New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 29, 1923, Page 1

\e\\u of the World By Associated Press (——— ———— ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNE CTICUT, TUESDAY, MAY PICKS DIZZY PERCH STATE COMMERCE CHAMBER MEMORIAL DAY FOR FOR MORNING SLEEP DIRECTORS GET MANDATE 700 WAR'DEAD HERE Youth SIumbm on Slanley Build: ing Edge Four Stories Up GIVES POLICEMEN A THRILL dosoph Stanlonis, A On Kench in Walnut Hill Park and » 16, Spent Night Decided To Pinish Sleep on Main Street Roof, Attracted by a gathered in front Ing on Main street o'clock this morning Thomas Dolan, finger print expert in the poliee de partment, and Policeman Patrick O'Mara saw the partinl form of a body 1ying across the corniee of the huilding hey entered M. 1", Leg horn's fewelry store, horrowed a pair of fleld glasses and scanned the edge of the roof, Rwift action followed Hastening to the top of the bulld ing the policemen found Joseph Stan- lonis, 16 years old, aslecp Iying on his stomach with his right arm and his head resting on the corniec They nwakeped the young man and upon investigation learned that he had s cured a job yesterday tinning the roof and went up early this morning to §°t his pay. The Jad admitted that stayed out late last night and was afraid to K0 home, He lives with his parénts at 22 Horace street He told the policemen that he went to Walnut Hill park where he endeavored to sleep on the benches during the night. He awoke early this morning, he said, and came down town, going direct to the Stanley building on Main street. Because he did not have enough sleep iast night, he was tired and fell asleep on the roof, The police claim that the boy would have met his death in a four story fall to the ground if he had made a move from the position he was in when found. He was taken to police headquarters and later sent to hi home, 4 DAUGHERTY DENIES HE PLANS TO QUIT POST pringfield Ohlo, Paper However, Publishes Even the Details erowd which had of the Btanley build At about 9 he Washington, May 20, —- Attorney General Daugherty, returning to Washington after a period of rest in Ohlo, today meeting in several weeks and denied reports which again have heen cir culated that he soon would resign. “l have heard nothing and know nothing of reports published in Ohio that 1 am to resign,” said Mr, Daugh- erty. "I feel better and 1 am better than sinee I was taken il last winter, 1 am ready to get back on the joh ac 1y, In fact T have heen doing considerable work right along. The frequency with which these reports that I am to resign spring up in certain quarters is certainly strange.” The attorney general left Washing ton early in the month to take Mrs. Daugherty, who has been a patient in 4 Baltimore hospital to the Daugherty homa in Ohio. Returning last eve ning he spent the night at the White Honse and wili continue to he a guest there for two op three days, pending reopening of his residence here, Springfield, O., May 20.—Harry M Daugherty, attorney general of the United States, is expected to announce tis retirement from the cahinet President Harding and with it president will make known: the name of his successor who is to he the per sonal choice of Mr. Daugherty, ac- cording to a dispatch published today Ly the Springfield Daily News, from its Washington correspondent, (‘harles | Morris. The article reports that ymour of Columb a long time friend of Mr. Daugherty and at pres aseistant to the attornel general, receive the appointment, Con- tinuing it says that Mr. Daugherty's 1esignation he announced from the White House soon, or possibly not until after President Haming's trip to Alaska this summer. Mr. Daugherty's ill health was reported as the reagpn for his pending rfisignmimv 108 ent m THRILLING EXPERIENCE Autoist, Clinging to Hood of Car Sus- pended Over River, Waits Half Hour Before Help Comes, Putnam, May 29.~~Charles Brzuch took his family to a wedding recep-|five killed ware working tion last night, returning in his au- tomablle ahout 1:30 this morning. He then discovered he had lost $150, Brzuch went into his garage, the rear end of which Is on stone abut- ment on the retaining wall of the Quinnebaug river, He had left the car In gear and as he cranked it the car started toward the rear wall plck- ing up Brzuch on the hood and then punching a hole in the sheathing so that the car protruded out over the| water but did not drop because the| sheathing was strong enough to held it. For half an hour Brzuch lay on the hood calling for help. He was heard by a policeman and neighbors but none cowd get him. The officer rang in a fire alarm and by use of ladders the man was rescued and| faken to the hospital He has a broken leg and lost much blood from | a cut. attended his first cabinet | of | the | Augustus P. | | shipping board, (were killed T0 OPPOSE FREEING I. W. W. President Stanley Bullard Calls Agitation For Liberating War Offenders Nothing But “Ill Timed Sentimentality” — Wanis Law Strictly Enforced. " . — d, May 29, A 1ose ,’7 o toxt that the petition pr % I--m\u a0 Harding axking for é neetient nmerce npl. W, agitators” -\m surprise and concern the went. resolutie dire Chamber follows Hart( tors of the claring President ‘5. W. prison f ing the ing, slack cthics and mentality” in char of no \ to jgned by m we treasonuble ntters t President Harding of world war was “loose 4% citizens of the timed have a right to or was sent to atlonnl lead. " and e day to all directors of the Connecti v the purdon of eut Chaumber of Commere their 'r ™, ine uding 1. W, W approva In the letter agltators who are heing punished for the resolution President utterances made during Bullard called attentlon to natlon’s peril In the regolution on law enforcement passed 0 condone under the by the delegates and members of the fredom of speech chamber at the recent annual meeting exeltement to disloyalty, slacking and in which the organization declared it sabotuge in the hours when the sons pelf in favor of “the just and impar- of Americen mothers were offering tal enforcement of all laws, and that their 1i conntry and the we recommend to our executive wnd safety ivilization was hanging in judicial bodies that menns toward the balance, is loose speaking, slack | better enforcement more s¢ © penan effort and {1l timed sentimentality ties be meted out to ders, and This action would be a gross injus wherever warranted Jall sentences he 1l to the toyal 1 devoted men and imposed In lien of or in addition te women who were serving and sacrl fines, Mr. Buflard further ficing for the fon's salvation, and | he felt that this utterance of il it might well rajse the inquiry in the gates and members was in the nature | of a mandate to the directors C'ar Used by Poltcemen is Owned by Man With an Unsavory Record » wh treasonuble the hours of 1 world war apecions phrase for the sal the (Continued on Thirteenth Page.) ‘Pa‘t‘mh:an (];Ohcfllr”l :{:0 flWSlEY RECM.LS AI.L B tsied 10w wie SACRIFICES OF WARS Be Asked to Explain His Possession of Auto. Urges Nation to Pay Hom- Of the four members of the police age to Its Heroes on pRLatel Pt Memerial Day | department who were erday afternoon William C. Hart ye to answer to a charge of viding in an automobile. hety 4:80 o'clock dnd ‘4 o'clock in the morning after they {had made their last rings and betore they had returned potice hewl | quarters, it has been learncd that fhe muchine was being driven by Police Iman William Doherty, recently ap- | pointed a regular patrolman by the | board of police commissioners. The men were found in the car Sunday morning hy Sevgeant Michacl Flynu who reported the matter (o Chiet Hart. The automobile was not owned by Policeman Doherty, it was learned today, but is the property of la man alleged to have a police rec- lord for his connection with liguor {sales. Chief Hart ated today that the owner of the car is well known in police circles. Policeman Doherty will probably be the only member of |the four in the party to be arraigned hefore the discipline committee. " OPFER ONE MILLION 1 7 Tndianagolis, dor of the Kaorific dend rhea May 29.--The spien »50f Ameriea’s war { tolny hy Alvin Cwsley, mal comgnander of the American Legion in a urging t wation to pay homage 16 fts hero fitting conimemoration on Meme Day Commandér Ow “The world by the quib bling of nations over the spoils of war, bt the sublime faith in the achleve- ments of the recont world struggle is still in the minds of men and to n s in al siey said the Boary] Will Doubtless sell Marine If Bidders' Offer } Merchant | can Be Backed Up. The ship- | thorough- 31,000,000, the entire Chairman bidders nim an Washington, May 20, ping board will investigate | iy the offer of more than 000 received yesterday tor merchant fleet, today, and it the | back np their propesal “there ca fno doubt the board make award to them.” "he offer was presented by Slack, president of the Columbia Pos tal Supply Co. of Silver Creck, N. Y | 1t proposed to pay §1,051,000,000 for “all ships, active and inactive, and all Jother property of the I'nited States real, personal and | government | Lagker said will John W ALVIN OWSLEY women of America who cherish a be- Llief in righteousness of the cause “Brave Americans in the pursuance of the conflict's grim course, hecame imhued with the fires of ambition whi arried them on to the war's jective—the destruction of an un- hteous powe Che ideals of found expression in the defense of LT humanity, To have fought for the g flag in the great conflict was to have Fatal Blast Occurs At maintained the cause of right. In the | : . |words of one soldler, who wrote to der Company Mills At Fagville, Tl |y, "o tnar on the eve of battle: | This Moming. “'For myself 1 would have you be- | lieve that whatever end I meet, I met | The Associated Press it with an even mind, constant in the | Fayville, | mixed.” An initial payment 351,000,000 would be made on October 1, 1923 and 50,000,000 yearly thereafter until the been paid, of | entire sum had FIVE DIE IN EXPLOSION our citizen-soldiery Hercules Pows ! By 11, May 20.--Five men conclusion that I would rather have | and three injured In an gone out to this war aud not come | | explosion at the Hercules Powder Co. back than not to have gone at all, My here today. The explosion was In a chief regret, if I may not live to see gelatine packing plant, in which the/the end, is that T may not witness the The eause triumph of right over wrong in this ,of the blast has not been determined. tht most terrible eruption of the The packing plant was destroyed, hut forces of reaction in history. That | only one other of the numerous build. these forces can triumph is unthink- | ings of the plant was damaged. able; if they are to win T would rather il it die than witness the victors “It was in such spirit that the men CHILD DIES OF BURNS ot thin srent narion asen. 3¢ was oot unaiterable pride in the defense of G humanity's rights that led them to |give their all. Theirs was the reali- zation of the spirit of America. | “Our sacred priviiege s to enshrine them in the heart of America and the world, x x X Alice Rund. Aged 3, Suceumbs at New Britain General Hoepital — Was Playing Near Bonfirc, Alice, the three year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Rund of As national commander of the Am- Market street, died this morning u' erican Legion 1 implore every man, the New Britain general hospital as & woman and child of our mighty ha- result of burns sustained while play- tion to pay homage to the memory of ing about a bonfire near her home these brave men of every race, class last Baturday. The funeral will be and creed of every war. Let us re held from the home of her parents consecrate their resting places as tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock and shrines of 2 free America: rededicat interment will be in 8t. Mary's new ing our lives to the furtherance of the® cemetery, (ideals for which they died. proclamation | 1the Cantral | morrow Veterans of Three Wars 10 Pay Respeots to Docaasod Comrades PARADE STARTS AT 10 A. M. Favreises at Court of Tonor and sl diers and saflors Monument to 1ol low Decoration of Graves in Three Cemeterios, plans have b unnual Memor Britain, Nothing but for the weather forth the same degree of s has bean giving for the paw and onev more the line the War of Rebellion and wars will march to the departed comreades to pay vir uunl homage to the it of dead The parade will square at 920 o promptiy at 10 o Falrview Final for the in N " ring AyH coding I 0f the the rankiin move nK form at | ek and and w mareh to cometery then to St wWoon A R, NCER M. ander, G, s cemetery roturn to West to Walnut Hill park will he held at the Returning the parade ‘entral’ park and dis far; will rom which place it Main street and Where exercises Court of Honor. wili march to A, after the will fsted b Streeter have will B Fredefic ciiarge, Yn f the Couaecticut Department Unjted panish War Veterans, Mr, Johnson' ! assume active command during line of march Flowers Received night. This evening flowers for the deco ration ves will be received at Tunior High school by the in charge and will be pared for decoraling purposes. morning at 8§ o'clock the Stanley Tost, G. A. R.e ng and Boy Scouts will ent cemoteries and place Amwerican flags on the graves of the deceased veterans. There about 700 graves to he decorated al togethar in the three cemoteries. Prior to the parade tomorrow morning automobile will call at the homes of the G. A, R, snembers abont 9 o'clock to take them to the place of formation and along the route of the proce Those who have do- ated antomohiles are \\'thm || well, Rogors, M ruut, Dyson, (.nm,;.~ 'H, Wells, Dr. H. T, Bray, Mrs, Walter H Hart, T, Chamberlain, Dr. Charles R, Witte and 15 R, Hiteheoek, Tt was expeete by Commander George 1. Wells of the Sons of Vot- ans to have I, B, Callonder and I'red Bollerer, only living survivors of Company 15, $th Connectient Volun- teers, which company was recruited in this city, to ride in the same o but Mr. Callender will he unable present. e e Graves Decoration Fund Receipts Today's tot: the of committee e o members of Sons of \ go to the diffe sion George Goorge H. to e the Overseas fund of the American Legion heing collected by the “Herald" is $179.20, the “Herald"” will not be lished tomorrow another ac- counting will appear in the issue of Thursday ‘Today's ac- counting follows ‘harles F. Smith 820,00 New Rritain Chapter Dis- abled American Veter. ans of World War Rev, John 1. Davis E. R, Stone A. F. Corbin (Additional) J DM R. M. Fred W Mrs. Theodore A Mother Previously 1 for es Decoration pub- 5.00 5,00 8,00 2.00 00 an 00 Hoffrnan Schubert 2 1 1 Vessaana B0 Acknowledged 120,79 Total $179.20 NO HERALD TOMORROW In accordance with the usual custom, there will be no Herald published tomorrow, Memorial Day. THE WEATHER Hartfond. May for New Neitain and vicind Fair, cooler tonight and Wed- nesday: fresh northerly winds, 20.—Forecast * * Theo-4 dote Julinsou, junior vice commandeps | estimate sitting as a committee of the a0 RADICAL CHANG I SIXTEEN PAG Average Daily Cireulation Week Ending 9’271 May 26th PRICE THREE CENTS ES IN SCHOOLS SUGGESTED Only 18 Veterans of Civil War Now Make Homes in New Britain orans who e turned out so hravely 1ead comrades, only left W ommander §, H. Wood of Stanley Pom roll « \\'lllium E. 14th U, 8 Alonzo Sweet, Company 150th New York Volunteers, William F. Sternberg, Com- pany A, 16th Connecticut Vol- unteers, Frederick V., Streeter, 17th New York Independent H.nll'l\ (Imnlm C. Higby, Company , Fifth Connecticut Volunteers, (hurlm H. Whaples, Company 1., Charles H, Whaples, Compan , First Connecticut Voluntee H A, Spencer H, Wood, Company D, 3Tth Massachusetts Volunteers, John Hayes. Frederick Monier, Company B, First New Jersey Volunteers. 19TH AXE VICTIM IN BIRMINGHAM MURDERS Storekeeper Found Dead, Slain by Keen Edged Weapon Left Behind Of the hundreds of Grand Army ve Momorial Day to pay respeet to the according to the records o those now livi staten of the men who Frederick Bollerer, Company (i, Sixth Connecticut Volunteers, Edwin A, Clark, Company G, First Connecticut Volunteers, H. on 18 Are this eity G, A I giments from fo Stewart, Company A rost ows answ H, G, Charles K. Kempshall, Com- pany F, 34th Illinois. William E. Latham, Compan) 20th Connecticut Volunteers, Comrade Jackson, Michael MeMahon, Company F, 14th Connecticut Volunteers, Loven D. Penfield, Company A, 13th Connecticut Volunteers. George S. Root, Company B, 22nd Connecticut Volunteers. Orlando Sheldon, Company I, First Connecticut Volunteers, H. ROCKVILLE CENTER SAVED FROM TOTAL DESTRUCTION 0,000 vages Business Houses—Apparatus From Hartford And Manchester to Rescue, Fire appare Manchest partment in check atened for a time entire busi- When the Rockville, Mq from Hartford led the local L iire which t} night to destroy t listrict this el was extinguished the loss was es- timated at $250,000, The largest loss was sustained by the Hills Hardware Co., its lumber yard being burned | and hardware and paint stock wiped | sulted in injuries to 17 others. out, with a loss placed at $100,000 raffo was found dead at his store Other buildings and stores burned the outlylng residenttul section welg st night with his skull crushed by Lo e furniture storchouse | the blow of an axe, and his thvoat own#d by George Wendheiser slashed, A blood spattered axe sffpod QM story Monitor block also behind the Its ndie Yas Vg Wendhejser. <hortened so that it vould he Sed ¥, I, Buike furniture store. heneath u.coat, police believe, ifekt's tire shop. The dead man's pockets had been 1. W. Woolworth & C ritfled and the store robbed. The as- cent store satlolpt_evidently had entered under MeCarthy the “pretonse of making a purchase, Damage also was| the police said to I L. Strickland’s shoe store,| The attack upon Graffo rear four story brick block | 28th assauit during the 4 owned by Mr. Wendheiser, McNeil's [ period, the first being on the grocery store, Metealf's drug store, | Novembe 1 the Orcutt homestead and two freight| Alleged perpet cars and a freight platform of the|to jail in only three ot New Haven road. | of cases fire started in the of the furniture storc at Monitor om an all the and South Birmingham, Ala. May 20.—Birm- ingham police are trying to solve the murder of Charley Graffo, the latest vietim of a serles of axe assaults which during the past 42 months has taken the lives of 19 persons and re- last ness fire of in slory ! | cawned door, 0. b and 10 s millinery stere, by fire or water was the month night of done the ators have heen sent the long list divided itions, e they have into two classifi grocervimen and cafe owners have been the vietims and in the other gronp the intermingling of races is said to have been involved, Theories 1 rding the crimes have covered a large range. While the attacks in sbme cases apparently have Yad robbery as the motive, in some the idea has heen advanced that they ! were the result of quarrels between negroes who had stolen property and men who were acting as “fences' in disposing of the property. Poliee also have held the theory that a number of the cases have heen committed by drug addicts. Although the atack on Graffeo was the 28th occurrence of this kind, previous assaults numbered more than one victim at a time, making a total of 86 vietims, 1,000 DIE AFTER 'QUAKE Devastated Police dec the axe case Iu the first rear ted block, After log one Burke end of the undetermined local apparatus was working on the liams, Chief G. R. Milne sent an emergency call to Hartford and South Manchester, and the pumping appar atus from those departments made quick time in reaching thls city. FOREST FIRES RAGING Small Avmies of Volunteers in Wis- consin Work Desperately to Save Homes of Settlers There, Wis,, volunteer May 29, Small fire fighters were striving desperately today to save farm and small towns from destruction by a score of forest blazes raging in nortl Wigconsin and Minnesota, | Fanned Superior, \rmics of houses . a brisk south wind the flames were gaining, reports here in- dicate and a number of summer | homes on lakes in Douglas and Bay- ficld counties have heen burned. The fires have crept within five miles of Superior All telephone and telegraph com- munication between Superior, Ashland |and Foxboro has been severed. Fire wardens said that nearly fires were started by motorists dropped lighted matches or cigarette stubs from their oy, Many Villages Reported With Heavy Loss of Life in Turbat- i-Haidari in Persia. Allahabad, British India, May 20 Advices to the newspaper Ploneer from Teheran state that 0 persons were killed by an earthquake at Turbat-1-Haldari, The earth shocks covered a period geveral hours. Many villages are said to have been devastated, all who | o car Paul, May 29.—More than 500 today were battling with forest and | brush fires in northern Minnesota, Rain was predicted for late today or tomorrow. Reports to W Perstan central of the The is small north part Turbat-i ari is a town in Khorassan, a provinee which forms great Iranfan desert plateau general elavation of the country comewhat less than two thousand feet and it is cut up into many fertile val- lays that alternate with barren sand wastes, The town is about 65 miles south west of Meshed, the capital of Khor- assan ARMENIANS T0 BUILD CHURGH Buy Site on Tremont Street Near New T. Cox, state fores ter, were that the situation is be- coming serious with scores of fires burning in a district north of Alin ex- tending westward from Duluth to T.eech lake, Nearly 200 Million Hair Nets Used in Single Year Washington, May 20.-American girls last year used 180,143,136 nets made out of Chinese pigtalls to hold in their hair. The net makers, prac tically ail of whom are located fin Chefoo, China, collected $3,319,322 for supplying the product, the commerce |department estimated today and the tremendous increase in the use of the devices was indicated by the fact that Inine years ago, in 1014, the total value of halr nets exported from Chefoo was only $710. School—Bishop Here to Complete Purchase. Corporation the Camp on Tremont for the site Armenian Church today through Co. two lots *fllnnn Smith The pure 1 Real 1 streot from T for a new chiirch. The Armenians are growing steadily in New Britain, quite a number coming from the old country in the past year. They have been holding services in various meet- ing halls and at times at St. Mark's church. The Armenian bishop was whole today decided to appropriate here vesterday to confer with leading £6.400,000 for repaving and resurfac-' Armenians in regard to the purchase ing of streets within the greater clty‘.o( the church sita $6,400,000 FOR PAVING. New York, May 20.—The board of luuven. and were drowned. Survey Committee Claims It Has Found Method For Adding 74 New Rooms to Present Ac- comodations Favors Charter Amendment for Appointment of Come mission to Purchase Sites for and Supervise Erec- tion of Public Buildings. I'he school survey committee aps pointed by the eity meeting board ihout two months ago has completed report which contains numerous recommendations of importance and outlines a plan which, ir put into ef- . will increase the present number hool rooms by 74, which 18 28 than the number asked for by school committee, Among the recommendations are: t the rter be amended to pro- @ new bullding commiasion have charge ¢ planning, purchasing sites for and erecting all new buttdings, including schools; that all the new schools be of the one story type which, the report says, has approval of the school committee, use of which, the committes clalms, a saving of $131,000 could be cffected in the Washington school alone; that rooms in the Nathan Hale ‘nd Elihu Burreitt school be developed 1 by grading the front lawns, thus pro- viding 12 classrooms; that the school committee take immediate steps to correet p nt existing unsafe wiring, moperative fire escapes, dangerons heating svstems and unsanitary tollet conditions; and that elementary schoo! anditoriums huiit in the future [be of no greater capacity than 400, which& ghe report the superin- tendent sf schools feels is adequate to the needs of snch scho that exten- sive repuirs/he made in several of the school buillinge; that a school be erected on 'the \iats property in the west end amid that lande he secured 1o relieve cangestion in the Enst, I8mith and Rockwell schools, The report to he acted opon by the oIty meeting board Thursday evening, 18 us follows: “T'he Sthool Survey committee, ap- pointed by the New Britain City Meet- ing board at its March 18th meeting Ito study school building construction, heg leave to submit the fellowing recommendations: “1—That an amendment to our present city charter be passed which would place the securing of land, plans and specifications and construction of all public buildings, in the hands of a commission, to he created for that purpose and to be known as “The Néw Building Commission,' the per- sonnel of this commission to he com- | posed of men with both technical and vide for that will the and by SV, (Continued on Eleventh Page.) FIRM RESPONS]BLE FOR EMPLOYE ONLY ON JoB Court Rules That Obligations of Eme ployer Cease When Employe 'nds Labors New Haven, May 29.—A firm is re. sponsible for an employe only when that employe is working for it in the opinion of Judge L. P'. Waldo Marvin who in a decision given today sets astde a verdict of § 00 granted to Miss Edna Morehouse of Meriden against Morehouse Brothers of that |eity. Tha plaintiff is related to mem= bers of the firm. She sued through her father for injuries sustained while in a cac driven by her ter with a party of friends to a ore resort last member of the party, was Killed when tree passenger hrother Wi on the way June, One | George Comstock, he machine hit The plaintiff alleged the liable, as the car helonged her brother was employed by it. Judge Marvin holds that the amount of the award was excessive, but finds the real issu whether the firm was liabla to damages, the plaintifi's brother havs the car with his father's permission, He holds that the driver the car was not employed by the company to make the trip to the shore therefore sets aside the jury award Miss Morehouse manently erippled firm was to it and ing taken claims she is per Defends Wife, Knocks Down Offender, Killing Victim May 20 Puleo last night on a chargs of manslaughter after the death of John Bell whose skull was fractured when Puleo knocked him to the sides Puleo told the police that hé his wife seream while she wa# piazza of their home in th@ district and rushing out h@ saw Bell hugging her. Bell rang chased him and a short dise away they came to blows Struck behind the ear, Bell dropped to the sidewalk, striking his head, and died without rv‘luhvmx consciousnesas, Boston, Stephen was arrested walk heard on the Roxbury Culeo a tance LITTLE BROTHERS DROWNED New Haven, May 29.—Two broth- crs, Donald Healy, aged five, and Ken- neth, three, slipped into a stone quAr. ry pool today in Allingtown, West