New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 9, 1919, Page 1

EW BRITAI] HERAL Herald *“Ads” Meand Better Business e \l 1S HE)) 1870. ?‘IE\.‘(/ BRITAIN, CONNECTICU DECEMBER IINTVES DAY 9, 1919. —TWELVE P;.GES PRICE THREE CENT USE OF WATER POWER MAKES IT UNNECCESARY ; TO CURTAIL LIGHT AND POWER HERE: FACTOR OFFICIALS NOT DEPRESSED AT CLOSING ORDER o) W(E | INVESTIGATORS LEARN OF PLOTS TO CUM— SIR!K[ ' OVERTHROW GOVERNMENT BY VIOLENCE 1S SETTLED sone svstem mares. New York Legislative Com- | mittcc Prepares Exhau Washington. Wilson coal Dee, cxident al for scttlement of the | was agrosd to today by | the representatives of the United Mine Worlkers of mnericn the Wit hl‘.m.‘\;.‘Gen Mgr. Puuderiord Not Sure It | CORRECTIVE MEANS torney Gen. Palmer at Indianzpolis. . i Will Prove Success ARE RECOMMENDED Dee, 9.—The D m—— to the sgriking ¢ hAI\ oot i, srmoon | HEARING GONTINUES TODAY | Attorney . Palmer provides for | tmmodiate ro 1 to work hy the men | i under 1) 1t por cent advamee and | appointnient of o committes (o in- ! izate ang veadj wages to con- | 3 the incroasod cost of livin | ACTION MEXICAN 0.—i S Propo: Agitation in This Country strike, Indianapolis, dent’s propos: iy by New York, tion in this country i with its resultant unrest. is not due to economic litions but to an organized, arti- lly stimuinted movement. under ingpiraton the Russian Soviet nment. opinion will New York le ve report by 3 ve committee which has investigating radical activities ince its organization last May today as ocial cor fici the Manchester and Bridgeport Commut- ers Voice Protests and Connccticut o This the Company Replics at Public Utilities | | gover i submitted (o isla- AWAITED ON | ¢ Hartf , e SITUATION o omission Hearing., M. Burke, | oo here it was learned Wha is representing Manchester | commuters at the hearing on the zone { syatem of trolley tare c¢hanges before i the pablic s commission, at the | capitol, was n by attorneys int ted in the protests as thelr spokes- an toduy. The hearing was resum- | A frem the point Joft off yesterday with General Manager ‘John Punder- ford ou the stand cxplaining some of inangi xperiences of the Con- fcut Ca, \\h Mr. Burke will be B. Sceley, who represents geport and Judge W. L. Bennett, rporation counsel of New Haven a ng question Hope for | Three Three big groups of ment ha been supplying the for wholesale dissemination ‘of Bol- shevist propaganda throughout depth and breadih of the land, report will asscr “The union of organization the main body Groups of Radicals, the radical ele- Holds Matt eho; > Until Infor ion Is Re- Pram Varvieuws Sources, on. Dec, Mexics vern & held in velopments Tart wation, W qoneorned | nee today pend- | from various | oup. included the n Workers and other the syndicalist group, of which are the In- dustrial Workers of the World, and the communist group, including the communist labor party. In each of comunist labor party. In each of these groups the overthrow of govern- ent by illegal means, including vio- | lence, is the weapon urged upon the | masses, the report will state. Have Many Headquarters. New York city is one of the big headquarters’ for the organized move- ment, the report will point out with Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit and vir- tually all industrial centers from the Atlantic to the Pacific harboring a headquarters for the - radical. cam- paign. In the six months of the commit- | tee's active investigation it ferreted out practically ever and cranny in Greater New where radicalism extending to all sec- tions of the country had its nest, the report will state, Hundreds of arrests have been made on information fur- nished by the committee. On resumption of the testimony Mr. | jndictments for criminal anarchy have 3 Burke asked Mr. Punderford if it were | S uehadl bnlaan e e Senator Fall announced, how- \ not so, that at a hearing in December, | R::;o\I(,\‘l,:l;;l,‘:fiub‘v ‘:\l“ R ough the commiitee Bad | 1916, on a protest against the six cent il i Consi would ‘eonfinys the | ;.o the corporation counsel of Har First Criminal Conviction. ican af- | 6.4 had suggested the zone system The fl 21d soon 16AVe | M. punderford vecailed that this was | anarchy in = to W?‘d“\» 2 thorough | g und he added that the zone system ' claimed for =N | which is now in use is unique so far as furnished by Wiillan | 110 Unit concerned in that it and Gust can congular agent : the only + particular kind | Finnish Mexican tangle €0 [ i operation. | ot coniiomenn OF Henn a9 department ‘is con- In reply to Mr. Burke the general| eight years in Sing Sing. (The so- of dat 02 | manager admitied that not until the called Chicago anarchists, arrested in effoit t0 10T ' Jast legisiature failed to give relief| the Haymarket riots there 20 years of Jenkins | was a zone system considered. | ago, were convicted of murder M. Punderford admitted that the! archy.) co y does rol know whether the wd of 700 men have been em- zore system will be a success or not.! ployed by the legislative committee in 1o the rates now are too low. | jts investigation of the radical move- Do you consider you gave the six | jent. That number of special re a fair trial?” asked M. | agents, state constabulary and New _| York policemen were used in the e S| cution of search warrants procured i W. 1en ing sources. The.stato deparimen. was awalting the arrival of tho Mexican reply to ! the late on the Jen- kins to have | bee the Am- erie $1,500,000. Pundertord rid in answer Mr. Burke's questions that the com- pany expected, or rather hoped, to et $1.500,000 more revenue rYrom the | zone Chairman Higgins of the gomngis- ion asked Mr. Punderford what reliet he company wd recuested of the last| ‘eneral assembly. 'The reply was that the company cu ave retained the Tt N aix cent ibly -have reduc- | includ Stadaimg hO | ed it to five cents had the leglslature | o iieae” | removed some of the burdens, such as bmitted in | Street paving, highway bridgé repairs e el ;C;‘m sould bays ll\ex;:ggx by removing | ; Wik e competition by jitneys. 1""110::“"‘;5"*’1‘;‘:0% . Seeley for Bridgeport petition- il e i id that the company’s witnesses | Bisde 3 B il | hied shown tho company to be insolv- e ittee | CBt: Mr. Burke said he did not agree The forelzn relationa committee | ).} 4,4 Connecticut Co. was insolvent. abandoned action on the Fall reolu- et hand s, (SeRolas | On motion of Judge J. P. tion to reques: the prosident to g Hartford a recess was ordered, during conferred. ! which attorney to | r‘l‘!‘nh“ com- oned ac- M-oxican quection' until | furthor has outlined ' the recent develop- mittee ter tion thi President W his att‘tude ments. Tho president whole situation o ot 2 to for receipt of a lotter from the president sting that no such. actlon be conviction the for United States is it, on which Carl Piavio Alonen, publishers of o adical newspaper here, are Waticna! Weather Burcau Sends Out it a dangerously long Punderford. ing Down. ford told Chairman Hig- ng down” by conduc- greatly reduced under He emphasi condu. Yarnmg—Frigid Temperatures Are | against 71 communist headquarters here on November $. A hundred men were used in tho search of the Rand School of Social Sclence, headquar- ters of the Left Wing of the Socialist indicated. tho. Woather and 1. W. W. headquarters on ounced today, by tho ab- - June 21. ccution of scarch war- 1igh pressure qver Po- | clean . S [ the Union of Russian of ths sissipp! and the! . August 14 employed CEUTO OV a Gul” o7 MoF! Noy and oft' the north ! Fleaded This Way, Report Says. wington, Dec. oid weather over the eatire Forcign Language Press. Special inquiry foreign language and radical press in New York. Of 46 such newspaper it was found that only two were self; ! supporting. the commttee report wiil Many of the indictments fo ! criminal anarchy on evidence found in the columns of somo of those publications. In {ts recommendations to the leglslature, the committee will ap- proach the subject of corrective me ures for the radical menace'in two ways. First, it will recommend re- pressive legislation, not trving to I limit free speech, but pointing out { York State Couple Here | that free speech is abused when over- | throw of the government by violence On Golden Wedding 'I‘npv and illegal methods Is advocated Second, alonz constructive lines, it 5 fre y g W ;i‘:}"!;\f::“lir::YWWQ:f i will recommend increasing the pres- 4,,.tamm‘“y ent educatlonal facilities for aduit, Mrs, John | Rliens, better training of teachers, et street, The lo aTe on o vixlt tn this city for | the purpose of observing ithe event The H. . of L. has struck the lo- snd had as their gests yesterday, In | eal cesidents who are nddition Lo their won John and his| enough to become sick, The mem- wife, Mr, and Mrs, Farl Kisselbrack | bers of the New Britain Medical as- sha 1 i1y, Mr, and Mrs., Ward | poclation have raisad their prices for Kismelliraek ara rosidents of Pine| housa calls to §2.50 and office calls | Plaing, New York, to 82, the West 1o A0 southwerd, tnres ng Tdr Soul o, and coid | tho Raet and! n the troll —Sioutheast | . Now Bng- disturbanee over the Ohia : given oth that & strict mileage basis of 4 g0 & o mile would do more tha northenstward. Strong 2.to put the jitneys out of ' + to wouth winds this afterrioos and he added, “If you put' will shift th wost and north- “ont rato into effect vou're | Wednos: . l ) Jeked & ¥ To Marry Third Time, At 59; Bride Also Bivorces ! uratein, o loeal prac- will Da g ; s bride ep this og- Blanehe Kolodney bus. 4 55 of di- eimg e tha county tils merm. Bucstein to Lo 03 yerrw vor and a divoreee. He a street. Mrs, Good- Heymour street asd This iy her sec- iyra physl 2 nisd .\l..v. of of M. Camp “etih of DOCTORS BOOST FEES. & n; 57 Ma at 91 taacher, OFGLARED TOD LOW e s o e bo | the | forces | the | the | has | Scores of | criminal and | was directed at the ! have been returned ! unfortunate | ‘CONTEMPT OF COURT CHARGES AGAINST MINING UNION OFFICERS ARE HELD UP s P vor YA RTEORD INDUSTRY | Hearing is Postponed For| One Week in of | Strike Settlement Before | Hopes | That Time. ACTION TAKEN AT REQUEST or govr.| Order Will Aliect New England BIG SUPPLY NOW ON HAND Following Indianapolis. Ind., Dec. 9.—Hear- ing on the charges of contempt of court, filed against 84 general and dis | trict on of the United Mine Workers America, was postponed until next morning by U. District Jud Anderson on mno- tion of . for the pvern- ment when was called here Special Mecting Capital City Uactory Oficials A cide to Proceed With Their A the c ness As Usual, Awaiting Orders. Hartford. Dec. 9.—The ers of Hartford do not consider order of I'uel Administrator will affeet New England They think the situation particularly will not be - | the order. "The reason and Charges Against Aceused. including Act- Lewis and See- um Green of | zaion T The miners’ officials. ing President John L. i retary-Treasurer Wil {the international o charged in information filed by District Attomney L. Ert Stack lief SR Dan W. Simms, special assistant, with | . ARG e vielating the temporary injunction | - SR Judge Anderson, re in- | : L from encouraging' or fur- ike of 400,000 soft coal e country. trike Will End. ent was token pend- of the meeting of here this afternoon to act on the plan of President Wil- son for ending the strike. The plan was submitted to President Lewis and Mr. Green by Attorney Gen. Palmer in Washington last Saturday. No intimation of. the proposals contained | }in the-plan has been made known this { morning. | U. S District Attorney Slack moved | { the postponement of the cmpanelling | | of the federal grand jury, summoned by Judge Anderson to investigate al- leged violations of the Lever and anti- trust laws by operators, miners and coal dealers, and the court fixed Wed- nesday, December 17, as the date. Other Cascs Postponed. The postponement o1 the contempt hearing also included the cases of the two local unions at Clinton, Ind., which were named a separate in- formation. At the conclusion of sion this morning, G. Fort Smith, Ark., one for the mine announced he had i filed an appeal in the miners’ injunc- tion e with the U. S. Court of Ap- peals in Chicago yesterds He said he had asked for early consider TWO BANDITS ARE KILLED Wounded When in Hartford chaneed for their ful r admin only to ined in a list administration. v be= the tator ach from Prac- anied hy ing them thering the s I miners of t Hope | The postpon ling the outcom miners’ officials s, ly every coal enough to last several months. Will Continue to Operate. Manufacturers of Hartford held meeting at noon today to con fuel order issued by Fuel Adminis- | trator Garfield and its application to { the local industries and decided unan- { imously to proceed with business as usual. Vice-President Samuel Fe son of the Hartford Electric Light ! Co., expressed the view that the fuél administrato®™ order did not apply to local manufacturers and it was shared by ,all present. Tho decision to continue manufacture was reached after general discussion .and the -de- spatch of a telegram to Washington requesting information as to the de- cision reached by the Hartford county manufacturers ciation that. the fuel coal who obtained their supply from commercial sources. The Washing- ton dispatch confirming this view was in Keller, secretary of the association, who expressed gratification in receiv- ing the information and stated that | the manufacturers believed their po- sition was unassallabl ROBBERS IN FATAL DUEL WITH POLICE the court ses- 1. Grant of of the counsel New York on information , | One Killed and Three Arrested in Vain Attempt to Loot Safe in Third Is Seriously Norfolk, Va., Dec. tempted to raid the safi of the Virginia Passenger and Power com- pany here early today were inter- cepted by the police, who killed one and arrested three others pistol duel. Plans for the robbery hadl reached the authorities and office were waiting for the men at the car barns. nk West, leader of the gang, was killed, and J. J. Murphy, of Penn- sylvania; J. J. Opland, alias “Jimmy the Wop,” and E. Decker were captured. West was shot down when tempted to kill a detective lonz-barreled German gun. When the men entered the office and demandcd the money there, the cashiers were checking up the re ceipts’ turned in by the conductors ! SRR %) A squad of detectives followed the ! men and a pistol fight resulted. One Nearly Score of People Taken from | of the yeggmen attempted to from a window and was shot in the leg. ceriff’s Pos Discovers Them | 9-7«“0b1?cl's who Trying to Enter Ohio Bank Today. Ashtabula, O., Dec. 9.—Two ban were killed and a third was seri wounded at Orwell, 27 miles south ol here, when Sheriff Eldredge and five deputies surprised them entering the building occupied by the Orwell Banking company early today. Information had reached the sher- iff that for two three nights sus- picious characters had been seen loitering around the building. Last night he arranged an ambush. The bandits, all foreigners, were said to be from Pittsburgh. A fourth man escaped. | SPRINGFIELD’S $200,000 FIRE or R. he at- with Second-Story Windows When Blaze HURDERS HER OWN CHILD v R. Powell 40 Years Old, Destroys Business Block. Springfield, Mass., Dec. 9.—Nearly score of persons had to be helpeil from the second story of a two-story business block in Worthington street today which was practically dc- troyed by fire with loss that may $200,000. One younz man building in an attenipt cral women v s smoke that he . ¥ hospital. Then Attempts to Commit Suicide., Denver, Col., Dec. 9.—Mrs. Emily R. Powell, 410 years old, sald to be the daughter of Horace G. Lippincott, of Wyneote, Pa., socially prominent, ot and killed her 10-year-old | 'The cause daughter Jacqueline dctermined. asleep in the moher's apartment in e - the Capitol HIill residential district today. Mrs. Powell then shot herself. | She was hurrled to a hospital, whe ! WEATHER. it was said her condition is dangerous, B Mrs. Powell had been separated Harttord, Dec- from her husband. Other occupants || for New Britain and vicinity of the apartment house where she || Rain tonight and probably Wed- || lived sald she had been acting nesday; colder Wednesday. strangely. Admliral Hilary P, Jones, U. 8. is sald to bo related to Mrs. Powell. Turns Gun Upon Herself and ronch wifo entered to rescue overcome taken th sev- by to o tire of the has not heen #.——Forecast | (ol ¥ NOT 70 BE STOPPED. { Manufacturers Do Not Think; This Noon, De- Busi- manufactur- the Garficld iousty. | by 1ding factory in Hartford has a | ider the | gu- [ fuel order did not apply to users of | read over the telephone to Thomas J. | after a | al leap , s the child lay | ® | stores and ‘Nelther Conn. Light & Power Co., Nor G l Company Affected — Factories Do Think It Will Be Necessary To Sh Down, Though If Emergency Continu Goverament Edict Will Have To Obeyed, Is Official Opinion HIGH SPOTS IN DR. GARFIELD’S DRASTIC ORDER ON CONSERVATIO OF FUE Here is a resume of what is contained Garficld’s ovder issued lust night: ‘Prohibts all umental strecet lighting, clectric ns and illuminated bill boards, show shis. - Forbids 0 use in Fuel Administratod adver- show display window and cab electric o'clock p. m. Drug store present s Railroad station and newspaper General and offi federal offices, and dance ha his except betwee poal the rooms and hours of 7 bowling alley o'clock and 1 and hedules saurants may remain open according but must reduce lighting ounc half. 5, hospitals, telephone and telegraph of: hments are not affected. ept those in municipal, s of plants manufacturing vitall necessities, must be ent off not later than 4 o'clock p. m. Only enough heat must be used in offices, stores, warehonse and manufacturiug plants to keep the average temperature at 08 degrees fahrenheit. With the exc establishments for medicinial produrcts, E for the printing of newspapers only, bagtery public utility piants, no plant cr factory shall be furnished bitumin| ous coal or coke or heat, light or power from bituminous co furnished throush’ the United States Fuel Administration for th operation in excess of three days a week. freailments as much as pos'bic of s and all manufacturing plants. their fices state a; ption of da the manufacture of nec water works, sewe ries, rofrigerat plants, bakeries,| sary food products,) plants, printing offices| charging plants elevator secrvice, clectria rican Hardware corporation howd which embraces several of ths lan by the order of Iuel Administrator ¥ concs in New Britain.and emp \Garfield “isgygd from Washingtdn last | the greatest number r n night in an effort to conserve the fuel | . e e inclined to regard the order of ! now on hand until production will be | 1 Toer. = 38 x | fuel ad is on as fina ain normal. Factories el gl oL do not ex-| = t v | ect 'to close down unless the eme :;und.)di?»:::l‘i‘r‘\g:i(\)x;’:'\o{ur‘::‘e‘; lpnr:t | ency becomes very acute and the gas! tions and interpretations of the d supply of the city is not at all affect- | conserving edict, Ld:\‘toro Large Supply SLote In practically eve :‘ml‘\\fl)s dn(‘ilulnumhor of manufac- | admittsd that ther uring establishments here derive o R 1arEe ] electricity from the Connecticut Light {ye "}:‘\,i,:iu(:; ('?,‘:‘mi,‘;“’};'fl{nzf,,:;’“ i & _Pum.»l_' combanyd T'\jm company in, tné effect of this is not believed tof turn feceives its source of sUDPIY | of any consequence as for as secw rom a plant some distance from New | exemptions are concerned Britain, where the current is generat- Machine Co. Optimisti ed by water. The coal on hand nec-| Speaking for the Neyw Britain essary for the production of electric- | chine company, Treasurer Herbert] | ity by steam has not been received | Pease said that he expected no ¥ from the United States fuel adminis- lopments at once and ¥ o8 ;m(]x;)n. The order, therefore, issued | matter now stcod he did nof by Dr. ! Garfield, will have little e | with a Iiberal intcrpretation of in curtailment of the use of coa order, that the New Britain-Mach clectricity by local establishmen company would be seriously affed No Curtailment of Power. by the ruling. Asked if the i The text of a statement issued to-| yged very much coal in the coursel day by the Connecticut Light & Power | 5 gay, the treasurer said that ala company in reference to the local sit- nount was used but that the sup: uation follow _ now in the hands of the firm Wwo: We are fortunate in malke it possible to continue with supply a very large proportion of our | regular work for some time 10! 8al load through water generated power. | \ithout draining the suppl i ! As all of our lighting and most of our Landers’ Supply Large, power service is at this season of the In view of the large supply of o vear supplied from our water power | now in the yards of Landers, Fr { plants it will not be necessary to cu & Clark it is not felt hy officials tall the supply of power in the dis-| that plant that the order will dg tricts served by these plants, serious effect upon the wor None of the coal on hand was re- | mast Main and Elm street yarde ceived from the United States fuel ad- | the compny are filled to oveprflowi ministration and while our supply of | with coal and while there is a laf 1 coal has been diminishing, the intro- | amount used daily the supply is { duction of water power from our new | pected to last for many months, G Stevenson plant has made it of the of the company | to conserve our c today the event of the f no source of Worr wdministration reaching a decision time as to shortage of coal.” | allow those having a sufficient amo 1 Effect Here Negligible. of coal on hand to continue, Landd | Anxious to receive interpretations | would be able to go ahead with of the fuel administrato: order, | regular line of work _without members of the New Britain Chamber | slightest interruption of Commerce assembled for luncheon Hardware Corp. Worrled, in the Elks' club today. N. S. Frank- | sident H. C. M. Thomson lin, local mans of the Connecticut American Hardware corporati ht & Power company told the alternative but te“oH | merchants and manufacturers that er of the fuel administpat the effect of the order in New Brit and as soon as the rule is deela would Dbe negligible and repeated effective he felt that the branches what is contained in the statement the corporation he represents Wwo issued this morning by his company. ' have to go on the shortened sohed Fran ston, a men of the mhe American Hardware corporadi] National Chamber of Commerce and gonsists of P. & F. Corbin, the CorH 1 local coal merchant, deplored the is- Cabinet Lock company, the @orH suing of Dr. Garfield's order at a Screw corporation and the Huskel) time when the coal strike promises to Erwin factory. He declined to diso | be settled. He stated it only served the amount of coal on hand in the ¥ | to produce a feeling of panic on the rjqus divisions of the combing as part of the consumer, and to bring felt that that matter had absolutd resulting hardship for ail concerned. nothing to do with the problem Useless Lights Cut. | hand. In reading over the order While the order in New Britain will Administrator Garfield he said not be widespread in its effect, it is noted that not even those who have probable all street advertising signs amount’ of coal sufiiciently large will be cut off and local pool rooms, aperate their plants on, are cxem| | bowling alleys and other such places from the three day weekly | of amusement will be forced to use | N. & J. Official Speak | ight only between the hours of 7. Discussing the proposition to fo! [crmck and 11 o'clock p. m. Drug not only those whose coal supply rest nts will reduce low, but also those having large su; | their lighting by half, This rule prob- plies to close their factories for thr | ably will be enforced, it is stated, al- days a week, E. N. Humphrey, o though local manufacturing plants of the officials of the Traut and Hi will be little affected. concern sald that he failed to ses. Factories Optimiste, | justice in such a move. He felt th Optimism on the part of manufac- those concerns who had been provi turers greeted inquirles today as to the effect on local concerns, The Am- Here. quarter it is a large, in fi municipal lighting, electric { 1 being able to officials that in Pr | the could the or zor see no ber (Contlnued on Eleventh Page)