New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 7, 1920, Page 1

ESTABLISHED 1870. WY, / —f MEW BRITAIN. CONNECTICU1. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, -1920. —TWELVEPAGES PRICE THREE CH 'SIDENT’S MESSAGE URGES PASSAGE OF BUDGET BILL, STRICT ECONOMY, REVISION - OF TAX LAWS AND PHILIPPINE FREEDO | President Wilson to Receive Nobel Peace Prize And Award Will Be Officially Conferred Dec. +Only Two Other Americans Have Ever Received This Honor, Roosevelt in 1903 and Root in 1912, (By Associated is made that be qon- ot the “° Copenhagen, Dec. 7. Press) —Announcement the Nobel Peaco Prize will forred on President Wilson United States on December 10. The Nobel Peaco Prize carries with Wra grant of about $40,000 which is ona fifth of tho annual Interest on bout $9.000,000 left for that purpose by Alfred B. Nobel, the Swedish selentist and the inventor of dynamite, who died in 1396. The only two Amer- leans who have in the past received the Nobe' Peace Prize were Theodore Roosevelt in 1903 and Elihu Root in wh2 NO IRISH TRUCE TILL LEADERS ARE CAUGHT Their Surrender Only Other . Alternative, Sfr Hamar " Greenwood Says. ‘. Tondon, Dec. 7, (By Assoclated Press). —8ir Hamar Greenwood, chief tary for Ireland declared em- Phatically amidst cheers in the house of dommons today that he was “‘con- vinced there can be no truce or sve- cqetul advocacy Of a truce in Ire- mnd, until the extreme leaders of the Irish republican army either sur, render and deliver thelr arms or are arrested.” NIGHT EXPRESS WRECKED '@ Fatalitics However, When Passen- i . ger. Train Sideswipes Deralled Frelkht at Coatesville, Pa. | | Coatésville, Pa, Dec. 7.—The east- und New York night express on the mnsylvania road was sideswiped here ‘today by a derailed freight car, jJuring the engineer and fireman of he passenger traln and cutting and king up some of the passengers Charles H. Erathagen, Newark, ly engineer, and Edward A. Barclay, y City, fireman, are in the Coate: lo hospital. Barclay suffered a con- jon of the brain, while Erathagen pot serlously hurt. The slight in- s of some of the passengors were d and they left here without their names. e accident was due to the break- of a coupling on an eastbound ght train. The coupling dropped deralled a freight car just as the ess came along. The cab of the enger engine was torn off and the neer and firoman we thrown in- he tender The freight car broke by windows in the train which was up solidly of sleeping cars. There Nttle delay to tramic n JILLIAMS NAMED AGAIN ent Reappoints Present Incum- t as Comptroller of Currency— 7,000 Recess Appointments Listed. hingfon, Dec. 7.—~John Skelton jams of Richmond, Va., was re- pated today by President Wilson Pbe comptroller of the currency. name was in a list of approxi- ely 17,000 nominations mostly re- appointments and Including ething like 156,000 army promo- 8. Practically all of the more im- nt appointments had been pre ly announced. bnstantine Given 98 € Per Cent. of All Votes Paris, Dec. 7—Ex-King Constan- ine received 98 per cent of the vot enst in Sunday's plebiscite on the question of his return to the throne of Greece, It In announced In an PAthens dispatch dated Monday re- Sedyed by the Greek legation here day. PAYROLL CUT 10 P. C. sHartford, Doc. 7.——A ten per cent ction In the pay roll has been put effect on the Hartford division of New Haven road, the reduction to mainly to overtir wagzes, it #ald at the off'ce of Supt. C. A. hell * today In connection_with reduetion some em os/ces have rel but thel number et - n ased, 10 Tt '21 MASS. CITIES VO ON LICENSE lJlJESTl[lNl Voters Asked to Sanction Sale of 2.75 Per Cent Beverages. Boston, Dec. 7.—Twenty one cities of the state voted today on the local option questions of licensing the sale of Intaxicating liquors, and of licens- ing the sale of non-intoxicating liquors containing less than 2:75 per cent. alcohol. Simultaneously the state leg- Islature met in .a special sesion that will be called upon to revise the statutes covering these questions to conform with the federal prohibitiod laws, Expression of preference as to the sale of intoxicating liquors has been given at city elections for years, but the vote on the local sanction of 2.76 per cent. beverages was taken for the first time, the state law having been passed by referendum at the last election. Governor Coolidge regards both measures as in conflict with the 18th amendment and the Volstead act and has asked for their repeal. Two sports laws also were submitted to local option. On the ballot in all the citles was thé question whether amateur sports and games should be allowed on Sunday and whether the cities should accept the act establish- ing a state boxing commission without which professional sparring matches cannot be held. Some of the cities have enjoyed the provisions of these laws since their passage by the last legislature through temporary action by their municipal governments. The elections today were the first in which women had the vote for all local offices and the legislature wi expected to {ake emergency action to make them eligible to hold municipal offices. Worhen appeared as candi- dates in several places. FINED FOR BAD CHECKS Bridgeport Man Pays $50 and Costs ~Lawyer Explains Unusual Cir- cumstances in His Case. Drawing checks on an anticipated ®hank account that did not materiall proved bad business for J C. Apple- quist whose adjourned case was tried this morning in police court before Judge John H. Kirkham. He was fined $50 and costs. Two orders, one for $22 and one for $17 were made upon the Bridgeport Trust company by the accused; subsequently they were deposited in the New Britain Trust comrpany and shortly thereafter the Bridgeport banking house refused to honor the papers, explaining that the drawee had never opened an ac- count at that bank. Joseph Cherchef- sky, a local merchant who had cashed the checks notified the authorities and the arrest of Applequist followed. The accused is a resident of Bridge- port and is an automobile accessory salesman. Through his attorney, Lawyer Cronin of Bridgeport, he ex- ! that he had secured the en- dorsemént of a prominent Park city business man to a note by which he | was to negot'ate n loan After order- ing that the money be placed to his | account at the Bridgeport Trust bank he came to New Britain. On October 'm he drew the $22 chock and on | October 19, the $17 check, feeling that both would be honored. he found the checks had not been honored, Applequist placed money in the hands of his attorney with which pla‘ned to make good the accounts but he ! * was arrested before retribution could be muade. Congress Asked to Give $1,000,000 to Forestry Washington, Dec. ~An appro- priation of $1,000,000 to be used in cooperation with the states in forestry work during the next fiscal year was axked of congress today by the de- partment of agriculture. Secretary Meredith also asked for legislation which would authorize him to recom- mend the essential and standard re- quirements to protect timbered and cut over lands from fire MILLS CLOSE. Dec. 7.—The Nian- in Flanders Waterford indefinite es will be NIANTE Niantie, Conn., tie Mfg. Co. woolen mill and the Bathgrate mill in will close Saturday for an period. About 150 emplo: acected Washington Baker was asked today the hou military commitice to appear befor it Friday to explain why the war de- partment has recruited an ny of Jmore than 180,000 mea. When | CONGRESS SEEKING - AID FOR BUSINESS Means of Stimulating Commerce and Industry Under Way MORE THAN SCORE OF BILLS JHouse Leaders However, Do Not Think Any Measures of Importance Other Than Appropriations Will Be Passed This Term. Washington, Dec. 7 (By Asociated Press).—Means of stimulating com- merce and industry appear to be up- permost in the minds of congressional leaders today as the third and final session of the 66th congress got under way. Although house leaders were convinced that few measures of con- sequence other than appropriation HARTFORD PEOPLE SCARED, TOTE GUNS More Than 400 Have Sought Permits Since Burglary and Hold-up Epidéhic Began Hartford,, Dec. 7.—An unprece- dented number of businessmen and women of this city as well as persons not in business who live in isolated sections of the city, have made application to Police Chief Farrell to carry loaded revolvers for | their protection since the burglary and | ! holdup epidemic began about Novem- ber 1. S nce that date nearly 400 have * applied for permission to carry fire- arms. | REPORTER SAYS SMITH l IS San Antonio Newspaperman | Gets Story of Alleged Con- bills would be acted upon there was | manifest sentiment that a program of stabilization for commerce and in- dustry should take precedence in committee consideration. In the grist of bills in the first two days there was a score or more of measures having to do directly with business. In connecton wth the business legis- lation were farmer relief measures. Under the present indefinite pro- gram of majority leaders, it is planned to go ahcad with consideration of these measures, gather data,and out- line the legislative action intended to be taken at the extra session which President-elect Harding indicated yes- terday he would call next spring. Harding Discusses League ! ‘The league of nations and cabinet selections were talked over by Senator Harding and his advisors today in an- other series of conferences. On the league'issues Mr. Harding consulted rapresentatives of both the mild reservationists and the irrécon- | cllables, conferring first with Senator sSpencer, of Missouri, a mild reserva- tionist and late with Senator Johnson of California leader of the irreconcil- ablea, Meantime one of his chief political advisors, Harry M. Dougherty of Ohio, ‘held conferences with a number ot members of the senate and house. , It is understood that possible cabinet | selections were the principal topic at these conferences. Senator Full of New Mexico, and former Senator Weeks of Massachu- etts also visited Mr. Harding and then conferred with various senators at the capitol. Senator Fall's close asso- clation with the president-¢lect re- vived rumors that he was being con- sidered for an important cabinet ap- pointment. ' CLEAN-UP CONTINUES ! Several Fined After South Norwalk Raids and Others Warrants Are to be Served. South Norwalk, Dec. 7.—Warning i that a second conviction for the same | offense would mean a jail sentence, was given by Judge George H. Vos- burgh this morning to Dominic Incer- to, Fred Grebo, Jos. Seemse, arrested Saturday night for the illicit sale of ! liquor, by members or the state police who conducted raids in this city over | the heads of the local police. Incerto | was fined $100 and costs, as was Senese. Gebo was fined $50 and costs. The local police this morning arrest- | ed Luigi Apicella, another saloon- | keeper on evidence furnis¥>d them by the members of the state police. War- rants for other local are yet to be served, it by Chiet of Police Pennington, morning. was stated this SOLOMON TRIAL THURSDAY The trial of Morris Solomon, charged with manslaughter, is scheduled to come up at 10 o'clock Thursday morn- | ing in_the superior court. Solomon was the driver of the truck that figured in the collision at Towers’ corner early in September, Frank J. Butler, of West Springfield, Mass., who was driving the other machine in the accident, died a short time later at the New Britain General hospital, of injuries. Solomon was arraigned | in the local police court and was | boundiovacito the superior court. CAR RECOVERED ' belonging STO! An automobile to R. Richards was stolen last evening from | on | the Hotel Grand Early this morning Patrolman Michael Massey found the car on Summer Street. The ow was notified of the recovery of the ca FREE DRINKS FOR AWHILE Michael Montano of 158 Beaver | etreet, reported to Sergeant George J. | Kelly early this morning that a barrel | ot cider bad becn stolen from his yard the rear of Mpyrtle street. saloon-keepers | vl fession From Fugitive. Ardmore, Okla., Dec. 7.—~The search for Cara Smith wanted in con- mection with the fatal shooting here of Jake L. Harmon, republican na- tional committeeman from' Oklahoma early today centered r San Antonio, Texas, after Russell ’Brown, county attorney had received information that Perry M. Rose, a San Antonio newspaperman ha dstated he had con- versed with Miss Smith near San Antonio last night. The sudden shift of interest in the case to San Antonio followed an- nouncement of two developments characterized as important by County Attorney Brown. The first was the delivery to Mr. Brown of a suit of clothes taken from the private offices of Mr Hamon. The suit was sent by Frank L. Ketch, business manager for the slain oil magnate in response to a request by Mr. Brown that he be given clothing Mr. Hamon wore at the time he was shot. £ The other development was the an- nouncement by Mr. Brown that Dr. Walter Hardy, director of the private sanitarium where Mr. Hamon died, had informed him friss Smith visited Mr. Hamon at the hospital the day | after the shooting. The nurse who was on duty left the room while the vsi- tor was there. San Angenio, Texas, Dec. 7.—P. M. Ross wa# taken into custody by police early tbday, queftioned for an hour and released. Ross, accord'ng to the police, refused to tell the whereabouts of the young woman, asserting.that he would ‘go to jail first. He told his questioners, it was stat- ed that he first encountered Miss Smith on the strets of San. Antonio and that she tried to evade him by driving away in a large motor car. He said that he pursued her in anoth- er car but being unable to overtake | her, hired a large serviee car and re- | sumed the chase, catching her ‘just outside the city limits. While a companion fixed two flat tires of Miss Smith's automobile R said he took her to a nearby farm- house and there, he said, she told him she had killed Hamon, According to Ross, she declared she was willing to face any just judge or any jury of women. Chicago, Dec. 7.—Four un‘dentified men forced an entrance last night into an apartment building here where the widow of Jake L. Hamon lives. The men seized a quantity of personal papers and 75 letter#’received for Mrs. Hamon during her absence at Ard- more, Okla.,, where her husband was mysteriousiy shot to death. The in- truders took nothing else. Charles Willis, landlord of the building had the letters and papers in his apartment. Actions of the men indicated the seizure had been care- fully planned, police sa! T00 MANY UNEMPLOYED Congress to 1ook Into Matter With View to Taking Action 1f Any is Possible. investigation of the “increasing un- employment” to determine what ac- | tion if any to relieve the situation can be taken by the federal government was proposed in a jo'nt resolution in- troduced in the house today by Repre- sentative Mason, republican of Illinois. i Washington, Dec. 7.—Congressional | _— WEATHER —_—— Hartford, Conn., Forecast for New vicinity: Rain or and Wednesday. nd tonight Bri snow [ S ——— WOMAN KILLED HAMON ' MESSAGE TO CONGRESS SEEN AT ONE GLANCE High Spots in Recommenda- tions Submitted By Chief Executive. Washington, Dec. 7—President Wil- | son’s concrete recommendations to congress in his annual message to- | day were: Revision of the tax laws with sim- plification of the income and profits: taxes. Independence for the Philippines. A loan to Armenia. Economy in government appropria- | tions and expenditures and creation of a “workable budget system.” Cold storage and other laws affect- ling the cost of living and the fed- | eral licensing of corporations as rec- ommended in previous messages. Rehabilitation and training of dis- abled soldiers and sailors. The pres- | ident did not endorse a bonus. Nowhere did the president refer to the League of Nations or the peace !treaty fight, except perhaps by in- { ference in his opening when he quot- ed Abreham Lincoln’s ‘Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it.’ At its close the president wrote a paragraph which might be regarded as a valedictory saying: “I have not so much laid before you a series of recommendations as | T sought to utter a confession of faith | in which I was bred and which it is { my solemn purpose to stand by until { my last fighting day. I believe this to be the faith of America, the faith of the future and of all the victories which await national action in the days to come, whether in ‘America or elsewhere.” The president’s message was trans- mitted by messenger the president adhering to his decision not to ad- dress congress in person. Secretary Tumulty was among the spectatorg in the senate occupying a seat on the fioor. Public galleries again were filled and several diplo- i mats were present. TODAY’S PROGRAM FOR CONGRESSMEN —_— Many Matters of Importance Slated to Come Up During This Session Washington, Dec. 7.—Receipt of President Wilson’s annual message was the principal business before con- gress today although the program in both the .senate and house called for the inauguration of actual legislative work. Items Up for Debate. The senate calendar today called /tor debate on the bill for federal regulation of thg meat packing indus- try, left over from the last session but there was a possibility, it was said, it might go over'until some future date. Senator Kenyon, republican of Iowa one of the.framers of the bill in reply to a request from Senator Sherman, republican of Illinois, for a postponement said he would agree to the delay provided unanimous con- sent could be obtained for a vote on the measure by January 8. In the house legislation for the re- striction of immigration was expected to be taken up, the bill prohibiting im- migration for a perlod of two years having been reported out of commit- tee yesterday. Harding’s Busy Day. President-elect Harding faced a busy round of conferences today be- fore leaving Washington at ‘4 o’clock for his home in Marion. The program arranged by the president-elect was not made public but it was understood that during the day he would discuss domestic as well as international issues with a number of members of the senate and house. Neither was it disclosed whether Mr. Harding would call at the White House to see President Wilson and the best information seemed to be that the president and president-elect would not meet as did their wives ves- terday when Mrs. Harding accepted Mrs, Whits House. Wan: Decks Al Cleared. president-elect in his confer- was expected to reiterate made yesterday to Con- sfor aders to lay aside parti- chip and endeavor to clear away all routine business before March 4. On leaving Washington late today . Senator Harding will take final leave | f the senate although h= will retain hie seat and title until between Jan- ary 10 g he said vester- day, he plans to resign and allow the . coming republican governor of Ohio name a republican, probably Sen- ator-gicct Willis. to suceeed him. The ences today his request Wilson’s invitation to tea at the | Wilson Himself Does Not Add:ess Cong Makes No Reference To League Of But Recommends That United States Before World As Champion Up Rights Of Smaller Nations late war has been exceed on the other side of the has given promise, I ven of early completion only fortunate country; but .eve the recovery halts and is times and there are immi icéable acts of legislatig seems to me we oughts to assist that recovery indestructible recu t great government thi of these is to prove democracy can keep hous fully apd in as busine ion as any other gover: Expenses Vs. “It seems to me that towards proving this is § ourselves with a systematic handling our estimdtes and tures and bringing them to where they will not be sary strain upon our inco: sitate unreasonable t: D words a workable budget sy I respectfully suggest ments are essential to namely, not only that ths appropriations should be of a single body, such as a propriations committee house of the congress, but: this body should be brought] co-operation with the di ot the government and treasury of the United | would emable it to act up plete conspectus of the n government ané the re which it must draw its reluctantly vetoed tke passed by the last session gress because of a .o jection. The house of subsequently modified order to meet this object! ,revised form I believe th coupled with action alry by the congress to revise its procedure, furnishes the for an effective national tem. I earnestly hope, the ‘Washington, Dec. 7.—President Wil- son’s annual message to congress fol- lows: ‘When I addressed myself to per- forming the duty laid upon the pres- ident by the constitution to present to you an annual report on the sate of the union, I found my thought dominated by an immortal sentence of Abraham Lincoln’'s ‘let us have faith in which it has grown to glory and power. With that and faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us dare to do iur duty as we understand it,’ a sentence im- martal because it'embodies in a form of utter simplicity and purity the es- sential faith of the nations, the fail.hl in which it was conceived and the the birth of a nation found- ed up it came the hope into the world that a new order would pre- vail throughout the affairs of man- kind, an order in which reason and right would take precedence of covetousness and force, and I believe that I express the wish and purpose of every thoughtful American when I say that this sentence marks for us in the plainest manner the part we should play alike in the arrangement of our domestic affairs and in our ex- ercise of influence upon the affairs of the world. By this faith and by this faith alone, can the world be lifted out of its present confusion and despadr. It was this faith that prevailed over the wicked force of CGermapy, You will remember that the nning of the end of the war came when the German people found themselves face to face with the conscience of the world and lized that right was everywhere arrayed against the wrong that their government was attempting to perpetuate. I think therefore that it is true to sayghat this was the faith which won the war. Certainly this is the faith which our gallant men went into the fields and out upon the scas to maks sure of victory. Defines Democracy This is the mission upon which democracy came into the, world. De- mocracy is.an assertion of the right of the individual to live and to be ©One of the first steps t: treated justly as against any attempt Present session of the comi on thepart of any combination of in-{be to pass the budget bill dividuals to make laws which will Finances Show Impro overburden him or which will destroy | The nation’s finances his equalty among his fellows in the im v ng' catter of right or privilege, and I | year = The ten s think we all realize that the day |$g 694,000,000 for the ,has come when democracy is being p o < y { put upon its final test. The old world | 147 000 oo0. Wi tho i |is just now suffering from a wanton | g0 0 8 ait refection of the principle of de- ‘*5“’46 penditiives mocracy and a substitution of the $18,514,000,000 to $6,40: principle of autocracy as asserted in | L€ 8ross public debt, which the name but without the authority |itS highest point on 31 Augu and sanction of the multitude, ;Vhefl dlt WS§ 8261,)556.000. : Chance for Armenians SBpal on ovember 30, | *This is the time of allothers| $24175,000,000. There has when democracy should prove its |2 Marked decrease in hok purity and its spiritual power to pre- | 8oVernment war securities vail. Tt is surel¥ the manifest destiny | Panking institutions of the ' of tHt United States to lead in the 2s Well as in the amount of B | by the federal reserve banks attempt to make this spirit prevail. || There are two ways in which the !'by government war obligatio! | fortunate result has relie! United' States can assist to accomplish this great object: First, by offering | banks and left them freer to| the example within her own borders | the needs of agriculture, of the will and power of democracy to jand commerce. It has been make and enforce the laws which are | large part to the reduction unquestionably just and which are ’ public debt, especially of the equal in their administration—laws gdebt, but more particularly which secure its full right to 1abor ' jmproved distribution of o and vet at the same time safeguard gecurities among permanent in the integrity of property and partici- mpe cegsation of the gove larly of that property which is devoted borrowings . except through to the developement of industry and | fhoat T indecdl the increase of the necessary wealth | o/ Certificates of indebtedn of the world. Second, by standing Deen a matter of great con for right and justice as towards in- | 'O the people of the country dividual natiofis. The law of democra- |28 Well as to the holders of cy is for the pratection of the weak, ' bonds and Victory notes, and and the influence of every democracy A 20 important bearing on the in the world should be for the pro- i Of effective credit control. TH tection of the weak nations, the na- has been characterized by th) tion which is struggling toward its gressive withdrawal of the t right and toward its proper recogni- | from the domestic credit marl tion and privelege in the family of na- | in that market. The future cous ticns. The Un'ted States cannot refuse necessarily depend upon the e: this role of champion without putting ! which economics are practice the stigma of rejection upon the ' upon the burdens placed upQ great and devoted men who brought treasury, as well as upon in its government into cxistence and es- | Jevelopments and the mainten tablished it in the face of almost un- ' (ax receipts at a suffic.ent iversal opposition and intrigue. even jeyo) in the face of wanton force, as for $7,500,000,000 Indebtedne exeiple againktiths orders tnjcounclll By, o fundamental fact wh of Great Britain and the arbitrary Napoleonic decrees which involved us Present dominates the govel in what we know as the war of 1812, ; financial situation 1s that seve a half billions of its war indebt Congress Can Do Much = . = ' mature wthin the next two and [, “I urge you to comsider that the: .., “of this amount, two and {aisplay of an immediate disposition JE97S . dbr e on the part of the congress to remedy | Dillions are_ oating de and 1) any injustices or evils that may have . llons Victory notes nn.i‘ War S shown themselves in our national life i cediificat T.e flical progr: will afford the most effectual offset . the government must be deter to the forces of chaos and tyranny - With refercnce to thesc mat which are playing so disastrous a part | Sound policy demands that the in the fortunes of the free peoples of | ernment expenditures be redue more than one part of the world. ! the lowest amount which will ““The United States is of necessity the various services io operate the sample democracy of the world iently and that government re and the triumph of democracy de- from taxes and Ivage be maint pends upon, its success. I‘ sufficiently high to provide for ¢ U. S. Ias Best Chances. requirements, including intcres “Recovery £rom the disturbing and - sometimes disastrous effects of the o (Continued on Ninth Fage))