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New Britain herald., 1917-02-08
TO RUSH TORPEDOES
Output at Newport, r.. I. Plant to Be
DOublcd-DanicIS Asks Immediate
Appropriation of 100000.

Washington, Feb. S.-Orders were
given today to double the output of
torpedoes at the Newport, r. l. plant.
To make possible additional equip
ment for the station, Secretary Dan q.
iels asked congress to immediate ap-
propriate 100000.
Secretary Daniels estimates that
the first order at the government
plant will save 100000. the differ
ence in cost between the government
and private production.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-08
SPY ARRESTED ON PIE]
Former Fireman on Hamburg- al
can Liner Is Found Proving Al
American Lines Vessels.

New York, Feb. S.-Found lul
around in the shadows of the AL
can line pier, where the STEAMSHIP
Louis, st. Paul and Lapland
berthed, a man was arrested
who said he was Joseph LelleI1
years old, a German marine ,fir(
formerly employed in the Haml
American liner PENNSYLVANIA, intd
at Hoboken.
Arraigned in court on a char1
unlawful entry, Leller claimed tOI
native of Warsaw. He said he
not remember how he came to
the pier. He was held without
pending inquiry.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-08
Women and Children HeartleSSly
Slain in Bloody U-Boat Attack
KAISER'S VICTIMS INCREASE
Steamship California of Anchor Line
Blasted Out of Water by Two Tor
Yards

Washington, Feb. S.-The latest re-
port on the destruction of the Cali
fornia, received this morning at the
state department from Consul Frost
at Queenstown, puts the number or
survivors at 1872 and the missing at
Al. 1t says the ship apparently was
torpedoed about 10 O'Clock sWednes-
day morning.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-08
FIRST REGIMENT SHORT

Hartford, Feb. S.-The first r
ment Connecticut National Guard
short All of war strength and
cruiting will be necessary in case
regiment were called to service a
result of the breaking of diploma
relations with Germany. The
war strength of the regiment is !,
officers and men. At present 1t
thirty officers and 857 men.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-08
BOMB ON STOCK EXCHANGE

London, Feb. 8, 11:56 a. M
Amsterdam IIandelsbladt today
nounces that Il powerful bomb, Loaf
with nails and broken glass, exploi
on the steps Of the stock exchn1
there last night. No damage was d.
and no casualties resulted, the me-
paper reports.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-08
100 PLANES PER, WEEK.

New York, Feb. s.-Airship manu-
features of of the United States can
turn out 100 machines a week and, if
urged. from 200 to 800 a week. it was
announced today. Nineteen Of the
tWenty-one aircraft manufacturers Of
the country met here yesterday and
formed the Airplane Manufacturers
Association and an offer of its ser
vices will be made to President Wilson.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-08
SECRET WIRELESS FOUND.

Rio Janeiro, Feb. Sat the SUI
burban town of Nictheroy. on the bay
five miles east of Rio Janeiro, there
was discovered today a wireless tel
egraph station which was established
to communicate with German ships
which are being detained in the har-
Dor.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-08
All Other COnSulS and
American Sailors De-
tanned Until Bern
storff Leaves u. S.
WILD RUMORS GAIN
GROUND IN BERLIN

German Ships and Crews In America
Reported seized-OficialsE Expect to
Set Kaiser Right by Explanation
Showing Courtesies Extended to His
Representatives and No Intent to
Take Over Vessels.
Washington, Feb. 8.-Am bassador
: Gerard and consuls and sailors
brought in on the prize ship Yarrow-
assurances have been received from
here as to the safe departure of Count
Won Bernstorff and the German con-
suls and the safety Of German war
bound ships in this country.
1t was said at the state department
today that sensational reports have
become current in Germany that the
German ships here have become cur
rent in Germany that the German
ships here have been cenfscated and
their crews seized. Pending confirma-
ton Germany has detained the Ameri-
cans.
Officials here are inclined to mini
mize the the Importance of the deten-
ton, because they believe it largely
has arisen from a misunderstanding
and soon will be Strengthened out
1t has been announced that there
Is no intention of taking the German
ships.
Moreover, dispatches have been
conveyed to Germany through the
Spanish embassy as to the courtesies
granted to former German officials In
this country and their receipt is ex-
pected to clarity greatly any miscon-
ception in Germany as to America S
attitude.
The whole policy Of the state de-
partment is to proceed with regu-
larity in order to afford absolutely no
ground for offense. The United States
will be extremely punctillious and
place the whole responsibility Of a
more serious development on Ger
many.
Probably $50 Americans are affected
In the American embassy in Berlin
and % consulates in Germany. That
Ambassador Gerard is still in Berlin
and not at Berne, as was thought
possible yesterday, Is shown in a de-
spatch received today from Ambas-
sador Willard at Madrid. Mr.. Will
lard said the impression Ambassador
Gerard was at Berne was due to a
Geographic mistake.
The message should have been
dated Berlin via Bernc. instead Of
Berne.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-08
AMERICAN KILLED.

London, Feb. 8, Sal p. M
American negro fireman on the
rino, George Washington, was Kill
according to report received tot
by the american embassy.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-08
PASSAGE FOR BERNSTORl
France and Great Britain Agree
to Modest Former Ambassadors
Return Trip to Berlin.

Washington. Feb. S.--France
formally granted safe pass
through the allied blockade
Count Won Bernstorff and his s,
Notice that Great Britain also
granted safe passage for Count
Bernstorff and his staff was recei
later at the state department.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-08

New York, Feb. S.-Official cable
advices that the British steamship
California was tOrpedoed without
warning were received here today by
the Anchor line. The names of 13
nersons listed as missing as received
New Britain herald., 1917-02-08

Continued on Eleventh Page.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-08

Continued on Eleventh Page
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-02
Notre Dame Director
Busy With Schdule
(By Associated Press.).

NOTRE DAME, Ind, Jan. :. Jesse
Harper. athletic director Mt the University
of Notre Dame, is busy arranging the 1917
baseball and bootball schedule. The base
ball schedule, which provides for a mum
Der of games with Western conference
teams, is nearly completed. but the foot
ball dates nave not been arranged.
Nebraska however will play Notre Dame
again next year. Wabash and Alma, from
present indications, probably will not be
on the schedule. Kalamazoo College may
get a game. Nothing definite has been
announced about games.w with Minnesota or
other conference teams, although local
sentiment favors one or more games with
members Of the big Nine"
Georgetown, Fordham, Boston College
and Dartmouth are seeking games with
Notre Dame and are anxious 10 play either
in Indianapolis or Chicago. Arrangements
for the annual intersectional contest with
the army eleven nave not been completed.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-02
Tex Has Birthday
1t Is His Forty-Fifth

NEW YORK, Jan. 2.-"Tex" Richard,
who appears to have clinched his title as
the king pin Of sporting promoters by cor
railing Les Darcy Immediately after the
crack Australian fighter landed on these
shdres, received the congratulations OF
his friends yesterday on the occasion OF
his 45th birthday anniversary. Richard,
who was christened George L., was born
IN Kansas City. His sobriquet OF "Tex' Is
due to the fact that as a two-year-old ne
was taken to the Panhandle country and
grew up in the Lone Star State. In the
past IS or 80 years he has managed tn
crowd more thrilling adventures into his
life than are to be found in half a dozen Of
Jack London's tales. AT the age of 10 he
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-02
WILL MAKE 1917 SCHEDULE.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Jan. 2. - +. O.
Stiehm, athletic director at Indiana Uni
versity, has been empowered to make up
the 1917 football schedule without further
consultation with the athletic committee.
Coach Stiehm said that except for the
Ohio and Purdue games, nothing definite
has been settled as TO the schedule. There
Is a possibility. he said, of opening the sea
son here with Wabash. Ohio state will
be played at Indianapolis on November 8
1t is probable that the Minnesota game
will be played at Minneapolis.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-02
SPIRIT
G0ESWITH M0LAR
x-RAY DENTIST DISCOVERS ROOT OF
EvERs' PUeNAcITY, vAMks IT
AND TAMES HIM.
(BY FRANK q. MENKE.)

Johnny Evers OF "offa' umpires, for
ever and ever, amen. lie SAYS so himself.
And in explaining his change of attitude
he comes forth with a strange alibi-an
abcessed molar-for all of his scrappiness
in the years that have fitted into the be-
yond.
I'll was peevish and nervous and all that
Just because ] had an abcessed tooth in
my Jaw" asserts the Braves second sack
err. eff it hadn't been for that tooth put
ting my nervous system ON the blink, why.
Nj have been h~ob-nobbing long ago with
Bill Bryan. and Hen Ford and all the other
peaceful voters Of the u. s. A."
Late last season Evers was forced out
of the game by n nervous breakdown. He
consulted a physician and the medico. af-
ter looking al John fore and aft suggested
that he HE himself away to a tooth jerk
er's parlor.
"Sometimes, q h.ghly nervous condition
il due to a bad TOOTH said the NJ. ID. =
"But my teeth are all sound" objected
Johnny.
"That doesn't mean anything" answer
ed the doctor. "Abcesses often form at
the roots Of perfectly sound looking teeth
John hunted up an X-ray dentist and he
photographed Johns jaw. Result-the dis
covery Of an abcess on the rottof an 9th
erwise sound molar.
"There's the reason for your scrappy
disposition" explained the dentist, an
take it out right now"
want to know first whether Your taking
out this tooth will mean that Ill never fee
like battling again."
( That's about the size Of il. Yon1l be
as peaceful henceforth as a mill pond OF
n lazy summers day"
"But maybe I'll want to scrap a little
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-02
KID GLEASON 70 STAY.

CHICAGO, Jan. 2. 100 William kid
Gleason, the veteran baseball player, prob
ably will be retained as coach of the Chi
cago American league club next season, NJ
though official announcement Has not been
made. 49,
Clarence Rowland, manager of the team,
considers Gleason a valuable aid in de-
~veloping young players. Gleason's tenn
permanent, Rowland says, makes him thor
oughly fitted for the task.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-02

Maloney, Gilroy, McQuade and Wall
have two more years at Georgetown, so
that if nothing happens 10 prevent, each
member of the star quartet will be seen
in the backfield of the Georgetown foot
ball team again next year.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-02

began his career a "a cattle herder. Ad-
as a Texas town nzaSshal, a gold
seeked in the kiondike, a saloon and gamb-
ling house proprietor at Goldfield, and fl
nally, as q millionaire mine owner, with a
hobby for promoting championship prize
fights, furnish the successive chapters IN
Richards life story.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-02

now and then. There's .some umpires, you
know"
"You've lone enough scrapping in your
young life," cut in the dentist. "Nursie,
dear, bring Oh the pliers"
And out zane the tooth, and with it the
scrap producing abcess of the scrappiest
diamond athlete Of all time.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-02

The regular annual meeting of the stock
holders Of the First National Bank Of Browns
vile. Texas. will be held nj its banking house
on Tuesday. January 9th. 1917. al 3 o'clock
p. m. for the purpose Of e~lecting directors
and the transaction Of such ether business as
may properly come before the meeting.
A. WAYNE WOOD, Cashier.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-02

The regular annual meeting If the stock
holders Of Brownsville Bank and Trust Co.
will be held az its banking house on Wednes-
day, January 10th, 1917. at $3.50 p. m. for the
election of directors and the transaction OF
such other business as may properly come be-
fore the meeting. l.. A. McGARY.
t12-9-3Otl Vice President.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-02
FOR SALE

FOR SALE-Chear. on account OF leaving
city; corner lot and store room. j0x6O: also
six room cottage on adjoining block. On Eighth
street. corner Of Fronton. opposite Grant Lum-
Der Go. Inquire A. Braunstein. )
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-02
POULTRY
GOAT SKINS WANTED.
WANTED.

WANTED-Position as stenographer and type
writer. or combination office man: Employed
during day, to work evenings. References
Moderate salary. Address by letter, +. +. c..
Herald. 12-2l-6tb
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-02
BARBER COLLEGES.

No Illustrated catalogue explains how
we teach the barber trade quickly. mailed
free. MOLER BARBER COLLEGE, San An
tonic Toy i
BARBER TRADE taught at Texas Barber
Colleges. Worlds greatest. Position when
competent. Free catalogue explaining. Dali
las or Fort Worth, Texas. -3o
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-02

The regular annual meeting Of the stock
holders If the Merchants National Bank Of
Brownsville. Texas. will be held az its hank.
ing house on Tuesday. January 9th, 1917. at
800 y. M. for the election Of directors and
the transaction Of such other business Us nay
properly come before the meeting.
U2-7-a1D John GREGG. Cashier.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-02

FOR SAL.E-One corner lot and five room
cottage ON Levee street. Apply LOB Wash.
inton ST. -
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-02

FOR SALE-14- room house in West Browns
vile. two story garage. outbuildings ana
three lots. Will sell for cost Of improvements.
Must sacrifice at once. owner changing loca-
ton. Apply N.Y., Herald -34
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-02

HAVE 80 ACRES Of Cameron county land for
sale reasonable near San Benito. Would con
slider n loan If 100000 on same. Address Z.
". Goodin, Ottawa, Kansas.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-02

FOR SALE@Inside. mnimproved. business
property within half block First and Mer-
chants National Bank. Brownsville, Texas. $.
care Herald. la
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-02

LIGHT HOUSEKEEPING ROOMS. worth
your investigation. See them noon or even
ing at 7lJ Madison. q
FOR ~RENT-Two upstairs rooms five and
eight dollars per month. n. HWald. -
UNFINISHED ROOMS IN vIvIER
BUILDING. APPLY ROOM 10. 50
NOTICES.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-24
TRAGEDY BY RADIO
Ships Log Spells Out Sinking at Sea-
American Destroyer to Rescue

An Atlantic Port, Aug. IA sue
cession of wireless calls telling the
story of sea tragedy of which an un-
known ship was the victim of a Ger
man submarine was recorded in the
log of a neutral steamer which re-
Gently left a Scandinavian port
The calls were recorded while the
neutral vessel was passing close to the
Irish coast on her way to this port
and begin with the international IS.
o. S." followed by the message: I'VE
are being chased by submarine"
Ten minutes later the log shows the
following was heard: Heavy resist
ance. We are shelled."
A lapse of fifteen minutes follows,
then the entry:
ship is on fire and sinking. Cap
tain ordered men to life boats"
Five minutes later comes the final
message thru the air:
I'VE are done for" giving also the
position of the ship
The neutral vessel forbidden by
-reguia tons to go to the rescue, re-
layed the call and in about 20 minutes
picked up a radio from an American
destroyer reading:~
I'VE will reach you in one hour
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-24
GIRLS BLUFF THEM
Success as ''Strike Breakers Against
Rebelllous Messenger Boys.

Kansas City, Mo-, Aug. 24.-The
striking messenger boys are very Sc
we're with boys and men who try to
ia Ike their places but the girls have
them bluffed. The four girls who are
wearing Postal Telegraph caps come
and go unmolested. They answer the
calls in the Mercer hotel and Finance
building and return to the minute
when they are expected. They have
not been in the game long enough to
yield to the temptation to linger. 1t
war spirit of helpfulness to come to
the rescue when the boys fail. What
ever the reason, II. c. Hill, local man.
ager of the Postal Telegraph compa ny.
SAYS they make good messengers
1t is against the policy of the West
ern Union to employ girls, but the
company managed, somehow, to get
all MESA es delivered yesterday in
spite of the fact that 1875 boys walked
out with threats to organize a union
Can't Form Union.
They struck a SnaS when they dis
covered that the boys under 16 were
too young to belong to a labor union.
The managers of both companies
say that boy can average from 81
to $3.50 a day. They are allowed 10
cents day rental for their wheels.
And their clothes. bicycles and shoes
are sold to them at cost. After being
in the employ of the company for one
ton on pay; after two years, two
weeks vacation on pay.
The boys are demanding ? Y cents
message for downtown deliveries and
a proportionate raise as the distance
increases.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-24

Richmond sheriff, ~'but 1 couldn't help
it. The idea got the best of me and
1 yielded
This morning the father. resident
of Topeka for thirty years or more,
sat in the little parlor of his home
amid profusion of mus "a instru-
ments, oil paintings and costly stately
cate the son. The Struggle that was
going on in his own mind VIZ appar-
ent.
NO" he said, 81 don't toink it was
cowardice. He knew not Il meaning
of fear. 1 have seen him in balloons
and aeroplanes and have seen him
face danger without elinching- But
he is temperamental.
HeIs Eccentric.
HE is eccentric. And you know
the working of the human mind.
Thoughts are like a 5now 0all They
keep on rolling. and the more they
roll the bigger they get. The more
the human mind works toward one
thought the more determined that
thought grows.
But that is hardly what is in my
mind. If l spoke my mind, my wife
would use it against me as wedge
between the boy and myself and to
make my daughter hate me-"
Then the father. asking pardon for
told he said, that the reporter might
understand
My life" he said, has been ro-
mantle one, a tragical one
when l was a boy in my twenties,
was heir to nearly a million dollars
the sole heir. Then 1 met a woman.
I became interested in her. I married
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-24
DIR. L. r. Hyatt Attributes Boys
Act to Temperament.
Young Hyatt Shot Self To Keep
Out of Army.
FATHER is A BROKEN MAN
Family Trouble Prevents Him
Discussing Sons Deed.
He Says Scion of French Roy.
atty Knows No Fear.

A life of tragedy, one that has left
DR.. Thomas r. Hyatt, scion of roy
atty, 1900 Harrison street. broken and.
TO use his own words, hitter in old
age, was climaxed Thursday afternoon
when his son, Edouard, = years old,
shot himself twice in his left foot to
escape military service after enlisting
in quartermasters' corps Edouard
committed the act in strip of wood
near Richmond, Va.
Il know it was the act off a cow
ard" he is quoted as having told the
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-06-22
EARLY MORNING
AUTO|sTS CLASH;
ONE BADLY HURT
Mrs. Hi Green Driving Car,
in Collision at 3 O'Clock
This Morning.

Three people in st. Margarets
hospital following automobile acci-
dents.
While Mrs. Hi Green. 453 Calumet
avenue, was driving north on Calumet !
boulevard a 8 o'clock this morning
the machine containing Mr.. Green and
three men collided with a car driven
by Alfred Johnson. John Nordstrand
45, bartender, was thrown out of the
car driven by Mrs. Green and rolled
beneath 1T. He was taken to the hos
pital suffering from a deep scalp
wound. confusion of the spine, and
other severe injuries. Both machines
were badly damaged. but no one else
was seriously hurt. Mr.. and Mrs. Green
were taking party of friends to Chi
cago when the accident happened.
William p. Mohr was struck by an
automobile driven by Daniel Rohr of
1905 Avenue II. South Chicago. Mohy
was cut and bruised and is in the hos
pital. Stanislaw Bernard, IL, of Hege-
wisch, sustained a fracture of the right
leg when he was run down by an auto
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-06-22
COUNTRY
AF|RE WITH
GIVING
By United Press

WASHINGTON. June 22.-The $780,
100000 mark originally fixed in the ma
tional Red Cross campaign will be
greatly exceeded by Monday night. If
the present rate of returns continues.
The s75.OOOO0 stage was expected TO
be passed today. Director Henry p
Dawson flashed the word today to local
committees throughout the country,
Make the campaign NOT only a success
but a super-success.
BY the time Miss Catherine Stinson
brings Buffalo's checks tomorrow by
aeroplane it is expected the $100,000,000
will be pledged and the country called
to over-subscribe Monday.
Miss Stinson was scheduled to leave
Buffalo today in her new flyer and she
may reach Washington by 4:S0 romor-
row afternoon
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-06-22
IS
SEEKING
A PARDON
TIMES BUREAU
AT STATE CAUITAL.

INDIANAPOLIS, June 22.-Andrew
Bailey. colored, formerly a resident of
Lake county. received a postal card
along about April l. 1913, that told him
news. Andy's wife was in the south
and the postal card said she was COM
ing north. So he went out and visited
about all the gin dispensaries in that
part of Lake county.
As the dawn approached Andy wand
cred to his boarding house. Pe-hs ps
he remembered the post card. At any
rate he shot and killed the landlady,
who. apparently, was the first woman
he saw.
Now he is petitioning the state board
of pardons TO grant him an extended
leave of absence from the state prison
at Michigan City, and the board will
hear the story of the post card when it
convenes next week for it's June meet
ing at the statehouse
Several cases. in which men convict
ed of murder will appeal to the board
for clemency have been announced by
the clerk of the state board.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-06-22
$4,000
RAISED At
HARBOR

At noon today the Indiana Harbor
register a total subscription of $4,000.
The report yesterday afternoon was
circulated that over $4,000 had been
raised. bar Ibis was due to the fact
that some meddlesome boys surreptiti-
ously turned the clock ahead
There is no let up in the enthusiasm
and recalls are being made in many
instances where donations were refused
or were very light. The captains and
their precinct workers are combing
their respective parcels Of territory
with a good deal of energy and with a
determination TO raise Indiana Harbor's
donation to a full s25.O0O by Monday
night.