New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 30, 1920, Page 1

R4 “HELP YOUR HOSPITAL—YOU’LL NEED IT NEW BRITAIN HERALD —TWELVE PAGES Herald “Ads” News of the World Better Busi e us By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870. 1920. PRICE THREE CH ENGLAND THREATENED NOT ALONE BY SINN FEIN, BUT ALSO BY THE UNEMPLOYED MEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICU1. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, |JAPS WILL NOT ASK. |BOLLING DECLARES |PONZI GHANGES HIS | FZRST DAY OF DRIVE NE RACE EQUALITY NOW, ALLEGED BRIBE IS | PLEA, ADMITS GUILT: $64,5¢44 TOWARD $600,§ d! ACTUALLY FRAMEUP | gostn GOAL FORLOCAL HOS. Will Bide Time and Make Deman “Fmanclal Wizard” oi' Police However, Mainta'n at More Opportnne Moment 'ENGLISH GIRL WHO Presndeut’s Brother-in-Law De- Added Guards Are! MARRIED SAILOR I]IES U.S. MAN ATTENDS LEAGUE, nies He Received Money for Solely To Prevent Irish Radical Plots City Hall At Cork Set On Fire — Bombs Found in’ English Villages—Soldiers Avenge Murder of Cadets. Assoolated London and London, Nov. 30, (By Press )—The police of numerous other English cities con- | tinued today to establish elaborate safeguards against possible dutruc-’ Wtion of property and assassinations by elements which the authorities characterize as Sinn Fein. A report is being circulated erally about London that the ernment fears trouble not only the Sinn Fein but also from the thousands of unemployed who re- cently evinoed an ugly temper in the Downing street riot. This, however, Is answered in police circles by em- phatic assertion that the sole reason for the precautions Is because of the danger of Sinn Fein attempts ' against lives and property | Ready for Emergency. » Besides the somewhat sensational measures already taken to protect the llves of officlals and the govern- ment building the special civilian constabulary of London has been noti- fled to hold itself in readiness to assist the regular police should the necessity arise. The London county counell fire brigade is taking the most stringent precautions to pro- tect its 90 odd fire stations and be prepared for all emergencies. gen- gov- | from | Bombs and Incendiarism. HBelfast, Nov. 30.—The city hall at Cork was set on fire this morning and reports from that city state the Thomas Ashe Sinn Fein club and the Charlotte Q! are ablaze. Much Jamage has been done, it is stated Newport, Monmouthshire, England, Nov. 30.—The police discovered a | small bomb at Marshfield, 4 1-2 miles routhwest of here today. Another bomb was found at Rum- ney, which is partly in the borough ot Cardif. London, Nov. 30.—Public bulldings | In London and in many of the other | large cities of England were closely | guarded against apprehended Sinn Fein attacks by heavy detachments of police and detectives last night. In this city the patrol was not limited to the streets but armed motor boats | moved up and down the Thames front of parllament bulldings Time Bomb Explodes Tlhere is nothing to connect Sinn Fein with the explosion of a mb In a warehouse in Old Swan lane, this city early this morning but the people of the eity ascribe it that organization. The bomb which apparently was carried into the | warehotise In traveling bag and | left there to exlode by means of time fuse was heard over a wide area of the city It started a fire but the firemon succeeded In extingulshing flames before they guined head- way! The street where the warehouse is situated has closed by the | police. It Is a narrow thoroughtare | near Lond bridge and contains no | dwelling Alleged Firebugs Held. Several men wuspected of setting m.‘j warehouses in Liverpool on dacbday night are under arrest. It » claimed by the police that Ameri- an “gunmen” are In that section wnd assertion is made that men | munted in Ireland * for shooting policemen and soldiers have cross the Irish Sea to Liverpool. The financial loss occasioned by Saturday sight's fires In Liverpool s esti- mated at a millfon pounds sterling, Reprisals Have Ocvurred. Tie killing of 16 police recruits at Macroom, Ireland, yesterday, has siready been followed by reprisals by the “black and tans” and it s sorted there is an exodus of fright- ned people from towns near where the recruits were attacked Masked men entered and to the bullding housing the Freeman’s Journal last njght. srable damuge was done building. Glasgow and ng district have been placed under lose guard and it s declared by the authorities that i @ v Sinn Fein- s are known to be in Scotland in | the to lice and bee hou re- set fire Dublin Con th the Clyde shipbuild- \Il'l(l'\~ SINKING Doorn, Nov. 1 (By A. P.) For r ompress Augusta Vietoria of Ger- Many who s critically 11l as a result f & heart attack, was reported at 0on ay to be In a sinking condi- pr- that time was uncon- At - | “where .‘I‘]or Churchill at Geneva As Spec- Mrs. Allen of Plainville Met and Wed Husband in Plymouth. tator—Present Meeting of League of Nations Most Critical in Life of Organization. Geneva, Nov. 30, (By Associated Press).—The Japanese delegation will !not make any proposal for racial | equality at this session of the assem- |hl_v of the League of Nations, it was announced by Viscount Ishii at this morning’s session of the assembly. “Japan will patiently bide her time,” said Viscount Ishii, "until an opportune moment shall present it- self.” . Rhoda Grace Allen, wife of t Allen of Hough street, Plain- ville, died at the Hartford hospital Sunday night following a short illness. Mrs. Allen was the only war bride in Plainville, having come from Ply- mouth, England. She was 23 years old and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Yablsey, of Plymouth. Mrs Allen had only been in this country for six months, having waited for her husband to receive his discharge from the navy. The couple were married in Plymouth, exactly one year and ten months ago. Mrs. Allen had apparent- ly been in excellent health upon her arrival here, but of late had been complaining of not feeling well. She was taken to the Hartford hospital at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon Sk lapsed Into unconsclousness and, at times, did not know her husband. She died at 8 o'clock that night. Mr. and Mrs, Allen made their home with Mrs. E. White of Hough street. Mrs. Allen warked for a short time after she came to Plainville. She made many friends and was a member of the Martha Rebekah lodge. She was | also to be made a memiber of the | intermittent and that the executive Plainville Grange at the next installa- ; council is the permanent power, with tion, Besides her husband she is sur- | the secretariat as the continuous med- vived by her parents and three sisters, | ium for the execution of the deci- now living in England. They are Mrs. | lons of both the assembly and the Hodge, Mrs. Hurrell and Miss Nellie | council. Yablsey. Her storles of England were always interest'ng and she was never in want of a listener. The funeral will, be held tamorrow afternoon from the Bailey Undertaking, parlors at o'clock. Rev. J. G. Ward will officiate, Burfal will be in the West cemetery. Protest Is Withdrawn. The Japanese delegation he added, also had decided to withdraw its pro- test against annual meetings of the assembly although it requires five months time for a delegation from Japan to make the long journey and return He recommended that meet- ings be held once in two years with | special meetings in emergencies but ; | said he would not present this recom- mendation. The Japanese delegate made these declarations in speaking on the report of the committee on rules which was read to the full assembly. The com- mittee based its report on the prin- ciple that the assembly is the sov- ereign orzamization of the league but Situation is Critical Many delegates to the meeting of the assembly of the league of na- tions which today resumed sessions regard the coming week as thelmost critical period in the history of the organization. Questions which have Mr. Allen saw service in the United peen settled in committees by a ma- ihe had ever Influencing Ship Contracts ' INTIMATES SANDS MAY BE CROOKED; FULLER A LIAR In Explaining Transaction, Accused Said $600 Given Him Was Monecy Due On Old Contract and Was So Understood By Sands—Another $300 Advanced On Personal Note Was Promptly Paid. New York, Nov. 30.—A denial that taken money for in- fluencing the disposition of contracts or machinery by the U. S. Shippng Board, as charged by former Washington banker, coupled with a request that all of his busi- ness ‘transactions with Sands be in- vestigated—"both for my own and my family's sake”—was made before the Walsh congressional committee here today by R. W. Bolling, Presi- dent Wilson’s brother-in-law and now treasurer of the Shipping Board. His Records Are Open. Mr. Bolling told of business as- sociations with Sands dating back to 1916 and earlier years, out of which grew several financial transactions. sonal records were all available to its inspection. Sands has testified that he received $40,000 from the Downey Shipbuilding Corp. for “‘rep- resenting” it before the boas, out of which he paid money to Mr. Bolling. Mr. Bolling said that after banking States navy for three years. He Was jortv vote must be decided in the stationed in England for nine months. | { 01 by an unanimous vote. He comes from Maine and has been | U. S. Observer Attends. a resident of Plainville for five years. | ..o Miriborough « Churchill of MAKE WAR AGAINST WAR the U. S. Army intelligence service, who arrived in Geneva late last week, Chemical Warfare was a spectator at the meeting of the | league of nations assembly this morn- ing He vccupied a place in the press | gallery. NEWSPAPER PLANT BURNED Concord Daily Patriot At Concord, N. Fire Which Does | Head of ©U. S Service Urges Nation to Develop Defense Os Threat to AntagOnists, Washington, Nov. 30.—Declaring that the world war demonstrated that “an ememy bent on aggression can- not be trusted to live up to any set rules for war,” Brig. Gen. Amos A. | Fries, chief of the chemical warfare \ service of the army, in his annual report to Secretary Baker today as- werts that the development of this branch of the U. 8. Army to a point it is impossible for any na- to go further” will do much to- deterring other nations from the United H., Gutted By $150,000 Damages. . Nov. 30.—The plant of the Concord Daily Patriot was heavily damaged by fire which vir- tually destroyed Whitg's opera house block early today The bulk of the loss estimated at $150,000 was sus- tained by Edward J. Gallagher, pub- lisher of the newspaper, who also owned the building. Other occupants deliver on the field ©f the structure included the cham- chemicals than wny Der of commerce; the republican of nations, State committee and the theater " | which was the oldest in the city. The fire started in the property room of the theatre where an ama- teur performance was given last night. The damage to the offices, press and composing rooms of the Daily Pa- triot, which were on the ground floor was mainly caused by walter. MARRIED 21 YEARS Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Battey of Stan- Friends on of Concord, N. H tion ward forcing hostilities against States. This country is manufacture and of battle more other nation or group says Gen. Fries. Claims He Killed Two Deer With One Bullet N. H.. Nov. 30.—The kill- ing of two deer with single bullet is reported shall Hill of this town. Hill fired n large buck which immediately bolted, When he reached the spot where the buck had stood he found that he had killed a doe. Followng the trail a short distance the hunter came upon the body of the buck. The bullet had passed through the neck of the buck into the head England Suhmitsildhea For Anglo-Russ. Trade Parts, Nov. 30.—Proposals of Great Britain as the basis for the Anglo-Russian commercial treaty which have been approved by the Rritish cabinet, were handed to Leonid Krassin, head of the Russian Bolshevik trade mission iIn London last night, says a dispatch to the Journal. M. Krassin immediately telegraphed the text of the proposals to Moscow, it is said. in a position to Swansea ley Street Visited by Wedding Anniversary. Mr, and Mrs. Herbert Battey Stanley street were pleasantly sur- prised last evening by about 30 of their friends, the occasion being the twenty-first anniversary of their marriage. At present Mr. Battey is employed by the New Britain Gas Light company and about 15 years ago was employed as a conductor by the old Central Railway & Electric company They have one daughter, Miss Gladys Battey 1OW GAIN. 30.—The negro Ind., was an- census bureau DETECTIVE IS JAILED Bridgeport, Nov. 30.—Three months in Jail and a fine of $300 and costs was the sentence imposed upon Fred Bozeman, a detective by Judge John J. Walsh in the common pleas court | here today. Bozeman was convicted of an assault on Frank Cozza during the vce ralds here a year ago NBEGROFS & Washington, Nov population of Gary, nounced today by the of 4916 or as 5 an increase 1233.6 per cent. The white popula- tlon was given as 50,048, an increase of 33,645 205.1 per cent. Chinese, Japanese and Indians numbered 31 FACTORY New Landon, SHUTS DOWN Nov. 30.—Comstock, Cheney and Co, of Ivoryton posted a | motice at its factory on Monday to | the effect that owing to lack of orders | the plant would be clased on Wed- nesday until further notice. A large number of persons will be thrown out WILSON WIL| Washington, Nov. 20, s8) —President Wilson in re- to an invitation from th League of Nations council has agreed to use his good offices and to proffer his “‘personal mediation” to a Tepre- sentative he may designate to “end the hostilities t o . g ALID. (By Associat- spons at { connected with for several with the institution which Sands was years he ‘hud taken a contract in 1916 to build * a house for the banker and in mak- ing a settlement for its cost with Mr. and Mrs. Sands had foregone &ny profits because of objection by the Sands to a charge for extras. Gave Up Own Profits. “I volunteered to cancel m share of this charge, represented most of the profis I had expected to make on the entire transaction,” Mr. Bolling said in his statement, “because of thes un- pleasant attitude. Mr. Sands agreed to this settlement and gave me his note for $600 which I endorsed and discounted. “However, a short while afwrward Mr. Sands told me that he @d not want me to lose any of my cemmis- sions for building the house asd that he had accepted this reductiom only because his wife was very much wor- ried that the house should hawe cost more than they had originally planned and that he intended paying me the additional $600 abews re- ferred to. Corrects Shippinz Injustios. “Early in 1918 Mr. Sands sent a Mr. Cranor to see me in regmrd to some machinery which was %o be used in connection with constuction of vessels. Mr, Cranor told mse that the machine: in questiom yas “bending rolls” and was to have been shipped to his company from the fac- tory but at the last minute some other company succeeded in having the order changed and that this machin- ery would be diverted to them; a great injustice was being done to his, Mr. Cranor’s company. I knew nothing about the construction vision so in the presence of Mr. Cranor 1 called up Mr. Lester Sisler who was then secretary of the ship- ping board and explained the matter to him. He said he would look into it and subsequently told me that he found upon inquiry that the rolls had been promised to Mr. Cranor’'s company and would be shipped to them. Accepts Just Payment. “A short time after this Mr. Sands told me that he had made or would make $1,000 in connection with this fransaction—though he now states he has no recollection of the matter— and that he was going to ‘take care of me’ I told him I would accept nothing. He then mentioned the $600 which he still owed me in con- nection with the changes made in his house saying he had not for- gotten it and would pay it. I gave no thought as to what Mr. Sands’ re- lationship was to the principal, but (Continued on Third Page). — WEATHER TEes Comn., Nov. | Forecast for New Britain | vicinity: Occasional rains night and Wedng i ] | | Hartford, 30.— and to- T. K. Sands, | He told the committee that his per- | which figure ($600) - di- - { John Thompson. Few Months Ago Gets b Years ' THINKS HE HAD 60OD IDEA His Lawyer Insists Man Believed He Could Have Paid Had He Not Been Arrested—Young ‘Wife Breaks Down. Bostan, Nov. 30.—Charles Ponzi, promoter of the quick-rich scheme in which thousands of persons invested millions of dollars before it collapsed last August pleaded guilty to using the mails in a scheme te defraud the fed- eral district court today. Five Years in Jail Sentence of five years in the Ply- mouth county \jail was impdsed by Judge Hale, The court took into con- sideration only the first count of one indictment of 43 counts in which it was charged that Ponzi as repre- sented falsely that he was able to pay interest at the rate of 50 per cent. in 45 days from profits made in in- ternational postal reply coupons. In arguing on the gquestion of sen- tence, Daniel H. Coakley, senior coun- | sel for Ponzi, told the court that it was only after strenuous advice from counsel and members of the discredit- ed financier's family that he agreed to retract his plea of not guilty and | plead guilty instead. “Mr, Ponzi in- sisted, and still insists, that there was . in his mind no intent to defraud any- one” his counsel declared. The little Italian, who, with prison terms in Canada and this country be- yond him developed his supposed scheme of exchange in international postal reply coupons only to have his house of easy money topple over on | him had an air of swagger when he faced the court. Wife Breaks Down As he faced anaother long prison sentence while his youthful wife sobbed on his shoulder, he pencilled on a memorandom block his parting ! word to the public “sic transit gloria mundi,” (thus passes the glory af the world) and handed it to the press. When he went up to the plead a moment later he phatic when he ~id “I do” to the ‘clerk’s question W icther he wished ‘to chrange his pl.a of not guilty and ‘was equally assertive as he made the Iplea “guilty” in loud tones in the |next breath. Plea for Accused. The argument of Mr. Coakley in Ponzi’s behalf was based on a claim that the prisoner could have fled with millions had he wished to de- fraud and that he thought he was on the way to make millions for his in- vestors and himself. “At the time when Mr. Ponzi walked into the office of the U. S. ' district attorney he had $7,000,000 in banks which he could have got in half an hour,” said Mr. Coakley. “‘He | had a passport for Italy and he could have taken a boat with his $7,000,000 in his pocke! Judge Hale interjected a query at this point: “Is there anything you can say by which the court can conclude that it was not a wild scheme?" “K don’t believe the defendant con- !enlexed it a wild scheme. I don't think he considers it this morning | a wild scheme. He believes if he had not been arrested he would have paid dollar for dollar and made millions.” 16 HURT IN AUTO CRASH ‘Motor Bus, Filled With Workmen, Goes Over Embankment at Norris- was em- that town, Pa., This Morning. Norristown, Pa., Nov. 30.—Six'men were seriously hurt and nine others received minor injuries when a truck l today skidded off the Ridge pike two i miles southeast of here, and runmng| down a 12 foot embankment, crashed | against trees The truck which was ' carrying workmen to the Plymouth Magnesia Works at Plymouth, near here, is owned by the Humane Fire Co and was used daily in transporting ' ' workmen between Norristown and the | magnesia plant. The driver, who was | not hurt, lost control of the vehicle as it was speeding down grade, after crossing a bridge over the Pennsyl- vania railroad tracks of the Trenton freight cutoff. Before any of . the | riders could leap the truck smashed ; through a fence and then sped down the embankment. At the bottom it crashed against a clump of trees, and then turned over The most seriously hurt, all whom live in Norristown and who are in the Montgomery -hospital are: Christopher Campbell, Marshall Black, Michael Miller, James Jablo, Frank Thompson. THE GOLDEN RULE Cincinnati, Nov. 30.—The 500 em- ployes of the sh Clothing Mfg. Co., here which is operated on the “‘golden rule” basis, today, at a meeting de- cided to voluntarily surrender their jobe for a month either January or bench to ' { Prosecutor James D. Knox | expected to appear for a hearing be- j cent, f | living ‘MAN WHI] ROBBED YALE |Workers Can PROFESSOR IS CAUGHT| Building Trade $13,642InPled; Charge of Bigamy May Also 35 Firms Si Be Brought Against Elm City Adventurer. 77 Pledges Receiv _Stanley Works Promise $15,467= Berlin Pledge New Haven, Nov. 30 —Thomas Quigley, 25, arrested in , Newark, N. J., upon request of the New Haven police, will be extradited to stand trial on a number of charges A detective went after him today. Quigley, first arrested for theft in 1914, and again this year for non- support of his family, served time for this and for contempt of court. He workers in the interests ] has a wife and three children. In| " 1917 he married at Middletown, | Britain General hospl Annie Curry of Peekskill, N. Y, who $600,000 held at the Bik had come here v'vllh her sister x:l noon that the sum of $ work in a munitions factory. year old infantef the couple is being | Foised in the arst TN cared for by a relative of Quigley | far. The Stanley Work although the paternity of the child is | the field with 77 pledges i1 not known to his relative. Miss ing the sum of §$15,467. Curry, who thought herself to bel o %o ™h o anore Mrs.” Quigley, was arrested recently oo g riom Berlin. charged with theft. She was placed | ©oq & "0 (P o in the home of a cure organization | .. % “ECRCOR CUC but last Saturday escaped only to be | i AUSSSHC, CERTRETIE £ re-arrested. From correspondence | -8 BTAn EREEH RACES Quigley’s address was obtained. pariei M The past summer a family reported ' to the police that their 18 year old &% by the Rev. Smsie daughter had disappeared. They | Charles F. Smith, ch | charged Quigley with representing | Poard of directors at i himself to be a single man and pay- | @nd Clflfk~ ing attention to the daughter, After| Rev. Samuel Sutcliffe in | her disappearance a postal car@ bear- | asserted that many men w] ing a New Jersey date came, stating l’YIOIu]! in the medical woh not known to us gave ti make it possible to stop that the daughter was on her way to California.. The police, however, are more in- sickness. His speech in terested in charges that Quigley “What we should do is to held up and robbed at a gun's point 'on the work' of these grea Professor C. C. Bauer of Yale uni- give our greatest efforts 16 | versity, in Sachem’s Woods on drive a great success. God I-November 3, 1919, and also held up use for the man who has th two trolley car crews on a street help others, and only thos siding and took watches from each tack work with energy can { man j ice to him.” He also emphasized the there is no single physician of physicians who could s i build a hospital with full SOLD BOOZE, FINED $100 Hartford Man Charged With Selllng equipment but not the 1 3 house them. It is up to the Without License—Will Also Face give the utmost for this such an institute may be ha .are several physicians in the the first are taking care of many poo time ‘'since the federal prohibition Teceiving pay for their se: amendment went into effect "fr"::;z :‘:2 ;‘dd"‘"’- Re"r' Suy : E Wo reasons for s January a prisoner’ was flned in thjs campaign. The first i police court today after being ar- Cause’ and the second “Th raigned on the charge of selling in- Do.' I am assured that we toxicants without a license Tthe right cause and 1 take it foi evidence was presented by Liquor that every one here has the in the With both of the: case of Paola Ciorciona of 28 Morgan pital drive is bo‘uf:‘ ':‘0 ’lr:;n:’ street, who it was alleged sold | liquor in his home. He was fined Charlcs Smith Talks, $100 and costs. Ciorciona was also Charles F. Smith was the, deliver an address. In urging} support of the campaign M sid, “In European countries pitals are supported by a pub It was reported at the 313 Federal Prosecution. Hartford, Nov. 30.—For last fore the federal authorities this af- ternoon. 3 Prosecutor Knox told the court that it was his intention to present future offepders on every count that dend Is Lowered. Akron, O.,, Nov. 30.—Directors of Accounting for Moncy. Pet Dog Accidentally Shoots His Own Master he could pMsent to the court and as By this I mean ‘that every that the maximum penalty be im- taXed according to his wealth posed on each count. Mr. Knox Property he owns. Although g said after court that the recent action Pitals are supported by volunt of the county commissioners in re. Scribtions and though I do ng fusing all applications- for permits to that the European system is sell liquor simplified the case before ©ne, nevertheless, I would the court this morning. { at this time, to appear as spo {any move for such a chanj RS TG, There is no man in business SALARIES BEING GUT i owns property who can dodge} | sponsibility or cotributing to The hospital is a benefit to and should receiva their sup But Wages at Firestone Plant Won't cjosing 1 would like 0 say tha o a feeling of gratitude to those Be Reduced Yet, Though Divi- .,;\ in the teams work. Th | they show is f Chairman Bennett. The speakers for tomorrow the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. Rev. Henry W. Maier of the today notified common stockholders Congregational church and that the dividend payable December E. Attwood, president of the 30 would be at the rate of 6 per cent. Britain Trust cmpany. a year instead of 8 per cent. This In tho closing spcech of th is in line with the conservative policy Chairman Bennett said th adopted by the company to conserve (hought it tho duty of every wol cash resources during the present to give at least two days' ‘pay.i readustment period, the notification was no report read from the to said. Southington or Plainville. Berli} The directors also announced that the only outlying district to repg all salaries would be reduced 10 per with four pledges xave $130% effective at once. In ex- planation it was pointed out that | salaries were increased 20 per eent | The numbers of the teams, o s P Now that living costs nmumber of pledges ~ and amj are going down adjustment must be !turned in were as follows: made in salaries, the directors said.- | 1, American Hosiery Co., Vi No change was made in the wage yy.on Vorks, 5. $325; 2, Corbim scale now effective in the factory. o'y o {®in division, 4, $17 { corporation, 272, $1, " Bearing, Hart and Coole; Hutchinson, 14, § Frary and Clark, 9 ete, New York, Me., Nov. 30.—The caress of his dog resulted in the Killing of Her- [ner Chuck Co. bert E. Ware. a hunter yesterday. |29, $3.7 Ware was leaning on his rifle in the | Co, 35. woods when_the d 2 (tmnn facto; Rritain My fussell ang $1.920;