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

News of the World. By Asscciated Press. f HERALD “ADS” M BETTER BUSINES PRICE THREE CENTS. NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1919. —TWELVE PAGES. ESTABLISHEL 1876. - GERMAN CABINET REFUSES TO SIGN TREATY; DECLARE IT SPELLS ECONOMIC DESTRUCTION AND MORAL DEGRADATION OF ENTIRE NATIO OTHER AVIATORS ARE UNDAUNTED BY HAWKER'S FATE AND CONTINUE THEIR PLANS FOR OCEAN FLIGHT vy 6a. 10 BE LAUNCHED SAT. Fly With Him—May Go Alone. | Mrs. ! Charles B. Parsons Will Act As Sponsor at Shipyard. TWO MORE MACHINES TO ATTEMPT FLIGHT | The U. S. S. New Britain, a new Handley-Page Super-Bomber and Seabxltain gefne Ly, in appreciation of the work done by this city in the Fourth Liberty Loan drive, will be launched at the Arling- ton ship vards Saturday of this week, and a large delegation of local people | will attend the launching. Mrs. Chas. { B. Parsons has been honored by the local loan committee, having been chosen as sponsor of New Britain's ship. The New Britain is a 7,500 ton ship built by the Downy Shipbuilding cor- ation at the Arlington shipyard, aten Island and is 400 feet long with a 52 foot beam having a draught of 26 feet. As soon as repairs are made on it after the launching, it will be placed in active service in the Mer- chant Marine service. The ceremony will be held at 5 o'clock and will be attended by the following local peo- ple, all of whom will leave the city on the 9:49 train Saturday morning: Mayor George A. Quigley, Mr. and | Mrs. A. J. Sloper, Mr. and Mrs. R. N. | Peck. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Hatch, Mr. | and Mrs. C. B. Parsons, Mr. and Mrs. | L. H. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Leon A. | Sprague, H. C. Noble, J. B. Minor, | A. F. Corbin, B. B. Bassette, E. S. Starr, J. E. O'Neil and A. G. Kimball. | Vimy Bomber Being Fitted Up For | | Attempt—Airmen Who Are Prepar- ing to Brave Elements Are Now Anxious to Sccure More Satisfactory Weather Reports. St. John's, N. F 21.—The | skeleton of Frederick Raynham’s Mar- tinside plane, stripped of its covering of linen and veneer was set up in o repair shop today to be reassembled. | It seemed a slight structure burden to it and, forward parts wrenched for the | the | torn, a vehicle of doubtful strength to brave a passage of the upper re Atlantic. assigned with and ons of the Morgan Loses Faith. This view is held by Captain C. F. Morgan who declared today that he could not put his former faith machine damaged in a Martin- 1sh of Sunday. His ited that he would not | am in this second at- | tempt fo win fame, for which the ma.- | OFFICERS’ TRAINING chine being rebuilt. However, | COURSE FOR YALE i so as the side was in the ¢ statement indi fly with Rayn is otain Morgan said he did not con- cur in the opinion of physicians who told him that the injuries he rec ved Sunday ended his flying days. C ap- tain Morgan id when he recovered from his injury he would make an | effort to obtain a new plane and start n independent flight for the British Isles. Yale Corporation Votes to Have Spe- cial Courses At Sheffield Next Year., Raynham is Optimistic. New Haven, May 21—By vote of the corporation announced toda cientific school will arrange reserve officer training corps rse in ordnance, engineering and itary aeronautics, next ve: The university, to aid the develop- ment of New Haven hospital in the way of new buildings has subscribed to half the one million dollar bond issue of the institution and will in- crease the budget of the medical school up to $75,000 for the next year in order to enable the school to sup- ply an adequate full-time service to the hospital. .| The corporation passed a special vote of appreciation to universities in transmission de- |\« ; e : lays and a request will be made of | - 2nce and England for the generous have taken towards the British air ministry for more vol- | Aititude they ; AT SRl N Ceen o 0| e GBS e e U o dangers of delayed information feventhousandion Whor aroiat Brench Ee! d i universities and three thousand at rasisiidpthat ithe Sruinonidepre: | British universities at the present reported near the Azores before Har- | o0 ry Hawker set out on Sanday had s grown to great storm proportions be- OFG';"Q‘L";md:fi‘;r"lfidsigf: 2 ssten fore the next report arrived on Sun- | O $ b HIdL s : day night. It was added that had an :":foi“‘:“:;‘: & nmle nne‘;ltll; Lol fmmediate report been made and for- e e ] warded promptly the missing airman | Pré¢édent established in the law, might have been warned in - time to | Wedical. art and music schools. avert disaster. This instance was cited n cxample of shortcomings of the -t system, regardless of whether it had any connection with the theory 11 Hawker's Sopwith plane was overcome by this storm ¥ ham is of the opinion that his machine could be made fit to fly, either with a new engine, or with the old one. Following an inspection of | the motor experts said it had suffered little in the accident and could be put In shape for the great test demanded ! of it. Want Better Weather Reports. | An attempt by the | several preparing } | | | | 1 is to be made expeditioners here for flights to obtain more satisfactor weather repor than obtained. Meteo peditions met last night ered defects due to any heretofor ologists of the e and cor 14 ARE ON TRIAL CHARGED WITH FRAUD New York, May 21.—Trial of 14 officers and emploves of the Coast- wise Lumber Co. on charges of con- spiracy to defraud the government by delfvering short measure of lumber at various army cantonments, was begun in Brooklyn today before Federal Judge Edwin S. Thomas of Connecti- cut. Pre Bombing Planes Preparing. Undaunted by the Sopwith's disap- pearance, which must be taken into consideration as part of the hazards of trans-Atlantic flight, members of the other cross-ocean expeditions to- day continued to mature their plans for flights with the next full moon, three weeks hence. From Harbor Grace came word that the Handley- Page super-bomber would be in the air within ten days instead of a fort- night as the operations of assembling this machine are being expedited. Captain Alcott of the Anglo-Ameri- can team which will attempt a flight In a Vimy bomber expects the latter 1achine to reach here tomorrow or | rida While here he will use as | his base the Mount Pearl plateau air- | drome vacated by Hawker. light to Harbor Grace he will there | take on a full load of 865 gallons of gasoline before “hopping off.” His plane will have a range of 2,440 miles. Captain Alcott said today he would carry as life saving equipment only an inflatable vest as he considered other contrivances of such doubtful | value that he would not burden his' machine with them. WEST HAVEN MINISTER DIES AT AGE OF 78 YEARS New Haven, May 21.—Rev. Norman J. Squiers, pastor emeritus of the ‘West Haven Congregational church, died today in his 78th year. He was born at Good Ground, L. went to sea, was graduated from Wesleyan university, after deciding to enter the ministry, and for eight years prior to 1881 was a pastor at Manchester, D H FOR THEFT OF AUTO May 21.—Falco Roce, arraigned in the city court today charged with stealing an automobile from a Philadelphia physician, was held in $1,000 for trial on Saturda He was arrested while trying to sel the machine. BRIDGEPOC Bridgeport, § | built merchant marine ship so named | GERMANS DISCLAIM ALL BLAME FOR WAR | Refuse to Admit Allies Have Right to Claim Indemnity \PEOPLE NOT EESPON SIBLE ! [ Von Brockdorfi-Rantzan Quotes Allies | As Saying People of Germany Are Not Responsible for Faults of Gov- ernment. Paris, May 21.—The peace confer- ence last night made public the text | of the German note regarding repa- rations and the reply made by Pre- mier Clemenceau as president of the conference. The German note reads: “At Versailles, May 13, 1919, “To His Excellency. M. Clemenceau, President of the Peace Confernce: “Sir: In the draft of the peace treaty submitted to the German dele- gates, Part VIIT, concerning repara- tions, begins with Article 231, which reads as follows: | ““The Allied and associated gov- ernments affirm and @ermany accepts the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and’ a sociated governments and their na- tionals have been subjected as con- sequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies.” Responsibility Ts Denied. Now the obligation to make repa- ration has been accepted by Germany by virtue of the note from Secretary of State Lansing of November 5, 1918, independently of the question of responsibility for the war. The German delegation cannot admit that there could arise out of a responsi- | ¢ bility incurred by the former German | | government in regard to the origin of the world war any right for the Allied and associated powers to be indemnified by Germany for losses suffered during the war. People Not to Blame. “The representatives of the Allied and associated states, have moreover declared several times that the Ger- man people should not be held re- sponsible for the faults committed by their governmen The German people did not will the war and would not have undertaken a war of aggres- sion. They hav ys remained 1 convinced that this war was for them a defensive war. ‘War. “The German delegates also do not share the view of the Allied and as- sociated governments in regard to the origin of the war. They cannot con- | sider the former German govern- ment as the party which was olely or chiefly to blame for the war. The draft of the treaty of peace trans- mitted by you contains no facts in { support of this view, no proof on the subject is furnished therein. The Ger- man delegates therefore, beg you to be so good as to communicate to them the report of the commission set up by the Allied and associated government for the purpose of es- | tablishing the responsibilities of the authors of the war. “Accept Mr. President, ance of my high concern. “(Signed), “COUNT VON BROCKDORFF- RANTZAU.” Disclaim Causing the assur- Olemenceau Hits Back. The text of the reply of Premier Clemenceau is dated May 20, 1919 and is as follows: “Mr. Chairman: In your note of | May 13 you state that Germany while | accepting in November, 1918 the obligation to make reparations did not understand such an acceptance {o mean that her responsibility is in- volved either for the war or for the acts of the former German govern- ment and that it is only possible to concelve of such an obligation if origin and cause is the responsibility of the author of the damage. You add that the German people would | never have undertaken a war of ag- BT jfon. Yet, in the note from Secretary Lansing of November 5, 1918 which | vou approve of and advise in favor of vour contention, it is stated the obli- gation to make reparation arises out | of ‘Germany’s aggression by land, sea | and air.’ i “As the German government did 10t | at the time make any protest against | this allegation, it thereby recognized | as well founded. Therefore, (e many recognized in 1918, implicitly (Continued on Eleventh Page) | Friends Think Their Machi e | as I ONLY $2,850 IS REPORTED IN SALVATION ARMY DRIVE HAWKER AND GRIEVE | GIVEN UP AS LOST Kenilworth Club Team | Announces Largest Number of Subscrip- tions, Totailing $487. Collapsed Shortly After : g Leaving St. John’s. John’s, N. F. May 21.—Hope for the safety of Har p 55 C (08 E IIrl .l'on\m:lnd:\r Mackenzie Grieve, missing since they set out eastw fii through the air on Sunday in their Sopwith biplane for Ireland, was vir. tually abandoned today by the B CONCERT AND PARADE | HERE THIS EVENING St Mayer Quigley, in Neonday Talk, Urges Workers to Put More “Pep” Into Cam- paign. At the noonday luncheon of tains and teams working on the fund Knights of Colum- reports made by a number of the te: nd while the total w expectations of the are not regarded as dishe )¢ Georze A. Quigles uncing the total to date as only impressed it upon the s that more “‘pep” is necessary if the drive is to go over. Army Home Service held rooms ve, in the bus this noon, were m lead- ar below they in Mayor Quigley Speaks. The quota to be raised here $13,000 and as the mayor in his talk today, this amount is more than four times the total reached thus far, while the drive has gone nearly half way in respect to time. ! “The drive will over, however,” the mayor said, “and there is great satisfaction in knowing that the e service men and their friends were responsible for its success.” Another meeting will be held day moon and lunch will be served. | Reports will be made at that time | and with the reports of a number of captains who were unavoidably absent tod » more favorable result is looked for. To Award Priz Fri- HARRY C. HAWKER. ring here to take wing in their wake, News of the safety of the NC-3 after being so long on the water had been a source of encour- agement but it is recognized that the Hawker-Grieve machine carried only a cockleshell emergency boat as compared with the stout hull of the American naval plane. Regarding the fate of Hawker and irieve some of the airmen here be- lieve the Sopwith collapsed within a short time after leaving St. John’s, and the wireless collapsed. The opin- ion is gaining ground that field ice- bergs extending for 100 miles off the | coast may have affected the work of | the engines through the intense cold, congealing the oil. The American airmen who flew to Trepassey from Rockaway, N. Y. found this condi- fliers prep To encourage competition among the teams, Mayor Quigley announced today that he would, personally, give several prizes at the close of the drive. A prize will be given by the mayor to the captain of the team se- curing the greatest amount of money, {a prize to the indjwidual securing the gredfest number” of pledge a | prize to the individual who secured the greatest amount of money. The awarding of these prizes will be made { on the evening upon which the drive s brought to a close. zes | Reports of Teams, H. A. Brann's largest amount subscribed to total of $487.50, and Gerald the a team reported PEACE BASED ON committee | announced | | FOUR CARS OVERTURN { London STATEMENT CHALLENGES U. TO STEP IN AND INSIST O 14 POINT Says if America Does Not Put Wilson’s Idea Through, it Must Admit its Inability or Ut willingness to do so. Berlin, May 20.—“Germany declines to sign the peace ter laid before it because it spells the economic destruction, politic dishonor and moral degradation of the entire German nation, ndg only for the present but also for still unborn generations,” wa a statement authorized by the cabinet this morning through thy Associated Press. Say Entente Is Unjustified. “That these consequences must logically follow acceptance d the peace conditions the American press itself has recognize without question” the statement continues. Towards them Gey many took the standpoint that acceptance of such conditions coul not be demanded and that the Entente was unjustified in imposin, such demands.” Demands Peace of Justice. “Germany has not only a moral right to compliance with th general promises made it, but a firmly grounded, definite, clearl defined claim, according to the basic rules of international law of all the Entente powers and especially on the United Stated specific recognition of the right of Germany and of the Germai peoples to a peace of right, justice and reconciliation, instead o the paragraphed song of hate which was written at Versailles, i contained in the note of the American Secretary of State Langsing of November 5, 1918. In it the secretary of state notified th Swiss minister in Washington unconditionally that the established basis of President Wilson's 14 points should be authoritative fol the peace conditions. Secretary Lansing announced further tha the Entente governments, after careful consideration, were alsg prepared to recognize the conditions set up by President Wilso as the basis for conclusion of peace. All Moral Rights Violated. “The declaration of rights emanating {rom declarations of all the Entente powers and the United State constitutes Germany's sole asset in the general moral breakdow: of all international politics which has found unsurpassed expres: sion in the Versailles terms.- these ‘speci G “Germ answer clearly juristic right law. Toward the | bankruptey of Versailles, nation stands a deniable righ d it is not in a pd sition to yield on this chief poini Germany concluded peace on thi basis of President Wilson’s 14 pointd which all America had made its ow: and all America, every individual, responsible for the fulfillment of § claims. Looks for American Support. many Claims Rights. them with 1§ in internationg political-morg the Germa) Boston-New York creditor with i Express Comes to a Grief Near Mystic—Nobody Is jured But Traffic Is Held Up. Mystic, May 21.—Four cars in ex- Number 5 from Boston to New running lo- T to) for stations pr 3 ew Westerly, York, R. and cally from ac- SO moda Cas CHEEES “It is not the German people's busi east of New London, over the Shore | i ocq to indicate how its rights shal Line division of the New Haven rail- | 1 "0 103" the 14 points, or espel road were derailed and toppled OVeTy .ionv by the note of Sec eiary Lan an embankment a mile west of West y oYy po 2 © 2SS o8 Mystic station this morning. No per- | oy o' oonatructed the 14 ooiti :n was derailed. Railroad men ex- | ONEIE FIE 1O acter! pressed their opinion that a raily o "6 ’{““ljd”‘ o lay down hesd broke under the engine, and after | Wcapons. We do not belieye thal the tender trucks jumped the iron the | President Wilson, Secretary Lansing four cars next following, two carr ind the American people can takd ing mail and the other two baggage, | OtNer than this German standpoint 4 followed and upon running to the | theY not wish to do that whic: { do | President in tion caused them serious inconven- ience, disturbing all their engines, some of which burned out from this cause, according to officers aboard the United States supply ship, Prairie. ASKS FOR MORE TIME Von Rantzau May Be Given Addition- team was a close second with reported. Captain Henry Ove reported $43.05 and a total of 7 sub- scriptions, Captain William Hopkins reported $61; Captain Clarence lahan, $48; Captain Raymond Trost, $232.78; Captain Clifford Hellberg, $227.12; Captain Joseph Carroll, §107 Captain Gooby, $167; Captain Silas Lynch $70; Captain Lloyd Linton, | $33; Captain Swenson (head of the local branch of the Salvation Army) $190.7 Captain Carlson, $92.25; Captain Lindgren, $60; Captain Her- bert Brann, $487.50; Captain A. Guidel, $231.50; Captain Fred FEns- | worth, $104; Captain Kokoski, $149; Captain Eric Olson, $165.25. al Period in Which to Prepare Re- ply to Allics’ Peace Demands. Paris, May 21.—Count von Brock- dorff-Rantzau, head of the German peace delegation has asked an ex- tension of time for Germany to pre- sent her reply regarding the peace terms. The count stated that further notes were being prepared and that it will be impossible to complete them by 1 p. m. Thursday, when the time limit is up. Tt believed, says the Agency, that the request for tension will be granted. The note says the Germans desire more time to tudy a number of questions in the treaty which they have not yet had an opportunity to cxamine. There is no garding the dec To Speak in Theaters. At the close of the reading of re- ports, a call for volunteers to speak in the local theaters Friday, Saturday | and Mond was announced and three ex-service men volunteered. Those who will explain the cause of the Salvation Army and its work in the theaters Harrison Conner, | | Clifford Hellberg and Captain Alfred { H. Griswold. Havas | the ex- Parade Here Tonight. To stimulate interest in the drive in the city, the Salv on Army 1 of South Manchester will be in this city tonight and a street parade will be followed by a concert in Central The ex-service men who ) part in the drive, and a others will march behind the (hrough the main streets and to the park, where the concert is to be held. The are asked to meet at City hall 4 and the parade will be started at 7:45. At 8 o'clock the | concert will be held. i official intin sion of the tion lied and ociated powers on the request. | re- | | [ | ! W | number ATHER. ‘ Hartford, M 1.—Fore- | cast for New Britain and vi- | mity: Unsettied, probably showers tonight and Thurs. day; slightly cooler tonight. — { their { Engine of Naval Seaplane Not Work- bank edge slipped over and fell on Wilson, his message off sides. The passenger coaches | December 4, 1917, condemned cate were not disturbed and passengers | Sorically he saic ‘We would received practically no shaking up shonor our own cause if we treated| Wrecking crews were called at 7:25 | Germany any other than justly and inf from Valley Falls, R. and Midway | @ non-partisan manner and did nof and they expected e toward all, no mat-| to quickly clear | insist upon justi track No. 1 which was blocked. | ter how war ended. We demand| are ready ours NG-4 FLIGHT RELD UP when o not selves to admit.’ Want Peace on 14 Points. “And the Gerr people demand, nothing more than t hich Presi~ dent Wilson announced in this declar ation. We demand nothing more than that Americ: place the 14 points | opposite the ter We do not { believe that anyone the United ! States will then have the courage to ! claim that there can found in the peace conditions one trace left of President Wilsor ram, Wants America to Step Th. “And here Ameri duty t Americe put 14 n ing Properly and Trip to Lisbon Is ns peace terms Not Attempted Today. in Washington, May 21.—Resumption of the transatlantic flight by the naval seaplane NC ain has been de- ved. A message to the navy de- partment early this morning from Admiral Jackson at Delgada one of the plane’s had developed trouble and for Lisbon could not he No ade be single 's pri Po be s definite nes. to step in must the points must so or mention was 1 50 led to 1t as condit be of t 4 will n not functic MOTORCYCLE FATALITY ACCIDEN we what an side SAYS PHELAN | Br! >hel tc de Co Wilson’ In P congress of December 4 be = Distorted. 1l mn 1y th m verdict of Dennis I fatally injt on with a te Fairfield 1 Thursday livan was riding in a sidecar motoreycle of which man was the driver. % m’s message to 1917, no pas- textual agree- quotation in the cab- The quotation ap- (Continued on Eleventh Page), was ed in | 10toreyle col pole egranh | sage sul- car found with statement in in st ment the of the inet Joseph M. Her- |