New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 24, 1922, Page 1

News of the World By Assosiated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 q, NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1922, —THIRTY-TWO PAGES ERSKINE CHILDERS IS PUT TO DEATH BY FREE STATE; FEAR BLOODY 'REPRISALS DeValera’s First Lieut. Executed for Having Revolver in His Posses- sion ‘\.Vhen Captured Republican Leader Threat- ens That “Blood Will Flow”—England . Is Sur- prised at Extreme Meas- ures. Dublin, Nov. 24 (By Assoclated Press).—Erskine Childers, chief lieu- tenant of Eamon De Valera, was exe- cuted here foday. Childers was executed at 7 o'clock this morning, it was announced in an official bulletin given eut by the national army. ‘While the methogl of execution was not. officially described, it is believed it was by shooting. The brief army report states that Childers was triad by a military court at Portobello barracks, Dublin, vember 17, charged with being in possession, without proper anthority, of an automatic pistol when appre- hended by national army forces No- vember 10. The accused, the report adds, was found gullty anid sentenced to death and the finding und sentcnce being duly confirmed, the execution was carried out this moraing. The fate of Childers has been hang- ing in the balance for several days while court actions wers being fought out over his military trial but with the adverse finding by the mas- ter of the rolls yesterday on appli- cation for a stay of judgment, the feeling that seemed to\prevail in Dub- lin last evening was. that the next thing heard of Childers would he the news of his execution. Had a Revolver, Erskine Childers, a Heut.-com- mander in the Irish republican army and one of the right hand men of Eamon De Valera, tvas placed on trial before a military tribunal on Novem- «. her 17 on the charge that he had a “pistol in hig possession when ar- rested at Wicklow by free state forces on November 10. The trial lasted two days. Childers, who was 52 years old, appealéd through counsel for a writ of habeas corpus which was de- nied yesterday by the imaster of the rolis. He then appealed to the court of appeals for southern Ireland. Opposed Treaty. Childers was an ardent proponent APPEAL 1S MADE FOR G000 THIGS 70 EAT Contributions Asked for New Britain Hospital and Children’s Home The annual Thanksgiving appeal for jellies, canned and fresh fruits, vegetables, and other winter supplies for the patients at the New Britain Geperal hospital the Women'’s Board of tion. that institu- for the Children’s Home at the samg time. Canned goods, preserves, cakes, ples, and all manner of little “tasties,” together with the more permanent supplies, which may be given by the people of the city will be most ac- ceptable. wards making a Thanksgiving dinner towpatients or to the children at the home more delectable will be grate- fully received. In the past the pub- lic has been qiék to respond to the spirit of the occasion and from their own supplies they have made contri-| butions that lend the personal gouch to the meals served in the institutions. Home-made goodies are a treat to those away from their own homes. The larger number at the hospital ne- ; ceasitates a greater amount of sup- plies this winter. It is hoped the re- sponse will be more generous than last year. The ' collections through the schoels. Those who wish toe glve may send to the nearest public school whatever they wish on Monday or Tuesday of next week. will be made Wednesday the various parcels will ho‘ collected by truck and taken fo the| hospital or the home. Bundles may be sent to the hospital Wednesday. The donors may designate whether they wish their gifts to go to the hos- pital or the Children’s Home by stat- ing the wanted designation on the bundle. Aogording to “the statement of Dr. Reeks, made recently, there is a wide- spread opinion that the sum of money | received through the Miller bequest and the bullding fund campaign has made the hospttal independent. This is not so, the hospital 1s as guch in need of gifts as before as tN@ differ- ent amounts receiwed are spent for the purpose of making the hospital better and larger and it is still facifig a yearly deficit In operating expenses. Consequently, if there is anything that . might be spared from your tab's on Thankegiving it is well to give it to the hospital board. You may be sure of its being received with an amount of thanks commensurate with the timdes. No- | is being made by| In addition to the hospital the| board also plans to make a collection | Anything which goes to-, VANDERBILT, 21, GETS HIS 17 MILLION TODAY Celebrates With Big Party —Is Son of Lusitania ter Victim 24—Young son of the Newport, R. I, Nov. Willlam K. Vanderbilt, late Alfred G. Vanderbilt, celebrated his twenty-first birthday today by coming into his inheritance of $17,- 000,000. The estate has been in the care of an uncle, Reginald C. Vander- | bilt, since the tragic death of Wil- | lam’'s father, who was lost with the Lusitania. His birthday celebration began here vesterdax when the guests who are to atterd his party at Oakland Farm WIDLIAM K. VANDERBILT. in Portsmouth tonight began to ar- rive. Mr. Vanderbilt is having only twenty out-of-town guests, and those who attend from Newport will make up a gathering of about fifty at the dance at the farm. ! A dozen of the young people who ! are attendihg ‘arrived from New York in a special car just before noon. Miss Cathleen Vanderbilt, daughter Reginald C. Vanderbilt, was a mem- ber of this party. They were met at { the train by Mr. Vanderbilt and went | immediately to Harbourview, where the young women are the guests of | Mr. Vanderbilt’s mother, Mrs. Pauw' Fitz Simons, who gave a luncheon fo | the party. The young men are stay . Ing at the farm with théir host. Last evening there was a dinner at derbilt, grandmothef of Mr, Vander- bilt, and she gave a luncheon today. After dinner the guests who had ar- rived early in the day. went to the farm for dancing. This evening Mrs. Fitz Simons is giving a large dinner for her son and his friends at Har- bourview and after dinner all will go to the farm for dancing: LOCAL QUOTA EXCEEDED b AGamEN Upsala College Endowment Fund Col- lections Are Now $16,423 With More ! Reports to Be Made. | New Britain's quota of $16,302 in the Upsala college endowment fund drive has been exceeded and there are |additional reports to come in which | will increase the fund considerably, Lawyer Emil J. Danberg, who is chairman of the local committee, said today. To date $16,423 pledged. The college is located at Kenilworth, |N. J. There are several local alumni {including Attorney Danberg, Rev. Dr. | Abel AQ:qulst, pastor of the Swedish Lutheran church, ex-Assesor A. Danielson and others. SELLS PROPERTY FOR afifl.flw Lawyer Stanley J. Traceski, named as a committee to dispose of property at the corner of Broad and “Silver street, has transferred the same to John Zujko, for $20,000, Zujko brought a court action against sev- eral persons interested in the prop- erty on April 25, and when the mat- ter came before the court, Lawyer | Traceskl was ordered to sell it | Immediate Action Wanted Walter O. Cook, second leutenant of Company H, 169th infantry, has been ordered by Colonel Gordon B. Hunter of Hartford to recruit. in New Britain a full company of the Na- tional Guard, the compan to be known as “First Battallon Headquar- ters company,” and to be reeruited at once. 4 Lieutenant Cook has been'otified !that he is detached from hi§ com- ‘mand Immediately for this purpose and ordered to begin recruiting to- of | The Breakers, the hjme of Mrs. Vang has been | A NEW BRITAIN GIVEN * T0. FORM NATIONAL GUARD CO. Second Lieut. Cook Assigned to Task. ARE BULLET SHEPT Machine Gun and Rifle Fire Drives Pedestrians Indoors NO CASUALTIES ARE NOTED onstration In Behalf of Childers— Pitched Battles Occur in Some Sec- ssoclated Doy State }, ettt ¢ and riffe= S the city last nm been staged as a agalnst the expected execub) Erskine Childers, exceeded i% sity and duration all of Dubl/ vious experiences of this Thus far, however, not onp( has been reported. I Bullets Begin to Fly, The bullets began to fly soon after nine o'clock and the din lasted until after midnight. The firing was not confined as in the past to any one district but ranged over the center of the city and thus had the effect of terrifying the maximum number of people, for the height of its intensity coincided with the outpouring of the theater and motion picture crowds. Many of these people fled back to, b “nten- s pre- nature, casualty streets were speedily emptied of all pédestrians. The tramcars continued to operate, however, but bullets cut the overhead wires on some lines. Machine Guns Used. The main feature of the outburst was the frequent employment of ma- chine guns stationed on , housetops. The points attacked were mainly pro- tecting posts occupied by national troops who, throughout the city, are guarding threatened premises. Practically everyone of these posts was attaéked and, in some instances, the fights grew to the proportions of pitched battles, The heaviest exchanges were at the office of the Irish Independent where even the bulwarks of sandbags failed to keep out the hail of bullets at the Four Courts where the soldiers de- scribed it as their worst experience and at Oriel House, the headquarters of the crime investigation depart- ment. WIFE AND PARENTS SEE DOCTOR KILLED 856 Guests Also Watching as. Dr, Still, Osteoyathy Head, Drops Loaded Pistol. & ¢ i ! Kirksville, Mo, Nov. 24.—His wife, parents and 35 guests at an entertain- at kit home saw Dr. George A. president of the American sty here and nation- w ostegpath, instantly killed last night when he accidentally .ow & pwl ana a bullet from it penterated his brain.« A coronper's inquest will be held to- day. The bullet entered his left cheek. Dr. Still, sportsman, and lover of the outdoors, had shown members of his party his shotguns and was ex- ! hibiting the mechanism of a recently purchased pistol when the accident! occurred. He was born at Eudora, Kas, and at an early age moved with his par- ents to Kirksville, where he entered the. Kirksville Teachers' college. | Upon being graduated he became a (student in‘ the medical school of | Northwestern univerSity at Evanston, 111, completing his course in 1904. Upon being graduated from the American school of osteopath Dr. 8till became an instructor of surgery in the institution. Later he was promoted to surgeon in chief at the ihospital in connection with the school, and flve years ago was ap- pointed president of the school. Btin, COL. LANDERS DEAD Meriden Man Had Charge of necticut Troops During srnm.. American War. Con- Meriden, Nov. 24.-—Col. Willlam E. Landers, 76 years old, died here today at his home at 3 Washington Place. He had a military career dating over 50 years. During the Spanish-Am- erican war he was in charge of the | state troops and held every office in the National Guard. He was made adjutant general of administrative rank in 1907 and retired nine years ago from active military duty. He is +sutvived by a son and two daughters. ONE WEEK By Federal Authorities— whom must be enlisted in the service within a week. The lieutenant has declared enlist- ments for men between the ages of 18 and 46 now open and will have an yofficer statifoned at. the armory eve- nings, beginning tonight to take care of candidates. ; 8o rapidly must this recruiting be done that General George Colt, ad- jutant general of the state, is re- quired to report i person in Washing- ton the first week in December that DUBLIN STREETS [PLAN SUITS T0 GET BACK 25 MILLIONS Govt. Already Starls Action to Recover $20,000,000 EXCESSIVE PRICES CHARGED In One Camp, Costing $18,000,000, In- | vestigators Claim to HWave Found Indications of Excess Fxpenditures of $5,000,000, Washington, Nov. 24 (By The As- soclated Press)--Legal action to re- cover more than $20,000,000 alleged to have been obtained fraudulently from the government In the construc- tion of four army cantonments dur- ing the war, was instituted today by Attorne Gen. Daugherty as the first formal step in a far-reaching prosecu tion of those who held contracts for the building of war camps. $5.000,000 Too Much Unofficial estimates place the total sums that will be sought in all of the recovery sults at more than $75,000,- 000, In one camp costing $13,000,- 000 auditors were sald to have found indications of an excess expenditure of $5,000,000, In the first group of four sults in which action is to be instituted the government seeks to recover a total of $21,500,000, The Camp Upton suit, the theaters for shelter and the main |involving $6,000,000; the Camp Juk-ih!r!nz idlers in Pershing Square to son suit, $8,500,000; the Camp Sher- man sult, $6,000,000; and the Camp Funston suit, $4,600,000, ¢ Nation-Wide Probe The decision of the department of justice to institute legal action for re- covery of these sums resulted from an investigation of more than a year by Attornwy Gen. Daugherty and his as- (Continued on ‘Twenty-ninth Page) FOOTBALL GAMES SAT. At Least $2,500,000 to Be Spent at Yale-Harvard, Army-Navy Contests HARVARD CHRYSANTHEMUMS NEFD A PERMIT AT YALE, A Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 24.—The Harvard Athletic association an- nounced last night, that chrysan- themums cannot be transported across the state line to New Haven Saturday unless an authorized per- mit has been given the bearer by a government inspector. The Unit- ed Stgtes Department of Agricul- ture {5 taking this means to localize the corn borer now prevalent in this state. The inspectors have no powers of confiscation or search but they will stop and question milady if she MEN AND WOMEN AUTO SPEEDERS ARE JALED Los Angeles Judge Wars on “Speed Maniacs—Con- victed Hire Substitutes | 1.os Angeles, Nov, 24.-~Thirty-one persons, including one woman, were total to recelve such sentences in the Los Angeles police court this week. Fifty alleged offenders were noti- fled to appear for pleading today. “Tf we cannot get all of the speed- ers in the courtroom we will adjourn | to a vacant lot,” anneunced Police | Judge Joseph Y. Chambers. “I am | sending speed maniacs to jail because that is where they belong.” A report was current today that the | campaign to end speeding had result- | ed in the offenders hiring proxies to ! | serve their sentences. “1 have heard some speeders are for them,” said a deputy “The pay is said to | | go to jall city prosecutor. be §5 a day,” San Francisco, Nov, 24.-—The Cali- | fornia state automobile associution | has appointed 200 members in San Francisco to co-operate with the San Francisco police department in re- porting traffic law violations by auto- {sts. Each member named also was pledged to set an example in careful driving. (Falls 80 Feet; Visits Doctor | To See if He Is Injured | Los Angeles, Nov. 24.~0|h-er| Mapes, 14, fell 80 feet over a cliff in Elysian park and then walked down town to see whether he had been in- jured. Police surgeons told him he he was bruised and scratched a little, They sent him home with a warning to be, more careful where he played, SOLD TICKETS FOR $50, IS FINED $40 |Speculator in Yale-Harvard Paste- Dboards Appeals—(laims Ordinance Not Effective. New Haven, Nov. 24.—Robert Noo- nan, who was arrested last night on a charge of violating a city ordinance, | which was drawn to stop speculating| in tickets, the assertion being that he had sold two tickets to the Yale- Harvard football game at $25 each, was fined $40 and costs in court to- day. wears the big blossoms. To florists| shops whose flowers pass the in- spection permits will be given to be passed along to the fair wearers. New York, Nov. 24.—Million dollar football games—two of them-—will mark the climax tomorrow of the east- ern gridiron season. Money to be spent by the 76,000 persons expected to attend the Yale- Harvard event at New Haven and the 50,000 at the annual Army-Navy game being held this year at Philadelphia | is estimated conservatively at $2,500,- 000, For tickets alone more than $600,- 000 will be spent. Carfare, meals, flowers, theater tickets, clothes and other incidentals will cost more than the tickets. Cambridge, Nov. 24.—Bound for the Bowl to meet the big Blue team of Yale, the Harvard football team left for New Haven today without undergraduate demonstration, The students had shouted themselves hoarse with the slogan “We'll beat Yale” in the two previous days and only Mike Dennihan the handy man of the stadium, was present to see the team off. The Crimson team went away with- out Captain Buell, who had preceded them but with assurances that he would be able to take his place as quarterback, recovered from his in- juries. Uncertainty as to whether Chapin or Hammond would be at fullback continued. Otherwise the team was picked according to earlier indications. Departure was made in blue buses and’ players remarked that they hoped to “take Yale for a ride to- morrow, too."” Arriving at New Haven this aft- ernoon the Harvard team will go to the Bowl for an hour or two of prac- tice and then will take up guarters at Derby. TIGER GOING TO GAME Boston, Nov, 24.—Col. Stephen Bon- mal, in charge of the arrangements for the Tiger's tour, announced this afternoon that M. Clemenceau had de- cided to leave Roston at § o'clock to- morrow morning for New Haven to gee the Yale-Harvard football game, He expects to arrive on Saturday and spend most of that day there, THE' WEATHER S 208 Hartford, Nov. 24.—Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Fair, colder tonight; Saturday the New Britaln company has been day, He is instructed to have a full company of 40 men, at least 25 of recruited and officially recognized by the federal officials. fair. strong northwest winds, He took an appeal, his counsel hav- {ing argued that the ordinance did |not cover the case. It was claimed |by the attorney that the ordinance |forbids trafficking in tickets in any [“public place or alley,” and the |point made by him was that the sale |of tickets was made in a basement, which could not be construed as a public place. The court did not ac- cept this view. The evidence offered was merely that to prove a sale in a cellar. The| incidents leading up to the arrest were that the detective bureau, having heard that tickets were being sold at certain places, sent an officer to a | clgar store where the tickets were sald to be available at high prices. A ‘man from the Yale university ticket department met Noonan and went | with him to the cellar, the detective remaining outside the door. After the sale the arrest was made. James De Felice who was also ar- |vested on the charge of selling four tickets at $5 each had his case con- tinued until tomorrow. " PASTOR HANGS '_c'o'mncT | Trap at Towa Prison Execution. a Sheriff, Springs Fort Madison, Ta., Nov, 24.—8heriff W. E. Robb, war chaplain of the 168th Infantry., and until recently pas- tor of a Des Moines church, sprang the trap at the hanging of Orrie Cross, at the state penitentiary here today The parson-sheriff also sprang the trap at the execution of Fugeneé Weeks, on September 15, vonvicted with Cross' of the murder of George A. Fosdick, a Des Moines grocer. The | Towa law places the duty of acting as| executioner upon the sheriff of the county in which the crime was com- mitted. . . Mystic Boy Killed by Fall Into Stone Quarry New London, Nov. 24.—Falling, forty feet over a cliff into a stone quarry_at Mystic, John Kenneth Le-| beau, h, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Lebean, 65 High strest, Mystic, re- celved a fractured skull yesterday afternoon from which the child dicd at the Home Memorial hospital, this ofty, at 5 a. m. today. The bhoy was playing with his three-year old sister and crawled under a fence enclosing the quarry. LEAD PRICES RAISED. New York, Nov. 24.+-The American Smelting and Refining Co. today ad- - vanced the price of lead from 7.00 to 7.10 cents per pound. | French war premier said. MAYOR PRO TEM. FOR i rival. + i) r’ o ;‘S‘ A Dally Ci ;l‘:)::mlnr 18th 9 “TIGER”LASHESAT HITCHCOCK AND BORAH, DECLARING THEIR ATTACKS FOUNDED ON GERMAN PROPAGANDA Clemenceau, in Interview With Associated Press, Denies Charges of Miljtarism, Says There Are no Black Troops in Germany and Hints at Sensa- tional Address This Afternoon. Dares Nebraskan to Make Personal Visit to France Boston, Nov. 24 (By the Associated Press)—The Tiger of “Senator Hitchcock calls m “Well, he i8 in the senate, owing to the in jail today for speeding and reck- | France lnshed back at his senate critics today in his first Ameri- less driving, bringing up to 85 the can interview, granted to The Associated Press, replying particu- {larly to the criticism of Senators Hitchcock and Borah. e a militarist,” Clemenceau, I am glad to tell Mr. Hitcheock vote, for only a few more days. When he is free, I dare him to go to France and learn the facts.” Blames German Propaganda Answering Senator Hitchcock's demand that he explain why France insisted on using black tr oops in her army of occupation, ithe Tiger declared that Hitchcock had been misled by German propaganda, and that today there was not a single black soldier Replies to Borah To Senator Borah's recent assertion that Clemenceau was in German territory. | primarily responsible for conditions in Europe because of his great influence in the drafting of the Versailles treaty, the aged statesman declared his situation since in France he had been most bitterly criticized “for havi asked from the Germans less than he ought to.” SENATOR WILLIAM BORAH NEW COUNCIL HEAD Paonessa Suggests Change in Presid- ing Officer, Modelling Plan After State Government. If the charter is to be revised to provide for a board of aldermen. to consist of two from each ward, which ig> the plan favored by Mayor A. M. Faonessa, the executive feels that the presiding officer over that body should be the mayor pro tem. Under the present system the may- or presides at all sessions of the com- mon council and on the following day receives for his approval or disap- proval the resolutions acted upon. The mayor feels that the policy in vogue in the state government by which the lieutenant governor rather than the governor presides over the senate should be adopted by the city with the mayor pro tem. the presid- ing officer of the board of aldermen. | | MUSSOLINI WELCOM HOME. Rome, Nov. (By Assoclated] Press).—Premier Mussolini, back in| Rome today from his attendance | upon the opening session of the Near Rast peace conference at Lausanne, received a warm greeting on his ar- At the' station cabinet mem- bers, senators, deputies and friends were present to greet him in addition to a detachment of black-shirted | Fasclsti, NEW TURKISH CALIPH. Clonstantinople, Nov. 24 (By Asso- clated Press).-—Abdul Mejid BEffendi, newly elected caliph, was formally in- | vested with power today. The cere- mony took place in the Topeapou palace. Children Sue Father, Ask $5,000 for Neglect Pauline eight and 12 and their next best Deutsch, have brought suit for $5,000 against their father, Michael Deutsch, Lawyer Jogeph G. Woods, ssued the writ, and money on deposit ifn a local bank has been gar- nisheed. The writ Is returnable in the superior cpurt at Hart- ford, on the first Tuesday In December. The plaintiffs allege that the defendant abandoned them on Nov. 19, 1922, and that as a re- sult they have beén forced to live upon the charity of their mother. The plaintiffs also al- lege that the defendant 18 in a position to support them, and that he has refused to do so. Anna Deutsch Deutsch, aged years, through friend, lLena | was particularly “distressing” ng Straight Talk ‘?odly. ‘When he was told that some of the senators at Washington had sald they were not able to understand clearly from his speeches just t he wanted of America, the ‘“Tiger™ said, with a gleam in his eyes, that he thought they would know after hiz address this afternoon in Tremont temple—the second formal speecHof his American tour. 4 Clemenceau received his interview- ers in his big bedroom at the home of F. L. Higginson, Jr., where he {8 staying while in this city, Seating himself in a huge easy chair, he said: ‘Will Answer All. “Now-—put any questions you like and 1 will answer them.” The interviewers went at once w : the subject of the Washington criti- cisms. Clemenceau smiled and. shrugged. ¥ : o “I had made it a point not to dis- cuss with official people in Amer- fea,” he said. “But I have said I will answer all, so I must answer.” %, Dares Hitchoock. “I am glad to tell Mr. Hitchcock he is in the senate only for a few days owing to the vote,” he began, referring to the Nebraskan's recent defeat for re-election. ‘Therefors, I think I'll be excused if I dare him to go to Europe and if he finds any- one in my country or elséewhere who says 1 have heen militaristic, them I'll own it. b ¥ “I have suffered from 1887 to 1917 for not being militaristic. ‘I turned militaristic when the war broke out. Before, I had been militarist to the extent of extending the length of military service ip France. * No Black Troops. . Asked to answer Hitchcook's ques- tion about black troops the ‘‘Tiger” said: 1 “In the first place there are no black troops of occupation {in the area of occupation of the enemy. In the second place, I have seen black American troops at the front and they stood the fire with bravery too. “Of course this has nothing to do with the question of whether we are militarists or not. It is an attempt of German propaganda to oppose France and America and obscure what is really the great question. “The Germans and all of our foes. had been killing enough of our white men, and 100,000 black men fell gal- lantly fighting on the frontiers of liberty as Woodrow Wilson called them. We are not going to deny them a place in history. Stories Are Lies. “Now those black soldiers were al- ways more or less occupying towns in France and always got along perfectly with the white French people. Even, 1 should say, their discipline is strict- er than any white troops, “So—T1 have seen papers of Ger- | man propaganda which I suppose in. | apired Mr. Hitchcock's sayings, and I can plainly say they are so many ! lies, “The day before I left Paris T heard these stories would be employed to prove that we were a militaristic people. So I asked official people to |give me plain information. “The answer was that there had been only one established case of a ! Senegalese having mistreated a Ger- man woman. He was cashiered and sentenced by a military tribunal.” Relieved White Troops. The reason black troops were sent into the occupation zone at first, Clemenceau sald, was to provide a i few months of home leave for the white troops “that had stood the fire | for years until America could come and were rather exhansted.” d “We couldn't foresee,” he said, “that it would be more objectionable to the Germans than to the French, In whose towns they had been garrison- ed. were withdrawn. . “The German obfection was mote of a surprise because they employed black troops, and If they did o {bring them to the front it was bec no means of bringing them could found.” Replies to Borah Then the Tiger eame to Torah's statement that he, cean was responsible for (Continued on Twenty-Nin ¥ When we learned it was, they . 9