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

Ne\u 0! the World By Assoclated l‘rufi ESTABLISHED 1870 INEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW 20 PER CENT RAISE, UNION RECOGNITION AND 2 YEAR CONTRACTS, MINERS ASK Proponlffo'n-pViue Con- ference Also Includes Flat Increase of One Dollar Per Day for All' Day Workers Buys Wife for $150, ’ Is Dissatisfied, So Will Not Pa ™ Perth Amboy, N, J I Alexander Nagy w moned to court today he refused to pay $150 jur The plaintiff was Joseph Boross, conduetor of a matri- monial ageney, whe charged that he procured Nagy a real | i wife, BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, JUN E 20, 1023, ~TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES, Average Daily Civeulation June 23vd PRICE THREE CENTS HARDING TAKESNO NEW KNOT IS TIED 'TROOPS CALLEDON ~ CHIEF HART SURPRISED BY CREDIT FOR ¢ CHANGE' IN SCHOOL DISPUTE IN STRIKE TROUBLE ~ ALCORN'S CLEAN-UP DRIVE; Lmprovement in Business Con-| Claim Made That Report Is Still Masked Raldem Menace Nova ditions Due to Co-operation t Stage Libpa, AHon of Bu: h’?\mw.t Has fated Press Butte, Mont., June 29 r‘rrvnunl ' Butte, Vont, Address, | Motion to Adjourn Belore City Hoollng Boand Carried Refore Original Motion as Amended Ts Dis. posed of, Leading Members of Both Factions Agree, After more than twe hours' debate Sootia Steel Mills iN()T A P_O_LI%L EFFORT | NO ACTION TAKEN LAST NIGHT 4,000 HAVE WALKED OUT Conueticy; During Riot Last Evening seven Po- licomen Were Wit and Magistrate Wha Sought To Quell Trouble \lu," Stonod Unconsclons, fydney, N, B, June Rands of masked men today made several raids CITY BETTER THAN OTHERS R e — FRESH AIR FUND NEARS $3,000 MARK Small Donations Are Not as | Frequent as They Might Be Contributions to the Fresh Air fund Civic League Complained of Alleged Saloons Here and Asked for Enforce« ment of Padlock Law to Close Them are coming in rather slowly through State’s Attorney Reported o Herald by fh & - f avency through the fand meing co.| to Have Said “There lected by the finance committee of the camp by solieitation of a few indivi- Von't Even Be the Smell of Liquor Left When Job Is Finished.” , o ]| Bood wife, but never recetved 11| porn i Rutte today a report on the | ©0 the acceptance or rafection of i re Want Time and Half f‘"’ his $180 tee. Namy. e e ]|l post war rovival of business, Presi- | port of the schonl survey committen 2 v . & e dent Harding declared that national | the eity meeting board adiourned last Overtime and Double Pay ||| wite was not warin #1350 or any ||| do0%, Harding aoclared that national : : he | other amount, | night, some members clalming that for Any Work They May ||| have separatea He and his wife “ g | government forces to overcome de-|,.Cleiiee'sod heen placed on file and Do on Sundays — Asks on steel plants here where a strike 18 In progress. The raids followed several clashes with the poliee last night and the stoning of A magistrate who attempted to read the riot act in Whitney pler, Company officials ex pressed fear that the ralders might accldentally set off stills containing duals, Today's figures are; Previously Acknowl- ged To flpance comm, ..., ¥riend reenn pression “was no less accomplished | than the great eo.operation to win the war," Results Are Accomplished, Outlining the steps taken under | the committer thanked. while leaders { of the proponents and opponents both, | a8 well as the mayor, say that no final I high action was taken and that the matter | /#h explostve chemicals 619,01 420,00 5,00 ‘ '] “ - More for Mechanics. Bcranton, Pa., June 20.—A demand for a 20 per cent inerease in the con. tract wage scale with an inereane of a dollar a day for all men paid by the | day was presented to the anthracite miners' convention hers today for adoption and submission te the mine owners next week, The 1ist of demands drafted by the convention's scale committee follows the gencral lines of the demands for mulated in January, 1922 and fonght for five and o half months last year The present wage geale adopted last September expires Angnst 31 Other demands submitted to convention today for adoption elnde A two-year contract with (nn\r]mp recognition of the nnfon That the differential hetween classi fication of labor sevious to the award of the 1'. & Anthracite Coal Commission shall he restored Uniformity and equalization of al} day rates and skilled mechanics sueh as carpenters and Llacksmiths, efe., be pald the recognized standard rates existing in the region which shall not be less than 90 cents per hour as a basis. Ali day in- men to be paid time and a half for overtime and double time| for Sunday work The list ineludes other demands of a technical nature mosf of which were embodied in those presented to the operato ast rear, Tawo Ovdered Out ‘The convention wos thrown i turmotl today when ltohn 1. F international president of the [Mnited Mins Workers, ordérsd two men in the galiery to ""remove their carca 8 without the doors of the conventio Hall o Dhoey were {dentified a8 Jon ph Manley, son-in-i William 7. ¥ ter, representing the trades nnion el ueational ieague, and 1. H. MeCarthy, representing the labor Aefensze conneil characterized hv Dregident Lewis ; onemy organizations of the Uni Mine Workers and organized labor generally in the United States, JOHNSTON IS PROVED wis MASTER OF RICHARDS Veieran Tennis Star De- cisively Defeats Young Opponent 20.—Playing his most powerful game, Willlam M Johnston, No. in the American lawn tennis ranking, decisively defeat- ed Vincent Richards, the phenomenal New York youth, on the Wimbledon grand stand court today, whilauFng- land's king and queen looked on. Johnston's attack was merciless and Richards' finished, but less powerful | game was unavailing against the Cali fornian’s fleree driving and all around court R#n@mlflhtp The score was -4, 6—3, T By his victory, Little Rill puts him- self a long stride nearer the world's gingles championship—the goal for which he striving. The fortune of the draw made it necessary that one or the other of the two visiting stars ghould be eliminated. Johnston show- e¢d beyond doubt that he was the bet- ter qualified to carry on the American colors. Richards, Wimbledon, June n bhecause of his youth and winning mannerisms, had the sup- port of the majority of the vast crowd that packed the stadjum and jammed all available standing space, tut the winner was warmly cheered. Francis T. Hunter, American, after | dropping the first five games to ¥ zee, Indian Davis cup player, won the next five and took the opening set at 8—86, the other he won 63, 7—5, His comeback was warmly cheered. At the outset of the match he was committing many errors but later gteadied down to his nsual form. Miss Ryan eliminated Mrs. Crad- dock of England from the women's eingles 6—1, 64 Miss FEleanor Goss, American, elim- inated Mrs. Youle of England from the women's singles 8—6, 6—4 Miss Leslie Bancroft of Boston was eliminated from the women's singles Ly Miss B. R, Clarke of Fngland, 6—4, 1—6, 6—4. Boy ngs False Alarm; Calls Out Fire Dept. The firet department was called out on a false alarm at 8:49 o'clock this morning from Box 6% at the corner of Olive and Connerton street. Chief William J. Noble complained to the police that some youngster rang in the alarm and upon investigation De. tective Sergeant William P, McCue discovered that it was a 14 year old boy who did the trick. the | ENDURANCE AVIATORS | HAVE SEGOND FAILURE :Mm Hn\'e Broken Speed government direction to wipe out un- employment and to restore confidence | in business, the president asserted “if | our procedures have heen rather plain and old fashioned, they have yet pro- | dueed results that justify pride and| require no apology."” | “If we are accused of getting | nowhere in particular,” he added, “wo Records—Neither Hurt ’ When Plane Crashes | Ean Diego, June 29.——The airplane | carrying Captain Lowell H. Smith and | Lient. J. B, Richter, army aviators, in | their attempt to remain in the air for four days and four nights, ecrashed into the mud flats between Coronndo and North Tsland at about 4:40 a. m Immu { Tt was reported by telephone from I Rockwell field that neither of the avi- | ators had been serfously injured, According to officers, the aviators {were trying to make afe landing, a dense fog having further progress impossible, The two daring | throughout a moonlight night remained in the air almost They took off yesterday morning 4:46:43, Tt was their second unsuccessful attempt within two days to remain in the air long enough to break all en durance reeords, Wednesday they made their start, but the burning ont of a:gen tor foreed them down in less than honre | The aviators annsunced that i they failed in the sccond tempt they would they sgncceeded Roth attempts planes may he refneled Several times ‘Wednasday Aoy Lieuts. Virgil Hines a made They vesterday at demonstrated that in mid-air and yester and Frank the record seeking flier long a dangling hosze to be in serted iIn the tank and quantities asoline transterred Food and mes | sages were also delivered from one {plane to the other. | above enongh for L Heveral speed records are believed to have been shattered They main- average of approximately | an hour, fained an 86 miles MAY HAVE BEEN POISONED Poison Found in Stomach of Famous Jewish Rabhi is Starting Point of ] Rigid Investigation in Frisoo. | San Franciseo, June 20.-—An autop- &y disclosure of the presence of poison in the stomach of Rabbli Martin A. Meyer who was found dead last Wed- nesday was the starting point today of la rigid investigation into the manner |of the Jewish leader's death. Rabbl Meyer, who was kpown in Jewish eircles, was head of the Temple Emmanuel. His death at| first was '|Hr|hn"-rl to heart disease. nationally | ‘%hooner (asei of Booze And Automohiles Seized Riverhead, N. Y., June 20— county authorities aided by two fed- leral prohibition enforcement agents from New York today seized a two master schooner, 400 cases of liquor and severa! antomobiles at Hampton ‘an'f, formerly known as Gobid | Grounds, T. I, where the home of Charles 1. Murphy, Tammany chief-| tain is located. The captain and crew of the {schooner escaped to the woods but the raiders arrested Leonard Addis, of Settauket and Christian J. Wolford of | Medford, drivers of two of the trucks on which liquor was being loaded, and Albert Werner of Brooklyn who it is alleged was directing the loading. Sheriff Biggs whose deputies recently engaged in a pitched battle with near ly 60 bootleggers, and gunmen whom they surprised loading liquor trucks| for New York led today's selzure | party. ‘x French Extend Occupation As Penalty for Sabotage By The Associated Press. Coblenz, June 29.—The ¥rench to- | day extended their occupation in the Mayvence bridgehead to TLangen, on the Darmstadt Frankfurt railway line, ! eight miles sodth of Frankfort and Escheborn; on tha Frankfort-Kron-| berg line, 7% miles northwest Frankfort. The extension is a pen- alty for recent sabotage on the rail- roads. Mother, Bab\an;i Cousin | Die When House is Burned | Barry's Bay, Ont, June 29.—A| smudge lighted to fight mosquitoes, caused a fire which spread to a cot- tage and burned to death Mrs. Frank Petaskie, her infant child, and her cousin, Agnes Barnacle, last night. airmen had coursed | 24 hours. first | keep trying until| | Beifert in the refneling plane traveled | of | [been reversed and if nowadays we are | plest picture of the industrial evolu- |the labyrinths of doctrinal altruism. |ot the hand of government from the Suffolk#board and the finance corporation and [the national conferences |to murder upon Mrs. Dora Banco, in | to leave and one day got drunk and | ghot at Mrs | was too drank to aim well. of | 4 | Youngster in Rear Seat to Prevent ! may very well reply that any rate we have been able to stay right here, | that we regard it as a good place to stay and that day by day we have heen getting better and better, 1 am disposed freely to admit that some other folks have had more excitement | than we have nad, but a good many | people in this world would be glad to | exchange theig stock of excitement for # modest share in our Ameriean ac- | cumulation of siimple contentment and dinner table necessaries,' Not a Political Report. The president said he did not pre- sent the report on revived business | conditions the accomplishment of a particular administration or the jus- tification of any party's elaim upon the public confidence." “Rather it is placed before you as testimony to the supreme sense and sound gening of a nation which ecould | make {ts co-operation extend to a | continent and its altruisms embrace a hundred milllon of humanity.” Ha added “that is what the American people have done in the last two years. No other people has had the | fortune to parallel the achievements, 1 oks today upon go clear (a horizon; and 1 venture that we stand only in the doorway of the new era. Thus convinced I know that you will permit me to add just one word | for the pride, the satisfaction and the | None other lo | gratitude which the national admin- | istration feels in having been able to contribute something of suggestion, leadership and direction to this ac- complishment, We will not clalm | much; for the great end could have been attained only through the com- plete unity in spirlt, purpose and patriotism of the whole American | nation, i Unemployment Gone “Two years ago we made a careful census of unemployment in the Unit- ed States and found 4,500,000 or 6,- 000,000 workers without jobs, That iwas bad, but since then matters have disposed to worry about the problem of unemployment we have to consider ways and means to fill a half million or a million jobs which want workers and can't find them. That is the sim- Ition of the last two years. That is the bedrock foundation on which Am- erfcan business and American admin- istration have erected thelr confidence that this people will not be led into the paths of devious experimentation, the mazes of untried economic theory Govt. Aid Outlined Among the efforts to achieve this end, the president mentioned removal tills of the bankers, reductions in the | federal reserve disccunt rate, inau- guration of the budget systems, light- ening and more equitable distribution | of the tax burden, the arms confer- ence revival of the fedsral farm loan on unem- ployment and housing. SENTENGED 10 PRISON | Branford Man Who Shot at Girl and Her Mother Last April Must Serve Three to Five Years. | New Haven, June 20.—Harry Te- sinko, alias I.esinko, 40, charged in three counts with assault with intent is Branford last April, today was sent; to state’'s prison for three to five vears on each ceunt, the terms to run con- | currently. He did not contend and through an interpreter declared he remembered nothing about the affair Tesinko had boarded at Mrs. Banco's house for vears and had fallen in love | with her 16-year-old daughter, Rose, who repulsed him. He was ordered Banco and Rose. He| chased them until his ammunition ran ont, twice reloading the gun. Ho! USE CHILD AS SHIELD Adirondack Rum Runners Carry Little | SERaRgENT eyl Officers From Firing at Them, Saranac Lake, N. Y. June 29.-— Adirondack rum runners have hit upon a new scheme to evade cap- | ture. They carry a child on the rear seat of the booze cars. Federal officers chasing a big tour- ing car loaded with beer did not dare fire in an effort to halt the fleeing machine becanse of a little bay riding in the tonneau. They finally capture the machine. ' | | ain's flat rejection of the proposal fy» a prohibition limit has left administration officlals no alternative, it was said authorita. | tively today, but to await the will of congress s to revision of the law and | meanwhils refused admittance to ship liquor stores under penalty of seizure tary Curzon's announcement in par lament yesterday was not available, | the Washington government no report on the subject and no reply through diplomatic channels treaty proposals, however that Marquis Curzon's impli cation that the ship liquor issue was raised by the United States to afford rum smuggling is not in accordance | with the facts as they are understood | by Washington officials. ericah viewpoint the two matters have nothing to do with each other. which resulted in the recent supreme court decision prohibiting liquor car- riage by foreign ships waters resulted from the initiative of foreign ship companies, foreign companies as to the legality of carrying liquor stores drew out the Attorney Abner P. Hayes Named By Templeton today appointed Abner P. Hayes as a judge of Waterbury city court to succeed Wil- liam' J. Larkin, Jr., terday to ney of the district Hayes qualified immediately and preside at eity ning next Judge John F. and a graduate of Yale. auor prosecuting agent for Waterbury | Cavales, Greece, a refugee from for seven vears, "Building Trades Strike | through ranks of unskilled diggers and plasterers laborers, lions of dollars worth of construction | here has bean tied up, says that by to- night the walkout will have been ex- tended to tractors that the iaborers who have quit must return leckout. — now stands as it did hefore the meet. | ing. A question of parllamentary pro. | cedure gives rise to the disagresment A% to the status of the report opening of the George A. Quigley, scheol survey committes, the adoption of the report and | recommendations, bate, ex-Mayor O, F. Curtis amended a1t this ne to place the report on file and thank |gpe, the committee, ment was put by Mavor A, M. Paones. sa and was carried 38 to 25, ! | Paonessa was about to put the motion |and striking workmen of the h...m as amended, journ bhefore the hoard and passed, original motion as amended was never acted upon, which procedure is nec essary If the amendment is to standing, according to many present At the meeting ex-Mayor chalrman of the moved for Following the de The Curtls amend- | As Mayor | someone moved to that wotion was ad- | put | The and have (Continued on Page 23.) GOVT. MUST WAIT FOR CONGRESS TO REVISE LAW ON LINERS BRINGING IN BOOZE; WILL CONTINUE SEIZURE Washington, June 20.—Great Brit. American 12 mile Formal comment on foreign Secre- having to jts| There is no doubt, leverage for a tieaty agreement on Tn the Am- the cases It is pointed out that fn American Up to the time that the fears of the | | ceived /was stoned {licemen also were hit, {ed to have gained control of the situ- [forcement for the American govern |was due wholly to the fact that hoth |of the American plan makes it doubt- 'I‘mn[-\ \\'Amnu Hallfax, N, 8, June 29 ment of 250 soldiers today wer der arms awalting a special train to take them to Cape Breton, where clashes oceurred last night between striking steel workers and the polies. A request for troops was made last night to Ottawa and orders were re. to dispatch /00 men Only imber however, was avail- Serions Disorder Dispatches from Sydney stated that after several clashes between police nion Iron and Steel Co, a magistrate attempted to read the riot act, hut| unconscious. Saven po but were report- ation The disturbance followed a strike of | 4,000 men employed by the British | Empire 8teel corp, at its Sydney plant, “bone dry"” opinion from Attorney Gen. Daugherty it is said there was no action contemplated to curb the movement of such’ stores. On the other hand, liguor smuggling from British and other ships hovering out-. side the three.mile limit was even then a Aifficult problem of law en- ment. The American proposal for a double |barreled treaty agreement to deal with hoth questions it is further declared situations were resulting in inconven fence to the governments at the same time and that it was hoped to remove jat one stroke all likelihood of future friction. Flat rejection of the 12 mile phase ful in the American viewpoint that the ship liguor situation can he dealt with alone. Administration officials do not agree that international law or legitimate traffic could in any wise be affected by the 12 mile proposal. They take the position that no ship honnd on a legitimate errand into American wat ers would be in any wise affected. The only traffic aimed at was that illfeit business on ships which come within 12 miles but not within three miles of the American shora line, NEW WATERBURY JUDGE Governor to Succead W. J. Larkin | | Who Becomes Prosecuting Attorney 29, — Governor Attorney the | Waterbury, June who resigned yes- become prosecuting attor- court, Attorney | will court sessjons begin- week, alternating with McGrath. Judge Hayes a native of Bethlehem this state, He was |I-v In Chicago Is Gaining| | Chicago, June 29.—Martin Egan, strike called in the| laborers, caisson mil- whose M0 men. Building con- | served an 15, have to work Monday or face a || HIGH TIDES 30 (Standard Time) Haven— June At New 12:34 p. At New London— 10:36 a. m 10:50 p. 4 -y June 30.—Forecast vicinity: Fair, moderate temperature to- night; Saturday fair and warmer 1 THE WEATHER | | | Hartford, for New Britain and | —— | States and atter uitimatum | ¢ |with the |bringing abonut |euggestions, jtwe | [rresident of the American federation | of textila operatives at today's sescion GETS LICENSE TO WED GIRL NOW IN GREEGE Athanasian Determined to Marry Her in Spite of Turks Sojokles Athanasian, an employe of| Landers Frary and Clark, went to the office of the town clerk this afternoon accompanied by Policeman Paul | IFiamos who acted as his interpreter, | and took out a license to marry Miss Sermula, Pashali, who 1is now at| the | Turks. Sojokles and Sermula were child- hood sweethearts in Greece. Several | years ago the boy came to the United | travelling about for| some time located at New Britain where he secured employment at| Landers' factory. He hecame skilled | in machine work and his salary in- creased so that ot made it possible for ! him to invite Sermula to come to | America and be his bride. however, throngh she was detained In the meantime, Turkish atrocities, | Beveral times Sojokles made arrange ments for her transportation and has &pent more than $1,000 In his efforts to bring her here, he said Recently he got in eommunication American consul at Cavala, | who suggested a method of her transportation to Following ont the consnl's| the young man has had| affidavit made showing that he| has taken out his first citizenship pa- |pers, and today he ecalled and pro- Greece, America, leured the marriage license which 18| lash" to be gent to Cavala to indlcate his| |willingness to marry the girl when she Ireaches America. Sojokles ie hopeful will be in the United States in about | months and he now laying | plans for an elaborate wmldlnx HEADS TEXTILE | \IO\ ’ Norwich, Conn., June 29. — James Tansey of Fall River was reelected that his bride | of the annnal convention. | sky, | directing that Lady \\nlluen Ln.il" D.OS ... Friend 5,00 50 Total .00 l...(" hl The amount of contributions to the finknce committes {ndicates that many people of means in the city are miking substantial gifts through this gency. Thelr effort is appreciated, of course, but not any more so than the smaller amounts that might come from individuals in the city would be, |no one is expected to give any more | than the state of his purse warrants, | heen some apathy on the general public toward the movement, however, as small gifts are very slow in coming. The receipt of many one and two dollar donatlons would indieate the “man along the street” is taking an interest and pride in the work of glving 300 children an outing on a farm in Burlington and public Inter- There ha. part of the that | est in the movement is what those in | charge most desire, as the good that the farm is doing should be a matter of publie concern and delight. With 80 many children, not physically what they should be, offereda two weeks of fresh air and good food In order that they may build up a physique to | withstand the heat for the rest of the summer and the rigors of a winter to follow, the accomplishments of the Fresh Air farm are evident ‘We might mention that the 50 cents Usted above is another contribution from the woman who was mentioned an giving 25 cents a week or so ago. She can scarcely afford to give, but her second gift has been made, The public is urged to help in the work that is heing carried on. The Fresh Alr editor of the Herald will |be glad to receive any contributions, emall though they may be, and ac- knowledge them in this eolumn, 19,400 ALIENS NEAR Danish Steamer With 730 On Board First in Line to Rush Quotas Through Immigration Office. New York, June 28,—~The Danish steamer Palonia with 780 immigrants aboard arrived in Gravesend Bay to- day, tha first ship to get in iine for the dash into port when the new alien quota opens at midnight Satur- day. Twenty-two other ships are rac- ing across the Atlantic with immi- grants. Approximately ahoard the steamers. 12,400 allens are More than 50,- {000 are expected in July, Beginning Sunday night and lasting | until the quota is filled, Ellis Tsland will be congested, and many incoming foreigners will he kept aboard liners to await examination. Aliens are also reported to be mass- ing on the Canadian border to start the rush. It is estimated that many of the smaller countries will exhaust their quotas for the first period with- in a few hours, DIED WHILE 0N DUTY Compensation Ruling Is That Sailor Who Fell Overboard Even Though Drunk Comes Under the Law, Bridgeport, June 29.—Walter Lin- 29, a deck hand employed on the RRadel Oyster boat Standard who fell overhoard and was drowned on the night of July 15, ‘22 after he had been ashore and imbibed freely of white mule, died in the course of his em- ployment according to a decision to- day of Compensation Commissioner E . Buckingham and his parents who reside in Poland are awarded com- pensation. The commissioner finds that while Linsky was intoxicated on the night he was drowned, the com- pany permitted its employes to sleep on the deck of the hoat and that they Iived and ate on the boat as well Columbus Bb_\' Crowned as Marble Shooting Champion Atlantie City, June 29 —-Harlin Me- Coy, 14 of Columbus, Ohio, today won the marble shooting championship of the TUnited States defeating 11 vear old Sammy Schneider, the “shootin’ of £t. Louis in the final round of the national tournament. All New York “L” Lines State's Attorney Hugh M. Aloos-of Hartford yesterday fired the first ghot in . war which he plans to wage in order to rid Hartford county of every wiloon within its territory when he went before Judge John W, Banks of the superior court with complaints !that resulted in the summoning to court of several prominent Hartford residents who were ordered to show cause why three saloons in the elty should not be summarily closed forth- with and the owners restrained from using the space occupied by the sa- loons for a year, Similar action is pending against 20 other alleged saloons in the county against which the state's attorney said he had accumulated sufficlent evie. dence to support injunctions. The ma- Jjority of the 20 saloons are reported to be in Hartford and New Brit. ain. Chief Hart Surprised. Chief Willlam C. Hart of the New Britain police department today ex-' pressed surprise at the supposed cam- paign which is to he waged against a number of alleged saloons in this eity. He said that in so far as the liquor situation is concerned this city is very clean and much cleaner than many of the other cities and towns throughout the state. Other officials of the police department are satisfied that there are few violators of the liquor law in New Britain who conduct saloons. Many who have been convicted of late in the New Britain police conrt for violating the liquor law have heen proprietors of fruit and candy stores or have been selling in their homes., Complaint of Civic League, Although Mr. Alcorn could not be reached today to confirm the report that he had acted indirectly on a com- plaint received from the Civic T.eagne of New Britaln, it is expectel ‘that this complaint had a bearing in the matter in so far as this city is con- cerned, A. W. Upson, H. N, Lockwood, D. Sloan and D. B. Bassette, as members of the executive committee of the Civic League, visited Prosecuting At- torney Joseph G. Woods at his of- fice Monday, June 4, and asked for his co-operation in enforcing the fed- eral padlock law to close all saloons operating in. New Britain. They were assured by Mr. Woods at that time that he would take up the matter with the federal authori- |ties and would see United States Dis« trict Attorney Allen K. Smith at Hart- ford. The Civic League officials reg- istered their complaint with Mr, Woods only after they had recelved several complaints from various peo- ple about several saloons here, they say. Tncluded in there list are ten saloons, the proprietors of which have been arraigned in police court more than once. Woods Sees Danaher Prosecutor Woods told a represen- tative of the “Herald” this afternoon that he has been unable to see Dis- trict Attorney Smith when he has called in Hartford but he did see A sistant District Attorney John A. Dan- aher, Although Mr. Woods did not take up the matter with Mr. Danaher he told him of the Civic League com« plaint. Mr. Danaher has been ap- pointed, with Assistant State's Attore ney Reinhart L. Gibson, to ald in State's Attorney Alcorn's campaign and it §s believed that he might have informed Mr. Alcorn of the complaint registered with Mr. Woods by the Civie TLeague. Mr. Alcorn claims in his allegations fhat many of the saloons are conceals ing their real purpose by operating as restaurants, Won't Fyen Imave Odor of Iiquor The state's attorney charged tHat the “announced and pretended use™ of the premises in each of the Hart ford cases as a saloon and restaurant “is a sham and subterfuge to con- ceal the real purpose and plans and to conceal the actual used of sald buildings and the illegal business therein transacted, and that said premises are used and maintained as plates where intoxicating liquor s manufactured, sold, kept or bartersd. “We are going to clean up New Britain once and for all" the state's attorney is alleged to have said, and there won't even be the smell of If- quor left in any of these places when this job is fin 4 Mary Miles Minter Taking Are to Be Investigated | New York, June 29.—The board of estimate today adopted a resolution a thorough investiga- tion be made of all elevated struc- tures in the city to prevent a repeti- tion of the Brooklyn Elevated dieas- ter last Monday in which eight peo- ple were killed and §9 injured. “Rest Cure” in Sanitarium Los Angeles, June 29.-—Mary Miles Minter, motion picture actress for whom friends began searching yester- day is in a sanitarium at Pasadena, near Los Angeles, taking a “rest cufe,” according to her grandmother, Mrs. Juliette Miles. “Mary will make her home with her mother soon™ said Mra. Miles, “but there are carpenters and workmen hammering on the bull ing next to her mother's house and the noise irritates Mary's nerves.”