New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 17, 1920, Page 1

ESTABLISHED 1870. DX GIVES PRAISE | TO HIRAM JOHNSON Declares Progressive Calilornian Shared Fate of Roosevelt BIDS FOR WESTERN VOTES o Leader Speaks at Sacra- mento, Scoring Boss Tactles of Republicans and secking Progres- sive Vote In Pacific State, 17.~In an his Cox candi- Sacramento, Cal, Sept. ddress here today opening ornia campalgn, Governor (Ohio democratic presidential ate praised Senator Hiram Johnson, jpublican, as an exponent of nwivin and again flayed " nesw!” and republican pporting Senator Harding. Although they differ fundamentally the- league of natlons, Governor sald, he admired Senator John- on .for - frankness and lack of Am- lguity or hypocrisy. “He and I do not agree on inter- tiopal policles” sald Governor Cox o a large theater audience at a neeting “but I respect the man for s eandor. Pralse for Johnson. “Ap ah Ohioan I give you the as- rande that the observation made a distinguished citizen of our state the effect that Hiram Johnson was blackgunrd and unfit to assoclate th decent men Is not the view of people. *“Lat me recall a parallel between campaigns of 1912 and 1920. “Eight years ago Colonel Roosevelt d that the nomination whas @ by reactionary forces in de- nee of the rank and e as expres- at the primaries. In 1920, pre- y e same thing was done and Johnson was humiliated the as Colonel Roosevelt. To his when he returned home the Chicago convention this he expressed no bitterness and wiainly that he would rather back to his home sate defeat- than to have been nominated in room of a Chicago hote! by rep- atives of big business His | er obserwvailon was ‘c few mea “big leaders wli- | of | pro- ¢ et af mxught for the time the American primary system.' _Bogwes G. O. P. Boseen, e troe and it wou'd be futile to It ihat there are many Cranes tatives of Morgan Co., who arrogate to themselves rigbt of selection of mndldnlml 2 nding what may have lvnn{ by the people themmelves am unable of reasoning the which has given (o boss Barnes o see by what! political | Néw York a distinct status of | P In thin campaign can ex- | he procresstve friends of Roosevelt and Hiram John- o give it support. hare ro many obligations designing intoromis been aseumsa | the party of Mnbn an in this| "In o - STeal western T have boen now for iwo *I find many evidences of re- . 1 am convinoed that the of tndependent and thoughi will be running so by November- that unboly en- will have been completely JMAN IN OREGON HAS STARVED WSWINEY meWlflloutFood ~1Irish Striker Begins 1 Ora., Lane. of ossburg., yesterday 8 40-day fast during which she partook of no nourishment 8 Uitle orange and lemon and water. Mrs. Lane had been with chronic stomach trou- for many years and was advised She lost 26 pounds In weight ] fime, but never was confined bed. Her first 1904 was a small nt of soup. dofl, Mept. 17.—Lord Mayor Ter- MacSwiney, of Cork, who today the 26th day of his hunger in Brixton prison, passed a at better night and had a little mid a bulletin issued at 10 tHis morning by the Irish Self- nation leagu, The bulletin the pains he had suffered in his and back continue but that he RBot muffering from the pain in his from which he has froquently coun’ry i pro- | ad. It wag declared a doctor found him appreciably weaker, he was «till conmeclous. port Lo the home office the n at Brixton prison doclared was no change n the lord may- sondition except that a gradual tlon was noticeable daily. 3 0¥ PETITION, Sept. 17.~Willlam M, iford, a twine jobber, tary petitfon in bilities are given \\/ IN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 192¢C —EIGHTEEN PAGES PRICE THREE ( D.L.& W.R.R.TO SEGREGATE |PALMER IS ADVISED 'FINANCIAL CENTERS OF EVERY B COAL AND RAIL PROPERTIES, |(FPACKERS WOULD DOUBLE ITS CAPITAL REVISED CASUALTIES SHOW 36 ARE KILLED But Two Bodles Are Um- dentified—List of Injured Swelled to Over 200. New York., Sept. two of them unidentified lost their lives in the explosion yesterday in Wall street according to a revised casualty list issued at noon today. The number of injyred is said to approximate 200 with exact figures | unobtainable because scores received | emergency treatment outside of hos- pitals. The revised list of dead fol- | lows: Joseph Arambarry, Indian, Bronx Reginald Ellsworthy, West Oranxr,i J. Bartholomew Flannery, 19, messen- ger, New York. Franklin G. Miller, Harold L. Gillies, Pclham, N. Y. Charles Hanrahan, Brooklyn. Raymond Miller, no address. Thomas W. Ostrey, no address. Benjamin Soloway, 16, Brooklyn. Joseph Schmidt, 30, Long Island City. John W. Weir, New York Margaret Fisher, Brooklyn. John Donahue, Brooklyn Willlam Joyce, 24, Brooklyn, clerk in Morgan office. Carolyn Dickinson, Elmhuret, L. L. Mrs. Margaret Drurey, Brooklyn Worth Bagley Ellsworth 52, Wash- ington, D. C. Willlam City, L. L John Johnson, New York. Bernard J. Kennedy, Brooklyn. Alexander Leigh, New York. Charles Lindrothe, Brooklyn. Colin B. McClure, 25, Yonkers. Alfred Mayer, New York. Col. Charles A. Neville, Bovanntah, Ga, Rudolph Portiny, Jamaica, L. I BEdyard A Sweet, Brookiyn. Ro Westday, New York. Mildred Zylander, Now York. Lewls K. 8mith, New York. Jerome H. McKeon, broker, Bronx. Mr. Arthurs, address unknown. L L. Roberts, New York. Joseph Aresberg, Brooklyn. Two bodies still unidentified morgue. A revised list of the known injured from outside New Yoik city was an- | 17.—Thirty-six | persons, 1 28 years, a West N. 20, New York. F. Hutchinson, Garden U. 8. A, at nounced this aflernoon as follows: | Raymond McQuade, Yonkers. Raymond Reddington, banker, New Monmouth, N. J. ‘ Arthur Geitersole, North Arligton, N.J. | Jobhn G. Bromylau, Hillsdale, N J.l H. Weill, employe of the Shanghai Bank., address unkmown Frank Vaneck, Westchester. famuel Diamond, Jersey City. Frank Stova, Bergenfieid, N. J Willlam Peterson, Bogota. N. J. Leo K. Drugy, Washingion, D. C. John Faick, Sacramento, Cal. Mre. Lena Faick, wite of Falek T. C Peck, Jr. L. W. Roberts. Elmer Diamond, Passaic, N. J. Jesso B. Baer, Burlington, N. J. James Butts, Yonkers. Arthur J. G. Cole, North Arlington, J. Joseph Dic! n, Plandome, N. Y. Pau! Darkt Hoboken. N. J. Walter Dickinson, Yonkers. Martin Eilis, West New York, N. J. Willlam Foley, Englewood, N. J. Floyd Johnson, Yonkers A. B. Jessup, Jeddo, Fa John Kunkle, Cranford, N. J. George Luhrs, Freeport, N. Y. John Markle, Jeddo, Pa. Harry McGuire, Jersey City. J. W. Ridge, Mount Vernon, N. Y. George Watt, Somerville, N. J James R. Robertson, Bayonne, N. J. Willlam Folden, Freeport, N. Y. Albert Slegel, CGlendale, N. Y. Fred W. Thompson. Wobdhaven, N Y. F. Gelfair, Port Richmond, N Charles H. Childs, Utica, J. F. Conway, Richmond Hills, N. Y. Hartland West, Yonkers. H. R Mclntyre, Yonkers. FEAR STRIKE RIOTS Six Companies of Alabama National Guard Called Out to Prevent Clashes at Mine. John Nyack, N. Y. address unknown. Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 17.—Six companies of the Alabama National Guard, called into service last night by Governor Kilby for duty in Walk- er and Jefferson counties where woft coal miners havq been on strike for two weeks, were expected to reach the strike area today L. M. Adler, general manager of the Corona Coal company, was shot fro ambush and instantly killed yesterday near Paton. Deputy Sheriffs Sullivan and Coker, who were with Adler, were serjously wounded. Governor Kilby called out troops { present | its when Informed by Sheriff Clark Guthrie of Walker county that feeling had grown Dbitter Dbetween mine guards and miners, and that armed SEPARATION WOULD BENEFIT CONCERN Under Present Methods With Assets Combined In- crease of Capital Stock is Made Impossible. Washington, Sept. 17.—The ware, Lackawanna and Western rail- road applied to the .interstate com- merce commission today for permis- sion to segregate its rail and coal properties. The company also asked permis- sion to issue additional capital stock to the full amount of its surplus now estimated at about $90,000,000. Its capitalization is less than $43,000,000 the application said, while rail investment exceeds $87,000,- Dela- 000. . Has Dual Capacity. “Since early in its history, plication continued, ‘“applicant been functioning in the dual ca city of coal mining company, in fee and by lease und operating large tracts of anthracite coal lands, and of transportation company, oper- ating an important system of rail- roads “Such ownership and operation. of coal lands has subjected it te laws preventing it from expanding its cap- itaiization to keep 'pace with the growth of ite assets as it would oth- erwise have had the right to do. It is now ready to segregate its coal properties from it rail properties and the ap- ha | to thereafter continue as a transporta- tion company only and thus place it- self in position. subject to this com- mission’s assent, to accept the ben- efits of general laws of Pennsylvan- ia permitting i to increase its cap- italization to more nearly conform to its assets and to what such capitali- zation would doubtless have been but for the operation of such restrictive laws. Put Co. in Bad Light. “The declaration of dividends at a rate abnormally high when compare with the dividend rate of other rail- roads operating in the same territory has led to the unwarranted conclu- sion on the part of the public’ that applicant has earned and is earning a grossly excessive return on its investment in property devoted to public use. An Increase in capital stock as is here proposed would tend to remove this source of distrust and suspieion.” 'EVENING SCHOOLS T0 OPEN MONDAY NIGHT Classes Will Be Conducted in Various Buildings About City. Evening achool classes will open on Monday night in the various school buildings designated by the board of education for those classes. Large enrollments in every department are expocted, particularly in the grade work. The school commiittee has se- lected Oharles Campbell, an instrue- tor at the High school, as principal of the High achool course; William C. Moorhead, also connected with the | High school faculty, for the Bartlett school principal’s office; E. 5. Weeks, t Street school, school: Harold at the BElihu Rur- registered for a | and grade work Yat the Grammar ’rhnso who are fompelled by | law to attend evening school—that is, those between the ages of 14 and 16— will be enrolled in that building. Claxses for foreigners who do not read or write English will be con- ducted at the Grammar, Bartiett and Elthu Burritt schools. All classes’are free and enrollments will he made on Monday evening. = TRYING T0 EREAK WILL Boston Artist, Cut O From Tstate of ' | win Uncle Worth $50,000,000, Charges | Latter Was of Unsound Mind, Salem, Mass., Sept. 17.—The issues upon which Albert V. Searles, artist, will attempt to break the will of his uncle, Edward F rles, of Methuen and New York. which lert | the residue of an estate estimated at | $60,000,000 to Arthur T. Walker, of New York, a clerk, will include the | .| questions whether the millionaire was of sound mind when the will waa drawp and whether It was procured through fraud and undue influence. Formal notice to this effect was made by counsel for the contestin a Boston | | be one of | of cigars, MERGER C7TY IN COUNTRY IS UNDER GUA Federal Trade Gommission Saps, TO PREVENT NEW BOMB EXPLOS Chief Flynn of U..S. Secret Service That Infernal Machine Was Placed Street by Mysterious. Man Who It Is Monopoly NO SEPARATION_ INTENDED Ir\F. H. Prince Takes Over Interests of “Big Five” Present Status But Very Little, Report Declares. Washington. Sept. 17.—The proposed by the *‘big fiv dispose of their stockyard interests to F. H. Prince and Company of Boston will not resuit in the separation of the stockyards from packer interests, the Federal Trade Commission de- clared today in a report to Attorney- General almer. Two Reasons Given, The commission gave for its conclusion as follows: “The long-time stockyards relations of F. H. Prince with the packers have been such that the plan will not re- sult, in the opinion of the commis- sion, in a divorcement of the stock- yards from packer interests. “The plan, outlined, in the opin- ion of the commission, is an infrac- tion of the monopoly-law of the land, reater and more serious than the existing infraction.” BATTLE ON MAIN STREET to Make Public Alleged plan Young Man Forced Insult This Morning. to Woman For Persons who happened to be in the vicinity of Central Park this morning were treated to a fistic exni- bition that was not only a fine dis- play of the manly art, but carried a moral with it. The battle was in progress for seven minutes, attracting an audience of nearly 100. It ap- pears that one of the men had in- sulted a woman who passed by. The other man demanded an apology which was not forthcoming. After the smoke of battle cleared away the conqueror forced the vanquished to publicly apologize for his actions. ROB TAFT'S HOME Extent of Robber’s Loot Not Known But $1,300 Worth Jewelry is Taken From Nearby House. of New Haven, Sept. 17.—Burglars last night were in the home of Prof. William Howard Taft, but the value of articles taken if any is not yet known to the police as the family were away. At the home of Graham F. Thompson, nearby, jewelry worth $1,300 is missing. CHANGE PHONE SYSTEM Automatic Device Will Become Af- fective in New Haven Tonight— About 700 Phones Au% New Ilaven, Sept. 17.—Replacing to a large extent a manual telephone switchboard in the omia® buildig of the New Haven railroad > here, an automatic system will be “cufrover™ tonight. About seven hundred Wi~ struments are controlled from this board and be on the tool line board of 20 trunk lines. MILLER 0. ENCAMPMENT Uniformed Rank Will Hold Two-Day Outing at Loon Lake—Clambake on Sunddy Afternoon. W. Miller Com- . K. of P, will ¥ encampment W afternoon evening. The company will take up quarters on Pinnacle Mountain; near Loon Lake, at a point which has been designated as “Hugh W. M#ller Camp.” Major arry A. Hargreaves is in charge of arrangements for the encampment and_has invited a number of state officers, seve of whom will be in attendance, it is expected. Military discipline will be main- tained from 3 o'clock Sunday after- noon until 10 o'clock Sunday morning. After restrictions are ralsed the time be devoted to athletic confests and other games. A sheepbake will the features of Sunday's calendar. Plans have been made for the erection of a canteen¥or the sale cigarettes, soft drinks, ete., the proceeds to go into the company’s treasury. e i e e — WEATHER : —— 1 | Hartford, Sept. 17.—Forecast ! for New Britain and vicinity: Fair -with e tempera- ture tonight and Saturday. l It Will Change the | packers to | two reasons hereafter operators will Speaks Here Today. Democratic vice presidential nom- inee Franklin D. Roosevelt and Hon. Augustine Lonergan who was the choice of the state democrats for state senator to oppose Senator Frank Brandegee in the coming elections, will speak this afternoon at § o’clock in Turner hall. Mr. Roosevelt will be introduced by Chairman P. F. King and his address will be followed by that of Mr. Lonergan. The democrat® town committee has arranged to receive and entertain the candidates from 4 to 6 o’'clock. A band concert will be held at the green in Central Park,-followed. by .a. street parade. | FRENCH ELECTION IS EXPECTED ON SEPT, 24 Popular Demand is Miller- and For President But He Doesn’t Want It. Paris, Sept. 17 (By ,The Associated Press).—A successor to Paul Des- chanel as president of France will be elected on Friday, September 24, ac- cording to general belief in political circles today, although the date will not be definitely fixed until after the meeting of parliament on Tuesday, when the president’s resignation, handed to Premier Millerand at Ram- bouillet yesterday, will be placed before the legislative bodies. The successor, it appeared today, will be Alexandre Millerand, the present premier, unless the premier's powers of resistance to a call to the office prove greater than the rapidly accumulating force of public senti- pdent favoring him for the chief magistracy. premier Millerand’s colleagues in the cabinet were insistent at today’'s meeping that the premier should sig- nicy Yhis willingness to accept the presidensy of the republic in suc- cessiol; to M. Deschanel. The pre- mier, wmowever, persisted in his re- fusal to, consider such a step, declar- inz he fext it incumbent upon him to continue {he work he had undertaken ) as premie: LEA Quintet [ A K nationaligiey in the pa: . concern wh Orchard stre Corbin and plants. The cided that better | tordea if the red | gone over in white, + was awarded the pa Five men were sent’ ladders, paints, etc., al on the building. They side without attractin, passing notice for se: the foreman informed} his miniature leagu composed of five diff ties. There is an man, aa Assyrian, a Portuguese neg done work in | and as vet thel ightes < ! says his relative has been in | him. Being Sought. New York, Scpt 17.—William J. Flynd, chief of of investigation, department of justice, declar>d this al was positive that a bomb had caused the explosion in yesterday, which took a toll of 36 lives, injured about 2 and caused property damage running into the mlIllOflS Chief Flynn made his announcement shortly after missioner Drennan had reported to Mayor Hylan his a bomb was responsible for the disaster and the police to swing to the bomb theory as opposed to that of a cg tween a powder wagon and an automobile. “There is absolutely no doubt that it was a bomb,” Flynn. . convinced us of this. n important development in the last two The bomb was apparently plad person who was within four blocks of Wall and Br when the explosion occurred.” Certain at last of\the cause of the explosion, fed and city police increased their search for the driver o drawn by one horse, which was blown to pieces. him has yet been found. N The theory of the investigators is that a time b placed on the wagon and that the driver hurried from just after arranging for the explosion to occur at noon. WARNINGS ISSUED T0 WALL STREET WORKERS At Least Two Ousiders Be- lieved to Have Known About Bomb Plot. —_— Toronto, Sept. 17—Edward Fischer, described as a member of an old New York family, who was staying at a hotel here early this week, left sud- denly after he is alleged to have mailed a postal to George W. Keth- ledge, an employe of a New York brokerage firm warning him to “get out of Wall street as soon as the gong strikes at 3 o'clock Wednesday, the 15th.” His whereabouts are yunknown here. Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 17.—A man who admits he is Edward Fischer, and that he recently was in Toronto, is detained at police headquarters at Hamilton, Ont., according to a tele- phone message from that city re- ceived here today. A police surgeon is examining him to determine whether he is insane. Relatives in Hamilton are said to have informed the police of his whereabouts. He has not been questioned about a postcard warning a broker's clerk in New York to get out of Wall street on September 15. The police say Mr. Pope, a relative of Fischer, informed them that three weeks ago the prisoner prédicted the New York catastrophe and sent warn- ings to Wall Street friends. Pope pe- culiar mental condition for time and that he believes fhe mation as to the approaching ter was reccived by “mental pathy.” A lunacy commission adjudged Fischer a *“fit subject for the asy- lum” and he will be taken thére this afternoon it was announced. infor- disas- tele- Washington, Sept. 17.—A' hotel waiter here, who was reported to the police as having told his fellow employes that he “knew all about the New York explosion” and that *the treasury will be the next to go” was questioned last night by department of justice agents, but was not held. Extra precautions were taken in guarding government property here, particularly the treasury building, when it was reported the New York explosion was the result of a bomb plot. Nutley, N. J., Sept. 17.—Warning to keep out of Wall street ‘‘until after September 16, was received here September 9, by Joseph T. O'Neill, 24- vear-old son of a banknote paper manutacturer, he declared today. O'Neill said he was on a tube train from Newark to Jersey City and got jnto conversatios with a man next to The stranger said he was a ecret service agent attached to the iFyench high commission and was on ay to Buffalo where some anar- were under arrest he learned that O'Neill was § in a lower Broadway office d O’'Neill to keep away from Btreet district, O'Neill said. a close watch was be- known anarchists but develop successtully in autions. 5 id the stranger was about with ruddy complexion, med to him an unusual gray hair for his age. Hoe Lsix feet tall and clean pe rode with him to erry and during the trip the man said: ' | I me | | "ing New York, Sept. 17. centers of America’s big] coast to coast are arme ; day with police and priv posted to guard against ! the mysterious explosion ‘Wall street yesterday. From Washington, Ch adelphia, Boston, Detroit] as far south as the Gulf off west to the Golden Gatd announced heavy patrol clothes men and police their big business dist: eral agents worked with officials to run down repoj spread extremist plots. 36 Dead, 200 Inj Thirty-six persons are more than 200 injured fif plosion yesterday, declard police here as probably e infernal-machine. ' Discov of “clock work” in the announcement by experts or picric acid was used if there was one, have and departmests of justic “leads” pointing to ‘bomM} radical activities. In the meantime the V scene of yesterday’s blast while the Stock Exchange organizations resumed busi usual hour this morning. A Secret Service Several New York! def secret service men left thy dawn this morning on ends of the investigatio plosion. William J. i the bureau of investigati partment of justice, vi iof the blast personally) by police headquarte his own men, steadfast] “talk” on the subject. Troops were held in Governor's Island agail bhility of renewed outra fachments of the 22nd held in barracks subje call. 2 ‘Buildings Well § All public buildinges; of wealthy and prom are under special wal | available man is held actively working in fede city investigation agencies Between 8 and 9 o morning police lines in fH} ' district were relaxed for ad ehe thousands of office wo: the same périod patrols were doubled and e way and alley was under ¢! tion. Downtown subway | were kept cleared by a larg police. “Debris Cleaned During the early hours private agencies cleaney street, sweeping up tons i washing down blood-sp walks and buildings. \Ri force started york remed: to twisted iron office struc Morgan building, and scores began the long tasks dowing the entire financt Many Sightscers O The financial district with sightseers this morni lines were established for of two blocks, north, east, west, the market police majntaining order. The Stock Market opened| ‘at 10 Q'clock with no ouw of excitement and few traci terday’'s disaster aside from! porary windows covered wi A large majority of the ac bers' of the exchange wer when the opening gong so 1ess proceeded in norm air degree of activity sub-treasury apd assay Of were dircetly in the line plosion, the day's routine up ‘without a hiteh, nlth. guards were on duty as & ary measure. b Mo The Offices of