New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 21, 1919, Page 1

A d . AND CHURCH BELLS RING, USHERING IN NEW DRIVE ~ v % THE SERVICE. NEW BRITAIN { HERALD “ADS” ME BETTER BUSINESS ESTABLISHELDL 1876. NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT. MONDAY, APRIL SIXTEEN PAGES. CENTSS FACTORY Fifth Loan Campaign' During Which New Britain Wili Subscribe $2,385,000, Start| CAPTAINLEWIS 1S Off With Vim DERBY IS FIRST TO COMPLETE ITS QUOTA | [ | | Middletown Second Town to Go Over Top and New- town is Thought to Be! Third in State. BONDS AR CLOCK LD AS STRIKES NOON. -0 While it may develop into au open question just who pur- chased the first Victory Bond in New Britain, records at the New Britain National that the first bo was pu v of 1 ank old show the sec s bought 1 ett - street W ; Behwab of le was hiie th were still whistle city b ch ringinz. Libert ughered the for Loar in campaign the Vieto and campaig today, a present week the tee w enet dr An effort will b quota in less than for the drive and tho committee is confident of secur. ing the “V” flag to fly from the pole in Central Park. New Britain's quota in has been set by the Treasur 385.000, and to ment at $2 the campaign ca, on an to “finish the made the- allotted d the e to ex tin this 1 depart- e this large amount have been instructed it will be sary to open the campaign and keep up enthusiasm throushout the drive. Reports are to made and announced daily and will be pub- lished. The publicity committee. which is one of the most important committees on the drive, been busy through- ec; with vim treet and well. have other advertised solicitors, part the most in t all canva wil campal of whom ives for tic wo of every be made, as other place The talken loans, n in re thorough the city ss of every plovment In all factor will em of the churches the o their upporting eported are of the pastors spoke the necessity of Loan and i a number of sub ady in the hands ommittee Chafrman A. I. three captured Ger will be awarded as prizes to the solicitors making the best showing. One will go to a factory canvasser, Enother to a street merchant solici- tor and the third to a woman can- rgsser. window exhibition was arranged McMillan’s store. Derby Gets First Honors, on tory of Sloper ha received n heimets which in Hartford, April 21.—It was Derly | that was the first town Heut to complete #s Victory loa: quota vesterday the race being be- fween Middletown and Derby for first hono When Middletown rlaimed first honors it was not known there that Derby had already won. Newtown is thought to be the t town to 1 eted and exceeded its figure. in Connec- Middletown Quota. —Middletown passed its the Victory Liberty 1oz man of t commitiee . tele- graphed to Boston loan headquarters that the city had secured $1,900,000. The allotment i3 $1,017,000. In the Fourth loan drive Middletown an- pounced an oversubscription five min- utes after the campaign opened. The population of the city is about Mich.. ] uota of $3.156,951 in + || heroism and undaunted courage under || has n workers | This afternoon a Victory loan | rd | nd the chair- | WHISTLES BLOW REJECTION OF JAPANESE CLAIMS FOR EQUALITY OF RACES TAKEN AS SNUB r Only Way of Sustaining Na- | tional Prestige is By Pre- Says. Atacked From Rer, He Sl Position and Saved His Command | ALSO GARRIED IN WOUNDED Lake ‘Strect Young Man Showed Un- WILSON TALKS LONG WITH JAP DELEGATES| Peace on Earth and Good Will to ! Men Must Dbe Considered as 1 Very Distant, Writer in Japan ' usual Courage in Face of Grilling | Machine Gun Fire in Argonne | Times Says in Discussing Refu e of Allies to Include Racial Equality i For displaying extreme bravery, | I League Covenant. = » Paris, April 21.—President Wilson | Captain : jhad a long conference this m orning | Mr. 3 Mrs. | 4 > S T A et | With Baron Makino and Viscount| S oL LT ks Street | Cninda of the Japanese peace deleg: e and valor in the Ar- ign. The awarding of hell and machine gun f | Edwin L. Le Burton L. Lev receives | spicuous seiv | gonne camp e, Tokio, April 19 (By the Associated ilure of racial equality to place in the covenant of tha !league of nations, the Japan Times ares that the national disappoint- Japan verges on disaffection {and affords for senmsationalists op- | portuniiy to stir up anti-white pre- { judice. Representative Japanese re- | | gar@ the rejection of Japan's claims nub and humiliation the 1t continues: Fears Racial Prejudice, “The refusal of the august congress of white people to accept the prineinle of equality of non-whites, probably | erect a perpetual marrier to harmon- ous mingling of races towards which it was Dbelieved the world was tend- ing. 1t can only tend to create racial prejudice which will far from reali | President Wilson’s ideal lasting peace. Compares Nation to Negro. “Japan's adn | secure paper | ssion to the company the great powers must be consid- | as only for the political con- | venience of the allies.,” the paper says, | {and it compares Japan’s position itha* of a negro speaker asked speak in church because of his ore- torical powers but who is not | honorable mention to Captain Lewis | Sidered the racial equal of the white was given out yesterday by the divi- | COMEregation. sional advance party of the 77th di- Is This a Threat? vision, which has its headquarters in | It is well for Japan to remember New York. { this point” the paper adds. “The only Was wway of sustaining Japan’s prestige Caplain Lev won his citation | must be sought In preparedness to during the campaign of the Argonno {cope with international situations as Forest when the 1st Battalion, of | they develop. Peace on earth and 1 adjutant, w good will to m must be considered brunt of still very distant.” ter attacks. Cap of ered CAPT. E. N. in Argoune Drive. pon to sent in t When the intensa en is with utte tter compan my shell fire, disregard of | o1 1 his own atded onally A eI il e evacuating wounded. Although |tne schedul under constant shell fire, he carried a wounded soldier for more than kilometer. in on September > under Captain L safety D! in d with interest. e of the special train going ito Boston for the parade of the 26th division on Friday. The train is pro- 5 vided by the New York, New Haven & } Captain Lewis, ~displayed excellent partfora rallroad for the express pur- military knowledge and courage. |pose of carrying peaple from this vi- While in command of one of the !ginity to Boston. The train will be front line companies, his men met made up at Waterbury and ite last with heavy enemy resistance! stop will be at Willimantic. It will Lisison with the units on his left gtop at Bristol, New Britain and Hart- was lost and a mumber of the enemy |forq also, and will carry only people supported by machine guns, attacked |going to the Hub city, The train his company in the rear. Captain |will leave Waterbury at 7 o'clack on TLewis “with great personal courage the morning of April 25, stopping at and bravery coniinually exposinz | Rristol at 7:25, New Britain at 7:40, himself to a constant machine gun!Hartford at 8 o'clock and Willimantic and rifle fire, succeeded in executing 'at 9 o'clock. The train is due at Back a turning movement and consolidated | Bay at 11:10 and at Boston at 11:15 his position.” i o’clock. Text of Citatlon. | Returning the train will leave Bos- B h was made by fimn station at 6 p. m. sharp. Robert Alexander, 7ith division and signed by Louls B. Gerow, adjutami- of the division follows | Bawin T.. Lewls, 308th Tn- | ROV, + has served with | all its savere | ihe r-Genera commanding the i AMFERICAN SENTENCED. Ii Mowrey, Missionary, Con- d of Alding Korean Revoit. A G | washington, April 21,—Dispatches campaigns, and on numerous occa- |received today givVing the state depart- sions has displayed exireme bravery 'nent its first official information of and herolsm under shell and machine | the conviction - of Rev. Il Miller gun fire. On or about August {Mowrey, an American missionary in 1918, near Savoye, Captain Lewls, Korea, nceused of permitting his then first lleutenant and adjutant of houaa to be used by leaders of the the 1st Battalion, 303tk Infantry, was 'Korean independence movement for on duty With his battalion during its Lrinsing propagands. satd Mr, Mowroy | the 2a Battalion, 307th Tn-'Yipg peen mentenced to six months' when a company of the Iat- i imprigsnmont but was at lbarty on anization ceme under most |hag) pending appeal, T he case was tried hy the Japanase ntinued on rt ut Baoul regiment du on relie? by fantry ge Wifteen.) 'AMERICAN D up COUNCIL OF FOUR MADE NO DECISION ON DEMANDS O 102D WON ITS FIRST [y 0T HAVE S| BIG FIGHT EXACTLY YEAR AGO it 21, 1918—Captain Griswold, Seicheprey Fought on Apri Leading Company L Bo ys, TODAY ken Prisoner Only to Fight Way Back to American Lines. April 21, 1918, 26th Division One vear ago today, the 102d Infantry of th stood on its mettle for the first time since it haa the front line trenches in February. The fight re called was the Battle of Seichenr which will never be forgotten the members of the div who came out alive. the woo one and one-fo outside the tpwn of that Amerjcans foug! well althotgh surrounded. It - in the that they fought hand to hand the Germans and, in a last struggle, drove them from the to It was the first show of their mettle, it was the first suffering of heavy cus- ualties by the American boys, it meant suffering for them, but, more than all that, it was the first proof to the Ges mans that they were up against real army. It will probably be attribut the first step in the bres their morale One year & Britain bees United State: cellent fightin panies, I and were none better entered W combat on It was in rth mil icheprey, of the s0 was lat with as king of the known throug parily through done its two which ther entire ¢ in the | the day | desperute | and also partly by the glorious deeds of Captain Alfred H. Griswold. Tt was on that day, while he was leadin ny L, of the 102d, that the was entrapped by the Ge The man after Killiz rmans single nded, eluded s and escaped 1o American lines. The feat was of importance that the Associated cable stories of it tell- ptain killed four with clubbed fifth to mans loca four Ge his German capto such Press ing tr carried t the « svolver death before making ood hi One year ago toc sever itain boys made the supreme sacri- fice for their country. Today those iten, for their peo- and their former them and honor 1lso, many Jocal casualties and trips to resulted. Tor the men of the 26th, today is the#nniversary of a t and, while it is with ned memories that many remern- the soldiers think more of the aning of the .fight than do o stayed at home not realiz- the battle was of such im- 1y are not fo ple remember th comrades mourn for them. At that battie m suffered the hospi me day, those W ng that portance. ELEGATE ADVISES PUBLICATION OF TREATY WHEN IT IS HANDED TO HUN ENVOYS Paris. Ap Council of Four ence, before Lhe peace treaty is hand ed to the GGerman delegat will t the question of m ment publ representing tion, of the peace confe St American dele with the press ad- | of other d the pub- | immediately the Germans. version of the by the Ger- up with ay the in agzreement visers to the delegation countries, has recommen lication of the treaty after its delivery to Otherwise, tho first treaty would be issucd fmans and might be loaded propaganda. The plan proposed on behalf of the NO CONTEST ON ILLER'S WILL Tast Testament of Late Millionaire Admitted o Probate Without Any Objections—TExecutors Appointed. No contest will of Darius Miller, the was admitted to probate this morning. Andrew J. Sloper, president of the First Nation- al Bank, and Frank Miller of Bridge- port, brother of the deceased approved as executors. Frederick Chamber George P. Spear were appointed ap- was offered to which wers S, ain and praisers of the estate. Although it was rumored that d tant relatives of the late N who were not remembered in quests, would contest th position appeared at the this morning. Judge Ber! ney when asked if any co appeared when the will was & to the court of probate, stated reports as to a contest over the w as far as I know. founde haven't heard of any oppositi S. MEDIATOR San Diego, April 21.—Verner | Z. Reed, United States mediator, died late last night at Coronado. | | WEATHER, | | Forecast and vieind Tuesds for New Tritain : Fale {onight and colder tonight, | e Tnited delc e American American ised simultaneously for the es to v contents—first, a sununa the treaty: 5.000-word official summary the text of the treaty. The would be given to the at about the sama treaty a day or two possibly to be distri- as it was re- 7.500- " of econd, a and third, two summari Amer pre time the late text huted installments celved. The League can nd the by text of the of Nations covenant of the has already been phed {o the State department shington for release when au- thorized by President Wilson. FPLIGHT OVER OCEAN POSTPONED ONCE MORE o— . John's, April 21—The pro- d over-the-ocean air flight < poned today a ptain Irede nry Hawker, al ow to adver: ling in mid-At lian weaiher antic. AVIATORS READY TO START LONG FLIGHT Final Report From Weather Burean On Mid-Ocean Conditions is Being Awnaited. Johns, N. F., April 21 Locel tmospheric conditions thi$ morning re perfect for flying. The sky “vas A light west winds were biow- Frederick P. and Henry alian rival, on their pro- depended mid-ocean mor wed an Atlantic, for the ether aynham, Hawker, op off” nsatlant today sther cond meteorological wind blowi h would be & unfavor ce competing cached here, only two days. April 11 and 12. offered ideal conditions for a start and Hawlker allowed them slip by because Raynham Was unpre- pared. Major Arthur Partridge, ref- eree, announced he was arranging for n smultaneous “Jump Off” by ap- pointment of an aseoclate refe probably T . L. 1. Clements, R . o weathoar experf Pilots and mech morning making fur the wirclees apparatus. \ pent the ustments ing | machines | to | ITALTANS SITUATION: HAS ‘i TERMS FRIDAY BECOME GRAVE | Paris Press Seces Evidences | President Wilson Stands Ou of Bad Faith on Part of | >ermany in Sending (Tour-fl Granting Maximum Terrk Against Recognizing Trea iers to Versailles. torial Claims te Itals | | = | - Ps expressed today whether the pe peace ftr April 21.—Grave doubts were (By the Ttalian ave Associated Press) h of | The parllamen Wednesday ne until May dispatches from Rome his postponement evidently heel used failure the Counel pe conference i 15 3 v solution of ‘s claims 1 1 coast scted whi to met will cording aty would be presented to 2 German representatives Friday. While the treaty will be communicated to them in substanc it. was thought in well informed quar ters that it will be physically impo ble to preparc the document in complete, final form in the four d remaining. Premiers Lloyd George, Clemencezu | nd Orlando met gain this mao ing in M. Clemenceau’s office and resumed wonsideration of the Adriatic question, President Wilson again absented hini- | self from the conference, the coming to has the of of Fo Paris to reach the probe, raised b Fiumo and the Dalr Are C from Conditions al. indicatd Ttaly’ reached News the peacq 1a P Grea ncel with whigl framed a o th thay nt I not W re Di that | unyieldin tches he m < itude 1 phase. 1ce on S of Awaited. three r Reply Anxiously the The German reply to the ultimatum of the Council of Four that it will not receive any CGorman delegation not fully empowered to conduct and { gotlate peace is awaited anxiousiy peace conference circles. The steps toward peace depend German repl The Council of Four afternoon, President Premiers Lloyd George and Orlando attending. tre London in 191 of into the w Ttaly side nd of i n! nounce on SaaRsY opene will mee Wilson Clemence wilson Opposes u on nition Bad Faith. Charges This morning’s many's sending couricrs delegates of proper standin sallles nothing but evidence faith and a maneuver {o gain tim The Fcho de Paris says “The Allied and ments are determined not unauthorized persons and Germany will be immediately notified that must send delegates equipped full powers to conclude peace their arrival at Versailies the step will be to demand from them e dence that they hold those power: The Gaulois indignant at what it describes as “‘the impertinence of Ger- many's coup de theatre” which it re. gards as a refusal to sign the treats says: s¢ Ger- | ! been n instead to V upport of t of Huns Do Not It s war na rencd ror overn- ssociated delegates s y nfe to :pt many ha mportan advices s power take them cabinet then cline them or ple. only to will eith submit them to the Allies Are Dispatches from rather positive attit of the peace conference form Germany that the to Versailles mu | the treaty of peace von | the first act of the man | On April dence powe Insistent, Paris = refle the ch ahe sends| power Tt i wi he next word will men { shal Foch.” 2 Anxious For Alliance. The announcement Broclkdorff-Rantzau, foreign minister, that | would send delegatc | powers to receive the peace e and transmit them to the an | government has contributed tly | | toward an alliance between Trance Great Britain and America, the paper says. | The press insisis looking toward such still in progr Simon PRUSSIANS WON'T AGREE . | Bolshevik | joined the Any | be with Mar- by Count SoR the ¢ his government without 1 rma Bolshe Bolshevist tho weste strength te of news- | been concentrated in over-r e Crime 1 in the p: that n ZY Tk Bol LioTs re neg allian and ine h b : € the| forces commangéd Ly krainian feasant 10,000 1\ and | Declare They win | Conditions, Sanction Plan to Inter- | Not, Under nationalize Danzig. | { . 2 | Danzig, April « | people’s council of | sent a declaration state authoritie circumstances West Prussia plans to inte: Vistula, or make or place it under Polish It is declared that West Danzig must not be divided German main empire. —The Prussi imperi t under no to stating tt will the Germans L0 KILLED IN KORE ationalize i Danz from the nens ing the ny A~ Pru f AWARDED NAVAL MEDAL Admiral William ¢ TROUT FISHING LAW, bill whic Benson to Receive The | senate tion by Direction of President. tront i killec in tinue ator inquirie | ested in the ize for has been will con res. Sen- mber of inter Navy Distinguished Service Decori- mak legal inches size in ceived a n local fisherme in the past few Klett has trom the bill Washington, April 21.—Admiral Willlam 8. Benson, chief of naval operations has been awarded the navy distinguished service medal by direc- tlon of President Wilson. Admiral Renson Paris and presentatio the medal probably will not be until his return to the United a8 the navy medals bave yet not completed. PARLIAMENT POSTPONED. madc Rome, April The ate the Ifalian heen | postponed 1 here. pariia May