New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 18, 1923, Page 1

Avernge Daily Civeulation 4 9,531 Sept, 15th ., PRICE THREE CENTS W BRITAIN HERALD ISTABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1923, .—EIGHTEEN PAGES, LOSS TEN_MILLION AND 2,400 HOMELLSS IN BERKELEY FIRE l FIRE DESTROYS 8 AUTOS IN EASTMAIN STREET GARAGE AND DAMAGES 15 OTHERS Firemen I;l[llt Flames Un- R til After Midnight in|| Two Indicted In, William Morrin’s Place Suitcase Murder —Damage Estimated at $6,000 ’ Short Circuit on Machine Thought to Have Been Responsible—Heat Melts | Windows in Lower Part of Building: Fight Ford automobiles, one new truck, a new sedan and six second | hand cars, were totally destroyéd by | fire which broke out in the basement work shop at the Willlam Morrin garage in the rear of 200 East Main street about 10:30 o'clock last night. 1ngina Cos. No. 1, 2 and 5 responded to an alarm and upon arriving at the scene found a stiff blaze confronting | them in the basement of the garage. The fire burned briskly for about | an hour and the firemen were kept on the scene until well after midnight Chief William . Noble said this| morning that he estimates the dam- | age at about $6,000 most of which is covered by insurance. All of the cars in the basement were destroyed while about 16 cars, including a new 1incoln machine; on the second floor were damaged h*' water and blistered Py the heut b the flames downstairs. Short Circuit Blamed. Although the exact cause of the fire {8 not known it is believed. that a short cirenit in a car which was driven into the garage one half an hour before the fire broke out, was responsible for the conflagration, No one was in the garage at the time and it is thought that the flames spread from this single car to others in the garage until the ontire base- ment was ablaz The heat was so intense that every window in the lower part of the building was melted. Fireman Saunders Hurt. Fireman Leonard Saunders suf- fered an injury to his ankle after ar- riving at the fire which necessitated medical treatment. Chief Noble this morning said that the firemen worked splendidly and more than 756 per cent of the men on the off shift were on the scenc not because they were re-| quired to be there but because of| the interest they have in their work, | No. 4 Company Also Out, While the firemen were busy this spot Iingine Co. . 4 was called | to extinguish a flame in a pile of coal | in the rear of the Hagearty building on Main street opposite St. Mary's church, The men were kept there for aore than an hour. The fire- men were called to this same spot vesterday morning to extinguish a similar blaze. The fire department was called out :20 o'clock this morning by a still alarm to extinguish a blaze in the Cliimney of the Grove Hill hospital, T'he damage was slight. NEW PLANS FOR TOKI0 Reconstructed City Will Be MRS, ALICE M. WOLSCHENDORF Cambridge, Sept, 18.-~-The Middle- sex county grand jury called into spe- clal sessiog today to consider the case of Mrs, Alide M. Wolschéndorf of Enast. Bridgewater, whose dismembered body was found two weeks ago in tyo suiteases in the Merrimack river, Te- ported two secret indictments to Judge McLeod here this afternoon. ‘Word was received at the district attorney's office this afternoon that Dr. Wm. F. Robb charged with illegal surgery in connection with the death ef Mrs, Wolschendorf and released on bail had left the hotel in Boston where he had been staying and had been drlven away in a taxicab with drawn curtains. The state officer who telephoned the information said that Dr. Robb carried several bags and suit cases with him. SHIPPING BOARD SUES 70 SEGURE $2,500,000 Brings Action Against Beth- lehem Shipbuilding Corp. on War Contracts ‘Washington, Sept. 18.—TFailing to reach a settlement by negotiation the shipping board has instructed its.le- gal department to. prepare suit against the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. for recovery of about $§2,5600,- 000 alleged to have been overpaid under that firm’s war contracts. If sustained in the courts the point railsed by the board may throw open tor legal review scores of war con- | tracts involving hundreds of millions | of dollars. In brief the issue is said {to be’ whether the government can- not limit the amount of profits to be taken by a corporation or individual in return for emergency service. The Bethiehem Co. which launched Wwmore than 200 ships under govern- By The Associated Press. * ment contract has received compen- Tokio, via Osaka, Sept. 18.—The |sation estimated by the board at Tokio municipal council has approved | about 13 per cent of the . contract and recommended to the government |total. Claim for approximately $8,- & concrete plan for reconstructing the | 500,000 additional was filed by the capital along more modern and more | gompany under the so-called ‘‘eco- substnnmtl‘ lines. It is aimed to make | nomics clause” which arranged for a the new Tokio auake-proof and fire- | givision between the government and proof. The outline of the plan fol- | the contractor of any savings ef- o | fected by the latter. f‘onslru@ spacious parks at 12 im- | The shipping %oard has now taken portant points in the city; bulld ele- | e position that this clause can have \‘atedt l-a!hl\;a‘ysl, r'almt!ab"nlnd broad | ;15" weight in court since the con- streets; hird, establish several irefght stations with Tabata. station as | bxring om Cmis haund Lo covaunt o A Sl s e B the work on' as economical a basi: of expediting the transportation of | /€, Vo possible, This posltlo: ne;if:‘fir “:‘-‘f,z:mnm has selected is said to have received the endorse- Baron Hikokichi Ljuln governor gen- | MeNt of the department of justice. eral of Kwangtung, Manchuria, for| A large proportion of the thou- foreign minister in the new cabinet. | %ands of emergency contracts con- Whether Ljuin will accept has not |t@ined this or similar provisions. « been determined. i 5 Springfield, Mass., Sept. 18.—Mont- Greece Takes First Step |gomery- 8 Gibson, formerly in° the In Fulfillment of Terms stock brokerage business here as Gib- By Pie' Assoclated Prosh 7 |son and Co. pleaded guilty to one of " thens, Sept. 18.—ulfillment of the | three indictments charging larceny in conditions stipulated in the note to|Superior court today and was sent to Greece from the,inter-allic® councit |Jall for 16 mornths. of ambassadors as a result of mas- | = iy sacre of Itallan mission near Janina | BANK CALL SEPT. 14. began today, when Minister of Inter- Washington, Sept. 18.—The comp- ior Mavromichalis expressed official | troller of the currency today issued apologies to the British, French and |a call for the condition of all national Italian governments at their respec- | banks at the clase_of business on Fri tive legalions. L]u", Senlembex A& Quake- Proof and Fireproof, According To Outlines Made By Expert, 16 MONTHS IN JAIL ISHOOT TO KL IS " ANTIHLAN ADVIGE {War on Hooded Mobs Extends Into State of Idaho ¢ e ARMED RULE IN OKLAHOMA lice (0 Show No Merey—Gov, Wal- ton of Okla, Threatens to Fixtend Martial Law to Other Countles, Lewiston, Idaho, Bept. 18, -~ The Lewlston city councll has ordered the chiet of police and his men to Mshoot and shoot to kil all persons wearing hoods or garbs hiding their ldentity when found invading homes or molesting citizens, in case they resist the officers. Mhis order is the result of a visit by three white robed men to the home of Georgla Crossfa negro woman last | ¥riday night. The woman escaped {from the house before the men got in | side. | May Estend Foree | By The Assoctated Press. Oklahoma City, Okla., Sept. 18 Fixtension of absolute martial law to | Muskogee county, one of the most im- portant sections in the eastern half of |Oklahoma looms as Governor Wal- [ton's next military manouvre againse| [the Ku Kilux Kla | “Tt is regrettab said the gover- nor in a telegram to the Muskogee Phoenix “if as my secret agents have | reported, your community is dominat- | ed and controlled by an organization that would usurp all the powers of the civil authorities and courts in lleu of which citizens, both innocent and guilty are summarlly seized upon, maimed, beaten and we believe {n some cases murdered by hooded mask- ed mobs. to clean up your situation, we will have to take your county under eom- plete martial law.” Fair Postponed In the same message Govergor Wal- ton declared it would be necessary to postpone the annual state fairs at Muskogee and Oklahoma City in or- der properly to enforce military rule. Ralph Hemphill, secretary of the local fair wssoclation said financlal Idsses amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars would result. A military court of inquiry today began an investigation of masked ac- tivities here and in other parts of the state which Is expected in some quar- ters to lead to a demand for records state\ headquarters here. Governor Walton in his declaration of state- wide martial law declared that “head and foot” of the organization was In Oklahoma City and that in or- der to stamp out the organization “it is necessary to stamp out its source.” Records Disappear A report today said that records of the klan had been spirited out of the state. State officials of the order have maintained silence since martial law was proclaimed. e Meanwhile troops of the Oklahoma ‘mfuonm Guard contjnue to corhmand |affairs although civil authorities and courts are not being interfered with, | Mgchine guns which were trainod jon the city hall and the county court- {house were struck down late yester. idu_v when the military returned juris- diction to the police department, - Strict censorship of all news con- | 1r-r:rnlng troops movement has been or- | dered here by the commanding officer, MORE EARTHQUAKES Buildings Shaken in Malta and Syra- cuse, in Sicily, Also Reports Violent | Tremors. | By The Associated Press | | Malta, Sept. 18,—A severe earth shock of several seconds duration oc. | ‘(‘urred here at 7:35 o'clock this morn- ing. Many buildings were badly | | shaken but no damage was reported, | | Large cracks are noticeable in many | of the buildings including several of | |the churches and the people are in | some danger from falling stones, | General excitement has spread | | throughout the island. | | By The Associated Preks Syracuse, Sicily, Sept. 18.—A violent | | earthquake shock was felt here at| 7:32 o'clock this morning. | \Bobbed Hair Puts an End’ | To Initiation Tactics | Pittsburgh, Sept. 18.—Bobbed hair | has halted for the time being the/ | initiation of freshmen girls on. the| campus at thg Carnegie Institute of Technology. In past vears the chief | hazing custom for first year girls bas | been that they wear their hair in| | plaits and in other quaint ways with | hair ribbons predominating. The | custom is passe now sophomore girls| declare because of the popularity of | the bob and they are in a quandary for a substitute to the chief feature | for the hazing festivities scheduled for j1ater in the week. | i 5 I am afrald that in order | and other data at the Ku Klux Klan ! the | NEW YORK PAPERS FAMILY REUNITED " HITBY STRIKERS ~ AFTER LONG WAIT oraing and Alternoon Publica-| Antonas Jeancius Held Up a tions Are Crippled ' Ellis Istand for Two Weeks PRESSMEN REFUSE T0 WORK_TRIPS OVER LITERARY TES statement in Which He Charne- | Tithuania, Could Not Rejoin Wife orizes Today's Strike As Megal and | and Child Until Tawyer Interceded Pleads For Men to Return, Although He Once Lived in U. 8. Through the efforts of Attorney Joseph G. Woods of this city, Patrick MceDonough, representative of the Irish society at Ellis Island, Sarah | Weadick of Tllis Island and the Na- | tional Cathollc Welfare counell at Washington, Antonas Jelanclus, a resident of New Britain for more than nine years previous to his de- clsion of a year ago to visit friends and relatives in Lithuania, was yes- terday admitted into the United | States after facing deportation for a perfod of two weeks because he could not read despite the fact that | the quota allotment for his country had not been filled at the time he ar- | rived, Word of his being admitted to this eountry has been received by Mr. Woods. Wife Returns Before Husband. | The conditions surrounding Jelan- cins’ life are interesting and read like fiction. He came to this country about | ten years ago making his home in | New RBritain but did not become a citizen. Within a short time he marrled a Lithuanian girl whose | home was also in this city and se- | eured employment at Russell & Er- con. | WiN'S. | to visit the old country. Passports | secured, they set forth on ther jour- ne; Mrs, Jelancius was in Europe short. time when she declded to return to America two months be- { fore her husband thought hé would come back. She experienced no dif- ficulty in being admitted and came | immediately to New Britain, return- PAPER rw York, Sept, ~Publish ers of New York papers whose pressmen arc on strike docided today thut fn order to give their millions of readers some news serviee they would poal resources in publishing a “common® cdi tion of 6 to & pages under a cup tion bearing the ngmes of all the | papers affected by the strike, The edition will be run off at 0 o'clock. New York, Sept, 18 - Most all morning newspapers in New York fuiled to appear today as a result of a strike of members of web press- men's union, number 25, which was called shortly after midnight. IPirst editions of a number of pub lications which daily are on the streets before midnight were quickly exhausted. The New York Times and the Her. ald, whose first editions ordinarily are not published until after midnight did not come ‘off the presses. First editions of the World, American, Trl- bune, Daily News and Telegraph were v ged, Only One Opposed | The strike was called at the { clusion of a four hour meeting of the printing pressmen, Pregident David | Simongof the -union declared that i bhut one of ‘the printers at the “meet- ing had voted against {he strike which he sgaid grew out of inability of the union and publishers to come to a working contract to replace one which expired September 1. A state- ment issued by Mr. Simons said: “For the past 18 months we have |street. Hushand Detained at Gateway of U. 8. | The.hushand segured passports up- len deciding to return but was detain- ed at Flis Island about two weeks ago because he could not read. Mrs. | Telanciug learned of her hushand's | plight and immediately notified Prose- cutor Woods who in turn communi- cated with Mr. McDonough at Ellis Island. The latter instructed Miss Sarah Weadick to get in touch with Bruce M. Mohler, counsel for the Na- tional Catholic Welfare council at ‘Washington, D. C., with the result that |a hearing on the case was held before ‘the United States immigration com- mission. IFollowing this hearing Miss Tulista, four year old|Weadick wag instructed to release Mr. 9 Hartford avenue, is|Jelancius and instruct him to returm THO CHILDREN HIT, | GIRL’S SKUL} BROKEN |Regina Tulisra, Aged 4 Yrs., in Serious Condition at Hospital Regina youngster of 1 | " at the New Britain general hospital |to New Britain, suffering with a fractured skull and. . fractured ribs as the result of being struck Dy an automobile owned and driven by George I. MacLachlan of MGHILLAN DENIES IT { ue at about 11;o'clock this morning. | Former Busincss Man Insists He Owes | Rosia Geragosian, a three year old| | boy, was struck at the same time but his condition was not serious and | he was discharged from the hospital | shortly after noon. The driver ¥eport-| pygald McMillan has formally and | ed the accident to the police WRO, |ynequivocally denied that he is in- after an investigation had been €on-|genhteq to Davidson & Leventhal, his ducted by Detective Sergeant Willlam | g ocossors in a Main streot store, in | P. McCue, exonerated him from|.on¢ragiction of a statement printed blame. . in this paper yesterday. Nothing to Davidson & Leventhal, Whom He Has Sued. Last year the family decided | ing to het former home on Rhodes| :;Sevenl Smaller Towns Des.troyed as Forest Fire Sweeps Through Hills and Partially Razes Calif. | | | Ground—Flames Stopped at Gates of University Berkeley, Cal., Sept. 18.—Fire sweeping over’the hills east of Berkeley late yesterday laid waste the Cragmont and Euclid [avenue districts, destroying at least 600 residences in one of the choicest residential sections of the city with damage estimated at | Lowiston, Idaho, Conncll Orders Po- | Head of International Union Issues New Britaln Man, Returning ¥rom | $10,000,000 and rendering homeless approximately 2,400 persons. Two Students Missing No lives are known to have been lost although two students | were seen to plunge into a vortex of fire when the roof of a house [upon which they had climbed, collapsed. 60 Block Area Devastated Hundreds of frenzied residents fled as the fire swept down the slope of the hills, burned its way through the closely settled {and exclusive district and eventually died down to a smouldering | | Dy . N . ring of flames encompassing the entire area of 60 blocks which it had devastated. The prosperous residential section was a smoky waste. » : . Wind Fans Flames "EFENSE LI]SES FIRST The advance of the fire, which broke out in hrush in Contra Costa . county, was heralded by ugly gray 9N clouds of smoke which swept over the ; brow of the hill driven by a brisk | wind, and blanketed Berkeley | throughout the day. . . i . The fire was one of a series of for- Motion to Dismiss Again fest, brush and grass fires, fanned by . . strong north winds and fed by under- | Denied — Te"tlmflny growth baked to a tinder by the pro- | n : longed summer, which raged in nearly [ . Begins Today every county n northern Califoria | et yesterday. Small Towns Damaged White Plains, N. Y., Sept. 18.-—Su-| goyeral resorts and small towns preme Court Justice V§agner, presid- | were severcly damaged or destroyed {ing at the triat of Walter S. Ward, | by the flames which sprang into being for the murder of Clarence Poters, “""""“’" 4 bl | “"““"d “:'::'“: ! i b . |warning and quickly sprea: ehin | today denied a metion by Isaac N. i | A J ol of national foresters, state | Mills, Ward's chief counsel, for dis- |fre wardens and hundreds of volun- | missal of the charges. {teer fire fighters, Mills asserted that Attorney Gen.| ¥l Dorado Wiped Out. Sherman’s presentation of the state's il Dorado, a small mining town in case yesterday falled ‘to indicate pre- | fidorado county, was virtually de- | meditation and asked that the indict- |stroyed and the 150 persons residing ment be set aside on that ground.there wore forced to fiee, The in. .lrlu.nucod\\’a%neqlufterprlp';r:;\;':‘m“li!t\:;plll:; habitants: of Colfax in Placer county on ordered all pros ve Witnesses also prepared to flee wi concernod with finding Peters’ hody | wa threatened. dabmbeci to leave the court room. | Hotel Burn own Mrs. Berly Curtis Ward. the defend-| A fra 1 SMOIMR",ssz desteovad ant’s wife, spent ! half hour with her | e Boyes Springs hotel Lfid swept on husband in his cbll this morning and | (award Fett bl then came to the court room on 111--‘»_,:“::" elters Sptinge andL I :;:;dnt her brother-in-law, Ralph D\ 1y {na. southern part of the state, 3 | IForest Supervisor Chester Jordan {5} 1a, em- puf;,‘;'(‘f?.’.‘ aflg‘s;;u:fp\~n’)'::l‘rfi<:“;vh'mf‘ {called for reinforcements for the fire was sworn as the first witness, Mean. | [S1ters in the Santa Ynes river diss TS T a0tNeR, Yoo of/ thh °°“""::;|rl‘:m1" the Santa Barbara national .house the extraordinary grand jury| Sttuation I Investigating the case reconvened and| . WHHIION S Desperate called as a witness James J. Conning- | ”af‘ said that the situation thers ham, Wwho is reported to have said 8% 'h¢ mMOst serious since the fire Peters was murdercd in the Ward |S!arted on September 1. More fire home in New Rochelle. | fighters were sont from Los Angeles. Rose, in direct examination by Dep- | “n"“” Acre, a picturesque little village uty Attorney Gen, Chambers, de- J‘ miles from San Rafael was roport- seribed how he had found Peters'|€d almost destroyed by a forest fire body early the morning of May 16, | Which s\\:~~nr through Tucas valley, 1922, Sailors ¥Fight Flames The body, he sald, was lying at| v('"" hundred sallors and marines 1ight angles to the road on its back, | 'Vere sent from Mare Island navy yard | feet together, toes up with the arms | to fizht a forest fire that was threat- against the hody. ‘Dhe vest was fully |®Ning the little town of Cordella, 20 buttoned. miles from the navy yard. PRSP s m]:“llwv v:lnrious fires have burned over DEATH OF JOSEPH SWANSON | 070 * "t Frve eaa 4 ] (Continued on Seventh Page) ged Swedish Resident, in New Brit- JAIL IS GR]ME BREEDER ain for 40 Years, Dies at Home on 0Osgood Avenue. | ‘ounty Workhonse Described by Exe Joseph Swanson, aged 79 and one| Federal Inspector as Debauch of of the. oldest Swedish residents in the City Where 600 Residences Are Burned to . According to the story told the po- “I don’t owe them a nickel, T don't | city, died at his home on Osgood ave- Dirt, Disease and Degeneracy. | he told the police. lice by MacLachlan, he was driving north on Hartford avenue when sud- | denly two children, one on each side | of the street, darted across the thor- | oughtare. He said that he could not turn to his right or left without strik- !ing one child and continued straight | ahead, striking the two children as | they neared the center of the road. He | was driving at about 12 miles an hour, | |owe them a cent,” Mr, McMillan' said. |"1 hold their promissory note and 1 |have brought sult for $20,000 to re- cover on it. That's all there is to it." o iagadee L Whole Village Held at Bay While Robbers Work Mankato, Minn., Sept. 18.—Holding (the entire village of Cleveland, near M A E k th Tuli 1 facLachlan took the Tulisra girl here, at bay early today, five bandits to the hospital and then reported to | " e 3 Captain George Kelly at police head. | #Orked for two hours exploding sev- auarters, When asked by Sergeant | CTal charges against the vault door of McCue if the other youngster was |the First Staté'bank before they gain- | hurt he replied that he did not know, |4 access to the currency and then He went back to the scene of the ac- cident, which occurred in front of 189 Hartford avenue, and there picked up the little boy whom he also took to the hospital. The lad was dis- charged, however, as his injuries were slight. The Tulisra girl was attended by Dr. George Dunn who said that she w suffering from a fractured skull and fractured ribs. Her condition is re- | ported as serious. calmly drove away in a stolen auto- mobile with cash and bonds estimated at $14,000, 4 AGREE TO END STRIKE Trenton, J., Sept. 18.—The pub- | lic Service Railway Co. today agreed to end the tralley strike which has existed on its lines throughout the ! state for several weeks, In a statement Mayor Frank D. | Stringham declared that -a proper | water service and supplyewould have averted the disaster. The catastrophe had long been feared by the city, he said, owing to inadequate mains. With the ¢ity hall as headquarters, ] , i THY, WEATHER | * Hartford, Sept. 18.—Forecast | ‘ for New Britain and vicinity: | | Increasing clondiness and | Polide Chief C. warmer tonight. Wednesday mobilized a force of several hundred showers and warmer. | | deputies, ieluding bundreds of Uni- versity of Callfornia students who as- * Swan- for 40 {nue at 10:30 last night. Mr. | son resided in New Britain vars and lived good avenue for 30 years. He was a { member of the First Lutheran church and took an active part in the church affairs. He is survived by four daughters, | Mrs, Hulda Peterson, Mrs. Jennie | Knowles, Mrs. Seima Johnson and | Mrs. Julia Carlson, and four sons, | Adolph, John, Albin and Arthur. All live in this city. The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon from the home with services at 3 o'clock at | the First Lutheran church. Rev. Dr. | Abel A. Ahlquist will officiate and in- | terment wiil be in Fairview cemetery. |Adequate Supply of Water Would i Have Prevented California Fire | Berkeley Mayor Says Catastrophe Long Has Been Feared | —Armed Guards Ordered to Kill Looters. removing household goods and fight- ing small fires which broke out after the large conflagration was placed under control. When darkness fell, Berkeley vir- | soldiers of the regular army and the National Guard on duty. A solid | burned aréa with orders to shoot |looters. Only a few scattered stances of looting were reported, po- on his farm on Os-| Boston, Sept. 18.—The county jail was denounced as a crime breeder by Joseph F. Fishman, former federal in- spector of prisons, in an address pre- pared for delivery before the Amerie can prison association today. “The county jail,” he sald, “is a de- bam-hnol dirt, discase and degen- | erac | He declared that this institution “hT' d an important part in increas- ing the amount of crime and the num- ber of criminals, “In 95 per cent of the Jalls,” he continued, “are thrown helter skelter the old, the young, the guilty, the in- nocent, the, diseased, the healthy, the hardened, and the susceptible, there to be mixed with the further ingre- dients of filth, vermin, cold, darkness, stagnafit air, overcrowding and bad plufbing, and all brought to a boil ! by the fires of complete idleness, ‘ | In handling the jail situation the state in the name of justice commits crimes far more heinous than many of those it punishes with long terms of im- prisonment.” SOCONY CUTS PRICE New York, Sept. 18.—Cuts of one {cent a gallon in the tank wagon price of gasoline were announced today by |the Standard Oil Co. of New York |and the Texas Co. in New York and |New England, bringing their prices {in line with the Guif Refining Co, and | Standard of New Jersey which redue- ed prices one cent yesterday. The water | tually was an armed camp with 700 ’new price averages 18 1-2¢ a gallon, | 5,000 PERSONS MISSING D. Lee immediately | cordon of armed men surrounded the | 5y e Associated Press. Yokohama, Sept. 18.—Temporary lterrific storm Saturday and five thouse i | - }sMM in policing the devastated zone lice firing at suspects in one instance. and persons are missing. in- | barracks here were flooded during &