New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 22, 1919, Page 1

" PREMIER LLOYD GEORGE ————————— e World. | News of the By Asse ciated Press. LS NEW BRITAIT HERALD Heraid “Adg” Me Better Business e Lt ESTABLISHED 1870. NEW BRITAIN, CONNEC TICUT, MONDAY, DECEMBER 2 2, Qe Lo 1919, —SIXTEEN PAG PRICE THREE CENTS, ] e N0 DEGISION ON 'SUPREME GOUNGIL | RIOT CALL IS SOUNDED| | " { ment, 4, , | | | o 0 | e ‘ | FUTURE IRISH POLICY | o | Supreme Gourt Recesses Without BEF "RE EHRISTMAS | | | ; - (e : o | e ‘ e ionB Rendering Opinion ' Every Blfort Being Made (o Have Brings Up Question Be- s | Every Elfort Being Made to Have | fore Parliament Late; (N MOONSHINE BOOZE TAKES UP STATE CASE' Germany Sign Protocol and e | o | : ! { Exchange Ratili This Af(ernoon;Many Orders Government (0 Show . Cause xchange Ratilication | Doubt Settlement Hartford Ave. Cellar Raided | Jan- 3 Why New Jersey and Rhode OF Trefl[y 1 Island Cannot Tnstitute Proceed- q - | e SN and Proprietor Will Be | T {MANY QUESTIONS UP ‘ 4 - . | PRECAUTIONS TAKEN Tried On Wednesday. Ty e GG T O B N i D FOR MEETING TONIGHT | NG without handing down an opinion on AGAINST OUTBREAK | The case of William Zimitravich, a i the constitutionality of sections of i el dealer cas ar- | the Volstead prohibition enforcement 2 | e | well known liquor dealer, who was a ; 'l\\"(l‘ ols : © Reparation for Sink Fleet at Scapa ‘\ rested yesterday morning in a raia |2 . age e s ¥ 3 o] e Court today ordered the government Flow—S s Dey Iy oy | ¢ Dublin Nwspaper Criticising made.on the cellar of his saloon at 36 GG AT L G & E P Ly T O mands for Prior- | N | Hartford avenue, where it is alleged, | inal proceedings should not be in- | ity in Damage Payment— Ja- Attack On Lord Lieuten-' ne was founa selling intoxicating li- | stituted by the States of Rhode Istand | ; i , T ! quor, was continued until Wednesday | and New Jersey r L liquor dealers i pan - Question—Belgium Neutrality morning on request of Liquor Prose- |to have determined the constitutional- | R G s ant of Ireland Blown Upl e O L e BT S e S B - vt ol oy (0 | s Si 1 | of Andrew Sweren, the bartender in|stitutional amendment. I Solved, Yesterday By Sinn chers.: the cafe, and John Masaka, Joseph | Applications for permission to con- | | Jendings, William Droese and Josepi | test the amendment's validity and | Paris, Dec. The supreme coun- | Jacobs, wha are charged with purcha seek injunction inst its enforce- | cil, it became known today, is making 4 ’ g the X ting the cel- | ment in those states were presented ( cvery cffort to reach an agreement | ol e _Premier Lloyd ing the liquor and frequenting tl v ed ( ey K | pm,.]f;‘":,'\mr,.)éw(, the house of com- lar were also continued until Wednes- | last week. In both instances the | With Germuny on the question of | 3 i M ques- day morning on request of the prose- | amendment was alleged to conflict | reparation for the sinking of the Mah Tast week he announced his Cutor. Attorney Albert A. Greenbers | with the state police powers and with | German fl at Scapa Flow so {hat G oone ) ot presentiie th the com. Will appear fot the acclised. the federal constitution. {the protocol may be signed and rati- Tons on this oceasion the details of The raid was conducted by Detec-| In ordering the government to | fications of the (reaty of Versailles | 1?”“ (m ; :vm)l. ‘.]l\,(mp .»\.k."bm tive Sergeants Theodore Jahnson and | show cause the court, according to | exchanged hefore Christma e el aaaraas e day. Ar. A. J. Richardsgn, assisted by Police- government attorneys followed an un- | . The question was. up duris long | Jnfippening his adgress todey’ MT. iien’wiiltam S:,Strolls, "Herbert C. 1 procedure, as ordinarily in such | and - busy jon of the council this Lloyd George remarked upon the ex- , usual proc N ) | b ounci b lifficulty of his task, “difficult 1Yon. Matthias Rival and John I} jngtances permission to bring such {morning when the terms of the note ! et e L aster sqch a dis. Carlson. The officers gained entrance | proceedings is given and a date fixed | replying to the last communication of ngeed, e sald, alter S X peth fo the cellar through the cafe at wikn they 'sr® teturnanle Thé courl, [the German representatives ‘wore ton. | “’F(“‘:’ff‘:" e e A Hartford avenuc and found the pro-|yoiwever, was genecrally believed to |sidered. No decision being veached, '";";‘ce”\,f;,“:‘. :.'J.I ihat varllament Prietar and the bartender with fré-)jp,ye peen prompted by the fact that | anothe Hom il e e pretr Sy bt l'. “‘ its minq duenters enjoving what they termed | ¢ the amendment becoming effective | o'clock {hls ovening. Thll T sot thie fact Hight hio 1S &0 & Sunday miorning frohibitlen-time o, Syt U S next. * {he Lprocedure || This meeting Wil \take, place in| Bt N e X e ale SPree. One barrel of alleged Whiskey, | foyi0veq would expedite matters. Premier Clemenceau's cabinet at the | vussxblt" N"\F;l&c f:’:.( ],:;‘.T,:( o nie. Seven five g;\llrm‘ jugs of : 1pposed i NS war g¢ffice and it is believed that the | was';universally acce; 2Aes . brandy and about 50 smaller jugs con- note fif then completed will be handed sfore. he continued, purliament MUst {qining gne and two quarts of so-called SCHOOL ENUMERATION s fasoiconpieten wilibe mndal assume the responsibility and propose ji.,01 were seized | Lersmer, * 5 B 7 | g 20 ; ; : > seized. _ A er, head of the German mission what it thinks fair and Just. A set- ppe piin clother men, atter placing | NEARING COMPLETION | [-7¢ AR T e \I@m:‘nt v:'n:xfh‘ll l);s‘;"r;:u;vl;:‘nucrhml:e ‘("l‘l‘;‘ T” ‘mnn ’in lln‘“"nllul-‘ \\lxuh-};] uv"re-:fu i consideration the German (I(‘lc;utiuni enactment of ¢ 3 > 8 » DUl joaded the police patrol with spo 5 tate Boom i | finds ne to give to it. SN i ing. and took it to the police neadquarters. | Figures in Hands of State Board Indi pirocelictiod | Two legislatyres, one for Ulster and jyoaep of the larger jjugs was filled and cate This Year's Grant Will Be | Serbia’s demand for priority fto the | one for southern Ireland would be {ho parrel was a big lift for two of amount of 2,600,000,000 francs in | provided, :.'m\”mc(:-o_\ \nu““f:y:»x.:,‘,m«l(l,,; :',“, m;:im.:wn_ Lr|-h:v‘(;pn\ll‘m‘y“(’:\ il‘)‘w po- High—Iteport Inicomplete. ey SR a union of the two scc s i officials is that the liguor e o aias ed Belgl T e they decide to take thftstep. Fullest gmuller jugs Is of a “moonshine” v Hartford, Dec. 22.—Of the 168 :.J;:‘:;icoxr\‘ll'l(‘“:‘ “1';:;:, 'LJ".‘.:."L"'GJHL < possible freedom would be accorded piety. The charge ABE. 41016 D] tosins Initteatate; piveitbupagg) SoRncl, mee dlichzacd By that bodyl the Irish legislatures in administering prictor and the bartender is the viola- |, report to the state comptroller of | Gocis, emion this mon R e ir f the land while in ma#- (jon of the statute which prohibits the g, L children between fhe e e the affalrs o 5 the number of chilg be the feeling tha. this was a ques- ters affecting the empire, Ireland wolling of intoxicating lauwors ob SUB e o 4 wid 16 i WGl respective | gy won o Presapialet bl o would have a voiw in - the imperiul | a As yel the federal authorities | ¢ \opes Phe ‘amount of the enumera- Ho lep oot WEtes AR -t Rt eg e Vars parliament. | have not taken adtion. Zimitravieh | fion grant which the.state pays an- | o (18POse of afler the weatley of o Comments in this morning’s news- | and Sweren aro being held under $300 |y, et R Fm ARG 00 Top eyt i : a S papers on |the premier’s statement re- | bonds furnished SV el per child o, sclool age, The|' L) the powers interested except veal general hopelessness regarding | Bonds In the cases of the frequenters | enumeration' of 1918 showed 325,478 | o A1 the b L b niensetad axcont any improvement in the situation as are $50. ¢hildren of school age in the state. || o5 5 g : = - ) t dipic & - e stribution of the rolling < being likely to result. Nobody ex- | T The amount ¢f the grant paid was| o 1"\ the railways of the Al A A pects the sovernment's provosals v WAR.PROHIBITION $698,861.35. i | tro-Hungarian empire, the council de- bs ‘mceeptdd by the bulk of the Irlsh | 1t 18 imposelble fo state ot this WS 6 g sqinend o ndte to Bumsanis dak- people. Neither Joseph Devlin nor, the anount of the grant for the pres- | FC¢) 'O S€E° f A2 10 -~ nan other nationalist members of parlia- | RAISES NEW QUERY ent fiseal yoar. [t is safe to say, how B iy “"‘f.‘fw Dl e e ment are expected to attend the st | =yEtann o il e ditiexcessiogiane | RITE AN iRt ing toda which is regarded as show- g e mount of last yvear's grant and will | dmm;fl Bt by hhs chuncilitciclcar op ir mi are alrcady made e recinbly ov 700,000, While | dispose b . ing 'lh“' "””nds 57, ',’“ ;mdzi d";;;.u{t ferid | Bridgeport. Probate Court Baffled By :h“,‘(m\)‘[;.‘;,",.,“ ogerifil o mum. | all the work of the peace conference, in adverse sense. 5 state e hd € ke =t 5 excepti o Hungaria Tidward Carson and his followers will + Wilk of Former Saloon-kecper ber of school children in some of the :1::1}1’]“|1|||'r‘ki4‘1(\‘ “]f:}“:“‘n:'fm‘(’]"flw nesaan nccept the plan for a separate par small towns there has been o, notablo | 3Rd Turkish treaties and the Russian | *liament for Ulster but this is likely to There. increase in athers, AL G v f e tagonize rather than reconcile the | Delinquent towns are liable to a for- | Sa mig J o). i | antagonize ra e g Tao ) AT time) T q et to permit the celebration of Christmas rest of Ireland i 3ridgeport, Jec. —War-time | feiture of the grant in part o in | o Nracn A th G | Precautions have been taken to ; prohibition reached into the probafe | who Seven were subjected to a for- I & *‘“”:_\ u(:it \T]_]Yk*i“‘" “m_“n“ix:: ey en i parsibio S Eiiss ovarnment Goupt etel ford thelnrsthilmekitod iy | TGl EoRLn FEVS B Ene Stomn g HIc i FEED SRR Rl Gl e e 2 strations\ ith TrpAkiminent' Ut i ¥ | have failed this year to make a report { “eTtain of her objections to al | demonstrations ps when its effect upon attempted settle- 8 eratia the | terms, after recciving the council's | they do not extend so far as to exclude of (heir school enumeration to the | applicants for tickets from the public Ment of an estate puzzled Judge Paul | comptroller on or before December 5 |note. ! . e : e sty Ui er. are are therefore delinquent, are: An- e | gallerie The Mirror und(lfl‘.uu‘ls L. Miller. g sonta, Berlin, Bridgeport, Bristol, Ca- | Paris, Dec. 21.—Japanese govern- | that a very large uuml;fl( u;’ ]-ll: 00 rmes e eaty el porc| G Bl e R D il Sl Sl e s | hive Gsked labor membars for tickets. | gnd: saloon dled prior to July 1 last|{ oy Gornwall, Eastfard, East Granby, | the situation at Irkutsk, Siberia, ac- 3 Wreck 'M“‘i‘*'l"‘tl“"' o | when war-time prohibition became a | East Hartford Fairfield, Granby, | cording to information reaching peace | Unknown persons last night en- | e deaed a Lisk Naugatuck, New | conference circles. | ily | law. His will provided that half of | Hartland, Lisbon, LRI tered the office of the Dublin Daily “1\' el :I s 1‘ should go ! Fairfield, North Branford, Old Lyme, | They would like to send troops Independent, a newspaper which his {n «-x.u in he :a oon should go Portland, Saybrook, Sharon, South |there, it is said but do not desire to sharply critlcized the recent attack to his widow, Mrs. C. L. McLean, and | wingsor, Wallingford, Warren and |do so without having reached an un- | , on Viscount French, lord lieutenant qf the other half to his son, Howard K. | windsor Locks. Herstandlne Eithliha N tinite oS ot Ireland, wrecking the typesetting ma- McLean. Lale in the summer, Mrs.| Enumeration reported from some of | and the various Allied governments chines and crippling the stereotyping ' McLean closed the saloon because it (he larger plac a NewilliEtaven iiils ndeatood bW b atontcar plant, according to dispatches. ~The'could not be maintained without u | (Westville district only) 1,384; Hart- | inet is mot particularly favorable (o aiders escaped as quickly as did the ‘loss. The question before the court | o, Néw London) 1S SUgEeEtion bl LS thetnatpolnty | assailants of Viscount French 5xn~' wis that of a settlement of the es Norwich, Windham, 3 !ed out the Japanese might find them- with greater ease. Their operations The son sues the estate to recover | orbury Putnam, selves confronted with various dif- | being carried out v and without ‘' his righiful share in the saloon and | jingly, 1,595: Stamford HEnten arl e for cons i on | exciting the suspic of outsiders. claims that the saloon could have | dletown, 51105 Danbury, single track line of the Trans-Siborian The damag estimated at some been run al a profit. Tn'the saloon , walk 6,510: Greenwich, railroad thousands of pounds sterling, the 'is a stock of liduor. As the ban is | Britain, 15,043: Winchester, ] A work of destruction having been done against the sale of lquor Judge Mil- LA A i Paris, Dec (Havas).—Abandon- with great thoroughne [ ler cannot order it sold, and he can- 4 ment of the British plan guaranteeing The men who attempted to as-|not give it to the heirs as the swill FIVE SMALL POX CASES roies e s b iUl e pesinate Lord Lleut. [Krench con- ! contains specific bequests. 1 vears on the part of the Allies is re- tinue at liberty, as far as known, no ' president should 1ift the war-time ban ¥ ST ported by the Petit Pavisien which | futtiter. clues to thelr idefitities nave rbefore "“"”‘”"-‘ 16 there will be af wagerbury Has Small Epidemic of | says the French and British sovern- | been obtained. A Dublin despatch to chance to sell out the stock. If the Dreaded Diseaso—One Vietim Has | ments ave sceking fo reach an agree- | the Daily Mail says: “A man hunt ban is not lifted the heirs may have > R i e S el for Sinn Feiners will be madc in to devise their own means of divid- Been Parading Strects. (it ST T Aublin this week.” [ing the liquors. Waterbury, Dec. Five well de- 1 70 T ¢l peace conference civel A pastoral letter from Archbishop | - e veloped a of smallpox were dis-{ . o reported sentiment is favora x} Walsh deprecating violence and ad--| L 5 il 9 covered in this cily toda Ang o the maintenance to the Turkish \‘I:Iflgl :f\ n‘(’-( obedience Lo British au- 1Duda(‘k Elected (’aptaln Cacimacco. an Halian, reported that :,“‘l,yl“fn m"“,]p.‘ cortain guarantees. | s ; J i . o had bee . out of his boarding il | horit as read in all Catholic he had been put ou B e aral e oot hofhns aona (ol :Il\ull'( es \:\;qnm Dublin diocese yester- ' Of Georgetown Eleven Tiouse because 1= P hadibrokehRulit ;;:':;r,;,l ’\::u s day. Cardinal Logue, primate Willlam ‘Dudack of New Britain | on his face. On eéxamination this | 00 0P R Ll 0t e British capital. | Ireland, hax felegraphed Visconn! was clected coptain of the George- | MOrning it was 1:::!\1;;:)\1 e wm‘ & ity R 3 4 B cas sutfering from sma of five or o J¥rench congratulating him upon his 'tqwn football eloven for the season | ©° i dfi‘_a“”“_ Tre ner and | High School Teacher gscape from us j of 1920 at u meeting of the team held | three small children at the house g S | Me o R [last Thursday. Dudack has played a | where Cacimacco was first boarding | Tenders Resignation | b",""‘ e r‘!':“ Citaters ) Stellar game-in the line with George- | ere also found to be Infected. A| josepn Wiscltier dircctor of free- | ec. 22 ate’s ' ' 5 fore: e i it 5 & v Dublin, ose Blaihe atates " lown this scason. He suffered a frac- | general vaccination has been advised | nand arawing at the High and Gram- it Pyjon 5 SAECHC! i sAlpagetoriiv skl kol by the city health officer. mar schools for the past several years, | to assassinate Viscount Trench, lord js now walking with the aid —_——— has tendered his resignation to Supec 1 lieutenant of Ireland, when the in- ‘crutches. He .will be able to play | s ed i Sttt schools Stanley H. | quest over the body of Savage. the next season, physicians say, Dudner | 920,000 Fire Caused in L '}’[‘;‘,:“:‘q"‘ |(|;:* e | young @rocer's clerk who was shot is also captain of the Georgetown New Haven By Chemicals | [/ "o The Q0 o axpacted 1 | iynd killed while running away from basketball team. He s o graduate | ow Huaven, Dec. 22—Chemicals | come within the one month allower fhe scene of the attempt, was re-|of the local High school where he jin procss of compounding caused an by contract, Mr. Wiseltier has not| gumed here today. { starred in athleti explosion and fire in one department | ynnounced his plans for the future, The first car, carrying Viscount | s = . (. Hartz, Inc., plant, textile French, passed quickly hy the spod SSOME™” PROJY RING. toduy and the loss may |, IR N i - fram whicli the shofs were fired, the | Oxford, Eng., Dee THe first ), 0000 Several workmen | | il testimony developed, two bombs be- | complalnt to the profitecring commii- | were caught on an upper fdor of the | | WEATHER. \ ing hurled in quick succ n. Both qee of this town came from Dr. I | building, 30 Lenox strect and had | | e 1 of them struck a second car, which ward Cannan who asked for the pros- | dificnlty in making an exit. Jumes | | Hartrord, Dee. 22—Lorecast | was empty, the second bomb explod- ¢rution of the chancellor of the ex- | F. McCune, a fireman was hurned for New DBritain W vicinity: | L., ting inside the vehicle. chequ:r on the grotnd that a (reasu after the bursting of a steamm main. Cloudy tonight and Tuesday, not ' [/ Sergeant Rumble, who was a wmem- | note which “costs less than one penny | The concern makes automobile tops, | | much change in temperature. i 3 — th produce is heing sold in this town { rubber goods and covers, quantities of | | | 4 il L (Continued on ‘Tenth Fage) (J.’, one pound.”’ i which were lost. d & o — | | ed at it was reported here today. The REDS ATTACK ELLIS [SLAND FERRY GATE | | Police Fight Radicals Led by, Russian Woman | Many in Mob Had Relatives Deported Yesterday On the “Soviet Arvk’— | Dirty, | They Cry “Down With This Rotten Government,™ New woman York, who Do Led her declared ¥ L had heen deported to Rus yester- the of 150 *Reds"” the entrance on the in effort to r still awaiting deportation. riot | call was turned in before the police | could restore order. | The mob forn.ed around the gate- | Keeper's cage several minutes before | the attucl: was launched, then the | woman proclaiming herself an anar- ! chist stepped forward and drove both ; day on ‘Soviet ark Buford, 1 mob i | | i today atta Elis Island wh fellow Srry radicals | fists through the glass window. H As pieces of g craghed to the pavement the crowd began chanting the “internationale.” “Down with this dirty, rotten govern- screamed the woman, ey have taken my husband and are tak- | ing the husbands, brothers and fath- | ers of us all.” | Unable to quiet the mob, Asa | Mitchell, superintendent of the barge ! office, located at the tip of Manhat- tah, turned in a call for pelice re- serves. Beat Policemen. The mol turned on the first po- liceman to answer the call and beat him, but when more reserves, with drawn clubs, and a detail of coast guards with fixed bayonets arrvived, the crowd suddenly became docile. Members of it explained they had come to inquire about relatives who had sailed on the Buford, A young Russian woman who gave the name of Clara Brooks was rested as the ringleader She flater was arraigned on a charge of disorderly conduct, found guilty and committed to the Tombs for 18 hours pending an investigation by a probation officer. She gave her age as 24 years and told the magis- trate that she had gone to the Ellis Island ferry in an effort to see her husband on the island but that “they would not let me go.” As she said this she began to weep and a dozen other women who had accompanied her to court also wept. Twenty-two Remain, ‘Twenty-two anarchists remained at Elis Island toda awaiting deporta- tion. They will be sent “to Russia with others from Detroit and Chicago whom the department of labor was unable (o have {ransported to New York in time to sail on the Buford. Arrangements for the departure of the next *“Soviet ark” have not been completed, according to Byron H. Uhl, acting commissioner at the island. A few married anarchists are held ious cities awaiting decision of authorties as to whether to send their families with them. No anar- chist of whose marriage was official record was sent on the Buford but eight of them had requested that their sweethearts hbe sent on the ship also. in the To Use Discretion. Sailing orders now in the hands of er the ma ford, deli of red the “Soviet to him ar] Bu- 24 hours from 1h port will permit him to use his discretion as to what one of several Russian or Finnish ports his consign- ment of deported Reds may be land- flexibility of these orders it id, W provided so the captain may be to meet unforeseen conditions of wi bln ice anl bad weather or possible re- fusal of officizls at any one port to permit Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman and the others to land. The supplics on the Buford are suflicient for 6¢ to 90 days and regardl of the time it takes the passengers will | be landed i It also is believed in navy cireles here that an escort of one or wmoro | destroye now in North sea waters | will be provided for the Buford as| soon as she leaves the Atlantic PERMIT ISSUED FOR NEW § | | [ 132,000 SCHOOL | | Camp Street Structure Will Be Mod- crn in Every Detail—To Be 128 by 88, Two Storics High. The first step in the eclaborate pro- gram of the school board as outlined by the school accommodations com- mittee, came this afternoon when an application was made to Building In- spector J. W. Allen for a permit to build a new Camp strect school at a cost of $132,000. The cost as specified in the application for a permit more than twice the original cost, planned by the board. Tho contract has heen J. H. Crozier company The building will 1 ries high and will be hri "broughount, the he proot mode wav., W I*. Brooks is the architect The building is to be used for training student teachers at the State Normal school and will he paid for by the cty and state comrbined, Is as | let 10 (he Havtford 1wo st ted of tricture will n every of $x8X, st and in | JUDGE ANDERSON PUTS MINE LEADERS IN JAIL ON CONTEMPT CHARGE ARMY TRANSPORT CREW HELD FOR SEA MUTINY . W. Agitator Said to Have Caused Part of Trouble. New York, cers and nine member 13 charged with mutiny Dec Two petty ofli- of the crew of the my transport America, on the high secas d on board the ship af and other erimes. faced an oflicial in- vestigation today her pier at Hoboken. Six other mem- bers of the crew are reported to be in the transport's hospital suffering from gunshot wounds received ing the its. Unoflicial reports mutiny or in fi s fomented by an I du said the trouble w: W. W, agitataor. When the America docked yesterc after havine landed the United § 1y Allows: Him No for His Reappearaf in Court Next M day; Safer in Cell SAYS HOWAT HAS DISOBEYED THE L Gives Him Until Monda; Prepare Defense — Operators May Refuse Aid Government in St ettlement. peace delegates at quarantine Saturday Indianapolis, Dee/ Ale night, the accused men were 'taken | Howat, president of the Kuansus ashore in irons and the story of the | yrict of the United Mine VWol mutiny, reading something like those A of the old days when pirates sailed | WS remanded to jail by U. 5, Dig the main, was revealed, in part. It is|Judge Anderson when court ¢ charged that the men attempted to|{ vened this afternoon. Howat who leave the ship without permission, let | charged with contempt of court the fires die out, imperilled her safety | granted a continuance this mof by cutting off the electric lights, com- | until next Monday. mitted petty robberies, frightened This afternoon’s sossion of d women passengers and gambled in de- | Jast less than two minutes. flance of the officer When the judge took his seal One of the ringleaders s said to be | turned to Henry Warrum. cof Willlam Calkins, an ordinary man, | for Howat, and asked if he had charged with being o member of the ! {hing to add to his statemonts o I. W. W. He had been arrested at! forenoon. sea, but escaped the armed guard until Nothing, your hono\” Mr, W the transport s researched after | rum replied, “except to ask dockin, Special attention was glven at the investigation to Calkins' case. He said ta have joined the ship ten min- utes before she sailed from Hoboken on the round trip which ended yester- day and to have anno@nced that he had been “sent” to join the crew. The investigators are secking to determine whether a crew recruiting agency or of professional agitators “sent” him. Positive denial was made that six men had bBeen wounded in the mutiny and now Wwere in the sick bay hospital recovering from gunshot wounds. It was said, however, that six men had dfed on the voyage—five from pneu- monia and one from drowning. Denial that there had been a mutiny in the transport America, which dock- ed here yesterday with 13 men in the | brig was made today by Major Gen. David C. Shanks, commander of the port of embarkation, in a telegram to Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines of tran portation o fhe war department The trouble, the telegram said, re- sulted from failure of certain mem- Dbers of the crew fo obey instructions permitting shore liberty and pilfering of ship's stores and cargo. RECORD BREAKING BUSINESS IS DONE Local Merchants Report Larger Salcs Than Ever Before in History of Trade Here, According to the statements by several made leading merchants, Satur- day's business was the greatest in the history of the city and from the pres ent outlook the da bre street remaining three days before Christmas, will be record Main aking ones. One prominent afliliated with asserted that business done in his establishment Saturday was doub that of last year and wus the largest ever done in the history of I ore Another man, who clothing business for vears asserted that history his store the as merchant the clothing busines the has been the nev in the in past 2 in the history the he of eIty as he larg busine He said that it was not the af price with the New sumers but the question of material that sunited them anme merchant rted that a of fact the pasi wock ccord breaking week and more ne haa been done during that than there ever was dfiving the previous to Christy “Why, my plac and the husiness so i net even see my per Main street mer Stores for the of did day tion can remember, fur 8 as on S 1] Britain etting Thi a malt- heen a coi the hisi time weol Was so cong at that ed 1 could hant asserted remaining two days before Christmas will be open until 10 o'clock each evening. E. H. Preston, Former Resident, Dies At 85 Elbert H. Preston, aged $5, for many vears a resident of this city, died at the home of his hrother-in- law John R. Andrew in Bristol Sat- urday evening, Mr. Preston was horn in 6t Plyniouth in 1834 and camc to New Britain in 1868, For several vears he conducted n bakery in this city, but retired from active business on aecount of continued poor health Ie leaves one son, tour grandchildren and two great andchildven. The funeral services will be held in the mortuary chapel at Fairview cemetoery on Tuextay afiernoou at 2 o'clock. onal friends,” one | A amount. would he required of Mr. s bond for his appearance M That is a n tter for serious sideration,” the judge said. I will take that up later. rshal, put Mr. Howat in jail"™ Howat was taken to the Mg county jall. There was no as to when decision on ‘e am® bail to be required would be fo | coming. Henry Warrum, chief counsel the international organization of miners and Howat were given un o’clock this afternoon to presen the court some evidence that wvi tions of the injunction cha against the miners district official M | not be continued durig the inte from now until the hearing on Monday. Otherwise Judge Ande ! declared he would be forced to § Howad to jail “This man,” Ju o Anderson g d, “has openly and defiantly obeyed the law. This court and law has boeen defied and flouted. got to stop it, if the law is to be held. Xither 1 must do it or we ¥ acknowledge thi the organfzation | which he stands is supreme to 1 government. Tht maon viola { must stop or I wi'l put him’in a and keep him ther Outcome of Chary The case against Howat is the ¢ growth of charges of contempt agal 84 international ond district, offt of the United Mine Workers, brou prior to the agreement whed in dianapolis December 10. Hearing the char was first postponed December 8, to permit the min general committee to consider president’s propasal for ending strike and again | week, except to Howat Opening the case for the govy ment this morning, Dan Simms, spe district attorney, decluredwio ad kept in force a local strike bey st July and me the geng strike on October 31. In addition| was charged, Howal had openly ded the court in statements «nd inte with the press (o the offect t th was no power in the coun to fol he winers to return to worl i, Simus ed fror wspa srviews and from a purporied st tory of the Kansas d to sh| there had been 304 strike: Crawford county in the | 33 months and (hat while Howat prd Wly did not call all of the he o ssponsible for the organization wh wade (his possible. Mr. Simms rd newspaper articl to show Hed was feared hy the operators ahd bu ness men of the Kansus district & declared no court or other agey had been found in K& s strc cnough to fight Flowat. Judge Anderson was vehement his denunciation of in the Kansas field received a number of “scurrilous ¥ ters and editorial clippings from rict denotincing him for hi connection with the ¢ said conditions existi and told of havi s in Some of the tellers he ed and others were anony practically all of them, he violated the United Stat wer Lssert postal lay Pittsburgh, K ing that they would work until they knew what Judge A de at Indianapolis intended to with Alexander Howat, the 250 m! ers emploved at Crowe No, 16, one the largest producers in the Kaw fleld went on strike today, accord 1o reports to the state roceiters. T strike oceurred before the miners h Dec. 22.—Decla not return son d_anything from the proceedin at Indianapolis, Chicago, Dec Reprosefitativ (Contlinued on Tenth Hageh