 ? with grippe Anthony Krvow . aged about 30 William Fineran. of the U7 S, Q. ' vears was found iy u the railroad ationed at Camp Stewt .| tracks meéar the Elm street crossing ome on o ten davs' fuu } hortly after midnight csterday Charles Witkin of th §. S | morning with his skull fractured. The Ithode Island, ix visiting at his home | discovery was made by trainmen in this city. The man was dead, and his skull was Simuel Cook was notified to he jn | badly fractured, indicating that he had been hit by a train. Medical Ex- court tomorrow morning- for leaving : aminer H. A. Elcock viewed the re- his automobile in the restricted dis- inictEionzsrtnan SEneRspecited Rtimpy el =Rad Sean BTH BGHUES RorRdeath due to a fractured skull. The body rned over io Laral & Co. to court tomorrow for violation of the PRICROAR Ll vehicle law Dine left his Kryowarzlchesde: wutomobile in fro hydrant Jimit Adam Dinero was. netified to be in Corlin company. H Mick Moy Cori ARIZON.\ A UPHELD BY U. S, SUPREME COURT yreh - 24.——Constitu- hospital limiting employment of women to § hours x day ipheld today by the supreme court in disposing of ap- peals in which the a was attacked on the ground that il dis inated CZPOTS VS, 1 between the employment in railroad restaurant < and Connter Claims Presenged FOSiieanis to Conference Today Aa . IN DEPARTMENT 26 YEARS 2 He Ladde ttenant Williamn Wa DINAL CASSETTADEAD Ma 1 —Cardival *c the Holy Koman church lishing New Prol ment—@Gives Greot Copenhagen, March 24.—ReM he | of wireless exchanges between NiKi e 1arzest nght Lenine, the Bolshevik premier of Rl ato commissio sia, and the foreign representatives of (gl },t.n:” L '\P‘;\".‘L(L?: the new Hungarian communistic §ov-| represent Ramiral C. F. Hughed ernment are reccived in advicesfsem | commandant of the Fourth naval dis Budapest. Lenine was told that $ho! trict, handed the receipt for the gres Hungarian proletariat ~had ~sefzed | ship to H. A. Magoun. vice precident power and had introduced a proletar- the corporation that built the v iat dictatorshop. Greetings were sent The 3 to Lenine as “lcader of the interna- tional proletariat In greeting the r from th Russian proletariat (he new Hungar A in government expressed solidarit with the revolutionary movement re 1 ¢ he In his reply Lenine stated that he| Vom« had submited the Hungarian 8reet-| gecrefar inz to the Bolshevist cougress at Mos-1| cow, which had received it \ great enthusiasm. He added ‘In order to commun Idaho's crew of ntion during t pointir on n T York for itional the military sitnation it is necessary Moscew and Budapest and report machin tipment before starting to mair ' permanent wireless communication between the two on her m n trip ities. e reluded by extending communist grectings-and a hand.| SETEATION IMPROVE'S it IN EGYPTIAN MUDDLE. i T53 = = London, March 24.—There has been SERVICE CLUB MEERTING further improvement in the situation The meet of the Army and Navy|in Egypt. according to the under-see- club at the Y. M. €. A. tomorrow| retary of foreign affair: He stated night will be addressed hy Captain Al-|in the house of commons today that ed H Griswold Following tt railway con mication between. Cairo business meeting lunch will be served. | and Alexandria had heen restored afts The “Y" will pravide kes for the| er its recent interruption during the ex-service mer disorders. é L STEAKS, Fresh Cut From Heavy Western Beef, Round, Short or Sirloin . ... . 1b WIFT'S JEWEL COMPOUND . ... 2 Ibs BEST MAINE POTATOE 15 1b pk Uniied States Tood Administration License Tuesday’s Money Savers at the Busy Market. CHOICE LEAN POT ROAST . [ PRIME CHUCK ROAST! BEEF LEAN BOILING BEEF FRESH GROUND HAMBURG LEAN CUT PORK CHO} FANCY SMOKED SHOULDERS LEAN PLATE CORNED BEEF SALT PIGS HOCKS ... ‘s()Lh} MEAT OYSTERS SALT COD BITS, SPECIAL . LARGE BLOATER MACKEREL FRESH CAUGHT SHORE HADDCC C ARROTS OR PARSNIPS FINE MEATY PRUNES NEW CROP CABBAGE .. FANCY WHOLE MILK CHEESE MOH. 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