New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 12, 1921, Page 10

RANGE IS ANXIOUS T0 ATTEND MEETIN (Continued from First Page.) merican embassy that the chamber deputies was unanimously ap- plauding the announcement by Pre- mier Briand of the cordial attitude France toward the prospective in- tation. The senate in its turn was aroused unusual enthusiasm in approval f President Harding’s idea when the nnouncement regarding the govern- ent’s action was made in that body. It was said at the foreign office that Premier Briand probably would represent France at the proposed con- fterence if circumstances permit it; nd that whoever was sent would go jwith the idea of co-operating whole- beartedly in any scheme for disarm- ament compatible with the security of France. No Reservations. The French government makes no reservations regarding the proposed conference, being willing, it is stated, to discuss the limitation of land as well as naval armament, always with the proviso that ample protection be assured against any further eventual aggression from the east. The general impression made upon France by President Harding’s move is most favorable as indicated by expressions on all sides. Financial | eircles are particularly appreciative, in view of the prospect held out of [ great economies in the maintenance | of the navy and the army and the consequent relief of pressure upon the treasury. “France,” said Premier Briand in | his address to the chamber, “replies | eagerly to the suggestion for a con- 1 do not need to tell you that the French government accepts the in- vitation eagerly. It sees in the idea the possibility of accords which, as regards the Pacific ocean, cannot be indifferent to us, because of our great interests there. It sees also the occasion to prove once again that our country is attached ardently to the cause of peace. Grey May be Named London, July 12.—Viscount Grey of Falloden who was British secre- tary of state for foreign affairs when the world war began may, says the Daily Mail, lead Great Britain’s dele- gates to the disarmament_conference to be held in Washington as a result of President Harding’s proposal to the allied nations. The newspaper declares that a statesman at least of the type of Viscount Grey should be chosen, and that he should act with experts from the dominions at the conference. After the preliminary and techni- cal work of the conference is com- pleted the Mail says, Premier Lloyd George may go to the United States to attend to the final moulding of the agreement. Itappears to be the con- sensus of opinion that the conference would be during the coming autumn or at least at the latest during the early months of 1922 . Seldom have such scenes been wit- nessed in the British house of com- mons as that enacted there yesterday when Mr. Lloyd George told of Pres- ident Harding’s proposal, and an neznced Great Britain's hearty ac- quiesence. It was apparent that parlia- ment, Downing street and the foreign office looked upon the_president’s in- vitation to the allied ndtions to confer on limitation of armament as most momentous. Premiers Hasten Meeting Premiers of the British dominions are said to be planning to cut short the sessions of the imperial confer- ence, so that they may return to their home states and prepare for the ‘Washington conference. It appears to be the feeling in official quarters that ference, from which we may hope will come the final peace of the ‘world.” The whole house broke into pro- ;Jonger applause. M. Briand adde “I am sure I interpret the sent ment of the chamber when I thank the head of state who has taken this mnoble initiative and who thought at once of associating our country with it. It is a homage rendered the pacific sentiments France has always shown in the gravest circumstances. e Scientific Eye Examination Accurate Optical Work 4 FRANK E. GOODWIN « Evyesight Specialist. H 327 Main St. Tel. 1905. Successor to Davis & Goodwin. i BIG RED discussions of naval projects and other important matters should be held in abeyance until after the na- tions have met and have decided upon their future action regarding military and naval affairs. Newspapers of this city continued todayto express satisfaction over Pres- ident Harding’s proposal and the ready response of the British govern- ment. They indicated that the Wash- ington conference may have far reach- ing effects upon, not only the arma- ment situation but problems focussing about the Far East. BIG WAGERS LAID. Berlin, July 12.—Wagers aggregat- ing ten million marks were laid in the betting ring at the Grunewald track on Sunday. This established a new record, and it is estimated the Prussian government's share will ex- ceed one million marks. UCTIONS WALLPAPERS and BORDERS 40c Off Every $1.00’s Worth of Wall Paper Our Regular 25c Paper . .. ... .... Now 15¢ Our regular 20c Paper Our regular 15¢ Paper Our regular 10c Paper veveeeeea. Now 12¢ veeeseee.. Now 9 veeeeee...Now 6c Kitchen, Bed Room, Dining Room, Hall and Living Room Papers —All High Grade Goods— WE ALSO OFFER:— SPECIAL REDUCTIONS ON VARNISHES, READY MIXED PAINT, FLOOR WAX AND ROOM MOULDINGS Some Wonderful Bargains in Wall Paper Remnants —DON'T MISS THIS— We will discontinue this Big Reduction Price on or before Saturday Night, July 30 THE JOHN BO YLE COMPANY ‘Wholesale and Retail Dealers In PAINTS, VARNISH, LEAD AND OILS GLASS, PUTTY. BRUSHES WALL PAPER, ROOM MOULDINGS, METAL CEILINGS, 3—5 FRANKLIN SQ. Bre. .NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY s, MEXICO TO CLAIM PACIFIC ISLANDS Several Now Held by United States Are Included San Antonio, Tex., July 12.—Con- tentions upon which Mexico may base her claims to a number of islands just off the coast of California in the Pa- cific ocean, which are now 0C- cupied by Americans and are under the control of the United States, are summed up in a report made to Presi- dent Obregon by General Amado Aguirre, sub-secretary of Agriculture and chief of the commission making a study of the islands, according to an account in Excelsior, published in Mexico City. The report declares that the claims of Mexico to the islands is indisputable, but that the MexXican government is willing for the islands to remain under the American flag in return for foreign credit, the amount of which was not stipulated. . Included in the group of islands is the Saba Catalina, of which William ‘Wrigley, Jr. of Chicagé, is the sole owner. Others are the Farallones, Santa Rosa, Santa Veracruz, Anacapa, Santa Barbara, San Nocolas, San Mig- utl and San Clemente. The arguments of General Aguirre in favor of Mexico’s claims to the is- lands, as published in Excelsior, are: ‘“The United States is not occupy- ing them by right of discovery, be- cause they were discovered in the 16th century by the Spaniard naviga- tor Cabrillo, who gave them the names which they now bear. “They are not occupied by right of purchase, as Mexico has never sold them to any person or nation. “They are not occupied by right of conquest, for they were never con- quered. “They are not ocoupied by right of territorial jurisdiction, because the in- ternational code of the United States sets the principle that the territorial jurisdiction of a nation cannot extend farther than a league from shore, and the islands in question are at a great- er distance from the shore of |the TUnited States. ¥ “The international code of the Unit- ed States rejects the right of conquest by stating that not all territory con- quered belongs to tht conqueror, but only that part assigned by definite stipulations of duly authorized treaties.” Further proof of the claim of Mex- ico to the islands is cited in the de- cree of the queen of Spain in 1836, declaring that in the future all pos- sessions of the Kingdom of New Spain bhelonged to the Republic of Mexico, # sovereign nation. For many years, Mexico actually exercised control over the islands, it is asserted. In substantiation of the asserion that Mexico exercised dominion over the islands, it is pointed out that s decree was issued June 20, 1838, au- thorizing the governor of California to make grants of any part of the islands tc Mexicans, according to the stipu- lations of the law of August 18, 1824, and that the titles to parts of the islands granted to Castillero and Carriol in 1829 and 1841 were nulli- fied by later decrees of President President Alvarez in July, 1854, and by President Comfort March 10, 1857. It is stated by Excelsior that Pres- iden Obregon may include the matter in General Aguirre’s report in future uegotiations between the United States and Mexico toward the accom- publishment of a proposed “Treaty of Friendship and Commerce.” CITY ITEMS Ratine, all colors, at Goldsmith’s, 48 to 50 Broad St.—advt. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Woolsey and daughter, Florence, of Harrison street, are touring through New York state. Victrolas and piancs, Henry Morans. —advt. Chapman’s Major String orchestra of this city has been engaged for the season to play at Crystal lake, Mid- dletown, on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evenings. 10-day furniture and rug sale. Cieszynski, '513-517 Main St.—advt. Earle B. Anderson has returned from a week-end trip to Hoboken, N J. Miss Anna Cunningham will leave Saturday for Block Island, where she will spend two weeks' vacation. Ratine, all colors, at Goldsmith'’s, 18 to 50 Broad St.—advt. A PEACEFUL IN TAMPICO. Maneuvers of U. S. Warships There Cause of Speculation. Mexico City, July 12.—Advices from Tampico relative to the presenco of United States warships there seem to be contradictory. Some say tha Sac- ramento and Cleveland left on Fri- day and returned on Sunday. Others report the vessel never left port and one declares both boats had steam up yesterday preparatory to depart- mg. The American charge d’affaires nere has received no advices fro:a the American consul at Tampico and is relying for information upon newspa- per reports, which generally are in- adequate. It was officially declared yesterday that the situation in Tampico was tranquil. HARTFORD MAN BRINGS SUIT. Charles Harris of Hartford has in- stituted suit against Alito Aindi of this city for $200 as a result of a collision beween a wagon belonsging to the plaintiff and the defendant'sauto The affair happened on June 23 at the corner of Avon and Pleasant streets, Hartford, and the plaintiif claims that damage was donme the wagon that has deprivéed him of the use of it, entailing him some expense. The papers were served by Constable Fred Winkle, and the writ is return- atle in the city court at Hartford on the first Monday in August. STILL T STIGATING FIRE. Detective Sergeant A. J. Richardson is still engaged in the investigation of New Britain, Conn. the suspicious fires at the Fernatti propery on North Burritt street last week. JAGK MUNSON, HERO, DEAD IN MORGUE Savior of “Lost Battalion” Dies Poor and ‘Alone New York, July 12.—The body of Jack Munson, liason runner, who the Argoune forest on October 6, 1918, and carried the message that saved 2 siab in the city morgue. Attached to it was this label: ‘“John Munson, _31 years old, boatman. Died July 9 in Bellevue Hospital of Tuberculos —the epitaph of a hero! Less than three years ago Major Charles W. Whittlesey, returned from Trarce, was telling how his command, the third lattalion of the 307th In- fantry, Seventy-seventh Division, was Surrounded for five days without food Or water until their relief came up. “We used to send out runners twice a day regularly to see if they could et through to headquarters,”” he said. “But they were all killed or wounded, and after several days of that sort of thing I asked another boy if he would take a chance. “ “Why, sure,” he replied. Jack Munson. The Official Citation. 3 This is how Munson’s feat was told in the official citation given Munson when Marshal Petain, commander of the French armies, pinned the Med- aille Militaire on his breast: ‘“To obtain ammunition and rations, Private Munson, with another private and 'an officer ventured to establish communication between his battalion and regimental headquarters. They were attacked by a small party of Gernians, and one of them was killed. They succeeded in reaching cover, and remained there until nightfall, when they crawled by error into a German camp, and lay there for three hours before they were discovered. Pr.vate Munson - then deliberately drew the fire of the Germans to him- self in an effort to save the officer, and he sacceaded the next morning in reaching the American lines and aestination with the message entrust- ed to him.” Besides the Medaille Militaire, which only four American doughboys won, Munson received the Croix de Guerre with palm, and from General Persbing the Distinguished Service Cross. After his return and discharge from service Munson returned to his old job as a stevedore and boatman on the East Side waterfront. But the deadly germ of the white plague was undermining his health and he found it d:fficult to find steady employment. He moved into a cheap lodging house in Park Row. All his posses- siocns weve pawned or sold except one suit of clothes and the framed citas tions in French and English that hung on the wall of his room. On June 15 he had just strength to drag himself to the gates of Bellevue hos- pital. . He was put in the ward for tubercular patients and he never tola the nurses of his record in the war. To Have Military Funeral. Last Friday he died. There were none of his friends or buddies at his bedside. He had told the hospital at- tendants to notify Mrs. Peter Peter- son of 197 South street, with whom he had once lodged, and they sent his medals t» her. His body was taken 1o the Morgue, for there was no one to claim it Yesterday some of Munson’s friends on the docks heard of his death. They telephoned Capt. Groves C. Graham, now adjutant of the army post on Governor’s Island, once an officer of the 307th. He telephoned to the Morgue last night and asked that nothing be done with Munson’s body until he could arrange a military fu- neral with proper burial in the Nation- al cemetery at Arlington, Va. And so Jack Munson, who saved a battalion, will not be buried in Pot- ter's Fieid. That was PERSHING IS ACTIVE. Finds It Necessary to Have Plenty of Exercise. Washington, July 12. — General Pershing refuses to permit the work of chief of staff of the army to oc- cupy him entirely and has decided after two weeks on the new job that time for play and exercise is essen- tial for a man occupying a desk and swivel chair. He has adopted a policy of mixed play and work in order to keep him- self physically fit. His play begins early in the day long before the doors of the war department are open for bus- iness and has taken the form recent- ly of polo playing in practice with the army team. He may be seen on lthe grounds in Potomac park soon after sun-up most any morning riding his ponies as hard and swinging his mallet as vigorously as any of the other players despite his 61 years. MOROCCANS DEFEATED. Spanish Troops In Bloody Battle With Tribesmen. Madrid, July 12.—Moroccan tribes- {men suffered heavy losses in the last severe battle with Spanish troops, savs a dispatch from the high com- missioner of Morocco. He declares that reports received from Moorish deserters indicate that the Beniaros tribe alone sustained more than 200 casualties. The tribesmen have continued since the battlo to harass Spanish -ad- vance posts and supply columns, but have invariably been beaten off. $2.000.000 IN WAGE CUTS. Kalamazoo, Mich., July 12.—Wage reductions amounting te approxi- raately two million dollars a vear went into effect yesterday in all paper nills of southwestern Michigan. About 3.000 workers in the ten mills and 3,000 workers in other plants are af- fected. The cut, which was protest- ca by the employes, amounts to i3 per cent. for skilled workers and 30 per cent. for unskilled laborers. BIG FIRE LOSS. Berlin, July 12.—The fire which broke out in the Blohm and Voss shipyards at Hamburg last night caused damage amounting to many mellions of matks. The timber sheds with great quantities of buildi” @ ma- terial were destroyed. broke through the German lines in | the “lost battalion,”” lay last'night on : ‘ 1921. {300 10 388 2NN (hoy e for brerybody 81x90 PEQUOT SHEETS. Very special. Reg. price $1.89. Wednesday special .. Extra large size double TURKISH TOWELS. weight, in plain white only. ular value CHILDREN’S SILK COATS in taffeta and poplin. value $9.95. Regular Wednesday only. . SUMMER DRESSES. Voile, Organdie, Linene and Georgette. Regular values up to $14.95. Wednesday only - Large size CROCHETED BED SPREAD. Full size. Assorted patterns. Hemmed. Regular value $2.25. Wednesday special Women’s Mercerized, in black and white. ity. Regular vaiue 59c. day special . ceee L GIRLS’ SKIRTS. Box pleated. Plaid and navy blue serge, Reg- ular value $3.95. Wednesday $3.00 AND $3.50 CORSETS. Warner’s double skirt and front lace. Wednesday only ........ KEDS, LADIES’ AND GROWING GIRLS’ PUMPS & OXFORDS —Low and high heels. Value ORDERS MASONS T0 QUIT EASTERN STAR Grand Master tfi Lodge of Penna. Issues Edict Pailadelphia, July 12—John S. Sells of Greensburg, Pa., grand mas- ter of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania, has issued an edict commanding all Penn- svlvenic Masons who are members of tie Grder of the Eastern Star to re- sign fromw the latter. order or relin- quish their Masonic membership. This ucnouncement was made re- cently by John A. Perry, secretary of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania. This raling, it is reported, will affect about 18,000 of the 150,000 members of the Masonic order in the Keystone state. The grand master’s edict was mailed tc every member. This edict had been under consid- by high Masonic officials since March, and has caused much agita- tion .among the affected members. Mr. Perry was not prepared to state why dual membership in the two or- sanizations is forbidden by the grand master. According to reports, a number of Masons are talking of ap- plying tu the courts for an injunc- tion fo grevent the grand lodge from exccuting the order. Under the provisions of the edict, the nen have six jnonths, beginning June 1, to indicate their preference between the two fraternities. The Ovder of the Eastern Star. loop Heavy Reg- . Wednesday special $1.98 $1.99 $1.19 Drop- stitched LISLE HOSE. Seam back, -First quali- ‘Wednes- pair BOSTON BAGS of real leather, in black or brown. Regular $2.50 value at - aeen n sorted stripes values. 21c §1.98 to $2.98. LADIES’ 216 fo 8. DRESSES. 6 to 14. Wednesday 39¢c CHILDREN’S with bloomers. yellow. Sizes value $1.49. All sizes. Values' 98c. For Wednesday FINE QUALITY PUMPS AND OXFORDS. Sizes Values $5.00 and $6.00 WOODBURY’'S SOAP. CIAL FOR WEDNESDAY Special Wednesday MIDDIES of good quality Jean. All white and some with colored collar and cuffs. vrwa g BRH B e A ¥ | % Price Values For 1» Day Selling $1.37 Full line of Billie Burke fitted HOUSEDRESSES. At and percale materials. As- checks in Regular $1.98 $1.39 19¢ $1.81 " 19¢ $1.81 PLAY DRESSES Pink, blue and 88c 1 LOT ODD VOILE WAISTS in round, square and V necks, plain, others lace trimmed. Value some For Wednesday CHILDREN’S ORGANDIE All ruffle and tie-back sash. Regular colors. With Sizes $2.98 value. to 6. Regular Values $1.98, WOMEN’S" MUSLIN' ‘GOWNS: Flesh, Wednesday only .... white, colors. CHILDREN’S MUSLIN BILLIE BURKES. Values 98c. Wwhich has a membership of approxi- mately 65,600 persons in Pennsylvan- ia, of which about 18,000 are men, just close¢ its annual meeting in Wi ke.-Barre. No official recognition of the Ma- sonic edict was taken at the conven- tion, but it was rumored among mem- Sizes 6 to 14 years. Wednesday . bers of the Eastern Star that the trouble arose over frequent petitions by the Eastern Star for membership in the Masonic Fraternity and the re- jection of these petitions. The Eastern Star membership is made up of Masons and mothers, wives and sisters of Masons. » JILiL/KC for INFANTS & INVALIDS For Infants, Invalid: The Original Food-Drink For All Ages LOOK LOOK AsSK FOR l Rich Milk, Malted Grain Extract In Powder No Cooking—Nourishing—Digestible LOOK QOut They Go Clean Up Sale Wednesday Morning ONLY TWO HUNDRED Trimmed Hats—Sport Hats § and Children’s Hats Values up to $7.00. SPECIAL AT $1. 00 Come Early—Store Closes At 12:30. Goldenblum Millinery Co. | : 188 Main St. Y. M. C. = A.Bldg. New Bntag