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

\N/ A TAIN HERAL MEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY i UPWARDS OF HALF MILLION DOLLARS | LEGISLA T;]RE F. Agifig;% N | VLOOT SECURED BY BANDITS WHO | PE(')% ET Tglg 1&1’ meekiand® ROB TOLEDO POSTOFFICE, THEN FLEE Board Of Control Can [MMIGRATION HELD UP 1921. —TWELVE PAGES TABLISHED |s7o. 17, R. R. UNIONS ASK RECESS OF MC BEFORE DECISION IS RENDEREI REQUESTTOABROGATE AGREE: STEPS TAKEN TO PUT THROUGH NEW Three Clerks, Carrying Mail, Compelled to Lie Face Downward On Pavement While Robbers Seize Val- uables—Whole Incident Takes But Four Minutes— Seces Nationa Now Di:pur:e $180,000 On Orders From Amer- | ican Legion reseritative Stoddard Ob- jects to Advance Reports of Committee Actions Being Printed in Press. Hartford, Feb. 17.—Secrets will loak out even from legislative com- nittee fooms, the house was told 'y Representative Clifford 1. Stoddara f Woodbridge today and the mem- ors had visions of another legislative vestigation. Mr. Stoddard protested at action taken In executive session bf A committee had been made pub- lo through o newspaper. He sald he as going to have an inquiry made ocausd he belleved the house was ntitled to information first hand and t to have it handed out to mem- rs ahead of time by a newspaper. Ir. Stoddard did not say what the ommittee was nor the action taken 1 eXecutive session which had been old to the world before the law- iakers got It. Afterwards he was non-commital. , what fate is in store for the orgus salary increase bills be- re the general assembly is unn-er-! In. 2 Ald for War Vets. A bill passed both branches to per- | it adlsbursement to" ald war Veler-‘ of §180,000, the balance of a 900,000 appropriation of last ses- whi had not been wo dis- ibuted and which had been turned ver to the beaprd of control. It pecplained that only $20,000 of | | te the f was ? priation had been disbursed and ' board did not find it had the right p turn this over t0 the American wlon. The bIll will allow the rd to use its machinery to dis- jurse the money on orders from the glon. F. 8. Butterworth, agent of o Leglon appeared on this bill ¢ in the week, Favorable Reports. These bills were fayorably report- by the committee on reads bridges 4 rivers, and as they will noed ap- priations of about $1.371,000 to ko brovisions In them effective e, sent to the committee on intions: That of Mr. Stoddard Woodbridge to iInelude in the nk highway systam a road from Ulimantie to the agricultural col- ke at a cost of $5560,000, Appropriating $1.000,000 for ex- mlons to the system of state-ald wh ways, Appropriating $2,000,000 for con- otion of extensions to the trunk o highway aystem wheréin the fed- al government co-operates under o federal ald roads law. JAppraopriating $60.000 for improv- g the highway between Ledyard and ton between the State Farm for ebriates, and connecting it with the nk line highway In Preston, re- iring an additional $110,000. uthorizing the highway commis- mer to accept as state-ald roads y road which connects with trunk jo highways If he approves of the thods of construction of such } Adding the highway between Mans- A@epot and Warrenville to the nk ling system of highways at an imated cost of $605.000, he agricultural committee report- orably the bill to establish a periment station for tobacco ture, carrying $30,000 'WOMEN Al"" nrnm. ANTZING. (Washington, Feb. 17.—Reorganiza- n of the National Woman's Party er the same name, but with a new gram and a new executive board, recommended to the party’'s na- mal convention here today by the utive committee. Recommenda- ® as to the future ¥ also wero 1 Advisory rmen. wubmitted by the Na- Council and the state | dence, | entered FROM GENTRAL EUROPE [Drasfic Measures to Stop Ty- phus Spread—Close Watch Kept in New York. Trieste, Feb 16 (By Associated Press). —Emigration from central Europe to the United States has been suspended and the eastern frontiers of Italy have been closed, pending the cleaning up of the sanitary situa- tion here. The most rigid regulations have heen put into effect with regard to the movement of all emigration not covered by the suspension order. The cases of typhus here are under the strictest quarantine. No new cases were reported today. New York, Feb. 17.—The rigidity of inspection of all immigrants from the typhus iInfected areas of Europe was demonstrated early today at the Grand Central station, when 650 fm- migrants from the steamship Finland arrived on a special train from Bos- ton. Sixty-two men, 12 women and 156 boys were held for delousing at a local hospital Aboard the train wero six immi- grant inspectors of the International Mercantile Marine and State Senator Martin McCue and a party of friends returning from New Haven. THREE MORE ARRESTS Two New Haven and One Providence Man Also Implicated in ' Whiskey Thefts—Hearing Feb, 24, Meriden, Feb. 17—Three more men faced the local court this morning in connection with the gheft of $6,- 000 worth of whiskey from the prem- ises of C. J. Malloy on Grove street, Japuary 29, making eight arrests so far. The new entrants are Albert Le- vine, 23, of 14 Rebinson street, Provi- R. 1., Alexander Brindisi, 21, of $6 State street, New Haven, and Jopeph Simons, 24, of 94 Asylum sttoet, New Haven. all of whom were arrested in Providence last night through the work of the ;state and locat police. They are regarded as principals in the burglary and each was held in $10,000 bonds for trial next Thursday. Also held in $10,000° bonds as a principal In the case is Salvatore Virelll of New Britain. The other men from Southington and Plainville are out in $1,000 bail each. Bimons also is charged with burglary in connection with theft of several thousand dollar#’ worth of cloth from Grenon’s tallor shop here on Decem- ber 9 and his bond in that case is fixed at $5,000. Two New Haven men ‘were arrested for that burglary at the time and it was sald a third was wanted. The police link the three men with the transportation of the Malloy liquor by motor truck to Southington, Plainville and New Brit- ain. About $4,000 worth of whiskey has been recovered but some kegs are still missing. More arrests are ex- pected. SAFE CRACKERS AROUND | East Main Strect Store is Visited Dur- | ing the Night—Hole Drilled in Safe, But Nothing Is Missing. \Justin Pokus, manager of the Lith- uanian Co-Operative association. gro- cers, with a store at 45 FEast Main street, reported to the police this morning that the place had been during the night Burglars | carried a safe from the store into the | cellar of the building, where a hole work of the | was drilled in it. It is evident that | the burglars were frightened away before completing their work, as the safe was.not opened, and nothing was found to be missing. Woman, Given Legion of Honor and War Cross, Kills Self Rather Than Face Exposures e Thulier, Associated With Edith Cavell, Now Declared to Have Been Spy and Betrayer of Patriots. aris. Feb. 17.~—~Madamao uller, a Belgian school teacher, who awarded the insignia of the Le- n of Honor and the war cross dur- t war, has chosen sultide Loulse Brussels on October 15, 1915, and with Countess Johanna de Belleville, who was doomed to die by the Oer- mans, but whose sentence was wm muted through the intervention . President Wilson. She herselt wu Toledo, O., Feb. 17.—Police have recovered a stolen automobile used by bandits in holding up employes of the Toledo postoffice early this morning and stealing nine sacks of valuahble malil. No clue as to the identity of the robbers has been obtained. Postal employes admitted that the loss may total nearly half a million dollars. Police claim that the loss in currency alone may be between $300,000 and $400,000. Sheriff Jack Taylor with a posse of citizens has surrounded a number of places at Point Place, six miles north of here, in search of the five irmed bandits who held up the three clerks at the main postoffice and escaped. The men held up were Charles Milroy, postoffice clerk; Paul Weirich Posse On Trail. | ! train bearing the mail sacks arrived and Joseph Hughes, railway postoffice driver and clerk respectively. The mail had just been removed from an incoming train at Union sta- tion and was about to be carried into the postoffice a mile distant when the robbers drove up in their automobile and forced the clerks to lie face downward on thae pavement. Four minutes elapsed from the time robbers drove up to the post- office until they had seized the sacks and were on their way. The stolen mail waas from eastern points and Cleveland, according to Postoffice Inspector Blake who took personal charge of tha investigation. ! The robbers are thought to have beea at the railway station when the and followed the truck to the post- office. |$60,000 ATTACHMENT |L | ON SHELTON TRUST (0. | Factory Clalas Bank Holds Their $20,000 in Lib- erty Bonds. i Shelton, Feb. 17.—An attachment of $60,000 on the assets of the Shel- ton Bank and Trust Co. was made | today by the Naugatuck Valley Cruci- ble Co., which claims the bank has | $20,000 in Liberty bonds which are | the property of the Crucible Co. Ed- ! ward W. Kneen, secretary and treas- | urer of the defunct bank is treasurer of the Crucible Co. and it is claimed that he put up the Liberty bonds to | 'cover a loan made by the bank to ‘the A. L. Clark Co. of New York. The | attachment proceedings will be ar- | gued in the superior court in April { An appraisal of the bank’'s securi- | ties made by a brokerage firm for | | Receiver Holcomb gives the amount { of depreciation as $106,000, which s $16,000 less “than previously estimat- 'ed. This would make the estimate of 'the total deficit in the banks funds ‘approximately $286,000. The depre- {ciation is charged up almost evenly against the savings and commercial | departments of the bank. | HELD AS ROBBERS. Two Well Known Waterbury Young Men Arraigned in Police Court. Waterbury, Feb. 17.—Ralph C. Swartfigure and Christopher Yoos, ’ well known young men, were held for | the superior court today in bonds of | $2,000 each, following a hearing in Idly court by Judge W. J. Larkin on | the charge of robbery. They were | charged with having held up John B. i Macken, grocer and butcher, last ¥ri- 1 | ary 28 the right of the interstate commerce commission to regulate ! rates under the transportation act, it was announced after a two days’ day night during a snow storm. Macken was relieved of $50 at the conference here of Attorney Generals of 12 states. i point of a pistol. The police testified they followed the men’'s footprints in the snow to the home of Yoos where both men wera arrested. STATES PLAN PROTEST 19 Will Challenge Rights to Interstate Commission in Supreme Court Washington, Feb. 17.—19 states will join with Wisconsin in challeng- ing before the supreme court Febru- SENT TO PRISON. Bridgeport Colored Men Who Wound- { ed Policeman Must Serve Three Years Bridgeport, Feb. 17.—Henry Jones and Edward Hackson, negroes were | sentenced to the state prison for from three to five years by Judge John P. Kellogg in superior court today. The | pair pleaded gullty to wounding De- | tective Sergeant Thomas Hunt of Nor- | walk last December. DIVIDEND REDUCED New York. Feb. 17.—The American Bsch Magneto Co. today declared a | quarterly dividend of $1.25 a share, therby reducing the annual rate from $10 to $5 a share. The dividend is payable April 1 on stack recorded at the close of business on March 15. RECEIVER APPOINTED. New York, Feb. 17.—George C. Van Tyl, Jr., today was appointed feder- al recelved for the American and British Manufacturing company, a New York corporation with plants in 1 | only thing that will carry the germ LITTLE PROBABILITY OF EPIDEMIC IN U. 3. Dr. Osborne Tells Rotarians How Typhus Disease Can Be Combatted. An interesting talk on the present typhus situation in New York, was given by the state deputy comissioner f health, Dr. Stanley H. Osborne, at e luncheon of' the New Britain Rotary club today. Several medical men of the city were present on in- vitation of President L. A. Sprague. Dr. Osborne is an authority on typhus fever because of the fact that | he, with several other physicians, went to Europe as a member of the American Red Cross Sanitary ‘Mission and studied the conditions in Albania, Montenegro and Serbia, where the disease prevails. Dr. Osborne said that the conditions In those countries at the time of their arrival was ter- rible, and in going from hospital to hospital they found several' persons desd In beds as'a result. He ex- plained that typhus spreads through the medium of the louse./ The germ is carried by.tthe louse and the disease is not contagious except by ‘close contact. Relative to the present outbreak in New York, Dr. Osborne stated that it was first fqund in the steerage where the passengers on ships are liable to come in closer contact with one an- other than elsewhere. He claims there should be no fear as to an epidemic in this country as those who are af- fected can be cared for. The bite of the louse will not cause typhus but it is scratching the mash of a killed louse into the skin that causes the germ to act. The body louse is the and in case they are found on the body they should be treated the same as the head louse. The room may be rid of the louse by disinfection and the clothing and other material sterilized. Following his talk, Dr. Osborne an- swered several questions. Dr. Reeks asked him if he thought it advisable, inasmuch as there were many for- cigners in this city and several cheap lodging houses, for the board of health to fisk the factories for the use of some of their waste steam to be used to operate a sterilizing plant. One could be installed at a cheap price and because of the factories giving the steam could be operated at a small cost of maintenance. Dr. Osborne said it would be most advisable. The club, upon recommendation of | President Sprague. voted to hold the next meeting next Friday evening in the Elks' club. At this time, Dr. Marshall, president of the Connecti- cut college in New London, will be . second emergency { protection for all products of Amer- ' | eign goods in America in anticipation Fordney on Way to Flondai to Consult Hardin; Obtain His Approval. i | 1 | i | ! [ 1 i | Washington, Feb. 17.—Chairman | ,Fordney of the house ways and means committee, left today for St. Augus- tine, Fla., to seek the approval | | President-elect Harding to a plan (to put through at the extra session of the new congress this spring a tariff to provide ican industry. The measure Mr. Fordney has in mind would be designed as'a stop gap until a scientific tariff law could be framed in the light of after-the- war conditions in the various coun- | tries. 4 Measure Has Su i Before his departure Mr. Fordney discussed the program with several republican members of his commit- tee and was said to have obtained their support of the proposed plan. He was quoted as having declared it impossible to write the permament tariff ‘and obtain its passage in time to check the usual dumping of for- of enactment of a new tariff law. Committee members said reports o had reached them that the dumping | already was under way. Supporters of the proposal said the rates would have to be ‘‘guesses” | 'but would be based on -information gathered in the tariff hearings ‘just concluded. Should - the permanent rates be lower than those in the emer- gency bill, rebates would be made to {importers, but suould the emer- gency rates be higher than the per- | manent ones adopted later importers would not be asked to pay the differ- ence, it was said. IKLETT FAVORS NEW ). Local Attorney Appears Be- fore Legislative Commit- tee At Capitol Today. (Special to Herald.) Hartford, Feb. 17.—Ex-Senator Geo. - W.-Klett of New Britain appear- ed before the committee "on' public health and safety at the Capitol this morning in support of House Bills 868 and 869, which are calculated to give the dental commission power to ex- amine and issue licenses to dentists and to suspend or revoke such, license for cause. Representative A. N, Ruth- erford of New Britain introduced the bill and also spoke in favor of its adoption. Judge Klett told of instances of malpractice brought to his attention while acting as deputy attorney gen- eral in the prosecution of unlicensed dentists. Cases have been unearthed by the state police and the Pinkerton detectives, Judge Klett said, which tend to show that the public has been subjected to impositions by unlicensed dentists and other practitioners over- charging for work. In the opinion of the New Britain judge, public health and safety demands the early passage of the law. PREPARE FOR NEW CHURCH. Work on FErection of St. Mark’s the speaker. On March 3 the club will hear H. C. Knight of New Haven. He is general manager of the Southern | New England Telephone company. LOWDEN HAS DE(‘MVFI) Former Governor of Illinois Will Not Accept Cabinet Position. St. Augustine, Fla., Feb. 17.—For- mer Governor Frank C. Lowden of Illinois has definitely declined to be | considered for secretary of the mavy | and will not be appointed to any post | in the initial make-up of the next administration. STEAMER ARRIVALS. New York, Feb. 16.—Arrived: United States (Dan.), Copenhagen via Boston. Gibraltar, Feb. 15.—Acrived: Italia Church Will Be Started In April. The Camp Real Estate company has sold two houses on West Main street belonging to St, Mark’s church, to the New York and Hartford House Wrecking company. Work will be started to raze the buildings at once. The house occupied by Superintend- ent Stanley H. Holmes of the school department will be razed on March 15, and the house occupied by Mrs. Ira E. Hicks will be razed on April 16. These places occupy the site for the new St. Mark's Episcopal churcn. S L A R CARUSO’S CONDITION. Doctor Considers ¥t Very Unsatisfac- tory—Stll Critically 1L New York, Feb. l1.-‘l'he eondmon ot Eurlco Caruso, X | today by Detective 'Sergeant TAFIFF BILL TO PROTECT INDUSTRY GIRL IS ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF FORGERY | Katherine Albee, 19, Said to Have Passed Checks At Commercial Trust Co. Miss Katherine Albee, aged 19 years, of 324 Elm street, was arrested Richardson and a member of the Pinkerton detective agency, for al- leged forgery. The offenses for which the girl was arrested are alleged to : have been committed last Thursday | and Friday at the Commercia! Trust company. The .sum .of $35 was all that was realized on the act, it is said. It is claimed by the police, that the ! girl secured two blank checks some- time during the past week, and on last Thursday, using the name *Miss Ida Fagan,” she presented a check purported as having been signed by S. Perlman for $20,at the bank, re- ceiving the money. Again on Friday of last @eek, it is allegéd that the girl presented-a check with the name “Mrs. Ida Feigenbaum,” and contain- ing the signature S. Perlman, at the Commercial Trust company for $15. The matter was referred to the po- lice, and 'the . Pinkerton. detective agency, and this morning the girl was apprehended. She was tormerly em- ployed at the Stanley Rule and Level company. At first she . stoutly de- nied the accusation, but later she ad- mitted she had presented the chocks at the bank.. “DRY” RAIDERS ACTIVE r-hm)'flt‘r La Eb et »‘ Stamford, Conn., Feb, 17.—Liquors of all kinds worth in the opinion of officers * $22,000 wgre taken in two raids here last night, Willlam J. Mc- Carthy’ supervisor of federal prohibi- tion agents in New England personal- ly led the raids. In a cellar of Samuel Siverstein, a butcher at 223 Main street $10,000 worth of liquor was taken beloging to Max Swit, and in the cellar and garage at Swit’s home were found $12,000 worth. Swit keeps a saloon and only a few days ago his home and garage were searched and quantlties of liguor seized. He is under $500 bonds for a hearing in the previous case. Silverstein chilms t he did not know the liquor was in|his cellar hav- ing’let the place for storage purposes. Swit at first denied 'ownership but later, according to the officers, ad- mitted owning the liquors. These raids were made on the basis of search warrants and lacal police, unin- formed as to the places to be visited gave assistance, OLD FOOTBALL STAR DEAD Alexander B. Gray, Ex-Penn. Stato Football Player, Dies of Spinal Meningitis, Washington, Pa., Feb. 17.—Alex- ander B. Gray, a former Pennsylvania State football captain, died at 1 home here today of spinal meningitis. Gray, who was elected sheriff ‘of , Washington county atter his return from the world war, where he had served as an aviator, never fully re- covered from an attack of influenga contracted while serving his country. Gray was rated as one of the great- est football pliyers ever turned out at Penn State. He captained and played guard on the team of 1910. He went to Penn State from Grove City col- lege. He was 36 years old. DEMOCRATS MEET. — No Plan ' for - Reogg tation Crisi Collective Principles | Also Objects ! Used to Favor of panies’ De / Chicago, Feb. month in the hea road Labor Board, 3 of railway for ab ,' tional agrements, 3 B. M. Jewell, presi employes’ depar can Federation of said the unions n to prepare thelr| e Wants Colle Immediate app! ciple of collective railroad labor bo vocated today befo road labor board said that only by the present con 2 national crisis - avoided. Suggesting thit the present nati merely a smoke proposed three take, as follows: 17, 5 nuub,hnmeflln which may arise tians, mp Amodm.’lou of through W. W. of the committee: ‘with, representati affected. . Mr. Jevull ldd gram of negotia the principle of e in the railroad i cases before ‘the the roads from ni efforts by filing mass of cases, Make Fair ] “We are not uation of any uni working conditions,” not wish to cause th able expense and ed any rules that Mr. Jewell ch propaganda was b board at the beh added: “We have been your honorable judicial notice of'’ The chairman day g resolutio: chambers of con commercial o i ““We consider and inconceivable position of this that of the supre United States. Any| affect its decisions as contempt of co tie penalties.'” Mr. Jewell said unwillingness to tional scale, the izing their own bar [ decentralizing that © | that the employers * crush the local org cially those recently # weaken thae unions § MUTILATED Two High School and Brutally M d—Posse.