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New Britain herald., 1918-09-25
New York and New England Men

New York and New England Men
 Killed in Action Harry Dickinson Thrasher, 3 Me- Dougal Alley, New York, N. Y. Frederick J. Mckenzie, II New Chamber St., New York.
 Died of Wounds. Edward Scher, 2o3 w. Hath St., New York.
 Died of Disease Private Wilfred F. O'Connor, 5 Fremont St, Cambridge. Mass.
 Wounded Severely Lieutenant Benjamin Theo Abrams, 1043 Rogers Ave, Brooklyn, N. Y. Lieutenant Robert N. Christian, 8 Patterson St., Providence, R. l. Otto William Gillmoister, 937 Gwinn St., Madina, New York. Lloyd Howard Parmerton, p New man St., Springville, N. '. John Parkes, 97 Euclid Ave-, Ken more, N Y.
 PAUL A. SWANSON, 20 Wilcox Ave, New Haven, onn. Fred F. Pratt, R. F. D. 2, Bernard SCOn, Mass
 SAM RUBEN, Green St., Bridge port, Conn.
 Anthony Russo, 21 Lafayette St.. New Rochelle, N. Y.
 Peter A. Smith, 37 Dolle Ave, Boston, Mass.
 Harold E. Thompson, Meeting House Lane, Southampton, N. Y. w. w. Wetherbee, Stow, Mass. Isidore Yudowitz, 1549 Fulton St., Brooklyn, N. '.
 Wounded-Degree Undetermined Corporal DeForrest E. Townsend Castle, New York.
 Corporal James A. Greene, 333 Plainf1eld St., Providence, R. I. Benjamin Gelbfsh, 261 Division Ave, Brooklyn, ". Y.j STEPHEN GOLASE, Thompson vile, Conn.
 Francis A. Hallock, 221 Baldwin St., Elmira, N. Y.
 Otto Herold, 2664 Marian Ave, New York, N. Y.
 Tony Kibbert, 27O D St., Boston, Mass.
 Frank J. Mercy, S8 Harvard St.. Brockton, Mass.
 Missing in Action. William Edward Traut, 1156 Ridge Road, Lackawanna, N. Y.
 Might Report.) The following casualties are report ed by the commanding general of the American Expeditionary forces: Killed in action ......... 8 Missing in action ........ 7s Wounded severely .... 92 Died from wounds . Died of disease ........
 1OIdl lS New York and New England men:
 Killed in Action.
 Priyates FRANK T. BUTLER, 237 Bishop st., Waterbury, Conn. JOSEPH PAULAY, s2 Lilac st.,
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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-20
THE WEATHER
FORECAST.

Denver, Colo, Dec. .19.--New Mex
leo: Friday unsettled. rising tempera-
ture; Saturday generally fair and
warmer.
Arizona: Friday fair. rising temper
ature; Saturday partly cloudy.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-20
BAPTIST LAYMEN
MEET IN SALT LAKE
10Y nosnrna JousaAL spse.l ls.sto w,ss

Salt Lake City, Utah, Dec. 19. -
Forty Baptist laymen and ministers
from California, Oregon. Idaho.
Washington, Nevada, Arizona, Mon
tana. Colorado, Wyoming and Utah,
were in attendance at the opening
convention of Baptist laymen of the
west here today, and which will con-
tinue through tomorrow The con-
vention will make plans for raising
the vests proportion of a $4,000 700
fund during the last two weeks Of
February. next year.
A port on of the fund will be used
for the benefit of American youths
enrolled in the United States stud
ents,army training corps at the twen-
tv baptist colleges scattered over the
United States. 1t will be In the ma
ture of an aid to the students COM
nleting their education after the DIS
banding of the corps the first of the
year The remainder of the sum col
lected will be used to promote home
and foreign missions, pensions for
ministers and missionaries and well
fare work.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-20
SUDDEN SHIFT IN
WILSON 8 PLANS
MAY MEAN MUCH
Manchester Guardina Calls
Attention to Fact That Mr..
sHoover Has Not Been Able
to Begin His Work.

Manchester, Eng, Dec l0.-In
commenting editorially upon Presi-
dent Wilson's visit to London, now in
immediate prospect, the Guardian to-
day regards 1t as signifying that the
president means business which the
leisurely arrangements previously
contemplated hardly seemed to i'm
ply"
ut Is unnecessary to speculate"
continues the newspaper, upon the.
precise causes of this sudden change
of plans, but obviously the circum-
stances of the moment are not such
as to brook delay The news from
Germany shows that two things are
essential if order is to be kept and a
stable government maintained-th
population must be fed and the in
dustries started by the returning sol
diers and munition workers thrown
out of employment and yet we hear
of nothing effective being done.
Mr.. Hoover has been here nearly
a fortnight. He has a vast task to
perform. Has he all the resources
and all the authority he needs? He
has immense experience and energy,
but no man can make bricks without
straw, and we are not so sure about
the straw"
Before he left America says the
Guardian, Mr.. Hoover said he favored
the raising of the blockade. but his
statement to this effect, it says. was
not allowed to appear in England,
the opposite impression being con-
veyed instead.
HAS Mr. Hoover changed his
mind? Has he been overruled or is
the decision pending?" the newspa-
per inquiries.
The Guardian refers to the impos-
sibilty of an indefinite stay by Pres
ident Wilson, who had come with
definite principles and policy, it
says, which the allies had formally
and definitely accepted, but the pres
ident could not have been long in
Paris, it adds, without discovering
what 1t calls the strange discrepan-
cies between "this professed accept
ance and the sectional and purely ma
tionalistic demands put forward by
various countries. not excluding our
own"
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-20
MARSHAL JOFFRE
PRAISES AMERICA
FOR PART IN WAR
Great French General Formal
Iy Enrolled Among Frances
Forty Immortalsi Wilson's
Are Spectators,

Paris, Dec. 19.-Marshal Joffre
now is formally numbered among
Frances forty immortals. The victor
of the Marne was made member of
the French academy this afternoon.
The marshal delivered his inaugural
speech in deep resonant voice.
1T was in the conviction that they
were fighting for right that the allied
nations found the strength to sacri-
flee and the certainly of ultimate vic
tory The power of these noble senti
ments have been evoked, in terms
which are ever present in our mem
DRY. by the great President Wilson,
while they inspired him to most gem
erous action" said the marshal.
Abiding 10 his visit TO the United
States in 1917 Marshal Joffre said
while in the midst of the Ameri
can crowds / was living hours which
| numbered among the sweetest of my
life. had OWNED the need for sacri-
fices on their part awakened in the
soul of this generous people by the
heroism of our soldiers and the justice
of our cause. In order that France
might live in prosperity that Belgium
might re-establish herself, that liber
ty might reign and that right might
be reinstated, America arose and re-
solved 10 throw into the fight her last
man and her last dollar
History does not record a more
marvellous achievement than that OF
millions of men Voluntarily breaking
away from their peaceful pursuits
to cross the seas where lurked death;
to come thousands of miles from their
country and give up their lives for a
noble cause, a great ideal. And as If
the sacrifice was not completed by
sending the husbands and sons, we
have seen the wives, the fathers and
mothers escorting across the seas that
phalanx OF warriors to alleviate our
sufferings and dress our wounds Wei
have seen them unsparingly giving
their gold and the treasures of their
hearts, kneeling on the graves of our
sons and adopting our orphans
'In brotherIy embrace, France
and America have given each other
their faith, a pledge for the present
and the future"
President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson
arrived shortly before | o'clock and
were followed a few minutes later by
President and Madame Poincare.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-20
PROBE KIDNAPPING
OF DR.. DE HUERTA

isY Nc RnIse JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wIRgl
Douglas, Ariz,, Dec. 19.--Acting un-
der orders from the governors office.
John f. Ross, Cochise county district
attorney this afternoon began an in
vestigaton of the kidnapping last Sat
urday night of Dr. Enrique De Huerta,
who was taken across the line by
Mexicans and Sunday morning sum
arly hanged. Mr.. Ross said he had
obtained the identity of the kidnapers
and this morning he filed four com
plants with local justice of the peace.
Fl. M. Lawton. American consul at
Nogales, Sonora, is expected to arriv,
here tomorrow and begin an inquiry
for the state department. The COM
mander of the Arizona military dis.
trict also IS making an investigation
of the affair
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-20

Chicago, Dec. l9-Letters from
John Spargo in which he declared
that the attitude of the socialist party
since the beginning of the war has
been "unneutral, un-AmeTican and
pro- German" were read to fha jury
today by counsel for the aovrrrm mi
during the cross examination of
Adolph Germer general secretary OF
the national socialist parry, ut the
trial of five socialist leaders for Vio-
lation of the espionage law,
Spargo IN one letter sal1 hat the
call for the st Louis convention of
the party held in April 1917 at which
the proclamation and war program
platform were adopted read as If it
might have been written in the Ger
man foreign effice. He protested
against the conventions being held in
st. Louis, 'one of the largest German
cities of the United States" Spargo
was a member of the ,Xecutve COM
mittee of the national socialist party
but resigned IN May 1915 and later
was sent abroad as a member of n
labor commission by President Will
son.
Adolph Germer. a defendant, was
on the witness stand all day ana was
court adjourned.
The name of Frank p. Walsh, for
mer head of the federal industrial re-
lations committee and until recently
joint chairman with William II, Taft
of the federal war labor board was
brought into the case by Germer. He
said that Walsh. Clarence S. Darrow
and Seymour Stedaan We're present
at meeting Of the executive COM
mittee of the national socialist party
in Chicago in July. 1917, at which
the espionage law and certain litera-
ture being distributed by the organi-
zation was discussed.
lie said that q committee composed
of Walsh, Darrow, Stedman, Engdahl
and himself was named to 90 20
Washington to protest against the ac-
ton of the postoffice department in
the American Socialist.
Scditious Pamphlets spread.
Germer admitted that millions of
copies of pamphlets declared by the
as seditious had been dis
by the socialist party Among
them were the ST. Louis convention
proclamation of war program, The
Price We Pay and why Should We
Fight" by nav. Irwin St John
and Down With War said
to have been prepared by Victor l..
Berger and Adolph Germer. and John
NJ. Work a member of the executive
of the national socialist
party.
Germer testified that no copies of
the leaflet Horrors of War" were
sent out after April, 1917, but adj
mitted that other pamphlets ordered
by the government had
been distributed for several months
after the federal officials had con-
demned them.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-20
URGES STR|CTER
SUPERVISION Of
PACKING PLANTS
Chairman Of Federal Trade
Commission Says InterloCk-
ing Ownership Operates to
Throttle Competition.
lny MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wrssl


Washington, Dec. 19.-Stricter gov
ernment control of the meat industry
without government acquisition of the
packing plants was advocated today
by w. b. Colyer, chairman of the fed
eral trade commission at the opening
of hearings before the house inter-
state commerce committee on the ad-
ministration b',l designed TO deal with
an alleged monopoly.
There is not the slightest reason
at present why the industry should
not remain in private hands" said
Mr.. Colyer. He added, however, that
interlocked with the meat industry
was ownership of transportation,
stock yards. freight houses and other
facilities, so that competitors are
practically helpless in carrying on the
business.
1.-THE packing industry, standing
alone, said Mr.. Colver. will proceed
to grow great as a necessary and use
full industry. which will be fostered
for the great public good
There are influences at work that
are not to the public interest, but
these can be controlled without in
reference with private business
without hardship to it or its disloca-
tion. The commission never suggest
ed that the government take over the
packing plants and the commission
does not do so now"
The big five" was named by Mr..
Colver as Swift & Co, Armour & Co.,
the Cudahy Packing company, Morris
& Co, and Wilson & Co., Ineorpo-
rated.
Mr.. Colver reiterated the charges
of the commission regarding control.
saying that ownership of yards, ex-
changes, refrigerator cars and other
facilities gave the s'big five, an undue
over competitors.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-20
Proposal to Repeal Present
Zone System Adopted by
Vote Of "a to o. Way Now
Cleared for Other Business,
MAY PASS MEASURE
BEFORE ADJOURNMENT
Few important Matters Upon
Which There Is Disagree
ment Left, but Expected
viii Soon Be Disposed Of.

Washington, Dec. l9---By adopting
the finance committee amendments
to the war revenue bill affecting sec
ond class postage and insurance COM
panies the senate today cleared the
way for disposal of the few other con-
tested, but important features remain
ing. Leaders now have increased con-
fidcnce of passing the bin before adj
journment next Monday.
BY vote of "a to % the senate APP
proved the committee amendment
proposing repeal next July | Of the
present zone system of second class
postage rates and substitution of a
rate OF / cent per pound within so
miles and 1 1r2 cents beyond. Most of
the day was spent in spirited discus
sion of this amendment and one by
Senator McKellar of Tennessee for a
modified zone plan. which was re-
jected without ron call
The senate also approved the COM
mittee plan for new rates on casualty,
fire, marine and other insurance COM
panies, except life insurance The new
rates based on premium receipts. are
respectively Fire insurance com
panies, 1 IA per cent; casualty plate
glass and similar companies, l 1-2 per
cent, and marine, IA per cent on
inland and ] IA per cent on export
policies.
Disposal of these and many admin
istrative and verbage changes left
virtually only the incom9 war excess
profits, inheritance and luxury tax
sections to be considered.
Jones Favors Profits Tax.
A substitute Ter the eopnitfee's
,Hit, brop0sing large tax increases
principally on big incomes and war
excess profits was introduced late to-
day by Senator La Toilette of Wiscon-
sin, republican, who is expected to
make a lengthy address tomorrow in
its behalf. Senator Jones of New
Mexico, democrat, plans to advocate
an amendment to continue war profits
taxation through 1920, and Senator
Thomas of Colorado. democrat is ex-
pccted to propose elimination of the
inheritance tax provisions, with Sena-
tor Kenyon, of Iowa and others pre-
pared TO urge reinsertion of the 20 per
cent tax on luXuries.
Besides these questions, that Of pre-
scrirng 1920 tax rates, opposed by
republicans, remains for disposition.
Disposal of the second class postage
section today was regarded as remov-
ing a considerable obstacle from the
bills path. Senator'S Hardwick of
Georgia and McKellar of Tennessee,
led the fight on the committee amend
ment which was defended by senator
Smoot Of Utah. Opponents charged
(COntinued on Page Two
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-20

Attorney Seymour Stedman read to
| the jury a decision delivered by Fed
eral District Judge Rose of Maryland
July IL 1917, declaring that the
! pamphlet, The Price We Paw" was
not a violation of the selective draft
law and said that the socialist party
officials en- trial had been guided by
this ruling in sending out its alleged
anti-War literature.
A speech delivered IN congress by
Representative William r. Mason of
Illinois, urging the repeal of the Sc
lective draft law, was read into the
record by Attorney Stedman.
Denies Receiving Hun Money.
Germer IN his direct examination
denied ever having received any
money from German sources to op-
pose war. He said every dollar en-
pended was contributed by the men,
bership of the socialist party.
He denied responsibility for alleged
anti-war articles published in the
American Socialist although admit
ting he was business manager of the
paper. He said the conduct of the
editorial policy of the paner was di-
rected by the executive committee of
the party and j. Louis Engdahl, the
editor.
Germor said he never advised any
one not to register under the selective
draft but on the contrary had told
number of persons who came to him
that they should obey the law.
He denied ever having conspired
with any of the other defendants to
violate the espionage law.
Questioned in reeard to a speech he
delivered in Chicago August 10, 1917,
which resulted in his arrest Germer
denied every statement attributed to
him by witnesses for the government.
II read from a signed article by
Theodore Roosevelt in which he de-
MED that the kaiser was responsible
for the war and said Il would be a
calamity if the German nation was
crushed as result of the conflict"
said Germer.
Roosevelt said tho German people
were responsible for ;he war. ! com
mented on this statement and said
that if n socialist had made such a
statement he would be arrested |
charged the government officials with
prosecuting the socialists and dis
eliminating against them and pointed
out that our paper had been suppress
ed for reprinting an article frcYn q
Washington paDer. Ifalso road eX-
tracts from President Wilson's adj
dresses defining peace without victory
and said that | approved of the state
ment"
Germer said that once he ordered
a clerk in his office to stop making
out affidavtts for conscientious OBJ
jectors.
Eleanor ID, Karsten, secretary Of
the WomanS peace party corroborat-
ed testimony of other witnesses for
the defense regarding the speech de-
livered by Germer on August 10, 1917.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-20
Albuquerque, New Mexico, Friday December TO- 1918
ATTITUDE OF SOCIALIST PARTY
SINCE WAR HAS BEEN UNNEUTRAL
AND PR0-GERMAN, SAID SPARG0

Letter Read in Trial Of Berger ct al Declaring That ST. Louis
Platform Read as If It Had Been Drafted in German For
egn Office; Protested Against Convention Being Held in
St. LOUIS 0ne of Largest German Cities in United States
Writer Once Member of National Socialist Executive Com
nittee Resigned in 1917.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-20
Senators Begin Movement to
Obtain Official Confirmation
or Denial of Plan to Destroy
War Booty,
CONGRESS EXPECTED
TO OPPOSE SCHEME
German Boats So Differently
Constructed From American
That Their Value to u, S.,
Would Be Small,


Washington, Dec. 19.--Prcss dis
patches from Paris saying that the
American peace delegates, with Brit
ish support will urge the sinking of
the surrendered German warshipS us
the solution of the problem of their
disposition, led TO the initiation of steps
today in the senate 10 obtain an Off
cial statement of the facts and to wide
discussion in naval circles. At the
state and navy departments no infor-
nation was available, Secretary Dam
iels repeating his hrevious statement
that he had never heard the sugges-
ton officially, while at the state de-
partmcnt il was said that so far as
known here no such project was in
cluded in the American peace pro-
gram.
The first published suggestion that
the ships be sunk came from London
several days ago, but even before that
ii was learned, this had occurred to
some naval authorities here as one
possible way of settling a veXing ma
val problem.
Admiral BENSON. chief of naval OPP
erations and designated at naval ad-
wiser 10 the American peace delega-
time. His views, worked out with Ad-
mlral Sims and officials of the British
admiralty and the French ministry of
marine, will have great weight with
the American delegates on naval ques-
tions arising at the conference but
there Is nothing here to indicate what
eenolpSion. Il may have reached on
the disposition of the surrendered
craft.
congressman Oppose Plan.
There We're many indications today
that n proposal to sink the ships
would meet strong opposition In con-
gress The Paris dispatch prompted
Senator Lodge to introduce today a
resolution calling on the state depart
ment for information as to whether
the American delegates are advocat
ing destruction Of the enemy ships.
and il so, hy what authority. The
resolution was left on the table with
out discussion and Senator Lodge may
touch on the subject in an address he
o~~~>~-~-~-~~~~~D~~
(Continued on Page Twu.D
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-20

Madame Poincare and Mrs. Wilson sat
together in box in a balcony high
above the statue of Sully. Mrs Will
son wore a simple dark blue tailored
dress trimmed in Otter fur. The pres
ident was cheered as he took his seat
in the visitors box.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-20
Hun Mine ErpLOdes
Month After Truce;
Fifteen Are Killed

Paris Dec. 10 (Havas) A German
mine which had been planted in a
bridge at Guise has exploded. killing
fifteen persons and injuring twenty
five, according to a Guise dispatch to
the Matin. The dispatch says the
explosion occurred more than a
month after the armistice.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-20
LOCAL REPORT

A summary Of local weather condi-
tons for the twenty-four hours end
ing at 6 p. m. yesterday follows: Max
inum. a35: minimum, 90; range, IL:
temperature at p. M, "a; winds,
northeast, cloudy; snow, 1.03; melted
snow. .1s.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-07-26
GERMAN OWNED CHEMICAL
COMPANIES MADE MONEY
Alien Property Custodian Suspects
Fraud In Sale OF Plant by
Residents Of Germany.

New York. July lT,~~petails of huge
earnings by u group Of German cStnb-
tished chemical companies In this couu-
try were offered ~ evidence yesterday
ia the state attorney generals inquiry
based on suspicion nf the alien prop.
crts custodian that the transfer OF con
trolling interest In the concerns from
German Ia American hands was a
dummy" transaction During the last
Ave years, the government showed
the Niagara EleetrWC Chemical company
of Niagara Fans. y =. Que ~ the
corporations Involved ia the iuve~ti.
Cation, reported average annual earn
ingS ~ i.it2 per cent aud dividends III
iulu per cent. The Roe$~lrr 4 HnsS
Ter chemical company ~ New York
earned ~ per cent and the Perth Am.
boy Chemical company OF Perth Am
hoy y. J.. so per cent In the Same
period
Despite these profits. TIA trstiman,
showed the SeaeideeNnsaldi company
- Frankfort. Germany. sold the con.
trolling stock g. rs American repr,,
sentative az prieyS far below IT'S book
salae after refusing repeatedly almos,
"a the flHe e5 Americas declaration
af var Is dispose If The eb,xt COW IN
oar stable