New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 12, 1923, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press , ESTABLISHED 1870 SEVERAL KILLED, Upnbhor bt/ S g A I A | N | K Pl D NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1923. —FOURTEEN PAGES, MANY HURT BY TERRIFIC STORM WHICH | SWEEPS MISS. RIVER VAlI.EY' ~ High Wind Rips Down . Telephone and Tele- graph Wires—Freight Train Blown Off Track in Tennessee Schoolboy Killed When Roof of House Is Torn Off— Dozens of Cities Are Cut Off From All Communi- cation. Jackson, Tenn., March 12.—Twenty persons are reported killed and 76 in- jured in the vicinity of Pinson, Tenn., 12 miles south of Jackson by the storm which swept over that section last night. A number of dead and injured are negroes, about 50 dwellings about Pin- son were wrecked, according to mea- gre reports received here. Freight Train Blown Oft A freight train was blown from the track in that vicinity. Only minor property damage curred here. Relief parties were sent from Jack- son and plan to bring the injured to hospitals in this eity. Wire communication with Pinson is cut off. oc- ‘Wires Blown Down Cincinnati, O.,, March 12.—Destruc- tive winds which tore down telephone and telegraph wires Interfered today with officials of the Southern railway when they endeavored to ascertain the extent of damage caused when a train from New: Orleans ran into the rear of a passenger train at Pulaski, Ky. Schoolboy is Killed Portsmouth, O., March 12.-~Dennis Boggs, aged ) was instantly Killed ana five. other children were injured, two seriously this morning when a high wind uprooted the High school buitd- ing in South Portsmouth, Ky., oppos- ftc here and carried it over into the school yard where the children were playing. o Three Are Killed Richmond, I March 12.—-Three persons were killed, two fatally in- jured and a number seriously hurt by a cyclone which swept over a small wection on the Madison-I"ayette coun- ty border shortiy before midnight. Cities Are Isolated Chicago, March 12. — Dozens of cities in the Mississippi vailey today were deaf and speechless as far as their relations with the outside world were concerned. A storm coming up from the south- west spread fanlike over the great plains and caused death and property loss and demolished lines of communi- cation. Telegraph and telephone lines were blown down isolating some cities completely while other communities of many thousands of inhabitants con- versed with the rest of the world, by a single copper strand. As communication was restored to-| day stories of deaths and destruction began to arrive. It was reported several persons mostly ne- groes were killed by the storm at Pinson, Tenn,, and half homes were destroyed and a freight train thrown from the tracks. Ab- sence of wire communication with the stricken district made detalls impossi- ble but it was reported 75 persons were injured. property | a hundred | | Press.) -—— Captain Peterosky, ST, MARK'S GHURCH T0 BE CONSECRATED Solemn Exercises Will Be Held in New Editice April 25 ’BISHOP BREWSTER COMING Rt. Rev, Charles Edward Woodcock of Louisville, Ky, Will Preach at Morning Exercises—Church Free of Debt and Has Endowment Fund. 8t. Mark's Episcopal church will be consecrated Wednesday, April 25, St. Mark's day, Rev. Samuel Sutcliffe, rec- tor of the church announced this morning. Bishop Chauncey B, Brews- ter of the Connecticut diocese will be the conseccrator and the Rt. Rev. REV. SAMUEL SUTCLIFFE Charles Edward Woodcock of Louis- ville, Ky., will be the preacher at the services to be held at w o'clock” in the morning. ~ The new x.hunhlon /West. Main street is one of the most beautiful edifices in the New England states and was erected at an approximate cost of $300,000. It is entirely free of debt, contains many costly memo- (Continued on Sixth l’age) 10 GUESTS FLEE FIRE Night Shirt Parade Follows Tinding of Blaze in King James Hotel in New York Early This Morning. New York, March 12-—Seventy guests of the King James Hotel in West 45 street were driven from their rooms in their night clothes early today by a fire which started in a waste paper shaft, The blaze was quickly extinguished. Kiremen were kept busy rounding up 12 Pekinese dogs owned by a vau-, deville actress. The actress carried three of the dogs in her arms to the lobby and hysterically implored the firemen to rescue the others. REIUGEE A SUICIDE, Manilla, March 12.—(By Associated com- mander of the Russian refugee shig Batarela, shot and killed himselt aboard his vessel today. The cause of his suicide is not known. VON MUELLER, COMMANDER OF EMDEN, ONE OF G’REA TEST Maneuvered German Com- merce Raider With Con- summate Skill But Always Observed Rule of War- fare Religiously. Germany, March 12 (By the Associated Press)—Captain Karl von Mueller, war-time com- mander of the German cruiser Em- den whose exploits contributed one of the most remarkable chapters to the history of the war'died yesterday at the age of 50. Causes Losses to England The cruise of the raider Emden which ended in her destruction by the Australian cruiser Sydney in Novem- ber 1914 has been termed one of the bright spots in the record of the Ger- man navy during the World war. Un- der Captain von Mueller she began operations only a few days after the outbreak of hostilities and in three months of roaming the Indian ocean she destroyed British shipping vari- ously valued at from $5,000,000 to $20,000,000, Most Daring, Feat Captain von Mueller's most daring feat’' was at Penang on the Malacca straits. Rigging up a fourth dummy smokestack and flying the Japanese flag he steamed his vessel boldly into Braunsweig, WAR HEROES, DIES Russiangeruiser and I rench destroyer. He then maneuvered his speedy craft| so skilfully that he escaped unscathed. All his operations were marked by strict observance of the rules of legal- ized warfare. Oldest Episcopal Bishop Py . Is In Critical Condition 8t. Louls, March 12.—The Right Rev. Daniel 8. Tuttle, 86 years old, presiding bishop of the Episcopal church in the United States who has been ill with grippe for a week'was reported to be in a eritical condition today. He is said to be the oldest Episcopal bishop in the world, SUPREME COURT REFUSES Washingtop, March 12.—The su- preme court refused today to review a declsion of the second circuit court of appeals which held that the New York state law imposing taxes on na- tional banks was invalid, 17 FEET OF SNOW Berne, March 12.—8Seventeen feet of snow, the heaviest fall ever recorded in Switzerland hgn been piled on the peak of Mount Saentis. Zdanis Girl Recovering From “Sleeping Sickness” Aldona Zdanis, the Whiting street girl who has been afflicted with “gleeping sickness” for the past few weeks, is reported to be improving and while her recovery is slow she is sald to be returning to normal. The |1 WOMAN LINKED WITH BIG BANK SHORTAGE - lago nd (‘onnecticut St.~ Advt, Pept., Havtford, Conn. s e $600000 REPORTED GONE P Six Nearby Banks Involved and An- other Missing—New York Institution Bankrupt Tour Officials Are Sought by Police Chicago, March 12.—Unofficial re- ports today indicated that the short- age in the Logan Square Trust and Savings bank whose president, Fred W. Popp was found dead Friday, would total $300,000. Plans to re- open the bank were abandoned and instead six additional bank examiners were expected here from Springfield to assist on the bank’s paper. Six Other Banks Affected. Six small banks outside Chicago were reporteld involved as vietims in what was described as a scheme to place worthless paper in the banks and withdraw negotiable securities and cash. Woman in the Case. The nanie of Josephine Bacon, an operatic student and former model, was brought into the investigation She said Mr, Popp had been hes friend and financial counsellor and that on two occasions their acquaint- ance had brought protest from Mrs. Popp. Another Banker Missing. Private investigators reported that David Wiedemann, Jr., vice president of the bank and son of the president of the First National bank of Har- vey, Ill, was away from his home here with his wife and child. An at- torney for Mr. Wiedemann said he knew his client's whereabouts but de- clined to disclose it. He said Wiede- mwann was assisting in every way to straighten out the Logan Square Lank's affairs, Bank Examiner H. 8. Savage commented on the absence of Mr. Wiedemann as one of the diffi- culties met in making a survey of the Lank, Banker 1Is In Bad Financial Shape. David Wiedemann, Sr., asserted his son had not run away but said his son’s financial condition was not good. Mr. Wiedemann, Sr., was quoted: “Tt is true that my son is not right now in good financial shape. He was a director and stockholder in our | bank at Harvey but was forced to esign at the request of the state bank (Continued on Sixth Page) i 1. BURR MENTIONED FOR PLAGE ON "SCHOOL BOARD Former Member of State Board of Education May Be Selected Henry T. Burr of Landers, Frary & Clark is being encouraged by friends to annoynce his candidacy for.the board of education, a vacancy having been created by the resignation of L. Clayton Goodwin. Mr. Burr is a former member of the state board of education and was for- merly principal of the state normal school at Willimantic, His friends be- lieve that his qualifications and his experience would be an asset to the New Britain school board. SIK GET AUTOS BACK People Living in Bridgeport District Made Happy When Stolen Cars Are Returned To Them. Bridgeport, March 12.—Six automo- biles among those seized by the state police in their investigation of auto- mobile stealing in this section were returned to their owners yesterday and Saturday. TFive of these were stolen it is'alleged, by Monty Sou- ferin who pleaded guilty a week ago and was sent to state prison for ten to 13 years. Thus far the state po- lice have identified automobiles seized here which they claimed pass- ed through the hands of various men who have been arrested. WOUNDED WOLF KILLS MAN Den, Hunter's Body Found Near From Which He and Companion Had Stolen Young Wolves, Florence, Italy, March 12.—A story of a hunter in the Apennine moun- tains believed to have been Kkilled by a wounded mother wolf, reached here today. The man, with a companion, met the hunger driven animal on a range between this city and the Adriatic sea. One of the hunters shot the beast, wounding her badly, and the two then followed the back trail to a den in the mountains where they found several young wolves. One of the hunters took the cubs to the village of Marradi, leaving his friend to shoot the mother when she would return home, Evidently the man missed his aim for his body was found horribly mutilated near the empty den. S. V. Osgme, Formerly in State Assembly, Is Dead Branford, March 12, — Sidney V. Osborne, who represented this town in four sessions of the general assem- bly, died of pnecumonia today. Mr. Osborne was a grain and feed mer- chant. 1In the legislature he had served on a number of committees, having once been house chairman of that on agriculture, and in the 1921 session on the appropriations commit- tee. Mr. Oshorne was a member of the New Haven commandery, K. T, the harbor under the British gunsigirl is being attended by Dr. William land of Lafayette ( Jonsistory, A. A, 8. and launched torpedoes which sank a k. Flanagan. L] R. Masons of Bridgeport ed Press)—Indications that the At- lantic coast of the arid United States is to be attacked by rum fleets from three quarters of the globe was seen today in dispatches from London stating that a German syndicate was preparing to finance extensive smug- gling operations, A squadron believed to hail from the Bahamas is rocking off the north- ern New Jersey coast and preliminary landings are reported to have been made. Word that a British syndicate is as- sembling an armada to storm the At- lantic coast has been brought here re- cently by tourists visiting Nassau and federal agents are said to be investi- gating. Rum Pirates Active. With this three-fronted attack come other indications that spring will bring melodramatic activities in the North Atlantic, reminiscent of the days of Captain Kidd. Several schooners have sailed into Halifax and St. John reporting that they have been attacked by rum pi- rates off New York and their cargoes seized, Government agents were in- clined to smile at these reports tak- ing them as feeble excuses for missing freight. Lately, however, several attempts have served to substantiate the theory . Atlanttc Coast to 6e Attacked by Booze Fleets From All Over World, According to Indications British and German Syndicates Reported Financing Many | Smuggling Expeditions—Landings Already Made— | Army, Navy and Congress Members Involved in Washington Bootleg Scandal. New York, March 12, (By Associat- fthat rum runners are meeting another spread in the cabin. seized the rum. | | th to foe in the Jolly Roger, On March 3 the schooner Victor was found crewless, drifting off the Am- brose channel lightship. A meal was The cargo was The theory was advanced that and Se’ su gone, sh pirates had captured the crew Have Pistol Practice, Recently digpatches from Highlands N. J., the center of the winter rum running, reported that local runners were indulging in pistol practice ashore to protect themselves against modern Captain Kidds. Interest here centered on whether the three fleets believed to be in pro- cess of organization intended to focus their attack on the entrance to New York harbor where they could be boarded by runners from Jersey and Long 1Island or whether they intend- ed to scatter up and down the coast. Bootleggers have indicated previ- ously that Ambrose channel was the pi in of to 3000 CHILDREN MARCH TO | Bronx and ing in orderly small fire of possible incendiary origln broke out. were drenched by a pouring rain. mothers, many of them of forcign e traction trolied. floor cloakroom destroying cloaks of many of the pu- driving rain impeding the CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SAFETY AT SCHOOL BLAZE Youngsters leave Burning Building in Orderly Fashion —Parents Frightened, New York, March 12.—Three thous- | children at public school 23 in e Bronx marched from the build- fashion today when a | None of them had time don overcoats or rubbers and they Before firemen arrived, hysterical tried to enter the building. veral fainted. Police reserves were mmoned. The fire was quickly con- One of the teachers said that when | e entered her room she found a blaze among some books and burned matches scattered around the floor, The blaze spread from the third | to the fourth floor,! Is. The frightened children huddled groups about their teachers in ide approach fire trucks, until police moved them shelter. DISCUSSES NEW TIME| | Virtual Average Daily Cireul Week Ending 9 2 51 March 10th 8 GERMANS SLAIN IN CLASHES er FRENCH TROOPS IN RECKLINGHAUSEN: POINCARE WANTS NO MEDIATION NOW Premier of France Anx- ious to Have Occupa- tion Policy Run Its Course, He Declares in Interview Martial Law in Where Two Frenchmen Were Mur- dered Sunday Night—Ad- Troops Called Buer, ditional Out. Recklinghausen, March 12 (By 'the Associated Press)—Eight Germans are dead as the result’ of clashes with French troops in, various parts of the Reckling- | hausen district last night. French soldier and three Ger- mans were wounded in a riot at Dortmund. One A state of siege has been de- clared in the entire Reckling- best rendezvous because of its prox- imity to New Newark and other .York, Philadelphia, ready markets, Rum craft, however, have been re- ported at various times off the New Recently John D, Ap- England coast. in charge of marine pleby, formerly (Continued on Twelfth Page) JEROME B. LUCKE HAD GREAT PRESS GAREER Veteran New Haven Re- porter, Dead at 81, “Cov- ered” Momentous Events New Haven, March 12—Jerome B. Lucke, veteran newspaperman and long on the staff of the New Haven Journal-Courier, died today in his 81st year. He had been ill wih pneumon? ia. He was graduated from Yale Law school but after serving in the Civil war he turned to the newspaper field. Mr. Lucke was born in this city and in the late sixties was city editor of the New Haven Palladium, and then went to the Journal-Courier, with which paper he served 40 years, and in ad- dition was a correspondent for many papers and periodicals, In the Civil war he served in Co. I, 15th Connecti- cut. Mr. Lucke, then a reporter, gave to C. 8. Bushnell, one of the backers of Ericcson's Monitor, the first news of lature in session in this city word of the capture of Fort Fisher by Gen. Alfred Terry of this city; took the stenographic report for the Associat- ed Press of that portion of James G. alliterative expression, ism and rebellion"; graphic report of Mr. Blaine's specch on the Alabama claims and in the course of his career had interviewed many distinguished men, BRISTOL LIQUOR DEALERS “rum, Roman- Man, Clerk For a Butcher Who Sold, Is Heavily Fined Bristol, March 12,—With a single exception jail sentences were imposed on saloonkeepers and the keeper of a meat market by Judge W. J. Malone today, on conviction for selling liquors. The exception was a clerk for the butcher who was fined $200 and costs, The men were in court as the re- sult of evidence secured by private | detectives. IMive of those in the court ed a jail sentence in addition. Today three saloonkeepers received fines of $200 and costs each and 60 days in jail added, and Joscph Rokosa, the butcher, got the same sentence, TWO HURT Cincinnati, March 12-~Two men were hurt early today in a rear-end | collision on the Southern railway at| Pulaski, Tenn., which was caused in-| directly by the wind storm, according to a report received by the officials here, WEATHER s Hartford, Mar, 12~Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Unsettled and warmer, probably THE rain tonight. Tuesday mostly cloudy, strong casterly shifting to southwesterly winds, i *. |Man the Monitor's victory over the Merri-| mac; carried to the Connecticut legis- | Blaine's address in whlch occurred the' made a steno-| in the case of James R, New Britain, before U. this afternoon at poned until next Saturday morning at| ARE SENTENCED 70 JAIL| Five Given Penalty Today—A Sixth | la agents, to Mr. Halloran. has been defense. | Nearly ! Saturday were fined and one rmrsl\'-i Press. )~ Nearly |in the week-end raids in England and | Scotland are understood to have been | landed here 200 men from one and the balance, in- cluding about 3 other. heavy guard to A ’ | | British Schooner Is : COLLISION. | Press).—The British army OVERCOME BY GRIEE, KILLS SELF BY GAS Found in Hartford Boarding House — Left Note Explaining Reason 12. of h ——Despondent young wife recently, Hartford, March over the death which oceurred in Bristol Frank Weiss, 27 of Halifax, committed sticide sometime 1 in a rooming house at No. 46 street this city. The body was found this morning stretched out on the floor of a bedroom on the second floor of the building and was discov- ered when the janitor of the build- ing was informed by another roomer that the upper hall was filled with gas. ‘Weiss had disconnected a rubber tube from a gas heater and covering his head with a quilt to prevent es- cape of gas had inhaled the fumes through the end of the tube. Weiss left a letter addressed to his roommate in which he explained that while he was sorry to cause trouble he was unable longer to bear his own sorrow, resulting from the death of his young wife, and the loss of his home and happines: (HALLORAN HEARING GOES OVER T0 NEXT SATURDAY Case Involving Seizure of Liquor in New Britain is Continued—Spel- lacy Lngaged for Defense (Special to The Herald). Hartford,. March 12, A hearing | Halloran of | scheduled to come up| Commissioner Corbett | 2 o'clock, was post- | 8 11 a'clock. A quantity of liquor was| seized in a building at the corner of| vette and Washington streets week by federal prohibition It is claimed that it belongs| Thomas J. Spellacy | engaged as counsel by the 300 Irishmen Are Deported Into Ireland, Dublin, March 12.—(By Associated 300 prisoners taken from British warships, | women, conveyed from an- All we under Wrecked, Crew Rescued London, March 12 (By Associated | for 1923-1924 made public today pro- | vide for 52,000,000 pounds as against 62,300,000 pounds for the year—a saving of more than 10,000,- | 000 pounds. previous | Is Destroyed by, Flames Montreal, March 12 e Moun- | tain street Methodist Episcopal church | was destr firemen were injured. the blaze ig not know today. Four The origin of . The damage at $30,000, d by fire was estimated | Hartford. {necticut company was | tion Will Consult Manufacturers Before Deciding on Recommendation The question of daylight saving came up at a meeting of the hoard of directors of the Chamber of Com- merce held this noon. No action ‘was taken, as it was thought that more information should be secured from manufacturers and employes in order to learn what the sentiment is, A report was given by the secre- tary and the general tone of the sur-| Infor- and other s fo be ses cured and presented at next Monday's vey was in favor of the plan. mation as to what Hartfor, neighkoring cities wil! do mecting, W, ‘zoning bill which has been introduced in the legislature gnd which is come up for a hearing this week in This bill will re: erection of certain types of buildings in residential sections and manufac- turing plants on business streets, This S “Ibill has been approved by the state | chamber of commerce and the cham- ber will be represented at the hearing. The matter of the laying of a spur track on Chestnut street by the Con- also brought up and was opposed by the directors. The public utilities commission grant- ed the Connecticut company permis- sion to lay the track and the city h appealed to the superior court. committee composed of J. R. Andrew W. L. Hatch and Morris W. Saxe will attend the hearing tomorrow in op- position to the decision of the public utilities commission. George T. Kimball of the American Hardware corporation was reappoint- ed a director to serve on the state hoard of the Connecticut chamber of commerce for another year. The O'Neil Tire and Battery station was recommended for membership and was accepted. HEARING ON SPUR TRACK Appeal of City From Public Commission’s Decision Scheduled to Come Before Superior Court. C. Hungerford reported on the to rict the | [ the warnings, Hlmhm hausen district in consequence- 1of these overnight disturbances. More Troops Sent Out Additional troops have been |sent to preserve order at Buer where a French army officer and a French official were killed Sun- day night and where excitement | has since been running high, re- sulting in renewed shootings. Of the Germans who met death, two were shot down while trying to escape from gen- darmes in the Buer disturb- ances. Five others were killed and several wounded an 'hour later when a crowd attacked a French guard post. The eighth German was killed at Dortmund when a crowd attacked a French detachment. The renewed trouble at Buer broke out late last night when a small detach- ment of French gendarmes went to the home of a German sus- pected of being implicated in [the assassination of the French |officials. Two Germans who were found there were arrested. | They were being taken to a guard post v.hen, according to the French reports, they tried to escape and were shot. Germans Throng Streets This created an uproar in the ‘| town, and within an hour the Germans began pouring into the streets despite the commanding general’s order prohibiting civil- ians from being out after 7 p. m. A crowd assembled in the town square and soon afterward several hundred Germans mostly men ate tempted to storm a French guard post where seven or eight soldiers were stationed. Crowd Storms Post, The Germans demanded the reason why the two men had been killed, The soldiers repeatedly ordered them |away but the erowd refused to heed the reports state, bes coming more and more excited and | finally attacking the house in which |the guard was quartered. On being lattacked the soldiers fired killing five |of the Germans and wounding several A hearing on the appeal of the city | others, of New Britain from the decision of Additional troops were quickly ore the public utilities commission grant-|dered out and all civilians were or petition of the Connecticut A new spur track on Chest- ing. the Co., to la nut street, morrow morning superoir court. however, that the reached before Wednesday as there are four other matters to precede it, Judge John H. Kirkham, corpora- counsel, and Lawyer Donald Gaffney will present the city's case to the superior court. 10:30 o'clock in not expected, case will at It is Among the witnesses summoned are Mayor A. M. School Super- intendent & H. H(Hmlw and erty owners in the vicinity of nut street. The company's rejected by the public works board and on appeal to the public utilities commission it was allowed. At the request of Mayor Chest petition superior court. GOVERNOR ILL AGAIN estimates | Tempetlon Has Relapse and is At- lof a tended by Specialist—Expected lu‘l Be Out in Few Days. Waterbury, March 12-—Governor| | Charles A. Templeton is now confined grip. He but a specialist in attendance believes he will be able to be about in a or two. A large banguet planned for tonight, by the local lodge of Eik in the governor’s honor, has postponed until Wednesday night. has been set down for to-| prop- | Paonessa, | Judge Kirkham then appealed to the | |ty |are | The thre is running a slight fever, i\nmmlllv A, l been others will appear i the interests of passage of all amendinents, dered to return to their homes, but it was long after midnight before Ore der was completely restored, Had Made Boasts One of the two men killed in the carlier shooting had boasted to friendg mmnm according to French infore (Continued on Page Eloven) MAY 0PPOSE AMENDMENT LIMITING SCHOOL BOARD sses. Covert, Christ and Alling Iixe pected To Speak Against Charter Amendment This Week The New general Britain representation in consisting of enator Richard Covert and Represens atives B. W. Alling and E. W. Christ, expected to oppose adoption by the committee on cities and boroughs proposed amendment to New Britain’s charter limiting the school oard's unauthorized expenditures to $300 except in case of emergencies, legislators, as members of révision committee, op« plan and announced that assemb charter the the posed o [to his home here with a sore throat,|they would not consider themselves Montleal Melhodlst ChurCh ,lln- aftermath of an attack of the|bound by any vote of the revision This amendment with the other proposed changes, will come up Wed« nesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Mayor M. Paonessa and a number of