New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 27, 1920, Page 1

"By Associated Press LSTABL(SHED 1870. NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1920. A . N —TWELVE PAGES. PRICE THREE NORWALK SCHOOLS MAY NOT |ALLEGED MURDERER |COOLIDGE PLEDGES REPUBLICANPARTY | SHAMROCK'S SKIPPER - REOPEN IF TEACHERS WILL NOT ACCEPT CUT IN WAGES ,School Board Makes Out Contracts for Less than Originally ~Agreed Upon CUT IN BUDGET IS ‘. REASON FOR ACTION * Teachers Have . Refused to! THINK MURDER VICTIM HAD PLANNED SUICIDE Detroit Woman Gives Such Evidence—Search Coun- try For Second Trunk. Detroit, July 27.—A statement to the police by Mrs. Leo Trumbull, wife of a patrolman, that Mrs. Bugene Leroy, victim of Detroit's trunk mur- der mystery, had confided in her that | she was about to become a mather. Accept Reduction and | Have Until August 2 to Reach Agreement. July - 27.—Unless n of Norwalk s given them last night by the board of education, at a salary less than that originally agreed supon, hefore August 2, Norwalk will be ynable to open its schools on Sep- tember 7 Salary Budget is Out. The item of $212,830 was requested in the budget presented to the board of estimate and taxation for teachers’ malaries and this was cut to $204,042, Tentative contracts had been made AWith the the teachers at salaries which would total the amount asked for and us under the city charter, section 170 the board of education has the power 10 fix teachers salarics, it was be- Jeved the amount would be granted. 'The board of estimate acting under wection 62 of the eity charter which provides that no contracts or bilis shall be made against the city by city officers unless the sum called for has bheen already appropriated, re- Sused to appropriate the money asked for Refuse to Aceept. Ik Is paying but $1,250 to which less than Darien, Westport or Wijton surrounding towns, are paying teachers. The con- tracts presented the teachers last onight called for acceptance for such term of days ok the money appro- priated would lnst for, approximately 192 school dayr, was refused. settlement Is Possible, Judge John H. Light, formerly at- torney general of the State of Con- neeticut, stated in an opinion present- vd to the hoard of education last nights %hat the board of estimate had ex- ceeded Its authority In cutting the tppropriation asked for, and has ad- vised the board to money, set eside for “teachers’ honuses” funds to help out the deficiency tween the appropriation and the appropriation given CITY SHAKEN AGAIN Norw teache is he- requested ¢ Los Angeles Has Another Earthgake Shock This Morning—Prisoners in Jall Shriek to Be Given l"rvfilflni.l Lon Angeles, July sarthquake shock at 12:02 a. m. today | rattled windows in downtown build- | Yings and awakened prisoncrs in the county jall who immediately set y how! to he released various of the how a "o hocks oceurg . sharp | " rts P’ Several no " . Two Men Injurd When Locomotive Orashes 1 ™ ivr Automobile at Danielson Grade Danielson, Conn Marsh, of Glougester, E. Kilbrith of Br both Injured, were occupants ‘ulnmnm\f- which was s southbound passenger train on North street crossing, this forenoon They were put aboard the train and taken wouth. Marsh had a broken log and internal injur nd was the more seriously hurt. Kilbrith seemed t have scaped with 4 cut on the nose and bruises There was a long freight standing | Yon a ng the crossing and the men are thought to have been watehing this and did not hear or see the napproaching passenger train which, due here at 9:16 a. m., stand- ard time was 15 minutes late, from Worcester for New London Marsh travels for a wholesalo dealer. and Kilbrith for a coffee vern in Hoston. The men and mmchine were hurled feet, New Y ork C omptloller Defies Mayor’s Veto July 27.—Comptroller defled Mayor Hylan's veto | cent. walary increase to voted hy the hoard of ery payroll duly pre- wnted ot the increased rate will be honored.” sald Crailg. The eharter ~nfers Upen the mayor no power to velo any Such action, be added, -V. P. and W Mass. of shed by | iyl | | | [ close by fish con- the many eity employes slderman | killea; | injurea injected a nmew theory into the case | today. Police today divided their attention between a hunt for Leroy, husband of the slain woman, and a trunk be- Meved tn contain the vital organs of the body which is known to have heen shipped from the apartment house where the Leroys lived, The police declared they had estab- lished that Mrs. Leroy planned an at- tempt at suicide ‘before her death. That Mrs. Leroy was slain in the Harper avenue apartment house here was canclusively proved today, ac- cording to the police. by finding there of blankets identical with those in which the body was wrapped be- fore it was placed in the trunk. An- other blanket has not been accounted | the police believe the vital organs of the hody were placed in it and placed in the second trunk. A call has been sent to every express office In the country to check over unecalled-for baggage in an effort to locate the second trunk Birmingham, July 27 —Positive identification of the woman kKnown as Mrs, Eugene Leroy, whose mutilated body was found jammed in a trunk by New York express company em- ployes, was claimed today by Dirmingham News. The paper clares that the woman was Mrs Kathcrine Jackson, 18 years old, whose maiden name was Katherine for and de- Lou Fondren and that her hoine was | at Sturgis, Miss,. a small town about 20 miles from Starkville, Miss. The woman's husband was Kid Mec- Coy Jackson, a young farmer who has never been inside the prize ring. des- pite his name. Mrs. Jackson wae the stepdaughter of Albert Vaughn, a Sturgls farmer, Mre. Vaughn died in 1919 and Mrs Jackson disappeared. So far as s known, the'story says. she never re- turned to her hushand or obtained a divorce HOW TO GET RICH Boston Man's Operations HAave Nct. ted Him $8.500.000—Profits Reach 100 Per Cent. ston, July —~Charles Ponzei, who is said to have made $8,500,000 and to have received $200,000 a day from Investors on promise of makinx 50 per cent for them in 45 days, to- day explained his operations in fo elgn exchange which have been s pended at the request of authorftios pending investigation, With «deposits reesived from cus- tomers e wxpiained he converts aollars into Italian lire o 5 forelgn money. Then through wents located in several abroad international reply are purchased, redeemable mal and not the prevailing change. The ns then are trans- mitted by from one FEu- ropean ¢ another, gathering profite through succeeding differences in rates of exchange with assured nor- mal payment for redemption until the saction is completed and proceeds reconverted into American dollars, This usually takes 45 days. according to Ponzei. who says his profits hav. reached 400 per cent in some tran- sactions. rate of ex- couy the age intry to s the | countries | coupons | at the nor- | | President 1S GIVEN HEARING| TO RESTORE POPULARGOVERNMENT AND | ADVANTAGE WHEN HE B o By s s | RESCUE COUNTRY FROMWAR'S REACTION|_ADAMS FOR BEST POS DON’TKN()WWHYHEDH)IT Man Who Fired Fatal Shots Which Caused Death of Davis Ward on June 18 Admits Act—Bound Over to September Term. Hartford, July 27.J—Thomas Hen- ry Russell, who fired the shots on Main street, July 17, which caused the death the next day of Davis Ward of this city, perfor court without bonds when he was bound over to the su- Notified Today -’— was arraigned on a charge of murder , before Judge Alexander W. Creedon. | Russell looked dazed when Clerk Hof- fenberg asked him if he had ever been his plea to the charge he couldn't answer. Is: Believed Insane. It is believed Russell is insane. De- tective Sergeant Madigan told how Russell had admitted doing the shoot- ing, saying in answer to the question as to why he did it “1 don't know.” Madigan aiso told of how Ward identified Russell as the man who shot him. CHIEF KENLON RESIGNS of Interrational Associa- tion of Fire BEngmeers' Resents Anti-Irish Action at Convention. —Chiet John Ken- Toronto, July 2 { lon of the New York fire department resigned as president of the Interna- tional Association of Fire Engineers at the annual convention here today. Chief Kenlon had invited Arch- bishop McNeil of the Catholic diocese of Toronto to officiate but Chief Rus- well, head of the local reception com- mittee, had asked Rev. H. J. Cody of the Anglican church of this,city. “It was solely and absolutely an Irish question,” raid Kenlon today in regard to his resignation. Offering to repay his money to any | investor at debtedness once, Ponzel set at $3.000.000 at and said he bad several million dolars more than enough te cover it. on de- posits in this city and Europe AUTO GOES OVER CLIFF his in- One Killed, One Fatally Injured and | | Bridgeport Motor Bus Men Working Three Others Badly Hurt in 200- Foot Drop. July 27.—Lon O. a ecircus clown, was rles Hite. ecfrcus conces- of Irontown, O., was fatally and three Denver peoplo seriously injured today their automoblle rolied off a cliff Inte Bear Creck canyon Willium Hart taxicab driver of Denver, and his wife were in the frout, seat. It Is said the woman be- came excited and grabbed the stoering heel and turned the car over the edge of the precipice. Denver, Deflance, Ch sionnaire, Moore of were U. S, ATRPLANES CONTIN Saskatoon, Sask., July —Four army airplanes on a flight frnm Mineola, N. Y. te Nome Alaska took off for Edmonton at 10 o'clock today. when ! 200-toot ! the most | | cated their offices | ture | i | | l IN 7 SHORT WEEKS | %00 Iro('m 1!?'2 Lever act, | dered special NAYY DEPT. SEIZES OIL 500 000 Gallons Taken Yesterday From Associated Company By Au- thority of Lever Act. Washington, July 27.—Seizure by nited States destroyers of 500.- allons of fuel oil from the As- ed Oil company at San Francis- co yesterday was under authority of it was stated today at department. Officials ex- instruction had been such selzures when to deliver oil. rs indicated the belief oil companics on the | Pacific coast which had represented their output as being | 10 supply private contracts were with- | | holaing delivery of their apportioned quotas to the navy to compel seizure. Such a course might be held, they suid, to place the companies in a stronger position legally in the event of suit being brought for fail- ure to deliver on private contracts 000 the | plainea given | companies | [ avalome that several navy that make refused to 13 LEGISLATURE VACANCIES Jutoddy SuopwuSiso Make Special 1Mo 0 S Offices and Deaths Election Necessary. Nashville, Ténn.. July 27.—Thirteen vacancies in the Tennessee legisla- ture are to be filled before the suf- frage ratification proposition comes to a vote. Governor Roberts has or- elections on August 5. The vacancies are the result of deaths, resignations and appointments to other offices. Some of the legisla- tors whose se have been declared vacant insist they have not va- and are preparing the elections. The legisla- meet August 9. PERFECTING JITNEY ROUTES ts that to contest wAll Out Definite Schedule to pplant Trolley Service., Bridgeport, July 27.—Elated with their success of yesterday in handline the riding public of Bridgeport, the Jitneymen were today perfecting their system of covering the various routes. Under the supervision of Harry Frank. president of the Park Cit; Bus Owners' association, and Pres dent John E. Schwartz of the Bridge- port Bus Owners' association, the ad ditional buses were assigned their run ning times and schedules were being worked dut in an effort to duplicate those of the abandoned trolley service During the carly rush hours toduy no congestion was reported and re sults were on a par with vesierda when the workmen reached the fac- tories satisfactarily, according to fac- tory heads. sufficient only | arrested before and how old he was, | and when the clerk wanted to know | TWO MEN ACCUSED OF bury Police Probing Mys- terious Killing. | | | Waterbury, July | who died here early this morning as | the result of a bullet wound received 1 Sunday was Mrs, Teresina Scurssa, of 1715 Russell street. A confusion of | hames of the persons, mixed up in { the affair was responsible for the first lnnnounccmcnt that Mrs. Domenic Campano had been shot. The shoot- ing is believed to have occurred dur- ing a quarrel Sunday morning be- 1ween the Ecurssa and Campano fam- ilies. <ampano and Peter Averso are held without bail while the coroner and police complete their investiga- tion. Campano and Averso admit there was a fight, growing out of| trouble over the Campano family's moving out of the house owned by the Scurssa family, but deny that they did any shooting. A 10-year-old child of the Scurssa woman claims both men under arrest fired revolvers. Empty cartridge shells of two different found by the police today in the hall- way at 118 Russell street. As vet. however, the revolwers—if more than one were used—have Tnot been located. MANNIX IS BARRED nter British Will Not Be Permitted to F Tsles— ! Lioyd George Says He Archbishop to Issue Statement. —The ambiguous <tatement of Premier Lloyd George in the house of commons yesterday | that Archbishop Mannix of Austraiia would not be allowed to land in Gngland” because of his recent ut- |terances, was cleared up today when | it was declared in official quarters jthat he would not be allowed to land in the British Isles. Atlantic City, July 27.—Archbishop | Mannix, ‘of Australia when asked to- if he would amplify his reply to the assertion of Premier Lloyd | George that he wauld not be permit- ited to land in England today =said {that he would issue a statement on i he subject tonight and that he would also have something to say regard- {ing that the assertions of Premier Hughes of Austrakia. | “But if Llovd George made the an- nouncement credited to him then am not to visit England.” he added. | 18 KILLED IN BELFAST ' Recent Casualties Also l.ondon. July Includ=s 100 Persons Wounded—Figures Given Out in House of Commons, London, July 27.—Casualties frem recent disturbances in Belfast :oda: stood at 18 killed and 100 wounded. These figures were given to the nouse |0| commons vesterday by Sir Hamar Greenwood, chief secretary for Ire- land. Two hundred arrests were made. Sir Hamar said if it had not been for the troops, police and warships at Beltast there might have been a massacre of thousands | WEATHER —o— Hartford, July 27.—F for New Britain and v Fair. <lightly warmer and Wednesday. SHOOTING BY CHILD Both Deny Charge—Water- | 27.—The woman ; types were | 1! Would Pumsh Profi- teers, Improve Trans- portation, Give Vote To Womenand Work For World Peace Would Punish Profiteers, Improve = Transportation, Give Vote to Women and Work For World Peace. Northampton, Mass., July 27.—Res- cue from the reactions of war was described as the transcendent need of the nation in the address which Gov- ernor Coolidge gave today in aceepting republican nomination for vice-presi- denL “The chief task that lies before us,” he said, “is to repossess the peonle of their government and their Drope‘r(\' o | " He found another source of gravest Todays Cou 30 Mile and Leeward vors Lipton HARDING PREPARING HIS PORCH CAMPAIGN First Speech Next Saturday —Wires Good Wishes to U. S. Olympic Athletes. BOTH BOATS IN GETTI Marion, O, July 27.—Two more spealing dates for Senasor Harding’'s front-porch campeign were announced today and it was said that half a dozen others were being arranged for the near future. The nominee’s first front-porch a delegation from Muansfield, O., and a deleyation from Mansfield, O., and the two additional dates announced are both for next week. On Wednes- day, August 4, the semator will speak to a delegation of republicans from Wayne county, Ohiéo, and on the next | day will address the class in school | administration of Ohio university. Marching clubs that have asked for appointments but for whom no dates have yet been fixed include the New York Repubtican State League; a group of voters from Detroit who sup- ported Hiram Johnson for the nom- As Race Continu Picks Up and § Lead. July Sandy Hook, IV today led starting line in the tienal yacht race to of the America's cup. Starting on the 30 and leeward course afternoon Shamrock of it her skipper be: public concern to be “the reaction- iary tendency to substitute private will for the public will.” “The obscrvance of the law,” he said, “is the greatest solvent of pub- lic ills.” Favors Govt. Economy. He declared that extravagant stan- dards of government expenditure bred of rocent years must be eliminated ! and that a revision of taxation must be accompanied by a reduction of private extravagance. He urged bet- ter facilities for adjustment of indus- trial disputes. The need of the farm- ‘ers, he said, was an enlarged power of organization whereby the original producer might profit to a larger de- gree by the high prices paid for his produce by the ultimate consumer and at the same time decrease the cost of food. Again the League of Nations. “The proposed League of Nations without reservations as submitted by the president to the senate met with deserved opposition from republican senators,” he said. *‘Our party by the record of its members in the senate | and by the solemn declaration of its platform by performance and by | promise approves the principle of | agreement among nations to preserve peace and pledges itself to the making | of such an agreement preserving Am- erican independence and rights as | will meet every duty America owes to humanity. This language is pur- | posely broad not exclusively but in- clusive. The republican party is not narrow enough to limit itself to | one idea but wise and broad enough | to provide for the adoption of the best plan that can be devised at the time of action.” “Your presence tells me,” said Governor Coolidge in opening his address, “of a leader and cause. A leader in Warren Harding (Continued on Page Three.) CHICAGO POLICE IN ALLEGED BOOZE RING Chief Discovers Some of His Men Have Been Aiding Saloon Keepers in Sales. Chicago. July 27.—Chief of Police Garrity today announced that he had been investigating reports of palice aid in whiskey purchases on the part of saloonkeepers. Detective Sergeant Paul Peterson, who is under arrest, is said to have confessed serving as a ‘“guard” to ‘Abrabam Nelson, who was robbed of $15,000 vesterday. The police today were investigating the possibility of the holdup having been pre-arranged. Nelson id the money was his own, but he expected to pool whiskey among other saloon men after he had secured it ergeant Peterson wa. 1o shaw me where to get the liquor,” Nelson said, “but he left me as soon as we got to the shop and almost im- mediately 1 was held up. It looks like a frame-up 1o me.” “] have discovered that there ap- pear to be cases where policemen have been acting as guards for saloon- men who did illicit whiskey buying,” the chief said. Peterson denied any participation in the robbery, Groom, 19, and Bride, 18, Secure Consent of Parents tinsmith, whose home is in Durham, and Miss Edna Mae Barrett of 5 Bradley street, whose occupation is that of a dentist's tant, were granted a license to v at the office of the town clerk morning Because of the fact both the contracting parties are the lezal age for marriage it for them to secure the before the Edward Blake, a this that helow was necessary consent of their parents certificate could be issued. ination, and Ohio members of the Loyal Order of Moose. The following wireless message was sent today by Senator Harding to the American athletes sailing from New York on the Princess Matoike to participate in the Olympic games: “To the company of American athletes sailing to participate in the Olympic games, I want to send a word of Godspeed and good wishes. You will uphold all the traditions of American sportsmanship, I well know, and T want you to know aiso that T am joining with all your coun- trymen in wishing that you may come home with your full share of the honors of the great affair nnd s,dded distinction to our count: CONN. CO. TO RETAIN MEN ONLY ONE WEEK to windward before sed the line. Both when the starting ed at 2:15 and fi line before the two n limit 'expired. Preparing for the mile beat to wind Ambrose channel 1 southwest to a point ¢ the sloops stood n ward of the line, the lightship, reachs and coming about b the starting signal Starting e The official startin for both boats—2:17:() had failed to cross it ute handicap limit. Having beaten Capt position for the first Captain Burton cros ithe starboard tack. The sea was very si was little quartering w) yacht, Although the omc ) of both boats remal Shamrock actually cro ahead of Resolute. Shamrock crossed at 2:32. The challenger foo the light air and co former tactics her sk right on the edge of After a short hitch about on the port 1t yvachts slipped along Seabright. Resolute Ga On her long port Shamrock was able to not air and footed fast. ever, began to work ward and at 3 p. m. much of her rival's le | came about on the sta Trolleymen Will Probably Be Let Go If Cars Are Not Again Put n Service, Employes of the Bridgeport division of the Connecticut company have been retained for one week only and no provivsion has been made by the campany for their workers in this dis- trict after that period according to a statement today by President Storrs of New Haen. BEvery person in the employ of the company here will re- ceive pay for this week, President Storrs said, but he said he could make no declaration of any future plans. Car barn crews were at work in both locai barns today making minor repairs to cars and equipment. Of- fice emploves were at their desks at ! the usual time. Many of the inspect- ors and starters are doing duty today checking the jitneys. LET OF WITH WARNING Pure Food Commissioner Hereafter Will Prosecute All Who Violate Soda Water Laws of State. Hartford, July When she came aj was within a mile of t| As the yachts app other Captafn Adams would be able to Thereupon Resolute the starboard tack at CLAIMS MIRAG Meriden Man, 27.—Dairy and Pure Food Commissioner Thomas Holt has decided not to institute prosecution proceedings in the case of the 30 persons against whom charges for the sale of saccharine in soda water drinks had been made. He held hearings last week in this city, Bridgeport and New Haven and found that in each instance the complaint was sustained in the evidence, but that the violation of the law was in every case due to misapprehension as to its requirements. Violators will be rigorously prosecuted hereafter, Mr. Holt declared. Revised Census Shows But Slight Changes Washington, July —Revised cen- sus figures were announced today follows: Brockton. Mass, 66, viously announced 66,138 bridge, Mass., 109,694, previously an- nounced as 109,456: Everett, Ma 40,120, previously announced 109; Lowell, Mass., 112,759, previous- Iy announced as 1 Hope! Middletown Asylum,| Man, Doctors Adm! Meriden, July 27. li, hopeless invalid years in the Middleto: {lum, is now practicall; physicians admit. Th at the cure but his sig the recovery is entird =ppeal to the “miracle Dame, near Montreal ited 1 month and the stricken man. B forty-three years old, of influenza and whet from that he became a weak mind and wa asylum. The sisier vis worker on June 26 af | the recovery began on physicians at the ins the remarkable recow was due in their opi deavor to get well. Plays With Matc Burns Bridgepori, July B three years cld, died e ing from burns reccelf clothes were set on matches with which s ! | | i l ! ANNOUNCES E AGEMENT. London, July 27.—The engagement | is announced of Elcanor May, eldest daughter of Solomon R. Guggenheim of New York to Viscount Arthur Stuart. Health Dept. Take;—Up Rent Committee Report Otlicials or the Lealth department began the work of inspecting tenc ment hauses wh aceording to the report o) the mayor's rent committee were in an insan ondition. In e instanc heen found that maiters are N nd the jurisdic- tion of the health department. Where ‘Roviet R possihie the department requested | haw to secura for jtse hat the conditions be remiedied at | will ;make sugh a rap onces | as Poland’s forever imy Soviet Organ Pre A Safegua Vieana, July ss message phoic the official Moscow nas the