New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 27, 1919, Page 1

e, News of the World By Asseciated Press. %—_m‘:*:-— EW BRITAIN HERALD' Herald “Ads” Me Better Business — ESTABLISHED 1870. PRICE THREE CENTS. NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1919. —TEN PAGES. STRIKE INVESTIGATORS RECEIVE -SCORES OF MESSAGES; SOME SHOW | ANTAGONISM TO ORGANIZED GOVT. Oshers arelntended to| ITALY FACING CRISIS OF WHICH FIUME PROBLEM IS BY NO MEANS MOST GRAVE Refute Statements Made by Chairman Fitzpatrick of Steel Workers ONE CALLS WALKOUT CRIME AGAINST MEN . A.F. of L. Man Challenges; Senate Committee to Call: John Clinton Parker As| Witness. i Washington, telegrams and letters have been re- ceived by Chairman and the the steel communication statements made John Fi Kenyon other senate com- strike. are in- members of investigating Some of the tended to refute bgfore the committee by patrick, chairman of the strike ‘committee, while others, most of them anonymous, breathe defiance o brganized government Strike I8 Termed Crime, Among thé telegrams received Senator Kenyon was that frem K. Perkins, representing the employes of #ie Inland Steel company, Indiana Harbor, Indiana, which said 90 per cent. of the employes of the Inland company were opposed to the strike and that the walkout was “a crime against the men who toi A. F. of L. Man’s Challenge. i Anoth®r 'telegrani, signed John J. Friel. member 'of the American Federation of Labor, said 10,000 Morkmen, a meeting in Philade Dhia, had mdepted s unanimously resolution askinz the senate commit- tee to call, as a witness, John Clinton Parker, who would “give facts which make clear the kind of politics that is responsible for the United States del strike and the un profiteer- ing and favoritism that creates dis- faction among the r and file | of ‘working people and increases their| cost of livingz." mittee by by at GREAT BRITAIN IS LEFT OUT IN COLD Had Expected to Get Liner Imperator, But U. S. Will Keep Vessel Instead. Washington, Sept. former German liners alloc United States after the armis cluding the former Hambur; ¥an steamer Imperator, the second largest ship afloat, are fo be turned over to the shipping board hy the war department as soon as necessary a rangem can be made The British ministry of shipping here had expected that the Imperator would be turned over to its agents at 9 a. m. today at Hoboken and the ves- %sel already had been promised to the Cunard line for service between Yark and England. Decision that the ship should be delivered to the ship- ping board was reached late last night at a conference by board officials and the war department. After their allocation to the United the ships were used as trans- morts and Great Britain has contended that their allocation was only tempo- rary and that when the troop move- ment had been completed they were to revert to the Allies’ control for per- manent allocation Officials of the board, however, held that the original aliocation was per- manent WIRELESS BAN OFF -The eight ted to the tice, in- Ameri- | ” After Octéber 1 Amatcuvs Can Prac- tice to Their Heart's Content, Navy Dept. Says. Washington, Sept —War-time vestrictions governing operation of ra- iio equipment by amateurs will be removed October 1, it was announced today at the navy department. The removal applies to technical and ex- perimental stations at schools and colleges and to all other stations ex- cept those transmitting or recelving yemmercial trafilc. The restrictions on tommercial traffic stations will Te- main in effect until the president pro- claims beace BRITISH OUT OF ARCHANGEL, London, Sept. 27.—The British evacuation of Archangel has beon | completed with the exception of 200 Highlanders who will embark today, Becording to an announcement here. | PMired and mis | increased BETHLEHEM STEEL CO. MEN ORBERED TO QUIT General Walkout is Set For 6 o’Clock Monday Morning Few Changes Elsewhere. Pittsburgh, Sept. 27.—The national committee for organizing iron and steel workers at a meeting here today ordered a general strike in the plants of the Bethlehem Steel Co. to become | effective 6 o'clock. Secretary next Monday morning at William Z. Foster of the committee in announcing the strike said that between 40,000 and 50,000 men were expected to be affected. He asserted that these hands were among the best organized in the country. From virtually every Pittsburgh district came reports to- day of preparations by steel com- panies to resume operations on Mon- day on a larger scale than on any ay of the first week of the steel workers’ strike. Few changes in the situation were reported and from many towns came the word “wait till Monday.” The strike leaders have been mak- ing arrangements not only to check a possible movement into the mills but to cripple or entirely shut down plants still in ' operation. Having been given assurance by the sheriff of Allegheny to hold mass meetings, where they are permitted by local au- thorities and will have protection, or- ganizers planned to hold a Jurge number of these gatherings in differ- ent parts of the count The or: ganizers are being reinforced by a large number sent here from other unions and they will address striker: and non-strikers tonight and tomor- row! part of the TROLLEY JUMPS TRACK Car, Bound for Berlin, Comes’ to Grief on Park Street—All Traflic emporarily Held Up. The Berlin bound trolley, leaving the center at 1:53 p. m., jumped the track on Park street, near the C. ( L. factary, and before coming to stop at right angles to the road, had swayed and lurched to such an extent that several men and boys jumped and two or three women tainted. fic on this' line was temporarily tied up. No one was injured, although two cof those who jumped fell and rolled in the dust. BATTLE IN BROOKLYN Shots Arve ved and Three Hurt ‘When Strikers and Loyaal Workers Clash. York, Sept. 27.—A between strikers and of the de Haven Mfg. Co., in today in which shots were les hurled resulted in the iijury of three men and the ar- rest of three others after a riot call had been sent to the police. The trouble was the outcome of am at- tack by the strikers on 12 men who had refused to join them in quitting work to enforce their demands for wages and shorter hours. New battle worke. Brooklyn Man Arvested Here Once, Given Six Years in New Haven for Theft of Automobhile. In the New Haven superior court vesterday afternoon Edward Williams, a young man who was in the toils of the local police department for al- leged thefts from clothing stores hers, was sentenced to six years in the State Reformatory: for the theft of an automobile. The accused was ar- rested by the local detectives on April 5, 1818. Detective Sergeant A. J. Richardson and Clerk of Court Emi! Danberg have been in New Ha- ven for the past two days to testify | as to the character of the accused and his local escapade BANKING REPORT New York, Sept. 27.—The actual conditlon of clearing house banks and trust companies for the week shows they hold $18,422,880 reserve in ex- cess of legal requirements. This s an Iincrease of $71,609,020 from last week. b All traf- ! pitched | loyal ¢ Former Premier Urges Gen- eral Election to Country From Plunging Into Povert; Prevent | CIVIL WAR HINTED AT AS POSSIBILITY ! Rome, Sept. Gio- lotti, former premier is earnestly ad- | vocating the calling of a general election. Speaking today on the sub- | 27.—Giovannia ject, he said: Wants General Election. ‘A general election the the critical It would be diversion from | would be present | only remedy in situation. |the present unwholesome concentra- | {tion on F¥iume which makes the | country lose sight of all other events | | happening throughout the world, and, | in fact alters the proporton of every | other question. A general election | would bring before the entire nation | problems, some graver than that of | | Fiume, with which Ttaly must ear- | nestly cope if she does ot wish to be | plunged into poverty for an {limited number of years.” May Be Civil War Rome, Sept. 25.—Alarmist reports |are current in this city, one of them | | being that a civil war is imminent. {On one side would be ranged the na- | tionalist and milltarist factions which would be opposed by the socialists. | Several generals are credited with the intention of heading the militarist faction with a view to controlling the government, it being said that the believe the weakness of those in power since the armistice caused the Ipresent deadlock. Some of these generals have already been mentioned being in league with Captain Ga- briele d'Annunzio before the Fiume raid, with the object of overthrowing | by force the Nitti cabinet and re- | acing it with a military dictatorship. Navy Is Dissatisfied. | The navy represented as being more dissatisfied than the army, hav- | ing according to naval officers’ state- | ments, suffered more from “the lack consideration of their Anglo- | French colleagues, who have acted as | |if they were masters of the Adriatic and have favored Jugo-Slav claims.” | 1.000,000 Men on Strike ‘Workmen numbering approximate- 1y 1,000,000 are on strike, and dis- atstaction is growing everywhere at the constantly increased cost of liv- ling. It is impossible for the govern- | | ment to call any men to the color especially after having recently par- donead all desert under the pro- clamation of amnesty. Strenuou cfforts are being made by official socialists to reach an understanding | between the workmen and soldiers. | They are urging the latter to refuse | to obey their officers or the govern- ment and they thus hope to organize | in Italy workmen’s and soldiers’ com.- | mittees, which would lead to the for- mation of Soviets and an upheaval of the whole social order. D’Annunzio Makes Appeal. Paris, Sept. 27.—Captain Gabriele | d’Annunzio, whose sensational raid on | Fiume brought about serious compli- | cations in ‘the Adriatic, has written | an appeal to the French, the text of | which is printed today by Excelsior. | Tt begins i “Brothers of France, you know what we have done under the 1nspir-" ation and protection of our God. The most Italian of the towns of Istria— | today more Italian than Verona, Pisa | and Perugia—was lost to us under | the menace of profanations and| violations.” i | | i un- of is Captain d’Annunzio explains that, although ill in bed, he arose and, “under the influence of spirit,” with his comrades, took possession of the city and territory, some ships and a part of the line of the armistice in a | few hours, He declares soldiers sent | against him have come over to his | side with their arms. ‘Will Fight to Finish, The proposal to ocreate a buffer | state, with Fiume as its center, will be resisted forcibly by d'Annunzio and his men, he told the correspond- | | ent of the Excelsior in an interview. | “I will oppose by force of arms any | attempt to disturb the entity of Istria or Flume,” the correspondent | quotes d’Annunzio as saying., “Ital is not imperialistic and will decide her own destiny. The declsion of the peace conference to recognize Italian suzerainty over Fiume, but simply in | connection with the little buffer state of Istrla, ts impossible, The whols army s with me and if it is appealed to it will respond. I am accomplish- ing & national act.” | berg, { Otto Burkharadt, | voted CHARLES ROSSBERG | AZLIES THREATEN TO STOP FOOD SHIPMENTS INTO GERMANY IF HER TROOPS DO NOT LEAVE LITHUANIA 'BRITISH RAILWAY SYSTEM NOW COMPLETELY TIED UP; ‘COUNTRY-W.DE WALKOUT Lloyd George Terms Strike“SPm]KS’ EALLED IN FOUND DEAD IN BED Prominent Retired Merchant Passes Away Unexpectedly PICKED FRUIT LAST NIGHT Was Appavently jn Good Health— Deceased Had Been in Business With His Brother, " Wuliam, Charles Clinton Is‘)N\bn‘,l',’; retired merchant, and one &f the ci most prominent and highly*- respected ci zens of long standing, was found dead in bed this morning at his home at 62 Vine street. Mr. Rossberg up to the time of his death had been in ap- parently good health and his was most unexpected. He had, fact, been seen picking fruit in back yard of his residence last by several neighbors and chatted with them and his before re- tiring for the night. Was 60 Years of Age. deceased was 60 vears. months and 22 days old. He i vived by a brother, William B. chairman of the board of wa commissioners, a sister, Mrs Burkhardt, wife of Assessor his wife, Mrs. Alice nd two sons, Emer- Rossberg. both of For Over Thirty Yea in family three sur- Ross- The ter Louise Schrall Rossberg son T. and Harold this city. Retired Dry Goods Man. Mr. Rossberg w born in this city, the son of Mr. and Mrs. W Rossberg, and received his education in the scnools here. Over 40 years ago he entered the cmploy of H. W. Booth, who at that time conducted a dry goods store on Main street, in 1881 went into business with his brother, William B. Rossberg. Ior 35 vears the brothers conducted a profitable dry goods and store at 165 Main street in now occupied by Leonard & mann’s and in 1916 sold out firm. He was also treasurer Loan association. Fraternally he was the Odd Fellows and Veterans. the site Her to that of the member of Sons ’ a the Funeral Monda The- funeral will be held Monday afternoon from the home at 3 o’clock and the remains will be interred in the Faitview cemetery. Rev. Henry W. Maler, pastor of the Rirst Con- gregational church, of which church the deceased had been & member, will be in charge service. PLEASANT ST. FACTORY Mfg. of the George B. Prentice Co. Will Build New Structure to Manufactuve Buckles and Supplies. The George turing company will build a one story brick branch factary on a tract land just secured from George Andrew on Plea place of the one theéy have rented on that street nd which they will vacate as soon as th new one is bhuilt This information was given out this ing. The factory will be built within short time and will buckles and suspender hardware. The company have a main plant on Beach swamp road in Berlin a branch plant on North street. wW. WARNS OF LARYNGITIS Number of People in State Are Af- fected. Dr. Reecks Says—No Reason to Become Alarmed. 9 Hartford, Sept. —Dr. T. Eben Reeks. state deputy commissioner of public health, said today that the de- partment of health had received in- formation of the existence of a pe- culiar form of laryngitis in New land and that a number of persons in Connecticut were affected The trouble usually followed severe cold. There was the pos Dr. Reeks, that it was an form of influenza, but that nothing in the disease to alarm. He thought physicians should report cases to local health officers so that the latter could report them to the state department of health. The disease is communicable School Board Offers $12,000 For New Site The school accommodations com- mittee will meet the heirs of the Car- mody property Wednesday on grounds and offer them as a price for the prope $12,000, the by the school board. There was a meeting of the committee yes- terday afternoon. The committee con- sists of E. C. Goodwin, chairman; H. O. Kilbourne, Dr. J. E. Martin, George W. Traut, Frank G. Vibberts. attenuated there was WEATHYR. 27, —~Fore~ [| cast for New Britain and vi- | cinity: pair, with risiig | temperature tonght and Bun- dny. Hartford, Sept, death | the | night | and | fancy goods of life-long | Prentice Manufac- | of | sant street to take the | morn- manufacture belt and also | Eng- | ibility, said | the | sum | Deliberate Attempt to Seek Quarrel at Any Cost— Underhand Methods Used. AUTOMOBILES USED INSTEAD OF TRAINS London, Sept..27.—So far as could be learned at 10 o’clock this morning the members of the national union of railway men had walked out in a body and the stoppage of service was complete reports to the executive committee of the union from distant centers show that all branches of 1 are supporting the committee’s action. Railroad depots here were open this morning, but, with the excep- tion of a few people who were not aware of the strike, they were desert- ed. Even officials of the Southeastern raflway admitted their service had ceased, while subway trains had come to a complete standstill shortly afte 10, o’clock. In the big freight yards | motor cars driven by soldiers were | carrying off perishable articles which arrived on late trains from outlying | sections. \utos Supplant Trains. None of the early newspaper trains left London, but the managements of newspapers, anticipating the strike made arrangements two or three days ago to distribute papers by motor cars and motor lorries, a huge squa- dron of which left Fle:t street, Lon- | don’s newspaper row, early today in all directions. Large provincial towns will thus be supplied today, but coun- try districts which depend on London for newspapers will probably go with- out them. \ Several members of went to Downing street and remained there in throughout the morning, | touch with the strike Lloyd George’s Statement. London, Sept. —*"The precipi- tancy of this action ' gives the im- pression of a deliberate and matured intention on the part of some indi- viduals to seek a quarrel at any cost,” said Premier Lloyd George in a state- ment today on the nation-wide rail- way strike. “It has convinced me it is not | strikd for wages or Dbetter ¢ tions,” continued the premier. government has reason to believe it has been engineered for some time by a small but active body of men who have wrought tirelessly and insidious- ly to exploit the labor organizati of this country for subversive the cabinet this forenoon consultation keeping in tuation. a ndi- DEATH OF C. S. STEVENS M West Main Street an Succumbs to Long Ilness—Conducted Machine Shop Near His Home, Clayton S. Stevens, of 680 West Main street, local hospital this morning long illness with diabetes, recently he had been able to attend to his busines He conducted a small machine shop near his home. Mr. Stevens was a native of Cen- terbrook. He was a Britain Council, O. U Besides his wife, Mr three children, Glady Harold. The funeral Monday afternoon aged 60 years, died at the after but until M. Stevens leaves Frederic will be held occasion | 100 “LIFERS” AT PRISON 98 Men and Two Women Serving Sen- tences at Wethersfleld to Expiate Crimes of Murder. Hartford, Sept. 27.—Ninety-sight men and two women are serving life sentences at the state prison at Wethcrsfleld, the life prisoners serving se same time since the prison was opened. The man who made the num- ber an even 100 was Michael Marko- vich of Union, sentenced in the su- perior court in Rockville on Septem- 18 The two women lifers are 13. Archer Gilligan and Bessie Wakefleld RESTS COMFORTABLY. Haute, Ind., Sept. 27 (On Prestdent Wilson's President Wilson passed a night. He uppeared to throughout, Not once did he anything, Dr. Gray- [{son who slept in ¢ 4 was not aroused during the night, WILSON Terre board Train) comfortable i he sleeping ask for ‘The | a | Special | Telephonic and telegraphic | 1 | member of New | and | ! resulted from a bullet largest number of | stences at the | I ciers | found a c empt: } | FinancialArrangements Teutons Have Asked Will Also be Held Up Unless They Comply At Once T0 SOLVE MYSTERY sERLIN BOYCOTTED Two in Nashville Murder Case as Result of Strange “Messages”. Arrests Sept orted to in Nashville, ualism has ben r deavor to solve the mystery murder of Robin Cooper, prominent attorney and upon testimony of Gabriele Han- sen, psycho-analytical detective, Den- nis Metcalf, Cooper’s gardener, and Nora Lee, negro cook, have been held for the grand jury after a hearing. Hansen declarcd that spiritu- alistic demonstration he seen Metealt kill Coope He ave details her investigations The statement read “Shortly after Cooper's death, Met- call rented a room in the central part of the cty angd in his room was imson covered pillow slip with the letter C embroidered in pink and also a blood stained suft of clothes. Several old newspapers of the same date as those found in C8o- per's automobile after the murder also were found in the room. “In a trunk in one corner a from his wife in Chicago was saying. ‘Be careful what you Letters are being opened.’ " MODERN D’ARTAGNAN Tenn., —Spirit- an en- in a had then here letter found write. OUTRIVALS ORIGINAL British \viator Had to Pose As Turk and Bolsheviki to Allay emy’s Suspicions. 27 -After thril- he posed as Bolshevik to n T. W. White arrived New York, Sept ling adventures in which a Turk and later as allay suspicion, Capts a British aviator has from London on fhe way to his home in Melbourne, Australic Captured in Mesopotamia by .the Turks when his airplane forced to land, Captain White today, he was shifted from prison to prison for two years, in which time he acquired a knowledge of the Turk- ish language. Tn of the shift his train collided another he escaped. Dressed in garb, he reached Constantinople where he stowed away on a Russian ship bound for Odessa, hiding for 3 iron ballast tank A friendly Russian enginecer vided him with food and helped in was said one with and Turkish in an decks pro- him {to land at Odessa where he posed as a Bolsheviki. Gaining passage on a Bulgarian steamer Captain White jotned the British forces and arrived in Saloniki on armistice day. WEDS WOMAN HE ROBBED Blind Convict, Relcased From S Sing, Takes Bride to “Little Church Around the Corner.” New York, —Released erday from a Sing Sing prison on pardon absolving him from further expiation of the crime of misappro- priatng funds of his clients, Charles F.. Cossum, a Poughkee lawyer, was on his honeymoon with f the women whose he Sept a 104 money Cossum, who immediately to New York upon his release from Sing Sing and was mar ried at the “Little Church Around the Corner” to Mrs. W Milford, also of Poughkeepsie. Cossum's blindness ound, self-in- when he found is blind, proceeded o flicted two years ago, that he had become too deeply in- volved in financial difficulty with his clients to make restitution R U. S. FINANCIERS. Paris, Sept. 27.—Thc government is considering tionalization of all petroleum com- panies, according to a Geneva dis- patch to the Petit Parisicn which say the step may be taken “in order to avold pressure from American finan- who are seeking n monopoly petroleum there FF Rumanian the na- in LEAVING FOR JAPAN, Mr. and Mrs. E. Allan Moore ang aughter Barbara of Sunnyledge wili loave Wednesday for Japan, M Moore, president of the Staniey | Works, will visit the factory in Japan the president’s car | They will sail from San F rancisco and Wwill he-away four moaths, here | { the lower paid officers and 1915 | | | | | | and BY NATIVE FARMERS Metropolis Said to Be Grad- ually Drifting Into Precart ous Situation Because o Lack of Meat and Milk, Paris, Sept. 27.—The supreme ecoun. cil decided today to send the Germanx government, through Marshal Foch, note demanding the evacuation o Lithuania by er troops unde: drastic penalties for non-compliance Drastic Penalty Provided. The note informs Germany tha her provisioning will be immediatel stopped and finanoial arrangel ments she has requested be held up i Lithuania is not evacuated. an the Shortage in Berlin, Berlin, Sept, (By the Associate Press.)—Alfred Werniuth, burgomas) ter of Berlin, told the city council lai night that the agricultural produce are systematically boycotting the cit] by withholding deliveries of meat an milk. As a result the burgoma pointed out the metropolis s gradua ly drifting into a precarious situation He intimated that this boycott threal ened to become more dangerous tha the blockade, saying it would co: tinue upless the Berlin governme made a definite declaration with spect to its food policy MORE PAY FOR NAVY Wil a 4 Danicls Recommend Skidin Scale of Wage Increases For Off cers and Men in Service. ashington, Sept —Increase for naval officers and enlist men, based on a sliding scale givir men t commend Danie sena Mondaj The secreta that the paf nd quarte: war time meai be stopred u continued during fiscal year pending permanent greaty; ed when and it increase, will be r to congress by Secreta he hppears he house naval was learned will of officers fore the ommittees today recommend coinmutz on s0 ment tion ¢ sea duty, a ure which soon would > 'der the law, be ent adc poli Daniels naval recently office pay li poi rs he n si coust sed been rcaching in alarming ol ng h nations of ofi#e; the n depart® vy numbe COULDN'T STAND DISGRACH Veteran of 20 Years in Army Kil Self Becaude He Was Reduced Private. New old York time with Sept ~John Smit regul behiyg coul bet sergeant 20 years of today the an n the army, him dead not endurc “‘busted. Reduced and worn for his home and is becapse humiliation he of the seven ye: grade of privz he h went his wil relativ stripped of chevrons Smith sent in t Bronx «wo chil o visi turned on the g Mrs hand retur; mith di latc ith the table was a overed her ho when 8 On ddressed Smith gave body 2d sterda childr: note : which suicide rby “the public’ reason AMERICANS NOT MENTIONE in for Serbian Dispatch of Trau Incidg Does Not Say U. S. Troops T Part in Action London, Sept reau dispatch dated Belgrade refers to Trau but does not forces us having disorders thore It inhabitants of u tured an armored three mac guns, many rifies, hand grenades, a quantity nitio —A Serbian 'H Thursday frd the fighting mention Ameriq participated in 4 of amr FROST DOES DAMAGE. damage was last evening by nts and flowers be Considerable dq about the ecity frost, tomato p greatly- affected,