New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 24, 1916, Page 1

HERALD BFST OF ALL LOCAL NL‘VSPAPERS NEW BRITAIN HERALD! HERALD “ADS” MEAI BETTER BUSINE PRICE THREE CENTS. NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1916 —T'WELVE PAGES. ESTABLISHED " GERMAN AEROPLANE BOMBARDS DOVER sDrops Bombs on Station, Bar-| racks and Docks FRENGH SHELL HONASTIR Two Civilians Killed and Eight In- jured in Attack on Metz Squadron of Allied Airships—One Machi Shot Down by Wireless to issued Berlin, Jan. 24, « Ville—The German admiralty the following today “A German naval zeroplane during the night of Jan. 22-23 dropped bombs on station, barracks and docks of Dover.” French Shell Monastir. Jan.’ 24, 10:45 a. m.—Bom- bardment of Monastir in southwestern Serbia by a squadron of forty-five French aeroplanes yesterday is re- ported by the Havas correspondent at Salopiki. Considerable damage is to have been done to ammunition lepots, the quarters of the ¢ and the railroad station. ie correspondent also reports that Italian expeditionary force o Al- s soon to be attacked. ul- who, in co-operation wnh captured the Albanian “town of Berat are reported to be ad- rcing toward Avlona, which is held hy the Ttalians. Austrian troops are said to be moving in the direction of Durazzo, where F head of hi 5 Albanian troops, is pre- Metz Bombarded. lin, Jan. 24, by Wireless to Say- ~The foreign official statement ar operations was issued today by German army headquarters: “Western front: There have been | lively artillery and aeroplane actions. | An enemy squadron bombarded Metz, | Where bombs fell on the bishop's seneral | | counsel. | timony by | Jssad Pasha, at the | i ‘ \ | company, { | court SPIRITED TILTS AT EXPLOSION INQUIRY Representatives of Edison Storage Battery Co. and Licut, Fisher Have Clashes Over Submarine E. New York, Jan. 24.—Spirited tilts between representatives of the Edison Storage Battery company and Lieut. J. O. Fisher, naval court of inquiry into the fatal explosion on the submarine B-2, oc- curred today while a witness was be- ing examined as to the condition of the IEdison battery cells removed from the wrecked interior of the craft. The witness was Lieut. Walter S. | Anderson, attached to the machinery division of the New York Navy Yard, who supervised the removal of the cells. He testified that many of them were defective, but admitted that this might have been caused by the ex- i plosion. The judge advocate then asked the witness a question in which he used the word “Defect.” | Commander W. H. McGran, U. S. | N.. retired, counsel for the Idison objected and heated words followed, with other members of the and Dr. Millor Reese Hutchi- son, an Edison representative, partici- pating. The question was allowed to stand, but the judge advocate apologized to the Edison counsel for his manner during the debate, at the demand of It is expected that the tes- in the inquiry will be com- | pleted tomorrow. FIFTEEN WORKMEN | | | - KILLED IN EXPLI]SI(]N‘ Probably As Many More Fa- tally Injured in Acci- dent at Buffalo. Buffalo, N. Y,, 24 —Fifteen workmen were killed and as many more probably fatally injured in an Jan. dwelling and on a house in the hos- | €xplosion at the plant of the Kelker pital court and eight wounded. One aeroplane‘ was shot down and its inmates made | prisoner. i Germans Claim Advantage. Two civilians were killed | Rlower company in Harrison ‘with terrific force | story building crumpled to the ground, street this afternoon. The boiler in the plant and exploded the three- “German aviators have bombarded | hurying whe two score of workmen in | railroad statigns and military estab- lishments behind the enemy’s front. ~dmeweveral air-efigage ménts PHE - mans had the upper hand. stern front: German artiller: shelled and set on fire a Russian rail- road train north of Dvinsk. “Balkan front: An enemy squadron, coming from Greek bombarded Monastir. air | soil, ! eral casualties in killed and wounded | the several panic. emong inhabitants.” REFUSES TO ALLOW OSBORNE TO PLEAD aid to Be | | Secking a Superseding Indictment | District Attorney Weceks Against Ex-Sing Sing Warden. W1 Y., Jan. 24.—Dis- of West Chester | ite Plains, trict Attorney Week | Founty, refused today to allow Thom- as Mott Osborne, former. warden . .of Sing Sing prison to enter a plea to the indictment charging him with im- moral conduct. A demand that former warden be allowed tc the indictment today was counsel, George Gordon fore Justice Morschcauser, i¥ict attorney his province alone to say when an ac- cused man should be allowed to plead. He added that to plead at this time. The grand jury, which indicted Mr. Oshorne, is still in session and it wa rumored that the district attorney was seeking superseding indictment. . Justice Morschauser took briefs in the “matter and left the question as to when the plea should be entered un- settled. The justice postponed mean- time on motion of Mr. Battel the date on which Mr. Osborne is to be tried for alleged perjury, from Feb. 7, to Feb. 24 answer to Battel, be- IMPORTANT WITNESS FOUND. in Probe of Plots, Sought by Government * Alleged Munition the re- investigation a spe- New York, Jan. 24—With sumption today of the into alleged munition plots by jal federal jury it became that an mportant witness for whom the government had conducted 4un extended search, had been found. It was d that his testimony, which wwill be given on Thursday might lead Lo the indictment of three, and pos- sibly four prominently identi- fled with affairs and two or three men of lesser importance. Meantime, the witness is being close- Jy guarded by the federal authorities. { Eight persons have already been in- dicted by the jury in connection with the activities of labor's National Peace Council. men labor WILSON REMITS $2,000 FINE. Washington, Jan —President Wilson today remitted a two thousand dollar fine imposed on J. H. Bullock, convieted in a federal court several years ago of defrauding the govern- ment in bids for coal for Forts Davis, 5t. Michael and Liscum in RBullock has served a jail term which @ ~wires today. he had not called him | known | “their less fortunate comrades. There were sev- | from the wrecked factory, | the Railway Age but the dis- | probably said that it was within | told the police he saw the young wo- | | | [ | | Alaska. | its ruins. Few escaped uninjured and those engaged in the work of rescuing Fire three fire the | broke out in the ruins and alarms brought the’ principal fighting apparatus of the city to scene. The explosion broke every pane of | glass in school 26, across the street and threw | hundred pupils into a The school fire alarm was sounded and the children marched out | without disordér. None was hurt. i The blower company operated vnder the Larkin company, and manu- factured glass and pottery ware. JUMPS FROM 16TH FLOOR. Chicago Stenographer Still Alive— ¥all Broken By Auto Truck, Chicago, Jan. 24.—Miss Minnie B. | ‘Werner, a stenographer employed by Gazette, plunged | from the sixteenth floor of the Trans- portation Building in Dearborn street today, but still lives. Her fall was the | broken by an auto truck loaded with paper boxes but her skull was frac- de by his | tured and she was internally injured. at the would said she eyewitness Physicians hospital die. An man raise the window the ledge. The police believed she jumped. She was 24 years old. Her employ- ers said they know of no reason why she should seek to end her life. and climb onto said they be- SMALL FIRE HAS TWO ALARMS. Lovers of excitement had a few minutes of joy Saturday evening shortly after 6:30 o’clock when the bell sounded a double alarm from Box 32. When the firemen arrived they found a dangerous blaze in the attic of a house owned by Frank Cycygiel at 24 Beaver street. Before the flames were extinguished damages to the ex- tent of $500 was done. Pursuant to the policy he has carried out since his connection with the safety board, Commissioner Alling was in attendance despite the invitation of the mayor to resign. The ringing of the second alarm was a mistake due to the over anxiety of some person who found the box open. THREE PNEUMONIA VICTIM South Norwalk. Jan. 24—TPneu- monia nearly wiped out a whole fam- ily in this city during the past twenty four hou William W. Comstock, former city official, and wealthy re- tired merchant, died at 8:15 yesterday morning, his neice, Florence Hale, died at noon, and his sister, Mrs. Ann Hale, died at 10 o’'clock this | morning. The only surviving mem- [ ver of the family, Miss Georgiana | Comstock, is ill at the home where three dead bodies are. STEAMER LACKS COAL. New York, Jan. 24—Radio received here today from the American line steamship stated that she was short of conl and heading for St. Johns, N to obtain a sufficient supply to enable advices Holland Noordam i her to reagh this port. Judge advocate of the | | nigge DIVORGE PETITION NOW IN MOHR TRIAL 'State Introduces Document as Evidence in Murder Case 'FILED BY WIDOW IN 1914 Providence Woman Charged Slain | Husband With Extreme Cruelty and | Maintenance In- Asked Separate stead of Absolute Divorce. Providence, R. I., Jan, 24.—Almost at the point of resting its case, the prosecution today introduced as evi- dence against Mrs. Elizabeth F. Mohr, Cecil V. Brown and Henry M. Spell- man jointly on trial for the murder of the woman’s husband, Dr, C. | Franklin Mohr, the divorce petition which was filed by Mrs. Mohr on Feb. 17, 1914. The case was to have come |up for a hearing on Sept. 1 last, the | day after Dr. Mohr was killed. | The petition charged extreme cruel- |ty. As amended on July 6, 1914 ref- erence was made to Dr. Mohr's asso- | ciation with other women and con- | tained the charge that ne had used idrugs excessively. Separate mainte- I nance for the wife instead of absolute divorce, was asked in the amended i bill. The documents were brought into the records of the case through iden- tification by Robert C. Root, assist- ant clerk of the court. Miss Stevenson Witness, Attorney W. H. Lewis of the defense began cross examination of Miss Ger- {rude Stevenson, a writer on a Boston newspaper, today, regarding testimony che had given as to a conversation with Brown showing the witness a slip of paper on which was written a name, he asked her if she/ knew any- one by that name in Boston. ‘A do,” replied Miss Stevenson. Mr, Lewis destroved the paper when At- tcrney General Rice asked to see it. The court objected to this method of examining the witness. Mr. Lew cffered to write out the name again but the court would not permit it. Denies Accusation. Miss Stevenson said she know until last Friday to be called as a witness. “Did you tell a young lady at a hirthday party in Boston .on October 20 that you were going down to Provi- | dence t testify against those did not that she was 'EXPECT NO TROUBLE McGOWAN EXPLAINS $30,000 NAVY FUND Paymaster General Tells Why Money Is Wanted for “Collection of In- formation at Home and Abroad.” Washington, Jan. 24.—Paymaster General McGowan, of the navy, told the house' naval committee today | about the purpose of a $30,000 appro- | priation, the navy wants for “collev- tion of -information at home and abroad.” ' He said the sum includes the expenses 'of naval atfaches at London, Berlin, Vienna, Rome, Petro grad, Paris, Buenos Aires, Tokio and Peking. The information sought “at home” he said, was as to available | £hips, sources of supply, Tesources of various Kinds, information, he said, of great military value. “Nava] attaches of other govern- ments are seeking the same inside in- formation in this country that our at taches are 'seeking at foreign x)l-l tals?” asked Representative Honqlm They're trying to,” replied Admiral McGowan, smilingly. Members of the committee plied the witness with questions about the $30,- 000 fund but he parried tthem. “Ivery government has attaches at the other government capitals to find out what the other government does | not want them to know ?” asked Rep- >ntative Hensle, 1 wish we knew what they are doing abroad,” returned the admiral. You need twice as much money for spying than last year?” “We need twice as much quiring information. more here about | for ac- AT EAST YOUNGSTOWN No Danger of New Strike or Outbreak of Rioting Says Sheriff. Youngstown, O., Jan. 24.—There is no danger of a new strike of steel workers or of a new outbreak of riot- ing in East Youngstown today, ac- cording to a statement by Sheriff Um~ stead, who has been watching the situation since Saturday night when the steel mill suburb became alarmed by rumors of fresh trouble. Forty special deputies sworn in hy Mayor Cunningham of East Youngs-: town Saturday night were still on duty | today. “I never said such a thing | denied that she | S sersonal charms™ to get the confidence of the negroes but | admitted she thought it was necessary to deceive them to get their stor Sympathy for Defendants. “Have you any prejudice against the defendants I represent?” Mr. Icwis asked. “I have the greatest sympathy them.” said Miss Stevenson. On re-direct examination Miss Stevenson was asked if Brown, Spell- man and Healis said anything about the disposition of their guns. “Yes,” she said. “I asked them how they were going to get around the fact that they had told Chief Robins what they had done with the revolvers, and they said: ‘Oh. that wen't amount to anything: we can say we told the chief that just to agree viith him.’ . Alleged Alibi of Brown. The alleged alibi that Miss Steven- son testified Brown gave her to give his sister, as introduced in evidence, | purported to account for his presence | in Providence on the night of the Jolling until 9:15 o'clock when, it | stated, he went to Riverside to call on friends, but failed to see them. Brown, in this statement, said he left Riverside at 10:20, for Providence. Theodore E. Hedlund, a Boston re- porter, testified as to Miss Stevenson's interview with the negroes in the adl. for NEW SCHOOL OPEN Overcrowding in Old High School Re- lieved—General Offices of Principal | and Teachers Is Transferred. The first session in the new Voca- tional High school was held this morning when the doors of the build- ing were opened for the first time for | the reception of pupils. The building is one of the finest institutions of | learning of its kind in the country and will greatly aid the overcrowded con- ditions that have existed in the High school for several years. The attend about even, according to Principal L. P. Slade. The students in the commercial and industrial courses will attend the new school. Sessions will be held morning and af- ternoon in both schools hereafter. For some time two half-day sessions have been in force, and have not proved satisfactory to the school Loard. The general offices of the principal and teachers has been transfe ed to the new building. Commencing to- morrow and continuing for the re- mainder of the week the mid-year ex- aminations will be held. | DROWNED. ! ames figures of | MERIDEN MAN Meriden, Conn. Devine, while crossing Hanover pond | on his way to work today. broke Jan. | aay, | the close | With nce at both schools arc | a | through thin ice and was drowned. Youngstown 2 d today mills and Officials and Tube thing quiet at the expect no trouble. Thirty arrests were made including an Indust 1 of the World strike agitator. police had been warnped, it is re- ported of impending trouble. Worl men are dissatisfied because the new wage scale did not meet their ex- pectations. One man is in the hospital as a re- sult of resisting arrest. The other arrests made were for disorderly con- duct. RAISE 610 FOR RELIEF Dr. Shedd Talks of Conditions in Per- of the Company Shec cvery is they | vester- | Worker | The | sia and Generous Response Is Made To Appeal For Funds. Following an address last night be- fore the Persian-Assyrian mission at the South Congregational church by Rev. Dr. William H. Shedd, recently returned from Urumia, Persia, a col- lection totaling $610 for the relief ot the victims of the Turkish atrocities was taken up. Dr. Shedd accompanied by Rev. Elisha Adams of the local mission | went to Bristol in the afternoon and ! spoke before members of the Per- sian-Assyrian colony there. A col- | lection totaling $100 was raised for the fund in Bristol. Dr. Shedd at of the local meeting met of the congregation and talked them personally concerning elatives in Urumia Tonight the Persian-Assyrian mission a reception at the South honor of Dr. Shedd. many their at ) will give church in NO COPPER ON STOCKHOLM. Also Denied Parcel Containing Rubber Post Packages Were Found. London, Jan. 24, 11:27 The | agents for the Swedish-American Line steamship Stockholm, which now discharging part of its cargo for the prize court at Liverpool, deny that | copper in lard pails or parcel post packages containing rubber were dis- covered on board the vessel. A despatch from Liverpool on Sat- urday last said that British news- papers published a report that pails, on board the Stockholm, supposed to contain five hundred tons of lard really contained copper ingots that heavy parcel post pacls tained a large quantity of rubber. Hartford, Jan. 24 — For Hartford and : vicinit | case so far | ana | for sending | to brass | ficials were HOLMES’ NAME WAS NOT ON PAYROLLS | Mayor Quigley’s Case Weakened‘ By New Tum in Squabble { BOARD STILL ON THE J0B stecle, Marwick, Pratt, Conlon, Park- er and Jester Mentioned as New Men for Safety Commission—Mayor Blamed Chief. Up to 3 o'clock this afternoon, ac- cording to the best information ob- tainable, Mayor George A. Quigley had not ordered the dismissal of Chairman Raymond R. Healey and Commissioners T. B. Alling and Frank H. Holmes of the board of pub- lic safety. The wonder grows at the determination to include Commis- sioner Holmes in the general sweep. Mr. Holmes' endorsement did not ap- pear on the payrolls on which Officer C. Malone was included while he This weakens the mayor's as Mr. Holmes is con- cerned. It is also claimed that Mr. Holmes has not partaken of any pub- lic discussion in which Mayor Quig- ley’s course has been criticised. Steel New Commissioner? Successors to the three commis- sioners are already being considered. It is said that Howard M. Steele, ex- tax collector and a candidate for the republican nomination against Mayor Quigley at the caucus two years ago, is in a receptive mood. He is said to Mayo: | have had a cenference with the mayor Saturday. Mr. Steele stated that he had not been asked by the mayor to serve on the board but it is not believed he would decline the ap- pointment. Others Mentioned. Fdward M. Pratt, syperintendent of the Corbin Screw DiviSion of the Am- erican Hardware Corporation, is said to have been offered an appointment to the board but he declined with thanks. Ex-Alderman D. B. Marwick is also rumored to be among those ayor Quigley is considering. Still another is Councilman Frank L. Con- lon of the sixth ward. Mr. Conlon told a reporter he would not take the place. Among other names heard are today | those of Alderman E. A. Parker of the fourth ward and Alderman M. Irving Jester of the second ward. Ticket Rumored. independent ticket greater part of re- in the it being said that such a plan to defeat the mayor for re-election, should he s cure a re-nomination, is being con- sidered. Dame Rumor placed Chair- man Healey at the head of the ticket. Mr. Healey stated today that noth- ing would please him better but that he would be unable to take the lead- ership because he must devote him- self to his duties at the New Britain Trust company. Estimates Are Near. Thoughtful citizens fear Mayor Quigley may do the city harm by ap- pointing three new commissioners at this time of the year. The day is not far distant when the city commis- sions will begin to d the es- timates for the new fiscal year. With three green members on the public safety board the needs of the police fire departments, may not receive proper attention. Yes, He Said It. Through his publicity Mayor Quigley yesterday he had blamed the out the name of a not working. language used Independent of an the Rumors composed publicans for are bureau, denied that chief of police a pay roll including policeman who was The fact is that the in the Herald Friday | night was the language of the mayor in an interview with a Herald re- porter earlier in the day. The mayor aid “The chief had no right to send out a ‘phonny’ payroll—a padded pay roll when you come right down tac A Jovial Chairman Healey and Commission- er Alling held an “old home” re- union with Commissioner Holmes at the latter’s residence on Rocky Hill avenue Saturday. It is reported that no tears were shed. Reunion. TAKE 'O KIRKWALL, Starland Oil Tank Steamer wegian Craft S and Nor- cd by British. (De- steam- Philadelphia, London, Jan. 20, 6:18 p. m. The Standard Oil tank Petrolite, from for Copenhagen with cargo of petroleum, and the Norwegian steani- ship Mons, from Baltimore Jan. 1, for iania with a cargo of wheat, rye and barley, have been taken into Kirkwall. It ws on Jan. s announced from Washington 17, that state department of- investigating an affidavit by Capt. Thompson of the Petrolite that his vessel was fired on and stopped by an Austrian submarine off Alexandria, lgypt on Dec. § last, and that supplies were removed. The afli- vit was said to declare that fourteen shots were fired at the ship, one of which crashed into the engine room and injured a Danish seaman and t the submarine commander took of the Petrolite’s crew aboard submarine and held him as Wwhile he obtained previsions from the tank steamship. one the KING OF MONTENEGRO i ARRIVES IN ROME | VALIDITY OF INGO! TAX LAW UPH Supreme Court Decides in Fa of Coustnluflonamy SWEEPS ASIDE OBJECTI Fights Accompanied by His Son, Prince Peter and Five Officers of His Suite, 2 Nich- of- | Rome, Jan. 2 p. m—King olas of Montenegro, accompanied and by arrived in Rome to his son, Prince Peter three of his suite, Brindisi, in which had been put at his disposal to emphasize the purpose of the Italian | government in wishing to do him hon- | or. King Nicholas, who was dressed in the national ccstume, with black cap, white packet and red sash, looked very worn as a result of his hurried trip on horseback from Podgoritza t0 the sea and the consequent pa and the trip from Brindisi. King Victor Emmanuel met the king at the Ternini terminal station, where an immense crowd had gathered to ap- plaud the Montenegrin soverelgn. They proceeded in automobile to the | villa Savoia, where Queen Helena, daughter of King Nicholas awaited him with her four children. The' cxiled monarch will leave Rome 9 o'clock tonight to join his wife ficer day from the roval train, Vor Nearly Fifty Years and Against a Federal Assessm Has Been Somewhere in Courts, Wa court Jan. 24.—The suph today upheld the constitut] ality of the income tax law, Chief Justice White gave the @ Gecision sweeping aside all the objections to its contitutionalits | whole or in part. Five Separate Suits. geparate suits to test the stitutionality of the new income were brought in the federal eg throughout the country soon afte Sy iaw became effective and all £ their way to the supreme court o United States soon after. shington, | | i | i | | | . Five at and two daughters in Lyons. | been faomeqtive in thaau Union Pacific Case, Chief Justice White announced decision in the case of Frank R. H shaber, stockholder of the Uj Pacific railroad, who sought.to join the company from paying the on the ground that it was unconst tional. Most of Justice White’s opinion directed toward over ruling the tention that the income tax am ment provided a hitherto unih power of taxation. Going far int istory of income tax legislation) chief jpstice concluded the argum was without merit. Advancing to other points, thed justice held that the tax was not constitutional hecause it was ré active. 3 Republican Leaders Discuss Plans for Assembly at Chicago on June 7. Chicago, Jan. 24—Republican lead- ers and members of the national com- mittee sub-committee on convention arrangements met here today and discussed plans for the party conven- tion which is set for June 7 in the Chicago Coliseum. Though empowered by the national committee to select a temporary chairman for the national gathering the committee members here de- | clared that no such step would he | taken at this meeting. When the sub-committeemen went | into executive session, Fred Upham, chairman of the Chicago convention committee, Julius Floto, architect, and | until the Cleveland administeal C. R. Hawley, manager of the build- | jaced an income tax in the ing, met with them. Informal con- | tarifr . act = that. the fight ferences of committeemen preceded | corious the executive session, and there ap- The Sonfestiover tag peared to be a general disposition 1o | < in 1894 and 1895 before forecast that all reasonable conces- | (i irera court was one of the sions would be made to assure har- |\t Ccer fought out befors mony in the ranks of the party which | [t SotC R R O e was divided after the 1912 conven- | grier, warned the court'sgaingl on : [ting up its judgment to thwart one of the committeemen woule | (AF P (8 T e say that the harmony plans would | N1 Of sixty million peopie: X i <, H. Choate, opposing, called upon extend to the nomination of Col. | * - cise its judicial pe Roosevelt as the republican standarva | COUrt to exercise its J bearer, and none of the committee | 'eBardless of any popular or popi would permit himself to be quoted as | 'FOPasanda. saying that such nomination should | Rehearing Was Granted. not be made. At first the court decided that Franklin Murphy of New iax was unconstitutional as to was one of those | from land because it was a dire harmony. not apportioned according to pPop “I find there is a great disposition | tion, anda was unconstitutional to bring about harmony, if the p interest on municipal bonds. gressives are not nasty,” he sald. ‘I | eight judges participated and think the convention will be able to | were evenly divided as to the vall select a candidate satisfactory to all | of other features of the law. A the elements of the party. Fearing was granted and Justice Ji “T believe,” continued Mr. Murphy | son voted to sustain the law. Jul “that any strong man the republicans | Harlan created a sensation by | nominate can defeat Mr. Willson. It | nouncing from the bench that anof is a republican year and we are cer- | justice had changed his mind tain of victory. The convention iS | pight on the questfon, and the going to be a free, open-minded, de- | (ax, both as to realty and as to ing liberative body. No person can tell at | from personality was set aside om at this time who the candidate will | ground that it was a direct taxs be.” not apportioned according to Chairman Charles D. Hilles said 10 | jation, as was required by the selection of a temporary chairman | tution of direct taxes. would be made now. An agitation for an amendment} “The convention will be open-mind- | {he constitution then began. It ca ed,” d Mr. Hilles. “The candl- |{5 nothing until President Taft date will be born in the convention. | ;ymended the enactment of am There will be no arrangement in ad- | cise tax on corporations to be vance.?” ured by their income and an ame ment to the constitution to permit levying of an income tax on all come. The amendment was subm| ed to the states at once and was claimed as the sixteenth amendm to the constitution on March 1, 18 Fight Became Serious, Theincome tax' imposed during} war and the years immed! following were not attacked wil seriousness of later cases. It wi raliaity off Jersey. | most hopeful of “SAFETY FIRST” Tocal People Going to Canada Equip- 1 Provisions of Amendment. ped with Certificates Showing Them It provides “The congr lJay and collect taxes on incomes £8 without Residents of the United States. ss shall have powel “Safety been slogan first” has Fred Beloin Crowe who will leave tomorrow with Mrs. Mrs. Crowe for a trip to Canada. Both Mr. Beloin and | Mr. Crowe have received certificates from City Clerk Thompson showing | that they are citizens of the United States. They®expect to be gone about ten days. A “umber of New Britain people | who hay. visited the Dominion havu | numbered among their papers, let- | ters from the city clerk or Mayor | adopted as | and T. w,. | Whatever source derived portionment among the several s and without regard to any census | enumeration.” The a by Beloin and Five Suits. of the itself the new P Congress availed' opportunity to exercise er by incorporating into the tariff becomes effective Octob the present income tax. I suits, all challenging the validitys certain features of the tax were: Frank R. Brushaber, stoc kholda the Union Pacific railroad C | ing in the New York fe to enjoin the company the tax. John Dodge, Mich., to enjoin which 1913 Quigley proving them residents of thi: country. Otherwise they might be held in the Dominion until the Euro- pean war is concluded. 1) from paj ¥. Dodge and Horaced manufacturers of Detsg in the Michigan federal col the inter revenue lector from collecting the tax. lary on the ground that it discrimingt against co-partnerships in favor corporations John R. Stanton {he Baltic Mining Co. chusetts federal company and others X, largely 1 1se cent. annual deduction OFFICERS Annual Mecting of New Britain Trust Company Held Today. officers were re-elected annual meeting of the New Britain | Trust company today. They are as follows 1‘ President—W. E. Attwood | Vice president—L. Hoyt Treasurer and Secretary Vibberts, Assistant \ | i | Al | at the stockholder in the Mass courts ,to enjoin from paying # of the five from inecg IFrank i [ G. | Raymond R. treasurer Ical (Continued on Eleventh Pages J