New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 12, 1923, Page 1

NEW BRITAIN HERALD | ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW, BRITAIN ALCOF2 ——————————— ————————— STENGEL GETS 2nd HOMER AGAIN WINNING FOR TEAM ———e ) CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1923 ‘fnaw YORK SALES G ™ NURDERED AND RoBBeD Body Pound and Gageod in West 79th Poliee Find Nearly Nude Street Furnished Room New York, Oct 12—The almost nude hody of Miss Estelle Phillips, department store sales woman, was ~TWENTY-EIG}I FEW PAVOR MOVE Stand on Tnter.School Games May | Meet With Opposition—Com - mittee to Act Today. Principal L. P, Glade's communiea- tion to the schoo! committee urging that action be taken to discontinue . BY PRINCIPAL SLADE' EXTRA IT PAGES, PRICE THREE CENTS ;“Warrants Pending For Mills, Dehm and Covert, Former For Accepting Bribe To Influence | Official Conduct and Others For “Aiding And Abetting In Commission Of Crime.” | Hartford, Conn,, Oct. 12.—Bench warrants may be asked of GIANTS WINNERS. 1TO 0: AY ARREST 3 inter-school athletic contests will find | [its way into the hands of a eub.| the superior court by State’s Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn for the |committee’s hands at this afternoon's arrest of 1. Willie Mills, federal enforcement officer, State Sena- found bound and gagged early today in her Wast 87th strest furnished room " Pipp Forced to Leave Game| With Injured Ankle and Ruth Takes His Place— Bahe Gets One Single, Walks Twice and Fans Once. Venkee Stadium, Oct. 12.—~The New York Giants, with the ald of Casey Siengel's mighty bat, staged a come-back this afternoon, defeating the New York Yankees, { to 0. in + game that scintillated with brilliant | plays amd superh pitching. Stengel lined ont his second home run of the serles in the seventh inning. Nehf pitched for the Glants ‘and Sad Sam Jones was on the mound for the| Yanks. Babe Ruth singled on his| first teip to the plate, and fanned on his second time at bat. Pipp's ankle went hack on him and he was forced to leave the zame, Ruth going to first base in his. stead. . First Inning. Glants—RBancroft first up fiied out Meugel, Seott fumbled Groh's uinder and the batter was safe. | flied oqut to Witt. Young lined out to Witt, who came in fast to | malke the cateh. No runs, no hits, 1 er- for. | ? § R Witt at | ; S & 5 : 3 Yauks-—-Frisch tossed out first. Bancroft threw out Dugan. The crowd cheered Babe Ruth as he came | up to bal. Ruth singled over second. | Meusel flied out to his hrother, who made a great catch as the ball went into the left field stand. No runs, 1 hit, no error. Second Jnning. Giants—Meusel flicd out to Brother Bob. Witt took Stengel's fly. Kelly sent up a high one to Scott. No runs, no hils, no errors. Yanks--Pipp up. Pipp fouled out to Kelly, Ward popped to Snyder. | Schang flied fo Bancroft. | No runs, no hits, no errors. Third Inning Giants—Scott took Suyder's hopper and threw him out. Neht fanned. Ward threw out Bancroft. No runs, no hits, no errors. Yanks—Bancroft made a nice stop of Scott's grounder and got him at| 3 first. Jones struck out. Witt struck ARTHUR I\EHF WINNING PITCHER out on three pitched balls. -— 7 s L. No runs, no hits, no errors. Yankees — Meusel flied out to Fourth Inning. Young. Pipp got a base .on balls. Giants—Scott threw out Groh.|yarq forced Pipp, Nehf to Bancroft I'risch beat out a bunt for the Giants|q jyorigen. Pipp slid into the bag and first hit. Young flied out to Ruth.|yy,naq his injured ankle. He rolled Meusel flied out to Ruth who caught|,vep o the ground and the club doc- the ball near the fence. No rum, ON@itor was called to attend to him, the hit, no error. game beiiig halted. Pipp was lifted to Yanks—Dugan sent long hit 10/} oot and walked to the bench vight for two bases. Ruth walked. o coor S0 PR 0 tor had Meusel hit into a double play, Ban-| o 1104 his injured ankle in ban croft to Frisch to Kelly, ~DUBaN|gugeq play was resumed. Schany went to third. I'risch threw out singled ifto left, Ward going to sec BBt NoTun O hit, Ho; error, ond. Groh took Scott's grounder and Fitth ‘Inning [touched third. No runs, 1 hit, Ho Giants—Stengel up. Stengel strolled | {00 to first. Kelly hit into a double play ¥ : Jones to Scott to Pipp. Scott threw out Snyder. No runs, no hits, no er- rors. o.._-.-_.-..»-.__-.-w BOX SCORE i ) - 0o ‘Bancroft, ss ... | Groh, 3b Frisch, 2b rYoung, rf ..... 1. Meusel, if . | Stongel, of . Kelly, 1b snyder, ¢ .. Nehf, p. .. hth Inning Giants—Ruth went to first base in |place of Pipp and Haines went into Yanks—Both pitchers were going |right field. Nehf singled into left. great guns, \Ward ripped off a single Bancroft struck ont (:m_h fanned into left, Schang forced Ward, ¢Groh [Joncs tossed out Frisch. No runs, to I'riseh. Scott scratched an infleld [Kit, no errors. hit. Jones hit into a double play, | Yanks—Hofmann batted for Jones,' Pipp. Ib . Frisch to Bancroft to Kelly. No runs, [ Hofmann popped to Frisch. Witt got Ward. 2b 2 hits, no errors, |a single through the box. Dugan | Schang. ¢ Sixth Tuning forced Witt, Groh to Frisch. 'Ruth | Scott. Neht grounded ont to Pipp |walked. Meusel flied out to Stengel, | Jones. p . unassisted. Banecroft got a base on [No runs, | hit, no errors ‘u',;i.:;‘., " walls, Groh fouled out to Dugan offinan I‘:‘Iiil'h singled into Ninth Inning Bush. » vight, Raneroft | coing to second. Ward threw out! Giants—Bush went into the box for - - Young, making a nice play of it. No the Yankees. Young up. Meusel 0 627 9 1 runs, 1 hit, no errovs atted for Jomes in the eighth. took Young's fly. Meusel sent up a Yanks—Groh threw out Witt. Du. high fly Scott. Ruth took Sten Seore by innings gan flied out to Yonng, Ruth st ick (gel's grounder and touched first. No ont. No rung, no hits, no errofs, runs, no hits, no errors, Seventh Tnning Glants—VMeusel filad out out Haines. er again making the putout called strike. The Yankees made » Htengel, the hero of the first same and | vigorous kick, presumably claiming the man who has heen huffetod ahowt 'that Snyder had been gullts of bat from pillar to post in baseball, again tipping. Umpire Nallin wonld not al took his position at the at The law the claim and ordered the Yan crowd gave him a cheer, but few ex [kees to the Groh threw pected him to again distinguish him- (Schang at first. No runs, no hits self. The 33 vear old outfielder hitch- errore ed up his ra, pulled his cap| oo dowm over his rubbed sand on . . s bat handle Zip-—the Bica ball sped toward him like a bullet from a machine gun Whang ' Bat | land ball met and away streaked the S —— little sphere into the right field grand- FOOD RIOTS IN BERIAN tand, while the erstwhile underdog of | By The Agociated Fress, he big lea around the | Berlin, Oct 12— Food rinte kacks for his second homer of the (red this moerning in of peries and the first of today's |densely popnlated sections where the i game. The great ¢ went wild |pePulation is without potatoes or | (With enthustasm as Stengel crossed imeat. In both instances, according to | g he plate and even his own teammates the the forgot their baseball disnity and gave disorders were unemployed men who | im & rousing welcome as he slipped aceompanicd their raids by | ek into the dougout Kelly the witt. of | Dugan, sh i Gath, ef Moeuse Giants -3 % b to R. H. E | Giants 000000 1001 4 0 Yanks Two base hits, Dugan: home runs, stengel: bases on balls, off Jones 2 in 8 innings; off Nehf, 8; struck out, by Jones, 3 in 8 ianings; by Bush, 1; by Nehf. #; double plays, Bancroft to Frisch to Kelly; Jones to Secott o Pipp: Frisch to Bancroft to Kelly. Yankees —Haines up. Groh threw his broth Ward fanned, taking a Cagey beneh ont |Evans at 2nd; O'Day at 3rd. DISCUSSES BUSINESS | Washington Oct 12 —-Business o |conditions were discussed by Presi |Jdr'v|' Coolidge today with Heckscher, New York realtor and Dallett H. Wiison, Behlehem, Pa., at- torney and publisher of the Bethle | hem Times who were accompanied by | Harry M. Blair, assistant treasurer of |the refublican nattonal committee . weanted Giants 5 1 Yankees LI aceur Berlin's ges trotted two rin 11 DEAD IN SOLINGEN The »iated Pre \dorl, Oct The dis hich began last evening British occupied territory jed today the casualty list now totalling 11 dead | ineluding the commisesary of po- | tee and 35 wounged, police, those responsible for Due orders were in at Solingen in {many women When they attempted | rext man up, filed out to Meusel and |to Drotect the food shops the police | Ward threw out Synder. 1 run, 1 hit, | Were attacked by the mobs 10 CTrOrs. |arrests ware made conti Man A large handkerchief was knotted around her throat, an open handbag luy at her feet and a burean drawer was open when Miss Catherine Mej. {trin, another roomer, entered Miss Phillips room to arouse Ler at 7 | o'clock = There were no evidences of |a struggle, . I Police sald a man who occupied an adioining room for a week was being |sought to learn if he conld give in. formation on the murdsr. This about 9 abopt 1 | man arrived at the house ln'rlnrk last night and | a'clock this morning. CONMUTATION RATE - DECISION TOHORROY left i‘l' (. C. Bound by Law to | Render Decision hy } 4:30 p. m, Saturday | BT GEORGE H. MANNING (Washingten Bureaw of New Eritain He Washington, D¢ Cy Oct, 12. }interstate cammekce sgomunssion declde tonigrrow fyhkthar WYYl per- nitt the New York, New Havéi Hartford railroad.in put into effact session of the school committes, it was reported today, and the requested expression of opinton will not be given until the committes looks into the situation That the report will probably not be made for some time to come was another opinion ventured by the committee members among whom the High school prinelpal's recommendation does not find favor. At this afternoon’s meeting dates {for graduation will be fixed as fol lows Senfor High school, February ‘I. at 8 p. m.. Central Junior High school, Friday, Mebruary 1 at 2 p. m; hu Burritt Junior High school, Friday, February 1, at 10 a. m The committee will recelve the fol- lowing bids on the removal of ashes ,n R. Walker, $1,025; Waldemar Hefmann, $1,100; J P. Magnire, $1,800; J. J. Donahue, $1,550 Action will be taken on the pur chase of a new piano for the East street schoal, and contracts to furnish | educational moving pictures for the i sehool department. { Tt will be recommended waiver be signed guaranteeing the | New Britain Gas Co. against any | damages in the event that the Wash- | ington school ''settles” after service has been provided, Numerous committee reports will be presented; i that a Inext Monday the proposed increased | | passenger commutation rates over fts | !lines between Connecticut points and | & | commuters 0 aple it will 000 0000000 6 0 | Umpires—Nallin at plate; Hart at 1st; | August | | between Connecticut points and New { York and the New England cities or | whether it will postpone the effective | date of the new schedules for 120 days [to gite opportunity for full hearing |and investigation as to their fairness. A decision is scarcely possible to- day, it was said by interstate com- | merce commission officiai this morn- ing, but a decision one way or the | other is imperative tomorrow hecause ‘formm protest against the rates, and |appeal to the commission for reliet {from the alleged unreasonable ad- vances has been filed by numerous Connecticut commuters living in Nor- {walk, Milford, Stamford, Greenwich, Rowayton and other Connecticut cities. The commission is compelled, by law, to grant or deny the appeals of |the commuters before the close. of business at 4:30 tomorrow afternoon. The protest of the Connecticut was reinforced yesterday when the commission received pro- tests against the rates signed by three or four hundred commuters living in | Massachusetts and Rhode Island. | If the commission denies the ap- | peal of the. commuters the new rates, affecting increases ranging from 20 to 45 per cent, will go into effect Monday morning. If the commission decides the new rates are unreason- postpone them for four | months to give opportunity for a :vomp]rlv investigation. TRUCK CRASHES AUTO New Haven Man's Machine Over- turned—One Child, Badly Hurt— Driver of Big Vehicle Is Arrested. | Bridgeport, Oct. 12. Jr., aged four, suffered a possible 0} the skull when the auto- fracture of | mobile driven by his father, James | Brown, of 144 Plymonth street, New | Haven, in were Mrs. Brown and their two children was overturned in collision with a motor truck at Southport early today., The truck driver was arrested which SENT TO PRISON Oct. 12 —Clinton Bus who stole New Haven, of Ansonia lof clothes worth $100 was sent maore sie to |prison for two and not than three years, today by Judge Jennings | 3 OFFICERS RE-ELECTED St. Paul, Oct 1 All officers and | directors of the Great Northern rail. way were re.elected at the annual stockholders’ meeting here yesterday OBSERVE COLUMBUS DAY Chicago, Oct 12-~The Chicago stock exchange' and the board of | trade were closed today in cbservance | of Columbus Day PRUPNSSIN WHEATHER -0 Oct, 11.—Forecget Britain and vicinity Fair tonight and Friday, with little change in temperature, moderate variable winds THE Hartford for New James Brown, fonr suits | AT SOUND B |Woman Attacked by Two ‘i Men and Fiancee Wounded ; When He Goes to Her Aid New York, Oct. 12 e vietim of a mysterious shooting, Milton | Maas, wealthy vice-president of a | chemical corporation and resident of | Asbury Park, N. Ji, is in a Stamford, | Conn., hospital today after an ex- | perience last night at the Sound Beach, Conn., home of Mrs. Ida M. ! Leslie, a wildow and former actress. Prosecutor White and a corps of as- | sistants were at Sound Beach early | today to begin an investigation of two stories of the aifair told by Maas and | Mrs. Leslie. The shooting occurred at 7:30 o'clock last night, according to the story of Mrs. Leslie, who is an attrac- tive woman of 30 and maintains a !beautiful estate on Ledge road, Sound Beach. She was Maas' fiancee, she said. . “He reached Scynd Beach by train 'at 7 p. m.,” she continued. “A half { hour later I started for a walk on the beach with my two dogs, leaving Mr. Maas in the living room. As 1 reached the porch two men sprang from the shrubbery, throttied me and | threw me down. I struggled and | sereamed. Mr. Maas came rushing out, As he reached the porch a third man leaped from the bushes and fired twice. Mr. Maas collapsed and 1 almost fainted.” Neighbors heard the carried him into the honse and afterward sent him to the Stamford hospital. One bullet had penetrated his body, pass- ing out at the back and lodging in {the house wall Another lodged in { his shoulder. After having | shots heen operated on at the hospital Maas told his version at | | the shooting | "I had just arrived and was enter ing the hallway Mrs. Leslie's home," he said, heard her seream from one of the rooms. Sud denly two men the hallway from the living room and one of them oper T went down the first shot alt 1 member.” Mr. Maas of | when 1 entered d fire on me That is re Bestdes he main unmarried his home at Park tained an apartment at a Broadway | hotel in this city Henry V. Walker, |of Newark, N. J, president of Maas |and Waldstetn Co Greenwich, to conanlt White abont the shooting Ashury with Prosecutor Oct. 12-—Mre lda friend of Milton A Maas and New York while he Greenwich Miles Leslie, |of Asbury Park, N J | eity, who was shot last night | was in her home at. Sound | does not believe that robbery was the | motive, pointing to the fact that after | she had been attacked in front of her | home, three young men who had sud denly jumped over a hedge to reach her, 4id not attempt take the jewelry she was wearing. . | After the attack upon Mrs Leslie eaid, she was warned to keep | quiet and of the men ran toward the house the third stood by to her while two (Continued on Sixth Page) at | went last night to | Beach. | {tor Richard C. Covert and Alderman Cornelius J. Dehm, all of | New Britain, it was stated by the district attorney this afternoon {but he declined to say how soon action, if any, would be taken. | The three men were found in the rear room of a Southington Inn {Tuesday night. | Mr. Alcorn said he has action under consideration and might {move at any time, He said that if a bench warrant were asked | |against Mills, it would be on the charge of “receiving something ' to influence his conduct in office” while charges against Covert !and Dehm would be those of “aiding and abetting in the commis- |sion of a crime.” i Mr. Aleorn would not disclose Ahe nature of his evidence which he claims to have. | Mr. Alcorn said that the case of Mills was somewhat similar | |to that of McAuliffe, former federal agent, in which, it was al- [leged, he accepted money from Detective Sergeant Richardson of {New Britain for protection to rum runners. McAuliffe died be- fore his case was tried. Richardson served a term in state prison. State's Attorney Hugh M, Al- corn told theh “Herald” this aft- erneon without uivocatiof that he had heard flfgt J. ngig Mills, prohibition enforcement officer, “and his companions” had furnished protection to the tSouthingbon Inn, in - 'RUHR HINERS SIGN UP - T0 RESUME THER WORK ! French Reach Agreement at Dorst- | feld and Bergfield Minos—Offi- cials to Return Again. 2.=~Al 3% + I ‘between the Ge: iners’ unfens and the French au- oritiés for the return to work of all hat's why wi s the miners and afficials of the Dorst- by v we raided the by féld mine, one of the largest in the | Mr. Aleorn added. . Town Home In- Hospital With Fractured Shoulder. mate, at plans of {Island of Syke Family Has Record for Old Age Oct 12.—~From the island of Syke com claim to the record for family longevity Alexander An- London tied vears b A, Rutir, which the [rench occupled | SSkQflf whether he would take isome time ago to exploit it them- an¥ criminal action against ! selves. 2% Mills, Mr. Alcorn replied: “I |, A similas dgreenent was made for| haver't dasided th b | the Bergfeld mine in the; same dis-| 750 1S feclde at yet. | trict. 3 and Al;il: N b Falsed Fo UE. Under the agreement all the - ex#ff 700 i""””’ Cornelius J. Dehm, pelled miners, officials and gffice em- | Presldent pro tem. of the common ployes are allowed to return. | Gouncil will appear in superior court |at 3 o'clock Monday afternéon as | T v T L oy | Witnesses against Lynch, who was BRINGING “THE WOLF" BAGK |35, i e vt ;youterdny afternoon and who is at | "bffilf under a bond of $1,000, | Mills, Cove: | David Lamar Starts Today With Po-| the case beC::s: n&e};)c:x;cer:‘:z;én’t: G . z1 | ® back room of the inn when it wi lice Guard on Long Trip From Ll‘ raided Monday night by County D:f Paso to New York to Stand Trial.| tective Edward J. Hickey, Charles | Risley of the county detective force | Bl Paso, Oct. 12.—David Lamar, and Federal Agent John Kelleher, [the wolf of Wall street, last night| Mills Under Sus; began his long journey back across| Since the discovery that Mills was the continent to New York city|Present when the raiders swooped whence he fled eight months ago|down on the place, Mills has been while under sentence for interfering|Suspended from duty by Frank G. | with foreign commerce during the| Putney, federal prohibition = enforce- war. Lamar was jailed here Tuesday | Ment director. The “Herald” tried after a long chase in the United| !0 et in touch with Mr. Putney sev- States, Canada anfl Mexico. ?\'x?l times today, but was unsuccess- A conference was held late yester- DISLOCATES SHOULDER asy vr str. atcorn, atr. putney, Ax ! sistant State’s Attorney Gideon, U. 8, {WOMAN OF 90 FALLS AND District Attorney Alan K. Smith, hia ! R i‘mnt. John A, Danalier, and the ) officers who conducted the rald. Mrs. Matilda West, | was following the conference that M{-t. General Putney announced that Mills had Leen suspended. Mr. Alcorn was aroused when he Mrs. Matilda Vest, age 90 years and | lcarned that the inn was being “‘pro- an inmate at the town home, is at|tected.” His statement to the the New Britain General hospital | “Herald” today clears up any doubt suffering with a dislocated shoulder|8s to whom he suspects of furnishing as the result of a fall at the institu-|the “protection.” tion this morning. She was admitted| When the raiding squad visited the to the hospital at 11 o'clock. At the|!nn, it is said they found three men town home it was stated that she|Standing in front of an improvised tell. while in: her voom, bar about to drink from full glasses. P drl : Lynch is sald to have been serving the L % 4 drinks. Berlin to Buenos Aires in In a back room they found Miils, N s Dehm and Covert with a bottle and P've l)ays, Ger mans th | three glasses on the table. The squad Lakehurst, N. J,, OQct. 12.-~The |searched the place and fs ®aid to have linking of Berlin and Buenos Aires|found some gin and a quantity of by a five day dirigible mail and pas- | beer stronger than the law permits, senger service is the object of ne-| Aleorn Not Interested in P. O. Berth gotiations which have been under way | Whether the ratd will have any for some time between powerful Ger. bearing on Senator Covert's candidacy man and Argentine interests. This|for the postmastership is a topie announcement was made last night | which was widely discussed today, It by Captain Anton Heinan, German |is said that Covert's chances to get Zeppelin _expert and pilot of the |the appointment were bright A navy's Shenandoah, formerly the| The “Herald” asked Mr. Alcorn |ZR-1 who said the were well | whether he would oppose the appoint- advanced ment if Covert were nominated. “I'm | not interested in that phase the | case at all" he sald All Three Active in G. O. P. Mills, Dehm and Covert have been prominent in republican polities for several vears Mills was appointed special pereopal tax collector in 1916, - holding office for three years until n. the father of this remarkable | yuvor paonessa was euccesstnl in lived an average life and |, ing the office of personal tax col- mans 280, but his chil- | \.otor and property tax collector con- iren, all of whom are Hving, have at- | o15ated. He was appointed a fed- tained the following ages: Anne, 81|,.4) prohibition enforcement offieer veare: John. 83 Mary, 87; Rachael | i 1927 and, until his suspension, was 84, Angus. 81; Marion, 78; Flora, 75. | connected with the Waterbury bureau. The average age is 831 vears | He is a member of the republican o~ __|town committee from the second GERMAN TAX CALCULATIONS ;‘."d Berlin, Oct 12.—President Ebert| Dehm has been in polifies sinee has issued a decr whereby taves | 1916 when he was elécted to the com- henceforth will calculated on a < i igou mark basis, | (Continued on Twenty-Fifth Page) Le