New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 23, 1919, Page 1

News of the World. By Assecciated Press. A Herald ; viean Better Business as = NEW BRITAIN, CON‘N ECTI CUT, TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 23, 1919.—TWELVE PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS. ITALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER QUITS; APPEAL IS MADE T0 ALLIES TO PUT - D’ANNUNZIO FORCES OUT OF FIUME 5/ Italy Reported as Seek- % ing Aid, But Will Not + il [ fiea & ¥ Ttalia. +~Use Own Troops; U. S. Not Likely to Par- ticipate FRENCH COMMANDER THREATENS ATTACK Beleaguered City Said to| Have Enough Food Sup- plies to Hold Out For Two Months. Rome, Sept. 23.—Tomasso Tittoni, . Italian foreign minister, has resigned Tecause of the IFiume incident, accord- ing to announcement by the Giornale Much Trouble in Cabinet. Toreign Minister Tittoni's position #m the Ttalian cabinet has been one of growing difficulty recently hecause of the Fiume developments. He re- ported not to have been in entire agreement with Premier Nitti over the stand to be taken regarding the d’An- nunzio coup, and as head of the Ital- fan peace mission at Paris he has been' unsuccessful so far in bringing about a solution of the Fiume ques- tion by the peace conference. The most recent plan for an adjustment in which he participated in the arrange- ment of is said to be approved by France and Great Britain, but Amer- endorsement understood to Tave been lacking, intimations from waurces close to President Wilson be- ing that there had been no change in views long ago expressed, that Fimme should g0 to Italy Italy - Needs Help. London, Sept. Italy which was given a free hand to handle the prob- lem arising out of the seizing of Fiume by Captain Gabriele d’Annunzio domestic affair, is said in reports rent here, to have appealed to the al- lied powers to take the matter off her . hands and send troops to Fiume to expel the insurgent troops from the city. It is claimed Italy has stipulated if such a force is sent to the Adriatic city, it must not include Italian units. Tt is improbable, according to port, that American troops will par- ticipate in such an operation if it is ,ordered, there heing no soldiers avail- able for such American marine contingents now in the Adri- atic have not taken part in any ac- tivities there and it Aid they will not be called upon to do so unle positive instructions come from Wash- ington the conference in Paris. is not as i purpose. is or peace i Threaten to 5 seem from Fiume conflicting One states that Gen. Badoglio, deputy chief of staff. who was was sent from Rome to deal with the situation, has established a cor- don ahout the city, while the Slav delegation in Paris asserts d'An- nunzia's forces have extended theis zgne of occupation, having advanced in Jugo-Slavia seven miles on Sunday. ¢ It appears, however, the reported blockade of the city is not particul effective, it being reported that treinload of supplies has reached Fiume. Another dispatch says four more companies of Italian soldiers joined d’Annunzio on Saturday and Sunday. Dispatches from Trieste de- clare the commander of the French ships in the harbor has notified Cap- tain d’Annunzio that if the stores forming the base of the Franco- Serbian troops at Fiume are molested he will order his ships to open fire on +the city Reports to be arly i Bombs Thrown. Sept. 21 Three wn at patrols today in a cheap lodging where several Croatians are have been living. There serious results but some ceived slight injuries. Otherwise the town remains calm and in full con- trol of the d'Annunzio forces Line Closely Paris, ept. 23.-—French special correspondents sent to Fiume are still filing dispatches from Mattuglic, a town about 9 miles northwest of that city. The representatives of the Journal says that, slthoueh the gren- adiers and Arditi may have wavered, the Caribiners remain faithful and seee that no one passes the armistice line. Two Ttalian who tried to get into in jail at Abbazi Would Not Let King Telegraphing on Friday the Italian Battleship Dante Aligheri and Cruiser Emmanuel E. Filiberto have left the Fiume roadstead, leav- ing some 100 of their marines among the d’Annunzio trcops. On loard the Three Fiume, avers thr window hombs from a, houss said to were no soldiers re- Guaxded. correspondents Fiume are now Pass. he says (Continued on Eleventh Page) | of | contained re- | i field i tomatically expired November 1 Jugo- | GENERAL STRIKE OF COAL MINERS IS United Mine Workers Pres- ent Demands For 60 Per Jent. Wage Increase and Six Hour Day. BITUMINOUS COAL WORKERS AFFECTED Cleveland, O., Sept. 23.—The report of the scale committee embodying the proposed demands of the United Mine ‘Workers of America was presented to the convention today by Frank Farrington, of Illinois, chairman of the committee. It includes the anti- cipated demands for a flat 60 per cent. increase in wages applicable to all classitications of day labor and to all tonnage, vard and dead weight rates throughout the central competitive district (Illinois, Ohio, Indiana and Western Pennsylvania); the six-hour day from bank to bank, five days per week, with time and a half for over- time and double time for all work on Sundays and holidays, and a weekly pay day. The international officials are instructed to call a general strike of all bituminous miners and mine workers in the United States, Novem- ber 1, unless a satisfaetory agreement is reached by that time, Must Be Ratified. agreement reached in the joint scale conference at Buffalo shall be concluded until after it has been submitted for ratification to the convention, which is to be reconvened for that purpose in Indianapolis. The reconvened convention shall de- fine the policy for outlying dis- tricts, for which the central competi- tive agreement os as a basis for their separate agreement Abolish Double-Shift Work. The report demands that all double- shift work in coal be abolished, cept such he necess ventilating purposes and new mines. It demands that no penalty clause” be in- the agreement such as is in the present Washington agreement providing an auto- penalty of a dollar day for miner going on strike against provisions of the agreement and operator lock- miners. Al differences not covered joint interstate agree- ments are to be referred back to the respective districts for adjustment. Terminates Contracts, cont in the bituminons shall declared having au- 1919: be al- contracts must run concurrently period of two years in all bituminous districts. negotiated for outlyinz he retroactive and on the date upon agreement for the central field upon which they are becomes effective. proposes formulated in their Wilkes- Barre No wage also the ex- as may ary for development “automatic cluded in wage matic a the a similar fine for, any ing out his by All cts he as no sectional lowed and settlements new shall a Agreements districts shall effective he- coma which the competitive based The report demands cite tion to by tri accept the the anthra- ate conven- Pa., in of the convention dges the support of the entire or- gunization to secure the fulfillment these demands. 622 AT NIGHT SCHOOL miners at s the August, demands Enrollment on Opening Night Totals 622, Distributed Throughout Fiva Schools. There are 622 pupils at the evening | Su- ! schools of the city perintendent Stanley gave out figures on’ this morning, the opened last evening. school s 197 Burritt 76 school 128 according o H. Holmes, who the registration schools having The Grammar pupils; the Flihu the Bartlett 88, the High and the trade school 1 of | SET FOR NOV. 1 | LAKE STREET COUPLE MARRIED 60 YEARS Mr. and Mrs. James Shepard Will Observe Wedding Anniversary Thursday. On Thursday, September 35, Mr. and Mrs. James Shepard, of Lake street, will observe the 60th anniver- sary of their wedding. The couple are undoubtedly the oldest living in this city. Mr. Shepard is a native of South- ington, having been born in that town on May 16, 1838. He resided there until 1861. The common schools and the Lewis academy gave him the be- ginning of an education and later he entered a factory, where he learned toolmaking. In 1866 he received his final instructions as a machinist and began to work for himself. Mr. and Mrs. Shepard were mar- ried in Bristol on September 25, 1859. Mrs. Shepard is the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrvs. William Gaylord Curtis, of that city, and spent her early life there. The couple moved to this city for the first time in 1861, and in 1862 they moved back to Bristol. While in that city Mr. Shep- ard began the business of solicitor of patents, which occupation he has never changed, excepting that, since 1873, he has frequently testified as a patent expert ‘hefore the Unite States circuit courts. After a third of a century of expe- rience in soliciting patents, M. Shepard ranks as one of the best and most skillful solicitors in the country Statistics filed at the national capitol show that there is not another soli- citor or agent for patents in the New England States who has heen in tha business as long ‘as he has. His repu- tation as a mechanical ecxpert has gained him prominence throughout the country, as he has testified in e in the United States circuit courts from California to Oregon in the West, from Pennsylvania to { Maine in the East, and from Wiscon- sin in the North to Louisiana in the South. Although Mr. Shepard first opened his office in New Britain in 1868, he did not remove from Bristol to New Britain until 1876. When in Bristol Tie was one of the leaders of the re- party and has been a strong of this party for many this city ses publican supporter years in CHIEF OF POLICE ARRESTED BY MOB Mayor and Councilman Also Tocked Up In City Jail By Okla- homa Rioters, Oklahoma City, Sept. 23.—State of- ficials today were trying to ascertain the seriousness of conditions at Dum- wright, an oil town in Oil Creek coun- ty, where riots broke out last night in connection with a telephone operators® strike and from which place came a request that troops be dispatched to quell the disturbance Owing to the telephone strike, com- munication with Dumwright was vir- tually impossible but reports here said a mob drove members of the palice de- partment from the city and assumed control. The chief of police was dis armed and threatened with death if he did not resign, it was said. Another report was that the mayor, police chief and member of the city council had been captured by the mobh and were being held prisoner in the city jail Sept. 23.—Mayor Councilman John of TPolice Jack a mob last night, and were back Dumright Okla., W. E. Nicodemus Baxter and Chief Ayers detained hy today were released on their jobs. SAVED $2,892 FOR FUNERAL EXPENSES; NOBODY KNEW TILL IT WAS TOO LATE Bridgeport Woman Who Died Suddenly Was Buried As Pauper—Money Discovered Later. Bridgeport, eight bundles of bills, each containing $100: seventeen five dollar gold and three $2.50 gold day found by in a safe deposit the property of Sept Twenty pieces were attache pleces probate court box in a local bank, Miss Alida B. Bar- ber, who dropped dead in a factory here September 13. When the an died a key to the box w: wom- s found in her wis pocket and attached to this note written six years ago giving the nume of the bank in which the hox was held and the informa- tion that “there is enough to bury me.” The woman had been modestly buried on the supposition that she died without means. A nephew, Howard Barber, of Wesley, R. 1., is the only heir. a STEEL STRIKE RIOTING CONTINUES; 11 ARESHOT TODAY AT FARRELL, P/; SERIOUS DISTURBANCES ELSEWHER HOLCOMB IS SILENT WHEN ASKED TO CALL ASSEMBLY SENATE LABOR BODY | WILL PROBE STRIKE Upon Report Depends Possibility of Remedial Federal Action SCLOSED-SHOP” 1§ OPPOSED Senator Thomas Considers Every American Workman Has Right to Do As He Chooses Regarding Method of Working. Washington, 23.—Investiga- tion of the steel strike by the senate labor committee was ordered today by the senate. A by Sena- tor, Kenyon, republican, Iowa, pro- viding for the inquiry and authorizing | a report to whether any remedial federal action could be taken, was adopted without a roll call. No Senator Kenyon said posed to call leaders both employers and Washington in an effort to determine the cause of the strike. Visits by the | committee to the stoel centers are not planned, he said. Oppose “Closed Before the resolution was adopted, Senator Thomas, democrat, Colorado, introduced one opposing strikes and declaring that the senate ‘views with concern” the labor situation. ' Se: tor Thomas announced that he plan- ned to make an address tomorrow on the resolution which declares that a man has a constitutional right to fol- low any calling and that the so-called “closed shop” is ‘“unAmerican and detrimental to American freedom." Are Alarmed. resolution was Several senators the general Sept. resolution as Visits Planned. it was pro- representing employes to Shops Senators dis- ex- in- The Kenyon cussed briefly. pressed concern of dustrial situation. “This strike secems skirmish in industrial Senator Kenyon “Let find out the facts.” Publicity, he said, might be help- ful The senator explained that his resolution was in the interest of | neither the employvers nor H employes | but the “great. third party-—the pub- lie.” to be the warfare,” us face it first said and Probe Begins Thursd Senator Kenyon announced later that the investigation wculd be begun Thursday and that the first of the witnesses would be Chairman Gary of the U. S. Steel Corp and John J. Fitzpatrick, chairman of the nation- | al committee organizing the steel workers. The Kenyon resolution was endors- ed by Senators Knox, republican, | Pennsylvania; OQwen, democrat, Ore- gon, and Norris Nebraska Senator Thomas did not investigation but doubted would bring results KLETT IS “ARRESTED" Hartford D oppose the whether it | Tocal Senator Stopped by Policeman Last Night for His Own Car. fenator George W Klett, whose car was stolen Saturday night and recovered vesterday in New Haven, was stopped last night in Hartford Ty a motoreycle officer who demanded that the senator make known his identity before heing allowed to pass. The Hartford officer had a list of cars stolen and noticing the number on Klett's car followed him into the city bringing him to a stop near Trin ity college. The incident was the third of a imilar nature in which Senator Klett | figured since his car was taken. After the limousine had been returned to him by Chief of Police Smith in New Ilaven yesterday morning he started for New Britain. Just within the city limits of Meriden he was stopped by an officer and later in the same city was forced to prove his identity. GEO. 0. EDWARDS DEAD. Sept. 23.—George C. Tdwards, vice-president of the Inter- national Silver Co.. and founder of the Bridgeport Chain Co., died here foaay after a year's illness. Deceased was born in Watertown, Conn., in 1846 and was at time a manu- facturer in Waterbury Rridgeport. one WEATHER. Britain cooler prob- Forecast for New and vicinity: Showers, tonight; Wednesday, ably fair. Deputation of Republicans and Democrats Urge Him to Take Action on Federal Suffrage Amendment, PRIVATE CITIZENS SEND LETTERS3, TOO Hartford, was made day, after Sept. 28.—No ocomment by Governor Holcomb to- receiving a deputation of senators and representatives in be- half of a special session to act upon the federal suffrage amendment, and the visit of a special delegation of seventeen with the same object in view. The governor's decision was reserved. The only question asked by the governor while listening to the presentation of the matter by the deputation was why the federal amendment had not been acted upon by the General Assembly, and he was told that congress at that time had not passed the amendment. Those in the Deputation. senators in the deputation Bowers of Manchester, Wil- of Darien, Dillon of Shelton, Hemenway of Hartford, Fox of New London and Clyne of New Haven. ach senator spoke and several of the representatives did likewise. Each presented some point which illus- trated, they said, the Imperative need of a special session. The republican delegation followed and several of it addressed the governor. Among those who spoke were Judge Living- stone Cleveland of New Haven, T. C. Russell and Francis Coles of Hart- ford, J. A. H. Robinson of Bridge- port, Arthur M. Connor of Bridge- port, Charles C. Wright of Tolland, Rev. J. M. Deyo of Danbury, Rev. E T. Mathison of Rockville and Harry W. Hitehcock of New Haven. Letters were read from several citizens fav- oring a special session NEGROES APPROVE LYNCHING Hold Mass Mceting and The were: liamson Approve Ac- tion of Whites in Executing Man Who Murdered White Woman. Athens, Ga., Sept. % a mass meetlr g near Lexington, Ga., have endorsed the action of whites in lynching Obe Cox, nesro, accused of attacking and murde the wife of a white farmer. Lieolutions adopted at condemned in crime which arous sent them on a 24 swamps concluding ing to death of the negro and burn- ing of the body. At the time of the murder the negro was under indict- ment for an attack ot & negress. He is said to have confessed to both crimes HELD FOR $240,000 THEFT Men, .—Negroes at ng the meeting language the 1000 men aund hour search of with the shoot- streng Three One a Clerk in Chicago Postofic Arrested—Two of Them Confess, Chicago, Sept one of them a clerk postoffice, who is said ned the robbery, were arrested here early today charged with stealing $240,000 of a shipnent of $415,000 last Thursday from the federal serve bank here to the Standard Co., of Indiana, at Whiting, Tnd the' stolen funds $93,620 was ered. The remainder, an alfeged confession of two of the men, wns abandoned at the outskirts of Chicago when the automobile which they were returning to Whit ing broke down The clerk under arrest John Wejda, and his allezed accomplices are Leo and Walter Phillips. —Three men, in the Chicago to have plan- is re ot of recov- according to is AMERICAN ARMY CASUALTIES TO | SWEARS HE'LL COLLECT BOND AND GET ACCUSED State’s Attorney Alcorn Angered When Hartford Man Jumps Bail. Martford, Sept. 28.—Peter Deone, wealthy contractor of this city, faled to appear in the suporior criminal court today when called to receive sentence for violating the recently enacted prostitution law, and his bond for $2,000 was declared forfeited. Joseph M. D’'Esopo of this city was his surety. “T'll get the full amount of that bond and T'll get Leone too if I have to go to South Africa for him,” sald State's Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn to Judge Maltbie. Judge Joseph Tuttle, attorney for T.eone was much upset over the non- appearance of his olient. He said Leone had failed to keep an appoint- ment with him Monday. Leone owns much real estate in this city. His wife recently secured a divorce. A son s a cadet in West Point military academy. ROCKVILLE WORKERS GO OUT ON STRIKE Textile Employes in Seven Mills Walk Out at 8 a. m. and Parade Through Streets. Rockville Sept. 23.—Textile work- ers in seven mills here left their at 8 o’clock this morning, paraded the and held accord with plans made at a meeting last night when it was announced a strike would be declared because wage demands had not been granted. There are five mills of the Hockanum Co and two of the James J. Regan Mfg. Co. affected by the strike. The former are the America mill, the New England mill, the Springville mill, the Minterburn. mill and the Hockanum mill proper and the two of the Regan’s are uptown and down- town. All. make woolen goods various descriptions such as suitings and dress goods. None of the mills was closed this morning although the force left seemed small. No figures were given as to the number of operatives qn strike. The meeting the parade was of, the city. The been pending for JAIL FOR BIGAMIST work streets a mass meeting in in Turn hall and through the center mill troubles have many weeks was . Co-respondent in Galli-Curci Divorce Action Pleads Guilty In Waterbury Court Today. Waterbury, Sept Mary Mc- Cann, also known as Mary Rinaldi and May Brown, and who was named as a co-respondent in Galli Curci divore action in Chicago was today sentenced to not less than one year nor more than one ycar and a half in state prison, on a charge bigamy, by Judge John E. Keelegh the.superior court here this morning. The woman pleaded guilty to the charge and ad- mitted marrying Louis Rinaldi, a lo- cal bartender, when al the time of the marriage she was the wife of John McCann of New York. Counsel for the accused claimed she would not be in court hut for the fact that she was “fooled and framed” by agents of Galli Curci’'s husband. Judge Keeler said that while the woman ight have been “‘framed numbaer of important had brought fo justice in that way that he could but cansider the that she had pleaded guilty to the crime, a cases e and fact TAL 322,182; 11 PER CENT ARE KILLED 14,742 Others Died of Wounds, and Disease Claimed | that { by | dered ot 58,073, Official Records Show. Washington, Sept. 23.—The cost of the wa* to the United States in‘man- power is now stated officially at 116 492 dead and 205,690 wounded, a tatal of 322,128. These fleures include losses to army and marine units on all fronts to September Killed in ac- tion totaled 35,685, or 11 per cent. of the entire list; died of wounds, 14;742: dled of disease, 78,073; died of dents and other causes, 8,092 the head of “missing,” the ment records a zero, with tion “all corrected.” acei- Under announce. the nota- / Both Employers an Union Leaders Clain Advantage for The Sides on Second Da CHICAGO DISTRICT GREATLY HAMPERE State Constabulary, Depu Sheriffs and Scores Policemen on Duty Gues ing Plants and Workers, SECOND DAY OF & FINDS REPORTS OF ITs EXTENT CONFDIOTING: SR The secar® day of the struggle betweqen the lal untons and the T S. SteekConf, opened with the question as the extent the industry has been affected by the strtke sl uncertain, confused as it 15 by, the conflicting claims by the| leaders on either side. That] the industry has been grevely] crippled in the centers of Pit burgh, Chicaga and Youngs- town was certain and early re-| ports recorded several gains for| the strikers. Farrell, Pa., Sept. 28.—More ing occurred today in Farrell, wh) a man was shot lzst night and ser al other persons injured Many shots were fired disturbance today. The at least 11 persons bullets J. H. Moddy has taken personal charge police on the streets here pealed to Sheriff send deputy sheriffs the local authorities ment of state troopers on duty. ditional state police as a result last night's trouble, have been here. Many Many cases are reported Preiffer, of in the police were str] burgess of Fari of He Mercet here to E and the dets| Gibson Assaults Reported. of individval a by the police. Farrell, while along the street in av was suspected of gettillg to a plant and was attacke by » e gersons with_ stones and brickse machine was damaged but he badly hurt. Two other nlen =5 shut up ir. the old Mot Geu brewing plant, the pol s ‘ sirike sympathizers to kgep! Al dris 2 from going to work. 'They found and released hy the During the troukle hene last B two horses of mounted troopera* shot Rioting Near Buffalo, Buffalo, N. Y., Sert. 2 ances which began nes wanna Steel compony’s plant night wer> continued today. Al ter mechanic was set upon crowd and beaten. | W call brought out the police’ and arrested charged severely men were rioting. Switchmer on the South Bul railway today quit work when dered to move cars into the wanna Steel conmgpany's yards. Three - Fatally Wounded. New Castle, P Sept. 38— state constabulary, 150 deputy ] iffs and scores of policemen pa ing the streets about the steel plf here the situation following se: rioting last night was slightly proved carly today. Nine pers two women and seven men shot last night, and one po was stabbed and another with a club in an attack on the of the Carnegie Steel Co. Thre the injured likely will die, it is oo Reported Tmproved Pittsburgh, Sept. 23.—The sed day the strike in the Pittsb district began with both emplo] and union leaders olaiming the vantage for their respective sidg The Carnegie Steel Co., lar subsidiary here of the U. S. § Corp., has closed several of its pl in the district, but according ta official of the concern the sif tion improving. \ One Man Murdered. Disorders, some cf ture, marked the firs strike in the Pittshur men were killed at au'ring lash betwee and local « about 1,500 persons can Steel and Wirc victim murdered boarder said fused to g0 Two state ing the T Situation of is a serious day of district Pa., state pg crowd Axy The of fe, have) rrel a n cers and a 1€ the ple vas by a when to hogi werc shot while trooper wrrell outhre Bt (Continued on Sixth Page)