New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 20, 1917, Page 9

- SWEEPING EFFECT | OF THE HANN ACT -Lawyers Say Supreme Court De- cision Has New Effect Dec the Driggs Tterpretatioh of the scope of the Mann “white ‘neys say, ion of the supreme court in aminetti se and its in- slave” law local attor- mean that city will, numerous cuses, now tried in and will States Tew police courts, United Hartford. excepting the de- rea be to the at state, idered turned over Court the District people in those who have con on from a t the dec legal viewpoint, ion really means, “The law in its readir i _ Prosecuting Attorney Alexander L. DeLaney of Bridgeport, “now fully confirmed by the highest tribunal, means that no male person is actu- ally safe in furnishing transportation by train, boat or even automobile to another state to a female, whether it be friend, wife or ative.' | Where the practice among prose- cutors in Connecticut courts has been to try complaints of women under the state laws governing adultery and | other minor charges, there is no op- | tion today when the case originates in | another state. “So broad is the law continues | Prosccutor DeLaney, “in its reading and interpretations which have been placed upon it thaleven the conduct- g of a female, friend, mother, wife “or .sister, to localities in New York, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, where the woman may become in- toxicated, may invoke the law and re- sult in a state’s prison sentence of five years, a fine of $5,000, or both, at the discretion of the court. * “While no act of immorality may have been performed, the law is so broad in its specific form that even the ‘intent’ to debauch or make a Woman taken from one state to an- other, or whose_ transportation has been furnished wholly, or in part, is | considered a felony and becomes | prose * utable As a result, attorneys rule, of the dgcision all complaints relating to women, where transportation, im- morality or debauchery has been ac- complished, or was intended, includ- ing the numerous complaints of adul- tery commonly . tried in the police court will hereafter become federal offenses in New Britain and other Connecticut cities. Relative to his interpretation of the decision, Attorney M. D. Saxe, sa “The opinion of the supreme court of the United States just handed down in the Driggs-Caminetti case, which was brought under the Man ‘“white slave act” is very sweeping in charac- ter and it is doubtful whether its present interpretation by the supreme cayrt was ever contemplated by the framers of the law. Kveryone is fa- nillar with the agitation that swept the country, which resulted in the enactment of this law and its purpose wa§ essentially to impose severe pen- alties and if possible, to wipe out for- ever “white slavery” and ‘“commer- clalized vice.” The supreme court re- \ fuses to inquire into or take cogniz- sance of what was the original pur- pose of the law. The words in section | 2%f the act “or for any other immor- al purpose” where transportation into another state is furnished to a female glves. jurisdiction immediatelr to the fedoral courts over offenses that were herctofore prosecuted by the state courts. It is doubtful whether there was any need of federal disposition of lordinary offenses affecting the morals, unless it was for the purpose of get- ting at the root of the white slave menace, This act has been a very fruitful field for blackmail and ex- tortion and will of course continue to remain so, unless the act is repealed or amended so as to donfer jurisdic- tlon upon the federal courts over com- mercialized vice which can be dealt with adequately only by the United States courts. Maple Hill Homelots. The Ridgewood Realty Company, Incorporated, of Hartford, the new owners of Maple Hill—that pretty guburh just outside New Britain city limits, on the trolley line to Hart- ford—is offering much to be thought- fully considered by loving parents who are looking for a desirable lo- cation to bring up the little ones. n view of the fact that Maple Hill fias all modern improvements, includ- fng an excellent school, th= chance should not be turned aside. The company is not a new concern—is not experimenting by any means. For many vears it has developed large tracts within the vicinit It finances building operations, it sumes all the sponsibilities and you pay back on a monthly rental basis o the man who h foresight to grasp this opportunity will come health, happiness prosperity never] before dreamed of. Mr. Clif- ford H. Wilmath, the congenial presi dent, is clated™with the reception codded the company's new undertak ing by Maple Hill residents and wish- es to assure them that he will do all in his power to make them envied by all.—advt, a as- OorQQ Every Night /For Constipation Headache Indigestion,etc: _RAND‘!I.E.'I_'H | vance news of the president’s of Hartford. | OTTO KAHN WILL BECOME AMERICAN OTTO H.HAHN Otto H. Kahn, the prominent bank- er, member of Kuhn, Loeb & Co, New York, who has been a resident of New York twenty-three years, has filed application in the county court at Morristown, N. J., his legal resi- dence, to become a citizen of the United States. Mr, Kahn was born at Mannheim, Germany, and after serving in the army and receiving a banking educa- tion in his father's business, went to London and became connected with the Deutsche bank. He became a British subject. At one time he was offered the candidacy for parliament from the Gorton division of Lanca- shire. Mr. Kahn figured prominently in the news recently in the peace note “leak” inquiry, when it was asserted that he, with others, profited by ad- peace move. He denied the assertion, GUNS WORLD OVER BOOM A FAREWELL T0 ADMIRAL DEWEY (Continued from First Page) excluded, but pedestrians were freely admitted. Passing through the gates the procession wound along the wooded roadways by the Lee Mansion and beyond the Maine memorial in of that ship and to the mausoleum erected for Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, where Admiral Dewey’s body will repose until the memorial amphitheater is finished, probably during the summer, when it will be placed in the mausoleum, being pro- vided there. The Miles mausoleum stands at a southernmost point in the great resting place of the nation’s heroic dead, on an elevation looking up and down the Potomac for miles. On the wind-swept knoll the services were sald while all the funeral party stood with bared heads. Honored on the Border. El Paso, Jan. 20.—Under drab skies thousands of soldiers on the Mexican border here today stood at attention while thousands of civilians bared their heads and many military band, in are army camp played the Dead March from “Saul” in memory of Admiral George Dewey. The Mexican flag at the Carranza consulate was dropped at half mast for one hour by order of Andres Garcia, inspector general of Carranza consulates. Independence Hall Bell Tolled. Phila., Jan. 20.—The bell in tower of historic Independence hall was tolled at one minute intervals { from 11 to 12:30 in honor of the late Admiral Dewe the | | Commodore Phythian Dead. | Annuapolis, i dore IRRobert L. Phythian, U, tired, died here at his home, today was 81 y old. Ile was a student at the naval aca- demy at the naval academy at the same time Admiral Dewey was there. ! IN HONOR OF BOBBIE BURNS. Committee Arranges Final Details ! for Event. Final arrangements have been com. | pleted for the annual observance of the birthday of Bobbie Burns, which will be held in Jr. O. U. A. M. hall | next Thurs evening under the | auspices of Clan Douglas, O. S. C. John Sloan will preside as toastmas- ter and Rev. arren . Cook, pastor of the Methodist church, will deliver the principal address. The entertainment will selection by the Balmoral Quartet, composed of Miss- Jean Cochrane, contralto; Clara Oakes Usher of Plainville, soprano; Wesley W. How- | ara of Hartford, tenor, and Joseph C, Ames of Bristol, bass. Professor Wyllys B. Waterman will act as ac- companist. The quartet will meet tomorrow afternoon for the first re- hearsal. Following the entertainment dancing will be enjoyed with Pro- fessor M.NJ. Kenney officiating as promoter. Visitors are expected from Worcester, Mass., New Haven and ! Waterbury, consist of NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1917 * City ltems Inventory Sale—$1.560 and $2.00 Shirts 95c at Besse-Leland's.—advt. E. W. Schultz has qualified as ad- ministrator of the estate of the late Cecella Urban. Judge James E. Cooper is in New York. Inventory Sale—20 per cent. dis- count on every pair of shoes. Besse- Leland Co.—advt. Superintendent S. H. Holmes of the public schools was back at his desk today following a slight indisposition. Thomas Riley, driver of the police ambulance, has returned from St. Francis' hospital, Hartford, where he underwent an operation, Inventory Sale—IHats 89c at Besse- Leland’s.—advt. Inspector af Weights and Measures Carl A, Carlson will apply to the board of finance and taxation for an appro- priation to cover incidental expenses of the office. Inventory Sale—$1.50 and $2.00 Shirts 95¢ at Besse-Leland's.—advt. Through a mistake it was an- nounced in last night's paper that J. B. Menus was one of the new owners of the Hanna block on Main street. J. Birnbaum and S. W. Menus are the | purchasers of the property. Miss L. McCormack formerly with Miss Loughrey the milliner, has ac- cepted a position with the Golden- blum Millinery Co. Miss S. Rosenberg Is also with the Goldenblum Co., 188 Main street.—advt. At a meeting of the W. C. T. U. held vesterday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Atkinson on Lincoln street. a committee was appointed to take charge of the prohibition banquet-on 7 in Jr. O, U, A, M. hall. February 7 Sale—20 per cent. dis- Besse- Inventory count on every pair of shoes. Leland Co.—advt: The following officers have been elected by the Ladles German Rifle club: President, Mrs, W. J. Neldl; secretary, Mrs. Leo Wehlau; treasurer, Mrs. Bruno Wagner. Members of the Ladies’ German ‘Aid society are planning a pinochle tour- nament to start in the near future. TInventory Sale—Hats 89c at Besse- Leland’s.—advt. Conrad Cianci, a building contrac- tor, is planning the erection of =a large modern black at the corner of East Main and Elm streets, AT DENTISTS BANQUET. Dr. Andrew J. Barker will attend the annual banquet of more than 4,000 members of the profession which will be held at the Hotel Somerset, in Boston, Mass.,, this evening. One of the features of the occasion will be the presentation of a handsome tiffany loving cup to Thomas A. -Forsyth, in appreciation of the won- derful possibilities made by the con- cern over which the recipient is head in the treatment of children. SCHOOL ATHLETE HURT. Joseph Segal of 29 Willow street, a student at the High school, dislo- cated his right arm while playing basketball in the gymnasium yester- day afternoon. Dr. Waterman Lyon was called and he arranged to take an X-Ray photo of the injured mem- ber. HINDENBURG IS REPORTED LAID UP WITH BAD CHILL CLERK TO RAILROAD HEAD—C. S. MELLEN tery. Field Marshal von ~Hindenburg, chief of the great general staff of the German army and Germany’s leading general in the present war, was re- ported on the Berlin bourse to be laid ' up at the great - German army headquarters with a severe chill, ac- cording to an Amsterdam dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company of Londen, General von Hindenburg is in his seventieth year, Charles S. Mellen, former president of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, and one of the most prominent railroad men of America, was reported as seriously ill, in this city, her family being among the best known af its Lithuanian resi- dents. She was aged twenty-five vears. Tollowing here wedding October 26 of last year, she moved to ‘Waterbury. Besides her parents, she 18 survived | by her husband, tnree sisters, Mrs. ) Mary Lopatto of Wilkesbarre, Pa., and the Misses Anna and Ella Skritul- sky of this city. The funeral will be held Tuesday from St. Andrew’s church and the burlal will be in St. Mary's new cemetery. Mary Ellen Lyons. Following a few days’ illness with cerebral meningitis, commonly known as “spotted fever,” Mary Ellen Lyons, aged 10 v and 9 months, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Lyons of 8! Highland street, died at New Britain General hospital last night. She was taken ill Monday with an agonizing pain in one of her eves. She rapidly grew worse despite the best of medi- cal aid and sank until death came to her relief. She is survived by her parents. Her father 1s chauffeur for William H. Hart. The funeral will be held from her home at 8:30 Monday morning and from St. Juseph’s church half an hour later. Burial will be in St. Mary’s new cemetery. Card of Thanks. I desire to return my most sincere thanks to kind neighbors and friends, to the Woman's Aid, Stanley Post, G. A. R, Veterans' association and Grange, for extending sympathy and assisting me in my bercavement caused by the death of my dear father, John . Root. (Signed) MRS. HATTIE HAZARD. Daughter. WATER POWER AID TOMUNITIONS SHOPS Nature's Force Being Used Freely pneumonia being threatened. Mr. Mellen retired as president of the rail- road in 1913, and figured largely in the government’s investigation of the New Haven’s financial affairs. Mr. Mellen was born in Lowell, Mass,, in 1861, and began his railroad career as a clerk in the cashier’s office of the Northern New Hampshire railroad. He served other roads in various capaci- ties before becoming second vice presi- dent of the New Haven in 1892. From 1896 to 1903 he was president of the Northern Pacific and in the latter year became peresident of the New Haven, He was succeeded by Howard Elliott, the present head of the road. DEATHS AND FUNERALS Mrs. Catherine Cooney. The funeral of Mrs. Catherine Coon- ey, widow of John Cooney, of 50 Union street, was at 10 o'clock this morning from St. Mary’s church, with her son, Rev, Pliny Cooney of Green- wich, celebrant of a solemn high mass of requiem. Rev. Thomas P. Mooney of Sacred Heart Church, Bridgeport, was deacon, Rev. Edward Hayes of the me city, sub-deacon and Rev. John 1. IMay, ister of ceremonies The culogy was by Re John T, Winters, pastor of St skt Seated in the sanctuary were Rev. Charles Coppens, Rev. William A. Downey, Rev. William A, Krause and Rev. J. J. Fitzgerald of this city, Rev. J. C. Brennan of Kensington. All of the priests with the exception of Father Cooney officiated at the com- mittal service at the grave in St. Mary's new cemetery. The bearers were T, J. Hennessey, William Roche, T. W. Fagan, Charles M. McCarthy, John Markham and Richard Nagle. Matthew Meskill of this city and Simon and John Meskill of Meriden were the flower bearers. Mrs. Catherine Daly. The funeral of Mrs. Catherine Daly was at 9 o'clock this morning from St. Mary's church with Rev. Willlam A. Downey officiating at a mass of requiem. The bearers were John Higgins, Martin Murphy, Thomas O'Keefe, Patrick Kennedy, Patrick McCormick and Michael Meskill, The burfal was: in St. Mary’s new ceme- . Robert Leghorn. The funeral of Robert Leghorn will be at 9 o'clock Monday morning from his home at 90 Lincoln street and half an hour later. from St. Mary’s church. The burial will be in St. Mary's new cemetery. Mrs. John Jenusaitis, Mrs, Beatrice Jenusaitis, wife of John Jenusaitis of Waterbury, died last night at the Home of her perents, Mr. and Mrs. John Skritulsky of 191 ‘Washington street, following a month’s illness with pneumonia and complications. She was well known —————————————————————— NOTICE. Mecting of Board of Relief, Town of Plainville. Notice is hereby given {hat the Board of Relief of the Town of Plain- ville, will meet at the Town Clerk’s | office in said town, at 1:30 in the af- ternoon on Thursday, February 1st, Saturday February 3rd, 10th and 17th and Wednesday, February 31st, 1917. All appeals from the doing of the Assessors of sald town, and all re- quests for deductions of amount of indebtedness from the list of any debtor, may be presented to such Board of Relief. No appeal from the doings of the Assessors, or applica- tion for deduction of amount of in- debtedness from the list of any debtor, | shall be heard or entertained by the Board of Relief, unless preferred to it at its meeting on the 1st day of February 1917, or at some adjourned meeting held within twenty days thereafter. Plainville, Conn., Jan- uary 20, 1917. A. H. CONDELL, 1. P. NEWELL, in European Countries Paris, Jan. 20.—The water power of the Alps, the Pyrenees and the central mountainous region is playing a Big role in the military effort of France and will have an even greater share in the after-war economic struggle, an Associated Press corre- spondent is informed. Many new hydraulic power plants, born of the war needs, are turning out shells, chemicals and other mec- essities for the army. Many others, born of the coal famine and its les- sons will replace steam power after the war. France utilized thirteen per cent. of its total estimated natural water pow- er in 1914. She was utilizing more than twenty per cent. in July of this yvear and the proportion is every day increasing. Competent engineers fix at 4,600,000 horse power the energy France could secure from its water-falls at low water, while 9,200,- 000 horse power is the estimate foi average seasons. The total steam en- used in France before the war | was only about 3,500,000 horse power divided among about 64,000 establish- ments, The water power of the Alps has given the name of the ‘‘Vale of Alu- minum” to the Valley of the Are, where ,000 horse power is used transforming alumine into aluminum bars. La Romanche in the wild val- ley from Bourg d'Oisons to Pont de Claiz is the *“valley of carburet and metallic allo; > absorbing 62,000 ANNOUNCENENT! OAKLAND THE SENSIBLE SIX Now for Sale and Demonstration at The Williams Auto Co. 287 Elm Street ATTENTION! Specifications of Model 34 41 H. P. Wheel Base—112 Weight—2150 4 Inch Tires Delco Starting and Lighting System Hotchkiss Drive Cone Type Clutch Oiling—Circulating Splash System Carburator—Marvel, Price—$875.00, m heated from exhaust F. 0. B. Detroit. NEUTRALS HELD AS WARPRISONERS (Continued from First Page) England or F When the finish loading in New York the ves- harse power. Electric steel plants are concentrating in the basin of the Arly where one concern has installed a complete mil] with electric furnaces run by turbines of 22,000 horse pow- cr. Seven important new plants are being built in the region of Grenoble. In the valley of Durance new plants aggregating 74,000 horse power for the electro-chemical industry are un- der W while above Modane one of the biggest chemical works in France has acquired rights to about 120,000 horse power of water fall that will be utilized speedily. Hydraulic electrical plants in Cen- tral France have saved the family ribbon industry of Saint Etienne. The little home shops had begun to dis- appear—unable to compete with the mills. Electric motors of a quarter of a horse power have sct this do- mestic occupation going again, keep- ing at home men and women who would otherwise be driven to the looms of the big mills. Little motors are used all through that region for cabinet making. Had they not exist- ed before the war, it would be nec- essary to invent them or something equivalent for the use of maimed sol- dlers. The electric motor is counted upon also to solve the problem of farm help in regions accessible to current. Co-operative societies are being formed to buy current for distribution among the members; the installation of a power station is being considered by one of them. A law to encourage and help such projects is now belng considered in the chamber. Electric energy for Paris braught from the Alps is the most ambitious project for the future. A dam vards high in the Rhone at Ge- nissiat, backing the water up 14 miles to the Swiss frontier, will furnish a fall sufficient to operate a power sta- tion of 325,000 horse power and 240,- 000 Kkilowatts. The energy is to be transported to Paris in the form of an alternating current under a ten- sion of 120,000 volts. The line of transmission will be 312 miles long. One hundred and twenty million francs is the estimated outlay—the cost of about a day and a half of war to France. This enterprise would alone econo- mize 1,800,000 tons of the 20 million tons of coal France imported annu- ally before the war. Enginee figure that current brought from the Swiss frontier may be sold with suffi- cient profit in Paris at 3 centimes a kilowatt hour: an economy of about TAMES SIMPSON, Board of Relief. 50 per cent on the cost of current produced by steam before the war. captalns, it is said, go to their respec- tive consuls and receive a code. mes- sage which they send out by wireless on reaching a certain position, some 300 or 400 miles from their port of destination and wait until the escort meets them. Americans on Yarrowdale, Dispatches from Berlin last night sald that the Yarrowdale had brought 469 prisoners, crews from other cap- | tured ships. The consulate records give the names of the following Americans as having shipped on the Yarrowdale | when she left here on Dec, 6: Dave Addison, Brooklyn; Charles Quinn, Los Angeles, Cal, and C. D. Green, New York. P The Yarrowdale is registered as having been commanded by Captain | Willlam Buers. of Aberdeen, Scot- land. The crew numbered 37. Her cargo consisting chiefly of contraband, was valued at about $6,000,000 and the ship itself between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000. SWISS CALLED TO COLORS. Those in United States Report. Notified to Washington, Jgn. 20. ; consul- ates in the United States and else- where throughout tlie world have been instructed to inform members of the second Swiss army division and | parts of the fourth and fifth divisions, which are not already under arms, to return immediately to Switzerland and join the colors. The divisions will be mobilized on Januar: The number of Swiss citizens in this country affected by the mobilization order is comparatively small. COMMITTEE FINISHES WORK. The final meeting of the Christmas tree committee of the Chamber of Commerce was held yesterday after- | H. EASTLAND CLATMS Federal Court List Aggregates Sall For $8,931,678 For Loss of Life Injurics in Chicago Horror. Chicago, Jan. 20.—Claims totallin $8,931, for death and personal In: Jjuries and loss of property arisini from the overturning of the steame: Eastland in the Chicago river wer: recorded in a report to the federal} court completed today by Lewis T, Mason, United States ommissioner. The number of death claims, after th elimination of a number: of duplicd. tions, will be less than 500, it was| stated. Death claims amounted tq $8,760,000; personal injury claims to $151,260 and those for destruction of personal property to $20,418. The Eastland, laden with excurs onists, overturned in the Chicago river July 24, 1915 with a loss of 8§12 lives, REALTY MAN BANKRUPT. Tredeau Has $115,217 Assets amd $122,551 Liabilittes, Hartford, Jan. 20.—1. Charles Tre= deau, a real ‘estate promoter of this city, filed a petition in bankruptey in the United States district court today, howing liabilities of $§122,55 gives his assets as $115, 3. HAMMER DEAD. Translated “Ben Hur” Into Language. Larayette, Ind., Jan. 20.—The Rev. Father Bonaventure Hammer, O. F. M., seventy-five, who gained fame hy translating ceneral Lew “Ben Hur" into German died hospital here yesterday HARTFORD WANTS TO KNOW. That the £ Hartford in inter= ested in the successful manner in which the local public school system is conducted, evinced in an invi- tation reecived by Superintendent S. Holmes to address a meeting 1a Hartford Chamber of Commerca January The invitation epted Mr. Holmes German the rooms, has heen by Excellent for noon, and the report showed a bal- ance on hand of $25 after the various expenditures were paid. This will be kept until next season. The commit- tee also voiced its approval of the plan of the board of public works to have a permanent light placed on the statue on Central Park. MASONS TO GIVE BALL. The annual concert and ball of the Masonic orders in this city will be held on Tuesday evening, April 10, The location has not been determined as yet. | i Coughs & Colds HALE'S ‘HONEY of Horehound & Tar