New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 4, 1919, Page 1

e e News of the World. By Asseciated Press. NEW BRITAIT HERALD Herald “Ads” Mean Better Business ESTABLISHED 1870. MEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1919. —SIXTEE RRICE "GOVT. TO GIVE UP TRYING TO CONTROL SUGAR SALES BUT WILL BAN PROFITEERS After December 31,|NEW ENGLAND CITIES Equalization Board| §UFPLIED WITH COAL Will Cease to Work| — Situation Better Than Most - as Federal Agency; Places—Small Towns Congress at Fault Feel LEVER ACT IS ONLY | PROTECTION SEEN Shortage. Boston, Dee. 4.—Reports that soft coal crdercd for New lngland might be diverted western cities cau ome coneern toduy among large con- " her I distributors B at better off Each Case Will Be Handled o iotions Scvera) himutaetaving center reported that the fuel an hand Avaricious Dealers, Dept. of Justice Rules. to es * no curtailment on account of fuel bus boen anuounced by ! railvoads, which ar 1gh caal to run 50 day k. president of Coal Dealers' associ while the district | fortunate than many others manuf turing plants were to feel the shortage and mo must he chiained if condi- tions s to remain near normal. Plans for handling the New England sitvation have at lengih u committee rescntatives of the > public and the fuel ad- Allen M. McLead, rep- resenting t Iministration, was sent to Wasl t ht to con- fer with the tern regional commit- s ion of at sast the present ratio of shipment The committec announced that Bos: ton and most of the large cities of New England were well supplied consider- ing the 30 per cent. cut in their soft coal reccipts, t many of the commu reported acut said to the entire tions tion, Washington, Dec. 4-—Abandonment j,ccq 1nome ©of governmental attempts to conirol the distribution and sale of sugor was announced today by Atlorney Gen. Palmer. After the sugar equalization hoard is dissolved Deccomber 31 the govern- ment will confine its efforts to pros- doution of profiteering in sugar Mr. Palmer said. Palmer Without Power. Explaining the department's policy for the future, Mr. Palmer said he had “neither the power nor the fa- cilities” to control the purchase o distribution of sugur. This was said to mean the end of the program for bringing in fresh supplies of sugar from Cuban and other sources. Ap- parently little use can'be mado of the new authority conferred upon Mr. Palmer Dy the president. who desiz- nated him as food administrator. “A conference was held this morn- ing between representatives of the siu- gar equalization board and depart- ment of justice officials in which the sugar situation was reviewed,” Mr. Palmer said. “The department has neither the power nor the facilitics with which to control {he purchase or distribution of sugar. The only gov- ernmental body having this power i the sugar equalization board, and control terminates December 31. ¢ Wiil Prosecute Profiteers. { *The cofigress. aithough requested to, do so, has failed to exténd the ! of the board. The depariment Justice will confine its efforis in future to the enforcement of pro sions of the Lever food control act by prosecuting all instances of sales of sugar for an unjust or unreason- able profit. “The department of justice has never attempted to fix the price of suggar. In the past It has accepted the | recommendations of the sugar equal- Emily McCarthy, 34, directress of Lhe izatlon board very largely in deter- Young Women's Christian associas mining maximum fair prices. The (jon day nursery and a visiting nurs fair margins of profitallowed are those was found in Black pond today. She established by the food administra- joft the nu inday evening in tion. When such determinations were hoy uniform wearing also a made they have been communicated pgincoat. Office e to the district attorneys who were ad- gy that for Miss Mc vised that any sales in excess of the 1.4 seomed depressed. maximum fi set -should be con- arch of outs hud led fto sidered un unreasonable. [r, ack pond IBast Meriden. John To Use Lover I D.” Roberts, scout executive, impro- “The early termination of the sugar vised a water telescope and loeated i bear will make it im- the bedy. As glasses vered her definite price on oyes it is believed that Miss McCarthy or control it waded into th salo will be \liss McCarthy came from and all cases whete York and was graduated from ¢ attorney has evidence in- Meriden hospital. In July she dicating an unfair profit or with- appointed to the day nur o 5| KILLED IN AUTO CRASH s of consumption or any di scatteres beginnin is upply on ot . Roc Power Co.. and Dove island am Electrie Light and which supplics Portsmouth H.. and the lines of the sachusetts Street Railway ompany, into Dover hua, Haverhill, Newburyport, Amesbury and Lowell, 1mer that ite exhausted ir 3 4 urarle fuel would be nd it was new s 10 obtain o pix ERIDEN Y. W. C. A, GIRL'S BODY FOUND Taken From Black Pond—She Had Been Missing Since Sun- day Evening. Meriden, Dec. 4—The body of Miss d of week mentally Boy S a set any sugar in t tribution. water. New the W in price to the manu-| or to the jobber supplving | the domestic consumer will be pro- 1 ceeded a under the Lever act.” NAPPI GETS FOUR MONTHS Twocal Ttalian Pleads Guilty Tormer Speaker of WRhode Island ! House Mceets Death When Train Tits Tis Mog Samuel Ward enwich, for- Rhode Island representat ior 3 L prominent politics, was instantly on a troll Hill, nea his aniomobile head-on. M. § was seviously will recov to saulting the Late Charles Asal in Superior Court Today. state di In the superior court today, Thomas Nappi. entered a plea of guilty to as- saultmg the rles 1, and was senienced to jajl for four months by Judge Lucien F. Burpee. Nappi, was arrested on a chacge of man- slaughter, after Asal had died at the local hospital of wounds alleged to have been sustained in a fracas with Nappl in the Park hotcl. nd h, when reight car chaurfeuar, probably met via, injured his but New Haven Trio Are Charged With Robbery iridgeport, Dee. 4.—John Sheridan, 1o Gargorn and Frank Brendiz- all of New Tlaven, wer igned police court here today charged nd their cases continued tesday. under bond SECURE BETTER SERVICE An improvement in the trolley serv- jce on the North Stanley strect line has been secured by patrons in that neighborhood and in the future the first Sunday morning trolley will leave Francis street at 0 instead of at $:40. The service on that line is now | about the best in the city and patrons think the fact that no jitney lines in that direction were patronized 1s responsible. il 00 hed ven $460 of are alleged to hav 150 of New 19, ovember Texas Rangers Recruit And Prepare For Action Austin, Tc Dec. 4.—Texas rangcer 4—Wage ad- @ units were ordered recruited to full posted today in stirength and as many more compan- the Quidnic m Co., employing ies organized as the adjutant general 500 pers e Windham deems necessary to protect the Texas 0., employing 200, effective last Mon- border, in instructions issued last day. The increase is 12 1-2 per cent. , night by Governor Hobby. GET 12 1 Willimantic, vance notic Dec. Silk be only i and | notified ! association | COLUMBIA ST. COUPLE | ALMOST ASPHYXIATED | Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Leonard Overcome By Gas Fumes From Hot Air Furnace. i Still unconscious and in a critical | candition, Mys. Adelbert J. Leonard of 103 Columbia street Iying in the | New Britain General hospital, hover- ing between life and death, as a result of coal gas poisoning that nearly as- phyxiated herself and husband during the night. AMr. Leonard was uncon- scious when found but has since been revived. Hopes are held out for the recovery of both Mr. and Mrs. Leonard but as yet the attendi physicians re- gard the cases as c1 1 It is believed that Mr. fore retiring last night. Ic Jators on the furnace at his hame open so that the fire might brighten during the evening. In this way coal =us | was free to escape and filled the rooms | of the Leo apartment. When | tound this morning at 11 a. m. by Mes, Larson. a neighbor, both were uncon- | seious. They were rushed to the hos- pital where the pulmotor and oth contrivances were used to remove {he sas poisoning but both failed to re- Zain consciousne Leonard, be- CROCKS ROUNDED UP | . ! BY DETROIT POLICE | Thirty-five ‘Well-Known €riminals Held After Rendczvous of Yeggmen Is Raided. Detroit, Dec. 4—Thirty-five men were held on a charge of violating the United States criminal code today after examination of more than 100 arrested last night in a round-up of near-beer saloons and other places suspected of harboring yeggmen and pickpockets responsible for the large number of burglaries and holdups | here recently. The ds were con- i ducted by federal agents, police, post ofilce inspectors and a score of priv detectives, A private bank was among the places raided and its manager, eorse proberty | i Kolowick, is being held on a of receiving and holding stolen from the government ber of Liberty Bonds of nominations and War Savings are said to have been taken from the banlk. Several thousand dollars’ jewelry and valuable furs police to be stolen covered. Aniong the prisoners held, the po- lice say, are some of the best known “safe men” and “stickup men” in the Lusine: | SRS U West Hartford Docter Lieut. In N. G. Reserve Hartford, Dec. 4 special order from the office of the adjutant gen- eral of Connecticut announces the ap- pointment of Dr. Sidney V. Kibby of West Hartford to be first lieutenant National Guard Reserve, with a view to his transfer to the National Guard as soon as the first allotment to the ate, or a portion of it is organized. nuni- de- | i worth of aid by the property, was ALL DENY GUILT IN NEWBERRY SCANDAL Grand Rapids, Dec. 4.—Of 18 men of the 134 indicted with U. S. Senator Truman H. Newberry by the grand jury here for alleged fraudulent acts in connection with the senator’s elec tion who appeared hefore Federal Judge C. W. Sessions here this morn- ing. all denied guilt. All were re- leased on bonds. PAYS HIS FINE. Benjamin Marholin, who was fined | $35 and costs in the local police court | for short measure, and who appealed to the superior court, today vacated the appeal and paid his fine. AUTOISTS ARRESTED. Antonia Vernale, was notified to be in police court tomorrow morning by Traffic Officer Fred Wagner, on a charge of passing a standing trolley car. William Spittler was tagged th afternoon by Officer Carlson for park- ing his automobile on the north side of Church street. He will be in police court tomorrow morning. AT CRAPS. m S of 43 Orange street, complained to the police today that he had been robbed of a gold | wateh and a crap ne last Sunday. He gave the polic names of the st a4 onex, 2 th RODBED IN BERLIN, F. C. Lewis of Ber complained to the police foday, that his home had been entered and $50 in cash and a $50 Liberty Dond had been stolen. VETERAN SHERIFF DEAD. Derby, Dec. Robert O. Gates, who served as high sheriff of Necw Haven county from 1883 to 1891, died today at his home after a vear's | Hliness. He was $1 years of age. 'WOULD MAKE MEXI . OF UNITED STATES, EVEN IF ARMY AND NAVY HAS TO BE CALLED OUT of Utah' ANOTHER AMERICAN ft the venti- | 1 . against the resolu : support of 'Senator King Urges Drastic Ac:ion . in Reso ution to For- eign Relations Com mittee NO ACTION UNTIL LANSING IS HEARD Hitchcock Advocates Giving President Power To Take Any Steps Subduing ing Nation, Necessary in Trouble-Muk- Washington 4 —Secretary Lansing will before the st ate forcizn relations committee before action is upon the resolution of all. vepublican, of Mexico, requesting President Wilson to sever diplomatic relations with 0. The committee hopes to the sccretary before it Dec. e called - taken cnator I to of reached a two hours’ doors. Fletcher Gives Testimony. Henry P. Fletcher, bassador to Mexico, committee today to give his views o the Mexican situation. The discu sion was said to have revealed con- siderable difference of opinion amon committee members regarding th best method of protecting American interests in the southern republic. When the committee recessed, sen- ators said the whole situation was in an uncertain state. Senator Hitch- cock, of Nebraska, ing-democratic leader id the .admin tors had not taken any def ion, but wanted the committee to be fully advised before a course was decided upon. Hitchcock Presents Resolution. Senator Hitchcock introduced a substitute resolution in the commit- tee which, besi authorizing the president to break off diplomatic lations with Mexico, would congress to him action he might call Mr. Lansing the Mexican question the committee after ssion behind closed for a American am- was before the es pledge: in subsequent decid upon. Republican mittee were vored the with the get all Lansing members understood of the com- to have fa- resolution, but then joined democrats in preparing to of the facts from Secr Ly before reporting to the | senate. Senators said much of the com- mittee’s time was taken up with a cussion of the phraseology of the resolutions. The chief reason for summoning Secretary Lansing, it wa vid, was to place the two propos: before him. Jenkins Case Discussed. Ambassador Fletcher, stood, did not dir the Fall resolution substitute. He ans it was under- ctly endorse either or the Hitchcock wered many ques- tions about the State department’s course in recent negotiations with Mexico in which he had an active part. Virtually all of these questions had to do with the case of William O. Jenkins, the American consular agent under arrest at Puebla. IHe went into this subject fully and it was said that many of the questions to be asked Secretary Lansing would be of simi- lar nature. Administration senators called at- tention to the possible effect of adop- tion of the Fall resolution on the ef- forts of the government secure Jenkins' release and are said to have rgued that a severance of diplomatic relutions might complicate this and other questions which now are the subject of discussion through dip- lomatic channels. to Would Insisi on Payment. A resolution authorizing the presi- dent to the army and navy, if T ry in cnforcing payment by of claims for damages suf- in the loss of Amcrican lives and property was introduced today in the senate by Senator King, democrat Utah and referred to the foreign re- lations committee. Appointment by the United States and Mexico of a joint high commission to adjusi American was proposed but should Mexico refuse to participate an American commission would de. termine the ims. claims, WEATHER. Hartford, for New 1. —Forecast and vicin'ty: Dec, Britain Fair {onight and probably Iri- day; warmer, | 1 | | R . ing later | | l | { re- any | CO PAY CLAIMS ABUSED BY MEXICAN, Ex-Soldier in Hospital As| Result of Alleged Mal- treatment Across Border. Dec. 4 rvice -1V man, Tal M is Calexica, ¢ Mil- ton ovmer in an camp hospital here today recei atment <iuid, at the in army for wounds suffered, a Me: Lower hands of ic: man Alexicali, just across the international boundary line from here. Milten was brought to this the border lust night after talned for hours virtually without medical treatment. He said he was ar- rested in Mexicali on a charge of be- ing intoxicated but broke away from his captor and ran toward the Ameri- an side of the line. The policcman pursued him, he said. beat and kicked him into insensibility and Ieft him ly- ide of being de- ing in the reet for overal hour When le regained consciousn Milton declired, he was taken to hospital where one hand was banda but fractures of his ja nd numerous cuts and abrasions were not treated. ormer comrades interested them- s in his case and sent him cloth- This he never roceived, he said. American Consul Boyle at Mexicali, announced he would report the case to the state department. Mexican au- thorities announced that they were in- vestigating the e, meanwhile hold- ing the accused policeman in jail. COAL MINE OWNERS MAY BE ARRAIGNED Federal Judge Anderson Summons Grand Jury to Investigate Alleged Anti-Trust Acts, Judge A. B. Anderson of the U district court has summoned the fed- eral grand jury to appear here nes Monday morning at 10 o’clock to takc up investigation of alleged violations o1 the Lever act and the criminal provi- slons of the anti-trust acts by the coal operators. This information was given out to! day in a statement by I. Ert Stack, U. S. district attorney, and Dan W. Simms, special assistant attorney general in charge of the proceedings in the coal strike. The determination to summon the grand jury came as a result of dis- clos in the proceedings insti- tuted against the officials of the mine workers which the statement | said tended fo show that the coal | itors, as well the mine lln!unl sre engaged in a ¢ ) l to violate the Lev . It w id the investigations of the grand jury will cover alleged violation of the Lever act as charged in the in- junction suit brought against the mine' union officials as well inst part union officials as well as against cmnfw of the coal operators. | Held in $6,000 Bonds For Meriden Silver Thefts Meriden, Dec. 4.—Daniel A. Wilcox, farmer of Acushnet, Mas: wa sar- » charged with caling sil- fram the Wilcox Silver Plate company, and brought back was held in $6.000 bonds for the superior court | tod: The silver which as stolen was worth $1,800. Wilcox and Frank Burnham are also charged with steal- ing $1,500 worth of silver in bars from the Simpson, TTall & Miller Co. in Wal- lingford. a City Hall Commission Wants Heat Conserved By order of Chairman Frank A\lford of the City Hall comm the doors of each office in that build- ing we toda The order 1ed for the purpose con- heat it having been *found ry to get up considerably more steam when the door leading to the halls arc open than when the of- fices alone are drawing the heat. closad of from | of distributing lite: SATISFACTORY ADJUSTMENT OF FIUME PROBLEM SEEMS LIKELY: D'ANNUNZIC AGREE: SEEK VACATION CAMP Wi Wchdraw © ON BURLINGTON PLOT Welfare Organizations Have Plan to Aid Tubercular Children of City. | aQ (o) Troops 001 Italian Regulars cupy Contested gions U. S., ENGLAND AND FRANCE AGREEABLA A nourished recreation camp for under- and tubereular children tablished in Burlington next if may be ¢ summer by representatives charity and welfare organizations New Britain are successful. To make possible a thorough examination of the grounds and facilities for such a camp, representatives of those ganizations are in Burlington today. It is probable that work will be started at once in the event of that committee offering a favorable report. The committee in charge of the project consists of Chairman W. DB. RRossberg, who represents the city, and is empowered to give over land and buildings belonging to the city in Burlington if the move is thought ad- visable; A. B. Buol, president of the Tuberculosis association; Misses Car- roll and Logan, tuberculosis nurses; M Bartlett, representing’ the City Mission; Miss Cora Beale, of the New Britain Charity Organization; Mrs. A, J. Sloper, representing the Visiting Nurse ociation; Mrs. Robinson of the tuberculosis committee, and Mrs S. Anderson, nurse at the New Pritain Machine company’s plant, (i which she represents. Under the proposed plan, under- nourished and tubercular children would be sent to Burlington for a period of from one to three weeks, prepared in P the length to be determined by their tith, French and Bi condition. Two buildings on the city “¢htative subn property in that town could be ¢0 ding to utilized for living buildings and the I'rank L. city property would afford ample -iitc and ground for playground purposes. The ‘leclured difficulty met last year when the city ment, and was able to give a vacation to but Britain is few children would be overcome it is which stated by the adoption of this plan. Under it the “kiddies” could be guar- anteed at least one week a year, officials of the health board say. All 5 welfare and charity organizations to heen framed i n ke part in the project will be re- quired to contribute an equal share to the work. WATERBURY RADICAL FINED AND JAILED plans now being discussed of the various e These Three Allies Haw Submitted Terms For Sef] tlement of Adriatic Ques tions, in or- London, Dec. 4.—Itali regula will occupy IMiume and the territom fncluded in thi qaty of London signed Italy, Rus according patch to the I3 Captain n tives o ance, Great Britain ang a to Rome dis chang rraph Col Gabriele d’Annui unteers will withdraw from Fium it is said under the ee ment reached as negotia s betw Allics An ag i Leen n London and \zreement, Paris. Iteach reement which Adriatic it is hopec question h by the Ameri ace repre: 1 to Italy, ae today; ary of cau afy the zTee. Great upo handed tiary solve, the vis tish pe for » Polk Premici h it pre the ag ) ood ign e poter re to th is nof] ing Great Britain Will Kcep Its Pleded Regardless of Whether U, Vincenzo Barone Gets Six Months' TR E L Ay Paris, Dec, the tripartite "Anc 8 inst Germany will be Britain ' re United Stat ratifies the papers here, which tiations to this « completed (Havas)—Terms of] reement guaranteeing unprovoked attack by| carried out hy Greag ardless whetlipy the the other paptcipage vact, according fd mews- ate have Term and Must Pay $200 as Well. ~Vincenzo Barone was sentenced to six months in jail and fined $200 and costs by Judge John F. McGrath in the city court here today, on a charge wture, fostering op- position to organized government. Ba- | British rone had passed out copies of The | terms Communist among emploves of the | cop Benedict & Burnham Co., where he Articles appearing in The Commun- ist were produced in evidence, The fine imposed by Judge McGrath is the first to be inflicted here under a new statute approved May 13, 1919, which provides a fine of not more than $500 or imprisonment for five years or both as punishment for the distribu- tion of disloyal literature. Barone ap- peared in court without counsel and his only defense was that he was I er arrested betore. SPRINGFIELD COPS ARRESTED Ded treet Waterbury, Railroad Hill betw ench governme Unde the e operative Britain and the Uni it. The former has avorably on’the c I"ranco-American been sul senate of reeme whe Mexican ing Reply rom Uniitod from ran \merican in course of would probe un known loupe. Brivato said ) the ase the last way sted 1 government on of inquiry ns of what is Guadoes Four of Them, Onc in Uniform, Caught With Ten Other Men When SURE possit Ofiicers Raid Gambling Joint. er o sprinsfield, Mass Dec. 4.—Four G them in uni- ted with ten gambling raid lunch room carly New Britain Mach St To Build $40 red by to the New Bi for of police pat form who other men n il ement of today che face charges s which wore v in a police e Co. 000 Sho after pleaded not guilty mbli ey will condu nhe have Dheen prefe W. J. Quil o 0 P o 1 th n-o in Mo dditios com $10 JEWISH SO@CI_ETY WO"J!;D BAR MERCHANT he will be ¢ OF VENICE BOOK AT GRAMMAR SCHOOL ;> D. Saxe Re cerning Use of Alleged Attorney Morr Attorney M the National society, D. local agent of Jewish Anti-Defamation been requested by the ntral ofiice at Chicago to secure data concerning the objection- able literature, rchait of Venice he clety has book 10 many h hing of “The A ueh hools, HO- ceede in having thut ed froni the curriculum in and grammar schaols no = quested to Secure Data Con- Defamation Masterpicce. throughout ¢ pu the organization the local school The book list of hoo the countiry and it Is for that | from ved cks the data Yoard. o t English study h'gh school, although it taught there at different times. It is une of the books for study in the cen- tral grammar school. NO MORE JURY TRIALS Via Montreal.—The ord ng to the Daily decided to suspend violence in trial by u not Lonc British cabinet, N today, has trial by jury for crime: Ireland and to substitute ommission of three judges. on the Dee in the has been 1ec S .