New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 7, 1923, Page 1

Ncws of the World By Associated Press — ESTABLISHED 1870 FORBES ASKED BY HARDING 0 QUIT Late President Acted Alter Noting Insubordination GENERAL SAWYER TESTIFIES Declares That Veferans' Divector Had dent’s Order Not to Dispose of Any Materials, Washington, Nov. 7.—President Harding called for the resignation of Charles R. Forbes as director of the veterans' bureau as a result of the Perryville, Maryland, surplus supply sale transaction, Brigadier General Charles Sawyer, personal friend and physician to the late executive, testified today before the senate vet- €rans’ committee, Disobeged Orders. (General Bawyer testified that in the face of an order by the president that the shipments of supplies from Perry- Lille be stopped, carloads of materials were sent out for two or three days. “As o result of this insubordina- tion Colonel Forbes was asked to re- ' Gendral Sawyer said. neral Sawye who is nator for the neral hospits Lpard, read to committes pared statement re More Surpl co-ordi- Ization pre- the whole He said that 12 days after had been entered Thompson and Kelly Com- gany, Ine., of Boston, Surgeon Gen- eral Cnmming of the public health reported to him that supplies yville were being sold regard- public health service needs, Had Heated Session. Dr. Sawyer accoimpanied Dr. Cum ming to the veterans' bureau and asked for a conference, it after quite a ference,” the witnes Forbes wa health the matter confercnce g garding saction Nov of sale , or the contract into with servies of was heated con- continued, “that Colone! persusded the public considered at all, “Alter t) I took the matter up with President Harding and ke requested to procecd at once to Perryville what was going on, Aee m this trip w General Camming and Dr Smith (Dr, Ir rick C, Smith of the public health fee) Upon arrival at found great activity going on in the mutter ot shipping supplies. Inves. tigation showed thut one large truck toud of towels wis just being moved of the buildings. the authority by the me to see ompanying on re Perryville we ont of A sutning been given me that had president, 1 - ed the Mhoe in charge to have the materiuls unloaded and ask ed him to await further orders before any other shipment was made. He gave his word that such order would e issued by him and that all shipping lings would until this was fiually determined, Reported To President “Returning home, I made a state- ment to the president, telling him that 1 felt sure that very valuable materials ded by Veterans' bureau nd the public health serviee disposed of at great loss to proces matter crase much ne nhospitals o vas being the dered position of government through me that further dis- untll there was compliance with the oy told the woman: executive order requiring a division of | g up Bureau | Disregarded Presi- | | this property should stop | was standing at a rear doorw |correct age of the boy. Average Daily Circulation Week Fndmg 9 944 Nov. 3rd . NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 7, 1923, —-SIXTEEN PAGES. THREE BANDITS STEAL GEMS | WORTH $75,000 FROM STORE AT COR. BROADWAY AND 47th Hundreds Passing 'Busy New York Jewelry House At Time But Crooks—Proprietor And Assistant Locked In| Small Closet. New York, Nov. 7.-—~While hundreds were passing the busy corner at Broadway and 47th street today, three v(ell-dressed men entered the jewelry store of Julius Howard, forced the proprietor and his clerk, Murray Kan- ter, into a rear room, and rified show- cases of jewelry valued at $75,000, The bandits escaped. One man entered the store luggin a big sample case and agked for t) proprietor, saying he wanted to sh¢ Uncle Guardian Mother Deserted 8 Years Ago YOUNGEST RUM RUNNER IN' POLICE HISTORY John Sowa, Aged 16, Bound Over to December Superior Court was found in the Probuble case of Jolil Sowa, 16 year old youth, cause that {who was arraigned before Judge B.| erviee should be|w. Alling in police court this morning on a charge of fllegally transporting liquor,snd the youth was bound over 1o the next term of the superior court at Hartford which convenes on the | wecond Tuesday in December. He was released under bonds of $500 furnish- ed by friends. Prosecutor Willlam Greenstein presented (dhe slate's case. The case had been continued from yestorday morning to determine the Probation Ofticer Edward C. Connolly stated the figures at the office of the state labor burcau showed that he has passcd his 16th birthday and will be 17 on Bat- urday of this week. BSowa was repre- sented by Attorney Willlam I, Man- | gan, | Policeman Willlam Doherty testified that on Monday night he had gone to a house on Acorn street in response to a complaint. While there, he said, he stood on the steps of the rear veranda in such a position that he commanded a clear view of the side | and part of the front of the house. A roadster pulled up in front of the house and a youth got out, went to the rear and took a five gallon can from the machine. The officer suid that the young man came to the rear of He immediately or- the house and leaving the can on the who The “Here is your I had a hard job to get it.’ veranda, spoke to the woman the property at Perryville on the basis Ofricer Doherty said that he placed \.|-|1|m bu- tdr the public for the cent cent 0 per servies of 80 per reaus and health “Within a day or two a secor terence was held with Colonel Morbes, including General Cumming, Dr. smith and myself, and we recelved a written agreement from Colonel 1"orbes that the provisions of the exe- cutive order would be carried out, Col to understand by a signed agreement that no further shipments would be made until the the utive or- der had been executed. About three weeks later to me from a public health that malerials con- Forbe onel positively letter of exe word came representative of the Perryvilie being shipped; all wervice at still wer 126 carloads in jad been for- 1 to Thompson and Kelly Tumed Deal Par took the subject up with 1ent he immediatels d said to him Re direct the the pres called ¢ that nothing v gardless of this ther must go order, however (Continued on Third Page) WOMAN KILLS WOLF Ransas Farmer's Wite Wickds Wickesd Pitehfork and Havager of Hen Roost Bites Pust. ¥ No 7 farmer Valls, K Cottar Mre, 4. K. Adams, er, killed a esterday tacked in her of a wolf with a pitch- the animal viel learing & com yard, Mrs thinking the which she eas- near fork ously motion Adams seized a nvader was a coyote vi could frighten away. Tustead, the red i upon her chicken “tick had time to before struck tines of Adams pit My hork and turn animal LU fork, and_when it changed tac- ties and rushed at her from the other je, Tuckily plerced the neck and pinioned W 1 v Two mall Adogs $prans wolf and Mre. Adams Plow on the svalch a 1he the wa npor twice with the wolf's ground pon the then killed it with head TREES BLOSSOM 7 k. Wileos pple APPIA New Haven, of West Haver blossoms have tree in his back 1 Yefare reports 1 Apeared vard which ha {sald that a “‘man on the that practi- | told aleo of him ong boy He corner West and @ak streets had given the llquor. The man had « beard, the boy told the officer Mrs. Mary Vegan, who was talking with the policeman when the rived, testified that she did not know Sowa and that the liquor was her. She said that®the boy told her in Polish that man had there with the liguor, Chief Willlam €. Hart testified that the automobile is in the municipal garage and as yot no one has come to claim it Bowa, when called 1o the stand said that a man at the corner of We and Oak strects had asked him if he wanted to earn a dollar and when he replied in the affirmative he told what it wouid be necessary for him to do He said that he should take a can turn down the first street to the right and it at the first house Sowa dented that he was riding in an mobile. -~ Pollceman Doherty hat from West strect the second street off hot the first Judge Alling in cdise sald that the covering someone According records at police 1‘,,4,,‘,‘,1,7. is the youngest man to te the enperior court on a transporting liquor ¥y 16, was sentenced days in jal. Judgment w ed on conftion that he ment Sowa under @rrest and the him he was 19 years old boy ar a sent him auto testificd Acorn street is Oak street a finding probabie boy is evident! und over charge of cha with violating to ¢ d find émploy 18 susper Ansonia Rum Seller Gets 60 Days Jail Sentence Ansonia, Nov Tony Meleho was given 60 days in jall by Judge M . Tebell in the city conrt this morn Ing on charges of slling liquor, The police visited the place Mondasy aft and found asbotte concealed the sink from which Melcho is id to have dispensed drinks for fer and 1 Mot Jrne ernoon rente 1927 ¢ 1he fined ir ilegn made it and mage s morning FAMOUS SURGEON DiEs Not r Alex B one of Canada’s outstanding Atad trday was 62 Montreal Garrow, corgeons v e He years ol HOUSE BY 18 VOTES Senate Majority Wl Remain at Six After Election ,DEMOGRATS GAIN SOME —_— Murphy and Al Smith Hit Hard At Hearst Do Not Notice Daring him some rings and watches of a new design. Mr. Howard walked back to his o desk with the stranger and turned to find himself facing a revolver. Two | other men entering the store cornered | Kanter whose curiogity had been aroused by the first man's actions a' e weagprd's desk. | ~ator and clerk were | C ~'oset where “ iefr | 41 S and | ”“pt. “t“ Liby 0[ Llnlu. & New York, Nov. 7.—Charles Murphy, leader of Tammany hall, today issued a statement in which he attacked Williamn Ran- dolph Hearst for his failure to support the democratic judici- ary ticket in yesterday's elec- tion, He said the voters by their ballots had rebuked Mr, Hearst for his attitude. Governor Smith also issued a statement in which he said: “There can be no question from the figures about the at- titude of the people of Manhat- tan and the Bronx as to the self appointed guardian of the interests of the people, William Randolph Hearst He regie tered on October and ran away to Florida failed to vote for the he ad Vincent Petrucci (ii\'enj vocated in his papers, He un Legal Custody of Hls1 ;@fl:::;;3.;“%;1,1:",'.‘m.‘lf" Brother’s Famxlyby(ourt‘ R of Probate. Ay, and candidates L ’I dect Governors in Kentucky, Mary- | land and Miss,—N, Y, State Assem- Vincent Petrucel, a brother of An- drew Petrucei of 69 Henry street who was buried this morning, has been named guardian of three minor children of the decedent, their moth- er having deserted the family eight years ago, taking with her three younger children. Action for the ap- pointment of Vincent as guardian was carried to probate court yesterday | Vermont, where the only senatorial afternoon by Attorney David L. Nair, | contest was held, returned a repub Andrew Petrucci died Novembe | liean—Porter H | His ehildren, Marie, aged 17; Albert, | P'ark H. Pollard, |agea %, and Susan, aged 12, had | Coolidge made their home with him since their In the mother left in 1916, She took with [the democrats won four and the re- her three children, Philomeni, aged | publicans three, one of the republi- 16, Jennie, aged 14, and Louls, nged |can victories being an upset in which 12, and has not’been heard from di- | former Representative Fairehild de- rectly since that time. feated his democratio opponent for The children has received lndlrect the place made Vacant by the death information that their mother is liv- {of J. Vincent Ganley in the 24th New ing in Rhode Island, but efforts to|¥ork district. Party alignment locate her have been unavatling. | unchanged in the other congr MINER GETS VERDIGT | - ‘4 K icky Goes Democratic, bLly Falls Into Republican Hands— Vermont Names Semator Dale, The Assoclated Pross. Democrats were elected yesterday 1in ail three states where there w gubernatorial elections Kentucky, {Maryland and Mississipp! By b. cousin of President seven contests for the house, The victory of the democrats | Kentucky, where Representative llam J. Flelds defeated Charles Dawson, represented a swing of pendulum which at the last election |swept Governor Edwin I, Morrow, | republican, into office. Mr, Fields' majority was decisive and he [ have a democratic legisiature to sup | port him Governor Ritchie, re-elected in Maryland over Alexander Armstrong, {republican, had an increased nmjur |ity over his first election | Whitfield, democrat, had no [tion in Mississippi In New York state the Hpulllnunh retained control of the gene as- sembly, but the demoeratic vu‘umm |ticket in Manhattan and the Bronx was spent into office, overwhelming Ithe republican and independent [ticket supported by William |Heart. The soldiers’ bonus apparent- ly was carried and the Hydro-Elec- triec power project beaten Local issues were voted on in ous sections of the country turned down a $50,0¢ for good roads. Ohio elected mayors supportea by the Ku Kiux Kian ir Youngstown, Portsmouth, Akron and several smaller cities. Philadelphia returncd W. Freeland Kendrick, re publican, as mayor, by over- whelming majority In Miss the in Wil- 1. Action for New Plainville Student Wins $750 Against George L. Haven Tutor, Fox, Nov. 7 vers was returned | George L. Fox, who has a tutoring school heer, in favor of Bidred L. Minor of Plainv'le today because of statements made in a certificate made out by M. Fox where the University Virginia sought information as to Minor's scholastic abilities. Minor had made application to enter the uni- versity and is a student there at pres- ent A jury against | New Haven, diet of $750 1». posi ROTARY VICE- PRESIDENT James H. Robinson of Hart & Cooley vari- Virginia 1,000 bond issue Suoce L. Clayton Flected o Goodwin At Meeting Priday H. Robinson, vice-president and sales manager of Hart & Cooley, was elected vice-president the otary club at a meeting of the board of directors this noon. Mr. Robinsor takes the place of E. Clayton Goc deceased James an [linois, first woman ircuit court Cook county led the ticket E and the de superior Mary N. Bartelme be elevated to was elected and t won, w 1dge Family Cat Saves l'amfl\ From Fire in Waterbury The Babnis acket when way adjoining o'clock this - A ship . is The repubi republica mocrats nine can family cat in 148 on Ausoniay Nov. 7 oot home of John street made such a fire started the kitchen morning, that the to escape in their night ¢ cut off the exit to the story tenement, but the inmates made way through an unoccupled ment on the same floor, Lo the The e, the origin of which , gutted the pool room of n the ground floor, the building and tenants at §5,000, partly cov insurance. The building Is Henry Spero jeweier 1 the proper Canal the ana egislature re a n the notwithstanding palgn waged democrat, for a The ing body. Amer sceond | who waged ican column in : cam family was enabled thes = . ldates under the ireh and blaze sle State Mayor Francisco, The congressional ¢ two houses line-uy House crats, valy; publica The R AP pa resuits of 1t reput of Sar street is unknow ohn Dra dargages to being estimated by owned by who months a w re-elected atorial and will the ¥ g ections leave the congress with teg W H farmer teper = lat repit purc ancies 100 Years Old But Has Not Seen Movie, Ridden in Auto No Madame Celestine | or the characters celebrated her 100th s ulnn"lv the city versary. today presented her with with a handsome sum the city the and many o Mme e o of The City of Paris redal together subscribed by prefect of police, Britar samiand ¥ ort “ailed Preside council helals swed 67 of her Manoury § 11 s in the old working king to improve witation and er ot rigden in| g and has class rs of . ~ ¥ nditions of aquart ris see their « « ironment. She ha subway pie never me THE MEATHIR ing frres - 20 SPLHOCTAL TRAINS Haven, N ¥ trains will b en road for the Hartiond, NSov. T —<Forecast for New Britain and vicinity : Generally fair and colder . might and Thursday: stromg westerly winde< New specia New Ha A tota handled Yat Prinece was | conference ssional | the| will! R.| G, 0..VILLCONTROL DEMOCRATIC LEADER . SEES COUNTRY LINED UP AGAINST REPUBLICANISM: ADAMS CLAIMS ONLY REAL VICTORY REPARATIONS BOARD ' PLANS EARLY MOVE ;Will Give Germany Hearing if General Conference Fails OUTLOOK MORE HOPEFUL England Gives Indication of Making Slight Concession to France lml" Situation Seems Less Likely to Be Deadlocked. By The Assoctated Press Paris, Nov. 7.—The reparation commission has decided to comply immediately with the German request for a hearing on the reparation ques- tion as proposed in the Berlin gov- ernment’s note of Oect. 24, if the sev governments, including the Unit re to agree reganrd the advisory in | | eral ing stigating committes. | 'This decision was reached by Sir { John Bradbury of Great Britain, M Barthou of France, Signor D'Amelio of Italy and M. Bemelmans of Bel-| gium at a meeting of the commis- sfon last evening at which Colonel James A. Logan, official observer for | the United States, also was present. | | The in their note last month the commission to be- | gin an examination into GErmany's | capacity for payment and to allow' representatives of the Berlin govern- [ ment personally to explain the sitw tion and the measures Germany had | taken for reforming her budget and | stabilizing currency. They like-| up of Germans her Dale, who defeated | wise suggested that the German dele. | casions prevented the G. O. gates be heard regurding the docu-! ments 'mlmd\'lng the results of the| Belgian teehifeal studics of the repa- | ration problem, By The Associated Press Paris, Nov, 7.~The agrecment between prospects for | an France and | Great Britain on the text of the invi-| 4tes to join the for examina- reparation question was diplomatic and French as brighter than tation to the United of experts tion of the | regurded 1o offictal circles today jand Mann is being brought out as cane yesterday Britsh Make Concessions. improved situation was satd to| be due to the tendency of the British government to accept in attenuated | torin Premier Poincare's reservation restricting the estimate of Germany's capacity to pay to the “present.” | M. Poincare, it is stated, has al-| The (Continued on ‘I‘uelflh Page). ‘ * BOARD WILL LEAN T0 NEW BRITAIN BUILDER' Charity (Tommission Favor Home Firm if Bid Is Reasonable to writy Doard wiil meet is Jon at 4:45 o'clock to gpen bids erection of a new town home buildir rdance with pl prepared by Architect Henry F. 1 Jort i bid of an out-of-te to be lowest, with r, a little higher bounds,” The aftern on th contra chairman awarding but the sat this m It w board uis nind thee ¢ lati made SEDAN OVERTURNS, EIGHT OCCUPANTS ARE UNHURT New Briam llrn in \\th on Lawn OF Home Clh in Meriden | get | until ROW PREDICTED IN . 0. P. Charman Scoff REPUBLICAN RANKS» at Gains By Opponents d Says 24th N Drive Being Made o Chairman e Sen 26N v e v of Town Coniee. | C0est Was Only Im- portant Cne. QUIGLEY'S HAND IS SEEN — ‘Hull Is Jubilant and Says Mann Mentioned as Possible . sl Results Confirm Certainty, of Democratic National Victory in 1924, Baker E Successor to ond Ward—FEx-Mayor Favorable to His Selection, it is Reported. An upheaval in the republican town committee is reported to be imminent and in addition to the displacement of J. Willle Miils, second ward member and ex-prohibition enfercement of- ficer now under charges by the etate for complicity in a rum scandal, it is reported that Herbert E. Erwin, third ward member and chairman of the committee, will lose the chalrmanship at an early meeting of the committea Mills' successor will be, if a great number of second ward voters have their say and can induce their candi- date to enter the race, Baker E. Mann of Maple street, an aotive re- publican, though not at any time a candidate for office. He is a fore- man in the employ of the Corbin Cab- et Lock Co, Quigley lavors Mann the announcement that Mills displaced e committee Washington, Nov. ment was issued today by Chairmar Cordell Hull the democratic tional committer, regarding yester« day's electior democratic i Marylan of na ky, low tate New York end atively inor and local democratic victorles elsewhers, fur- nish additional proof that the voters of the country are against the reac- tionary controlled republican national administration in particular and ageinst the republican party in sec- tions where the reactionaries are in control of that party, Kontucky Eleotion Kentucky statewide election was a fair and decisive test between democratic and republican policies and between the people and the re- publican national administration, Lo- cal issues were disposed of in the primaries. The campaign was fought almost entircly upon national issues, and the republicans in addition to making lurge expenditures iu the campaign sent many of their best national orators into the state, includ- ing United States senators and cabi- the re “The With is to be on didate, followed of organized plai office, the hand A. Quigley, who by the report an to oust Erwin from of ex-Mayor George has on several oc- P, com- mittee from following the even tonor of its way, is senscd. Ex-Mayor Quigley made no denfal today the report that he favors thy removal of Mills and that Mann's entrance into|pnet officers whose plea was to sus- the field a3 Mills' sucoassor “would | tuin the Coolidge administration. The have the ‘A»u-]-url many voters,in|pegylt was u change of between 70,- the second 1000 and 80,000 votes in favor of the The Quigley camp does not 100K | gemooratic candidate as compared fuvorably upon continuance of |yith the gubernatorial election of Chinrman krwin's services in that of- | 1014 when the republican candidais fice, Erwin was at the helm when |yor covornor had a majority of 46 Quigley opposed Mayor A. M. Pao- |4 nessa in the last mayoraity fight and one of the lightest republican votes recorded in recent years was gotten out, Quigley L no time in issuing | statement that his defeat was e direct result of “treachery in the ranks” and he charged that the com- mittee had not exerted every effort to out the vote for him as it had done for other candidates, Quigley Hostile to Roraback (-utgln_v is a strong and open of ot M National fssuc national and in the Maryland [the big increase in the majority and the triumphant tion of the \\‘}\Oh ticket in 1) and the eity ticket in Baltimor: shows the growth of democratic timent typical of the country a large and econtirms all previous evidence that the country is democratic where OP* | the race is between major candidates. nent of J. Henry Roraback while | .pp. gegertion republican voters ”"’ local committee is regarded as |y sonArmed also by the reduction of allled with the head of the state cen- | o ronyblican majority - in Vermont tral committee. The ex-mayor caused y. ,yproximately 10,000 compared a deal of trouble for the committee | iy, the senatorial election of 1922, ast fall and his followers say he | wpye oniy jtem of uncertainty in could have, at that time, dictated | ;ior the result in the 24th congres- who would be the chairman the | gional district of New York, normally committee; but, becavse #t was re. . g republican distriet, but garded as politically expedient to Walt | wpion'wue wrested from that party in aftet the fall election, nothing 1420 i, the democratic congressional was done. With announcement today |y, auiq that the Quigley faction has made a ftogu he bid for second ward chairman on the Snotiond K town committee and will move to have Erwin ousted, it is belleved that e cohorts of the ex-mayor are now ining up for anticipated interna strife in the G. O. P. “Both figured demo tate strong ts of Tues- & cause both for bilation by demo- firms the certainty of a atic in 1924 su day's gratificatior rats and cor lemocratic fctory MARKS FOR EVERYBODY Could Have John T. Ade publican na- issued the fol- nee to yes- Every Person i World ecided one ip and six of representa- Of these six e in Tiltnots were 600 Ot of Change From Convert- ing 25 Cents Into Paper Marks Nov. i—kvery have 60 change ob verting one gold mark into paper marks estimates by Germar One gold pf ig cony fenon Berion could the perso in One rmont world out of t republica which there the 24th New New York county. The in 19 © district e \ oad rks the vday SLAYS OWN NIECE Akrm Youth Confesesd That He Murdered 13 Year OM Gifl After He Had Assauhed ey No et Wickwire Spencer Steel s ( orp. Hm Pen-mn Plan PLAD Liewe ety ot et of the POLICEMAN DROPS o W Haze