New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 10, 1920, Page 1

Herald “Ads” Better Busi ez INEW BRITAIN HERALD| MEW BRIiTAIN. CONNECTICU1. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1920.—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES PRICE THREE ~ GIRLS ASSAILANTS | ADVISES REOPENING | MARTIAL LAW TO BE APPLIED TO - LYNCHED BY CROWD| ““eADicar erements, concrass neaxs HARVESTER 00, SUIT| CERTAIN SECTIONS OF IRELAND OF ANGRY CITIZENS | reprsentaive snstion of Sinnesota Dectres spain Feenl Trte tonnisin 1|~ ORDER TO STOP MURDER AND C Seething Mass of Anarchy, is Sending Vast Hordes to A ESTABLISHED 1870. | FOREIGN GOVTS. ARE USING AMERICA Two White Men, Who Also Mur- dered Santa Rosa Olicers of Law, Taken to Cemetery and Hanged GANGSTERS IDENTIFIED BY . WOMEN THEY ATTACKED Mob of About 100, in 15 Automobiles, Rush Jall Early This Morming, Take Prisoncrs Out and Execute Them—One Man Accepted Fate Onlmly While Other Fought for His Life. Santa Rosa, Cal, Deec. 10.—Georg> Boyd, Terence Fitts and Charles Va- lento, white men, accused of ghaving muypdered Sheriff James A. P‘rly of Sonamo county and Detectives Miles Jackson and Lester M Dorman here Sunday afternoon, last, were taken from the county jall here early this morning and hanged. At 12:30 o’clock & mob of.about 100 men, al wearing masks, entered the Inil, overpowered the officers there, took their keys and removed the prisoners ta walting automobiles. Execated in Cemetery. Fifteen machines carried the party. They moved quickly down the street 1o a cemetery, three blocks beyond the city limits Ropes had been pre- pared- The men were taken from the machines and hanged to an oak tree inside the cemetery. Headlights of three automobiles were used to light the tree selected for the hanging. Members of the mob were sttioned to prevent intrusion. These guards and many of the mob were armed Mob Worked Quickly Not more than five minutes was re- quired by the mob to enter the jall, overpower the officers and remove the prisoners Within 16 minutes the al- | loged gangwters and murderors had beon lynched '” ¥or anothewy16 minutes, while the bodies. dangled from the oak tree In the glare of the automobile head- | lights, the mob waited at the scens to make certain their grim task was completed Then Its members de- parted, leaving the bodles swinging in the darkness, Identificd by Victims, 1 United States—Favors Washington, Dec. 10.—Charges that foreign governments *“are financing the movement of radicals from several countries in Europe to the United States” were made today by Represen- tative Knutson, republican Minnesota who opened debate in the house on the Johnson bill placing a two year restriction on immigration. Deporting Them, “Spain is a seething mass of an- archy” Mr. Knutson declared, “and its government is dumping it on the United States. We have more than we know what o do wth. We ought to deport them.” He added that if tonnage were available from 10 to 15 millions Europeans would migrate to America within a year. W toWH .S.s Monthly Tonnage Report of United States Steel - Corporation Shows Business Away Below Normal 'HARDING AND HUGHES 'Decreas in amber of U | filled Orders From Last | Month is 9,836,852 Tons— | Lowest Figures of Year. TALK OVER POLICIES President-Elect Begins Con- sultation With Lead- ing Statesmen. Marion, O., Dec. 10.—Beginning his promised consultation with leading {fgures of the nation, President-elect Harding had an appointment today !with Charles Evans Hughes, republi- can presidential nominee in 1916, to talk over policies and proposals of the com'ng administration. Although it was understood that fhe plan for an assoc‘ation of nations had prominent place in the conference, the coming of Mr. Hughes was generally regarded as having fo do also with various other problems. Many times ‘recently his name has been suggested for a cabinet position, and the fact that he was the it to be Invited to tho consultations here was taken to mean that Mr his advice In the framing of more than one feature of his administra- vigit was unannounced, ' lect having adopted a practice of keep'ng the 1ames ol hiji | conferees confidential until thé @ay of their arrival here Tt was safd that his Neadquarters probably would make public no list of future callers. However, it is understood that his next conference will be with Herbert | Hoover. Monday previously had been | fixed for Mr. Hoover's call but he now is expected here tomorrow. | Mr. Harding has begun his “meet- | Boyd and Valento had been identi- | In& of minds” by summoning a leader fled last Monday by three young wom-* tn as members of the gang which at. tacked them at a house in one of the “'more densely sottled sections i San Franecisco Two attempts to take the men from Jail here were made last Sunday hight, A foew hours after they had been ar- rested. One was broken up by officers and the other falled when Mrs. Pe- tray, widow of the slain sher'ff, begged friends not to countenance mob vio- lemeeo. ‘Wore Only Underwear, The three men when taken from their cells wore only underwear. This proved to be their death garb. They were rushed to th- Une of automobiles firawn up abreast outside the jall anc 15 cars moved away toward the ceme- | tery . -~ The oak tree had been melected A% & witness to the killing of the threo ropes and at the end of each was a noose, tled with tho “hangman's knot.” Boyd went along without struggle or comment. Valento ex- postulated, but not vehemently. Fitts fought to escape his fate. They ragged him with a towel. No One Is Identified. Until nearly 3 o'clock the bodies hung while hundreds of townspeople same In cars or afoot to see what the mob had done Automobile lights cast splotches of brightness into the gloom that hung over the cemetery while min dripped through the oak leaves on the bodies. Harry Quinlan of San Franeisco, sompanion of Valento and held in jail As & witness to the killisg of the three sfficers, slept through the latest chap- ter of the drama. Officials today sald no members of the mob had been identified. Choate Memorial Will ¥ Be Dedicated May 30 ‘Wallingford, Dec. 10.—Dedication of the memorial bullding at Choate school will be made a part of the exercises on Memorial Day, May 30, it was an- nounced today. This bullding, which will probably- cost $150,000, is in memory of Choate boys who fell in the “world war. Robbers With Motor Car Steal Cloth Worth $3,000 Meriden, Dec. 10.—~When Grenon, a West Main street tailor, opened his store this morning he found that it had been robbed during the night of rolls of woolen cloth valued at about $3,000. Entrance was gained by a rear window and the burglars are believed to have uged a Moter truck. e Joseph ! from the reservationists’ wing of his party. During the league fight Mr. Hughes proposed several reservations to the peace treaty dealing with Ar- |ticle X withdrawal and other sub- Jects, TERRIFIC EARTHQUAKES ; Extent of Damage or Loss of Life in | Southern Honduras Is Not Yet | Known, i San Salvador, Dec. 10.—Terrific earthquakes have occurred in Cholute- ca, southern Honduras, according to reports recelved here today, but de- talls are lacking. Very violent shocks also were felt | ! Wednesdap in Chnandega and Corinto, | western Ncaragua, 25 earth tremors | shaking Corinto, 1 The loss of life and extent of the damage caused by the earthquake is not known. BOMB THROWN IN SENATE Two Klled and Several Wounded As | Resuit of Anarchistic Explosion in | Rumania Governing Body, | London, Dec. 10.—A bomb was thrown among members of the Ru- manian senate Thursday afternoon shortly after it had assembled, and M. Greceanu, a member of the min- stry, and Bishop Radu were killed, says a Central News dispatch from , Bucharest dated Thursday. Another minister, M. Saleanu, Gen- eral Coanda, two bishops and several other members of the senate were dangerously wounded. A large number of slightly hurt. | others were SHIP WRECKED ON LEDGE Two Boatlonds Reach Coast Near Halifax, Third Boat is Reached— Rest of Crew Still On Steamer, Halifux, N. 8., Dec. 10.—After bat- tling for hours against mountainous waves which are gradually battering 1o bits the stranded Norwggian steam- |er Romedalstjord, tvc boatloads of the crew made thelr way to safety this merning when one succeeded In reaching the shelter of Sandy Cove niear hete and the other was picked up by a rescue tuz. It is believed other seamen are st'll aboard the im- porilled vessel, at tue iuetcy of the svas on 2 sunken ledzc outside the | harbor wlhere she giounded early this morning. i | Harding might deulrui | | have been blasted by New York, Dec. 10.—The monthly tonnage report of the U. S. Steel Corp , made public here today showed 9,021,481 tons of unfilled orders hand November 30. This is a decrease of §15,371 tons from last month’s un- filled orders which totalled 9,836,852. These figures represent the largest decrease in steel unfilled tonnage for | any month since the reversal of last | unfilled | August, and bring the total orders down to the lowest point of thy year. This decline in orders while In ex- vess of all estimates occasioned no sur prise because of recent authoritative outlines of conditions in the trade. LEAGUE PLANNING HOW T0 ENFORCE BOYCOTT Plans For Sea Blockade For Nations With Coastline Are Also Considered. Geneva, Dec. 10.—(By Associated Press)—Machinery for putting the economic blockade into effect when occasion should call for such action, was discussed by the assembly of the league of nations at this morning’s gession. The proposed machinery, in- tended as a ‘weapon against an offend- ing state, consists of an international blockade committee of eight members appointed by the council of the league to study the subject of appli- cation of the blockade and report to the secretary gencral of the council. On receipt of information that the covenant has been broken the council must meet to consider the situation and inform all the members of the league. These members says the committee report shall be in duty bound to take | mgasures to carry out the provision of Article XVI of the govenant. Where the covenant breaker has a seaboard the council should forthwith consider which member can conveniently be charged with the duty of carrying out a marine blockade. Senator La Fontaine mmendation in the report that furth- er study be given the Scandinavian proposition that small states bordering on the offending nation should be re- leased from the obligations of the blockalle if these states were in dan- ger of invasion. declared that all nations, great and small, must take the same risks in the interest of all. MAY BOOST TAX RATE Money Borrowed on Next Year's Grand List Will Make Necessary at Least Five Mills Next March. Whatever hopes local taxpayers may have had of lowgr tax rates next year the announce- { ment that already there have been appropriations made which will re- | quire the carrying over of at least five mills to next year's tax rate. 1If, in the opinion of the board of compensa- tion and assessment, the expenses of the coming year will be as great as those of the present year, the tax rate " will be even higher than the one now in effect. Two and one-half mills were carried over last year because of money borrowed on the grand list of 1920 . e | SOLOMON FINED 8500. Judge Gardiner Greene late yester- day afternoon imposed a fine of $500 on Morris Solomon of this city, driver | of the auto truck that struck the tour- ing ¢ar driven by Frank J. Butler of West Springfield. Mass., on September 9, resulting in Butler's death later. Solomon was allowed probation in or. now, ‘om , of Belgium | | made reservations concerning the rec- | | o The Belgian delegate ' Hartford, and three siffers, i Woodbury Hunt of Confird N. leges Anti-Trust Activities ' CHARGES PRICE AGREEMENT I | Judicial Proceedings ‘Against Number of Associatons Having to do With Farm Implements is Also Recom- mended to Congress. ‘Washington, Dec. 10.—Reopening of fovernment’'s anti-trust suit against the Internatioal Harveser Co. and the institution of “judical proceedings™ ! against the International Harvester Co. and he institulon of “judicial pro- ceedings” against a number of asso- ciation having to do with farm imple- ments is recommended by the federal trade commission in its annual report presnted today in the senate by Vice- President Marshall. The commission says the Increase of 73 per cent in farm implements from 1914 to 1918 is in part due to price understandings or agreemants between manufacturers and to a more limited extent the same is true of dealers.” Several Comcerns Named. | Judicial proceedings against '*“the associations who have been active in restraining trade” is proposed, the commission naming the National Im- plement and Vehicle association the | Southern assoclation =: Wagon Mfgrs., the Carriage Builders National as'n, the National Federation of Implement and Vehicle dealers, and the 'Eastern Federation of Farm Implement Deal- ers. With regard to the reopening of the case against the T vester Co, th~ ea== should be' done “so that a plan o dissolution be arrived ai that will re- | store competitive conditions' in the harvesting-machine business.” Provi- , sion for reopening the case, the com- misidon pointed ont, i8 in the final decree entered by the supreme court. GERMAN COUP D'ETAT Belginm Has TUnofficial Report Apothep Change in Government German Provinces. of Brussels, Dec. Le Peuple announces that railway j trafic has been suspended in both { many s'nce yesterday afternoon and that there is talk of a German coup . d’etat. The Belgium ministry of for- | eign affairs, however, states, it has no | confirmation of this rumor. The Belg'an rumors of a German | coup d'etat are unsupportel by ad- | vices from any other quarter. They | eame out of a comparatively clear sky at the moment, for although there | have been charges and counter- charges by extremists and monarch- ! ists in Germany that revolutionary plots were hatching there have been | no recent indications that any attempt to disturb the present German govern- ment by force was imminent. . FOUND DEAD IN BED Paymaster of American Thread Co. at Willimantic Dies of Heart Failure— Was 58 Years Old. Willimantic, Con., Dec. 10.—Edgar | G. Hatheway, 58, chief clerk and pa) master at the local plant of the Ameri- can Thread Co. diéd of heart failure in bed ‘early today. Mr. Hatheway was born in Windsor, Conn. and had been connécted with the thread company 44 years, start- ing as an office boy when the plant was that of the Willimantic Linen Co. He is survived by his father, Ernest Hatheway two brothers, Amos of Bos- ton and Dr. Maurice Hatheway of Mrs. H., Mrs. D. E, Mrs. Austin D Boss a Taylor of this city. Meriden Saloonkeeper i Fined Today, Pays $172 Meriden, Dec. 10.—When the police | saw a glass disappear in the sink as | they entered Julius Oddwycz’s saloon last night, they feared they had again lost their evidence by a famliar) trick, but later they discovered a quart of gzin in a oupboard. That with the glasses recovered from the sink was sufficient this mogning to convict Odd- wycz, a former service man, and he was fined a total of $172. PRICE OF SUGAR DOWN. New York, Dec. 10.—With a further break to the basis of 5.01 for centri- fugal this morning raw sugar prices registered the lowest level for the sea- son, representing a decline of nearly 20 cents from the high prices record- ieu las) May. | | f— ] | WEATHER | —_—— Hartford, Conn., Dcc. 10.— | Forecast for New Britain and | vicinity: Probably rain tonight i } and Saturslay. — 10.—The newspaper ' | directions between Belgium and Ger- | CLERGYMAN TELLS OF | “SEEING IRISH RAD, Father Guilfoile of Pitts- burg Says He Saw Brit- ish Beat Priest. Washington, Dec. 10.—Miss Mary MacSwiney, sister of the late lord | mayor of Cork, and P. J. Guilfoile of Pittsburgh, Pa., were heard today by the commission of the Committee of 100 investigating the Irish question. Miss MacSwiney téld of incidents sur- rounding the killing of Lord Mayor McCurtin' of Cork, while Mr. Guilfoile gave an evewitness account of a m'li- | tary raid on a small town in County ! Claire, ‘when he visited last summer with his family. He said that after two police officers had been k lled half 2 hundred of the military descended on the town and burned and pillaged it. “I stood in front of the house of my sister-in-law,” he continued, “and |saw two officers and six soldiers at- {tempt to force a priest to confess to | the murder of two police. They beat him with gun butts and then kicked him brutally. They cursed him and | accused him of all kinds of crimes, jbut the priest majntained his inno- cence.” * The military officers also visited him, the witness sa'd, and threatened violence until he displayed his Ameri- can passport. The raid hastened his return home, he said. ~TWO NEW TEACHERS Both Hired by School Board for Pre- " This Afternoon. The school board will meet this afternoon at 5 o’clock and will re- ceive a r;{ort of the teachers’ com- mittee sowing the appointment of Ed- vip . My ingtructor in elecs trical work at the prevocational school {and Claude A. Patterson for draftng in the same school; also the resigna. tion of Elizabeth Traut from th Smith school. Substitute teachers have been e ployed during the month as followj Mrs. Anna Young, Miss Nettie Ga erdinger, Mrs. John Pinches, Jr, M Eileen Riley, Mrs. Margaret Deel Mrs. Ella Mitchell, Miss Daisy Kolo ! ney, Mrs. Kenneth M. Searle, M Effie Partiss, Mrs W. B. Steed, M Wanda Wolski, Miss Corinne Goodwin, M'ss Carolyn Kingsley, Miss Mildred Robinson, Miss Alice Crusberg, Miss Lila Byrne, Mrs P. W. Williams, Miss Anna Riley, Mrs. Harriet Williams, Miss Catherine Mills, Mrs. Catherine. Buckley, Mrs. Edith Hewitt, Mrs. Ag- nes Speak, Mrs. A. Pilz, Miss Grace Gerard, Mrs. Helen Gerrish, Miss ! Doris Waters, Mrs Myrtle D. Booth, Mrs. Mildred Flannery. CONVICT MAKES ESCAPE But Before Flecing He Rifies Trousers | of 60 Guards and Robs Home of i Chief Warden. Joliet, Ills., Dec. 10.—a widespread search was being conducted today for Frank Williams, escaped Joliet peni- tentiary convict who before he made his getaway, rifled the trousers of 60 . sleeping guards and robbed the home ; of Captain A. River, head of the new | penitentiary building, of clothing and i Jewelry, | Willlams was serving a 20 year sen- :tence for burglary. First Patient to Be Admitted to Hospital The City hospital Wil receive its | first patient tomorrow morning, Dr. Frank Zwick having accepted the ap- | plication of a local doctor for the ad- i mittance of a patient in the morning. i The following classes of illness will be treated: Diphtheria, scarlet fever, whooping cough, influenza, pneu- mon‘a, septic sore throat, typhoid fever, chicken-pox, measles and mumps. The telephone number of the institution is 69-3. Bridgeport Man Given Heavy Fine in Meriden Meriden, Dec. 10.—Arthur Reval of 713 Washington avenue, Bridgeport, was fined a total of $82.25 in the local | | court this morning, charged with reck- ! less driving of an automobile truck through the city and also with driv- ing while under the influence of h- quor. . Patrolman Carroll overlook | him in another machine and Claimsl‘ he was going 40 miles an hour. BALBRIDGE TO COACH. Omaha Neb., Dec. 10.-—Malcomb Balbridge, Omaha Yale tackle in 1915 and 1916, today was named football coach for Creighton university for the 1921 season. He served as a line coach at the University of Nebraska the past This, And Move To Bring About Confere Sinn Fein Leaders On Irish Situation Announced By Premier Lioyd George Of Commons Today FACE-TO-FACE DANGE ~ BAN AT HIGH SCHOOL | l Faculty Also Takes Drastic Measures to Prevent Theft of Property. | To Facilitate Matt Govt, Will Gi duct to Sinn Fei of No Serous Ci London, Dec. 10 (M Press).—Martial law ‘“certain areas” of Ireil “‘murder and outrage, bring about confere: e government and Sinn B the Irish situation. v by Premier Lloyd Gieor At an assembly this morning in the | ;¢ commons today. High school auditorivm, Princlpal. L. P. Slade issued an edict that “face-to- face” dancing at the Figh school will not be tolerated in the future, the rea- sons given being that it is altogether improper. The placing of a partner’s head upon the shouider of another is also prohibited under the same order as is the practice of “toddling” while dancing. Failure to observe the rule will result in the discontinuance of future dances at the school, the prin- cipal warned Also, sc-alarming has been the number of petty thefts at the High school in the past few weeks that Principal Louis P. Slade found it necessary this morning to issue threats of drastic action in the case of anyone found guilty of 'such acts. The principal has advised the PuPils | 4nic’ haq enabled the that the authorities have decided to | issue “search warrants” to anyone ‘missing grticles of apparel or perscn- al property upen reporting their loss to the headmaster of the building The “warrant” the privilege of searching any place he has reason to believe the missing article may be found. Restrictions will be placed upon the use &fi:*fiy + building At so functions and other mepssures will be taken to prevent fur~ ther thefts. YOTING ON BONUS American Legion Referendum Unof- ficially Reports 12 for and 6 Against Compensation from the State. (Special to the Herald.) Hartford, Dec. 10.—Unofficial ' re- orts from state headquarters of the merican Legion in Hartford today aré\to the effect that 12 posts have gone\ on record as favoring a bonus. Tham are six posts against a state bon! Eighteen out of 92 posts have voted, leaving 74 posts yet to be heard from. Voting against bonus are: New Haven, Bridgeport, East ‘Haven, Thomaston, New Milford and Ham- den, Voting for bonus are: New Britain, Putnam, Simsbufy, Norfolk, Griswold, East Hartford, New Hartford, Union- ville, Moosup, Mystic, Danbury and South Coventry. | YALE'S EXPLANATION Al Sharpe Admits Boston College Is Too Strong a 'ie-m for Early Season Playing. Boston, Dec, 10.—Al Sharpe, Yale athletic director, in a letter to gradu- ate Manager Frank A. Reynolds of Boston College, gives what he terms ‘‘the only reason’ for Yale dropping will allow the pupil ! 1 ]G | E In announcing the of the government &R clared that,under ma; found posseSFing arm . date or unauthorized ing uniforms would' be death penalty. On the other hand, to tions, the premier government had decid conducts to Sinn Fein m house of commong who “involved in the comm crime.” Mr. Lloyd George s had been no negotiation} ! government and Sinn Fe ernment during past fd been in touch with in; reach certain conclusiond Anxious for The government he's vinced that a majority § in Ireland was anxious fair settlement and the was equally anxious fair settlement. Wftir~vidence at. h Iish sectio in control zation of wolence, mj rage” was not yet | peace, however the p goverment felt it could! but to continue and #: paign against this “hi and desperate minorityy MRS. PEABOD Victim of Automobile nesdhy Aftcrnoon, D Morning a+ Local Ha Mrs. Lydia Peabody, Peabody of 656 Winthrop early this morning at theé General hospital of inj Wednesday afternoon struck by the J. A. A automobile iruck near church. She was 43 ye survived by her husban body was taken to the medately after the accide; found to be badly injure The funeral will be held Saturday afternoon from & Doolittle funeral homd . W. C. Hill will officia vee, and the burial will view cemetery, EARLY MORNING About $500 Damage Ts T ace Street Housc—DBlaze Tenement Block. The firemen encounte: cult fire to battle this mol Boston College from its football sched- | cellar of a house at 22 Hi ule next yeai. This, he says, is the ' At 6:40 o'clock Engine Ci . 4 responded to a still al desire ‘‘to bring the Yale team along srrival at the seens it i as gradually as possible and as your game deserves a place well down in the_schedule we could not play all the teams we would like to on the one or two possible dates open for a team of your class.”” Twelve Picked in First Try-Out For Debaters | Preliminary tryouts for places on i the High School debating teams were | held yesterday afternoon at the school | and resulted in the choice of the fol- J lowing: Howard Clark, Isadore Kop- lowitz, Sydney Raphael, Harold Lip- man, Jacob Putterman, Leroy Fleisch- er, Sydney Allison, William Liebowitz, Frank Colapinto, and Truman Camp. The topic upon which the young men debated was the relative merits of the direct primary and the caucus method candidates. At the close of school to- ' day trials in extemporaneous talking will be given, NO DARTMOUTH—BROWN GAME Providence, Dec. 10.—The Dart- mouth-Brown foothall rivalry re- newed several years ago after a ten- year break, will be interrupted again next season. Inability to agree on dates is said to be the" reason why the blaze was dangerous alarm was sent in from 6:48 o’clock. The fire was in the cell tenement house owned b browalscki. It was confin] cellar, where some wood ignited. The heavy volum made the work of the fi cult, It was found nece a hole through the floor to get at the blaze. Torrihgton Legion t Aid Forming ¢ Torrington, Dec. 10.—TH on post of the American Harold Eisenberg ' meeting last night adopteg tion approving the stand Governor-elect E. J. Lake organ zation of the of naming [and offering the services i t Natiof n forming an infantry con o replace the present ts company. Harvard Football Has Two Games ( Cambridge, Mass., Dec. announced here today that b otball eleven will meet ge and Boston Unive neither team could find a place on its { on Sept. 26 next vear. »