New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 11, 1921, Page 1

Yy ociated Press bTABLISHED 1870. NEW BRITAIN. CONNECTICUT. FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1921.—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES PRICE THR ;“ \NTLSALOON LEAGUE WILL BATTLE FOR REVISION OF DECISION TO PERMIT BEER bst Step Will Be To Try And Induce New Attor- ney General To Change Palmer’s Ruling, Re- atly Announced RY” LEADER AVOWS ER ISN'T MEDICINE hugherty, Realizing Whole Country is Greatly Inter- ested, Says He Will Give atter Careful Attention. oston, March 11.—Three ways of rcoming what he termed the er. jous opinion of former Attorney ral A. Mitchell Palmer that beer wine can be proscribed as medi- were . outlined by Wayne B, eeler, general counsel of the anti. on of America today. lest,” *ald, “we will ask the attorney general to revise the lon, ¢ | Second Plan, d weo will endeavor to get aining nine states that have breement codes to do what the w dry states have done and pro- | it the prescribing of beer for me- nal purposes. Finally we will ask gress to change the law in this pect If it is necessary to do. In the meantime the brewers can- make any real beer until the new ulations are made and then only very small quantities, as it can y be used In nine states under t ‘limitations. No “Open Season for Bece It the brewers think It will be n season for the old-time beer @ under Mr. Palmer's decision y will be greatly mistaken,” com- ed Mr, Whasle: QO “addition to * she Ifmitations d on manufacturers of beer, very self-respecting physiclans will cribe {t ax a medicine. o national medical association gone on record repeatedly against bxicating lquors as medicine. Beer no therapeutic value. It is sim- .a and that is all there is to Expect Early Review. ashington, March 11.—Early re- by Attorney General Daugherty @ recent rullng of Attorney Gen- ) Palmer making valid of the miption of beer as medicine un. the Volstead act Is expected. Mr. herty says he is aware that the olo country’ Is Interested and he will give the opinion careful ulations to accord with the don handed down by Mr. Palmer week are being drafted by offi- s of the Internal revenue bureau no date has been wet for them to me offective, egarding the general hibition enforcement, Mr. Daugh- says the department of justice ot meeking additional powers and it has not been suggested to him his department take over the en- pement work now under the treas- department. ~HAVE YOUNG IDEAS tford Woman With Two Sons and subject of fve Grandchildren to Wed Again. | artford, March 11.—Cupid is no pgater of years. Mrs. Abbie A. r, who has two sons, flve grand- [dren and two great grandchildren, William O’ Brien, who has a son a daughter and six grandchildren, % married Tuesday night at 136 reat avenue, where Mr. O'Brien made his home for a half century. Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien are 74 of age. This is Mr. O'Brien's marriage and Mrs. O'Brien's nd. Mr. O'Brien Is a retired con- tor, His bride had been his keeper for two years. n an;rto Look Over American Made Tractors rlin, March 11.—The Reichstag mittes on national economics has 0 recommend that the govern- bormit entry of four tractor w of light weight American ol for | urposes of demonstration. petition for permission to make shipment met with a strong op- tion on the part of the German peers. e ———— PROSECUTOR RULES | IN SHELTON WRECK Man Who Had Gasoline on Car Not to Blame for Wreck STATE'S ATTORNEY NOTIFIED New Evidence Shows That Car In- spector Hmself Lifted the Can of Inflammable Liquid Onto Trolley. Shelton, March 11.—A statement has been sent by Prosecutor Wil- ! llam J. Curnais of Shelton to State's Attorney Homer S, Cummings to the effect that he absolves Judge Stephen T. Palmer of Shelton from criminal responsibility in connection with deaths In the wreck of two trolley cars at South Shelton on Washing- ton's Birthday Palmer Is Absolved. He adds that Mr. Palmer cannot be held as criminally responsible for deaths in that wreck, in his opnion. The proximate cause of the deaths, Prosecutor Cournais says was the collision of the cars. The act of Judge Palmer in placing a can of gasoline on the vestibule of the south- bound car cannot in itself be deemed a criminal act nor does it show recklessness or a disregard for the safety of human life. New Evidence, Prosecutor Cournals points out evidence that was not disclosed at the inquest by Coroner Phelan and that was that when Palmer took the five gallon galvanized can of gasoline to the front platform of the car and set it on the vestibule Inspector Frank Laboree lifted it up and set in on the left side of the motorman. | In the case of George Robinson, conductor of the south-bound car, Prosccutor Cournals finds there was an element of negligence in unwit- tingly violating four rules of the company. AMERICAN TROOPS NOT 0 GOLLECT CUSTOMS | : | Will Not However, Object to Allies Doing So in Rhine Districts. Washington, March 11, (By Asso- ciated Press).—American forces on the Rhine will take no part in the collection of customs, but no objec- tion will be made to such action by the Allles within the territory occu- pled by them, it was learned today at the state department. Parke, March 11.—Representatives of workers’ unions having a member- ship of 60,000 have appeared before Allled authorities at Dusseldorf and declared they did not consider occu- pation of that city, Duisburg and Ruhrort as a hostile act, says a dis- « patch to the Echo de Paris. They | are quoted a ing that occupation of the district was necessary against attempts by German capitalists to evade payment of just reparations. The delegates were assured, it sa'd, that all public liberties be rupulously respected. is 10.—The for the deter- be March voters Silesia to Breslau, Silesla, first contingent of plebiscite in Upper mine whether the region shall German or Polish which will be held March 20 arrived here this morning. The train carrying the vot- tors came from Duisburg and on board were eight hundred miners and their wives, who will be the guests of private citizens until the day of the voting. JEWELER BRUTALLY KILLED Proprictor of New York Store Shot to Death By Robbers, After They Had Tied His Hands. New York, March 11.—Robbers this morning entered the jewelry store of Abraham Harris on Eighth avenue and after tying the proprietor’s hands behind him, they shot him to death. | They escaped with several trays of diamond. : The loot was valued at about $2,.- 00. Belief that the intruders killed Har- would CHECKING SYSTEM FOR CITY BUDGET SUGGESTED BY VIBBERTS—COUNCIL AND FINANCE BOARD BOTH FACTORS! Vibberts, vice-president and secretary of the New Britain Trust company, the city meeting difficulty that is fac- ing the electorate which he was will- ing to explain to a Herald reporter today. It consists, briefly, of a sys. tem of referring the budget from the board of finance and taxation to the Common Council, which must care- fully consider the various items and | turn the budget back, if necessary, | with stipulations as to changes in any items which might be under discus. sion. Then, if needs be, two budgets might emanate from the one source, the board and the council, one con- taining cuts which are recommendea and the other being the original budget. Whereupon it would become the duty of the voters to decide upon which budget they wished to accept at the polls at spring election time. *Twill Check Cuts. One of the greatest difficulties now faced by the finance board is that ot explaining to the public the exact needs of the city and the reasons for many appropriations which appear blind. Another difficulty is claimed at city meetings through the submis- ( slon of a budget which simply calls | for a lower tax rate, which has not been published far enough in advance for the electorate to decide upon the various items. Many times these budgets are financial impossibilities, several items have in the past allowed not possibly collect. no way in which to become aware of these shortcomings and simply adopts the lower budget, wherever the cuts may be and whatever the estimated (ESCH AND POTTER ARE | | CHOSEN BY PRESIDENT, | Named For Interstate Com-! mission—Other Nomina- tions Are Made. Washington, March 11.—Former Representative John J. Esch, of Wis- consin, and Mark W. Potter of New | York were nominated today by Pres- fdent Harding to be members of the | interstate commerce commission. ' Fred Morris Dearing of Missouri | was nominated today by President ' | Harding to be assistant secretary of state. | Walter Lyon of Pittsburgh, was nominated to be U. S. attorney for the western district of Pennsylvania. William H. Joyce of Los Angeles, was renominated for membership on the federal farm loan board. Thomas O. Marvin, of Massachu- setts, was nominated to be a mem- ber of the tariff commission and Wil- liam 8. Culbertson of Kansas was re- nominated as a member of that com- mission. Medical Director Edward 8. Stitt was nominated to be surgeon general of the navy and Captain Charles B. McVay, Jr., to be chief of the bureau {of ordnance with rank of rear ad- miral. Three brigadier generals in the ma- rine corps were renominated to their present rank. They are Smedley D. Butler., Logan Feland and Harry Lee. Other nominations included Chap- lain John Thomas Axton to be chief ' of chaplains of the army with the rank of colonel, and Ernest Lester Jones of Virginia to be director of the coast and geodetic survey. The nomination of D. R. Crissin- ‘ ger, of Marion, O., to be comptroller of the currency, was confirmed today by the senate. (0. M VETS BUSY Organize Corp.—Elect Thomas Dyson President—$1 a Year Dues—Supper March 24. The members of Company M, Con- necticut State Guard, which was mus- | tered out of service about a week ago, met last night in the armory on Arch street and organized a veterans' corps. It was voted to allow all members of the company for the past four years to be members. The following officers and committees were elected: President, Thomas Dy- son; vice president, E. M. Jones; retary-treasurer, F. L. Williams. House committee, W. L. Williams, J. Lipetz, C. Groth; ertertainment com- mittee, E. Gibne: R. R. Rand, W., Litke, H. Hall, W. Wilcox; auditing committee, R. R. Rand, C. 8. Neu- mann; by-laws cimmittee, C. S. Neu- man, E. M. Jones, F. L. Williams. Meetings will be held on the last Thursday of each month. Dues were fixed at one dollar per year. It was decided to have a donation supper on Thursday, March 24, and arrangements were left in the bands of the enter- has a possible solution of | for an income which the city couhll‘ The public has ! | in Texas and Missouri. income may be. Naturally they do not properly balance. Should our charter amendments be so planned as to eliminate the city meeting, which is admittedly a difi- cult and well-nigh impossible method of legislation, the plan of a dual budget. drawn up in its proper form by the finance board and thoroughly discussed by the council might fill the need. Suggested Improvements. The illegality of the budgets would be done away with, both of them would come from a body which with the proc s of mak- city busines: ement. The various itcms would subject to revision and discussion in council. In publishing the budget as proposed the public would become aware of the e \ted expenses. The councilmen m hen be approached by an individual a group which favored or objected to a certain item and, after having heard expressions of opinion would act upon the de- mands of their constituents. Natural- ly a ward representative would try to give the best expres n of what he deems to be public opinion pos- sible, otherwise he would fail of election again, Whereupon it become the duty of the council to make recommendations for changes in the budget or accept it at once. is familiar ing up this E be ! Providing there was no agreement on i certain items between the council and would be necessary to budgets and of- public, which harome thor- the proposed affect each the board, it make up the two fer the choice to the would have had tim~ tr oughly familiar with cuts and how t would unit in the population. HAMON'S LIFE WITH PARAMOUR IS BARED Prosecutor in Murder Case Tells Jury of Gonditions TELLS OF HER THREAT Evidence Presented to Show Thas One Witness Had Once Discovered Clara | Smith Hamon With Pistol Against Man’s Body. Ardmore, Okla., March 11.—Inspec- tion by the jury of the hotel suite oc- cupied by Jake L. Hamon and Clara Smith Hamon at the time of the fa- tal shooting of the oil millionaire last November, for which Clara Hamon is on trial charged with murder, was abandoned today because of a heavy rain, It developed todgy that Hamon was killed by a solid steel bullet. The discovery, made recently by Attorney General S. P. Freeling, in charge of the prosecution, resulted in a tech- nicality which was smoothed out by amending the indictment to read: Metallic bullet”” instead of ‘leaden bullet.” Clara Smith Hamon plead- ed “not guilty’' to the amended petl- tion as she did recently to the pre- vious information. With the opening of court, Judsge Thomas W. Champion ordered from the room all persons 16 years old or under. Will Tell of Their Life. Attorney General Freeling in begin- ning his statement to the jury read the information amended Vyesterday. The proot will show, he said, that Jake L. Hamon came to Ardmore in June, 1913, from Lawton. He was followed soon after, Mr. Freeling con- tinued, by Clara Hamon, then a “ma- ture woman of " “She is now 32,”” he added. “For a time she acted as stenographer and they immediately began living to- gether, Mrs. Jake Hamon and Jake, Jr., remaining at Lawton. Their life then became one of open and notor- ; ious adultery.” The attorney general Mrs. Jake Hamon's visit to the rooms she said Hamon and Clara occupied, and asserted Hamon sent his wifs away and continued to live with Clara. He referred to many alleged trips Clara and Hamon took and to Ham- on having sent his protege to schools He spoke of frequent quarrels and said that at ona time Hamon called an officer to force Clara to give him certain papers and that at that time Clara attempted to obtain a pistol nearby. “On another occasion, Treeling said, a visitor found Clara with a pis- tol “‘pressed against Hamon's body.” Girl COries In Courtroom. Clara Smith Hamon bpwed her head and sobbed today when the pros- ! ecution told the jury that Mr. Hamon describing the shooting, said he “never had a chance, the old man never had a chance; she shot me as I| Anorica (Ital) Genoa via Philadel- | lay about like I am now.” the | would | referred to ; MOVEMENT TO CUT PAY OF SKILLA SOVIETS GIVEN UNTIL RICE TO INTRODUCE SOLDIERS’ PETITION - MAR. 25 TO SURRENDER' | Revolutionary Forces Will Then Bombard City If Ul timatum is Unheeded. London, March 11.—Revolutionary authorities at the fortress of Kron- | stadt have sent an ultimatum to the | soviet authorities in Petrograd de- manding the surrender of the city be- fore March If the city is not giv- en up the ultimatum declares, there will be a general bombardment, it Is asserted in an Abo, Finland, dispatch i to the London Times. Wholesale ar- | rests and executions of workmen are said to have occurred at Oranien- baum, Systerbak and Petrograd. Kronstadt last night sent out a wireless dispatch denying Bolshevik statements that the fortress was with- out food, says a telegram from Stock- holm. To the contrary there is plen- ty of food and ammunition there, the message stated. “Artillery ‘fire from Kronstadt has ! been extremely well directed,” tha reless dispatch is quoted as saying. “The fortress of ; Todleben and all other soviet batteries on the Karelian peninsula have been completely de- molished. Two of the four 12-inch guns at Krasnoye Gorka have been si- lenced by shells from the battleship Petropavlovsk. Krasnoye Gorka has been isolated. the railroad to it has been destroyed and a thaw has placed the surround- ing marshes in such condition that the fortress has been cut off from the st of the Bolshevik forces.” A great anti-Bolshevik movement | in the vicinity of Minsk, White Russia is reported in a Reuters dispatch from Helsingfors. Soviet troops are | said to have mutinied and murdered | Bolshevik commissaries there. An- | other dispatch mentions street fight- | ing between the Bolsheviki and antl- | soviet units in Kiev. FRITZI SCHEFF DIVORCED Is Given Decree in Waterbury Court and Gets Right to Resume Her Maiden Name—Cruelty the Charge. Waterbury, March 11. — Fritzi Scheff Anderson, well known comfc opera star, was granted a divorce in | the superior court here today, by Judge John. P. Kellogg, on the grounds of intolerable cruelty and in- temperance. She was also permitted to resume her/maiden name. Ander- son did not contest the action. This makes her third divorce. She told how her husband had refused to work and said he spent much of her money and had a liquor bill of $75 |a week. He often struck her on the face, she said, blackening her eyes. She said when he was sober he was a charming man and that she had withdrawn divorce papers at three different times because he had prom- | ised to do better. She said she had i reached the stage where she could not put up with any more cruel treatment. Miss Scheff has a summer home near this city, at Hitchcock’s Lakes. The suit for divorce was brought at New Haven but was transferred to ‘Waterbury for trial. CANDYMAKER NOT MENACE Health Department Finds It Is Pow- erless to Prevent Local Greek From | | | i re Plying His Trade. | Stringent state ordinances govern- ing that particular type of disease ! will restrain the local health depart- ment from obliging a candy-maker, who has been reported as suffering | i from a loathsome ailment, from giv~ ing up his employment temporarily. In his present stage of the disease, the state statutes rules the man as not of a particularly dangerous type and therefore fit to work making candy.; so long as he remains in the care of a doctor. The case was reported to the health department several days | ago. Dr. J. R. Harris, superintend- ent, instituted an investigation ana perused the health ordinances rela- | tive to that disease, at once. As a esult of his findings, he reports that he local department can do nothing in the matter other than to see that | the orders of the attending physician are complied with. STEAMER ARRIVALS, New York, March 1l.—Arrived: phia. | First Ward Councilman Will Bring ! Up Matter of $12,000 Appropri- ation for Club-House Here. ! Councilman Henry Rice will intro- duce a resolution at next Wednesday | evening’s meeting of the common | council for an appropriation of $12,- 000 to provide a servicemen’s club- house for a period of one year and a secretary for a service department for a similar term. The money, if the resolution introduced by Councilman Rice is passed, will be taken from the | emergency fund, leaving $8,000 in that fund for the payment of other ac- counts that may arise during the year. The local servicemen's bodies have already sounded the sentiment of the common council members on the pro- ject and have secured the promise of a sufficient number to guarantee its passage, they claim. The club-house and the service department will be under the supervision of the New Britain World War Veterans council, of which Harry C. Jackson is chair- man. The Veteran council is compos- ed of representatives of each service- men’s post. It is expected that the service department will be the first matter considered since there are a number of compensation claims pend- ing which the soldiers are anxious to have expedited. Councilman Rice will also introduce recommendations calculated to give doctors almest unlimited parking privileges in all parts of the city. The matter, he claims, is one of public safety and merits favorable action. 'NEW HAVEN OFFIGIALS EXPLAIN PAY PROBLEM ative to Wage Cuts— B. & M. Issue Notice. New Haven, March 11.—A con- 'terence between operating officers of ‘the N. Y., N.'H. and H. Railroad and representatives of its unskilled laboring forcqgs was held today at the Railroad Y. M. C. A. here. Gen Manager C. L. Bardo was in charge ,of this conference. It lasted but a short time. ¢I was stated after- wards by railroad officials that the conference was in a sense a prelim- inary one to present to the men a survey of operating cond gions on.| the system and the necessity which faces the company 'of making re- adjustments in the wage scale. No official statement from the rail- road company is expected at this time because in turn conferences | are to be held with representatives | of various classes of employes, a.l list of which has been issued. In- ' quiry made at the general offices of the company brought a reply that o @nnouncement has been made as | to the amount of the reduction in ‘ wages that it will not be a fixed per cent but rather a readjustment ac- cording to the nature of the em- ployment as recognized by sub- divisions of the operating, executive, | mechanical, accounting and Cclerical forces. Bdston, March 11.—The Boston and Maine railroad issued notice to- day of a proposal to reduce wages Ito certain classes of employes in- j cluding clerks, maintenance of way jmen, machinists, carpenters, etc., on' ‘April 16. It was announced that| conferences would be arranged with ! ‘' representatives of the employes ‘to! discuss the situation. Representatives of various bodies | of employes also came to this city dur-, ing the day and Gen. Manager Bardo | saw some of them so that the day| was one of continued group confer- ences. H It is understood that Mr. Bardo pointed out the need of a cut in wages and proposed other conferences. | George H. J. Walsh of Boston, who claimed to represent station employes, after a conference /stated that Mr. Bardo was informed that he had been instructed by station employes to say that they would not stand for any re- duction. A conference for that sec- tion was set for Tuesday. From the offices of the company at noon was issued this statement: “It is not expected to settle any- thing definitely today, but future con- ferences will be arranged for. Other conferences with other classes will be Executives At | tary of commerce. | tion should be cal . EMPLOYES OF RAILROADS EXPECTT FOLLOWING CONFERENCE OF CH Many Roads Al try Likely [ This Action As WagesOfUnsk Are Definitely, EACH COMPA ACT INDIV] » b ing in New Hav Record As Not ‘posed to Such Chicago, March 11. about reductions in the ed employes probably many m_flroul.!‘ h try as soon as adju made in the pay of un according to officlals tion of railway executis Handled Indi Such reductions if handled individualy roads in the same ent announcement of € unskilled workers " made, it was said, with' concerted or simul e railroads. Favor Wage In Mne with this p became kno that a meeting New March 4, ted & was the sense of the m duetions in the pay @ ployes were not The matter then individual roads. Officials of the a predicted that anno readjustment of the skilled men, similar a few days ago by lines, soon would be f Labor Is 8 From the labor sid: came on the announ posed reductions in . . ployes’ wages. It unions’ chief concern ® that the roads acted with the transportati Belief that the | Pennsylvania road to i ! wally with the w 0 new wage scale mi cordance with the portation act was expi officers. They said ence must be called crafts. No word had been labor board concernin the unions that & executives be subpo examination. REORGANIZAT ;phs Hoover Indicates Ohanges May Have of Congressional S ‘Washington, M: tions that the govern: zation proposed by tration may await con of the matter were statement by Herbe: He gave no details in which he belleves state, however, that sider our transportati way and marine, .as on ed to serve the natios To follow this line o conclusion it was quarters, would b ation possibly of a transportation entru work now performed b commerce commission board and other agen: BUILDING TRADE