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News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 NEXT FRENCH MOVE PLANNED IS TO - COMPLETELY ISOLATE RUHR VALLEY FROM REST OF GERMAN TERRITORY Even Communicaton Wit Girl Who Worked For Bolsheviki Makiig Her Home in New eritaiu Miss Bessiec Kaplan Wants| Berlin Will be Cut Off Unless Resistance . is| Ended, is Announce ment Strike Quite General Today —English Are Not Inter- fering—Ameflurg Liaison | Officer Reported Fired Upon. [ FEAR FOR FRENCH ENVOY AT MUNICH —— Berlin, Jan, 23, (By Asso- clated Press).—The Bavarian government has declared it is unable longer to guarantee the safety of Emil Bard, French minister at Munich, according to information received by Reuters and Irance has been informed to this effect by the Berlin gov- ernment. Paris, Jan. 23 (By the Assoclated Press)—The complete isolation of the Ruhr valley, the absolute severance of its communications with the rest of Germany, was announced in govern- ment circles today as the next step in the French struggle against German resistance, if that resistance continues. New currency, it was sald would promptly be introduced to meet fur- ther German efforts to tie up the Ruhr by paralyzing banking opera- tions and refusing to send cash for payrolls. The French it was declared would take control of the mincs, railroads, public utilities and whatever else was necessary to insure industrial opera- tions and coal deliveries to the allies, No British Interference London, Jan. 23 (By the Associated Press)—The British government has instructed its military, representatives on the Rhine not to interfere with the arrests and expulsions of German officials being carried out by the French, At the same #ime the Brit- ish are instructed not to cq-operate with the French in sueh operations or allow themsclves to become in- volved in any incidents ef their na- ture. The instrictions are very broad. They place the British authorities on the Rhine in the position of working out the details for themselves anda adapting themselves to each new sit- uation. Striko Is General. Essen, Jan. 23.—(By Associated Press.)—Not a pick was falling nor a wheel turning in at least a dozen mines in the Rubr valley this after- noon. All the workmen were on strike in protest against the arrest of the mine directors. The lafgst additions to the ranks of the strikers were the entire force of , Matthias Stinnes interest in the Ruhr and those of ‘the Thyssen interests at Hamborn after the workers had vain- ly demanded the release of Fyitz Thyssen and Herr Spindler. Fire On American. Brussels, Jan. 23.—(By Associated ‘Press.)—Severai shots were fired to- day at an American liasion officer at- tached to Belglan headquarters at Aix-la-Chapelle, according to a dis- patch to Libre Belgique. The officer was not hit. Trial Postponed. Mayence, Jan. 23.-—(By Associated Press.)—The trial of Fritz Thyssen | today held up two messengers of the NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1923, —SIXTEEN PAGES, FROM MISSING MAN Clarence, Brother of Harold Tee- "l....' T, | | | Photo By Murray MISS BESSIE KAPLAN FOIREN AGCUSED IN REAL ESTATE DEAL Dispute Over Sale of Belvidere Property Heard“in Court DECISION IS RESERVED Accused Claims Loren C. Baker Agreed to Accept aa,ooo—agmm Obtaining $6,000 and Putting Extra $100 in His Pocket. So that numerous authorities quot- ed by Prosecuting Attorney Joseph G. Woods and Defense Counsel W. C. Hungerford and Donald Gaffney might be pursued,’ Judge George W. Klett in police court this morning re- served decision ufiti next Monday morning in the case of Henry J. Foi- ren of Kensington, charged with em- bezzlement of $100 from Loren C. Baker. Foiren sold a piece of property at the corner of Stratford road and Carleton street, for Baker, to Marjorie Strong and Louis Krieger, last April. The sale price was. $6,000, while Foiren represented Baker, according to allegations of the state, that he sold it for $5,900, and it was upon that amount that he received his realtor’s commission of two per cent, Baker Explains Transaction Baker told the court that I oiren asked him if the place was for sale and when the reply was in the affirm- ative asked if he could have th® reg- ular commission if he sold it for $6,000, which Baker told him w: price. Baker agreed. Later, Baker testified, he received a telephone call from Ioiren who toid him that he had a prospective customer but one who would pay no more than $5,900 for the place. Baker told him that if this was all he could get for it he could make the sale. He received from Ioiren $300 on April 20, and on | | n (Cohtinued on Fifth Page). ROBBERS GET $50,000 Two Flatbush Bank Messengers Are Robbed This Automobile Bandits. New York, Jan. 23.—Four robbers 1 Moming By Four | | Municipal Bank in the Flatbush sec- | tion of Brooklyn and escaped with | 4 and the five other industrial magnates arrested in the Ruhr set for today has | been postponed until 9 o’clock tomor- row morning. It is understood - that | Frederick Grimm, attorney for the| men accused of refusing to obey the orders of the French, had pleaded lack of jurisdiction and incompetence | of the French court. | Dr. Gtimm is reported _to have| asked that the case be reforfed to the| Permanent court of international jus- tice at the Hague. Dortmund, Jan. 23.—(By Associat- ed Press.)—French troops have heen | installed as guards over all the exits| from the Ruhr valley by railroad or| canal. They are ready, it is an- nounced, to achieve complete {sola- tion of the Ruhr within 12 hours in the event of a general strike or riot- ing. Report Big Walkout. Berlin, Jan. 73.—(By Associated Press.)—S8ince this morning 65,000 employes of the Stinnes works and | 100,000 of the Thyssen works in the Ruhr region have been on strike, ac- | cording to information obtained by Retuers this afternoon. | (By Associated | mission which maintains a h!lrt‘nu( Essen was unable to communicate by telephone with this bureau today. It was assumed the interruption of serv- iee was due to a refusal of the Gr-| man workers to operate the line to Parls, $50,000. The messengers were taking the | money from the main office to a| branch bank in an automobile when the four highwaymen who were in a | small car forced the bank's machine to the curb, Simultaneously the four robbers| jumped from their car covered the messengers with pistols and forced them to drive to a secluded spot near the King's county hospital. The highwaymen ordered the mes- sengers and the chauffeur out of their car, seized the money and drove away at top speed in the bandit ca he messengers rushed to telephones and informed the police. ¥ [ f HAD BEER ENOUGH shipwrecked Men, Just Rescued. Had |of leather in the inner lining of the shoe tips. f Lived For 11 Days On Diet Of This Beverage Alone. Galveston, Tex., Jan. Subsisting | for 11 days on a diet of beer, three men half dead from exhaustion were picked up by the Morgan linc steam- er El Occidente 225 miles off Carolina coast on January 18. The men, described as Ilorida |} ishermen said they were taking || liquor from the Bahama islands to| g Cuba in a motor boat when their | gasoline wave out. The men wer turned over to fishermen friends on | the Florida coast after thelr liq"(fl" d been thrown overboard t Mrs, Benjamin Kaplan, two smaller | brothers and a sistor has arrived here | Harold 182" he was nsked from Russia, | slde at 63 Willow street, gerstrom, Testilies Today FEELS SURE HE 1S SAFE Says That Note to Him Opinion That We Would Return in Time to Testify in Behalt of Jeft Burneu, Bastrop, La,, Jan, 23 (By Assoclat- |ed Press) ~Clarenge Teegerstrom, brother of Harold Teegerstrom, miss- | Ing timekeeper of the Southern Car- | bon Co, at Spyker, who disappeared | | December 28 and for whom the state 1 of the suffering and ,...,\,..qu Louislana has been searching in | | Russia Is passing away and | connection with its investigation into suntry is settling down to a|activities of masked men in More- °r basis, according to Miss Bes. | house parish, testified today at the| aplan, who with her mother, | open hearing here, “Do you know where your brother to Have Her Hair Bobbed | and Dress Like American Girls, ‘ “T do not.” “When did you him ?* ‘I recelved a letter J 'Where is the letter “I destroyed it.", A Miss Bessie Kaplan was employed | Teegerstrom was given the letter for a short time befare leaving the | by Dean Asheraft, an employe of the country, by the bolshevik ‘overnmenl“)&mnnwrn Carbon Co. at Spyker who | in a railroad office, She tells thrill- }um Supérintendent L., 1. Bennett had | ing tales of the starvation perlod of | found it in the company’s mail box. last winter and the winter before, | The envelope bore a two-cent stamp | when thousands of people perished. | but no postmark, | Miss Kaplan comes from the town Expected to Return, of Moginleff in the western part of | Harold's letter, Teegerstrom tfesti- Russia. Her father came to Am#. fied, declared he was safe and sohind | ica when she was seven years of age, |and in comfortable quarters and he 11 years ago. For three years during | Would be ready to return about the the war the family did not hear from | 20th when the state wanted_him and him. Finally they recelved a letter | Would “testify for Jeft.” and after that letters and packages “Jeff” he understood to be followed frequently. Most of the let- | Burnett, former Morehouse parish ters and packages were -delivered | deputy sheriff and employe of the | safely, she says. Carbon Co. who iy at liberty under | She finished a school in Russia, [ $5,000 bail. Burnett was arrested which corresponds to the average|last month on a murder charge in high school in America. She was in | connection with the kidnapping of The Kaplan family, wife and children of Benjamin K.up-| lan, a local cattle dealer, was the| first Russian family to come direct | to New Britain since 1914, They re- | last hear from uary 10" T. J. | ERs T REFUGEE SHIPS AND ' 500 PERSONS MISSING ~ Prosecutor Right to Ask Reinstatement as Law Average Daily Circulation Week Ending ,0 43 January 20th PRICE THRE® CENTS DESTROYS LETTER | COVERT OFFERS BILL TO RESTORE - GREENBERG'S CIVIL RIGHTS; PLAN (Russian Vessels Believed Lost in China Sea—Others in Philippines Manila, Jan. 28 (lly Assoclated Press) —~Fear Is expressed that seven Russian refuges ships with more than 600 persons ahoard have been lost in the China sea enroute from Shanghal to the Philippines as part of Admiral Stark's fleet of Viadivostok exiles five sitips of which are anchored near here, The missing vessels have not been heard of since Jan, 10, Admiral Stark Is with the ships which have found temporary haven In Bolinao cove, But his white flect Bf homeless Siberians has no plac on earth to land permanently, Pushed onward, first from Korea, then to China, it was given permission only to linger a while in the Philippines, Plans may be worked out, however, for the refugees to remain in the Philippines, They could be admitted | under the immigration laws but the question of absorbing them in busi- ness on the islands presents a diffieult problem. A majority ‘of the Russian colony are sailors, and it has been suggested that they could be absorbed easily if sent to the United States. Admiral Stark and his officers as- serted* that they were very desirous of remaining in the Philippines or anywhere else under the .American flag. They told the Associated Press that if they returned to Vladivostok | they would be killed by the soviet forces. | Local Senator’s Me asure yer—, Wants T0 CUT DOWN AUTO THEFTS URGED Would Also Give Deposed Certification of Title For All Motor Cars—Many Other Bills BILLBOARD ON HOTEL SITE NAY BE ORDERED RAZED Sald to Have Been Erccted Without Permit—Is Not Fireproof—Building Commission to Discuss Case, There will be a meeting of the building commission this evening to discuss the billboard located on the Commercial Trust Co. property. at the corner of West Main and Washington streets, It was said that official complaint against the board has been made to | officluly, including the mayor himse but outwardly no attention has been paid. It is claimed that the billboard violates at least two city ordinances. It was erected without a building per- mit, as is required, it Is said; and it is also alleged that the fire ordinance is violated 'in that the board has not been fire proofed. GATHOLIGS PROTEST Object to Pastoral Letter Sent Out By Their Own Priests Condemning Re- volt Against Free State. Dublin, Jan. 22 (By the Associated Press)—The action of the Roman Hartford, Jan, 23—Senator Richard rt of New Britain, offered a bill civil rights to Albert A, Greenhs ex-prosecutor in the New | Britaln court, who was fined $500 and |®iven a suspended six months sen- ten by Judge Wolfe on charges ,grnv\lnu out of liquor running scan- |dais. The LIl also would give him the right to upply for reinstatement ag a member the bar 1o e ar Flood of Bills, The flood of bills into the general assembly began today as closing time for new bus be next Friday. The first excize bill offered by Sen= ator Kenealy would permit a court to turn confiscated liquors over to a hos- pital or state aided institution instead of ordering them destroyed. He also |offered a bill changing the teachers pension law, increasing the minimum pension o $600, the maximum to $1,- 00 and making term of service 15 ears in case of application for a pen- sion by reason of disability, Senator Bakewell put in a bill to deal with #peculation in tickets to sports and performances of all kinds with a penalty clause, To Protect Autoists, A bill would repeal the egg stamp- ing law; another would provide $525,- 100 for a new armory in New Haven; to license all persons engaged in re- pairing automobiles: making it a fel- ony for a husband to abandon his wife who may be approachcing ma- ternity; $2,00¢ for the Backus hospi- tal at Norwich; appointing H. S. Bul- lard recorder and George H. Day and A. H. Creedon judges at Hartford; ess will charge of the statistical department | of the westerr® railroads under the | Soviet government., | Train Service Resumed. For a long time she says, trains| Watt Daniel and T. I, Richard. The .witness said he felt sure| his brother's disappearance was vol- | {untary and that he had not been sent or hidden away by anyone. “Have you got any idca as to how | Cathollc hierarchy of Jreland in issu-|abolishing capital punishment; regu- ing a_pastoral letter to the priests lating the commissions of real estate and ople on October 10 last con- brokers; that savings banks may in- demning the revolt and guerrilla war-|vest in mortgage bonds of unencum- fare against the Free State govern-|bered real estate in the state; provid- LAFAYETTE ST, FAMILIES ROUTED BY MIDNIGHT FIR LARGE ATTENDANCE AT City Officials Among Those Present at Patrick S. McMahon filled St. Mary's| church at the funeral services morning at 9:30 o’clock. women in all walks of life were pres- ent, including many of the office holders, bank officials and oth- ers, the church, was celebrant of solemn high requiem mass. Father Wilson of sub-deacon, was master of ceremonies. church, Father Francis P. Kehoe of | 5 Hartford, s the | St. Andrew’s church, | Daly of St. Joseph's ton and Iather Tyler of Jewett City It contained a wax hand, were in the sanctuary. the and | mittal services at the vault Mary's cemetery, |1 Attwood, prsident of the New tience is exhausted. Britain Trust Co., W. L. Hatch, John|Hand reig P. Sweeney, honorary pallbearers, of Police W. C. Hart, James T, 0'Con- old girl had meited | nor, Thomas J. Smith, Edward O'Meara. land cuit court for $5,000 charging [Runaway Boy Caught 175 Jerome street, was picked up on the | word was gert here this morning to since Sunday morning. She was noti- fied today that he had been picked | for New York te bring him back. did not run at all. When service was | resumed following the armistice, a [the letter got into the company's box without having passed, through (Continued on Sixth Page) the regular post office channels. company's box was located. It con- vinces me he is in this vicinity.” | The witness said he told the fed- P. s. Hcmo“ F“NERAL eral agents he had not heard rrom! {it was any of their business. | The witness said he joined the klan Obsequies in St. Mary's Church— | ¢arly this month. Many Priests in Sanctuary. Relatives and friends of the DEATH THREAT PROVES late | 10 BE GIRL'S HOAX this | Men and| leading | besme s o o,‘Made Wax Hand and Put It"j the. on Veranda of Friend’s | Home Rev, WAI- | | was deacon ®and | Farmington wu} ¢ Rev, Walter A, McCrann| wpgt appeared for & time yoster- " ../ day as a death threat, turned out Rev. Charles Coppens of St. Peter's artar investigation by Detective 4 . ‘ ergeant Wm. P. McCue, tobe noth. Rev. Edward V. Grikis of/ing more than a simple hoax, perpe Rev. Patrick [¢rated by a 15 year old girl on a church, Rev.|chum. Thomas Bailey, of 2,038 Stan- Thomas Laden of St John the ljey street, discovered Sunday on the apgelist church, Rev. J. C. Bren- veranda of his home, a box which he nan of St. Paul's church in Kensing- took into his apartment and opencd. and had | |been evidently shipped through the As the body was being borne from | American Express Co., although the church St. Mary's quartet sang address on the outside had been “The Vacant Chair,” Father Winters | obliterated. I"ather McCrann read the com- | With the hand was a in St taining the following: “163 1. Ja- binna street, Paterson, N. J. Beware, Mayor.Angelo M. Paonessa, William your's time has now come. My pa- Remember Red | King of the Rev. John T. Winters, pastor’ iam A. Krause note, con- supreme, Red Hand. Detective McCue started an investi gation on being notified of the dis- The active pallbearers were Chief covery, and he learned that a 15 year some Christmas David L. Dunn, candles, and then made the hand, and Patrick sent it with a note to a«chum, as a |joke. The supposed recipient lives The flower bearers were H. . Lu- in the housc with Mr. Bailey, and dorf, Charles Walsh, John Renchan this accounts for the leaving of the Robert McGraw, | package on his veranda. HER TOE BURNED ° De- the Postmaster W, F. aney, and John McCabe were 8. McCarthy and GUILTY OF MURDER Woman Asks $5,000—Claim Celluloid | John W. Hudson, Jr., Comvicted, De- Was Used in Shoe—Caught Fire| Spite Attempt of His Father to As. Warming Feet. sume Blame for Crime, Memphis, Tenn., Jan., 23.—John W, | Hudson, Jr., Whitc Haven, Tenn., dairyman was found guilty today of | | murder in the first degree in connec- | explosion, | 1100 With the slaying of Mrs. Hattie | Parkersburg, W. Va., Jan. 23.—Mrs, Tugo Moats of Harrisville, sat down before an open gas fire to warm her cet s startled by an Hudson was alleged to have been in- Today Mrs. Moats filed suit in cir.| The verdict returned after delib: " the | eration of littie more than an hour, carried with it a death sentence. manufacturer used celluloid instead | On an inside page of this issue |d | there is an interesting account of the | trial yesterday, at which time the convicted map's father made a dra- matic attempt to save his son by him- | self “confessing” to the murder. By New . York Police Howard Newton, aged 14 years ,of he street in New York last night and THE WEATHER —.—, Hartford, Jan. 23.—Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Becoming wmsettled, probably snow late tonight. Wednesday snow and warmer, increasing casterly winds. ‘aptain Georzc Kelly by Inspector -ahey of the Metropolitan police. ast evening Mre. Newton, mother of he boy, reported to the police that her son had peen missing from home :' l 1 ip, and a_brother of the boy ummi| | was in the cellar the walls of sagging was not determined. stated there chinery, but that employes would few days while repairs to the are being made. dolph street bound and gagged a newsho; and stole nélice reported | AL, Willetts, Well Known Actor Car-| mittee, “I do not. I suppose he told who- | y [ever he is Hiding out with whero the| Fies Baby to Safety When Flames an appeal to the Yatican from the Threaten Morris Property. Damage estimated by Chief William | they have returned to Dublin after J.. Nokle of the fire department at 'his brother hecause ke did not think 8400 wos done fw a blaze in the ctllar| ol property at 21 and 23 lafayette strect, at 12:30 d*clock this morning. An alarm from Box 42 brought the department to the scene. The blaze of the building| which is owned by Hilary Morris, On | the floor above the cellar are a res-| taurant and a grocery store. The fire was flaming briskly near a stairway, and the partitions were badly burned. Tenants residing on the floors above were awakened and | ment has had a striking sequel in the ing for a real estate commission. formation of a Catholic appeal tom- This committee sent a num- ber of delegates to Rome to present sions of the Irish hierarchy and Freeman’s Journal understands | completing their mission. The det |had three Gasparri, papal received their peal and had it en- tered in the Vatican records. The delegates also were recelved in audi- ence by Pope Pius. At their last interview with Car- dinal Gasparri, according to the news- paper, they were informed that thefr appeal had been forwarded to Car- dinal Logue, primate of all Ireland for reply on behaif of the Irish hierarchy terviews with Cardina tes ure reported to have machines. The first general automobile bill was offered by Representative Dun- ham and provides for certification of titles of cars with the motor vehicle department which certificate goes with the car in later transactions and backed by the state chamber of com- is aimed to lessen thefts of merce 1 A bill sponsored by the state or- cretary of state who DIthologist would stop using monkeys with strect organs, birds with fortune chances in connection with hand or- or possession of chameleons. A finance bill by Mr. Porter would " [ repea under which a state [tax is laid. Mr. Andrews of Danbury proposes granting power to the state board of |control to abate taxes due the state {h_\' any street railway company in the 4 Ky TR i : A "I hands of a rc¥eiver ete. ordered out of the place by police- and that on receipt of this the mar. The railroad bill-to invostigate train man and the firemen, Al Willetts, an actor in a local play-| house arfl a former New Britain man, | went into the building and brought cut a small baby in his arms. A box containing about a dozen pocket knives was found at the rear of the place, and they were turned over to| the police department ANOTHER NIGHT FIRE Morning Mine, One of Targest Northern Idaho, is Ablaze and Two Men, Overcome, Are Rescued, in! ter would be duly considered by the sacred congrezation whose function it is to deal with such questions whicn would then report to the Pope. WANTS NEW BANK LAW [¥. 8. Chamberlain Says Bond is Not Necessary When Banks Act As Trusige or Faecutor of Estates, (Special to The Hera Hartford, / | request af 1% at _the 1 of tht | New Britain National bank, Repre | sentative I3 W, Clirist of this city in Spokane, Wash.,, Jan. ~—The| Morning mine at Mullan, Idaho, one ofsthe largest in northern Idaho, was afire today and reports received here said that two men were “dead. A later report from Wallace, Idaho, said that two men had been overcome hy as but they had been rescued. The fire was discovered this morning when the day shift went on duty, it was stated. Out of Town Firm Gets Hotel Excavation Job The Miller Bros, Construction Co. of Bloomficld has been awarded the sub-contract for the excavation work at the new hotel to be erbeted at the corner of West Main and Washington streets by the building committee of the Elihu Rnrnl‘hnlr\] corpora- tion. The price is $1.10 a cubic yard rveral bids were received New Britain concerns but were not low as the one cited above. Leard and ‘Battaglia bid $1.20 a cubic vard Peter Suzio, $1.25; John MaGuire $1.15; Charles Bence, $1.50 and A. DiMarco, $1.44. The excavation work will be start- ed not Jater than Monday of next from as which she says tere of the tip of ona| B Ferguson of Memphis with whom | weck of her shoes and injured her toes so |badly that amputation was necessary, fAtuated. |Sagging Walls of VI-';Qcmry Put Men Out of Work Thompsonville, Jan —Officials of the Bigelow-Hartford Carpet Co., to- damage resuiting from the settling of feet of one of a building of the com- at $2,000. The cause of the It was was no damage to ma- 30 of the company’s be made idle for a wall lay estimated the pany STEAL 600 CASF Chicago, Jan 3 iquor thieves raide building OF LIQUOR. Twelve armed West Ran- early today, a watchman and | throngh a vault| the drilled ses of whiskey, < fearly troduced in the legislature this morn ing a bill to relieve banks and trust companies from furnishing hond | when they assume the duties of trus tee or executor ef an ite | In explanatiog Mr. Chamberlai said that the 1’1 Volves some expe hond it is totally unneces tire funds of the b the handiing of cac BIG FIRE IN BOSTON Apparatus h transaction, Most of the City's IVire Called Out to Quell Flames That Do Pamage of $150.000, IMire that threat- block of s ory Boston, Jan. 23.- ened to destroy a E loft buildings in the shoe and leather district was brought under control today after the greater part of the city's fighting resourc had been taxed for many hours. The Me- Donald building on Lincoln street was swept by flames and adjoining buildings were damaged. The loss was estimated at $150,000, The dense fumes of burning leather mpered the fire fighters and explo- sions of gas routed them in many attempts to reach the sixth floor of the building where the fire originated Two firemen were injured, one struck on the head by a falling brick and the other cut by flying glas: The chief loss was sustained Ly R E. MeDonald and Co. and ‘A. Shapiro wholesale shoe dealers. Man Who Introduced Sodas In England Dies, Aged 79 Hns(on". 23 —Noel W. Stiles, n said to have been the first to introduce the American soda fountain into Eu- rope died suddenly Jast night at his home in the Allston district in his 70th yeall® He engaged in the manu- facture soda fountains in England 5 years ago and carried on his bus- iness in that country for 15 years, Mr. Stiles began his carcer as a druggist in Aopleton, Wis. of service on railroads was not called up in the house. The first bill to change county com- missions from three persons to one | was offered hy Mr. Hyde of Brooklyn. The session o both branches was | short but the clerks had a lively half hour handling the measures sent to their desks, ! In the Senate | The administration fuel control bill | which Senator Ells offered last week |was sent to the judiciary committee Ifor a hearing. It was decmed tod' drastic by many senators and if it is reported in it is likely to be in Breais changed form. The senate e | ecived the Wilder bill advocated iy | the governor to raise a commission to can and malignant skin es. The commission would serve ut compensation, For Five Cent Car fares Senator MceGrath put in a bill to require that all anl!ri‘ cars should two men. This whuld mean the of the onc-man cars | | study tha have a that no single fare within a city ox town limit shonld execeed five conts. Another that a saving hank depositor with $10( his her credit may exerofse the right voting for ile bank's officers and hold ofiice. Would Register Badges Senator Wilder another bill would provide that insignia badge, al, button or embiem of a society, sociation, union or incorpor- ated club may registerea with the secretary fixing punish- ment organization which imitates a s such insignta wro to w aboy o and MeGrath in a bill would municipalities the right to use concerns for carrying and providing Waterbury aldermen must ve eub- itor give poles of private wires harge that mitted without before t bonds the same to referendum Aimed at K. K. K. same senator had a bill in readiness which would prohibit the meeting or banding together of indi- iduals as an organization which con- ceals the identity of those members by mask, gown or otherwise, While not making any specific reference the bill was thought to be aimed at the Kinx Kian, other The Ku Among these By Ells=%o make women eligible for jury duty, being the bill prepared by the Women Voters League, By Wilder—To authorize a $250,000 Bridgeport-East Washington avenue bridge honds: amending the aet of in- corporation of ‘the Bridgeport Med- ical association and meeting from taxation its effects up to $200,000 to change vaccination laws relating to school children so that a physician may certify as to whether it would be prudent on account of sickness or senate bills were | «Continued on Thirteenth Page)

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