New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 24, 1921, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press \ ABLISHED 1870. NEW BRITAIN, CONNrECTlCUT, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1921.—TWELVE PAGES W BRITAIN HFERALDI[ STATE BONUS HEARING NEXT |BROAD ST. WOMAN IS [HOTEL BELOIN SOLD | U, S. NOTE TO COUNCIL OF LEAS THURS.BEFOREMILITARYAND MYSTERIOUSLY SHOT APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE epresentatives In Con- gress Want 93 American ’ Legion Posts In State To Wire Stand E VETERANS’ AID BILLS IN LEGISLATURE onw. Co. Wants Relief From Taxation—Teachers’ Bill Attracts Visitors At Capitol. ived today by headquarters of the t to wire the Connecticut senators ppensation bill for war veterans Ing veterans. il be taken up next week appropriations sitting joint- :! lee men will attend. oompensation bills—a bonus bill jrense the present allotment of a8 the distributing agency, and igponsored by the Veterans Clalon to begin hearings next afthr seslng Governor Lake, had Hfl of the so-called trolley hich relfef from taxation is rivers committee this afternoon. . on state highways through ility for deaths In the BShelton approximate $100,000 ng tenure of service of teachers, Ittees, district committees, wscores of teachers. day. nge of reference from the judi- sheriffs and deputy sher- & to do with changes in com- provides that the highway e system of state ald highway 'avorable report was made on Medical school for analytical rrange quarters for various offi- odations outside the build- Senate Bill Reports. bills Hamden iInto voting dis- 18 to certain public lands o park system: to increase ford, Feb. 24.—~Telegrams were erican Leglon asking that it ad- p each of the 93 posis in Connec- representatives at Washington ng them to vote for the adjusted I8 to be reported to Congress. Bill has a five-fold plan of rec- o on which would recognize : gor¥ices of Connecticut men in the B & hearing before the leg- ’;,k mmittees on military af- all of the house will be it Is expected that hundreds ! 8 Compensation Acts. 8 are three so called veterans eash payment to which a state dUm may be attached; a bill the income from which is used purposes with the American Ppay a veteran $20 for each foreign service. The last “Wars, and the first named imaerican Lagion. the announcement made eday In the house that the lead- 6d 1t advigable to begin action. . Trolley Bills, h ¥ the Connecticut company taken ;ap by the roads, bridges that which would relleve the ly from paying the state for re- trolley tracks run. M was ex- od that the company will plead oy disaster. It has been esti- 4 that the ocost of that wreck number of visitors at the capi- odny was large the bill con- fipals, supervisors and superin- nta emplayed by town school 8 of education or hoards of ol visitors, by Senator Challenger, Odds and Enda. lue Sky' bills will be heard next hator Golden presided in the up- ranch today. to the appropriations committee de on the senate bills concern- lea of sheriffs and of sher- f Middlesex and Windham, these tion, fees or salaries. The action was taken on the bill Issioner shall, as rapidly as pos improve all unimproved portions lle between improved sections h system. 111 changing the law on delivery claimed human hodies to the . comptroller wil! he authoriz 1 nd departments In the capitol anpther bill reported favorably not be furnished when the ure is not in session. rable roports on senate these: ing for a milk inspector authorizing Bridgeport Befiches botween Ash Long Island Sound to be stock of the Collins com- ,000000; amending the 'WILSON AND HARDING MAY RIDE TOGETHER President Will Take Part in Exercises On March 4 Inauguration. H Washington, Feb. 24.—President | Wilson will follow the long estab- lished custom of riding to the cap- ftol with the incoming presiden: on March 4, under plans of the congres- sional inaugural committee, approved by the president, it was announced today at the White House. Whether Mr. Wilson will attend the inaugural ceremonies has not yet been made known. Should he do so he probably will ride with Mr. Harding to the White House. But if ' he does not attend he will go direct from the capitol to his new home on 4§ street. Four troops of cavalry, numbering 350 officers and men, will escort the president and the president-elect to the capitol and then will accompany Mr. Harding to the White House. The plans of the congressional com- mittee as they became known today provide for the opening of the day’'s program with a visit of the commit- tee to the president-elect and vice- president-elect Coolidge at the New Willard hotel. After this visit the en- tire party will enter automobiles and, accompanied by the cavalry, drive to the White House, where it will be Jjoined by the president and Mrs. Wil- son. From the White House the proces- sion will move over Pennsylvania ave- nue to the capitol. There the presi- dert, and probably Mr. Harding, will enter the president's room, where Mr. Wilson will sign the bills passed in the closing hours of congress. After the new vice-president has taken the oath in the senate chamber and has delivered his inaugural ad- dress, the guests will proceed to the steps at the east front of the capitol, where Mr. Harding will. be sworn in. As soon as he finishes his inaugural address the new president will depart for the White House. Five hundred marines in full dress uniform will be on duty at the capi- tol, augmenting the regular police, and will form a lane through which the guests will pass in ascending the capitol steps. Mr. Harding will take the oath in a stand thirty feet square which has been erected on the steps. This stand will accommodate only the president-elect, Chief Justice White, the members of the congressional committee and a few others. The other guests will stand during the ceremonies. Besides the marines and cavalry 500 regulars from Camp Meade, Md., will be brought to Washington on the morning of March 4 for guard duty along Pennsylvania avenue. TEAM FOR RIFLE MATCH Is Announced by Captain Willlams of Company M, of the Connecticut State Guard—Held In Hartford. Captain W. L. Williams of Com- pany M of the Connecticut State Guard, has announced the team which will represent the company in the regimental rifle match to be held on the evening of March 17th at the State Armory in Hartford. Members of the team are as follo First Lieut. Earle Gibney, Second | Lieut. C. 8. Neumann, First Sergeant, John Lipetz, Sergeants F. L. Willlams, W. E. Litke, R. F. Tracy, Corporal W. W. Saunders, Privates H. Lipetz, T. Thayer and W. R. Wilcox. | The theater party, held at Parsons’ theater in Hartford last evening, was attended by practically the entire company. A dinner was held at the | Far East Restaurant after the thea- ter. Tonight the company will partici- pate in the drill of the Third Battal- ion of the First Regiment in the State Armory in Hartford. VIRELLI BOUND OVER Local Man in Meriden Court This Morning for Theft of Whiskey to Go to Higher Courts. Meriden, Feb. 24.—Joseph Simons of New Haven; Albert P. Levine of Providence and Salvatore Virelli of New Dritain, were each bound over in $6,000 by the local court today and Alex Brindisi of New Haven was dis- charged and Donato, Frank and Peter Dalina and Mike Mero of Southington and Plainville, were bourd over in ,$500 each in connection with theft of Mrs. Saul Simon Wounded as She Sits at Breakfast Table AFFAIR A STRANGE ONE Police Unable to Find Any Clue to Identity of Shooter—Woman Alone When Bullet Crashes Through Window—Condition Not Serious. A shooting affray that is shrouded in mystery, occurred about 9 o’clock this morning, when Mrs. Saul Simon, of 42 Broad street. aged 28 years, sustained a bad bullet wound in the left jaw, which resulted in her re- moval to the New Britain General hospital, after Dr. William M. Flanagan had attended her at her home. The woman was shot while =he sat at a table partaking of a breakfast meal. When the police arrived at the scene, they found a large hole in the window on the west side of the third tenement of the block. The bullet hole was in a direct line with the woman's head as she sat close hy. Conditions would indicate that the shot was fired from the outside, and there is no apparent sign that it came from the ground below, so straight is the hole pierced through the window. Search Discloses Nothing. The houses close by are all of smaller structure in height, and this would indicate that a rifi¢é must have been used to fire the bullet. Detec- tive Sergeant A. J. Richardson. Patrolmen Hayes, Lyon and Nealon conducted a rigid investigation but failed to locate anyone who heard a shot fired this morning. or any owner of a gun in tnat vicinity. At a house on High street, a care- ful investigation was conducted by the police. Tenants in the house were questioned, and a search was made of all the home, to ascertain if any of the occupants owned a rifle. In the attic of this house, there was found a hole in the side of the roof that was in direct range with the hloe in hte window of the Simon home. No Domestic Trouble. Neighbors living in the Broad street block also failed to hear any shooting. A woman living aeross the hall from the Simon family was the first to learn of the” r, when the injured woman with blood pour- ing from her jaw knocked on the door and in broken English said she had been wounded. Motorcycle Officer William P. Hayes was in the vicinity at the time, and he was notified of the af- fajr. Word was sent at once for the police and a doctor. The physician probed for the bullet. but later de- cidéd to use an X-Ray before try- ing to extract it. The examination showed the bullet to be imbedded far into the jaw. Ballet is Removed. The wounded woman is a Syrian, and according-to neighbors there has been no trouble between the couple or neighbors. The X-Ray showed the bullet to be of a large calibre, and according to Dr. Grant who took the picture it may have been about 38-calibre (Continued on Eleventh Page.) W, B. BASSETT, BANK OFFICER, KILLS SELF Vice-President of Phoenix National in Hartford Did Act With Pistol. Hartford, Feb. 24.—Willilam B Bassett, vice-president of the Phoenix National bank. and a member of the board of police commissioners, shot and killed himself at his home, 130 Kenyon street, this morning. He was in his bedroomr at the time. Mrs. Bassett left the room for ten minutes and when she returned he was dead. The deed was commit- ted with a .38 calibre revolver which Mr. Bassett had kept in his desk at the bank and had taken to his home last night. President Leon P. Broadhurst of the bank said this noon that to the best of his knowledge and belief, Mr. Bassett's accounts at the bank were absolutely straight. Mr. Broadhurst said that between ,four and six o'clock Wednesday aft- ,ernoon he had a talk with Mr. Bas- sett .at the bank during which he told Bassett the latter must hand in his resignation as vice-president. Mr. Broadhurst said the charges were, onduct unbecoming an officer of the bank.” At the close of the conver- sation s8et D o h y | 3 | [} l T0 HARTFORD FIRM) - cLAZMS AN EQUAL CONCERN IN | Delaney Brothers Will Take Over Business Abont March 1 IS A MODERN HOSTELRY In Addition to Rooming Facilities, Restaurant. Cafe and Bowling Al- leys Are Included in Deal Which Is Consummated This Morning. Th= Hotel Beloin on Church street, was sold this morning by Fred Beloin, proprietor, to Delaney Brothers of Hartiord, a firm of prominent New England hotel owners and former proprietors of the Hotel Delaney on North Main street, Hartford. The sale in its prescnt form is rather that of an option than an absolute change of ownership and in the event that the Hartfcrd firm fails to take over the business on or about March 1, the deal will be automatically cancelled. There is, however, but little possibil- ity that the matter will not go through since satisfactory agreements have been reached on both sides and the deal is practically closed. Hatel Description. The place is one of the leading hos- telries in this section of the state. There are 92 spacious bedrooms with every modern convenience and ex- cellent ventilation throughout. On the main floor the office, lounging rooms, a seclf-service restaurant and a cafe are located. In the rear is a spacious pool room and bowling al- leys now leased by the Casino Bowl- ing Alleys company of which Frank McDonough is the owner. The res- taurant was only recently fitted out, replacing a dining room. Elevator service is maintained throughout the building. Fred Beloin Munager 20 Years. Fred Beloin, the present owner, has conducted the business for about a score of years, taking over the hotel and cafe in October, 1901, through purchase from Mr. Bigelow who had conducted the business for a number of years. The place was huilt and operated by Neal Hills about 30 years ago. The new firm plans to conduct the business along lines similar to those which have been the ‘Beloin policy in the past. The Delaney brothers are regarded as live, energetic business- men and it is expected that under their management, the hotel will con- tinue to do a thriving business. They built the Deldney in Hartford and for I several years actively conducted the business there, later disposing of the place. FIRE SCARE TODAY IN CITY BUILDING Rubbish Causes Secend Out- break in a Week—Exits Used By Employes. Employes il the rear offices of the City Hall were brought to their feet in haste and began to choose their ex- | its about 9 o'clock this morning when | smoke began to ooze through the parti- tions in the wall and poured through the doors of the health department | offices after a quantity of rubbish and waste paper in the basement had tak- en fire. The outbreak was of little consequence being extinguished by stamping on the rubbish and a burning | burlap bag, but for a time employes | who smelled and observed the smoke were given quite a scare. The fire happened in a most unusual way. Since the serious fire of Tuesday morning, waste paper and rubbish have been collected and burned in an incinerator in the rear of the build- ing to avoid the accumulation of those substances. Idward Ryan, as- sistant to Superintendent Joseph Smith of the City building, had been throw- ing the contents of a burlup bag on the fire and in shaking the bag over the flames allowed a few sparks to ig- nite loose strands of burlap. Unwit- tingly, he rolled up the bag and brought it into the city building where he tossed it into a basket containing more waste and rubbish. The nature of the burlap causcd the spark to spread and the bag and other rubbish were ignit- ed. Quantities of heavy and noxious smoke arose and following the draft caused by the elevator shaft ascended ' to the second and third floors of the building. In the same manner as the flames and smoke found a flue in the partitions of the health department walls last Tuesday morning, the smoke went up the building and began to smoke up the health offices. When the source of the smoke was determined, Superintendent Smith and his assistant quickly stamped out the | ditional legislation, DISPOSITION OF GERMAN HARDING TO DECIDE WHETHER HOOVER |Some Diplomi IS MORE VALUABLE AS RELIEF HEAD If Such is-the Case the Sec- ‘nR. HARRIS WANTEB i 'Righb becay retaryship of Commerce Will Be Refused—Gives Ideas On Trade. {Health Supt. Responsible in, New York, Feb. 24, (By The As- sociated Press).—Herbert Hoover, ; declared in a statement today that he had left it to President-elect Hard- ing to decide whether he could be of more 'service as secretary of com- merce or as director of European re- lief. . In a statement dictated to The As- sociated Press, Mr. Hoover said: “I left it to Mr. Harding to de- termine whether he considered I can be of more service to the public as secretary of commerce or carrying out the public trust already entrusted to me as a private citizen.” Mr. Hoover’s statement was dic- tated after he had announced that upon invitation to become a member of the next cabinet he had put up to Mr. Harding a proposal for general | reconstruction of the department of commerce. The statement was issued after Mr. Hoover had been asked by newspapermen if his announcement meant that he would enter the cab- inet' if his views were met. Other Considerations. Other considerations entering into the matter, Mr. Hoover continued, concerned the KEuropean relief ad- ministration. He declared he had undertaken the responsibility of di- recting the expenditure of thirty or forty million dollars in Furope— money contributed by people of Am- crica—and he must continue to have general direction of that expenditure. “As the department of commerce stands today,” Mr. Hoover said, ‘it consists largely of a group of scien- tific bureaus which have only a re- mote connection with commerge it- self.” He,added that if he should accepnt the position he saw a way to make changes which would make of it a ‘“real department of commerce.” U. S. Foreign Commerce. The foreign commerce of the Unit- ed States, he said, particularly in the next four or five years, is close- ly bound up with the prosperity and development of this country. He said he believed many important changes could be made without ad- through re-allo- cation of bureaus. He added that he expected, in fact, “there will be ¢ Zeneral reorganization of the govern- ment with the advent of the Hard- ing administration.” Mr. Hoover said he had not only taken the responsibility of expend- ' ing millions in European relief, “upon | which 3,500,000 children are depend- | ing,” but also held the regency of eight or ten public' institutions— “posts which I could ‘not readily re- linquish.” MAGUIRE CASE THRESHED Additional Evidence Is Presented Be- fore Claims Committee—Healy Ap- pears for Commission. (Special to Herald.) Attorney General Healy appeared be- fore the claims committee yesterday at the Capital to defend the state highway commission in the matter of a $40,- 000 claim by John P. Maguire, a local contractor, arising out of changes in the grade on the Ridgefield road after Mr. Maguire had undertaken the work. He recommended that the claim be dis- regarded sirce payment of a single dol- lar to Mr. Maguire would bring forth numerous other claimants for damages. Judge G. W. Klett appecared for the contractor. He claimed damages of $13,000 for one single operation made necessary by the changes and $40,- 000 for all. In response to a questior by the local attorney, Commissioner Bennett admitted that the changes in plans were ‘‘very unusual.”” A claim had been presented by Maguire for ex- tras to the amount of $§2,033.96 of which $2,000 was allowed but never paid, it was brought out. The Hartford Accident and Indemnity company will take over the job, . Mr. Healy said, since it had been found legally liable. Statements to the con- trary were made at last week's hear- ing by a representative of the com- pany who said that the state had not even made a request to that effect. INCREASES CAPITAL. T0 GET EVEN—GILL { | Part For Goodrich Death, He Says. Alderman John F. Gill of the second ward, introduced somewhat of a sensation at last night's special session of the common council when, after a report had been presented by the specia! committee on the Good- America Ha drawal From Body 3 InSummaryofi tion, It Is Des Consent Was to Japan’s Yap Island. rich investigation, he openly expressed | [DEAS SUBMI his conviction ,that Health Superin- tendent J. R. Harris was bartially re- sponsible fo. the | dcath of Mrs. Charles Goodricl, The committee in its report fully exonerated the health superintendent from all blame, and the matter had been brought before the council for action. Arising in his place in the council, the alderman | ™ said: Press)—The GENEVA. Paris, Feh. 24— Unites ent in its note nations on the quest “I am not finding fault with the| claims an equal concy report of the committee and if I had been a member I should have con- curred with that report. But, just the same, I cannot help but sympathize with Mr. Charles Goodrich and the family of 11 children, because after hearing the testimony of witnesses be- bore the committee appointed by the mayor, I cannot help but believe that Dr. Harris is in a measure responsi- se: | ble for the death of Mrs. Goodrich— not legally perhaps, but hy his arbi- trary interpretation of the law,_ . “It looks to me as though Dr. Harris, being cheated 'out of a patient for his insolation hospital. made up his mind to enforce the quarantaine law to the letter, not thinking per- haps of the possibility of the death of ‘Mre. Goodrich. Do you think, gentle- | men, that ,a policeman parading around the house was a help or a hindrance, a great hindrance, to re- covery? I think it could have well been prevented. “Of all the cases of diphtheria we had in this city, why should the Goodrich case be the one picked out to need the services of a policeman to enforce quarantine? I can’t answer it myself, but it looks rather peculia.rl to me; looks as though they were trying to ‘get even’ with someone. And I can’t help but think that if Dr. Harris bad not been so arbitrary Mrs. Goodrich would have had competent care taken of her and perhaps be alive today.” At this point, the alderman stopped- and remarked that there were several other statements he would make but since the mayor h fit to call him td order for becoming personal, he would leave the rest un- said, Alderman Paonessa sent a few shots at the health board at the close of Alderman Gill’s remarks, in which he asked why the health board had singled out the Goodrich case which was near the Plainville town line while there were other cases in the center of the city. Mayor Curtis remarked that it was his understanding that complaints had been made by the neighbors. JITNEUR IS ARRESTED Driver on Arch Street Line Had More Passengers on Bus Than Is Allowed Under Car Licen: in | in lin m | se: 1 of ir in i to Policeman William P. McCue arrest- | ed Peter Augustino, an Arch street a charge of service vehicle. The accused was in ' court before Judge G. W. Klett this|addressed to the respe ments above mentioned morning and was found guilty. Be- cause of extenuating circumstances, he | ha was freed upon payment of costs. At of this morning, particular reference { vanced by the Unit of the other members ] ica had forfeited su drawing, as an assol the supreme council | Tnted clear its position.” 3 Prcsumably the not | comprised that sent States to Great Britai with the other p associated powers in ssions of Germany @ position. This was shown # note sent by thé partment and laid bef of the league yeste: public. Considering The council again con Yap 1 In the summary of ! was ‘made pablic revealed- that the U clared it had never | that island of Ya) link in' the ‘chain of. cations in the Pacif the territories subjed date of Japan. . U. S. Rig The principal featu addition to the P the summary, wai | contention of egual disposing of Germ | possessions. On this ‘As one of the pr itted cannot be und fected without iis co Referring to the atti island of Yap to Japa “While the governn nted to the inclusios Yap in the prop Japan, it may be poin one or more of the allied and associated | tnder misapprehensio |{ clusion of the island i decision of May 7, 19 the notes above States gover , last, with the co the French and I ments. Note About The note set forth Jjitneur, yesterday shortly after noon on position on the resp overcrowding a public K mandatory powers. “At the time when d not been reached the allocation of associated/ power the has equal concern and, terest with the other ) like 10 ,ng associated powe ad seen | geug possessions of Ger | sequently an equal vois ! position which it is | the time of his arrest, the driver had coverinz the:former G 23 persons on board while he is ai- N lowed but 18 under his car license. Augustino explained that the rain caused a number of people to crowd N on the bus after it had been filled. He explained to the court that he regards driving with overloads anything but profitable business since the insurance company will not back him if anything happens under those conditiohs, but he found it impossible to keep the crowd the Pacific. Therefo government cl cessarily had the tively withdrawing an implicating of assent, ¥ a -Duted to this governmes December 17, 1920, council’s meeting | taken by the president thie