New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 24, 1920, Page 1

Herald “Ads” Better Busi === INEW BRITAIN HERALD MEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICU1. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMB ER 24, 1920. —TWELVE PAGES EMPLOYES OF FORD MOTOR COMPANY WILL BE GIVEN $7,000,000 IN BONUSES JAN, 1 ers Also Notified of Extra 3 Per Cent. Dividend on PRICE THREE STATE HAS RECORD | SENATOR KNOX WILL AGAI \FOR WOMEN ELECTED, INTRODUCE RESOLUTIO ESTABLISHED 1870. . LEAGUE ASSEMBLY QUERIES WILSON ON AMERICAN HELP FOR ARMENIA, REPORT SAYS | wor | YN VAUGHN, CHICAGD SLAB ARTIST, STABBED New York Headquarters of Near East Relief Re- | . ceives This Information | From American Dele- , gate at Geneva. 'Council Votes to Have Sec-! retary Send Telegrams to Various Powers Relative to froblem. | New York, v, 24.~—The Assembly ©of the league of nations meeting in Geneva has sent a communication regarding American co-operation in Armenian affiairs to President Wilson, ccording to a cable message received 4t the Near HEast Rellef headquarters here today. The message was fram Walter George Smith of Philadelphia one of the American delegates to the igter- national Armenian conference which also has been In session in the Swiss eity. He sald the communication to the president was decided upon at yostorday's meeting of the asembly. Will Send Telegrams Nov. 24.—(By the Assoclat- ~Action in conformity with the resolution of Armenian interven- tion“recently passed by the assembly af the league of nations was taken today by the cauncil of the league. 4 The ceuncil decided to ask the gen- orul secretary of the league to pre- page and submit a telegram ta, the powers in pursuance of the resolution of the assembly that a government willing to undertake mediation be- tween M pha Kemal Parha, the Nationalist Teader and the Armenians be sought. HE WAS A DONNY, BUL:- Deaf and Dumb Packer in New York Department Store Steals Worth $25,000 New York, Nov. 24.—Thefts total- $25,000 and ranging from fur OAts to ice boxes were confessed by @ deaf and dumb department . store packer with & novel method of ship- ping his tag substitution the police announced today. Max Neufleld, now held in $10,000 bail for the grand jury, was said to have made the confession, His sys- tem was alleged to have included the huylng of a cheap but bulky object for himself and pack it tor shipment 10 some one who had purchased what he intended to steal. Then, substitut- ng the valuable goods for his own, he Would walk out of the store with the stafen bundle, which was checked as his, the police sald. -‘BUSINESS CONDITIONS Lolumbia Graphophone Company C-fl Wages—Fisk Rubber Company Furs mer J Makie who were in an | drawn up at offi | of the band wanted Uy the Quincy and | Newport police. In the machine were | found goods stolen to Going on Reduced Time, Bridgeport, Nov. & Graphophone ¢ ¥y made an- noupcement of n t cent reduc- Mon In wages of all its employes, in- tluding salaried officials. Six thou- mnd employes are affected The plant tlosgs tonight until December 1. The Colum- Springfleld, Mass., Nov. 24.—Begin- ing tonight the plant of the Fisk Rubber Co. in Chicopee Falls will re- Juce its working schedule from five 1o three days a week. The plant now pmploys about 1,800 hands and the feduction is made, it s announced, | o provide work for as many employes | \s possible. The move follows the precedent established by large con- gorns elsowhere, an official said ers to Support Wife To Going to Prison 24—~Ralph W local electrical Meriden, Nov. Imer, formerly a ontractor, who was located by his fe in St. Louls, Mo. through a letter ode that he sent to' a Meriden riend, was given the alternative by lice Judge T, P. Dunne today of rving 60 days In jail or furnishing $500 bond to pay his family $15 a eek and also of repaying $200 o jhe state as costs of his arrest. He hose the latter courme. The arrest ns made by the state police. anksgiving Dinner | And For Only 10 Cents con, Ga., Nov. 24 —Thankegiving complete for 10 cents is offered tomorrow by Mrs. H. D Arthur, rdess of the Macon Telephone hange, to the system’'s e loyes. . Arthur sald today she e¥pected least ““to break even” an the dinner announced her menu of unlimited prtions would consist of baked goose oranberry sauce, oyster dressin Vaughn Vaughn and his wife effected a re- | conciliation home his father-in-law, Harry De Bolt, and an cording to big pitcher with a | through his overcoat and inflicting a | slight wound in the abdomen. wound is not serious. ably will be able to leave the hospital within a few, days. has not been captured. Man Injured at Landers Plant Wil scourt it is prescribed that the petition- er has guffered one-third lass of the use of his left ear; one-sixth loss of | the use of his right e loss of both h entitled to benefits extending over period of Norwood, Mass.,, Patrolman Succeeds man on rounds early today surprised a man in a window of the postoffice and another on guard at Wetlfng who are wanted at Newpor his revolver and brought the man at | complices. His Father-in-Law, Angered Over Divorce, Takes Law Into His Own Hands. Kenosha, Wis., Nov. 24.—Jim “Hip- po” Vaughn, a pitcher for the Chi- cago Cubs was stabbed by his father- in-law at midnight last night during an argument at the Vaughn home. The quarrel resulted over divorce proceedings belag instituted against by his wife. divorce hearing was sef for | but in the meantime The yesterday his by As Vaughn was returning to he was met on the street argument followed. De Bolt, ac- the police slashed at the razor, cutting The Vaughn prob- After the stabbing, De Bolt fled and | COMPENSATION AWARDED Draw Benefits Fo 57 Weeks— Award Prescribed Totals $1015.87. | | ing | Ford | headquarters. Joseph Z Ripoll wha was accident- 1y injured a#“he celluloid department of Landers Frary some time -ago has compensatioh & Clark’s factors been awarded to the amount of' $1015.87 by Compensation Commis- sloner George B. Chandler. The case was presented before the commission- er October 5 by Lawyer David L. Nair | of this city, represented the factory. Lawyer W. J. Wal}'den" In the finding of the compensation 10 per cent. hands, and that he is a weeks, 57 and one-fitth amounting to $1015.87. COP CATCHES ROBBERS In Getting Two Mcen Who Were About to Laot Postoflice. Norwood, Mass., Nov. 24.—A police- | a corner he window down and tound he had in custody John Richaras and Edward Westling who are wanted at Newport, R I.'and at Quincey on charges of hurglary. ! Another patrolmah brought in El- | Peterson and Alexander i automobile the curb near the post- They were said to be members o from both places. and Wesling were ar- on char of attempting to Ak into the postoffice with intent to \nd the other men with being ac- Harding Man At Geneva Paris, Nov. 24 United States Sen- ator Medill McCormick of INlinois who sailed yesterday from New York for Europe is crossing the Atlantic to | lay Senator Harding's personal views on the league of nations hefore gov- ernmental chiefs, saysa report from Geneva ta the Echo de Paris. The dispatch states that the object of Senator McCormick’s trip to Europe was discussed by delegates to the as sembiy of the league of nations at Geneva yesterday. t Gov-Elect Lake to Don Football Togs Tomorrow Hartford, Nov —Governor-elect Everett J. Lake of this city will get into football again for a few minutes Thanksgiving Day afternoon. He has agreed to kick off in the game be- tween the Ramblers and Tigers of this city—always a fierce contest. Mr. Lake was an all-American selection in | his football days at Harvard 30 years | ago Harding is Expected to Stop Off At Vera Cruz Mexico City, Nov. 24.—President- elect Harding will stop at Vera Cruz en route to the United States from | Panama unless unforeseen clrcum- stances prevent, said a statement is- sued at the Mexican foreign office last | night. The statement added that surance had been given that Senator Fall of New Mexico would probably arrive here next Monday to attend the | cha i day he ha [nveslment' Certilcates For Past Six Months in Addition to Regular 6 Per Cent. Detroit, Nov. 24.—Bonus checks aggregating more than $7,000,000 for employes of the Ford Motor Co. are now being written and their distri- bution will start January 1 next, ac- cording to announcement this morn- by Edsel Ford, president of the Ford Motor Co. Mr. Ford also coming extra =ix months announced a forth- three per cent for the ending December 31 on investment certificates held by employes of the company. This Mr. Ford said is in addition to the guar anteed 6 per cent. Mr. Ford's statement was made, was announced to correct what said w timony by S. §. Marquis, director of the Ford educational cepartment be- fore Judge Alschuler in Chicago yes- terday to the effect that the recent reductions in the price of Ford cars had resulted in the honus to em- ployes being practically cut off it he Rushing to Bail Out Friend, Man Is Arrested and Charged With Seven Auto Law Violations RN, | Benjamin Borsari Fined $78 —Jack Nicholena, First to i | Fall Victim to Law, Fined $100, Though He Didn’t Have to Stay in Cell. \ Arrested on seven geparate charges of violating motor vehicle regulations while on the way to police headquart- ers to bail out a friend, Benjamin Borsari was himself incarcerated for the night at the Commercial street In the meantime the friend, Jack Nicholega, had been re- leased in bonds of $200 apd returned to his home. Nicholena was charged with driving a motor vehicle reck- lessly and while under the influence of liquor, Borsari's charges consisted of the following: Operating a ‘motor vehicle upon a public highway with- out the consent of the owner, driv- ing while under the influence of liquor, driving without having regis- tration papers, driving without an operator’s license, and operating a a motor vehicle recklessly. The two accuged were arrested for driving the same automobile truck. Friend is Pincd $75 John H. Kirkham fined Bor- for driving while under the influence of liquor and $3 for operat- ing a car driver's license. Judement suspended on the of having no registration cer- tificate and reckless driving. He was found not guilty of tak'nz a car with- out the permission the owner. Nicholena was fined on the charge of driving while under the influence of liquor. Arrest Follows Crash Sergeant Willlam C, Hart and Pa- trolman Thomas Tierney arrested Nicholena at 5 o'clock at his home on Oak street following a complaint by Edward Farrell that a car owned by 8. Schneider had been struck. The crash occurred on Hartford avenue after the accused, according to thewit- ness, had zig-zagged along the high- way for a distance of several hundred yards. He backed his car upeat once and drove away, stopping on North street. After admitting ta Mr. Farrell that he had struck the Schneider machine, he continued along his ! journey. The policeman arrested him shortly afterward. seph Hayes and Wil- liam Koplowitz testified as to the speed of the car, estimating it at about 30 miles an hour. The driver had all the outward appearances of being very drunk, they testified. Says Car Skidded. The accused testified that he was going along the highway at a low rate of speed but skidded when he struck wet section of the pave- ment. He was unable to bring his car to a stop before it crashed into the Schnelder machine. The driver had been in Berlin early in the afternoon, he explained, and had accidentally fallen into a hole. By so doing he injured his leg and soiled. his cloth- ing. giving him the appearance of a drunk. his home Mr. Farrell, J¢ at | A Friend in Need. midnight Mrs. + Nicholena home of Mr Borsari with that he do whatever o have her husband released lock-np. She handed the Nicholena's car to Borsari. He took the car to the home of his uncle and secured his promise to as- sist Nicholena in getting a cash bond of $200. Borsari then headed for his home. At the corner of Main and East Main strects the car suddenly left its course and headed for the sidewalk where it struck the standard of an arc light, knocking the post over and so affecting the lighting sys- tem as to cause every arc light on Main street to be out for the re- mainder of the night. Count Them—Seven, | atrolman James McCabe investi- gated After putting a series of ques- tions to Borsari, the policeman figured up the number of charges against the accused and found seven separate infractions. He was brought to police headquarters. ) The accused offered a defense sim- flar to that of Nicholena, it being that the car skidded on the wet pave- ment as he was attempting to clear the trolley tracks. During the entire but three glasses of wine, | told the court. Other Court Cases. Steve Lodzik was fined About went to the a request could to from the keys to he £10 for | Harvard HARVARD PLAYER, HERO OF WAR GIVEN HONORS Brocker Awarded Phi Beta Kappa Key—Fought Ger- mans and Also Yale. Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 24.—The Phi Beta Kappa society of Harvard university put the hall mark of scholarship on a hero of the battle- field and gridiron today when it elect- ed to membership Wesley G. Brock- er of St. Paul, Minn. He is one of eight members of the junior class to be so honored and the only man ac- tive in athletics. Brocker won a scholarship which brought him to in 1916 and his powerful play as guard on his freshman €leven and successful pitching on the class baseball nine gained him distinction. After training at the first Platts- burg camp he went overseas with the First division and as reward for his exploits in several battles was made a captain. He was wounded at Sois- =ons while jeading his men in charge, a machine gun bullet passing through beoth thighs. It appeared that ' But last rall, his days in sports were done Brocker rcturned to college reported for service with the foot- ball squad, and became a member of the varsity team of last year and this fall. He was a second string man through both scasons but was called into the game with Yale at guard and got his varsity letter. LEGION MAKES PROTEST New Mexican War Veterans Complain Because Governor Hae Pardoned 17 of Villa Murderers. Albugwerque, N. M. Nov. 24.— Hugh Carlisle Post of the American Legion last nikht adopted resolutions protesting against the aqtion of Gov- ernor O. A. Larrazolo im pardoning yesterday 17 Villistas fre mthe state penitentiary at Santa Fe, where they were serving sentences for murder In conection with Villa’s raié on Colum- bus, N. M., March 6, 1616. The resolutions brand tha pardon as “an insult to every seldler who ever ‘wore a uniform in organized warfare." Ward Accidentally 8hot While Returning Home L. A. Ward, at one time connected with theé Spring and Buckley com- pany in this city, now in the electrical ‘contracting business in Naugatuck, was acidentally shot Sunday in Forest- ville, but is now restigg e¢dbmfortably. Mr. Ward was returnMig ¢o his home in his car when the bullet, coming from some unknown diredtion, struck him. lll'“" BY AUTW. Stamford, Nov. ~—Wiss Susan Shadbolt, who was a stenographer for the late Samuel Fessenden is in the hospital today having been struck hy an automobile last night while crossing Broad street The machine was owned by Howard Russell and driven by Rus sell Gladwyn. WOMAN SELFPCIVMAN. New Haven, Nov. 24.—his city will have a selectman who # a woman. Mrs. Clara T Claney, widow of James T. Clancy who died a few days ago, has been appointed selectman to succeed her husband, by Mayor Fitz- Gerald. —————y NO HERALD TOMORROW. Tomorrow being Thanksgiv- ing Day there will be edi- tion of The Herala. no WEATHER —_— Conn., Nov. New Britain Fair, modvrate Hartford, Forecast for wvicinity: ratu an erroneous report of tes- | _y of . serisusiy hurt from ! | Fire of Fair Sex Will Have Places in Conn. Legislature TKANSAS IN SECOND PLACE In All, Thirty Women Have Places in Legislatures of Other States—New Hampshire and Utah Have Threc Eaghy/ ad#New Jerscy and Okla Two Hartkord, Nov. leads the nation in the number of women elected to state legislatures with five, according to list compiled by the National American Woman Suffrage association and given out to- | day at the headquarters of the Con- necticut Woman Suffrage association. Kansas is second with four women | legislators and California, where wom- en have voted for many years, has elected only three. Other State Records. Of the Connecticut women who won seats in the house of representatives three are republicans, one a democrat and the fifth ran on both tickets. Thirty women are to have places in the legislatures of other statés. The ' others besides these named are: Ida- ho 1. Indiana 1, Michigan 1, Montana { 1, Nevada 1, New Hampshire 3, New Jersey 2, New York 1, Oklahoma 2, Oregon 1, Utah 3, and Vermont 1. 13,714 SCHOOL CHILDREN Report of Census Enumerator Shows 16,026 Children in the City Between 24 —Connecticut the Ages of 4 and 16 Years. Interesting figures are contained in the report of the school census enu- merator for the year 1920-1921, copies of which were issued today from the office of School Superintendent Stan- ley H. Holmes. There are at pre: ent 13,714 children attending school, of which 9,716 are in the public schools and 3,998 in private ‘schools. In addition, there are 2,313 children | between the ages of four and 16 years who attend no school at all, bringing the total mumber of children in the city between the ages of four and 16 to 16.027. Of the number not attending school, 1,136 are under the age of five vears; 499 between the ages of five and seven years; 39 between the ages of seven and 14: 639 between the ages of 14 and 16. Of those who do not attend school, 558 have employment, eight are cripples, seven are deaf and dumb and six are imbeciles. PRESIDENT WRECKS BANK Alleged Shortage of $60,000, Coinci- dent With. Official's Disappearance Causes Bank to Close Doors. | | Belfast, N. Y. Nov. 24.—Failure of the Rushford bank at Rushford, N. was announced this morning as the result’ of the alleged looting of its funds by Carl Howden who is alleged to have fled Sunday with $60,000 of the state bank of Filmore, of which he had been president for many yea Failure of the bank at Rushford involves a loss of about $80,000. The Rushford bank was a privately owned institution. The state bank of Filmore will be able to survive its difficulties, it was declared , this morning. The bank was re-opened | toaay. “CAPTURE” GERMAN GUN Service Men in Wisconsin Take Cannon From Storehouse and Set it up in Park. Sheboygan, Wis,, Nov. 24.—Led by a band and a contigent of former service men citizens last night hauled i @ caputured German siege gun from a stare house where it was consigned by the majority vote of the nine socialist aldermen and mounted it in | the municipal park. 4 The socialist aldermen were forced to watch the procession pass the city hall where they were in session. The former service men carried a casket labelled “the nine votes,” and burned an efligy of Councilman Nenze, who, it was said, led the council in its ac- MARRY 0UT qfiown Returned Certificates at Town Clerk’s Office Show Several Residents Wed In Other Cities. Returns have been received at the office of the city clerk on the follow- ing out-of-town marriages: Ralph K. MacDonald of this city, and Miss Elsie M. Brockway of New Haven, married in New Haven by G. L. Bradley, justice of the peace, Oc- tober 21; Charles G. Connors and Rose | Tomscheck, both of this city, married in Danbury by Rev. A. C. Coburn, Oc- tober 9; James F. Ryan of Hartford and Laura O'Neil of this city, married in Hartford by Abraham Katz, justice of the peace; Meyer s_of th DECLARE WARISATA BUSINESS OUTLOOK I5 (Former _Seccetz BRIGHTER, SAYS NOBLE State Will On 'North & Judd President Submit His Separate Peace Optimistic, Despite Pres- ent Curtailment. Wilson’s Veto Pennsylvania Legis| clines to Com: Possible Appoint} Harding’s Cabi Washington, Nov.| ! Knox of Pennsylvania sal he planned to re-introduc At a special meetinz of stockhold- ers of North and Judd Manufacturing company, held yesterday afternoon, it was unanimously voted to adopt the recommendation of the board of di- rectors to increase the capital stock | from $2.000,000 to $3,000,000. Of the $1,000,000 increase, $500,000 to be is- sued at once as a twenty-five per cent stock dividend and the remainder to be held in the treasury and lissued :;;rl:r-:;}:‘:t par as the directors may | 0 0 0 cession of congl ; olution to declare a te Commenting on the business situa- .12, | with Germany. This plan tion today, President H. C. Noble said: | secretary of state said Wi “Curtailment in all manufacturing departments during present unsettled | 10Wed desbite the vexo @ trade conditions will be the policy fol- | FeSOTution by Frec et | lowed by this company, there bein€ | genacor wnos indicated ;:2:;2_"11) no other logical course to cxpect pansins LIRE “The executive' officers, however, fore the specijal ;e::?’n are optimistic and see no good reason next spring aties £ why we should not, ere long. have a | P& I8 inaugurated. o Bl ghatitying period of business activity.” | Senator Knox who has From the foregoing statement, it tioned as possible s om is seen that one of the leading man- | Under Mr. Harding sai ufacturers of the city believes that ' 2uthority to represent the depression is temporary and that OF those of Mr. Harding & conditions will be righied in due time. “:“‘;"’:‘;‘r""_’;“)‘s‘e ;‘; g This view is sharcd by others whose | Views or those of ir © g faith in America’s future is unshaken INQUTRY CONTIN and whose courage is high. —_— NO “KICK” IN “NG KA PY” 60,000 Quarts, Too Unpalatable An | o noee e canse o ‘Whites—Chin¢ Ning? Intoxicant for iese Use AN m’s Strange iy New Haven, Nov. 24. San Francisco, Nov. 24.—"Ng Ka ' 100Kk up again today the Py" 60,000 quarts of it, was declared | the death of Frances Al too unpalatable an intoxicant for any , teriously lying across white man, and admitted as a med in Winthrop avenue S cine for Chinese here by government , when a one-man trolley order and Chinatown was resultantly | add killed her. Henry happy today. Fred C. O'Brien of Walll The shipment had been held up for | held in the case. several weeks on suspicion that it vio- | The feature of the inqui lated the 18th amendment until a neither man knew the wom oficial ruling could be obtained from' of the automobile in which “isymmon b riding after leaving a saloon| Ng Ka Py” is a cold cure medicine | time. Unfamiliar with s said to be popular among Chinese. It | Evergreen cemetery Bann is credited with wonderful cures | gimsiess) T y about for some among’ them for ailments ranging | O'Brien according to his from sore throat to the blues. was in the back ssat i & WAWWERE latter says he has no idea how the woman left the car. claims that after the woman . ed he drove about trying to Russian Soviets Predict 5,000,000 Un- employed By Jan. 1—Trying to Bring About Armed Revolution. Coroner Mix has scaled the effects. in order to protect t who live elsewhere. Washington, Nov. 24 —Russian so- 600D SAMARITAR viet authorities estimate that the un- et employed in this country will number 1 5,000,000 by the end of the year and i lwo representatives of the Third in- | ternationale have been sent to organ- ize soviets here, according to official { advices from Moscow. The representatives of the Third in- ternationale plan to arrive in the United States in December, it was said, and propose to form coramittees of the unemployed in co-operation with the communist party establish- ing soviets of each trade. Their mis- sion, the advices stated, is to unite the revolutionary movement in Am- erica into one big body to bring about an armed revolution. While govern- ment officials discounted the interna- tionale’s estimate of the unemploy- ment in this country every precaution is being taken to keep the soviet or- ganizers from entering the . United | States. De Wealthy New York Woman to Iess Vortunate Sis With Argument. New Castle, Ind.. Nov. Edith Dankins Crane, a wido city will receive $600 in qua lotments from a wealthy woman because she wrote the letter taking her to task for ported expenditure of §25,000 funcral of a pet dos. 4 Mrs. Crane said she neede to complete her business and the New York woman denying the funeral expenditi after investigation decided to Crane in her endeavor Mrs. Crane has cnieved ‘a college at Muncie | Consmngnets‘lir&i;m RELICS DESTROYED Have Reached ! W 24, (By Ass cos Andrews and Wara ©pher, brothers of ox-King ¢ tine of Greece, arrived in Athe afternoon. The princes were by large and enthusiastic ©r the palace from the dock al their steamer arrived from Itali Also Manuscripts of Henry Beecher Lost in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn Firc Early Today. New York, Nov. 24—Priceless man- uscripts and relics written and col- lected by Henry Ward Beecher, in- cluding many ‘sermons in his own handwriting, were consumed by fire early today that destroyed the Sunday echool building adjoining the historic Plymouth church, Brooklyn. , where the famous pulpit orator was 7 |ty baeg Mg ’;,N:’m The old | action in anticipation of ok j church edifice itself, erected is 184y | /4 when E90 SetTons ey narrowly escaped destruction. the prem The Sunday school structure house the church’s library which contained = the original drafts of the flery ser. | Miami. Fla mons delivered by Dr. Beecher be. ; described as tween 1847 and 1865 ay well as nu. | Western Union Telc merous Civil war relics' collected by ' nect its cabies fron him and all of them had been burned ;*table from Miam: a before the fire was discovered. the causeway here today In their efforts to save the main by an armed force from i edifice the firemen had to break ten | States submarine chaser 154 memorial stained glass windows The streams of water sprayed freely to prevent the flames from enveloping the building caused great damage SOLD BOOZE, 1S CHARG Torrington, Nov. 24— Strano was arrested today by cal police on a charge of whiskey tllegally. The allogel the complaint sayvs was madl i October 16 The police had 4 ATTEMY > 4.~ What e FOIL, W, U. an ARREST MURDER SUSPiCTS ‘Wheeling, W. Va., Nov. .