New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 31, 1923, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 : NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1923 ~SIXTEEN PAGES. ' MORE BLOODSHED IN GERMANY WHEN " FRENCH SOLDIERS OPEN FIRE WITH MACHINE GUNS ON KRUPP EMPLOYES Sheer Silks and Light Gowns on . Easter Will Court Pneumonia, is Six Workers Reported Killed, 20 Injured g fore Menacing Cl’g;"" of Workmen Disperses Before Hail of Lead Trouble Started When Fac- Oq Al ~ 8 "’r.g ‘aying it “utication as Cold Wave Spreads New Finery Not Lost However, As Forecas. ‘yomises “Slowly Rising Temperature” Sunday Afternoon—Even Florida Feels Blasts. ADJOURNHENT DATE 10 SET NEW REGORD \General Assembly Declares for Two Weeks' Recess May 2 WILL THEN CLEAN SLATE | Mills of ,Appropriations Committee Unlike Mills of Gods. Grind Fast, But Pulverize Measures Bofore It— Representative Madigan Angry. BY CLARENCE G. WILLARD, (Special to The Herald). Hartford, March 31.—The work of the legislature has progressed to such an extent this week that it has now been decided to recess on May 2 for two weeks, after which the two houses Average Daily Circulation Week Ending ,3 39 March 24th PRICE THREE CEN/ 5 WORKMEN KILLED, POSSIBLY 19 DEAD, IN COLLAPSE OF HUGE TANK N TOP OF HARTFORD SHOP TOWER | Catholic Prelate Not Yet Executed Moscow, March 31, 6 p. m, (By the Associated Press)-—The death sentence imposed on Vivar General Butchkavitch, commutation of which was de- nied by the central executive committee has not yet been carried out, it was stated at § o'clock this afternoon. Father Walsh, representative | 150 Ton Container Crashes When Walls Collapse at New Factory of Fuller Brush Co. on Windsor Avenue—Many Seriously Injured and More Bodies May be in Wreckage—One Man De- capitated, Another Loses Leg—Fire and Police Reserves Aid in Rescue Work of a “slowly” rising temperature Sun- day afternoon, in addition to the promise that the day will be fair. The rise 1s expected to continue Monday throughout the eastern and south- eastern states as the high pressure in its sweep from the north moderates under its southern sojourn. A disturbance moving eastward over the New England states today, with Washington, March 31,—The pre- dicted Easter cold weather blight was | sweeping steadily castward and south- ward today. By tonight, according to the official forecast, the chill high pressure area originating somewhere in the Arctic regions, will haye over- spread practically the entire castern half of the country. will come together and clean up any matters which may remain. Owing to the fact that Good Friday was in the week just closed, there was no Fiday session and because of the fact that all hearings are over ex- cept those by the appropriations com- mittee, it will be unnecessary to have any further Friday sessions this year. of the Catholic welfare hoard, told the correspondent he had no answer to his request that he be allowed ad administer the last sacrament to Monsignor Butchkavitch. The forelgn legations which asked that clemency be granted to the prelate were without in- tory Hands Resist At- tempt of Troops to Take Over Section of Great Manufacturing Plant. Hartford, March 81.—Five workmen were instantly killed, one mortally injured and many others severely injured shortly after 11 o’clock today when the central tower on the new Wind- sor avenue factory of the Fuller Brush Co, collapsed. Later, there |was a report that the number of dead persons under the wreck- lage might bring the total of dead to 15. iy ! \ Berlin, March 31.—(By Associated Press)—8ix German workers at the Krupp plant in Essen have been kill. ed and 20 injured in a conflict with the French wmilitary, says a Central News dispatch from Essen today. The. trouble occurred through the French unexpectedly proceeding to occupy certain of the Krupps motor works whereupon the workers stop- ped the machinery and went outside to offer opposition, the message states. Mob Threatens Troops The officer in charge of the French tried to persuade the men to return to duty but they refused and sur- sounded the troops, threatening them with attack unless they withdréw. The officor pointed out that he must carry out his orders but the workers were obdurate, declaring they would defend their plant. Four Machine Guns Used Four machine guns then open fire, adds the message, and six workers fell dead, while 20 were gseriously wounded.. The remainder scattered and the French then proceeded to oc- cupy the works. DETAILS OF BIG BOMB PLOT NOT GIVEN 0UT Los Angeles Police Have _Alleged Maker of Wall St. Infernal Machine Los Angeles, March 31.—Many of the details of the purported confes- sion of Herbert Wilson, convicted murdered, alleged mail robber and ‘former evangelist, that he manufac- tured the explosive in the .bomb which killed 89 persons and destroyed property valued at thousands of dol- lars in Wall street, New York city in 1920 are withheld for the present, it was admitted today by county and federal agents. Wilson, a prisoner in the Los An- geles county jail has been questioned at length many times by groups of deputy sheriffs and postal inspectors, according to the Los Angeles Times and these officers expect olhers of various branches of the fedcral gov- ernment including W. J. Burns, direc- tor of the bureau of investigation of the department of justice to come here to try to obtain fuller informa- tion than they yet have persuaded Wilson to give. Wilson is said by Los Angeles offi- cers to have told them he had de- signed the bomb and manufactured its most intricate parts at his home here, while under the impression it was to be used by bank burglars who wanted to wreck a vault. He stated he went east in August before the September tragedy, and at a point near New York city met a man who employed him to construct the engine of de- struction. Later, he was quoted he learned from “friends in the under world” what use had been made of the bomb and still later recognized a pup- (Continued on Thirteenth Page) John L. Saxe of Waterbury Candidate for State G. A. R. Waterbury, March 31,—Wadhams post, No. 49, G. A. R, has issued a circular letter announcing the can-| , didacy of John L. Saxe, a member of the post, for the office of depart- ment commander of the state organi- zation of Civil war veterans. Mr. Saxe has been active in the local post for many years and at one time or another has filled all the post's of- fices. | Sunday Auto Riding Is Barred in Switzerland Paris, March 31, — Switzerland is the only country in the world where automobile traffic has been forbidden Sundoy afternoons but the majority of the cantons recently have repealed the ordinance prohibiting this traffic. The “sutophobes,” however, says a dispatch to L'Auto from Geneva, are preparing to launch a referendum in- tended to have the effect of forcing the federal authorities to transform the cantonal restricting regulations into a federal law. v Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Lindgren Observe 20th Anniversary Mr, and Mre. Charles J. Lindgren of 247 South Main street, were the "\ guests of more than 160 friends last night at Vega hall, the occasion being the observance of their 20th wedding anniversary. They were presented with $20 in gold and a beautiful floral i By tomorrow morning, the weather mans says, the chilling fingers of the Arctic visitor will have spread frost as far south as northern Plorida, with | a sharply declining scale of tempera- tures northward. To the dubious Faster bonnet, how- ever he does hold out the faint hope BLACKMAIL CHARGE DECISION RESERVED Hearing Given Farrell and D’Leary? for Alleged Attempted Extortion FRANCOLINO IS COMPLAINANT Former Shoc Dealer Alleges Prisoners Threatencd Exposure — Policemen | Who Hid in Store Tell of Farrel's| Demand For Shoes and Moncy. Following lengthy testimony offered in police court this morning by Mr.| and Mrs. Prospero Francolino, Peter Francolino, Sergeant George Ellinger! and Policeman Willlam P, Hayes, in the cases of Edward Farrell and Wil- Hlam O’Leary, charged with black- mail and debates between Attorncy C. J. Danaher of Meriden, representing Farrell, - and Prosecuting Attorney, Joseph G. Woods in regard to tech-) nicalities of the law, Judge George W. Klett announced that decision in : the cases would be reserved until 'next Thursday morning. Both IFarrell and O'Leary were ar- rested on March 7, the former in the morning at the store conducted by Francolino on North street and the latter in the afternoon on a warrant issued by Prosecutor Woods, on a charge of blackmail, O'Leary was represented in court today by Attor- ney Michael Sexton while Jarrell was represented by Attorneys Danaher and Donald Gaffney. A demurrer filed at the hearing held three weeks. ago was withdrawn by Attorney Danaher who claimed that there was no crime alleged in the complaint as drawn by Prosecutor Woods. Francolino was the first called to the witness stand. He testified that he was at present cngaged as man- ager of a shoe store on North street. He was engaged in business up to (Continued on #xteenth Page) New Haven Woman Leads e . . . Fire Fighters in Tiflis Tiflis, March 31 (By the Associated Press)—Two thousand Armenian chil- dren organized as a bucket brigade assisted a battalion of bolshevik sol- diers n saving the orphanage at Alex- andropol from destruction by fire last midnight. The flames, which de- storyed a 1,000 ton warehouse of thi Near East Relief menaced the or- phanage, but prompt work by the fire fighters preserved it. The chil- dren worked under the direction of predicted rain or snow, will bureau says by the insweep of ti cold wave area from the northwest and that section also will share in ti cold clear weather predicted for to- morrow, Ward-Peters Murder Case to Be Resumed At Public Hearings Albany, N. ¥, March 31— Open hearings in the Ward- Peters murder case will begin ‘here Monday under the personal direction of State Attorney Gen. Sherman. “I am prompted to make this investigation in the open by the widespread public interest evi- denced in it,” Mr. Sherman safd. Every phrase of the case will be looked into and all evidence gathered by the Westchester county authorities from the time the body of Clarence Peters was found, until the indictment against Walter 8. Ward was dis- missed will be produced. Ward admitted he killed Peters but claimed that he did so to protect himself in a blackmail plot. The attorney general said today that he intended for the time being to give his personal at- tention to the inquiry. He will he assisted by Deputios Wilker M. Chamber and Bernard Cohen, who have done the pre- liminary work. be chased to sea by tonight, the weather The early adjournment will be a rec- ord for Connecticut legislatures. State Purchasing Agent Subject to the approval of the gov- ernor and it is understood that this is partly by- his suggestion, a bill will shortly be reported which will attach to the comptroller's office an advisor to state institutions and other depart- ments of the government, who will as- |sist in the purchases and who will keep in touch with prices of various commodities in order that the various institutions may get the best price ob- tainable, on all supplics. This will he he '(Continued on Thirteenth Page). BODY OF NEW HAVEN WOMAN 1S FOUND IN LONELY SHACK Victim Was Only Partly Clad and May be Victim of Foul Play— One Man Held on Suspicion New Haven, March 31.—The almost nude body of Mrs. Lena Curtis Hunt- ington was found in a shack in Peat's road, near Four Corners in the Fair Haven east section of the city and /| Coroner Mix began an inquiry to de- termine the cause of her death, which may have occurred two or three days &80, The police say that Mrs. Hunting- ton was taken whether by force or willingly, it not. known, to the shuck ias Tuesday by a mian, ‘She had been missing from her home on Allingtown Hill in West Haven for 10 days. The police are holding Frank Car- oppa, who is said to have been in ecompany of Mrs, Huntington last TWO BURNED T0 DEATH IN ANOTHER BAD N. Y. FIRE Eight Are Serionsly Injured in To- days Blaze—Origin Looks Suspicious. New York, March 31.—Two m Puesday at the shack; Nicola Farillo, who owns the shack, and Sabino Sal- va, who seemed to know something of the woman. Mrs, Huntington was 45 years old. She Jeaves a husband who is employ- ed as a painter in a local department store. TRUCK AND AUTO GRASH en Dr. O'Brien of Middletown Painfully | stairway on the were burned to death and eight per- sons seriously injured early today in a fire of suspiclous origin in an East side tenement, making a total of nine persons who have lost their lives in fires this week. Five were burned to death in an apartment fire in West 57th street last Monday and two firemen were killed yesterday while fighting a blaze in East 27th street. Today's blaze in a five story house East Tth street started under a ground floor and spread with such rapidity that tenants on the upper floors found their escape by stairways barred. Fire officials expressed bellef that the fire had been set. . A dozen men, women and children were carried down ladders. MOLANDER INVENTORY $3,150. |* An inventory of the estate of the late George Molander, filed today in probate court, shows a half interest in property on Jubilee street, valued at $1,600; a New Britain Savings bank Nurse Janet McKay of New Haven, Conn, Tndianapolis, Ind county, Tndiana, tried on a chare of conspiracy to violate the Volstead act, were found guilty by a jury in United States district court here to- day. Among the most prominent de- fendants found guilty were Roswell 0. Johnson, mayor of Gary; Willlam H. Olds, sheriff of Lake county, Wil liam M. Dunn, judge of the Gary city court and Blaz Lucas, a Gary attor- ney. Other prominent defendants found guilty are Dwight M. Kinder, prose. cuting attorney of Lake county; Lewis E. Barnes, former sheriff of Lake county; Clyde Hunter, former prose- cutor of Lake county; John Bennett, treasurer of the republican city com- mittee, Gary, and Charles L. Clemens, a justice of the peace. The government charged that boot- leggers, lawyers, the police force of! |55 OF 62 RESIDENTS OF GARY AN \ LAKE COUNTIES, IND., ARE GUILTY | OF PLOT TO VIOLATE U. S. DRY LAW | | monia may take every member of a Bottleggers, Lawyers, Policemen and County Officials Worked Together to Obstruct Enforcement of 18th Amendment. { federal grand jury last December. book with deposits of $1,500 and fur- niture valued at $150, totalling $3,150. of obstructing enforcement of prohibition laws. | More. than 200 witnesses testified | in the trial which began March 15 and | a mass of evidence was introduced by | Four | housing 30 non-commissioned officers | |of the 26th regiment and their fam- both sides. Seventy five persons living in Gary and Lake county were indicted by a!j of this number five pleaded guilty before trial, the indictment of Stanley Ko- sowski was non-prossed and seven other defendants have not been ar- rested. The following were acquitted: Charles Daugherty, deputy sheriff at | Gary; Joseph Demarti, Jr.,, Gary at-|| torney; Clem Hentges, deputy sheriff at Gary; Fred Rose, marshal at Ho- bart; George Flick and Willam Bus- aie, both of Gary, and Lawrence Treager, night marshal at Hobart, Sentences will be imposed April 20, cis O'Brien of Middletown, was pain- fully hurt and two others slightly in- jured when a touring car driven by Dr. O'Brien collided with truck in Westport early today. O'Brien is in a Norwalk hospital, Ann treated by emergency geons, and were taken to their homes. Dr. O'Brien's car was struck {truck that did not stop. arrested Armond Morin, bury, driver of an automobile truck that was towing a truck operated by trucks are owned by Peter N. Laskas of Waterbury. knowledge of the accident. appear in the Westport afternoon. Two in Killingly Home Die of Pneu- |¢ | aged 30, died last night. | Gilbert, and her sister, Ethel, died | this morning, and two brothers are not expected to live through the day. | None haa or has been ill more than | five days and Mary was the last to| | be taker. with the disease and the March 31.—TFifty | Gary and city and county officials all | first to die. five of 62 resldents of Gary and Lake| worked together to the common end'a short distance north of the center the jof the town. | The fire is believed to have originated | from an overheated furnace. Hurt in Accident at Westport—Two Truckmen Are Held. Bridgeport, March 31.— Dr. I'ran- motor Dr. a McDonald and W, J. Cronan of East Haven, passengers in his car, were hospital su According to stories told the police, by a Police here of Water John R. Barrett of Bridgeport. The men denied They will court this Both WHOLE FAMILY STRICKEN | monia This Morning and Other Two Are Reported Dying. Killingly, Conn., March 31.—Pneu- Miss Mary L. Larkin, Her father, family here. The family has a farm BURNED. March 81— buildings | ARMY BARRACKS Plattsburg, N. Y wooden barracks lies were destroyed by fire last night. THE WEATHER —n Hartford, Mar. 31.—~Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Fair, colder tonight. Sunday |it is claimed. formation at noon as to whether he had been executed. BELKIN'S PLACE CLOSED Wholesale Grocery Establishment on Commercial Street Is Attached for Out of Town Firm. The business establishment of Her-| man Belkin on Commercial street wa closed this morning by Constable| . Winkle on a writ issued by M. D. Saxe, justice of the peace. A civil suit to recover on merchandise has| been brought against Mr. Belkin by an out of town concern. Mr. Belkin, is successor to Morris Cohen, whole- sale grocer, Bad Fire Devastates Part | Of Bolling Field Hangars ‘Washington, March 31.—~The pho- tographic laboratory, a hangar and two airships were destroyed in a fire today at Bolling field. Damage to war contract records stored in the burned structure has not been ascer- tained. None of the personnel was seriously injured. The fire was said to have been caused by an explosion in the photo- graphic laboratory. Sixty new Liberty motors which had been assembled and tvned up in the hangars were badly (00ST OF SPECIAL ELECTION damaged. While the fire was quickly brought under control the firemen and soldiers were hampered by a strong wind. The soldiers confined their ef- forts to protecting a storage house containing great quantities of chemi- cals, The,weight of a 50,000 gallo Reserves m water tank at the top of the i tower which had been filled for a test was the apparent cause of fhe crash. The tank weighed about 150 tons. Called ; Police reserves and several fire companies were sent to the scene of the accident to assist in from the great heap of debris. found to have been decapitated. removing the killed and injured One of the dead workmen was The five dead and the men seriously injured were in the employ PUT AT .80 PER VOTER| Registrars Say Expense Incurred By 72 Electors Last Wednesday Will Amount to $58. The special city election last Wed- nesday for the selection of 60 mem-| bers of the city meeting board will| cost the city $58, it was announced | today at the office of the registrars of voters. Eighteen men were engaged at the | polls working from 5 to 9 o'clock in | the evening. Automobile rental wusi charged at $5. J ! Since there were only 72 votes cast, | the cost to the city was approximately | 82 cents per vote, | In regular city elections a normal | vote is 80 per cent of the 14,500 vot-| ers eligible to take part, which L 11,-) 600. Figured at the rate of tiie spe- clal election, regular elections would | cost the city $9,512. The regular| elections ordinarily cost little more | than $1,000, | Wages in New Britain Factories Are in Step With General Trend No Sudden Increases, But They Are Said to Com- pare Favorably With| Other Cities. I | While there has been no sudden in- | crease in wages in New Britain, nor any direct horizontal raise in salaries, within the past year, a survey of local | factories shows the same gradual up- ward tendency that is noted lhrough-‘ out New England. Every employee in this ¢ had his wages raised to any extent | over the amount paid following the | decrease during the recent depression, | but there has been a gradual readjust- ment all along the line. As one fac- tory official explains it “The indus-| trious ones are earning more money.” In many local factories employes | are paid on a piece work basis, and in this case production has been speeded up by a slight increase in wages paid. No factory in the city has it been found where wages in general have not kept pace with those being paid throughout this section of the country. | According to the head of one plant | the wages pald in New Britain today | are slightly higher than those paid in| many cities throughout New England. In fact he says New Britain factories are paying higher wages than Bridge- port and Waterbury, even with a re- cent raise in both cities. While most officlals are reluctant| to quote figures on the extent of the| increased wages, which has been| gradual for the past war, one man sags it 18 in the neighborhood of 15 per cent. | There seems to be no immediate possibility of an immediate and gen- eral increase in wages to any extent throughout New England, according to the president of one of the larger factories, because of the present in- secure condition of the market. While business is increasing grad- ually, a boom ls expected this sum- mer, and some factories working over- time now, a general increase in wages would boost the prices so that cus- tomers would stock up on goods now | on the market, the market would take a corresponding slump and slack times would follow. A general sud- den increase in wages at th's time| would defeat its own purpose in cut- | ting down the amount of time worked, ity has not| | | Many local factories are worklng‘ overtime in certain departments 'NEDICAL EXAMINER PROBES | fair and continued cold, rising temperature in aftcmoon and night. which are a little behind in their work, principally the shipping depart- ments. No material increase # employes has been reported. \ SUDDEN DEATH OF WOMAN/ Mrs. Agnes Isaac, Aged 24, Dies Sud-| | denly At Her Home On Winter Street This Noon. Mrs. Agnes Isaac, aged 24 years arl a mother of three small children, died suddenly at about 12 o'clock this noon at her home at 82 Winter street. Medical Examiner Waterman Lyon| was called to the house and turned | the body over to M. J. Kinne, un-| dertaker, for burial. She is also survived by her hus- band and put recently moved into the house on Winter street. Up to press time this afternoon Medical am- iner Lyon had not given the cause jof death. COLUMBUS GRADE CROSSING CRASH DEATH TOLL NOW 8 Student Fireman Dies Today—Woman and Two Children in Auto Instantly Killed. Columbus, ©O., March 31.-—The death of W. L. Seibert of Cincinnati a student locomotive fireman, today increased the. death total in the wreck of the southwestern limited yesterday to eight. Three men all aboard the train, the speed of which was estimated at 70 miles an hour, and a woman and her two small children, sole passengers of | an automobile which the locomotive struck at a grade crossing, were killed instantly. Robert Henderson, a negro, who was riding “blind baggage" diad in a hospital yesterday. | Eleven injured at hospitals today were reported on the road to recov- ery. ! Railroad officials have not deter-| mined whether the train buckled atter sudden application of the airbrakes or it some part of the demolished mobile got uhder the “pony w of the locomotive causing it and six of the seven passenger cars to leave the rails. | LaLo Readjustment of Wages [ . N N > | At Otis Mills in Ware| Ware, Mass, March 81.—Notices| were posted today in the mills of (hf‘,‘ with inereased pay effective April 30 750 at Palmer. | with the 157 ki, | of the R. G. Bent Co. contractors huilding the new building. One Body Tdentified. The only identification made up i one o'clock of those dead was Mel- ville Neal who was in charge of a gang of carpenters employed on the work. It was feared that James Bent, vice-president of the company which had the general contract for the work was buried under the wreckage. Leg Is Amputated. Neal was taken to St. Francis hog- pital where he died when admitted. |IFour of the injured taken to this hos- pital were John H. Miller of Wilson station, whose right leg was to be am- putated in the hope ot saving his life; Samuel Kelly, cuts and bruises and in- ternal injuries; Herbert Stone, head cut and Charles Barbour, cuts and bruises. It is understood that the workmen killed and injured were tile layers em- ployed by the Hartford Tile Co. which was a sub-contractor on the work and were not the employes of the R. G. Bent 'Co. The officers of hoth companies wera checking up their lists of workmen to determine the names of those missing. The masonry :n the factory was completed last fall and tod the test was being made to see if the mason- ry would withstand the weight of the tank. Calis Help Quickly. William Honer, employed by the Fuller Brush Co. heard the rumble s the masonry gave way and then saw the tower crumple. He ran to a ore nearby and telephoned the pol- ice asking that ambulances and doc- tors be sent, telephoned the fire de- partment and then rang in an alarm. It was because of his quick action that assistance was on the way to the factory before the dust from the wreckage settled. Neighborhood Jarred. The crumbled masonry spread across Windsor avenue for a depth of a foot. The vibration which came collapse broke windows throughout the factory and in the neighborhood, and while glass flew in all directions, no one was reported to have been hurt. An effort was started without delay to reach any more bodies that might be under the wreckage but it was thought some time would elapse be- fore the complete list of dead and in- jured would be made up. Rescue Work Hazardous Policemen, firemen and citizens be- gan quickly to work on the wreckage in hope of making rescues. At first there was much coafusion but soon the efforts had been systematized, Twelve men from the main factory climbed out on a great heap of ma- sonry and although they appeared to be in danger they lifted a girder and took from beneath it two bodies. Then by passing through a door into the tower a third hody was obtained. Those were sent to the police morgue, It looked as though some of the ma- sonry would fall and the tank also was on the point of settling. Fire Chief John T. Moran shortly alter one o'clock stopped the rescue work and firemen got ropes about the tank and it was pulled down so there would be no further danger from it. The rescue work continued Up to 1:30 o'clock the only body that had been identitied was that of al, Operator Gives Assistance Miss May Dooley, operator at the telephone board at police head- quarters greatly aided in getting as sistance to the factory as she passed calls to doctors and oth rapidiy. and guided the police and firemen to the place as they calied in for further information Letters in the pockets of one of the body among four taken to the police morgue led to the belief that the v is Harry Polan- tile worker, of Cortland, N. Y. The man who died at the Hartferd spital was identified as Christopher Ison, a tile Jayer of this city. victims whose is h Unidentified Burglar Is Killed at Southboro, Mass. 3l—-An shot and Mareh was Mass., burglar Southboro, unidentified Otis Co. cotton goods manufacturers|killed by members of the state police announcing a- readjustment of wages! patrol broken into A after he had | drug store here early today. | none of which took effect. The man to salaried |The company employes 1,650 here and | had fired several shots at the officers = . T e