New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 29, 1921, Page 1

s seliapresanepnitinad i i 'ESTABLISHED 1870. l ‘JEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, JANUARY SEN. JOHNSON ASSAILS NEW SETTLEMENT WITH JAPAN OF CONTROVERSY IN CALIF. | Complains That It Pro- |FINED $50 FOR THEFT - vides for Repeal °f' OF TOOLS FROM SHOP Anti-Alien Land l.aws' and Does Not Exclude the Yellow Race. e — —— IBXKER ORDERS ARMY MEN TO ECONOMIZE 0 Due to Impending Deficiency of 94 Million—' Daniels Also Upset—Min- ority Report Received. Washington, liram Johnson, ed a statement criticising the re- prted agreement between Japanese mbassador Shidehara and American ybassador Morris, dealing with the us of panese in America. When ripped of diplomatite mouflage,” Senator Johnson said at reliable information he had re- ding the agreement was that it ovided for repeal of California’s gen land laws. w “gentlemen’s agreement'’ exclusion of Japanese, which not exclude,” also is proposed, or Johnson declared. Must Save Money. tic economy at army posts and was ordered - by Secretatry today due to an Impending of $94,000,000 under ap- tions for the quartermaster’s ! un retrenchments ordered 40 per cent. cut in the quarter- goneral's civillan- payroll by ary 15. uction of water transportation jes to a minimum, harbor not absolutely required to be and the employes discharged. rpén for transportation as a fence to employes to be cut off. 0 per cent, curtallment in Stanley Rule Workman In- tended to Go Into Busi- ness in Europe. Steve Topalion, an employe of the Stanley Rule and Level company was charged in police court this morning with the theft of builder’s tools to the value of $49 from that plant, and was fined $50 and costs for his mis- demeanor. He was represented by Lawyer P. F. McDonough through whom he entered a plea of guilty. The attorney explained that his client | was only technically guilty, having purchased all the tools either through his foreman or another employe of the concern, but should have known that the other employe had stolen the articles. Because of that fact, Mr. McDonough explained, he instructed his client to make such a plea. Arthur Jones and Charles Johnson, foremen for the concern, told the court that the accused had access to the stocks of tools in the packing department, having made daily trips to that room with boxes. Mr. John- ,son handled the sale of several arti- cles in the builder's hardware line about a year ago, but had sold noth- ing to the man since that time, he said. The accused explains that the tools he did not purchase direct, he bought from a fellow employe named “Joe.” He had planned to return to the old country after stock- ing up, and was to have opened up a business there. The wccused, with another man, was arrested Wednesday night on East Main street near Center street when a suit case which he was car- rying attracted the attention of the officer. Suspecting that the men were bootlegging, he placed them r arrest. An investigation of the source of the tool supply resulted in the theft charge. Charles Lapitski and Joseph Razun- kas, both of were fined $10 and costs each for drunkenness. Policeman Hanford Dart arrested the men on Eim street last night, the former at 10:45 and the latter one hour later. Leo Polamatz came to this city yesterday to visit some frignds, and imbibed too freely. He was arrest- 74 Woodland street, | 15 Year Old Colorado Girl Admits She Killed Her Mother and Hid Corpse in Pile of Refuse Crime Was Committed Thre e Weeks Ago, When Parent Objected to Her Accepting Aftentions of Ranch Hand, According to Confession—Body is Found. Steamboat Springs, Colo., Jan. 29.— The story that the fifteen year old daughter of Frank Mudra killed her mother because the latter objected to her deceptihg the attentions of a ranch ®and, buried the body in a ref- use pie on an isolated ranch 15 mliles from Oak Creek and kept her act secret for three weeks, was conveyed to the coroner’s office here todal. Mudra, a miner, had been working in Oak Creek this winter, leaving his wife and children on the ranch. Yesterday the girl walked into Oak Creek from the ranch after hours of hard tolling through the almost im- passable mountain roads, saying her mother was sick. Her father accom- panied her to the farm, Inquiry de- veloped that Mrs. Mudra had not been seen for several weeks and one of the smaller children finally told Mudra that the body was buried back of the stable. g The body was found with a bullet wound in the back. The girl, accord- ing to one of the neighbors, then con- fessed that she shot her mother. | STOP SMOKING CIGARETTES, IS GIRLS’ EDICT; WEAR CORSETS AT DANCES, BOYS’ Mattoon, Ill., Younger Set “All Het Up” Over Reform Movement, Started in Church and High School. Mattoon, Ill, Jan. 29.—Dan Cupid is finding his bows and arrows are | thus far quite useless against the hearts of the girls of the West Side Christian church of this city who have formed a club not to keep com- pany with boys who smoke cigarettes or use tobacco in any form. The club is continuing to grow, ac- cording to its sponsor, Edward McKee, superintendent of the Sunday school of that church, and though a marked | decrease in the number of “‘matches” is noted, according to Mr. McKee, quite a few local boys have given up the bad habit. Cupid Knocked Dizzy. Dan Cupid’'s second and hardest blow—the blow that sent him reeling ' dizzily—came when a number of boy | students at the Mattoon High school |romlhled by forming an opposing organization to try to make out of the girls of today “the kind of girls our mothers were”'. It was at a meeting of the Christian Endeavor society a week ago that Mr. McKee urged the girls to sign pledges not to keep company with ! boys who “used the weed'. Twenty- five pledges were signed immediately (Continued on Sixth Page.) THREE ELOPEMENTS I DAY IN SAME FAMILY| In Neither Instance Did Others Know of Matri- monial Plans. Atlantic City, Jan. 29.—Elopements, involving' three members of ‘one household, none of whom knew of the other’s intentions, were disclosed to- day with the announcement that Wil- liam M. Chase, retired New York manufacturer, and his daughters, | Edith and Evelyn, had married thdir respective betrotheds within 24 hours. Miss Edith Chase started the matri- monial race yesterday by slipping away from home ostensibly for a shopping trip. She married Robert Crofts. Mr. Chase quietly left home to meet Mrs. Elizabeth Obergfell. They were married. On returning home they were greeted by Mr. Chase’s second daughter, Evelyn, who had become the bride yesterday at Greenwich, Conn., of Donald Riddle, eldest son of former Mayor William Riddle. NOTED ATHLETE HERE —— Cann, Shet-Putter, Football Playev and Basketbull“Star Visiting ‘&M H!I’P! 29, 1921. /3 —T\VELVE PAGES SHIPBUILDERS WILL | ALLIES AGREE ON, BE PAID BONUS T00| HA VE GERMANY REPARATIONS | Total’ Wage Cut on Which They Will Yote Averages 10 to 20 Per Cent. UNIONS VOTE ON SCHEME Whether or Not Action Is Favorable to Company’s Plan Depends on Referendum of 60,000 to 75.000 Men Employed in Industry. Elizabeth, N. J., Jan. 29.—The proposal submitted by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation to its em- ployes calls for wage reductions aver- aging from 10 to 20 per cent.,, but provides for the payment of bonuses for efficiency and increased produc- tion. This was made known here today at the close of conferences between E. H. Ewertz, general manager of the Moore plant of the Beéthlehem corpor- ation, and committees of employes. More For Hard Workers. The corporation’s proposal, submit- ted with the idea of reducing produc- tion costs 25 per cent. is understood to be of a plan whereby greater effi- clency on the part of the individual workers will be rewarded in the pay envelope. The bonus for efficiency, it was stated, will amount to as much and in some cases more, than the wage cut. During the conferences production costs for each department, with ac- tual figures on each piece of work performed, were placed before the men and a comparison drawn with production costs in other yards. Union Will Vote ‘Washington, Jan. 29.—Officials of the labor unions representing skilled employes of shipyards today ordered a general referendum on the propos- al of the Atlantic Coast Shipbuilders Association and the Bethlehem Ship- building Corporation that wage scales be reduced ten per cent as the initial move in a program designed to bring down production costa. Proposals made to the union lead- ers at conferences hel with the Beth- lehem Co. in New York and with a committee from the Atlantic Coait yards in Philadelphia were identical, it was said today, except that the for- mer indicated a desire to put the new secale into effect not later than Febru- ary 14 while the latter offered to wait until March 1. A. J. Beryes, leent ml thfl t‘ho l:‘eml department. o e American ration of Labor, which has been ervising the negotiations said today that the quéstion of whether the cut MURDERS MAN'S WIFE; SENTENGED T0 18 YRS. “Fair Halted” P& Vamp” Chicago Lured Woman From Husband. in Chicago, Jan. 29.—Herbert Conk- right was found guilty of the murder of Mrs. Eva Wyatt, wife of Albert Wyatt of Aurora, Ill., by a jury early todey and his punishment fixed at 18 years in prison. Conkright was charged with having lured Mrs. Wyatt from her husband and with shooting her to death in a rooming house here last November. His defense was that the shooting torney W. S. Stewart -chnracterlmd Conkright as @ “fair haired he vamp” and asked for the death penalty. Jahn Hrubec, done of the jurors was not told of the death of his daughter Helen, until after the Nerdict was reached. Judge Friend granted a re- cess last night so that the juror couldy visit his daughter’s bedside, after a message had been received that the, girl was dying, The entire jury went to the Hrubec home in antomo- biles and while the others waited the father for the last daughter alive, unconscious from brain fever and spinal meningitis. The young woman died half an hour after Hrubec returned for the recon- vening of court. time saw his GETS 42 T0 85 YEARS 19 Year Ol Pemna. Yonh; Son of Rich Parents, Guilty of 18 Arson Oharges. g Uniontown, Pa., Jan. 29.—Albert Smith, the 19 year old son of a weal- thy real estate owner of Fairhope, Pa., today pleaded guilty in criminal court here to 13 charges of arson and was sentenced to serve not less thah 42 or more .than 85 years in the mtm! penitentiary at Pittsburgh. Smith was arrested several wuhn“"'o e ‘had ary fires, which caused damm mated at not leas than threeé-q i- night. Pavis, Jai Press)—Ge drafted by its second The P! the Ge: will be im February was accidental. Assistant State’s At- isidg ooo.m and of a milliont dollars. It was stated by | or and lubricants fissued to , Artillery and . the air economical routing of ship- olutely necessary. d' an ed on a drunkenness charge. To- ‘h.’ e paid a $10 fine. CONFESSES BLOODY CRIME In Exchange For Fried Chicken Din- mer, Ohicago Negro Tells How He would be accepted depended entirely upon the outcome of the vote Be- tween 60,000 and 75,000 skilled labop- ers were affetted, he ecstimated. ' DISMISS GAMBLERS SUIT Evidence Did Not Show That Man the authorities that he had made a w a’ ,," .complete . confession and soon nmrugold n ward the confession had béen repudi- place the' ated. Today, however, he appeared on the in court and entered the Dpleas ,ot As a &uilty, six of them being to charges | defaultingJ of felonious arson- | mittee ree The incendiary fires which ‘contin- | event G ued over a period of three months not seized and only destroyed - farm property and imposed FINANCE BOARD TO HEAR COMMISSIONS Will Act On Department Es- [ H. Ginsberg. Howard Cann, selected by a number of sportinig authorities as center for the All-American basketball quintet, visit- ed yesterday at the home of Harry H. Ginsberg of this city. Mr. Cann re- ' cently returned from the Olympic | | games where he competed in the shet- put events. He captained the New ont of telegraph ition to these Mr. Baker sconomies in fuel, clothing, ldentical orders and subsistence practically sent to the Philippines, Panama [Hawalian departments and all demt posts and stations. lly reports beginning March required showing the action and the estimated saving. Daniels Gets Excited tary Duanlels was aroused to- testimony given before a house | riations sub-committee by Brig. illam Mitchell, chief of the | alv service, to the effect that ips were practically rendered by aircraft development. It | jcated that the naval secro- ht formally challedge Gen. 's utterances in a communi- to Secretary Baker, Daniels disclosed that navy were examining Gen. Mit- testimony carcfully, Press ac- i indicated, he saiff, that the was attempting to qualify naval expert. department Is n por- l dering Gen. Mitchell's sug- t former transports be | into airplane ships” he Daniols added that Gen. Mit- peared to have conveyed the on that the recent bombing the old battleship Indiana his point as to aircraft. lity,” Mr, Daniels said, “it ordnance test. The bombs opped from aircraft but care- ced on the ship at spots they would do the most " Minority Report priation of $28,271.860 s nded in a minority report on and harbors bill filled today esentative Small, . democrat, Killed Man. Chicago., Jan, 29.—In exchange for a meal of ried chicken, Roscoe Thompson, a negro, today confessed to killing Rev. G. L. Burrage, also colored. The prisoner's callousness a meal of fried chicken Roscoe in astonishment as Thompson, with- out show of remorse, detailed the crime between bits of the chicken. “It was a joke on me" said Thomp- son, “I went to all of the trouble of | killing him and cut his head nearly off with a razor and all I got out of it was $2 and a bum watch. Gee, this Thompson said he thought the preacher, who was retired and aged, had several hundred dollars in a trunk. | ehicken is good.” 'GOVERNMENT ADMITS ERROR Six Frenchmen, Executed in 1914 After Court-Martial, Now Found to Have Been Innocent of Crime. Paris, Jan. 29.—The good records of six French soldiers shot after a summary court-martial in December, 1914, were restored by the court of appeals here today and charges that they abandoned their posts in the face of the enemy were quashed in an ac- tion brought against the government to rehabilitate the memory of the exe- cuted men. The court awarded life annuities of 2,000 francs each to the widows of Corporal Floch and Privates Gray, Pettelot, Quinault, Blanchard and rolina, a member of the propriation committee. The carried in the bill—3$15.- is Inadequate, according to | who also criticized the ma- plicy of providing a lump ropriation in lleu of itemized dy Found By Tracks Jan. 29.—The body of - wp, president of the Durantlett and an annuity of 1,000 francs to cach of their children until they reach their majority. All the awards are retroactive to 1914. BURCKHARDT-OLDERSHAW Engagement Prominent Local Couple is Announced Today by Mrs, Hiram Oldershaw, Mrs. Hiram Oldershaw of 47 Har- of timates At Sessions Next Week. City departments have been notified by the board of finance and taxation of a schedule of hearings for the pur- pose of acting on Qepartment budgets, | beginning next Tuesday. Each com-! mission has been assigned a half ! hour on one evening when a represen- tative of that board may present and explain the features of the estimates drafted by his department. At 8 o'clock Tuesday evening, the Consolidated School district will be heard; at 8:30 o'clock the board of charities will have a representative at the meeting, and at 9 o’clock the health department budget will be pre- sented. The police commission budget will be taken up for discussion at 8 o'clock Wednesday evening; at 8:30 o'clock the board of fire commission- | ers will offer their estimates for ac- tion and the session will close with action on the public works depart- ment requests. Four hearings are scheduled for ‘Wednesday evening, the first to be on the Institute budget, the second on | the City Hall commission estimates, | | the third on the park commissioners | budget and the final hearing on the public amusements estimated expens- es. The hearings will be at 8:00, 8:30, 9.00 and 9:30 respectively. TROLLEYMEN ON STRIKE — Street Car Service in Troy, Albany and Other Cities Ceases When Em- ployes Refuse Wage Cut. Albany, N. Y., Jan. 29.—Street car service in Albany, Tgoy, Green Island, ‘Watervliet, Cohoes, Rensselaer and ‘Watertord was completely varalyzed today by .a strike of the employes of the United Traction company. Tilley operations in all the eities stopped shortly after 6 o'clock ih York University football eleven prior to entening the service and was a mem- ber of the basketball squad for four years. He is planning to organize an All-American quintet with which he will tour the country, playing the fast- est teams in existence. OPPOSE DISARMAMENT Judge Damron, Prosecuting 21 M\ers in West Virginia, Asks Permit to Carry Revolver During Trial. Williamson, W. Va:, Jan. 20.— James Damron, former judge of the Mingo county circuit court and a prominent figure among counsel for the prosecution in the trial of the 21 men charged with the killing of Albert C. Felts at Matewan, today asked for a permit to carry a pistol. The application was made to Judge Bailey, who is presiding at the trial. Mr. Damron was on the bench when the fight occurred at Matewan last May and summond the spegial grand Jjury which returned the indictments on which the defendants are now being tried. Court Rules Boy Orphan, He Loses $500,000 Estate Morristown, N. J., Jan. 29.—A cir- cuit jury early today decided that William French was not a son of the late J. French and therefore was not entitled to a division of the $500,000 French estate. Mrs. Susan Calkins, a daughter of James French, who con- tested the division, had testified that the claimant was a foundling taken from a New York institution when a baby by her mother. COLORED WOMAN CANDIDATE Chicago, Jan, 29.—The first negro | women to be a candidate for alder- man in the city council of Chicago is Mrs. Lulu Sims, whose petition was one of the last to be filed before the time limit expired yesterday at the city clerk’s office. Who Won With Marked Oards Played Orooked Game. X New York, Jan, 29.—Indictment a year ago of Louis Kronberg, Manhat- tan waist manufacturer, charged with cheating with marked cards in a stud poker game, was dismissed today by Judge MclIntyre for lack of evidence. Permission was given the district attorney to re-submit his case. Kronberk was accused of having won between $12,000 and $13,000, Bird S. Coler, commissioner of public welfare, recently announced he had begun suit against him for three times the money he was alleged to have won and lost in poker games, reputed to have h@en about $250,000. “It is not an offense to. play. marked cards,” Judge McIntyre: in dismissing the indictment. only becomes such when one them knowingly. The evidence pm not show that the defendant furnished the cards.” Armed Bandits Steal i $14,000 At Detroit Bank Delroit, Jan. 20.—Three armed bandits this foreenoon entered the North End branch of the American State!Bank, locked three employes in a rear room and escaped with $14,000. The bandits compelled the cashier to bring the money from a sate. Locomotive Exl;lods; Four Men Are Killed Wheeling, W. Va,, Jan. 29.—Four Baltimore and Ohio railroad employes were killed early today when a loco- motive boiler exploded near Littleton, W. Va. Oldest Active Fireman In Country Dies, Aged 87 Lawrence, Mass., Jan. 29.—Charles ‘W. Foster, who was probably the old- est fireman in active service in the gountry, died suddenly here today | aged 87. He responded to an u-m houses in a number ~of Vvl of the fires were credited to Smith. WELCOME SIGN DOWN Central Park Decoration Removed To- day—Center of Many Political De- bates for Past Two Years. The ‘‘Welcome Home'’ signs at Cen- tral .park was torn down today after over two years of service. The slx;nl is of particular interest because of its history and the many politi¢al debates of which it has been the center. The initial cost of the silent placard of the city’s delight in seeing its boys hdme was $900, a topic for the exponents or economy to roll as a sweet morsel under their tongues. The common council afred its views pro and con, and there were some men who thought that the money could best be used to let a few of the Y. D. boys go to Bos- ton to greet their comrades when they steamed up the “harbor. Tearing down the sign was a risky undertaking a®d the council asked for the permission of thei ex-servicemen to take it away. The Eddy-Glover Post asked for the eagle (which Dame Rumor hath it—set the city back $500) and it was granted enthusiastically by | the council members. The eagle was | taken to the post rooms only to find that it would not get in because of its size. The request now is to have it stored with the rest of the sign until further notice. i The boards remaining have served to advertise the hospital drive, and the | national thrift week, but | today these i facts go into history for the sign of many ordinances, resolufions, amend- ments and counter resolutions has been taken ‘‘bye-bye’’ by city workers duly authorized. ’ 0Ca _but measure the also valuable school buildings . Not all | plan prov tee, on the dispose of al gram before The confes which the G€ to consider t! probaibly| be All the office after | what appeal cheerful them at any | conference. Lloyd Geo! ful. Premier B men the co! sults in a . cordially. circles is to the confe: for him. POPE Sees in B of Wome of Evils Rome, Jafi. L, the occasion '§ nary of the” Order of St. dressed an *opa thro Is on