New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 20, 1921, Page 1

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NEW BRITAIN CONNE(,TICUT TURE MAY SUSPEND ARTER OF HARTFORD FOR | 0 AID UNEMPLOYED IS DAYLIGHT SAVING ACT Hon Received To fy This Ordinance Take Away Rights e Law Is Flaunted dopts Malone’s Bill e New Law For Ol of Aircraft in This, d, April 20.—The house to- od o bl to make a new © prosent one under which Jre licensed and operatod in It was drafted by Major lone, aviation commissioner embers, without debate, ac- # belng an up-to-dato meas- 0 law enacted in 1913, under Baldwin which, it was d become antiquated. ive on Hartford, came from house members wolution was received and 0 nullify the daylight saving in the City of Hartford and the city charter while nc- 0 ecity council contravenes law of tho state. worth of Farmington. who @ resolution moved that it for printing in the journal. ed over objection of Mr. tford. to put in effect Chinese under supervision of the spector was tabled after rimont an amendment being @ome members thought the prohibit a housewife from own laundry work in her law About Wills. use adopted the bill provid- n event of death of husband ho have loft no will, the hall take all the estate, ere Le no children or rep- of children or parents. lo roports were made on resolutions for Johm R. of the Falrfleld county court: James P. Wood, Litchfield county common ¥t: Frederick M. Peasley, hd Walter D. Makepeace as ko of the distriot court at ', eaeh for four years. ney Appropriations. te passed an emergency ap- bn of $25,000 for repalrs at maticut Hospital for'the In- fiddletown, as asked for Gowprnor Lake. Floors at 1 have sagged in a bullding stability. Another emer- opriation passed w: for ublic utilities commisston in earings under the new Jitney law. . p Licenso Refunds. hate recelved adverse reports s to amend the law under plders of liquor licenses may pack the wuwnused portion of nso-money. Apparently this bills of this nature in hands ittees and saloonkeepers will obtain no change in the ex- unless a committes brings of Its own, of which action no Inhication, s legislative program was re of committee assignments, ecutive meetings, indicative mediate closing of the hear- of legislation. The appro. committee’s recommend: reported shortly. The Con- Agricultural college is ex- be granted between $400,000 ,000 out of requests for main. d now builldings totalling 0,000, Meriden Hospital. bill was offered to author- iden hospital to issue $100,- X exempt seven per cent. bonds for use in putting up Aings New amendments to rhury city charter related to @ of publie charities and the public parka nance committes reported horizing the Hartford South flistrict to lssue bhonds; lke- fBecond North School district Northwest School digtriet numane institutions committes anthorizing the Connectient society to reeeive children b yenrs on temporary commit- Fish and Game. the fish and game comtittes porta wera made: ble, nuthorizing the state fisheries and game to leave reams for bhreeding purposes prohibit fishing in such providing for codification of ting to the protection of fish 0: and. unfavorahble, on the that the governor appoint a #e to buy water rights up to gr use ia propneating flah. AUTOS COLLIDE Blair of 240 Hartford avenue, to the police this morning, Automobile and a machine by David Beloin had collided ornor of Wast Main and gh street about 7 o'clock ing. The fenders of both l Ttalian Ambassador MEMORY OF HEROES OF SEICHEPREY HONORED {House Adjourns and- Chap- lain Refers ‘to Historical Event in Prayer. Hartford, April 20.—In recognition of Seicheprey day, the anniversary of ) the baptism of Connecticut soldiers of the 102nd regiment in the World war, the house thia afternoon took an ad- Journment for the day. Mr. De Ros- ! fer of Bristol called attention to the day and moved the adjournment. Senate Chaplain Soule referred to the day In his prayer, saying: “This day significantly brings to us glad gratitude for the bold bravery of the boys of the state and nation who neither falled nor flinched in bat- tle. What greater gift could we lay on the altar of freedom than the serv- fce, even the lives, of these youths, the priceless possessions of our homes and our hearts. Shall we not dare to call them Thy servants as they went forth to bestow on all people our birthright of life, liberty and the pur- suit of happiness? “We would reverently remember those who fell or sleep and rest in toreign sofl “We would generously . remember those who returned afflicted in mind, body or estate. Better Bus |ness WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 10 192!. - T\X/ELVE PA(;ES CASHIER OF BOSTON CITY TREASURY i PLAN PUBUE w“RKS SAID TO HAVE $40,000 SHORTAGE. City Treasurer Murray, Retiring From Office Today, Has Audit Taken Which Shows Discrepancy in O’Daly’s Accounts. Street Improvements as Relief Measure to Be Recommended COUNCIL TO ACT TONIGHT City Engineer Williams Drafts Blank- et Resolution Which Is Approved by Mayor—New Employment Bu- reau Is Busy Place. Acting upon a suggestion of Mayor O. F. Curtis, City Engineer Joseph D. Willlamé will present a resolution to the common council at tonight’s ses- sion petitioning authority to go ahead with extensive street works with a view to providing work for the city's unemployed. A blanket petition has been prepared authorizing work on streets where a grade has been fixed but has not been worked. The peti- tion states that work will be under- taken only where it can be done ad- vantageously for the city. Reports will be made from time to time to the council. No Hasty Action, The passage of the resolution will make necessary appropriations for street work at a later date. It is not expected that any considerable num- ber of men will be given employment under the new plan for a time at least, since the mayor has found it advis- able to investigate each case before giving the petitioner employment. Two investigators are being employed for that work. In several cases evi- dence has been brought to light which fndicates that thoso seeking employs (Continued on’Eleventh Page.) JAP CABINET REFUSES TO CHANGE ITS POLICY ABOUT ISLAND OF YAP \'IHEI THIEYES FALL OUT Government Witness Says Brideport- Detroit Alleged Crooks Had Fights Among Themscves. Detroit, April 2 A quarrel be- tween twe factions In the alleged ring accused of conspiring to violate the, avtomobile wet was described in U 8. Distriet court here today by Willlam Halpin, confessed participant in the aleged conspiracy. Halpin, a govern- ment Witness, testified operations of the mbkn were halted for six months last year after those charged with having stolen cars here accused others of privately disposing of the machines. Violet Walsh, daughter of a Detroit rooming house keeper, was brought into court for the second time today on a contempt of court charge for failure to appear as a witness, She! ¥ extra expenee anticipated | stated she had been unable to appear because of her arrest charge, Judge Arthur her $50. WELGMED T0 MERIDEN on a disorderly J. Tuttle fined Gets Rousing Reception As He Arrvives At Sil- ver City This Afternoon. Meriden, April 20.—A tion was started at 2 o'clock this afternoon. with a street parade in honor of the visit to Meriden of Sen- ator Vittorio Rolandi-Ricel, Ita¥an ambassador who will meet on his way form New Haven the High school military battalion ynd be escodfted to the City hall. A salute of 21 bombs and the blowing of factory whistles and the ringing of Dbells will greet the visitor upon arriving in the city limits. At the hall he will be welcomed by city and town officials, manufacturers and business men. Ambassador Ricel will deliver his address in Itallan and High Com- missioner Francesco Quattrone will speak in English. NO HOME GARDENS Chamber of Commerce Unable Proceed With Plan—But 70 Names Received—3500 Needed. Due to lack of public interest the Chamber of Commerce will be unable to foster the home gardens plan which had been previously announced. The chamber received but 70 appli- cations. Last year there were 1,500 and the greater part of them accept- ed the garden plots. It was thought celebra- to at first that the popular demand for them again this year was strong in- asmuch as the industrial condition might warrant such a procedure. The chamber figured that if 500 applica- tions were received the project would be started and garden plots given out. | Bill Kopf Signs to Play With Cincinnati Cincinnatl, O., April 20.—Larry Kopf, shortstop of the Clucinnati N tionals called at the office of President Herrmann today and signed a con- tract. “Heinie” Groh third baseman, And Bd Rousel eonurflnldnr stiil re- | committees of miners ! country, it is claimed by Nippon Press R:epons That Latest American Note Has Not Altered Previous De- cisions At All Tokio, .- April 20, (By Associated “Press.)—Tlie cabinet yesterday decided there was no feason to alter Japan's policy on the Yap mandate question be- cause of the recent American note on the subject, according to the Nichi Nichi today. The decision of the min- istry will be reported Friday at an ex- traordinary meeting of the diplomatic advisory council, the newspaper adds. The foreign office said it could neither ; confirm nor deny the above report. MINERS UNCHANGED British Union Still Insists on National ‘Wage Board and Wage Pool—Owners Have Proposal. London, April 20.—Demands for es- tablishment of a national wage board l and a national wage pool have been re- | affirmed by large majorities by district throughout the the Daily Herald, the organ of labor. The news- paper claims that these meetings pre- paratory to the conferences of the min- ers’ federatién on Friday, stood 14 to 1 in favor of the demands. Mine owners announced last that they had completed proposals to | submit In an effort to settle the strike. These proposals, it was declared, met many of the demands of the miners and would care for. men who were inade- quately paid. FEVER CLOSES SCHOOL Discovery of Five Cases In New Lon- don Institution Results In Suspend- ing of Classes. 20.—Discovery New Lo n, Appil 2 of five scarl ‘(we:&n\es Aamong pu- plls of the Harbot Btheol resulted in that institution being indefinitely | closed today by Dr. B. N. Pennell, veterinary surgeon and city Health ! officer. Also, as a precautionary meas- whether | . | ployes’ unions. ure, all children under 14, alone or accompanied by adults, will be barred from the theaters of the city for the next 15 days. While the disease is not yet considered epidemic, Dr. Pennell and Dr. Joseph M. Ganey, school physician, uation sufficiently of a menace to close the school at once and not wait for the spring vacation, - which Saturday. { Two Irish Policemen Killed in Cold Blood | i | ment will be taken Boston, April 20.—A shortage in the city treasury of $40,000 became known today as a result of an audit ordered by City Treasurer Thomas W. Murray on the eve of ‘his retirement from office. | The shortage was found in the ecunts of Thomas J. O'Daly, cashier of the treasury department, Mayor Deters said. O'Daly, who had been 35 years | in the city service, had been named by ac- the mayor as the new city treasurer. Mayor Peters said he expected to have statement later the day from O'Daly who was said to be ill at his home. f GERMAN FlNANClERS OPPOSE ALLIED IDEA Fear Removal of Gold Would Cause Collapse of Currency. Berlin, April 20, (By Associated | Press).—While the German cabinet has not yet indicated the nature of its reply to tthe reparation commission’s demyand that the German gold reserve be fransferred to some point in the occupied zone, President Havenstein of the Reichsbank and the financial | writers summarily reject the proposi- tion. They take the ground that the gold is not only the property of a private bank but that its removal from Berlin under, the conditions named would result in the collapse of German currency at home and abroad. | ‘The experts also assert that such a proceeding would work havoc with German economic interests and promptly result in an advance of all commodities to fabulous prices as the result of the inevitable depreciation of the nation’s currency. President Havenstein declares that serious consideration of the proposi- tion by the.cabinet. would be a mere waste of time, and doubts whether any governmont uld be found in Germany which w&uld accede to the Entente’s demand. a in Berlin, April 20.—A special dis- patch from Essen today says the now customs control set up by the ' Allies in the occupied zone for collection .of | duties under the penalties plan he- | came effective at midnight last night. Passenger trains are being detained ten minutes for inspection of passen- gers and their baggage. OPPOSED TO PLEBISCITE League Nations m-pogted As Against This Plan For Tsland Dispute Settlement. * Stockholm, April 20.—League of Nations delegates. who have been studying questions. relative’ to the future status of the Aland islands have decided a plebiscite should not be arranged for - the inhabitants of the archipelago, says the Geneva correspondent of the Dages Nyheter of this city. The correspondent states he has learned from a reliable source that the delegates’ report will be submitted to the league in a few of Aland night | days. The league’'s delegates are said by ' the correspondent to have based their decision on several grounds, among them that only in recent years has there been any movement for union of the Aland islands with Sweden and consequently the .de- sires in this direction are thought to be of a passing character and that even now there is said to be only a minority among the Swedes which is outspoken in a desire for a union with Sweden. | _—— | Hays Strong For New ! Welfare Department Washington, April 20.—Definite steps toward formation of a welfare | department in the post office depart- by Postmaster General Haye tomorrow at a confer- ence here with the presidents and secretaries of various postal em- The purpose of the meeting, it was announced, will be to draw out views of the employes. Representatives of several big com- | mercial enterprises that have welfare considered the sit- begins ' i departments will attend from their experience. HARDU\G WI'LL SPEAK. ‘Washington, April 20.—President Harding has accepted an invitation to deliver an address in New York on May _ 23 at an anniversary celebration of the New York Commercial, one of the oldest to advise Dublin, April 20.—Policemen Kelly | newspapers in the country. and Hetherington were taken from a train last evening near Ballysodare, County Sligo, and shot dead by lrmed men, who held up the train for two ' hours. The reports of the shooun( say it has caused consternation 8ligo, where the murdered men hme been stationed for some years. The police this morning visited the town and ordered all the premises closed - WEATHER g Hartford, April 20.—Forecagt # for New Britain and vicinity: ] Fair, warmer tonight: Thursday { hecoming unsettled. i R ta | today. ! of the New Haven ! portation co 1 attitude on The audit is continuing according to Arthur D. Hill corporation counsel and ! the aiscrepancy of $40,000 which has | been disclosed may be revised. Mayor Peters later said that O’Daly had confessed the shortage to City Auditor J. Alfred Mitchell at his home | Phe sum had been abstracted from | city funds at various times in the past ten years O'Daly admitted, according to the mayor. Part of the moncy was said to have been lost in stock specu- lation. The mayor said O'Daly had no | property and could make only partial restitution throu;-.h his $.:fl 000 bond. NEW HAVEN ROAD HAS ITS ANNUAL MEETING! Vote to Be Taken On Pro- posed Merger — to Name Directors. New Haven, April 20.—Stockholders Railroad Co. met today to consider the business in its annual meeting call which included election of a board of directors. Pro- ! vision also is to be made for refund- ing the loan placed in Europe in 1907 and which becomes due a year hence, and a vote will be taken on the proposition to merge into the com- pany @ number of subsidiary proper- ties, and of ratifying an agreement made with the director general of railroads in relation to equipment. The statement of the year's business and the financial condition of the com- pany had previously been mailed to stockholders and the question of ap- proval of this was on the ballot. In advance of the meeting there was anticipation of a statement from of- ficers as to wage and Jabor conditions on the lines of the company. The sub- sidiary properties to be marked are the Central New TWngland rallron Harlem and Portchester railroad coi pary, New Encgland Steamship cop pany, Hartford and New York Trans- mpany and New Redford Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket steamboat company. 1 President Pearson opened the meet- ing by giving an outline of the situa- tion on the road in the past year. He said operation was abnormal in many ways and referred to bad weath- er and “outlaw strikes.” Traffic was heavy in the summer but fell off de- cidedly in the fall ank a corresponding reduction in expense for labor and equipment was made. Reductions in the cost of maintenance cannot be continued indefinietly, he said, and the wage question is before the railroad labor board. The problem of the New Haven road he continued, hinges on the handling of 80 per cent of its freight helow cost and this has been put up to the in- terstate commerce commission for ad- justment, He said the first endeavor of the officers must be to retain the solvency of the. road, and retain the hope that there will be a resumption of . dividen Hagop Bog!gia,n of Boston opened the discussion by asking if the” public .had been informed.about the loss of dividends. He said the public thinks stockholders are stil} getting eight per cent. Mr. Bogigian attacked thé difector- ate of the road, declaring they had, mismanaged the tem. He said it | was “high time for them to resign.” Mr. Pearson continued to defend the directors and Mr. Bogigian launched more attacks at the directors, officers and bankers connected with the road. A Heaten Robertson of New Haven, I moved that the annual report be | accepted and also made a motion for the election of the board of directors. Mpr. Bogoigian continued to outline his the directors and said men with railroad experience shouid be named. Mr. Pearson said the pres- ent directors had a proper interest in lhl‘ road, but Mr. Bogigian retorted: must get away from the bank- ers, they're thieve Mr. Pearson in- timated that Bogigian was an enemy of the company and the Boston man replied that he paid $190 a share for his stock and had more right than the presidcnt to inquire what hxd‘ been done with it. Mr. Bogigian then ) went through the list of directors and expressed opinions on each one of them., He said that 5 of the 15 directors} knew what they were doing. “The | others represent irterests that are trying to put the road into receiver- ! ship,” he said. . ] l Police Get Reports i Of Attempted Robbery : D. Kolodney proprietor of a store | on Stanley street, reported to Ser- | ! geant George J. Kelly at police head- ' quarters this morning that an ate tempt had been made to enter his place during last night. Sydor, Smiezniak of 569 Main street report- ed the theft of a flashlight and | water meter from his automobile last night. Morris Richer of 80 Hart- ford avenue, reported that, about !1! in p(‘nn|e< lmd been stolen from the pizh INEFFiCIENT MANACEMENT CAUSES BILLION DOLL/RS LOSS TO ROADS ANNUALL MAN BADLY HURT IN JITNEY-AUTO CRASH John Gerdis in Hospital— Bus Driver Placed Under Arrest. John J. Gerdis, of 60 Fairview street is in the New Britain General hospital with painful injuries about the head, and probable internal in- | juries, and Bennie Dunetz, a jitney | driver, is being held by the police for reckless driving as the result: of a collision this morning about 7 o'clock at the corner of Fairview and Chest- nut streets. The police investigated the affair and learned that Gerdis was driving hls car along Fairview street and | Dunetz, who operates a jitney bus, * was driving on Chestnut street. The machines crashed into each bther at the corner. The Gerdis machine was sent head-on against a telegraph pole and was practically ruined. The Jitney bus jumped the curbing and brought up aga.lntt a tree in a nearby yard. Gerdis was bleeding badly from the mouth and nose when the police ar- rived with the ambulance. He is a well known Lithuanian resident, and was for years engaged in the real estate and insurance business. MISSING YOUTH DEAD Youngstown Young Man Shot and Killed by Policeman—Had Been Living in Woods With Girl. Youngstown, O., - April 20.—Roy Knight, 13, of Youngstown, who has been missing from home for two months is dead in Bedver Falls, killed by a policeman who fired after Knight's motorcycle after it had run the officer down. A 15 year old Edst Youngstown girl, whose name police ‘withheld d who has been away from Mo for nine days, is -uu lmnll’. “These facts /were disclosed follow- ing in into reports that Knight was living with a young girl in the woods near here, without shel- ter except & ‘mattress and ‘a few blankets. ‘When their ‘airy abode ‘was raided Sunday morning the pair was missing, p! mably driven out by the heavy rainsiof Saturday night, but the mattress and blankets were found. A telegram from Beaver Falls police today told of Knight's death there last night. A male companion believed to have been wounded, escaped. No trace has been found of the missing girl. 26,000 NEAR STARVING Salvation z}rmy Reports These Serious Conditions Resulting From Strike of Miners in Alabama. -} co-operative efforts between Birmingham, Ala., April 20.—Twen- ty-six thousand persons are at the point of starvation in the coal fields of northern Alabama, Governor Thomas ! E. Kilby was told today in an appeal by the Salvation Army. The organization =aid it was helping to the limit of its resources, but that additional aid must come from other sources. Conditions in the mining district, it was explained grew out of the strike of mine workers which continued sev- eral months. Pratt City local, United Mine Work- ers of America, made fdymal demand ! upon Governor Kilby either for re-em- ployment in the mines or for financial relief. The statement said ‘‘we have applied for re-employment and lmve been flatly turned down.’’ The local union at Marvel also ap- pealed to the governor for help for *634 destitute men, women and chil- dren.” | pleaded not guilty and was Another Wall St. Bomb Planting Suspect Held Scranton, Pa., April 20.—The man arrested here yesterday on suspicion of | complicity in the Wall street explosion last September has been under sur- veillance several weeks, it was learned ! today. Police still kept his identity secret, and refused to give any further information about him. The prisoner had lived in a local foreign colony for ' five months.* He seemed plentifully supplied with“money, l.lthough said to have been unemployed. New York, April 20.—Two mem- bers of the police bomb sqquad were expected to go to Scranton, Pa., to- day to question the Wall street bomb . sBuspect arrested there yesterday by federal agents. The detectives have devoted most of their time to a solu- tion of the disaster since it occurred here last September. © STEAMER. SAILS New ¥ork. Aprfl W-sdlew: ! brussels, Railroad Employes Plag Recoverable‘Waéte : $578,500,000 a Year, Report To Board Co-operation Between agers and Employes Né sary and Obtainable Q By Collective Bargaini Unions Declare. Chicago, April 20.—Wastes amo ing to a billion dollars annually laid to managerial inefficiency American railroads in a d exhibit placed before the R Lebor Board today as part of n labor's fight against a reductio: ‘wages. Recoverable wastes were timated by the employes at $578,5) 000 a year and other wastes, ble of estimation, yould equal amount, it was declared. The employes point out all ‘wastes in the present railroad ady istrations and maintain that if deficiencies in defeults in m ment were redressed and rep there would remain no reason attempting to reduce wges. A method of correcting methods and increasing the effic of employes, the exhibit advo ment and workers and added co-operation could best be o through the medium uniform ments reached by collective b ing. - Recoverable and easily e wastes were divided by the under nine heads having to do with . f and _are of motives and shop machinery, co counting and labor turnover. i Publicity Too Costly The wastes which the unions could not be estimated. in .t money included a, variety of sub from defective train ment and tracks through alle hat mmm moucht penditures, :t' was un.lrnod, hufi ed to increase and have been cl ‘wrongfully to operating costs. It was also charged that mu the defective equipment w!\le managements of the road are 1 as an argument for the need © creased wage costs, could have avoided if the roads had decl liberal dividends and used proj é‘ portion of their earnings to e replacements funds. Tabulation Errors The following tabulation, rep: those wastes estimated _ uniéns’ witnesses and authorities are quoted, (c?nflnuedm Page.) | 'NO DISORDERS TODAY All Is Quiet in Thompsonville ing Last Night’s Small Riot Offender Is Held. Thompsonville, Conn., April Emmanuel Lazarous, member @ executive committee of the workers’ union of the Bigelow-H Carpet company employes, raigned today charged with in tion ‘and . disturbance, to whig hearing in bail of $2,000. ‘It is that Lazarous was the leader of ! of a dozen men who late last | kicked and battered the door of Struziak's home in an attempt to cntrance. He was arrested on of ‘Deputy Sheriff J. F. Sherid charge of the special officers for strike duty. Captain R. T. of the state police came here to take charge of the Lazarous There was neo disorder though on the street were larger than fore. The company is taking operatives in all departments excej as fast as there is wol them. Lewis and Stipek Win Camera Club Awards have been announ the judges selected for the graphic contest of- tha New Camera club. The. pictures ted were taken on the Fast D ing of the club. Judges Hagej Ohrnstedt have awarded 'first to ' B. W. Lewis and second to Stipek. A | Willimantic Rifie Co. " Part of Nafienal April 20. Rifie Ce, ‘infantry, 6\\ hoen!qmu at Wil accepted as a part. uf‘