New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 1, 1921, Page 1

/\ E_STABLISHED 1870. MEW BRITAIN. CONNECTICUT. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1 NATIONAL TRIBUTE |KLETT AND ALLING T UNKNOWN BUDDY | ARE CONFIRMED BY , 1921. —TWELVE PAGES SEE BITTER FIGHT | CONSTITUENT ASS. ON RATE INCREASE| RUSSZA TO ASK T NATIONS FOR RE NN. IN HEART OF WET BELT WHERE BOOTLEGGERS THRIVE AND FEDERAL MEN HAVE MORE THAN THEY CAN DO | B0O Arrests in 1920—$300,- '000 Worth of Autos Con- fiscated and $2,000,000 in Booze Captured. T THAT, BUT FEW ~ ARE EVER CAUGHT That Fully 4,000 Rum Run- uery Have Plicd Their Trade With- it Being Apprehended—Al pr Taken Is of Inferior Quality—- Total About $82,500. stford, Feb. 1.—Ttat Connecti- is In the heart of the “wet belt” the country and the prohibition en- ment agents have had their full In attempting to put into 1 effect the stringent regula- s of the Volstead act as It per- particularly to this state, is ed by a review of the work of i enforcoment bureau which clear- hows that “bootlegging’’ has been loped into ‘big business” in the that the prohibition law has in full swing, 600 Arrests in Year. less than 600 arrests were in Comnecticut in 1920 for vio- s of the prohibition law, and hese about 650 were discharged by yvarigus commissioners before accused wero brought up for leaving the balance of 5560 nted in court. jeavy Fines Imposed. ugh a few Jall sentences were d%out for second offenders dur-| the year of enforcement, the majority drew fines that varied $40 during the first term of following the date when en- pment went into effect, to more $400 which was the rule for the violutors, the fines averaging 3150 and increasing to the ment on that basis §$82,500. dMion to thiy, the enforcement selzed approximately 200 au- bijes valued at about $300,000, ths amount of liquor taken in had a valuation of more $2,000,000, the valuation being Y of what is charged hy Liq- | | HARDING ASKS WILSON FOR SPECIAL SESSION Wants New Senate to Con- vene March 4 to Con- firm Appointments. | request | that senate Washington, Feb. 1.—A | from President-elect Harding | special session of the new calléd for March 4 to confirm cabinet and other appointments to be made by the incoming executive was conveyed | today to FPresident Wilson. Such a | session is customary when there is a change of administrations and it usu: ly lasts only a week at most. The president-elect’s request was contained in a telegram received by ! Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, the republican leader, and was conveyed to the White House by Senator L'ndcr-| wood of Alabama, the democratic l f | | a be leader. Nearly a score of new senators were clected last November and in order for them to be here by March 4 the call | Tor the special session would have to go | out ten days or more in advance of that ! date. After the present session ends, the new senate would meet and the new members would be sworn in. * The senate then would be ready to act upon I Mr. Harding’'s nominations. | The call for the special session of | the new congress will be issued by Mr. | Harding after his inauguration. It Iu| expectéd that this session will begin either late in March or early in Aprll‘l KINGDON GOULD IS SUED ! l Youngest Son of George Jay Gould Made Defendant in $300,000 Breach | of Promise Action. New York, Feb. 1.—Existence of a $500,000 suit in which Kingdon | Gould, youngest son of George Jny‘, Gould is charged with breach of! promise’ to marry Mrs. Richard Blum of Arkville. N. ¥.. was disclosed to- | day in a repert of supplementary ' | procesdings begun - vesterday in - tha | | Gen. Pershing Favors Bringing | Back Body of Unidentified Soldier | | Thinks Next Memorial Day Would Be | Fitting Time for Ceremony—Sec- retary Baker Has Alrcady Disap- proved of This Plan. Washington, from France of Feb. 1.—The return the body of an “‘unknown” soldier for burial in Ar- lington National cemetery as a “‘fit- ting national tribute” to the men who tell in the World war was advocated today by Gen. Pershing before the house military committee which is considering a bill for that purpose. Similar proposals have been disap- | proved by Secretary Baker, who ruled { that the war department could not break its solemn promise to the rela- tives of the soldiers that the bodies either would be returned to them or left in France. Simply An “Unknown Man.” “I think this proposal should be carried out,” said Gen. Pershing. “It should be done with a ceremony made as impressive as possible and every honor should be paid this ‘un- known’ man. And it should be sim- ply an ‘unknown' man. That should be sufficient to cover all states of the Union and all branches of the mili- tary and naval service.” The general suggested Memorial Day should be designated as the time for the ceremony. He said he favored Arlington National cemetery rather than the rotunda of the capitol. JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL HAS 1,400 ENROLLED that next Opens Sessions Yesterday Afternoon With Approximately 1,400 Children Enrolled in Its Classes. The Junior High school opened yes- terday with approximately 1,400 chil- dren enrolled at the Long House on South Main street, the Pre-vocational Grammar school, and the Elm strect school. About 150 pupils are régistered in the ninth grade and 320 entered the seventh from the sixth gvade. ‘With tse Junior High school in op- Concur in Approving Them for Judges in This City | COMMITTEE HEADS ARE | PLANNING ON HEARINGS Scssions Will Being Almost Immedi- | ately—European Question Inserts { Itself Into State Matters—Revolv~ ing Fund to Be Used at Cheshire Appoint- ments Subject to Speculation. Hartford, Feb. 1.—The general as- sembly began its second phase or business procedure today by placing Reformatory—Judgeship all measures heretofore introduced in | either branch in the hands of com- mittees. In each branch bills and resolutions offercd last Friday were given current reference and an effort was made to clear up disagreeing ac- tion on bills. The only committee which had hearings assigned for to- day was the committee on judiciary, which took up a number of uncon- tested judgeship resolutions. The New Haven and Windham county delegations each held meetings and the republican senators and represen- tatives in Tolland county met to nom- inate county commissionérs and an auditor. It was arranged today that the committee chairmen would go over the bulk of proposed legislation, sort out the principal measures and at once list them for early hearings. European Question. Resolution was offered by Senator Blake, by request, urging that the government recognize the necessity of immediate affirmative action 'in bringing to an end the suffering and wrong that still continues within the borders of the eastern countties, and that deep and earnest sympathy be expressed for the unfortunate people of Armeénia, and to render aid to them in their efforts to establish and maintain a government of thpir own. and approve the efforts of the Near Fast Relief committee to- ald those suffering people. The house-bill: establishing a fund | short: illness with pneumonia: PSootlegging’' agencies. om| 550 cases presented in court 3 of the prohibition law { ted that at’'least 400 were ‘for the = transportation of fllegally and it is freely ad- & the vigilance of the 14 agents who cover the the best of their ability, suc- n getting but a small fraction totdl number engaged in the w8, perhaps about ten int so that if 400 were finally to justice, nearly 4,000 safe- “through the dragnets set for > pe] which in itself shows the pro-} con- | submit all papers in the case next Ins of the business that jthe government agents. in' Roads Used Mostly. principal avenues of m_are on highways of Con- with New York. Boston, mce and Worcester as the 1 objective points in the east- guor belt.” verage load transported Is 100 and the rate paid to drivers automobiles used in the trans- pn is about $100 for a trip. All of Poor Quality. little of Hgquor seized by the agents could be classed in egory of bejng fit for bever- poses, the ost of it being al- of various kinds and which I safety be used for almost urpose than for drinking. s but colored spirits, and of handling the stuff has ome so general that it is ex- difficult to determine with- ysls which is “good” whiskey ich is the contraband variety. Comes From Canada. the Connecticut agents have n bothered extensively with ported from Canada, it has the attention of the federal hat some of the contraband uff that is \manufactured In jon has heen shipped to where Canadian labels have and the stuff re-shipped s at a price far in excess Few Caaght. } trans- | supreme court here. Gould appeared in court yes- te and denied statements made by Mfs. Blum who asserted he em- ployed detectives to gather evidence | on which she obtained a @ivorce in June, ~1917. They previously hndl agreed, she said, to marry when she was free and were on friendly terms until his marriage to Miss Annunziata ‘ Lucet in July, 1917. ' She further charged that he ‘fered $10,000 to settle the case after of- the suit was filed several months ago and that she refused. The court directed both sides to Saturday. * INNOCENT CONVICT DIz | Sarah. Wyckoff, Aged 76, in Prison 42 Years—Proved Not Guilty of Orime Charged Against Her, Raleigh, N. C., Feb. 1.—Sarah Wyckoff, 76 years old, is dead today in the state prison after 42 years' im- prisonment, during which she five times declined a pardon at the hands of as many governors and after she had lived to learn that a deathbed confession had completely exonerated her of the charge for which she was sentenced. Forty-two years ago Sarah Wyckoft entered the state prison to serve a life sentence as the convicted accom- plice in the murder of her husband, Wesley Wyckoff in the mountains of North Carolina. The convicted prin- cipal, a negro was hanged. Three years ago from the mountains came word that a deathbed confession had absolved the woman of connection with the tragedy. Then for the fifth time she refused a pardon, explain- ing that she was being treated well, that time had shattered all her . re- lations with her family in the moun- { tains and that she preferred to spend her last days amid surroundings she eration, punlls who complete the sixth |, anance industries at the Connacti- | grade will go to this school and remain eut state reformatory, No. 640, which | for three years injtead of the present, w,uld appropriate $50.000, is believed GENERAL ASSEMB”m Assn., Coal Dealers and ;Both Branches of Legislature. FOR BURIAL IN ARLINGTON Hartford Chamber Plan Protest WOULD BE GREAT BURDEN Hartford, New Haven, Bnidgeport May and New London Unite in Fighting Shipping Rate Boosts on Coal. . Hartford, Feb. 1.—Vigorous op- ! position will bhe voiced and definite ;action taken against the proposed {advanced shipping rates on coal to | Hartford and points in Connecticut by coal dcalers, the Hartford Cham- i ber of Commerce and the Connecticut | Manufacturers’ association. Due to ,the sudden announcement made by the coal and coke committee of the !trunk lines on increased coal rates | Monday, local organizations and deal- ers were thrown into a flurry to get ! their bearings in the Situation and |to make their opposition felt. | Organize For Fight. i Acting for the Hartford industrial, commercial and domestic users of | coal, Secretary William L. Mead of !the Hartford Chamber of Commerce sent letters to the New Haven and { Bridgeport and New London cham- | bers suggesting that the four cities act in unison in opposing the in- creased rates and he has also written jto C. L. Bardo, | the New Haven road, for tion that may make clear why | road is asking for higher rates informu the on suming large quantities of coal. | Connecticut Manufacturers’, tion said today the would be an increased manufacturing and would contest it. 50 YEAR RESIDENT } PASSES AWAY TODAY associa- increased rate burden to the organization John Young Was Member of Fire De- partment 30 Years—Prominent In Fraternal Circles. John Young of 86 Elm street, a res- i | | died this morning at 3:30 following a ‘wal' 70, years ‘of age and a native of w, Scotland. He was duite préminently known in fraternal cir- dent of this city for half a century, ! He | two at the Grammar school. ¥From t here théy will efiter the Senior High sghool and bégin Wwhat is now termed the /sophomiore year. The course of studies at the Junior High school will differ somewhat from those offered at the: Grammar school inasmuch as the first year work at the High school will be taken up. Ralph Farnum will be the instruc- tor in mathematics and civies at the new school. The school board ex- pects the Nathan Hale school to be ready by next September and when this is completed the Elihu Burritt school on Lee street will also be used as a Junior High school. FOUR DIE IN WRECK Collide. Newark, O, Feb. 1.—Four members of a Pennsylvania wrecking crew, all from Columbus, were killed early this morning while returning to Columbus when their wreck train was hit by a freight train three miles east of New- ark. Several were injured, two seri- ously. The dead and injured were in the bunk car, which was lighted by oil lamps. When the wreck occurred oil was thrown over the wreckage, setting it on fire and pinning the workers in the flames. 30 FAMILIES HOMELESS Fire, Following Fxplosion in Chicago Tenement House, Drives Occupants Into Strects. to be the first bjll ever infroduced in which the term ‘revolving fund’ is used. The bill provides that when the value of equipment and material is of the value of $100,000, the $50.- 000 shall be returned to the treasury. 1 The judiciary committee reported tfavorably on resclutions for Appoint- ment of George W. Klett. judge, and Benjamin W. Alling, assistant judge, at New Britain, to fill vacancies and the senate adopted both. Vacancies Are Filled To the housé the committee re- ported favorably on resolutions for the following, all to fill vacancies: S. Harris Warner, judge. and Carl F. Anderson, associate, at Middle- town; H, A. L. Hall, judge, Orange; Joseph G. Shapiro, judge, at Bhelton; F. E. Blakeman, judge, and George Bateman, deputy, at Stratford. The house and sénate each adopted the resolutions and sent them to the secretary of state. The house con- curred in the Klett and Alling resolu- tions. and these also took similar courses. Much interest has already devel- oped over the probdble appointment of the governor to the supreme and superior court benches. BAD CHECK WORKER i | USES LOCAL BANK! Chamber of Commerce Warns Mer- chants and Notifies Police of Dishonest Woman. The Chamber of Commerce has not- ified the police department of an al- leged bad check passer, a woman who had plied her business to good advantage in Hartford stores the past week. The woman, giving her name as state | friginal cost to the Canadian | had learned to know so well. It has not been determined 7 hich contraband liquor has gjved inte Connecticut by ‘he water route, but it is un- MISTAKE CORREOTED. Chairman Willlam Schaefer of the that much has found its | board of relief who is presiding at the the Connecticut highways sessions of that body today and hear- ,shipped into the state by | ing the applications or property own- pposedly from overseas but! ers for reduction in their assems- s manufactured not far | ments, was one of the first taxpayers ln_‘m destination. to be allowed a correction in his property valuation. The change was RGER IN WATERBURY. made by Director Thomas Linder pury, Feb. 1.—Announcement prior to the sitting of the hoard when today of votes of agreement | it was found that, through & clerical by the boards of di-| error, Mr. Schaeter’s assessment was the Citizen's National Bank ! more than double that of last year. turers’ Natig Chicago, Feb. 1.—Fire following an explosion in a four-story flat building zi‘r!t.hl:a:_le:lug?;m Trust company. on the south side, tenanted by mne- | o¢ the same time she established her groes, sent 30 families into the street | .reqit with several leading stores in early today. The bullding was ren- Hartford, and paid them some good dered uninhabitable. No one was in- | checks. Later she drew her balance jured. The agent for the building {out of the bank, and went to the Hart- expressed bellef that a firebrand was | forq stores where she had checks thrown on the roof, adding that there | caghed to the amount of about one had been three fires in the flats in thousand dollars. It is understood three months, since the owner had |tnhat she is accompanied by a man. trouble with a contractor. The woman is described as about five = — feet, eight inches in height, with DIVIDEND IS ANNOUNCED. drooping shoulders, has light hair, New York, Feb. 1.—The board of | blue eyes, pale complexion, a small directors of the American Smelting | face and talks slowly. Co. today declared regular dividends g opened an account | | cles here. ¥or about 30 years he was | connected with the hook and ladder | companies.of the fire .department and | for 42 years was a foreman painter | at the Stanfey Rule & Level plant. ! Fraternally he was identified with Harmony lodge, A. F. and A. M. | Clan Douglas, Phoenix lodge, I. O. O. { F., Burns club, Martra chapter, Or- | der of the Eastern Star, and the Stanley Rule & Level Mutual Aid association. Surviving is his wife, three sons, Joseph 8. of New York, Benjamin F. of Spokane, Wash., and John, Jr., of this city; one daughter, Mrs. Charles J. Cox of this city; a brother, Joseph of this city; a sister, Mrs. James Recor, also of this city, and five grandchildren. The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon at 1:30, Rev. Samuel Sut- cliffe, 2rector of St. Mark's Episcopal church officiating, and the remains will be taken to Springfield for cre- mation. Friends have been asked to kindly omit flowers. “R STITCH IN TIME” Nova Scotia Went “Dry” at Midnight, But Thirsty Ones Hustled Before 12 o’Clock. Halifax. N. S., Feb. 1.—Nova Sco- tia’s drinking men took *a stitch in time” and are smiling today despite the fact that the order in council prohibiting importation of liquors into the provirte became effective last midnight. Steamships which arrived just be- fore the zero hour brought hundreds of cases of intoxicants and consignees hastened to claim shipments to pre- vent their confiscation by temperance act inspectors. MARRIED THES MORNING. John Bohinsky and Miss Anna Juchniewicz were married at St. Mary's church this morning at 9 { o’clock by Rev. John T. Winters, pas- . tor. A nuptial mass was celebrated. Following the ceremony, a wedding breakfast was served at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wil- liam Juchnicwicz of 160 Washington street. Mr. and Mrs. Bohinsky will make their home in Meriden where the groom is engaged in business. . SIX BURNED TO DEATH ®Rarre, Vt., Feb. d.—Six ten members, : y & | | general manager of this commodity in the form of levy- | ing it against the communities con- President E. Kent Hubbard of the ' i GERMANY WILL REFUSE Great B REPARATION DEMANDS Dr. Walter Simons, Foreign Minister, Explains They Cannot Be Fulfilled. Berlin, Feb. 1.—Dr. Walter Simons, C the German foreigsn minister, will tell the Reichstag at its.session this after- noon, the Boersen Zeitung states, that Germany cannot subscribe to the allied reparation demands on the ground that they are not possible of fulfill- ment. The foreign minister, the newspaper adds, will explain how the possibility of reaching a settlement presents it- self to the German government and will declare that the invitation to Ger- | many to attend the conference in Lon- | don can only serve a useful and ‘give promisc of success if the ne- gotiations are to deal with the possible and not with the impossible. NO HOSPITAL FUND Health ('ommis‘;il;ne;'awblm No Pro- vision for Upkeep of Institution After Next April. No appropriation has been included in the budget of the board of health commissioners for the upkeep of City isolation hospital at the Farm annex and if it is found advisable to maintain the institution after next purpose | | i i | i t United quested This As. Govern OMPOS| AGAINS Resolutio Paris, P of Rus Country, terventi » Paris, Feb. .—Formal ap made to the to recognize assembly as | , ernment of Ri | stituent assen | the | Town ed at a meet] sian elements to ‘the end of opinion ifront againsi Wil President J the; former sia, and P April, a special appropriation will be ' ference he necessitated. Neither Mayor O. F. i'Curtis nor Health Superintendent J. R. days on M. council of Harris are in a position to say just | plication. i how long the place will be maintained. {‘the former There are at present four patients un- ; der treatment. The average number ! sembly he recently attes of patierits at the institution since it don, where R was opened several months ago, has Auest of th been four, .with a maintenance cost of $200 weekly. This includes $100 for the upkeep of the building and for sup- plies and eatables, and $100. for sai- aries. ‘The average cost per patient to the city, exclusive of- more .than $200 - spent to fit' up the place originally, has béen $50 a week. UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE Wisconsin Bill Provides for Employes Getting Paid Even When There Is No Work for Them. Madison, Wis.,, Feb. 1.—A bill to compel employers to pay unemploy- ment insurance benefits to their work- erg which are unemployed will be in- troduced in the Wisconsin legislature today. The measure was prepared by Prof. John R. Commons of the department of economics at the University of ‘Wisconsin. i It would require employers to form | mutual insurance companies and pay benefits to the workers they charge at the rate of $1.50 a day for adult men and women and 75 cents a day for boys and girls between the ages of 16 and 18 years. The unemployed, providing they had worked at least 26. weeks, would be entitled to benefits for a maximum period of 13 weeks on the basis of one week for every four weeks of work. ‘Workers idle as a result of a strike or lockout are not entitled to bene- fits and farm laborers also are ex- empt. : NEW INFANT PRODIGY Madrid Reports Three-Year-Old Child Who Can Play Plano With Extra- ordinary Skill. Madrid, Feb. 1.—Uroff Corma of Catalonia, aged 3 years, who plays the piano with extraordinary skill, is 1 dis- | ! i i ernment, ognition by ‘government Corfu 'durii was complete tral powers. Thirty-thr Russian con here were latter part of These electig shevik rule to' obtain mol the seats. L dissolved the 1918, when in. the mino: members Jeft! to jail. 'ho grouped in H lutions contaify Provis 1. A dec! of the liberts in opposition 2. Refusal] all treaties,’ agreements, bolsheviki as, would , entailf agreement and Washin which an Am by Vanderlip | cessions in 3. The as intervention favors .comm individuals in tries, but not and the blockade. 4. .The ! memberment ¢ sion from Ru provinces, ' Gives In connect] clause . the serted an ex] gratitude” to the stand it h the latest attraction at aristocratic tea | question and®, parties in the Spanish capital. The infant prodigy is placed by his nurse the note, of S on August 10,4 on the piano stool whereupon he be- gins his performance trace of nervousness. IS GETTING “KITTENISH” the United opposed to Russia. without any congresswomn-mec_t‘- 5 Attends D DRISCO