New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 12, 1919, Page 1

( \'ew; of of the World i Uy Asseeiated Herald “Ads” Mean Bettor Business BRITAIN CONNEC TlCUT \VEDNLbDAY NOVEMBER 1919. —SIXTI:I:N PAGES. FOUR WAR VETERANS MURDERED AND FIVE OTHERS WOUNDED WHEN L. W. W. | OPENS FIRE ON ARMISTICE PARADERS " Infuriated Citizens and Wash., Storm Radica Soldlers at Centralia, Is’ Headquarters; Lead- er is Lynched and Others Arrested; Clean- up of Bolshevik Agitators Begins Centralia, teen atleged 1. W. toc The men v sterday and last on tae resulted il of Wazl., Nov. are > right nistice in the Amer an ine- in jail he rounded 5 up the Doy parade, death of fou an Legion and W. member. here (his Jacring. Comp. tional G today o | patrolli [ but and fornier a; mmm(mg fuliy ney of rman wember rviee th tlon that said wi v To Iln\' Citizens t y dicals from Out F. plapr Centralia, wheie have been inc ing for some Centralia we hcadaguarters for Lewis count Industrial Workers operating from here into the logging camps and other industrial pursuits of this section. American Legion members expressed dctermination that every I W. W. must leave the city. Murders Were of 20 men time. | Planned. I arrested. in the search for W. W.s following the | attack was said to have confessed | plans were made months ago (o “get” ! Warren Grimm and Arthur McEl fresh, two of thore killed, und Wil- liam Schales and ‘Captain David Liv- | ingstone. The four had bheen :x(li\(-[ in suppressing radical activities in} this community. 1 Soldiers Shoi From Ambush. Without warning bursts of Titie fire ( swept tile canks of marching oversens veterans as they paraded past 1. W, W. headquarters. From that building nd the roof building acress the bullet « in the crowds that the honor the returncd soldiers ons and be; firing, leadine One Persons street to so drew strec 1e. Tined weap- of men, Mcl1- was randa Grimm, dropped mortally fre: march killed instantly. Ben. g dicd later from his wevnds. John Earl Watt, George Stevens, ob Phitzler and E. Eubanks also feil wounded, the first named prob ably fatally. Stevens was shot when | he attempted disarm an I. W. W. standing on the street. { Fourth Death Occurs. The fourth death of a parader was'! added when Dale Hubbard, recently returned over: man, hered a ! small band and started after. the I.| W. W. secretary. Hubbard and the fugitive grappled after a chase in which smith fired repeatedly at his | jrursuc \s they clinched, Hubbard | yeceived four wounds in the body. Smith Another pursuer Smith and he was taken 1o smoved hanged zens learned that four of soldiers had died. An lyneh Smith was mad lodged in the jail “You fellows said was sent 1 did @ company wounded. the ranks, ) in Casy Ja to i Lynch By Mob, | overpowered | to Jail, later after citi the mmu i itrenpt ‘ | before he was an't to do my me,” duty hang he i and it Was Smith over the was tied bullets “hing party from Bridge. from w bridge after a rope his neck and a volle into his body. The worked silently and in vhile taking him from jail. o'clock all of the city’s elec- vere cut off and eight men the one man on the jail. Smith one of about six darkened that stood about the jail to bridge. sSmith. Hanged tossed River was Chehalis a about of sent Iyn darkness At 7:30 c lights casily overcame guard inside was placed in iutomobiles nd rushed the Little came Two Smith's would known of e Lort time ago. ndertakers refused to handle and what disposal of it bhe madc unknown. of Outl here a body Jes. e W Culmination Clashes between the I. Centralia citizens have occurred intervals during the past two years. The first trouble occurred when a spoke against a Red Cross bazaar. At that time a crowd moved all furniture from I. W. hall and burned it in the street. Governor Hartney was ¢n route (o the capital from the east part of the He started immed ¥ upon receipt of news of the disorers here. From Yakima today came that members of the American Legion there were discussing formation of u secret order within the legion de- signed to combat radicalism The «‘entralia police force consists of only five paid members and they were powerless in the face of the great odds against them, both in com- batting the I. W. W. and in defending and at radical re- Ww. state. a (Continued on Page Fifteen) L) swiftnes }in | ¢church | rendered report ! the OaKland, 2.— crowid A readquarte f citizens the Loring o entered of communist labor parcwy hall early today and e interior o the place. Large antities of radical literat red fings furniture the and were mob. Men burned in Ex vice in Mob, The mob said to have con- sisted of 490 former service men and members of the Amevican Legion. The offices of the “World,” a soc un situated in the building, a ist or were The communist new, labor par radical organization here. vrecking of the e carried out in and with such time the police dispersed. 10 e a The hea meihodical fashion that by the rowd had Raids in Oregon. Ore., Nov. 1 today hegan an inv antecedents and activities of taken into custody by the raid upon headquarters of the “Council of Workmen, Soldie and Sailors” last night. Reports that speakers, at a meeting of the council, had denounced the American Tezion and had charged members of the or- sanization with responsibility for the viots at Centralin, Wash., vesterc in which four men were killed, cau Mayor George to order ratd officials the men police in of s, a Baker the s as reports of the Centralia trot reached here, Chief-of-Police Jennings summoned all available pe troln to headquarters to be held reserve. Agents of the policé sent to the nieeting of the council reported the hes of an incendiary ch, vaid foliowed, all soon ole speec were the taken in with vagrancy. of the prisoncrs, is a candidate for the dency of the Central Labor council. Two other prisoners also have been prominent in radical agitation here. 1¢ and of those the being charged One Laundy Joseph presi- CONGREGATION WEEK ACTIVITIES START Swedish Lutheran Church Members | Will Present am in Church Parlors Each Evening. This evening will the Swedish open the “Congregation Week' lowing program Carlson: recitation, vocal solo, Clarence leau, “Nearer Ay Martin Sandstrom. The following programs Thursday, Friday, wad Monday night Thursday —evening piano, Edwin and quist; selections, the cul solo, Adeline “Rida, Rlda’ strom. Friday Hinson: activities with the Violin solo, Nellie Signe Peterson; Hultgren; tab- God to Thee,” Mrs. of fol- will be Saturday Vielin and Clarence Lund- Arpi Sextet: vo- Ohman; tableau, Ranka,” Mrs. M. nd- evening selections cal solo, Alva —Violin Milo solo, Octet: vo- Bengtson; tableau: “Mly Garden in June,” Mrs. Sandstrom. Saturday evening—Vocal solo, Mrs. i Christenson; recitation, Cath- erine Gaffney; tableau, “Columbia and i Svea, Mr: Sandstrom. Monday evening-—Vocal «olo, Hulda Johnson: dialogue, Anna Foberg and ]'\bl\‘l\ Carlson; vocal solo, Theodore undquist. BRIDE’S BROTHER | TIES NUPTIAL KNOT Carl Drury Officiates At Wed- ding of Misx Gertrude Drury and Dr. Faulkner. i | | | {Che Drury, ik e wedding of New i vest of Miss Gertrude C. York city, to Lieuten- FFaulkner, of this city, took » erday afternoon at St. Jer- { ome church. New York city The bride was given in marriage her brother, Joseph Drury, and attended by her sister, Miss Nellie Drury, as maid of honor. Miss ry McGovern, Miss Julic Walsh “nd Mrs. William Toomey, all of New York, were bridesmaids. The Lest man was Joseph Faulkner, brother of the groom. The usher: | were Dr. M. A. Kinsella, of this city: Dr. Freeman Pell Chason, of Hart- ford, and Paul T. Bullock, of New Eritain. The couple were married by Rev. Martin Drury, brother of the bride. After a honeymoon to Maine the couple will reside in this city. by | was | for mmittec’s | —Wederal | stigation | i to | ou Lutheran ! NOV. 27 1S PROCLAIMED AS THANKSGIVING DAY Governor Calls Upon Peo- ple to Give Thanks For All Blessings. Hartford, Nov, tion of Governor The proclama- Holcomb, naming Thursday, November 27 as Thank giving Day, was made public today, | under date of November 11. It reads: “Ia a world whose sky lowers with tie clouds of social unrest and eco- nomic disturbance it is easy to dark- cn the mind with black forebodings and gloomy fears. The need today is the wider outlook that balances od and evil not in the scales of the past events but in the scales of his torical continuity and for the deep- er insight that measures human pro- | gress, not in the terms of weeks and months, but in the terms of Him to whom a thousand years are as one | da he struggles of man against nan in the eternal effort of each to secure to himself the greatest pos: ble of material benefits and <0m|‘o|\<| mark but the surface changes of ciety; beneath them ever moves, si- lent and resistless, a tide whose im- pulse comes, nol out of the instant | press of men's needs and desires but | out of man's inheritent growth in knowledge and power and. in faith and courage. Few periods in human his- tory have offered so many proofs of the influx of that tide as have the last few years, or have been so calculated awaken to it the minds of men. Spurred by the stress of war, and its inevitable aftermath, science has veached far forward in its search for | knowledge, courage has become commonplace of life and faith been builded deep and strongly tressed. In these revealed cloud of smoke by day and pillar of fire by night. And for this, far more than for tie material ben- cfits that the year has offered, should our thanks be given to Him who still leads us on to the last great goal. In {his thought, let us, on Thursday, No- vember the twenty-seventh, which old custom marks as our peculiar day of thanksgiving bow our heads and lift our hearts to Him who, if faith means anytning, we must believe directing our steps to a future broad- cr, brighter and more glovious than the past has known or we yet can clearly sce a ™ &y has but- 1o is us our | STOCK MARKET CRASHES General Motors Falls Below 300 and Crucible Steel Tumbles to 2 1-2— Others Affected. New stock ~Prices in with a crash No group in the General Motors fell below 300 and Crucible Stecl dropped to 212 1-2 Brokers reported it was almost possible to borrow money and as a ult stocks were: thrown overboard whatever they would bring. Rails held up fairly well but they had not shared in the rapid ad- vance of industrials during the year. The market became completely de- moralized in the last hour when call money rose to 30 per cent. the high- est rate since the panic of 1907, Oveoi- night losses of 10 to 23 paints were scattered throughout the list anid General Motors showed a decline 65 points. F¥ork, Nov, market broke 1:30 o’clock today list was spaved. the at im- at any price Tuberculosis Commission Cannot Accept Property Hartford, Nov. 12.—In an opinion filed today, Attorney-General Franlk B. Healy tells the state tuberculosis commission that, under the law, it! cannot accept in the name of the | state a gift of real estate and build- ings to be used in connection with its work; that the lezislature is the only Dody having authority to accept o reject such gift. I W. W. IS AMBITIOUS a Dept. of Justice Uncovers Plot to Spread Doctrines Throughout Ent Northwest—No Ban Is Ordered Yect. Spokane, Wash., Nov. 12. trial Workers of the World are pre- paring to launch from their head- quarters here propaganda cam- paign’ throughout the northwest and perhaps through the entire west, in the near future, according to officials of the department of justice. So far they said, no orders to proceed against them have been received. Indus Senator Martini Democratic Leader, Dies At Age. of 72 Charlottesville, Va., Nov. 1 —Sena- tor Thomas §. Martin, the democratic leader in the senate, died here today after an illness of several months. He 72 vears old. i cided OFFICERS NAMED TO 3MIIVERS IN WEST VIRGINIA DISREGAR COURT’S ORDER TO RETURN TO WOR ENFORCE DRY LAWS John F. Kramer of Ohio New Prohibition Commissioner DIRECTOR IN EACH STATE New York P Connecticut Is Included in District—Federal Agents Will = trol Entire Country—Roper Tells Enforcement Plans, Washington, Nov. Kramer, an attorney has heen appointed federal prohibi- | tion commissioner in direct charze of the enforcement of war-time and con- stitutional prohibition. New Officer Kramer, who formerly the Ohio legislature, democrat, appoint- he would 12 ohn I%. of Mansfield, O, Is Lawyer. was a tele- v, member of graphed Senator Pomerene, Ohio, today, accepting the ment and announcing that begin his duties next week. The commission will work the bureau of internal revenue, and will have charge of the field force which will be used in enforcing both the temporary and stitutional dry laws. under cor Roper Makes Plans Public. Daniel C. Roper, commission of in- ternal revenue, today made public plans for enforcement of prohibition. Mr. Kramer will have as aides an executive field force of nine super- vising federal prohibition agents and a prohibition director in each state. The supervising federal agents will have juvisdiction over nine territovial units into which the country has been divided Under the direction vising agents will be a mobile force of federal agents which will be sent from one point to another as condi- tions warrant. Various Headquarters Headquarters of the supervising although not definitely de- probably will be located of the super- a agents, upon, follows: Albany, tichmond, ta; Chicago San Francisco. units over which ax New York city; ; Philadelphia; Atlan- Omaha; Little Rock and The departments or their jurisdiction will extend are to he known as the northeastern, New York, eastern, southern, Gulf, central, northiwestern, southwestern and Pacifi The included in eastern, Ve \nlk} and partment follows: Northeastern—>Maine, New Hamp- Vermont, Massachusetts and York state, cepting Gres s York city and Long Island Connecticut. With New York New York—Greater New Yor and Long Island, Connecticut Rhode Island. Eastern—New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, Delaware and Dis- trict Columbia. v the north eastern states shire, ew New ex city and of U. 3. JUDGE GONDEMNS WAR-TIME PROHIBITION Injunction Issued in Provi- dence Restraining Officers | From Enforcing It. 3 e, (o e in the. f Providence, R. Arthur L. Brown, trict court today, issued injunction against Harvey A Thited States attorney. and George I | Shaunessy, collector of internal rev- enue, restraining them from enforc- | ing the provisions of the wartime pro- | | Judge dis- temporary eral ! a Bak hibition act. The injunction was sued upon the petition of Narra- ganselt Brewing company. The sale of 4 per immediately resumed liquor dealers. The court, decision, said: “In view of {he probability act in question will ultimately be held | unconstitutional and of the irrepar-| able that would result from its immediate enforcement, and in view of the ct®dence afforded the presidentia’ proclamations other circumstances, its immediats enforcement is not imperative, I convinced that the plaintiff’s right preliminary injunction is clear.” | The decree will be entered tomor- row, when it will become effective, | The opinion is the first construc. tion of the Volstead (prohibition forcement) act handed down by court in the country While nominally federal officials in this jurisdiction | from enforcing title one of that against the Narraganselt Brewing company, it virtually states the beliof of the court that the entire wartime (Continued on Fifteenth Page) the cent by beer w Providence in handing down that the | damage and am to G en- any | it restrains the | act WEATHER. New. Britain Unsettled to- tair, colder. - Forecast for and. vicinity night: Thursday, RADICALS IN JAIL AS | bloodshed =:<lx:h'(-ll | until ARMED GUARDS WATGH 38 Are Already in Cells And | 47 More Are Being Sent Up From Bridgeport. | | gents | of this pre- Hartford, Nov. 12.—Federal who have directed the round-up alleged undesirable aliens in state were in Bridgeport today NEGOTIATIONS TO REOFPEN ON FRIDA Appeal Sent to Headquarters of United Mij Workers to Get Men Back on Jobs at On Operators and Union Leaders Agree Meet in Hopes of Adjusting Differences Washir Brewster ators’ sca that Seerc cay ed mect rey Lere Fri agreemer John L. paring for the transfer of radicals held in the Bridgeport lice cells to the Hartford county in this cit Thirty-eight men, pre- viously brought to Hartford for hear- | ings before Immigration Inspector | Wm. M. Clark, were held in the jail today under the surveillance of Con- | necticut state guardsmen. It was ex- | pected 1o have the Bridgeport party m the Hartford jail before night. Hearings in the of the men held were discontinued today, to be resumed when all the alleged radicals are lodged in the jail here. It is pre- umed that the hearings will be held at the jail, where the men may be | taken before the inspector without any possibility of interference or in- terruption. Col. Charles W. Burpee, command- ing the First military district, said today that the state guardsmen would be relieved by a new detail tonight. po- dail cases a 3ridgeport, ay; —All 47 al- leged radicals wught in raids here were transferred from the police head- quarters to Hartford today. The party with 20 federal officers and state po- lice occupied two coaches of a train The men were handcuffed in pairs. At the station during the wait of seven- teen minutes they behaved quietly Few of them took the situation seri- | i | , ing already I of an the latie to negot force up contract W Spolkes day sidered only way ficlds wa scale to M retary public to lows “Your ing scale Le to meet Washington, wa in s sage now am of mine that « Harry notional Secretary ously. WAR ON RADICALS | URGED IN CONGRESS | Representative Johnson Calls Centra- lia Murders Which | \tempt at Revolution | | Has Beared. i Country Washington, Nov. 12.—The shoot- four ex-service men in an ar- | day in Centralia, in the house ! ing mistice Wash.. was des today by Representative Johnson, re- publican, Washington, chairman the immigration committee as “an tempt at revolution with bullets and rifles, which the country has long | feared.” | Mr. Johnson sent a telegram to | Mayor Rogers of Centralia, sayng the | country “must be purged of sedition- | 1d revolutionists to the last one, | if this means war, the quicker | of parade cribed of ists ¢ and it was declared the better.” “We of the Pacific long seen it coming,” have been patient, under every fo see these young men mur- | Their death will arouse the loval people of the United States as nothing else has done “History will record the horrors as among the first to fall in an at- | tempt at armed revolution against the United States and for which every man who has been preaching syn- dicalism, = communism and hatred esponsible northwest have he said. ““We have avolded provocation, only dered. class is GHAUFFEURS ON STRIKE L. I, & C. Drivers and Their Ielpers Make Demands, Leaving When Negative Answer is Given, Refused an increase which they had demanded concern, nine truck Telpers walked out noon at the Landers, plant. The their wage their number men of truck with regard an hour. Upon answer in the from tory vard and in wages from the drivers and their vesterday after- Frary & Clark | were dissatisfied wit and sent interview men scale a few of to the fore- | transportation work | (0 an increase to 50 cents | their return with an negative the men the trucks in the f: left ti company property at once, with the ultima that the; would not return their requests were given able consideration. The firm em7™—= cach of whom has at least and some of whom have assist in loading and the demands were workmen did not America’s Open Door May Be Shut On Foreigners 3uffalo, N. Y., . 12—The Amer- ican people are growing impatient with foreign agitators and unless thejr-attitude changes, the door that has'always been open to Europe may be shut, Herbert Hoover declared bere today in an address at the con- vention of Americans of Polish an- cestry. n worlk favor to nine chauffeur: one helpe two men to unloading. A not granted th return today. { | | a and will represents the offici Releas his ae W authorized date. ngton, Nov. chairman e committ the tary Wilson presentative da g0 Nt to n Le ad notified ceptance, offer from ‘s commit the in effe Consi for t ate on now Won't men mome to brivg p through o effect Miners Wi wis' telegra ilson’s day s by the telegram committee, with you is rece ibmitted ssion in to sa workers w yperators A . Taylor, coal Wilson's meet here wtives of t of the of coal als e to 12 of 1 tiat acting 47 alleged | he United Mine Worker Thomas hc announced the coal mine owners had invitation president Amieiic Secretary meanwhile Brewster tes contract termination ot der miners said this proposition could not i for a nt adoption immediately Meet. accepting Sec was inz m invitation secr ov cer nvolved herc fo and etary en rtral next F ived to o Indiang Ay i1 10 ur prese Aceept. that i date competi- tive field and representatives of all bi- | tuminous districts in day Your conference | Ll \polis, and T 75 CENT: representatives president iny Fric he miners’ meet o needs was begun today ¥ administ result ers and Wilson Directc ed regior crease th of ration’s cen operators t n a confere or nal e quantity coal tral the agreement 0o nece. it lay tior operators union emergency the railroad )y committee the min Secretary of 1eet as production is restored. There i Mr. now mov emergenc west, Will s some Hines ing in v sai 11 a, t hat Orders also have gone federal r federal 1 thousand toward tt ample ca return to The on Nove: time a Mr. som Hine: 655,000 t age of 63 leased by During t} 000 tons erage of released to dome: period wa ‘rage of or an ave need other than mber showing ailroad nanagers s of empty he min rs on work. hand co wh Mceet Shortage. shortage in the with direction will soon be met ut out al en the Pinch Felt Nov. 6. for railroads 6, coal that In con had it the soft tons ons of 35,500 the he of coal was 360,500 tic s in excess tons be bee: was per: per railroads to ame time a total of 1,44 or The ers in that | would 000. tons 1o cons of 303,000 pe gan although day R ta n neec iod o aay, ded, ur 1,21 the amount of coal loaded.” 1 Springf demands wages, @ week by mine conferen Washingt tary of I Frank T miners’ here tods capital. FIRE AT ELKS’ HOME x Beautiful With S covered in Grill Room Kitchen, The| Britain street he 1o W mage today ered in the partition hack of the hen hecame the gri the in until smolke call was and By engin hard in extingt of only a William J fire fighte Bridgeport Thieves Steal Furs Valued at $7,000 Bridgey got into dealers ir last night value of will thi Yemands Tl 60 ield, of a 60 per six hour ds be preser worlkers ces called on at the Labor Wilsc rington, commi route 1 cale woen Structure evious Loss wutiful how hdge 18 threater il reom kit building it the fire sent into ti e compuny the lishing the bout $100 ov 1y 1ted in for on, chairme ttee > to Unchanged. ~ 12 nd a te he n the By 1e IElks on e No firemen e, with Assistant blaz Plames of W v th entral 1 responded succeeded | Noble was in cha rs this noon »ort, Nov the 1 clothing and took furs of a claimed , $7,000. and —Fur furs, ssociation also accepted | n with other reneral Hines has instruct committees released as rapidly from administration which will cars so that there consumers before released from vember 6 to November 9 a total of .- coal an was consumers day Orig nere five operators joint Friday instance o according national | the shington | when a fire was discov- was not filled detected American-French to n Charleston wwha coal the orders of to work the 200 work, W ficlds miners No dia leaders today. Only fou in the district b th comparaty 12.—H oper not to- their nd o and re accept to miner early mines and these with small forces TH noun | is we substance of an D. C. Kennedy, wha op 1fter he morning raports, Ounly Few of cement the i1ssociation retary of Kar coal Wilson had declin tor over his i 1eet Retuyns, Monda he in of the “Minc the men to 1¢ 1 One ndents report showing no 1 dispos! Mr. Kenr the Shry night g appeare the Rzyn} normal w hand ncoura Boor to w said ark hundr men at bury voted last back the City mines to- today but tim not one con- appointed At the mines only 14 of a he coal i ing force of 300 were on L DAY | reports are no mean Not a man reported at Long Acre most important A few nelton Powaellton, mines in the dis at two mines de fol- appeared Cabin Creek.” Mr. Ke quarters to the possible moment to the h Mine Wol at the ead iy appealed the United men back invit of zet ike, at mes- MASON TENDERS WA AN HO it on Demands, Decided Upon Last N of the \re to Become Effective on today wnuary 1. At a last evening demands to meecting of it was decided the way of a wage served upon boss As a result of this deg] it is probable that within a few all local contractors will be furni with a copy of the demand as d up by the mason tenders, The demand, which is to effective on the first day of calls for an increase cents mnason tenders to I and in crease be ctors, as bed Jan of cents hour At a meeting comewhat si he demand e contractol to in- 60 to 75 an q minimum months was tak SENATORS ARE MUZZLE cid south- coal the wage. eral ago a action never n bu ented to t the L n to tu will be miner tures nou to Invoke tures Enough to Invoke (lof Rule, Limiting Debate on Trea ot that b Washin ment to D rule ocratic ture, on sall ace No- 1, aver- re ninstration more than double the ne an av- | ber oal Some republican 1 opc above | after ina i ¥ 1 ase in DRYS GET HOTdLR RA scale in Federal Judge ns in Kenti of came Court - Holds Wa Opinion Prohibition Act Is Unconstitutid Louisville Judge Walter d I Nov. 12.-—Fed open “firml ohibitig ited @ Hami for t} taXs) stock.’ | Schools to Close Nov. 26 | Also On Decemhg Thanksgiving recess in th will start Wednesday 6, will end Mo 14. The pd vacation starts mber ind January 5 contained *chool oft Evans in he ime il Llwood collector of ir c tucky fr of : whiskey & declai re today is nconst wl a position 1 indic Ntened nio Dis- »out 1,000,000 gallons of floot Ne serions The al schools with | November A | morning of the day nig Monday range and December Christmas station ht 19 morning. emets ar OIS L has just = in departry the pres | Honduras Consul » hot And Killed, Wife Woun ] | New Nov. 12 lc former consul shot announ mar which a lo: Chief of the ral come Orleans ordova, Dr. Leo! here killed wounded Both on the Honduras, wife dangerously last night by bandit left for dead in a ditoh | skirts of the city. thieves vas and shop, his during a