New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 18, 1919, Page 1

TTO THE SERVICE. s 3 e i NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT. ' ALLEGED MU T0 BE DETERMINED .. . —_— ! Revenue Bureau Seeks Advice of Department of Justice Hartfar | Miller | William ( of Captain William jat the CI Ileveaue Collectors Do Not Kurow | Mancheste pleaded \dictments Whether Rule Against Beer Strong- er Than Oue-Half of One Per gube ‘ Cent, i au | Ninet to jury mitted Hugh Newell Broder, Cutley ©o Neuss and Senator is Legal. with the decision enue bureau to ask the department justice whether it had authority enforce the regulation prohibiting yroduction of beer except that of less than one-half of one per cent. alco- March of 15.—Coincident the internal rev- of M 7 ery last of stockholders week to test the war-time nounced that they operation of the defense. suit brought here | court gran the constitutionality | a similar prohibition act an- had invited the co- government in thae a | nied. {at 5 La federal Case rers £ right to a vard’s | challenges ontin- | number, at least Brewery's Test The test suit asking court to restrain the James E Breweries of this cily from d uing their manufacturing activities May 1 and the sale of their products | is com July 1, as required by the prohibition clause of the agricultural bill ap- | proved November 21, 1918, was begun i by Joseph E. Evard, a stockholder. ! William M. K. Olcott, cou fos tha defense today notified U. §. Dist. Af- torney Caffey that his co-operation would relcomed, adding that in riuch “the question such ini- portance as to call for real adversar litigation perhaps the federal govern- ment may wish you to work with us in the defense Campaign is Sts e United States [ asso- ciation, comprisi three-fourths the industry throughout the country nnounced today i{hat covies of the opinion of Elihu Root William 1. Guthrie, advising 1t they might proceed the manufacture and beer containing 2 3-4 has been mailed members. While taken no action cials declared members t by the Trade deciding 1z tion non-intoxicuting v ith th content the Former and Lev be as o Neariyls Lieut {an the is rtod. wers' Lieut. Pec 1917, and termaster number vice by and man comp: While i t brewers legally with distribution of per cent. of alcohol to seven hundred the asscciation has on the opinion offi- | they ‘“expected” many would follow the ger Beer Brew 5 New Yori to the v pro t bev A7 ing the France this unit. {as salesm example | Board and & ’ charged of of in and cinity, ovérnment biting ignore “ting ages Lo se of less n one-half per cent. oholie Foast Legal Opinion Sought. Washington, March 18.—Whether int 1l revenue bureau s au- to enforey its rule against the beer containing one-hail of o more of alcohol will the department of Internal Revenue Commissioner TRoper today decided to ask for opinion on the subject. The question v raised by an- nouncement of New York brewers at they would resume manufacture nnd sale of beer containing not than 3-4 alcohol, considering non-intoxicating. Laws Appear Complicated. Commissioner Roper disccusscd the subject today with deputies of the hareau in charge of enforcing liquor Jaws but found the various laws and food administration regulations were ! complicated that a legal opinion be necessary before he could de whether to enforce the bu- u's ruling. This ruling promuigat- rece v permitted the manufac- of beer containing not more than cent. alcohol but provided sale the alcoholic content to not more than Throt th thority Dublin, Fein mong, rep aped Dublin dummy bar had Mr. Ba | He Dublin sale of one T he put tice. cent. up to U (e n an Fi more | this war tors In would 5 ed ture 28-4 ‘Mr et car i 1and, O. dischargec i to their war Chairmen four order. | was set which privileges per that before must be reduced half of one per cent. Revenue bureau officials v that the one-half prescribed by that on precedent_and on court decisions of a number of states. State laws and regulations vary however, and Com- missioner Roper said he knew speci- | freally of no federal law or court de- cision proseribing one-half of one per as the limit of alcoholic content non-intoxicating beer. one- explained per cent. lim- rule was hased ‘A tod it = N cent Long for GERMANY MAKING DEPOSITS { for Dr. | Physician H wife Febrt in what his on and ing | sidéred to presen 1t was kins' found that hody burgl Will Place 450.000.000 Francs in Gold in Brussels Bank. Presumably (o Pay for Food. Brussels, March 18.—In accord- an agreement which has reached. the German govern- contracted to deposit 450,- | | ance with a heen ment 000,000 afte s has francs in gold in the Brus- national bank. There will two payments one of francs within four days and the other | 275,000,000 francs, withinrten days. | — | deposits are presumably i made in connection ith was ann nt recently reached at the Ai- | to refer lied conference with the Germans at | uestion els for the provisioning of Ger- |the Gerr in connection with' the ship- |Parties arrangements. Early dispatches | Preparing reported that Germany was to large gold deposits at Brussels of the finuncing of food to her sels be gation to be Bruss many ping ke as part hip- ments Twenty | erativ Alsuce, plants vo { ending a ME BREWING. March 18.-—The association, afternoon, voted to re- of beer in this s TO Hay Br i Ne necticut on sume tate. Con- re’ in ses- here ihe manufacture théir dem 2 weekly At and McDonald. t LIEUT. PECK HOME D United nearly two years of service in France. he Level from SINN FEINER ESCAPES h member n his been forme Labor Board Washington, work labor women aside restores | Police Have Beach, While search Walter Ni evidence home piece picked up beside the interested STRIK Woonsocket, employed Lowland strikers said they Five Shooting of Captain Madden of Manche 4, March West wild Bill) {J. (Lefty) McDonnell and John Neuss NOTinc . heney silk .r on the aeparately ourt, ive v the Aleon. ennings, ward J Jor Miller stz My ity motion on he m The task of selecting the jury began once and prom or the to and king it members :d. aceu of alesman At el Factory Two Ycars, Tlbert W. States k went ove was g of Before con 15 W he Stanley n France, months w was not t He will ta an with the company the Bars and in Bed to Fool Britishers. March 18 of the resenting E om the M s Tho bed sawed t rton a n but usili and joined the Sinn Feiners. MUST TAKE BACK WOMEN Cleveiand . fave Jobs Again, conductor: Railway ¢ 1 March 1 1 under board Taft will be former ord by t senior the to IIOPE TO PROVE MURDER. New ew York was K. charged at their ary 2 in 7 the ew York cil they hoped t to a announced in New of er he told killed her. 175.000,000 | ENGLAND IS WILLING TO i SUBMIT CABLE QUESTION " Paris, March 18.—The British dele- the peac unced taday o the supfeme cogneil of an the futu cables t in briefs, It x hundred and ted today seven to e ands for a 4 bonus. RDERERS | PLEAD NOT GUILTY | Men 18 Haven, Bessler, Madden, mils night to criminal opening of their trial today. | men were No spectators were ad- | attorney’s Senator filed holic contest, deendants in the brew- | hehalf of Bessler requesting that { him a separate t behalf of Klein sed the state DO Pe attached s employved Lieut. atiached to the base hospital at eral Pershing’s he 21 he adguarters and dur- hich as army. Representative warders and la March mpanw a made and rity women Evidence Physician, TS Wilkins, with Long important Jury. that lead 7 1S ENDED. worsted weeks' BAD MAN FRON IS KILLED I GREAT POWERS ARE ‘SEEKING AGREEMENT Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemen-| ceau and Orlando Meet Today 'PEAGE TREATY IS DISGUSSED Accused Deny Bridgepol Westerner Trics to Settle atal Shooting in rster. With Guns. William S, Fred Bridgeport, March 18.—4 Pendergast was killed and Sweeny badly wounded as th of a long standing feud early Toth were watchmen at the! H Hubbell plant. The affair. ook [at 6 o'clock this morning.wheng men went on duty. weeny: taken to St. Vincent's hospital . bullet in his right hand and | other in his side. 4 f men engazed in an argui in which Pendergast is alleged to, B halg A the West and plug you. With the words he and fired, the first shot pa throngh Sweeny hand the secom lodging in his side. % Sweeny started to run but sudde Iy turned and fired twice. The fi bullet from Sweeny’s revolver graz the fingers of Pendergast's right ha The second through the heartf to 1.~ ground, dea Klein, Michael licted on March guard South | January guilty in the on the in of “not them side, Differences of Opinion Being Smoothed | | Out—Inclusion of League of N 4 | tions Is Important Question Con- found liable| Sidered—Situation Much Clarified, ZEon Paris, drew a T ;(‘llllfifl Press.) hold an important confercnce with counsel for | nCeRLGe 58 ite o | House' today. This gathering of | premiers, represcnting the supreme directing force of the peace confer- ence, takes the place of the session of the supreme council, which been postponed until tomorrow, Dermit the meeting. The question to be discussed is that H2itaatand of .\:A‘(‘Ul'in: accord between the great e e ipowers on all phases of the peacc GITY HAS GASE OF ihle to rejoct| MeNt will be reached as to the in- e efore the jurs | Clusion of the league of nations as [ 77 |an intemral part of the peace treaty, | My, jLeny in accordance with the resolution | = | which has been already adopted | the peace conference. March 18, (BEy The President W Asso- will table wero attorney: Edward . oh ite's George, a motion on the went also al; has | Pendergast fell de- to otions were ~wil date! mont. to sed 125 as kr s . Fred Heinzmann of 169 | Greenwood Street is |esr the Victim. it own by League Being Considered. Special inter in ences 5t vie attaches to conference of recent reports of diver between the powers as to the inclusion of the league plan in the treaty. The meeting upon an earne to reconcile all views understanding for an early conclu- sion of peace in a comprehensive form’ including military, nayal, eco- nomic and financial terms, as well the ieague of nations. The general situation peace treaty has been fied during the past 24 cussions hetween the heads of rious delegations and American | missioners take the view titudes of the America, todav’s Stanley R Me Wast The first case of “sleeping sickness™ in this city was reported to the office | of the hoard of health this a 100m. | The patient is at the New Britain hos- | called pital. The individual suffering Trom | the ¢ | this malady is N I'red Heinzmann, | so ¥ Greenwood street. The definite- | Riven ness the disease established | Pills bevond* doubt today. Dr. Zwick was the local doctor Mrs. Heinzmann when she was clari- | mitted to the hospital four week dig- | The malady seemed prevalent a A ¥, caring to go no i com- | he consulted with Dr. ury. of | that the Hartford. The result of the consulta- French and ! tion was the decision on the case | British governments would be brought vas reported by the New Britain | treaty into entire accord. The conferences | health departmjent to the state de- | prove which have been held by Lord Robert [ partment health immediately | miznt Cecil of Great Britain, Bour- Dr. Zwick said this afternoon that | April. geois of Jrance, and . AL Mrs, Heinzmann was lable to colds | House of the United tes have | and the sickness seems to be following reached a tentative accord, and therc recent cold in the is reason to believe that today's institution four meeting will approve the action e S taken. suffering when Bounda entered was | watched irrational. Her Private Frec (b ick Heinzmann, the first Britain soldier to be killed in France | | and that fact is thought hy i tors to ‘have aggravated her d added to the effect of Dr. there erved in France is looked o . decisive effort into a common as r., arrived | night after of in June, the quar- Hospital, | the sales- Level as of to was itepu | senat | their i fice, as Frank | Base entering treating ad- ago. a to- alone, as to greatly hours by the as a Rule and farther signif Peck was Gen- Kin at- W W 1t | repor he spent in from work | Rule dis- ansferred ke up his Staniey soon of Leon as Col. o local i weel She has the past doctor stated that from the disease fer condition continually, as she was v been for thus s es Next on Program. . | g0 Saws Present plans contemplate the com- pletions of hearings siven mneutral nations on the league of nations dur- ing the recent week and during the succeeding week attention will be | given to houndaries, reparation and other branches of the treaty. Tt is believed that the revised league cove- nant will be ready for adoption at the end of next weck. BEFRIENDS MEN, ASSAULTED Congressman Glynn's Secretary Beat- I Leaves Dummy g son, was is the doc- | ic condition the -—Another Sinn house of com- st. Wicklow, has At Joy prison found a windov of Har annua mand dis- Zwick is of the opinion that is isolutely in reported. According to statement made by Dr. William Stockwell, superintendent | of health, there had not heretofore | (" been a report of a case of sleeping | ~CW sickness in this city. It later devel | 25 oped that one case which was thought had several symptoms did not prove to be the malady after a diagnosis As far as Dr. Stockwell know sickness known as “sleeping sickness is not the real sleeping sickness which | common Africa He is of | the opinion that it coined phrase | siven to the illness because of its likeness to sleeping sickness. The real disease, known sleeping sickness, | ed does not show the symptoms of those | reported in this country thus far, and | it has not been follower of influ- | was enza. Real sleeping sickness has of(- | grand en been known to be in a person’s | 1867 system for several years before its ac- tion is noticeable and the person goes into a state of coma i In the opinion of Dr. Stockwell the | disease known around here by the | coined name is the result of some or- | Hunti ganism which is left in the system, | gener: possibly as a result of the influenza. | town; This organism is thought to work on | McPh R both the mind and the spinal cord, = thus causing the direct state of coma. MUST DISARM HELIGOLAND | i Siecnine siotnccs s aricinuted | & certain 1y which carries the gerra, but there are few around at time this method of cannot far reported with | Temp! danger Mast the no the hrough arge landowner. officer in the quit the army one case a grand from G Merid 590 there There Gra | Norw and en and Robbed By Supposed Sol- die to Whom He Gave Ride, s the Jersey City, March 18.—Charles Greenwood of Washington, D. vate secretary to Representative James P. Glynn of Connecticut found in a dazed condition in an tomobile in a Jersey City street day and is in a serious condition a hospital here. His head cut and physicians say his skull have been fractured. Greenwood told the authorities started Washington on an automobile trip to Conn. When he reached two men in soldiers’ uniforms asked for a ride and he consented. At Metuchen, N. J., about midnight, he said, one of the men struck him on ihe head with a revolver, after which the pair robbed him of $26 and drove the car into Jersey City, where they abandoned s ules 61 Conduc- pri- Are Entitled to | is to only. is was au- to- in | badly may is a a fu H. urer omen | the Cleve- | who were | nnust be restored decision of the today by foint Manly. Sixty- affected by the er<of the hoard he new decision and other workers. of. as he 2 esterday Hartford, Baltimore from Em Conge comm | { i bury; Against th manti Kiyn tello 19} March DProgress s today elderly murdering Ach avthorities 1y were obtain- would be con- enotgh to as flies the present veving the germs The patients thus the new have not been ex posed to the bite of a fly. The present sleeping sickness, ag far as is"known, is contagious and though there inflienza in this city there er, con- Allied War Council Vikewise Decides | That home here be Kiel Canal Must Be Tnterna- srand Strick or. M captai Hartf - diseases tionalized, Germans to Control it. Mareh 1 Igland Paris, the nys 8.—~The fortifications Heligoland, formidable base in the must be dismantied. This sion was reached today by the preme Aliied war council. It was de- | cided also the Kicl canal be interna- | tionalized and made available to the ships of all nations on even terms. Tolls will be collected to pay for the maintenance of the canal. Germany probably will retain sovereignty of the waterway. The council has under considera- tion the question of maintaining Heli goland as a port of refuge for peace- ful craft. not was much is no need for worr Within the licity has heen ease. It is said on m of Ger- Neorth deci- at Dr York they had | pipe similar to | Mrs. Wilkins' | police that Wil WE past weels much pub- iven this strange dis- to rob a patient of every particle of strength, causes complete stupor, and an insensible sleep, which, after lasting for from to cight days generally results in | death. It is reported as what is | known to the scientific world as “lethargica encephalitis.” NDED March 18.—The trans-| heen port Pastores is dueat Newport News| the March with 2,500 wounded suals, including two 1al compa- nies for Massachusetts Home is it is U which time f prope: final s e conference, it| ., has consented the | of All are ETURNING. 2,500 WOU Washington, re ownership ested o America. the question | | | | BRYAN WILL OBSERVE HIS 59th BIRTHDAY TOMORROW. Washingion, March 18 —William | nings Bryan, who has been ill for several weeks at the home of friends here had overed sufticiently today to join ryan at a Baltimore hotel, where tomorrow they Wwill cele brate Mr. Bryan's 39th Mrs. Bryan also has heen ill and onl taday was able to leave a hospital in Baltimore sick, cas The New the while the hs 18, L, March ¥ t the Lafayette,} French return to strike, week h worsted wark, Porecast for New Britain The ted and anniversary. and vicinity: Clear for tt of the sion ¢ | home. d colder l hour tonight: Wednesday 1 licans, Grand Commandery the of warden, Appointments hlamed. | hearer A real tude was practically completed today, not be made public Wetmore, York hoa carlier d Yo, i has 3 Spi date to the p# Gla undes d certain facts in' T8 rmment’s findncial sttua® h the president ma deductions Lodge Sends Out Letter. mbers of congress remainiig ia hington, particulgrly they reépun= hoped the session \auzftbe two months hefore the®ng' of urrent fiscal year next Jung 30, hat ample opportunity wil be for considering approprifiion that failed at the last comgress. blican Leader Lodge, of the sen- ias sent letters to all republican »rs rvequesting them to reeord address of May 15 with his of- but this said to be without icance. Wilson May Retwrn Ear ite House, dfficials said today if ts from Paris that the peace ¢ might be completed next week d accurate, President Wlsof return home by the, middle of s is may 1 was KNIGHTS TEMPLAR CHOOSE OFFICERS | y-Second Annual Conclave of of Connett- ‘ut Held in Hartford Today. rtford, al ery March 18.- of the Connect city At the 92d Grand, Com- ut, Knights foday, Grand of the United Past Grand Mattoon, conclave of in Lee Jar, this Smith, Encampment Pittsburgh, nd of \ander Haven Albert This personal W. of representative the heretofore another jurisdiction. nd Recorder Kli . Birdseye, en, reported a membership on March 1. Durinz the were 232 candidates knighted were 102 deaths. nd Treasurer ich, reported balance of $1,029. nds are $11,061.15 Wales Line Meriden, treas the Grand. Encampment, who present, missed only one conclave since of master 1 come of of year receipts of The $4,974 invest- of has commandery The following officers were elected inent Gr ion. New ander, nd Commander, Care; London: deputy grand Benjamin L. Coe, Watc grand generalissimo. Frederick ngton, Meriden; grand captain i, Bugene J. Clark, Middle- grand senior warden, James C. erson, Norwich: grand junior George E. Hinman, Willi- grand prelate, F. Ward De- Danbury; grand treasurer, Cos- Lippitt, Norwich: grand C. Birdseye, Meriden. - Grand McKenzie, sword Dbearer. land, New Haven: ilton 5. Wood, n guard, Clayton rd. Angus Bridgeport; Burton H. Rrand ward- Norwalk: grand of C. Rowley, TTMORE PROPERTY SOLD? of the Late C. E. Wetmore on Grove Hill to Change Hands, estate deal of some magni- when negotiations, underway for some of the Wetmore Hill reached the It stated by an inter- that had not yet consummated and that | the purchasers would | for that reason. | beionged to Mrs | who has been living in | for several years and i of the Welmore ramily | lived here. It ot | i mderstood, have been or the purch: rty on Grove tage party actus ames was the sale ly of property C. in was ome they is one mdsomest residences in the city heen rumors to the ef- re have fect that two parties Were negotiating that mind into a one, at the conver- two-family place laast, two had Hf the ind in house | persons | which was an jnnovation, | throughout “ostello Lippitt, of | | vis record- | standard | i Shippan “Poini Wounded by Othicr SHots Are.S mford, March "18.= \ tigating the movéments of L oo ’ ag i mobile in-which were' four P05 cuous Wihing.. Why . multipl Shippan arly today Q) Pha dy s a8, about ¢ Hugh; g2 was fired uponfand | amd forol if “there badly woullled. “He carnered tWo of [ I, however, it the men andiit was one 'of these §¢ho | e obifkatioff is morally b shot at hini, gne bullet drilling a. hole {'yhen, indeed Breo wives o through the wr and, another bgamg‘ cause the Unifed StetWe il kil deflected from. a, b “and lodgige in | 11 oral obligation, whereashome the, shoulder, 'The automsbile \mq;hl nationd mighe ndt" o P veared in thg diregtion of Ggeenwic - .rr«mr Inter it rcc't'm-nu\ to'the €08th d ""!‘**d'f‘l\'f Advocated %o trictiwhere % @fors Mad“an_ exchange b “All {hedg of shyts with the occupantd.without Miestroyed 4 effect. Since. darlight “the galicgigvhen he presented have been searching. for a reasdn for| stitution the shooting. | pry “{ hackground in ithd e s te be no f is ‘contended we contentians were Al president, the leagtuia peace council force s the o the ssly stated: “Armed of this will program i but the world not | the phys ) shall In detail, the 1 h er he T Death Stalks in Wake of Terrible or Reed copi | ha Storm That Swecps Central and | S aleiiitaat legislative 111 membe the joint se th Briti ic on. Decl titution w that entangl added; Calls It European Spider’s Wi Northern Mississippi. } n March their live central according 18.—Thirty-five in the storm | and northern to reports The tornado Miemphis, lost swept Mississippi, reaching here last night. crossed the Mississippi into Js- saquena couniy and passed through Sharkey, Washingion and northward | as far as Tippah county. The report says the dead at Sharkey numbered two white persons and 11| negroes, at Isola two white persons; the and 14 negroes; at Moorhead some whites, and in Tippah county power white girl e Telephone and telegraph servics| contains the section was paralvzed. | of nations Reed continued “Those not woul ect] European alliances, and have ) 50! meshes| me to the df the in pol world and ultimately to 8 of them the ambitions or quarrels over territoryd that the league ol pro withdr, from lcague, Sei “Europear fully woven their spider caugh ound for zallant sons nations of diplomat river ARiON s we ve may be in it s may be all our to assist nant earth two | in al erting no ision ved stria the U nce it should entangling who ¢ ¢ its intend to allow did States fully WANTS IRELAND FREE | —_— | | o step escar within the America First and Ireland Second, TIs Leaguc of British Origin, “The that the had been resentatives reluct transpires that the st, with is the »eople were of ‘the 'dei conceive American and W being fo Etrope. It heme slight American constitution by Plea Made By Senator Walsh of Massachusetts. Cincinnati, March 18. ishmen and sons of Irishmen in America, the | cammand forward—forward for | America first, and for freedom of Ireland next,” said U. S. Senator Da- I Walsh of Massachusetts at the conclusion of an address before the Irish Fellowship club annual celebra- tion here last night. The senator’s speech was a plea and an express mn; of hope far “the coming of a new day | and that hour when it is recorded | that Treland is free. The people of Massachusetts,” he said, “have sent a man to the United States senate to speak therein for the freedom of the | Irish people. The Irish have never heen a conquered tace rever will | bhecome one.” i Referring ta “the effort to conquer the Trish Walsh said the last resorted method of all nihilate the Irish upon entire is o fications product B statesmanship.” This might indi England Stat five retain her The exec plan senator Attacks said, the Un allowel o at he would outvote to fleet tive council | | | one and be featt ially e of by Powers of Council, We clothed L han of ear n gar po de: bitra Here men, without their decision any is 1 aut once 1 bunal of five any of England Senator Tnglish zovernment the most deacly| ¢ exterminate tations whatsoever upon peopls ity, against w red med fé#rces reir power ror safeguards of the then the cannot create Reed misconcept is no appeal the neither this be not save abus ch a ¢ mand of of ag to to and an-|a Against T there ar 1f very « peaple—Ilegislation e AUTOS IN COLLISION. the Ation world, ments Senator public and people had | constitution Automobiles belonging to T B language Murphy Sons’ Baking company and | the New Britain Machine company met in collision this morning on South Main street, near Whiting Mac} company truck turned and one of the tained a slight cut on the M. W. Maloney attended uty' Inspector Edward L investigating the accident powers there of the the said was W lea Ameri propo, on the that of ad street. The nlori e vas over not he Dr. him. Dep-| Stebbins is | nts sus- Sneers The ened.” fostered who by posed His at Assajlants. hr been recer nguished ¥ irgumel who misappre he said by we “has ertain fied erizing dist the thosc ADJUDGED INSANE, March 18 court for charac 11 New son, in ordered Judge Gil- them . the probate here today, the temporary commitment Frederick Johnson to the Connectl- Hospital for the Insane at Mid- dletown. Johnson was arrested last night in Hamden charged with having set fire to buildings of the Gaylord Farm sanitarium at Wallingford. Haven, pygmy even b suggested ‘that venture inquire ought ged upon g ut poin minded, etc cut bets the opposite 'he uestior (Continued on Third Page)