New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 31, 1920, Page 1

(=== INEW BRITAIN HERALD ESTABLISHED 1870. NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1920. —TWELVE PAGES PRICE THR SECTION OF COUNTRY WHICH | WGANNON JURY IS | UNABLE TO SECURE ;DE VALERA, WHO WAS POSITIVELY NURSE, WOMAN DIES, /. S., ACCORDING TO HIS SECRETA ARRIVES SAFELY IN IRELAND TG PAYS BULK 0% TO CONT. Se astOfMississippi faid North Of Ohio Rivers Will Have Solid | Republican Voting Strength Of 228 South, Which Has Been Pay- ing But 6 Per Cent of All Taxes, Now Out of Saddle —East is Supreme At Last. Washington, Dec. 31. (By The Assoclated Pross)—For the first timo | in history the territory which pays the | bulk of federal taxes will have full working control of the house oi repre- ntatives after March 4 “Checking up tho new list today, Representative Madden. Republican, of Illinols, found that with the opening ©of the new session the section east of the Mississippl river and north of the Ohlo river would have a solid republi- | ean voting strength of 228. The house majority Is 218, Pays 84)4 Per Cent. Mr. Fadden's figures indicated that this section pays 84 % per cent of all tho taxes with the south and west, now uhle to conrol he house by joint action, pdying the balance. ““This will give the republicans from the tax paying belt a clean majority hereafter over all other ' combina- tions,” Mr. Madden declared, “and 1 belleve we will be soon begin to see a change in sectional, or class legisla- on. South Loses Power. nder Democratic administrations, the squth has been In the saddle, and J south paid only six per cent of all Lxes. Most people have imagined that he landsiide put the west on top in’ the house, but that 1s wrong. It hul never Mppncd betore that the térri- tory paying the freight also ran the legislative nxme." ANDITS MURDER WA, . STEAL'$4,080, ESCAPE President and Superlntandclt of W. W. Sly Foundry Co. of Cleveland Killed. Cleveland, Dec. 31.—W. C. Sly, president, and George J. Fanner, vice- president, and George J. Fanner, su- pegintendent of W. W. Sly !'onndryl rompany, were murdered by five payroll bandits who escaped with | $4,200° in cash after holding up the iwo men at the company's plant this ,morning. e two company officials were re- t ing from a bank In an automo- bile with the weekly payrolls. While e ng a bridge at the plant, two tomobiles crowded the machine fAriven by Sly, forcing him to crash nto the bridge railing to avold a col- . The bandits jumped out of * machine and demanded the pay- oll. When Bly attempted to draw a revolver the bandits shot and killed | him and Fanner and then escaped in sne of their cars 1 Police say both cars used by bandits were stolen. TW0 COFFINS; TWO GRAVES Used This Aftermoon At Funeral Seven Fire Victims -in Bridge- port—Daughter Attends Services Bridgeport, Dec. 81.—Two coffins two graves will be used this aft. in the burial in Lakeview itery of Felix Yackimovich and #ix children whé dled in a fire destroyed their home in Fair- The bodies were rempved this ing to an East side undertaking lishment where simple services I be held prior to the committal. , the 16 year old girl who @ sole surviver of the tragedy attend the funeral services. She for by lrupd. in the Dr. the | on internal conditions. OVT. TAXES L NEXT CONGRESS |, 'TALIAN ANARCHISTS FAR FROM VERDICT, Hours of Deliberation Decision After More Than 401; Death of Mrs. Elizabeth Goodrich ‘ May Lead to Inmtlganon WERE TO ATTAGK ARMY DISCHARGE IS _EXPECTED HOUSE WAS QUARANTINED OF 61 PERSONS LYNCHED DURING YEAR, EIGHT WERE WHITE; ONE WOMAN KILLED | Mouthpiece | Plot is Foiled, 17 Arrested— | Italy Looks For Pros- perity in 1921. Rome, Dec. 31.—The discovery of a plot in Milan in which the Fasoisti (extreme nationalist party) and anar- chists are alleged to have been pre- paring a joint attack on the Italian army operating against Fiume is re- ported by the newspapers here today. Seventeen persons have been arrested in connection with the plot, the newspapers say. Italtans base the high hopes in in- ternational policies for 1921 chiefly on the settloament of the Adriatic ques- tion. The government by its cner- getic action against the d'Annunzio government at Fiume, showed its earnest intention to carry out the treaty of Rapallo and thus remove any cause for suspicion against Italy. | The nation hopes now that Italy will accept the invitation extended by the premier of Jugo Slavia and Rumania to become a kind of protectress of the “little entente.” Settlement of the Adriatic problem | will have an even greater influence It will enable (Continued on Tenth Page.) Yale Professor Heads Foresters’ Association ! New Haven, Dec. 31.—R. G. Bryant, professor of lumbering, Yale school of forestry, has been re-clected president of the, Soclety of American Foresters for the year 1921. This society is the only erganization of technical foresters in the United States. New Touring Car is in Garage Fire Torringtoh, ., Dee. 31.—A new touring car, a baby carriage, several tronks and various articies of - house- hold furpiture Were burped. in a fire: w&l destroyed a garage owned by Schutz on Cherry street early lodu The origin of the fire is un- known. fan { Opinion in Now Famous Cleveland Murder-Perjury Case Seems to be That Jury Will be Dismissed Un- less Verdict is Soon Recached. Cleveland, Dec. 31.—Hope that the jury in the case of Judge William H. | McGannon, on trial for second degree | murder might agree on a verdict dur- ing the day extremely faint last | this morning, after the twelve men | had resumed their conferences in the | jury room, more than forty hours after the case had been turned over to them. No Official Statement | No official information as to when |the jury may be discharged was { available this morning, but the consensus of apinion is that | jurors will be finally released on a | disagreement report tonight unless .. | there is some hope that they can agree on a verdict. " WANTED: ONE LOCOMOTIVE Unless F. and N. Railroad Can Get $20,000 For Sccond Hand Engine, Road Will Suspend. 31.—The bor- rowed used by the Fredericksburg and Northern Rail- road, a short line in Texas, is about in, the road told the interstate commerce commission today in mak- ing application for a federal loan of $20,000 with which to purchase a “good second-hand” engine. Unless another locamotive is acquired by the spring, the application said, the road ‘Washington, Dec. locomotive now lwlll be forced to suspend. Killed Making Getaway With $50,000 in Bonds| Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 31.—An un- identified man entéred the-People's Bank at Springfield, Tenn., this morn- ing and making his way unabserved to the bank. vault helped himmwelf to [$50,000 in bonds. He #tood off bank officials and wounded an oficer, Tak- ing rdfuge in a store vcom. he was killed by officers. HEAVY BILL FOR CITY WATER ARDUSES SUSPICION; HOOTCHMAKER IS ARRESTED PENROSE APPEARS AS FOE OF TARIFF BILL| Seoe { Also Said to Be Against Pas- sage of Bonus Meas- ure at Present. Washington, Dec. 1.—Opposition to the house emergency tariff bill and to the passaze at this session of the soldiers’ bonus bill was indicated to- day by Senator Penrose, of Pennsyl- !vania, chairman of the senate finance committee, who returned to Wash- lnnon yesterday after an absence of nearly a year occassioned by serious iliness. Senator Penrose, in a talk with newspaper correspondents at his hotel, announced an early meeting of the fi- | nace committee, probably Monday, to consider the emergency tariff meas- ures designed as an aid to farmers and other industry during the present per- fod of descending prices. « “I don't look with any amount of enthusiasm on any emergency tariff legislation,” sald the senator. “I| think that the tariff and revenue are questions that ought to be taken up as a whole in a careful, thoughtful, dignified way, after full conference with the President-elect and whoever | may be secretary of the treasury.” | Regarding the soldier bonus bill, | Senator Penrose said: | “1 believe in doing something for the soldiers that will meet condlllonn and be satisfactory to them.” *He added however, in response to a | bo legisla- | John Hunihen, 65, of Meri- in Custody— He Has Accomplices But Refuses to Squeal. Meriden, Conn., Dec. 31.—Charged with violation of the state liquor laws, John Hunihen, 65 years old, whose home in the Morse and Norton block on East Main street was raided by the local police last night and two stills, some “moonshine” and a quantity of “raw products” seized, was fined $100 and costs in the police court today. Further action is expected by the fed- eral authorities. ‘Will Not “Squeal.” ‘The authorities say that Hunihen ad- mitted he had accomplices, but said he was not a “squealer” and would take full responsibility himself. The police say Hunihen had just shut down his works when they called, and it was necessary to make two motor truck trips to police headquarters with the “evidence.” A big bill for city water and leaks in the ceiling under Hunihen's apartments led to his ar- rest. ke Another Saloonman Caught. Joseph Ricel, a saloonkeeper, was another victim today of the local po- lice’s present activities in liquor cases. He was fined 375 and costs for having liquor in his possession and was dis- charged on a reputation count. MRS. ABBE UPSON DIES Widow of Rev. Henry Upson Pass- es Away Wgis Morning—Was 80 the | | theria carrier was Police Guarded House to KEnforce Diphtheria Quarantine Established by Health Dcpartment and Even Visiting Nurses Couldn’t Come. Mrs. Elizabeth Haywood Goodrich, aged 45 vears, of 3 Raymond streei, Barnesdale, died last night at her home. Death waa due to peritonitis. The woman gave birth to a son, Alfen Goodrich, eleven days ago. Prior ta this time, another son of the deceased ‘was reported by the health department as a diphtheria carrier, and a quar- antine was established at tho house. It was made a rigid quarantine by orders of the health department, and a policeman was stationed at the house night and day. Could Not Get Nursc, In accordance with the quarantine, it is said. by members of the family, that it was impossible to secure a conditions has caused considerable nurse to attend tha woman. Also the visiting nurses could not get in to see the woman on account of the health board edict, it i3 said. Recently Dr. Waterman Lyon, tho attending phy- sician for Mrs. Goodrich, and Dr. Jesse R. Harris, the health department superintendent. had an argument over the placing of the officera at the Good- rich home. Occasions Much Talk. ' Tho death of thec woman under the talk about the city, and there was a report prevalent today to tho “effect that a thorough -investigation would be conducted to ascertain if the young man who was supposed to be the diph- so stricken. Friends o! the Goodrich family freely ex- pressed themselves in the belief that had the woman been able to secure proper ‘attention after the birth of her child, her life might have heen saved. She is survived oy her husband Charles W. Goodrich, and 11 children, a3 follows: Orrin H., Burnham A., Charles W. Jr, Edward W. Howard H., Robert W. Frederick W. and Allen R., sons; and Misses Jennie E., Beatrica M., and Edna E. Goodrich, daughters. She was a member of the South Congregational church. - The funera] Wwilt héld at 2 *clock Sunday afterngon from her. late resi- i (Continued on Tenth Page) THREE SEPARATE TRIALS State’s Attorney Will Have Individual Hearings For Those Accuased Bridgeport Murder Case. Bridgeport, Dec. 31.—State’s At- torney Homer 8. Cummings stated to- day that there will be three separate trials in the Nott case. The present trial is that of Elwood B. Wade, who is charged with the actual slaying of George E. Nott. “Mrs. Nott's trial will probably follow Wade’s,” said Attorney Cum- mings. “When Mrs. Nott's case has been disposed of, young Johnston's case will be takes up.” In view of this statement by At- torney Cummings, it is not expected that Mrs. Ethel H. Nott or John F. Johnston will appear in court until they are summoned as Wwitnesses against Wade next weefl. Mrs. Nott and Johnston are now confined at the county jail. A new jury will be impanéelled for each of the trials. HALF OF CITY QUARANTINED ‘Epidemic of Smallpox Breaks Out in East Chicago, Ind., and 12,000 Per- soms Are Confined. Chicago, Dec: 31.—Half the city of East Chicago, Ind., is under quaran- tinetoday following the outbreak of an epidemic of smallpox yesterday after- noon. Seventy-four cases of the disease were reported and about 12,- 000 persons are confined in the quar- antined area. Congested housing conditions are blamed by physicians for the outbreak ot tha disease. PASSENGER PLANE LOST Hydroairplane, With Pilot and Three Passengers, Missing Spain— Wreckage Is Found. Bilbao, Spain, Dec. 31.—A hydroair- plane engaged in passenger service beyond Bayonne, France, and this city, bas been lost. Wreckage has been by a fishing boat, but nothing tn heard from the pilot and who were in the in State of Texas Leads With 10 Cases of Execution By Mob—Attacks on White Women Causes —One White Man Slain Just “Because He Was a| Foreigner.” Tuskegee, Ala., Dec. 31.—Lynchings were less numerous in 1920 than in 1919, according to records compiled at Tuskegee Institute and made public to- day. Sixty-one persons, including eight white men, were lynched this year ani 64 in 1918, the statement said. In 56 Instances the law prevented lynchin the re- ports showed, ten of these instances being in Northern and forty-six in Southern states. Armed force was used to repel would-be lynchers in 14 cases and in four of these mobs were fired upon, seven of the been killed ‘ahd a number wounded. In 42 cases prisoners were removed or the guards were augmented or other precautions taken. In 56 instances in 1920 officers of in the south and nine in the north and ‘west. One was a mnegro woman. Eighteen of those lynched were charged with having attacked women. The offenses charged against the white men were: Murder, 5; insull- FRANCE HAS NOTHING WORRY ABOUT NOW Tardieu Gives fiis Version of Situation, Showing Teu- tons Badly Crippled. Paris, Dec. - 31.—Discussing the resignation of Andre Lefévre as war minister, Captain Andre Tardieu in I/Ilustration today contrasts the mil- itary position of Germany with that of France. . “Germany has po more than 59,- 000,000 inhabitants, of which 7,000,- 000 are in the zone occupied by the allies,”” Captain Tardieu said- “Ger- man-Austria has 7,000,000. The other 23,000,000 formerly in the Austrian empire are distributed, with the ex- ception of the Magyars, among Czecho-Sloyakia, Poland, Jugo-Slavia and Rumania, who are allies of France. . _“Italy fought with us and remains on our side. The Belgians are united to ws by an alliance. The German regular army has been reduced to 150,000 men and will soon number 100,000 The police formations which the allies by their weakness have ai- lowed to continue, are neither in or- ganization or equipment ready for war. . “Allied officers have destroyed 2,- 700,000 rifles, 160,000 machine guns, more than 35,000 pieces of artillery and a large part of the tools for their manufacture. They control all the German factories. When the al- lied officers are ready to leave the military delegates of the League of Nations will continue the work. “Were the Germans to mobilize now, they would have to do so be- tween the rivers Elbe and Weser, in- stead of between Metz and Stras- ‘bourg. France has 800,000 men under arms with 14,000 guns #8d 4,000 air- planes. We shall occupy the left bank of the Rhine and the bridge- heads for the perior of non-execution of the treaty, and the suspension of the Anglo-American accord with us makes that period unlimited until fresh decisions have been taken. These are the facts. LOSES LIFE IN FIRE One Man Dead and Several Missing in Blaze That Does Damage of $150,- 000 at Fort Worth. Fort Worth, Texas, Dec. 31.—One man was burned to death and several persons were reported missing in a fire which destroyed the Mansion Hotel early today. The body of J. O. Russell, an express messenger, was found in the ruins. Several adjoining buildings were badly damaged. The property loss was estimated at $150,000. in 1920 officers of | attackers having | 18 Hangings charge except killing officer ing woman, 1; “no rboing a foreigner,” of the law. 1. ] Offenses charged against negroes { lynched, according to the institute, | were: Murder, 5; attempted murder, | 4; killing officers, 5; Kkilling land- | lords, 6; attacking. women, 18; assist- ing fugitive to escape, 3; |another, 2; insulting women, 2; ! knocking down guard, “‘escaping from chain gang and then returning and wurrendermg " 2; and one each of the | following: Jumping labor contract, | threatening to kill man, cutting man in fight, “for receiving stay of death | sentence because another confessed crime,” peeping through window at women, “insisting on voting.” By state lynchings occurred as fol- lows: Texas, 10; Georgia, 9; Mississip- pi, Alabama and Florida, 7 each; Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma and California, 3 each; Arkansas, Kansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, South Carolina, Virginia and West Vtrzlnla. kY elu:h. DIVDENDS TOTAL UP T0 SEVERAL MILLION { Annual Reports Sl\ow That Cotton Mill Corpora- tions Paid Well. ' 1; Spartanburg, 8. C., Dec. 17.— Twenty one cotton mills in Spartan- burg, having a capital stock of $8,- 908,900 in January last, have paid stoek dividends amounting to $6,058,- 000 and cash dividends amounting to $2,099,949.50 during the year ended today, according to’ figures compiled by A, H. Law and company for the Spartanburg Journal. Included in the cash dividends is $838,170 pald ‘n semi-annual dividends today. New Bedford, Mass.,, Dec., 31.— Cash dividends distributed in the final quarter by 27 cottén mill corporations of this city amounted to $1,582,035, an average of 2.7 per cent. The total disbursement for the year was $8,- 578,465, representing 19.12 per cent of an invested capital stock of $56,822.- 000. In addition to the cash dividends, the Nonquitt made.a stock dividend of 100 per cent and the Manomet distributed a stock dividend of 66 2-3 per cent, representing $2,000,000 in each case. ARMY OFFIGER SENTENGED Captain Willers, Spy, Sent to Leavenworth Years on Charge of Desertion. ‘Washington, Dec. 31.—John A. ‘Willers, a former captain in the army, who, when arrested at New York on December 7, claimed that he had acted as a German spy while serving with the American forces, has been con- victed by courts martial of desertion from the army and sentenced to five years in the federal penitentiary, at Leavenworth, it was announced today at the war department. Willers still is to be tried on charges of theft and SKATERS BREAK THROUGH Ice at. Rhodes’ Pond Proved Unsafe When Hockey Players Skated Over Thin Surface Yesterday Afternoon. Clifford Morehead, J. M. Clynes and Patrick Delaney narrowly escaped death by drowning yesterday after- noon when the ice at Rhodes’ ice hounee pond, now a part of the city park in Stanley Quarter, gave way beneath them. The young men were skating at the time. Other skaters threw poles to the unfortunate skaters and hauled them to sound ice none the worse for their experience. They were to. their homes in an automo- Supposed German for five t happened about 2:30. Ozen YOung men were the glassy surface ward appearantes, ng stream- under jd it from fréezing ho wounding = HarryBoland, H Country, M Announcem Gives No P: i Farewell Message ca, Written B Sailed, Express That Nation Will Liberty’s Champ New York, Dec. 31. Valera, “president of tH public,” has arrived. s land, Harry Boland, his nounced here today. De Valera effected hi Irish soil this morning, He gave no other partic: His Farewell Mes A message of farewell dictated by Mr. De Valeq departure from this o made public foday' by The message -follows: “‘Land of the free aid brave'—farwell! May main as I have known ,0f the generous hea d kindl: May you stand t| as they would have yo you—liberty’s chosen c Oh! may you never know agony of a foreign maste “I came to you on a the mission of freedom; my people who sent me, n I had dreamed it, with accomplished, but wlthal sage that will cheer in th that have ‘come upon the wil] inspire the accep! sacrifices as must yet he ! *“Be, farm!l‘—MA esteem for you or my 4 welfare and your glory. the many dear friends I and thd tens of thousands reason that I was the repr a noble nation and an gave me honor they de: You will not need tp be Ireland will not forget aj land will no be ungratefu Disappears from § - For several weeks the of De Valera has occasf concern, both in this cow England. Some time afte peared from the public port was published that H enroute to Ireland. This w demied by his secretary., it as false, saying that . ‘would not return until he| ised a safe conduct by In explaining where De i his secretary said that he resting after his iliness soon return to the speakin finish his tour of the Uni: Only this past week. a | circulated to-the effect thaj was staying at the home known New Rochelle fan too, was promptly denie secretary to the “presiden Irish Republic’ professed ti himself where De Valera clared that his protracte was a cause of some embar himself. Since De Valera disapp public view the Friends of. dom in both Massachusettt York adopted resolutions him to pay over at once fol of the suffering people of funds collected here and name. Also, one of the big oce: which De Valera was repol sailed, was overhauled by scout boat and thoroughiy] but to no avafl. De Valera's return to Ire resembles his escape from his arrival in America. FINANCIAL MEN QUITE CH . Outlook for Next Year Muc Than It Was Few We Ago. New York, Dec. 21.—The of the year found the finan munity in a more ‘cheerfui ‘mind than at any time:in four weeks. There were o fthe recent ‘severe Yiquis the low price levels The bond‘ market and |and’ broad, suggesting i the