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The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-17
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The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-17

Most any regular reader of The Star would readily recognize that something unusual had happened when observing the Correspondence Columns. Usually these occupy from five to seven or eight columns. this week only two. But the short- age was not altogether the fault of the correspondents. When the mail hacks from the east gave up tho contest with old King storm Tues day lot of good items were lost to The Star readers. And then, too, a few of the faithful writers may have done little "suraendering' to the weather on their own account
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-17

 Letter published on the 7th October 1al3 In the Vorahendblatt of tho Munehner Neneste Nachrichten.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-02-08
WATERBURY HAS
CUSTOMERS FOR
GOLDBRICK MEN

Waterbury, Feb. 1.-Two of the
three alleged confidence men arrested
in this city, who gave their names
as Maurice Begler, of 1S0th street,
Bronx, N. Y, Joseph Gordon of Provi-
dence, and Joseph Rebacki, of 213
East Fourth street, New York, and
who are held by the local police on
the charge of selling imitation gold
to Samuel Cooper, a local clothing
merchant, were identified today as
having been implicated il similar
transaction in other cities. Joseph
Baneky, of Naugatuck, identified Beg
Ter as the man who had sold him
$500 worth of counterfeit money in
this city about a year ago. George
Olson, a Wfllimantic junk dealer,
recognized Gordon as the man who
worked the gold brick game on him
for s2,500 about two weeks ago. The
three men are held under $1,000 bond
each.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-02-08
MEMBER OF
REICHSTAG
ARRESTED
Socialist Deputy Dittman
Accused of Inciting Nit
my in German Fleet.

Amsterdam, Feb. Berlin
evening newspapers just received
here say that Wilhelm Dittman,
Socialist member of the reichstag,
was arrested when he attempted
to address crowd in a suburb
of Berlin.
Deputy Dittman'S name was
linked last October with those of
Deputies Haasc and Vogtherr, also
Socialists, with the mutiny in the
German fleet. The Vorwaerts in
its report of a reichstag debate
quoted Herr Haase as saying the
condemned sailors were accused
OF distributing pamphlets, given
to them by Deputy Dittman,
which had been passed by the CEN
sor.' The mutiny is reported to
: have occurred about eight months
prior to the debate. Following
the debate reports quoting the
Hamburg Fremdenbladt said the
government had decided to prose-
cute Deputies Haase, Dittman
and Vogtherr in the imperial court
in Leipzig for their alleged share
in the sailors mutiny.
A national demonstration is be-
ing organized in Germany as a
protest against the arrest.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-02-08
AUSTRIA THROWN
BACK IN DRIVE
AT The BRENTA

italian Army Headquarters, Fri
day, Feb. 1-(By the Associated
Press)-The enemy made another
powerful effort yesterday to redeem
the situation west of the Brenta riv-
er, where the Italians recently won a
notable success but was beaten back
by the combined action of the infan-
try and artillery without reaching his
objective of Monte di Val Bella, where
the Italians are maintaining their posi-
tiCn.>
The extent of the enemy losses in
the fighting early this week is now
known to be larger even than the first
accounts indicated, the better details
making this evident. An observer
who has arrived from the field of
fighting reports having seen and talk
ed with number-of the captured Of
ficers and men as they were brought
back for Interrogation. They were a
miserable looking lot, he said, many of
them wearing Italian uniforms taken
during the invasion of the Fruili re-
gion.
All the prisoners agreed as to the
furious nature of the fighting and the
exceptionally heavy losses caused by
the concentration of the fire of the
Italian, French and British bat. er-
les. The trenches were levelled and
the links between the forward and
rear lines swept away, thus stopping
all communications and preventing
the officers from obtaining co-ordin-
alton in the work of the artillery and
=
naming were Uttered with dead and
the survivors were found for the most
part on their knees, Historically cry
ing or praying.
The 21st rifle division of the Aus
TRAN forces had 5000 men put out
of action, or about 70 per cent of its
fighting force. Brigades of the 106th
and Sixth Austrian divisions had cas-
ualties amounting to approximately
SO per cent.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-02-08
SWEETHEART
OF Won HOEGEN Held

He walks among them. but they do
not know him"
T. B. Steloff, an investigator for
various typewriter concerns, was
largely instrumental in Miss McDon-
aids arrest. He reported to the De-
partment of Justice that she had OBJ
tanned credit from many houses in
this city on the representation thai
she was doing secret work for tire
government. {
For a few days she occupied an
apartment at the Hotel Grand and
while there is said to have purchased
two typewriters on credit, saying she
was watching a supposed German spy
in that hosiery. She is also said to
have obtained books and other arti-
cles on the same representations.
1t is known that Miss Mcdonald in
the last few months has fitted from
one address to another, and the Fed
eral authorities have been told that
during that time she has made a
practice of cultivating the acquafnt
ance of Germans.
When asked to explain this today,
she said, according to officials, that
she had been working for the British
government. She said she had been
writing stories of mystery and spy
plot revelations under the name of
1.-The Mysterious Maud Muller" for
syndicate and that her picture with a
domino before her eyes accompanies
her articles.
After her arraignment before the
commissioner, she asked leave to
communicate with a member of Con.
gress in Jersey City, whose name is
withheld by the Federal authorities.
The syndicate articles purporting
to have been written by MAUD Null
ler,'' a spy in the service of the Brit
ish Government have been running in
several American newspapers. They
tell almost unbelievable naive tales
of the manner in which Miss Muller,
otherwise Miss Mcdonald, received
her commission as an agent of the
British Government and how she be-
came acquainted with and arrested a
German spy who was serving as an
elevator man in one of the hotels in
Montreal in which she was stopping.
She represented in the tales of which
she herself purported to be the hero
inc that sne was a newspaper woman
on Toronto journal, and that she
accidentally got into the special
agents work while on. a vacation in
Quebec hotel.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-02-08
|. C. COMMITTEE
OF SENATE With
RAILROADS BILL

Washington, Feb. 2-Agreement to
report favorably to the Senate on
Monday the administration railroad
bill was reached today by the Senate
interstate commerce committee, which
decided on government control to
terminate 1S months after the war
and giving the president power to in
itiate rates subject to appeal to the
interstate commerce commission.
The committee agreed on a provis-
ion to empower the president to re-
linquish control of short line railroads
up to July / if necessary, but after
that date control would be retained as
over other railroads.
The provision for compensation to
the railroads on the three year basis
was agreed on by the committee with
out change.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-02-08
MARCH WILL Be
Chief OF STAFF
FOR U. S. FORCES

Washington, Feb. Mai. Gen.
Peyton c. March is slated to become
active chief of staff of the army if
Gen. Pershing can spare him from
his present duty as chief of artillery
of the expeditionary forces. No reply
has been received yet from Gen.
Pershing.
The selection of Gen. March means
that Maj. Gen. Bliss, chief of staff, is
to remain permanently in Europe as
the American military representative
at the supreme war council, now sit
ting in France.
The permanent assignment of
General Bliss to the war council
may result in a request to congress
for authority to appoint an additional
general AS Gen. March will be in
fact head of the army, it is regarded
as probable that he will be given
both the rank and title of-chief OF
staff later, Gen. Bliss being continued
in similar rank but relieved as CHIEF
of staff to permit him to devote him
self exclusively to his work abroad.
Gen. March is SO years old and was
born in Pennsylvania, from which
state he went to the military academy
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-02-08

New York, Feb. Miss Marion
Mcdonald, alleged sweetheart of Max
Won Hoegen, late of New Haven, who
was compelled by a mob to kiss the
American flag in that city, because
he had been insulting the United
States, was arrested here by Agents
Charles ]. Scully and Oscar Piguolo,
of the Department of Justice, charged
with having represented herself as an
agent of the government. Consider
ably mystery surrounds the arrest of
Miss Mcdonald. She describes her
self as 26 years old. and is of attract
i've appearance.
She was seized at her apartment at
343 st. Nichols avenue, where the Off
GERS found her surrounded by six pet
cats and stacks of letters, both in
German and English, from persons
who are suspected by the government
as German operatives. Many of the
notes were in the handwriting of Won
Hoegen, for whom the authorities are
now securing the country.
Miss McDonald's letters were taken
to the Office of Superintendent VIM.
NJ. Off1ey, of the local bureau of in
vestigation of the Department of
Justice. She was escorted to the
office by Garrett Cotter, assistant
United States attorney, where she was
questioned concerning her German
friends. She was arraigned before
Samuel M. Hitchcock, United States
commissioner, and held in heavy bail
for examination.
The young woman expressed little
surprise over her seizure, which she
boldly declared to be a ''frame-up."
She said it was an outrage that her
private letters should be taken from
her by government agents, and re-
marked: 81 told a friend of mine
week ago that they were going to get
me, and now it has happened"
Miss McDonalds acquaintance with
Won Hoegen has some remarkable
features. She met the German about
two years ago, and, according to as
sertions she has made to the author
tiles, she has received letters from
him in which she asserts he con-
fessed that he was a German oper-
alive and boosted that he had poured
oil down the smoke stacks of large
Pennsylvania munitions plant, after
which he had set it ablaze.
She asserts that in one letter that
he sent to her the Teuton wrote:
''They think Won Papen is my mas
ter, They talk of Won Igel. My mas
ter is greater than either of these.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-02-08
DYNAMITE KILLS
TEXAS MEXICAN
Who SLEW four

Ell Paso, Tex. Feb. 2-After shoot
ing and killing four persons and dam
gerously wounding another, early to-
day, Felipe Alvarez, a Mexican, was
himself blown to pieces by dynamite
which was thrown into the house
in the Mexican quarter where he had
taken refuge from more than 100 city
and military police, who attempted
to capture him.
Four charges of dynamite were ex-
ploded before the building was
wrecked and Alvarez's body. was hurl-
ed high into the air. Examination of
the body discloses that he had receiv-
ed six bullet wounds from the police
men and soldiers who had exchanged
hundreds of shots with the fugitive.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-02-08
PROTEST CANADA
PLAN TO MARKET
FISH IN AMERICA

Boston, Feb. 1.-American and Can
adam members of the international
fishery conference resumed today
hearings at which they endeavored to
learn the attitude of New England
fishermen toward proposed regula-
tions for the joint use of ports in both
countries by men engaged in the in
dustry. Dealers in this section pro-
tested yesterday against a plan which
would permit Canadian vessels to land
catches at American ports. They
agreed that while this would increase
the supply for home consumption, it
would work a great hardship on New
England fishing interests.
Secretary of Commerce Redfeld,
chairman of the commission, an
nounced today that the hearings
would be continued until both sides
had completed the presentation Of
their claims.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-02-08
.SATAN'S KINGDOM
NOT EXEMPT FROM
FREEZING WEATHER

New Haven, Feb. 2-It was so cold
in Satan's Kingdom, town of New
Hartford, last night, that the earth
cracked and this condition was &C
cornpanied by explosive noises. The
oldest inhabitants were not disturbed,
but residents who did not recall 27
degrees below zero got out of bed, in
many instances to ascertain the cause
of what they took to be pistol shots.
On Highland lake ice cutting is
susnanded because of the cold.
Throughout the section the unofficial
records we're about 20 degrees below
zero. At Stiles Miner general store
IN Burr,.lle it was Sc below at 5 a. m;
IS in Colebrook, and 26 below in Nor
folk
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-02-08

tent roar of guns and a whsle as of
express trains as projectiles of differ
ent calibers go rushing over the
American trenches, seeking a German
target.
During the last few days there has
been no aerial activity because of the
fog, but during the clear days pre-
ceding the bad weather the men in
the line witnessed many thrilling fights
in the air. German aeroplanes, COM
ing over at q considerable height on
observation trips, would be shelled
vigorously as they came within range.
On at least one occasion the men
have seen a machine come down. 1t
fell within the German line.
Today the whole American position
is bathed in white. Fog has frozen
to trees, bushes, poles, wires and the
ground.
All the men apparently are well
satisfied with the fodo. Two meals a
day always are served and sometimes
there are three.
Within a certain radius of the front
line every member of the American
force is now required to wear his gas
mask at an alert position and never
to be without his shrapnel helmet.
The American regimental head
quarters just back of the line is estab-
lished in dugouts under the ruins of
houses long since knocked down by
German shells.
Capt. Road Amundsen, the Nor
wegian explorer, and Capt. Oberdyng
of the Swiss general staff are visiting
the American army zone. Capt.
Amundsen came by arrangement with
the state department for the purpose
of obtaining information concerning
the American expeditionary force for
the newspapers of Scandinavia. Capt.
Oberdyng will remain for a week,
visiting all points in the zone.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-02-08
FAKE FOOD WILL
KILL ONE THIRD
OF HUN NATION
Scientists Warn German
Government Substitutes
Must Be Controlled

Amsterdam, Feb. 1.-The almost
many of the food Substitutes" now
being sold in Germany is arousing a
storm of warning from German scien-
fists, who declare that government SUI
pervision of the whole substitute food
traffic is an immediate necessity. Pro-
fessor Juckenack of the University of
Berlin, writing in the Vossiche lei
tung, says:
'tIt is useless any longer 10 hide the
truth. Unless the government active
ly intervenes to put some control over
the flood of substitute foods with
which we are overwhelmed, the end
of the war will also see the end of a
third of Germany's population. More
over, the remaining two-thirds will be
so enfeebled from malnutrition that
they will be unable to perform the
immense tasks of recuperation and
restoration.
"The devil alone knows what are
the ingredients of thousands of these
wretched substitutes rnat already do
duty for butter and eggs, oil and milk,
flour and spirits meat and broth, cof-
fee and sugar, tobacco and tea, fish
and sausage, cheese and caviar, and
so on without end.
1.-THE latest products of the ingen-
ious substitute-mongers are really too
terrible to be tolerated. A prepare
ton of crude kerosene is now being
largely sold as frying oil, and 500
cases of serious illness together with
nine deaths have been traced to its
use in Berlin alone. A preparation
called goose dripping" is prepared
from dogs fat; egg substitute from
mixture of chalk and baking pow
der; caviar from fish scales, and bread
from stray What people, no matter
| how patriotic, can hold out on such
Afare?"
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-02-08
CHARGE entente
INCITED STRIKE
Teutons Allege England and. America Hatched
Plot in Washington to Disorganize German
Industry Cavalry and Machine Gun
Corps Sent to Capital

Amsterdam, Feb. "A starving crowd, crying Peace and
Bread precpitated the rotng which resulted the
policeman in Berlin Thursday and the wounding of many
strikers and OnOOkers.
According to the newspaper Tyd frantic flood of famine
stricken people started marching toward Charottenburg de-
handing cessation of the and food The police endeavored
to dispense the crowd when fired shot panic en-
sued and the police charged the mob with drawn sabres
pitched battle followed Strikers overturned cars
and using them ramparts fire hurled pojecle at the
police.
Deachments of cavalry and machine gun corps have been
collected in the neghborhood of Berlin to cope with further
outbreaks.
According to London dispatch Berlin factories have
been placed under martial law and the strikers have been
dered their work by o'clock Monday morning at the
latest according Central News dispatch from Amsterdam
Their failure return it is announced will be punished
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-02-08
Y ANKEE TROOPS
SECTOR IS NOW
FROST=COYEREI
White Mantle. Conceals. Surface of Trees
Trenches and Neutrality-suspicious. Deepened
Shallow Position After 'Displacing
French Troops Last Year

With the American Army in France,
Friday. Feb. 1-(By the Associated
Press. )-American troops in trenches
on the French front at one place are
only 60 feet from the German line. In
another place a mile of ground sepa-
rates the opposing positions. At this
point, however, there are number
of ponds and neither eide seems to
desire to occupy the water-covered
ground.
The American trenches all are in
more or less marshy ground, making
the use of duck boards" necessary
water and mud are frozen. The
trenches were shallow when the
Americans moved in, but since then
they have been deepened and I'M
proved.
in some places the artillery is on
ground but little higher than the
trenches, although several of our bat
teries manage to keep dry feet most
of the time The enemy artillery in
some places is on higher ground than
the American and within sight of one
VI ouI. poSlIAoho Iiieie 10 d N0i iiieA u
observation post overlooking much
territory.
The scene at night is thrilling and
inspiring. On the firing platforms the
men stand near their rifles. Others
splash through the trench, sometimes
slipping from the duck boards into
the water above their knees. They
are probably going out on patrol.
Far away to one side of the posi-
ton a white stream shoots up to the
sky and breaks into white balls that
throw a light as if from powerful
electric batteries. The reflections
show wire entanglements and scrubby
bushes on the hills nearby; then the
lights die out.
All the while there is the intermit-
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-02-08

cordlng TO military discipline.
Serious rioting on Thursday in
Spandau, where important German
war industries are located, is reported
in German newspapers. Soldiers were
attacked by mob. A policeman was
dragged from his horse and beaten.
Four thousand men who have been
employed at the Spandau works are
on strike. Strikers cut the railroad
leading to one of the factories.
In Siemenstadt, a suburb of Span
dau tram cars were overturned.
A mob stormed bakery and COM
PEELED the proprietor to distribute
bread without bread cards.
The main centers of the German
strike movement, according to a semi
official statement from Berlin, are the
districts of Berlin and Altoona. The
latter includes the armament centers
of Hamburg and Kiel.
The frontier correspondent of the
Handelsblad speaks of secret meeting
held in western Germany to decide
whether to join the strike.
The Koelnische Zeitung declares a
are opposed to the strike.
One of the leaflets that was circu-
lated in Berlin and helped to cause
the strike in Germany has been OBJ
tanned by the Amsterdam correspond
ent of the Daily Express The leaf1et
calls the governments expressed de-
sire for peace only mask. and de-
clares the only. way to end the mis-
cry and the wholesale massacre is to
overthrow the present government
and establish a republic.
A demand that the German reich
stag be summoned to discuss the
strike was made by the Vorwaerts in
leading article Friday. The Ber-
liner Tageblatt declares that the
civil power will not grant the wish
of the Socialists and summon the
reichstag, as the radical elements
would only be given an opportunity
to preach strike propaganda in the
parliament.
Berlin dispatches detailing an al
legged Anglo-American plot to foment
revolutions in the Central powers are
published by Cologne newspapers. Ir
Washington on New Years day, it is
said, 250,000,000 marks was sub
scribed for this purpose. The revolu-
tons were to be organized in Ger
many. Austria Hungary, Turkey and
Bulgaria.
The organization was to be under
the leadership of Senator Stone and
Earl Reading and Viscount North
cliffe. 1t was to have branches il
neutral capitals Surrounding Ger
many and German-speaking neutral:
were to be sent into Germany to in
cite the workers in munition factories
to strike. The dispatches declare
there also was to be sabotage in the
German munition making industry.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-02-08
DUTCH BOLSHEVIK
GROUP 'THREATENS
GENERAL STRIKES

Amsterdam, Feb. 2-While the po-
lice and military are preparing for a
general strike in Amsterdam on Mon
day, there are Indications that the
movement will not assume serious
proportions.
1t is said to be backed. by Socialists
with Bolshevik tendencies, and is de-
clared to be an outward sign of the
discomfort of the working classes,
arising out of privations due to the
war. ~ :.
For the most part traffic was main
tanned in orderly manner, the state
ment adds. Publication of all the
newspapers has been resumed.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-02-08
DESTROYERS SAVE
CREW OF STEAMER
RAMMED ON SEAS

London, Feb. 2-The steamer Mon
treal has been sunk in a collision.
There was no loss of life and two
destroyers took off the crew. The
other vessel in the accident suffered
little damage.
There are two British steamers
named Montreal. One, of 8,644 tons
Is owned by the Canadian Pacific rail-
road and its port is London. The
other, of 1852 tons, is owned by the
Canada Steamship lines and its port
is Montreal.
There is a French steamer Mon
treal, of S,342 tons. It's port is
Havre.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-02-08
PARIS CHILDREN
FED BY AMERICAN
RED CROSS FUND

Paris, Feb. 1.-The American Red
Cross began feeding the school chill
dren in one of the poorest and most
crowded districts of Paris yesterday
by providing lunch for 3,S25 children.
It also is experimenting the work of
the municipal administration in that
district and is looking after the COM
fort Of refugees from the invaded dis
tricts.