New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 10, 1919, Page 1

News of the World. By Asscciated Press. A ESTABLISHED 187 NE\V BRI'IAIN CONNECTICUT WEDNES [)A\ l)LCI:MBI R (f }lorald “Ads” Mean L Better Business I(), 9193 COAL STRIKE IS FINALLY SETTLED; UNITED MINE WORKERS AGREE UPON POLICY SUGGESTED BY PRESIDENT Union’s General Com-| VISITS FROM STORK IN THIS STATE mittee Meets This Morning and Contin- v ues Discussion Dur- ing Afternoon WILSON’S PROPOSAL - Delay Has Been Caused By | Request That Cleveland Be Recon- % vened to Act on Plan. Convention Indianapolis, Tnd., Dec. 10.—The strike of 400,000 bituminous coal mir ers of the day when the general committee of the United Mine Weorkers of Amevica | agreed to accept the plan offered by President Wilson. country was scttled here to- \ Washington, Deg. J. Keegan of the U. 8. employes com- pensation commission, advised Secre- tary Tumulty at the White Housc this llll(‘lllfi(lll that ’\L‘(’I(‘lnl\, Green of the "United Mine Workers' unfon had in- formed him over long distance tele- phone Indianapolis that the president’s proposal for settlement of the soft coal strike had been accepted. 10.—John < from Indianapolis, President Wilson's proposal ing the strike. still under tion the conference of mine Ind., Dec. 10 With for end- considera- s recessed v at 12:05 this aftérnoon until 1:30 for i lunch. Acting PresidentTLewis said he “expected the miners to finish” {o- day. Otherwise, he would make no comment. Settlement Expected. As the committee, international and und members of the d scale committee, as to the caus on was rif tions, howevcer, which distric con officers executive board gathered, gossip | of the prolonged ses- | With very few excep- | all agreed that Presi- dent Wilson’s proposal would be a cepted some time todav. One high official in the miners’ or- ganization who asked that 1 name ®Le withheld said most of the argument yesterday was on the request of Il- linois miners that the Cleveland con- vention be reconvened to act on the oposal of President Wilson. of Refuse to Vote It Down. Dec. 10.—Representa- United Mine Workers of Washington, tives of the America today voted down a proposal | to reject .made by the strike President Wilson, Yo information reaching from Indianapolis, where officials are in session. settlement o according Washington the Sure of A second motion dent’s proposal be submitted yeferendum vote the the union, which would lay of weeks, also been voted down. Acting President ers according to president’s offer before night. Settlement. that the presi- to a members of involve w de- said have of was to Lewis of information would be the min- said the accepted GLAND-AUSTR ALIA AIR RACE Capt. Wi s Prize of Ten Thousand Pounds. MEETS WITH FAVOR | ) | | Captain i i | | would | counsel | ment, union IS ENDED | Hoss Smith Completes Trip and | ACCUSED OFFICERTS | PLEADING INNOGENCE (Jounsel For Captain Detzer Attacks Reliability of | Opposing Witnesses. | | New York, Dec. 10. Karl W. Detzer, ¢ brutal treatment of Americ France, questioned the the witnes called when his court-martial Governors Island today. He asseried that many of them had grievances azainst. Detzer and that thelr records not bear investigation. detailed account of the allega- gainst Captain Detzer is given column of this issue.) to the trial was made by Lieutenant Thomas 1. Heffernan, for Detzer, after the articles of war had been read. He contended that the accused had been arratgned on some of the charges on Novem- ber The objection was not tained, however, and Detzer pleaded not gullty. Major William 1. advocate, walved an but Heffernan asked permis jon to bo heard. He said that Lo Mans, where Detzer is alleged to have maltreated soldicrs, ‘was a port of debarkation for many thousands of men and that among the number were many criminals who were | charged by the French with murders, highway robbery and other crimes. To curb this element, FHeffernan sald, a military police company was organized and Detzer placed in com- In carrying out his work. declared, Detzer incurred the of soldiers who were arrested in his own company. Detzer had repeatedly given orders, counsel added, that no man was to use force upon another, and if force was used, he asserted, it was witho'it the knowledge of the company commander. Counsel for arged wiin n soldier reliabilits ainst him opened at in of (A tions in another Objection Kelly, judge- opening state- mand. counsel enmity and othe Bridgeport Youth to Be Arraigned ! Saturday as Result of Fatal Strect | Fight Sunday Night. Bridgeport, Dec. 10.—Leonard Gabriello, of 21 Reilley street, this city, will be charged with the murdor | of Harry Rossingal, a local youth, | who was killed in a street fight in| the East Side, Sunday night, when he is arraigned before the Bridgeport city court on Saturday morninz. Gabriello has declared his innocence, but the police are in possession of evidence which leads them to believo that he is the man who inflicted a, | fata) stab,wound on Rossingal Gabriello was arrvested in a Norwalk shop yesterday afternoon by number of Bridgeport detectives. is now being held here under bonds on a technical charge of the peace. CHILD IS BADLY HURT butche la e $5.000 breach y of | Lillian Jacobs, Eight Years OId, Struck By Automoebile On Hart- L ford Avenue This Morning. Lillian Jacobs, aged eight years, of Port Capt. Darwin, Australig, Dec Ross Smith, the Australian avi- arrived today from Eng- thus winning a prize of thousand pounds sterling offered the first aviator to make the voyage. Under the conditions laid down by the Australian government when it offered a prize for making a flight from England to Australla, the dis- tance of 11,600 miles had to be cov- ered within 30 days. Capt. Ross Smith left the Hounslow aviation fleld, near Tondon, at 9 o’clock, November 12, on his flight to A 'Australla. On November 18 he reach- ed Cairo and on November 19 he cor tinued his flight and on November 23 reached Delhi, India. From thero he continted east until he reached Ran goon turning southward at that eliy, making a number of siops nieng the Malay peninsula and In the Islands of Oceania. Ha arrived at Bimn oa Sunbay island near Java Monday night. Port Darwin is noar the northern- most tip of Australia, belng near the town of Palmerson. ) 10.- ator, here Jand, a for ten 51 Hartford Britain avenue, is at the New | General hospital, with pain- | ful injuries sustained shortly after 11 o'clock this morning. The girl | was walking along the sidewalk when in front of 106 Hartford avenue, she started across the strest. An auto- | mobile owned by A. C. Record, going | 5\n a northerly direction hit her. According to Mr, Record, the girl| dodged in front of the machine and | was struck by the left front wheel, and knocked down. The police am- bulance was called and the girl was | conveyed to the hospital, where sho was found to be suffering from lacer- ations about tho face and hands, a | concussion of the brain and broken { ribas, U. S. Peace Delegates Are On Way To Ainerica No»\ Brem, France, Doe, 10. Poll, Amerioan undo | ntate, Gen. Taslcer I1, White, the last of the delagates remalning n Franee, pr- rived hers at 11 o'cleck (his norning, They tmmedintely hoarded the irans- raniy raiary Blias and Manry Awterican peneo \ connected ! do WERE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN IN OCT. DEATH RATE IS ALSO LOW THIS YEAR Other Records Show Notable in Number of Over That Of Increase Marriages Year Ago. INFLUENZA DEATHS TOTAL ONLY NINE 10.—There was a marked falling off in the number of pirths:in the state in October as com- parved with those for the corresponding month last year. dn October, 1918, the number of births in Conpecticut was 3,367 and for October, 1919, the number was 2,0 The birth rate fell from 28.6 per 1,000 of pabulation to 8. The birth rate in October wa {ho lowest of any October in five ye any More M <. Phere was a notable increase in the number of marriages in October, 1919, as compated with October, 1918. In October of this year the number was 617 ana for the corresponding month of the previous year it was 816. The marriage rate for October, 1917, was 12.4 as against 6.9 for the same month of 1918, Death Rate Declines. The death rate continues to decline. There were fewer deaths in Octaber than in the same month in five years, the number being 1271.. The rate w 10.4. During the month t there were nine deaths (._Lll;(‘d fluenza as against 5,151 for She month last year. The number tims of tuberculosis fell off from in October of lust vear to 107 in the same month this v There were 101 deaths from cancer, or ten less than in the October of 1918. HAY GLEAR L CRIME Water- Hartford. Dec. Cause For Shooting Duel in bury Sunday, May Have Had Its Origin in This City. The revolvep Catardo and Peter bury last Subday the death of hoth have had an origin with it resided at one time in the same auel between Joseph Cerace . In Water- which resulted in principals, may of local color The dead men on Church street house with James Rocco who was mysteriously shot in the southern part of the city in Septem- ber. The local police say that Catar- left the city before the shooting but that Irank Ce: who may be Peter referred to in the killing, may be one and the same, and who dis. appearcd from here on the night of the shooting. If the Cerace is the sume one, he was with Rocco when he left the Chestnut street house. Rocco, 1s still at the local hospital, and expects to be discharged soon The police are hopeful that he may throw some light on the case in view of the murder Sunday. WANT 10 TRY KING ce, Bulgarian Premier Expresses Desire To Have Ferdinand Arraigned For His War Actions, Geneva, Dec. 10.—Determination to hring former King Ferdinand of Bul- garia to trial was expressed by M. Stambuliwsky the Bulgarian premier in passing through here on his way home to Sofla from the Paris peace conference. The premier sald he would immediate demand the ex- king’s extradition and would press the prosecution of the members of the former Bulgarian cabinet, who were recently arrested on the charge of betraying Bulgaria into a disastrous war. A dispatch from Geneva last month reported former King Ferdinand at Munich and credited him with the in- tentlon of proceeding o Switzerland if his extradition were demanded. A Sofla message on November 7 stated that the government had already be- gun negotiations to obtain the extra- ditlon of the former king and other Bulgarinn refugces whom the gov- ernment wished to try. Former Local Boy Now A Lawyer in Arizona o, of Me, and s A, Bolmidt, forinerly this city, now restding in Ray, Avizonn, was recently admitted to (he praciles of law In the ‘Arlzona coury friends in New Britaln have been (nf formed, Mp, Rehmidt ntlended the New Britnin High school severnl yenrs Walier Mrs, Cher! Ralinidl, son or port Ameriea on whieh they will sajl for the United Etatem 4 girglee wgo and was prominent in athletic here, - | LAROLLETTE RaPS CUMMINS R. R. BILL Declares Measure Favors Capital and Not the People CALLS TERMS UNJUST[FIABLE Wisconsin IRepubli Takes Especial Exception to Provision Guarantee- ing Certain Return for Four Months After Return of Roads. Washington, Dee. 10.— Resuming argument the senate today a the Cummins railroad bill destined to meet conditions when the railroads are returned to private control nator La Follette, republican, Wisconsin, declared the measure was med in the interests of the railroad and not the people. Terms Are Unjustifiable. “The provision in the bill to guar- antee for four months after the roa. are turned back rtain standard return of revenue wholly unjusti- fied,” he said. “It would continue & wrongful arrangement entered into by this government when the roads were ken over: it would perpetuate for four months burdens on the American people which arc intolerable and un- Justifiable his in rainst a c aress Represents Rods. ss represented the roac the senator added, when it provided “the enormous returns” to be made to the roads for their property. sixX senato were on the floor Senator La [Pollette got under with his speech BAN JOHNSON SUPREME IN AMERIGAN LEAGUE Insurgents Are Ousted And Baseball King is Again se of afte way Reelected as President. New York, Dec. 10.—The gents” in the American Jeague were ousted from the directorate today and a bourd favorable to President Ban Johnson was electad. Frank Navin of Detroit, Thomas Shibe of Philadelphia, Philip D. Ball of St. Louis and Benjumin Miner of Washington were elected in place of James (. Dunn of Cleveland, Harry Frazee of Boston, rles Comisk of Chicago and Jacob Ruppert. The last three named have been conduct- ing warfare against Johnson. Immediately after the election Johnson was served with pape three suits brought by Ruppert Comi . One suit attacked V. ity of Johmson's 20 year contract president of the league. Another seeks damages for his actions as re- gards the New York club. contract was upheld by vote of the board. It has about 10 years to run. Navin w elected vice-president the league. After adopting for next year subject to the Johnson. 184 TRAINS TAKEN OFF NEW HAVEN R. R. s of a 1564 call of President Boston & Maine Minus 72 Trains, Maine Central Takes O 17 and B, & A, Dec. 10.— Ingland r to meet coal Boston, on all New 1o0d senger service ailroads was cut conservation re- quirements, the New York, New Haven | & Hartford discontinuing 184 trains, the Boston Maine the Malne Cen- tral 17 and the Boston & Albany 5. Lighting and heating regulations or- dered by the fuel administration be- came effective also throughout the dis- triet. Restrictions put into effect were similar to war-time conservation regulations. Office lighting after 4 p. m, and elovator service were curtalled and places of amusement and recrea- tlon were ordered ta burn lights only between 7 and 11 p. m. Retall stores in this city will be operated after to- day on a six hour basis during the coal strike. At the invitation of Governor Cool- idge a canference of governors of oth- or New England stdtes was held here today to consider tho coal and trans- portation emergenc German:VVi]l Sendvl'leply To Allies Powers Today Paris, Dec, 10 (Havaa) —The Allled notew handed to Kurt von Lersner, hend of the German delegation at Vorpaillen on Monday have boen ex. awminad by the counoll of ministers at Borlin, and the German reply wil ho Lont to Versailles (oday, vecording to a Berlin dispatal to the Matin, WEATHEIR, Hartrord, Dee, 10—t for New Britain and vicinity Fair ang mucle colder (onig and Thursday, with a cold wave, Only | insuv- Johnson's | ne schedule | the meeting adjourned | | | | i | ~§IXTI'LN PA(JE Drilling of New Wells Tampico District Has Been Prohibited By Government. in Mexican WORLD OIL SUPPLY IS THUS CUT DOWN shington, Dec. Prouction of | w 10.- | 0il in Mexico practically the decrces result. of President Carranze the foreign and the government | attitude of Moexican toward oil companies, Chai man Pz told me of the shipping board, by a dele was today tion Ameri Wollogg, of 15 | | 1 | | | | can oil mea headed by | of New | Yorl Drilling Drilling of | pico district, { of th> is Prohibited. new wells in the Tam- from which comes most | world's oil supply has been pro | bibited by the Mcxican government, | the oil men said, and there have been | difficrilties with transportation to sea- i ports for shiprrent and other handi- cant. Shipping Officials Worrled. Shipping officia that heard conceded a situaticn as outlined by the oi men would have serious effects for the American merchant marine as the board's supply comes largely from the Mexican fiolds. The hoard now is operating some 500 oil burning ships and the stores mow on hand will not last move than two months, BLOOD SPOTS CLUE TO AUTO STEALIN | Bridgeport Man Has Unusual Manner of Tdentifying His Machine— New York Is Under Arrest Dec. 10 which W. I Brilgeport, an automobile sion of Arthur from posses- Darien, Covers was in tt, of | I ing the ['to file { to grant | ment garage and on which were red claimed by the state to be blood were offered in evidence In the tr of Pratt in superior court charged with the theft of the automoblle in que: ion. The machine helonged to Chris | Mathison, The spots” pointed ou [ by Attorney H. S. Cummings are to he examined by an expert. In- cidental to this case the government | is trying to clear up the mystery of the disappearance of Charles Coppolo of South Norwzlk, on February 14 1a who had bovght the machine from Mathison on a conditional bill of sale. No trace of Coppolo has ever been found. Witnesses have tes- tifled that Pratt was in company with Coppolo that day. J. 8. Armstrong of deteclive fcree who arr he was trying to sell testifying when Mr. Cummings offered the covers in evidence. These Arm- strong identified and said that he no- ticed red spots at the time nd thought they were made by blood State's the New York sted Pratt as the car was REPORT KEPT SECRET Secretary Wilson Declines to Give Out Facts Contained in Statement On Ex-New York Commlssioner, Washington, Dec. 10.—Secretary Wilson today declined to transmit to the house Immigration committee the report of A. W. Parker, formerly of when he was arrested in a. New York | y spots - twould | ing, cs | The bujldings were forme the immigration service, regarding the | administration of Frederick C. Howe, as immigration commissioner at New York., Mr. Wilson sald that because of the confidential nature of the re- | port public policy required that it be | not made public. i At an executive session yesterday | the committee adopted & resolution requesting the secretary to transmit the report. ONE KILLED IN WRECK Train on Lehigh Valloy Radlroad, Au- burn Bivision, Derniled and Goes | Over Into Dieh. 1 Auburn, N, Y., Dea 10Tealn No 263 on the Lehigh Valley railvoad, Au was wrecked (his mnorn- | ing 1 1-2 miles south of Tlartford Mills when a in the locomotive | tander brok railed the following nto diteh 20 burn diviston, and d oa (he Many wers and taken to Packer hos Bayen, Officials hare declared will be probably but one kllled, hour miles in jured pital there an the | of the republican national committee | a joint appeal to urge republican sen- | umondments which would require its | re-submission, | here today | of the league to enforco peace. e PRODUCTION OF OIL IN MEXICO PRACTICALLY CEASED AS RESULT OF CARRANZA’S ATTITUDE OF HOSTILITY ARE STILL FIGHTING T0 SAVE ANARCHISTS | Made to Supr Court to Prevent Depor- tation of Red Leaders. Appeal me Washington o prevent (i Goldman were taken Dee. 10— Final > deportation and Alexander today, their supreme court Wbpeals from crees In New Vork corpus proceeding, The request was made afie Justice Brandeis had been asked a writ of crror and had sug- >sted that the matter be presented (o the court since the full court was session. The granted in New appeal to the supreme court pire tomorrow and ofli unless the before that ed. The court man and Mis efforts Emma Berkman counsel of ask- permission ral court de- ing habeas fede dism Asso- in ¥ York for will ex- ccording 1o court supreme court acts time both will be deport- gave counsel for Berk- Goldman permission to file papers and allowed the govern- to file a brief in opposition to the grantiag of the request that the court hear the case. The court, how- ever, did not indicate when it would consider the application. PRESIDENTIAL POSSIBILITIES Senator Klett Thinks Governor Low- den of Illinois Will Be Strong Fac- tor in Race for Place. Senator George W. Klett, in local republi ranks the foremost membe in Connecticut, disct the leader nd one of of the G. O. P. sed the coming Foresidential race briefly this morning. The senator voiced Governor Frank O. L.owden of Illinois, will be a strong factor in the race for the nomination and that a strong possibility that Governor Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts run strong for vice-presiden- Senator Klett said that in his belief the boom of Majo Wood was at its strongest the western states. Senator one of the original supporters for Charles Evans Hughes for the repub- {lican nomination for president in ' 1916, and was a member of the Con- necticut delegation to the national convention =t Chicago. 70 GIRLS FLEE FIRE the opinion that height Pupils at Woodland Park School, Newton, Ma. ape Barly Mor ing Blaze With Little Excitement. Newton, Mass., Dec. 10.—Seventy girl puplls of the Woodland Park school, a preparatory institution for Lasalle seminary went through early morning flre today with little excitement and no panlc. Carrying out the flre drill movements under the direction of some of their own number, the girls dressed and left | their rooms in an orderly manner The filre, which burned for four hours in a kitchen adjoining the main build- | ised $5,000 property dame used the Woodland P; REPUBLICANS FOR TREATY hote there | General | in Klett was | an } | son G. 0. P. KEYNOTE SPEECH IS ATTAC ON MEXICAN POLICY; REPUBLICANS FEEL SURE OF COUNTRY’S SUPPOR Gov. Sproul Says Par| Must Prepare 1 Clean Up Existi Governmentai Me —Convention Ope, PEOPLE ARE TIRED OF OFFICIAL MEDDLII Woman’s Division Chai Pledges Support of F Sex to Campaign of ( Line Part Washington Sproul Dec. 10.—Govel of at the Pennsylvania in speech mecting tod of the publican national commMtee the ¢ Mexican pof and declared the republican party proached the coming presidential of paign with confidence that the pe would endorse its policie Wants Better Rels His outline > include a be relation ital and lal economy and business managemen: administration, a firm handling of Mexican situation, restoration of An feanism and constitutional governm and a sound solution of the railn problem. Referring peace, the , attac| Iministration's tions, of the: between ca briefly to the questior governor declared that republican citizenship had “endea ed to co-operate in the conclusiol the matter with only such limitati} as will preserve this republic| full right to determine its own affal under the constitution, Must Clean Up Mess, “We must prepare,” said Gover] Sproul, “not only to clean up the g ernmental mess in which we find of selves, but we must lay our plans storing our nation to the position respect which it once held. “We must our plans to meet menace to our peace and well-being] our southwestern boundary. No ch ter in our entirc national history more disgraceful and humiliating tH the story of our relations with Mg co during the p even year: 0. P. Govt. that during republig between capital a vs been pretty w| Sentiment for Am was rapidly iner duty of the governmd to Praises G, He declared 1 times r itions labor “have al understood.” canism, he said, and it was the to promote it Development including the public land | clared by the gov: or portanée He pointed to the railra question as forming one of the m difficult problems awaiting solution. Hits Railrond Control. “The rape of the railroads,” ‘conceived in an unholy lust er and partisan advantag us a situation which will highest ilities of sou forceful manageme of national of prime i he sg for po has 1 demand t d judgme and out.” Governor the people interminabl departments affairs.” we will paradise to wol clared th from 't Fovernme and pq W 10 de anted relief meddline in their sonal w1t fool's ineflicier ring ork in earnest lebts will Pleds Medill onie out of t zance @ have back oy come down of extrava whicl il in we he “and trouhl nist < Women's Support. My MeC'e n's d rmick. chairm the wot becau) for and 1 publican support the it s “the preservation party, said women party instrument republican of nationalism erty.” The party, she said, wou | 40 Prominent Californians Urge Hays, Head of G. O. P. National Commit- tee, to Support Terms As They Stand San Franclsco, Dec, 10.—Nearlyl 40 * prominent Callfornia republicans have telegraphed Will H. Hayes, chairman nlors to medintely ratify the peace treaty im- without reservations or This was announced by the California branch y Automobile Driver Has His Li The sfflce « nmission Thut Alox han mon e ) v Aley cenze (Given Back:® W0 dinie auiciobiie has notifted the the ar heen 1 v police operator's Heens. Jo ol hien overul sispenston fo storad 1o a driver of the ;) il badly him, moblle thai the Plainville r Al maon 1 at the Wan suto flgu in collislon on I Saptember, Rev- hurt and one kill- time, | allow 11can \ imperd continue to champion ial under the law and the fervent ciples of nationalism which maintained to the end.” Mention of Col. Roosevelt's na brought a storm of applause. Has Protected Fair Sex. Mrs. McCormick declared the publican party had been the pione] in the protection of women and ol dren and she predicted that the republican states which have not ra fled the amendment to ti constitution would do so in time the women these state participate in the next national tion, Mri, McCormiek dealared the wor en of the country wanted “an Ame Ameriea’” and not a “socinlist st Intornationalls Amertcanism, justi pri Roose el the Tssae. Nebrask who delivered the last of the keyna speaches, declared Americanism W Ung tseie and chnrged th vdmintetration N make the world sa such o “cunniy Governor MeKelvle, of the outst the democr the Aemoc used for in (Contlaued on Fift th Peged