New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 17, 1921, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870. STA TEHOPES TO GET MORE W BRITAIN HERALNR ‘JEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, JANUARY "REVENUE FROM FOUR MILL TAX AND AUTO ASSESMENT | | ‘Commisioner Finds Public Sentiment Strongly . Against Income Tariff Levied On Citize D4 Duty on Intangble % curities Will Bring in $2,- _‘500.000 and Motor Cars the Remainder. $4,000,000 A YEAR MORE IS NECESSARY ‘Martford, Jan. 17.~—S8tate Tax Com- joner Willlam H. Blodgett said that public sentiment was inet the enactment of a law by legisiature for a state income tax, withough the money was badly need- to mét the expenses of the state r the next two years. “If not. by a tax on incomes, how I the state raise the money which my it needs? he was asked By obtaining a greater revenue the four mil tax on intangible ies and by the proposed new e of taxation on automo- replied Commiseioner Blod- Hopes to Raise $2.,500,000 wMr, Blodgett said it was expected # revenue of about $2,500,000 id be obtained from the four mill on intangible securities, such as in action, bonds or private iops that are taxable In ete. The balance of the would come from the .- automobiles. U Additlona) revenue needed to meet two' years amounts to e -~ i 000 a year. 3 or Blodgett maid he had Wfimw any bills relating 3 to be presented in the - assembly, 5 R WO T 512,000 LT * 17.~8Six bandlits liroad officers here at holding up an auto- 0 belonging rallroad. uls Schroeder and A. BE. Long were | Hled two led in resisting the highwaymen. | e bandits intercepted the automo- o coming up town from, the Union ot with passenger fare receipts. he six outiaws in an automaoile 4 the rallroad automobile into | curb and Immediately poured a | lade on the railroad officers. hroeder and Long were drawing ir pistols when they were shot n. he bandits seized a satchel con-| Ing the money and sped away ex- shots with a taxicab driver | hve pudsuit. LHIDES FROM GANGSTER Man, in Seclusion in Ldn- Neb., Offers Reward for Thug ho Wants to Kill Him neoln, Neb., Jap. 17.—Edward B. 'ertepen, of (Mincinnati, who |Is t0 have secreted himself at a here for four weeks today an- inced that he had offered a reward 3600 for the conviction of the of a gang, which he said had @ Seven attempts upon his life & the last two months. Ho said represents a gambling of Cincinnati which be believes he has opposed it P operation of places where bets ted on horse races. en is & shoe salesman and Whs an official of the Na- Travellers Assoclation. . to Attend of Clerk Egan ex-city officials ..t at City Alabamans Arrested After Taxi Driver privates, Baird's father-in-law. beon-rm«lby),rmonnehmd disorderly coniduct ' while the company | diphtheria germs. j after a shut down of several Girls, Don’t Be Too Confidential With Your Male Escorts Chicago, Jan 17. — Mrs. Katherine L. Gibbons of Cleve- land, before going to the thea- ter last night left her diamond rings at the home of friends when her escort, John Burke, warned her of the danger of footpads. When she returned the rings were gone. | Mrs. Gibbons in reporting the loss to the police casually mentioned that Burke had left the theater in the second act and returned late. He was ar- rested but released. Burke went to police headquarters to- day and demanded an apology. The police becoming suspicious re-arrested him and said they ! found Mrs. Gibbons’ three rings . in his possession. 11 MILITIAMEN ARE HELD AS LYNCHERS Makes Confession to Police and Names Men Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 17.—Eleven members of Co. M, Alabama National Guard were in the Jefferson county jail here today charged with the lynching of Willlam Baird, a miner at Jasper last Thursday night. The men, five non-commissioned officers and six were arrested last night after Leslie West, a taxi driver, Iis sald to have made a complete confes- sion of the part he took and named the soldiers. Judge H. Wilkinson, special assist- ant attorney general, named by Gov. Kilby to investigate the lynching an- nounced the confession. Baird was in jail at Jasper awaiting t | | trial for*the killing of Private James after Morris had John Northcutt, Northeutt had Morris of Co. M, shot and killed was stationed in Juper in a‘mlnalon with the miners’ stfike. TR, clothes including overalls and were burned after they returned to Townley, where they were encamped. The party went to the jall shortly after midnight, overcameé the jaller's resistance and bundled Baird into m' automobile. About two miles outside of Jasper, the Cconfeskion 'oonulned." Baird was shoved from the automobile and shot to death. The soldiers then sped back to camp, arriving just in time to be checked up. To Inoculate Guinea Pigs With Diphtheria The health department has se- cured a dozen guinea pigs which are to be used in making tests with It is the plan of the department to injeet germs of that disease into the animals, the ef- fect of that operation to determine the virulency of that germ. In this | way, the department will be in a po- sition to determine whether or not a carrier is too dangerous to be out of quarantine. WAGE OUT ANNOUNCED. South Norwalk, Jan. 17.—A cut in wages of from 15 to 20 per cent. in varijous departments was. announced when the American Hat Co. of this city resumed operations this morning weeks. of the more experienced company Only a few and older employes of the were re-engaged. OUTS WORKING HOURS. The Skinner Chuck company today went onto a new schedule of working hours, reducing from its previous 55 hour week to a 50 hour week. AMERICAN WAREHOUSES BURSTING WITH American Officer, Investigating Affair | by a Japanese sentry at Vladivostok i RUSSIAN DISPATCH SAYS WIFE OF LIEUTENANT LANGDON, KILLED BY JAP SENTRY, HAS TAKEN OWN LIFE This is First Intimation That He Was Married and Hisl Father, in Boston, Doubts | Report. ADMIRAL GLEAVES ISSUES STATEMENT at Viadivostok Cables That Japan- Coincides of ese Soldier’'s Version With Post-Mortem Statement U. S. Naval Man. Manila, P. L, Jan, 17.—the Rus- sian wife of Naval Lieut. Warren H. Langdon, the American officer killed recently, ended her life upon learning af her husband's death, according to a Reuter dispatch from Vladivostok. Father Doubts Report Boston, Jan. 17.—William O. Lang- don, father of Lieut. Warren H. ILangdon, U. 8. N.,, who was killed by a Japanese sentry at Vladivostok a week ago today scouted the report that his Russian wife had com- mitted suicide after his death. It was absurd, he said. “My son was not married. Of that I am confident. He was a man who respected all women yet had declared positively he would never marry. I am sure he left no wife.” Advise Court Martial Washington, Jan, 17.—The Japan- ese sentry who shot Lieut. W. H. Langdon, chief engineer of the Amer- fcan cruiser Albany at Viadivostok gave a version of the affair before a Japanese court of inquiry coinciding with the dead officer’'s ante-mortem statement, said a dispatch received by the navy department today from Ad- miral Gleaves at Manila. The sentry has been recomended for court mar- tial fhe dispatch said. THIEF MAKES HAUL Elm Street Couple Lose $530 Which . Was Left in Sewing Machine Draw- er—Other Loot Secured. Mr. and Mrs. Iko Zanborko of 214% BElm street were treated to a very un- pleasant surprisé this noon on re- turning home from work at Landers, Frary and -Clark cémpany, by the dis- covery of a visit to their home by a thief or thieves earlier in the forenoon. | Several trunks were found smashed open, and from a drawer in a sewing machine $560 was taken by the in- truder. Two watches and six razors comprised the remainder of the loot. The entrance was effected to the house by prying a door in the rear of the house. The matter was referred to the police. WIFE AND BONDS GONE ) : Church Street Man Tells Police a Sad, Sad Story This Morning—$650 Is Missing. Alex Brooks, of 325 Church street, told Sergeant George J. Kelly a sad story this morning, which involves the disappearance of his wife and $650 in Liberty bonds. According to Brooks, Tsadore Kolinski is with his ‘wife somewhere, and Diomel Yarmo- lug, a boarder at his home, is missing along with the bonds. Corset Shop Reduces— But Wages This Time Worcester, Jan. 17.—The Royal Worcester Corset Co., today an- nounced a reduction of 15 per cent in the pay of its 1,200 employes, 10 per cent cffective at once and 5 per cent on July 5. The cut in the prices son for the cut :» pay. FOOD; NO NEED OF ANY SHORTAGE HERE If There is Suffering This Winter It Is Fault of Social, Economic or Politcal System, Hoover Declares At Meeting Today. Indianapolis, Jan. 17.—A weak link exists somewhere in the economic, so- eial or political system of the world |#8 & whole when American nuhoum bursting with g cold in this country this wintep it is due to the foolish functioning of either our social, our economit or our political system.” =3 Sadi Lecointi Looks Like Piker Compared to Dreyer Number 584 e Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 17.— The nebula dreyer No. 584 in the constellation of Cetus has broken all known speed rec- ords of the heavens. It is dash- ing through space away from the earth at a velocity of al- most 2,000 kilometers a sec- ond, the highest speed ever attained by a celestial object. This was the word received at the Harvard college observa- tory today from Dr. V. M. Siip- er of Lowell observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz., in announcing the result of spectrographic ob- servations there. HOOVER FUND DRIVE RAISES $22,040.69 Several Pledges Are Outstanding’ —Continued Until Friday GAPTAINS REPORT Chapter of | TEAM President of the Local Red Cross, Paul K. Rogers Presides at Luncheon This Bennett and McMahon Speak, New Britain has failed, so far, in raising the desired quota for the re- lief of the starving children Europe and, for that reason, the cam- paign will be continued until next Prldlv noon, it was announced at the | second noon-day luncheon of = the workers held at the Elks’ club to- day. The total amount reported was $7.723.61 which, with a total previ-, ously reported made $22,040.69. There is; outstanding, several hun- dred dollars which haye not vet been turned in to Treasurer ‘William H. ; vank,, notable mw 3 exp from the ‘of Berlin. Among the special cootributions were, $112.31 from the Woman's club of Maple Hill, $6 from the Men’s Sunday club of the South church, $133.10 from St Mark’s church and last, but not least, the sum of $3.06 from the ldren of the Smalley street school ndergarden. Rogers Presides At this noon's meeting, Paul K. Rogers, president.of the local branch of the Red Cross presided in the ab- sence of Howard Platt and George P. Hart from this city. Speakers were P. 8. McMahon, Supt. of School Stanley H. Holmes and Bennett. Rev. John T. Winters, of St. Mary’s parish, said grace. Holmes Speaks The first speaker, Mr, Holmes, spoke for the school children of New Britain. scriptions to be taken in the schools. The appeal for funds was more than a drive, it was a cultivation of ‘tnderstanding between the (Continued on Eleventh Page.) CRAZED BY RUIN, MAN KILLS FOUR AND SELF South Carolina Man Mur- ders Mother, Sister and Two Little Children. Charleston, 8. C., Jan. 17.—Crazed by brooding over financial difficulties and family troubles in which an es- tate worth probably $75,000 was at stake, L. S. Bigham shot his mother, his sister, and the latter's two adopt- ed children last Saturday, then ended his own life according to information today from' Florence, S. C. The dead in addition to Bigham are: Mrs, M. M. Bigham, Mrs. Marjorie Black and Leo and John McCracken. All were evidently killed instantly except Mrs. Brigham, the mother who lived a few minutes, and the oldest child who died the next day. The tragedy took place at the old Big- ham home five miles from Pamplico, 25 miles from the city of Florence. Bigham's body was found in the woods with a bullet through the otl ected Ity the govern Clarence | The school board had sus- | pended the rules and allowed sub- | 17, 1021. -TWELVE PAGES | HARDING HAS NOT YET T} FIXED DATETO CALL O T0 ASSEMBLE IN SP Lake Declares Dry “Must Be Taken Move Ser- iously Than Many Other- wise Good Citizens Have ' Taken It.” THINKS INDUSTRIAL | | | l Hartford, Jan. 17.—“Disregard of & constitutional prov ision is the next j thing to treason,” said Governor { Everett J. Lake Sunday evening in Law ; DECLINE WON'T LAST DISREGARD OF 18TH AMENDMENT IS NEXT THING TO TREASON, SAYS GOV. i |COOPER RESIGNS AS CORP COUNSEL ' ‘I(il.y Official i publican Council Members to Nasue Successor. the Judge James F. Cooper, for past 10 years corporation counsel for | i‘Coal _the city, tendered his resignation to- ,lay to Mayor Orson I Curtis, to tuke effect immediaiely upon appointment of his successor, Judge nre!errmz to the present attitude to- | ! ward the federal amendment taken by | “‘otherwise good citizens.” i Governor Lake spoke at the Fourth Congregational church at the evening ! .service on “the world's struggle for | greater liberty.” Very Serious Matter. “It is indeed a serious matter when ;so many are ignoring one of the last yprovisions of the constitution,” said | the governor. ““Our present problem : { is away above that of the use or non- | | use of alcohol or of the stopping of | drunkenness. It's a question stitution as the fundamental law of 'our government. Citizens should live of | Noon—Holmes, ; whether yc® and I believe in the con- | f up to this amendment and public of- | ficials should enforce it strictly or | else it should be done away with. It is in the constitution and it must be | obeyed by every law-abiding citizen. I repeat—the amendment must taken more seriously than many oth- erwise good citizeng have taken it.” Gavernor Lake said that ‘‘real lib- ferty is opportunity to attain greater | heights of manhood and womanhood ; | and liberty also means responsibil- dty.” After declari that real Ib- erty is synonymous with ‘‘demonstra- tive asd und ve . Mfin duw-mtflbt:e e l to the manhood of the boys of Twenty-sixth d‘z?lon. Doesn’t r Depression. In referring to the industrial de- pression, the governor said he ‘thought it would be of short duration because of the courageous spirit of the American people. “The world war brought a new liberty and now the [world is looking to the United States to see if the country is equally strong in peace.” SILVER LINING SHOWS ON INDUSTRIAL CLOUD Two Big Bridgeport Plants Resume Operations—Same in Pawtncket, R. L. Jan. 17.—Industmial conditions here became somewhat improved today when the Salts Tex- tile Mfg. Co. reopened its plant with 1,500 employes or about 60 per cent of its normal force. dule is a 21% per cent reduction ex- clusive of the 123 bonus making the net cut about 10 per cent, The Harvey Hubbell, Inc., plant | also resumed operations with 1,500, Here a 20 per cent cut in wages went | into effect. Bridgeport, Pawtucket, R. I, Jan. | tension of time schedules announced as reflecting improvement in business day. The Jenks Spinning Co.. ing 2, resumed operation with several employ- de- dule. The Lorraine Mfg. Co., em- ; ploying 2,000 changed from three days a week to a five day schedule. The Weypoyset Co. employing 1,000 ‘lbeg;n a 5% day schedule after operat- ing some departmer*y; three and others four days a week. The Smith Webbing Co., employing 105 went on practically full time. Pittsburgh, Jan. 17.—Twenty mills of the McKeesport Tin Plate Corp. re- sumed work today after being idle since December 23. GREEKS . be | The wage sche- 17.—An ex»-' was reported several textile mills to-' 500 after being closed last week | | partments on a four and five day sche- ! JAMES E. COOPER. n Office Ten Years—Re- QTAR ' | l | the : | session { adding | until April ! opening : Harding house wa pects to i tariff bl ‘at l Washiz elect cided to new com the Ho! | tee man Fo from a Marii Mr. F president tariff q | the mor| Cooper will devote his entire time to | before { his interests in the | business. A caucus of the republican mem bers of the council will be held to- morrow evening at which time th matter: ,*;hh ‘Supcessor will be 'fi% & recommendation will fted to be submitted to Wednes day’s common- council meeting. " The letter. sent the mayor by Judge Cooper is as follows: Jion. O, F. Curtis, Mayor, | Dear Sir: | 1 herewith tender to you and through you to' the common ‘council my resignation gs* corpm'atkm’ sel of the city. fin T. have “made dhuw{ th | the Smnle}y ‘Works wiic quire my time to ‘the and make it imperative ~that I re- tire from this office. A Ater the many years that I have served as adviser, it“is with genuine i | Stanley W’orks congre! i1 stood ‘to the bea amende was p; Senato: chairm ‘axclusion of other work beh: the ten| commi Sena lina, regret that I take thls step; and T |mittee, wish to express to you and the mem- mino; bers of the common council and- the objecu boards and commissions. my thanks and appreciation of many courtesies, continued ‘patience and the great as- The sistance which they have shown me | peal o |in the performance of the duties of | was ap my office. judicia If T can be of service to the city mittee in matters now pending, or in prob-| the foo ! lems which have been the subject of |be con past study and consideration, I trust yvou will not hesitate to call upon me. Very truly yours, JAMES E. COOPER, Corporation counsel. "ROTARY CLUB 70 BE ORGANIZED THURSDAY | Luncheon At Elks’ For Pre- liminary Steps of Organization. If plans mature. New Britain vill. have a Rotary club in a short time. | On Thursday, January 20, local men ! who are interested in such a club will meet at the Elks’ club grill at 12:15 to have lunch and talk over the proposition. - At present, there are 63,000 rotar- fans in the United States and officials ‘of the organization of business men are especially desirous of starting chapter here. Willard Lansing, past district gov- . Forrest Perkins, present a The the co “{fiela a prel certain, anthrat Fran| comm the a at mi Friday, the va of ant] explain ports by th W associ collect] Chainr that went Dr. mine was $§ { much ‘Washi much on $114.