New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 23, 1920, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press NEW BRITAIN HERALD ®TABLISHED 1870. Herald “Ads” Better Busiy MEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICU1. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, GOVERNMENT FACES DEFICIT FOR PRESENT FISCAL YEAR OF MORE THAN TWO BILLION Next Year’s Deficit Will Be Billion and Half, According to Fore- cast Made by Treas- urer Houston l TESTIFIES ABOUT SOLDIERS’ BONUS New Sources of Revenue , Must Be Found and No New Burdens Added to the | Treasury. Washington, Dee, 23—\ gross de- fljelency In national fiscal transactior ot $2,100,000,000 this fiscal and $1 500,000,000 for the next fiseal year was forecast today by SeScretary Hous ton in testimony bofure thy senato finance commit whi h 14 cmader- ing the soldiers’ bonus bill. ““The secretary said federal finances wore In such shaps that new sources «! revenuae must be found and no new wvrdens ndded to the treasiry, Ordinary Reeceipts Dig. Considered aside from the publie ~@ebt, Mr. Houston sald, the ordinary receipta for this year should exceed ordinary expenditures by about $800, 000,000 and next year the excess by $556,000,000. These sums however are inadequate fo take care of the Interest on the pub- He debt, which Is about $1,200,000,000 annually, Mr. Houston sald as well as the Interest on the current floating debt and the total lald aside annually for retiring the public debt. Asked as to what sources of reve- nye were declining the secretary sald principally the excesa profits tax but that the productivity of h'gher groups of income taxes also was fallinff off. HIT PARCEL POST LINE ‘ Football Stars, Lined Up as Aunxiliary Mall Clerks, Break Up Christmas Raush Interference. ‘Boston, Dec. 23.—Varsity football playe: from New England colleges it the lone of parcels post sacks hard today as members of & team organized by the rallway mall service to reach the goal of delivery by Christmas. Into the mountains of sacks that stood In the way of countless other pack- agos coming in <rom all sides smashed Jim Fitzpatrick, Ben Broderick and ok Heaphy, Boston College gridiron rs, and Bill Kink tackle of the Boston University eleven Men from Harvard,. Dartmouth, Tufts Bowdoin and Holy Cross home for the holidays, also helped to bring the barrier down. SENSATIONAL ROBBERY Dl‘el Mutes Hurl Bank Window and Steal Bills Dec- orating Christmas Tree. Seranton, Pa., Dec, 23.—New cur- tency displayed in two f{lluminated Christmas trees In windows of the First National bank at the most inent business corner of the cty, ittracted thieves just before daybreak today. They hurled stones through the window and gathered up the bills different to the burglar alarm loud- eclanging over their heads. Po- hurrfed to the scene and picked ' the men with their pockets bulg- g with the new banknotes. One Yommy Cawley, the other re- d to write his name. Both are f mutes. - $104,762 IN IRISH BONDS Is Amount Subscriber in Connec- Gout—Hartford Leads List With $33,845 Worth—New Haven Second. New Haven, Dec. 23.—Irish bonds becribed for in Connectiout reached total of $104,762, John J. Splain, chairman of the drive, an- ed last night Hartford taking 8,846 worth led the list with New veni $16,966, Bridgeport $16,235 ‘Waterbury $12,342 next in order. at New York is Seeking Special Police xico City, Dec. 23.—Ramon P. De 1, Mexican consul general In New has appealed to President Obre- for permission to employ special late police, declaring this step advisable in view of the wave Stones Through ,out losing his balance. CLEAR BUT SNAPPY IS WEATHER PREDICTION FOR CHRISTMAS HERE. —— Washington, Dec. 23.—Gen- erally fair weather Xmas Day except for snow around the Great Lakes and in the north- ern Rockies and rain on the Pacific coast is promised by the weather man. East of the Mississippi river it will be cold “not intense but snappy,” the forecaster said today. STORES TO OBSERVE DIFFERENT HOURS Several Mercantile Establishments ‘Will Close At 6:30 Tomorrow —Others Open. Many local stores will ignore the rules’ for uniform closing hours on tomorrow evening, Christmas Eve, and keep open their places of busi- ness after 6:30 o'clock. Others few in number, will keep the agreement as made by the Chamber of merce a year or so ago and their doors at 6:30. The belated shopper will have an opportunity if he has been remiss to procure goods, but he will do well to do his shopping before 6:30 if he wishes to gain the largest possible fleld of cholce. McMillan's store is one of the places of business that will abide by the Chamber of Commerce rulings and close. “We wish to stick to the rules and wish to be as easy as posible on the clerk who have put in & hard week,” sald Mr. McMillan. Does High Kicking On Seventy-Fourth Birthday Lancaster, Cal, Dec. 23.—T W. Ed- wards, realty operator celebrated the T4th anniversary of his birth today by Kicking a hat from the head of & man_six feet two inches tall with- “When I am 100 years old,” remarked Mr. Ed- wards, “1 shall take to a much tall- er man. Com- shut | NO JOKE THIS TINE IN; STOPS TROUBLE ‘Threatens to Shoot Any Who Senate Gahle commutee in Near Dare Speak Against Him LOSES IN FIRST SKIRMISH REGARD ACTION AS REBUKE Insurgent Batteries Ruined by Italian Destroyer—Poct Warrior Planned | Coup on Dalmatian Coast. 23.—An official dis- states that d’An- London, Dec. patch from Fiume nunzio has proglaimed that a state of | war exists and has forbidden the pop- ulation of Fiume to leave the - city, says a Rome dispatch to the Exchange T«legmph under Wednesday's date. nnunzio’s proclamati.n of a nule of war adds that anyone speak- ing against him will be liable to be shot, says the Central News Rome cor- re-pondent. Batteries Are Silenced. Dispatches received here state that | military works along the line marking the fronuer of the “regency of Quar- nero” have been raided, and an Ital- fan destroyer is said to have shelled d’Annunzian batteries on the of Veglia. An attempt on the part of d'An- nunzio to seize control of the Mon- tagna canal running down the Dal- matian coast behind a screen of low islands, has been foiled. D’Annunzio l'l.-nm'd Coup. It is asserted that d’A {nunzio plan- ned to abandon Filume and to land some place along the Dalmatian coast where he would raise the banner of revolt, hoping to create a situation which would nullity the treaty of Rapallo. Barricades Thrown Up. Rome, Dec. 23.—To all appear- ances a state of war has been re-es- tablished along the Fiume front. Roads have been torn up, rallway tracks have been broken, barbed wire entanglements have been established and all telephone and telegraph wires leading Into Fiume have been cut. Gen. Caviglia commander of gov- ernment troops around Fiuma, kas 1s- sued manifestos urging his men to give evidence of their discipline and loy- alty, Captain d’Annunzio, on the oth- or hand, is praising his sailers of Ital- jan destroyers which recently took their ships over to the d‘Annunzian side, and 18 inviting other Italian sol- diers and sailors to follow their ex- ample. Hartford Man Murders Wife While Two Little Sons Watch; Turns Gun on Himself; Dies Today Fails in Attempt to Klll Mother-in-Law and B: er-in-Law — Shootmg Oc- curs While Mother is Ar- ranging Christmas Tree. | Hartford, Dec. 23.—Louls J. Glinski, 30 years old, of 166 Hamilton street, who shot and killed his wife and later } turned the pistol on himself about 9 o'clock last night, died at the Hartford | hospital this mornng. The crime was committed in the presence of his two little boys while a Christmas tree was being decorat- ed. After killing his wife, into whose body he fired three bullets,Glinski tried to kill his mother-in-law Mrs. Matilda Gigle, and his brother-in-law, Charles Gigle. In each case the ' cartridge failed to explode. The man then went into the bedroom and put a bullet into his own temple. Charles Gigle says the tragedy fol- lowed a dispute between Glinski and his wife over the latter's insistence on working in a facto y despite the hus- band’s opposition. ’ $100,000 BONUSES AWARDED International Silver Corp. in Meriden Is Paying Employes This Amount This Week—Weekly Award Cut. Meriden, Dec. 23.—The Internation- al Silver Corp. Is paying to employes this week over $100,000 in annual| servico rewards.” This money is m addition to sums received during th year in weekly bonuses. At the n.me time the coporation announces a dras- tic change in the system whereby the weekly reward will be dropped and the only payment will be five per cent of their yearly earnings to employes who have been with the International Sil- ver Co. five years or ‘more. Case Aznmst (‘oodye Rubber Company Killed Columbus, O, Dee 23.—Common Pleas Judge Kinkead today sustained a motion to quash summons in the suit filed by Frank S. Monnett, for- mer attorney general of Ohio and a minority stockholder in the Good- year Rubber Co., asking appointment of a vetelver for the company. This nullifiés the action in this county, it wi | unless service can be made " ANGRY TEXANS LYNCH MAN WHO KILLED COP 25 Masked Men Raid Fort| Worth Jail and Summar- ily Execute Prisoner, Fort Worth, Tex., Dec. 23 —Tom W. \ Vickery, a white man held on a charge of murder in connection with the killing Monday night of Policeman Jeft C. Couch, was taken from -the county jail here shortly after mid- night by a mob and hanged. Several shots were fired into his body- Twenty-five masked men entered the jail and overpowered the jailer and his assistants. The prisoner, clad only in night clothes was removed from his cell, taken to a grove and hanged to a trce. After firing a few shots into the body, the masked men dispersed. Sheriff Smith and Chief of Police Porter warned anonymously by tele- phone that Vickery was being hanged, reached the grove shortly after the mob had disbanded. Vickery was 30 years old and a service car driver. He had been in' jail since Monday night when Po- liceman Couch was killed. The lat- ter had answered a call from a ga- rage to arrest an alleged intoxicated man. The officer was shot when he arrived at the garage $26,775,000 LOAN TO R. R. Interstate Commerce Commission Ap- proves Fund to Help Eight We: e Roads Finance Improvements. Washington, Dec. 23.—A loan of $26,775,000 to the New York Central and seven subsidiary lines to help fi- nance the purchase of new equipment ‘and additions and betterments to cost $56,625,000 was approved today by the Interstate commerce commission. The roads are to furnish $30,000,000 for this purpose and the fund will be expended jointly. The other railroads which are to receive the loan are the Michigan Central, the Big Four, the Cincinnati Northern, Toledo and Ohio Central, Zanesville and ¥ L Mie island | l Quarrel With British Embassy | | | English Office at Washington Said to Have Violated Courtesy in Sending | Letter to Senator Kellogg Denylm:; Previous Testimony. Washington, Dec. 23. (By Associat- ed Press)—Tha state department in- tervened today in what threatcned to! i be a controversy between the British ! embassy and the senate committee in- vestigating cable communications over | the question of whether there is a British censorship of cable messages to the United States originating in, the British Isles. I The department’s action was re- garded as a rebuke to the embassy for sending direct to Senator Kelloge, ' chairman of the committee a letter denying the testimony of Newcomb Carlton, president of the Western Union Telegraph Co. that cably mes- sages coming to the United States from Great Britain were subject to delay and examination by the British | Raval intelligence authorities. Breach of Courtesy. The embassy’s action is understood | to be regarded by the department as ' a breach of diplomatic courtesy. The department will take the subject mat- | ter of the correspondence up direct- ly with the embassy, but whether it will ask for an explanation of the ac- | | tion of the embassy in writing direct- |1y to the senator has mot yet been indicated A somewhat similar incident oc- ! curred recently, Dr. Julio Bianchi, | the Guatemalan minister, dealing di- rectly with Senator Moses of New | Hampshire regarding a resolution the senator had introduced. In that in- stance the department asked for an { explanation and it has received from ; Dr. Bianchi what has been described | as “an explanation and an apology.” Kellogz Makes Statement. f Senator Kellogg said today that in | reference to the matter, and in re- ferring to the state department he had_acted on the advice of Fred K- Nefison, solicitor of the department He aaded that in view of positive statements t! a British censorship existed he was asking the state depart- ment to imquire from the British em- bassy, despite its letter of denial, | whether it was true that a censor- | ship existed. SQUIRE—FITZGERALD Engagement of Portland, Conn., to Well Known Local Young Man Is Formally Announced. Mrs. James H. Barry of 254 Sar- gent street, Hartford, has announced the engagement of her sister, Miss Alice Jean- Fitzgerald of Marlborough street, Portland, to William W. T. Squire of Cherry street, this city. A yet no definite date for the wedding has been set. Both Mr. Squire and his fiancee um\e a large circle of friends in this and other cities. Miss Fitzgerald holds a secretarial position at the New Britain Machine company, being secretary to Treasurer H. H. Pease. Mr. Squire is an ex-service man, having served over- seas in the aviation corps during the war with the rank of lieutenant. He was, before the war, a prominent newspaperman, having been employed on the New Britain Record, Hartford Courant and New Britain Herald. At present he has a position as educa- tional secretary for the War Savings branch of the United States treasury department. After graduating from High school in 1910, Mr. Squire at- | tended Colgate college. ’ POST OFFICE IS LOOTED i Visited By Yeggmen Who are Believed to Have l Come and Gone in Automobile. | | Georgetown, Conn., Dec- 23 —Burg- lars entered the post office in this | place last night, battered the safe open by smashing the combination lock, and got away with cash to an amount not yet determined, but be- lieved to be approximately $500. The post office is located directly opposite the mills of the Gilbert and Bennett Mfg Co. but they operated without at- tracting the attention of the watch- man there. They effected an entrance | by breaking open a window. A ham- ! mer, & wrench and an iron bar were found in front of the safe when the postmaster, George M. Hamill, dis- covered the burglary this morning. The burglars are supposed to have arrived and departed in an automo- bile. Girl Is | | — WEATHER —_— Hartford, Dec. 23.—Forecyst for New Britain and vicinity: Cloudy, colder tonight and Fri- day. | | POPE ACCUSES Y. M. C. A. OF CORRUPTING FAITH OF ITS YOUNG CATHOLIC MEMBERS Warns All Bishops to Watch Organization Which stills Apostasy Against Catholic Religion in Mmds of Its Adherents”—Officials of Overseas Department of Association Expresses Great Surprise. PARK STREET COUPLE ARE OVERCOME BY GAS Timely Discovery, and Sub- sequent Use of Pulmotor Saves Life This Morning. Mr. and Mrs. Domenick Collelo, aged 52 and 50 years respectively, of 310 Park street, had a narrow escape from death at their home during the | | night, the timely discovery of escaping 5=u permitting their son to secure medical aid and the pulmotor from the Central Fire station in time to prevent a fatality. About 7 o’'clock this morn- ing tho younger Collelo, who lives in a tenement below his parents, detected the odor of gas, and on reaching the bedside of his parents, he found both overcome. Dr. James F. Faulkner was summoned, and word was sent to the police station for the ambulance. Sergeant George J. Kelly notified | Deputy Fire Chief Eugene F. Barnes, who with Fireman Stanley Rozanski and Officer Matthias Rival, took the pulmotor to the Park street house. Mrs. Collelo was found to be in.a ; very seripus condition, and it required ; about twoe hours’ work with tha pul- "motor before she finally showed sigas of recovering. Mr. Collelo way not so badly overcomo -as to neel /he pul- ’ motor treatment. An investigation showed gas esmp-[ d ing from a jet in the room occuple | by tha couple. The son iotd 1)(]’)‘"}' Chief Parnes that his father had bcen out late last night and it is presumed that he accidentally turned on the jet after thinking he had extinguished the light. Mrs. Collelo fell about a week ago and broke her shoulder. ROBBERS BOUND OVER Two M ]!tvrw-lk Highwaymen Held in ‘lm Bonds Each—Mark- ed Bill Completes Identification. South Norwalk, Dec. 23.—Harry Jones and Edward Jackson, both col- ored were this morning bound over to the criminal superior court in bonds of $6,000 each, on charges of highway robbery and assault. Jones and Jackson are two of three colored men who at the point of a revolver early yesterday morning held up James Toner robbing him of $36 in cash and a diamond ring valued at $70, after which they beat him and left him unconscious on ths pavement. Identification was made by Toner of the two men, which identification was Rome, office issu bishops to watch *“‘an organization which while professing absolute free o Dec. 23.—The Holy m of thought in religious matters, | instills indifferentism and apostasy to | the Cathblic religion in the minds of its adherents.” The decree mentions the Young {Men’s Christian assoeiation by nameo and says it is upheld by many Catho- - lics who do not know its real nature and that it corrupts the faith of vouths. Classes of the cannon law which for- bid papers, periodicals and organizu- tions favoring religious radicalism and indifferentism are recalled in the decree, which requests the bishops to communicate with the Holy within six months the decisions taken on the subject at regional congresses. New York, Dec. 23.—Officials of the overseas department of the Y. M. C. A. expressed astonishment today when they learned that the Holy office in Rome had issued a decree warning its bishops against the American organi- zation as a of youths.” . i “We are sorry, of course, that some people do not like us,” declared C. V. Hibbard, associate general secretary, “but there doesn’t seem to be anything | to.do about it.” Mr, Hibbard said it had been “abundantly substantiated that the Y. M. C. A. is not a proselyting organ- zation” and said- he ceuld think of no reason for its:being subject Papal attack. BOYS PLAGE WREATHS ON COURT OF HONO i | High School R. 0. T. C. Pays { Tribute to City’s Fal- len Servicemen. In tribute to the 120 local men who died while in the service, the several companies of the R- O. T- C at the High school, numbering about 450 young men, and a number of private citizens took part in the annual ex- ercises of laying wreaths on the Court of Honor at Walnut Hill park this ! morning. The command was in charge of Captain Hollis Clark, U. S. A. The procession started at the High school and proceeded through Franklin Square to Main street to West Main street and through the Court of Honor. Captain Clark and the battalion officers, with colors, headed the line of march. Principal Louis P Slade, Rev. G. M. Missirian and George H. Dyson, chairman of the memorial committee, followed and the R. O. T C- took up the rear. The I school was dismissed at 11 o’clock | to give the pupils an opportunity to attend the exercises and many availed completed by the findinz of a doliar, bill with a peculiar tear in it, in Jack- son’s possession. The bill was a keepsake of Toner’s. AT’['EMPT WHISKEY HOLD-UP Guard nmiu, Wounded When Six Auto Bandits Try to Steal Truck- load of Liquor Near Cincinnati. Cincinnati, Dec. 23.—Joseph Kline of New York city, & guard of a truck- load of wh.skey bound from Frank- fort, Ky. to New York city, was prob- ably fatally wounded when several shots were fired last night on Reading Road, this city, in what police believe was an unsuccessful attempt to steal the wh skey. The shooting, police were told. was ’ done by six men in a touring car who had followed the truck from Ken- tucky. 24 ARE DEPORTED TODAY Self Confessed Russian Communists Leave on Imperator on Long Trip Back to Russia. New York, Dec. 23.—Twenty-four confessed Russian communists with the demeanor of pleasure tourists, were deportation passengers on the steamship Imperator sailing ggday for | England, where they will ped on the second ; to Ru: . The deportee up in raids las (Continued on Tenth Page) BATTLING KUNZ ARRESTED South Norwalk Cafe Proprietor, Well Known in Sporting Circles, Held for Selling Liquor. South Norwalk, Dec. H. Taylor, (Battling Kunz) former state lightweight champion, was ' placed under arrest by tederal officers ‘last night at his cafe in the Ger- 'mania hotel for the illicit sale of ‘liquor- Joseph Berese, bartender in the cafe of Steve Novak, was also arrested on a similar charge, the two raids being made simultancously. Bonds were fixed at $500 for each man and a hearing before U. S. Com- missioner Hugh J. Lavery will be held in Bridgeport this afternoon. Two Die in Fire That Destroys High School Lyoms, N. Y., Dec. 23.—The death toll in the fire which destroyed the Lyons High school here yesterday re- ‘mained today at two. The vict'ms are the 1l-ycar-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugenc H. Baltzel and Elizabeth Burns, 12-vear-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Burns. No effort was made early today to locate the bodies s the ruins of the building were 100 hot to permit a search. l 23.—Charles DIVIDEND DECLARED. York, Dec, —Directors of fipia-Carolina Chemical Co. today, declared a reg- ed a decree today asking Catholic | “corrupter of the faith | i to . Waterloo at PRICE THRE] D'ANNUNZIO AT WAR; STATE DEPT. STEPS SENATOR CALDER ADVOCATES LO} GOVT. INCOME TAXES ON MORTAG AS CURE FOR SCARCITY OF HOU ;Senator Harrise Hot Shot Intc gency Tariff Holds Up Acti Next Week Senate, Under O es Bill For Sho: Mortgage Bonds Loan Board. FURTHER ACTIC COAL IS POS | Washington, Dec. 23. cause of the existing ‘dwellings, Senator Calder, New York, said in address ate today is the h\h ra income tax. This he de driving wealthy investors their available funds in curities issued by munic states and the national and he suggested that col the situation by making m dwelling houses tax exemp] sonable figure. “l am informed that tl Field estate in Chicago ani Green estate both of whid loaned heavily on real their incomes from this ; less than two per cent ation,” Senator Calder said are diverting their capit mere lucrative investmen empt securities during thi years have increased froi 000,000 to $14,000,000,000. Spikes Tariff Bi| The first volley in the fi ! senate against the house ‘tarff bill was fired today | Harrison, democrat -~ of ' When the measure was from: the house he first @ | roll call and then object usual custom of dispensin reading and thus delayed | week the sending of the bi ‘ mittee. Financial . Under spccial order, the day passed a bill permitting | al farm loan board to issu | bonds’ for short or long market conditions may req Another measure exten time in" which federal rese may hold temporary Libe until permanent bonds are also was passed. ! Fearing: Senate inv situation was put over next Wednesday. Chairman the inquiry committee planned at that time to recs H. Cushing, managing direc] American wholesale coal a and clear up charges thal ment officials and railroad profits in distributing of co lh!e shortage panic last sum fall. 1,600 ARE 0UT OF Edward Ford Plate Glass Cd ledo Closes Down Until No Wage Reductions Then. ncess Toledo, O., Dec. 23.—More 500 men were thrown out of W til February 1 when the Edwi Plate Glass Co. plant at closed down today. ! Officials of the company that there is no contemplated tion in wages when cperations sumed. The reason ven shutdown was for a adjust] financial affairs.” Former Clerk of Ca; In New Haven is New Haven, Doc. 23—D Charlcs B. athewmatn, 1 court here, ater in North ica. Mass., was announced tod Mathewmain was graduated Yale law schooi was y chies preme court of thewmain had been ill ab The body will be brought interment. i ¢ hd Milk Thief Mistakes Mule For Milch Raleigh, N. C., Dec. 23.—A racket last night in the barn) Johnscn, a farmer near her nounced that a milk thief had n the business end! farm mule. Johnson had planti ,mule in the stail of a cow whis thief had been milking at night. the farmer rcached the barg