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

WANY PAYSFULL NEW BRI l EMAY 1, ALLIES POSE PENALTIES Of hich | i | TEST BOARD’S POWER Suit is Test Case to Deter- mine Authority of Rail- way Labor Body. Columbus, 0., March 24.—A test suit to determine what authority the fed- eral raliroad labor board may have backing up its ruling that rallroads may : not reduce wages until after conference | representing 1,200 employes of with employes was flled in federal dis- | trict court here today by Attorneys Randolph W. Walton and W. 8. Pealer, four subsidiary lines of the New York Cen- | tral rallroad. The action is brought by Cecil E Pewell, a member of the United Broth- erhood of Maintenance of Way Em- ployes of the Toledo and Ohlo Central ! rallroad and is saild to be the first at- | tempt made in the country to get the court's interpretation of the powers of | the labor board. Defendants are the Toledo and Ohio Central, the Zanesville and Western, the Kanawha and Michigan, and the Kanawha and West Virginia railroads. Maintenance of way employes and laborers and laborers of the lines have | been mnotified their wages will be de- | creased approximately 28 per cent. April 1, she petition said. The notifi- eation Is of a peremptory nature, the attorneys said. Federal Judge Stater has set Monday for a hearing. 6OVT. ASKED 10 STEP IN | Federal Investigation of Boatmen's hajrman of the A . Galt . cha ounfle.’~ Strike, Called In New York Today, 18 Asked of Secretary Hoover. Washington, March 234—Federal investigation into the. c oW~ boat strike called today was asked in & telegram sent Secretary. merce Hoover.by. Thomas B Coust conferencéd of ti - neers’ Benefioinl HOperators of and towboats,” said the appeal, havé ef- fected March 1 a substahtial decrease in wages of engineers and other offi- cers, Attempts to have them defer wage cuts until May 1. when agree- | ments expire have falled. 'Engineers | drance to commerce. As the for- act- tain * Den - 1 ude old ht jriot. its to | HARDING IS PLEASED and gther employes have left their positions, resulting in a serious hin- Suggest an in- vestigation by the department ot com- merce or a joint inquiry into the sit- uation by departments of commerce and labor. v ) : Preventing Strike. Washington, March 24.— sentatives of the packing industry and its employes, who reached an agree- ment here yesterday to avert a threat- ened strike were congratulated today by President Harding on the ami le wsettlement of the first big labor préb- lem faced by the new administration. The packers’ and employes’ com- mittees were accompanied to the ‘White House by Secretaries Davis, | Wallace and Hoover, who acted with them In the negotiations, and by Samue! Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor. The president thanked the entire dele- gation for their work, declaring they had rendered a great public service by coming to an agreement. It was Mr. Gompers' first visit to 1 the White House since the change of l'ldmlnlflmlon. He declared himself much pleased with the settlement and with the statement of congratulation made by the president. PRIEST DIES SUDDENLY i l | | Rev. Vincent Buchovieki of Ansonia, 62 * Years Old, Stricken While Working in His Garden. Ansonia, March 24.—Rev. Vincent | Puchovieki, 62, pastor of St. Anthony's Lithuanian R. C. church, died suddenly late yesterday. He was in the yard ad- Joinifg the church when takem (I and died in the rectory before the arrival of a physiclan. Father Buchovieki was a native of Lithuania, He was ordained in the old country and made several trips to America to take charge of churches in yarious sections of the country. He was assigned to St. Anthofiy’'s in November, 1915, Before coming here bhe was pastor of a church in Worces- | ter, Mass. He leaves two brothers ana TAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, ' TROLLEY COMPANY MANAGER SAYS “GREEN” MOTORMAN WAS IN CHARGE OF CAR AND PROBABLY LOST HIS HEAD ;ln.sists Big Steel Coach Was in First Class Condition s ! ACTHON BRflUfiHT ™. When It Left Barné—Public Utilities Investigating. Hartford, March 24.—The public utilities board has started an investiga- tion of the causes leading to the trolley car wreck at Atwood’s Corner on the New Britain line late yesterday after- noon in which nearly a score were in- Jured, some seriously. Manager Bristol sald today that the big steel car that got out of control and rammed a wooden car was in first class order be- fore the accident. He admitted that James Nolan, motorman on the big car, was ‘‘green’’ and probably lost his head. Nolan lost his right leg in the smash. There were about 70 passengers on the | big car which was bound for New Bri- tain. In co switch at the siding and smashed into the wooden ‘‘tripper’’ about 200 teet beyond. The cars telescoped. Only the , car crew was in the smaller car. HOUSE INSISTS ON GIVING FORMER SERVICE MEN HEARING ON MEASURE Sends Relief Amendment Back to Senate—lJitney Bill Tabled — Judiciary Gives Divided Report. March Hartford, 24.—The jitney | regulation bill was tabled in the house today as soon as it reached that body from the senate and the house ad- | hered in sending to the committee for a hearing on the Buckley amendment to the Jorld war veterans’' relief bill which e senate adopted yesterday. Mr. Bugkley said that the senate evi- | ently made a mistake in adopting the bill, for while a committee has the right to draw a bill, the idea in this instance was to give ample opportun- ities for those interested in changes in the present law to be heard. The house by adhering sent the amend- ment back to the senate. The roads, bridges and rivers com- mittee reported a bill to abolish tolls ' on trunk line highway bridges after September 30, 1922, The judiciary. committee made a divided report, the first this session, on the matter of repeal of the civil service law, a majority being in favor. The report was'ordered printed. Sen- ator Brown and Representatives Pgrry of New Haven and Wall of Torrington dissented on question of repeal. Mr. asked for reconsider- ation' of the bill adopted ty.ltcrgsv . the, carrying of gasoline s used by éommon carriers for passen, He stated thay in his opinfon, the scope of the bill was too broad, and'the language too indefinite The object sought was a good' one but the bill affected corporations which are not under supervision of the public utilities commission. Mr. Hall of Orange replied, saying that the bill was carefuly drawn by an expert and is designed to protect passengers on cars. “The gentleman from Woodridge,” Mr. Hall eaid, “might bave in mina the New London ferry.' The member might' like to see a loaded ferryboat carrying gasoline blow up, but per- sonally he did not want such to hap- pen. The bill was intended to save life and ‘a Trecent wreck necessary.” On a rising vote the house refused 4~ reconsider action, Appointment Confirmed The sehate confirmed P. Leroy Har- wood of New London and Thomas I. Kinney of New Haven members of = the rivers, harbors and bridges com- mittee; G. L. Fox, P. F. O'Mara and E. W. Broder members of the state board of arbitration for two vears and 8. B. Overiook and Lewis Sperry mem- bers of the board of pardons these being nominations by the governor on March 17. * Miss Brown of Naugatuck was ac- tive in trying to get a resolution pre- pared through which to recall the standard time bill from the engross- ing clerk but as Major Russell, chair- | man of the agriculture committee was opposed and as the house had no dissenters on the bill owing to quick action om it, the resolution Wwas not put. 3 - A."' 4 <l Mr. Stoddard tion %o atre commities. on all fts | 28 but of co to not words, he had Eaton's | to tal o o Bills to require designation | belling of pasteurized milk, : viding for regulation and sale of products by the commissioner mestic animals and requiring the tu- berculine test for cows were rejected in the house on unfavorable reports by the agriculture committee, which" also sent to the judiciary committee the bills which would revoke the li- censes on motor boats where the operator is caught carrying stolen { farm produce. Unfavorable reports were made on bills to create a milk regulation board, and to provide supervision of showed it was | POLICE URGE ADOPTION (OF PENSION AMENDMENT Officers of Department At- tending Hearing At Capitol Today. (Special to The Herald.) Hartford, March 24.—Chief of Po- lice W. J. Rawlings, Captain Thomas Grace, Sergeants W. C. Hart and A. J. Richardson and Traffic Supervisor Clarence Lamphere are attending the session of the legislative committee on cities and boroughs today in the. in- terests of an amendment to.the New Britain charter to increase the police pension fund. The amendment which they are urging was sidetracked by the revision committee with the ap- appointment of a committee of three men to investigate and report to the ' next revision com- mittee, two years hence. Under its provisions, policemen injured or con- tracting illness while on duty, whieh permanently disables them, will be entitled to pension. Mayor Curtis, who is also attend- ing the session, explains that the city is not In a position at the present time to pass such an amendment, but has agreed to name the committge of ee as Boon as possible so that data may be collected for the next revision committee, N g . Isadore Simons, president of the Taxpayers' association, is attending the session to eppose, it is understood, the adoption of the amendment call- ing for a city meeting board. COMMUNIST DISORDERS Trouble in Central Germany Is Steadily Increasing, According to Dispatches From Berlin. London, .March 24.—Communist dis- orders in central Germany are increas- ing and large sections of industrial regions are actually in the hands of in- i surgents, says an Exchange Telegraph company dispatch from Amste: which quotes telgphonic advices from Berlin during the night. Reports from Saxony state that more mite in various towns and that at Mansfeld prisons have been opened and their inmates liberated. Complete anarchy is declared to reign at Het- stedt where all banks have been raided and from which the population is flee- j ing in panic. An account of the troubles at burg telegraphed by the - Berl respondent of the ,Central that more than police are repo in the fight field, in burg. N Bridgeport, ly, 50, an engineer in t4 partment, committed suie “ing early today. His body suspended from a block the hose tower of the No. 2, when at 2 a. m. was sent in. Kelly was at 12:30, when he was left the fire house. ng down a hill the car | failed to work the electric automatic | buildihgs have been damaged by dyna- | . OWE 1921. —SIXTEEN PAGES PRICE THRE 'RAILROAD WORKERS | CARDINAL GIBBONS, HEAD | CATHOLIC CHURCH IN | i PRESENT ARGUNENT Claim Separate Agreements on All Lines Is Too Costly 'WOULD TOTAL SIX MILLION 5,000 Special Employes—American Federation of Labor Man Gives His Opinions. Chicago, March 24.—Negotiating rules and working agreements by the railway executives, would cost the railroad workers more than $6,- 000,000 and require the services of more than 5,000 men, it was stated ‘before the railroad labor board to- day by B. M. Jewell president of the railway employes department of . the American Federation of Labor. “If the request way executives association were granted,” he said, “the gm-ploy;s con- ference committee on each” road would necessarily be composed of at least one man from each craft at ecach point on the ratiroad. For the 107 roads Ilisted, the figures show that the services of 5,118 committee- men would be required at a total daily expense of $65,760 and a total expense or 90 days of $5,918,- 442, besides additional expenses. Could Eliminate Expense. Mudh of &his enormous expense on both railroad management and railroad labor ether with the consumption of uable time of the highly skilled and essential rail- road officials and employes should be eliminated by co-operation between railroad mgnagement and the rec- ognized railroad labor organizations through the creation of a confer- ence committee authorized to repre- sent on-' the one hand railroad man- agement and on the other railroad employes of their particular crafts.” He cited figures to show that 95 per 'cent of 'the 455,776 railroad shop employes of class 1 ¢ TS are membeis of their ive since 1912 when the ratlways’ em- ployes department of the American Federation of Labor was organized there has not been a single author- ized strike of federated 'shop craft { this time,” Mr. Jewell said. " “the greatest progress toward the attain- ment of just and reasonable wages and working conditions apd uniform rules applying alike to all railroads was made. Want .General Agreements. “As representing the federated shep -erafts emp oyes, we woli ihat an ayreement aprlyieg alike to all railroads wil be a great, if not the greniesy factor, in assisting to es- tablish efficient and economical rail- road operation. It will remove the costly labor ‘turnover, which al-. ways has existed to a greater or lesser extent and is due mostly to the fact that -wages and conditions of | employment on one ‘railroad . ‘were - more favorable than wupon another ! railroad.” | Mr. Jewell’s statement is expected to occupy several days in its presenta- tion to the labor board, following which the labor side will present numerous exhibits on the wvarious rules and principles of the national agreements. FRANCE NOTHING l l ; i Ends Argument by ‘There Are No Out-~ ry Debts. 24.—Secretary apparently fin- Jury concerning t ,this gov- money on other old rch of e said, pce of gin - tion on | each individual railroad, as proposed | of the conference | committee’ of managers of the rail- | ployes: 3 “It is also \significant that Quring i ! i | - TWO YEARS IN PRISON In Addition Tt Would Necesdtate »Peads Guilty to Conspiracy i in Madden Murder in So. Manchester. Hartford, March 24.—After plead- | ing guilty to the charge of conspiracy in the Madden murder in South Man- chester, January 30, 1919, Francis Murphy of New York and New Jer- | sey, wds today sentenced to one to two years in state’s prison by Judge Haines in the criminal court. The sentence was in conformity with the recommendation of State's Attorney | Hugh M. Alcorn, who said he would | recommend that the two years which the accused had spent at the county jail iwaiting trial be taken into con- sideration. The maximum penalty under the charge is five years. In presenting the prisoner for sen- tence Mr. Alcorn said that this case was an aftermath of the famous Mad- den murder case as a result of which five men were serving life sentences in the Connecticut prison. He said that had the case gone on trial he would have shown that Murphy, with Neuss and Bessler went to South Manches- ter on January 28, two days before the murder, and looked over the ground. They drove in Klein's tour- ing car and on the return trip to New York had trouble 'with the car and had it repaired at West Haven, Mr. Alcorn said he had witnesses in court who would testify that they had seen Murphy and Neuss and Bessler at West Haven on that occasion. [ Murphy is still under indictment for second degree murder, a §harge which ! will not be pressed, Mr. Alcorn told the court, until the appeal before the , supreme court for three of the men ' in prison had been decided. . ROBBERY AT HAWKER'S Burglars Efféct - an Entrance Into Burglars effected an entrance into | the A. G, Hawker battery store at 52 Elm street during the night, and secured $30 from the cash register, be- sides some -other articles, according tp a report made to the police this | morning. Investigation showed that a window was_opened and after gaining ,access to the place, the burglars l forced the door leading into the office i craft organizations and- declared that ) where the money was in the register. Decker Makes Another Confession to Murder Warsaw, Ind., March 24.—Virgil Decker, held here charged with the murder of Leroy ‘Lovett, made a third confession late last night in which he exonerated *‘Dago Joe'’ Invagnolia of any connection with the killing. In his Jatest statement ~which was made through his attorney he said he killed Lovett during a fight in a cabin on the Tippecanoe river near Atwood, Ind. Killed Woman March 12, To Be Executed May 2 New Brunswick, N. J., March 24.— George Washington Knight, 22, negro of Cliffwood today was found guilty of first degree murder in connection with the death of Mrs. Edith Wilson a church organist, who was attacked near her home at Perth Amboy March 12. Knight was sentenced to die dur- ing the week of May 2. No Hit, No Run Game By Twirler At Catholic U. Norfolk, Va., March 24.—Bill Dol- lard, left handed pitcher for Catholic i university twirled the first no-hit no- | run game of the year here yesterday { when his team defeated the Hampton . Roads Naval- Training Station 1 to 0. The only sailor to reach first was hit by a pitched ball and was later caught off the bag. 250 OUT OF WORK. Toiedo, O., March 24.—Two hundred and fifty men were thrown out of work | today when the New York Central roundhouse here was closed as part of the railroad's campaign of economy, it was said by company officials. irl, Said to Have Been Forced ith Another, ;1‘ that and clamber car. y ' Elopes With Lover COUNTRY, LONGILL, IS DE | MURPHY SENTENGED TO Venerable Prelate W, 87th Year—End ( Peacefully At 1 0’clock This Morr | WEAKENED HEART } CAUSE OF HiS DE! Funeral Arrangements Inj But Services Are Not L ly to Take Place a Week. Baltimore, Md., March 24. 'Ca.rdinal Gibbons, archbishop of | more and primate of the | Catholic hierarchy, died at the; iepiscopal residence here today: a prolonged illness which mainiy | fected his heart. He was in:-hisi year. The end came peac 1] 11:33 o’clock. R Priests Chant Praycrs. Beside the Cardinal's bed every member of his househol when it was seen that the guished prelate had passed awsa priests fell to their knees and reciting the prayers for the de Telegrams were at once se Pope Benedict at Rome; Mon John -Bonzano, apostolic dele ‘Washington and to every preld the American Catholic - hie: more than a hundred in numb forming them of the Cardinal's As it is expected that most 'church dignitaries in the United § will attend, it is probable funeral will not take place mu side of a week. Had Relapse Sunday. Cardinal Gibbons, who had| showing pronounced signs provement in’'health ever since turn ‘home about January 1 Union Mills, Md., where ke ‘seriously ill early in Decemt fered a relapse, Palm Sunday soon after returning from . an} mobile ride. The sudden cha weather which brought unsea high temperature had a depn effect upon him. His fainting" returned and when he was put 4 it was realized by those closest he probably never again would Cardinal Gibbons’ physicians] repeatedly in the earlier stages @ illness that he was sound, organ as could be expected in a persoH his years but that he suffered the effects of his age and from fal that resulted from the prodigal penditure of his energies in the formanece of his duties as senior late of the” Catholic .church in country. Grows Old Suddenly. Althouglt .not of robust build Cardinal enjoyed remarkably health & and his close often marvelled at his capacity work, hi.s. tireless industry and cuperative powers. - But about six months ago a i began to be noticeable. ;8 He grew thinner; he becam! active in his movements, and signs indicative of a breaking peared. . As a member of his hold expressed it, “His Em] seemed to grow old suddenly.” Attended His Duties, Nevertheless the Cardinal contl his usual daily routine, inter only by visits away from home church functions, the most nofi of these being the Pan-American 1 at Washington on Thanksgiving He was suffering from a cold but parently felt no ill effects from trip and a short time afterward to Emmitsburg, Md., to pa: a religious celebration, where he b exhibited symptoms of wea Then in pursuance of a plan fol rest the Cardinal went to the he of his lifelong friends, ‘the Shrive at Union Mills, Carroll county, wh he had spent many of his holid particularly his birthdays. X, Collapses Twice. 3 Instead of staying there only @& days as he had intended, it was a month before his medical ad deemed -it prudent to permit journey home. - Twice during his 1 at Union Mills he collapsed and grave was the crisis that the Ia sacraments were administered duril the first spell. y | The attacks of weakness | Arst brought realization to.the nal's household that he " was rapidly, . began with -a cold.. 3 preaching at Havre de Graice on . ember 6 having confirmed children -he:’ suddeply. hecame nue’ nis"disoe But.was able to 5 oments.