New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 10, 1920, Page 1

- STABLISHED 1870. P— NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1920. —TEN PAGES. 'ATTY. GEN. PALMER ACCUSED |LAWYER O'KEEFE HELD IN BONDS . OF $10,000 AND YOUNG IN $5000 \SQF USING GOVT. MONEY FOR " # :Repeal of Congres- ; sional Appropriation . /on_ These Grounds, * - He Announces. ‘'WAS GIVEN TO FIGHT - HIGH LIVING COSTS .(Mtor Intimates That __But Little of Money Was Used For This Purpose ¥y By Dept. of Justice. Louls, July 10.-—Repeal of the iptopriation granted by the last con- Krems to the department of justice to Nght the high cost of living will be | demianded by Senator Kenyon on the Wround that it was used to boost At- Orney General Palmer for the demo- eratic presidential ponvination, the \ wenator announced today Senator Kenyon, chairman of the | \ #enate committee Investigating the Pre-convention expenditures which is Yolding hearings here said he was Wnvineed that Mitle of this appro- }on was used to fight the high ot living Woman Summoned. hroe more women were summoned for today's Investigation of presiden- tial eumpaign expenditures by a sen- ate committos They are Mra John R M. Frank Huyes und Mrs Meahan, all connected with grourt women's high cost enu which witnosses yesterday cmarged had been used “primarily to Gdvocute the candidacy of Palme Ruttledge, Anna ) the Mis- ! of lving HOID FEVER HERE 2 Brought h Board Since xn' tever to fon ofMcials of ent since last No- od tcday, when the disense was discov- diagnosis of a Hart street t's tase. ‘Dr. T. E Reeks, | g superintendent of boa Iready started an ofMolal investi- Bn, assisted by employes of the h commission, to determine the offfin of the mickness and will make AR effort to prevent a spread of the diwennn. ) ll/n‘u béen explained that this sea- #on Of the yedr Is knowm as “typhold " tromt the fact that eases are Jikely to make, their appearance his thne than at'any other season the year. An official warning and mecommeondatiops . for preventive mwearuros will be sent out from the héalth department Monday. " 5400090 RALLWAY DEAL Amount Sald to Be Inyolved ’ When Ford and Son Buy Detroit, "Iplédo and Irontown Railroad. it July 10.~Purchase of the POt Toledo afid Irontown railroad | py Ford and his son Edsel, was' tincea toany. ) purchase was the butgrowth of | wities Michigan industries have rienced for weveral years in ob- ning coal from the southeastern minous flelds. The road runs di- to Detroit from the coal flelds avolds the dsually congested sways of Ohlo. he deal was sald to involve 000,000 but, the price was not an- ! ¢ § \ announcing the purchase price secretary declared the price s several hundred thousand more than was originally asked Some two thousand employes of the ‘plijrgad will immediately receive the | Benefits of the Ford wage bonus plan VARDON AND RAY English Golfers to May ttle Meadow Club Links July 29 on [==Ouilmét May e One Opponent. " @olfing enthusiasts r cities In New Woking forward to the appearance of ardon and ward Ray, the | ted glish players, who will be “the Shuttie Meadow clulr on July Those In charge of the event ara mdking every efiort to secure Francis Ouimet and Jesse Guiltord as oppo- | Haven hore signs that | port, | Americans Continue FURTHERING HIS CAMPAIGN ALL POLES CAN HAVE England and France Unwill-i ing to Do More—Bol- | shevik Drive Continues. Willlam 8. Foster, veteran of the World war, dled this morning at the home of his sister, Mrs. Harold Wright, of 490 East street. He was 39 years old. At the outbreak of the great war struggle Foster, who was employed as a bookkeeper at the Miner, Read & Tullock wholesale house on East Maln street, went back to England, where he enlisted In the British army For three years he saw service in France. He was badly | gassed during one of the heavy Ger- man offonsives, and it was due to this that death occurred. Foster had ' been back in this country about a Year. He leaves, besides the above- mentioned sister, one other sister, Mrs. B. Gordon of this city, and two »l s who reside in England The tunerai arrangements are incomplete. ALCORN DISSATISFIED Poes Not Wish State C1 to Serve Longer on Serviee Board Under Present System., Hartford, July 10.—State's Attor- ney Alcorn has written a letter to Governor Holcomb in which he ex- presses a desire to retire from the state civil service commission when his term expires on October 1 and asks the governor not to reappoint him. The reason given by Mr. Alcorn is his dissatisfaction with the present civil service law which, he says, seems 1o him to make a mockery of the merit system “In that it does not per- mit the adoption of appropriate rules of uniform application, nor does it | provide the power to enforce them when formulated.” It has long been the opinion ex- pressed by Mr. Alcorn that his time and the state's money were being wasted in the present effort to main- tain a ‘civil service system. He says he expects that some day Connecti- cut will abandon its attitude toward the merit sysiem in the state “eivil servics_gystem and either repeal the existing law or make it more effec- tive. + $100,000 THEFT ALLEGED | Three New Jersey Mannfacturers In- dicted for Theft #rom American Ratlway Fxpress, Paterson, N. J., July 10.—~Three lo- cal manufacturers were released un- der $10,000 bail each by U. 8. Com- | missioner Delancy here today on in- dictments which followed theft of more than $100,000 worth of goods from the American Rallway Express company. The specific charge against the de- fendants was not made public. They are Solomon A. Bosinsky, president and owner of the Lyons.American Silk Dye company; Isaac Bloch, an oflicer of the Interratioral Silk Co., and Charles E. Roberts, manufac- threr of riveling spccialties, NEW TROLLEY SCHEDULE Silver Bea Bridgeport, July 10.—Warning was given patrons of the Connecticut com- pany here today -of the Limitation of trolley accommcdations to be effective afier July 15. The cars from New atter the date mentioned the New Haven cars, not coming as far as Bridgeport, would =top at Bilver Beach in Mfiford and return, On the lines to the west cars will approach Eridgeport a ar in Fairfield, and will not on to the actual Bridgeport come lines. | To Defeat Europeans | Eastbourne, England, July 19, (By | The Associated Press) . —American tennis players today eliminated | France from the Davis cup competi- tion Wm. M. Johnston of Califor- nia and Wm. T. Tilden of Philadel- phia today defeated Andre H. Gobert Wm. Laurentz in doubles. Yes- Johnston defeated Gobert and beat Laurentz in singles. ixteen Aliens Escape From Ellis Island New York, July 10 —Sixteen aliens detained at Ellis Island escaped to- duy and Immigration Inspector Hayes !of frands growing out S ON GOVERNMENT’S CHARGES | Men Accused of Kenyon to Ask | J[PLOMATIC SUPPORT | Conspiracy Against U. S. and Taking Money for Doing Co/t. Work. Said to Have Charged Fees | For Making Out War Risk ! { today by Governor Cox was one from Insurance Papers For Ex- Service Men. Lawyer Daniel E. O'Keefe, a veteran of the world war, and wounded in action when he was serving as a ser- geant with the 26th Division in France, both bound over to the next term of he United States District Court in ‘Washington, at a preliminary hearing | given this morning in the office of Assistant United States District Attor- ney Georgé H. Cohen at Hartford. The two local men are charged with conspi y against the United States and taking compensation in matters to which the United States is a party. Both men waxed examination. Bonds were fixed at $10,000 in O'Keefe's case and $5,000 in the case of Youns. Arrested by Secret Service. ©O. P. McKenna and Raymond W. King, members of the United States secret service, after a day of investi- gation yesterday, took into custody Lawyer Daniel E. O'Keefe of 115 Clark street and Aloysius Young of 383 South Main street, on a charge of fraud in comnection with government war risk insurance. The warrant for the arrests were made out by Assist- | : | Mrs, ant United States District Attorney George H. Cohen. The accused men were taken to Hartford last night. The predicament in which the young men are in, comes as a surprise to local people. Both are well known, and are of prominent families. Law- yer O'Keefe is a former service man, having been a sergeant in the 102nd regiment of the 26th division. Young holds a responsible position at the Stanley Rule & Level company. Charges Preferred. From information gleaned today, the alleged methods of the two ac- cused men were to interest wounded ex-service men in the war nisk insur- ance. Young, it is said, acted as a runner, visiting different cities in the state, where he talked the matter of insurance. When the wounded service man would give his cansent to making application for his war risk compensa- tion, it is said that Lawyer O'Keefo would fill out the application blanks, and either take them or forward them to Washington, D. C. Each of the accused are reported to have taken sums for their part of the transaction out of the insurance money. It is for this offense that th re in the toils. Sleuths Work Quiectly. Under a mantle of absolute secrecy did the United States sleuths try to wark yesterday. As mentioned in last night's edition, they were at the office of the accused attorney. When inter- viewed by newspapermen, Mr. King, who was the spokesman, refused ‘to divulge any information. Last night it was learned that a brother of the accused lawyer, James O'Keefe, was interrogated during the grilling ye: terday. It is understoad that the of- ficers are in possession of valuable in- formation pertaining to ‘‘higher up” officials who may be connected with the alleged frauds which are said to be nation-wide. Friends of Assistant Prosecuting A torney Joseph G. Woods are indig- nant at a published statement that Lawyer O'Keefe is a law partner of Mr. Woods. This is denied by mem- bers of the bar, and close associates of Mr. Woods. The accused lawyer had desk room in the same office as Lawyer Woods and Lawyer P. F. M- Donough. Both Men Confess. Hartford, July 10.—In the arrest this afternoon of Attorney Daniel E. O'Keefe and Aloysius Young of New Britain, federal - authorities believe they have breken up, in Connecticut at least one of the more glaring cases of the pay- ment of allotments to soldiers who served in the world war that has yet come to notice. Both O'Keefe and Young have confessed to agent of the U. 8. secret service to their par- ticipation in the gigantic fraud, and further investigations of this depart- ment of the government service are expected to reveal a nation wide plot. The investigation in Connecticut was started Thursday night by agents O. P. McKenna of Providence, R. 1. and Raymond W. ton office. The government #ajon is being personally by W. H. Moran, chief of the se service, and 1 its origin ington when after inspection of the government books in that city seven men we lam Salisbury, claim section. Method of Operati When Connecticut =oldiers wound- investi- ret a reviewer in fents for the Hritish stars. It s pable arrnagements will be made 6 have games both in the morning ana afternoon, appeared at the federal district at- torney’s offics to make a charge of conspiracy azainst certain hospital at- tendants on the island ed In the service made appiication to the department at Washington for compensation their letters would he ety {Continued on Third Page.) and Aloysius Young, were ! | dent here today. 11 nSwedish matters King of the Washing- * conducted * in Wash- | rrested, among them Wil- | the | ADYICE T0 COX Georgia Man Suggests Nominee Send Wire Telling Richmoad P. Hobson to Go to Hell. Dayton, O., July 10.—Governor Cox and Franklin D. Roosevelt, the demo- cratic standard bearers, will have their first meeting since the San Fran; cisco convention at the executive of- fice in Dayton next Monday afternoon. Governor Cox today corrected pub- lished statements that he is of Eng- lish-German extraction. He stated that his parents were f English and Scotch descent. Among various telegrams received Virgil P. Brown of Columbus, Ga., advising the governor how to reply to a telegram from Richmond Pear- son Hobson which asked the governor to use his influence to prevent modifi- cation of the Volstead act. Brown’'s advice to the governor was: “Take my advice and tell Rich- mond P. Hobson to go to hell.” WORLD LEAGUE MEETING President Wilson Settles Upon Novem- | ber 15 as Date for First Meeting of | Nations. Washington, July 10.—November 15 | has been set for the first meeting of the assembly of the league of nations, it was stated today at the state de- partment The formal meeting ma issued by President Wilson today. The place of the meeting also has been selected. but officials would not disclose this in ad- vance of the publication of the call. The United States will not be rep- call be for the league resented at the league meeting as it | is not a party to the treaty of Ver- sailles. The president will issue the call at the invitation of the Allied gov- ernments. AIRPLANE ACCIDENT Richard H. Long and Gordon Groah Killed by Fall at Salisbury Beach—Thousands See Accident. . Salisbury Beach, Mass., July 10.— Mrs. Richard H. Long of Framing- ham, wife of the democratic candidate for governor last year, and Gordon L. Groah of Lyun, an avidtor, were fatally injured in an airplane acci- Gaston Cornet of Pittsfield, mechanician for Groah, was severely hurt. The piane, in which Mrs. Long was a passenger and Groah the pilot, was wrecked on the beach in the sight of several thousand per- sons. Mre. Long and Groah died at a hospital. The plane had flown over Hampton and Salisbury beaches on the course which Groah uscd for his sight-seeing and stunt flights. hundred feet off the ground, over the beach here, when it went into a nose ; dive and came spinning down toward the crowds. The flyer did not have altitude enough to regain control and the plane crashed on the beach. C. H. JOENSON DEAD Well Known Plainville Man Died at! . Hospital This Morning Ilines of Three Days. Chares Johnson, one of the best known Swedish residents of Plainville, died at 11 o’clock this morning at the New Britain General Hospital, where he had been a patient for three days. Death was due to hemorrhages and a complication of diseases. Mr. Johnson was 58 years of age and had resided in New Britain and Plainville from boyhood. His home was at Johnson Station in Plainville, in the Mountain View district. There he kept a farm and dealt in real estate. He was a well known figure among the business men of Britain. A large amount of property was recently sold to Landers, Frary & Clark of New Britain, which company has recently completed a large factory on the site. The deceased leaves his wife in Plainville and a son, Anselm in New Haven. His parents, three sisters and two brothers are still livnig in Sweden. The deceased was a member of the Vega society, Tegner, O. V., and the 100 Man Society. He was prominent both in New Britain and Plainville It was only a few | After an! | police say that | | | i i | { ] | | the identity of the pretty young wom- New | his The funeral will b eheld on Mon- | day afternoon at 2 o'clock from the funeral home of Andrews and Doo- little on Walnut street. n Fairview cemetery. HEAT PROSTRATION. The first case of heat prostration : - was reported this morning Thomas Zynol of Union street overcome while at work at the Britain Machine company. He was taken to the New Britain General hos- pital, where he was ‘attended by Dr. Strosser. when was * WEATHER —o— THartford, 10.—Forecast for New Britain and vicini Fair tonight: Sunday increas ing cloudiness, o B Burial will be New | | tenant PRICE THREE | McCURDY, IN THIRD PARTY KEYNOTE SPEECH, CALLS REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS RIGHT AND LEFT Wi SAME BIRD OF PREY AND CONDEMNS SPECIAL PR WORLD WAR VETERAN ‘Calls G. O. P. Servant of Plutocra steping Every Issue and Paving DIES FROM GASSING| William S. Foster Served Three Years in France With British Army. Spa, July 10.— Premier Lloyd George of Great Britain and Premier Millerand of France have been dis- cussing whether they can help the Poles in their pyesent military diffi- culty. Lloyd George said that in view of the agreement just concluded between Breat Britain and the Russian soviet government he did not feel disposed to do anything more than to give diplomatic support to the Poles. Pre- mier Millerand replied that this be- ing the case France could not go further. Paris, July 10.—Requests . by M.° Grabski, former Polish premier that the Allies turn over to Poland Ger- man munitions that are to be de- stroved have been refused by Pre- miers Millerand and Tloyd George.l according to the Petit Parisien. 1 Polish forces are withdrawing from ! Brest-Litovsk. Vilna, the principal result of the great bolshevik offen- sive according to a telegram received | by L’Information today. Evacuation of Brest-Litovsk, Vilna | and Pinsk would indicate a geneml( withdrawal frontiers. Brest-Litovsk is 120 miles east of! Warsaw. Pinsk is 95 miles east of Bret-Litovsk. Vilna, the principal | city of Lithuania is 225 miles north- east of Warsaw. MAY SOLYE MYSTERY New York Woman Thinks Body of Murdcred Girl Found in New Ca~ naan in 1919 Was Her Daughter. of the Poles to their Hartford, July 10.—Mrs. Catherine | Muller of New York has notified the | state police that she believes that the i young woman whose body was found | April 14, 1919, in a swamp near New ; Canaan, was her daughter. Because ! this opinion of the mother of a miss- | jng girl may lead to the discovery ij an, State Policeman Frank Virelli will have the grave in the New Canaan cemetery opened next week. That the young woman was murdered was evi- dent, but since the day the body was found detectives made no headway in the case. It has been the opinion of those investigating in, the past year that the murder was committed in New York state and the body brought | to New Canaan and left in the swamp where it was fornd. Mrs. Muller says her daughter disappeared from her home in New York a few days before the dis&®very of the body. The e the picture of Mrs. Muller’s daughter shows a resem- blance to the murdered girl. D. S. C. FOR GEN. MARCH Chief of Staf Now Awarded Medal for His Heroism in Philippine Cam- paign Back in August, 1888. Washington, July 10.—By direction of President Wilson a D. 8. C. was awarded today to Gen. March, chief of staff of the army, for gallant serv- jces in the Philippines. The citation rea “Gen. Peyton C. March. (then lieu- in the Astor battery) for ex- traordinary heroism in action before Manila, P. I, August 13, 1898. He gallantly led a charge on the enemy's breastworks, volunteers having been called for by the brigadier general commanding. HARDING TELLS PLANS Ir Flected President He Will Ask Vice-President to Participate in All | Cabinet Mectings. Marion, O., July 10—Senator Hard- announced today that if he should be elected president the vice~, president would be invited to parti- | pate in all cabinet meetings. The senator believes that team work between the president and vice- president would bring about greater co-operation between the executive legislative departments. “Senator Harding believes,” the :\n-l nouncement said, “the country would greatly profit through this participa- tion by the vice-president in the cab- inet conferences of the administra- tion. It would not only elevate the office of the vice-president but would give to the president the sound ad- vice of his chief partner in handling! the nation’s affairs.” War With Mexico-- -Says Demc mitted Capital to Fleece Public as Gave Their Lives in Ford, “Flivver King,” and! Ingersoll, who “Made Dol-l lar Famous,” Are Possible! Fusion Candidates. | Chicago, July 10.—The committee ' of 48, assisted by delegates repre- senting a half dozen libertl and radi- cal organizations launched the third party movement here today in its national convention. Senator La Follette of Wisconsin, chosen in a mail referendum as the most popular candidate for the presi- dential nomination appeared to have no opposition. Nearly all of the 500 delegates wore La Follette badges. ¥ord and Ingersoll. Conferences, continuing nearly ail night between the committee leaders and the active head of the national | labor party looking to further amal- gamation, had not brought about agreement, however, and the single tax group also definitely announced that their participation in the first day session with the committee of 48 assemblage was only tentative. It would not continue Jerome C. Reis said in their behalf if Senator La Follette of Wisconsin should be nomi- nated for president even though the committee of 48 evinced tendency to select him. Henry Ford and Charles | H. Ingersoll, watchmaker, were dis- cussed as possible compromise selec- | tions. EXTRA—PRICES LOWERED South Norwalk Electric Light Com- pany Annovnces to Subscribers Rates Will Be Lowered Shortly. South Norwalk, July 10.—It re- commissioners of | mained for the South Norwalk’s munricipal electric | light station to pull a new brand o(l announcement in these days of high cost of living. It was said at a meet- | ing last night that the rates would be i lowered, and that the reduction would ! take place *‘just as soon as the new ! plans get under way.” An enlarge- | ment of the plant will mean a reduc- | tion in the rates. During war times when clectric lighting companies in.] general were making announcements practically every week of increases in cost of current, the plant didn’t raise the rate, but gave service at the old | 1913 rate. Three months ago an in- | crease, by means of a fixed charge of 50 cents a month, was made by the | municipal plant. The Connecticut Light & Power company, a competi- tor of the municipal plant, has a higher rate for service than the mu- nicipal plant, and recently made an increase of 75 cents a month “fixed charge” for all gas users, whether a pre-payment meter or on the bill. MONSTER STILL RAIDED Largest Ome in West Virginia, Cap- tured—One Man Killed Defending y ; It—Another Drinks and Dies. Charleston, W. Va., July 10.—The largest moonshine whiskey still in the state was held by prohibitioh agents here today. They said one man had been killed in a fight over the still and another had died from drinking liquor distilled in it. The still was seized in the moun- tains of Raleigh county, but the op- erators scaped. 12 gallons } of moonshine every 24 hours and was operated day and night. Twelve secret locations were used for the still on the same farm. One aged man was held by the agents. It is alleged he acted as a lookout for the operators. NEARLY STARVED TO DEATH | Mystic Man, Missing Two ¥Found in Exhausted Condition in Wecks, Cellar of An Empty House. Mystic, Conn., July 10.—Ern Morgan, a resident of Ledyard, was found Friday afternoon nearly starved in the cellar of an abandoned farm- house a few miles from this viliage. Morgan works at Noank and having disappeared about two weeks ago searchers hunted for him and when he was discovered he was almost dead. It is believed that he was taken ill on his way home and sought refuge in the cellar. He is unable to tell how he got there. The attending phy- sician believes he will recover. | chairman, France. Platform of N Party is to Des opoly in an and Basic Indi Chicago, July 10. and democratic , part nounced as “the right of the same bird ‘of opening of a proposed national convention h Sounding the keyno semblage called togethe: mittee of 48 to adopt a prlace in the field anoth didates for presidency dency, Allen McCurd: charged th parties had evaded mestic issues at a tin the country needs is more freedom Against The abolition of sp Mr. McCurdy said, ! around which 'the ne: i appeal to the voters He said the party pu that end through sources from which pi its power. & “To accomplish this declared, “it proposes ship of transportation i principal basic resource try and declares that { out of use for speculatl be forced into use by ts Hits Both ‘Consider the u der which we meet. secretiislavery . th and t dem; ,‘,Jf the- nd'" reven themselyes and to the' fng but the -right wi wing of the same b no longer possiblelto to pretend that there , on any issue between not a word in 'eithe) forms that might fi ten and unanimo b convention ex:lusively corporation lawyers an bankers. The only . these platforms &8 marked, is a diff ber of words used Confronted by the the history of civilizati ! demonstrated, even to ti i herents, that they vision of statesmansh of leadership or the ¢ triotism. P Scores the T “The republican | reads out of its cou and woman who ever: form of human righi platform that evades, straddles every living way for a war by change for the lives the people, Mexican o livered to the interes: infamous Esch-Cummi protests of farmers, informed citizen: al crowns its work by candidate for the pre United States n the proven, steady, wheelS cian, guaranteed to hitehing, who learned he ever learned in @l and thorough school of| Hanna and Joseph B. Fy back in the golden age the Standard Oil scal stands the party of Ab in the last days of its dej lessness, maked and un servile service of a gre Calls Democrats ““The democratic bid f bold; it is brazen. Wit vations, it not only eclai credit, which belongs to nation, for fighting and war but it declares thai tered the conduct of ti out thetaint of scanda hosts of Hog Island, and shipbuilding and constructions, and _nitra; ! propriations are still stall the land! Scandal! Is that in the year 1917, supreme sacrifice when of fightisg and dying for § and our people were ecol sacrificing to buy Liberty the United States Steel made net earnings of $8 twenty million dollars m tolal capital stock. Wh that whole orgy of war by a set of the most set of scoundrels who out of the necessities ies of a great nation we acknowledge that light a word and say Capper: “If this be n ceny in daytime, I do nof (Continued on Ninti