New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 8, 1920, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870. CONN. SUFFRAGE ASSN. WHICH |BOOZE FOR OWN USE?|DEMOCRATS AT WORK| FOUGHT SO HARD TO OBTAIN | STOREIT ANYWHERE| ON APPROPRIATIONS VOTE FOR WOMEN IS NO MORE Its Work Finished, Organ- ] ization Dissolves And Members Consider Working For Other Aims TRIO SUSPECTED AS Putnim Arrests ‘May Solv Mystery of Losses From Vietcry Dinner at Hartford Many Summer Homes. Club This Evening Will Putnam, Conn., Nov. $.—A. Little- Conclude Activities of As-|neld Bradiey, his wife and brother, Edward Shackett, all of Worcester, sociation. Mass., were arrested today, and be- cause silverware and other articles were in their automobile they were held until state officers could see them. The charge later made against them was that they were responsible for numerous burglaries which have been made in summer residences in Woodstock and Pomiret Frem the houses many thousand dollars’ worth of rugs, furniture, books, china and siiverware and collections of art and curios recently disappeared. Many state officers have been scattered through the towns the past two weeks trying to get trace of the burglars. A’ few nights ago State Officer Elliot saw a car in Pomfret bearing a Rhode Island registry num- ber which excited his suspicion. He could not stop it but passed along the number. Early today a Putnam officer saw @ car with this number on the street. A man was fixing a flat tire. Me took the two men and woman to the sta- Miss Annle Elliot frumbull of Hart. {tlon and later all were questioned. ford, was chairman of the resolutions | They will be taken to Pomfret to committes. Mrs. Willlam C. Cheney of ¢ P¢ charged with robberies in that Manchester, recording seeretary, read | town. The. Dr. John Jay place and the minutes of the Bridgeport con- |the Elliot place known as the Or- vention which observed the 50th an- | chard House, were among those niversary of the association. broken into. All places visited were At the afternoon session reports |the summer homes of wealthy people Hartford, Nov. 8.—For the last time as an equal suffrage body the Con- necticut Woman Suffrage assoclation met here today in annual convention, The right of franchise having been acquired the association met to dis- they should be banded together for wolve and its members to decide if other subjects in the future The convention was in Unity hall which was decorated with flags, suf- frage banners, autumn leaves and shrubs. Many Delogates Attend Delogates came from practically every local branch. The welcome was xiven by Miss Mary Bulkley and the response was by’ Mrs. Grace Thomp- won Seton, first vice-president. Com- mittees were annpunced by Misy Katherine Ludington, the president. BUSINESS IS BAD! | Only Ome Automobile Arrested By Federal Stamford For Carrying Liquor Over Week-End. Men At Stamford, Nov. $.—The only ar- | rest made here by revenue officers in a 24-hour period over the Sunday was that of Dr. Louis Kilgoff, for- merly a dentist, now a wholesale krocer of Dorchester, Mass. He had ten cases of whiskey In his car. With him was a woman who he said was bis flancee and he added that the whiskey was to be given his guests | at the wedding. Kilgoff was held in 1 $500 for a hearing. were given from the committee on |and most of them were looked after politics, and citizenship, and Mrs, | by caretakers. Ruth MclIntyre Dadourian made a re- The police believe the articles in view of the year's work., Miss Luding- | the car were from a rald on a house ton for the political committee, told |over the Rhode Island line, probably of the special mession of the legisia- | on the road to Providence. ture and the final accomplishment of —_— A “NICKY” IS RELEASED Classes In Voting Mrs. C. E. A, Winslow of the eiti- Sy m— aonship committos, sald that with the preme * Court Reverses Foderal inovifabllity of the vote It was im- ” portant thet the association provide W»J‘u"nfl and Arnstein is méana to educate the wemen In thed, *.° gt~ == process of voting. G-Mwn “Ordereil Released From Oustody. in the spring of 19 under Mrs. Nancy M. Schoonmaker, who wrote a Washington, Nov. 8.-—Rever#ng text book called “the actual govern- |the federal district court, the su- ment of Connecticut” Mrs, Winslow | preme court today ordered the re- predicted that women will show a |lease of Jules W. (Nicky) Arnstein wrowing Interest in governmental {[who has been imprisoned in New problems but she added that one of | York since August 10 on charges of the responsibilities of a democracy is |contempt following his refusal to 10 develop intelligent voting. answer questions put to him in a Mra. Florenee L. C. Kitchelt, direc- | bankruptey hearing. Arnstein’s tor of the citizenship work, reported | name was connected with operations that thousands of women attended of an alleged ring of bond thieves the citizenship classes wnd county | yn New York. citizenship institutes. The demand for Arnstein, in his appeal to tha su- Information continues, she sald. 8he | ;rome court contended he was within expressed hope that a League Of |}y rights in refusing to answer ques- ‘Women Voters would be formed. tions which he considered might tend Other Reports Made. to ineriminate him, and maintained County reports were made by Miss | that he had waived no constitutional Mary Bulkley, Hartford: Miss Emily | rights in filing schedules in bank- Whitney, New Haven: Mrs. Fannie ruptcy in accordance with another Dixon Welch, Tolland; Miss Edna | order of the New York courts. Tyler, New London; Mrs. W. P.| Couch, Middlesex;: Miss Rosamond b2 son, Windham: Miss Caroline Ruuts-Rees, Fairfleld, and Miss Eliza- beth Caine, reporting for Mrs. A, 8. Taylor, for Litchfield. Tonight there will be 4 victory dinner nt the Hartford Club, and the speakers will be Mrs. Harrlet Taylor Upton of ‘Warren, Ohto, and Miss Harriet May Mills of Syracuse, N. Y., both ardent ruffrage workers. The five newly elect- ©d members of the general assembly will.also speak HARDING SAILS NOV. {8 on United Will Leave New Orleans Fruit Co. Steamer and Will Return HEADS TRINITY ALUMNI Hartford, Nov. $.—Theo. C. Hud- son of this city was today elected secretary of the Trinity college alumni council, succeeding Charles F. Johnson, '92, of Hartford, resigned. Mr. Johnson had been secretary for many years. Mr. Hudson is of the class of 1914 and was a leader in athletics when in college. PROBE HOUSING CONDITIONS Cleveland, Nov. §.—An Investiga- tion of housing conditions in Michi- gan, Ohio and western Pennsysvania was started here today by the senate committee on reconstruction and pro- duction. Senator Willlam M. Calder, New York, Is chairman. LT PRICES OF FLOUR DOWN Minneapolis, Nov. 8.—Flour prices today continued their downward slide and reached what millers sald were pre-war prices. At ane large mill here family patent flour declined to $10 to U, 8. on December 1. New York, Nov. 8.—President-elect Jiarding will sall from New Orleans November 18 for the Canal zone on board a United Fruit Co.. steamer, It was learned here today. Return- Ing he will be landed at Norfolk on Decembr 4 . Arrangements have been made hereby the ship he is to take from w Orleans will remain over one from her scheduled sailing date ccommodate Senator Harding and party, now placed at 35 persons. ILSON WRITING MESSAGE President Is Preparing Annual State- pent and Recommendations for Next Congress. 8.~—Fresident on his an- % which will ink day 6 Washington, Nov wilson has begun work nual message Lo congr be transmitted either on o) of the next wession on December or the day following JdES INTO MOUNTAIN, Washington, Nov §.—~John P Woodward, air mail pilot, whose body Administration officers expect that!| was found yesterday in the wieckage he will again urge enactment of a | of his plane r Laramie, Wyo., met nmumber of reconstruction measures | his death through flying into a moun- Which he recommended at the tainside in a_denwe fog. sald a report Supreme Court Rules It Need Not Be Kept at Home Assoclate Justice Clark Holds That Such-Action is Not “Transportation” Within Meaning of Volstead .En- forcement Act. Washington, Nov. S$.—Liquor law- fully acquired by a person for his personal use may be stored in a place other than his home under a ruling today by the supreme court Decision on Appeal. The court’s decision was on an ap- peal brought by William G. Street, ot New York city trom lower court de- crees refusing an injunction prohibit- ing federal prohibition officers from seizing liqur which he had stored in a room leased from a safe deposit sompany. Th~ court declared congress did not intend o prodihit Such storage when the liquor was lawfully acquired for a lawful purpose. Can Take It Home. The decision was rendered by Associate Justice Clark. He held that the transportation of lawfully acquired liquor from a warehouse to the home of the owner did not constitute “transportation” within the meaning of the enforcement act. SURPRISE STORE SURPRISE Clerk in Bristol Haberdashery FEs- tablishment Held Up and Robbed By Two Customers. Bristol, Conn., Nov. 8.—The Sur- prise Store, which has clothing and haberdashery, lived up to its name today. Frank Levinson, the clerk, got the surprise and not-the customers. He had just opened up when two men came in who wanted a hand- ' kerchief. After the sale Levinson went to the cash register to make change and was ordered to hold up his hands. One man had a revolver. The other searched Levinson and ob- tained 319, and took .about $50 from the register. They left with the handkerchief, and levinson was so surprised that he could not give good description of the men. a SALOONKEEPER JAILED Meriden Liquor Violator Sent to Jail For Three Months and Fined $200 —Appeals Case. Meriden, Nov. 8—W ith three women present in court, as representatives, they said, of the local W. C. T. U. Joseph Niezgoda, veteran saloon- keeper who was arrested yesterday , with violation of the state liquor | laws, was sentenced to three months in jail by Judge Thomas P. Dunne and also fined $200 and césts. He appealed. It was the man’'s fourth arrest for the same offense since April 17. Last week he was fined 350 and costs by the court and sen- tenced to 60 days. Later the sen- tence was changed to a fine of $100, which he paid. . STILL PRIVATE CITIZEN, NOT INTEND TO ONE KILLED, 24 HURT IN AUTO BUS WRECK Bridgeport Jitney, Crowding Through Traffic, is Hit By Trolley. Bridgeport, Nov. 8.—Wiliam B. Neff of Chicago, was killed, his as. | sistant Oscar Roskobh, of Chicago, is | in a jitney bus driven by Andrew | other persons were shaken up in an | automobile collision today. All were | in a jitney bus driven by Andrea | Netro, of 1014 Main street, which ran into a trolley car at Yellow Mill | bridge this noon. | According to the police the Liriden | draw had been open and there was a jam of vehicles to cross when tu draw wasg closed. The jitney bus was going east when a lumber truck. driven by Ralph Amado of 1820 Main street, belonging to the City Lumber Co., forced its way between the jitne and the curb. The bus went into the car tracks right in front of an on- coming westbound trolley car. The crew of the trolley car were not hurt. The crash was a hard one, and .\’M‘ri' died in the Bridgeport hospital. Amado was held by the police with- out bail to await the coro jer's inquest. i pae g e But Republican Congress May Be Expected to Slash Them BURGLARS ARE HELDOWNER CAN TAKE IT HOME|SPECIAL SESSION EXPECTED As Soon As He is Inaugurated, Hard- ing Will Probazly Call Congress To- gether to Take Action on Domestic Policy, of Administration. Washingtén, Nov. 8 (By Associated Press)—Estimates upon which con- gress will make appropriations for the first fiscal year of the new Tre- publican administration are now being prepared by the various gov- ernment departments, under direc- tion of democratic cabinet officers and in accord with the policies of the Wilson administration. The estimates will be submitted to congress at the opening of the next session on December 6. Since the republicans have a majority in the senate and house sharp changes are to ve made in most of the measures under revision plans which republi- can congressional leaders are ex- pected to work out. The present political situation with regard to the annual appropriations is similar to that which obtained eight years ago after the first clec- tion of Woodrow Wilson. Then the republicans were in control of the executive branches of the govern- meht under President Taft but the democrats had a majority in the senate and house. { At that time however conditions in the nation and the world generally were rmal and government ex- penditures were only a fourth of what they are now. May Need Big Navy. The forthdoming estimates for the war department will be based wupon the requirements of an army the size of which already has been fixed by the republican congress but the naval estimates to be submitted next month will be based on the democra- tice program. Secretary Daniels had repeatedly said that unless the United States became a member of the leaguec of nations it must main- tain the most powerful mavy in the world. Under the program authorized in 1916 the, government now is con- structing five great battle cruisers and more than that number of super- dreadnoughas nd jthe forthcominz naval estimate is expected not only to include apprcpriations for carry- ing on this work, but also recom- mendations for aAditional war craft. Will Exceed $1,000,000,000 Estimates for all of the govern- ment departments are expected to exceed four billions of dollars, this total including amounts for refund- ing portions of the public debt fal- ling due during the next fiscal year. The estimates for the present fiscal year cceeded six billion dollars but these subsequently were reduced by something like two billion dollars. Whether all of the annual supply measures will be completed at the next and final session of the 66Gth. congress remains to be determined. President-elect Harding is expected to call a special session of the nc\v’ congress soon after he takes office on March 4 and it may be that some of the appropriation bills will go over to the special session. HARDING DOES START FOREIGN POLICY Plans No Mexican Confer- ence and Desires No Con- ference With Europe Un- til After March 4. On Board President-Elect Hard- ing’s Special Train, Nov. 8, (By As- sociated Press).—Coming tp Texas for a vacation after the trying require- ments of his campaign President- elect Harding declared today that he was determined to put aside thoughts of his coming responsibilities and to Eive himself over for the next two “_'N'ku to comptete rest and recrea- tion. He told his friends that he ex- pected to stay off the front page and to cease temporarily to be more than @ second rater in the day-to-day column of the daily newspapers, Hunting, Fishing, Golfing. From the time of his arrival Point Isabel, a small (Continued on Ninth Page). e e M S, at WEATHER. —_—— Hartford, Conn., Nov. 6 Forecast for New Britain and vicinity Cloudy tonight and Tuesday: mot much change in temperature., - IND NEW BRITAIN HERAL MEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICU1, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1920. —TEN PAGES -PRICE THREE Q USTRIAL DEPRESSION IS FEL " KEENLY BY LOCAL MANUFACTURE i BUT 1921 LOOKS BRIGHTER TO I As Many New Britain Factories Depend @ " ing Trades and Automobile Industry to Business, Heads of Majority Of Conce READJUSTMENT HERE, BUT WITHOUT PANIC Chamber of Commerce of U. S. Predicts Steadily Dropping Prices. ‘Washington, Nov. 8.—Post-war readjustment, about which the coun- try has been talking, finally is at hand with no prospect of financial panic in sight, according to Archer Wall Douglas, chairmar of the com- ! mittee con statistics of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States whose monthly report on business conditions is just made public. lhe course of prices, ihe report sets forth, will continue downward. Merchandise stocks by Jan. 1 will be smaller than for many years. “We are over the top and on the down grode in most phases of indus- trial and commercial life,” says the report, “although there still continue to be exceptions to this general state- ment. Finished lines of metals, drugs and automobile sumdries are among the most notable exweptions, especially as to price changas, which are few as yet in these particular branches of business. Demand is Slackening. “Demand in all lines is slacken- ing. It is everywhere a case of most conservative buying rather than any great increase in supply. We are having a vivid illustration of how our usual volume of business is made up largely of things people do not really need. Also, we see how people will wet along without things they ounce thought indispensabla, once the fit of economy is on them. Manufacturers Hii. “Manufacturfng and mining are meeting the situation. in the ug#il i fashion, by running on reduced #ne or shutting down altogethes: y has already meant, in some cases, re- duced wages. “Talk of stabilizing prices, 8o as to save the situation, no longer inter- ests any one ve a few hopeless theorists. The laws of supply and demand will, in time, regulatc mat- ters. “The entire business world steadily trending to that readjustment which we have talked about so long. This time it is robbed of its greatest terror, financial panic and ensuing disaster. And through it all, the Federal Reserve Bank System will be a refuge.” is |SIX ARE ARRESTED IN | ANTLJITNEY CONTEST Iflartfold Public. | Vehicle Operators Test- Service | ing City Ordinance. Hartford, Nov. 8.—S8ix drivers of jitney busses had been arrested up to noon today for alleged violation of an ordinance recently enacted confining the busses (o certain thoroughfares and ruling them off Main street. An injunction asked for by the bus men a fortnight ago was denied by Judge Kellogg of the superior court and they were given until today to comply with the ordinance. This forenoon the bus drivers profess to carry passenger i free of charge, foliowing their old | routes which parallel the Connecticut Company's lines. They also asked for I signatures to petitions to be addressad to the common council tonight re- l questing the privilege of traific on certain farbidden strects. Mayor Newton C, Brainard instruct- ed the chief of police to confer with the prosecuting attorney concerning the apparent violation. The latter ruled that the bus drivers were vio- lating the law whether they collected fares or not. The arrests followed. This afternoon the bus owners threat- ened to withdraw thel vehicles en- tirely from all streets. Meanwhile they say they will appeal to the ,supreme court, ESCAPE FROM FLAMES Parents and Seven Children Make Hasty Exit When Their Home l Burns Near Bethel ! Bethel, Conn.. Nov. 8-——Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kovalsky and their seven children barely escaped with their lives when their home, in a remote | of this town, was destréyed by fire Saturda Awakened by the flames they were obliged to flee practically unclad and took refuge in j outbuildings. There were no neigh- bors sufficiently near to give aid. | The clothing and other possessions of | the !um)' were destroyed. News of | section For Increased Demand To Pick Up as Soon as The! OUTLOOK IS NOT PESSIM Local manufacturers are practi- cally unanimous in their belief that 1921 will see many changes for the better in the industrial situation, and although reluctant to speak in an optimistic mood of the immediate future, several of the leaders in local industries felt today that the uncer- tainty of the present market will gradually improve. The feeling gen- erally prevailing is that business will continve to wane for a short time be- fore the upbuilding of normal mar- kets can be started. The return of | normal prices is the only element ne- ’ cessary to guareantee regularly mov- | ing business for 1921, in the opinion ! of one manufacturer, and that can be brought about by the actions of labor, alone. In almost every New Britain indus- try the general depression of business “=aughout . the: country has been felt. In sSeévewal of the plants short time schedules are in effect while a number of factories have found it n ry to reduse wOrnmg forces. Some concerns have done .oth. Chamber’s Statement “We are going through a period of readjustment which is experiencee after every great war, This period, which we are going through, has not been, to date, as violent as the one following the Civil war. Many of the factories have turn them out immediately. they deem it good business to make them spread over a long period of time, and, thus, dv their utmost to stabilize the busi- nest of six months hence. There is no business inan who can tell what is in stare for us In the future, Dhis fact is not surprising, for the question in all minds, six moaths ago. was: Where will we end up:* “After the readjustment of this period, 1 see a brighter future for all business in New Britain, and the United States as a whole.” Signed: A. BUOL / “President of the New Chamber of Commerce.” American Hardware Corp. The American Hardware Corpora- tion admits a lull in business, but President H. C. M. Thomson sees a bright future for builders’ hardware contracts. The following is a statement by President Thomson: “Our business has slowed up per- ceptibly owing to the decided lull in Britain incoming orders, due no doubt to « | sympathetic reaction lines of trade. “However, the demand for housing, ofiice building space, hotel accommo- da s, cte. is so far behind the supply that building should be an ac- tive industry for several years to come; hence Dbuilders’ hardware should continue in good demand. We are, therefore, not pessimistic as to the immediate tuture, so far as our own line of manufacrure is concerned “The ‘American Hardware Corp. “H. C. M. Thomson.”” Landers Frary & Clark. The attitude of labor not alone in New Britain but throughout the coun- try is the ope element that can decide the future of industry, President A. G. Kimball of Landers, Frary and Clark’s factory, believes. The re: ap- tion of a normal market with normal prices prevailing is so closely inter- locked with the labor situation that that they must go hand in hand in their solution and until they are solved matters will be very uncertain, according to the factory officlal. “God alone can tell just what the future holds for manufacturing,™ Mr. Kimball said, “and He is not telling anyone.” Personally, he felt unable to make a statement with any degree of positiveness, his only hope for bet- terment being in labor’s attitude. Statements regarding the future must necessarily be conjectural and for that reason the official was reluctant to discuss the proposition. President H C. Noble of the North and Judd manufacturing company, manufacturers of harness hardware, buckks and numerous other similar articles, anticipates but little change for the better until the beginning of the new year, he admitted this morn- ing when questioned as to the indus- trial outlook for next year. He is of the opinion, however, that 1921 will see many changes of benefit to man- ufactaries in general. The North and Judd company handled a flourishing business before and during the r, having been taxed to capacity during the conflict. In addition to the output of staple ar- ticles. several departments were con- verted into war-working plants. The celebrated line of “Anchar Brand” hardware is turned out at the plant. In closing his statement this morn- n le s pd had al- with other would adopt until bettes to arise. 4 Only recently the nounced a change in # which was a cut in me hours a week. The fae viously been operating : day five and a half day Under the plan which tive last week, an eigh five days a weck has ‘b In explanation of the the officials advised th depression in manufa such a cut necessary. Corbin Screw © At the Corbin Screw of the leading officiajs day, so it was impos thoritative statement, however, that the facto to adopt any drastic Stanley W At the Stanley Wg are reported to be sof tory is working under When seen this afters hett, the vice-president, factory is making m present conditions, but ot business we cannot 1o Traut & Hine President ' Geor; T-aut & Hine Mile- Dlitness at hiy$ concerd Ver. quiet. gyfders are 8low., ang -he predicts dition .-l exist until of the coming year. today that there had be in the working force, hands since the depressil working hours have creased to 45 hours a hours the regular workin Corbin Cabinet Willlam H. Booth, se Corbin Cabinet Lock American Hardware col his company said toda tions at the plant were's local conditions. At pre: Pany his a good order i new business orders hal slight falling off. There change to datc in the w at the concern, the pla &5 hours a week. ¥afnir Bearing © Maurice Stanley of the. | ing company stated that | depression felt all ovenr tH being felt keenly by local ers, but he thinks the | been reached and looks ment from now on. Coff Stanley said: “Our con or less dependent on thd industiy and the depres: business has been felt by there eem to be indica provement in the automo: and we look fo an impy seems as thouzh things reached the bottom.” American Hosiel The American Hosiery o gone on a, 50-hour workig The new rule went into The plant will now ope: a. m. to 5 p. m, five days a half day on Saturday., K. Pasco stated this md the close down was nece | a general depression in wo { out the couniry ife als | New Dritain has been ve in having the factories 1 they do comparced to so) Ithe state The textile quiet at the present large concerns are tirely while others run on three and even one or t week. Mr. Pasco even as to say that he thougl the shops in the city Wi to shorter hou than th operating, in order (o Keej open and the hands work] time. He feels certain, ho the sudden depression and work will end in the near better times would be seen ever been.' The employes tories are realizing the officials must cut down o and are prepared to meet Prentice Mfg. G The George E. Prentice ing company, with its mj Kensington, and two brai in this town, has made a tion in the number of hand: The working schedule b reduced from a 50 hour a to 40 hours and four da ‘When approached upon t| Mr. Prentice said the shu absolutely necessary due of business: Tt was his o it would last a few weoks business would begin to pi Conditions at the Vu "Works giere reported b éntion -