New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 8, 1921, Page 1

STABLISHED 1870. NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT. TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1021. _TWELVE PAGES ANLEY WORKS IS GIVEN THREE PERSONS ARE RIGHT TO AMEND CHARTER AND INCREASE ITS STOCK FOR SHELTON WRECK gislature Also Gives Permission To Change Name Of Stanley Rule And Level Company ERLIN TO MERIDEN @FRANCHISE IS LOST clons Agree Not to Change State Liquor Laws Because of Possibility of Modifying Volstead Act. Hartford, March §.—Relieving the notony of disposing of routine ness in the house today, a pho- grapher with a flashlight apparatus ok plctures either of individual embers, including Speaker Huxford, mmittee chairmen or groups of mbers serving on a committee or ted together. » None of the legislative business was striking Importance and both nches disposed of their calendar jch was regarded as a good legis- ive stride. No Life Saving Corps. 'The bill which was intended to es- * a volunteer life saving com- ! to promote saving of life at beaches and on inland water, reported adversely, as was the Laney bill, which would require of at least nine inches thick- In one and two-family dwellings netructed of brick. r Laws Intact. The judiclary committee adversely ported the bill of Senator Brooks repeal sections 2727, 2728, 29 and 2730 of the general 2726, acts ich relate to voting on the liquor nse question. Senator De Laney M that should congress change the histead, act the striking off of the in question would leave this state thout a provision for taking a vote the questions of issuing lquor jenses. The committee therefore & ‘the laws could stand al- they are now without effect. Error Is Corrected. overnor Lake sent a communica- to correct a clerical error made January when he nominated Louis ney of Hartford to fill an un- term as trustee of the Con- Reformatory to extend to 23. Instead he appointed Mr. eney to fill a vacancy until July ext and for the full term of four rs from that date. New School Bill. [fhe bill changing the length of the | in public schools pro- ool r fles that the year shall be at least weoks, and also that when in- fon Is prescribed by school visi- or a town school committee shall Jude elementary sclepce, training manual arts and instruction in the no treatment and protection of Is and birds and their economic ortance “such instruction when cticable shall be correlated with k In reading, language and nature dies. Public schools shall be open children over six years of age, but ldren over five may be admitted. Civil Rights Restored o senate restored civil rights to ester 8. Selleck of Norwalk, once hjer of the Iairfleld Cougty Na-! convicted of to bank who was banking laws; Brooklyn; nal lation of the d Bradley of h; John B. Shephard of M. ort: James H. McCrann of w Britain and Edward A. Conklin Meriden. Stanley Works Changoes. he incorporations committee re- | an amendment to allowing rted Stanley pital stock favorably Works charter, {ncrease, amount mnot pted, and other changes in or- fzatlon also extending the time rganizing oLrdship Park as- plation and changing the charter the Stanley Rule and Tevel Co. “The Stanley Securities Co.” and mitting it to Increase its capital to not more than five millions; ending the time within which the lon hospital may file its charter of anization. Trolley Line is Fliver. IMhe raflronds committee reported il to allow tho People's Iee and brage C'o. of Bridgeport to exwnd spur track extending the time for ant>ing the 7Tordship Park rail- d and adversely, on an amend- to the Meriden, New Britain and d rallway which would extend arter rights until 1926, Fhe house after prayer confirmed econference, 209 to 1, the gover- br's renomipation of Justice John Beach to the supreme court bench, ? of Judge J. J. Walsh to the fleld y ecourt of common ' Thomas | lyn of Ledyard; Carl A. Gleb of | SERVICEMEN ASSURED HELD RESPONSIBLE Dead Motorman, Gonductor and OF COUNCIL SUPPURT; Town Clerk Blamed in Coroner Claim City Fathers Will Back Their Petition For $12,000 Appropriation. Representatives of the service men's organizations in the city have canvassed the membership of the common council, and it is understood that they have received promises of support in a new petition for $12,000, $8,000 of which will be used for club- rooms and $4,000 for a service de- partment. Mayor O. F. Curtis has promised the men that if they can show him the need of such a depart- ment here, he will lend his support to the measure. Should the council vote such an appropriation, it will be necessary to act on it at a city meet- ing. The appropriation would re- quire the levy. of about one-cighth of a mill tax. MAY CUT WORKING DAY Chairman Gary of U. S. Steel Cor- poration Considering Elimination of 12 hour day... New York, March 8.—Elimination of the 12 hour day in the mills of the U. 8. Steel Corp, is being considered by a committee of presidents of the subsidiary companies, Chairman E. H. Gary of the corporation announced today. While the committee has not reach- ed a conclusion Mr. Gary said he be- lleved that it will report within the comparatively near future. “Sunday work and the long turn in changing shifts” he added, “have been eontirely eliminated by all our UPHOLDS DR. HARRIS State Dairy Commissioner in Accord With Health Superintendent's In- terpretation of Law. State Dairy Commissioner Whittle- sey to whom the guestion of Dr. J. R. Harrls' alleged breach of the state ferred, has termed the controversy which has been brought by Alderman ‘statutes relative to bob veal was re-i A. M. Paonessa unwarranted since the law is “impractical, obsolete and | in need of revision.” Dr. Harris al- lowed four calves which were under weight to be taken from the abattoir |some time ago and brought to Massa- | chusetts for sale. The state commis- sioner in his reply to Dr. Harmls' re- | port has stated that the interpreta- tion of the statute in its present form is left entirely to the local health ‘officer. CLUB MEETING. This week's Rotary luncheon is scheduled for Thursda; at 12:15 sharp. . Dr. Floyd C. Haviland, gen- eral superintendent of the Connecti- cut State Hospital at Middletown will be the principal speaker. His subject will be “Mental Diseases and De- fects as a Community Problem.” The talk will be rather unusual because of its subject and should prove of exceptional interest to New Britain business men. ROTARY Phelan’s Finding TOWN OFFICIAL PLACED GASOLINE IN VESTIBULE The Explosion of This Added to Hor- ror of Fatal Accident—Prosecuting Authorities Notified of Result of Investigation — Crash Occurred Washington’s Birthday 10 People Lost Lives. and Bridgepert, March 8.—Three per- sons are held to be criminally respon- sible for the trolley collision at South Shelton on the afternoon of Washing- ton’s birthday, in which ten persons lost their lives, By Coroner John J. Phelan in a finding today. Those Who Are Blamed. They are: Milton Cheritre, de- ceased motorman of the car bound south from Shelton; George Robin- son, his conductor, and Stephen T. Palmer, town clerk of Shelton, and judge of probate of the district, who was taking home on the car a five- gallon can of gasoline. A copy of the finding is being sent to Prosecuting Attorney Arthur R. McOrmond of Ansonia, Prosecuting Attorney William J. Gurnias, of Shel- ton, and to State’s Attorney Homer S. Cummings of Fairfield county. Advises Corrective Measures. The coroner also says “by reason of the appalling loss of life and the shocking manner of death, the acts of the south-bound car crew consist- ing of omissions and negligences prior to the collision when considered in combination with the seeming re- sponsibility of the gasoline shipper as a contributor to the disaster’” feels obliged to submit the matter to the public utilities commission for cor- rective measures for preventing a like catastrophe in the future. The inquest by Coroner Phelan was on the body ‘of George Koch, or Cook, of Derby. He was suffo- cated following the collision. (Continued on Tenth Page.) DROP IN GASOLINE Gulf Refining Company Announces Reduction in Precious Mincral To- day—Kerosene Also Comes Down. The Gulf Refining company notified their dealers today that the price of gasoline had dropped two cents on a gallon. Kerosene had also come down one cent on a gallon. This ap- plies only to wholesale selling. The new scale makes gasoline now selling at the rate of 27 cents a gallon, with kerosene at 17 cents, wholesale. New York, March 8.—The Standard 0il Co. of New Jersey today an- nounced a reduction of one cent a gallon in the export price of refined oil and gasoline. REPUBLICAN LEADERS PREPARING NEW TARIFF TO BE PRESENTED VERY SOON Washington, March 8.—A program for tariff and revenue legislation is to be laid before FPresident Harding by congressional leaders within a few days. Republican members of the | senate finance and house ways and | means committees are to meet and appoint a joint sub-committee to pre- sent formal recommendations. This plan of action was agreed upon at the White House dinner con- ference last night, according to in- formation from members of congress who attended. President Harding was reported to be disposed to favor a new tempor- ary tarift law to have effect for about one year pending restoration of more stable conditions and preparation of a permanent law to replace the Un- derwood act. Action on revision of internal rev- | President Favors Temporary Tax For Year, to Be Fol- lowed Later By Permanent Changes. PACKING INDUSTRY TO REDUCE WORKERS' PAY 1215 Per Cent Cut Effective March 14 All Over Country. Chicago, March 8.—Wage de- creases of approximately 12 1-2 per cent affecting more than 100,000 em- ployes of the packing industry in all parts of the country were officially announced today. The reductions are effective on March 14. At the same time there will be a revision of working hours, time and one-half for overtime being paid only after ten hours’ labor in any one day or aftes 64 hours in any one week. Double time wjill be paid for Sundays and i Former Provisional Premier Re- 1 ported Directing Drive on Gapital SOVIETS ARE HARD PRESSED Strong Rcinforcements Are Being Brought Up. But Boris Savinkow Hints That This May Be Begin- ning of End of Soviet Rule. Copenhagen, March Kerensky, premier of the Russian | provisional government which was overturned by the Bolsheviki late in 1917, is #aid in advices received here to be at Kronstadt. Kerensky, it is declared, is directing the revolution- ary offensive against Petrograd with that fortress as a base. 8.—Alexander Reinforcements Rushed Up. Warsaw, March 8 (By Associated Press).—Strong detachments of Rus- sian Bolshevik cavalry, commanded by General Budenny are being rushed from South Russia to Moscow to crush the insurgents who are said to be gaining in power daily in the Rus- sian capital. Reports reaching War- saw declare many units of the Bol- shevik infantry divisions are disloval but say the Chinese mercenaries in the service of the communists are standing firmly by their soviet lead- ers. Many rumors of the overthrow of the Russian soviet government have reached Warsaw but none has come through official channels. Beginning of the End? Boris Savinkow, leader of the Rus- sion soc’alist revolutionaries, who has headquarters in this city, has ex- pressed belief that the present dis- turbances in Russia may be the be- ginning of the end of soviet rule. He feels, however, that from under ground advices from Russia the pres- ent movement may be premature and easily suppressed. He is positive an outbreak on an enormous scale will follow. It is his opinion that the peasant revolt eventually will win over the majority of the soviet army and will lead to the replacement ot Lenine and Trotzky by a peasant gov- ernment. He believes the new regime will possibly establish a republic but more probably some peasant leader may be proclaimed czar of Russia. DR. KLEIN IS RECALLED Local Physl;!-n Again Placed On Ac- tive Duty Dist of National Guard Officers. Hartford, March 8.—Orders from the adjutant general’s office announce the acceptance as a part of the state’s military forces of Battery C, First Coast Artillery, C. N. G., in South Norwalk. The officers appointed are: Captain, Anson F. Keeler; first lieu- tenant, Philip H. Sherwood, and sec- ond lieutenant, Joseph E. Brotherton. Major Charles E. Smith, Q. M. corps, C. N. G.. is to appear for ex- amination at a date yet to be assigned. First Lieut. Joseph M. Klein, C. N. G., medical officers’ reserve corps, is returned to active duty. He is prac- ticing medicine in New Britain. Milton Howard Fesler, Co. E, Fourth infantry, C. S. G., is commis- sioned second lieutenant, vice Rob- erts resigned. 0UT OF WORK—KILLS SELF Broad Street Young Man Hangs Him- self While Despondent Over En- forced Idleness Due to Depression. Jacob Bednarz, aged 24 years, of 63 Broad street, was found dead in his room early last evening, having ended his life by hanging while in a fit of despondency due to enforced jdleness caused by the depression in local manufacturing plants. It is be- lieved that the man committed the act some time Sunday. The discovery of the body was made by Andrew Brzsuk of the above address. Dr, Waterman Lyon, the medical exami- ner, viewed the body and pronounced it a case of suicide. Bednarz up to a few months ago was employed at the Fafnir Bearing company. Since he has been out of employment, it is said he made it a practice to remain out late at night, and he would then sleep the greater part ot the day. This accounts for the fact that the body was not found | sooner. The dead man used a piece of a trunk strap to accomplish his act of self destruction. Wallingford Factory is Now Working Full Week Wallingford, March 8.—R. Wallace and Sons Manufacturing company, | silverware makers, are now on a ' working schedule of 51 hours a week. The plant employs 1,000 persons. ! The working schedule has been 41 hours a week for two months. S — PRICE THR 'KERENSKY APPEARS | ADVANCE OF ALLIED SOLDIERS IN AS PEOPLE'S LEADER| GERMANY, AND SEIZURE OF THR IMPORTANT CITIES IS NOT OPPG J. RUFUS WALLINGFORD | President Ebert Declares Nation Is Def — VISITING IN MERIDEN Orders New Car, Tries to Call Up Calif. Then Disappears. 8. —The local arching for a young man vesterday afternoon put in re- verse-charge telephone calls for Jesse Lasky, movie producer, at Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif, whose son he pretended to be, and for Douglas Fairbanks in. New York and after ordering a new automobile from a gar- age, disnppeared without paying for the phone calls and without waiting for the automobile. Word came from Mr. Lasky that he had no such son. tnsibfll fwaow woy wkoq kaqnkojnff GITY HALL FIRE AGAIN It’s a Waste Paper Basket This Time Meriden, March police are who —Cigar Butt and Kerosene Oil Serve As Fuel for Blaze. So common have fires in City Hall become that few officials and employes knew, and fewer still cared to know that damage to the property was nar- rowly averted this morning by the throwing out of the fourth story window of a blazing waste paper basket Through some unknown source papers saturated with kerosene oil were thrown * into a waste paper basket into which someone had thrown a lighted cigar butt. The inevitable happened and as the blaze shot toward the ceiling some- one seized the basket and hurled it out of an open window nearby. No dam- age was done. TROUBLE AMONG STRIKERS Suong Focce of Police on Daty at Thompsonville to Prevent Renewal of Last Night's Outbreak. Thompsonville, March S.—In an- ticipation of a renewal of the violence | of last night when striking employes of the Bigelow-Hartford Carpet Co. attacked and heat three men who were alleged to have returned to their places as dye-house workers. Chief of Police P, J. Gogers had his entire force of officers on duty at the mills | today: In pursua of orders to keep the crowds moving, two persons re- fused to obey the order and were ar- rested but later released. No outbreak developed. A crowd of fully 1,000 gathered last night workers were set upon, but the quick arrival of officers resulted in a dis- persal of the crowd and the rescue of the victims. No arrests were made. when the three | And Unable To Resist ¢ “Violation Of Try Opponents - Insists ‘‘Right Is Being Do ‘ By Might’- Protests Terms Imposed Wou Slaves Of This And Next Generaticn. MAYOR TO OPPOSE DAYLIGHT SAVING | Feels That Change in Time Schedules Would Be Productive of No Material Benefit to the City. Mayor Orson F. Curtis will oppose, it is expected, any effort of the com- mon council to put into effect in this | city daylight saving time in accord- | ance with a decision of the railroads to go onto that schedule, March 27. Several other cities have acted favor- | ably on the matter and the subject is | under discussion in practically every municipality in the state. In the opinion of the mayor the adoption of a daylight saving would offer no ad- vantage to the city, but on the con- trary would lead to numerous mix- ups. Should the factories find it ad- visable to start an hour earlier in the morning, the mayor feels that this will be possible and equally as convenient without changing time, while many of the inconveniences at- |tendant to a change in clock time { would be avoided. It is probable that the matter will come up at the regular March ses- sion of the council, one week from Wednesday evening. If favorable ac- tion is taken, the city’s time will be set one hour ahead by the passage of an ordinance. PRESIDENT'S PHYSICIAN Dr. C. E. Sawyer of Marion Will At- tend Him and Have Rank of Briga- dier Genceral in Army. ‘Washington, March 8.—President Harding has definitely appointed Dr. C. E. Sawyer of Marion, his personal physician and expects to nominate him in the near future for the rank of brigadier general in the army med- { ical corps. Dr. Sawyer’s commission would fol- low a custom of years under which the president’s physician had been an officer of the army or navy medical service. The doctor has been the Harding family physician for a number of years and accompanied Mr. Harding on his trips away from Marion after he was nominated for the presidency. Dr. Sawyer has specialized in nervous diseases and is the proprietor of a sanatorium in Marion. POLI CABINET MEMBERS IN THEIR FIRST SESSION Costa Rica-Panama Problem and United States Troops Abroad Discussed. Washington, March 8.—The Pan- ama-Costa Rica situation, the ques- tion of withdrawing American troops from the Rhine and the legislative program of the coming special session of congress are understood to have been among a long list of subjects | discussed by President Harding and his cabinet today at their first for- mal meeting. No announcement followed the meeting but the general understand- ing was that the question of a troop withdrawal from Germany had oc- cupied a large place in the discussion and that some indication of the pol- icy of the administration might be expected soon. Colombian Treaty is Sponsored By Harding Washington, March 8.—A special message to the senate requesting im- ;nediate ratiffication of the Coiom- bian treaty is being prepared by President Harding, :to re- MEN AND NEWSPAPERMEN ARRES RUM RUNNERS AFTER THRILLING CHASE Fugitives Captured At Point of a Gun At Berlin Town Line After Race From Meriden. Meriden, March 8.—Two policemen: and two newspapermen figured in an exciting automobile pursuit of two al- leged rum runners through Meriden at 6 o’'clock this morning and at the Ber- lin town line the fugitives were stopped | at the point of a gun. In their closed touring car 19 five gallon cans were packed and when a hole was shot into one of them,. pure grain alcohol flowed out. The strangers are alleged to have | tried to buy their freedom from their | captors and gave them $225 in bills. ! At the police station the men described themselves at James Fioretta, 34 of 50 Jackson avenue, Lonk Island City and | Rafaele Santanielli, 43 Mount bevenl street, Brooklyn. They said they were driving to Springfield, Mass., and when near New Rochelle, N. Y., met a man with a disabled truck. They agreed to cart his load to Hartford, where he said he would have another truck waiting. The pair was fined $100 and cosis each for violating the state liquor laws and bound over in $1,000 each on = bribery charge. They will face a fed eral charge in New Haven. L Patrolman Kurien, on the | Gen. Degoutte, of French 0 Statement Telli People Occup One of Hostili French Military Mayence, March 8 (B Press).—Occupation of German territory whi { had announced they Wi session of as one of | Germany's failure to n reparation demands today. . No untoward incid eastward move of the ! so far as reports up showed. The occupation of th seldorf, the largest of en over by the Allies, this morning and th and Ruhrort compi chief port of the Ruh dustrial region, this Flotillas Are The entire movem: in a way to obviate, 8 ble, a show of force, &k and British Rhine flof pared for eventualiti After the occupatic dorf General Degoue lamation to its people i clared the occupationd measure of hostility a§ ulation but one inten the government of Gel out its obligations. 3 be raised against the' the economic life "1‘ declared and the were ready. to aid. th proving their conditio regarded provisioning Berlin, March o ciated Press)—Fried German imperial pres in a proclamation Germany was not in. force to oppose the fi of the Allies in D German territory, but} theless protested V what the it open violation of the Terms Are The ptesident’s as follows: s, “Fellow citizens: “Our world war imposed U of demands, both in impossible of fulfilin ourselves but our chil children, would ha work-slaves of our signature. We were| seal a contract wi a generation would to carry out. “We must not and ply with it. Our ho spect forbid it. “With an open bre treaty of Versailles, are advancing to the more Germany ter Nation is Defd “We, however are to oppose force with defenseless. 3 “Nevertheless we ¢ who still recognize righteousness may h Right is being might. “The whole Germ fering with those of are forced to suffer tion. With firm bond row unite us in one will. “Fellow citizens, m domination with grav tain an upright dem allow yourselves to committing ill-considg patient and have faitl “The_imperial go rest until the foreign | fore our right.” Dr. Sthamer ambassador to G London for Berlin nounced this aft asked