New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 23, 1919, Page 1

News of ~the World. By Asscciated Press. JUNE = = = THREE CENTS.- NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT. MONDAY, PRICE ’ ENEMY REFUSES 0 FORMAL ACCEPFANCE TAKEBLAMEOFWARL UNCERTAIN, BUT MAY BE THIS WEDNESDA) Enemy Note of Agreement Maintains Gel man Positon that Peace Conditions af “A Peace of Vielence”; Huns’ Final Ple for More Time is Quickly Refused. Note fo Allies Also Objects to) Trial of Individuals 'PROTESTS LOSS OF COLONIES Ray Connecticut River Colleges, at { More Men Return to Work Than | Sees Only of Hope in Provision Commencement Exercises, Award Those Who Join Ranks of Strikers, | That Within Two Years Allies Will Honorary Degrees to Numerous But Most of 6,000 Are Still Re- Submit Present Treaty For League | Prominent Men—dJudge Case Is maining Away From Factories. of Nations For Adjustments. Paris, June 23.—The full text of : - o o1 A e S Paris, June 23.—The German government at Weima prociamation to all workers of Water- | but two reservations were made, the| has formally communicated its willingness to sign thd pEnyienpealivs SoRtisr RN Iolniihofl {BShmanRest sliro e Insertion f B neacellternispunconditionally Ritawastannolincediby A ranks of the strikers were scattered | the treaty of a clause providing that 4 5 P J through the main streets of Torring- | within two vears that document | French foreign office this aftternoon. | The day and hour for the formal signing of the treat Torrington, June 23 —Hundreds of hand bills on which printed a the Doctor of Laws. Hartford, held the honorary June 23.—Trinity college its commencement today when degree of doctor of conferred in absentia by | Flaval S. Luther president of the The cablegram thanking the college for \ laws was New Regulations For All Labor— | President upon Dr, > Masaryk. Telegraphers Want Burleson to In- S sent l Slovak republic. recipient clude Them. a En- the honor done him and thanking the | American faith in tele- | him and his was Federa- | @mbassador to ceived the Other tion also degree for Wt degrees conferred were as Goddard, Cal- nan, even |, . ; = fulfill These Ships, Anchored at Kiel nnd‘ Wilhelmshaven, Were Not Surren- | dered to the Allies Under Terms Only —— 5 of the Armistice. ik Wesleyan Commencement. Middletown, June ment at Wesleyan had a varied program with an excep- tionally large and guests, BRITISH NAVY IS SINKING RED FLEET the As- German Weimar, June 22 (By sociated Press.)—The warships not surrendered to the Allies and which have been anchored off Kiel, Wilhelms- haven and other points have been sunk by German sailors manning them, according to a report re- ceived here from a reliable au- thority. university today | the " : . i . . . - i Thanking College Tor H Scattered in Torring B Nany Killed and! Injured at A. l.‘. []l: L B A[;KS hanking College for Honor | (Quit, Scattered in Torrington & | e o b e FESTIVITIES AT WESLEYAN ALL QUIET IN WATERBURY Fergus Falls, Minn., June 23.—Be- 9 o tween 60 and 70 persons were Killed mg[on [0 (et GO[]GeSS]OI]S large section of the city, including the business section to pieces. In the hyansville, Minn., June 23.—Forty- sevey persons are known to be dead, have not learned. which, as the ' Germans phrased it, — “impair the rights to self-determina- nado whaich swept through Fergus Al SRR IS o i i Chi Falls late yesterday. Relief work i Attt (i A, dy, TS 2 thorized to sign the treaty on behalf of Italy. This an rikers who went back to i ic S B work. Charles Pergler, | \ong thix |'ment of Germany on a footins o¢| Nouncement removed a question which it was fearedy hatel have been thoroughly, searched, ; - as it is known that many bodies are O R on N e cerention mills are still out. There The concluding on record in favor of a 44 hour as follows:. (The follows Doctors of Law—William S. Case, | wno recently organized a local branch | Was made that the peace Londllolls are "a peace of violenceg Tergus Falls, Minn., early todav ¢SU- | jat end. mated the number of pep-vis killed A resolution adopted on the | late of the 26th division; Elbert H. | jos Six representatives of the | tions of peace imposed upon Germany. i R E O Ak ington to confer with Postmaster Gen. o : xpress itself with unre- Sanonal RS oua gy i Doctor of Science—Major Mowie, | ; e : I e : . : 3 J ! immigrants and appointed a served sclearness in order to meet in make known its decision relative td LI ! giztal from | advance any accusation of untruth- ( the signing of the peace treaty withd Which was struck by the tornado, said | Fec A ierhon T R s R s el frical ‘workers Be extended th melude | of yhe interior; Frodertals B Fios “The conditions imposed exceed the refused the request. The request fol 1hrough which the train €nd passing saved the coaches fram toppling over | in the ending of the strike. Connecticut state librarian; Col. Iesoluilons Gdonted protested win Cowles, late 7, 5.4, given. If a permit for a mass meet- | bound to announce that it makes all Stmyers SGm[md by Gre’ws complete the arrangements, i ing is given (he workmen's union will | reservations and declines all respon- Request is Denied. the train. ' The baggage car probably | O, strike; advocated payment by saved the others from going into Pe! oad companies for all improve- | Boston, composer. . ; of 27, representing the various na-| many when, which as is bound to hap- Doctor of Divinity—Charles 0. | tjonalities involved to have charge of | pen, the impossibility dE ter Gl £ with son an >remier Clemenceau met with A e Premier Lloyd George at the latter's Mgk cur halted the rear coacheS | employes from engaging in politics on e SSn SEoDnied i oVen 8RR EURASH fhel eround that! Director iGent titnavikeditiionallye8l of master lof larta lana the police and city: guards raided a Not to Blame for War. street meeting in the North End ar “Germany further lays the greatest : in the morning, when announcement today of the damage caused by was made ‘hat the German -request the tornado. Telephone and tele- ; i 28.—Commence- | and they are charged with breach of | admit herself ta be the sole and only e author of the war and she does not Text of German Note. rman note read IN WAKE OF TORNADO IN i g perty Damage Mounts into | GLA]M []F KEYMEN N Both and more than 100 were badly in ity eight bodies have heen recovered. ton, thrown into hallways and tacked | should be submitted to the Counil, of | 2 is uncertain. The signing possibly may take place Tucs 160 &e injured and in emergency hps- Gonditionl Wa o tion of the German peopie.” Similar under way with plenty of doctors and | dorsement of the commercial forenoon exceeded the | ) . s S0 it Mo on S eaual rights is deénied” was also pro-| might delay the signing. still beneath tae pile. i and directly | | Judge of Connecticut superior court: { or the machinists’ union, are known Will Try to Fulfill, = 1 . by the tornado wiich swept over that | ;,0¢ or the wire strike workers led to "{he rear coaches of the train, which 5 4 K How aot b¥ | employcs®of ‘the ‘telégraph companies | roimen president Amorican Bell Tel. | aior Which & How sct of deman measure of that which Germany can additional time pleaded that the when the rear coaches slid into a hole | Other of ex-soldiers in | Doctor of Letters—Bliss Car be organized, it was stated by the | sibility as regards the cons ! e Sonscduotice The communication from the Ger- can river, which was omly 200 fect|ments put on their lines during gov- Scoville, rector Trihity church, New |the work of organizing. Bxcept for | the conditions comes house for consideration of the note. banlk, remaining almost upright. order on the subject deprived Ameri.| one master of science in course. resting a soap-box orator and six | emphasis on the declaration that she had been rejected. The decisign tv Fé- graph wires are Gown for miles on all | Saloons Still Closed. cover this article by her signature. Tt the president.of It CITIES OF MIDDLE WEST! | L) 1 b i " | the Millions jured by the tornado which ST ccutive Council Urged to Work For to posts during the night by a person | the League of Nations for I’O(‘()nsldex‘u-“ Pitals\and property valued ai $6,000,- day, but more likely Wednesday. Waterbury, June 23.—Although the | [econsideration of that portion nurses on aand. The death list may graphe strike unanimously of strikers today, the big ma- | i Masaryk Jority of the et The German note of acceptance, it is said, is LOULhe is talk on the streets of a machinists’ | German note are = week for labor generdlly portion of German note work for sup- | Dereival W. Clement, *68, governor of | ou1v o themselves, as they have not| “The gpvernment of the German fiERMANS SINK M[]RE Ask Additional Time. (i Aoy T Paris, June 23, (By the Associated o 3 ay 2d 15 b Tavn st L et Tho. O 2l the appointment by President Gom- | } ; 3 Ga president of the U. Steell N are et i aday B intt the Womce ok | It idesixes B Fiorey in this solemn Information obtained from the pa ; : Burleson and ask that concessions | .q % Sy G 93 of the geodetic survey; Franklin | too of three to seek fulness that may now or later may be out the reservations refused by {the numbéred 11 cars, were lifted in the : N e o under government control. Such eX- | ophone Co MELbesaramn up. (Thenew demands that the workers’ union be recognized | in fact perform. The gavernment of change in the government and the dis4 #ouged in the road bed by the blast ) against employment T poet, New Canaan, Conn. mans was received at 3 o'clock this ahead of the train when the storm | ernment control and asked removal Haven minor cases of disorder the week-end | though Germany’s- capacity to The character of this communication Storm Razes Buildings. cans of privileges guaranteed by laws members of the crowd of workers | cannot accept the article of the treaty fuse the request was reached after a sides of Fergus Falls, and those who closed, al- | consequently follows without further Clemen- The G “To His Excellency, the peace conference, Mr. ceau: “Mr. President, the minister Hfory foreign affairs instructs me to heg the™ Allied and assoclated governmen prolong 48 hours the time limit answering Your Excellency’s note communicated yesterday evening amd lkewise the time limit for answering the note of June 16, 1919. 5. Beg For Extension. disaster in automobiles report that the The saloons are still roads are impassable The storm swept through the busi ness section of the town, demolisfiing “everything in its path. At least 50 bodies are said' to be in the wrecks of the Grand hotel as was virtually every for two blocks on either hotel. alumni 0 2y g i) Dr. Masaryk Sends Cablegram Handbills Urging Workers to‘ —— { President Gompers Sent to Wash- Fergus Falls late yesterday, tearing a Six Million Dollar Loss. Czecho- | or persons whose identity the police | tion of that portion of the treaty 000 is testroyed, as a vesult of the tor- The Italian delegates at present here have been au people for their ST Gh }“‘whereby the free economic develop- reach 60 when (he ruins of the Grand | _ ORI Ly voted t0day by the American 6,000 striking employes | vided for in il paragraphs of the in such language that it maintains the German strike but the plans of the machinists, | text of first St. Paul. Jure 23.—Reports: from {the executive council to public Sunday night.) | Vermont; Madjor-Gen. C. R. Bdwards, | prosented any demands to the facto- | republic engages to fulfill the condi. | to 40eand ibe injured at 700 vers of a committee to go to Wash- | Go | ; (o oy today el At oup: the North American Civic league for | moment to expre Wwthin which 5tg rengers on the Oriextal Limited, | ¥ ot ; pern on | recently granted telephone gnd elec-{ g [ane; secretary of the department | nroyvor made against Germany. Entente. The Council of Three flatly air. Only the high banks of the.owb | fise p i 12 B B d S l De' o tension it was declared would result Moster of Arts—George S prllgcompiisofonlvift wogmaln gpoints ] Ofl[S an evera and that an increase in wages be| the German republic therefore feels turbed conditions made it difficult to| as it swept the baggage car out from | yniform as policemen in the T bledo, Doctor of Music—Arthur Foote, of | jelegates this forenoon, a committee | which may be threatened against (,ex’WERE IN GERMAN WATERS morning. At 9 o’cleck President Wil came. Twisted across the rails, the regulations prohibiting railroad ; The degrees in course were 33 With | [ 2cceq uneventfully. turday night | them is stretched to the utmost. was not disclosed however, until later meager reports were available | $47% 6% Privile listening to him All are Russians, | of peace which requires Germany to discussion of less than an hour, have tried to reach the scene of the attendance by though a committee of saloon-keep-| 8rument that Germany must also de- The morning exercises | o;5 called on the mayor and asked toy cline to Tecognize that the burden have the ban on their places of bus. | Should be placed upon her on the iness lifted. The suburban trolley | Score of responsibility aof the war lines to adjoining ‘‘wet towns” are | Which has unjustly been laid at her crowded on almost every trip with | door. Arts—Warren French | those who seek liquid refreshment chaplain Con- | Naugatuck saloon-keepers are profit- representatives, | ing by the strike in Waterbury. The Waterbury saloon-keepers feel —that fate is treating them cruelly in view were in chapel following the academic The follows: Activitics of English Seaman An- procession honorary degrees nounced which was razed, | 4 other building side of the Dispatches From Hel- | piven were as Objects to Trial. “Likewise it is equally impossible for a German to reconcile it with his . | dignity and h()hn!’ to accept and exe- .\('(’UI'(IHLQ‘ to the reports II]CTC cute article 7 to 230 by which Ger- | were 12 German war vessels, i i.’lrr‘rlmxml to give up o the al- | hesides destroyers which were in ied and associated powers for trial | ~ , o i | inaividuals among the German peopls | GETMAan waters, not having been| . . 7on1y on Saturday, ‘atuEl who are accused by the allied and s turned over to the Entente under | great difficulties that a new cabinet sociated powers for the breach of in- | the armistice provisions. was formed which unlike its predeces- out | ternational law and of committing S sor, could corhe to an agreement & declare its willingness to gign the treaty as regards nearly all its pros { acts contrary ta the customs of war. OLD WOMAN MURDERED e e e Further, the government of the expressed its confidence in this cabinet Mrs, Master of Sheldon, '99, former necticut house of financial secretary of Y. M. C. A. fo | New York city; Lewis Loomis Rich- ards, associated with Herbert Hoover | of the fact that July 1 is only a little in relief work in Belgium and north- | more than a week off The only Russian warship bearing | ern France; Raymond TLaylor For-| There has been no atiempt to place izabeth | the name of Slava to be found in avil- | man, 07, pastor St. Paul's church, ' pickets at the factory gates, although able lists was sunk by the German {New York city: Benjamin Murley {here have been several arrests on sjuadron on October .1919, in the johns, '06, pastor Methodist Episco- charges of intimidation growing Gulf of Riga. It seems probable how- | pal church, Oneonta, N. Y 2alph of attempts on the part. of strikers ever that some other craft was given | Wells Keeler, '04, publicity, director to influence workers to walk out (French Wire- [ name of the Slava which v entered ! centenary movement of the Metho- President Wil- | in the Russian admiralty reports as a jdist church; Ralph Spalding Cush- announced | battleship. man, '02, with centenary commit- Eliza- § 1A report.on Friday stated that the|tee in New York; William Palmer AS beth accepted his invitation to visit | Russian cruiser Oleg had been sunk on | Ladd. dean Berkeley Divinity school. | » the United States. The Belgian rulers | Wednesday by a British submarine. Doctor of Sc Bdward Lee probably will go to the United States —_ Thorndike, '96, professor of psycho- | In September. Tondon, June 23—The Bolshevik |logy, Teacher college, Columbia battleship Andrei Pervosvanni be- | universi Frank Bowers Little, '91, lieved to save been sunk by a British | astronomer, naval observatory, Wash- torpedo near Kronstadt on Thursday, |ington, D. C; Arthur Burrell, | according to a Finnish navel dispatcel |recently in command chenmiical ser- auoted in a Helsingfors cablegram to | Vice. U, S. A. the Daily Mail. The telegram adds| Doctor of that the Bolshevik battleship Pehy- | Falmer, rea ngfors—Ship Hoists White Flag. Helsi British ships on Wednesday evening torpedoed » BELGIAN RULERS COMING | which sank immediately. nfors, June 23.— war- Bolshevik armored King Albert and Will Queen Visit United States, Probably Some Time in September. Brussels, June 23/ Jess Service).—Before gon left Belgium it was today, King Albert and Queen German republic makes distinct protest against the taking away of all votes. The an- just before NITTI[ QFLE(‘TF]’) the colonial possessions of Germany and the reasons given therefor which ITALY’S PREMIER as the direct wire from Vers sailles to Weimar was out of . order, | permanently deny Germany fitness for | colonial activity, although the con- — | trary is clearly established and irre- The goverrment must come inta con~ ! futable evidence to this effect is con- tact anew with the national assembly tained in the observations of the Ger In ordsritoitake. the srlavoun WNLEN which is still required of it in such a manner as it can only be taken in ae- man peace delegation on the condi- cordance with democratic principles tions of peace. Sees One Ray of Hope. and with the situation in Gepmany The German republic government assumed that it is in accordance with “Accept, Mr ance of my distinguished 61,1 rge swer only midnight majority of Esther arrived here Body of Hopcraft, Found in New Haven Barn—Au- thorities Are Reticent. , New Haven, June 23.—Aside from the mere statement from (he coroner's office that Mrs. Esther Hoperaft, 61, whose pody was found in a barn in Dickerman street Saturday, had been murdered, no informalion in this case is given either by the police or other officers. The woman had been de- | seribed as eccentric by fr w Cabinct Organized, With Tomaso KNOX WILL INSIST Titoni in the Important Office ieorge 1 6 of Forcign Minister. internal Associated cabinet chosen to headed by Vittorio S itome, June 23, (By the “aTiy'e | Press.)—The Leor : succoed the one Laws—Leigh admiral U. S. N the desire of the Allied and ociated governments that it has spoken President, the assur- considera- Soon as Appropriation Bills Are new onds. She Passed He \’ill Try to Have Cov- cnant Killed. June Penna appropriation Washington, Knox, republican {oday that after paa been passed Senator announced he would attempt to pavlovsk has hoisted the white flag. JEWEL ROBBERS HELD ‘When Arrested They Threw Pepper in Connecticut; ter, 50 years a graduate of Wesleyan. major general U. S. A.; Holcomb, war governor of Caleb Thomas Winches- ard Wood, Marcus H. meeting of the Phi Beta were awarded to the Burrows, Avyer, Elizabeth, N. J.; At the Kappa honors following: 8. H John Burisch, Orlando which resigned last week, fol- lows: Premier ancesco Nitti Titoni; and worship, licutenant, Gener and minister of ' interior, foregn office, Tomaso Luigi Rossi: justice ignor Mortara; war 1 Alberioci; finance, colonies, both as regards what concerns its gopd will and also as regards its reservva- tions. Therefore, in view of the con- ditions of constrint into which German people are forced by the requirements of the Allies—a condition of constraint such as has never been inflicted on any | lived in a barn by choice, although by working at various tasks she carned cnough to support herself in circumstances. Mrs. Hoperaft last seen alive Thursday. Medical in- quiry indicates she was maltreated be- fore death came. better was tion. (Signed) Reply “VON HANIEL." is to the Point. he following reply was sent after its approval by the council of the Al lied and asso d powers “Mr. President: The Allied and as- government beg to acknowl= sociated Mass ; J. B. Chappel, Gable, Belvidere, Francesco Tedesco; treasurer, Signoe| people in a manner more crushing Schanzer; marine, ad interim, Rear [ nd most disastrous in consequences— T Admiral Sechi: instruction, Alfredo | and relying the express undertaking POL l NOMINA D Baccelli: public works, Signor Pan-| of the Allied and associated govern- K S TE | tano; transport, Signor De Vito; agri- | ments in their memorandum of June culture, Signor Visccchi; industry, | 16, 1919, the German government be- g commerce, labor and food, Carlo Fer- | 1jevas \titled to address | ACting Secretary of State Nominated | ymown raris; Signor Chizenti; military request to the signature of ssistance and pensions, Signor Daco- R l reservation mo; liberated provinces, Signor De = and as- | pbtain a vote on his resolution ex- ressing unwillingness to accept the eague of Nations covenant as an mseparable part of the peace treaty. Cavelte, Stafford, Conn.; H. W, Kensington, Md.; Cuthbert IL; W. D. Gould, Ardmore, Pa; R _J. Keeler, Min- neapolis; E. Lounsbury, Union- ville, Conn.; M. A. Potter, Long Branch, N, J.; L. D. Radcliffe, Brook- |iyn, N, Trustecs chosen by (he alumni were i struggle in which | vernon B, Swett,, '96, New(on, Mass., [ (he American military mission to | @ putrolnan was (emporarily blinded |gna Herbert B. Shonk, “03, New York uth Russia asking for immediate | by cayenne pepper. Cutting a hole in | city. = ments of flour to save the lives of | the plate glass window of Foster Bros, The degrees awarded were 65 in in the Donetz centers of the | store. the young men took threetrays of whom 41 were of the 19519 Rog. about 100 miles north- | of rings valued at several hundred dol. | class and 24 of 198 who had been in | son.These are centers of { lars. Patrolman F. D. Woodward ar- | service. | Hartiord, 23, from woal and iron industries and the | rested them. Morse threw jejjer in| At the afternoon gathering cast for New Britain and vi- the day when the treaty is signed, B there are threatened with |the officer’s eyes but the patrolman | plans were announced for = inity. Fair. warmer tonight || the Allied and associated government under the 1920 plfgnn hecause of the food shortage ! kept his grip on the two. They were | paign for an additional endowment || , | ] - o ']"""””'V"“""" appropriation SRl ipassmd o 1recry sl tound guilty and held for sentence, for the university. 7_)1 (Continued on IEleventh Page.) y the last cong eceipt of your communication of edge 1 consideration of June 23. After full vour request they regret that it is notl possible to extend the time already anted to Your Excellency to make vour decision relative to the the treaty without any Policeman’s Eyes, But He Suc- ceeded in Holding Couple. .. RUSSIANS NEED FOOD. 2 Sphero, Spatis, June 23 (By Associated Press) Herhert Hoover, chairman of the in- S-allieg food commissign has ¢ % 8 fved an appeal from Cabtain Berry Greenfield, Mass., June 23.—John 18 of New Morse, 23, aged York and ar- of Boston, itself to be e the following modest Allied and associated the expectation that the Allied sociated pectation thur vere ar- posts o 5 - . I were ar 3v Wilson For New Post as Undel rested here today for Jewelry store after robbery of a i e, Secretary of Stat (Signed) CLEMENCEAU. INJURE governments in the (he ex- that the Allied and ated governments will consider the fol- {lowing reservations being an integral | portion of the treaty. | June ‘Within two years, counting Washington, June g counseller of the | Polk, of New York state department secretary of state. day by President secretary of state associ CROPS. Farmers at PROST Winsted, June 2 Colebrook and in towns across the Massachusetts border today, reported that frost touched tender crops likes tomatoes and beans last night. On the night of June 20, 21, the f(rosty did considerable damage. WEAT Hl R, and now acting was nominated to- Wilson to be under a new office created legislative course, alumni cam- {| executive