Lowell Sun (Newspaper) - May 23, 1916, Lowell, Massachusetts Unsettled tonight fair moderate erly to southerly winds i O'CLOCK ESTABLISHED 1878 LOWELL MASS TUESDAY MAY 23 1916 PRICE ONE CENT Letter Giving the Reasons Will Sell Direct to Matters Acted Upon In a letter written to the municipal council this morning the officials of the Lowell Gas Light Co emphatically that they will not under any consideration sell gas to the Public Service Lighting Co but on the other hand they offer to sell direct to the city gas at 72 cents per thousand cubic feet The letter was read at the meeting arid after a little discussion was placed on file The council took action on the of the waterways com- mission In reference to the fencing of waterways in the city Three jurors were drawn for the superior court to be holden at Cambridge on the first Monday in June It was voted to rent to Thomas Varnum the land seized the city for a contagious hospital site for this year the rental fee being Other routine business was transacted Mayor opened the meeting at 10 Commissioners Morse and Duncan being absent A few minutes later however the two ab- made their appearance Hearings Given Hearings were given on the petitions of George for a garage at 34 South Loring street and James B Casey for a garage at 603 Chelmsford street and inasmuch as there were no remonstrants the petitions were re- ferred The following three names were drawn to act as jurors at the superior Continued to page three Further Successes for Cong Rogers Led Hearing on an Appeal From Report Harry Howe Case vs Detective Agency on ton Grants Divorces ture Greater Part of Fort Marden's Address Driven From Positions Along Entire and Flame Attacks by Germans Berlin Denies Paris Reports The case of Harry W J Howe against the William J Burns Detective Agency Inc was gun In the Jury session of the rior court Judge Bell presiding shortly before the noon hour today and the following jury was Edgar W Metcalf Winchester clerk foreman Thomas S Billerica clerk Theodore H Clark clerk John R Fair Natick shoe Herbert B Billerica farmer Benjamin B rence Tyngsboro farmer Herbert B Moore Natick Frank W Moulton Reading laborer Arnold C Chelmsford meat inspector Holcombe E Runkie Reading clerk Joseph R Smith Townsend painter Appleton H Torrey Groton merchant Patrick H Brosnan a liquor er of this city was called and by the defense Stuart Murphy was counsel for the plaintiff and John P Turner of Boston for the defense The plaintiff the Burns detective cy owes him the sum of 55790 for 579 davs services at per day He says that his work began on April 13 1914 said work to be any kind or variety of detective work in any at all times and he claims to have continued his service from said date until the present time The defendant in answer says that tiff was in its employ for nine days for which he was paid in full at the rate of per day Bny State The case of Anna G Shipley vs the Bay State Street Railway company was resumed In the of court this forenoon and Judge Bell made his charge to the jury before the noon adjournment Harold A Varnum and Richard brook Walsh for the plaintiff and Trull Wier for the defendant Mrs i Shipley seeks to recover for personal injuries sustained Sept 12 1313 while she was boarding a car in Central Square in Lynn Mrs Shipley Is a Tyngsboro Divorces Granted In the jury waived session of rior court this morning before Judge Hamilton a number divorces were granted local libellants The session opened promptly at 10 o'clock All the cases were The first case called was that of Hattie A Hurd vs Delmare G Hurd Hurd brought suit for divorce on the ground of desertion The case resulted in favor of Mrs Hurd who was allowed the custody of her two children Hattie O'Brien was granted a di- vorce and given the right to resume her maiden name in her suit against Automatic Screw Machine Operators Davis and Machine Co hax a nent position for experienced op- on National Acme four dle machines by Utter or In person her husband William T O'Brien Mrs O'Brien testified band left her about 12 and has since refused to contribute thing to her support resented by J Joseph Hennessy Salina Monnette was granted a divorce from her husband Harry J on the grounds of cruel and abusive treatment and desertion James F Owens represented her Matilda Davis brought action against her husband Fred A Davis on the grounds of excessive use of drink and abusive treatment Mrs Davis fied that shortly after her marriage her husband frequently in an intoxicated condition and abused Walter Davis a son of the laht said that he remembered his er coming home on of sions and abusing his mother and of once inflicting black and blue marks The drastic surprise sprung by the French yesterday In attacking the Germans northwest of Verdun and penetrating Fort has been successfully followed up by Gen forces The Germans have now been driven from all but a small angle In the northeastern corner of the fort this afternoon's bulletin from Paris claims Furious Counter Attacks Furious counter attacks have been made by the Germans In efforts to re- gain the trenches along the mile and a quarter front extending from east to Fort to the farm captured in yesterday's assault The only the cording to Paris however was the recapture of a position to the north of the farm Gas and Flame On the other side of the Meuse the battle has lost nothing in the intensity which has characterized it for day or two but no ground has changed hands as a result the French official statement asserts Gas and flame attacks were made by the Germans near Hill 304 one of the dominating heights in this region but they were driven at once from the only French trench which they In penetrating Austrians Gain Ground The latest official bulletins on the the front indicate that the Austrians are con- to gain ground in their drive In the southern Tyrol The current Austrian report claims Important successes on the Lavarone plateau to the east of the ley The official statement from Rome while recording the repulse of Austrian attacks in other sectors Is silent as to the result of the fighting in the Lavarone region Berlin Denies French Claims The claim to the possession of the greater part of Fort Is disputed by Berlin which declares that the fort is still firmly in man hands The German war however admits that Gen Continued to page three on her throat Judge Hamilton granted the divorce James F Owens represented Mrs Davis The cases of Mary Mercier vs cre Mercier Louisa Ducharme vs ouis Ducharme Elbina Sebula vs V Sebula and Catherine on vs William P Hanlon were all In favor the libellants Completeness of Stocks Is a Cardinal Point in Our Store Policy We MUST have what you want when you want it often havs you heard I'm very sorry we are all out of it at present It is mighty seldom that we arc out of anything for we have long realized that a single disappointment sets rifty occasions when a customer's needs are satisfied Wherefore we ask you as a favor to acquaint the door superintendent with I he fact If we are ever out of thing need Slayer Sat With Bowed Head as Doctors Tell of Finding Arsenic in Peck's Body COUNSEL ON BOTH SIDES NO FIXED FOR -TION The hearing in review of Mayor O'Donnell's finding in the John J der case which was scheduled to be this afternoon in the lower police court before Judge Enright was No date has been set for the of the hearing Today's postponement was caused by the sence of counsel Bides ab- CARRANZA ORDERS TROOPS INTO REGION SOUTH OF DER WASHINGTON May ranza government has ordered troops into the region south of the border to exterminate bandits information received today at the state department General original orders Issued after his conference at El Paso with Generals Scott and Funston assigned men to Gen Trevino to thoroughly police the territory south of the American expedition The new troops movements are already in progress through Chihuahua tho department's advices slate The columns are routed north via Saltillo for the most part as the way strike has interfered with the movement of troop trains over other lines NEW YORK May state continued to offer medical testimony today as the foundation of its case against Dr Arthur Warren Waite charged with murdering his law John E Peck of Grand Rapids Mich Mr Peck was reputed to be a millionaire and the theory of the prosecution is that the defendant com- mitted murder so that he might fall heir to the Peck fortune Dr Albertus A Moore the cian who attended Mr Peck before his death at the Waite apartments in New had not finished his testimony under cross examination when the first session of the trial adjourned day Upon direct examination he had declared Dr Waite admitted that he had purchased arsenic for his aged father-in-law for the reason that the old gentleman did not want to live Other medical witnesses summoned by the prosecution today were Dr Perry Schurtz of Grand Rapids the Peck family physician Dr Otto H Schultze county medical examiner who was Grand Rapids to gate the case and Dr Victor Vaughn pathologist of the University of gan The defense has announced that it will call one or more alienists and Indications are that Waite's attorneys will try to prove that when he com- mitted the crime he had several times confessed he was insane Dr Vaughn First Dr Victor C Vaughn dean of the medical department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor who made an analysis of the organs of Mr was the fust witness today He de- scribed In minute detail the effects of the arsenic poisoning on Peck Mrs Dorothy Van form Intimate friend of Mrs Margaret Horton with whom Waite shared a studio apartment arrived shortly court convened It was ex- she would be a witness for the tale Mrs Horton also may go on he stand today Mrs Clara Louise Peck Waite wife f tho prisoner was not in court but t was said sho would probably be called to the stand tomorrow to y against Percy Peck son of John E Peck his wife and Miss Catherine Peck the aged aunt from whom Waite is alleged o have obtained more than for purpose of investment were in court oday as were also Waite Waite respectively father anc brother of the prisoner Dr Waite sat with bowed head anc Ms gaze the floor while Dr Vaughn was testifying His tor betrayed his nervous tension when glass jars containing the organs ol John H Peck's body were placed on the table in the court room Dr Vaughn swore he found ant a half grains of arsenic in Mr Peck's stomach and amounts of it too smal to weigh in other organs the effect of the poisons upon the body Dr Stanley R Benedict of chemistry at the Cornell school corroborated the testimony Dr Vaughn as to the presence of in Mr Peck's body Dr that In ing a part of the brain of the dcai man he found an trac of chloroform Later examined th embalming fluid used on Mr Peck body but found no trace of or of arsenic Waite according to th district attorney paid to th Peck undertaker to swear that th embalming fluid contained arsenic COMMUNITY CONFERENCE DURHAM N H May three days community conference ar- ranged for the purpose of discussing the welfare of rural communities was opened at New Hampshire college day Among the topics to be treated in addresses by prominent men and women are the share of the school and the church in community ment farming efficiency means of suring pure milk and pure water plies moral problems and the need of the forces of the community Speakers on the program for today's session Included Prof G C Smith of New Hampshire college Miss Castine Swanson of Boston and Fred B man secretary of work de- of the International tee of the Young Men's Christian sociation Gov McCall Urges Enactment o Recommends Com- mission to Help Boston L FARRELL CONATON PLUMBERS STEAM GAS AND WATER FITTERS 243 Dutton Street Tel 1513 May a special sage to the legislature today Gov said the session should tto adjourn without the enactment of a law to prevent a recurrence of school house fires such as that in which a score of children lost their lives at on Oct 25 last His message he stated was prompted by the tion of the house in referring tc the next legislature a to this effect In another special message to he legislature Gov McCall recommended the appointment of a commission to consider whether the state should take any action toward enabling the Special to The Sun WASHINGTON D C May hearing was given this morning to men from Haverhill and Amesbury on an appeal from tho adverse report of W B concerning the project for the federal government to construct a ship channel in the Merrimack river from Lowell to the sea The hearing was held before tha board of appeal the engineer corps of the United States army The of each city presented arate appeals and arguments were made also by chairman of the harbors and lands commission of Massachusetts and En- gineer William Williams of that same commission as well as by Congressmen Rogers Phelan and Gardner While the Massachusetts men ed strenuously to Col ad- verse report as not justified the re- quest was made that the additional re- port of Col W E Abbot district en- gineer through Whom Col reported be considered Col Abbot suggested the federal government might have a proportionate interest in tha Merrimack river project without agreeing to undertake the entire cost If his suggestion is acted upon Col report will be returned to him for further tion as to the actual percentage of tha entire cost which properly be spent by the federal government Congressman Rogers Congressman Rogers conducted tho Mil Be Cabled Allies Let Mall Pass May Vilson sent to the state department oday the complete draft of the new ote to Great Britain protesting against with American mails H before the cabinet but s terms were explained The ote will be cabled to London ately and It Is understood that a will go to the French hearing and made the principal plea said the project warranted federal ild and he believed the estimated cost high and that by eliminating the tern for connecting the channel with pool above Lowell one cost could ba saved He said the rimack valley had annual five million tons of which Is coal If the channel were deepened and coal reached the valley cities byj water the cost a ton ess and only one half the water the government would annually He referred to the good faith shown by the state In one million dollars and predicted more appropriations when needed He expressed the belief the federal government should fair proportion of the cost and be- lumber cotton wool cement antl other commodities would be brought by water to Low ell and that the channal should be such that ell's could start the Merrimack to the markets of the world He quoted Ing proposed were worth ten million to the valley cities and cited statement to value of the proposed work ras worthy of federal assistance j Robert F Warden Mr Robert F Marden president the board of trade spoke in: part as For a number of years ths residents Continued 0 Lorenda Girls tonight Highland hall OF ILL H is the Grand by Great Britain LONDON May moving the vote of as had been forecast in the house today Premier Asquith commented that this was he vote since the beginning of the war and the second for the current financial year The total granted this year he added was therefore making -a grand total of COMPLETION OF JURY EXPECTED TO ASK COURT TO DISMISS CASE May ion today of the jury to try W H for murder of his former icart was predicted by court officials The first week of the trial only four were secured Progress was more rapid yesterday however two men being tentatively accepted by both sides and two moro passed by the de- ense so that eight were in the jury jox when court opened today When the state has completed its case thr defense plans to ask the court o direct a verdict of not guilty to James H of counsel for The motion will be based on a de- of the Illinois supreme court tho conviction in case where the evidence was wholly circum- stantial as it is in this said Mr In the precedent on which It is hoped to free the higher court held that evidence can be con- strued to show that it was possible for the alleged victim to have committed suicide a verdict acquitting the should be rendered GREEK BRITISH ITALIAN ASD NORWEGIAN SHIP LATEST TIMS LONDON May Shipping Agency today reported the sinking three ships a Greek and a British steamer and an Italian vessel Tho Greek steamship Korals of 2947 tons gross was sunk Austrians In the Mediterranean Tho crew was saved The Italian sailing vessel was sunk in the ean The British tons gross was sunk by a mine Seven of her crew were killed STEAMER SUNK PARIS May Norwegian steamer has been sunk nea Island of Majorca by an Austrian submarine according to Havas despatch today from Palma on that island The crew of 17 men wa saved HOUSE STRIKES OUT AMENDMENT TO GRANT WOMAN THEN PASSED WASHINGTON May housa struck from the Porto Rican day by a vote of SO to 53 an ment designed to grant woman frage to tho Island The then passed without a roll call virtually as introduced CONSIDER SUBMARINE WARFARE LONDON May central boarc of the German national liberal held a meeting In Berlin on Sunda to consider the question of warfare A Central News from Amsterdam says the board adopt cd a resolution referring to the grea value of submarine warfare England's supremacy on the sea an called upon the national liberal party in the to urge unlimited us of the submarine weapon Iii the even that the United States does not to the conditions set forth in the las German note Tho party was pledge as one man the despatch says firmly behind the government whie strives for the fulfillment of these con ditions tain capital to complete and tunnel and rapid transit lines now un der construction The commission recommended by the executive would consist of the public service sion the Boston transit commission and five other persons It would report to the next legislature GERMAN CASUALTIES BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE May via Con- of reports that the German casualty lists arc so far in arrears that their total as issued from time to time is in no wise representative is de- clared now to have been supplied It GAMES POSTPONED Eastern at New game postponed rain American at Philadelphia game postponed wet grounds Eastern at New Hartford game postponed wet grounds American at New St New York game postponed rain Eastern at Worcester game postponed rain American at ton game postponed Eastern at Lawrence game postponed rain Boston Railway company to obtain a net revenue adequate lor its corporate and public purposes The governor he had received September last have only just been a letter from the company stating published as among the German that at present it was unable to ob- ing is now known that the names of mans taken prisoner and left dead In the trenches at the battle of Loos in SIDE CAR STRUCK AUTO While coming out of Thayer cour in Nashua Sunday a motorcycle with a driven by Stanislas Fortl of Manchester collided with an auto mobile which is said to belong to Lowell man The driver of the motor cycle and two men who were ridin in were spilled but for uninjured The left tiro of tho automobile went flat MIDDLESEX BANK Insure Good FOR IIV LOCAL HEALERS Rate of Interest Paid Past Year Sale of allures In new series May 26 Money loan at per cent on bottom mortgages Re For further Information apply at Office of the Bunk Central Bi Vlan Uprising Wrecker Killed BROWNSVILLE Tex May Morin charged planning Mexican uprising In southern Texas rid Victoriano Ponce charged witn in the wrecking of a rain near here last October were shot o death when they attempted to ape from Texas rangers to a report reaching here Spent by Road for Something Not on Record BOSTON Bay Stata Street Railway Co Is oft tea or which was spent tor something of there is no ord Charles R Rockwell treasurer of he company testified today at ic service connection with the road's petition for increased fares The Indebtedness ivas one ilr Rockwell stated although Us origin was the present management Much protection lies in the electric It needs no outside its heat It can be used in any cool room Lowell Electric Light Corp Market Street Tel 821
