New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 13, 1921, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press .‘TABLISHED 1870. GENERAL PERSHING NAMED CHIEF OF STAFF OF ARMY; BEGINS DUTIES ON JULY 1 ill Drill Regulars And Reserves And In Time Of War Take Command ‘of Entlre U. S. Armies | ki | ENERAL HARBORD IS HIS ASSISTANT is Work Will Be To Take Over Administrative De- tails That Have Here- tofore Been Handled By Chief Washington, May 13.—Selection of ieneral John J. Pershing to be chief of taff of the army was announced to- ny by Secrotary Weeks. General Pershing will assume his new Puties July 1, succeeding Major General ‘eyton . March. His assistant will be ajor General James G. Harbord, who Wi General Pershing's principal staft sslstant in France before he assumed fommand of the service of supply Will Train Regulars. As chief of staff, Secretary Weeks nidy General Pershing will direct train- [ f the regular army and organized [SF-c« which he will command in the jvent of active field operations before s retirement. He will retain the uties regently assigned to him as chiet Il the war staff now being organized. Harbord for Office Work. Gieneral Harbord, as assistant chief f staff, will take over all of the admin- trative detalls heretofore handled by he chief of staff, M Weeks an- | jounced, leaving General Pershing ren to direct the organization and aining of the army of the United ' as a whole, including the N lonal Guard and the organized re- erves ates War Time Provisions. In time of war the plan contemplates | General Pershing would immedi- | ly assume command of the entire rmy and General Harbord would auto- tically become chief of staff. 1In this ay General Pershing will pass to the joud of the fleld staff, already in pro- me of organization and General Har- ord would take charge of the war de- | rtment general staff and be entirely miliar with all the duties of the post, | ving performed them in time of PRAGUE HEADS ROTARIANS Elected at Annual Mecting of Or- ganizavon—To Receive May 30. | Charter, The directors of the New Britain otary club held their regular meet- & preceding the noon-day luncheon erday at the Elks' club and elect- ’ the following officers: President, A. Bprague, of the New Britain ust comphny; vice-president, Ar- ur G. Kimball, president of Lan- re, Frary and Clark; treasurer, An- | n A. Mills of the A. A. Mills Heat- ¥ company; secretary, Fred 0. ekliffe of Rackliffe brothers. The roctors chosen by the club at their nual meeting were: W. L. Hatch, porge W. Klett, George G. Macauley. E. Attwood, L. P. Slade, L. A. | prague, A. A. Mills, F. O. Rackliffe | d A. G. Kimball Hagy C. Burnham, manager,of the it Film Manufacturing com- Providence, will be the speak- at the Elks’ club next week, May On Friday, May 27, at 6:30 p. m., ® Rotary club will hold its first ter-city Rotary night at the Shuttle | cadow club. Plans have been made | invite Rotarians from Hartford, Haven, Meriden, New london,! prwich, Waterbury and Torrington. strict Governor Forrest J. Perkins Providence will bo present to pre- Int the charier and Willard Lansing, ernational vice-president, wil on the sublect of “Rotary DRMER RESIDENT HONORED iss Dorothy Kanrich, Daughter of IT. Kanrich, the daughter of | Kanrich of Boston, who was resident of New Britain, Is an for the Girl Scouts Last Saturday eve- in Hoston Miss Kanrich, who is a or, patrol leader and assistant to ptain of a Boston troop, was pre- nted with a (olden Eaglet, the high- t rank obtainable in Girl Scout work. Miss Kanrich is an active musiclan, Albert Kaunrich of Boston, sented With Golden Eaglet. efect in signalling, well read on the ut ald, knows how to cook, was an tive war worker and all in all i just | At i seoutmistress would call * M. Dorothy ibert M form thusiastic worker America cause ng | would be p: ”>— | GraFT HOY BUT W llU ETS MONEY? —— Montclair, N. J. A horse in the parks department has been drawing a salary of $3 a day since January 1, Park Director John C. Barclay charged to- day in a preliminary report of an investigation into affairs of the department of which he recently became the head. The checks were made out to “H. Bell"—"H" standing for “horsie”—Mr. Barclay said. They were cashed under the endorsement of “B. Bell (X) his mark.” The director does not know who received the money. 13.— public (GOVT. TREASURY MAY HAVE T0 BE TAPPED Unless R. R. Cut Expenses and Get More Revenue, Cummins Says. Washington, May 13.—Unless some way is found to increase revenues and reduce cxpenses, the rallroad deficit “‘will have to be met from the national treasury,” Chairman Cummins, of the senate interstate commerce committee, declared today at hearings on the gen- eral railroad situation. Chairman Cummins said that the total loss sustained by the government | during 26 months of its control of rail- roads was estimated by the director general of the railroad administration £ $1,200,000,000. Considering rail- road claims conflicting with the govern- ment, the chairman said, the total amount rose to gave as his own estimate $1,800,000,- 000 as the final loss which the govern- ment was likely to sustain. ‘“That situation challenges the per- manency of private ownership,’’ he de- clared, Julius Kruttschnitt, chairman of the board of the Southern Pagific company, who was on the stand, said the greatest cause of the growing claims was ‘‘the neglect of maintenance which charac- terized the federal rallroad administra- tion."" BILSHOP LIOYD ELECTED. Is One of Two Suffragan Bishops of New York Episcopal Diocese. New York, May 13.—Bishop Arthur Liloyd, rector of St. Bartholomew's church at White Plains, today was elected as one of the two suffragen bishops of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of New York asked for by Bishop William Thomas Manning, when he was consecrated head of the dlocese Wednesday. A. F. of L. ALL. AMERICAN. Declines to Join | I'nrrlgl Association or to Support Revolutionary Moves. Cincinnati, May 13.—The council of the executive Labor declined a request from the Y ternational Federation of Trade Unions that it consider its action in severing relations with the European trade un- lons’ movement, it was learned here to- day. Under the present system of dues, labor officials said that the federation ying more than $20,000 an- nually to the international. They said that they declined to use nished by American workmen to main- tain an organization that would utilize such funds for revolutionary propa- ganda advocating the overthrow of the governments of Europe as well as the republic of the United States. David Ja_yne Hill Seen As German Ambassador Washington, May 13.—Dr. David Jayne Hill, of New York, is under- stood to have definitely declined to be considered for ambassador to Ja- pan and it is believed he is foremost among those now under considera- tion for ambassador to Germany when diplomatic relations with that coun- try are resumed. STRIKE MAY SPREAD. New York, May 13.—Thomas B. Healy, chairman of the Atlantic and Gulf Coast Engineers' conference, stated today the nation-wide marine strike might be extended to employes, if ship owners attempted to use union-manned tugs in docking ships branded by the union as unfair. HEARINGS POSTPONED. New York, May 13.—Hearings in the divorce proceedings instituted by James A. Stillman, New York banker, have beeti tentatively postponed from May 18 and 19 to May 25 and 26, RITAIN HERAI ME TBATILE CONTINUES [ INWEST VIRGINIA Mountain Warfare , Wages All Night and 'l‘oday in Coal Region | MACHINE GUNS ARE USED Men, Hidden in Hills, Keep Up Sniper Activities — Four i Killed Are Reported and Wounded One To- ; day. May ‘ Williamson, w. 13.— | dor Mountain warfare which iypslernlny and intermittently through | {the night over a seven mile iront ! .(n the West Virginia-Kentucky coal strike region, was resumed with | vigor this morning. Reports sent to | | Captain J. R. Brockus of the state police at headquarters here snhl' raged all of| heavy firing was in progress at Mc- Carr, Ky., the eastern end of the trouble zone, and at Merrimac, W. Va., where yesterday's shooting start- | ed. Sporadic rifle fire could be heard | along the West Virginia and Ken- | tucky borders at Matewan. An unidentified man was killed on | the bridge leading from McCarr to | the West Virginia bank of the Tug river this morning, bringing the known casualties to three killed and ¢ two wounded. This includes the member of the attacking party re- ported killed at McCarr last night. Fighting This Morning. The first fighting this morning oc- curred at McCarr where, according to Captain Brockus. sympathizers of miners and men on guard at the mines are heavily armed with equip- ment which includes a half dozen ma- chine guns and automatic rifles. i He ordered his men at McCarr to refrain from becoming embroiled with the battlers. Asserting that bhoth sides, the men concealed in the hills and the guards at the mines had been “itch- | ing” for trouble there, he eaid he would not expose any of his men on that battlefield. He also said that the officials of Pike county, Kentucky, I American Federation of | money fur- | .1 t o fiest | attorneys for Mrs. Stillman announced | had done nothing so far as he knew to check the firing from the Kentucky side. Death st Grow; Pikeville, Ky., May 13. four per- sons have been killed and one man wounded in fighting along the Ken- tucky and West Virginfa borders dur- ing the last 24 hours, according to reports reccived here today. No names of dead were given. The principal firing towards the Kentucky side came from Spriggs, W. Va., according to the reports, when Pike county deputy sheriffs and a number of miners approached the state line. West Virginia state police- men and miners are reported to have participated in the firing. Earl Smith, a Pike county deputy sheriff, was reported shot and serious- ly wounded by State Policeman Hen- ry Bentley at the West Virginia end of the toll bridge at Williamson 64 To Start To Work On City Jobs Monday Cards were mailed this afternoon | trom the office of the municipal em- ployment bureau at City Hall to 64 applicants for jobs, notifying them that places are now open for them. The men will report Monday morn- ing to replace the gangs detailed for work yesterday. The new forces will be on for three days, quitting Wed- nesday night. BEER IS REPUDIATED. Medical Profession Tells Volstead's Commiittee It Is Not Medicine. Washington, May 13.—Beer was repudiated as a medicine today by two | members of the medical profession testi- | fying in the hearing before the house | judiciary committee on Chairman Vol- stead’s bill to stop leaks in the dry law. Not only did the doctors assert that | they never had prescribed beer, but | both said that in long practices neither | ever had seen it used in that way. MORE SLACKER ERRORS. Hartford List Contains Names of Men Who Served Bravely. Hartford. May 13.—Additional in- stances of flagrant inaccuracies in the slacker list for Hartford submitted by the war.department to the local draft boards came to light today when in- vestigations disclosed that the list contained the names of another mem- ber of the American Legion; of a young man who joined the Irish vol- unteers and took part in three im- portant battles and was gassed; of a draftee who died three years ago be- | fore his number was called in the draft; of a young man who is in the insane asylum and who had two years of service in the navy: of another who was exempted for reasons of physical disability, and of another who died almost four years ago. Rain Today For 13th Successive Friday The city was visited today by shower of raln as has been the case for the past 13 Fridays, according to a caller at the office of the town clerk | who has recorded weather statistics. The rain storms, for the greater part, have been of minor consequence, usually occurring in the middle of the Herald “Ads” M Better Busing B 9, MAY AVIBAQSADOR RICCI IS TO VISIT CITY Includes New Britain in Trip Planned For Latter Part of Month— ians Planning Reception Rolandi Ricci, the Ttalian am at Washington, will include Britain in his itinerary the latter part of this month and will spend one day ROLANDI RICCT here, various factories and points of interest. The United Italian societies will meet this evening in the Burritt school hall on North street at 7:30 o'clock to make plans. These societies will work with the Chamber of Commerce in arranging a reception to the distinguished guest. NOT YET 30, MARRIED visiting FIVE TIMES, ARRESTED Former Idaho Woman Said To Have Murdered Her Fourth Husband Honolulu, ed Press).—Mrs. May 13 (By the Associat- Paul Vincent South- with the death of her fourth husband, Edward F. Mever, who died in a hos- pital at Pocatello, Ida., August last, an autopsy having revealed traces ot poison, according to the report ot physicians which was forwarded here. Mrs. Southard was held incommun-. icado, although she expresscd a will- ingness teo return to the mainlana without extradition. Mrs. Southard is the wife of a navy chief petty officer. She also is known by the name of Mrs. Lydia Meyer. The Southards arrived in Honolulu trom San Francisco January 12. They were married in Los Angeles last No- vember. Mrs. William Stetzer of Honolulu, who said she knew Mrs. Southard in San Francisco, said knew her as a “zood sweet woman. The landlady of the rooming house where the Southards stayed. said, when police arrived to arrest Mrs. Southard, she went without protest. Mrs. Southard since her arrest has been kept from the public vie and her name has not been put on the po- lice blotter. Only the woman’s hus- band was permitted to see her last night. Both Mr. and Mrs. Southard are said to be under 30 vears of age. EPWORTH LEAGUE’S ANNUAL CONVENTION Affair to Take Place at Trinity Metho- dist Church All Day Saturday—In- teresting Program Arranged. The 32nd annual convention of the Epworth leagues of the New Haven district will be held at the Methodist church all day Saturday. The sessions are open to the public. 250 delcgates the convention. The program is as fol- lows: Y Morning session 9 a. m.—Devotional service, Rev. J. L. Davis. welcome, Earl Surprenant, president of local chapter. Reports from district officers. Dinner 11 a. m. Afternoon session, 1 p. tional servic Rev. W. B. West of Bristol. Election of officers. Address by Rev. C. C. Marshall of Bridgeport, First Methodist church. Supper § p. m. Evening session 6:30 p. m.—Installa- tion of officers. Solo. Address, Rev. John R. Henry, pastor of the Church of All Nations, New York City. Hymn. Benediction. m.—Devo- THE WEATHER 13.—Forecast and vicinity: tonight and followed by no change in Showers probable Sdturday morning, cloudy Saturday temperature. | | she | Address of | 'l “harles Tox: 1921 —TW EN'l Y T\VO PAGES PRICE THREE 'LLOYD GEORGE BRANDS REVOLT O Thu'ty Pollcemen Swoop Down On Saloons, Stores And Homes — Accused' ¢ Pleas of not guilty were entered in every instance when the cases of 10 alleged violators of thel| liquor law were brought before Judge B. W. Al- ling in police court this morning as a | result of a series of raids conducted | last night by the local police. Those arrested are: Peter Olesce- { vich of 389 Main street; John E. Farr of North and Sexton strvets: Phillp | Parodayco of Seymour streets: Leo Skritulski of Broaa street; Michael Curry of 300 Main street; George Froe proprietor of the Turner Hall cafe; John Gognow- ski of Seymour and Elm streets: Alex Bobowski and Frank Ferczak, the former a tenant and the latter pro- prietor of a store at 42 Grove street; Stanley Boziski of Orange street. The case of Leo Skritulski was ad- journed until next iThursday morning | at the request of his counsel, Lawyer M. D. Saxe, while the other cases went over until Wednesday morning. In | ‘almost every instance, it is the sec- ond offense for the accused. Liquor Prosecuting Agent Michael A. Sexton ! sible, in addition to the count of hav- ' ing liquor on hand with intent to sell. Thirty members of the regular of in the ; pleadea force figured have the entire patrolmen Since tically ular raids, an (Continued on Fifth Page.) I)elegatg Elected To Aucxiliary Convention The Woman's™ Auxiliary of ‘the A. G. Hammond post, S. W. V., have elected delegates to the state conven- . | tion to be held in Waterbury on June jbeen stopped by them. ard was held here today in connection | 3 and 4. They are Mrs. Rosa Betk- ett, Mrs. Mary Helm and M Anna | Bagan. - The alternates are Michael Massey, Mrs. Margaret Sykes and Mrs. Lillian Strickland. Plans were also made to serve a dinner om | Memorial dn for the G. A. R. vets. RS \[\(E. CURIE. Famous Freneh Woman Ts Given De- gree of Doctor of Science. Northampton, May Mme. Marie Curie and discoverer of r first public appea her recent arrival Mass., dium, made her ance today in America when she visited Smith college and received . the honorary degree of Doctor of Sci- ence. With her were her two daughters and Mrs. William B. Meloney, chair- man of the general committee formed | to welcome Mme. Curie to America and Mrs. Edgerton Parsons, also a member of the committee, both of New York. YOOKS LIKFE MURDER. | Arrest Momentarily Expected in Mc- Gilvary Case in Boston. Boston, May 13.—The possibility of an arrest in connection with the death of Captain Paton C. McGilvary. for- mer aviator overseas, was announced by police officials today. | The aspect of the case, which had been consider- ed one of suicide in official circles, had changed entirely overnight, they | said. Two new witnesses were found whose testimony regarding circum- stances now completed with the " shooting altered n‘sumde theory. ! MOTORGYGLE RIDE PLANS ! tination Decided Upon Yet. Plans for the annual “Gypsy” mo- torcycle ride were made at a meet- ing held at the home of T. L. Monier at Maple Hill last night. Representa- tives from Meriden, Hartford” and Bristol were present. The ride will be made on June 19, the rain date being set for June 26. There are and Elm | Deny Charges. 1 l TEN ARRESTED IN RAIDS, CHARGED WITH VIOLATION OF LIQUOR LAWS | pjinie And D 'SLAYER OF REPORTER GETS LIFE IN PRISON Joseph Roche Admlt.s Killing Newspaperman in Newtown. Bridgeport, May 13.—Joseph Roche pleaded guilty to murder in the sec- ond degree, and Max Kranz to man- slaughter in the superior court here today. They were on trial in connec- tion with the shooting to death of Arthur V. Donahue, a New York newspaperman, in Newtown last No- vember. Judge William M. Maltbie, presid- ing, sentenged Roche to life imprison- ment and Kranz to two years to five years imprisonment. | Donahue was visiting his brother- in-law, Edward &. Pitzchler, in New- town, and on the evening of his death was walking home with the latter when they came upon a machine with- informed the court that such a charge | obstruction, would be brought next wherever pos- | push it to the side of the road. police force, which constitutes prae-‘ reg- | followed and one of the men took a Mrs. | shooting. 13.— | French scientist | since | out headlights burning. As it was in a place in the road which made it an the two men started to They | had stopped it near an electric light when they were hailed from - the darkness and two men stepped out of a lot. An argument over the machine rifle from the machine and attempted to strike Donahue. The latter backed away and was shot as he begah to run. Pitzschler ran and was not mo- ested. It took some time to trace the ma- chine, which was found to' belong to Roche, The two men were accused of stealing gasoline from a tank be- g to the state highway depart- ment close by where the machine had 3 Later the rifis | was identified as belonging to Kranz. Tt was claimed that Roche did the 26 years old, lived in and had a family. T0 PROTEGT ' PUBLIC Representative Covert Wants State Law Donahue vuu Flushing, l« Requiring Gasoline Stations to Bulle- | tin Price Per Gallon. (Special to the Herald,) Hartford, May 13.—One of the bills which will be acted on by the legisla- ture before adjournment this session is one fM¥stered by house chairman Richard Covert of the Roads, Rivers and Bridges committee. The bill, as framed in committee, would require all gasoline stations to put the price of gas so that the automobile owners might see it be- fore purchasing the commodity. | attention from time to time, and they | are of the opinion that this | ment would minimize the overcharging | evil. More Than 200 Expected to Take An- ' | nual Trip This Summer—No Des- | for the event. from 70 churches are-expected to attend | upwards of 200 to take the ride. The | | destination has not been made defi- | nitely as the food committee will try and arrange for a catering house to have lunch ready at the grounds. Joseph Hergstrom of the Y. M. C. A, will arrange a program of sports and an entertainment will be furnished at the destination. The Corbin Screw corporation and several tire concerns at Hartford are assisting Mr. Monier in the project. EAST STREET ANNUAD. At the annual meeting of the East street school Parents and Teachers’ association held last evening the fol- lowing officers were elected to serve for the ensuing year: President, Don- ald Coughlin; first vice-president, sccond \lce-presldent The measure is for the protection of the public, and it is expected to pass both houses of the leglsla!ule without opposition. TABS 10 TAKE PART ‘Will, Send Large Delegation to Nauga- tuck for Field Day Observance June 18. The Y. M. T. A. & B. society will send a delegation of several hundred members to the Naugatuck Tabs' field day in that city, June 18. A commit- tee of the local organization, headed by Thomas J. Meskill, is making plans | Frank J. Coffey is secretary of the committee. William H. Beckett and William J. Sullivan have reorganized the Tierney cadets and will the field day for competitive drills. An athletic committee has been named consisting of Arthur N. Pilz as chair- man; F. J. Egan and W. Welch. Plans have been made for a base- { ball game between the local and Mid- dletown Tabs. A big entry list is be- ing prepared for nearly all the events of the day, both closed and open. ALL KINDS OF STORKS. Friday the Thirteenth Is Auspicious Day at This Farm, South Norwalk, May 13.—Friday the 13th had no terrors for Oscar F. Schultze. Bright and early this morn- ing a colt was born to & mare on his farm; the next arrivals . were 12 shoats to his prize sow. This not be- ing sufficient his pet angora cat came walking into the house accompanied by three kittens, and }hen a hen came ox a stolen nest' with elght chicks. The | . members of the committee have had | cases of overcharging brought to their ' require- ! ‘bring several companies to | POLES IN UPPER SILESIA COMPLE DEFIANCE OF VERSAILLES TR British Premier cally Asserts Tha Alarmed By Con Declares Poland D Win Her Freedo On Other Hand Allies Who Fo Her. Germans Agree to C Off Protest London, ‘May | Press).—Prime Ministe George in a dramatic sp house of commons today the Upper Silesian imbrogi terized the action of the P rections as a complete defi treaty of Versailles. Premier Speaks Plal “I think it is right I shd quite piainly,” Mr. Lloyd ( clared, “because if these happen and we take no notj not deal with them with justice which has charac attitude of this country in a i ings abroad, it is going to 13 (By the the peace of Europe. If t turned I do nbt see what happen to Europe. ' Admits He Is Ala; “l am alarmed. I am that unless some confide stored to the world the co | may be of the most terrible because the whole industrid 80 built up on credit and that:once that is shaken I how it can be rebuilt. It t | essential in the interests of that whatever our prejudice | dilections, whether we lik or dislike the other, we sha nize that justice has not! with likes and dislikes an must decide fairly and ste: ing to- the pact we our: signed.” Poles Roundly Sco ! Mr. Lloyd George dec] | treaty of Versailles was of Polish freedom and tha the last country of Europe i the right to complain i treaty. Poland did not wil erty, the prime minister as: liberty was due to Tta 1 , and France. “There is not a letter of that does not mean a you life, and does not mean ! French lives, and there dreds of thousands of Itall prime mirister continued. Even Fought Allie Mr. Lloyd George cited Poles were divided in the of them fighting with the “They fell in German unif] declared, “and shot down F| British and Italians who w ing for their freedom. “I see Korfanty (leader o | ish insurrectionists) has sai | Poles in Silesia would die r ! surrender. If they had thd when the battle fq freedom was being foug] | would have heen fewe French and TItalian lives they only think of it whe mans are disarmed and help Polish government has rep: sponsibility and I am bound that statement as represen ! views, but it has happened ! often.” Recalls Dithuania Ind The prime minister rec: settlement with Lithuania, the United States, France, Great Britain were parties. “Vilna was occupied by re; ish troops in defiance of tl he said. “They were asked and they said ‘We have no| ! bility for it.’” The same thiy pening now. The same disq responsibility. Arms passi Poland and officers crossing tiers make it very difficult tg those repudiations of resy are anything but purely ver} Pleads for Treaty. Mr. Lloyd George pleade fupholding of the trpaty, the sake of honor and for s security. There were two dealing with the Silesian sity | declared. One was that alli insist on restoring order. I for him to express a militaj land he did not insist on of the program, but he wai to insist on an alternative, the Allles ‘ought to insist 'treaty being respected, or to allow the Germans to dd prime minister continued ¥s Fnir to German “Not merely to disarm | but to say jthat such troop has are not to be pe tte earlier,