New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 22, 1923, Page 1

e ESTABLISHED 1870 EW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN REMINGTON NOW BELIEVED TO HAVE MELLON HAS NO OBJECTIO IF DEBT PAYMENT IS USE. ! TO FINANCE BONUS T0 VETS - Chairman Fordney So Advises House-Agree- ment Is Reached On! British Funding Plamy -No Dpponhon . Filibuster Against Shipping Bill Continues Today— Rudlnz'of Washington’s Address Adds to Delay on Decision, * wshington, Feb, 22,.—Secretary Mellon was quoted today in the house | by Chairman IPordney of the ways and means committee as stating that he had no oMgegtion to the use money recelved from the forcign debts settle- ment for the payment of a soldiers’ bonus after the money was in hand. Debt Funding Approved, The' Jast action necessary to con- gressional approval of the British debts settlement agreement was taken today by the house, which without al roll call, accepfed senate changes to the bill amending the allied debt funding act, Filibuster Continue: Cieorge Washington was uninten- | tionally enlisted today in the senate filibuster aaginst the shipping bill, | When the senate convened with a | motion pending to take up the ship- ping bill, which was displaced last | night to allow adoption of conference reports on two appropriation bills, | the presiding officer recognized Sen- ator Glass, democrat, who in accord- ance with an order made by the sen- ate several weeks ago proceeded to read Washington's farewell address. | | | LITHUANIANS REPORTED BOMBARDING THE POLES —g— Warsaw, Feb, 22, (Dy Asso- '@ated Press)—Detachments of Lithuanian troops have bom- barded with heavy artillery the Polish frentier in the forest of Podkamien, according to re- ports received here from Viina, NONAGENARIAN CALLS (GIRLS WHO SMOKE SILLY Mrs. Bell, Whose Grand- father Fought Under ‘Washington, 90 Today Cigarette smoking girls are “silly" aceording to Mrs. H. A, Bell of 63 South High street, who is celebrating her 90th birthday anniversary today. Mrs, Bell, who lives with her son, K bert W. Bell, and his family, is in re-| celpt of numerous calls, cards of con-| gratulations and flowers from friends| throughout the city. When inter-| viewed by a “Herald" representative | this morning she said she did not| have any particular recipe to offer for 2 long life, explaining that she never was overly robust and was somewhat surprised that she still was alive at that age. Howéver, her general health is goéd, she reads every day | although she never knew what it was to wear glasses. Otuside of a slight fecbleness, which is perfectly natural, | she is in as good health as ever. Mrs. Bell was born in Southington 'on Washington's Birthday, 1833; she| was the daughter of Horace Booth and his wife, Martha Angeline Lewis. On her mother's side she can trace her family back seven generations, scveral generations having resided in Southington. ‘Her grandfather, CON VICTIM OF ’% % "'%“’% 1088 | b maughut ack Totally Destrogitd—| Alarm sounded At 7i10 and| 0 | Hour Bullding Wad Reen Razed: | Putnam, VFeb, 22,—~Tle Dohohue bloek in the business sectlen hot® was | totally burned today with 4 ‘loss nl $260,000, The ' fire starte ndar Ih— ‘hfluer in the basement and Ay min. |utes arter the alarm wad ven at| 7:16 firemen could not eager the bullding, In an hour the ptructure| had almost entirely disappedrfd, The block was of two storidh frame | construction, On the street fidor were the drug store of James 1°, Donahue, the elothing stora of Charlgs Bed: land the shoe store of Alexander Vad. |adian, On the sccond floor were the offices of Torrey and Gelssler, at- torney, the Putnam Building And Loan | association, Dr. H, W, Wright, den- | {tist, Dr, Bernard I, Murphy, physi. clany and Angelo, a tailor, Nothing |was saved of the contents of the stores and offices, The losses In- |elude about $25,000 on the building, | clothing store, $15,000 on the | shoe store, $5,000 in the law library of "I'orrvy and Geissler while other ten- ants have each from $1,000 to $2,600 loss, REAL BANK ROBBER * MAY NOTBE TAYLOR » §0. America, Believed Embezzler 'PRESIDENT GIVES OUT CLUES |dJoseph B. Marcino, Alleged Bnllu« Behind Disappearance of $213,000 in Funds, Missing—Taylor Went to ITICUT, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, |4TH CONVENTION OF FOREIGN WAR VETERANS EPISCOPAL ORDER ASK INVESTIGATION OF $80,000 on the drug store, $25,000 on| .| the J. B. Marcino, Reported Fleeing fo| BOOTLEGGERS' WAR| Wldow Admits Husband Was “Society Rum Run- More Than 130 Delmm l ner”"—Tells of Quarrel Over Price of Boons Ty \NEDS of Washinglon Session HELD AT ST, MARK'S CHURCH Boyse— 1 Nights Before Slaying. Los Angeles, Feb, 22.-—Federal ey, Howard Perkins of New Haven rohibition agents today joined the :«llu in the search for the slayers MUESests Organization of of Earle Remington, eleetrie engineer, Miss ” ) > '.n" down in Mis own door yard & Missionary From China to Speak at wook ago. Tonight's Meeting, Their entry came after a declara- tion by the police that the widow, Rev, Howard D, Perkins of New llll'-. Stone Remington, had told them Haven in his sermon at the Holy Ithe dead man was a “society” boot- Communion service which opened the egger, and after the police had found, 1'4th annual convention of the muuflnntd and temporarily ‘lllln who admitted having operated Ington, a men’'s organization of the (mree stills for the engineer, Lipiscopal © church, at St Mark's Record of Customens, church this morning at 9:30 o'clock, The _police sald they had located said that he would like to see estab- |a large quantity of liquor, sald to lished in the Episcopal church an or- | have been in Hemington's phssession der for boys from 13 to 18 years of but the chief Interest of the federal @ge Which would help prepare them police statement that one of Reming- until they are of age to join the ton's note books containing 200 names Knights of Washington, and records of sales had come into! He sald that the proposed new their possession, organization could be a junior order It was sald that a'though the 1i-|Which wopld help to keep the boys in quor In question was distilled by an the choir interested in the church amateur, it was sold to a select clien- from the time they stop singing in tele, including persons high in busi-|the choir, which is when they are ness and society circles of Los Ange- about 13 years old and their \alcu | les. begin to change, until they are The police questioned several men | years of age and can join the l\numu whose names appeared in the Rem- of Washington. The order could ington note book and stated they ob-|prepare the boys for the work they tained admissions of purchasing li- would do in the older boys society, T i eet, Whiskey. “Manhood God's Greatest GIft.” The officers took nearly 100 gal-| “God's greatest gift in his creation lons of bootleg whiskey from the 0f the world was manhood,” the | basement of the Remington residence | Preacher asserted, “and such men as| and declared they had been tpld by|Shakespeare, Milton, Washington, Lin- | the man who admitted having oper-| €0ln and many others were streams | helping to fill the great river known as ‘Civilization,' "' he said. Rev. Mr. Perkins asserted that the 20th century is still young and what names will be marked down as great are still unknown, but the church and | the nation is crying out for God to| give us men, men who are leaders. In conrludln" his sermon the preacher said “The greatest leaders are those who have been trained by the Christian church and the Knights of (Continued on Sixth Page) 'NEW BRITAIN NOT 10 HAVE MORE P. 0 ROOM 1023, —=FOURTEEN rAGE Daity Cireulation 9,103 THRE® CENTS Average Daily Week Ending February 17th SERVICE BUREAU FUNDS OFFICIAL OF SERVICE BUREAU UNDER FIRE | Na-| leased a tonal Order of the Knights of Wash- | [ officials was belleved to rest in the!for munhood in true Christian -plru: : NORMAL SCHOOL BILL [Transferred From Commit-| tee on Education to Ap- propriations Com. (Special to The Herald), Hartford, Feb, 22.—A bill for the maintenance of Normal schools was | referred from the committee on edu- | cation to the committee on appro- | priations by recommendation of Sen- | ator Charles Bakewell in the senate \ today. The senate thus concurred in the recommendations of Senator Bake- well. The bill is known as “Bill 486" | and calls for $300,000 for the main- New TAKES STEP FORWARD Secy. Harry C. Jackson Attacked In Communi- cation In Which Hear- ing Is Sought. Mayor Paonessa Told Jack- son Is Highhanded and Czar and Spoiled Plan for Co-operation Among Ex- Soldiers. | | An attack on Secretary Hargy C. Jackson of the Municipal Service bur- cau is contained in a communication addressed by the Veterans of Foreign | Wars and presented by Commander | Raymond Frost to Mayor A, M. Pao- nessa, asking that an accounting of funds of that bureau be made and that other complaints against the management be probed. Members of the organization say hey have been promised a hearing on their charges as soon as the mayor recovers from a severe cold, and they expect that they will be given an op~ \ portunity to unfold their grievance to- | morrow morning at the office of the | mayor. | “Bunk”, Jackson Says In reply to the charges that he has been responsible for the failure of the first attempt to organize New Britain World War veterans, and that he has assumed the role of a czar in the serv- ice bureau, Mr. Jackson only states: “It's nothing more or less than a ‘lot of bunk.' We would gladly wel- come such an investigation and would be pleased to have anyone having a grievange submit their complaint In writing® to the committee, of which the mayor is a member, for a hear- ing. Of course, we cannot tolerats any ransacking of the flles by any Hartford, New London, Wa-| i’ terbury, Bridgeport and | | of Washington should help train the | man power of the world.” The visiting clergymen who wer: private individual who wants to do so, but we have no objection io a formal and thorough inquiry, if one is Chicago to Confer on Shortage. Warren, Mass,, Feb. 22.—With Reading of the address occupied the | Chauncey Lewis, fought under Gen- senate for the first three-quarters of [ eral Washington in the Revolutionary | | tenance of Normal schools in o | Britain, New Haven, Willimantic and | A statement at the end of an hour and gave opponents of the|war, and at his death was buried in ship bill an opportunity to map out< their program of further dllumry‘ tactics. Senator Jones, charge 0f the bill, republican, in expressed himself SUGCESS IS CLAINED BY FRENCH OFFICIAL Ruhr Difficulties Overcome,s Payot Says — Neutrals to Be Affected ! London, Feb. -“IFrance’s trans- port and communication difficulties in the Rubr now have been overcome,” the Evening News today quotes Gen- eral Payot of the I'rench general staff, as declaring in an interview. “We are in a position to carry all the coal, coke and other materials upon which future eyents may enable us to lay hands.” Berlin, Feb. ~The Boersen Zel- tung says it learns that the first step in the French plan to introduce new currency in the Rhinerand will bhe the complete severance of all food supplies connections between occupied and unoccupied Germany this forc- ing the inhabitants to buy food stuffs from the ¥rench with® Rhine paper thalers. Esden, I'eb. 22.—Steps to make the occupation of the Ruhr felt by neu- tral counties have been taken by Ger- | man mine officials, It has been de- cided to cancel all contracts with Holland, Switzerland and other neu- tral countries it is stated. Mining officials of the entire dis- trice, meeting in Bochum agreed that they would supply only the local needs hereafter, This means that much less | coal will be mined and unemploymeit be increased. This activity of the seeurity police against the French and the Belgians | is increasing. The Freneh, it appears, are determined to put them out of| commission and have ordered the dis- solution of the organizatiol which is composed of former nen-commis- sioned officers in the imperial army. One hundred and forty-five Ger- +man railroad workers were engagen yesterday by the French authorities at an empioyment bureau in Duessel- dorf. Sixty men had been taken on the day before. 29 | | {ain. the “Old South Cemetery” in South- ington. Mrs. Bell's great grandfather on her father's side was said to be the first settler in the borough of New Britain, Her father was born in Massachusetts, although his ances- tors were ‘early settlers of New Brit- Her great,, areat grandfather, Robert )xolh. cft Stratford, Logiand | was & holder in the Swamp saciety as early as 1715 and is buried in Christian Lane cemetery. Mrs. Bell was married in 1855 to | James Bell, who! died in 1871. She has two children, Mrs. Edwin Tid- lund of . Pittsburgh, Pa, and Elbert [ W. Bell of this city, with whom she ! makes her home. When asked what she thought of| short skirts and cigarette smoking girls, Mrs. Bell smiled as though she did not think it a very*serious sub- ject, To short skirts she does not ob- ject but says there is a reasonable limit to all things. Asked her opin- fon of girls who smoked cigarettes and drank from pocket flasks, she said, "I think they are silly.” Mrs. Bell does not often go away from her home, spending much of the time in her room. moving picture in her Birth of a Nation” and excited over its thrills that she never went to see unothor one. GUARD GATHOLIG CHURCHES Every Roman (.‘l!fmlk' Institution in | life, New York to Have Police Protec- tion—Order Unexplained. New York, Feb. 22—A police guard was posted today at every Roman | Catholic church in greater New York| upon orders issued by Chief Inspector Leahy. The bluecoats were instructed to stop all persons carrying suspicious bundles from entering the churches| and to prevent loitering. Mspector [Leahy refused to give any rcason £or | home, and w the action, Monsignor Lavelle, vicar gendpl of the diocese, said today the church authorities had not asked police pro- tection for the churches. NO ACTION IN CAPE CANAL. Washington, Feb. 22.—Opposition to consideration of the bill for gov- ernment purchase of the Cape Cod canal caused republican leaders to abandon their plans to call up that measure at today’s session. Senator-Elect Mayfield Linked With Klan in Fight to Prevent Him From Taking Séat in Senate ‘Washington, Ieb. 22~chep|ng| c!u ges against the Ku Kilux Kian | and its officers were made today in | papers filed with the senate chal- Jlenging the right of Earle B. May; field to take his seat in the next con- gress as a senator from Texas. The klan was charged with co cealing its real designs, under a cloak of patriotism, in order to hide plans to “subject the government of the constitution to the ‘invisible empire,” and with conspiracy to evade, violate and defeat federal and state laws. It was further charged that the or- ganization had attempted ‘‘prostitu- tion of the Christian religion and had resorted to use of brute force, intimnidation and immoral and law- | less practices.” ‘ | | well The eléftion contest and its ac- companying charges were filed by George 1. B. Peddy who ran for sen- ator last November in Texas, a re- publican, and who accused Mr. May- field during a bitter campaign with being the candidate of the klan as as the regular democratic or- ganization. Excessive and iHegal expenses of money by the Mayfield forces, fratd in counting ballots and other irregu- larities were charged in the contest petition which asked for a recount. It was contended that Mr. Peddy actually was elected but in the event the senate does not so decide it was asked in the petitfon that Mr. May- (Continued on Eleventh Page.) Great | She saw but one | “The | became so | Frank L. Taylor, president of the I"irst National bank of Warren, under arrest in Chicago, local authorities to- day turned their attention to a search the brains behind the disappearance or $213,000 in bonds and securities from the bapk’s vaults. The fastitution was clovid” yester- diff, Ly erdeér of the/kank euumm May Have Left U. Marcino, reported to hne been mirsing since February 12, was be- lieved to be on his way to South Am- erica, officials said. His true name was said to be Joseph B. Biata, who, it was declared, was being sought for isimilar bank lootings in two Califor- {nia cities and of the Mechanies' and Merchants’ bank of Philadelphia. Bought Bank in January. It was Marcino, bank examiners and dctectives working on the case said, who placed Taylor in the Warren bank as president. Mareino and Abra- ham Goldman, of Chicago, said to be the former's father-in-law, purchased the controlling interest in the.local institution last January. Taylor was installed as president a short time | (Continued on Ninth Page) 'RUNAWAY GIRL SOUGHT BY FATHER IN THIS CITY Rocky Hill Man Was Bringing Daugh- When | | \ ter Back From Providence l \ She Muade Escape Again. Donato Pantanella of Division street, | Rocky Hill, reported to Captain| | George J. Kelly at the police station | [ this morning that his 17-year-old | | daughter, Elizabeth Pantanella, had | | run away from him at the Hartford | passenger ‘station at 12:45 o'clock last knu;ht He told the captain that he had information that she was in this |city. According to Pantanella, the | girl ran” away last week . from R. L and was bringing her | when she again escaped. The parent went to that city back home ‘BIG MOVIE STARS JOIN WAR ON COMMERCIALISM | Mary Pickford, Fairbanks, Harold Lloyd, Talmadge Sisters, and Griffith Included l.os Angeles, I'eb. 22.—Informal or- ganization of a group of motion pic- ture actors to combat .“commercial- ism” and the “resultant dwarfing of artistic growth” in film productions was completed at a conference which ended here early today with Mary Pickford, Norma Talmadge, Constance Talmadge, Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Wark Griffith, or their rcpresenulh*ea, signers of a “declaration of independ- | ence” from producers and the exhibi- tors of “machine made” films. The text of the declaration follows: “Certain combinations and group of persons and corporations are being formed in the motion picture business which will dwarf the artistic growth of the motion picture, and we, who are directly responsible to the public for the merit of our productions and having a profound regard for this re- sponsibility deem it necessary at this time to form an organizatiol which will protect the independent exhibitor against these commercial combina- tions and enable us to keep faith' wnh the public.” Ci lllplln. for Joseph B. Marcino, alleged to be| her | as located at Providence, | Davia | in the chancel and assisted Rev. Sam- uel Suteliffe at the service, were | George A. Barrows of Chelsea, Mass.; Rev. George Hilton of Plainville, Rev, (Washington Buteau of New Britajn Herald), | Howard D. Perkins of New Haven, ‘Washington, D. C.» Feb. 22.—In|and Rev. A. H. Kinne of New Haven. spite of the urgent recommendations More Than 150 Delegates. of Postgaster Genprs® Work.-and, Following the serviees at church Secretary o6 the surye Mellon, | The visitors régistered \ith the resuit New Britain will haves o worry along that over 156 delegatos from branch without any additional post office fa- Organizations in Maine, Vermont, New cllities for another year, so far a,‘Hunpshlre, Massachusetts, Rhode Is- congress is concerned. | land and Connecticut are present at This depressing news hits all lother of E’he 165 cities for which /| €ver held in New Britain, special appropriations were recom- In I_he alm:{wn of General G. Clif- mended by the secretaries, as well as ford Foote, William H. Parks presid- several hundred other communities ed at the short business session held throughout the country whose con- ‘s morning in the parish rooms of gressmen have entertained hopes of/ providing them with new or impro\ed Others Disappointed Too BY GEORGE H., MANNING (Continued on Eleventh Page). Rev. | the | the convention, which is the first one | Danbury. the bill says that during the past few years the enroliment in these schools | has increased 100 per cent while the | appropriations asked have been in- | creased only 50 per cent, making a 50 per cent increase in appropriation [to cover a 100 per cent increase in enroliment. Of interest to the citizens of East ‘ann was a hearing on the bill for |a state highway from the center of | Cromweil to the East Berlin bridge. Senator McDonald, chairman of the committee on roads, rivers and bridges, in arguing for the commit- tee's report to reject the bill, said that this road would be included in a later bill. This is considered as favorable towards securing that road later on | | federal buildings. It all comes about as a resuit of the “economy” policy of the admin- istration. Responding nobly to the directions of President Harding that' congress avail itsclf of every oppor- tunity to cut expenditures and help! make well-balanced budget, the steering committee of the house quiet- ly informed Chairman John Langley of the public buildings and grounds |committee that he and his committee might just as well save themselves the trouble of framing their proposed omnibus public buildings bill. In face of this certain knowledge |that the bill, which has been his one and only ambition for years and years, would die still-born even if he should brave the anger of the powers of the administration and report it to the; house, Mr. Langley was compelied to admit defeat. The recommendgtions of the joint secretarial letter to congress with re- |spect to New Britain were that $225,- 1000 be appropriated for urgently necd- |ed extension and remodelling of the federal building, of which sum $50,000 should be expended for the purchase of additional land and $175,000 for |extension and remodelling of the luilding. This recommendation was| lincluded with a list of 140 for u(m!‘ in which the post office department had made careful investigation of the| |congestion in the postal buildings and |found facilities entirely inadequate| 1« Schereibie, trading under the name ‘mr the handling of the work. | of the “Boston Garage,” and Ired- Norwalk, Ridgefiel Stamford, | erick J. Adams, ‘H”unrd, Bridgeport, New London,, The plaintiff, who represented | Waterbury, Torrington, are other Con-| b¥ Attorney Willlam I, Egan of Hartford, alleges that at 2 o'clock on the morning of November .25, 1922, she was a passenger in the Gro: man car, operated by Harry Gross- man, a son of the local defendant, when the machine was in collision on Connecticut avenue, near Bishop street, in Bridgeport, with a car owned by the defendants, Johnson and Schereible, and operated by the defendant, Adams. 3 She further claims that as a result of the collision she was thrown from the Grossman car to the highway and suffered a transverse fracture of the right thigh, contusions, abra- sions, lacerations, bruises and a mental and nervous shock. She states that she was from November and e For Injuries i ew Britain Girl Brings Action Against Meriden and Bridgeport Men — Negligence Alleged. Jacob Grossman of 261 Center street, Meriden, | ant with three Bridgeport men in a $50,000 damage suit brought by Leah Hoffman of New Britain, through her father, Albert F. Hoffman, for al- leged injuries received in an automo- bile collision in Bridgeport on No- vember , 1022, The case is return- able to the Hartford superior court on the first Tuesday of March and yester: Sheriff H. T. Downs filed papers of attachment in the city clerk’s office on two pieces of prop- erty on Center street, Meriden, owned by Mr. Grossman. The Bridgeport defendants are . W, Johnson and G. (Continued on Sixth Page) |Dies Following Funeral Services for His Wife| Ansonia, Feb. 22.—George | Brannen, a well known resident, dled yesterday afternoon as relatives and friends returned to the house from | the funeral of his wife. Mrs. Bran- nen died Saturday of pneumonia, the husband being taken ill with the same disease a few days before her death. FRENCH STATESMAN DIES, Paris, Feb. (By Associated I'ress)—Theophile Delcasse, former ‘mmlnur of foreign affairs, died sud- |denly at Nice last evening. He was born in 1851. 22 1922, to January pended large sums of money for medical care and at- tendance and also totally lost her weekly salary of $18. She says that she has been permanently injured and will not be able to do any work for at least 12 months more. The plaintiff charges that drivers) were a reckless rate of speed for the width of the street and traffic con- ditions and that the Bridgeport oper- ator refused to turn out to give Harry Grossman half of the road and in- stead turned car and the collision occurred before Grossman could stop his machine. * THE WEATHER both g Hartford. ¥Feb. 22.—Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Generally fair and colder to- night and Friday: fresh north- west winds. Saturnday probably fair and cold. | * | | i is made a co-defend- | nfined in a hespital | operating their cars at! in toward the Meriden | Leah Hoffman Sues For $50,000 in Auto Accident LOGAN'S WIDOW DIES Influenza Fatal to Wife of Noted Union General—Was Relief Workcer | Washington, Feb, —Mrs. John | A. Logan, $4, widow of the general who at one time during the Civil war commanded the Union army of tie Tennessee, and later was a United States senator from Illinois, died hL-xE today of influenza, During the Civil tive ed. Since her husband's death in Mrs. Logan had written extensi on Civil war happenings. During Civil War, war she was ac. 1856, ly JOHN BURNS IS SLATED FOR EXECUTIVE BOARD Local Letter Carrier to Be Elected to Office at Annual Meeting in Hartford. Hartford, Feb. 22.—An adequate retirement pension system was fa- vored and condemnation made of the “window the use of the so-called envel- consequent the because of to eyesight opes” strain at ninth cut State riers held in the old state house day. Addresses were made by 8. Toley of Boston and Clarence Simpson, of Bayonne J., members of the and by Mayor Robert of Stamford. Officers for lows: DPresident, of Torrington; vice president, | Cahill of Norwalk; secretary W. Sargeant of Greenwich: urer, William A. L'Hommedeiu, Meriden; executive board, John Burns of New Britain and Frank Whitney of Hartford: delegate to national convention to be held at Providence in September J. B. Kenny of New Haven. The convention was attended by nearly 100 delegates from all sec- tions of the state. They will banquet at the Hotel Bond at 6 o'clock this evening. Car- to- Association of Letter W. Whitaker as fol-| Smith | W. R. John election were Edward S of B. | in relief work among the wound- | annual convention of Connecti- | John | national executive committee treas- desired.” Letter to Mayor The letter that has been addressed to the mayor, follows: “Hon. A. Ms Paonessa, Mayor, | “City. “Dear Sir:— “It is evident from the”actions of Harry C. Jackson, secretary of the governing council of the Municipal Service bureau, that he is taking ad- | vantage of your untamiliarity with the circumstances .leading to the creating {of this bureau. We feel that, were you aware of the circumstances, you would not tolerate Mr. Jackson's high-handed procedure, “The Municipal Service bureau was organized at the request of the New Britain World War Veterans' council, which was made up of three members from gach of the following organiza- tions: The V, F. W,, the Amecrican Le- gion, the Rouillard-Linton camp and Kosciuszko post. Two meetings were held and Harry Jackson was namc.l temporary chairman and further meetings were to be called by him. (We are still waiting for the call), Owing to Mr. Jackson's meanness, the first attempt at cooperation among World War Veterans in New Britain tell through although several other cities borrowed the idea and have made a success, (But they had no Harry Jackson). At any rate, ' Mr, Mayor, your predecessor, Mr. Curtis, named several citizens to work in conjunction with two representatives from each of the organizations to act as a governing council over the activi- s of the Municipal Bureau and at the first meeting Mr. W. L. Hatch was g (Continued on Page Eleven) 'NON-SUPPORT PRISONER CHARGED WITH BIGAMY Warrant Is Issued for Nick Mancini, | Now in New Haven County Jail, Prosecutor Joseph G. Woods this afternoon issued a warrant charging Nick Mancini with bigamy, and a copy of the warrant has been turned over to Sheriff Thomas L. Reilly of the New Haven county jail, where Mancini is a prisoner. The accused was committed to jail yesterday, in lieu of furnishing a bond of $500 to contribute $15 to the support of his wife, who is said to be No. 1 in the case, Mancini was taken into custody on Monday night ot his rooming place, 9% W Main street by Sergeant M, | 7. Flynn, at the instance of the Waterbury police on a non-support charge. Detective Sergeant William P. McCue, took charge of the case, and he réported that Mancini is a bigamist. The investigation dis- closed that the man was married 10 years ago in Italy, and a few years later he came to this country, leaving his wife behind him. 1t is alleged that he wooed and wedded Mrs. Mary Fescetti of Barnett street, a widow with four children. The marriage ceremony was performed by Rev. Dr. G. W. C. HilL Wife No, 1 came to this country & short time ago, and this fact became known to Wife No. 2. When she put the matter up to her husband, he is alleged to have admitted having been married before, and he exhibited a paper purporting to show that he had secured a le separation from his first wife. It is alleged that this paper is a forgery. Wife No. 2, de- clined to believe his story, and has | not lived with him for over & year, twenty- |