New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 4, 1920, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press. ¥ \ Y\ ¥, a1 AUS Better Business. i (- ESTABLISHED 1870. NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY —TWELVE PAGES PRICE THREE CENTY BELIEVES GIRL'S SOCIALISTS FALSE Assemblyman Asks It Stricken From Record as “Obviously Impossible” Bit of “Romancing” SAYS CROWD WOULD HAVE MOBBED BROOKLYN SPEAKER Prosecution Today Would Show Louis ‘Waldman Once Said He Would Vote for Universal Training If Soldiers Used Their Guns on Capitalists— Testimony to Be Taken By Depo- | Improvement in Law and Order, | Palmer Tells Gommittee DENIES HE HAS “COLD FEET” Attorney General Does Not Believe in Sedition Legislation Now Pending— Will Do No Good to Repress Evils, Washington, Teh. 4 —Deportation of radicals, country-wide arrests of others and the “vigorous enforcement of existing laws has given notice that the United States intends to keep order and has helped improve con- ditions,” Attorney General Palmer today told the house judiciary com- mittee. The positive intention of the go ernment to punish crimes of ‘“reds” | and communists has created a state of order which would have been im- | | possible without arrests and deporta- | sition. Albany, N. Y., Feb. 4.—A sen tion occurred today at the trial of the five suspended socialist assem- blymen when, just before the lunch- eon recess, Assemblyman Maurice Bloch, a member of the assembly ju- diclary committee, sitting as a tribun- al moved there be struck from the rec ords as “obviously impossible” the testimony yesterday of Miss Ellen B. Chivers, 18-vear-old stemographer, that she hag; seen ~Assemblyman Charles Solom %1, a defendant, spit on ‘the American flag in the presence of a crowd. The motion was denied | by Louis M. Martin, committee chair- man, The girl, who testified under oath she had witnessed the alleged inci- dent on a strect corner in Brooklyn in the summer of 1917, had also tes- tified that before spitting on the flag. . Solomon had refused to give up to 2 detachment of soldiers recruiting « volunteers a platform from which be was delivering. a speech, asserting | that the gutter was good enough for them. Staggers Belief. Assemblyman Bloch declared that the statement that Solomon had been able to dellver these insults and es- cape mobbing “staggers belief,” and showed that the zirl had been “ro- maneing. Counsel for the assembly judiciary | committee, which is trying the five uspended socialist assemblymen on charges of disloyalty announced at | the opening of today’s hearing that | they would seek to prove Assembly- man Louis Waldman, a defendant had made this statement on the floor of the soclalist convention in Chicago | in 1919, Would Support Revolution. “If 1 knew we could sway the hovs after they get suns to use them against the capitalistic class. T would vote in favor of universal military training.” John B. Stanchficld made this an- nouncement in connection with his proposal that a witness in Milwaukee, identified by opposition counsel as J. E. Harrls, formerly city editor of the Milwankee Leader, give his testi- mony by deposition. The witness, | who 18 said to have ‘‘covered” tha | Chicago convention w: to travel to Albany because ous illness of his wife. Seymour Stedman 3 prosecution sou to prove witness asscrting the def: be willing to admit the expenditures of $1.000 which would be incurred if the testimony o taken by deposition. When, however, ha was informed what the prosecution jsought to prove. he agreed to ta of the denosition. mnable of the = ed what the | by | Another Round-Up of Sinn Feiners Takes Plac Dundalk, Ireland. Feb. 4.—A round up of persans supposed to be connect- ed with the S'nn Fein movement oc- curred this morning. Seven porson were arrested, including three mem- | bers of one family and a newly-elect- ed member of the Urban district coun- ofl. plain case of | course, { and overthrow the government. | these threats which are being circu- ! | troduced last November | their wa he added. Palmer denied that he had “a cold feet,” when he failed to appear before the house rules committee several weeks ago to | explain the need for additional anti- | sedition legislation. “Some misunderstanding exists in regard to my attitude towards this | legislation,” he said. Some said 1| had ‘a plain case of cold,feet,’ others that I had ‘turned tail’ That, of | is not correct. I did not at- | tend because I could not give sup- | port to the pending rule for the Sterling-Graham bill.” More harm than good would come from repressive legislation, Mr. Pal- tions, Mr. | mer said, adding that pending mea: ures were so drastic and far-reaching that they would over-reach the pur- poses for which they were intended. “The situation calls for legislation of simple character guarding the bill of rights, but filling a hiatus in laws which exist in present statutes,” said Mr. Palmer. i “There are no federal statutes which are adequate to meet the situa- tion. A kind of revolutionary intent exists in this country on the part of ! aliens and citizens sufficiently wide- spread in character to merit con- sideration of congress. Threats are written by persons who would injure Ani lated on the part of such persons are the kind which do not entitle those ! who employ them to the guarantee of the so-called right of free speech.” Mr. Pulmer said he disagreed with those who claimed revolutionary ut- tionsterances should be met by argu- ments instead of statutory laws. He again urged thal the bill drafted by the department of justice and in- | by Repre- sentative Davey, democrat, Ohio, be | reported favorably. | Would Cancel Recognition Of Jenkins As U. S. Council | Mexico City, Feb. 4—Formalities necessary to cancel official recagmi- , tion of William O. Jenkins as United | States consmlar agent at Puebla are | being carried out Ly the Mexican for- cign office according to a report published by Fl Democrata yesterday. Mr. Jenkins. who was napped | and held far ransom by Frederico Cordoba the bandit, last October was 1 by the Pucbla state authori- of having comnived with the out- 1w to bring about his abduction. Tha se has Leen transferred to the fed- al court where it is pending. Men Favor Retur;ing To Work Pending Increase Boston. Feb. 4.—The 1,200 freight- handlers of the Boston and Albany 1nd Boston and Maine railroads who ve been on strike for s’x days took a vote today upon the recommenda- tion of union leaders that they return to work as a condition preliminary to the announcement of a decision upon | ge demands. Tt was to expe- dite this award that the strike was| declared The result of the vote was| not announced, but it i$ understood that the men were in favor of re inz to work. LANDLORD GETS HIMSELF IN HOT WATER | WHEN HE NOTIFIES TENANTS OF RAISE Woman Finds That a Boiling KeflT«: is of Mgre Avail Than Mere Words of Protest, And Uses covery to Advantage estate deal- ments zled over to with an t only refuses to cks up his e of hot water. The landlord, for such he is, has really gotten himself into “hot water” and thereby hangs this tale. Because of the high cost of living ot cetera ad infinitum Mr. Meltzer felt yesterday that it was his duty to increase the rent of his tenants. and with this thought in mind began a tour of his properties to notify said tenants of said increase. Everything went smoothly, accord- ing to the story, until Mr. Meltzer | told his tenants about the raise in ihe rents, Then there folloed a num-~ T do in New B iny the questi unruly tenant w} pay the rent. but fusal by the ti | | { Her Dis- ber of informal debates on the ques- tion ‘Resolved, That if 1 raise my rents ant. must pay the feerence.’ According to nt this mo winning the a the Ilerald's_ infor- | g Mr. Melizer was ment, and it looked as if he would be awarded the decision. About that time, however, he faccd unforescen difficulties. One of tenants, a woman, finding that her arguments were not in themselve convine! ttie of hot water from the stove and directed its contents against the person of the landlord 4 landlord retired in seized n ke ! first two units to begin cut cities and towns. next highest to the unusually cases brought to the attention of the board yesterday. practically lishment in the city has begun to feel the weakened working forces. tendance at schools has likewise been depleted both in respect to pupils ar teachers, wh week in public auditoriums have been called off because of the illness of the speaker. hygiene lecture; speak in the the associ because of able to speak. was meeting tomorrow PROSECUTION RESUMES | spiracy 1 beyond the happenings in was ar the | disorder, and immediately after sought counsel legal and otherwise, from Attorney Albert A. Greenberg. Mr. Greenberg is said to have ad- vised his client to drop the case. 'GONDITIONS BETTER | ‘FLU" SITUATION TESTIMONY AGAINST' SINCE REDS’ ARREST BEGOMES SERIOUS Mayor's Relief Organization I Called Upon to Assist CITY NOW_;IAS 749 CASES New Britain Now Loads State in Num- | ber of Suffercrs—DMereantile lishments Ave Hand Hit—Lectures Arc Postponed. be e to alth board today of 102 new influ- sufferers, bringing the city's to- tal to 749 and complications in ather cases already reported to have been notcd. reported this morning totalled nine. Physicians about the city are not inclined to regard the epidemic in a Reports have light vein nor do they feel the cases to | be as mild as was first Teported. The mayor has issued a call for nurses and late this that the emergency organization, com- posed of welfare organization: throughout the city will begin work tomorrow. The plan is to h the health board, visiting nurse tion, charity organization, tuber lasis relief committee, war board and tted Cross co-operate to epidemic which has taken on serious proportions. Mayor Quigley was in consultation with Chairman M. H. Camp aof the health board this afternoon and to- gether they worked out a plan for placing the relief organization operation. The health board and vis iting nurse association will be the the active drive and gradually the other units will be worked in. In the state report on the epidemic today, official figures place this city far in the lead of all other Connecti- Of the total of 1090, New Britain had 274 while the s 116. This was due lly large number of Several of the City hall offices and every mercantile estab- of the “flu” effec through The at- a least two lectures hetd th while at werz to ' have,bsen F. sex to but that Dr. Seerley, a w scheduled M. C. A. tonight, tion has been notified influenza he will be un- Prof. Strayer, who addressed a teachers’ is similiarly il to have PROBE OF NEWBERRY Shows How Letters Were Sent For His Signature G In New York. Grand Rapids, Mich., Feb. turing of the wbery —Pic- atorial campaign in the trial here of the sen- | s of con- ed today New York in December, 1917, to the headquar- ters of the campaign organization in Detroit. The defense centered its efforts trying to introduce, by cro: min ator and 122 others an charg: and fraud, progr in tion of government iwitnesses a con- | versation at a New York club betw Col. Reosevelt, Commander Newber and several Michigan political leade but was blocked by a court ruli The fact that the conve: tion taken place was disclosed over the ob- Jjctions of the government. James Sweinhart, head of the New Yerk bureaun of the Detroit News, and M4 former inayor of troit, were allowed to say thai visit to the club had taken place it was also brought out that the affair ged by Frederick Cody o These witnesses rald, the ma also to meet: York between Cody, Newh: and Robert and Milton O: troit political leaders. A fo er, W. B. Frast told of se the and New York ral young committee. They testimony the name fendants but were q he oflice. se B. ployed Deiame by the defendant, as o stenozrapher. Hartford, st for New B and vicinity Cloudy, probably snow tonight; Thursday, unsettied. 2 ! | i | | * e the | combat the into | had De- | and Ed- | VON LERSNER RESIGN | S WHEN ALLIES DEMAND PRISONERS; COUNCIL IN EXTRA SESSIOI Ambassadors Assem- ble Immediately to Consider German Re- fusal to TransmitList of “War Criminals” the board | Pneumonia cases | {COMMUNIQUE TO Officials Believe Allies Will Press Central afternoon announced | Powers to Surrender For Trial Feb. 4.—The of ambassadors was call Allied council d into extra- ordinary session this morning to dis- | cuss the situation creatcd by the res nation of Baron Kurt von Lersner, head of the German mission here. on was held in the Fre cflice. ) dor, gn Hagh ambai.s: Wallace, the who afterwarc tended the meet- had ia that h statements 1o make gardin 1t known communique would be the day. This te would not be was made that an official issued ment however, tssued until after the second meeting cf the councili which for 6:30 lock thi ening, it French oft Meanwhife sftuation arisi refusa to rccused G is lacking trans the acti tive would mination of extraditions. In Fre explaine the zeneral indifferenc ! dition stion manitested - public there was an important rea why the Allies should insist upon the execution of the the tr relating to the not the influence Aliies to demand the ir to make | every pos to avoid ! execution of not only this but of other S of the treaty, and that ave way on this point it would ered in Berlin as a precaden | on which to found demands for fu ther modif tions. pointed out that, dven in the head of the Geoerman ron von Lersner, and the charge d'affaires, Dr. Wilthelm Mayer, who returncd to Berlin last we hortly ofter heing reccived by Premier Millerand. it would be a ple matter 1o bave the list of cused in Rerlin the represen‘atives of the ore. n Lersacr gave out n~d statement in rted hi reasons ; to transmit the ac- of Fov- ona Allied presented ! ernments now t While Baro { mothing but the s which ricfly s for res the list serv i on his s | ing his depa decision of | committins he the impre is initiative in and course, acting announc- not Hvernment to any cific is deportatiol o district; the Duke with me Field M shal von Kluck, wirh the assassination of hostages at Senlis and the massacre vilians at Field Mar- fts and von der j the ) i c | .with crueltics at the Ceneral von Cessel, Doheritz camy Rodiger ber. camp; cruelties at with the Gen- « | eral von Manteuffel. with the { | the Louvair Valentiner and C: bmarine out Tesma, with t ilians at Allon; sky, with the pill the execution of 13 civil jor von Bulow with d murders, at Aerscaot. Lieut. We = von cexecution of v - General von row- of Deynze and ans, and Ma- truction and BE ISSUED LATER || 'NATHAN JARTMAN AND Men Wanted | ch | American | rel business in no | { tured. | Jartmans foreign | i struck the mctor | run i high where i brr ! Bull of Plginville at the | Bow: | elder if the | {as a dans | first Jewish residents of New Britain. the | not | Crown | 1 K ! he had THREE AMERICAN RELIEF WORKERS MURDERED BY BRIGANDS IN —The murder of i SYRIA three American Washington, Feb. < reported today to the state de- elief workers in Syria partment. The Americans were part of a convoy for American relief supplies and were kitled by brigands on February 1 near El Mali, north of Aleppo. The names of the Ameri- cans were not given in the dispatch. The relief expedition was under the auspices American committee for the relief of the headquarters of which are in New York. Official notification of the killing of the Americans was given by General Gourard, the French high commissioner at Beirut to American Vice Consul McCutcheon at Beirut. General Gourard formally expressed his regret. the the of Near East, HIS SON HIT BY TRAIN Were Crossing Tracks in Plainville; Elder Man May Not Recover. Woman, And Her Chil dren Suffocated. New York, Feb. Morgan, wife of William Forbes M gan, a broker, with her ters, Barbara, 14, and Ellen, their lives in a firc early today in the West Ninth street. Mrs. Morgan Elien were suffocated by smoke the bathroom while attempting escape while Barbara was death in tho hallw: was 41 years old Mr. Morgan is a member Nathan Jartman and his son, Louis, both of whom are engaged in the bar- New Britain, were ' seriously injured this morning at 10 o'clock when a large automobile truck cn which they were riding was struck by train bound for Hartford at the st strect railroad crossing in Plain- ville. The elder Jartman is not ex pected to recover, as his skull is frac- —Mrs. 10, Morgan home, truck, which is owned the ind is used for ! crossing the East street d crossing in Plainville when it | struck by the east bound train. It | sumably ad threw the nto an emimakpent sic teet it remaired in the yard rwrzaret Bowen. The ically demolished. The two Jartmans were - thrown from the truck ani landed near the cks. The iather sustained a frac- = air. tured skull and numerous beody The son sustained a frac- and severe lacerations of the face and body bridis The 1n- jured pair were attended by Dr. J. N. home of M near which the accident o wrred. and they were then taken to the New Britain General hospital, At that institution it was stated tbat the Jartman is not expected to re- not regained con- after noon. ce was from New Brit $h the injured men to the hcspital and Louis was placed in the ambulance first. He objected strenucusly being taken care of first, exhibiting solocitude for his fath The son remained con- Affair. t scious thro 1ut the oad crossing in The by of and Co. Ellen was overcome as she pounding with her litile fists on bathroom: window. She fell bac to the t frocated. Her nig had caught fire in her dash thro the hal but despite the she climbed up on the odze of tub and strove to beat a Hole in window enoush to let Sh ing when she ccllapsed. Mrs. her children, imprisoned on the floor to which she fought through the smoke and heat from bedroom d>wnstairs. servants in the house. Mre, Morgan was Miss Edith ingston Hall, daughter of t Valentine G. Hall. She was : of Mrs. Lawrence Waterbu late Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt and Mrs, St Mortin Before marria, Feb . she prominent in socie DRY LAW FORCED in the center, of Mr was pr: tured arm cover The police ¢ called to The Fast et rail Plainville is unprotected gmen. It has ous cro. { Prohibition Was the Cause of Sh £ the citl zens of that town have agitated the matter at various fimes. Tt s re cently decided to take it up with the public utilitics commission. Nathan Jartman lives &t this ci He v ping Board's Selling Old Germa Vessels, Says Payne. Washington, Feb. 4 former German passenger liners s tho outbreak of the forced on the shippi operation of the nat law, Chairman Payne is under have told President Wilson. Mr. Payne was said to have ten the president that the co! 21 Dewey atre one of the | ., ¢ graduate of the board by school where he He is also a is a Hizh son Louis w Britain starred in foothall. graduate veterinary surgeon. having : at the TUniversity of Pennsyl- He served overs tooc studie vania. W CONTRAST How tion with privateiy-owned ship which wine and .other liquors rved. He was understocd said th 1 ) that on its liners pi ! and elsewhere p for those ships The chairma forth in a lett > presi lating to the controversy betwe: board and the war department cerning the sale of the ships o told 11 d did not object to include in t case a clau a right to re event of a - d not Martens Shows g to Sonth Ame Ny all booki :en cancelle Americans Are Released in Russia While He i Held Tlere, 4 —Ludwig C. A ntative in this ian soviet govi taday a cablegram . Marte repr country of the Rus me b sent to o sistant . Red C ed in Siberia t Pend‘ng said in a clatives ational righ yiding that titl ¢ > outright ng t t would be treat ed to Litvinoff that ttentio ot ian citizens d while threats of the soviet to the “incongruit the A in Am nd himself is u tion the by ne of the shipping board o s » committee to interest the inve public in the value of jes. Mr onfrent bankers of rested Martens depor pin; board wa lem of ling ships. the va of wh 000,000,00 1y times priv ing int consequently it was de ucate the people to an apprecial the relaticn of the me ine to commerce and industry Apportioned to France 1c e y el t.—The German { and Wotan s ince th Hera pportioned to left for Scotland have been lying, to it was announced have I e s and crews have where the vessels bring them here, today. W government | not operate the liners on which | intoxicants were not sold in competi- | aggreg: DAUGHTERS DIE IN FIRE: requested. Mrs. Edith Morgan, Society | Edith |{ or- two daugh- lost | that broke out burned to | Morgan the brokerage Arm of Morgan, Livermore was the flames the | the | i in fresh had made only a tiny open- Morgan died trying to rescue top v her wa her There were no Liv- e of her was| SALE OF SHIPS hip- n war W the 1 to on con- It was The war department had objectod = to Head of Hun Pe Delegation Retu List tc Premier- Declaration that | “Ouits”_ | WILL RETURN TO BERLIN TONK 1 | !Says He Warned That |BROKER'S WIFE AND TWQ ~ Weud Be s Acki rrender Of Officers Paris, head af th here, has return and the list con Germans whose extradition manded by the allies, whi handed to him last night and formed the premier that he Y | signed and is leaving for Berlin| | first train. | Baron von ciated Pr with the a threughout extradition. no German mental claus quent ! a ge | left for { 2o home. l Immediately after receiving i t night Baron von Lersner g following letter to Feb. 4 Ge —Kurt von LJ peace deld to Premier ing the na man Lersner told thd his de on was tude he had mai regarding the ques He declared he h officials could be n carrying out the exty of the trea and, the matter having com nite final form there was him to do but to res i 1 ency has transal { me a note containing the ! Germans whose cxtradition manded by the allied powers, : the Jast three ¥ 105t seriously laid befo: of the allied and as] | governments. ten times in writ ! times orally the reasg | ible to comply with sud i . no matter he soc! | > accused 1 be. ! g your cellency] ! constantiy repe ratid ; no German would) be functionary posed to in strumentz demand be inst ward te note send it lization) xtradition./f it T weke ernment fice and next tr (Sizn 9, Poland . The na in the fir wre prefe tio: nal prohibition | | ed to su | say that { repor! followin Ficid in 1914: G Germ mander in Louvain Field M er of t Stenger, man in ma. the comma thers, one 18 of of wa Wer and commas e the Goer Max von tain tary g von Cappel rve | zate “hasing power ion n - L gned rath insmit the