New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 2, 1923, Page 1

Daily Cireulation Nertuine 9 071 PRICE THREE CENTY News of the World By Associated Press NEW BRITAIN HERALD PAGES, NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2 1023 —TWENTY UNOCCUPIED GERMANY IS FEELING - EFFECT OF FRANCO-BELGIAN RULE; SWEDISH CLERGY SENDS AN APPEAL Babson Insists French are Wrong; Call Presdent Harding's | ESTABLISHED 1870 SALOONKEEPERS’ LICENSES ' Property Menaced by Fire Insured ARE ORDERED REBATED BY . For $1,276,132; Loss Only $98,754 IMPORTANT COURT RULI. 4%&.. L, 195 Completod and Wil B Sen t Juie Boothn Cout of CANNOT COMPELGAS| .~ " Pwdetimeomien Common Peas Avards COHPANY TO CHANGE Chtef Eugene ¥, liavnu of the New| |did net originate, $3,250,73 B .d t c f Britain fire department have complet.| . Th® report shows the City of New, ridgeport (afeman Judgement to Recover Springlield Retorts to Be Rebuilt . in Business District | O —— Attention to European Chaos and Ask U, §. Aid in Obtaining Thinks Appointing Receiver For Germany Might Solve Problem ot present, It During the past year there were 325 | struetion, (steel), 110; briek and stone fires and 156 were cither false or un-|censtruction, 769; iron-clad, 30; frame necessary, ‘The total value of build- construection, 7,687%: concrete hleck by The Herald), promises little in the | Hiritain to have a population of nhuul' $312.50 od their annual report for 1922 which | g 000, and an area of 13% square Decision Holds That Advent will be submitted to the National mun Hoard of Fire Underwriters at New| The number of concrete |ml!fl|ll|“ of Prohibition Made Li- cense Paid for by Prin- York, (reinforced), is 25; of fireproof con- cipal Inoperative, FINDING STATE-WIDE IN ITS EFFECT Bridgeport, Feb, 2, — Ernest C. Adams, former saloonkeeper here to- day was awarded judgment to re- cover $312.50 of $750 pald by him for a liquor license which was made inoperative by the advent of prohibi- tion in July, 1919, The decision by Judge John R. Booth in the court of common pleas is statewide in its effect and estab- lishes the rights of 700 license hold- ers in Falrfield county to approxi- mately $102,800 as rebate on licenses were voided by the prohibition ac Case of Great Interest. ¥ The case has beenjfollowed with interest by former holders of saloon licenses and by lawyers because of several principles involved. At the last gencral assembly the holders of licenses, which documents had become inoperative by reason of the effective- ness of the Volstead act, asked for re- lef to the extent of rebate through the county commissioners of the por- tion of their license fees which cov- ered the unexpired (five months) part of the term of the license, Before that there had been a de- mand made on county commissioners for the portion of license money. The general assembly adopted a statute which would give the county commis- sioners the right to pass upon the applications for return of money. The state, however, did not provide the money which might be available for rebates. lit Three Ways. License money had always been split three ways, 25 per cent to the state, 10 per cent to the county and the remainder apportioned among the towns. The case brought by Adams was re- garded as a test one gnd it was ar- gued in December. It is claimed that the rebates by commissioners would approxlmate‘ $1,000,000 in the state if the statute was held to be right. Coun- sel for the commissioners of Ifairfield county maintained that the statute was unconstitutional because it would require the payment of public money to private individuals. # Appeal Is Likely, It is expected that the state will appeal from the decision of Judge Booth that the constitutionality of the statute may be settled by the supreme court. INGREASE IN BUILDING OVER 1993 INDIGATED January Report Shows Operations to The Amount of $245,585—21 Permits Are Issued. The monthly report of Building In- spector John C. Gilchreest for Janu ary, shows operations considerably greater than those of the correspond- ing month last year, although there were fewer permits issned in 1923, For last month, the report shows 21 | permits issued for a total of $245,5 while in January, 1922, there were 32 permits and the amount of building rcpresented was $73,705. Last month's report frame buildings, $50,160; six brick buildings, $187,776; nine alterations, §7,660. Total, 21 permits, $245,5685. During the month, 11 tenements were added, nine complaints were investi- gated and thr\rr were 143 (nqpuuon-v LUGKY T0 BE ) BE ALIVE Reckless and Drunken Driver Truck Toad of Nitroglycerine Sent | to Jail at Arkansas City. Ark:mau City, Ark., 1Ieb. Charged with having been_ intoxicated | and having driven recklessly a truck 1naded with 80 quarts of nitrogiyeer- | e, T. M. MeChargue was in jail here today. The truck was upset at the city limits and the cans contalning the explosives scattered over the road. It was estimated there was cnough ol} the cxplosive to have destroyed Ar-| kansas City had there been an explo- sion. Moose and Elks Join in Drive for Fewer Drugs Washington, I'eb. 2.-—Resolutions | passed by several hundred Elk lodges asking Presldent Harding to call a confefence or nations to limit produe- tion of habl! forming drugs were presented to the president today by a | delegation of Chicago Elks. Later| Becretary Davla presented 1o the pres- fdent simllar resolutions signed by 600.000 members of the Loyal Order] of Moose to which the secretary is di- rector general, | follows: Six | of| 9 | ing by the’ construction INVESTIGA'I'WN UNDER WAY Death Toll of Three May Be Increas- ol—Property Damage Will Reach Into Hundreds of Thousands—Not Glass Enough For Windows Broken 2 ~The ex- with Springfield, Mass,, Feb, plosion that shook this city, three deaths and injuries to more than half a hundred persons in the wreckage of windows and walls over # wide area yesterday, was still unex- plained today. That it was due pri- marily to a leakage of gas in the pur- ifying/ plant of the Springficld Gas Light Co, where it occurrcd was ad- mitted by company officlals but how this loose gas became ignited was not established. Gas Does Lscape. State and municipal inspectors were working with those of the.company in a three fold investigation that had as its primary object, aside from placing responsibility, determination of the question whether in the puri- fying processes there was danger of a recurrence of the blast. Arthur S, Hall, general superintendent of the company, and Captain Herman Brugi, the company's supervising engineer, agreed that quantities of gas got away from the filter boxes from time to time but thought there was no extra- ordinary hazard in the condition. Cannot Move Plant. Prominent, citizens professing that the location of the gas works on the edge of the business district consti- tuted a menace that should be remov- ed, took steps to apply the city’s new zoning laws, which would put the plant in a section farther removed from the public buildings, business blocks, churches and banks that were damaged by the explosion of yester- day. But the fact that the gas works proper suffered only in part, and its machinery not at all, left the amount of destruction less than the. 50 per cent which would make it possible to prohibit rebuilding in the same place. Company officials announced that they were putting their plant in per- manent shape again. r Although buildings two miles away were shaken by the blast severely enough to break windows and crack walls and ceilings, and several struc- tures of importance in business or public activities situated within a more immediate radius were wrecked, the gas plant continued to operate. Tried To Fix Leak. Pointing out that there was no tank involved in the purifying process, in which the crutle manufactured gas is conducted through filter boxes seal- ed in water to eliminate impurities, Supt. Hall said it was free gas that exploded under the roof and that the | machinery was not affected except that some of the boxes were covered | with wreckage. Captain Brugi said the fact that there was a leak of some size was noticed yesterday and an at- tempt was being made to find it when the explosion came. Although the foreman and empioyes were at work on this job they were less scriously hurt than those outside the building | who were felled by walls blown out- ward or rool fragments that came showering down. All three deaths (Continued on Page 17) ings involved in fires was §1,007,835, and the value of the contents was §1,- | 165,680, a total of $2,773,415, | The insurance on the affected prop- | erties was as follows: Bulldings, 31 092,607,60; contents, $183,625; $1,276,1 0, The total losses were| as follows Bulldings, $60,764.68; contents, $37,989.32; total, 754, The total loss insured and uninsured was, to bulldings, $61,768.68; contents, $42,916.44; total, $104,675.12, The direct losses on bulldings and | contents, in which the fires originated were, $101,424.38; total losses on SEEK MAN WHO DROYE TWO DAYS. WITH PAL'S BODY Oklahoma City Authorities Claim That Riviere Homer, Slain, Was & Rum Smuggler, Oklahoma City, Okla,, TFeb, Floyd Felts, the alleged keeper of al four day death watch while doggedly | driving an automobile night and day over the wind-swept barrens of lwo' states, his only companion the body/ of a pal who had been shot, was| being sought today by authorities in their endeavor to solve the mysterious slaying of Riviere Horner, 24, social- Iy prominent here. Horner was sald by St. Joseph, Mo., authorities to have been a hootlegger operating be- tween Mexico and the Missouri city. . Members of the dead man's family Just before dawn yesterday were sum- moned to the door by a man who dragged from an automoblle Horner's body wrapped in automobile robes and placed it with a suitcase on the lawn a few paces from the veranda, The elder Horner identired l'slu as | the bearer of the body. Horner eaid; that from an upper window he ae. knowledged the man's knock at the. front door and was told that “Rivere | is here.” | Upon being asked to send him in, | the man replied: “He can’t come. He's dead. He was killed in a battle with hi-jackers and I've had him since Sunday.”| Whereupon the mysterious caller sped away. Police and deput ysheriffs investi- | gating the case proceeded on the the-| ory that Horner was stain when he and Itelts were attacked by agents searching for rum-runners near the; Missourl state line. Belief was ex-| pressed that the fight occurred either last Friday or Saturday and that Horner lived several hours after be- ing wounded. They also attempted to trace an anonymous telephone call which Hor- | ner's brother in Okmulgee received | | Wednesday night. He was informed| ! that Horner's body would be:in Okla- ‘l\oma City by midnight.” Horner last was seen in St. Joseph| | about three weeks ago, according to! |advices from authorities there. At | that time he was said to have left in l'an automobile for Mdxico with Felts. | His family here expressed beMoh ! that Horner was robbed, pointing to | /the fact that a diamond ring was| missing. They also said that it was | his own automobile which was used! | in bringing his body home. ‘)—.‘ ‘Cost of Structure Would Be | $63,000—Marsh’s Layout, Considered. At the hearing on the elimination of Clayton crossing held this morn- ing at the state capitol with mem- bers of the publie utilities commis- sion, representatives of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad | ecompany, the city of New Britain T, Higgins announced that would take sioner R, the utilities commission under consideration plan No. as submitted by the railroad company {and the plan advecated by the Cham- | ber of Commerce of this city and | hold a eonference witlr the highway commissioners before making a final decision. The commissioner spoke favorably of plan No. 2 and when the guestion was put before those at the meeting all were in favor of this plan which calls for the elimination of the cross- on the site of the present crossing. The plan wdll be given consifieration before any solution of the problem is made. L. D. Waterman, who presented nine plans of the railroad company, said that the approximate cost of | plan No. 2 would be $63,000. He ex- pressed himself as being in favor of one of the three plans which call for the construction of the bridge. Many New Britain people were (Continied on Page 17.) PLAN T0 BRIDGE CROSSING AT CLAYTON IS FAVORED ——ilinn organlrmon was “nn-American.” Approved by City, to Be| and the town of Newington, Commis- | of a bridge| | MISPLAGED COMMA COSTS MEN THEIR INSURANGE ployes Are By Coast Guand Service Said To Be Cut Out Grammatical Error Washington, I'eb. 2.-—Misplacement a comma in the text of the war | risk insurance act took away from | thousands of officers and men in the | coast guard all the benefits of the act lafter August 28, 1919, in the oplmon’ of officials of that service who ap- peared today before the house inter- state commerce committee to ask | that the coast guard be placed again | on equality with the army and navy. Lieut. Commander I. C. Billard told | the committee that the ruling that the coast guard could not come within the act after its removal from service un- der the navy, back to its normal sta- |tus under the treasury department had been based on the wording of ar- ticle four of the law, which authorizes | insurance for “every commissioned of- | |ficer and eniisted man and every member of the army nurse corps and | navy nurse corps when employed in active service under the war and navy departments.” | It was the contention of the coast guard that representatives framers of |the bill, intended that the phrase “when employed, ete” should be set off with a comma, making the active |service limitation apply only to the nurse corps. In support of this con- |tention, it was pointed out that an at- | |torney general of the United States| {of | | | |origin, iclose friends, |o'clock 1‘ John L. Urange county, N. Y. | ! nesota house adopted | eriticizing the Ku Klux Klan its tace not classified above, 26; Rl 9%, Of the fires during the past year, the character of the bulldings in which |they occurred was as follows: Itein. forced concrete, 1; steel construction, 1; brick and stone, 53; frame con- struction, 99; conorete block construe. tion, 1; In buildings not classified above, 7: other than bullding firds, 145; confined to bullding or place of 213; extending to adjoining building, 2; extending beyond adjoin- | ing buildings, none; fires confined to| floors on which fire originated, 110, ADAM SMITH, BLIND BASEBALL FAN, DEAD total, (1} | | Was Enthusiastic Rooter nnd_ Regular Attendant at Contests Here Adam Smith, veteran Mason, blind for a quarter of a century, died A‘ 'his residence at 75 Curtis street, yl‘ 8:45 o'clock last evening. Deatlf fol- | lowed an illness of two weeks. Funeral services, which will be at- tended by members of the family and will ‘be held at 2:30 tomorrow afternoon. Rev. Davis, pastor of Trinity M. E. church, will officiate. Public serv- ices will be held at Erwin chapel under the nulnlcea of Harmony lmlge. A. F, and A, M,, at 3 o'clock and in- terment will be in Fairview w\metnry. Mr. Smith was born in Newark, N. J., August 2, 1847, of Scotch’ parent- | age and lived for years in Walden, | For 38 years after removing to New Britain he| was employed. at the Stanley Works | and for a long time was in charge of Department 4, of that plant, He was a member of Harmony lodge, A, F. and A. M, #nd %ad betn a Mason for the past 64 years, He was a member of the O. A. M. and ¥Freeman’s lodge, 1. O. O. of Wal- den, N. Y, Totally blind for over Smith has been one of the city's most | ardent baseball fans, and, although he could not see a play, so thorough-' Iy did he enjoy the game that year after year he was the holder of a complimentary season pass from the | management when New Britain was in the league. He had a host of| friends and was a familiar and popu-| lar figure, not only in his neighbor- | hood, but in the entire city. He is survived.by his only daugh-| ter, Mrs, Lottie Ostroski, three grand- children, George, Marion and Con- | stance Ostroski, and one sister, Mrs. Annie IFargo, of Chester, Conn. A special communication of Har-| mony lodge will be held in Masonic | | hall tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock | to attend the funcral. Bearers will be selected from the different organi- | zations of which Mr. Smith was g member, | years, Mr. | |Dakota Bans Masked Men; Minnesota Strikes at Klan! Bismarck, N. D, I'eb. 2—The Nortn Dakota house passed the senate anti- | mask bill, 92 to 18. The measure prohibits members of any organiza- tions from wearing a mask outside of a building. Minn, ~—The Min-) resolution St. Paul, a ties and its purposes and declaring | that the {service now rendered between (Quoted Locally Only Wellesley Hills, Mass, Feb, 2 Noger W. Habson's statement last week on “What's the Matter With France?' has aroused widespread comment and eriticism. “It is all right for Babson to preach™ writes & high French official, “but it is another thing to collect the money that France must get, and get at once, Every week we are ‘going fur. ther into debt. Our financial condi- tion forced us into Essen, It was a case of sink or swim. We swam.” Says French Are Wrong Mr, Babson again reiterated his statement that the trouble with Kurope was primarily spiritual rath- er than ~financial. He still contenfls French tacties in the Ruhr districts are fundamentally wrong and will complicate the problem rather than simplify it. Discussing the ac- tunl payment of the roparations, Mr, Babson continues: “Several ways of collecting the $32,000,000,000 that Germany owes as reparations, has been suggested, “The Freach plan is being tried out 'NEW ENGLAND SHIPPERS BENEFIT BY DECISION | I. C. C. Ruling Links Northern Ports More Closely, By Water, With Southwest. Washington, IFeb. uthern Pa- cific railroad steamship lines which now render service between Galves- ton and New Orleans and New York may increase sailings, the interstate commerce commission decided today to provide water transportation be-| tweml neariy all New Engiand ports and ports on the Gulf of Mexico west of New Orleans without violating in- terstate commerce laws. Increased service, the held, will be of advantage to commission com- comyetition = of independent lines. The right to maintain a line be- tween Hnuuton, Texas, and Philadel- phia, howeyer, was refused on the| ground that independent steamship | these | ports wdfi be endangered. All fates| sailing schedules and reg- ulaghdhs off the Atlantic Steamship lines, the fouthern Pacific subsidiary, mdst bé submitted to the com- misgion-before becoming effective. NANJRC FIGHTS SIX MEN Four Policemen and Two Ex-Sailors Almost Thrown off Brooklyn Bridge by Giant Lunatic. New York, Ieb. —Ifour police- men and two former sailors fought a desperate battle with a six foot man- lac qn the promenade of RBrooklyn bridge early today, during which they were nearly, catapulted into the river, The man, Jacob Yarimoff, ly subdued, placed in acket and taken to a hospital. police said he exhibited almost super- human strength, Adolph Helm and William Colton, who had just been honarably dis- charged from the navy, were walking over the bridge when Yarinoff leaped upon them. He dragged Helm to the railing and tried to throw him over, but Colton prevented him. A bridge biuecoat, who rushed to the was overpowered and his club taken was final- a straight Lebanon, N. H., Town Hall | And Hotel Is Destroyed | Lebanon, N. H,, I'eb. 2.—Fire “hlrh started in the rear of the Town hall | carly today destroyed that structure damaged the Hotel Rogers and burned out several stores in an adjoining wooden buMding. The loss on the hotel and store property was estimat- ed at $25,000, The town hall a frame building erceted more than 100/ years ago and several ttmes remod- | elled could not be replaced for less than $100,000, N. Y. TUG SINK New York, Ieb. 2.—~A strong flood | tide in the Hudson river today car- |a gas stove in from him. Three other policemen rived and Yarimoff was overcome. COUPLE OVERCOME BY GAS Little Baby Beside Waterbury Parents Fumes, Waterbury, 1eb. 2—Mr, and Mrs. James De Vito are patients in a hos- pital here, as the result of being ove come by illuminating gas which o caped from a leaky tubing attached to | their bedroom last night. A 15 days’ old baby lying be- side its mother in the gas-filled room showed no signs of having been af-' ried the ferryboat Montclair, heavily | laden with commulters, out of control | and into collision with the tugboat | Walter 1., Mesick. The tug sank after | her crew had been taken off. APPEALED TO | Belfast, 1"eb. Archbishop O'Don. nell, coadjutor to Cardinal Logue, has | been asked to intervene with a view ! to preventing six executions pending at Drumboe castle, the republican | headquarters in castern County Done- gal. Several of the condemned men are said to be residents cf Cork. CARDINAL 1.0G * * WEATHER —pn Hartford. 1 2.—~Forecast for New Dritain and vicinity: Rain or snow tonight and Sat- unday: not much change in temperature but muc colder by saturday night or Sunday. THE had ruled the coast guard a military service of the United States. | i |sclousness but his wife | being in a serious condition fected, aithough its parents were un- conscious when discoverad by a r tive. Mr. De Vito has regained con- is reported as MILLIONS IN WHISKEY Two-Thirds .of Nation's Supply Housed in Distilleries and Ware- ! houses of Louisville. Louisville, Ky., Feb. ~Housed in the 96 distilleries and 140 warehouses of Kentucky today is two-thirds of the whiskey stock of the United States, in round numbers 500,000 barrels, worth | at current prices 000,000, These figures were supplied by Dr. James Doran of Washington chief of the technical division of the prohibi- tion wnit in charge of the govern- ment’s liquor concentration program who came here to attend a conference of Kentucky distillers. merce and will not tend to exclude| water punged remarks which will operate the projected serv- | The | scene | Is Not At All Afiected By Deadly | s returns Negardiess French are able to collect at the point of the gun in the Ruhr district the methods they are employing, if continued, are bound to increase hard feelings between France and Germany, They are sowing the seeds for anothor war England’s Plan Unfair “The English view approaches the problem from another angle, but Mr. | Balfour's suggestion that we cancel | one another's dobts, and thus reduc greatly the German reparations, is to my mind absolutely unfair, All na tions involved, except the United | States, are borrowers as well as lend- | ers. The person who is borrowing as (By the Assoclated Press) much asg he is lending can enter into| \While the grip of Franco-Belglan the agreement that all should cancel|industrial control of the Ruhr is being his debts. He forgives a million dol-| fe1t in unoccupied Germany, to which lars and likewise has a million dol-|pgal and coke shipments have been lars forgiven him, The United Stutes, | completely cut off, the pinch of hun< however, Is at the end of the Jine.| gor iy beginning to threaten the Rule These nations owe us $10,000,000,000 jtge)f, according to German authorie and we owe them practically nothing. | tjes, 1"00d supplies are getting low in | many towns and consultations of gove ernment food officials on the situa= tion are in progress in Deriin, The authorities of occupation have indicated their intention not to inter~ fere with food shipménts, but the Germans contend the congestion of rolling stock at the frontiers is in= evitably causing much Interference. Many Strikers Return Straightforward Agree- ment way of tangible of how much the l /In Ruhr Zone Food Supplies Are Getting Low and No Fuel Is Being Shipped Into Other Areas. (Continued on Sixth Page) }smmn HEFLIN GETS TWO REBUKES TODAY [Senate Session Proves One;ls reported from the occupied areas. H Rec While there is nothing definite to 0f Stormlest Of ent | show that the railroad strike settic- Years | | Iment reported Thursday night has been made effective throughout the Ruhr, the strikers appear to have gone back to a large extent in the Cologne area and on many of the interior railroad lines in the Ruhr the German employes are reported again at work. Some trains began operating in and out of Duesseldorf, where the station was reopened after being closed a week. The appeal of German labor to the American congress asking American help to ‘“save Europe and the world fromr inevitable disaster” is declared in Berlin messages to have been made in entire independence of German of- ficial circles. Appeal to Harding An appeal sent by the archbishop and bishops of Sweden to President Harding points to the serious condi- tion in central Europe and asks Am- erican assistance for obtaining a straightforward agreement between the powers to relieve the tension. ' Washington, Feb, 2.—Senator Hef- lin, democrat, Alabama, was twice re- buked by the senate today for lan- ‘guagc he used in references to Sen- ators Wadsworth, republican, New | York, and Cousens, republican, Mich- igan. By a vote of 40 to 28 his re- marks regarding Senator Wadsworth |were held to be improper and, then without a record vote the senate ex- regarding Senator | Cousens. ‘ At the same time in one of the |stormiest sessions of recent years the /senate also expunged from its record remarks made by Senator Cousens regarding Mr, Heflin. ONCE ACTOR, NOW DEAN Rev. Appointed to All Saints Cathedral Charles Carver of New Haven Clergymen's Appeal Stockholm, Feb. 2.—(By Associated Press)—The app sent by the arch- bishop and the hishops ot Sweden to President Harding, asking him to take action for the relief of the present tension in Europe, is published prom- inently by the Swedish press today. “No one can count the nymbers of those in all parts of the world who moved in their innermoat being at Albany, N, Y, Py New Haven, Feb. 2.—A message of the New Haven Register today states that the Rev. Charles Carver of Christ Protestant Kpiscopal church here had been appointed dean of All Saints cathedral, Albany, N, Y, by Bishop R. H. Nelson of that diocese, He will take the place of Dean Albert J. Larned who will become rector of |are ) a church in Providence, R, I by the present events” say the pre- Mr. Carver was formerly leading|lates in their message. “We had man of a stock company at a local | heped for the blessings of peace after theater and was a member of the the horrors of war, but the dis-unity actors' alliance. He came to this in the Furopean commonwealth city in 1915 and shortly afterward |grows wor: Starvation, the poison | began his theological studies, In!of hitterness outraged souls, phy- 1917 he entered the general theolog- |sical contamination and degradation, ical seminary in New York. He was| are ravaging nobie sections of the admitted to the deaconate at Christ! human family in central Europe. church in January, 1918, and was or- “The curse now being sown will dained a priest by Bishop Weller of | jear fruit in new and more frightful Fond du Lac in 1920. He has heen |y at Christ church since that time, We servants of the church fn | Sweden urge our fellow Christians in Irance and in all lands to implore with us from God the vision and pow= for wholehearted action, ‘We humbly appeal to the respon- statesmen, and especially to you, f the United Sfates V ail possible speed to relieve by a straightforward agreement between the representatives of the powers the tension which grows daily more un- bearable and baleful.” May Have to Act Severely (By the Associated weh government, it forcign office today obliged to take a severe at rman government ate the molesta- sueh as that at Koenigs- SENATOR BAKEWELL COMING | jer Senate Committee on Chairman of sible ncation Will Speak to Lions Club | Hu‘ president o wit Next Tuesday Evening, Announcement was made today that | Senator Charles Bakewell of New Haven will address the members of the Lions club at their meeting next | Tuesday night. | Senator Bakewell is chairman of the committee on cducation of the Con- necticut senate and made the recom mendation that normal school be erected in this city. Tt is expected that he will he given a warm rece | tien by the Lions, Senator Covert will be the club on the same evening. id at the would be | titude toward the G - |if it continues to tole | tion of Irench suhje which developed recently berg. Serious demonstr Koenigsberg late W, ing the day IDishwater 86.77 A\Icnhol e Fenok Soda Clerk Jailed, Fined | to pave been the obje Ky. Feb. 2.—Aleoholic|tack, ing water back of the |While soft drink stand here |inter- Thorne was employed | demo disastrously for | ¢ivilians. FOUR MEN EXECUTED At Little a new guest of | | the ns occurred in lnesday and dur- i Thurs- consulate appears at- smashed, attached to the mission, were by German | t of a mob i windows by the Louisville, French office potency of rin fountain in { where Joseph clerk, resulted | the sunday dispenser, was fined $100 sentenced to 30 days in jail ‘uml placed under $1,000 peace honds following a police court hearing yes-| terday on charges of liquor law nom-"‘,",".“,I |tion. The dishwater tested ¢ er cent aleoholic it was brought out at the hearing. | "ARTHQUARE TREMORN| 010 nock, Feb, 2.—Four men Feb, 2—¥arth tremors, 'convicted of murder were electrocuted “rather severe” Were|at the Arkansas penitentiary early to- today on the George: day. The men went to the electrie seismograph The | chair in the following order: Duncan disturbance began at 12:16 a. m. and | Richardson, Ben Richardson, F. G, continued wuntil about 2:30 a. m.|Bulien, all convicted of the murder of Earlier in the night a less severe dis- | Ira Culp; and Will Debord, convicted turbance was recorded. Beginning at|of the murder of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. R:1% A m_ it eantinued until 9:30, | Silsby. control against ed com a trated Are Electrocuted Rock, Ark., Farly 7T ~—Three Killed One, Gther Killed Two. ‘Rl-(‘ORD | Washington, | described as | recorded early town university