New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 3, 1919, Page 1

& port the president in repeal of proh WNew London delegates s: 7 5 ,{& e daughter, Miss Edith J. Symonds. News of the World. By Asscciated Press. e 'NEW BRITAIN HERALD ( Herald “Ads™S | Better “Busi e — = = PRICE THREE CENTS. »NE\W BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT. TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1919—TWELVE PAGES. ESTABLISHED OMES OF PROMINENT MEN ABOUT COUNTRY BEING GUARDED BY POLICE AS WIDESPREAD BOMB PLOT IS DISCOVERED IN EASTERN CITIES | ARMY AVIATORS UINN SAYS LOCAL | SHOPS SHUN UNION '\Declares Union Men Cannot Ob- | fain Employment in This Gity “BECAUSE OF MANUFACTURERS New Britain Labor Delegate Makes Report At Connecticut Federation of Labor Convention in Meriden To- day. Meriden, Juno 3.—Attendance of ! delegates at the Connecticut Federa- tion of Labor convention today went 0 400, with an increased number of **wvomen. Treasurer F. [ Neebe, T ported a balance of § 5 on hand. The introduction of resolutions gave the resolutions committee consider- able work. Its report will not be made until later. Among the resolutions were these Want sl(\)“ Bonus Paid. Urging the state to pay a bonus of | $100 to each Connecticut man in serv- | jee; that the United States Emplo; ment Service be made permanent; in _favor of a league of nations; to sup- bition on malt liquo to place the federation on record as favoring an Trish republic: asking the president to | ene in behalf of the Jews in Po- urging equal rights for Jews in to have congr order the @var) department to recall all Amer can' goldiers in Russia; to have the goveynor call an extra session of the | Gengral Assembly in order to act up- "oi ®oman's suffrage, this last named - beihg offered by the Woman's Trades leagye. | Blames Local Manufacturer: | . Delégates reported union conditions | to be good in their respective districts, although J. F. Quinn said union men could /not get employment in New Britain owing lo the attitude of the mantfacturers, and that C. Hotchkiss of Ansonia said "there unrest among the machinists owing to condi- tions following the w. The painters’ strike of a year's | standing here was referred to and a | that paint- receiving $1 an was ers in his city WO TREATY CHANGES Ome were is Financial and the Other Deals | here today | and for some time was unable to rise With Territorial Clauses of Terms Pemanded of Germans. Paris, June Two changes in the German peace terms, one territorial, and the other financi re being con- | gidered by the council of four it be- | came known today. i The financial question is the possi- Hlity of the acceptance of the German proposal to pay an indemnity of 100,- ¢ 000,000,000 marks which would in- volve dissolution of the Allied finan- cial commission to which the Ger-! mans strongly object. It is understood | tleis proposal has strong support in certain quarters The second proposal i scite in Silesia in order to Germany, a coal supply Silesian mines. “ GERMANY PROTESTING About | for a plebi- to guarantee | from the | Complains to Paris and Spa New Rhenish Republic and Orders "Arrest of President. Berlin, June The German gov- | ernment has issued an order for the | grrest of Dr. Doren, the president of | the new Rhenish republic, the North German Gazette announces. " The government also, the news- er states, has entered protests ! poth at Paris and at Spa, the head- | guarters of the armistice commission | against the behavior of the French: guthorities in the occupied area of | ge Rhineland. RRIED 25 YEAR and M Charle: of Chestnut Street to Celebrate. M/ Mr. Symonds Charles street | ©n Saturday Mr. and Mrs. J. Symonds of 418 Chestnut /will observe the 25th anniversary of their marriage ,and while they plan | 70 formal reception, they will be at ‘pome to friends from 3 until 10 p. m. | . Mr.and Mrs. Symonds were married | ip, Philadelphia on June 7, 1894, b W. D. Jones, D. D. They have| 'monds is employed at the Stan- Rule & Level Co. | of his attitude in | f Is Later Brought to the Surface and | | carrying 4,000 BOMBS HURLED AT TWO BOSTION HOMES Police Judge and State Representative | Singled Out for Destruction by Conspirator: Boston, June 3.—Rarly tions of the explosions last the home of Police Judge Hayden in the Roxbury d t and: that of State Representative Leland Powers in Newtonville tended to con- firm the first opinion of the police that the outrages were part of a nation wide plot. Pamphlets entitled *‘plain/ words" were found scattered outside | the Hayden house and also in the! wreckage. These were identical in| language with those found at the home of Attorney General Palmer in! Washington, | State Chemist Walter Wedger today ! expressed the opinion that a fus bomb was placed in the Hayden re dence rather than a clock bomb. The| nature of the explosive used at the Powers residence was not so evident, but the police thought a stick of dy-| | investiga- | night at| Albert F.| namite was thrown there. No one was injured in either explo- | | sion | Except for a son all the members of Judge Hayden's family were at their summer residence in Plymouth. The was just returning to the Roxbury residence and was only a few hundred feet down the street when the explosion occurred | Judge Hayden expressed the apin- on that the attack was made because the cases of nearly 100 May day rioters who recently peared in his court and upon many whom he imposed heavy sentenc Theonly occasion could be ascribed son of i for the attempt to blow up the Pov crs home was the legislative activity »f Representative Powers on the anti- anarchy bill, recently. adopted GENERAL STRIKE CALLED Vancouver Workmen Vote to Quit | Today in Support of Strikers in Winnipeg. Vancouver, B. ., June 3.—A gen- eral strike of organized labor in Van- couver in sympathy with the Winni- peg strike and effective at 11 a. m. today was called at meeting last night. a mass CHILFAN SUB SINKS. Entire Crew Saved. Talcahuano. Chile, June 3.—The hilean submarine H-3 went down with her crew on board again to the surface. It was feared that her crew could not be released. Ultimately, however, the submarine s refloated and the crew safely re- moved The submarine H-3 is probably one of the six constructed for the Chilean government at Quincy, Ma in 1917-18. W WILSON'S SHIP READY. George Washington Prepared to Sail | Any Time After June 5. Brest, June 3.—The transport George Washington, in which Presi- dent Wilson has three times crossed the Atlantic has been ordered to be ready to sail on 12 hours’' notice at any time after midnight, June 5. The Mount Vernon, with 6,000 reg- ulars from the Sixth division under command of Major-Gen. Walter H. Gordon sailed this morning for New The Siboney and Orizaba, each men of the 81st divi- night for Newport sailed last WOULD RESTORE POWERS OF COMMERCE COMMISSION Washington, June 3.—The senate | interstate commerce committee, by | unanimous vote, today ordered favor- ably reported bill by Chairman Cummins restoring at once the rate- making powers of the interstate com- merce commission. OVERCOME BY HEAT, FALLS IN WATER AND DROW! Burlington, Vt., June 3.—Charles M. Hoag, 35. was overcome with the heat while painting a boat in Mal- lett’s Bay near Coats Island and fall- ing into the water, was drowned. His | home was in Boston but he had been living at Williston for several months. BRADEN HEADS Y CLUB. Haven, June —James M. Braden of Washington, Pa., football and track star at Yale last night was elected president of the Y club, a newly formed organization of past and present Y men of Yale. ARE LOOKING FOR FLIER lThree Planes Leave Mineola to Hunt for Capt. James MISSING SINCE THURSDAY One Machine to Scour Long Island Sound and Hudson Valley Others Will Sweep Over Connecti- cut. Mineola, June In the hope of finding Captain Mansell R. James, the British ace, who has been missing since last Thursday when he attempt- ed to fly from Lee, Mass., to Hazel- hurst aviation field, a squadron of three airplanes left Hazelhurst field this morning. Heads for Col. Miller was to make his first stop at Stamford, Conn., then go to Poughkeepsie, Albany, and perhaps to Pittsfield, Mass., where, according to unofficial reports, Captain James was seen. Tt was the colonel’s purpose to make a search along Long Island Sound and the Hudson river on his flight. . Others Search Connecticut. The plane piloted by Lieuts. Star weather and Frost were to go Winsted amford and Hartford, while Lieut. Beau was to fly te Pitts- field, stopping en route at Hartford. When the airplanes arrived at their stopping plgces they were to get in touch with the local telephone ex- changes and have the operators all subscribers in the rural districts in order to ascertain if any Albany. thing of the British flier. st Thursday. Torrington, June 3—aptain James, missing flier, was last seen noon by Sherman Bronson car Hurlbut, southeast Center, apparently just rington flying southeast. The airman was ahout three miles farthe than when seen by Lieut. Ashely. An a lane passed over Torring- ton shortly after noon today headed northeast. It was believed to be one of the airmen from Mineola in search of Captain James. Seen L and Os- of Winchester east of Tor- CLEVELAND’S MAYOR HAS NARROW ESCAPE Bomb Plotters Make Unsuccessful At- tempt to Assassinate Him—Re- ceived Numerous Threats. Cleveland, June 3.—Police of Cleve- land, Columbus and otheér cities today | are s rching for two men who are believed to have planted a bomb at the home of Mayor Harry L. Davis late last night. The house was partly wrecked but no one was injured. The bomb, which is believed to have been heavily charged with dynamite, was planted under a cellar window and, according to the police, was a time bomb. Places found indicate it was made of brass pipe. The explosion was so terri tore out practically the entire north side of the house. Windows in many houses for several blocks were broken. No One Injured. Mayor Davis was seated on the lawn on the opposite side of the house with his wife and several friends when the explosion occurred. His three year old son and a maid were th only occupants of the house Mrs. Da- vis had just joined the party when the explosion occurred. Shortly before she had been standing in the kitchen, di- rectly over where the blast occurred. Two men, one of them carrying a suit case, were seen prowling around the house about an hour before the explosion. Less than half an hour be- fore the blast the mavor twice receiv- ed mysterious telephone calls. Police believe the men tried to get him into the house at about the time the bomb was expected to explode. For several months the mayor has been a target for anonymous threat- ening letters, which he ignored. ¢ that it MEEHAN PROPERTY SOLD. Two Brick Blocks On Lafayette Street Were Transferred This Moining. Through H. Dayton Humphrey, the two brick blocks owned by the Luke | Meehan estate on Lafayette street were sold today to Joseph Caslowitz and S. Sheinman. While the purchase price has not heen given out it is said to be about $50,000. The two blocks are composed of six tenements each and on the ground floots are two stores: owners are occupants of stores in the buildings. While | to | call | resident | { of the outlying districts had seen any- Thursday | south | Both of the new | P I. W. W. LEADER ARRESTED AFTER PISTOL DUEL WITH DETECTIVES; BOMB SUSPECT HELD IN BOSTON John- W a Pittsburgh, June 3.—Robert son, 5, president of the T. union here was arrested after with detectives and of justice this agents of thc in a downt afternoon. partment office building opened fire on the dete revolver when they openl of the 1. W. W. headquarte key taker from a suspect arresied in connection with the bomb explosion last night. Several bullets passed through the clothes of the detective: but no one was injured. Johnson was overpowered and taken to police He with a the door | with a | headquarters with aquantity of an- "archistic literature found in the office of the I. W. W. headquarters. Boston, June 3.—Two men sus- | pected of being concerned in ex- plosions last night at the homes of Judge Albert F. Hayden in the Rox- bury district in this city, and State | Representative Leland Powers at Newton, were arrested by the local | police today. One was released but | the other was held pending further investigation 1In the home of the latter the police found a quantity of foreign literature. FAVORABLE REPORT FOR WIRES RETUR Senate Interstate Commerce Commit- tee Orders Such Action On Bill Demanding Private Ownership Washington, June 3.—Favorable re- port on the bill of Senator Kellogg, republican, of Minnesota for the im- mediate rcturn of the telephone and telegraph wires to private ownership was ordered today by the se in- | terstate commerce committe measure had been amended so continue-existing telephone rate for 60 ! days after final action by congress. imous. { uing telegraph rates which recentr were increased by order of Postma er Gen. Burleson whose action w sustained yesterday by the court. Clarence H. Mackay, president ! of the Postal Tel-Cable Co.. in recent letters to members of congress urging immediate return of the wires, prom- | ised a 20 per cent. increase in rates by his company. | " Most advocates of the return of the wire properties had urged that a spe- cific date be set with July 1 suggested | by representatives of the companies but the committee decided to adopt Senator Kellogg’s plan for return “forthwith. “hairman Cummins announced he would call the bill up in the senate as | as curing its passage late this week. BOLSHEVIK PLOT Funds Smuggled Into Finland With Evident Intention of Financing Revolution There. London, June 3.—A Bolshevik plot on a wide scale has been discovered in Finland, according to an ction with the discovery. unds have been smuggled into 'Finland preparatory to a contem- I plated revolution the dispatch states, and a Bolshevik representative at Helsingfors had distributed more than 3,000,000 marks of this. Quantities of weapons given among the unemployed intended coup d' etat owing to developments in Russia. PETROGRAD CAPTURED Ad sthonians and Finns Have had been but the Unconfirmed From Taken Capital of Bolshevists, Copenhagen, June 3.—Esthonian and Finnish forces have taken Petro- grad, acccrding to an unconfirmed telegram from Vardoe received by the National Tidende. es Vardoe LODGE SAYS BUSINE! INTEREST KNEW TERMS WHEN SENATE DID NOT iy Washington, June 3.—Sena- tor Lodge, chairman of the senate foreign relations com- mittee, told ihe senate today h had seen in the hands of bus interests in New York a v of the treaty with Ger- many given out by an Ameri- can representative at Paris but withheld by the slate depart- | ment from the senate. ~ WEATHER. | Hartford, June 2.—Forecast for New Britain and vicinit Fair tonight and Wednesday; continued warm. J |t i —— 1 fter | as to | { The vote of the committee was unan- | No provision was made for contin- | supreme | soon as possible with the hope of se- ! Exchange | Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen. | Many arrests have been made in con- | was prevented ! IMPOTANT CLUES IN BOMB MYSTERY Washington Police Identify Dead Man—Arrests Are Expected BUILDINGS WELL GUARDED Authorities Learn That Bomb-Placer | Left Philadelphia Last Night—Was | Apparen of Ttalian Birth or Parentage. shington, June 3.—Washington ‘police inspectors today believed they had identified as an anarchist of { Philadelphia the man who was blown | to pieces last night in an effort to kill Attorney-General A. Mitchell Palmer with a bomb. They also expressed the | belief that the nation-wide plot | against the lives of government offi- | cials and prominent business men | had been laid in that city. Identity Kept Secret. The police would not reveal the identity of the man, but they felt cer- | tain the facts they had gathered in their investigation since last midnight | would lead to the apprehension of his associates, who, they believe, also were responsible for the May Day plot in which many infernal machines ad- | dressed to government officials, mem- bers of congr: and business men were placed in the mails. Came from Philadelphia. A blood-stained conductor's identi- fication check, found in front of Mr. Palmer's residence early toda) showed that the anarchist arrived in ‘Washington at 10:30 o'clock last night from Philadelphia. He went di- rectly from the Union station to the Palmer home and only a few minutes | before the explosion he seen | alighting from a street car but a few blocks away by C. S. Briggs, of Marion, S. C. Was of Italian Birth. The anarchist apparently was of Ttalian birth or parentage. His scalp, found by the police at daylight, had upon it hair that was dark and curly. Included in the heap of tattered, scorched fragments of clothing and articles belonging to the man was a much-thumbed Italian-American dic- tionary, indicating its owner knew little English. By a freak of the explosion, the man’s hat remained intact. On the sweatband was inscribed the name of “De Lucas Bros., Hatters, 919 South IZighth street, Philadelphia.” Only One Man Killed. Tt was at first thought that two men had been killed, because parts of two legs were found where they had been blown. Later, however, the police es- tablished definitely only one man had been killed. Additional precautions were taken by the police today to safeguard pub- lic men in Washington. Many homes and public buildings were being guarded. At the capitol extra police were placed on duty. Dead Man’s Head Found. The head of the dead anarchist was found on the roof of a house than a block away from the scene of the explosion and taken down by fir men who were searching for possible evidence. more "BWAY! CLOSED. The Paris subway shut down this PARIS Paris, June 3 lines in Paris are | differed as to whether morning as a result of a strike of its emploves. Dispatches from Lille say that about 48,000 men are on strike at the Pas de Calais coal mining re- , gion, WASHINGTON, PHILA%ELPHI P A NEW YORK AND PITTSBURGH IN REIGN OF “RED TERROR” Conspirator Killed In Attempt To Take Life Of Attorney General—Watchman Blown To Bits When Explosive Wrecks Home Of Gotham Judge—Catholic Church Damaged In Philadelphia. ANARCHISTIC OUTRAGES EXPECTED TO SPEED CONGRESSIONAL ACTION Explosives Used in Making Infernal Machines Are Found to Be Most Power- ful.—Sleuths Get Clue. New York, June 3.—One man was killed and several men and women had a narrow escape from serious in- jury early today when a bomb placed at a basement entrance to the home of Judge Charles C. Nott of general sessions court exploded. The front part of the Nott residence was blown out and houses nearby on East 61st street were damaged. Judge Nott was not at home and Mrs. Nott was asleep on the second floor and was uninjured. Watchman Blown to Picces. William Boehner, a private watch- man was blown to pieces, parts of his body being found half a block from the scene of the explosion. He was identified by his two sons from par- ticles of his clothing and a ring of keys. For the last ten years Boehner has been employed as a watchman for a number of private dwellir near Judge Nott's home. The exact time of the explosion was learned when it was discovered that a large clock in the hallway had stopped at 12:55 a. m. The bomb, according to Inspector Owen FEagan of the bureau of com- bustibles, was most powerful. Experts the bomb was loaded with dynamite or trinitrotoluol. Judge Nott Was Awa Judge Nott, with three daughters, was at his summer home near New London, Conn. With Mrs. Nott in the house were the caretaker and his family. They suffered only from shock and minor injuries received when they were thrown from their beds. The homes of Richard lawyer, and Dr. John C joining the Nott residence, were badly damaged. All glass was broken and doors broken in by the concussion. No one in these houses was injured. Bits of Body Discovered. Directly across the street, army men, guests al an officers’ club, maintained by the War Camp Community Service, kened by windows crashing Portions of a body were found in the club. Officers who served overseas said the force of the explosion equal- led anything they had heard in France during the war. Lydon, a McKew, ad- Immediately following the explosion | and the receipt of news dispatches telling of similar outrages in other cities the police detailed strong forces to guard the homes of prominent men in New York Paterson Has Explosion. Paterson, N. J., June 3.—Police in- vestigation has so far failed to throw any light on the mysterious explo- sion that early today wrecked a story dwelling house at 351 East 35th street, damaged the adjoining house of Max Gold, silk manufacture broke windows in other nearby houses and created a hood. Captain Ryan of the police depart- ment, expressed the opinion the ex- plosion was caused by a bomb plant- ed in the driveway near Gold's resi- dence, but no fragments of the in- fernal machine have been discovered The occupants of the wrecked house, I. Cohen and M. Morris and their families were hurled from their beds by the force of the explosion but all escaped injury. a Police Guardir Pittsburgh, Jun policemen and detectives was thrown around Pittsburgh today, in an effort to catch the perpetrators of two bomb explosions in different sections of the city shortly before last midnight. The outrages were directed against U. (Continued on Seventh Page) Pittsburgh. —A cordon of 1y little ; the i that | timed two- ! panic in the neighbor- i curred | Boston. | Campaign of Death Seems Directed at Officials Whe Combat Bolshevism—Plot Seems to Be Nation-Wide., Washington, June 3.—Widespread bomb explosions last night, apparent- ly a sequel to the unsuccessful May day outrages when infernal machines were maiied broadcast from New York to government officials and men prominent in public life, were be- lieved by officials here to be another move in an anarchist movement the overthrow of organized ment in the United States, rumors of which were said to have been called to the attention of members of con- gress and department of justice offi- cials months ago. Plot Evidence that fully planned was contained pamphlet found ‘at the home of At- torney-General Mitchell Palmer, whose home in the fashionables see~ tion here was partly wrecked by a bomb, giving warning that a time has come when the social question’s set- tlement can be delayed no longer un- less by war and with a complete vie- tory for the internationai proletariat. Criminal Is Killed. The pamphl of a large num- ber scattered after the bomb which had ded to destroy Mr. Palmer prematurely exploded and blew to bits the author of the erime, was signed “The anarchistic fighte ind undoubtedly was intended signal to show the reign of ters m was on. Mr. Palmer ha#been active in urging janti-Bolshevism measures. Although apparently intended to de greater dama the latest bomb ex- plosions, from a standpoint of loss of life, appeared to have been but little more successful than those of May 1. talities resuiting as reports ed today were confined to the plotter himself at the Palmer home and New York where one to possibly three per= sons were killed. In that case as the body or bodies were so bad- scattered it was impossible to de~ termine just how many were slain. Dirccted at Offic As in the May bomb plot last a majority of officials in various have been active in suppression of or- ganized lawle: As there was differenc time between explosions exception of in Washin police and government agent: the in= struments of were to be to explode about the same hour. The fact wearing apparel and anarchist ire were found at the Palme indicated to the police that bomb exploded just the dynamiter took it from the suit case under the front entrance te the building. Only One for govern- Carefully Planned. the plot was care- in one about been in her Is. day night cases attempts, the was directed, in ainst public cities, men who ness in with the ‘,m, m, the believe destruction at that literat home Clue Found. Copies of the pamphlets left bear- ing the caption “Plain Talk” are in possession of the police and depart- ment of justice officers and may pos- sibly furnish the only clue to the entity of the plotters. Printed on what likely was intended to be red paper, pamphlets bear no distinguish- ing and easily have been printed in small print shop. The cities in \\Y\l'h explosions oc- were New York, Washington, nd, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Paterson and Newtonville, ma might any Clevels Mass. Congressional Action Expected, ollowing so 3'the outrages of month, the irchistic outbreak night, is ted to hasten ac- tion of bills now before congress dealing with suppression of anar- expe (Continued on Seventh Page)