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

e News of the World. | By Asscciated Press. || ——— NEW BRI'T 4 ( Herald “Ads” Mean Better Business ESTABLISHED 1870. — c CENTS. | PRICE THRE INDUSTRIAL SESSION BREAKS UP AND NEW MEETINGIS CALLED; SOFT COAL MINERS WON’T CONCEDE; MILLIONS FOR AMERICANIZATIO ' JOHNSON DEFENDS [SOFT COAL MINERS HIS AMENDMENT T0 EQUALIZE VOTING California Rgpfii)lican Says | e ‘WILSON'S PLAN 1S REJECTED' America Cannot Allord to Be Only Unsellish Nation in World URGES SENATE TO LOOK AT QUESTION SQUARELY Declares That United States is Entitled to As Many Votes in League of Na- tions As Is Any Other Nation in the World—A\lso Assails Anglo- Py Japancse Press of Country. —Urging his Washington, Oct. 23 amendment in the to equal league of Senator Johnson, vating power nations assembly, republican, Califor- nia, today pleaded that the senate con- slder the question standpoint only. Every ather nation, he said, was acting in its own national interest and the United States could not afford to the only country in the world, acting on a disinterested and altruistic 1 Under the treaty, he said, British colonies might secure places on the league council as we the assembly, the way I paved when the peace xed their status as that distinct and reign state: “Pall of Internat onalism.™ Tt wa the pall interna- which i making the league nation What i *1he speake claim fo her due cepted titled from a national v he Lsis. as aving been conference of “separate SOV 3 the fluenced senators to oppose American representation in equal to that of any other this unholy thir sked “thal makes 1< fea~ to our country thing that is Almost everywhere it is that the United States is to as many votes as any in the world. It is not denied in Eu- rope, it is not denied in Canada, and it is denied in the United States sen- ate alone. It is only this country that is jealous of an increase in the voting bower of this country. ae- en- Assails Anglo-Jap Senatar ress. Johnson assailed what called the “Anglo-Japanese press in this country, which he declared was ready to “club and bludgeon” any one who spoke for American interest against the interest of the British or Japanese empire. he = Sprague' to Attend Indianapolis Sessions y A. Sprague of the of Commerce will leave afternoon for Indianapolis to attend the National the Commercial Secre- country. Over 700 sec- retaries of Chambers of Commerce ind other such organizations will be In attendance and the knowledge im- parted at the conference is expected to be of great benefit to the local “hamber. he convention will open Monday continue through the 30th. It is expected that over 30 New England representatives will be present. Secreta Chamber Saturday where he Convention of taries of the Leon ~ and v Governor Will Not Declare November 11 As Holiday Hart comb not ord, Oct. 23 announced today proclaim November , as a state holiday 2 statement ohserved with suitable schools and by societies and organiza- ions in the cveninz. The governor the industrial and business in- erests of the state should not be de- rived of the labor rendered on that ay. Governor Hol- that he would 11, armistice but would that it exercises is- be in asking said senator, | power ! WON'T COMPROMISE Stand Firm on Demand for Five " Day Week Operators Had Agreed to Proposition But Officers of Union Suspect That Recommendations Are Somewhat Tainted With Capital. Oct. 23.—The United Mine Workers of America today for- mally rejected the proposal by Sec tary Wilson for settlement of the conl strike called for November 1. John L. Lewis, president of the miners’ organization, announced that the proposal was indefinite, inade- quate and failed to meet the situation. He added that he would so report the joint conference this afternoon. Preparing for Strike. Members of the miners’ committee their meeting this merely ratify the wched last night offer. Leaders said attend the conference 2 o'clock they had been asked to do by Secretary Wilson, but that if no new offer of settlement was made, they would start immediately for their homes and malke ready for the strike called for November 1. snension of Plan. Officers of the United Mine Work- ors of America, in a formal statement declared “Secretary Wilson's propo- sition and the proposition of operators are not only alike, but both fellow exactly the lines laid down by Senator Frelinghuysen in his speech in the senate in which he undertoooi to disclose the basis on which operators would deal with the ers.” “This remark similarity,” statement added, at least an traordinary coincidence.” cfore the joint conference bhegan it was announced that the .operators had accepted the Wilson plan for set- thing the strike, AIRPLANE NOT COMING Washington, said would agreement 1 ject the would to re- they at min- hic the ex Licut. Lucas Has to Postpone Flights in This City—Cannot Find Suitable Landing Ficld. Owing to the fact that he cannot find a suitable landing field, Lieut. Philip D. Luca formerly adjutant at Bolling Field, Washington, D. C., who was to visit this city over the week- end and take up local parties who would desire to sail through the clouds, hus had to stpone his v to this city until a able field be secured. Although there are several good fields, the owners have objected to al- lowing the airplane to land on their property. Lieut. Lycas stated today i1hat eventually New Britain would have to have a landing field to commodate the government planes that will be used to a great extent can o Ministerial Conference Of Swedish Baptists A conference of minister bers of the Swedish Baptist churches in the state of Connecticut begins this evening in the Elim Baptist church of this city. Rev. W. Bloomquist of Hartford will preach the first serman tonight at 7:45 o’clock. The meetings will continue tomorrow night, Satus day afternoon and evening and day Sunda and mem- BRITISH WAR SECRETARY REDUCES STAF 10 PER CENT. Londan, Oect. ~—Col. Spencer Churchill, secretary for war has sent i memorandum to the general staff ziving notification of drastic reduction in personnel the end of the vear. The staff be reduced 10 per cent below the number of officers enrolled on August Winston of state a a by 1, at which time the staff had alrcady rveduced by 5,000 men. been » ARMY MEN AND CIVILIANS ACCUSED OF CHEATING U. S. OUT OF MILLIONS Chicaga, Oct Criminal prose- cution of at least a dozen army officers and civilians, and institution of a civil *suit for recovery from $13,000,000 to $15,000,000 of which he said he fig- ured the government had geen mulct- ed in connection with a $4,000,000,000 munition contract involving the Stand- ard Steel Car Co. of Hammond, Ind., will be asked in its report to congri ¥ by a sub-committee which has Been conducting an investigation, accord. ing to Chairman William J. Graham in statement made public today., The contract was for howitzer gun cir- rviages at $40,000 cach of which 200 were finished according to gressman Graham's statement. “Al- lowing for the cost of preparation the government still is muleted out of ho- tween $13,000,000 and $15,000,000, as 1 figure it,” he said. only Con- the! the | all} | will to | morning | informul | | ministration’s | | U. S. AND CANADIAN UNION MEN MAY BE TAXED ONE QUARTER OF THEIR WAGES TO FIGHT AGAINST CAPITAL| 11, Oct IFollowing the Peoria, withdrawal of labor group from industrial conference at Washington, the Illinois federation of labor, in convention the sending president this morning authorized of a message to Samuel Gompers, of the Amercan Federation of Labor, and to members council, of ¢ the exccutive urging the call of immediate issuance a foila convention of the American Labor in Washington The 1ge urges that the official representatives of the broth- erhoods he invited to participate, tho object of the meeting to bhe the per fecting of an offensive and defensive alliance of the international unions of the United States and Canada and the railway brotherhoods. The message assails the “steel trust” for methods used the present strike and too has labor permitted special IPederation of mess: railway - in long ¥s these “tyrants to the defensive.” The niessage ed in the call of the proposed “levying of an every organized States and Canada of not le one-fourth of his net earnings and upon every officer of organized lahor not less than 50 per cent. of his sal- ary until the objects of this drive be accomplished.” keep the workers on includ- objects be the upon United s than so asks that one of the meeting smen t worker in the asses RAILROAD MEN MAY STRIKE FOR WAGES Seek More Pay, Better Con- ditions and 8 Hr. Day Be- fore Gov’t Gives Up. Washin that anting gton, Indications will demands Oct. railroad employes demand gr of their for in- wages, time and a half ove time, the eight-hour day and changes in working conditions before the rail- roads of the country are turned hack by the governmitnt to private control are contained in testimony by Tim- othy Shea, chief of the Riremen’ Brotherhood, before the Railroad board of railway working conditions. Mr. Shea told the board during its hearing of the firemen's demands, ac- cording to the testimony published today, t t members of his brother. hood were due an increase in adding: “If 1 cannot get ference, it may be other means; but get it.” In another testimony he ad- and wages, it out of this con- necessary to use I am going tio portion of Mr. Shea's is quoted as declaring that if the firemen’s demands for a living wage are not met when the time approaches for turning back the railroads to their private owners, the workers will require, precedent to the return, the granting of those demands. Although My the board only in men, it is as a Shea appeared before behalf of the fire- generally considered that to increase the wages of the firemen would necessitate a similar increase to all raflroad workers, and any ac- tion taken by the firemen to enforce their wage demands would involve similar action by the other brother- hoods. SUES B. & K. HFG. (0. New Yorker Claims $5,000 Damages for Alleged Breach of Contract— Also Wants Traveling Expenses. A City, H. has Armstrong, of New against York The B. and K. Manufacturing company for $5,000. Mr. Armstrong this city $ claims he entered the employ of the salesman, April 14, company as 1919, upon a salary of $2,500 a vear and commission of five per cent. on goods sold, and adds that in July the company attempted {o dispense wit his services. Under a contract, he claims, he was employed until Octo- ber 14, 1919, and that he continued to work for the company until that In addition of salary and com- on, he sues for traveling ex and for {he sum of $6 upon in the contract to paid to him in case the compan should dispense with his services affer a period of six months. The returnable before the superior court on the first Tuesday of November, 1919, Deputy Sheri M. D. Stockwell served the papers. Judge E. A. Merriman, of Meriden and M. H. Camp, of this city, are attorneys for the plaintiff. brought suit of o 5 agreed be 1se s Don’t Forget to Sleep Extra Hour Sunday A. M ‘Washington, Oct. 23 cers and employes structed to turn one hour at 2 a. when the Davlight comes inoperative, Director-General fines said today. Trains in terminals when the change occurs will be held until the scheduled time of departure under tho new time. -Railroad ofii- have been in- their watches back m. next Sunds Savings Law be- TWO MEN SHOT IN ARSON CONSPIRACY Steel St Youngstown Thwart- ed in Attempt (o Apply Torch to Houses. Youngstown, O.. Oct. 23.—One man was fatally wounded and another seri- ously injured when police broke up two alleged attempts at arson by striking steel workers here early day. | Joachim Magapano will die, while | Giuseppe Fagio, who was shot ahove | the heart, is in a critical condition | | | to- A group of striking Serbians and Ttalians held a secret meeting in Brier Hill and it alleged, 10 burn the houses of several men who continued to work if their threats violence were not heeded Learning of | the plan, police lay in wait for the strikers. Three Serbians had set to onc house hefore they were cau and a grofip of three Italians surprised attempting to fire houses. All are under arrest on vari- ous rges. including carrying con- cealed weapons and attempted arson. | The Brier Hill Steel Co. and the Re- public fron & Steel Co. are each pre- paring to light another blast furnace today. The Br to put two more naces in comm decided, is chs open hearth fur- ion during the day. 60 YEARS AN INVALID Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Dies Morning at Ncw B General Hospital at Age of 81 Years. Mrs. Charlotte vears, died this morning Britain General hospital, was admitted as a tient She had been an invalid years and was taken from 97 Bassett street. two sons who reside in The body will be taken tc for burial. Perkins, aged at the New where she August 22. for over 60 the hospital She to leaves Torrington. » Torrington YALE'S GREAT RECORD Has Lost to But 10 Teams, Other Than Princeton and Harvard, In 13 Yo New Haven, Oct Yale has been defeated at foothall by an eleven othe: than Harvard or Princeton only 10 | times in 43 years. This information was given to Yale undergraduates to- day in a letter from Parke H. Davis, a member of the intercollegiate rules committee bearing upon the gamo which Boston college last Satur- day. In the period Yale met 391 opponents. The defeat was by the Army in 1904 FOR AMERICANIZATION won given first Senate Labor Committee Agrees Upon Bill to Provide $12.500,000 to Carry Out This Work. Washington, Oct. 2i.—Leaislution designed to bring about Americaniza tion of alien rvesidents was agzreed upon today by the senate labor com- mittee, which is investigating the P steel strike. Under the new bill, which will be a substitute for pending Americanization measures, $12,500- 000 would be appropriated annually for allocation among the states to as- sist in the education of foreigner The states would be required to con- tribute an equal amount. T Hartford, Oct. New Britain cttlod. probably night and Frida night. and vicinity: for bj vin - to- r Hill Co. expects also | | h | headquarters | | at 1 Lonzi, | official PLYMOUTH BOY DEAD IN FATAL AUTO CRASH Thomas Martin Killed In- stantly When Cars Col- lide—Others Injured. Waterbury, Oct. 2 aged (15, instantly —Thomas kd- ward Martin, of was almost killed while o his way to work in the American Pin company plant in Waterville this morning when an automobile n which Rinkus man truck Works, 1 rost he was riding of Plymouth, collided with an automobile owned Dy the Chase Metal he accident occurred = Bridge, just above Waterville. The truck was loaded with employes of the Chase company who were be- ing carried to a job above Waterville, with Joseph and another and several of the occupants hid nar- | row escapes from Harry Hazzard, Waterville, a company, and Bank street, serious of 26 Haase streef, boss for the Chase Joseph Shantis, of 809 who were passengers in the truck, are patients at St. Mary's hospital, but their injuries not believed to be serious. Young Martin riding on the running board of automobile, which was a road- ster. Rinku said to have bee driving fast and to have pulled from the back of another automobile, running head-on into the truck. Both cars were badly smashed. Rinkus is held without bonds at the local police pending the coroner’s He miraculously es- caped injury, as did the third pas- senger in the roadster. Young Mar- tin was thrown from the roadster and sustained a fractured skull. injury. re was the investigation. NO GOAL SHORTAGE HERE Ix Dealers Report That Supply is Ample and Coal Bins Are Well Filled. Although there have been numer- ous complaints about the inability to obtain coal in this city, there is no acute shortage, as there is i nan um- The offi- cials of the City Coal and Wood com- the New Britain Lumber and Coal company stated this morn- ing that from the present outlook the residents of New Britain will be well supplied with coal during the win- ter, providing that the labor condi- tioas are favorable at the mines. At the present time the bins of lo- cal coal yards are amply filled and the homes are receiving their sharve. “The coal question in this city is very sat- isfactory,” was the report made by the New RBritain Lumber and Coal ! today However, there might a shortage about the first of No- vember, at which time the coal min- ers in the soft coal districts announcs their intention of striking if they are not granted gheir demands. Should this strike take place the local fac- tories would have to use hard coal when their supply of soft( coal was used up, this would probably create a shortage in this city 30,000 REALTY DEAL ber of neighboring places. pany and be Joseph Castrowitz Has Purchased Two Blocks and One Lot Located On Stanley Strect, Another c through building $3 lar today lot ),000 thro company, property uable realty deal was put | when two blocks and | Stanley street, valued | sold Romanci & the Camp Real Estate Castrowitz, The | the most val- on was h Joseph is considered the street. to on Plymouth, | out | DEPARTING PASTOR'S FATHER IS SEGURED Rev. H. A. Cook to Fill Wethodist Pulpit Temporarily SEEKING NEW CLERGYMAN Official Board Formally Accepts Rev. W. F. Cook's Resignation and Passes Resolutions Showing Regret That He Is to Leave. Rev. Warren F. Cook. the popular young pastor of the Methodist chureh, is to leave. His resignation for- | mally accepted, with at a | meeting of the official last was regret, board REV. W, F. COOK. and Bailey, night M. L. dick, E. J. and” M. H. a committee composed of chairman; J. M. Bur- Skinner, Dugald McMillan Camp was appointed make cfforts to secure a new clergy- man and to take care of the pulpit | supplies. Mr. Bailey has power to add to this committee. Rev. 1. A. Cook to This special committee has secured Rev. H. A. Cook, father the de- | parting pastor, to act as pastor of the church until next April, when he will return to his home in Kansas. In accepting the resignation of Rev. Mr. Cook, the committee adopt- ed the following resolutions of esteem and regret: Came to Act. 1915, Warren T in April, Here in “The Reverend Cook | became our minister During the almost five years he has been with us, we have learned to know him and, knowing him, to ap- preciate his ability, his optimism and his kindliness, and to esteem him highly pastor, as a citizen, and a friend. e that the <church, the community, and w 1S individuals, better for his among us. “In the t the country has stand has been of very us and to the community that our church, through ship, has held before New highest duties and idea in which we live, of Christian life. The vital questions of the hour have been yery clearly and correctly ed “In the struggle of the times there must be found a truer vision the relation of Gad man and man man. And we believe that our church has been to this It an | titude that must hola is damental to our growth und Christian institution Praises Paston “We feel a great Rev. Mr. Cook all this, ¢ well as our pastor among our homes, witl ountless close as a a as helieve are work and critical times that through, his great value to We believe his leader- Britain the of the days passed 1o to awake is It influence we fun- as a < Leadership. indebtedness his for our the relatio for leadership his service own sick people 1d in Bleve (Continued on nth 1915. | LABOR WITHDRAWS BUT WILSON ASKS THAT WORK GO 0 Secretary Lane Calls Public Grou Together as New Conierence to Take Up Industrial Disputes - #§ GOMPERS ASSAILS THOSE REPRESENTING ENPLOYER Declares That They Are Not Rep sentative of the Intelligent, Fah Minded Employers of This Cous , Adding That They Have Antagonistic to Labor From tH First, Washington, Oct. -Out of Y wreck of the national industrial co ference, President Wilson todd to build machinery bring about industrial peace in tY country. In a message to Chairm Lanc he asked that the public repry sentatives in the conference contin their work and to make a report him. sought new Hope in Public Group. president and other admini tration officials hope the public del gates, who were appointed by M Wilson and who represent both enf plovers and workers, cgn formulate program which will be acceptable capital and labor. New After announcing that ceived Presid Chairman The Conference Called. he Wilson's Lane declared the industrial© conference as constituted had adjourned diately called the member public group into session conference. had messdg] nation; originall nd imm of % as a ne - We're Out, Gompers Says. “We have withdrawn,’ Gompers, ‘“and until the are changed, on the other hand thi ends it as far as we are concerne We are not jumping jacks. We. a not only men responsible as citized but responsible to millions of wor ers. “The rcpresentatives of the publ group, largely employers and peop| who have been antagonistic to the I bor cause and labor movement, void in favor of our declaration. Are Not said M| conditiod Representative. has come to me th group, in their eof 1inst the declaratid | by a majority one. I am qui | konvinced that those employers that gréup who voted against the de laration are unrepresentative ofdt intelligent, fair-minded employers ¢ | the country.” “Information | the employers’ | ference, voted a of | | COHEN—MAIETTA CASE I'ormer Alleges Non-Payment of Res as Grounds for Ejecting Lattd From Store, The summar ris Cohen which the former Maietta from : alleging that latter is 10 days hind in the payment of rent due O« taber 1, and which is denied by Maie| will be heard in the city court Mo day morning. Judge Bernard F. Ga ney will appear for the plaintiff a: | William C ngerford and S. R. Min for the Plaintiff Fred Beloin inally leased I store to Muictta March 1 for two yea with the privilege of renewal of Mo Maietta to ejef Main stres process P sou case ank ht store at 63 against the ori Hartford, Pignuolo, New York federal Oct Pasquale detective indicted a government in by the Wed- nesday on a charge of having engaged in conspiracy to blackmail liguor dealers and thereby frustrate the operation of the war-time prohibition law achieved some notoriety in Hart- ford eight year 180, He was at that time in the federal service as a detec- tive, and was tried for blackmall in the superior court in Hartford in 1911, who was grand jury in that ecity SECRET SERVICE MAN INDICTED FOR BLACKMAIL IS KNOWN IN HARTFORD His trial was one of the most sens] tional criminal cases that Hartfo had known in many decades. It w alleged that Pignuolo had attempt extortion of $450 from “Patsy” Fus keeper of a notorious resort on Te; ple strect, promising him protectd from arrest in white slave cases th included people in New York and Hartford. Pignuoclo claimed a “fra up” on the part of the Hartford p lice. Fusco, the chief witness, coun not be found, and the jury deadlocke to six in the case.