New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 13, 1923, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 SHIPPING BILL NOW SHELVED |School Board Member Hears of AND DEBT PLANS ARE GIVEN' Use of Liquor by Candidates Y BY SENATORS | RIGHT OF WA Marine Measure Was First Laid Aside Tem- porarily, But Later Was Definitely Put Into Pigeonhole Norris Amendment, Elimi- nating Old Congress When New One Is Elect- ed, Approved by Upper SMOOT THINKS HAS GOT BEST 7T Washington, Feb, 13.—Pre- diction was made in the senate today by Senator Smoot of Utah, 2 member of the Ameor- lcan “debt funding commission, that no debt settlement should be obtained from other debtor nations as favorable as that ac- cepted by the Dritish govern- ment. Washington, I —-The British debt funding bill was taken tp in the senate today, under an agreement réached aftér conferences betiween P'resident Harding and repubiican leaders for laying aside the adminis- tration shipping: bill temporarily, but without displacing it from privileged status, Finally Laid Aside. Later Senator King, democrat, Utah, objected to the plan of the republican leaders for keeping the shipping bill in privileged status and on motion of Senator Jones in charge of the ship- ping bill the ship measure was for- maily laid aside and the debt funding bill givenaright of way. Approve Norris Amendment. The Norris amendment to the fed- eral constitution eliminating the pres- ent session of an old congress after election of a new congress.and chang- ing the date of inauguration of presi- dent from March fourth to the third Monday in January, was epproved to day by the senate, The resolution the embodying amendment was adopted after brief ! debate and by a vote of 63 to 6. It now goes to the house with approval there hefore adjonrnment of congress regarded as problematic, RIGE WANTS OPINION ON TROLLEY CROWDING LAW Chairman of Ordinance Committec Asks Corporation Counsel to De- fine City's Powers of Regulation, Chairman Henry W. Rice of the ordinance committee of the common council has requested Corporation Counsel John J. Kirkham to prepare an opinion on the score of the city's powers in drafting legislation to pro- hibit overcrowding the trolley cars, to be used next Tuesday evening to pre- pare, if possible, an ordinance to that end, The action of the ordinance committee is being taken at the sug- gestion of the council. . NEW BRITAIN HERAL - NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1023, —SIXTEEN PAGE. SENHTEAPPROVESOF NEW BRITAI JUDGES Both Houses Have Very Short Ses;inm oday 4 f ~ PAYOR \ Bill Whereby Person Who Attemps. Statutory Crime Shall Suffer Same I'GIII‘MI As Though It Was Enacted 1s Given Approval—Other Items, Hartford, I"eb, 13.—It took but a few minutes today to dispose of legis. lative business. The senate was about 8ix minutes in session and the house not over fifteen, There were few com- mittee reports received and the or- dinary routine was trifling. Senate Chaplain Campbell feelingly referred to the impending death of Mrs, Plerson, mother of Scnator Pler- son of Cromwell who, at a Hartford hospital a fortnight ago, underwent a | surgical operation. ‘The draft of a proposed new char- Initiated by H. S. Fraterity Report May Be Made At Next Meeting of Board of | Education With View to Investigation, Initiation ceremonies in which ap- plicants for membership in a frater. nity of the New Writain High school, were required to prove their claim to the title of “regular fellows” by drinking a certain amount of wine and liquor in the presence of “frat" brothers on the Eillis street baseball have been reported to School | Patrick I, King for of having the facts pre- e school committee at its 18, when action is sched- . “ia 0 proposed abolition of High scuwdl fraternities, The initiation is reported to have taken place recently with a large “class’” of candidates, There was much wine and some liquor on hand or use in connection with the ‘rituals” and after all had proved themselves of the type that was de- ORPHANS MARCH SAFELY 0UT AS HOME IS BURNED 160 Children, All Under Seven, Saved When Institution at Franklin, H,, Is Destroyed. {ter for Bridgeport which came over |from the 1921 session was referred to | |the cities and borough committees for la hearing. Local Judges Endorsed, The senate concurred in the election of judges for the New Britain, South- ington and Naugatuck courts, on which there was favorable action in the housc last week, and the house concurred in the judges petitions made by the senate Friday. Soldier Wants Payment. Charles A. Singer, Company 169th infantry, petitioned for reimbursement for expense incurred from illness “due | to vaccination and inoculation” while at Camp Cole last summer, Unfavorable Reports. In the house these bills were reject- on unfavorable report from the on education: Providing | 1 | ed cdmmittee (Continued on Thirteenth Page.) NIGHT LIFE T00 GAY Imperial Valley Women Want Mexi- can Rowder ‘Closed See Young People Endangered. Elcontro, Calif., Feb. 13.—A request | that the international border between Calexico, Calif, and Mexicali, Lower | | ;Imelm: kept open all nig_ht. has been | {sent to Secretary of State Hughes by the Federated Club Women of the Imperial Valley. The club women protest that young American men and even high schoot | boys are being corrupted by the “night life” of the Lower California | capital. Capt. Rosenbluth Freed, Not to Be Taken to Wash. | New York, Feb. 13.--United States Commissioner Hitcheock today dls- missed removal proceedings instituted | against Captain Robert Rosenbluth to obtain his transfer to Tacoma, Wash- tngton, where he is under indictment by federal grand jury for the murder of Major Alexander P. Cronkhite at| Camp Lewis, Washington in October 1918. Rosenbluth's $40,000 bail was)| discharged. | RS L ] ! Calif., be closed at 6 p. m., instead ofi {but the two story Franklin, N. H., Feb. 13.—Two |buildings of the plant of the New Hampshire Orphans’, Home at Web- {ster Place were burned early today. |All of the children were removed | without injury and cared for in other buildings of the institution. Four fire- men were caught under a falling wall |and injured, one probably fatally. The loss is estimated at $60,000. Peter Savole, the most seriously |hurt of the firemen, sustained a frac- tured skull and died at the Franklin hospital shortly before noon today. Arthur Wise had both legs broken and [the other two men suffered from | minor injuries. Rev. Walter J. Malvern, superin- tendent of the home, attributed the fire to a defective chimney. He paid tribute to the coolness of Mrs. Julla Cooley, the head nurse, who super- vised the removal of the children by {officials and nurses and prevented any semblance of panic. The fire started in the quarters of the night nurse on the second floor of the nursery building, a four story brick structure. Efforts to extinguish |the blaze with chemicals failed and !the Franklir. fire departmeht ' was| called) the apparatus making a quick two-mile trip on runners over roads [too deeply covered with snow to per- mit the motor steamers and trucks being operated. Before the fire had gained great headway the 60 children in the nurs- ery buildings, all less than seven| vears old, had been taken out and| housed in a building where more than a hundred oldr children slept. | When the flames threatened to spread to this building all the children were taken to cottages on the grounds. The | older children's building was saved, | brick primary| building used for class rooms was| destroyed. : The superintendent’'s house, once| the home of Daniel Webster, was not touched by the flames. RAID ON BROAD STREET Enforcement Squad Descends on No. | | | 26 and Scizes Liquor and Beer— Also Visit House of Proprietor. Detective Sergeant William P, Mc- Cue, with Policeman John C. Stadler | sired, the entire fraternity, or at least | that part of the entire body that was present, turned in and drank what re- mained of the intoxicants, accerding to the reports, | Facts conpected with the alleged actions of the ' fraternity were re. vealed last woek when some of thé young men suspected of heing prinei- | pals in the Ellls street initiation were haled before a tribunal of another body of whieh they were members and questioned as to reported . im- proper actions, Some of the sus- pects admitted thelr guilt and from the Investigation additional facts concerning the actions of the school “frat" were gleaned, As a re- sult, 8chool Committeeman King wu‘ furnished with the facts for such use a8 he may be in a position to put them in avolding a recurrence of the Ellls street affair, HING GEORGE TALKS ON RUBR ACTIVITY Says French Are Not Causing England Any Trouble PARLIAMENT IS CONVENED| British Monarch Says Unemployment Must Be Remedied—Refers to U, S. Debt Turks Have Rejected Near East Peace, Settlement—Regrets London, Feb, 13.—The Ruhr ques- tion was stressed by King George to- day in his address from the throne opening the second session of the fourth parliament of this reign. The sovereign declared that al- though the government was unable to concur or participate in the Ruhr op- | erations, it was acting in such a way | as not to add to the difticulties of Great Britain's allies, U. S. Settement, The king disposed of the American debt question in one sentence, saying that ‘lte - welcomed the settlement [ KING GEORGE V “which reflects the determination of our people to meet their obligations."” | The remainder of the speech was | devoted to an expression of the hope that the Turkish question might yet| be settled. The Sovereign also touch- | ed upon domestic problems of unem- ‘ht High | were invited governors from the var- | fous states in the union, At that time | cost of the fire which Average Daily Circulation Week Ending February 10th 9,189 PRICE THREE CENTS FINE OF HUNDRED MILLION MARKS, - FRENCH PENALTYTO GERMANTOWN; TWO MORE RHINE PORTS OCCUPIED S U —— HARDING PLANS TO CALL ANOTHER SESSION OF GOVERNORS TO TAKE | UP ENFORCEMENT OF U. S. DRY LAW | Washington, Feb, 13.-—Another conference of state governors will be called by President Harding to moet in Washington for the discussion of prohibition enforcement. No date for| the meeting has been set, | Boveral months ago the president| Id another similar session to which | the prohibition enforcement was dis- JUMPS FOR LIFE NET, HE MISSES AND IS KILLED One Death and Many Injured in| Syracuse Fire That Does Dam- age of $1,500,000, Syracuse, N. Y, Feb, 13.—One | known dead, two probably lost in| the flames, a score injured and $1,- 500,000 property loss was the toll | today as Syracuse checked up on the last evening | destroyed the six-story Bastable | block, the Belvedere Hotel and dam- aged several buildings. The dead man was John H. Shea, the missing men are Otto Schwenn and Edward P. Lull. They are known to have been in the building shortly before the first alarm was sounded. Shea, father of two small children, | wasg trapped on the sixth floor. He;‘ jumped for the life net and missed. Some others who jumped were in- | jured but are expected to recover, Several firemen were hurt in their| efforts to rescue th occupants of the building. Fireman Fred Green made repeated tripsin the elevator through the smoke-filled shaft bringing many to safety. His last trip up he found| himself penned on the top floor by flames. He leaped from a six-story window into the life net held by his companions. He is in a hospital badly burned. City and county officials were awaiting a report from the fire de- partment before starting an ‘investi- gation of the cause of the fire. | strangling her. | at length, various opinions were regeived and, It was supposed, some sort of a definite cooperative program mapped out, Since then sev- eral new governors have | 1 inaug- urated and in their inaugural ad- dressos many individual views on the liquor question were expressed, It is believed that this forthcoming con- ference will throw additional light_on the attitude of the state authorities relative to a more strict enforcement of the 15th amendment, eusse B STRANGLED TO DEATH, 1 NOT KILLED BY SHOT e G m Autopsy Shows Durfee Evi- dently Choked His Wife While She Slept | | m. New Haven, Feb. 13.—~The autop- gj by her husband, Edward L. Durfee, manager of an automobile agency w, here, it was announced today. bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Durfee were | . found in their home Saturday and it wife and then committed suicide with the same pistol. The revised review of the police was that Friday night Durfee waited until his wife was sleeping before When the police en- | tered the house on Saturday, however, there were no signs of disorder, the body of Mrs. Durfee being found in| bed, with blood on the pillow, while Durfee’'s body was in the bath tub with a pistol in his hand. GREATER RESPECT FOR LAW, OBJECT OF NEW ASSOCIATION | Organization Known as “Commitice of will W fr fo Fi at 100" Be Formed dred million dent there yesterday and the policemen believed _ Bullty of involvement in | have been arrested, threatened them with was reported that Durfee shot his| 7he goldiers fired on the policeman Press).—FKconomic disturbances from the world market. ances occur, only question is who will suffer most. Levy For"l"atalfiOthmt at Gelsenkirchen Must Paid Tomorrow— Officials Are Under Arrest elgians Take Over Strate- gic Points to Control Ex- ports and Imports From Ruhr Into Holland. Duesseldorf, Feb, 13.—The town of elsenkirchen has been fine one hun- marks to be paid to- consequence of the inci- between Ger- an police and French gendarmes. he burgomaster, the chief of police to be affair orrow in the One German Killed, Paris, IPeb. 13.—A German police- an was killed and two French sol- ers were wounded in yesterday's sy on the body of Mrs. Alice Durfe¢ affair at Gelsenkirchen, in the Ruhr, showed that her decath was caused bY | says the Irench official version of strangulation and not from shots fired | the incident. The foreign ofice says the soldiers ere on the way to the mayor's of- The fice in Gelsenkirchen when their ear policeman who a revolver. as stopped by a ho fell. Thereupon six policemen om a nearby post hurried up and fired on the soldiers. Claim France Suffers, Berlin, Feb. 13 (By Associated are reseen by the Allgemeine Zeitung as a result of the stagnation of the French iron industry, which has been deprived of Ruhr coal. The newspaper asserts that France has lost more than a million tons of fuel in the first month of the occu- pation, and that consequently the rench iron industry has been driven If disturb- the journal adds, the Take Two More Towns, Duesseldorf, Ieb, 13.—The towns Meeting in Y. M. C. A. Tomorrow A committee of 100—to be known of Emmerich and Wesl, on the right bank of the Rhine, northwest of this city, were occupied by Belgian forces ;('uun Trying Mrs. Ralzen For Mur- {ing Dr. A, Glickstein, began in Brook- der Wants Men to Be Swayed By Heads, Not Hearts, New York, I'eb. 143—A hundred vencer men, selected because of their intelligence, were called for examina- tion today as the trial of Mrs. Lil- lian 8. Raisen, charged with murder- lyn. The special panel was called in quest of “jurors who can try & woman with their heads—not their hearts.” Dr. Glickstein was kil'led in his private office while seversi patients sat in the waiting room. Mrs. Raisen confessed the shooting declaring Dr. Glickstein had wronged her. HEARING ON GRANT FOR NORMAL SCHOOL DORMITORY as the “Civic League Committee’ wili be formed at a meeting in this city of inter-denominational and inter- | racial character for the purpose of creating greater respect for law, by education and inspiration, even going, so far as to ask for additional legis- lation if necessary. The movement is said to be foster- ed by prominent men of the com- munity, although the names of those backing the project are not available. The meeting will be held at the Y. M. C. A. tomorrow evening. CLAIM GIGANTIC FRAUD Million .Dollar Transaction in Boston m: tr lin H and $750,000 is Said To Have To- co tally Disappeared. o ci! Yo w Boston, Ieb. 13.—Allegations that the inter- trust of Boston had ob- tained $1,000,000 from sharcholders of which $750,000 was dissipated were made in a bill filed in the federal lower costs sioned by the early today. It is announced that this move was ade for the purpose of allowing I'ranco-Belgian supervision and con- ol of exports and imports along the nes leading from the Ruhr into olland. ' GOST OF EDUCATION IN NEW BRITAIN IS SMALL Per Capita Expenditure Here Lower Than in Many Other Cities, Board Reports, A statement of comparative school sts has been prepared by the school mmittee for the purpose of showing |that the average cost per pupil in this v is less than in Springfield, Hol- ke, Newton, Greenwich, Meriden, orcester and Haverhill; that the in Bridgeport are occa- fact that all High school pupils there are on half time, and the lower costs in Middletown are due to the fact that there is no pro- vision there for shop 'work, industrial or prevocational training. New Ha- ven shows a considerably smaller per capita figure. The costs per pupil in the several cities are: Springfield, $108.92; Hol- ployment, Elaborate Ceremonies, The session was opencd with the usual ceremonics of state, The king, accompanied by Queen Mary, set in motion the machinery of | what is generally regarded as one of the most important session of parlia- (Continued on Sccond Pzge) Jail and Fine Meted Out to Stamford Man | Stamford, I“eb. 13.-—Antone Pol- track was sentenc to jail for 30! days and fined $400 and costs in city 't today for violation of the liquor His counsel filed notice of ap- The evidence in the case was obtained when the police raided a lo- cal hotel owned by Poltrack on Sat- urday night. | court today in which the removal of I'red H. Willlams as receiver was sought on jurisdictional grounds. About the same time District Attor- ney Thomas C. O'Brien telling Judge Bishop in the superior court that charges involving larcenies of one million were pending against S. Le- land Montague, principal trustee of the project in several counties. voke, $106.69; Newton, $1 Montague, arrested last night on nfur.-nm\vwh. $9 Meriden, $89.50 secret indictment returned by the Suf- | Worcester, $80.67; Haverhill, $80.19; folk county grand jury charging lar- |New Rritain, $77.09; Brockton, $75.- ceny and conspiracy to steal $50,000 |48; Middletown, $73.02; Bridgeport, was held in $25,000 bail. $67.72; New Haven, $67.35. Five Killings Are Reported in W . Four New England Cities Today in Finding Young Couple, Missing| Squgus, Mass., Man Murders Wife, Fails At Suicide— Boston Cop Shoots Saloonkeeper—Worcester Has Fatal Wedding Fight and Bennington Man Slays Father, Kills Himself. 13 M Ada! instantly killed home William her husband, after leaving the cut land William 8, Strolls of the special |liquor enforcement detail, made a | raid at 26 Broad street shortly before l‘uoun today, and as a result, Matthias | Nartickas, of 199 Washington street {and Andrew Sverinas, of 133 Winter | street, were arrested on a charge of violation of the liquor law. At the TR Broad street place, which was for- . e merly conducted by John Skritulsky, Sta“ley, Continues to Win |70 ottles containing alleged Tiquor In Pinehurst Tournament [and 13 cases of heer were scized. The | (Speciul to The Herald), | raiding officers also visited the home | Pinchurst, N, C, [I'eb. 13.—A. \V.‘of Nartickas, where a still and about Stanley of New Britain won his way | a quart of alleged liquor was seized, | to the final in the sixth division and and 50 gallons of mash was destroyed. T Bk ot Ry o Rk GETQKIL—SENTENGE T. Ellison of Rochester. Stanley Committee On Education Will Con- | | | sider $530,000 For New ‘Britain Allegiance to U. S. Flag Broken By‘ Vig(ation of Dry Statute? Mrs. Wilson State President Of W. C. T. U, Says So— No Drive on Tobacco An- ticipated. Project Opposed By Governor. (Special to The Herald), Hartford, Ieb. 13.-—Tomorrow aft- |ernoon at 1:30 o'clock the legislative | committee on education will sit to consider the appropriation of § - 000 for a dormitory in connection with | the new State Normal school plant at New DBritain. Gov, Charles Templeton has gone on record as opposcd to the granting of such an appropriation this year, played against Paul Abbott of Main-| j¢tone in today's round and won by 1 up and with the aid and assistance of | ia handicap advantage of several | ‘slrokoi “A violation of the 18th amend- ment is the breaking of your oath of allegiance to the flag of the United States,” said Mrs. Mary B. Wilson, state president and former national superintendent of the W. C. T. U, to] an assembly of pupils at the Central Junior High school this morning, when she awarded prizes to pupils who wrote the best essays on the temperance question. Mrs. Wilson presented $5 in gold to Hilding Bengston, of grade 9-2A; %53 to Joseph Balciunas, of grade 8-1A, and $2 to Arthur Johnson, of grade 9-2C. Boxes of candy and honorable mention went to Florence Tompkins, 9-2D; Charles Newton, 8-1B, and Julia Levin, 8-2C. In her address, Mrs. Wilson told of traveling on a train with a base- ball team. She asked the men why| they were not smoking and was in- formed that athletes do not smoke or drink while they are in training. “It is too bad the game does not last all through life,” she told her hearers this marning. “Life is the great game and In order to play it right we should keep in training all the time.” New Haven Man Who Turned State's ry Case Goes to RREEET e ket .H. S. Boy Misses First Session in Three Years lobert Legat, a junior at the High school, missed his first session since his enrollment at that institution when he remained away from classes Evidence in Bui Held in Bail on Charge Of Trying to Rob Girl Stamford, Feb. 13.—1rank Farring- | |ton of this city, was bound over to' lthe superior court today under bonds of $2,500 on charges of attempted :ruhh:- It was alleged Farrington | |pointed a pistol at a girl who was lalone in a store but ran from the i place when she screamed, without ob- taining any funds. Jail for Six Months, Haven, Feb. 13.—Willlam De alias Harry Willlams, who | was said to have turned state's evi- dence in a case growing out of the| robbery of John Maciag, a grocer in! was sentenced to jail for six| months by Judge Wolfe in superior court today. lLouis Riccitelli and | Abraham Smes were sentenced last | week in the case, the former to the state prison for from three to five | years and the latter to the state re- formatory. New Blasio, | Since Friday. Waterbury, Feb, 13 state-wide | search is being conducted for Mary | this morning to attend a wedding. | Joroch, 17 year old High school stu- Rain or shine, warm or cold, the|dent, and George Archambauit, 19, student has been at the appointed |Poth having disappeared from their | place at the opening of every ses.| homes here last Friday. The parents sion for three years. His record has|Of the young girl have sought the as- been equalled by few pupils’ at the | Sistance of the police. school. Derby, again. O'Connell then drew his pise tol and fired Ma Feb Erown was shot and Saugus, ol nere. . ooy- ratal Wedding. Feb. 13.—As a result of free for shooting and stabbing bee attending the wedding reception to Mariano De Ttubis and his bride carly this morning during which Peter Nero was shot to death and four othe ers were more or less seriously ins ired with bullets knives, city des tves closeted this afternoon with victims of the meiec. The des tectives announced that they expected to make arrest soon. | Wills of Hanna Larson And Charles Slate Filed The will of {he late Hanna Larson, filed this morning in probate court, | provides that the sum of $150 be set aside for a monument to be erected over the grave of the testator in Fair- view cemétery. Wearing apparel left to Annd Anderson; a gold watch is left to Madelines Olivia Larson, a granddaughter; the sum of $25 was |bequeathed to her husband, Charles She pointed to the 12 piece orches- [Larson, and the remainder of the es- tra of which the school is proud and |tate is to be divided among her grand- explained how the orchestra could |children, the children of John P. Lar- not do so well if it were not for team |sdn. work. The country cannot do so well, In the wi ; nor can its laws be enforced so suc-|children, Ernest and ward Slate | with pneumonia for some time, is re- | cessfully except by team work, she|and Daisy Hills, are bequeathed $1)ported as being improved today. He| |each, the remainder of the estate be- passed the crisis last night and is on widow. the way to recovery. Brown, Worceste {house with a shotgun in his hand [his throat, but his life was saved by police officers who hurried him to a ICIAL DIES. 13.—Charles I Valentine, secretary and treasurer of 1", W. Woolworth and company died today at his home of pneumonia, aged 44. He bad been connected with the company for WOOLWORTH OF New York, Ieb. a al FIREMAN DROPS [ D. Meriden, ¥eb. 13.—John T. Ryan, 49, a hoseman in the city fire depart- | ment of which he had been a mem- | ber for 27 years, died suddenly this noon from a heart aftack, due to exer- tion from shovelin, snow, at his home. He leaves a widow and two children. hospital. He was subsequently charged murder. Waterbury High School Boy Almost with Gas FEarly This - Asphyxiated by te wer Saloonman Shot Boston, Ieb. 13.—Luigi Scakagliz owner of a saloon in the Charlestown | district, was shot dead by Patrolman Daniel M. O'Connell today. O'Connell | reported that he went into the place in piain clothes, bought a drink Hauor and then started to arrest owner. Morning at Home. | o Waterbury, Feb. 13—Isadore Gold- a berg, 18, a senior in Crosby High schogl here, narrowly escaped, death by asphyxiation early today when overcome by gas leaking from a partly closed jet in his bedroom. Miss Esther Goldberg, a sister, was awakened at 2 a. m. by groans issu- ing from the bedroom and upon in- vestigating found Isadore wuncon- scious in his bed. THE THER ar Kills Father and Self. Bennington, Vt., Feb, 13.—Loren Squires shot and killed his father John H. Squires, at the latter’'s farm home in the western part of this town to- Seakaglizza, the patrolman said, hit day. loren then went to his own over the head with an iron home, where he ended his life with and started to hit him a bullet through the head. I * | | | DR. HENRY IMPROVING. Dr. J. G. Henry, medical super- visor of the New Britain General hospital, who has been seriously i1l Hartford, Feb. 13, —Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Rain or snow tonight and Wed- nesday, not much change in temperature: fresh to strong shifting winds. 1 of Charle: - . Slate, the him stove pipe (Continued from First page) ing directed to the —