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New Britain herald., 1918-12-21
Police Find Such a Weapon in
 Accused Mans Home
STRANGE LETTERS RECEIVED
Authorities Think Letters Claiming to Be From WeiChman Girl Are As Handwriting is Different.

Q Muskegon. Mich. Dec. 21.-The girl identified as Frieda Weichman, because of whose death Milo H. Piper, local insurance agent. is held here on a murder charge, was killed by a shotgun, the police announced today.
 Investigation shows, the police said, that the gun was held close to her head.
 Shotgun in Piper's Home.
 The police declared also that while searching Piper's Come here last night they found a shotgun.
 The police announcement supple ments the findings of three physicians who performed an autopsy on the body Thursday. It was announced at that time merely that the girls skull had been crushed.
 Believe Letters d Hoax.
 The origin of what the police de- clare to be hoax letters recently writ ten and purpOrting to come from the Weichnan girl was being. investigated today One of these letters. written on the stationery of d Chicago hotel but enclosed in an envelope from another hostelry says Miss Weichman is alive and well, The writer adds that she was not married to Milo H. Piper, but had become the wife. of Gold berg" and that she "wouId not show herself nless it was necessary to prove Piper's innocence.
 Handwriting is Different.
 That the letters are not genuine, the authorities say. is proved by com- pariSOn of the handwriting with that in communications received by Miss Weichman's aunt from the girl during the autom obile trip which Piper has admitted they made in 1916. Another discrepancy, the police say. is in the spelling of the giFls given name. Although they had given it out as 'Frieda" it pro- perly should be spelled "Freda" they declare, adding that the letters re- gently received carry the signature ''F'rieda."
New Britain herald., 1918-12-21
LABOR SITUATION
 ! CAUSES ANXIETY
District Attorney SpellaCy Urges Care in Cancellation of Contracts
SECRETARY BAKER AGREES
War Department Head Promises to Use Every Precaution Against Throwing Loyal Munifion Workers Out of Employment.

Hartford, Dec. 21.--As the result of visit of U. S. District Attorney Thomas J. Spellacy to Washington this week the war department is watching the labor situation in Con necticut with a careful eye and Secre- tary of War Baker has promised MT. ernment munitions contracts will be SpelIacy that the termination of gov arranged with the least possible dis location of labor.
 SpeIlacy Goes to Washington.
 District Attorney SpeIlacy went to Washington Wednesday, night to see what he could do, as a government representative to ameliorate the con ditions in this state which threatened to throw many men suddenly out of good paying jobs. This was prior to the council of defense's authorship of Governor HoIcombs telegram, and MT. Spellacy was at the national capi- tol when the publicity about the tele- gram caused considerable comment here.
 Confcrs With Baker.
 Going straight to the source where help could be obtained for the muni- tion workers of Connecticut Mir. Spellacy had long conference with Secretary of War Baker. Munition work along the Atlantic sea board and in Connecticut especially has drawn labor from many different parts of the country, and from the farms and other walks of life, and il is the eN- pectation of the war department that the situation will soon regulate itself as the workers return to their homes and their former occupations, as a survey of the country shows, the men are needed in their former posi- tions.
 Will Exercise Caution.
 On his return from Washington MT. SpeI1acy received the following telegram:
 Washington, Dec. 20. MT. Thomas J. Spellacy, Hartford, Conn.
 "Confrming our conversation l am glad to say that every care will be used to the end that the termination of our munitiOn contracts may be accomplished with the least possible dislocatiOn of labor. Every effort is being used to prevent unemploy- ment and to conserve the interests of the great body of workers in Conecti- cut who have so Loyalty supported the government during the war.
 "(Signed.)
 MENTION D. BAKER, Secretary of War;"
New Britain herald., 1918-12-21
GERMANS TURN OVER
 MUCH WAR MATERIAL
American Third Army Receives Large COnsignments of Guns of
 All CaIibcTS.
All CaIibcTS.

American Army of Occupation, Dec. 20 (By the Associated Press.)- The German authorities today began turning over to the American third army large quantities of war mate- rial which will require several trains to transport.
 Included in the artillery given up by the Germans are 760 guns of large caIiber and nearly 5000 machine guns. It will take one train to carry the machine guns alone.
 The other guns, ranging from 1908 to 219's will require at least three trains for their transportation.
 Metteraich just%outside of Cob lenz, is the assembling point for this material. Some of it comes from east of the Rhine, many of the guns having been sent into the interior ot Germany for repairs, as the terms of the armistice require that all the ar til1ery be urned over in first class con- dition~
New Britain herald., 1918-12-21
Secret Diplomacy, Free Seas, Economic Bar
 riers, Armament Reduction and League of| Nations Should be Settled Later. Republi- can Leader Says---Russia Must be Restored

Washingon Dec 21Fve of President Wilson's IA principles held the today Senator Lodge the publican leader questions which might lead division among the which have conquered Germany and which certainly should postponed until the They the first four and the last of the points enuncated by the president his speech January 1918, and relate diplomacy free dom of the economic barriers reduction of and the league Of nations.
 Senate Must Approve Treaty.
 The delivered prepared address the problems of the conference which he of the heavy responsibility of the the work of making recalled that treaty become binding the United States without the declared that could avoided the senate expressed itself frankly in advance
 "Whie think it mistake, he sad "on the part of the president the because ultimate respon biy making the quite equal his have fault find with his appointing delegates conference There obligation whatever upon him make such appointments.
 Should Know Senate's Views.
 In the present situation which grave comparison think is of last importance that those negotiation of the treaty should the the general of the cables Mr. Ceel control Of the will the opinion Paris We but abundanty able make opinions known the president but the Allies who even acute idea of the of the regard eaties
New Britain herald., 1918-12-21
BRISTOIL CRITICALLY ILL.
Local Boy, Training For AViator'S
 Commission, Sick I'm Illinois.

MT. and Mrs. Truman Bristoll have been advised by the war department that their son, Cadet Officer Harrison Bristoll is critically i'll with influenza at the U. $. aviation camp at Bell vile, Ill.
 Cadet Officer Bristoll returned from six months service with the American ambulance service in France early last spring and immediately enlisted in the aviation section of the army. He was called into service last sum mer and since then has been training for a commission. He has a brother. Roy Bristol, with Company A of the 1O1st Machine Gun battalion in France,
New Britain herald., 1918-12-21
SMALL CHANGE REVENUE
 BILL WILL PASS TODAY

Washington, Dec. 21.-Prospects of enactment today by the senate of the war revenue bill were not bright when that body convened. Sen. Simmons, chairman of the finance committee, hoped a final vote might be reached before adjournment and some leaders suggested that a night session might be held if necessary. Republican members and several democrats how ever, predicted the measure would go over until Monday.
New Britain herald., 1918-12-21
FIVE TRANSPORTS SAIL.
War Department Announces Early Return of More American Units,

Washington, Dec. 21.-Sailing of five transports bringing home troops from France was announced today by the war department. The La France sailed December Y with 36S officers, 3,337 men, 21 nurses. 15 French mis- sion officers and several civilians. On the 18th the Aeolus sailed with 2,929 sick and wounded, including 105 officers.
 The Tjisondari sailed on the 18th with IS officers and 70 enlisted men, the Samland on the 17th with off, cers and 4 civilians, and the Terante on the 18th with one casual enlisted man.
New Britain herald., 1918-12-21
SENATOR LODGE FEARS FIVE OF PRESIDENTS IA POINTS MAY CAUSE SPLIT AMONG ALLIES; THINK
 HUNS SHOULD BE MADE TO PAY BIG INDEMNITY
HTNDEBNURG HAS PLANS TO MAKE NEW HUN .ARNN
 STRONGER THAN BEFORE

London, Dec. 21--~Th6 German gov ernment has accepted Field Marshal VOn Hindenburg's plan to form Feo- ple's Guard, or National army, ac- cording to a Copenhagen dispatch to the Daily Mail. It is said that the German army, under this plan will bo stronger than ever. All officers have received instructions to keep the de- tails secret Women will be employ ed for auxiliary services
New Britain herald., 1918-12-21
KRUPP DIVIDENDS STOP
Great German War Factory Paid 12
 Per Cent. During First Two Years

Berlin, Dec. 20 (By the Associated Press. )-The Krupp Co. at a general meeting today decided not to pay dividend this year. The great arms concern paid a dividend of 12 per cent in each of the first two-war years asd 10 per cent last year.
 It was announced at the meeting that when a balance was struck at the end of June the directors decided to pay four per cent. dividend this year, a part of which must be taken from the surplus of 1916. Recent de- velopments however. so unfavorably affected the economic situation that the directors were unable to recom- mend the payment of any dividend.
New Britain herald., 1918-12-21
WEATHER.

Hartford. Dec. 2t.-Fore- cast for New Britain and Vici- fty:. Increasing cloudincSs and warmer tonight; Sunday rain.
New Britain herald., 1918-12-21

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New Britain herald., 1918-12-21

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 To bring forward propositions not inseparably connected with the i'm. mediate and difficult task of making binding peace with Germany, Sen ator Lodge said, may ruin all by try ing to do too much at once" Such propositions, he said were the f1vd points enumerated.
 Opposes Naval Competition.
 In his discussion of the freedom of the seas the senator called attention to the strange development in con1 nection with the pending naval apj propriation bill, the advocacy byI Rear Admiral Badger of a program calling for a navy as large as that of England by 1925. He said he thought he had favored building more shipd than anybody else, but that he had never contemplated such a program and did not think it necessary.
 "The only naval danger that vi were obliged to consider in the pasS on the Atlantic coast has ceased to beH We need a powerful fleet in the Pal cific and I feel sure we will have s8 navy sufficient to furnish that fieeI to the western coast. And yet at thiA moment we are suddenly called upo1 to build fleet which shall be thd equal of that of England
 Of suggestions that a. great navj is needed for police duty in connecl ton with the league of nations, thu senator said he would mot stop td ask who is to order that navy abouE the world.''
 Believes in Frank Statements.
 MT. Lodge said he would be glad IS the senate debates on peace werE supplemented by some definite resoluH tions expressing views on importans points. He continued:
 "Whether the senate will take sue action-althouGh 1 know that WE have very definite opinions--I cannoA tell because there seems to be feeM ing among some senators that it 1@ an act of intolerable audacity for thM senate even to suggest to the execu@ tive that it has opinions which ougfM to be considered. Personally l do nd# share that view. "
 Germany Must Be Curbed.
 Peace being our object. the firsa step toward peace is to make a peac# with Germany. If the peace witM Germany is to be durable, terms musM be exacted which will make it, so faN E as human foresight goes. impossib for Germany to break out again upoM the world with a war of cOnquesM This cannot be done by treaty engag e# m ents and signatures 10 document z At this iuncture Of affairs German would sign anything, and her pledaA would be as worthless as the guaraI tees she gave to Belgium. It IS we8 also to remember that Germany q M not change it's nature overnight wheM the kaiser ran away to Holland. TfI8 deep rooted ambitions, the evil pr1rI@ ciples carefully instilled for half K century. the barbarouS methods anA doctrines all remain unaltered I dM not need to rehearse what these phs# sical guarantees should be, for I haI) stated my views upon them mo than once to the senate and 1 thing there is general agreement upo8 them not only in the senate pa among the American people. The A physical guarantees all have one 0 Is feet. and that is so to hem GermaTM M in that she cannot attempt conque in Russia or in the east, and that tfss
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New Britain herald., 1918-12-21
POLAND ENTIRELY STRIPPED
 OF ALL MACHINERY DURING :. OCCUPATION BY HUN FORCES
About S2,OOO,OOO,OOO Needed to Repair Damages and Put Country in Position to De"
 velop it's Natural Resources

Warsaw, Dec IS (By Associated Press )-Poland was stripped of all materials and machinery during the German occupation which ended on . November II. On that day a few thousand soldiers of the Polish legion, aided by the population of Warsaw, disarmed more than 2O,000 German soldiers who had planned a revolt against their own officers.
 Damage Amounts to 2.O00 900 ,0OO.
 All food and all teephone wires were removed by the Germans. All industrial plants were robbed and dismantled, with the result that Po- land will have hard job to start in again. Discussing the economic sit uation in Poland, Stanislau LarlOw- ski, director of the Commercial bank of Warsaw, said today:
 Tt will take nearly two billion doi- lars to repair the damage done dur ing the German occupation and to put us on our feet properly and to de- velop our great natural resources. ' Our oil products return 500, 100000 marks annually, and We are rich in coal and salt mines, potash, forests and agricultural products.
 At the present time the economic situation is confused because Russian Iubles, Austrian crowns and German 5 marks are in circulation. The marks are an heritage of the German occupation.
 Government Needed First. ..N
 First. we must establish a sound government which will have the con- tidence of the outside world. When such a government is established we will put out foreign loans for the pur pose of buying materials and starting up factories. It is even necessary for us to secure loans in order to buy clothes also machinery s,nd locomo- tives. Everything in the country must be rebuilt along new lines.
 Germans Devastated Kalicz.
 "The Germans transported home all the machinery from the industrial city of Kalicz and then set fire to the city. This was one of their great crimes in 1914. They did this all though no battle was fought there. They drove out the people by bomb ing the city and then robbed it methodically.
 "The Germans also requisitoned all the factories and. machinery in Lodz, which is the Polish Manches- mills / During their entire occupa- tion they continued to loot Lodz. Even last September they carried away all the iron plates and floorings from the factories.
 "They stole our vegetables and fruits. They took by acquisition ev- erything they wanted.
 Did Not Rob Banks But
 While they did not rob our banks, on the third day of the occupation of Warsaw in 1915, the director of the Deutschebank of Berlin came to me and demanded my cash balance of ru- bles, the surrender of which, he claimed, would regulate our debts to his bank. The Germans did the same thing in Rumania after the treaty of Bucharest
New Britain herald., 1918-12-21
PEACE CONFERENCE
 POSTPONED ID FEB.
Made Necessary by Wilson's Trip
 to England, Paris Paper Says ENGLAND NEEDS NO BIG NAVY
If Other Nations Have No Powerful Sea Fleet, Great Britain Will Not Be Menaced, is Disarmament Argument.


 Paris Dec 21.-The preliminary peace conference at Versailles has been postponed until the beginning of February, at the earliest, says Mer- eel Hutin, editor of the Echo de Paris. This postponement is due, he says, to changes in plans because of President Wilson's visit to England and the reconstruction of the British cabinet, which will occupy Premier Lloyd George as soon as the result of the elections is announced on Decem- Der 2S.
 Preliminary exchanges, which were to begin in Paris today, according to original plans, also have been deferred
 Italian King Leaves.
 King Victor Emmanuel of Italy left Paris at midnight on his way to visit Italian troops in Belgium. With his departure, Paris put aside her holiday attire and matter -of-fact consideration of conference arrange ments began in earnest this morning.
 Premier Orlando and Foreign Min ister Sonnino of Italy remained in Paris but wll start for Rome tonight expecting to return early in JanuasFv The Italian king will start on Sunday for Rome, going directly from Bel gium.
 President Wilson and the Am erican delegates had a day of few interrup- tions before them in which to study various plans which have been pro- posed for carrying out details of MT. Wilson's program.
 Freedom of the Seas An Issue.
 Apparently, the other powers are looking to the United States to bring forth a concrete proposition con corning freedom of the seas It is believed that the proposed limitation of construction of naval craft to lightly armored vessels, like revenue cutters, whose sole purpose would be to protect merchant shipping. finds favor with the American delegation. Advocates of this plan say there would be no further use for heavily armed ships. if all nations were placed on an equal footing by this means
 England's Plea Answered.
 In answer to the British plea that she requires a great navy to defend her colonies, advocates of tne plan of limiting construction say that. with no strong enemy of the sea, Fngland would not require a great feet as she could protect her distant posses sions by troops transported on armed transports.
 Honorary Degree For Wilson.
 This, however, is only one one of the plans advanced to open the dis cussion and develop the views of other powers.
 Count RomanOnes, the Spanish premier was in conference for half an hour with President Wilson last evening. It is reported that the premier invited the president to visit Spain but no official amour cement as to MT Wilson's reply has been made.
 Premier CIemenceau also conferred with the president during the eve ming.
 The Sorbonne will confer an honor
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