New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 16, 1920, Page 1

ESTABLISHED 1870, NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 1920, —-TWELVE PAGES o 'CANCEL JAP AGREEMENT AND < BAR ASIATICS’ IMMIGRATION Federation Also Condemns WllllI.IlBE MUR"ERER Recent Railroad Strike— +Fight On Over Plumb Plan. * IRISH SUPPORTERS FIGHT LEAGUE IDEA Ll 16.—The American in conventipn Montreal, June Federation of L today called upon congress to cancel the “gentiemun’'s agreement” with Japan and absolutely exclude Japa- (Meso and other Aslatic immigration to thiy countey. The exclusion of “pie- tire brides’ also was demanded Federation departments and inter- national unions were Instructed to rosoperate und press this legislation. Y Recent Strikes Condemned Declaring that & band of “irr pible agitators” are attempting to dis- eradit the recognized organizations in JiHe rallway service the (federation ondemned the ‘“secessionist move- @nt” which resulted in the recent rallroad strike t May Revoke Chartel The conventicn threatencd to re- voke the charter of any afilated or- spon- | ganization alding a secessionist move- ' _ment. # The executive council was instruct- o4 to Investigate the desirabliity of forming international unjon of knmn. service employes of Ameriea \ include Janitors, janitresses, serub fwomen, window workers and watch- Sy nen ¥ an rejected resolu- established a detense of all which th the course unjpn The convention tion that would have fegnl department for labor organizations against indictment is directed In ptf their “legitimate trade tivities."” we- Oppose Plumb Plan. Plumb plan for nationalization railroads has been rejected by committee by vole Various unions have com- an effort to override wities’s repart. 89 V. Lewls, international prest Fildlont of"the viMeart Afae W hiv orgmnisstion would sup the Plumb plan The ,mine s have the lurgest voting power the federation. Thelr vote with Shat of the metal trudes and radlroad beganizati Plumb supporters sald would muke it possible override eommitiee's report. Irldh Workers Active. by the convention agalinst cost of lving was expected loday, “Supporters of the labor party movement were, ready to war on the 'flm_flllllfl'! recommendations that rganized labor wsupport the non- Filsan politieal program outlined hys Pregident Gompers, Irish sym- -“éh.nr‘ opposthg the lesgue of na- . e declared they would: fight te o AW Wnish any recommendation that the W govenant be endorsed without reserva- The Federation declared war on the The of the the resolutlons of 6 1o 3 bined in to ' Aetion the high S A pean court of industri relations in § & resolution which - con- od such legislation ns “confis- ehtory of the lberty and property, and a denial of human rights of r- LW kunized labor.” . The non-partisan pofitical policy of nuel Gompers, president bf the fed- tion was unanimously endorsed. A plan té Buve organided labor form ith envployesa voluntary arbitration WBedy was gefcied OFFICER'S WIFE SHOT: B Piwp soldicrs at Camp Grant Missing o —=Occupants of Car Did Not Know Woman Was Iit, Reckford, 111, June 16 Ing soldiers of Camp Grant, near here, were sought today in connoaction with Ihe shooting to death of Mrs. Mand Lucille Moss, wife of Captain Leroy H. Moss. The amp's military intellfgence Yoree was secking to establish wheth sr Mrs. Moss was murdercd accl- tally killed T That she had been shot was not nown until the automobile in which sha was viding with b husband and Bfour friends had gone a hulf mile B e party had Just passed a small ¥ group of soldiors when a sharp re- port was heard. The motor party thought it was n misfire of the motor. Later Mrs. Moss slumped forward and % was found that she had been Aounded. She died in a hospital Captain Moss sald he belleved shooting was accidental ve miss- or Lo the . Troops A and B May Be Ordered to Camp Martford, June 1 1 #*% Lhat Troops A and B, Connect niry will be orderod to Fart Ethan J Vermont, for fleld training maneuvers, August 1 to 1 Adjutant Gon. George M. Cole has requested the war department 1o issun such or- dor, Troop A s of New Haven an.l Sroop B of Hartford. Shouald the or or &0 thraugh It will be the first tlonal Gg ansuvers for Con- robable in lings with him In the smuggled liquor HELD AS SMUGGLER New Haven Shooting Affray May Clear Up Liquor Traffic Mystery. New Haven, June 16.—Dominick | Perrotti who was shot by Michael Filore, of Torrington yesterday as an fincident in the involved dealings of the former with men who are said to | jhave been active in smuggling alco- hol into this city from New York is not seriously wounded. Fiore is held {not only for the shooting but for fed- {eral officers who have been trying to suppress the traffic. | Perrotti was one of six men | rested here last December on charge of making whiskey with {wood alcohol base He was aiso one of several who were taken out of the city one night and conducted by federal ofi- cers across the state border and ar- raigned wm Chicopee, Mass,, on a war- [rant charging responsibility for the ! death of a man there from wood al- cohol poisoning. ore claims that Perrotti owed him $700 and that he had had deal- nr- the a men traflic Yesterday afternoon Perrot- ti's five year old son shot and wound- ed a cousin, aged three, while at play | near the barn in Westville in which Perrotti is sald to have compounded his “whirkey” last fall. Perrotti had taken the child to the hospital and was in his machine in Commerce street. rlere Fiore saw him and the former fired five times at Perrotti. Coroner Mix comes into the case beeause of the death of the child. Many officers were engaged in the investigation of Perrotti's affairs to- He is said to have been doing | heavy trucking business between here and Now York for some time. One of his trucks was recently re- ported to have béeen held up on the dny " the highway and three barrels in a load | taken off Corone Mix Mps ledirned vhat the : ey, ane | Portdutd @Nae1ound. < Ifded gorn in the barn and, while handiing It with 'the Pepe child in front of the muzzle, { but discharged 1t He wants to know why a londed weapon was kept in the barn, Perrottl senlor is not in condition answer, w The police learfied Tha¥ Perrotti was warned some days ago that he was likely to be killed. They have been told that M ore came here from Waterbury yesterday, but have not as vet much informution of the dealings which he had had with Perrotti, RULES ENGLAND OUT Alliance to Anglo-tapancse of 1911 Provides That Britain Keep Out of Any Dispute With U 8, Tokio, June 16.—Japan inserted an article in the Anglo-Japanese al- Mance pact of 1911 to remove the risk of England becoming involved in any dispute between the United States and Japan it was declared today by Viscount Kata, former foreign minis- ter in an interview urging renewal of the ireaty. Still Working Hard For Special Session Hartford. June 16.—The men’'s re- publican ratification suffrage commit- tee will holdea luncheon at the Hotel Talt in New Haven Wednesd after- | noon, June 23, at 12 call semt out by Color of New Haven, chairman of the com- mittee The immediate policy to be | pursued in working for a special ses- sion of the legislature on the suffrage amendment be con- sidered. o act will Escapes From Asylum, Caught in Hartford Hartford, June 16.—Vincenzo Ma- ranico. who escaped from the Con- necticut Hospital for the Insane at Middletown while working on the farm at that institution, Tuesday afternoon, was captured here today. It was sai¢ that Maranico and a man from another section of the state, both harmless inmates got away from the \guards while working in the field: WANT IN VAI Philadeiphta, June 16 arents of Blakely Coughlin, who was kidnapped from his erib two weeks ugo, sat up until after 2 a. m. today in the hope the abductors would pick this day to return the child and collect their $12,000 ransom, LIGHTNING HITS BALLOON., rd U Pennsylvani Roads, Va., June 15 ing a sudden electrical squall struck the Atlantic fleet off i1 peake Capes today, an balloon was struck b, 8 8 on ¥ Hampt via Dur. which Chesa- observation lightning and 1A. F. OF L. PEMANDS CONGRESS | Prohibition Advocates Will Ask Democrats To Insert Plank for Enforcing 18th Amend. Washington, June 16.—Prohibition advocates will ask the democratic na- tional convention to adopt a plank de- claring for rigid enforcement of the 15th amendment and enforcement act and will “present a solid front” against Governor Cox of Ohio, Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel for the Anti-Saloon league, declared today. “The resolutions committee at Chi- cago,” he said, “adopted a law en- forcement plank and lost it between WOMAN GETS HONORS Marricd Woman With Baby Ranks Highest of 878 Graduates at North- | western University. Chicago, June 16—The highest hon- ors among the 878 persons graduated today from Northwestern University were awarded to Mrs. Howard Van S. Tracy of Evanston, who took her baby daughter to college with her and com- pleted the four year course in three years. She was graduated with a de- gree of bachelor of arts. She said she planned to return for her master’s degree. Besides going to college and car- ing for her baby, she did all her own nousework. The baby was born four months after the mother entered col- lege in the fall of 1917, TROLLEYMEN VOTE TODAY Close Vote Is Expected and Younger Workers Predict Company’s Oflerl Will Be Rejected. Hartford, June 16.—Although the older employes of the Connecticut company who are today balleting on the second proposal of a wage adjust- | ment say they anticipate that the re- sult will be much closer than that at- tending the first balloting, the younger clement among the employes are ex- pressing confilence that the voting will again result in rejection of the company's offer., The men had de- manded a flat rate of 75 cents an hour with a standard working day, while the company offers a sliding scale of 54 to 60 cents an hour, the maximum to be obtained after three years' serv- jce. Operators of one-man cars to receive 15 cents additional to wage offered for employes on larger cars. Approximately ! trolley employes in the atutle arc vol- ing #Wpon the question. th BATTALION CAPTURED French Outfit Has Been Taken Pris- oncr Bigifurks, According to Paris —~ Newspaper Account. Paris, June, 16—A French battalion which had been occupying Bozano, in Calicia, Asia Minor, northwest of Adana, has been taken prisoner by the Turks according to the Temps today. The French troops, mation had succeeded in forcing passage toward the coast from Bo- zano, which is about 50 miles inland and was proceeding southward. About a dozen miles from Adana, however, its ammunition gave out Russia Denies Any Attack On Persia Teheran, Persia, June 15.—The Russian soviet government in reply to a note from Persia declares that there is no question of an enterprise against Persian independence but says it was necessary to protect Rus- sian shipping in the Caspian sea. The sovict government agrees to+ with- draw from Enzeli, on the Caspian, “when independence is guaranteed | and, she is no longer under foreign influence.” American Steamer Held in Quarantine New York. June 16.—Detention in quarantine of the Shipping Board tank steamer Bald Hill at the Mex- jean port of Tuxpan since June 9 was reported here.today by cable to | the board. The Bald Hill Teft ] New Orleans June 6. No information hc been received as to the cause of h! detention Carpentier Challenges Dempsey For Battle Wichita, Kan., Carpentier today in column for- June 16.—Georzes issued a challenge to Jack Dempsey to meet him after | October 10 at any time or place Dempsey will name. TODAY'S RACES OFF. Newport, R June 16.—Today’s race between Resolute and Vanitie in the series being held here to decide which shall defend the America’s Cup nst Sir Thomas Lipton's entry w; cancelled because of a calm HARD ON PROFIT S, Budapest, June 16.—Minister of Justice Ferdinandyi introduced a bill in the national assembly today pro- viding punishment of strokes on the soles of the feet of male profi- teers. ———— CABIXERTAKES O Rome, Juf newly formied CF. » i's | voting { out | ports emanating ““" ors by St | onel Robe the committee room and the conven- tion. Mr. B n will act as a body- guard for it if it is adopted by the resolutions committee at San Fran- cisco.™ Wheeler added that Governor Cox was “the last hope of the wets.in their program for nullification” and that his “record makes him an im- possibility if national prohibition is to be effectively sustained and en- forced.” RESIGNS AFTER 32 YEAR Miss Jane Darlington to Leave Nor- mal School Faculty—Given In- formal Reception This Afternoon. | Accused Collegian, Admitting Shooting, Declares it Was in Self Defense. | Miss Jane Darlington, for the past 32 years supervisor of training at the New Britain State Normal school, has resigned her position, effective at the termination of the present vear, and will leave Immediately for Redlands, Cal, where she will make her home in the future. informal farewell recep- faculty of tendered an tion by the school and former members of the faculty, at a pleasant little outing at Sunset Rock. G. E. FACTORY CLOSES Hanover, N. H., June 16.—Henry E. Maroney of West Medford, Mass., a senior at Dartmouth, was shot and | Killed in his room at the Theta Delta school | | ficers and | the countr; . ! Minneapolis, This afternoon Miss Darlington was ' the Normal | i | | Lymn Plant Will Not Reopen Until Next Monday—Employes Will Have Two Holidays. Boston, Mass.. June 16.—The plant of the General Electric company here will close tonight until next Monday. Officials said the fact that Saturday will be the emploves’ annual field day and tomorrow being a state holiday led to the decision. Labor leaders said today that pres- ent indications pointed to a strike of various unions at the plant Monday. The several craft unions have been upon the question of a walk- to enforce demands regarding wages and working conditions and af- firmative action has been taken several, although no date has been ,announced heretofore. INVESTIGATION ORDERED Govt, Tooks Irto ‘Eregruph Cowm- pavies’ Mecthods of Settiing For Damages Through Errorss Washington, June 16.—The inter- state commerce commission today ordered an investigation of the prac- tices of telegraph companies in ad- justing claims for damages arising from. errors or delays in the trans- 'missiog or delivery of messages. Complajnt has been made to the com- mission against lability of such companies. A hear- ing will be held at Nel; York, June 26. Marshall Wires His Sympathy to Coolidge Boston, June 16.—The vice-pres dent of the United States greeted his pe sage, not of congratulation but of commiseration. “Please accept my sincere sympathy,” Vice-President Marshall wired Governor Coolidge. STILL HAS MONEY COMING. Joseph Swider, who was fined in police court this morning for obtain- ing $100 fraudulently from the Com- monwealth of Massachusetts, learned after trial this morning that he still has money coming from the state. During the war, that state voted to give all service men $10 a month who were inducted in service Swider, entered the service in October, and consequently has $30 coming to him. He agreed after court to make resti- tution for the $100 obtained fraud- ulently and this surr was drawn from one of the local banks. i ATTENDING CONVENTION. I. A. Sprague, F. W. Macomber and ¥. G. Vibberts will attend the conven- tion of the Connecticut Branch will be held Friday Eastern Point, New London. Mr. Vibberts is president of the associa- tion. NO FRESH OUTBREAKS, London, June 16.—Sensational re- from Persia to the effect that fresh disturbances had broken out in Mésopotamia were met here with the statement today that the latest official potamia faid the situation was much quieter. GEN. ALEXANDER HONORED. Annapolis, Md., June 16.—Among those awarded highest academic hon- rt jor gencral of the 77th division dur- ing the Argonne drive. I . Lj , Forecast for New Britain and vicinity “usettled, probably xvr\ tonight and Thursday; e 19 r. B WEATHER. A ! he resented the Chi fraternity house early today. Of- students began search of side for Robert Meads of a student who disap- peared immediately after the shoot- ing. Meads was | arrested on a train bound for Boston, near Franklin, N. H. Deputy Sheriff Claude M. Murray, who made the arrest, said the prison- er admitted the shooting, but claimed he fired in self-defense. Resented Tntrusion. The rollege authorities say the trouble szrew out of a call on Meads by three students, including Maroney. Meads was reviewing studies in prep- aration for an examination today. | They entered Meads' room, found that intrusion and with- drew, Meads firing several shots to drive them off. The men said they shooting was “movie thought the stuff”’ and that | they laughed and went out. by ¢ Subsequently Meads pursued Ma- roney, they said, entered his room at the fraternity house and, after a quarrel, fired, killing him almost in- | stantly. Claims Self Defense. Meads told the sheriff that a party of students went to his room to ob- tain liquor. He had poured several drinks from a quart bottle of whis- key, he said when the men sprang on him and took the bottle away. He | said he went after it, found Maroney in his rcom, quarreled and, in self defense fired. the limitation of the | wdownstairs but was unable to uiNock sible successor today with a mes- | President Ernest M. Hopkins stat- edathat he wiy certain that Maroney had not touched intoxicating liquors since his return to college last fall. SUICIDE IN TORRINGTON A/ Barber. 59 Years OMd, Torrington, Jur: Barber, 59, comt home here during t ing 'luminating ga self in the kitchen amw _urne: the jet cocks of the gas stovej His- 19-.year-old son, asleep on an apper floor, was amost overcome by the gas. He awoke this morning and stagrered ‘an outer door. He smashed the glass in the door and shouted for help. A neighbor responded to his cries and found him in a semi-conscious con- dition and the father dead. The de- ceased had been despondent because | of illness and the recent death of his !Two Held For Murder of | | American Bankers' association, which and Saturday at | { have | 82 years old. John's college here is Col- | Alexander, who was ma- | | 'I‘ . throat indicated that she had been reports from Meso- | ! bers escaped lnn official stutement wife and had threatened to kill him- 200 AUTOS DESTROYED Fourtecen Buildings Burned in Busi- ness Section of Rockland, Me.— Loss Is Estimated at $600,000. Rockland, Me., June 15.—Fourteen buildings, including a garage which contained 200 automobiles, were de- stroyed by a fire in the business dis- trict that caused a loss of §600,000 today. Four families were made homeless and 11 business places were burned. Committed 8 Years Ago Toledo, O., June 16.—Harry Over- myer, a business man, and his wife been indicted on a charge of murder committed eight years ago. The victim was Mrs. Helena Madge, Robbery is said to hav been the motive. Mrs. Madge was found dead in her shop. Her body was tied to a chair and marks on her strangled. Four Masked Bandits Rob New York Bakery New York, June 16.—Four masked men, each armed with two revolvers, today entered the bakery shop of Ste- phen Murray, backed the proprietor, his wife and an employe against the wall and rifled the cash box of $200. Mrs. Murray threw herself at the nearest bandit and he fired. The shot took effect in Murray’'s foot. The rob- in a limousine. POLES ARE REPULSED. London, June 16.—The Bolsheyik forces in the Kiev region still are pressing back the Poles, following the | capture of the city by the soviet army, | from AL | will DARDANELLES T0 BE OPEN AT AL TIMES Turkish Treaty Also Provides For Limited International- } ization of Constantinople. The Washington, June 16 (By i inter- | Associated Press.)—Limited nationalization of the port of Con- stantinople and its inclusion within the “zone of the stra are provided | in the provisional terms of the Turk- | ish treaty. 'This is disclosed by an official summary, received here today, | of the jurisdiction provided for the' inter-allied commission of control. Granted its own flag, budget and | separate organization, the commission ! will have authority over a territory | considerably greater than some of the | smaller nations of Europe. .Made al- ! most sovereign in itself, the commis- sion is to be practically independent | of the League of Nations, as stipula- tion is expressly made that should it ] find liberty of passage of the straits interfered with. it shall take such measures as may be deemed necessary to preserve the freedom of the straits. Regulations laid down for enforce- ment by the commission provide that: No belligerent warships may remain avithin ports of the zone longer than 24 hours or take on food, stores or recruits. The Dardanelles, Sea of Marmora and the Bosporus are to be open in peace and war to every vessel of com- merce and war. The straits are not subject ‘blockade. No belligerent right is to be exer- cised and no act of hestility com- mitted within the zone exeept upon special authorization of the League of Nations. All military works and fortifications are to be demolished. German; e, Vfifll’ . 0. P. Selection Berlip” June 15.—Germany has nothigs to fear from the nomination of <_nator Harding says the Boer- « Zeitung. “Nothing hitherto,” the wspaper declares, “warrants ap- rehension that relations with Ger- any which have been initiated by American commercial and financial interests will be hampered and on the contrary it is probable they will be furthered. to Former Local Girl To Wed Western Man Miss Esther Helen McAvay, daugh- ter of the late letter carrier and Mrs. Peter H. McAvay, will be married to Emmett McNamara of St. Paul, Minn., on June 23, in St. Paul. Miss McAvay is well known in this city where she made her home up to about two years ago. Since that time she has been living with her uncle, Rev. Hugh J. McAvay of Goodhue, Minn, In New Britain Miss McAvay was employed by the Dickingson Drug company in the stationery department. $27.52 A Week Least Five Can Exist On Meriden, June 16.—Ten women named by the organized charities as- sociation to determine the weekly liv- ing expenses of families in Meriden under the existing high prices re- ported today after three months in- vestigation, that a family of five, making no allowance for superflui- ties, requires an income of $27.52 a week. The computation was made on such a basis that it is possible to apply it to a family of different size. War On Rats When Plague Hits Florida Fla., June 16 cola started a rat killing drive to- day with a view to stopping the spread of what local physicians have pronounced bubonic plague. Two deaths have occurred from the dis- ease since Friday. The rat extermi- hators will be paid by the city. Two Teachers Resign At Bartlett School Miss Helen Keene, for several years a teacher at the Bartlett school, has resigned her position and next year ept a position as teacher in a school at Farmington. Miss Cotter, also at the Bartlett \ Pensacola, Pensa- private Rachel school, has resigned to take up a sim- H ilar position at Mount Vernon, N. Y. TWO HUNDRED MINERS KILLED. | Tokio, Juno 14—Two hundred miners have been Kkilled by an explo- sion of fire damp in the Yubari coal mine at Sapporo. on the island of Yz L di cegived | the puildin PRICE THRE} FEDIRAL TROOPS ARE CALLED ¢ TO QUELL SERIOUS RACE RIO IN DULUTH WHERE 3 ARE LY, DARTMOUTH STUDENT IS KILLED DURING QUARREL AT FRAT HOUSE | powered Police For Takes Con iness Secti Attack. Negroes Hangyd cused of B; 17 Year Old Previous Evel Duluth, Minn., arriving here toda normal conditions of ness streets over ,000 persons surgd 1g and lynching tf in connection with year old white girl) Soldiers When two comp Guardsmen reached cial train trip from found only a dam and littered streets of the mob’s activit} Under command General W. F. Rhi and six efficers camp preparing to. if necessary. riot duty. Available record only ope previous | sota. Twenty yea a white man county near ' Me tacking a girl. ¥ Police Force Last night's complished after force had been o and sireams ot tack on' police’ hi fronts Superior st cipal business tho| least two hours tH relinquishing its' p) groes had been .Si: h the < (Ve girl, ‘a circus ground negroes were at as roustabouts. Th trial, declared guilty and acq who today still the police. ' hey Ve \ The three “cony hangea within & ] the police 0] down pleas law be permit It took- three .st: today the police ¢ of the negroes mutilated. +Four negroes' arrested at Virgin ecircus appeared that authorities: luth with the been diverted to reports of the rio be confirmed. Slight injuries eight pdlicemen ay in the brick fight on the police sta The negroes ha Ghie, Elmer Jat all about 22 year: “Volun S First indications trict received of came when 1 dashed up 1] streets, the m teers to avenge white girl? ' There WaSs reaj was estimated ty bered 5,000. ( stormed. The first con made on the re| g was on a construction mob took quick were sent flying ti against the rear gave in. Barrage This let the mo| the police garage,| the stairs to. th spurts of water back. § Bricks again play and as the rear of the bul . of the mioh at trance. y Here, too, the to fight back the in the water neither side had until the mob police hose. Thi tary retveat by mob began batte door, After entrance from the front, i further resistand said, that atiem