New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 8, 1920, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press. NEW Herald “Ads” Mean Better Business. ESTABLISHED 1870. NEW BRITAIN. CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1920. —TWELVE PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS ADMINISTRATION OFFICERS EXPECT WILSON TO PUT HIS N. G. STAMP ON LODGE RESERVATION TO ARTICLE X .‘President Will Make{200 ARRESTED, 100 HELD; FEDERAL MEN RAID WATERBURY CUMMUNISTS Of Those Taken in Sunday’s Clean-Up of Alleged Anti- American Organization, One Was a Wom- an—Accused Taken to Hartford. Know His Opinion In Letter To Senator Hitchcock MAY GIVE OUT TEXT OF HIS VIEWS TODAY | allcgea to be active { whose principles are opposed to the Has Discussed Taft Reserva- ;. tion But is Not Committed to Approve or Reject It. —President the prab- the March tate his position on - J.odge reservation to article X. {“ably today, it was announced at ‘White House. His attitude on this and other ‘reservations will be outlined in a lct- ter to Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, the administration leader. He will not sec Senator Simmions, democrat, North Carolina, as request- ed by Senator Hitchcock, but will write Senator Simmons telling him she matter is sufficiently covered in his reply to Hitcheock. Letter Completed Today. The president’s letter to Senator Hitchcock was put in final form thi morning. In it the president was said to have made his pasition as clear as he did in his conference with Senator Glass, Virginia, two weeks ago. Administration offizials said the president would not accept the Lodge reservation to article X. They dis ~&lcsed that he had discussed the so “called Taft reservation to article X h Senator Glass and that while he had not stated his approval of it. he did not say he would not accept it. In an effort to hring the peace treaty to another ratification vote within the next few days senate lead- ers were working today for same greement that would hold down de- bate and center the fight as soon as pussible on the decisive question of article X | | o | £ NI | republican, Idaho, irrecencilable op- gave notice Sat- that he would move today to up article X. at once. but he his motion in abeyance to gee ‘whether a method of hastening action | might not be worked out. Six reser- vations remain to be di fore article X. is reached Sena- tor Lodge of Massachus repub- lican leader, wants to go on without interrupting the regular order of busi- ness. 1 When the senate met the resorva- tion pending before it was that de- claring that any decision of the leagte regarding reduction of armaments should not apply to the United States 7@t any time of actual or threatened hostilities. . A substitute worked out in the ré- fcent bipartisan conference and pre- f sented in the senate by Senator New, ¥republican, Indiana, would say instead ! that no armament plan of the league should be binding on this nation until ¢ongress had accepted it Armament Centrol. A modified reservation affirming "pational control over armaments was i adopted, 49 to nine democrats— Chamberlain, Oregon; Gore, Okla- *homa; King, U Kirby, Av 2 Nugent, Idaho; Reed, Missour! and Smith, Geor: The reservation, as amended on motions of Senators New, republican, of Indiana, and McCormick, of II! nois, follow s “Na plan for the limitation of ar- maments proposed by the council of | the League of Nations under the pro-! visions of ‘Article 8 shall be held binding the United States until same shall have heen accepted congress, and the United States serves the right to increase its arma- ment without consent of the council whenever the United States is threat jened with invasion o enzaged In h ¥ Senator Borah. spokesman for the ponents of the treaty, | | i Shields, Tennessec, voting for it. as the | by re- var, MANY GAUGHT IN HARKET Court Deci- it False Report of Supremc sion Causes Some to Sell Before Is Corrected. New York. reports issued by tickers that the T had declared stoc took Wall sireet b and caused heavy eral list.© Reuct fro: the | ¥ were made all the notably General Moto 3Crucible Steel, American Woolen, Mexican Petroleum, = Baldwin Loco- motive and Atlantic Gulf. The market made full recovery when it was found that taxation of stock dividends as income has been decided unconstitutional. Tn a few March S$.-——Erroneous financial news Supreme Court dividends taxable prisc tods of the to points ¢ morning ctive S. Ning ns of en- ices of a issies, t Rubber, | { | was stated this morning, { retire from hho str jr i Candy that | f | March —Fede! with the lacal police, a here terday, in organizations Waterbury, agents who, rested 200 Russians welfare of the United States, have de- cided to hold 100 of the total number i arrested for the immigration officials. The men will most likely be taken to Hartford this afternoon. One woman of four arrested is held and will, be taken to Hartford with the men. The organi- zation to which the men belonged are the Union of Russian Workers, the Unian of Russian Citizens and the communist part, The raids were FALLS THREE STORIES Thomas Cully, Supernumerary Police- man, Badly Injured While Working as Carpenter—Taken to Hospital. of 136 Sexton street, supernumerary po- lice department. was badly injured this morning when he fell from a house he was working on as a carpen- ter, a distance -of three stories. He was'taken to the New Britain general hospital where it i sustained injury to his spine. Thomas Cully a member of the { Councilman Stadler to Leave the City Service ! Councilman John H. Stadler is to the council because of of business requiring his undmded attention, and his place ! be left open for S e Councilman . Stad- ler was elected recently to fill a yva- cancy. Tle was in the council sev al years ngo as an alderman. He cently took = place with the Kibbe comp: a salesman ana position will make it impossible him ny os for VILLA IN “STALLED FOR 36 HOURS Conductor Schncider and Motorman j#Stanley Have Lonely Vigil {,})lapl(‘ Hill But Are Fed Well, at nductor Roland Schneider Motorman Fred Stanley, Ly the Connecticut Hartford-New to their homes night after and employed company on the Briwin run, returned at 11 o'clock last having heen stalled with their car at Maple Hill for 3¢ hou They left this city at 3 o'clock ¥ day afternoon, and on the return tip from lartford were stalled by the ic. and snow at Maple Hill, Despite their isolated position, the trolley men fared pretty well as Maple 1ill residents kept them sup- plied with hot coffee, muffins and other e .ibles. Additional Applicants To Naturalization Court In addition to the list of applicants for naturalization whose names were published last week, the following ons will have their applications heard by the naturalization court tomorrow: 3 From ltaly—Joe Reak, Domenico Donati, ¢ o Bertoli, Giovanni Gar- bellini. Carmini Montouri and Frank Sirianni. From rendt, Wenig. From Greai Britain—Adgar and Joseph Contois. From Sweden—Martin A. Ernest Svenson and Pherson. From Pers Russian Poland—Julius Louis Berkowtiz Be- and Samuel Hamel Carlson, Charles 0. RETINF (PI\( ll\lF\1 S PROMISED. ndon, March 8.—Premier ced in the house of commons that prompt meas- had taken the Krench ment to send reinforcements to Gen. Genraud., commander-in-chief of the French forces in the east for the purpose of re-establishing his position nd preventing further attacks on Armenians. ures heen by gove PRISON FOR LIFE Boston, March 8.—Joseph Sammar- co who was found guilty of murder instances stocks exceeded their high- est quotations of the morning, espe- ially certain issues on which extra ’dividends are expected ss a result of today’s decision in the second degree for Killing Po- lice Officer Wm. G. Clancy at Charlestown dance hall, was sen- tenced today to imprisonraent for life. that he as ! feated thatibic hashi e hearmal | ranks. aspiring second ! i BOSTON SYMPHON | | l, 1 = ! | | | Lloyd | v | which was asked to attend council meetings. | been granted as vet. LIMELIGHT AGAIN; HOLDS AMERICAN FOR RANSOM OF $50,000 I Ames made vesterd: noon at the old Con- cordia hall at 305 Bank strect where the Union of Russian Citizens was holding a meeting, and the Olympia hall at 285 Bank street, where the communists were gathered. A pair of brass knuckles was found an the person of Philip Arisky, one of the men arrested. These were the only weapons found. Judge William J. Larkin, Jr., in the city court this morning, fined Arisky $50 and costs on a charge of carrying concealed weapons. An appeal was.taken by Attorney William P. Wertheimer, who is caunsel for all the persons taken into custody. STRIKE IS ENDED Musicians Return At Request of Man | in Whose Defense They Left Organization. Boston, March §—The Boston Sym- phony orchestra, which was almost disrupted by a strike of 35 players at its regular concert Saturday night | today ‘with full The strike was abandoned at the request of Frederick Fradkin, the former concert master whose dis- | charge for publicly snubbing Conduc- | tor Pierre Monteux was some of the players. After the rehearsal the who are members of a newly organ- ized union held a meeting at which it was said demands made upon the management would he formuluted. An advance of $1,000 a year for all crs has been requested and re- ition of the union recently has not resented by players Up ! Several and i Rebel Leader Holds Train, Kills Captures U. S. Veteran of | World War. { at the El liams, Paso, an March §.—Joseph Wil- American employe of the «“American Smelting and Refining Co. plant at Pedricena, Mexico, is a cap- tive in the hands of Francisco Villa, held for $50,000 ransom, according to passengers from Southern Chihuahua who have arrived at Juarez, Mex., op- posite here. W ms served in the VVo_Vld war and was returning‘to the United States for treatment, stil suffering from the effects of German gas. i i Holdup Last Thursday He, with M. Nazar. an Arabian merchant, was made prisoner by Villa when the bandit: leader directed an attack on the northbound Mexico City-Juarez i Thursd morning 400 south of El Paso. 29 Killed in Battle, In a fight between Villa’s men and the train guard ten bandits and 19 of the train guard were killed and the remaining 50 defenders either wound- | ed or driven off. The train and | sleeping car conductors were among | the dead, the lutter being killed by ! a shot from Villa's pistol, the passen- gers said. Villa Moved to Tea When the fighting ceased bandits herded the travelers small hill near the track la_ harangued and with death. Later, witnesses, he broke into tears and told them he would spare their lives out of respect to the memory of Gen. Felipe Angeles, who recently was | executed by Carranza authorilies at | Chihuahua City Willizunis and to accompany t the to a where Vil- threatened them according to e M. Nazir were forced t bandits when they rode away leaving the other passen- | =ers marooned in a desolate country | bereft of their belongings and cloth- ing which had hcen taken by . the rebhcls, Fngi According ¢ is Dynamited. to I J. Peltie an han- | the They 0 the City, who said he was roughly dled and threatened with death, bandits numbered about 300. stopped the train by placing track a charge of dynamite ! wrecked the engine ‘into a discussion of the | was my duty | opinion that a cover can citizen resident of Mexico | | which | ADMITS WHOLESALE. | CORPORATION STOCK DIVIDENDS NO KILLING OF WOMEN SUBJECT TO INCOME TAX, IS RULI Kentucky Murderer Tells of Slay- | ing at Least Four STRANGLED HIS VICTINS Former Soldier, Central TFigure in February 9 11 Lesington Riots of 5 to Be Exccuted on March For Death of Child. .. March §.—Will Lockett, slayer of Geneva Hardman, ten years old, and central fizures riots at Lexington, February 9, toc confessed to the murder of two other persons, the probable murder of 2 third and another frustrated attempt. All his victims were women. Each was strangled, except Hardman child whose head crushed with a stone. Tells of His Crimes. Lockett’s victims, he told Warden Chiften in his cell in death road of the Eddyville penitenitiary, were white woman whom he attacked and killed at the junction of the Lou ville and Nashville and = Big ¥our railroad at Carmi, 111, in 1912 or 1913 a negro woman chocked, assaulted and left for dead, at Governor and Canal streets, Evansville, Ind., in 1917 and a woman of whose he was in doubt, ulted «nd chocked to death near Camp Zachar Taylov, Louisville, in February 1919 while he was in the army. Lsockett further confessed his name is Petrie Kimbrough and he was reared near Pembroke, He fled from that loeality he in 1905 after he had attempted assault a white woman on the farm of Ben Miller in Todd coun Lockett is condemned to die i1 the electric chair here March 11 for the murder of the little Hardman girl. Eddyville, K he true that E 'MAYOR EXPLAINS HIS STAND ON TAXATION. Also Gets After Those Who Assail Administration on This Ground. have attacke: ound Assailing those who his administration on ation and goinz at some length the subject of taxation in this Mavor George A. Quigley this noon gave out the following inte: relative to the matter which will settled at the polls tomorrow: “It was not my intention to en tax rate it wa intention to let so far as 1 was concerned., polls without discussion: hat, solicitation of many publ who urged that 10 endeavor to show fallacy of a low tax rate, 1 have con- sented to discuss the matter and ex- plain the necessity of a tax which, to some people, seems un- reasonable. tem Dbeen devised into city, rather matter, to the m 1t the spirited citizens, not or to of taxation has which has been be made equitable according views of many who pay a tax. we all desire a government to be run as cheaply as possible, with the least possible extravagance or waste, yet 1 think all people are unanimous in the Zovernment should be of th can th progressive, run in the interest people and not in the interest of the politician and selfish property owner; neither should it be used as a sanc- tuary for those violators of law who have endeavored and will always c¢n- deavor to creep into the favor of an dministration throu political in- fiuence and use influence 1o up their violat The when weighing criticism of a ment, consider well the individual element that offers the cri whether the criticism be destructive. Your that you interest inter goy it refo ions. duty sider or requires ernment’s your own sclfish false economy in as a true economy; practice the latter without. fe: Too little attention is paid ta ernmental matters by the av ¢ izen. The average citizen p: attention to his government as as it does not interfere in any with his liberty or make calls his purse. ‘When vour g before you consuli st. There rnment as behoove and co is a voll o it us pructice s it- little tong way Vs was made board of approved hy nolitical the new hudget up afor 1920-1921 by the finance and taxation and common council, the lacking. T1 a bi-partisa the cle ment was made up by WEATIELR. March 8.—Forecast ain and vicinit cloudy to- Hartford. for New Br Warmer and nizht and OF UNITED STATES SUPREME COUR 'MEN, BE BOSS IN YOUR OWN HOME, IS|This Provision of is in | | O’Connel told | the the | Al | a father could color | Residents to | I idents to of tax- | after- | ed, 20 | rate vet| While | govern: upon | fourt CGARDINAL O’CONNELL’S GOOD ADVICE Prelate Says Women Are Becoming Masculine and Men Effeminite—Scores Girls For Their Im- modesty—Fears Extravagance. | children, especially the sirls, running CASE ONE OF MOST rampant without any consideration IMPOR’I‘ANT SmD for modesty.” Headship of the fam- ily, he id, meant that the father should look after the morals of the whole family. The evil of extravagant expen ture, which The predicted would cause a financial reaction in America to some degree similar to that which has caused Europe’s virtual bankruptey, was criticized. The car- dinal argued also against what he I id was a continval clamor for more line, if you please, and the men ar pay by workingmen and advised that | ¥ becoming effeminate,” he said. ““This { they be on their guard against a spir- is disorder.” it working underhanded for perpetual Cardinal O’Connell. questioned how ! strikes with the purpose of destroy- “look on and see his ing organization and industry. MARSANS SIGNS CONTRACT Cuban come Tax Act of 19 is Declared Uncons tutional. Boston, March 8.—Growing weak- of the men of the countr de- cloping a sinister feminism Cardinal gathering of men at cathedral of the Holy Cross last night. Man, as the head of the house, he should assert his proper au- ! tho in the home. Failure to do this, serted, leads to a false feminism, which unless it is curbed in time will have d strous results for hu- mani “The women are becoming mascu- ne v Court Divided 5 to 4; Jusf Holmes, Day, Bran And Clark Dissenting. the cardinal as- | GOVERNMENT MUST*GIVE BACK MILDIONS TAKEN SINCE LAW WAS. PASSE: Under the-court’s rulinggih federal government must fund millions of dollars in t:ax collected on stock dimiden since the 1916 law became, e fective. Internal revetrae reau officials said today the-e: act total of the refunds coul not be estimated at this tim and-that it woud not be know) until afl claims had been fil and computed. COMMUNITY HALL AND STORE IN BELVIDERE Famous With Local Team, Will Wear Red: Player, Formerly of Stanley Quarter Con- Sox Uniform This Summer. Boston, March 8.—The return to organized baseball of Armanda Mar- sans the Cuban outfielder formerly with the Cincinnati Nationals and New York Americans is announcea from the spring training camp of the Boston Americans at Hot Springs, Ark. Marsans signed a contract with a Red Sox agent at Havana yester- day, it was stated. The arrangement by which the local club obtained Marsans’ services from New York was not made public. ibute to Fund and Will ect Frame Building Soon. Residents of Stanley Quarter have clubbed tozether and contributed to a generay fund for the establishment of a combination co-operative meat and grocery store and community embly hall, which they propose to erect upon = newly acquired tract of land on North Stanley street near the end of the car line. The corporation has a capital of several thousand dol- lars and is continually adding new members and additional capital in amounts ranging from $10, which is the minimum, to $100. It is the plan of the north end res- build a frame building. t Toor of which wili serve as th cond floor the dance 1 and assembly room. The build- inz lot purchased is obposite the An- drews homestead By judicious buy- ing of quantities of goods at a time, is expected that the cost of ing can be cut. A 10 per cent. discount Tias heen promised those who become members of the corporation. Due to the fact that there are few stores near at hand and for several other reasons. it has been an easy matter to interest the residents of Belvidere in the enterprise and gen- erous subscriptions have been report- | Washington, March 8.—Pron of the income tax act of 19t6 as income stock dividends decl by corporations out of earnings profits accruing subsequent to M| 1, 1913, were held uriconstitut today by the supreme court. Justice Pitney in rendering court’s opinion said stock divid are no more than a “book ad ment” and do not change the nal character, mutual relations or ¢ terests of a corporation. | Federal Court Upheld. ! The court uphelds:federat cour crees denying the authority of gress to tax stock dividends awarding to Myrtle H. Macombe 367, which she had paid under test on 1,100 shares of new received in January, 1916, as a dividend from the andard O of California. The case was ol a series in which J. P. Morgan, bert L. Pratt and others had tioned the validity of the aet. Court officials id the case one of the most important at tc'm and that determination of] questions involved affects thous of investors. The court divided 5 to 4 Jus Holmes and Day joining in one senting opinion and Justice Brai and Clark in another. + Majority Opini Justice Pitney in opinion said a stock dividend essence not a dividend hut rathe: WAGE DEMANDS OF 2,000,000 TO BE DISCUSSED WEDNESDAY Washingtgn, March 8.—Represen- tatives of the railroad brotherhoods and the roads will meet here Wed- nesday to hegin negotiations looking ito a settlement of the wage demands of the 2,000,000 railway workers. The machinery with which an effort will be made to settle the dispute is that provided for in the railroad bill. oun.d and store it WILSON Washington, March 8.—President Wilson went riding tod: in an open automobile. He was accompanied by Mrs. Wilson, Rear Admiral Grayson and Wilmer Bolling, Mrs. Wilson's brother. OUT AGAIN. GRABS REVOLVER, SHOOTS UP HOUSE, WOUNDS PARENTS WHILE HE DREAMS 19 Year Old Danbury Youth Subdued Only After Being i Hit on Head—Is Placed Under Arrest. SUPREME COURT TO CONSIPER R. I. CASE | separated from the com fund,” he said, “nothing distyib excep! peper certificates that dence an antccedent ine: i value of the stockholders terest resulting from an accumuid of profits by the company, but ps so far absorbed in the business 4 render it impracticable ta sepd them for withdrawal ard distrib “Far from being a realizatio profits of the stockholder, it ther to postpone such realiz in that the fund represented by new stocks has heen transferred urplus to capital and no long] ilable for actual distribution.| FIRE AT MT. HOLYOKE Badiy Legality of Enforcement Act and Constitutionality of Prohibition Amendment Involved. ged in i apparent- Komp, 19 Komp of nd mother outskir of last night and injured them during the strugzle that followed. Father in Hospital elder Komp, who is the lLansden electric wifacturers who have a factory is in the Danbury hospital with bullet wounds, one in his shoul- | ind the other in his hip, and ! Incerations caused by blows and bites. one which required cight to close. Mrs. Komp. who has two wounds upon \pparently caused by <on under arrest ssault with intent to | . Wheelei, general counsel for city court today was | anti-saloon league. announced 1 vould apply for permission to tile Runs brief in these two cases supporting Komp famaly the legality of the enforcement act. X N handsome 5 ort d When My, and last hi their tabl a March battie while Franklin M. of Frank shot his father home on the 1t midnight Washington, March S.—Legality of several portions of the enforcement act as well as the general question of the constitutionality of the prohibition amendment to ti constitution were involved in arguments set for today in the supreme court. The question of constitutionality involved in the original proceedings brought by the e of Ithiode island to have the sunendment deelared invalid and its enforcement cnjoined. In presentiv their argumenis attorneys for Rhode island expectea to be joined by New s whose attorney general had insiructed to ask permission to proceedings and par- ipate in the arguments. 1lity of sections of the enforce- 1 were involved in ca cd from federal court de and Mussachuset Danbury, i i dream, old. son city, their city this e in this a otherwise is esperatc The the head of m: her s afford Hall Dormitory aged—Girls Help Firemen With Blaze. South Hadley, Safford hall. one of t} Mount Holvoke colle damaged by tire today. Owi drifts_ firemen were unable 1o the calle Townspecople, opera in nearby mills and the college fought the fames, which wers P vented from spreading to other i lege . buildin The > the basement. Bucket bri formed and a zroup of stude a hole in the pond the from which wate 1s pot fire. When it was seen that apparently would not 1t the whole building ‘\en?ur‘cd throt roon to roc 'nuln the windows om hand ta hat o, 1wo Mass., Marech rmitori w der smilar of stitches " her 3 is the a builet ehar, home, head. one he is the he on Kill held the and i in Amuck. moved here a few months tome on Clapboa ince north of the Mrs. Komp on Sunday - tol oy Boy The lrooklyn, to from | Lewiston, Me., Shows 20.8 Per Cent. in Population March 8.—Population 192 announced today by the cau included: Ot- tumwa 003, an increase of 991, o g ent 1910, J.ewt: u a thel { n re- ed ated a was se schoot Washington, were atistics for shots | with at | o cc 1nd in ¢h ha over n increase Fverett Wash., Youth r< Nothing. d urcfootes went CD SNnoOw. the re struck At the sed the Temembe ent. family. 1 ARMODY PAFERS PASSED o Sy o 5 tact of la i “FERRED. [ ;5 schiool hoard werr March 8.—Action m\‘ and filed in the office of the tion of Bainbridge Colby | clerk The land ¢ of state, was deferred | chased £50.000 Ly the foreign relations]he used poses. an 1 I or 1he Mrs volvers him uy to the iiig one ho and of ACTION AGAIN DE nd it wrested Dasse the youth with Konip from the Washington the nomin to be wgain committee, for at tor ecord cost school =i 1d playsr hlow youns Komp e secr o today n Eleventh Page) »u ‘ontinucd