New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 1, 1919, Page 1

ESTABLISHED 187 NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT. THURS DAY, MAY 101 9. --TWELVE PAGES. #PRICE' iI'HRF.E BELEION 1S, NOT SATISEED HAY NOT SIGN PEACE TERWS .Delegat;s‘ Dédine to‘P ARIS IS TIGHTLY Accept Alieged indef-| EL[]SEI]’ NO TR“UBLE inite Financial Ar- rangements Without frelch I Consulting Govt About City to Preven NO PAPERS OR THEATERS and Indus- fantry Units Placed i Disorders DEMAND THAT ALL | PROMISES BE KEPT Mayday Tie-up of Businc Gy is Complete—Working People Demand Improved Conditions and King Emmanuel of Ital) Other Changes. Premier Paris, May 1.—While Paris Orlando cat part of France was ticd and E\'pl‘esses Satisfaction 'day by labor's 24 hour generai as a demonstration for better ing conditions and changes in cer- tain governmental policies, no disor- | ders had been reported up to this aft- { ernoon Troops Guard and a | up to-; strike work- cieves at Unity of ilis People. | 2 Center. Loadon, May 1.—One of the princi- | pal features of the arrangement for | indemnity against which Bel- gium is protesting, that the coun- try will receive 100,000,000 pounds sterling (about $300,000,000) as part of the 1,000,000,000 which Ger- many will be asked to pay by the end of next year as part of a total repara- tion to be exacted later, according to the Paris correspondent of the Mail. Decline to Accept Terms., The most conspicuous feature of the governmsnt's measures against pos: |ble trouble was the occupation of the | Place de la Concorde by cavalry 1o 2 |insure enforcement of the order lagainst street demonstrations. Shortly after 2 o'clock detachments lof infantry quictly occupied positions |near the Hotel de Crillon, headquar- |ters of the American peace delegation |in the Rue Roval and the Rue de Ri- Lelgian delegates, it is added, |voli Squadrons of republican guards to accept the arrangement |assembled here and there in the consulting their government |streets leading from the principal because it leaves undecided the pro- | boulevards. portion of the ultimate reparation to be allotted to Belgium. A Reuter dispatch states a meeting of the Belgian net has been held, under hresi- dency of King Albert and that the question been discussed. I&¥ has been decided, the dispatch states that three members of the Belglan cabi- net will hc to Paris to instruct Belgian Ltes is he decline without Shutdonwn Is Complete. The cessation of work for the day accordance with the plans for the hour shut-down was virtually com- Not a wheel was turning any | transportation systems, the | and tramways ceasing to operate, and taxicabs and omnibus keeping off the streets Restauran and 1fes were clos and guests in the hotels had to go hungry if they had not supplied themselves with food beforehand, as no meals were being served in any of the hundreds of eat- ing places. Even the drug stores | closed their doors. from Paris cabi- |1n |24 plete of the subways the sent deles o the Strong Mcasures Hinted. Brus April 30— Extremely strong measures relative to Belgium’ demands at the peace conference have been decided upon by the Belgian Sl e government, according to the Soir SIS0 *Belgium 1 not accept the terms | here was no solace for the cit the council of three desires to impose |POPUlation in the way of amusemecnt S {he newspaper says. ‘'She |CUstomarily provided by the theaters, will demand a complete fulfillment of |MUsic halls and other resorts for thess the contained in the declara- |Vere closed tight for the day. No to her by France, |NeWspabers were published and send- Ttaly and Japan, and |7 Of lefters —and telegrams found 2 S their activities hampered by stoppages ol e e R g e knoatal no e ice th e : . : She il o stal anc 'e service through- ident V 14 point Sy Sl Gt refusc to sign any peace treaty which | does not restore Belgium to political und economic independence and does not entirely indemnify for dan sustained during the war.” sels, T promisc tion addressed Great Britain, | son's DIED IN SERVICE Italian King Pleased. g April 30, (By the Associated | )-——King Victor Emmanuel re- remier Orlando today and situation with him ssed satisfaction at the display of unity and loyally given by Italian country and parliament us evidenced by the vote of confidence | Orlando ministry by parlia- § night, Rome, i The. Men Captured and 4 King exf Missing in Action. Washington, May 1.—Rechecking of army records resulted during the last week in the addition of 476 names to the list of major casualti the war department announced today | bringing the total to 75,820 killed in Rome, April 30, 4 P. M. (By The | action, died of wounds and P e The Italian dele- | and died of other causes. @ation o the peace confersnce wiet|. THo number of prisoners was ve- late today under the chairmanship of | duced to 4,786 as a result of correc- Premior Orlando to consider the situ- | tions and the missing in action - to ation. The meeting came after con- i %293. 1 foronces the premisr had had with| The corrected total of wounded wa the king and American Ambassador | Ven as 201,847 but in many Page. The Glornale d'Italia says that { €N Wwere included in this in political circles the meeting was| Wounded more than once. considered to be very important. = CITATION Although the Italian delegates Mentioned the given ment lasi Italian Delegates Meet. 0, disease s.) s cases total as ' FARR GETS maintain strict reserve, it seems con- | clusive that Ttaly would not make any | further move unless the allied and as- | sociated governments first themselves on a united which likely a be i o tr ntry harmonizing with | battle of Seichep the verd of the Italian pecople made parliament. Lasallc Street Boy By posal & Commanding Officer For Valor At W Last Yecar. | Private William Farr of Company { E, 102d Regiment, received the fol. | 1owing citation from the war depar ! ment at Washington. shortly after his arrival to this country, after hay- hrough TRA SESSION, Chamber of Commerce Resolutions Calling for Acti URGES U. S. Passes ‘This diploma certifies that Private William Farr was distinguished in ac- on. St. Louis, Commerce nting today tion urzing the AIf a = United million The Chamber of States rep- »usiness men unanimously adopted a resolu- mmediate return of President Wilson and an extraor- dinary session of congress to enact needed legislation for our social and business structure. on and April 1918, by soldierly conduct 20, such as to honorable mention in the general or- der on this regiment (Signed) “DOUGLAS POTT “'Colonel Commanding." Mrs. J. E. Farr, mother of the cited | =oldier, upon his arrival in this coun- try, received a telegram from Captain Lockhart, congratulating her on the arrival of her son, whom he consid- ered one of the best men of his com. pany. courage 2 TERMS, Other DISCUS and Minor German Cables Jtems Taken Up at Today's Session. -GOVEI May 1.—Various tails of the peace treaty were taken up today by the council of three, among them the question of the cap- tured German cables. lesser uc- OR TLL. Hartford 1.—Ex-Governor Henry Roberts is critically il with pleurisy and pneumonia at his home, { No. 1110 Prospect avenue. His With the Kiao Chau problem dis- | dition at noon today was said posed of the Adriatic question is the | very grave. Mr. Roberts was only important matter remaining uu- | tenant-governor 1903 to 1905 settled. governor 1905 to 1907. Paris, May con- to e lieu- and | notwithstanding. i the Revised Army List Shows Only 4,786 | ing been overseas for over 18 months, | tion against the enemy at Scicheprey | win this | SENATORS PASS BILL FOR SUNDAY MOVIES IN SPITE OF VETO Governor Opposes Meas ure on Ground that it is Step Toward Removing all Legal Dis- tinction Between Sdbéath and Week-days Har(ford nioving May pictire ¢ today who sent 1.—The hibition bill Helcomb was) vetoed by Governor his message into the senate noon. After to the governor's Senators Klott, at brief refer- attitude and Woodruff, bill, the veto vote was 24 sustain. a very ence by Hough ed the The and 11 to s originally passed b to 3 with four sena- Every scnator was pres- those who voted to the senate rey for passage The bill senate sent. today b tor ent and Sunday | tically oo Senators TLeonard Waterman, ell, Mead, Adams, Brooks, Tiffany, n. communication transmitted to sustain Templeton, MacDonald Tough and The governor's bill were at once house. In hi ‘Two years mitted for My had become a faw and the message the governor ago an act pproval w} said: was sub- ch if it would have prac- removed all legal distinction the Sabbath and the sccular week. This act attempts it on the installment between days of the to accomplish plan. . icture oD shows who “Moving tended by the evenings of the weex corymercia cannot be ¢ or merey project to proprietors ters. “The locitl not remove or lessen it. Local option any one of Ten can be them of the secular da and at matinees. Their oxhibition on the Sabbath wssed as acts of necessity It a purely business in-rease the profits of of moving picture thea- at- | | on enjoy six nrovision does the objection not relevant option is to the (Continued on Page Ten) RED FLAG CAU RIOT IN CLEVELAND —o: Cleveland, May 1.—More than two score persons, many of them women, were injured in a series of riots that began with the en- trance into the downtown scc- tion of the various units of the socialist May Day parade here this afternoon. All police reserves, Liberty Loan trucks and army tanks were called out to help quell the riots that threatened for a time to envelop the entire downtown business section. DAWN OF PEACE DOES War Expenses Continfie to Soar—Armistice Signed Six Months Ago. 1 signing war expenses but Me the Washington. Nearly- months after the not of armistice America's only are continuing unabated of This was shown tually those the arc incrcasing over last few months, today by a treasury report ernment outlays for April to approximaicly $1,420,000,000 which abon' two-thirds went to | the nation's direct war bills and ona- | thira went the Allies to cnable { them to pa. obligations incurred { this countr, heretofore for war terials and foodstuifs. The gradunl mounting of war penses frora- month to month, lowing the big drop from around $2,- 000,000.000 » month last December and January to $1,189,000,000 in Fehruary was cited by treasury offi- cials a very substantial res the Victory Liberty loan must be generously cubscribed. The increase in the last two months is attributed | to the graanal settling of manufac- turers’ accounts by the war depart- ment and oy the higher demand the Al for credi with which pay bills previeusly incurred in country. The grea: outlays in April ra the United S‘ates’ actual expenditur sir the nation entered the war little more than two vears ago about $30.500.000.000. About $% 200.000.000 of this has gone to the Allies and will be repaid eventually. Without war, the ernment'’s »enses prohably have heen more than $3,000.000,- in the 7o vears. officials believe. [ On this basis. it is indicated the gov- ernment has passed something like $18.500.000,000 ncross the counter for war materials. army equipment and supplies, merchant ships, navy ves- sels, and “overhead” cost of maintaining big fighting machine. Throurh sale of materials on hand, and salvaging of considerable govern- ment propeity some officials hope to get as much as $2.000.000,000. ot war cos ill be reduced by that sum, whatever it may prove finally to be. amounting of to ex- fol- a this to gov- not 006 “he 1 REED NAMED TREASURER New Yorker Succeeds ¢ Smith on Emergency Fleet Board. George May 1. announced Washington The Shipning board the ment of Waldo S today appoint- of New York as treasurer of the Emergency Fl corporation to succeed George Smith who resigned April 1, Mr. Reed has assumed He has in the country the war began of Liberty bonds stamps sales. Reed eet duti of fhe aiding and his been services since in promotion War Savings ON LEAGUE Washington, May l.—Several re NOT CURTAIL EXPENSE = six ac- of gov-! pay i in | ma- | on why | of | to ! would . publican senators of the group known let it having be known the league of nations covenant considered at a republican conference with a view of determining the attitude of the party toward the document. Senators Johnson of Jones of Washington; Oregon, and Borah of as that progressive today they opposed California; McNary of Idaho, made PROGRESSIVE REPUBLIC OPPOSED TO PARTY CONFERENCE ANS ARE OF NATIONS TERMS | statements declaring the league could not be made a party question. | They were commenting on the | action of Senator Lodge, leader, and Senator Curtis, whip, in telegraphing republican members of the senate to withhold expressions concerning the league until a party conference could be held. Senator Norris of Nebraska, said he did not oppose the conference but would refuse be bound any action it might take. to by HOTEL SHOREHAM AT MORRIS COVE BURNS New Haven Shore Reo Visited By Disastrous Blaze—Loss Sct at $65,000. New Haven, May 1.—lHotel Shore- ham at Morris Cove, in former years well known as the Pequot House and | first srendeveous of New York Yacht club on its annual cruise from Hunt- ington, L. 1., to Newport, R. I, was totally burr~d today. The structure was quite large, of wood and faced Haven harbor. From its piazzas was @ broad view of Long Sound and the west shoré of the harbor and its favorable location | made the hotel a popular resort in the summer. Morris Cove is avithin the town 'imifs and until a few ye ago was a distinctive summer colony. The hetel long had been the scenc of sozial affairs in months when it had ! no regular gzuests. Daniel Sullivan who conducts the Oneco hotei in this city, recently bought the “horeham and it was = made ready for the season. The noticed by neighbors in the They cailed for help but while the hotel and adjoining gar- ages and detached buildings not be saved considerable furniture of the first floor was taken out a time many of the houses close were in danger but absence breeze saved them. The hotel was valued at and is fully insured. Te kitchen. Dy of a $65,000 EVACUATING PETROGRAD Reports from Reliable Sources Say That People Ave Being Sent Away— Bolshevik Censorship Rigid. Helsingfors, May 1.—Petrograd being evacuated by the rcports from reliable Many the inhabitants are sent away and the Bolshevik govern- ment is taking rigorous measures to prevent the news of the happenings at Olonetz from reaching the people. il is Bolsheviki, sources say. of being ARRESTED, 19 Year Old Youth Charged With Dis- | tributing Bolsheviki Propaganda. New York, May 1 magistrate turned authorities today A police court over to the federal for investigation, a 19, than Abramowitz, ar- st night on a charge of dis- tributing Bolshevik literature on the and in aurants in Harlem. Pamphlets seized by the police quoted Bolshevik propaganda circu- {lated among American and Allied {roops at Archangel and also urged “a general amnesty general strike” vouth rested 1 of res i | Ism et | or in the Debs and connection with conviction of Haywood i WEATHER. May Bri ton tou Hartford. cast for New cinity: Rain day; warmer 1.—Fore- i and vi- ht and Fri- e could | For | ALLIES MEET WITH GERMANY’S DELEGATES Special Committees Appointed to Re- ccive Credentinls of Enemy Fn- voys This Afternoon. Versailles, Mz ed Press.)—The between Allied the German peace place at 3 o’clock A the Associat- ial meeting representatives and this afternoon. committee from the Allics the United States will receive German credentials at that time. Questions relative to the adequacy of the powers of the German dele- gates and their qualifications to speak for Bav which came to the front today, may furnish an occasion for deferring the handing over of the treaty. Should a further delay he | necessary, a plenary meeting with the German delegates will oceur probabl on Friday. At this meeting their cre- dentials will be submitted for examin- ation to a commission hcaded by Jules Cambon of France. All the German delegates including Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau, the foreign minister, were out for a brief stroll today despite the inclement weather. The afternoon was devoted to preparations for the congress. and the ALLIES PRESS ONWARD Bolshevik Troops Along Murmansk Railway 30 Miles From Petrzavosk. London, May 1.—Along the Mur- mansk railway the Bolshevik trooops under Allied pressurc have withdrawn to ncw positions 30 miles west of Potrzavosk, on the western bank of Lal Onega. A Russian wireless message report- ing the withdrawal says that the Bol- sheviki have icd out an advance on the front south of Archange! and that the eastern front the ans been driven back 20 in on east of Orenburg. TO SELL ALIEN car on have re miles hte COMPANY | First Reinsurance Co. of Hartford to Go Under Auctionec Hartford, May 1 Garvan, alien property custodian, is to sell next week at auction several thousand shares of the K Reinsur- ance Co. of Hartford. It was for- German owned corporation and Carl Schreiner of New York, a | German alien who figured prominent- | I frairs when the government put its alien permit rule into effect, was first president s 1 tood that disinctively ring the past Hartford men merly a its T | has | managed known under: been the compa American- year, many being on a | well | its directorate BURNED TO St. Petersburg, Ila., May L. F. Lankey, 22 years old, army avaiator from Carlstrom field, Ar- burned to death here machine burst into His home was in DEATH. L.—Lieut. AVIATOR a. was | cadia, F today when | flames { Bay City, his fell. Mich. the | to | 5 Commandments. delegates will take | Have Withdrawn to Point | Siberi- | MANY PROMINENT MEN *FOR DEATH BY VICTORY LOANIS ~ HALF SUBSCRIBED T Gity Maintains Present Rate, ]i Quota Will Be Reached INTEREST QUICKENS TODAY | Reports From Washington Say That | Subscriptions Throughout Country Are Gaining—New York Adds Sub- | | stantially to its Quota. | With one-half the alloticd Loan time for | the Victory dvive passed today, the drive in this city little more than has gone a half way in respect criptions rececived and the for the oversubscription of here is very bright, accordir heads of the various teams The loan started on April nine days have alrcady pa more than half the quota subscribed. In the the committees anticipate the ol much more which will bring the subscriptions over the top. The quota here is $2,385,000 and the | | total raised to date $1.302,750. If the committees do as well and volun- | tary subscriptions are as large during the next nine days as they have been in the past, the loan will be oversub- | scribed by about $100.000. The amount yet to raised $1,083,000 or $145,905 a day for the remaining | days of the drive | to ‘sub- the to loan the 21 ssed has remaining and while been iine days, raising as i | | | | | | Big Increase Tod: Today's figure shows an increase of | $119.650 over yestcrd: total and | while this amount is rather large it } | y's | | can be seen by the figures given above that it will be necessary to raise sev eral thousand more cach day for the remaining nine days of the drive if the quota is to be reached. Relic Train Here Sunday. arrangement committee of By Loan with the Victory i New England, the | relic train carrying relics of every hat- | tiefield of the war, will be in this city [all day Sunday and will be placed on the siding on Commercal street for in- spection. Admission to the train is free and guides will explain all the souvenirs carried in the cars which | make up the train. Speakers will talk | from the platforms of the cars and | urge the support of the loan and sev- | | eral meetings will be held through the | | day. | The car is in charge of Dr. M. M. Graham, himself a prominent spealker. and besides the guides the cars carry | a number of well-known speakers. | | While the exhibit is somewhat similar | | to the one which was in this city for | | the Third Liberty Loan it is more | | complete and it is reported that the | | array of batlefield souvenirs which it carries is unsurpassed. More Interest Reported. ‘Washington, May 1.—The treasury | today reported a somewhat quickened | interest in tl:e Victory loan campaign, | based on vrports from federal re- | serve districts. The total subscrip- | | tions tabulated still stood at $1,103,- 697,000. The treasury's review of the pro- gress of the campalgn said: “The percentage of quotas sub- seribed still is below the percentage of the Fourth Liberty loan subscribed | at the same period. There is a con- siderable falling off in the average percentage nf quotas subscribed and workers are at a loss to explain it. Every district seems to be hopeful that it will obtain its quota but none of them is over-optimistic.” In New England 111 communities have oversubscribed. They are divid- | ed Massachusetts 14, Maine 42, New Hampshire 27, Vermont 17, Con- necticut 14. | | Reports From New Yor New York, May 1. loan subseriptions in eral reserve district totalled $2 143,350 at 10 a. m. today. This rep- resented an overnight gain of $30 364,500, 5 Jjt was announced American citi- | zens of Swiss origin had pledged $1,- 500,000, erty b fed- ~Victory L the sccond New England Still Gains. Boston, May 1.—Necw another big forward Victory loan England took jump in the| today. = Yesterda subscriptions tabulated by the | federal reserve bank today were $22,252.000 bringing the district tofal | | to $145,191.000, approximately 38 per | | of the quota i Subscriptions by states were sachusetts $10,392,060; onnec | 87.943,000; Rhode Island, $2.4 | 000; Maine $749.000; Vermont $ 000; New Hampshire $343,000 as cent Ma ut, ‘ STRIKE IS AVERTED. 1 Springfield, Mass, May 1 | threatened strike of molders in iron and brass foundries In this part of the Connecticut today was averted by a compromise agreement and the several hundred employes in this city and elsewhere did not go out this morning. The the valley | outlook | | [ the p | officials decided | tribute was | plot LISTED } LOTTERS BOMB P Government Sleuths and Postal Officials 1 | Trying to Solve Na | tion-wide Conspiracy | of Anarchy. | I |SENATOR OVERMAN | IS ANOTHER MARKED | Hereafter Authorities Will Show no To. wards Anarciiists or Others of That Type. ‘ Leniency | Washington, 1 | er at Salisbury postofiice dep | package cont | those found | received Overm ay 1.—The postmast: N. C., telegraphed thy rtment today that ! gl ining a bomb similar te in New York, had beel there addressed to Senatol The master holdiny ckage. As acting judiciary pos is chairman committee, of the scnate Senator Over- man had charge of the espionage acti and many other measures dealing with law cnforcement during the wan, He also is chairman .of the senate committee investigating pro-Germa and other racial propaganda Hold Up >ackages. In holding up the package address: ed to Senator Overman the postmast. er at Salisbury acted with gencral orders issued last nighf] to all employes of the postal service to make every effort to prevent deliv ery of suspicious mail matter. It wad said here that the Salisbury packag: b the Gimbel B mailing label and in cvery way resembled those mailed in New York Reports from every | country indicated early today that thorough search still was being madg of the mails for other bombs In Washington a close watch kept on all official mail Strange in accordan os section of the wa No More Leniency. Persons in touch with and municipal autho! today that the haunts here would be invaded radicals deported This cxpressed after a conference. whic enled after midnight attended b Police Commissioner Enright te whom one of the bombs was ad dressed, and County District Attorne: Swann, Uni‘ed States Marshal Thomas McCarty aana department of justies investigators. It is understood thes to put an end ta lenieney toward anarchists and oth ers of their type in New York. Afte the confere.ce Mr. Enright said he had police reserves held ready in an district where it was thought thafy May Day demonstrations might tak: place. It was announced this morninj that the only package opened hers was the on. addressed to Postmaster: General Burleson. Inspector Egan off the bureau of combustibles, said thi other 15 would be unwrapped during the day. If any b)>mbs other than the 1 here they have passed the federalf s predicted of the Redi and many opinion wa were mailed out of the jurisdiction of the metreo: positan distri post offices. Post: master Patten said this morning thaf incuiry at «1! the post offices in the city had failed to disclose any othes packages. Waiting to Open Bomb, Chicago, May 1.—Bombh the government were today awaiting word from Washington before open ing the package believed to contain aj infernal machine, throug! the mails to Judge Kenesaw M. Landis. The package _appea identical with those containing the bombs sent to Senator Hardwick off Georgia, and John L. Burnett, mem: ber of cong: from Alat Federal officials were inclined to at the suspected attempt on th life of Judge as the work of] anarchist than members of] radical societies or individuals ~who have recently been before the courts, Parade is Prohibited. Efforts of ts toward a Ma Day celebration were balked by Chief] of Police John J. Garrity, who re fused to a permit for a parad which had planned as a prote against the imprisonment of Eugen V. Debs, and against the conviction) of Victor Berger, of Milwaukee, whol clected to congress. experts of consigned Federal ima Landis rather socialis; been Trying to Solve Mystery, York. May {.—With the “dige and frustration 2 nation) bomb co yesterday] the li prominent] every of the' fed= pal government was af| only in an attempt} 10rs of the terrorist to zuard against the “Reds’® countr surprise om New oy of spiracy her. of many genc, Ans and munic today. nc work to trace but of a Day mbers the aut boast -wide May M of New York's famous (Continued on Page Ten)