New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 5, 1920, Page 1

the orld. Asseciated Press. ews of. By - - Better Business = ESTABLISHED 1870. NEW BRITAIN. CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, JANUARY 3 § 1920. —SIXTEEN PAGES. PRICE THREE CEN1 OVER ONE HALF ONE PER CENT. ALCOHOL IN BEVERAGES MAKES THE SALE ILLEGAL, IS OPINION RENDERED BY SUPREME COUR DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE . HOLDS COMMUNIST CHIEF FOR LATER Gregory Weinstein, Soviet Ambassador’s " Aide, Arrestedin New ' York Drive Against | _Radicals I e | 3,000 NOW SLATED i FOR NEXT “RED FLEET" 1 1 Jan. & of staff for Ludw.s seli-Styledl fm States or the ltu. New Weinstein, C. A K. Marten: Ysadorito ihe Unite s.an . Soviet republie, wis arresied oi a deportation warrani today by agonts of the Dopartment of Justiec Welnstein, accordnfg to the)ofiic is the most influcntial Russian com:- munist, next to Martons;iid Amerion. Weinstein wus tagken intor -custouy at ‘the Russian Novidly ‘embagsy,” whete: he was head; of 1 debirtmeni. An exile frem - vhe arfived here with Leen Soviét Russian leader, "o)few agb, and is a closc personal friend ol 1hé Russian min'sies of wir. He was 10-merly of the Lovy Mir, the organ Russfan SocsaMst fod- cradon. ediior tho Department of Justice Washingion, Jan. nedrly 5,000 perso nce the lates: radical ratd L riod las: night, De- auen. o! Justice ageils ové: tie couniry sUll were oeking out today rromoers of the coiwmud s, cAd co Inbo jenzptions who thu o ec the general dragne. Apparent York and Chicag were the chiel centers®of . activily. severa! hundred wagranis wire yet o be served In the meiropolis 3,000 for Deportation.. , Ne 000 o thosc afrested have been held fox deporiation proceedings 2d bocauss of conges:lon now Eilis Isiand thera canno: concenirs Congress reqguest o’ ake proposed by and designed men: io deai bo engaged in ill Busy. > Although bate boer ir- s, be 1 oetore il Atlorney-Geng:ral Palmer promp: actiod nvon 2 bill him several jmpnihs ago 1o chabil ' lac, sovern- with citizens tound to radical acth Th uade:- whiea thay | Hundireds ol clii tas, yzidg Friday day and Sata | turned ove | i 1 . accord- | Fiinn, chief of the tigition o the De- counmu lapo: £ot been ruided are seld Isience In Greate: N A “Red” concent hare has D becatmse o tac ov Eilis Island pa-iies als from noom to.br taken to the county in tois ciiy sna lodged there wiih others to awaii hear- fags by immigration izspactors tho number of prizoacis haid as jJiable o deportation was Increased to. more than 100. Wi When the dirzctosp of the campaiga in Connecticut. Wiiliam Hazon, special 2t in chargo of the stice. 1 of il hoarings in tho ca pects would ba I wo i taa. Prisoners would at tha ford county Jjail. 1 sald, until Jearings are finished. o5 aB Roi- Tho tho { tions between Turkey and the Central ' Powers | council ! upon the early Tiari- | DEPORTATION SCAPA FLOW DECISION RY SUPREME COUNGIL Reduces Demand For Tbn- nage From 400,000 to 275,000 Tons. -— Paris, . 5.—The supremo! council this morning finally decided upon the wording of the note to the German dclegation confirming the verbal statement regarding the in- demnity for the Scapa Flow sinkin made to Baron von Lersner by Secre- Dutasta, of the peace conference understood that this note vir reduces the demand for repar from 400,000 tons to about tons of dock and harbor It is tually ction 276,000 malerial. 1 his note will be ‘delivered at the) time that the protocol igned. The signing of the protoccl and exchange of ratifications of the peace treaty now depend, it is statec upon the answer of the Berlin gov-; ernment to the German dJdelegates upon questions . concerning the ar- rangements for the plebiscites pro-| vidtd for by the treaty. It appoars | certain, thevefore, that these import- ant formalities cannot takd place morrow, had been originally tendod. The ame is | to- as in- question of commercial rela- | | discussed by the counc at the morning sesslon and 'it’ w decided that the tus created by the armistice should continue until peace w signed with Turkey. K The armi- stice terms prohibit such relations. was 5.—Hugh C. Walk mbassador, was re- to have asked the of the peace confer- he formula referring participating in t 1lied ad asso- allied power: trictly correct, Paris, Jan the Amerl vorted supreme counci cnce to e to the powers fro; the to the was not hed today. ador Wallace, it statad, sked for the abandonment term “allied and associated but merely requested that jons arose which involved States this formula, in-| cluding the Uni States, be not used in documents until he had time fto get a decision {rom Washington upon such questions. i Meznwhile, t s to have c ed an erroneous imp on here. idently sing its comment impression of a mc the amba in an editor c'ated powe repor is of the powers, when ques the United radical request the Echo de Par day, says: *“This ma the the United Statcs in decisions to be determination of not to participate reached in Pari while declining the o= of the supreme counci!, ues to be represented ut its ses- How can Mr. Wallace's role dafined? He is not a plenipoten- witness or observer in the ac- term."” an will shington s to until the United States dele- their places on the ssed by the newspaper, the presence of representative who informed as resume So the name. on, He counc Supremacy inhabit Mot who ihe but 1P ag. is inevitable.” the article c “that dilemma will ar United States will be obliged to ! responsibilities corresponding to ! on or she will renounce t hoped this anged by speedy fication of the treaty according to the program of 3enator Lodge followed by the return of America to her righi- ful place in the settlement of Euro- pean affa I ELECTION OF OFFICERS, | At the annual meeting of the Tal- mud Torah association and the He- brew schooi iasi eves the follow- ing officers werc elected President, Fred Winkle; vice-p: M., H. Fox; tra s, Max Z financial secretary, M. Krechoveky; recording cecreta Sam Marholin; executivo committee, Dr. M. 8. Dunn, Mrs. Shupack, Mrs. A. Alsonbe amin Marholin, ¥. Alpert and D, - a is ma; be ar Spector; trusteos, J. Goldsmith, M. Cohn and J, Kramer, ! with the MINERS GATHER IN STRIKE CONVENTION Protest Government’s “quustl Attitude” in Gontroversy WANT NO FURTHER TROUBLE Hold High Hopes kor President Wil- son’s Commission of Three Which Wil Investigate Their Complaints of Low Wages. Columbus, O., Jan. than ,000 delegates representing the 400, 000 coal miners of the United States | were assembled here today for the | convention which is togliscuss the set- tlement of the natlon-wide strike ter- minated on December 10 by a truce | proposed by Ercsident Wison which | ve the mingrs a¢ 14 Perigent, ads vance in wages.. Plans ‘are ilso t 5.—More } e % 129 Auto Deaths In Connecticut During 6 Months Hhartford, Jan. —During the last six months of 1919 there were 129 fatalities arlsing from automobile accidents in Connecticut, according to re- ports received by the state mo- tor vehicle department. These included many children. The accidents by towns and cities were divided as follows Hartford 20, New Haven Bridgeport 18, Stamford Waterbu 6. Stonington Fairfield New Britain 8, Danbury 4, Mancnester 2, West' Hartford 2, Bloomfield 2, Mid- dletown 2, Derby 3, Newington 4. Meriden 3, East Hartford 2, Simsbury 2, and one each in Norwich, Ansonia, North Hav- en, Huntington, Shelton, Taft- ville, Gpoton, Wallingtord, Westport, Glastonbury, Spring- field, Willimantic, Essex, Rock- ville, South Windsor, Occum, East Lyme, Hamden, Plainville, Rocky Hill, Union City, Bethel, rorrington, Berlin, Jewett City, Greenwich, Groton, Noroton, [ 2 b 6 formuiated for presenting tothe com- mission of three men appointed 'b; the president to consider all matters in dispute and report within 60 days, | final terms of settlement. John P. White, one of the members of the commission was here today to attend the convention and to obtain from the miners direct their attitude in the controversy before taking up | cale committee in Washing- ton next week hearings on the miners’ demands. International offic of the United Mine Workers of America in agreeing to declare the recent miners' strike at | an end, “decided to submit to the in- | evitable although protesting in our hearts against what we believed to be the unjust attitude of our govern- ment,” according to the report of Acting President John L. Lewis, and Secretary-Treasurer Wm. cen at the convention today. Rcviews €ontroversy. This report reviews the miners’ controversy for the date of the Cleve- ! and convention up to the present Few, if any developments no. dy made public are revealed and there is not the slightest hint that | another strike is contemnplated. i The international officers in their | report state that high hopes are en- tertained that the decisions to be reached by the commission of three | appointed by President Wilson “‘will | be fair and just as to meet with the | general approval of our membership.” | Members of the commission are highly praised and declared to be “men of high character, trained in the condition of industrial questions.” International officers, the report states, realized “bettér than the mem- bership of our unions, the purpose and determination of the federal gov- ernment” and decided to accept the plan proposed by President Wilson, which called for an imrhediate in- crease of 14 per cent. The original demands of the miners called for an increase of G0 per cent. At the time the acceptance made, the report continues, it was pointed out to the miners' leaders that the strike had passed from a mere controversy betwcen operator; and miners over a question of wage: to an issue between the supremacy of law and the ability of the government to enforce its mandates and decrees. “In other words. it was no longer w controversy between cmployes and employers but instead a test between the strength of a group of working- men and the government itself.” The report states that at the time of the Cleveland convention, when the | strike order was tentatively issued ! “no one could foresee the turn event have taken and the necessity in meet- ing the new and unexpected situations which have arisen. It has been found te impossible to follow the. rigid inflexible policy laid down at the veland convention. “We have been forced to elves to 1ged situation, ated constdered when plans and policies were adopted. ! The Lever law. a war-time meas- ure. is still in effect. Under its pro- visions, the government exercised its time powers and was fully sup- ported by the judicial, military, leg lative and executive branches of the government. adjust not the - or “The court constrted the Lever Jaw | to meoan that where two men agreed to quit mining coal they were gullty of a conspiracy and subject to the | punishment of the Lever law. “We ere confldent that it was not gonerally understood our member ship that thle war-timo measure were sillj {n cffect or that tho Lover law denfed our mombarship the right 10 st ke or applied to them In any way whatsoever., “We have ondezvored fo moet tha most trying sltuniions ever presonted to tho officers of a lnbor orgunizaion, fn o brond minded constructive > Wo could noi afford, at any time, for] ) (Continuod on Fifteenth Poge) ; died ! yvears, ! moned Elmwood, Terryville, Daniel- son, Bristol and East Haven. VENTURO KILLED IN CRASH WITH TRUCK Berlin Motorcylist Meé‘n Death on Scuth Main St. This Morning. William a painter em- ployed at the John Boyle company, was almost instantly killed shortly be- Venturo, fore 8 o'clack this morning on South Main street, the junction Franklin Square. when a motorcycle he was riding skidded, causing him to crash against a large automobile truck owned by the Standard Oil company. He sustained a fractured skull and in the police ambulance on the ta the New Britain hos- near Wi Ge pital. - Venturo, who resided in Berlin, was on his way (o work when the accident occurred. According to the version of the police. he was traveling at a fast rate of speed when the machine struck a piece of ice in the roadway. The automobile was on the éxtreme T of the highway at the time. In- vestigation by the police showed that the motoreyele first struck against the curb and then swerved to the left against the truck. On a running board of the truck was found Venturo's gog- I nd cap. The Standard Oil com- | pany iruck in charge of Thomas Knight of outh Main street. Dr. B. D. RadcHff notified the po- | The police l’mu\dl gash on the ' 1 of the accident. Venturo bleeding from a side of the head and one of his legs wppeared to be broken. The dect a vears old and leaves his par- and a Dbrother, Charles Venturo. | FINDS MOTHER DEAD Mrs. Amelia Stichtenoth, 61, '.'71 Dwight Street, Victim of A.-zphymn»l 1 1 | ¥ ents of ti Mrs, This Morning. ichtenoth, aged 61 of Dwight street. asphyxiated by at her morning. Her prostrate discovered by her son, on his arrival home for the noonday meal. Dr. Her- man Strosser was immediately sum- and on his arrival he-had the pulmotor from the fire station cured. The efforts of the physician with the pulmotor proved unavailing From the appearances of the house, it is assumed that the woman was preparing the meal when she became weak and fell and in so doing a con- necting pipe was broken off, permit ting the deadly fumes to fill the Jouse. Mrs. Stichtenoth has been un- der the care of a doctor for about two years for heart and liver trouble. Dr. Elcock, the medical examiner, s called to view the remalns. The ! woman was Tas home this form was se- fs survived by her husband, | Iored, two sons, August C. Stichtenoth und Alfred Stichenoth, a daughter, Mrs. Ellzabeth Bohrberg of this elty, and a daughter in Germany, 3= | | WEATHER, Hartford, Jan, —Forceast for New Britain nnd Falr tonight, slightiy Tuesday, fair, watmor, - MEXICOEARTHQUAKE No List of Deaths From Sheck | s was ‘severe,, * more ‘from Las Palmas. Great crevi | physlelans and surgcons, | ing wlill bo absolutely fireproof. | TEN STATES FEEL Yet Available BELIEVE MANY ARE KILLED Disturbance Shakes Down Whole Bus- iness Blocks in City of Jalapa— —Some Villages Destroyed—Vol- canic Eruption Feared in Spain. Mexico City, Jan. b.—Ten states were shaken by the earthquake which on Saturday night destroyed at least two villages and caused many deaths in state of Vera Cruz. These states were Mexico, Puebla, Vera Cruz, Oax- aca, Guerrero, Moreleos, Jalisco, Tlax- cala, Hidalgo and Queretaro. They stretch from the Isthmus of Tehaun- tepec northwestward for nearly 600 miles and from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific. Reports received up to 11 o’clock last night indicated the center of seismic convulsion was in the neigh- borhood of Mount Orizaba, a volcano situated about 50 miles west of Vera Cruz on the line between the states af Vera Cruz and Puebla. It was in this neighborhood that the most seri- ous damage was done. Teocelo, & Vil- lage 35 miles northeast of the vol- cano, has been virtually destroyed and a similar fate befell Couztlan, a small hamlet in that neighborhood. Wires have been torn down by the violence of the tremor and only fragmentary reports have reached this city but it is atated there were many casualties in both townas. Houses Fall Many houses and churches in Jal- apa. a city about 50 miles northwest of Vera Cruz, were damaged, while reports from Orizaba, a city ten miles south of the volcano, state that sev- eral business blocks and churches near the center of the town were cracked. | In the suburbs of Orizaba the shock ' many persons being re- ported killed beneath their wrecked | houses. The shock came during aj performance at the theater at Orizaba, and panic stricken people leaped from the balconies into the pit in their ef- forts to escape. No one was killed but many were injured. Tifteen Shocks. Fifteen shocks were experienced at Cordoba, a city ten miles east of Ori- aba, where 11 were distinctly felt. rst reports received here stated that the tremor centered at Aoam- baro, a town near Toluc: about 25 miles southwest of Mexico City, but severe, stated that scores had weré not severe there. While tele- grams last night from the state of Viara Cruz where the ’‘quake was more severe stated, that scores had perished, accurate estimates of the casualties nnot be made as vet. Y¥ear Volcano in Spain. Madrid, Jan. Earthquake shocks were felt among the hills in the in- terior of the Canary Islands yester- day, according to dispatches received es were opened in the earth from which col- umns of smoke arise. Volcanic erup- tions is feared, it is said. BUSINESS BLOCK TO BE BUILT AT ONCE ¢ , in the Catskills at Kiskatom, | where he Two Story Structure Going Up at Cor- ner of West Main and Wash- ington Strects. Excavation for the foundation of the new block ta be erected at the corner of Washing and West” Main streets, opposite F theater, will be started tomorrow. The building is to be built for B. Stein, Schneider & Rubenstein. and Rabinow and Levin. Tt has a frantage of approximately 88 feet on West Main street and 85 feet on Washington street. The land is 100 fect deep. The building will be two stor high and provision will be made 20 that two stories may be added later. It is planned to have four stores on the ground floor, and they have alread been promised to parties who wish to rent them upon the completion af tho building. There will be 18 offices on the second floor. The structure will be a model of its kind, and will be equipped with the kind of fixtures used in large modern office buildings. The frant of the bullding will be of light stone and the entrance and interfor fixtures will | be elaborate and ornate., The offices | are planned especially for the use of The build- | The pariners oxpect that the wark will be completed in pbout six months, Mr, Siein sald this mornir that It ! dlfMicult {0 obtain bullding materinls nnd added that labor condi- flons are worso than the searcity of aierinl, Highest Tribunal Upholds Sections of Vols Probibition Enforcemeént Act and De it Constitutional. 2.75 per cent. Beer Ban as Containing More than Allowed Amg of Alcohol | SUSTAINS DISMISSAL BY LOWER NEW YORK COURT OF INJUNCTION PROCEEDINGS TO RESTRAIN Washington, jan. 5.—The supreme court today constitutional sections of the Volstead prohibition enforcem prohibiting the manufacture and toxicating malt or vinous liquors” cent. or more of alcohol. Beer containing sale of “beer, wine or " containing one-half of onm 2.75 per cent. of ajcohol is illegal und} war-time prohibition act, the supreme court decided today, Dismissal by the lower court in New York of injunctig ceedings brought to restrain government officials from inteé with Jacob Ruppert, a brewer, in the manufacture of taining approximately 2.75 per cent. alcohol but alleged to b intoxicating, was sustained. Associate Justice Brandeis, court, said the right of congress who rendered the opimion to suppress the liquor trafl not an implied power, but a power expressly granted. Under the war emergency congress has a right to mediately the sale of intoxicating liquors, the court held.’ The court divided 5 to 4, Associate Justices Day, V: vanter, Clarke and McReynolds dissenting. Justice McReynolds in a dissenting opinion said that amendment had not yet come into effect and that the government had no general power to prohibit and sale of liquor. Justice McReynolds took the position the manu that the war gency under which national prohibition was made effecti passed. TAKE TWO RINGLEADERS INWOOD ALCOHOL SALES Believe Mystery of Poison Whiskey Distribution May Be Cleared. New York, Jan. 5.—Two arrests, which federal officials believe will solve the mystery as to the source of the wood alcohal which caused 100 deaths in this city, New Jersey and New England, were announced today by Harold B. Dobbs, revenue agent. They were Cosimo d'Ambrosia, a Brooklyn chauffeur, who was taken into custody Saturday in a farm house N. Y. is alleged to have been in hiding, and William Woller, a Brook- Iyn garage keeper and printer. Charges against the men have not been made public, but Joseph F. Mul- queen, assistant U. S. attorney, an- nounced he would ask that they be required to furnish $50,000 bail each when arraigned. Ten large drums of alcohol are said to have been found on Woller’s prem- ises. D'Ambrosia is alleged to have| carted the alcahol over to Manhattan | | for shipment and to have returned to | Brooklyn, putting the alcohol in 21 barrels, part of which was sent to Connecticut and Massachusetts, and then filling the drums with water. Indictments for 11 persons, charged with conspiracy ta violate the war- time propibition act will be asked for by Attorney Mulqueen tomorrow. Nine of these already are in custody here, one in Massachusetts and the eleventh in Connecticut. D'Ambrosia was later arraigned be- fare U. S. Commissioner Hitchcock and held in $25,000 bail. Woller was turned over to the federal authorities in Brooklyn. D'Ambrosia confessed 'to Attorney Mulqueen that alcohol w removed fram the drums in the garage of john Romanelli, a Brooklyn undertaker who is being held on a charge of mw]‘ spiracy to violate the wartime prohi- bition law. The drums were t!\:‘..i filled with water, aid, and loaded on a ship far England where they are due January 14. CITY FIRE DE WHEN BE IS THRE The fire department w: at 11:40 o'clock this morning from Box 43, for a fire in the cafe of A. Niepierowski at 11 Spring street. A barrel of frozen beer was being thawed out, and in some manner the flames ignited the timbers supporting the barrel. The loss was very small ’ as called out ALL STORES WON'T CLOS Contrary to the plan of the ber of Commerce, number of Main “ham- just announced, a street business men have decided not to close their store at © ao'clock Monday night. Those merchants who are nogfgoing to close * Dbelleve that their patghns can be bet- | ter sorved by kecpinff open until ». m, as in the paal argued The prohibition enforcemu defining as intoxicating any containing one-half of one pes more of alcohol was decl ed tutional by the supreme cou opinion which the court di 4. Proceedings brought by Ja pert, of New York to enjoin; ernment from prohibiting thd 2.76 per cent beer, were ord missed. Ruppert's case was brougl the war-time act. He al 2.76 per cent beer was non-if ing, but that the Volstead iting the alcoholic content pi the sale of beer manufactu regulations prescribed under food control act by Presideny Indictments brought ags Standard Brewery at Balting the American Brewing Co. ai leans for manufacturing 2.78 before the war-time prohil forcement act became ordered dismissed. - In deciding the New Orl Baltimore cases Justice Day unanimous opinion held manufacture of beer conts per cent alcohol was legal | enactment of the Volstead & Answer to Rhode The government today fil supreme court its answer plication of the state of land for permission to iginal proceedings to test stitutionalty of the natiom: tion constitutional amendm: Solicitor Gen. King in leged that the state of Rho failed to state facts original proceedings. If th one that should be instif] added, the federal governm be named as defendant, b could be done only with the government. At the same time Attos Thomas F. McCran of Ni asked dismissal of similar| {ings brought on behalf of liquor dealers’ association Jersey to enjoin state authorities from enfo! amendment in that state. support of the associations was filed by counsel for thel tion. Reiterates Contentid Attorney Gen. McCran the contention made by tl ment in its reply filed lasq that the supreme court ha diction in New ' Jersey the state could ng be made a suitor in g action in the supreme courf by a citizen of that state, id New Jersey statutes citizen from bringing lega| ings against the state W consent. In the application it s co court had prohibition ferent from “in that it mes private life of citizen: Protests Congress’ If the proec of the brief asserted, sory brief filed in the tended jurisdiction amendment other in supy New constitu; to T P fure enag valid, {Continued on Fifteent