New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 5, 1921, Page 1

\/ ‘J!:W BRITA!'\J CONNECTICU'I SATURDAY, FEBRUARY S, \ /\ 1921. -—T\X/ELVE PAGES “PRIC U S. NOT T0 PROCEED WITH . FURTHER FINANCIAL PLANS WITH ANY FOREIGN POWERS cretary Houston Says Negotiations Will Not Be Continued During | Remainder Of His Term | In Office & IS COUNTRY HAS NO BINDING PLEDGE | | ordy Battle in Senate Judi- Committee Over Sen- or Reed’s Bill to Pro- hibit Further Loans Post- es Hearings. Vashington, Feb. 5.—A letter from ary Houston of the treasury de- ent saying he would not during 4emainder of his term of office with any further financial ptiations with foreign_ govern- was read In the senate today nator Lodge, of Massachusetts, republican leader. tary sald there “have not ';!chl proposals on the sub- would in any way bind this nment, or the foreign govern- s other than the agreement of forelgn governments contained in demand obligations held by the d States to give long-time obli- if requested iIn enh-mm‘ for.” Row In Semate. jrow In the scnate judiclary com- resulted today In the indefi- postponement of hearings on ar R s bill proposing to pro- further loans by the treasury to governments. en the committee met Senator moved to refer the measure nance committee but Senator renuously objected man Nelson sald the tregsury pant had promised not to advances or loans to the governments, but Senator Reed the policy was “not to estab- w oredits” and that this did ean that advances would not be on credits already established. St oF aRmy, N DILS OF POLICE NOW, ld-Be Soldier Must Trial For Tam- pering With Car len Ross, who figured In police cently In conmnection with an bbile caso, and was turned over United States army officlals at old, Mass., has been released e army, and this afternoon ht A. J. Richardson armed warrant issued by the local or went to that city to bring k here for trial. Ross will ed with theft and tampering omobile. Ross was a for- of the Cheshire Reforma- out on a parole. when arraigned with two as- before Judge Kirkham on the bile charge appeared In an iform and told the court that g oMcinls were willing to back to camp. Under thosoe ne, Judgment was suspended o matter was brought to the ot Col. Alfred Aloe, recruit- | rvisor, he investigated, giving ble publicity to his objec- having criminals dumped army pecific charges brought against re that he had been impli- the theft of three automo- e of which was damaged ddam and the other two re- o the city safely. He pleaded D THROWER WELD. faven, Feb Thomas F. 35, of Waterbury, charged rowing acid at Evelyn F hg had declined to continus ’nlmnn trom him, today ver court examination d for the superior court. fdent occurred In Orange re. October 26, and the acid lss Flynn's clothing D! POINTED. h 'MACHINE GUN UNIT T0 BE FORMED HERE 'Will Be First of Its Kind in the State—Enlistments Monday Evening. Capt. Ashley J. Griffin formerly with one of the local companies of the National Guard and J. H. Slater, also an ex member of the YD, will be in this city next Monday night after 7 o'clock for the purpose of cnlisting recruits in a machine gun company of the National Guard. The unit is to be the only one in the State of Connecticut until after June. Mr. Slater will be named a Hleuten- ant in the orzanization. Numerous applications have been received from cities and towns other than New Britain for the organiza- tion of machine gun company, but for various reasons recruiting of ficials have deilded that New Britain offered a better fleld for such a unit. Severnl local men, some of whom have had previous experince in ma- chine gun units, have already ap- plied for enlistment in the company. Drills will be held weekly at the State Armory on Arch street and a fee, the amount of which has not been announced as yet, will be pad the members for participating in the drille, a SOLDIER'S BODY COMING Remains of Emery G. Peterson, War Hero, to Be Shipped to This City About February 15, Gustave Peterson, of 517 Church street received a telegram last night from the Graves Registration Divigion of the United States army that the body of his son, Private Emery G. Peterson would arrive in New York from France about February 15. The body, when it reaches New Britain will be taken to Erickson and Cari- son’'s unllortaking rooms, and the soldier organizations in this city will be notified. It is planned by the fathor to have a military. funeral, Emery G. Peterson was a pfivl!n In the 304th Field Artillery, Head- quarters company, and while serving with his unit in France he was a vic- tim to the influenza epidemic. He was stricken with the dread disease November 12, 1918 and died Novem- ber 19, 1918, just two days after the , armistice. When Peterson was in this ~rlly hn work for the Stanley Rule & company. He was 30 years old ll (ho time of his death. RIVER IS STILL OPEN llartford Boat Starts For New York Today, Equalling Best Record for Late Winter Service. Hartford, Feb. 5,~When the steamer Hartford of the Hartford and New York Transportation company left this afternoon at 3 o'clock for her trip to New York she equalled the best record for late navightion, which was for the season of 1918, the date being February 6, 1917. This rocord will be broken this year uniless all indications fail, for the Hartford is coming back to this city Tuesday morning. The steamer made her reg- ular trip Friday and today. While there Is some ice in the river, river men think the mild weather will keep it open. WAR ON JITNEYS Meridon Chamber of Commerce Takes Action to Bar Them from Streets with Trolleys. Meriden, Feb. 6 —The local cham- ber of commerce today declared war on jitney bussex in competition with the trolleys, passing resolutions and appointing a committee to have an ordinance passed by the city council to put a stop to jitney Interference with trolley patronage. Action is ex- pected at a council meeting Monday night, YOUTHFUL BANDITS Newsboy Is Held Up on Lawlor Street This Moming and Paper Collections Are Taken. Albert Diemond, of 453 Stanley street, A newsboy, reported to the po- lice that he was held up on Lawlor street this morning by two boys and w obbad o g DERBY WOMAN HELD FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER OF 3 YEAR OLD STEP-CHILD Police Claim She Wrapped Little Girl in Oil Soaked Rags, Twisted Rope Around Her Neck and Was Prepared to Burn Derby, Conn., Feb. f attemped murd against Mrs. Annic Gaetano, of Dominick Gaetano of Minerva street today, and she was held in s 00 bonds for a hearing on Mon- day. The police tell this story the basis of the of the woman: They were called to the house late vesterday when the woman claimed men had attempted to kidnap her step-child, Mary, aged 3, whom it. is claimed is really the daughter of her husband by a woman with whom he is mald to have eloped, returning later 5.—The charge placed 38, wife was 2.5 as arrest ' made of chips of wood. face was burned and there were cuts | Her to Death. he Mrs, to his wife with the child whom said was his. It is said that Gaetano had expressed her dislike for the child. The oflicers looked through the house and in the ¢ found the child wrapped in rags her clothing and the rags saturated with kerosene. Around the child's neck was a rope made of twisted cloth. Close by was a small fire and bruisecs on it. Mrs. Gaetano became hysterical and she was in that condition (o necessitating continuance of the case. The police charge that the child was suspended over the fire but the cloth rope broke and the child fell and struggled about on the ground. $100,000 LOOT TAKEN BY BANDITS WHO ROB MAIL CAR NEAR ST. LOUIS Robbers Also Kidnap Mes-’ senger, But Release Hlm‘ When They Reach skirts of City. St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 5.-—Postal au- thorities and police today were con- tinuing an investigation into the mail robbery at St. Charles, 20 miles west | of here last night when a registered pouch, saild to contain approximately $100,000 in cash and Liberty bonds, was reported stolen from a mail wagon by five armed men who kid- napped the messenger, Willis H. Thornhill. Details of the robbery were relat- ed by Thornhill, who was walting at the railroad station in St. Charles to put the pouch om a train for St Louls, when the men came up in an automobile. They forced him into the car and took the pouch, releasing him on the northern outskirts of St. Louis. Police sald the money was shipped from five banks in St. Charles to Io-, cal banking houses. DR DALTON APPOINTED Local Physician Named Jdost Surgeon in State Guard for Hartford County —Other Appointments, Hartford, Feb. §.—An order from the adjutant general's office states that the resignation of Col. Eugene Kirk- land, 3rd Infantry, Connecticut State Ghard, has been accepted and he has been honorably discharged from the military service of the state. He has been relieved as officer in charge of the armory at New London, and Major Morris B, Payne, coast artillery corps, C. N. G. is depignated to succéed him. The order further states that Second Lieut. Arthur Middlemas, machine gun company, First Infantry, C. 8. G., has been promoted to captain, Captain George H. Daiton of New Britain is appointed post surgeon for Hartford county. 6IRL MYSTERIOUSLY KILLED | Montreal Police Seek Man Last Seen With Yo g Woman Found Mur- dered in street. Montreal, Feb. 5.—Police searching for the murderer of unidentified young woman about years old, whose body was found latoe last night on a sidewalk in the suburb of Westmount. Her head had been crushed with an axe which lay nearby_ Miss Mary Girard, a resident of the neighborhood, told the police she saw the woman fall and that a man who accompanied her fled. The body was later identified by her father as that of Adeline Mal- herbe. Police believe the crime was com- mitted by a maniac. Mr. Malherbe, who resided near the place where the body was found said his daughter had been spending the evening with friends and apparently was killed while returning home. HIGH SCHOOL BURNS Fire, From Spontancous Combustion. Does $7.500 Damages at Norwalk— Sessions Are Suspended. South Norwalk, Conn., Feb. 5.—Fire starting from spontaneous combustion in a pile of soft coal in the cellar, did damage of approximately $7,500 to the Norwalk High schoa st pig 5. TWO LOCAL TEACHERS HOLD STATE OFFICES S. H. Holmes and Miss Ella A. Fallon Vice-Pres. and Respectively. Feb. 5.—Before con- session today the New Haven, cluding its annual Connecticut State Teachers' associa. tion elected Levi T. Garrison, Willimantic, president; 8. H. Holmes, New Britain, Miss J. M. Purdue, New Haven, sec- ond vice-president; Ella A. Fallon, New Britain, recording secretary; S. P. Willard, Colchester, correspond- ing secretary, and E. B. Sellew, Middletown, treasurer., ONCE WEALTHY DIES PAUPER | lnod,y Found in Hovel in New York —-Victim Left Tragic Note of His Own Sad Experiences, Feb. 5-—In a tenement Kast side today police explored an improvised cave where yvesterday they found the body of Theodore Greesley, once prosperous business man who had hidden him- self there for six years, a veritable hermit in the most congested part of the world's largest city. Breaking in the door of the room yesterday the police were confront- ed with a solld well of old papers and rags. Burrowing through found a dugout and in it the body of Greeslqy, who physicians said@ ap- parently had been dead several weeks. In Greesley’s diary was found a story of misfortune—his ambigions, the coming of the time when he opened a shop—how was lost in debt—the wife-—the abandonment and solitude. PARNELL'S WIDOW DEAD Thirty Years Ago She Was Center of New York, room on the of World Attraction in Famous British Action. London, Feb. 5.—Mrs. Charles Stewart Parnell, widow of the great | Irish nationalist leader, died this morning at her home in Brighton after a lingering iliness. She was 76 years old The E ! nouncing her career: . “One of the most romantic, and at the same time pathetic figures of the Gladstone era passed away in the person of Mrs. Parnell, Thirty years aga the whole world was ringing with | the names of Kitty O’Shea and Par- | nell. They were respondent and co- | respondent in a divorce suit brought | by the former's husband, Captain William Henry O'Shea, member of parliament from County Clare. As a result of the episode Parnell’s paolitical career was ruined but in Kitty O'Shea he found a devoted wife.” Divorce in of ening Standard death, says an- her OLD TIME FIGHTER DEAD. Philadelphia, Feb. 5.—The death of John J. (Jack) Fogarty, a well known middleweight pugilist a gen- eration ago, was announced today. In February, 1886, he fought Jack Dempsey, the ‘“nonpareil,” in New York for the championship, a bet of $2,500 a side and a purse of $1,000 and lost after 27 rounds. The child's | ' | asked of Judge George 1. of | first vice-president, and | they | t subsequently | death of his hope—| WADE NOT LIKELY T0 DIE ON MAY 21 Appeal Made by His Lawyer Will Act as Stay of Execution 0BJECTS ON TWO ISSUES Objects to Admission of Dr. Lynch's Testimony and Refusal of Court to ! Charge Jury as Requested—Brief Makes 70 Pages. Bridgeport, a finding of seerv Feb. 5.— Arequest for cts which will probably € as a stay of execution has been Hinman of | the superior court by counsel for El- | wood Wade, convicted of the murder of George E. Knott. Wade is under | sentence to be hanged on May 21. The requests sets up two possible points of error—first in the admission of the testimony of Dr. John C. Lynch, the state’s expert alienist, and in the re- | fusal of the court to charge the jury as requested by the defendant's coun- sel. The document clusely written g | | makes 70 pages of legal matter, in the form of a ‘brief. This has not yet been read by the state’s Twenty days are allowed for a reply, and afterwards the papers go to Judge Hinman, who will make a which will go to the supreme court of errors. It is not expected that the appeal will be disposed of before lhe | date set for Wade's execution. HER LEGS STRAIGHT NOW Plaster Casts . Are Removed From Logs of Ruth Gordon and Bowlegs | Are No More. | Chicago, Fed. 5.—When the plaster casts were removed from the erst- while bowlegs of Ruth Gordon, an actress, ened, Dr. Edwin Ryerson pronounced them “perfectly gptraight.” Tt will be a few weeks more before she can leave her wheel chair, Dr. | 8miled happidly at the doctor's ver- dict. Six weeks ago she won Dr. Ryerson's consent to perform the opération, not because of .vanity, sne said but because her legs compelled ‘her to wear long, gfiresses on stage -nd prevented her from rising |n her protession. | - BIG GOLFING EVENT One-Day Tourmament of Connecticut | Golf Association to Be Held at Shut- tle Meadow Club August 23. i The annual one-day golf. tourney of i the Connecticut Golf association, | be held on the links of the Meadow club in this city on August 23. This was decided on at the annual meeting of the association held at New Haven last Tuesday, which Malcolm Farmer of this city attended. It was also decided at the meeting to hold the annual state championship tourney at Greenwich, July 13, 14, 15 and 16. It is expected that the tourney in this city will probably attract some of the fore- most golfers in the association. MINERS ON STRIKE. Pittsburg, Kas., Feb. 5.—The first strike of Kansas coal miners, called officially by the district board of the union since the passage of the indus- arial court law, is in effect today. Two hundred coal miners were called out by Alexander Howatt, president of the Kansas Miners’ Union. who had each leg broken in | two places so they could be straight- | Ryeérson said today, but Miss Gordon * will ! Shuttle | | 'Two of Former Dead and | | PRESIDENTDOES NO & WORLD SUFFICIE FORU. S. WITH LI CHINESE SAILORS IN Vetoes J BATTLE WITH SLEUTHS| ToStop Two Detectives Badly In- jured On Phila. Pior. Philadelphia, Feb. 5.—One Chinese was shot to death, another is be- lieved to have been drowned and two private detectives were beaten in a battle on the deck of a Jannnene steamer here early today, as Chinese sailors attempted to ashore. One away from the steamer, but he captured after a long chase. The injured detectives are Charles C. Howe, Philadelphia and Joseph Dumphy, Camden, N. J. Howe was l‘lo-‘ was | knocked unconscious by a blow from attorney’s office. finding ' the |‘putting him out of the fight. ! mar school corners. | statement the district board headed by | tack did not come until just before a bamboo rod, while Dumphy nar- rowly misscd death from a hatchet blow. The fight occurred on the steamer Chifuku Maru, which docked yester- day with a cargo of sugar from'Java. | as the steamer berthed, the . As soon usual cordon about the vessel Chinese crew. intended to make a dash for freedom were evident yesterday but the at- of guards was thrown because of her daybreak when the crew made a massed attack on guards patrolling the deck. The detectives drew their pistols 1 which had no effect on some of the Chinese and a hand-to-hand fight en- sued. Reinforcements from shore reached the deck and many shots were fired, mostly in the air. « One Chinese, who appeared to be a leader, was shot dead through the head, and one dived overboard in the darkness and was not again seen. The Chinese who reached shore es- caped by means of a hawser, going hand over hand. Many of the Chinese were armed with knives and daggers, but the pis- tols of the detectives kept most of them, from ‘advancing. One Chinese swung a hatchet at Dumphy but in- stead of the sharp edge striking hi the blunt end came down on his thi ‘With the help of a force of police from a nearby statién and a police boat, the Chinese were finally driven to their quarters. NEW TRAFFIC GOP South Church Cormmer Will Be Protect- ed at Night by Newly Flashlight System. The board of public works has con- structed a concrete base weighing 1,200 pounds which will be used in cennec- tion with a new system for directing traffic at the South church and Gram- The system is similar to that being used in Man- chester at one of that city’s busiest street intersections. Through a system of flashes, at all times, It is probable that a trafic officer will be placed at the post during the day. Constructed WlR“LFS& 'PHONE IN BUSINESS Pittsburgh, Feb. 5.—A wireless tele- phone to be used in the transaction of business has been installed by the Pitts- burgh Chamber of Commerce. In a made public today the Chamber invites its members to make use of the instrument in transaction of business. GEORGE FOX OF NEW HAVEN HOPS OUT WITH CHALLENGE TO REFUTE ANTI-BRITISH CLAIMS OF IRISH CROWN FORGES ACTIVE |oers to spend Three Hours IN RAIDS IN DUBLIN Several Places Searched This Morning—Sinn Fein Judge Sent to Jail. Dublin, Feb. 5.—The crown forces were active in Dublin this morning making raids. The headquarters of the Gaelic league in Parnell square and the College of the Dominican Nuns in Eccles -troot : places rajded " S < in Rebuttal of Charges and Three Hours Being Cross Examined Himself. Feb. 5.—George L. who asked the com- ich has been holding '8 in Wash- ppearing by I New Haven, Fox af this cit: mittee of 100, w an inquiry into Irish ington, for the privileghi before it today was in Hollingsworth, the Mr. Fox appoared . the comnfittee conditio asked - in, , th sailor managed to get ! Signs that the Chinese | traffic is kept to the right Total "Is Reds Men UNITED | URGE ! Brig. Ge Capital less Und Would {Navy Ci shington Wilson toda; lution; direc to stop ar | force is crcdug Returning , house, the p ' able to see world at larg| United Stau Justity a res mum eniiste provided for | army reorga Quoting t! ing the enl ' to 175,000 *“No provi lution for proportion: batant corps discontinua for a long corps dispro, the combati manned and ti sured if an to be efriclen © gregaty nu Y m on ‘T ‘cdn’ri‘uil, pra zation of thi profoundi; the world a efit might the United S the world wi ern conditie] nucleus of department | | army of app The congress) | eration de did authort: the army on’ strength of | taen, includi new arms 1k chemical wal which were and ptovisio sary addition of the army. Act Hi “The act time in our H | zation of the visions as tad the training and the or torial areas association regular army gress plainly then made o would provid and new dutif and for tha poace-time ai should have ization in th emergency. “I regret tl in the condit! or in the neq any such cha restriction up is proposed b lution.” Urges Army advd service carrie the camp of Appearing committe Brig. G tions of immedia navy a and re| ship } ¥