New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 22, 1919, Page 1

ESTABLISHED 1876. NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, APRIL PRICE THREE CENT. ITWO IN HOSPITAL AFTER SHOOTING IN PARK ST. ROOM -KILL BOLSHEVISM, APPEAL MADE BY MAYOR flUiGLEY! He Also Urges Support of President Wilson’s Four Bullets Find Mark in Body{ Plans for League of Nations and Scores Politicians Who Assail His Peace Program of Laurance Truhan—Margot Siemet Hit in Head With Broken Bottle | ALLEGED ASSAILANT IS HELD FOR TRIAL John Ziceek, P. 0. S. OF A. OPENS SESSION HERE TODAY —_— With delegates present from every part of the country, the Have Fired 29th annual convention of the Commandery General. Patriotic Order of the Sons of America, was opened in this city this morn- ing. This is the first time in the history of the organization that the convention was held in the east. The sessions will last two days Mayvor George Quigley, on behalf of the city, delivercd an address of welcome. IHe told the delegates that the city was theirs as long as they desired to remain here. The mayor urged the members to turn their efforts, now that the war was over, stamping out Bolshevism. [He also asked them to stand in back of President Wilson and his league of nations plan. “Support the president and stand firmly in back of him. e represents the United States and the will of the people. The politicians who throwing mud at our president and his program are mnot I SOVIET REGINE HAS CRUMBLED IN MUNICH. Said to Shots, Arrested By Hartford Police, After Being Warned By Twocal Drunken Brawl During Russian Holiday Celebration. to Following street terday gun figured Z Mike Kohanski, Bronislaw Kiresh and Daniel Protasen were rounded up by the local and Hartford authorities, and are today being held at police headquarters under bonds. Ziccek has pleaded guilty to assault with intent to kill, while Kohanski, Kiresh and Protasen have entered pleas of not guilty to breach of the {peace charges. Margot emet card on afternoon in prominently, party pl which Parade The convention was auspiciously | opened this morning with a parade. The procession began at the conven- - tion headquart at the Hotel Be- loin and procecded inrough the prin- cipal streets. Headed by the Ameri- 1 band, the delegates, about 150 in | number, made a very neat and mili- | tary appcarance. A who i) oldier, - i Erancetanas waorn poocial guards of honor color | pudapest Bavaria Shows B — b Taurence Tru- han are lying at the New Britain General hospital in a eritical condi- tion result of the shooting, four bullets, alleged to have heen fired by Zlccek, having found their mark in Truhan while Siemet was injured by having been struck with a beer bottle. At the hospital it is stated that the condition of both men w as could be expected, and an ope tion will be performed in an effor to remove the four bullets lodzed in Truhan’s body. Bonds at $7.500. Although Ziecek pleaded guilly the assault with intent to kill tod Assistant Prosecutor Joseph G. ordered a plea of not court Tecords, as is such cases. i | and Democrats Control seen acted beare AL of the chine As street, viewed service to the Mayor Quigley and Colonel Thompson and several officers | order were seated in a ma- | behind the colors. the columns swung down M the officers of the order the delegates Quigley W Improvement. London, April | —Advices from Budapest indicate that the social dem- ocrats will take over control. They arc headed by the commissioner of | education in' the Soviet cabinet. Chaos is reporfed to prevail in Budapest, he Soviet regime at Munich also has crumbled, the end coming on Sat- urday according to reports reaching Tondon. The ministry headed by H Hoffmann is at work and a resump- tion of governmental functions is un- der wa On the Ural front under ihe command of the | Russian government have feated the Bolsheviki wio are report- ed retreating. Demoralization in the Bolshevik ranks is reported and in the Viatka government the peasants have revolted against the Lenine-Trotzl government. There is much plundering of towns in Bavaria according to reports says bitter fights have occurred tween the Communists and the bou geoise. At Rosenberg ten hostages have been shot and a fine of y00 | tion. e was turned over to the lo- marks has been imposed on the city | cal police and taken this city by because of its lapse from communism. | Sergeants Johnson and Richardson A report says that a radical m and Officers Souney and Rival. ment there is again increasing and Breach of Peace Charged that there is a probability that the| The men charged with breach city will return to the Soviet syster. | the peace are held under bonds Trnest Toller, president of the & $1,500 because of the riousness fet government, has left Munich the case. They are Mike Kohanski clrod, the Russian socialist, 21 Morse avenue, Meriden, aged ted in the establishment of Bronislaw Kiresh, 3 ot regime, and Her en, this city, aged 36; and Daniel of the Soviet leaders, remain in tasen, o 5 Hartford avenue, i city, aged 27 slcomes Delegates, The business session was opened at the 0. U M. hall wilh singing of “America.” Mayor George A. Quigley, as the fir peaker, said that it was n honor and pleasure to welcome the | delegates to New Britain. “'In these | da mixed theologies, with Bol- shevism and various other discords | arising,” he said, real pleasure 1o welcome to ain, an Amer- jean organization. feel that American people are willing able to take care of ti inst preachings that jean. Tt not necess cited. This country will never be rupted. Americans can take but stand as regards Bolshevism. We nnot tolerate their preachings for momen mp them out. As long as I am chicf magistrate of this city 1 will do everything in my ]m\\n to stamp out any Bolshevism in New Britain.” Mayor Quigley for the benefit of the delegates from other states, outlined some of the work done by New Fng- land in helping to win the war. The mayor pointed with pride to New Britain’s response to the call to arm. Over 3,800 men in this city enlisted in the army and navy, he stated. Of | this number 112 have made the su- preme sacrifice. New Britain stands ond in United States as re the number of men in the scrv based on population, he added. Me Iden is first. Favors Wilson's Plans. The mayor also paid a t the state of Pennsylvania for in the World War. In closing his ad- dr Mayor Quigley urged every del- egate to support President Wilson and | his league of nations plan. “Though President Wilson is not of my politi- cal affiliations, I believe it is the duty of every man, woman and child in this country to stand back of owr! mighty president and support him and Tis program. He is our represent tive. The chief politiclans who are throwing mud at President Wilson are not Americans.” E. K. Hope of Pennsylvania an- swered the mayor and corroboiated his remarks. “There is more danger nhead than in the past,” he said. He also urged the delegates to help stamp out Bolshevism. A business meeting ports were given by the officer: Offi Nominated. The following officers were nom- Inated, elections to be held tomorrow: Commander-in-chief Frank M. Anderson, Altoona, Pa. commander-in-chief ringer, Jr., Philadelphia, | to Woods gullty on the customary in Ziecek is 23 years of nd gives his home address ai z avenue, Meriden, and his place | of employment as the Meriden hranch of Landers, Frary & Clark. For a time previous he was employed as an orderly in the Meriden hospital. He has heen in the local court on one pr occasion and paid fines for and contempt of court, this having been in January, 1918 Bonds in his case were fixed {h morning by Judge at $7,500. Tie i t s of in Rus: forces Iesk all- i again d is one 2 arrested on the Berlin turnpike, following the shoof- ing last night, by the Hartford au- thorities and was so weakened by los of blood that it was necessary for him to have medics as taken to the Hartford police a- to l | i the | one the 3 Pre thi our The story of by those who effect that Ziec embroiled in an The means the Red shevik newspaper grad. The milita Krasynaya Gazetta, translatad, Gazette. Tt is a Bol- published in Petio- shots Fired. the shooting as told witnessed it to the and Truhan became argument. When the former drew a gun, Sicmet step- ped between them as Deacemake and someone struck him with some sharp instrument, now helieved to have been a broken bottle, and in- flicted severe injuries to his head and neck. When Siemet was o the way, Ziecek, it is claimed, pointed his revolver at Truhan and fired four ing his way through the door as he did so. shots were lodged in his body, Tru- | han ran to a nearby store, informed | the police and the search for Ziecek was begun at once. Hartford Pol When last seen in had headed ing compan bute to its part is - situation in Bavaria is mproving according to announce- ments made by the Hoffman ministry. The Sparticides who took Dachau ten miles northwest of Munich b ing the armistice with the gove troops have been repulsed government troops are now the place. The Hoffmann min which re- sumed control of the situation in the capital on Sunday is fe according to repor the Diet are arriving daily and embly will meet soon. Russian prisoners of war released from camps in Germany how doing guard dut: at the railroad stations. MURDER 1S SUSPECTED violat- nment nd ke holding | the e Notified. this city Truhan toward the Cremo Brew- plant and the Hartford authorities werc notified. Through the signal system all the officers on the southerly beats in Hartford were put on the lookout and Detective Ser- geant John K. Madigan with the Hartford patrol wagon was detailed to watch the turnpike. After a wait on the turnpike without resulfs, the | sergeant returned to the city, and was informed by Isaac Katz a Hartford autois that a man, apparently riously injured. was m¢ toward Hartford Ziccek Ts Caught, cants Madizan and Welch and Officer Itice returned in Mr, Katz's cax to the turnpike and about one mile from the spot where Katz had first seen the injured man, Ziecek was seen making his way toward the city. To yrevent any more gun-play Sergeant Madigan stood on the running board of the cor and as the car passed Zie- cek he stretched out and picked him up, overpawering him' in the tonnewu the followe = Boston Pol Investigating Firing of e Shots Find Dead Body of Man-— Bamuel ¥ v = ‘Wife Denies Killing Him. Junior vice Gilbert Hamilton, Philadelphi Treasurer in chief —l)dnwl K. teading. P Recorder in chief. berland, Philadelph Philadelphia, Boston. April 22 —Tnvestigation | into the firing of shots in a Columbus | venue lodging house led to the covery of the body of Fugene L. Fisher, formerly of Lewiston, Me., <arly today Hix wife was held by | the police for examination as a wit- | n liow lodgzers said the couple had quarreled frequently during the last weck. She denied having fired | the shots that killed him. Mpys, Fisher i s of Her hus- band w Hoch, dis- J. Harry Pa., Pa., Cum- Charles H and H. V. in chief—George W. Orderly in chief—Ralph L. Downs, Bristol, Pa Guard in Philadelphia, Picket in enton, N. g,di:\. Pa. Trustees Charles age. chief —William L. Pa. chief—Walter J., John Kyle, MARRIED. —Miss Mar- | ighter of Mr. 8. Wilson, Daltry, New garet Carnegie, only and Mre. Andrew Carnegie, and jgn Roswell Miller, U. S. N., ed at uoon today the negie home. Only n few friends and | relatives were pri i in chief, Packe Adam rnhart and William = L. car L. Penies Shooting. ken to the Hartford station on Page T When t (Continued on Pa ent. (Continued ree) Authoritics—Trouble Resulted From | Park | John | as good | James T. Meskill | 1 attention as soon | | street, ! Although the four | WEST VIRGINIA WILL E } —_—— New Castle, Pa., Sees Birth of Pohtu'al Organization to Boost His Candidacy For Nomination on Re- publican Ticket—Is Called Logical Man. April The organiza- » of the “‘Suth- erland Alliance” for the purpose of promoting the candidacy of U. 8. Sen- ator Howard Sutherland, of West Virginia, for the Dresidency of the United States on the republican ticket was announced here today by Bert I, | Kline, editor of the New Castle Her- | " ald and one of the organizers of the | alliance, Senator Sutherland has | been notified, he said, of the organi- zation of the alliance and has con- sented to the use of his name as prospective presidential candidate. The papers of incorporation which were filed today at New Castle expros the belief that Senator Sutherland i the logical man to he selected hy t republican party as its candic | president.” TIn addition to Mr the incorporator, George 5 ; . McBride and James Gealey, siness men of New Castle, the present, interests be taken care of but later a campaign appointed and a na- For the would New Mr. | tion in York New Castle, included. explained, Sutherland by the alliance, mana will be tion-wi nization effected. Senator Sutherland was born ne: Kirkwood. Mo., September &, 18 and received his education at West- i - college, Fulton, Mo., and Co- (now George Washington) university. He first entered member of the West Virginia senate in 1908 and served four ¥ in that boc He was then clected a member of congress and served two terms in the house of rep- resentatives from 3 to 191 was elected senator in the fall of | for the full six-year term and a member of the military affairs com- mittee of that body. Senator Suther Jand is marvied and has eight daugh- ters. His home is in Tikins, W. of as a a | state 1916 is ave ' FIRST DAY OF CAMPAIGN BRINGS IN $314,900 OF $2,385,000 QUOTA HERE start will bring the loan in this city \Reports From Other Districts |over the top in auick order. The gquota to be raised in New Show That New England ! ain is $2,385,000 and if the campaign i continues on the scale upon which it ot Away With a Flying Start. is started—and the committee be- lieves it will even incy tire sum will be raised in s ! The factory canvass has been started in a number of the local shops and when these returns are sent in, the total will be changed materially, the committee cxpec! England Goes Strong. 15! At noon today ! Chairman A. . figures compiled hy Sloper, in charge, of | the Victory loan drive in this city showed a total of $314,900 taken in | on the first day of the drive. The chairman and his mmittec are highly pleased with the respons. given on the first day of the drive, and are confident that fhis excellent WILSON EVIDENTALLY CPPOSED TO ANY ALLIANCE CONFLICTING WITH i | | 1 | | | | i New wnd April 2 with of the New F3 flying start on victery Liberty Boston, t a first away day | 1 | ! (Continued on Page Three) % | i ; ! Administra- {gram of inquiry dent’s attitude toward ance, which according to cer ewspapers contemplated a pac entered into by eat Britain and the United he outcome of the apparent d lock over Italy’s claims is awaited protect | gicial quarters here with evident aggression, {anxiety. The situation as pictured in sident Wilson would take no action |pr dispatches is regarded as seriou which might in the slightest degree [and there was no message from Pa jeopardize the league of nations today or vesterday similar to those of conflict with its principle last week reporting general progress The message was a reply at the peace table. Washington, tion offici { dential April regarding the presi secret alli- ain Paris defense France, advised in a confi- a cablegram from Paris today ) | that | confronting in the consideration of problems the Adris peace conference, suciy fas Ttaly's tic claims and th | question of an alliance fo |France from further or to a cable- { ARMED MEN LOOKING FOR ESCAPED NEGRO | PLANE FALLS, FIVE BURNED TO DEATH | Escapes From. Posse After Mob Had | Two Others in English Machine In- Made Unsuccessful Attempt Jured Severely—Gasoline Tank to Him, Lynch Catches T Numerous | wrching | negro | last night | Easton, Md., April parties of armed me re today for Isaah Fountain, who escaped from custody after an attempt had been made to | lynch him. 1 was on trial here | an accident at the airdrome at Ney- charged with felonint assaulting a | hill, near here. The two other: 13 year old white girl April 1 last the machine were injured severely. | The girl had identified him as ler | All the occupanis of the machir assailant. | E were army officers, including a mejor, Fountain was being taken to jail [ a captain and two leutenants. through a crowd of move than 2,000 | The machine failed to start persons which hecame so threatening | and struck a telegraph pole. The towards the prisoner that the office ler off and the w rvetired to the house of a sheriff ad- | chinc f a hut used for I joining the jail. While they were gleepir he gasoline tank hiolding the mob hack the nc was | caught fire and the machine burned so pushed inside the house and sceing an | quickly that it was impossible open window darted through it and | reach the imprisoned crew. escaped. He got several hours’ start A licutenant and sergeant man: | of his pursuers owing to the fact that | {0 extricate themselves I | the mob refused believe burned { had gottz=n away. fhathuel ERVREE . 11,178 HAVE VOLUNTEERED ITALIAN PREMIER ABSENT. his Andover, member England, of the ¢ ley Page airplane were death early today when crashed to the earth as the resulf of April ew of big Han- burned to the machine a Iy | as | | v carr broke 1 on purposes re the roof a 0 w to Par April 2 -Vittorio Orla the Italian premier. was absent | morning when deliberation was i sumed at the Paris White Hoi President Wilson and Premiers Jlovd George and Clemenceau were presont | The president and the premiers went again into the Japanese questions pro- ted by Baron Makino and Viscount Ohinda. do, this W | | | | Number Now Available For Overscas Service and Corresponding Number of Veter April 2 the re recruit in the 12, the iotal to 1ble 1di n Washingto provement in department’s hown today ended April —Decided im of the catpais ort th total of army 11 Y 'HER. grand arc i brought the who for New Fair toni unteers av an equal number ¢ of occupatio outnumber to 2. Porecast and v nity Wednesday. i st N SEN. SUTHERLAND OF RUN FOR PRESIDENT Kline | Senator | politics | He | Va. | Brit- | the | loan | PRINCIPLE OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS in | 2l in | Will Release | GERMANY BOWS TO WILL 0 ALLIES, EMPOWERS ENVOYS /Actual Meeting of Allied and German Delegates | Will Net Occur Now Until April 28— ' Berlin Reports That People May Vote on Acceptance IS NOT IMPROVED i | | ITALIAN SITUATION 3 | (By The Associated Press.) Germany has bowed to the virtual ultimatum of the relative to the sending of mere messengers to the peace congress# at Versailles, and will be represented by a delegation having fulli# | powers to n gotiate a treaty of peace. [~ This closes what seemed to threaten a grave complication i the work of the congress. The actual meeting of the Allied and$l German delegates however, probably will not occur until Aprik 28 as the change in the German plans and the physical impossi=ii§ { bility of having the official draft of the treaty ready for presen s tation on April 25 makes a postponenient of the historic gather®¥ {ing imperative. Germany is ready to call for a plebiscite on the treaty it is reported from Berlin. In the meantime the ltalian situation is a source of ich con= cern in Paris. After conferences with Premiers Lloyd George and Clemenceau on Sunday and Mond Premier Orlando and Foreign Minister Sonnino of Italy absented themselves from the meeting « m the Council of Four held on Monday afternoon. ‘TROLLEY BILLS ARE VIGOROUSLY FOUGHT y Wilson Prepares Statément. Whether this marked »h-tuu withdrawal of the Ttalians from. the conference was not develaped. . Presis dent Wilson opposed to recognition off the !.(.(\h London under which {Italy im to Fiume and the Dele |mation c has prepared a statés ment an the subject which will bl |made public if the deadlock continussk It e e aul axpociad Monday night but it was not issued from the Paris White house. A revolution has broken out in Turs key and a Soviet government set dp according to news reports originating| at Odessa. Constantinople is sald 0 be under Bolshevik rule The Hungair] oviet headed by Bela Kun |have fallen. Rumanian vancing from the east have ed by Czech troops and army has been defeated reports, a Declines on General Assembly to Remit Highway and Paving Taxes Hartford, -Two of the so- | called trolley April 2 bills the n government, reported o forces md< been join- the Soyies according. o) originating in the is finding of commission which investigated the trolley companies came ate today, both unfavorably reported. | They were those intended to relieve companies of paying a portion of the expense of highway bridge construc- tion and to relieve them of the as- for paving alongside of | city streets. The senate disagreed with the | house and voted, 30 to 3, in favor of | submitting to the electors a proposed prohibitory amendment. Those who | were against the resolution were | Senators House, Hough and Hazen. | The house last week rejected the reso- lution, so the matter of a referendum on the liquor question falls between the two branches, and is considered to be a victory for those members who believe that the federal prohi- bition amendment is paramount and | effective, and, consequence of which, a state constitutional amend- ment would be of no use. The sena- tors absent today Williamson and Brooks. | A Dbill was sent to the appropria- tions committee which directs the comptroller to reimburse various per- { sons for sums expended in 1913 to determine their rights to the office of county commissioner appoint- ment of Governor Baldwin for interim between sessions of the eral assembly. The persons | fmbursed would release the state from {all claims. Such a bill, if adopted. | | would end the introduction each ses- | | sion of individual hills | these appointees win for court ing the Three | dividus win’s Mr. the special condition of into ‘the sen- | HELD FOR EXTORTION 18 Year Old Stratford Youth Charged With Sending Threateni Letter Asking For $6,000. Bridgeport, the April Arraigned in today the in an g Walter By American a threatening 18, of Straf- continued until that his lawyer m establish whether jurisdie tter was received in this the pseado delivered eived there by Wi awaiting trial in thef city court charge of bein tempt to exto Lasher, president Chain Co., letter, Daniel ford, had morrow in c briefs ort the mailed on implicated 000 from the means of Lyd his case der to Stre of by in tford The or has tion matte were written, city, it and admit > of money Stratford, and rec J. Haggerty, now superior HUNS ARMING AGAIN teported to Be Building Armored onrt mder | the | gen- | re- | o Are Cars, Engines and Guns and Hid- to reimburse Bald- determin- to office. i ing Them in Upper Silesia. expenses question i essions have All s were of Waterford when effort under suspension of solution incres the London’s ¢ and it went to the also objected to the bill ing the time for organization Danielson and Willimantic street rail- way, saying that he was opposed {o state aid trolley companies, and that a reason for this time should be given of Portland, ked Mr e picked on this littlc the bigger ones go by conditions which rec tension werc to | was a lively debate, the bill was ohjections School committees and members of various bod | town schools, | petitions in | of four dol | ance at public committee on bill for three Both branches of began what week, bhec P. Service) .- (F Germar ris, April h W The n reies of overnmien reje d these in- 2 Dills. building and concealing armored car: appointe Genry house of Governor democr d railvoad ms to inforn mich engine s in upper Ation res spondent The several of obtair according M des obje was mad the rules | in th « | by Journ cars the 1 ts s of mored num sin cou lari being witz small been order been p ished (e | triet correspor built he works uns in car provided calendar. extend of the with two have have fin= orkmen { they ed ane omised ¢ mium to car pidi litz dis= pond- guns ndtg E Stre extension Mr. Wilcox Geary why and let id that f upp: 1ds bet been QUED DDR §4,000 0 ent } them road hi He juire tir the but adopted over duc e in Mr. the Geary's ofiicers and Auto Crash cnd ge g Sigfrid Snygg. Injured in n | ant 1 continued to AD! 12. Brings Action Against of an avers per child in atte schools. althou t has reported per child. >m bly their wor 2t Carlson. { Gustave " Josep bods, acting rought suit for $4,000 as to accident in night of April 12, t served by is the is the Awyer rid Gust 1 education dollars the f sn 7 ainst I the Stanley str 1 a result o eet in t da | husiest many {of them | disposed of husiness in journment icd there are bills, importance © s o ut Wink May igainst C: odds paper were € somic he endin writ on Monda in broug t to final next preparatory readiness cond This ond for 1 ten had isin action 1rison practicaliy police court on 11 To- Hc off¢ Yguor Nine) {uand costs for