New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 15, 1916, Page 4

QOur contracts placed last July before the advancein prices. You get the benefit ument, although he admitted that by its terms Alderman brothers were to retain 70 per cent, of the capital stock in the new corporation, A number of Sheff the stand in the Buchanan of senior, explained studenfs noon. Pittshurgh, for the took D. G. Pa a edification of the jury, th various technicalities of the well known game led “‘eraps. He told what was meant by the term “fade,” and how the betting is done. He not only admitted that he haa seen several games of this kind going on in the store but testified that he | had taken part several of them with one or the other of the Alderman brothers. Attorney - Goodhart cross-ques- tioned Buchanan with a view to find- | ing out whether Samucl Alderman | profited by the games which went on in his store. replied that \Greek Situation Puts Piraeus, New Haven, Dec. 15.—That show , not merely gambling, are at the pttom of the pressing by the officials Yale university of the charge ainst the Alderman brothers, tailors, the Hotel Taft, was made known bsterday afternoon when H. Harold eeland, registrar of Sheffield ientific school, took stand e now famous case, Vreeland related the de- the the Registrar ils of a visit he claims was paid by muel Alderman to his office shortly ter the of April 8. “Mr, Al- rman began to plead with me,” said raid e registrar, “not to press the charges ainst him. ‘Oh, Mr. Vreeland!' he ‘Do If this charge is essed, my business is ruined. I am it thinking of myself but of my father d mother. Please help me in this puble and I will leave town or do ything if only you will not ruin n rents, who have their all in this sines Mr. Vreeland testified that he told e accused he was sorry the charge d to be pressed but that the gam- ing was not the real accasion for e determination of the university in essing the charge. He told Alder- pn, he said, that the real reason was report which, they considered, med well grounded, that students fre in the habit of meeting chorus ls“through him, and that he used loan them his big car for use in fking these girls out riding nights. Registrar Vreeland stated that Al- irman denied the truth of this arge. “How can you think that of ? he said. “There is no truth in g charge. Who told you? ” How- er, witness said, Alderman then freed that he would sell his car and er buy another so long as he was ['#he-city if the university officials puld agrce not to press the charge jatnst him. Dean Jones on Stand. [Dean ¥rederick §. Jones of the col- e, was on the stand during the day d produced a proposed agreement fich had been shown him, he said, Alderman in which the latter roed to get out of the active man- ment of the business and leave it irands of his clerks, John Grif- Jacedb Bck. Dean Jones did t say what he thought of that doc- ia, help me. in! | The Port of Athens, in Danger In allied quarters in Washington it stated that the new British Ministry will attermpt 10 complete re- duction of Greece, witi recognition of the Venizelos government as the le- eltimate authority, and the arrest or deposition of King Constantine. London despatches say reports from Athens and Piraeus. the port of was | Athens, reiterated emphatically and with details that the recent attack on the entente allies in Athens was the result of a delibegstely prepared plot by the king and "his government. The allies insist that the royalists, headed by the king, have adopted a permanently bellicose attitude toward the entente. They say that the mo- bilization iz proceeding rapidly and that every warlike preparation is in progre encouraged by the Ruman. U SIS ERER TN R S A DR FRENCH GUNS TRAINED ON PIRAEUS, THE PORT OF ATHENS N 355577 M A A 0100 jan victories and lavish promises | from Germany. The despatches add that Greek diers occupy all vantage points neg Athens and Piracus and are digging trenches and mounting guns. The correspondents say Greek activities may endanger the success of the en- tire allied operations in the Balkans, They urge vigorous allied action. \ph shows BUn on a French ip trained on Piracus, ] he i was making anything out of the jin which he did not take a per | part. i (i A {1 (T i), {“,1 il 1 did not know whether Alderms He was asked whether Samuel Alderman frowned on the gaming and requested the boys not to make a gaming house out of his shep. He replied that Alderman had asked the boys not to play so much in his store, but that he had never heard of any of them being thrown out of the store The store of a thousand gifts. Watch our windows. New pieces every day. for not complying. Other young men who testified for the state yesterday were F. S. B. Ber- ger and Craig Culliman, both seniors in Sheff. and members' of the well known Cloister society; W, W, Smyth, of Vernon hall, and C. B. Armstrong, of the Colony. Henry W. Hobson, formerly con- nected with the University Christian assocviation ,and now a student of the- ology at Harvard, testified that a num- ber of well known athletes of Yalc had told him reports about the Ald man place. Among these, he men- tioned' Captain Nelson Talbot of the 1914 football team; Clement Gile, the famous Yale pitcher of the 1913 base- ball team, ‘and several others who have graduated from the university. 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