New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 2, 1919, Page 1

"ON ITS WAY YGLAND TO U. §. rgh the her- Bsilk der ‘. o ntg‘ # l | TO CALL SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING ACity Fathers Will Be Asked to Talke Action on Much Questioned Garage on Lincoln Street. Opposition against the granting of a permit to Leavitt & Hayes to con- struct a garage on Lnicoln street, op- posite the Lincoln street school. reached a definite head today, when resolutions were drawn up by Judge B. F. Gaffney to be presented at the school board meeting this afternoon at 4:30 o’clock in the city hall. The resolution requests that the common council make some provision to pre- vent the building of a garage in resi- dential districts near schools. Judge Gaffney, in explaining rea- n for presenting the resolution, said that the constructio of a garage on Lincoln street will jeopardize the safety of the children and will greatly increase the fire hazard. Due to the great number tests received concerning the ing of permits to Leavitt & Hayes and the White Eagle company to build a factory on Washington street, Building Inspector Arthur N. Ruther- férd this afternoon conferred with Mayor George A. Quigley. Mayor Quigley stated that should the school board take favorable action on Judge Gaffney’s resolution he will call a special meeting of the common coun- cil to enact an ordinance forbidding the construction of garages or other building that will prove a menace and nuisance to residents. FACTORY TO GO ON FORMER SCHEDULE of grant- pro- ’ the’ vew Britain Machine Company to Return to Former Schedule < of Working Hours. ouncement was made today at ot s}lkfi w Britain Machine company of e e at: . éa} re- he to i as retdrn to a former working day cheg‘ule of the entire factory, star ifig ext Monday morning. ¥ I .During the period of the war_ the Mfaetory *worked on an eight hour s.and paid time and one half for time. Since the armistice the 'i_fi'ct‘oz's has been unable to work evertime on government work, inas- maich as the war department forlade all overtime work after that date. Inasmuch as government work in the plant will be completed by the | MYiddle of July ‘it is not necessary for | the plant to work longer under gov- ernment restrictions and therefore returning to the schedule of working 'hours in existence during the }'I'his means that the men will work on an eight hour day and will be paid | time and one half for all overtime. | For the present the plant will i‘?por:x(u 55 hours a week. (P | WILL RATIFY QUICKLY Allies Hear That Germany Expects to is war. Agree to Peace Terms Next Week Another Report is Different. Paris, July 2.—The Germans ex- pect to ratify the peace treaty the first of next week, according to a note sent to the Allies. The note was one acknowledging the Allies’ stipulation that the blockade would be raised when the treaty is ratified. The Ger- mans also expressed the hope that German war prisoners would be re- leu,sed at the same time. July 1, (By the Associated Press) he Deutsche Allegimine Zei- tung ites that it is authoritatively informed that Germany has taken no definite steps for a speedy ratification of the peace treaty, presumably be- cause a number of preliminary ques- gions, particularly those exactly fixing e frontiers in regions to be ceded, st first be settled. Berlin 177,000 TROOPS RETURN "his Record, Iostablished During Month of June, Sets New High Mark for Home-Coming Soldiers, Brest, July 2.—During the month of June 177,000 American troops sailed homeward from Brest. This is the record for any month at any point on the Atlantic seaboard of France since the armistice. NEPORT PERM TAKEN, London. July —The capture of the city of Perm from the forces of the IKolchal overnment is claimed by the Bolsheévi T s wireless dispatch from Russia received here toda The of Perm took on is declared. occupation Tuesday, it place GE COLONIES IN AFRICA, Paris, July —The proposed solu- tion of the Ttalian problem being dis- cussed here contemplates giving It: cortain colonial in Africa, in of the peace lllf‘ Adriatic TIALY MAY probably her support decision in possession return for conference settlement, 5 IN SENATE STOPPED Debate Now Expected to Be on Ratification of Treaty FINANCIAL BILLS ~ PASSED Although Presidential Appr()vi'xl Can- not Be Secured Until Wilson Ar- rives, No Embarassment Over Securing Funds is Expected. Washington, July 2.—With the be- ginning today of a week’s recess «@f congress it seemed assured that sen- ate opponents of the League of Na- tions would abandon any plan for a formal senate decision on the subject before the fight for actual ratification of the treaty begins. Until the recess plan was suggested, opposition leaders apparently intend- ed to try, as soon as the appropria- tion bills were passed, senate action in advance of presenta- tion of the treaty. For this purpose it was said the opposition would press Senator Knox's resolution serve notice of unwillingness to ac- cept the league covenant as an in- separable part of the treaty and that of Senator Fall to declare peace with Germany. Straight Fight I'or Ratification. It now expected, however, the treaty will be presented as soon as the recess is over and that both of these resolutions will be considered to have outlived their usefulness. Present indications are not worable to any other collateral effort by the league opponents and the prediction is that from now on be straight fight over ratification. Although not be secured until President Wil- son reaclies here from Parson no em- barrassment to government ment from lack of funds result of the action last night in enacting all tion bills needed by the agencies of the government new fiscal year that begun Army Bill For $775,000,000. After being in session until .night ithe house and senate Treach’ed agreements on bills that have is a | !:v< a of congres | for the mid- been in dispute for weeks. The measures s passed included the army .000,000, sundry civil bill carr of Columbia’s annual 000,000 and $25,000,000. With the posed of and ministration’s house, both branches 1i! Tuesday July 8. Wilson treaty while document of $15,- of budget a deficiency measure appropriation bills with waterpower bill in the adjourned u At that time expected peace | President sent the | and (i m [ ing that | sume 1S of the senate the to with is Ger debat- will many house re- | forcement legi tion. STORES OPEN TOMORROW Will Not Close Until 9 P. M., but Will Be Closed Al Day Friday Fourth. In accordance with hours schedule the Commerce. the stores of the city will remain open the evening the FFourth of July and the Fourth. After investigation it was found that as there would be many people going away for the holiday there would need for the stores remaining open so as to acommodate the public. The stores will remain open on Thursday night until 9 o’clock. T0 MEET PRESIDENT Vice-President the uniform of Chamber of before close all day and Cabinet Members Among Those Greeting Wilson on Avrival Here Monday. Vice-Presi- memn- ident Washington, July 2.— dent Marshall and all cabinet bers are expected to greet Pre Wilson New York when he there Monday. Secretary Daniels has arranged for the members of president’s official family to g0 aboard the bhattleship Pennsylvania, flagship of the Atlantic fleet, which is to meect the presidential ship outside New York harbor and escort her to port. at COMME BE RE Paris, July UMED WITH GERMANY. -The French author- ities are considering the question of resuming commercial relations with yermany, the Excelsior says 1t believed in authoritative, quarters the paper adds, that the ministries of for- eign affairs and commerce are in- clined to favor commercial liberty the tariff to be protective, but not prohibitive. r ! | Hartford, July —Forceast | for New Britain and vicinity: o I'air tonight and Thursday. is WEATHER. 4 ' MIN ' men religiously observing | nection with their \cafe, to bring some | | of his patrons, to | e e __TWELVE PAGES. ESTABLISHEL 1870. IATURE SAHARA DESERT SPRINGS UP IN THIS CITY; b Does Consid®ing Test Case. The second day Of flwel _w;\r-flme prohibition found New Britain saloon the law and there has not been) & single report or complaint of any Viplamons‘here_. Two saloons, which coniduct grills in con- have been open during the m a‘_hOUI‘S as _usua‘l but nothing in the‘ line of liquor, wines or beer has beép sold, the mmz—_ agement catering sole!_y to t_he hunger as far,as 1is known there has not been a 'single S‘dl(\:_n‘ man in the city who h@s opened his a state of | that | i of men who formerly general | L rn ey iTohn B chosby had unqualified | 2 presidential approval can- | depart- . is expected | appropria- | various | vesterday. ! finally | ; $605,000,000, the District | dis- | passage of the ad- pre- | consideration of prohibition en- | Jthe | be | arrives | the ! cafe for even the s>lling|0of near bflel;i as all of the dealers haVve expresse an carnest desire to abid& by the law an dto follow the dictates ?f the Con- necticut Iiquor Dealers’ association. Last night maAly humorous sights on the sfreets. Groups gathered around the bars could be seen congregated' in front stores, gazing of the empty g = ! mournfully within, wjtile 'hf‘r_dl-%l)(‘n-‘- ¢ a rushing busi- ers of <oft drinks di ness. saw main Hartford, July U. S. Dist. At- nothing o EVERY SALOON IS CLOSED United Sté_fm District Attorrney Crosby Has Not Had Single ‘Complaint As Yet — One Hartford Saloon ushing Business With 2.75 Per Cent. Beer— FEDERAL @CTION IE ATLANTIC CITY LIQUOR DEALERS HAVE IGNORED LAW prohibition situation to- | noon that he had n»t any violations. new on the day. He said at been advised of test case (it is practically certain there will be one) would start with a warrant or on information. As near as can be learned the ‘‘goat’” has not vet been decided upon. Over at least one Hartford bar 2.75 beer was being sold today and the place catered to a steady rush. There were seven c:ases of drunkenness in police cour: today but allt he offenders declaredt he liquor consumed by them was purchased be- fore the war-time act became opera- tive. A well known wholesale liquor firm in this city, the name of =vhich has been world-wide, announced today that it would probably export the large stock which it has on hand. Washington, July 2.—Attorney Gen. Palmer today ordered investigation of liquor selling at Atlantic City and im- mediate tederal prosecutions if con- ditions are as represented m the news- papers PEOPLE LEAP FROM BURNING CARS ON NEW' YORK ELEVATED WHEN BAD A FRANCE EXPECTS TO GET COAL FROM U. S. to Tmport Onc Million Making Plans Tons and will Use Special Fleet to Carry It ¢.—Louis Louchet, min- the July .ohistruction, Deputies today that the to Paris i y satd in igter of rec 2 (‘hamber of irnment is arranging Gove 1,0003000 tons of coal from the I'rench import using a special fleet for He assured the cham- 1ile France might not able to fack the coming winter with- | out misgivif8s regarding the fuel sup- ply, she would be able to tide over the | coal crisis,!Which, he added, is world- | wide. Great Rritain, which exported 80,- 000,000 tdhs of coal a year before the he & marked has reduced her abrd¥d to 40,000,000 tons and "lm?’\ shut off exportation alto- fpe continued by saying that must rely on Germany for 20.000.000 tons annually to replace S . .aished production in the :]J;)II,‘hmor}ny‘runr'o. and 70,000,000 tons in additio? Which France imported U from Gern'dny vear bhefore the s i war. | United State™ the purpos ber that, be war, ales will gether | Iorance each SIXTEEN AMERICANS GIVEN DECORATIONS Iicld MarshM Sir Douglas Haig Offi- ciates at Military Formalitics in kEngland. —Sixteen American previously had been >ir military honors, were awarded thii- . il decorated b? Field Marshal Sir Doug- las Haig af the Jl()"s(“(xllfll'(]-“ parade 2 1oon today in the presence ground at 5 % 7 of a great trowd. The third battalion [ th: (o dstream Guards and the first = of the Grenadier Guards, battaion g = by the band of the Irish headed s (Ehi e formed the military escort. e uilvir-r"’\' decorated were: Knight I er of St. Michael and St. | Commandr . e % ~ 5 - ajor Gen. George 0. Squier George, MY : - o Brig gen. P. D. Lochbridge. ‘ Compani¢t ©f St. Michael and ompanic ~ Georee, Cot John A. Hull, Col. l*‘rnhu-l:\ (‘;)]‘. Harry F. Rethers, I:F(‘ “,0\",01. Lieut. Col. J. 4 i . Vi D rCce Iieut. Col. M. Burcell, M. S. Frankli S. Browning. . : Military Er(i\"’ Captain G. R. Wil- liams, Captain ‘F' Z’i“.”mlf Fi"'\lt Lieut. J. E. F‘rmm‘;?,‘md Lieut., V. M. Adams and Secoyd Lieut. L. A. Re- 2 i gan. L.ondon, July 2 officers wh?, St. SIS Col. Pierce, Lieut. Col. e ILL: RUN. LT N Wy diw | e {of Oyster Theodore Roosevelt v ek e '(U‘l‘sgdmu:o for the has to he a ¢ bl A * assembply- republican nomination } °" e s embiy’ district man from the second as Sy Nassan county, it < ;mn:)‘ ;'} today by Edwar J. on] I‘H‘ i E Bay repu = chairman the (,_\,S(C\l l\}.}]l )i can town commitfee. he h|~] i to0se- tive oftice of the late P | [§ A t York L Y &lt state asscmbly, Col. Mineola, s B agreed of o here of elee- was member of and Tieut. Col. William | FIRE BREAKS OUT AT SOUTH FERRY Station Agent Sticks to Post and Phones to Have Cur- rent Turned Off Third Rail, Saving Many Lives. FLAMES ARE UNDER CONTROL AFTER HOUR New, York, South Ferry July 2.—Fire at the terminal of the city's elevated structure today destroyed one train and part of another. Both trains were carrying passengers. Many of those on board, a large number of whom were women had narrow es capes, before they were rescued by firemen who raised ladders to the top of the elevated structure and car- ried them to the ground. Reports that several persons had been killed had not been verified half hour after the fire started. With the spread of the flames the Staten Island municipal ferry ter- minal was threatened with destruc- tion. a Fire Spreads Rapidly. The flames, which are believed have started when an electric ignited grease which had accumulated | under one of the cars, spread to the building which serves as the terminal for the municipal ferries from Staten Island and South Brooklyn. Firemen feared this structure would be de- stroyed. Within five minutes started the flames had run along the elevated structure for the full length of both trains and their alarms were turned in. Passengers Run Along Trestle, Passengers leaped from the plat- forms of the burning cars onto the blazing trestle and ran madly along the tracks in an effort to out-distance the flames. But for the speed with | which the firemen raised their ladders | and took them it is Dbelieved ma would jumped into the et below. At the terminus structure is an ough Rapid Transit C(o. This also ‘aught fire and the clerks and steno- graphers sprang from the windows onto the roof of a train shed and thence climbed down ladders into the street. to after the fire down have elevated the Interbor- of the office of Station Agent Frank P. Tuttle, a station probably saved the lives of the passengers by remaining post to send a telephone message which resulted in the electric current being turned off from the “third rail” across which the escaping persons had to pas The firemen seemed flames in check at a Hero. agent, some of at his to have the 2:15 p. m., an hour after they started, and it then seemed probable at least a part of the ferry house would be saved. So far as.could be. learned at that hou had becn killed. no one STRIKE DECLARED OFF. New York, July 2—The the Commercial Telegr Tnion against the Western Union and Pos{al | Telegraph companies was declared ofr | this afternoon it wa by Percy Thomas, al pres strike phers’ of annolnced C deputy internation- | ident of the organization, here | He | had not decided whether or unot the | spark | Kilkins, the aged phys FIRST DEGREF OR Murder Case Makes Plea SCORES STATE'S WITNESSES Declares if Doctors Arve Telling the Truth the State Has Brought in the Wrong Defendant—Charges Unfair Treatment of Accused. Lawrence, Mass., . 2. there was > in the body of Miss Florence W. Gay, the invalid for whose murder Mrs. Bessie M. (Skeels) Lundgren is on trial, Daniel J. Paley, counsel for the defense said in his closing argument today, ‘“but we nev- | er will admit that death was due to arsenic.” He said he would “rather rely on the first diagnosis of Dr. Charles E. Abbott, the 3ay family physician, who certified that Miss Gay died of cerebral hemorrhage. “We do not admit the amount of arsenic reported to have been found in the body,” he continued, adding: Rebukes Two Doctors. “If Dr. Abbott saw the symptoms which he now says were of arsenical poisoning and did not administer an antidote, we have the wrong defend- ant in the chair. Ir. Dr. George H. Sexsmith saw the same symptoms in the New Jersey case (the death of Al- bert J. Wilkins, brother of the de- fendant, who is charged with his mur- der also) consider again who should be the defendant.” As a motive, counsel bring in a bunch of junk which Mrs. Lundgren was charged with stealing from the Gay home) and want you to take a woman’'s life because Florence E. Luce (a relative of the Gays) said they were of his- toric value.” The defendant, her counsel argued, was in her right mind. ‘“The govern- ment lacked a motive so they sent alienists to find one,” he asserted. Admitting said, “they (articles Is Guilty or Innocent. Counsel said that there would be no requestc for a verdict of manslaugh- ter. The defendant either was guilty | of murder in the first degree, he said, | or she w: innocent. i Mr. Gay said the government’s group of alienists had never ‘“until a few ays ago realized that the death of Gay might have been due to ) salvarsan.” Counsel said the defendant “loving to the brother i charged with having poisoned, and ri diculed the theory that she killed | him to prevent his appearance in Massachusetts courts in the case in which with larceny. Claims Unfair Treatment. was sister” sh witness charged 1S a she was “unfair” =the H prosectution in introdueng | Mrs. Nellie De Wolf of New Haven, %Iir.xl wife of Frunk M. Skeels, 11- ! ing a suggestion that 23 years ago the i defendant went away with another | woman’s husband an attempt to | prove that a woman who would that would commit murcer.” ' WILKINS' BODY UNCLAIMED He characterized as act of the ‘“reca in do Neither Is There Any Moncy for neral kxpenses and Physician-Sui- cide May Be Buried As Pauper. Y., July 2.—No one has of Dr. Walter Keene cian who han ed himself in the Nassau county jail here Sunday after his conviction of first degree murder for Killing his wife at their l.ong Beach home. County authorities said today no money was available for funeral expenses. Dr. Wilkins’ cash, about §50, some jewelry are in the possession of the coroner, who explained that the money cannot under the law be turn- ed over to the undertaker who has the body. The coroner indicated a burial at public expense was likely. In a note which Dr. Wilkins wrote before he committed suicide he asked that his bod) cremated Mineola, N. cuaimed the body and be STANLEY WORKS T0 BUILD Will Construct 11 Houses on Bond Street—Total Cost Is Estimated to Be About $65.000. In order gested rental to help alleviate the con- conditions in this city, the Stanley Works will build eleven houses in the rear of Bond street, near Burritt street. Permits for the construction of the were granted by Building Inspector Arthur N. Rutherford today. The total of the construction the houses will be about $65,000. Four two tenement seven one-story structed. The work the Aberthaw of Boston, and started at once houses cost of houses and will con- is to be done by Construction company the will be houses be building GIVEN SALNRY Hartford, with o law assembly the which has jurisdiction over BOOSTS. In nformity the last July 2 passed by zeneral state board of control, sale of state 1arles I, that of Godard ries of state officials, increased. Highway Commissioner ( Denmelt to §8.000 a year and Lbrarian $5.000. Mr. Bennelt | $0,000 Mr., Greorge eorg to as been receiv- ing aiid Godard $3,500, DISCHARGE ASKED: Lawyer for Be_iense in Lundgren - - ¢