New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 1, 1923, Page 1

NEW BRITAIN HERALD ESTABLISHED 1870 WALTON PLAYS TRUMP CARD, - PUTS IN NEW BOARD WHICH RESCINDS ELECTION ORDER Previously District Court_Had Issued .Injunction For- bidding National Guard of Special Police From In- terfering At Polls—Latest Move Ousts Election Of-] ficials and Installs Executive’s Sympathi, Bloodshed Seems Likely, HUSBAND NOT QUIZZE By The Associated Press. Oklahoma City, Oct, 1.—Play- ing his trump card Governor J. Tt 'NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1923, vREVOLT BREAKS OUT NEAR BERLIN; - MILITARY NOW CENSORS ALL NEWS; ~ FRENCH ON DUTY IN DUESSELDORF (IR-1 1S BUCKING HIGH EXPERIMENTS MAY PROVE COSTLY T0 CONGRESSMA UTLE ENTHUSUASH OVER POLICE PROBE ™" o | | Prosecuted if His Beverage is of Debm Wents to Koow What pi s glaminn \/ Washington, Oct, 1-=A definit '"or' m 'l" & Ton'lgm"nhol::nw:“hal'wn; prohibition .It':\lf ———— quarters and Representative Hil, ye. prospeet, Conlon Anxious to Learn What Needs ,..'.:".'-':‘.::‘:fl.":‘:w'fl,'.""..'.";fi,‘;‘;.:.'.'; Investigation—Nair Is Skeptical—| “ONte1t of more than the 12 per cent | publican, Maryland, over the latter's “lahoratory experiments” in making | eldor and frult julce beverages ia in olal d by Representative Hill from | missloner Haynes, are to be the bas! of action by the federal authorities. Officlals who will eommunicate 1ur~1 ther with Representative Hill have stated privately that while the Vol. stead law permits home manufacture of clder and frult juices, it makes 1. | legal the manufacture of any bever- age which contains more than ene half of one per cent of aleohol, £ six councll members the *r A. M, Paoncssa to Llh"-‘l'lou of the po- ght by repub. 2 common coun-| fell two . » have signified their intention _oeing present to- ! night when the fifst meeting of the| First Mooting to Be Held Tonight in | his “collar laboratory” ‘work and rep. resented by him to Prohibition Com- Starts for St, Louis But Will —SIXTEEN PAGES, WINDS IN HER FLIGHT 260,000 Drop Out During Year—Defense Fund Totals $183,994.28, Be Unable to Land Tomorrow [ Lakehurst, N, J, Oet, 1.~Uncle Sam'sn newest and largest alr Levia. than, the ZR-1, left here at 6:59 Portland, Ore, Oet, 1.~The “de fense fund” of tha Amerlcan Federa, tion of Labor amounts to $183,904.25, Secrotary Frank Morrison reported to the annual convention of the organi- UABOR FEDERATION 1S i Order Fllwing LOSING MANY MEMBERS Ftal Sunday Riots In | | Killed, 200 Wounded— Enforce Curfew Law. [ Y German Officials NA.. IN MRS. WEBB'S DEATH committeo 18 heid, while the alxth,| It Is expected that Mr. Hill will he | o'clock this morning on the fArst leg il Y /- - break it up.” | C. Walton today reconstituted the state election board and or- ders issued by the {new board went out at once by telegraph to all county boards tb halt' the special state election for tomor- row, W. C. McAllister, secretary of the board is the only elective members, The others are ap- pointees and give the governor control over its elections. The engineers' circular of in- struction reads: The govemori filed an executive order with the | secretary of state removing John P. Logan, chairman of the board, and C. W. Kelly, repub- lican member. Logan is a demo- crat. He named in their places Jra Mitchell, democrat, and Claud Baker, republican. " Acceptance Is Refused The removal order was dated April 25, 1923 and for this rea- son, R. A, Sneed, secretary of state refused to accept it until he had obtained an official opin- ion as to its validity from Yagorge F. Short, state attorney general, The new hoard members how- ever did not wait for the opinion hefore calling off the «election, | Mixup ¥s Complete An hour after the governor's or- der revising the personnel of the Hoard had been defivered to the sce- retary of state and the orders rfom the new members instructing county election boards to postpone the elec- tion had hecn placed on the wire, old members declared at the board’s head- auarters that they knew nothing of the executive's action. | They said they were cpntinuing to instruct officials to hold the election. Simultaneous with the action of the reconstructed board in prdering the election off Attorney Gen. Short sent this tefegram to all county authorities: *“The election on Octgober 2 is a legal election. Observe section 7, arti- cle 3, constitution of OKlahoma, ad- vise your sheriff that it i his duty as well as yours to obey lhc\mnstltutlon of the state.” Plain They Have Taken No Action New York, Oct. 1.—Officials at police headquarters today made it clear that the olty police department was not yet taking any action in the investigation into the death of Mrs. Gertle E. Gorman Webb, wealthy New York and Philadelphia society woman who dled at the Westchester Biltmore country club in Rye last Tuesday. Datectives of the local force, it was stated, had attended Mrs. Webb's funeral, and had familiarized them- selves with the principals in the case so0 that they might be well posted In the event of a request from the West- chester county authorities for aid or co-operation. It was denied that it had been the intention of local police to question Charles Webh, husband of the de- ceased, and Dr, Alexander.O. Goettler, toxocologist of Bellevue hospital, who hsd heen employed by the West- CHARLFS WEBB. chester county authorities to examine the bady. Mrs, Webb's relatives, who were not |in favor of her marriage, have insist- ed that a chemical analysis of the dead woman’s kidneys be made to discover if she were a victim of polson as they suggest. She first be- came i1l & month ago and gradually grew worse while a number of phy- siclans were at a loss .to.diagnose her Bloodshed Seems Likely By The Assoclated Press, Tulsa, Oct. 1.—Armed forces faced each other at noon today at the Tulsa county court house as the hour ap- proached for the distribution of elec- tion supplies to precinet polling places, for tomorrow’s special election. Twelve “armed citizen volunteers” .commissioned Sunday night by Gover- nor Walton's intelligence officer, R. R. Stevens, were stationed in the head- | disease. quarters of the county clection board | . Mr, and Mrs, William T. Hunter of in the basement of the county build- | Devon, Pa., who were with Mrs. Webb Jdng, while more than 100 armed |when she died and who have returned special detectives, sworn in this morn- to New York to testify regarding her ing by Sheriif ~ Sanford moved | death, charge that she was the victim throughout the building. | of slow poisoning. The distribution of will | The symptoms of which she com- begin at 1 p. m, the force | plained, the Hunters said, were iden- declared. | tical with those suffered by her Stevens' men said that any supplies| mother, who died just before the or ballots received fron| the building [ Webb marriage last November. The would be taken out “over our dead|mother had strongly objected to bodies.” Webb's courtship, they added. / Although the chemigal analysis has supplies sheriff's Cannot Use Troops. An injunction directed against the entire National Guard of the statei (Continued on Thirteenth Page.) [New York Police Make It | .| ward who refused to serve on the in- Alderman W. H. Judd of the third ward, sald he hud not given the mat. ter much thought and was unable to| say whethor he wounld attend. | Aldermen C. J, Dehm of the first| ward, and F. L. Conlon of the sixth ward will be present as will Counell- ! men David L, Nair of the first ward, | Molander of the fourth ward # T. Ringrose of the ffth| advised formally soon of the alleged | violation of law sean in this “experi. | ments."” Officials have declared that the law | will take “its usual course,” | WORRYING T0 DEATH Wants Further Tight. New York Woman Not Expected To | There will undoubtedly be a lively discussion, talks with committee members indleated today, and wupon the nature of Mayor Paonessa's in- structions to the committee will de- pend whether or not Alderman Dehm | will accept his place with the group of investigators, the first ward alder- man toid the “Herald” this morning. The alderman sald it was his plan to attend the meeting and await the mayor's announcements, then decide Mrs, whether or not to remain, breakdown short . L4 _ appeared, She has become worse since she learned of the murder of Emma Dickson, the 15 year old girl found | in a woods near Millville, N, J. Tr»‘vs‘ of Miss Keenet was lost at Hartford, Conn., where she went after leaving Springfield. Live Unless She Hears From Her Runaway Daughter, | New York, Oct. 1.—Unless she mun{ knows that her 16 year old daugh-| ter, Gladys, who ran away from her | uncle’s home in Springfield, Mass,, | July 27, is safe and well the Illm‘hlli of Mrs, Grace M, Keenet of Brooklyn will proye fatal her physiclans said | today, | Keenet suffered a nervous 1y after the girl dis- Counerlman Nair said he would at. tend the meeing out of courtesy to the mayor but he could see no reason for an investigation at present. He ex- plained that the republican members of the council wanted an investigation instituted to determine the legality of appointments to the police force of | men who are beyond the age fixed by the ordinances. When the mayor vetoed the resolution and his veto was sustained, republican members in- troduced a resolution calling upon Corporation Counsel John H. Kirk- ham for an opinion as to the legality of such appointments. This, the councilman belleves, makes it un- necessary for futher investigation at tthis tHma, He.opoints out thit the; chief purpose of the investigation was to get a ruling on this matter and the latest resolution of his colleagues! will bring about this end. Conlon Not FEnthusiastic Alderman F. L. Conlon of the sixth TORRINGTON NOW A GITY Becomes the 21st Municipality in This State—It Ranks 13th in Connecti- cut in Size. Torrington, Oct. 1.-—Torrington be-‘ comes a city today, the 21st to be in-; corporated in Connecticut and the 13th in size. The transformation from | a dual town and borough government to a city organization will occur when the city officials being eclected today are sworn In, which will be shortly after the polls close at 6 p. m. The polls opened at 6 a. m, and reports up till noon indicate a heavy vote. There are three tickets in the field, representing the republican, demo- cratic and citizen parties. 103,000 QUAKE VICTIMS Ofticial Report To Japanese Embassy vestigating committee appointed by the common councll, will serve on the committee, this group having been named by the mayor. The alderman sald he would have to be advised to- night as to what required investigation as he knew of nothing that warranted the action of the republicans in mov- ing for such a probe, Councilman George Molander and Councilman E. T. Ringrose said that| they would be on hand. Molander was'one ol the group originally named by the republicans in the original res- olution while Ringrose was added hy the mayor so that the fifth ward might have a representative on the committee. At Washington Places Number of The meeting has been called for | 8 o'clock at the office of Mayor Pa-| Injured at 125,000—235,000 Missing onessa, A chairman and clerk will be elected. Alderman Dehm was to have been chairman of the committee put out of existence; by the mayor's successful veto. Washington, Oct, 1-—An official dis- patch from Tokio to the Japanese em- bassy, today placed the number of known dead in the earthquake zone at 103,000, the injured at 125,000 and | the missing at 235,000, The number of persons who have left Tokio s 1,- 068,000, A total of 534,000 houses were de- stroyed and the property damage was said to be vaviously estimated at two and one-half to five billion dollars. {Former Minister Egan ‘ Is in Dying Condition | Beach Haven, N. J., Oct. 1.—Mau- | rice Francls Egan, former minister to | Denmark, who has been seriously i1l | | for several weeks, was “slowly sink-! ing,"” his physicians said carly today. T Members of his family were gathered| N0 Date Fixed for Trial | :’n t‘l;lc sick Toom at his home, “Gables | Of Bl‘idgeport Slayer’ L Bridgeport, Oct. 1.—No date has been set for the special session of the eriminal superior court of Fairfield county which will be called in the near future to hear the trial of Dom- inick Guerrise, 22, of Danbury, set for SNOW IN N. Y. STATE Waterloo, N. Y., Oct, 1.—The first snow of the season in western New York fell here during the night, and also against all officers operating under authority of special state police commissions restraining them from in- terfering with the election tomorrow was issued here - today by Judge Hunt of the state district court. Beveral hundred men have been sworn in by Sheriff Bob Sanford, who has| declared the court's order will be en-| forced and every man thrown in jail who attempts to hinder the opening of the polls. 20 to One Sheriff Says Sheriff Sanford declared “there will be at least 20 armed deputies sworn in to permit the election to every one of Gov. Walton's gunmen ordered to Killing Was Re | |an Italian whose age was given as 2§ {years was found dead in an open lot than 100 special deputies at the court| near his home al 103 Jewett street house today. They will be taken to|this morning with bullet wounds precinct polling places tonight and|the abdomen, back and wrist. The will be guarded every minute until the | hody was found about ten feet from election is over, according to county|the road and within 500 feet of the wlection officials. {man’s home, At 1:10 p. m, Sheriff Sandford| Appearances indicated that the backed by a body of 200 armed spe-' man had been killed within a short «cial deputies, surrounded the 12 "cm-‘, distance of where he was found and zen volunteers” and ordered them|had been carried to the spot. The from the building. left in al head was slightly raised from the tody. ground by a natural slope of the 3 {1and and the hands crossed on the | breast. People living within 50 feet |of where the body was found, heard ng Gov-| four revolver shots at 9:30 last night, k 0!"’\’!0’"0""’1 by low eries. When they ume went outside no one was in sight how- the | ever. Thirty-five thousand ballots, printed Jast night were under guard of more They Defles Governor Sallis, Okla., Oct. 1.—Advisi ernor Walton to “keep hands ity government unless vou full responsibility by occupying city under martial law,” C. B/ John- The police this morning had been gon, mayor, defled the executivd to use | unable to find any motive for the P murder but reports had it that No AContinued on Thirteenth Page.) ‘mreno was to be married within a | ANSONIA MAN IS SHOT TO DEATfi BUT LITTLE DISTANCE AWAY FROM HOME Victim Was to Have Been Married Shortly—Police Have Foihkd No Motive But Friends Believe Ansonia, ‘Oct. 1.—Santono Nozareno, in| the confessed slayer of Luigi De Biase in Danbury on the night of August § Jast. It is believed that Guerrise will plead guilty to a charge of man- slaughter. Air Mail Pilot Soars Over the ZR-1 Today | Garden City, N. Y., Oc. 1. Shirloy | | 7. Short an air mail pilot who land- | |ed here today said he passed the | ZR-1 over Reading, Pa., after sighting the dirigible one hundred miles away. The alr was cloudless and the sun reflected brightly from the ZR-1's gleaming siiver body sult of a Feud. DIAMOND RING STOLEN. A. W. Marx of 187 etréet has reported to the police that| a diamond ring valued at $400 has | been stolen from his home. The ring was the property of his wife and was taken from a dresser in the bed- room of the home. couple of months, to a young woman in this city and the police expected | before the day was over to uncover | clues which might lead to the identity | of the slayers. Nozareno had lived |in Callfornia and Chicago and Same | here last Good Friday. He lived | with his mother and married brother. | Some of the man’s friends thought |this morning the killing was the re- e o ————— sult of a feud. MAINE HAS SNOW, | The police later learned that the Gardiner, Me., Oct. 1.—Snow fell |dead man's right name was Naznrrno‘ here for a few minutes today fol the | Santoro. In tracing his movements| frst ime this season. | |they found he had visited the home) - S—_— {of his sweetheart, Miss Carmella Li-| | zata, on Pleasant strect, about a mile| laway from the place he was mur-; |dered. He left Pleasant street at 9| Jo'clock. County Coroner Mix came THE WEATHER e Hartford, Oct. | —Forecast of her trip to Bt I zation today with about $40,000 held s, where her 2 in a speelal fund for general expenses, “Separatists” for Sht&w‘ "; air navy crew will participate in the He set the totul recelpts for the year !'and paid out the cables until she had R. R. ENGINEERS, FIREMEN, ENGINEMEN " SERVE NOTICE FOR WA 'Former Want Minimum. of | | articles: ]fl\nl 30 days notice shall be given if | “ jeither party to it desires to negotiate shook Taito, Iermos: | Greenwood | | | shown in | day to Ansonia shortly before noon and for New Britain and vicinity: examined a number of witnesses. Three, who told somewhat conflicting temperature tonight. stories, were held by the police for|| | lrurthr-r examination this afternoon. —% Vair weather with slightly lower | | | ending August 31, 1923, at $087,880, jand total expenses at $662,308, Total membership of the federation was announced as 2,926,468 showing @ loss for the fourth consecutive year and of more than 260,000 in the past 12 months The high water mark of member- ship was attained in 1920 when the rolls of affiliated unions numbers 4,- 078,740, Detalls of the expenditures report showed the following items: Organizers’ expens and salaries, $187,618; legislative expenses includ- ing salaries of three legislative com- mitteemen $19,381; salaries at head- quarters $166,000; strike and lockout benefits $36,620; appropriation to United Mine Workers by executive councll, §14,523, Additional “contributions” made were $900 to “assist the Kansas state federation in efforts to repeal the state Industrial court law; $6,888 to united textile workers, quarry workers union and granite cutters, and $4,928 to the federation’s non-partisan campalgn fund. Of a total voting strength of 30,486 based on the average membership re- ported or paid up in the federation by 108 affiliated unions, the [United Mine Workers continued to be the largest: number of the federation's family with a paid membership of 4,049 the united brotherhood of car- penters and joiners being second with 3,160, The federation was comprised in the last fiscal year of 108 national International alr races which begin next Thursday. Tt was not yet dawn when the ground crew of the big navy dirigible warped her way out of the hangar reached an nititude of one thousand feet, Mechanies ang officers spent more than an hour in a final Inspec- tion before everything was pronounced in perfect trim. At the 1,000 feet clevation the ZR-1 encountered a 35 mile northwest wind. A8 she turned her nose to the west Commander Trank R. McCrary sent a wireless message to ground, saying: “On the way to 8t. Louls and re- turn. Flying 2,000 feet altitude. Speed 44 knots." Among. the 42 officers and men in the crew Is Col, C. G. Hall of the United States army on hoard as a military observer. The ZR-1 was scheduled to arrive in St. Louls not earlier than 7 o'clock tomorrow morning. Word was received at the air sta- the (Continued on Fourteenth Page) GE INCREASE showed, PIRACY IN BROOKLYN e Eight Masked Men Board Steamer at Dock, Bind Crew and Make Away $8 Per Day—Ner Haven Road’s Contract With Men Not of Definite Limi- tation. With the Strong Box. New York, Oct, 1.—Eight masked men boarded the freight steamer Bfidgetown at her Brooklyn dock late Jast’ night, overpowered and tied up her crew of 12 men, took the contents of the vessel's strong box and escaped in the rowboat whence they had come Albert I"idermich, the Bridgetown's first mate today told the police. TFidermich said an acetylene torch | had been used to open the strong box. | He said he did not know what it con- Cleveland, Oct. 1.—Wage increase requests for restoration of schedules in effect before the approximately 121% per cent reduction handed down by the United States railroad labor hoard on July 1, 1921, were being pre- sented to many railroads throughout the country today by representatives| of the brotherhood of locomotive en- gineers and brotherhood of locomotive firemen and enginemen whse contracts expire October 1. Joint actlon was being taken in many instances. This became known today with the announcement by Warren 8. president of the engineers, that cular of instructions had been mailed to the general chairmen and secretary treasurer of all general committees of adjustment f the engineers' hrother- hood, Instructing them to serve the d 80 days' notice on their re- spective managements at the etpira-] tion of the present schedule. The Instructions are that the 30 days notice be served on all roads where the present schedules expire The ship's | the box was almost empty. at his captai, "he explaimed, was | hom#& on’ shore. DEATH OF MRS. CULLINAN | Well Known FEast Main Street Wom- an Had Lived in City More Than 30 Years—Funeral Wednesday. Mrs, Bridget Cullinan, widow of the late Lot Cullinan and a resident of on or hetore October 1, 1928, | New Britain for more than 30 years, Want 88 Per Day. | died this morning at her home at 335 s | agt Main street. Mrs. Cullinan, who The engineers' circular of instruc-‘ was well known to many of the old- tion reads in part as fololws: | er townspeople and considered to be At the time you serve the required | oo of the oldest residents in this 30 days notice of your desire to open | city, was born in Ireland, but came to | hedule, present the following | America when a young woman. ¢ f oot She leaves six sons, John, Cornelius, *(1) That all rates in effect un-|pa¢rick, TLot, Jr, Michael and der decision No. 2 U. 5. Rallroad Ja-| charies, all of this city, and a daugh- bor hoard l‘frf:(‘“‘{‘ R‘I"' “R-‘I‘| 1, 1920, | tor, Mrs. Bridget Murphy, also of New and applicable to locomotlve en-| pujtain, Funeral services will be gineers be restordd in their entirety. | o1 Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock *(2) In all classes of service ““‘“az St. Mary's church and interment earnings of engineers from mileage| iy e in St. Mary's cemetery. FEAR MANY ARE KILLED your plicable for each day's service formed shall not be | dollars ($8.00) per da New Haven Road. New Haven, Oct. 1.—The contract between the N, Y, N, H. & H. rail- road and the brotherhood of Jocomo- tive engineers, it is understood, is not of a definite limitation. It provides|By The Associated Rress. Tokio, Oct. 1.——Sever sults of Which Have Not Ascertained. earthquakes Saturday de- a change. stroying many houses according It was not known here whether the | official reports received in Tokio. action taken by the head of the broth- | is red the loss of life was heavy. erhood in Cleveland would apply to| The shocks were continuing when the the New Haven road, but as no con- last reports was sent out tract expires today it was thought! There were several shocks around that action will be with only a certain | Shinzukoa on Hondo island about $0 number of roads which have the lim-| miles southwest of Tokio ~Sunday. ited contract referred to The most severe was at 3:30 p. m. Exports to Europe Fall STOKES CASE POSTPONED T New York, Oct. 1.—Bupreme Court Off But Not U. S. Trade Justice Mahoney, today postponed un- Washington, Oct. 1.—A slump of [til Wednesday the trial of the suit more than $18,000,000 in American ex- | for divorce brought by W. E. D. ports to Furope during August as|Stokes against Helen Elwood Stokes, compared with August a year ago is — statistics made pnblic to- by the commerce department. The deerease however was more than | made up by the increase of exports to other parts of the world' Little change in imports was shown as com- pared with Angust 19822 EX-MAJ. JOHNSON DIES, Haven, Oect. 1.-—Albert Johnson, T4, a former major com- manding the, Second company Gov- ernor's Foot Guards, died at his home | here Tast night. New M. and International unions the report: ! tained but expressed the opinfon that | | Formosa Has Severe Quake, The Re- | | Reen | | sing the hymn of victory too soon and | | { | [ to | 1t | moderation of the French enthusiasm Outbreak—Deny Security, Police Caused Trouble. ; By The Associated Pross. London, Oct. 1.—~A revolutionary movement originated by nationalist organizations has broken out at Kue-. strin, 50 miles from Berlin, says & Reuter's dispatch from the capltal, ! The insurgents attempted to disarm the garrison and occupy the fortress, but the commander of the reichs- wehr arrested the nationalist leaders and drove back the attackers. Troops Called Out. B Detachments ‘of the ' reichswehr * from neighboring towns, have 'M,‘ summoned to Kuestrin, the dispatch adds, and that téops have been ore: dered to suppress the revolt' ruthe i DR. GESSLER Minister of Defense lessly. As a result of the insurres- tion, Dr. Gessler, the minister of de= fense, has imposed a censorship on all news of a military character, * Kuestrin, a city of approximately 20,000 inhabitants, is.located in Bran=- denburg. The chief {industries aré the manufacture of copper and brass ware, Military Censorship. Berlin, Oct, 1.—A censorship has been imposed on all military news sent from Germany. By The Associated Press. French Take Charge Duesseldorf, Oct, 1.—French troeps are patrolling the streets of Duessel- dorf today, having assumed the entire responsibility of maintaining strict order. A formal state of siege has not been declared, but the curfew law, tightly closing activities from 11 p, m. (Continued on Fourteenth Page). RUHR DIFFICULTIES FAR FROM OVERGOME Premier Poincare Says Fu- ture Holds Graver Proh- lems Than Past Bar le Due, Oct, Tet l.~f"f)'0h'! above all dno't let the government get excited” said Premier Poincare today in speaking fo the council of the department of the Meuse. His address was devoted to advocating over the surrender of the Germans, “We are far from having finished with our difficuities” the premier as- serted. “They will be more numerous and graver in the future than the past.” France, he added, conscious o7 her own strength, should wait patiently and calmly for Germany to show & real desire to pay her reparations obligation. Obviously referring to the rloting in Duesseldorf yesterday, M. Pofneare sald: “Fortunately our {roops motint guard on the Rhine. They restore order even when disturbed by the Gee- mans.” 7 The premier referred to the peop! lation of Lorraine as mare. sig of the Germans than the fest of the (Continued on Twelfth Page)