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

ABLISHED 1870. NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, MARCH 1. 1221 —TWENTY-TWO PAGES PRICE THi OST WAS $10,338,509 TO CONDUCT 1920 CAMPAICN HARDING’S EXPENSE SMALL This Repnblicans’ Spent Nearly Four Dollars to Every One of Democrats ; ENATE INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE REPORTS | xpenditures of G. O. P.| Amount to Over Eight Mil-, lion, Opponents Anti Overi vo—Is Menace to Nation.’ | Washington, March 1.—Campaign bats of electing a president of the Inited States In 1920 were $10,338,.- 9 as estimated by a special senate mmittee created to Investigate which today filed its report [h congress. Of this amount, re- lean candidates and campalgn or- nizations spent 38,100 while mocratic expenditures were $2,23 0. The compllation took into ac- unt the exponditures made by or in of all candidates for the re- n and democratic prosidential tion and of national state, con- onal and senatorial committees both these parties, neglecting FALLS 200 FT., LIVES Dawson, Y. T., March 1.— falllng off a thousand foot bluff, Jack Stewart, foreman at the New Kenkahill silver mine in the Mayo district, landed on a snow-covered shelf 200 feot below and escaped with three broken ribs. Word of the accldent was received here to- day. YAP CONTROVERSY SUBJECT OF NOTE Reply of League Council Delivered to American Embassy Today. Paris, March 1.-—~The reply of tha council of the League of Nations to the American noto on the mandates question was delivered to the Amer- fcan embassy herg at 1:30 o'clock this atternoon. The only definite information as to the contents of the note s that its tone ia particularly friendly and that its general tenor is an Invitation to the United States to continue the con- versation. A representative of the council conferred with Ambassador Wallace this afternoon as to whether there would bo any ebjection to having the note made public here. The answer to the American teat has been couched in very cillatory terms, says the Matin. One plan advanced would be the pro- con- ounts spent by candidates and or- nizations of minor political parties. “A Growing Menace.” Senators Kenyon, lowa, Edge, New ¥, and Spencer, Missouri, repub- pans, and Pomerene, Ohlo, and d, Missouri, democrats, signed the which was unanimous Stat- mt “the expenditure of these sums is a present and growing mace to the nation,” they suggest- that elections committees of the congress should consider the estion Constitutional difficultios y intervene to p nt legialation the subject, the report sald, but should “take proper steps to it a constitutional amendment ing with the diffficulty “If it is Und necessary.” & ‘While the largest sums of campaign penditure found were those of the | organizations, which the LR o0 said were 35,391,729 for publican party and $1,318,274 the democrats. Candidates who ught presidential] nominations from e conventions accounted for a total $2,080,033. + Wood's Costs. Major Gen. Leonard Wood's ef- rts to secure the republican nomi- tion involved expenditures of $1,- 303, the committee found, while Frank O. Lowden the total was 4,000; for Senator Johnson of Cal- la. 4,000; for Herbert Hoover, 3,0 and for President-elect | fding $113,000. BExpenditures not- | in behalf of other republican can- | ates were $77,000 for Senator leaving of the island of Yap under the Japanese mandate but would give control of the international cable sta- tion there to America. Vistount Kilkujiro _Ishii, the Jap- anese representative on the council, is declared to have said yesterday that Japan was ready to accept any com- promise in the matter. The council of the League of Na- tions in its reply to the American note on the mandates question invites the United States to send a represeniative to the next meeting of the council to be held in April, it was learned here this afternoon. The reply was cabled to Washington by the American em- bassy early in the afternoon. Concerning the islai of Yap the | roply says the council was obliged to accept the decision of the supreme council. It indicates, however, that the whole question may be reopened if the Washington government sees fit to send a plenipotentiary to discuss the matter. Supreme Court A_dg;ums Out of Respect to Judge Hartford. March 1.—The Connecti- cut supreme court adjourney its March term today untll Friday at ’0 a. m. out of respect to the memsry of Justice Willlam 8. Case, one o7 its members, who died Monday u«fter- noon. Hordine Confers With Wood Who May Run Philippines Marion, O.. March 1 —Returning pindexter, Washington: $68,000 for to Marion for a short visit before en- «President-elect Coolidge, and tering the® White House, President- 0,000 for D-. Nicholas Murray But- | glect Harding went into conference of New York | today with Major General Leonard ttorney Gen. Palmer led demo- | Wood, who is prominently under con- tio candidates in expenditures, the sideration for .ppointment as gov- ornt being fixed at $59.000, while ernor-geners’ of the Philippines. pt anor Cox, who aecured the nom- o ———————— | Hope For Champ Clark don, spent $22,000, James W. Abandoned Late Today rd, former ambassador to Ger- ny, was listed at $14,000, and Sen- | Washington, March 1.-——Hope for the recovery of Representative Champ wen, Oklahoma, at $8,605. Two Clark virtually was abandoned today by tes In behalf of waom no was found to have beeny spent re Wm. G. MeAdoo, democrat, and /s physicians. The democratic house nator France, ropublican, Mary. feader and former speaker, who is ill a with pleurisy and a complication of Many difficulties were found in get. Other discases, remained in a comatose complete tabulations and avoid- State most of the morning and ap- duplications, the report »mid, but Parently was losing ground. @ amounts were given as o situation fairly and aceerately.” $500,000 in Districts. | Something over $604%00 of the to- | 1 went Into msenatsrial and con-| sslonal contests, the committee nd, of whic’> only 331,000 was| ent by demo atic national organi- | lons created Jor the purpose. The publican congressional committee ont $375,969, while the G. O. P. sen- 1 organization spent $326,980 rgugh stato committoes, the re- | rt mald, the republicans spent gregate of $2,078,060 against $888 8 tor their democratic competitors. o larger republican state expendi- e® were In New York, $479,000; 3 $215,000; Pennaylvania, ! 0; Massachusotts, $133,000; hd Washington, $116,000 Demo- atie state expenditures were groat- t In Indlana, $74,692; New York, | 3,000: Kentucky, $62,930: Ohlo, 1 Maryland, $57,889, and | fa, $58,612, Panama, March 1, (By Associated Press).—One person is dend and four | others are suffering from wounds re- ]rrlved when the special guard fired upon a mob which broke into the executive mansion here yesterday. One of the injured was Domingo Tur- ner, who was the chief organizer of the demonstration here when Gen. Pershing visited the Canal Zono last year. American troops arrived at home of President Porras just time to save the president's life. Quiet has been completely restored. The attack upon the palace was instigated by men who had become maddened over a published interview the in | relative of M I One Person Bead, Four Others—w ound When Special Guard Fires on Mob in Panama | Corning, | sisters lived at the HOUSTON DIRECTED TO PRODUCE-FILES Secretary Must Come Before Judic- iary Committee With Cor- respondence. Washington, March 1.—Secretary Houston is “directed” in a resolution adopted by the scnate judiciary com- “mittee to produce complete treasury files of correspondence relating to foreign loans. Members of the com- | mittee said the resolution was prac- tically “quantity subpocna’™ in form. The resolutign was Senator Reecd, democrat, author of the bill to prohibit loans to foreign governments was adopted in executive session Committeemen said it made it “man- datory” for the secretary to appear before the committee tomorrow with the full correspondence. Secreiary Houston informed committee yesterday that he had re- ferred the correspondence to Sccre tary Colby of the state department for determination a®x to what part of it could be snbmitted to the commit- tee without affecting the public in- terest. 16 YEAR OLD BRIDE a introduced by Missouri further MURDERED IN WEST, Danbury Girl Victim—Con- fusion As to Reports On Motive. . 1.—Search for Katherine Semenc who was fouand yvesterday, was Chicago, March 16-year-old bride, bound and strangled started by police upon information that she had been frightened awa from her former home im Danbury Conn.. by the unwelcome attention ol the man under suspicion. The dead girl's sister told police that the young bride had been fright- ened several times recently by the actions of two men who appeared to be watching her home. Mrs. Sem- enck, who was then Miss Katherine Hurst, came to Chicago last fall, her sister said. Danbury, Conn., March Katherine Semenck the girl, murdered in Chicago vesterday. was the daughter of George Hurst of Mill. Plain a suburb of this eity. She was employed in a fur miil here until last August when she went to Chicago to visit her sister, Mrs. Mary Gladun, who was undarsiood to be ill. The girl's father who is & glass- maker, is at present K employed in N Y., where the family resided before coming here. Her stepmother and several brothers and family home in 1.—Mrs. Mill Plain. The family was unaware of the girl's death until shown dispatches from Chicago today by a reporter. Mrs. Hurst, the girl's stepmot s=ald today that she had no knowledge that any relative of the family ha«d paid the girl unwelcome attentions or tht she left here becau frightened, | as stated in a dispatch from Chicago. who the are re- be. she had no idea the Chicago police to be searching for could ELEVEN KILLED Disorders in Florence Cause 100 In- 500 Arrests—Govern- She said relative ported Juries and ment Acts in Time, Florence, March 1.—FEleven per- sons have been killed, more than 100 wounded, and 500 others arrested in connection with the disorde here which seem to have been the outcome | having ram- The the of a revolutionary plot ifications throughout Tuscany. conspiracy has proved abortive, authorities belicve, owing to prompt measures taken to suppress it and the firm attitude of the soldiers. From investigations made of doc- uments =eized by the authorities the movement had as its backbone the rallwaymen, who have been paralyz- ing communications in order to pre- vent the movement of troops. ed, tire Costa force which occupied Coto was captured. Thirty-five additional prisoners were taken when a Costa Rican launch was captured by the Pana- manians. Their arms and a machine gun also were taken. It is not known here whether the casualties occurred when Coto, which was seized a week ago by the Costa Ricans, was retaken by the Panaman- ians or whether they resulted from the engagement yesterday when the ,armed launch was captured. Panamanians Occupy Coto. Coto was re-occupied by the Pan- ‘amanians headed by a force of 100 ‘eavalry commanded by Colonel Lau- reano Gaston. ard ! the - 16-year-old | the | THANY HEARINGS BEFORE LEGISLATURE Registration of Motor Vehicles, Service Charges, Etc., Today ) No Committee to Investigate Needs of Agricultural i | ! College — Agree Governor Lake’s Pictuare for lery. J ¢ Harttora, assembly month March 1.—The general entered upon its third of the session today with in- creasing interest in committee hear- nes. Previously most of the bills on i which hearings have been held were |of routine or current matters with [an occasional new project up for dis- cussion. Today both the committees on ’flnlncc and roads, bridges and rivers took up bills concerning fees for registration of motor vehicles in which the interest is widespread be- 'cause of the schedules proposed by the highway and the automobile commissioners. The judiciary committee again gave its attention to the bills which sdek to stop gas and eclectric light com- panies from imposing service or me- ter charges. These bills were taken up late on Friday and only the op- position to and support of them was outlined. Another big day for hearings will be Thursday, when the labor com- mittee will take up a dozen measures relating to employment of children, the establishing of an. eight-hour work day for child labor, a nine- hour day for employment of women {and children in factories and con- cerning employment of women and | children in mercantile establishments. {On Thy ay will begin the hearing {on soldiers’ bonus and state aid bills. The legislative bulletin today was {heavily burdened with entries of measures to be heard during the | next fortnight, indicative of a desire jof committee chairmen to speed up preliminary work. ' Rev. Mr. English of Hartford of- fered the prayer today in the ab- sence of Chaplain Soule. Hall Refused. ' The pfoposition to raise a commit- [tee out of the agricultural commit- tee to investigate the needs of the !Connecticut Agricultural college is probably disposed of definitely as_the senate accepted an unfavorable repoft ‘on a resolutign to raise such a com- ! mittee offered by Senator W. H. Hall. As the house has rejected the Stod- | dard resolution. it is not thought like- |1y Mr. Buckley will offer a resolu- |tion of the same purpose. It is un- jderstood that most of the new pro- ! jects at the college will be rejected ! by the appropriations committee, as ! President Beach has said that many : tof them can wait and the college bills ‘reported will be mainly those for i necessary maintenance. The senate agreed with he house [to have Governor Lake's picture { Painted for the capitol gallery of gov- ernogs. The insurance committee favorably reported a bill concerning examina- tion of securties held by insurance companies by the state treasurer. pro- viding that when securities held by the state as a deposit in trust ex- ceed more than five per cent of the required amount the excess may be returned to the company. The house adopted an amendment at the request of Mr. Nickerson of Cornwall to the Masonic Foundation charter to include the order of the | Eastern Star. The incorporations committee re- ported an amendment to the charter of the Association for Relicf of Needy Ministers, and authorizing the Thom- aston Water company to increase its capital stock. Favorable Reports. The judiciary committee on these measures favorably: Concerning disposition of motor vehicle law fines, charge of me- chanics liens, women owners ot real estate, appointments of deputy sher- iffs, joinder in cause of action, and foreclosure and sale of property: all these being somewhat technical amendments to existing statutes. Petitions were cceived in behalf of F. L. Wilder, judge, and T. D. Steibert as deputy judge at Bridge- port. Speaker Huxford named Mr. Keith of Putnam, Mr. Connery of Redding and Mr. Chidsey of East Haven a committee to prepare resolutions on the death of Willlam Harrison (Sou- venir) Tavlor. The older members sem agreed that the services of Mr. Taylor at =0 many sessions should be made a+ matter of official record. The military affairs committee re- ported a bill to change the personnel of the soldiers’ hospital board at | Fitch’s Home so it will be three G. A and one world war veteran. Petitions were recelved in both branches for passage of an anti-serv- jce gas or electricity meter charge reported (Continued on Tenth Page.) { Landis were referred today {T0 REJECT STORRS PROJECTS R. men, one Spanish war veteran ; | Welty, democrat, | of Representatives | LANDIS CHARGES ARE PASSED TO COMMITTEE Impeachment Possibilities Will Be Reported Upon Tomorrow By OCommittce. Washington, March 1:—Impeach- ment charges against Federal Judge bx thel house judiciary committee to a sub- committee with instructions to re- port tomorrow The sub-committee, which will rec- ommend action to be taken on charges preferred by Representative | Ohio, is composed Dyer, Missouri, Husted, New York, Boles, Iowa, re- publicans and Gard, Ohilo, and Sum- ner Texas democrats. It was indi-.) cated. it might recommend investiga- tion of the charges during next ses- sion or dismissal of the matter in a | resolution expressing criticism of | Judge Landis for accepting a salary of $42,500 as supreme arbiter of or- ganized baseball while serving on the bench. At recent hearings Representative Tusted declared the conduct of Judge Landis was “outrageous” while Rep- resentative Boies suggested that the judge might be forced by public opin- ion to resign one position. Other members of the sub-committee gave no indication of their attitude. BEEKETT fiETS ”FE; EAssassments in Police Court HEALEY PLEADS TODAY | For Mesa! Sales Aggre- | gate $525.00. 1 1 | Former Local Men Appear; Judse B. W. Aling disqualified z i himself in the case of John Gotzon- Before superior Court iowski and Louis Fodt, both charged with violation of liquor laws, in po- | lice court thi In Hartford. s morning, and Judge DOG DERBY TODAY. The I Manit., March 1.— Nine drivers with teams com- posed of from 7 to 13 dogs are scheduled to face the starter at 11 a. m. today in the annual 200-mile Hudson Bay dog der- by from here to Flin Flon and return. Mild weather prevailed and a slushy trail brought the dogs into the race with moccasin covered feet. The event prob- ably will end Wednesday. The derby is the main event of a two-day program of nor- thern winter sports including special dog races for women ‘“‘mushers.” FIVE FINED TODAY William F. Mangan was called in to sit on the cases. He Imposed fines of { $100 and costs on each of the ac- ; cused. Judge Alling had previously fined Albert W. Meyers $125, Philip Paradechyko and Stanley Ostrowski ' $100 and costs cach, on similar charg- es. Liquor Prosecutor M. A. Sexton (Special to The Herald.) Hartford, March I.—Luman Beckett, of New Britain, tenced to life imprisonment in state = was sen- prison at Weéthersfield this afternoon, ' after the superior court had accepted | a plea of guilty to the charge of mur- der of Charles Taft, a “night hawk"’ Jitncur in this city in February, 1917, The case brought to a close a mur- der that for several years seemed like a mystery that would take its place among the unsolved crimes in the Nutmeg State. Beckett, while con- fined in state prison at Windsor, Vt., for highway robbery, signed a con- fession for Captain Robert Hurley of the state police, admitting his killing of Taft. The confessed murderer for many years led a life that Kept his relatives in fear of the ultimate result and the police of several states busy Shortly before the United States en- tered into the great World war, Beck- ett appeared in this city in the uni- form of a Canadian soldier, and for a time he managed to keep many groups of auditors thrilled ‘with his supposedly gallant feats while serv- ing in France. Shortly before the body of Taft was found in his car on the road leading to Kensington, a few hundred feet south of the terminus of Arch street, Beckett was thought to have been mixed up in some peity thieving. He disappeared shortly aft- er the finding of Taft's body, and the next heard of him was his convic- tion for the crime in Vermont. Dur- ing his incarceration in the Vermont institution, Beckett gave the prison officials considerable trouble. On sev- cral occasions his plans to effect an escape, even after he had confessed to the killing of Taft, were frustrated. Raymond R. Healey, former treas- urer of the New Britain Trust com- pany, and at one time chairman of the republican town committee in this afternoon in court to answer to this afternoon in court to answere to a charge of emb lement of funds from the United States Bank at Hart- ford, of which he was an official. It was understood that a plea of guilty would be entered by the accused, and that a strong plea for clemency would b emade in his behalf. 25,000 IMMIGGRANTS. Hartford, March 1.—More than 25,000 immigrant aliens came into Connecticut in 1920, according to a report issued by Robert (. Deming, state Americanization director. Th‘e foreign born population of Connecti- cut plus native born of foreign par- ents, is estimated at 825,000, of a total of 1,380, , the latter the fig- ure for the 1920 census. In 1910 the figures were 703,248 and 1,114,756, presented the State's case. It was the second appearance be- ! fore the local court of Meyers on | liquor charges. His attorney, Law- yer Alfred Le Witt asked for leniency on the ground that the o®ner had not chosen to hide behind a bartender but had come before the court in manly fashion and was prepared to assume responsibility for the offensc. He in- : formed the court that Meyers had | found the liquor business anything but a paying proposition and the im- ‘posmon of a heavy fine would work % hardship upon him. Lawyer Le Witt assured the court that Meyers would not be caught in the toils again sinee he had already disposed of the cafe. Paradechyko and Ostrowski were both represented by Lawyer J. H. Hadden of New Haven and a plea of guilty was entered in each ocase. Po- licemen Patrick McAvay and Michael Flynn found gin and evidence of sales in each place auring their vis- its on the evening of February 19. The only evidence in the Ostrowski case was a quantity of gin, less than an ounce, which remained in a glass after the bartender had made an un- successful attempt to destroy the con- tents. In the other case, a quart of gin was found on the premises. Paradechyko’s place of business is at the corner of Hartford avenue and FKast Main street. Ostrowski has been conductingsa cafe on Seymour street. The Fodt cafe on Arch street was visited by Sergeant W. C. Hart and Policeman Thomas . Woods, February 19. Quantities of whiskey and gin, the alcoholic content of which was admitted by the defense to be great- er than is allowed by law, was seized. Several other bottles were taken but no analysis was made. Lawyer P. F. McDonough appeared for Mr. Fodt. In the Gutzonowski case, a novel method of keeping the liquor under cover was revealed in the statements to the court of Prosecutor Sexton. A bottle of whiskey had been found in a sort of coffin or box in the cellar ‘buried several inches below the level of the floor. Above the box, a dead rat was found. Lawyer Sexton ven- tured an opinion that the ‘rat was either serving the purposes of cam- ouflage or. having imbibed some of the booze, had “given up the ghost.” The shattered remains of a wine glass were introduced as evidence. When the policemen cntered, the bartender is alleged to have smashed the glass to destroy evidence. Lawyer S. J. { Traceski represented Gutzonowski. avy Champions Give Battle in Senate For Additions to Our Fighting Sea Forces Washington, March 1.—Big and little navy champions continued today their | battle in the senate over the navy ap- , propriation bill. Senator Poindexter, in charge, gave notice that he intended to ‘‘fix responsibility’’ if the bill failed. Declaring that Senator Borah had made several mis-statements in his speech yesterday regarding the bill, Senator Poindexter said that with the completion of the presen building. After it is too late to protect America interests we begin to assert our rights. Senator King, Democrat, Utah, served notice he ‘‘would talk until the was satisfied’’ to efliminate the senate at £1,500,000 item for the naval base Alameda, Cal. Berah, republican, Idaho, for an int national agreement Y was expected to offer .& ling block. / Liube ntil it | GERMANY OFFERS TO 1 SEVENAND A HALF BILL IN.INDEMNITIES TO A Briand States Calls For Money To Lo Enemies SIMONS WA DEFIN French _P emie Himself_By‘_ London, ence with the Allies reparation offers of 30,000,000,000 gold $7,600,000,000. Dr. Simons, in effec| catures — Lloy ON'LIQUOR CHARGES| wakes causti March through her delega! would pay 50,000,000, out in Allled qua many to obtain marks without the largely for them, | Ject to the various 4 ductions and the r | A hasty examination | delegates of the writl the Germans indi reductions Germany 30,000,000,000 marks . Premier Briand posals were so dra | to an offer that if i advance Germany moj terms, then Germany 1 The Germans app if the capital sum 000,000 marks were would amount to ab 000 marks in 42 yean ! The difficulty, howew thel gard as wholly un ‘While Dr. Simons statemeént Premier B: ing on a pad of papen drew a caricature long hair and baggyy wrota ‘under it: “The little Breton) curiosity to what say.” M. Mr. Lloyd George, ¢ said: to pay.” nitely fixed, vears. gold marks. In order to make gations available, gested an internation the interest and sinl be paid by the Ge total not more thi Howev market would not.a so large a figure, ning would be made 000,000,000 gold maj the foreign minister have certain privile emption from taxati tries. The German finan was learned, two conditions: 1. were ‘That the plel Silesia should result’ many. 2 That Germai stored to her free leges throughout th The French strongly represented ence by three of th members of her cal to Premier Briand. | the confcrence todayy minister of liberated “We are ready courteously examine Germans make reg conditions of the It is not imp tions. {have something bef than the Allied t if it were equivalent tions fixed in the’ the Allies will no @ but not one sou bel determined in abl The proposal of Senator |- Briand passed “From the way tli in another ten minut Among the most | in the proposals Simons were his i total of Germany's and that Germany was her maximum capac! when the Germans arrangement shall be payment of the rei