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

the Warld. iated Press. NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, Herald “Ads” Me Better Business RS ] PRICE T HREE CENTS ORT FROM PARIS SAYS PETROGRAD LEN; LIEUT. MAYNARD REACHES HOME ON “FLYING PARSON L N FINSH THIP ACROSS COUNTRY Famous “Sky Pilot” Leaves Cieveland Shortiyl Before 7 O’clock This Morning And Lands At Mineola at 1:50:05 P. M., Completing Greatest Aviation Endurance Test on Record-- Finds His Two Littie Children Waiting. APTAINS SMITH STARTS FROM CHICAGO THIS MORNING AND IS SPEEDING TOWARD THE WEST AMineola, Belvin W Army’s air and return, durance at 1 offic N 5 Maynard, race the of QOct. 18.— Licutenant victor the the continent aviation landed nt fin te en- | here | test . history, 50 m Maynard's | 50:07 | ute. | 1l in feuten udin w 1 ‘wo Miles o Mi nard stage Liculcr miles 1l at minute, lande 142 great tur miles | he he his and 1 two i from geenn 1o ocean most minutes speed o Sever before flashing | the brii- | autumn | greot chine his plane the cloudle! sunshine of The persons stepped from hi T hix historic s visible, in acro: liant day as the were ters, who the f of spe: u first to him | at! itight | wife and two little daugh- s the field amid the hundrec alled tails of he conclusion of his rushed wero; cheerin who wer tor marst a sofe distance special dc soldiers i words Praises Companion. uttered by L. he put were o g X o tirst Maynard on the bute compn ant foot nero lein, when ound azain Se t the 0 Klein Lid on on t de the the serv the greates T prompily is lieutenant to lientenant,” the pilot ved lmost ted sergeant. ‘“‘ile the M the p to rest, his His up, triumphant on earth at the it had leaned silently then lirte kiss (he gre: Moy e of come sidel before and her s and from and aced her little ¢ after the father. seat emb two rls were one other, to Left Cleveland at 6 Cleveland, O., Oect. 18 B. W. Maynard, leader 1 1s-continental aerial here at 6:38:32 for weather was ideal for flying spent the night with friends in and his automobile broke trip to the starting field delayving east. starting, Lieutenant hoped to land at Iy this afternoon 2. Klein and Maynard, with man police doz Trixie, were in pit | cleared ; AL ML Lieutenant the Army derby, lelt Buffalo. The in nard country down on the mornin Before the his start Maynard Mineola Mechani- this said he Field ear cian W the Ge the obs The Tieutenant Buffalo at rver's local field was 3 Richter 8:06:20 a0 when got away for m i Hits Buffalo at 4 [ Buifalo, Oct. 18.—Lieutenant W Maynard appeared over Curtis 1 at 9:25. Maynard's offic landing 24:3 m. Mechanicians | took over his plane for the next jump time W 9 immediately prepare to | Roche: Lieutenant Roche at 10:08:12 the of Lake Erie land Buffalo, and w well r when he pointed northward Field, his route carrying City hall He was flving ar altitude about 2,000 feet when the landing course, hnt circling the field he executed 2 side slips quickly it left for | He followed from Cleve- Maynard ter shc to city irtiss the to « him ove in of he came to instead favorable of for a spot serirs which brought neat landine banks and him down to Smith Speeds On. Chicago, Oct. 18.—Captain Loweil H. Smith started on west ward flight in the trans-continental air race at 7 this morning. His next stop Rock Isand, Tii. Oct field his will be 18.— for Des Smith at 11 Moines, left He 25 o'clock Eleven Year Old Boy | Hit By Auto, Not Hurt | Eleven year old Peter Fetzko of :'!)i North streat was struck down but a parently not hurt this morning by an | oo driven by Walliam Rodman af 57 Walnut strect. Rodman was driving his car into Walnut street from Main when the boyv stepped in front of the It was said that the affair was| accidental and the boy says e was not hurt, Cap ing Om | Edwarg | T™h ! Chier 'DIVORGES GRANTED TO THREE LOCAL COUPLES ffey, Judson Jones And | Freedom They Seek. . Thompson Get of local the moon, tetion inter superior in were court each in- divorce consti- en the doclet in vesterday Tt tance, tuted th Bdwird Helon wd OGS, Hatioy el Haffey with for a divorce °d his wife adultery. and he on {hat ground married cight v parated on March 7, 1908, to Haffey's testimony his liv Massnchusetts. acensed of going around In his testimon, that his wife had child after her The couple o ¥ mnd s Aceording wife She with Hafley went to in was also other claimed men diven birth ration nted to from him decree D divorce Judson Jones of from claimed deserted on July 13, his, the In W elaimed that his was addicted to the of toxicating liquor, and while under the influence, she would “crown him' with he could lay her hands on Willi J. Rawlings. testified that the had heen arrested in this city 1l times for drunken- ne The decrce was granted Iiva. Thompson, formerly of this city, resident of Bennington, ced for a divorce from her husband Swing M. Thompson to whom she was marrvied in June, 1807. The plaintiff testifted that her husband subsequently deserted her, without her the ot the heen suspicious kept him from Judge Keclor Klett & Al plaintiffs in REV. COOK TO LEAVE TRINITY M. E. CHURCH this cityy for a Dora he Jone for another In addition him man 191 to i use in- anything defendant v now a having veal although for some home so ted the were counsel ions knowiedge had time what much reason, she divoree for ihe the Pastor Has Accepted Call of Mont- clair Congregation — Will Leave New Britain in About a Month, Rev. Warren F. Cook, for the past five years connected with the Trinity Methodist church of this city in the pacity of pastor, will leave in about A month to take up the pastorate of the First Methodist church of Mont- clair, New Jersey, he has announced, and at the next meeting of the ofli- cial hoard of the local church he wili formally make known his to leave tho Trinity pulplt, His resignation will be acceptod ns he has announced that he §s unwill- ing to continue in the local pulplt be- cause the Montclair church offers bet- ter opportunities for the furthering of his work. The offictal board here has endeavored to reach an agreemont with their pastor whereby he would continne here but the inducements offered in tho way of opportunity for broadening his service did not appen! | to him, and he has declded to leave. Rev. Cook came to this city five vears ago last April leaving the pul- pit of the St. James Methodist church in Brooklyn to accept the call of the local congregntion, SEVERAL KILLED IN MEXICO, Laredo, Tex., Oct. 18.~-Savoral persons have been Iilled and n num- ber injured in disturbances in Merlda, Yucatan, ns n result of the deecren ordering the liquidation of ihe Hene- |- quin, (Blsal hemp) commiesion, ac- cording to information received here today from Mexlco City, HRST 10 intontlons | PEAGE CONFERENGE WILL NOT MEDIATE | | Decides to Let Italj and Jugo- Slavia Settle Fiume Question | D'ANNUNZIO LOSING HOLD Prof. Zanclla, Leader of I'iume Popu- lation, and Insurgent Commander Have Open Break—Disturbances Reported Throughout City. , (Mavas.)—The peace conference has decided to leave the settlement of the Fiume question to ) direct regotiations between Italy and | Jugoslavia according to Iixcelsior. Paris, Open Breal re. Fiume, Oct. 16, (By the Associated Press.)—Prof. Zanella, leader of the Itallan population of Iiume, who re- cently came to an open break with Captain Gabriele d'Annunzio, has left the city for an unknown destination Iis Dbusiness associates were left in conduct of his affairs during his ab- hut are unable to give any in- formadon as to the reason for Prof. Zanella departure Dispatches re- cefved Triest state that he was in but stayed only an hour. nee from city, her that Disturbances in City. Disturbances reported through- out Fiume and a large part of the business interests ave understood to be going o r to the nella because of & heavy levy having been laid upan the town hy the forces of oc pation. Caplain d’Annunzio has prohibited | the sale in Jiume of the Corriere della | Zara of Milan hecause of the “hostile attitude of the paper toward Fiume.” The Milan newspaper has maintained a cold reserve toward the d'Annunzio enterprise. Orlando Wants to Fight. Licut. Orlando, son of the former Italinn premier, who is in IFiume as volunteer, has challenged Signor Cen-, turione, another supporter of d'An- nunzio, to fight a ducl because the lat- ter, in addressing audience i a theater here, made personal attac tnon the elder Orlando re an NEW YORK FACING REAL FOOD CRISIS on Leader Cannot Control Striking Longshoremen and Situation 15 Becoming Grave. New York, Oct. 18.—New the its history to- York moved most steadily toward se- rious food shortage in of the strike. 1sands of dollars worth of food- piled high on the plers Arthur Williams, federal food lministrator said large quantities of fruit, vegetables and other perish- able foods have rotted. Coastwise steamers and vessels plying between New York and Central and South Amerlcan ports are still tied up in the barbor. Thousands of tons of sugar are waiting to be removed to refineries and the city's shortage in this commodity is attributed by ofli- clals to the strike Dr. Royal Copeland, health com- missioner, appealed to President 7. O'Connor of the longshoremen’s international association to aid in moving the foods from the docks but O'Connor declered he could not con- trol the men. Commissioner Cope- jand today was considering using his police powers to remove the decayed food. 1If necessary Dr. Copecland said he would summon a police guard to prevent Interference by the strikers. Notwithstanding persistent efforts of international officers to induce the men to return to work only 6,000 of the 40,000 men inyolved are working unlon leaders admitted. The largest union in the district last night voted to remain on strike. NO GHANGE IN CONDITION Physicians day a result unauthorized | loneshoremen' State That Tresident's Condition 45 Quite Satisfactory and No New Symptoms Have Developed Washington, Oct, 18.—Prestdent Wilson's condition showed no ma- matorial chango todny but was con~ pldorod snuiafactory by his physieluns who issued the following bulletin: “Whito House, Oct, 18, 1919, 11: m. “The prestdent vested well last night, There s no materinl change fo note In his general condition, No new symptome have developed,” n. 'Income Is Not as Great as Tax-| support of Prof. Za- ! i s | the | James Willinms, 36 | Hams has been GITY IS FACING | BUDGET DEFICIT | IN PRESENT YEAR payers’ Association Budget Estimate Provided, Report in Official Circles LACK OF LIQUOR TAXES ONE OF THE BIG REASONS Opinion in City iall Is That Budget ror Comi Yo Will Be Even Greater Than Last, Due (o Increascd Salarics and Greater Fxpenses Con- nected With City Government, The deti amount come that as suflicient to cover for the present cial circles income of G there will falling lowing estimated items: Liquor U censes amounting (o $23,152.03, and the stimated amount to be collected from taxe: cets and sewe ment due the city. amounting 66.83 There will probably Lonme Qefieit o the personal ta Mloc- tion in view of {he ex-service men 1l ready in or about to return to this city. Secretary Barl Kisselbrack of the war bureau estimates that there re tween 000 and 4,000 of these from this city. Higher Budget In spite of all this, felt in city hall that for the coming crease, in view ries in the various city dey and schools as well as the inc the cost of supplies and materials Is Substitute Budget. will be that the estimates from the Taxpay ssociation budget and not the one drawn up by the hoard of finance § and taxation. The famous monster city meeting in the armory last spring now history, but at | time it will he remembered, th mill tax then submitted the taxpayers of city by the board was vejected amid a discussion and the 21 mill tax, presented by the Taxpayers’ association, was adopted rand List $ 000,000, budget tmounted city of faces a it in the wis estimated the city’s bud it is said in ofli- figured on but of off in the ver, The an 3 be a this to be om be- men Ixpected. however, it the city's budg year will be on the of the iner in- in sal- rtments > in se It city noticed present are to of finance warm is The $1,337,190.49, $1,212,680.38 $124,910.11 vear was $ of next this v that making The g 2,000,000, will to being | rence of st this list of vear aif and The probably than this s due to the the number of real ¢ tions in the city. TICKET AGENT WEDS grand be # incr tate transac- year Years At Local | Station, As | Takes Miss [da Sweet s Bride, Miss Tda Sweet liams werc and James W. Wil quietly married on Tues- day afternoon at St. Mark’s church, Rev. Samuel Suteliffe officiating. Miss Sweet s employed as agent for the Unlon News company at the railroad station for 15 vears and was later employed in the office of the Russell and Erwin Mfg. company. Mr. Wil employed as ticket | agent at the station for more than 36 vears. He has three adult sons. Mr. Willlams was at the ticket window | today aftor returning from his wed- ding trip. W Clergy t_o VV;rn Thelr Flocks Not to Be Late Local priests, at the suggoestion of iBshop Nilan of the aHrtford diocese, will remind their parishioners tomor row morning at services that the day Jight savings plan will be in effect ono woeoel from tomorrow, and clocks must Do sot back one hour to provent mis- takos In attending tho services on thai day. Mistakes have beon mado In lo- cal churches by parlshioners an other occastons whon the timo was changed and thelr preachers intend to guard against 1t on October 25, WEATHER. 1artford, Oct. 18.~—Forceast for New Britain and vicindt s, continued cool tonight | | i \TILL TREATY IS RATIFIED | Friday cvening, AMERICA NOT T0 BE REPRESENTED Semate Will Not Recognize | League of Nations | | ) | Congress Will Have to Enact Legisla- tion Giving Representatives Author- ity and Providing for Their Ex- penses—Treiaty Reading Continues, Washington, leaders declared that the senate Oct. 18.—Republican emphatically today | would not consent to participation by American representa- tives in the league of nations or other international commissions until the peace treaty had been ratified by the senate and specitic laws enacted by mgress authorizing such representa- tives and providing for thelr expenses. Opposition Is Strong. Opposition ta premature participa- tion of American representatives, these leaders said, is pronounced that & new reservation declaring that appointment of American delegates shall await legislation by congress i S0 under consideration. The suggestion tor a specific reservation on this point, it was said has come generally from the entire republican membership of the senate, Taking Up Treaty. Senate reading clerks today were faced with the prospect of con- again tinuation of the reading of the long document in which is incorporated the basis of peace between Germany and | the United States ers, and the covenant of the league of ations. senate the document's reading is not vet half completed, but it was hoped to finish it to Only one m Al for actual amendment of its terms is now im- pending, the Jahnson proposal f equalize the votes of the United St and Great Britain in the league assem- bly jar propos: Irish Question Up. When the senate convened today there came up under the rules a reso- | lutian by Senator Walsh, democrat, Montana, which would give it as the sense of the senate that whenever the United States becomes a member of the league of nations, the “state of af- fairs in lreland and the right of its people to self-government” would presented to the league cauncil or sembly by the American tives, be 18- representa- BANDITS GET $15,000 Three Masked Men Hold Up Bank Watchman, Rob Safe and cape | in \utomobile. Bargersville masked robbers carly hound and gagged the night watchman of the Farmers’ state bank here and es- caped in an automobile with approx- imately $15,000 in Liberty bonds, war savings stamps and Gravel Road bonds. The from wilin vault en Ind., Oct. 18 i Three to honds and stamps were taken ety deposit boxes, the robbers in thelr efforts to open the big Only 30 cents in cash was tak- The men went at their work de- liberately in the bank nearly to the night staying {Wo! holns watchman, Derby Woman Dies As Result of Auto Crash Oct. 18.——Mrs. Josephino 79, died in Griffin hospital injuries received in an au- tomobile accident at Clark's corner last Saturd The automobile in which she was riding was sideswiped by another machine, and then turned according today nd assoclated pow- | was After many weeks before the ! ol turtle. The other automobile drove away and its occupants have not been apprehended IN GREATEST AIR RACE IN HISTOR® DEFENSES CF PETROGRAD ARE CRUMBLING, FALL 1S CERTA Gatchina, 25 Miles South of Russian Capi Captured by General Yudenitch and Army of the Northwest, While Other Ag Bolshevik Forces are Closing in on G from all Sides; Bombardment Feared WHITE FLAG OF SURRENDER IS HOISTED OVH FORTRESS OF KRONSTADT FRIDAY, IS REPQ WOMAN DROWNS SELF IN WHITE 0AK POND. Mrs. Josephine Neri of Plain- ville Believed to Have Been Demented. Temporarily Mrs. Josephine Neri, wife of Nullo Neri of Dlainville, ended her life by drowning shortly after 7 o’clock this morning in White Oak pond. The discovery of the woman’s rash act made by a workman named Yeoman who was attracted to the cene by the appearance of a wom- an’s hat lying on the bank of the pond. Mr. Yeoman dragged the un- fortunate woman from the pond and immediately summoned ald. A tele- the local dead when phone message was sent police. The woman was taken from the wafer. According to a memb family, Mrs. Neri, who wa 3 of age, had been suffering from nervous breakdown for the past days, but the family did not in manner fear any such rash act. retired as usual 1 evening, preparing her four children for bed. This morning when her husband arose he found his wife missing Mrs. Neri was noticed on the T ville road ‘near the Connecticut Crushed Stone company by two work- men at about 6:55 o’clock. There was nothing in her manner to indicate that she intended committing sulcide. It was only a few minutes later when Mr. Yeoman made the discovery Mrs. Neri came to this country about 10 years ago to be married. Four children have been born of the union: Lena, aged 8 years; Carlo, aged b years, Ilsie, aged 3 years and Laurence, aged 14 months The funeral will be held at o’clock Monday afternoon at 84 Spring street. Burial will be in Fairview cemetery. Left Wife 127 fears Ago, Returns to Shoot Her Mas: Oct. 18 of the rs a| few North Adams, RUSSIAY PARIS REPORT CAPITAL STOC] S. TAKE] THIS NOOI Paris, Oct. 18.—The follow ing notice was posted at thj stock exchange this afternoon “Official. Petrogyad has bee| taken." London, Oct today 18.—The received British confirmatio| the news of the capture of GatcH 25 miles south of Petrograd, by| northwestern Russian army of Yudenitch. The Bolsheviki were ¢ en from the town sterday. The Esthonians, operating in coastal region, along the Gulf of land, the officlal advice state, within a few miles of Krasnayla ka and are facing th fortres| Kronstadt In the center of the advancing official Information is that the Bolshevik forces on Thursday pu forward to a point three ar four nf below Luga, 80 miles south of Pd grad, office Reports Are Obscs The Soviet forces are, latest advices, still d fending Petrograd, toward anti-Balshevik troops have been vancing since October 11. Confl tion of dispatches telling of the fal the former Ru n capital has been received in official quarters Over the whole situation aro Petrograd there is considerable scurity, due to conflicting reports. Denikine Is Closing In, Gen. Denikine appears to be advd ing his left flank along the Dni valley, taking Chernigoff and mo northward toward Gomel, where Cossacks may join Polish forces present a compact front to the So armies. If this junction is made, anti-Bolshevik line from Petrograd Orel, south of Moscow, wauld rese a great horseshoe enclosing the sheviki. East of Orel and the Bolsheviki are treating along the front. Deni troops have crossed the Don ove front 200 miles in length, it is cla ed Germano-Russtan forces are sal be holding the left bank of the lo Duna river at Riga. irther up stream indecisive fighting is repo: which in the Don reg reported to be want to Save City. Landon, Oct. 18.—Gen. Yudeni| Angered because his wife, from whom he had heen separated for 12 vears, refused to live with him again, | John Coats shot her through the breast, when she opened the door in response to his rap, today, and then | shot himself fatally. Mrs. Coat was placed on the dangerous list at | the hospital. The police say Coates | was mentally unbalanced Austrian CahinctiQuits: Renner is Picked Again 17, (By the Assoclated Press.) The Austrian cabinet head d by Dr. Karl Renner resigned to- 1ight, but was reconstituted imme- dlately under Dr. Renner as premier, with few Important changes Vienna, Oct. NFANT, INJURED IN TURNPIKE AUTO WRECK, DIES AT HARTFORD HOSPITAL Child’s Grandmother, With One Eye Gouged Out, Still Unconscious And in Critical Condition. Hartford, Oct. 18,—Jumes McCabo, 20 monthy' old grandson of Mrs, Honado Dacey of Bridgeport, died at the Hartford hospital this morning from o fractured skull sustained in an automobile ncctdent on the Berlin pike, just north of the Meriden llne, Mrs. Dacey, who was carrying the child in the motor car, I8 in a oritical condition, having lost an eye. She reguined consclousness this forenoon. 1. 12 stroet, Bridgeport Ducey, who wus Shopard of 433 Gold mon-in-law of Mra. driving the car is badly brulsed. The Shepard ca crashed into tho rear of n broken- down truck awalting another to tow it awny, Tho truck was driven by John W. Btacoy of Bridgeport. Shepard suye the rear light was so dim he fail- od to seo it. He was golng 25 miles an hour. A car coming narth took the injured to tho Hartford hospital, | army has captured Krasnoe Selo and china, south of Petrograd, where met working men from the city asked that the northwestern Russ refrain from shelling Petrog: and pledging if this promlise was gi to join the anti-Balsheviki, accord) to 'a Helsingfors dispatch recel here Kronstadt Reported Takem. London, Oct The white was holisted the Bolshevik fa ress of Kronstadt an Friday night, cording to @ oting a over Helsingfors dispat Finnish gene: High School Instructor Married This Afternoq " The wedding of Miss Mo 1, daughter of Mrs. W, (. Bro 626 Arch street, and James Ginns, will tako place this evening 6 o'clock at the young lady's hoi Rev. Warren K. Cook will perfo the ceremony After a honeyma tho couple will make thelr home Chestnut St. Miss Moulton has be employed in the office of the Ni Britain Gas company. Mr. Ginns an instructor in the Vocational Hi| school. Fdith Would End Strikes By Penalizing Employ: ‘Washington, Oct. 18.—Provisions end railrond strikes by penalizing ef ployes who go on strike or those w foment strikes were written into pending railroad bill today by the sd ate Interstate commerce committee,