New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 22, 1921, Page 1

Herald “Ads” Mean Better Business ESTABLISHED 1870 NE HIGH PRICES CHARGED BY RETAILERS OF FOODS AND CLOTHING WILL BE PROBED .. Germany Will Be Asked Attorney General Daugh- MAYOR H()U)S up erty Positive Amounts Asked In Many Locali- ties Are Much Too "' e Nonno That P Great Was Irregular With rocedure In Some Places Dealers IFollowl Vaint by John I Di Nonno that the g o comy commoi il did Have Combinations last ht not follow | parliamentary of the |W. E. B stated this mor | approve the | investigation The cedure | board h procednre awar tract Mayor th Keep Their Rates Up. Taa i O 10, Cuarti at he would after ailey, no! til resolution ar RESULT MAY BE TO KNOCK DOWN H. (. L. st The Henry amended violation of alleged s i presented | ing that a coptract Nonno. Councilm ed amendment to name of Balley, After bhate,Mayor Curtis put fore the The motion mitted to the Mayor Curtis admitted this mor that ad been the facts. In opinfon the action would void the it was not accordance form laid down ch was not however, with the arn strong in his d he pro- wate A this 0 n Dec. 22.—Tnvestigation | of food, fuel, 1 clothing in all parts of the coun- fr ordered today by Attorney General Daugherty Mr. Daugherty said ities 100 profits every retail Washington, of retail prices shoes an , be passe was council and w s was not that in many high and “unconscionable would be made on the proper council for a vote loc prices are re- wers effort prices tailers’ and t to put level such | sinee in with the Orders, ed Director | 11 oL | has to ¢ investigation | 1o ation counse to gn 5 Mr. Di Nonno w so0on to various ¢ t ¢ i It | nouncement of wh UNECYELos ST LD |” ¥ | “vicious precedent current T ‘“ Nt Te | council last night ;\vw.\ 2 was awarded to a me o Y¢- | pigder wondered < [of a corporation Burns Gets Daugherty instrue the burean justice department 50 he Mr Burns of of the men D collect tail clothing port the wheat, on the sons might o+ planned onfer as as possible : s of the information upon when lower the contrac X hidder. same prices of food, and at the wholesale bheetf, meats hoof in order he made prices of prices o orn, that all kinds and i unbusineasliike that compari-| .p,preed the action to have the retail and | was changed three food. 1l three were In many parts of the country, before Di Nonno signed. He al Daugherty declared retailers have nished a cash bond of $2,500 o1 ganizations which tend to Keep prices | hours notice, he explain nd e high. was surprised that the council shoul “There e fit to override the water hoard. world,” { would been. Tt i times « contract wholesale one day Mr. or- fur in the over the a doubt “that all not d, he BAILEY CONTRACT Di! to his competitor, K- Di offer- the his vote voting. cor- termed 4 tablished by the The what would become | employ methods as he \lwv ing cepted a few W BRITAIN, CONNECTIC NEW BRITAIN HERALD UT, THURSDAY, DECEMBER of the \\olld Associated Press News By 22, 1921, —FOURTEEN PAGlI PRICE THREE CENTS OWERSPLANTO MARSEHENRYIS FRANCE AND ITALY AGREE ON U. S.. GIVE RUSSIA AID DEAD AT 81 YRS. LIMITATION PLAN FOR BIG SHIPS: 10 Do Their Part ll“ Meantime Final T ative Action an America’s Bill Appropriating 20 Million for Relief is Taken. | ] Was lative | ¢ hington, Dec IMinal legis action of the 000,000 for the and f grain re starving distressed through mpur . | chase o vas taken today by senate adoption of the conferenc It signature would st e re siden onal leader 1dditior gift port now g v whose | hoped al America faminc t T 1| se of relief a 's Chr to adopted in the Watson, vesterday action (“hristmas. in the voice who would b ifter senato Georgia, that he least until ihout 20 ber { when the served it o onl ock on r were cha iting officer « m was hear fo and no the volte disse presiding alled Meet the suy in C: Allied Powers Dec, 2 ™ its comi | Tondon, icated ~ | counetl (Ry g meeting invite the ir t a commission L comprehensive scheme wbilitation of central is conclusion was arriv coffercnce of the Trenck premiers just ended United States would be invitec | to have a membership In this commis ston. Germany will also he represent [ea. The Russlan repre | sentative When hotel with 2 A ss0 I'ress) € at e tereste 1 y of s L question of a is in abeyance Premier Briand this from Premier Lloyd street he told agreement many points could almost on practi essential points’ adde premiér, “but no decisions ha i passed in writing. 1|taken by the supreme next meeting. t returned to the confer George the had his noon pondent 1ed One all - | cally only h council at These chn Russia's ab- democrat, notice reme Furope | here. | in | corres- been the been | its Col. Watterson, Famous Confed- ! 3 erate Soldier, Noted Publisher | 'REHABILITATION PROPOSED GREAT FRIEND OF LINCOLN NEW HAV]:N ROHD mh m“ | ' During The Civil War He Was Head | Seotts—\\as or Of Southern One Last OOl Tiuc Eersanal, doirnas ,( ‘lerks and Station Forces \UNH}N ST MAN 1 ists, opriating Rusdh's known to the th old frie ol Am iving | Jacksonville, Fla nry Watterson, an people the his [ 11 ‘vll sury irnal Mar member of to died | lism and | e here Death came editor to the his and early t peace able most ing half daughter. Watterson ca weeks last hour th his wife Col me to Jackson ville ago in accordance with e winter = several annual in Florida t his custom of 1sua Stricken 11 Soon after he arrived here he was taken ill but for the st few an improvement in his co seemed noticeable He contracted a slight cold Tuesday and whil *d in a chair yesterday mor after breakfast he bronchial attack | his bed by his pl tion grew worse night and the o'clock this morni of his death days iition suffere nd ysician durir st r orde His co the day end came at g The immedia his physician said heart failur superinduced by congestion of the lungs. Thus Marse Henry pas: autiful shore where he wrote federate army nie blue flag will he flying and the bands will be on pa and the pretty distributing the ) (the newspay during the w to a group of rag gels who have not 1. was and 15 g h | anse 1 was d last to “that October at the fore playing ‘Dixie’ girls will be Rebel him tween tes) d, red an prgotten the rebe b the his comrades o he was sur published by the nosed st h‘ Famous Newspaperman Watterson w of the old time personal jour s | of the Henry s one last country retailers have an understand- ing.” Go After Organizers. The attorney general said he i tended to after izations op- erating contrary fo the law and par- ticularly professional organizers who sold new schemes for beating the Jaw through organizations which conceal their real purpose behind a declara- tion of an association to advance com- petition. tesults of the department’s investi- cation, Mr. Daugherty said would be used in an effort to bring down retail pri where they were too high Prices, he said, would never go down {o their pre-war level but they could hrought into the proper relation h reduced wages and reduced costs roodstuf go or a and Thermometer at Belo MAN IS FROZEN TO MINISTER DROPS DEAD dwgtd George, Pastor of Unit- At 6:30 o'clock this morning, ther mometers in the center of the registered four below zero, the lowes point that the mercury has droppec to this year. degrees below, and weather moderated ponds about the city had but one inch of between five and six. At seven o'clock was 10 below zero Irary and Clark shop street Thi is said to about degrees from period yesterday. Rev, ¢d Church on the Green in New Haven, Dies of Heart Failure. toward noon somewhat. that ice, tod The Rev. Ed- in charge the w Haven, Dec ward George, pastor United church, on the Green, died on the street today while out walking. Heart trouble was the probable cau He was seen to slip and fall. Dr, Austin Cheney was near at hand ve aid but Mr. George was dead before an ambulance could be called. Mr. George had been in charge United church for two years and was over it in September of He had preached in several including Bridgeport, Ithaca, N. Y. which gu pastorate, Mr. raduate Yale, class of the Divinity class He wi sout survived by of veste ay have this at morning i the on be a the B and drop warmes o of Bristol. With the w oand a remen were turned ou which destroyed a twe Jrorestville fa James Ry pri persor vire in Dec. 22 at 1 wind blowing f to fight a fire story house in the carly today. The Dietrich and Mrs in night attire losing their houschold and Two barns across il fire but were saved Doyle had han, two fir s house which settled o 8 yea ristol, degrees fitty W Geor 1885, of | age | George who | town. A son died recently a long iliness and Mr. George not been in the best health | then ar of of school Jilies o Mrs, ye ot ou tically al al street ca ! Hos Jame is out of after had of mi frozen il Mr. Dietrict was valued a sinee a CHICAGO IS “DRIED UP” <o Declares Chief of Police Who Adds lose the The owne t 87 temperature in the city was Ihat His Liquor Raids Are Pro- gressing Successtully. (Chicago liquor raids and their stivities, go is fairly driei up tod Chief Fitzmorri “but he dry on New won't kno witself to rald every aret any lquor is Chicago, Dee police are tinuing guccess is eréwning con their id ti Paonessa, Police to S0 it to with saloon, ve it going town hotel, public sold or “Nobody is violations of rich.or influential.” Burglars Steal $100,000 From York, Penna., Bank | York, Pa., Dec. 22 arly today broke into the Wol | o Yank and stole $100,000 uritics | ADQU from safety deposit boxes. They IS mied open a window and cut through o the vault doors with torches, Locks 80 were hroken with a club, other | being | cah or place where « 1k rur | Assertions get away with | o, ) | Paonessa 8| that Acting | seph G. Woods 1 | fairly hy the wimi of Crushers t f 1 was not the city, es of last discussion came the ontinued The Alderman Angelo M council Attorney heen treate council, and Councilman Arthur G that the G. 0.1 by mocratic Prosecuting v not common republican, e evening eived enlivened Burglars ¢ with favor the ¢ night's session ifter ilderman in mayor exp could he session re Mount in s S recom Mr. nnt a that office ndation of me M on deposit hoxe ¥ 1 1ine hammer, (s OSt ch motion entertaing v at After that the prosecutor's ceived favorably the J. R He gently a special Mr. Crusber; repub FORD LOSES OoUT Wi Dec attempt to reduce 20 per road, on, terstate had cision on not heing would like tc polls, Alder floor. the admitte the T Henry Ford's freight rates on coal the line of his rail- Toledo and Tron today by the in- commission. hington, ican office was cent and the was he matter go to the Gill took the scolded along Detroit, disallowed man commerce Combat Flames With W md‘ Blowing 50 Miles an Hour i Frozen to Death. DEATH IN BAY STATE city At 8 o'clock it was two the Tee rday Landers, Stanley section, rank effects. miy leader, d osing il A I that councilman MERCURY HERE DROPS TO 10 BELOW; BRISTOL FIPEMEN IIV BIT TER FIG'HT \,k, S e — below one and in the suburbs 8 below time a Belchertown, liam | tral Mass,, Dec Knowlton, 70, flagman at Vermont railroad crossing [a s found frozen to death a distance from his cabin early He apparently | the cabin to |2 pail of coal last night, became con. fused and wandered away from th | cabin, tripped over his car whicl was found heside him, and exhaustec | by the cold, was unable to arise. Hi body was found by Paul Barrett, wh s to have relieved him from for a vacation toda The mercu dropped to ten degre below here tod Wil a Cen here shor 2e w t 1 Fir at des th b Stonington, Conn,, Dec. 2 fought in zero temperature o'clock this morning practically troyed the two story building in | business tion here occupied [ Shore Line Trolley Co. and the gur and sporting goods store of George A Hyde. The fire started in the freigh storeroom the trolley from an unknown ammunition in the firemen but damage a s¢ t f t cause gun no one placed Explodin store was in a dangered jured. $10,000, The was mercury Trolley Hits Auto Truck t ) “New London, Dec. 22.—While sit t in a furniture truck at statio | |six, Waterford, last night awaiting th return of the driver, Mrs. Albina Don t |atello, 21, of Wate 1, was mortall injurcd when a trolley car on the Lyme branch the Connecticut 1 | struck the part of which extend across the raflway track. Mrs, tello died at the Lawrence Memoria ¢ | hospital a few hours later. ting van, a G. 0 P Method OfHana'lmgProsecutors Job Is Not Enti At Council Mee Treated Fairly—Crusberg, Republican, rely Pleasing To All ting, Sa) proves—Appeal to Governor For Trolley Fare Relief. for not the action of canens in a speech in which the tern: nd Old Party” was used. The councilman's 1| that he or were md t he the supporting reply members of the of the occasion demande matters hefore he other entitied to the when he felt would speak on body use council ‘I do not my name the in's partir peak, however, just tc in newspapers,” was the council m z shot volume at the awarded Brothers, despite a recommendatior that it be given to John Di Nonno The mayor's veto to a resolution an appeal to the I U. ¢ fares was supported ter to Berlin was held up temporarily large o transacted The fee 1| contract session was to for on (Continued on Second Page) today. duty zero company en- And One Woman Is Killed | Don- Woods Was Not Also Disap- the requently was | floor | spread in big head-lines f business was Bailey trolley ‘he sale of wa- More than half a century hi with their brilliant, original -making composition, at wide attention. They were commented on and copied by the press of the nation. Besides his pow in molding public opinion through | his editorials, Watterson's influence is credited with having shaped thie plat | form of the democratic party than one presidential campa 1 | 1t was perha that Henry Watterson pursued palism. Barly in life he evinced e, Lgsual musical talent and hi t ouraged it. A mishap that crush-| his left thumb leaving that tmember stiff, =|cation to be caused the musical edu- €| was his favorite instrument ists. editori and ph tracted = o or t = jour un- parents| abandoned, as the piano il al s o v in Civil War Watterson's course in letters and | journalism in the national capital was interrupted as he attained his majori- ty by the outbreak of war. With his father, he opposed the sion move- I ment, but upon the declaring of hostil- |ities, he returned to h Home, and joined the army of the coh- 5 |federacy. He throughout the [war, except for a period of ten months, ¢|when he established and y | Chattanooga, I'he ) |semi-military paper. Mr., Watterson s to the famous cavalry Nathan Bedford I® g|on the of General During the aign |Sherman and Johnston, chief-of-scouts of the |army | Loved Abral lecture | hun o | pride mornit Served Tennes: served one R Tenn., ide Gen rved first leader, t, and later was Leonidas Polk between Gen Watterson was Confec as an t y T staif ca t lerate Abraham Lincoln the His in coln 110 b Watterson's life was delivered and it wi of calling on Linco of his inauguration side him at the ceremony Southern man point his me,” Mr. Watterson 1, cannonize Lincoln, for he frie we had court most in Henry him am Lin was saic passion of “Lincoln’ of cities s to tell 1 the is an v finger Because | was at 1s we need."” “Marse style when frier Called His « nicknan nd UHe more pop! Henr AS ¢ terson spo His itatior its ¢ dress at the umbian Exposition the man He IPebruar such Horse larry™ He w “Mar: ve 1ight Navarre.” called plain irly Mr. Wat platform. | reached ad Col as he wrote the s an delivered an of the appeared spokes ffectively public | rey orator when he ledication when he official max as government's Washington, © 1840, in D wits on ¥ Estate Hearing ! ('ontinued One Week 1| A continuance of e ed in probate when the petition Donahue for estate A. Berg Berg cek was or court this of Mrs, letters of her came one w Josephine admisis- deceased up. Mrs which placa 16 was not anounced until af hushand's death two weeks H ) (tration husband Berg years a ter the ago g wedding took * e WEATHER. \ o Hartford, Dec —Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Becoming unsettlod and warm tonight. Friday snow and | warmer | | * * | work. in more ps through an accident | Yo morning | Mills | Glenbrook | to BORAH AND REED OPPOSE NEW PACT CES ET;) 0 her Members Of Senate ““ DETAILED SCHEJ -t STy q e Uy, Are Preparing Reser- i vations To Be Offered To Be Reduced 7 Cents When Pacific Treaty —Flat Rate Many Other Groups DISCOVERED BFAE‘ Abhout an .Hour for Comes Up ard Long, Aged i R A Neither French Delegation 70 Is Victim of Cerchral : N Nor English Representa- Their Complete Naval Policies. Hemorrhage A raiiroad, tives Announce 10 today The ite rical 1 nts per hour. Gene 18 follow (By the As« ements in behalf accepting formah for limita- ships armament wera meeting of delegates major powers of the Wash= Dec keepers and assistants clerks ALl (Most of this cl a rate Assista gatemen room n An and Italy proposal clerks seven cents now ericar pit ss of clerks wer of weekly) tation b age masters, annou age n other thai hour reductior first year $1.75 parce porters ers, cents callers, $ rters, switch expectations the craft, submarines t reached at this committee but meeting at seve in to gener P rtment operators, | ! ty Chief ¥ ", Barr and Cap- | b Woods, Po ; an Lyon it to ixiliary per second lisers s session of the until 35 cents per hoard seven cents T Ja anoth wate Office delegation it was said : 3 1 ready at the morning-session cents LI BN ECEDEUAION yeeed with the discussion of the t as they had not rea instructions from their gove delegation said it was » the instructions for the ting. egation which had its case in opposition s necessary naval also withheld its statement it the morning session which was sald been confined largely to pre- general discussion and the the caplital ship ratio nch boys, $1.75 o ¢ fon attendants, seven reduction dlers to be nou I"reight har hour. alers increa cent an hour; increased two cents. Laborers. are to have a fix an hour. s ixtliary ived phyxi we Lyon gave the s scidental gas Mr long wi city ere he paid 35 cents an al ment S d one N known 151 hoped to hav A ftern The 1 a visit plany Dris- | (o had resided for He atevedores, Common Common laborers rate of 32,cents Bridge forem and assistants, track foremen bridge are cut five cents and hour tenders eight cents an hour hop employ been with detaile tements rates proposed for it his ro rt n last night, after ter, Mrs. obert morning, Mrs, Fr ten arrive 1y itis! ; to state e e 5 armament it An upies th on the a like brother, Mr. Ott him about it. It custom leave t mechanics . who oc ement and draw second floor of the house, whe spoke Mr. Lon Ahont ar noise groans ary furnished to showing g's| various Kinds of to ) | Much Speculation the naval negotiations were the new four power treaty peace in the Pacific was subject of increasing in- \ conference circles because of suggestion that has developed it became known that there is a interpretation for the between President members of the Ameri- The eyes of the repre- ¢, |sentatives of the powers were turned b |toward the senate which must ratify BAUNSE o ygreement before it hecomes effec- tive and some of whose members have |announced they will endeavor to de- it a of approval. Republican \ders insist that the movement the treaty shows no promise morn at 9 o very had f o investigate loor to | nd it a maxi- iled Ott for me- 40 cents | Regular from W hour d range 66 cents per minimum helpers. Rates propo cided The tly, a mum of cha per or per as « 1t ydy 1inst ¢ ics to a for to b The be reduced rates established 40 cents per for car cleaners. small non-telegraph tions are cuf to 40 cents hour In engine, train and yard service,|ing I rates are restored that were in effect | th December Switch tenders 6 S anta Hand b1 get a maximum rate $4. ation- | Mr. Long ary engineers are cut five cents per|tyy from signal et to from 42 to BLIhE ferences are being (e Bardo with the P A repair shop et that a demand for A ey by Main street leaves two daught Robert | becoming a te the it open the room was f r with a tube attachme disconected from the litions, it evide sometime ing the s0me \ ap cents hour reduced ses was helper to correspond ntices to helpers found nd door. In heate hour rates of to the new Rate of tablished Agents at lifference of term e treaty’s Harding can delegates., s hour to be es-|had beer | and night, | rom is con sta- rose 0 1ave cau are 1 nose b ot in this at On Hn on his arriva vote Ireland, 1 1 first ter in § mov- city trade v to get hour. Con daily by Mr. f employes men cents per held groups committee 13 per department are o 67 which he at s in this « Borah and Reed Borah, republican, Idaho mocrat, Missourl, who the irreconcilable sailles treaty fight, lead in opposing the nate debate, but some ¢ indicated that they preparing reservations and amend- | ments for presentation when ratifica- [tion is formally proposed by the pres- the | em at wers His last gateman rk company ve! o in ty has made | ple of [the 1 member |group in the V | have taken the pact in other senators h cent incre il wages. At rs, Mrs Driscoll, . employed as He Jay Webb two sons, new and University Professor To Be Gov. Wood's Aide| Washington, Dec Iformal nour ment the of gene Allen Gi re or general of the was made today Mr. Gilmore is a the university cretary -said nomination ably will be to a President Harding today N Lre a railway el an- . Bu govern 22 a a brother James Long selection to be vice Phillppine Secretary in It that many respects would be unst the treaty of Ver sent the last cor ar made first reserv Aft concilables” wil oppose i reservations they lopted Reservations proposed reservations drawn in tentative draft de- the high acting under nation, of the fight in milar to that illes. In the roversy efe scure adop- rward, & was apparent Lands| Big Demand for Babies | In Adoption Courts law at | e 'he X nding exy unprece by professor 8 of W the sent is o to be m this hy Chic of tions ir ty comfort BOOKS PASSAGHE y is the John Riddle,| the NXmas appointed | recora Argentina 1 Afres| tior fon| per cent Trish Dail Eireann Still - Debating ort are Some the RIDDLIY New York, Dec Connecticut Am b pas steamship January tly " of recer American booked on the sailin today 158 to ator Borah has hat action ¢ parties when commit morally to the xigency. to be would ipplicable to the touching the su nt Hardin SR v Buenos this o American 1. it “no of was annot any Is Tr use meeting any ¢ r reservation SEADS OUT S 0 8 eaty I\ offered declare home- riect on the Dec sis Roston, radio immediate here today steamer New i a northe 4 30 to Head, , and oil et om the Englar ippin e 3 i and Fift differed Underwood, the Ame delegation isposed to oppose other Id the view that reservation is un- One Girl Killed and Four Men Seriously ~— n s e Hurt When Train Hits Speeamg Motor Car .\l Springdale Station, Was Hur z ites have fcan DISTRIBUTE DINNERS To Grade (‘rossing Tragedy Occur CHRISTMA Near Stamford—Auto Driver ving to Reach Factory By 7 o'Clock. Rotary Club, Vlks And Others To Bring Holiday Cheer To 100 Needy Homes s secured New 1ssociation temporary at the and will week, stgmford, Dec. 22 me ritain hurt was killed, four ane one s tly } & there a xt automobite in which th ek by executive g tree tric lights that w spirit, othing have 1 be sent out in families. No gifts will at the Center street irters. Christmas dinners are r taken care of by outside organi- wtions, T'he Rotary club has plan- yed to provide 50 such dinners, the ks have arranged for 30, and var- clubs, mday schools Is will tak of pos- These will ba afternoon and Sat- \ trair all the ing was st red Al 1 will see the Sprir tion the the railroa The dent explan sts for W given party ford to yitomobile railroad was t made 10 yue 1t ided employes Stan work and wi was | urry the iy out and the driver of the train over cros: the woman kille 1 was Miss Minnje|guard Scoville four Pred Joseph hoth Hill of Broad John W. Lawler Stamford. "he 1 the are een men taken|autome Griffin Wilson aged and the hospital rfield E FFairfield a hrook William Stamford lantic street, avenue, |« Iny feet 7 thel I the freight|ious smailer Killed | and individu appe ihly 20 more the death it IPriday 1y, | urday morning. of | was draggrs of | track | shea | right r gainst Mi 17¢ had more avenue enue Glen was care the men and ke street e of At The last very hurt ivered or one seemed