New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 18, 1920, Page 1

e— [r -y ,‘ 3"’"“\, e S S ey News of the World By Associated Press. . 2 NEVW BRITAIN HERALD Herald “Ads” Mean Better Business. ESTABLISHED 1870. 18, 1920. —_TWELVE PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS NEW BRITAIN. CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, MARCH — ,— GERMANY NOW THREATENED BY BOLSHEVISM; RED ARMY REPORTED MARCHING ON BERLIN; STREET FIGHTING CONTINUES, HOOVER ADVOCATES EARLY PASSAGE! OF TREATY WITHOUTENTANGLEMENTS Also Expreszes Opinion That Wilson Should Accept Res- ervations and Avoi d Further Delays. GEORGE EVANS, WIFE KILLER, FAILS IN SUICIDE ATTEMPT; IS WILLING' T 0 PAY PENALTY Calmly Tells of Brutal Mur- EZAR,S SlSTER F[]UN[] der Committed in Presenc ! of Little 3-Year-Old Son.x LIVING WITH EXILES }Last Surviving Member of | Romanoff Family Rescued in Russia By Red Cross FOR HIS MOTHER'! Hartford, March 18.—It was learn- ! ®d today that George vans, the New —_— 1 Britain wife murderer visited the o Reed Jewelry store on Main street, | ekl .7""?,“'!! & - g ter of the late ( | ew Britain, Tuesday aiternoon at 1 O'clock and endcavored to scll his | Watch to the girl clerk in the he said that at the time he app nervous and when she refused to buy he left the store. At 30 that noog he was in the Reed Jewelry stor in Hartford and n tried to « of the watch. was i t down. Later he pawned the watch in th city, getting the money with which he bought a ticket to New Yor| went to New York on the 4 o'clock train and in lh' evening went to the theater, later going to the hotel where he tried to kill himself. Washington, Duchess Olga, si of Ru n Red Cross wor near Norvorossis] it was announced toda headquariers of (he i Cross heve. nd duch announc! is one of three { viving members of the ho of Ro- manoff. She was found toiling amo fellow rcfugces from the territory cently conquered by the Bolsheki giving such sistance s she could | althou herself clad in rags and | rateful for ¥ fvod and clothing she could find. The Ied Cross ers living in k, south ment He announcement fol- - : Closely Prisoncr losely guarded in pital, New York, (.omg:- Evanof( slayer of his Evans, at ain’ strect, this ing an attemipt at sui At the Park Avenu Bsecured a sleeping ‘clock Tuesday Guarded. Bellevue night and Duchess Olga, sister of | the v of Russia, and one of the three surviving members of the hous confes- | of Romanoff. 1 been found An | American Red Cross workers li home at ¢ a box cur near Novorossisk, south { city, follow- | Russia. A report reaching national le in his room | headquarters of the Red Cross today hotel, where he | stated that this survivor of the most | apartment at 11 ) sumptuous court in the world was dis ¢ night, a few hours ! covered toiling among fellow refugees § after. . his suc sinl deed in ending i from the terrviiery recently conguered | life of wife, by Belshevik 2 such Svans anticipated the idea th al police that he would any make his getaway in a northerly rection, and went south. It ghoui. 11 o'clock Tuesday ni ¥ _stranger walked into the the Park Avenue hotel, New York, and registering under the name of “George E. Vaue, Deuv hired a room on the third floor a bath, for which he paid remon- strating against the As . he | had no baggagé he the room vent in advance. i Found With Throat Cut. roed il » Nothing to excite any suspicion on Ciikean e part of the hotel attaches occurred | thoush the old I until yesterday morning at- 10:3¢ | her to retain her o'clock, when a chambermaid named | the of her Annie Dempsey, entered the room | 1Y ty at, and found the occupant lying on | oulinkovsky. She his bed unconscious. Examination | DUt the Red Cros showed a gaping wound in his neck. | YC2l the fate of these or her husband. ITragments of a glass bottle told the | ~Pother oS Mthies ceny X Yiory of how Evans tried to end his | Duches v lives in' London, while lie. There were also some tablets | 1€ 0NV | omnnel Fuiviine b Jiie = D6stle aisa some on'l ihelfbor e DoWaESr Emprese s whollives tin and in his pockets. The only other | COPenhagen. ; it L S Grand Duchess Olga is 3% vears old. theater stubs. It is evident that eies B LR e 1 ASSEMBLYMAN DIES had in the world for the sleeping guarters. = e Dr. De cian, responded ho wife, their his ass the | h to di- was when oifice of of rateful for food } nild tfind heen R the tho the most The south kiussian American Red C ror them to the and it was.in the that the plight af discovered. wed to ct poverty. | committee of the s has been caring 1t of it resource midst of this worl the royal refugee with after price. paid r a young which time, al- issian law permits title, she has”taken h and has Mme. has two children :port does not re. . Noually, the hotel phy to the alarm of Miss Dempsey, and gave the unconscious man first aid treatment, and tien ordered his removal to Bellevue hos pital. Detectives James Quinn and Anthony Quinta were notified of the | man’s ..)ncmm at self destruction ana | !Pert L. Hod pulioswas ithiofold they proceeded at once to the hos- | SUIVIVIng ex-member of the Connecti- pital & | cut General Assembly died at his A home here last night, in the 95th o {year of his age. Col. Hodge, who P vepresented this town the legisla- sew up a three-inch gash which ' tive don"Rorf Lsas Elsoaiand ¥i6o, would have severed the jugular |@ftended the centennial celehration of Col. Albert L. Hodze, 98, Served in State Legislature in 1853—Oldest Mason State. Roxbury. Conn.. AMarch 13.—Col Confesses to ‘Murder. was placed on the and Dr. Tyree beégan to operat- in ses; G | his office here today, | reservations | The statement was issued, { that ticket i ing N it heoh Lin nch T oher WAy ithe embly last year and as the & operation procecded, Evans, who | ¢ldest livinz ex-representati was had rezained consciousness, began to | Presented with a loving cup. el s il s e He was the oldest resident of this der that he might make his state- town and probably the oldest mem- ments lear, nze that had been ber of the Masonic fraternity in this Wpplied to his mouth was removed. | stat He w \lso the oldest mem- To Detective Quinn, Evans disclosed | ber of \Christ Ipiscopal parish of his identity, and told of the killing | this town and had been parish tr of his wife on Tuesday morning. jurer 65 vears. He was long ensa Alleges Infidclity. in the lumber business here. Evans declared to the G. A. GOODWIMEGTED that his wife had been unt State detective rue to him, the quar 1 on Tuesday morning which r * ited in his flendish act. Evans also f¥old the officer of the illness that ! ‘aused him to be confined in the % New Britain General hospital for two weeks. and which he also blamed ¥on his wife. The dramatic part of ®the entire admissions made by the whusband came when he told of the @quarrel that occurred over little Teddy Evans, the threec- old son ‘}f the couple. Was Protecting Child. According to Evans, the murdered woman had spoken very obscenely in the presence of the child. When he monstrated with her and finally sked heér what was to become of the boy, the woman showed no con- jcern, and threatened to leave them and this was the causc Central Commiiiteeman in Sec- ond Senatorial District Named To- day to Succeed Himself. Hartford, March 18, “harles Goodwin was today elected to ceed himself as member of the publican te central conimittec the second senalorial district in city: It was deadlock Samuel J. {1y developed Wednesday afternoon mes N. H. Campbell was today chosen to the state commitiee in the fir district and Irving C. Treat in the third. suc- ror in this adjourncd meeting, a between Mr. Goodwin and Carroll having nnexpected- at the previous meeting at an (Continued on Tenth Page) New York, March 18.—Herbert Hoover, in a statement issued from lvocates early ratification of the peace treaty ‘“so long as the final form gives us a free- dom of action and room for construc- tive development of peace,” and with which ‘“should satisfy the as to entanglements.” it was ex- plained, in response to a request the Washington Star for his views o the subject. Mr. Hoover expressed @iat the reservations “do the possibility of the creation of a potent organization to mitigate the dangers in front of us and the alter- a ‘most timid f n the helief not destroy | natives of war thinks 4 for ble a in “Despite the feeling Wiilson and his strength of t undermined” Hoover expr thing rate peace after S 10 agr continuation of our state nother year or the un- for us to make a we have gone SO ee on its main lines with arms. of ociates he league i by the reserv essed the opinion Presid\'nt that the | iotns, Mr. also should accept” them. “Regardles think should vision treaty,” he world should not longer for a of either the league asserted. of us ma: the pro- or th and the waiting s of what any have been “we, be kept settlement.” GARDINER NAMED BY LABOR PARTY irst Local Chairmian to Head Ticket in Coming Election: [. Simons Backs Candidate, E. Gardiner, the first chair- man of the local /branch of the labor party, will be mayoralty candidate oa in the coming ‘election. Mr. Gardiner has been a resident of this city for four yea Prior to be- | coming affiliated with the labor party he was an independent voter and he never has been affiliated with eith of the two major parties. He lives a 74 City avenue. Mr. Gardiner is pr ident the combined labor unions anizer of the party hcre. it he has the backing of Isadore Sim s, one of the leaders of .the New I in Taxpayers' = ciation and who is himself a promi- nent member of the lahor puarty Taxpavers' association has ont <ing the candidacy of diner and it is believed Simons is ac’ as an individual rather than as officer of the association. Chairman Gardiner announced to- day that the pariy will make a strong bid for votes in the cominz election, and in the elections next fall the party is confident of electing its candidates. of not com s an THIEVES ARE ACTIVE Two Homes Are Entered on Wash- ington Street and Money and Watch Is Taken. . | Mrs. Catherine Devine of 184 | Washington street, reported to the police this morning, that her home | had entered vesterday and $2+4 stolen from paper a pocketbook. The trance was effected by using a key. Thomas Hinchey, who resides at the same address reported to the po- | lice this morning that a hunting 19 watch had been stolen from his house yesterd: It is believed that | the same thieves operated in both | tenements. RIVER RISING RAPIDLY been been a box $34 had and from en- 16 Foot Mark to Be Reached Tomor row—Navigation M Be Resumed in Weck. 18 river At W noon to- 15 feet mark of at Friday Hartford, areh day. the Connecticut 3 inches above the low water can steadily rising A height least 16 feei is expected by morning. It was said Hartford and tion Co. t opened in clearing r and there are of Middletown. at the office of the New York Transporta- vigation might be as the river is its lower reaches open spots north | week pidly in many DRY AGENT CHOSEN Frederick E. will engan, Jr., of New London, Assist Pohibition | Agent Stremiau in Enforcing Law. March 18.—F of New Londen, appointed a federal prohibition forcement inspector on Director Juli- s . Stremlau’s sta The appoint- ment completes Director Stremlau’s forees of three inspectors. The other recently appointed nre J. Hay Ansonia and J. McGinnis Eridgeport My, Fengar resigned his position navy cost inspector in the navy partment at Hoboken a few days ick F been Hartford, red Pengar, Jr en- | as de ago. i marriage i ried i sister, TRAFFIC BUREAU IS PLAN Considering C The traffic of mending a Commerce change in street car NING CHANGES | . Proposition of Having s Stop at Fox's Theater Instead pwell’s Corner. bureau of the Chamber is considering near Crowell's drug store which might relieve the The plan wh ering is to h theater and fi stops until they would leave Crowell's cor present At stop just rowel ing to zo the corner., hiclés which a { tion of Church street nd 1 trafhi cars or cars triangle be ready to go would be bro still on every a fire break out this congestion tr bureau Should street, cause traffic of present congestion automobiles or that holding ther ich the bureau is consid- ve the stop at Fox's rom there make no other reach the center. This the street clear ner and City hall. when the trolley round the corner teams have to wi up all oiher Zo in the dir and shutting off the Northend which have to make standing in the switch, toward the center, trafiic ught to a complete stand- eorner of the highwa in West M. might be damage; ca way wish to should in emendous the thinks GOYERNOR BOOSTS C. N G. Holcomb, in Every Ci izing Conn. Tlartford, port by ever the task icut letter sent Holcomb to chambers and the ma throughout « “Connectic future tk past,” 1y He makes vounger military the the age receive therel nds and jes and m | ter citizens. of reorganiz ational the men, benefits of the training they Open Letter, Calls Upon cn to Help in Reorgan National Guard. March v cit —Hearty sup- in the state of ng the Connect- urged in a by Governor of commerce nufacturers’ associations n Guard ont today ‘onnecticut. can do mot less in she has governor. special appeal to the who have arrived at to avail themselves of will bod- bet- ut han a their them by improving m Mix-Up in Names In Yesterday’s The Mrs, lifeless body her home George Evan by which she -onoynciation ar she while dcanized | ban's Bul Ordner, Petrasch, into 2 with u Mr: he name of the marr Wi FLEVEN Hariford ital automobile in | correspondin CAPTAIN OF New Thomas elect team, it v vesterday, whom Albe Haven, ynn 1 captain of Tragedy George Evans, was found in a whose trunk in was really Mr The name Evan known, is an iAme of her hus- name. Prior to her known Annie name Ann 101T. w ian was her L her Ordner as wa mother i family. =he lived, is know Powell, At the time the nse shows Pawilow n rt lic Sky. FATAL \ACCIDENTS, March 1S.—There wer ceidents in Con- and Februar, January 5 months YALE March Hartford. the Yale bas nnounced today. 18.—10re has been ctball of B cast fo it WEATHER. ' and vicin- somewhat | near | the the done in the { 'BIFF! BING! BANG! G0 RESERVATIONS FaRTE 5 | Senate Kept Busy Voting Down Treaty Ghanges DRIVE ()N ADMINISTRATION: | Little Hope, However, That Enough Followers Will Break From Wilson “‘they } to Permit Passage of Pact With Amendments Suggested. i Washington, March 18.—One after another the senate today voted down { proposed reservations to the peace i treaty. A grist of about a dozen reserva- tions was to be disposed of during the day under an agreement to limit debate and put the resolution of rati- fication into tinal form for a vote to- morrow. Meantime renewed attacks were made on the administration line-up ratification with the republican reser- tions already adopted but there was not much hope in any quarter that enough democrats to ratify would break from President Wilson's recommendations. Senator Reed then introduced a resolution similar to the preceding one but omitting the provision relat- ing to economic discrimination. It was defeated to 16. QUITS NEWSPAPER GAME Alfred Magnell, Veteran News- cars i Gatherer, to Do Publicity Work for New Britain Machine Company. Alfred E. Magnell, New Britain correspondent of the Hartford Cour- ant and chairman of the hoard of fire commnii in this city, is shortiy to resign from his Hartford conneec- tion to take up work as a publi agent with the New Britain Machine company. It is said he will be im- mediately concerned with the ad- vancement of the sale of a new farm tractor which the company is putting out. Mr. Magnell has been in the new paper business in this city for year: He started with the Hartford Times as New Britain correspondent, later working on the New Britain Herald ioners and then going to the Courant in the| | position he now holds. He has been connected with the fire commission- ers and the old fire and police boards in the capacity of clerk and later as | chairman of the fire board. TRAIN IS DERAILED New Haven Road Passengers Get Bad Fright at Redding. Conn., When Brakce Beam Breaks at Bridge, March 18 A New York, nd Hartford passenger Redding, ! New Haven tr morning was derailed a short distance south of this place. The accident, which was due to a broken brake beam, occurred as the train was cross- ing a bridge spunning a stream, the locomotive, tender and bage: car, which left the track, cleared the bridge before derailment and the two passenger coaches remained upon the \ils, thus averting disastrous conse- quences. Women’s Cluh Annual Meeting Held Todav of the wus held at the The nominated Mrs. - Frank The annual meeting ritain Woman’'s club \fternoon at 3 o'clock st church ¢ pel officers have been clection: President, Traut: treasurer, Mrs. William Tarker. ‘Fhe nominating committee has reported the following new nom- inations: Recording secretary. My Henry Burr; corresponding secretar Mrs. J. C. Loomis, 400 GO O STRIKE Production at Miarshall’s Hat Factor of Union Men. Fall River. March 18.——Production at Marshail's hat I here today by the strik union employes 1ploy bers of the union remaine The men demand an ges of from 10 (o 30 per cent. ing to officials of the plant. gement refuses to comply demands. about 400 s not mem- at work. increase in of e cor man; their with | day { nounced in from New York and South Nor- ' walk to Danbury due here at 9:17 this | but | cratic , to i tween ! speak “Walsh, ANY KILLEL 200 Americans in Leipsic Appeal to U. Commander for Protection, Fearing Their Lives; Relief Rescue. GERMAN LABOR UNlI]N MAKES ITS DEMAND! /ants Noske Fired and All Rebels Tried on Trea- son Charges. Amsterdam, March 17.—The Hol- land news bureau gives out a dis- patch from Berlin this evening stat- ing that the general committee of the | labor union has demanded the follow- ing things from the Ebert govern- ment: “The resignation of Gustav the minister of defensec. “No amnesty the recent conspiracy Noske, treason. “The withdrawal of all troops from Berlin. “The right of the labor unions to take aprt in the forming of a govern- ment.” 2 READY FOR JURY Evidence All in and Fate of Newherry Case in Michigan Will Soon be De- cided—Maybe. Grand ‘Rapid case of Senator Truman H. Newberry and $4 co-defendants on trial in fed- eral district court for alleged con- spiracy in the 1918 campaign will go to the jury tomorrow morning. This was Tearned definitely today when, after two hours of argument by Frank C. Dailey, assistant attorney general, it became known that he intended to talk at similar length this afternaon. Judge Sessions had previously indi- cated that if the argument continued into the afternoon session he would defer instructions to the jury until Frida SUICIDE REPORTED ‘Reports Current in Berlin Say That Dr. Kapp Has Ended His Own Career. London, March 18.—Rumors are current in Berlin that Dr. Wolfgang Kapp, head of the reactiomary gov- ernment se- up in Berlin last Satur- and whose resignation was an- vesterday had suicide, according to a dispatch the Exchange Telegraph Co. from Amsterdam. The reports were re- ceived by telephone in Amsterdam from the German capital. WALSH NOT ASPIRANT Massac! o His Name Used as Candidate for President on Democratic Ticket. 18 said —Senator today March ssachusetts, ndidate for the for president. He characterized “local enthusiasm™ announcements of vesterday y: that W. J. Buckl of South g and Major H. P. Shea. of Fitchbure, were candidates for district delegates the national convention pledged to Washington. M: he is not a ¢ nomination of Mayor Quigley to ’l‘alk At Factory Entrances ! Mayor Quigley will paign Monday noon the P. & F. Corbin 30 and at Lande open with a factory 1 o'clock. Frary talk at zate be- s, & Clark's ; factory gate Tuesday noon and at the at Fall River Curtailed by Walkout Abo, ctory was curtailed | v gate, Wednes- be announced Stanley Rule & Level day. Other dates will later. FOOD FOR REFUGEES. Reval, Mareh 18—Trains of sledges are rushing food from Helsinzfors to 190 miles west, where exhausted and starv survivors of the cent columin of the North Russian arm have just arrived. This column which under the command of General Skobelstin, recently cut its way througl) the bolshevik lines on the stern Finnish frontier. Survivors of the column wil] eventually be in- terned at Helsingfors, it is announced for the offenders in : and the pun- ishment of all persons guilty of high ! committed | to | demo- } S ' Ebert his cam- | He will | Train Sent To Th (By The Associated Press) The collapse of the reacti dw\amnh p in Berlin has been g 71y followed by a resumptio! authority by the old government] :c ief task for the moment, it ap will- be to' deal with the disor| , conditions which the Spartacan cndem oring to prolong for thei pnrpo~os Noske Back in Berlin. l Dispatches stating that Minis ’Defcn. e Noske, the strong arm ¢ constitutional regime, was ba | the scene in Berlin have bee: flowed by reports that Pre ‘Ebort also had returned to the tal from Stattgart. Pending h i turn, Vice-Premier Schiffer, o Bauer cabinet. took over dircetd { affairs relinquished by Dr. Kapp he gave up his effort (o estab new zovernment. Reports are current in ex-Chancellor Kapp had i suicide, but these, so far, firmation. General von secht, Pre Ebert’s chief of staff, has been . commander of government ford Bertin, Attack by Reds Feared. Announcements by Dr. Kaj well as official statements fron officials of the Bbert governme! flect the fear of a radical upris Germany. TIn fact, Dr. Kapp) nouncement stated he had res from the direction of affairs country might he cnabled to fig] shevism. From various cities reports of uprisings of worke: advices from Berlin state tha forces under command of Spai leaders are marching upon tha As the Ebert troops have not resumed full control, an attack § Reds is feared Radicals Assume Power, Throughout Germany radical ments have in many places takes direction of affa at least, porarily. Proletarian dictatorships hav set up at Dortmund, Gera, Ohligs, Unna and Gelsenkirche | cording to reports, while in workers have driven gove troops from the suburbs of th) and were engaged late -yesterd street fightin3z. In the Rhenis. Westphalian industrial districts| said, the workers are ready fo radical leaders. Americans in Danger Coblenz, March 18 (By the ciated' Press.)—Two hundred ! cans who have been attending fair at Leipsic have telegraphe | teléphoned Major Gen. Allen manding the American army of pation urgently asking for he {leave Leipsic where they dg ! conditions as dangerous to thei; | General Allen is sending a train to bring the Americans ay| Firing is almost continuo various parts of Leipsic and g light and water services hav cut off according to the Ame i who are principally buyers | various parts of the United Stas | General Allen has directed | German railway commission o | Rhineland provinces to prepare i :which will be in charge of a d { ment of American soldiers. Th will carry sufficient fuel for the { ney both ways and food for s days for the guards and the ret | Americans. The latter probah be brought to Coblenz but may. of them desire be frontier. Berlir com lack majority the Sw ! Would Punish Rebels London, March 18.—Prg arrived in Berlin last { according to a telephone messa ! ceived by the Amsterdam corr | dent of the hange Telegrap; i the German capital. { President Ebert has ordered | perial court at Leipsii to bring ! aganst the leaders of the revg| Dr. Kapp, General von Lue] Goetlieb von Jagow, Admiral {and Captain Jrhardt, the cors dent sa; N Coblenz, Back in Berling i March 18.-—Gustav { minister of defense in the Ebe: f'met, arrived in Berlin by ai late yesterday having made th from Stuttgart. Gen. von § ! chief of staff for the constiti | government has replaced Gen Luettwitz as commander at | according to advices. { The danger from bolshevism {to be oxtreme. The Kappist are withdrawing from Berlin forces commanded by Spaj leaders are expected to attac i city any time. A\ consol} of all parties to fight bolshevis| | been formed only the indepd socialists not being included. tions will be held no later than (Continued on Tenth Page A