New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 28, 1919, Page 1

NEW BRITA NEW BRITAIN (‘ONNECTICU'I FRIDAY, JRAILR[IAI] DENIES ILLEGAL DEALINGS New Haven Road Makes Reply to Charges of Minority Stockholders - TELL OF BIG L(]BBY FUND One Claim Is That $2,000,000 Was »LODGE IS WARY ON | LEAGUE OF NATIONS ... | I’RFbIDENT bT | OVER FOUR MILLION ‘ ABROAD WEDMI EN INCAPACITATEI Preparations Completed and War Losses Include 465,560 | _ Thinks Europe Would Be Chief Beneliciary Under Scheme Go Aboard His Boat After Men Killed: Total Money Outlay Night. Was $13,000,000,000. ing Tuesday Feb. 28.—P) Wilson's retil Washington, tions for President France were completed today @i White House. He will sail omf | transport George Washington N nesday morning, day night on the with Former President York The ton on noon . after gress and a haif dauszhter, grandson. 8:30 fter the transport ITALIANS SUPPGRT The Associated | 2<pi, Feb. (By Dr. of food presented to the .cmm ions | statement showing Ttaly’s losses, al- | though she entered the war AS | months after beginning, | reads as follows . S Italian T minister ) silvio transportation | and | speak League of Nat} Taft at after ten which @ Republican Leader Thinks Plan the will train adjournment stc president a special t will for Philadelphia Mrs He o'clock speaking i | Spent to Get Men Into Public s Drawn Up, Would Engender Mis- ounded, 195 (] “ T ) c Tuesday aff rmanently p Killer m are dis- Office gl ) K 1 pa 1 ALE SOl ho! flice Who Would Do Company’s o see understandings ) an abled. N sidding. at show 2,169 killed and ‘ total number of | ing the war is vhich includes poses Many Amendments, 1l losses and h New Sayres, will in will to spend 1 52 wounded New York, | York, New Hav miliion | road company statement concludes by saying: | eral court imounted per | and extravagant acts alleged by a ation o committee of 1,700 minority stock- holders seeking the appointment of a limited receiver for the corporation. The denial was entered in response to an order to show cause sworn out merchant | by Harold Norris, representing the of her total | minority interests, whose action was outlay was | brought in an attempt to compel “hanze | suit by the company against the for- mer management to recover funds claimed to have been illegally spent. Claim $2,000,000 Lobby Fund. Edgar T. Brackett, counsel for complainants, reviewed the history of the New flaven system and charzed | that large sums had been wasted in the acquisition of railroad, trolley and steamship lines to eliminate competi- tion. He declared that $2,000,000 had been expended to ‘‘accelerate the in- duction into public office of men who uld be bent to the wishes of the em.’” In answer to the company’s conten- tion that shareholders representing nine-tenths of the stock had voted against suing the former directors, Mr. Brackett asserted that the rights the minority stockholders had heen by the majority and the di- 28, The ford Rail- Feb. en and Hart New rea the Senator solemnly o Wa Lod warned ashington, Feb. of Massachusetts the American peopie today weigh carefully the constitution the league nations as presented to Wgihc peace conference at Paris and insist upon fundamental revision repub- itated dur 385,487 | men 10wn two incapa % today filed in the a general denial of illezal sick.” fed- I of the night. 1¢ Gy cent centage | navy sub- | Lial) alling the The sadnoughts smaller shi tons of or per cent. Her total money ,000, figuring ex colont D€ Italian eight Spe the en the wking sen lican floor tian th: peace of the world, planned would engenc lings strife in 5 T his convic- | of losses of the now dec lost marine also shipping, eigit and 850,000 ling league as misunde t instead of the S ier ¢ Only ivering his on he cct « tution became public. senator vigorously and made specific for amendment as now drafted, travene the Americar in all foreign internationalism benefit princ star tonnage a $13 | par Benefit. public utte ovvosea v EMANDS DISARMAMENT Monroe Sces European A . 3 e 4 000,0 Premier Or sub, preciation to Presi- dent Wilson. 20 the plan tions that would trine involve ench Deputy Insists Germans Must c Washington, Feb. lando today cabled sage to President “that the whole Italian people prehend and acelaim with joy high value and everlasting cance” of the league of nations. The Italian premier’s message Tows: “In Paris, the France, through servering desire a great people, fought together for justice of the world, have also termined together in the sanctity a solemn covenant and in the of liberty and justice of all peor to establish a which shall supreme over future destinies the world. “To this covenant, the intangible charter of human Italy, who in the past and in present has always championed cause of right, and proclaimed consecrated it with her laws and w her blood, rings the ntribution her assent fervid deep conviction. “Our hearts, with sincere 28 a personal Wilson Premier n strike at L SoVSIOER Be Totally Disarmed to Ensure | America « substitute lism and Europe. complete sympathy with demand and efforts to- crient world peace, Lodge said he was not pre- that there could not be nations safeguard but he that the fo ch calmly 1d putes, v Further nations to Safety from \ggression, - Total disarmamen I of future German Deputy Rena sent the | mentary groups He w wish an assured 1ris, sigr Germany, as a guarantee the pop aggression, is urged idel in a letter h eads of the parlia- the chamt ward an Senator pared to concer by to heart the high and 7 a great leader nations who h the liberty say of ted of o the deputies. rites “We armed pea against wa insis agreement drawn not an | of would e possible, to con- | BI1O1TC Allies that the | b vill refuse to rati- l which limits include should pea Do vou think it concert | a { and Aeliberately | | -~ up 3 was at b 15 soon still P and not existed. when the ce, as hastily when sider a the French protest to parliament fy any peace treaty armaments and does not armament 2 ar 'DALLARD (‘HO@EN LOCAL DELEGATE Deliberation, is expected powerful in the next 1 the Urges Calm who ta the Senator chairn lations which Lodge, an of ymmittec will peace the be foreign | @ g ) n |2 peace of by WRECK AT NEW LONDON Injured When | for ad SR which shall a league attention gull think the pol the paramount conclude peace plan as given crowded nation from tions hators urged that departing Will Attend Conference of May well icies and Lhe Six Passengers Slightly Governors at White House Washington and saic Train ©rom Westerly Runs Through Next Weck. Y with ty was to wtih Germany Sees New Muc) J Quigley has dele- Open Switch and Hits Preight Cars, | Mayor George A. gated H. S. Tallard, chairman of the ocal district board of | the' ‘United | . Bitf HEREts: WA L SIHCE States Employment Service bureau, | & ¢ A e s e lremaialionc RoZlithe Aotz ! X Yl % i in human history; and it is fitting t mayors and governors at the White , House on March 3d, 4th, and 5th, The | the Whole ltalian people SSer g and acclaim with joy its high | conference has been called by Pres : ! siding on which | conference has been called by Pre and its everlasting significa freight cars. The in. | dent Wilson in order to discuss the RUSSIA CUTS OFF German Menace, B has “HERieedted ) New fa restless- | gers were tHime e London, Feb. Six passen- o dela s injured, none seriously, to- this city Shore ever to line railroad train from over the New Haven after divisic into va She is seeking to annex | German- in ran P nee e millions of Germans ir several St reaching Rus- he penetration werc out i nred and | daughter, [N: ¥, Mrs and the } Conn great war is to Mrs future, as for the past, | and She should be chained ( now and this menace 1o | removed.” senator said that while in the | take tnion "t Stonvoe" o | 01T D) KILLED BY BOMB indon the Monroe Doc- Mrs. Powell, and her | general industrial and labor condi- Miss D. Powell, of Buffalo, | tions throughout the entire country. A. W. Louge, of Daniel- | .The local district compr Bristol, Berkman, of Yantic, | Plainville, Southington, Berlin and Marlow, of Paterson, | New Britain and it is probable that Schur, of Webster, | Mayor Quigley was to represent the district as well as this city. In ap- pointing Mr. Tallard, he thought of the general knowledge he had of the ! situation in this district. He has been busily engaged for some time on the employment service and is thoroughly conversant with conditions. He is es- pecially well informed on the situa- tion as it ex in this city. Mayor Quigley felt that with this knowledge Mr. Tallard was better able to repre- sent this city and the entire district than any other person. Mr. Tallard will leave this city Washington tomorrow night arriving there on Sunday. The conferences lozen other Persons | wij pe held on Monday, Tuesday, and today by an explosion | \Wednesday and at 10:30 o’clock on apartment building. | Monday morning President Wilson Windows in structures for blocks | ywill address the men in the East room round the apartment house were |of the White House. The police believe the ex- O o 9,000 SOLDIERS LAND e inancial everywhere. a ommercial many is again threatening son Conn N Mass. A Is 7 only source of a r s »und for the e “arl —— in Germany. fettered e e ance and England Take Sim mis- | report made by railroad scribes the accident in setting switeh. LOS Action to Stop Financing Bol- St s- shevik Propaganda. to the of sa Washington, 28 change tran Feb. 28.—Foreign iwctions between United States and Russia have b prohibited by the federal rese board, and similar action b taken by the authorities Gr Britain and France. It is underst that one purpose of the step is to s the financing of Bolshevik propag: da The reserve hoard, today, acted at the request of state department Under the boa: system of supervising foreign change transactions, evidence W tained it is said, that sums money had been made available in United States for use of agents. Virtually the only stopping this was to shut transactions. t sies of Washington and of Americanism, the sflect and hesitate be- ne, pol pl other ne i b Half Dozen Others Seriously Injured “There an constitution shadows - ir pr all the us otl said “We are asked to de- t first time from the yreign of Washington. We invited to move away from George | Washington toward the other end of line at which stands the sinister of Trotzky, the champion ionali Fears For the issue olved in to is in Explosion Which Shakes South league sented . Side of Chicago. for 1ator Lodge Feb half Chicago, -One child killed injured car! in south was st ! the policies part now for d it hecame kn 3 . e a side - the e of | nternat 3 | broxen large Future, | plosion was due a CONSPIRATORS ARRESTED 30l m off in this country a the people, for the and by the people, the freest zovernment in the world, and the great rampart today the anarchy and disorder taken possession of Rus- a and are trying Invade every |including other peaceful country in the world. |v y, former minister of na- Lincoln’s government of the pec- | tjona) defense; Joseph Szyerenyi, for- for people and by the people; [ mer minister of comierce, and Herr asked to substitute in Methien and Herr Somich, former States on many vital points|members of the Hungarian cabinet, of, for, and by other peo- | are under arrest at Budapest charged and consider well before | with counter-revolutionary propa- | fateful step. | ganda, according to advices received build no bridges across | here from the Hungarian capital. Aero Squadron, the 805th Trench which now sepa o added that Dr. Alexander Mortar Battery, eight casual officers American freedom and order | Wekerle former premier and minister | and two Y. M. C. A. secretaries. The anarchy and destructio e|of finance of Hungary, owes his| Rhode Island brought the 147th Ma- to it that the democracy liberty to his advanced age. | chine Gun Battalion, the 840th Areo > States which has pros- | Squadron, casual companies, nine cas- pered so mightily in the past is not ual officers and several Y. M. C. A. irawn by any hasty error or by any men. littering delusions, through specious The French Trench of supernational government ion had representatives the toils of international so- | ates. and anarchy | Amendments Proposed. \vnrvn‘!mom& Propos »dge included a specific “We have ernment of gov ins | ! Battleships Virginia and Rhode Island | peo- | ple and 17 Former Members of Hungari Cabinet Charged With Conspiracy Feb. 28. Major Arrive At New York From Brest | i 3asle, eventeen persons, Alexander far eral After Strenuous Trip. to G on Szurm Newport News, Va., Feb. 28.—The battleships Virginia and Rhode Island reached here today after a strenuous sixteen days’ trip from Brest and de- barked more than 000 returning soldiers. Aboard the Virginia were the First Trench Mortar Battalion, the 4¢88th French Peace Delegate Says Prink tr ) e Conference Is Of—Plamming W the | | i to Crush Bolsheviki. )vernment i Paris, Feb. 28. any question of going with the kipo conference, Andre Tardiou, of the French delegates to the pe: conference, informed foreign ne paper correspondents today. He the Bolsheviki had failed to com with the conditions laid down by Entente as to a suspension of tilities and that the Allies have view new methods of retoring or. in Russia and are examining able means to carry out ise —There is no ‘We must he chasm S is | sian nust see Uni he | | i WORK. ENTERING Mortar Battal- Breummer of This City to | from 38 M. C. A. of this city with the local in the capac- louis W. Join Staff of Local Y. Louis W. become C. A; a *devices ithin alism « Bruemmer | SPARTACANS KILLED I BATTLE KILLS WIFE AND MAN, THEN TAKES OWN LIFE Port Huron, Mich.,, Feb. 28 Thomas Wooley, assistant secretary the Railroad Y. M. C. A. at Sarnia, Ont., across the river from here, th morning shot and killed his wife and John Seigmiller, an engineer, and then killed himself. - will connected Senator | st on March 1 provision | the Monroe Doctrine from | ity Of an assistant secretary. In his leagye’s purview. This, he said |new work, Breummer will probably ity Akl : *{ not be connected with any ane depart- 1 be done in three lines. Immi: | . A 0 Al Al domes. | ment of the association but will be a | aboneng oth Yo general v, looking after mem- c vital to na- z 1 nership branches of th should ex- work. jurisdictio jurisdiction, Mr T Copenhagen, Feb, government troops pied the town of Hamborn, Ruhr industrial district after in which a number of Sp were killed. The government captured 116 prisoners 1ding ¢ oc in | i | - vesterday o e in 5 4 - questions tro also be league's onal cluded e said existence from the adding a graduate of Pratt institute and is prominently Breummer is of ¢oj declar her he long Prin- 5 T leave Washing and, his his new York evening "and, 2o directly aboard WORLD LEAGUE PLAN ando Cables Ap- Or- res- ing m - the nifi- fol- oic er- of ave and de- of name rles ign of be ity, the tho and ith of expression and ith, and will ble hat comprehend lue U. S. CREDIT LIST ilar ex- the een rve een eat ood top an- own the rd's ex- ob- of tho vik of these IRE OF ALLIES AROUSED ipo ays ger one ace ws- said ply the hos- in der ail- this purpose. WITH GERMANS 28.—German cu- the ght ans ops MINE ON FIRE AND SEVERAL MEN ENTOMBED Boulder ., Feb. 28.—The tennial mine at Louisville, Colo., near here, is on fire and several miners are reporied to be entombed, accord- ing to a telephone message received j bere, Tl some definite pro withdrawal from | desire here should be peaceful connected with the Methodist church, having been superintendent of the inday schaol that church. He ged in drafting work at the Corbin factory present will leave his Dosition at that factory today. He has been employed in that department for the past six years. 1ation that of is 17 and t 8 s o Colo Cen- i Lorecast for 1 vieinity warmer toni; rain, New Britain Unsettled and ht: Saturday enga definite statement | & . league is to have i }; -3 | cong tees W question? land- &) would ; | conference BN | A statement 18 } | q" at least one of after the White was characterized as 2 falsehood.” Mr. Tumulty dise what the president about the Irish question. Declares Statement a Lie. The denial follows “In the last few ing quotation has | press under a V days the follow- appeared in the shington date line given by the president at the White House Wednesday evening, February 26, to the members of the committee on foreign relations of the senate and the committee on foreign affairs of the house: ““The president told the commit- tees that the Irish question was a matter between Ireland and England and that Treland would not have any voice in the peace conference at pres- ent.’ The president wishes me to say that this statement has no foundation |'in fact and is a deliberate falsehood.” Claim Similar Statement. Several members of the committees said after the conference that Presi- dent Wilson, when pressed about the Irish question, had made a statement to the same general effect as the one now denied. The subject came up on the floor of the senate today, when Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska, chairman the foreign relations | committee, was attacking a report of the conference published in the New York Sun In denying Hitcheock said questioned about question not was not answered. | Senator Williams, also attended the to correct the | ! | | 1 J of the Sun’s report, Mr. the president was Ireland, but that the was a serious one and of Mississippi, dinner, inter- Nebraska sena- , tor, however, saying the president had the League of Nations had | nothing to do with the Irish or im- | migration questions. I POLICE @OLVIN‘G 11 YEAR MYSTERY | who rupted 1 said Believe That Body Exhumed from Catholic Church Ts That of Missing Sister. wverse City, Mich.,, Feb. 28.— | | | positive identification of the Although bones of a human body exhumed beneath the little church at Is here, and from | dore, near lateteeintoroed in the parish cemetery, was still lack- | ing today. results of the search which | county authorities have been making | for the original grave convinces them, | they today, that these are the | | remains of Sister Mary Johns, who | disappeared 11 years ago. | Digging in the same spot from | which Jacob Flees, sexton of the { church, affirms he exhumed the body of Sister Mary, officers yesterday found a silk scapular, a wooden cruci- | fix and fragments of a black veil and | heavy brown cloth. All these arti- the officers said, are peculiar to | Feliclan order, of which r a member. said | the | Mary Sist was | as part of the report of the dinmer | | publicly Hi: 9,567 Killed and 70,970 Injured Tast Year—Grade Crossing Accidents Claim 1,777 Dead and 4,756 Injured, Washington, Feb. 28.—Accidents on American railroads during 1917 resulted in the death of 9,567 per- sons and the injury of 70,970 the in- terstate commerce commission Te- ported today. During the previous vear 9,476 lives were lost and 66,982 persons were injured. Accidents on grade crossings of steam railroads numbered 78 in which 1,777.per- sons were killed and 4,356 injured. Trespastiers on railroad: property figured heavily in the accident figures, 4,243 having been killed during 1917 and 8,829 injured. Trainmen while on duty numbered 1,492 and infjured 47,887. Passengers killed were 301 and injnr(-d 7,582. 3,6 Director General of Railroads Does Not Want to Give Up Until All Possible Plans Have Failed. Washington, Feb. 28.—Director General Hines announced today with the approval of President Wilson that the railroads would not be relinquish- ed from government control until there has been an opportunity to see whether a constructive -permanent program of legislation was likely to be adopted within a TIT FOR TAT IN STRIKE Business and Professional Men in German Towns Plan to Quit If the | gotion in Laboring Classes Strike. Basle, Feb. fessional men 28.—Business in several German towns have been urged to meet strike of the working classes by ing on strike themselves, according to dispatches received here from Berlin. At Merseburg, southeast of Magde- burg, the bourgeoise have gone strike. The bourgeoise committee Leipzig, Saxony, has issued an appe to the business men, officials, docto druggists and professors to call a gen- eral strike as a protest the strike of the proletariat. At Brunswick, the former premier the Brunswick government has announced his adhesion communism. HAY BUILD THEATER and pro- on a 1 against of to William Fox $aid to Be Looking Over a Suitable Site in This City to Erect a Playhous: REAL ESTATE DEAL. Purchases Square. | I'to M. DiNonno Property on Garvey | Franklin An | consummated today, when M. DiNonno, the well-known Italian | banker purchased, through the Camp Real Estate crmpany, the prop- ! of the Mary Garvey estate next | Peter's church on ‘;Lnklmi | 1 estate deal Emanuel important was Square. The property consists of a tenement block, a two house in front and one in the with also a large piece of rear | land extending in back of the church | and adjoining properties. The purchase price to have been in the neighborhood | $15,000. Mr. DiNonno will remodel | | the two-family house throughout and | | will take up his residence there. ! stor family rear, a understood | | i | MANN DECLINES TO BE FLOOR LEADER —Re toda would P HOUSE | o | 28 pres that he on, Feb. nnounced Washingt Mann no the { houso. tive - ac- next stances leadership der circur the cept tloor | broke out William Fox, lessee of ter on West Main be looking over sites in this eity erecting a mnew the Charles, McDonald, of house, was interviewed concerning the report ticent of Fox's thea street, reported cen located ¥ 1rpose of Manager local Lfternoon the play his and he in regard to information. was re- | MORE RIOTING BREAKS | OUT IN CTTY OF MUNICH | Copenhagen, anew according of Spartacan parliament force the diet in Feb R in Munich on to the correspondent Politiken. thou- soldi red to building effort proclaim a Soviet 28 oting | 1rs- day, there sand the | the Three | rs marc n an to to republic Java HARTFORD H MAN NAMED | D OF SOLDIERS' HOME Hartford, Feb of Martford, is appointed by the oldiers’ hospital hoard to be supe intendent of Fitch's home for soldie With rank of colonel from Februa according 1o orders from the of- fice of the adjutant general today, 28.—John H ‘reasonable | tion | anything, | which a of inded or _Quigley 5t i refusing amrxefi““1 ded’ budget: bec form,” Mr. hamn xe Taxpayers' associapion imate of ‘the eity’s Theon ey would accept oir*@s ~they“dfdn’t deduct the reim! pt ifor the cost of park plan] -» for the sale of farm Y. | \i , The Public School “Ii the school estimates, sociation cut out - $21;350 cluded 5 $3,008~ from the schools ‘w hm\ the expense last was $4,300. They deducted $73 from the ronair account, leaving 000. Last vear repairs cost $14 They evidently wish to let the se run down. The miscellaneous count is cut to $2,600; last yea spent $4,500 on this item. The stitute budget deducts $5,000 froy cidentals fund that doesn’t Street Department. street’ department appr is reduced by $39,695 whic mean that no new macadam cg} laid or no grading done and litt on repairs. They state highway will result in about the state proposes to spe New Britain this year being matd ly reduced “A cut ,000 was ma the perma pavement fund. 7 was no permanent pavement lai year and some should be laid vear. Must the Thi evel —a “The from the which of nent Discharge Policemen.| | i | | | 1 | go- | | last | | | | | | nave Trach- | work | ment so that | the “The payrolls of the police de! ment are cut to such an extent it will be necessary to disegl about ten men. They also cuf] three additional patrolmen Firemen Go, Too. association has taken sif regard to the fire dej 13 or 14 firemen be discharged. They eu for gasoline and q $600. Last year we spent $760 these items and today we havel ditional equipment we didn't vear. They have cut the item $1,000 ost $2,100. They also) additional firemen an No. 3 engine house wde in justice to the the estimate fd “The have to appropriation alarm to vear out terations ould be n They eliminated new automobile for the fire The present car is a wreck, been built in 1912 No Car For Charity the charity mate, the Taxpaye out an automobile The department has would of t saving have one Wipes Out Health “The in the s department ordinances that the repair it two a ha Dept. department ' association| and its up no auto al to the “In to Dept. of hd $5,600 provide for' $16 department w| entirely out busi 1ed 18750 for the milk sta) the milk station ¢ association and provy in another part off cut 1laries employes to the means to of They ac that Visiting con not the been olidated City The city Building and Parks, building appropriatiol and that estimate was figured and any cut would allowing the city building They cut the parlk $17,000 and little or not§ could be done to improve or mi tain the public which are playgrounds of people. “The war eliminated tirely. The the bureay to Le more portant than st. “They cut $10,000, cut closely sult deteriorate. timate in pa the bureau need for come will is year the ) the only in out 1] the s in reser tingenci whi during the year s fund has m. th emergency ount oreseen to of city w e for ur S h are sure & for Am elimi ricaniza 1. Wi the ned t b fair t $1,000| been ate there sity of started “The s e W has titled added nd is er to ¢ association Fifteenth N T (Contigued on ~e