New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 9, 1920, Page 9

wicd to AN\ " oa man tollow all the advice handed to n he'd have to work three cight-hour shifts a day. We ask you to come into this clotl store and examine the stylish, rezu- lar man-clothes Wwe are selling. Yon can advise yoursclf as to whether they'd put some pep in your n 2 step. The Farrell Clothinz Co. 271 MAIN ST. CITY ITEMS One Dollar reduction on all shoes. S. W. Menus stove. A daughter Britain General ipg to Mr. and ol 31 Seymour street. Don't forget the Tair, State Armory, 15. Fntertainment Tonight, Ady hospital condiiion street by falling on W treet, was improved. The board of health will this afternoon at 3 o'cl K to transact husin girls” stor was born at the New haspital this morn- Mrs. Benjamin tes Rouillard-Linton Arch St. Mar. and dancing each Curley’s Jazz or- evening. chestra.- At the that the ofes Sexton vesterday today it was stated of Thomas Cully who was injured from house meet routine Growing W. Menus HONORS FOR FACTORIES Get Government shoes The S. avt $1.00. Local Concern to Decorations for Eflicient Work in Providing Sinews of War. Gen comma Clavence R. Edwards, wer of the army notitied the fol- ‘tories to send dqguarters at morning at 10 decorations for Major department of the northeast, has loMug New Britain fa representatives to Boston Thursday o'dlack © to receive meritorious wir worl Staniey Works, F. S representative; Corbin Ford, representative; g & Clar representative not - yet |\Aruu1 anley Rule & Level, F. S rlain. representative: ' & [ J. W, Ryan, representative Judd, F. 8. Chamberlain, rep- Chamb ‘crew, Landers, Frary rlain, INNIHQ the wi the factories were pressed apacity spectors wer with the co-o} New Britain to the limit of and the government in- so favorably impressed aton received that the mafer was called ta the attention the Swar department with the result that the local factories are amons the fifsst to be decorat he decoration i§ in the form of ificate con- gratulating and thanking all connect- ed with the factories in any way. The deonration is recorded at department Meadquarters and at the war depart- ‘méht at Washington, D. . BURIED IN SNOWDRIFT Only Smokestack of Locomotive Gws on Central New England Line, , M mole of o rain petween A the March o, the locomotives shows Central New ngland railroad which snowed Saturday Millerton and Plains hkecpsic rn rahch train ame & lied Sagurday morning and last night the i left it and walked to Millerton. Palling and drift how covered the ‘ngine. cab, four cars and caboose. t will not be dug out until tomorrow. Huge drifts on the line are reported vest of 1 s from 15 f 2,000 feet ast of Cc AU Central w running mulled dlen were sent [ray-iffville branch at as hoped this line «torcd today. Th ted line of the New aormal condition ted Only the ack of was in Pine and eas to 20 feet o at 1l Ny late today distance station, for Cook’s iand but trains one was to shove suf out the eld and it would Bridgepor Haven road today. be re- Win- was b _ - Specia 2 ssell pounds hest [ct. 1625-2 Any Hour, Day or Night, TARRANT & HAFFEY * UNDERTAKERS P3 MYRTLE St., East End OMoe, 163 Jubilee 14512, dy Attendant—Frce Use of Parlops. Ovders Taker for Upholstering. TUNERAL I)IRY‘(TORS drews & Doslittle, inc. ~ THE FUNERAL HOME fice anZ Parlors 15 Walnnot Strcet Telenhone. ast Canaan where the depth | =l i i I be i the POLIGE GRAFT HUNT ORDERED BY MAYOR New York Pohoe Gommlsswner To Have Rigid Probe New York. tinued charge March 9.—Stung by con- that members of the police forces are receiving alt from denizens of the underworid, Police Commissioner Inright wrote Mayor sterday asking that the sifted by Chief Magistrs al a John Doe procecding to e instituted for that purpose. The s gestion was immed avted upon hy the . who Magistrat McAdoo to \n in the pro- ceeding after taking the matter up with Commi oner Knright and Dis- irict Attorney Swann ate in the afternoon Magistrate McAdoo sent his veply to the mayor, but declined to make it public. As the mayor had left city ludl the contents of the iet- ter will not be given out until today The commis action is due to the indictment of Detective John J. Gunson, who is alleged 1o have lived with a woman of the streets and shared in her earnings. and to the allegation by Assistant District At- torney Jumes . Smith that other po- licemen and even police officials de- rive profit from disorderly houses. Refers to Smith’s “Blue Book.” In his communication the commis- sioner “De NMayor time during the past sational statements Nl tant district appeared: in the press alleging the existence of a corrupt Iliance be- tween members of this department and the vicious and criminal element in this city. Most of these statements re attributed to this assistant district 2 regarding whose mehod of handling vice and gambling proceed- ings there has becn a great deal of complaint upon the part of a nunrber of the police office “You will remember that some time ago the columns of the newspapers tilled with stories emanating from the same regarding un allezed 'Blue Book' in the paossession of this assistant in which it was stated the names of many police of cials past and present appear. ese tional statements and innuendoes constitute a serious reflec- tion upon the personnel of this org: ization and have a tendency to sh public confidence in the police dep: ment “From the beginning ministration i relentless campaign has been carried on against vice and ambling in this city with splendid results, notwithstanding the fact that we have been handicapped by inade- quate laws and lack of s&ympathy and peration of many sources where complete mpathy and co- operation should be expected. Hasn't Received List He Asked For. “These stories, if they should be investizated and found guilty of any misconduct should be punished. I have requested the list of the locations of the alleged disorderly piaces and the names of pelice officers and ofl s which ant District Attorney Smith about, hut vet I have not sceived it “l therefore, respectfully oni- mend that the chief city magistrate be requested to immediately hold an investigation and bring before him any members of the strict attor- ney's office, any member of the police department. or any other department s well other persons who may have any knowledge of unlawful eon- ditions which may require the atten- tion of the law-enforcing departments of this city. “The so-called other sources of be subpoenaed scandalizers of ment should he evidence for the public and for the canstituted authority. Mayor's Letter to MeAdoo. In asking that a John Doe pro- ceeding Lie innugurated, the mayor wrote Chief Magistrate McAdoo. “Dear Judge McAdoo: Enclosed find copy of letter from Commissioner ) speaks fo ritself. 1 will appreciate it if you take the matter up with the commissioner and distr attorney, and have a John Doe proceeding started. to the end that the gnilty may be punished and that the police can secure the location of the allezed disorderly flats so they can be suppr ed. The district attorney with his inquiry before nd jt i i Jud judge order \dvo n to - from have From time two vea emanatmg attorney orney were source of your ad- cvery one as Blue Book information and the pe stent the police depart- \de to produce their information of the tion of duly and any will proceed wish or that the the is possible to th trate Me- l<rl he is not warranted in open sessions Cites the 1t ‘A John Doe pr L ocur purpose.” s “Witnesses Will be the persons we zre iny able to gel the testimony as fast offered. The people Kknow happened to Rosenthal when he information sgainst the police wowe able to protect our wii- nesses by committing them.” “J believe the public is entitled to whole truth and that no secrecy id prevail.” Mayor Hylon Gifs > have heen any sions of the law, if there are any guilty persons in or out of the pellce deparimen! =we want to know it. We will not spare them. It does not mat- ter what their positions may be.” During the day Jennie Burke anid e Benncit, witnesses nfined in W averley ho under 85,000 vpes.ei hefore Justlce 1 on of habeas corpu tained by Frank Hendrl their torney. Mr, Hendrick said his cllenis had obtalned ball. but that Mr, Smith would not accept it. Furthermore, he snid. he had noi been permiited to consuly with his cliente, Agsistant District toid the justice that hal C eding would de- id Mr. Smith intimidated and estigating will e, as it i what e are she the witnesses should the regular | mayor's | 1 | 'CY | place. said. | transgres- bail | at- | ! concluded { Rhode 1 from Attorney (iibbs {attacking the amendment and [ ers in NEW objected to their being liberated. The matter was put over for argument until this morning. Detective Gunson pleaded not guilty before Judge Malone to charges of bribery and extortion. His bail was continued at $5.000. Ife acted as his own attorney and reserved ten days in which to make any motion he mav think desirable were wanted in the Gunson case and \ i Deaths and Funerals. Catherine Heery. therine Hee widow or Heery, died h 139 Clark s Sh old and was a resident for many years. She Patrick and John duughters, Mrs. ¥ Conlon, Misses Margaret, Ms and Rose Heery. Thce funeral will .be held al & o'clock Thursday morning at St, Mary's church. Kelly Democrat Candidate the at was ot ! AMrs. late Jame her home, 66 vears this city two sons and four Teaves Hec ederick For Council in Fifth Ward | William P. Mrs. John Kelly of fifth ward candidate cratic ticket for the commion council. He is an ex-service man, having vol- unteered to accompany a draft incre- ment to Camp Upton although he was not registered for the draft He was later sent {o West Point to train for a conmmission nd was ¢ igned to motor transport corps. Before enter ing the service he was in the eniploy- ment department of 1thie Nockwell- Drake compa He is now employ- | ed by the Connecticut campany Kelley, son of Mr. and Crown street is a on the demo- SLAGKER SEEKS SEGREGY But BergdoM's Attempt to Have e BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH o, | WAI L STREET STOCK | members | Am porters Excluded From i1 Do Yot Mecet With Favor of Court. New Cleveland today made 10 have his ing the draft sent a written be excluded on presence v The York. March 9.-—Grover Sergdoll of Philadelphia | an unsuccesstul attempt court-martial for evad- conducted in secret. lie request that reporfers the ground that their | detrimental {o his in- court denied the re- Bruce Camphell. for Bergzdoll, declared one reporter covering the cas was formerly ptam in the had said that Berzdoll should railroaded to jail or shot and volunteered to do the shooting self. Bergdoll attitude of military | that who army | be | had him- counsel the be wit- would wrote that because of the press it would practically impossible to secure nesses from Philadelphia who test of their own knowledg Col. Charles C. Cre: judge advocate, said that he favored the utmost publicity “in order that the public may know that the U army is not a Prussianized institu-] tion and that it m know who skulked in a country where 000 men donned the uniform Prondence Man is Now Prohibition Agent Here Hartford, March 9. Mahoney of Providence, been appointed a prohibition for the state of Connecticut. He will § be connected with the prohibition en- % forcement department which has it headquarters in New Haven. This branch has charge of the work of t running down “bootleggers and persons suspected of violating the - prohibition laws, PAY UP 0R GET 0ut Must i United Mine Owners in Mexico Pay Taxes by March 11 or Lose All of | e Their Property. March 9. Mexico have been JMarch 11 to pay their Mexican government. according o advices received from Mexico City to- day, or suffer the penalty of contisca- tion of their properties if the govern- | ment so decides. It is intimated the government will not resort to imme- | diate confiscation or “forced sale’” ex- cept in aggravated instance siderable sums levied as faxes - owed. according to Mexican offici but many of the mining companies claim_they have been forced to ps double tribute, one to the rebels and one to the government, and object ‘o | what they regard double taxation Mine own-! given until taxes to th Washington, Con- wra § S. MARNE AFIRE Recently Refloated Tanker Has Big Explosion Which Shakes the City of Cristobal—still Burning. Panama, shaken and March 8 ristobal was | windows were shattered all over the city Saturday by an ex- plosion in the hull of the United | States Shipping board tanker Marne, | which was recently refloated after having been sunk by gunfire follow the outbreak fire on board. The Marne was raised late last month anl towed to a dock at Cristobal and was heing refitted when the explosion too!: | Last reports stated that fire ! was still burning in the hull of the steamer. It is probable that = which collected in the hull was nited i the explosion. ARGUE ON THE 18th. Washington, March 9, —Arguments | on the validity of the )Iru)l]bl“"fll amendment{ continued today In reme court with Solicito Ge King and Assistant Attorney ‘rierson defending the amendnient Attorney Gen, itlcd of Rhode Island | the argument tn (he Island ease and the court up the eonsideratien of appeais Massachuseits and Kentuc Gen, 1ook forcement uct., . | Col L Inspi { Norfolk & Wi i Ohio Cities i Pressed Steel Car.. 9 6 o ! Sloss-8 Steel & { Union I Willys Overland | —————— | pe——— e e e 19 LEAVES GOVT. EMPLOY ! Amere 1, — _FINANCIAL Potter, Assistant Iorester, Follows Action of His Chief Yes- ¥, and Resi Position. Washir | Potte | day followin | Henry s, Gr i \ | | Thert ¥ igned to- nation the forestry foreste the chief of EXCRAVAE REPORTS resi of ves, service, Ayie Arvizon: under expert charge He | cons t. Close.— is in service as an been in work. that enougzh retire on to pri- ceept- t M. Dotter, whose home cntered the forest Gifford Pinchot in 1910 on grafting and has of that ph the wrote orester Graves dered his work far vanced to permit him to April to give tiention vate interesis . Grav ing the gnation sugzested (h it at additionai Vinneps T > urther for profits impaired any closing was firm. Sules mated 1,400,000 York swack Exchan furnished by of selling ains, The approxi se of he ad- shares. New tions, < quota- | G Richter & Co.. the New York Siock res Exchange m order such reor in the prep: NEW HAVENER INDICTED Weissman, | to give ample time to “make tion and readjustment as may be nec to field season. 1920 Clos: i 4l $31y 4 137 March u, Low Adlis-Chalm Mfg 425 412 Am Bect Su, Am Can Am Car & Am Cot Oil AMH &L ... Am Loco .. Am Smelt & Am Sug Am Sum DT Toh Yoo 24 Am Woolen . ... 5 5 5 ew Haven. March Anaconda Cop Weissman, a merchant whose bank- Ateh T & S F , ruptey recently brought on much in- At Gulf & W I volved litigation was indicted by Baldwin federal grand jury today B & O concealment Beth Steel deferred Can Pac " he ci Cen Leath Co Thomas® has allowed Ches & Ohio ..... 3 | time. Weissman is held Chi Mil & St P... 39 | bonds and this releases him Chi Rock I & P .. 3 385 | of United States Chile Cop, i ax was provided for Chino Cop B : i | secured by his creditor: By &S S i { The grand jury brought Prod It d i dictmen( az®ast 26 other cible Steel { have had somec connection Cuba Cane Sugar. . { bankruptey. They will Endicott-Johnson { court to plead on Monday - ENVOY 10 ENGLAND service for ihe Ief com 13 chant, Charged With His Assets—26 Others Indicted Too. Am oseph Loco of until and three in 1 couns Judge weeks' $20,000 from the Marshal in a writ | can exau custody Palm in an men with appear next. in- who this in Corn 10 Erie 1st Gaston W Gen Elee b Motors e Goodrich Co ..... Gt Nor pfd .. | Thnois Cen } ion Cop .. 541 e l | ptd & W Descendant of Veteran of War of 1812 Going Abroad to Brinz Back the Mar Kentucky Battle Flag. Mar Int M int \ Int Int Kelly Lack Steel Lehigh Valley i o Frankforl, Buchanan, of naticld L1225 | of Colonel ; ; I mander or Ky.. March 9. Louisville, w de: William Whitle, the Kentucky Volunteeis Lin the battle of the Thames in Mich- Sp Potter defer the date of his retirement | Concealing | igan in the War of 1812, will go to { England as commussioner of the State i of Kentucky to bring back the Ken- tucky battle flag which was lost at that battle. The upper house Max Motor Mex Petroleum Midva Steel Missouri Pac ..... ! f Nat Lead .. s OO S0t N Y Air N ¥ Centr NMYNHSH of the general as- sembly yesterday appropriated X~ penses for Mr. Buchanan's trip. The Dattle is commonly called by his torians “the massacre of the River Raisin Because a majority of the 2 3 Kentuckians were killed and scalped Pan Am I the Indinns after they had sur- Penn R R . rendered to the British flicers under Pittsburgh - " .. an unfultilled promise of protection m the Indian Northern Pu by Reading —_— Utilities Commission to Hear - Protest Tomorrow before the on the The public protest 102 postponed hearing utilities commission of Mayor George A. Quigley other patrons of the Con- necticut Light and Power company, will bhe called at 11:30 tomorrow morning in the State Capitol at Hart- ford. The mayor and a number of signers of the protest will go to the capito) back up their protest. Southern Southern Ry Studebaker Texas o . Texas & Pac Tobacco 'rod Pac Tnited Fruit Retail 1Food Prod Tndus Alco Rubber Co s Steel .. S Steel prd b Copper Car Chem and to | Demecrat Town Committee Meets Tomorrow Evening . The demiocratic town committee will meet tomorrow evening in their headquarters in the National Bank building and plans for a campaign will he dis ed. Practically all the membe the old town committee, exception of Chairman Smith, have ag to serve ticket headed, it is expect- tayor Joseph M. Halloran, s N L1061 L1003, Va CLEARING HOUSE REPORT. York. March 9.—New York House statement for toda 5 ; balance: M \Rl\ S CHURCH. unuel Suteliffe, rector, the Len serviee chuy TOWN. Zot BIDDING ON March of Elmwood. thel i Phitadelphin. suburb in which a ma-| jority of the ship workers of Hox T Island live, have been opened by the socisty Whipping Board with a private reai| s in the estate firm. A second attempt to sell| Lishon Acheson s T R ] ST Al 6 HOME RADIO OUTFIT past few days was unsuccessiul, all ¢ Co. M ARE shinzton, tions for the sale en tomorrow wonthiy meetir will he held parish house of the | riday | with the bids received having been rejected ax unsatisfactory. ” English less Telephone Apy Capable Hoosey 0 0 O ¥ “ire be- lieve to ha a hoiler ex- plosion tac the plant of campans here for a time threatened the destruction of the adjoining plants of the Me n Petroleum and’ Consum- ers’” Chemical companies. Officials of the Car company estima loss at § of Rece Long Range Messages | London. March 8.-—A offer for =ale in Gre “home wireless telephone contained in a hox lis arvied by leather i cluimed the it iz capabie ceiving m from all principal wireless stations in 1t needs only to be placed on and the sounding telephones nected and it is ready for external ‘aerinl” is required £30. company nd handle of re- the Surope. SSAges () 1bl of 130 Ken nue, has recovered from George J. 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