New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 24, 1920, Page 3

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Brus PULLAR & NIVEN OPERATORS EXTEND WAGE AGREEMENTS Wircless Telegraphers Board Wil Have and Shipping Additional 00 Puys to Reach Agreement, July 24 wage Extension for 90 days of he- tweon wireless operators and the Shipping Board which expires August 1 was agreed to today at the confer- enee of the reprosentatives of the United Radio Operators’ union and ¢+ Chairman Renson The chairman refused the opera- tors’ demands for pay increases of §50 to $76 a month and an elght-hour day, but told them he favored some Iincrease It wan agreed that a sys. fem of graded licenses for the oper- ators based on their years of service should be worked out Tho wirelexs operators had threat- ened to strike unless their demands } were granted but officials of the hoard expressed little concern declaring that many wireless opeiators on the navy Peserve lists could be piaced on Ship- ping Board vessels should the w controversy faill to be finally adjust- ed In November Yashington the agreement SEFK MIGHER EXPRESS RATES, 30 Want Cont Nome T Companics Per n- eronse in “tances. A rates . July of express Washington scale Inc from 18 sliding of was asked by ase to 50 per cent the express companies yvemerday before the merce Commission through B. Ha ytention demand at a Interstate ( the companies, rison, calling 1- of employes for aggregating 37 the originul n aprlication ng of about nsie™ estimated 1 revenue of based on higher to rallway employes, that a $30.- n askea 2 per wonld 170,000,000, but es granted express ofMecials esxtimate wage Incr of approximately 000,000 o would he gra Mr. Hinr sald the sented yestorday are only timate and that a formal covering higher wages would be pre- us soon as the deciston of the board is announced the wented rallrond lnbor rO HOLD SHOOTING MATCOH. Tha 50th annual mateh and picnic of New England Rifle association will be held July 26 and starting at 9 o'clock in the morning. They will be held at the Rifie Club park on Woos- ter strect, and are undor the auspices of the New Rritain Rifle club. Clubs rem Hartford, Meriden, New Haven nd Springficld as well as the local elub will be represented Specinl prizes will ba given to the ladies that compete. ‘Tomorrow morning bowi {pe matches will be held state shooting the Southern . 1625-2 Any Hour, Day or Night "TARRANT & HAFFEY UNDERTAKERS T. ., Fast End Office, 153 St., T 1451-2 t—Free Use of Parlors Orders for Upholstoring. FUNERAL DIRFCTORS Andrews &Doolittle, Inc. THE FUNERAL HOME OMmoce and Parjors 15 Walnet Strees. wo and picked tnay | cTowd of a dozen POLICE GIVEN CLUE | IN TRUNK MYSTERY' Chaufleur C;ives Description ol “A. A, Tatom” 24.—The mystery surrounding the death of the uni- dentified young woman whose mut- 1 body vesterday in a Y Ratlway the Grand shifted to New York. July was fo A warehouse | tar | tr | press o | Central [ betrett The farten it ployed Detroit Lere on Andrew he rican terminal h fer trunk solutio with a used to articles of asthing em- Ming tod sent pe and s W wa iy i Branic the po June J an expre letter name the \ ylay . A Ta the taw The letter and dated June 11 Fnclosed in the letter was un press company receipt showins 7 trunk lac been shipped June Detroit to Now York. The ceipt gave the name A. A. Tatum as both sender and reciplent. The let- ter asked that the trunk be removed from 'he express warchouse and be held by Branic uniil called for Iranic furnished the polic mation regarding a Mr. and Lt whe! et nied ton rtment 1105 Mars Detroit a few days Vefore the was shipped here The larper dress was given on the trunk tag as that of Tatum. Hranic told detectives tha: in the summer of 1919 chauffeur giving the nume of . J. Wood left & trunk in his car and six months later wrote from Detroit asking that it he sent to E. Leroy in care of the Detroit Y. M. C. A, Brante sald he did this. WYOMING IS SAVING STATE Leads in Total Number of Bank De- Every I was addressed trunk. Branei ox- that 10 from re- ntor Mrs. ‘. at runk strevt positors With 394 Out of 1,000, Washington, July 24.—Three West- ern states—Wyoming, Montana, and Tdaho—led all others on May 4 in the number of bank depositors per 1.000 population, according to’ figures compiled by the comptroller of cur- rency. Wyoming heads the list with | 384 depositors for every 1,000 per- sons In the stute, Montana ranking socond with 394 and Idaho third with 203, Eleven other states had the follow- Ing ratio per 1,000 population: Penn- sylvania, 289;: Colorado, 280; Oregon, 275; Minnesot. 1; Towa, 262: Vir. ginia, 258: Vermeont, ?55: California, 248; South Dakota, 244; Maine, 239, and Texas, 236. Alaska and Hawail rankéd lowest with 30 and 24 deposi- tors respectively for every 1,000 in- habitants. The average for all states was 190 per 1,000, or a deposit for every five and a half persons In the country. The total mber of depositors on May ¢ was 20,380,000. Of that number 12, 215,000 were checking accounts and §,065.000 time or savings accounts. ! IDENTIFY BANK BANDIT. Three Persons Accuse Prisoner Maryland Robbery and Murder, Baltimore, July 24.—Whatever John W. Mitchell, alleged gun- and automobile bandit, had that v identified with the andy Spring bank robhery and mur- der of Francis M. Hallowell, one of the bank directors, was shattered to- day when three persons him. They were A. C. Thomas, dent of the bank: A. M. Stabler, a dir r and William H. Burrs of | Roxbury Mills who helped the | bandits pull thelr automobile out of | rut Stabler, it was sald went to New York hope n he would be presi- | a | o city Mlitehell or more Altorney Dawson of the ealled early next woek, when Joe" Thomas, under leliphia, would be in- of rolbery Adams arrested gang of bandit: city jail, the police few days out of a prisoncrs. said a | session jury would be Mitehell arrest in Aicted on murder. Clarence Kelly, two others hers of the held in the dicted NURSE IN MURDER CASE Admits \nd rhil charges as mem- and now have been in- Infatuation for Pettibone, Held for Wife's Death and Pleads ¥ to Improper Relations, Manchesier, Vi, July 24.—Miss Helen 1. Guilow, a nurse with whom it is alleged Byron M. Pettibone Was infantuated, was called today as a witness for the prosecution in Petti- bone’'s tria) for the murder of his | wife Miss Guilow admitted taking automiobile trips with Pettibone and having ridden on a hearse with him In Bennington where he was employed as an undertake She also :lllfll'l(l‘d with him. reir Lefore the death and tnued said assistant improprieties friendship began of Mrs. Pettibone since, the wilness con- LAST OF GOSPLEL MEBETINC Tomorrow will be the terminat.on of (he Gospel camp meetings that have been held at White Oak. Scrv- ices will commence in the morming at 10:30 o'clock sre will be another at 3 o'clock In the afternoon and one at o'clock in the evening. an- | gelist John B. Jacobs will conduct the services. He is known as ““I'nd Persian Preacher.” All who wish to attend may bring their iunch and re- main during the day in order to be at all services. 1o shence it had tewn shipped of | | fdentified | | s k business here, | coming up the bay 1 YOUu'VE GOY SOME IN THE WHIRLPOOL Ex- i | | | | SALVATION ARMY NOTES Services Tomorrow—Major Anderson | | | of Hartford to Be Tendercd Fave- well Party Monday. The services of the Salvation Armv | on ‘Arch street tomorrow morning will | be at 11 o'clock with Sunday school | at 3 o’clock in the afternoon and un open-air meeting at Walnut Hill park at 4 p. m. The Salvation Army meet- ing will be held at 8 o'clock in the evening. Public meetings are Thursday at § o'clock evening open-air meetings at o'clock. Monday. July 26, a farewell demonstration will be tendered to Major Anderson of Boston. The Hart- ford Silver band will furnish for the occasion as this will be the last time the major will pay a vixit to the local army. Refreshments will be served ATE POISONED CANDY One Woman Dead And Four Tl From held | every Partaking Of Confection Sent To Middle Teancssce Insaic Hospital Nashville. Tenn.. July 24.—Mrs. Lizzie Brooks is dead and two other inmates and two attendants at the Middle Tennessee Hospital for the in- sane are ill from the effects of poison placed in candy sent to Mrs. Susie Littrell at the institution. Dr. William Litterer, bacteriologist. who is mak- ing a chemical analysis of the con- tents of Mrs. Brooks's stomach presses the opinion that the c contained a deadly poison. The box was sent through the mails Nashviile postmark. Tt wednesday and was de- Ivered Littrell after the hos- pital attendants had examined it as is the custom WEDDING MUST WAIT Ceremony for Incoming Swedish Couple Ield Up at Ellis Isl Pending Word From First Husband. New York, July >4 —Tmmigration officials meant well when they sousht to have Mrs. Alfhild Dodt and Eric Fryberz married Thursday when the redish-American liner Stockholm docked at the foot of West 55th stree but they forgot to find out what hud become of Mrs. Dodt's first husba. Mr. Fryberg is a member of the Freeman institute of Stockholm. His primarily, is to pur- chase books on mind ‘training and memory study for translation into the Secandinavian Mrs Dodt has been a cashier of the firm for eight months. 8he is 28 years old and pretty and comes to visit relatives. They were affianced in Stockhe they told the immigration otfi Is but were not mar- ause of their hurried de- parture Marriage cannot be nounced here until the banns Leen publighed for two wecks. e e e s ORDER EXPEOTED MONDAY Washington® July 23 -The England coal priority ofder 1t was indicated today al the interstate com- merce commission will be issued on Monday to hecome effective August ried he have and Saturcay | pro- | CITY ITEMS field day Sunday, Court Friendly. F. of A., at Quartette Park, | I | 2 agents Stetson Shoes. Besse-Leland Co.—advt. Court Friendly, F. of ‘A., field day and picnic at Quartette Park, Sunday, July 25.—Advt. PERSONALS Mrs. M. Siderosky and son, Mo=ton, are spending the month of July at ! Mt. Clemens. Mich. | CONFESSIONS GO IN AS EVIDENCE music | Statements of Pettibone, on Trial for Wife Murder, Admitted By Court. Manchester, Vt. July 24.—Two confessions and other statements al- leged to have been made by M. Pettibone, on trial for the murder of his wife, were admitted as evidence late yesterday by Judze Stanley M. Wilson. One confession is claimed to have been made to Attorney General Frank C. Archibald and the other to State’s Attorney Collins M. Graves. The jury, which had been excluded from the court-room during the hear- ing of testimony relative to the ad- missibility of the confessions, was re- called. James R. Wood, a detective, after telling how the confession given to Mr. Graves was obtained, testified | that afterward Pettibone told the witness that he had obtained a bottle of strychnine, containing 30 grains had put the entire contents in a dose of salts administered to Mrs. Petti- bone. e defense, in cross-exam- ination, tried to obtain admissions that. Pettibone was tricked into mak- ing the confession and that threats were used. The largest crowd since the trial began was present at the afternoon T Byron | DRY AGENTS BARRED FROM AUTO SEARCH Occupants Sustained By Refusal to Allow Trunk Inspection. Greenwich, Conn., July 24— Whether revenue officers have a right to hold up and search automobiles for liquor was tested last night when two Boston young men deiving a truck which carried five trunks re- fused to hait for Federal officers here and later, when stopped in Stamford, refused to permit the officers to search their trunks. They were permitted to continue on their way. There was a suspicion that each trunk contained honest to goodness booze. Revenue agents stationed here have been stopping automobiles and motor trucks and searching them for illegal liquor. Persons have objected strongly to the mathods. After refusing to gcop here the two Boston men sped-over the Bos- ton Post road. One of the officers telephoned to the Stamford police. PPoliceman Rillings halted the truck in Stamford, and when the revenue otficer arrived Capt. Brennan demand- ed his credentials. He had no badge, but produced a small picce of paper showing he was a Federal agent. | Capt. Brennan told him he could give | him no power to search the machine. The men were then released. APPOINT COMMITTEE British Corporation Names Attorney M. G. Villers to Look After Oil In- terests in Mexico. Mexico City, July 24.—Attorney M. G. Villers of the Transcontinental company and Rodolfo Montes ¢f the Eagle company, a British owned cor- poration. have been named by the foreign oil interests as a committee on publicity as a result of the recent fiood of statements on the Mexican petroleum legislation situation rrom government sonurces. session. Both attorneys for the prose- cution gave up their chairs to spec- tators. READY FOR MECCA Mohammedan Assembling, With Life’s Savings, to Make the Coveted Trip. Moros Manila, P. 24.—Scores of Mohammedan L. July Moros are reported as- sembling at Zamboanga, Island of Mindanao, to make the pilgrimage to the great Mosque at Mecca. Many have saved for years to make the trip, which according to Mohammedan | faith, every believer should under- take at some time during his life Government officials at Zamboanga many who have made the pil- | in years have returned | in health stripped of belongings. they have Lrought zovernment expense say xrima brok their been past and Orten home " ut COMPLAINS OF BOYS, Cantrowitz, at 60 " store who i i shoe avette sireet, h com- WITH THE FITERS. Snelling. Minn.. Tnly army airplanes en ronte from Mineo- | la, N. Y. to Alaska. leftr the Twin Cities landing field todav for Fargo, ¥ T the next scheduled stop. Fort ¥ | plained to 1 - police that boys in the have cuused him much 1 night theft w committed. A. Beahr complained | today that a Colt ymatic revoiver was recently stolen from the pocket of his automobile. : neighborhood tronble and The oil question again is exciting much attention, although it gencrally is believed here that final action on what the foreign oil interests charge was Carranza’s confiscatory mecasures which will be left by the present de facto government to the administra- tion which will be elected Septem- ber ©. WHISTLING PROHIBITED Captain Gilmer Forbids Noise in Guam by Making Victim Pay S5 Fine for Misdemcanor. Agana, Guam, July 24.—Whistiiag iv prohibited in ¢he city of Agana un- der penalty of a $5 fine by order of | Captain Gilmer, governor of Guam | and commandant of the United Statcs naval station here. His order reads “The practice of whistling is an en- tirely unnccessary and irritating noice which muck be discontinued. “1¢ 15 therefore ordercd and decreed | that no person shall whistle within (he limits of the city of Agana i “The penalty for a violation of this order shali an executive fine not 10 exceed $5 “W. W. GILMER, “Governor of Guam.” in Gilmer has absolute au- | dhority in makinz the laws of Guam, this perhaps beinz the only United Ftates possession where one man has this power, Capt | District Police in | | tive surrounded in a swamp. | vicinity yesterday. ! isfactory account of his movements on * NEW RULE IS SUSP Attorney Examines Myster- ious Person in Inquiry But iden- tity Not Revealed After Hearing. New York, July 24.—A new witness way examined for almost two hours vesierday by John T. “Dooling, aut district attorney, in his efforts to ciear up the circumstances sur- rounding the murder on June 11 of Joseph Bowne Elwell. The examina- tion took place away from the Crim- inal Courts building and when Mr. Dooling returned he refused to re- veal the identity of the new witness. Mr. Dooling said he was buxy checking up the movements of “‘ihe woman in gray” and her husband, neither of whom ecver has been cn- tified to the public. Little promising information was obtained v the dis- frict attorney’s office vesterday. he admitted, though he has communi- cated with a number of persons who are believed to he importaut ic sub- stantiating the stories of the principal witnesses in the Revolver experts at police ad quarters spent vesterday —examining | the two army automatic revolvers which have been turncd over to the authorities. The revolvers and the cartridges are of the same kind which were used in the murder of Elweil but little light on the mystery is ex- pected to come from this investiza- tion, as there are thousands of sim- | ilar weapons in the city WANT PRINT PAPER PLANT Representatives of Swedish Company | Wants to Establish Mill in South American State. Rio de Janeiro. July 24.—Repre- sentatives of a Swedish company have made proposals to the Brazilian gov- ernment looking to the establishment of a print paper manufacturing plant in the State of Parana. Among other advantages asked of the government is that of free entry of necessary ma- «chinery. According to the company’s representatives, there is an abundance | of necessary material for print paper manufacture in Parana and other states. Local publishers, who have for some months been occupied with | now BOED | GASOLINE | SYSTEM Refiners Believe It N Washington, rationing system throughout the entir now is being considd finer: The rationing syste: the refiners as a I tail consumption and price from being forcd 40 cents a gallon, gov here have been infor resentatives of the r Vice-President T. middle West refining representative of here has dj tioning system with cials. Another is C. the andard Oil co Jersey Refiners say curtail! is the only way to ke Before adopting the tem they plan to issu appeal to the count joy-riding. As devised by the tloning plan would one by dealers in wh ment would have no mean that gasoline out to dealers under for each state or lo California now is tions. Gas now is selling cent allon. It is Mexico and northern Consumption now retiners as 13,000,000 I'roduction is 2,000,0 or 11,000,000 gallons stocks, therefore, upon at the rate of gallons a month, acel ducers' figures. May . 30 resetve 577,600,000. gallons, ‘Bureau of Mines, Amp was 643,552,000 gall which was built up du and constituted one o 7 0 July one who problems growing out of the scarcity and high price of imported print paper, are unanimously in favor of the manufacturing project. In the meantime they are meeting frequent- Iy to discuss measures of economy at which reduction in the size of news- papers and increased advertising rates and subscription prices were under consideration. FLYING COMES DOWN Prices of Acroplane Rides Los | Angeles Have Been Reduced About in 100 Per Cent. Los Angeles, July 24.—The high cost of flying went into a nose dive here when managers of the princi- pal commercial flying fields announc- ed a 100 per cent. reduction in the price of airplane rides. Tourists to Southern Califormia | with an ambition to rise above other persons have been paying $10 for flights of short duration. The new price is five dollars the ride per per- son. Passenger flight prices will be con- tinued to be reduced until they are lower than taxicab fares, C. S. Elfelt, manager of one of the companies, has declared. NO H. C. OF L. THERE Beef Sells for Three and One-Half Cents a Pound—But That Is in Far Off Madagascar San Francisco, July 24.—High cost of living has never hit Madagascar, Kendall K. Kay, former Califernia newspaperman has written to friends here. Best prime beef sells for three and one-half certs and rice for one and one-half cents, he said. Pine- apples can be had for one-half cent history. Refiners say it is crease production. is being produced before. In June, for oil wells were beinz d SINN FEINERS ACTIVE L Will Not Negotiate to Settle Irish cession for Dublin, July 24.—Sin declare the organizatif negotiate with the go¥ | settlement of the Irish] An eminent ecclest: Fein connections - info! that he had received a ¢ with credentials which| that it had emanated f net. This he has subj thur Griffith, founder Fein. Captain Airy of the was shot from ambush 1 night died from h soldiers with him wy wounded. The three were sho] lorry which was car for troops. Yesterday's processio that James Larkin ve prison in New York, W sentenced for criminal led by Miss Delia Lark| vealed toda: ‘While general strike was not eventually work on the the shipyards was stopy per mills closed dow: strikers emphasized thei the proprietors with pis| Two Cork girls who with soldiers were sei: men vyesterday and th clipped. WANT MILI: CLOSIN| each and big lobsters for two cents. 300 FARMERS SEEK SLAYER. Hunt TUnknown an Who Killed Young Girl on Michigan Farm. Pottersville, Mich., July 24.—i.cad- ers of a band of 300 armed farmers searching the countryside for an un- identitied man who Thursday attacked and killed Beatrice Hickox, a vear-old girl, on a farm near here, declared yesterday they had tlie fugi- The farmers were reinforced dur- ing the night by a squad of state po- lico who patrolled all roads in this The girl was killed early Thursday while carrying water to the fields for her brother. She had been strangled and her head crushed with a large rock. Neighbors partially fugitive vesterday, through a photo- graph brought here by Lansing j lice, as an escaped convict from Jac son prison. A maa arrested n. vesterday morning w held for vestigation. According to the thorities he was uaable to giv identified the ansing cariy e an- i osat Thursday, but the girl's death. denied kuowled cf July the shinzton yesterday and Springfield, Ky troops surrounded coun court house machine gun squads were posted at points of vantage to protect Robert Logan. a negro, 18 vears old. who is on trial charged with the murder ot Joe Colvin, a young white man, hore last February, Lawrence Mayor Wi lature to Compel Woo Lawrence. July 24— the Massachusetts Le investigation of the American Woolen Comp) this city was suggested day fram Mayor Willi William M. Wood, Pre campany. The Mayor to President Wood, who clined to meet the mj council to discuss the mills, which has thrown sons out of work. Mayor White's letter s present your letter to tH cil as soon as I can gether and suggest if willing to freely and o the situation with the representatives of the pe rence, the governor of wealth be requested to c to the attention of the this state with the' purpg an investigation at a sp| The legislature wouid has we do not possess to attendance.” ROMANS MOVIE Come, July 24.—Ron fasm for moving pictures Milan, which is a much populated city, patr “movies” much less than great increase in Rome the second half of 1918 “sharks”, as thev call thd eers here first came to ti newspaper writer lately of going to the picture tl their wives and families learn how people in wha ine to be smart society move and act,