New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 3, 1923, Page 1

\'e\\s of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 HARTFORD PHYSICIANS ARE BEFORE GRAND JURY TODAY IN MEDICAL SCANDAL PROBE FANNY P. FELT LEFT Drs. Feldman, Karp and Mower, Missouri Grad-; uates, Quizzed—Sachs| Also Slated For Hear- No Announcement Yet Con-| cerning Action Against 18] Medicos Assailed by| Alcorn. Dec. 3.~—The state's ex-’ y grand jury investigating medical frauds, was late in | getting started on its third week of | inquiry today. Though the jurymen were in their rooms at 10 o'clock they were delayed by reason of the fact that Benedict M. Holden, foreman of | the jury was closeted with State's Attorney Hugh M. Aleorn for.a long ference, the na of was 1 It 11 th sitting was opened Among the witne waiting to be this forenoon was Willlam P, former state school examiner who was summoned as & | witness some time ago but has never been heard. Sachs has made public stutements in which he explained his part in the distribution of high school certificntes in - connection with the alleged operation of a diploma mil in Missouri, Dr. Waite Present d C. Waite of the Western university, of Cleveland, O, arrived at the court building during the ecarly forenoon and held an ex- tended conference with State's Attor- uey Alcorn, Dr. Waite re d this city Sunday night from Missouri where he recently eompleted, with Dr. Emmet P. North, head of the Missourl state board of health, a survey of the medical schools of that state. This survey was authorized following the exposurgeef alleged ir- regularities in the stribution of medical school diplomas, Dr. Waite made a report of bis findings to the Missouri state board of health, Three Hartford Doctors Thr Hartford physicians all hold- ing state llcenses, appeared at the courthouse today in response to sum- monses to testify before the grand jury. They are Dr. Willlam Feldman, Dr. Julius Karp and Dr. Elamar A. Mower, each of whom has an office at a weparate address on Windsor avepue, this city, ANl are graduates of Missouri Medical colleges which have been the subject of inquiry here, according to the records of the state] heulth board. he state ecleetic medical examin- ing board, headed by Dr, Edwin A. Markham of Durham were once more in session in the courthouse this fore- noon, in accordance with the request made of them last week by the state’s attorney. No announcement of any kind was made by the board before they convened. All the present mem- bers of the board were present. Dr. S8amuel Posner of New Haven, who has been waiting several days to be called, was the first witness before | the jury this forenoon. Dr. Posner was excused after a brief examination and Dr. Waite, who had ended his conference with the state's attorney was called as the next wit- | ness. He remained in the grand jury | rcom for the remainder of the fore- | noon session. It was expected he a cor ture which livalg was about fury card Sachs, of Missouri, 2 | Dr. ¥ teserve would submit to the jury the report |gorvoq with warrants for his appear- rates we of his survey of the Missourl medi- cal institutions, No announcement was made today | concerning the status of the cases of | 18 eclectie physicians, revocation of whose state licenses was recomemnd- ed to the sta health commission last week by the eclectic examining board. Dr. Stunley H. Osborn, state health commissioner conferted with State's Attorney Alcorn during the forenoon 'Henry F(;l‘drTl"(! Over Shoals With Coolidge Washington, Dec. 3.—Henry Ford, who came to Washington today to appear before the interstate commerce commission at hearings affecting his properties, had a brief con- with President Coolidge, dis- cussing, it is understood, the status and disposition of the administration toward his offer for Muscle Shoals. ROBBERY IN HARTVORD. Hartford, Dec David Burke, proprietor grocery store at Pleasant was beaten wibility by olored me varly robbed $40. of Springfield Robert WilKinso of Mo., were captured later by the police and identified by Burke Byrke was struck on the head with a by his assailants while other - of a strect into In- and this of William Ma, K afternoon Parker and rt 2z s City ok bottle of an BRINGS SUTT FOR $200 Amos Gromendy, through Attorney rard Casale, has brought suit for aaginst Bartalomey Dobrowski. Constable Fred Winkle served the pa pers and property of the defendant has been attached. The writ is return- able in the city court on the third Monday of this month MANTIC ELECTION both the was today Wi ity ticket nominated publicans and democ Willimantic N hefore The re- Pidats i= democratic oters of maye cu wi Jas Dion cox and th | P, Felt whose estate has been value ! crued interest $99.32, | 8250.14; | preferred, $2,960: | deposit, NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT MO\IDAY DECEMBER 3, | ESTATE OF 88,285, | M. tional charges against J. Willie Mills, | Senator Richard Covert and Alderman Greater Part Represented’ by Stock in Industrial Companies [“I Have Corn?llus J. | come up at the' December Alcom Noncomnuttal 1 On Rumor Not Decided Yet,” When Question Rumors that State's Attorney Hugh Alcorn intended to prefer addi- Dehm, when their cases term of su- perior court which opens tomorrow, were neither confirmed nor denied by | Mr. Alcorn today. Several inventories were approved this morning in probate court, the largest being that of the late Fanny at $88,286.43, The itemized appraisal of the Felt | whether he intended counts against the three men. repli(-d: Mr, add Alcorn other He yet." Alcorn | ‘asked to The “Herald’ “I have not decided 1t will be recailed that Mr. ’ State’s Attorney Replies Is Put to Him asked whether he intended to have the trio arrested a few days previous to the date on which the charges were Increase of $16.71 Since 1918 Noted Today | actually preferred against them. Mills, who is a suspended prohibi- | tion enforcement officer, is charged | with malfeasance in office and Covert | |and Dehm were accused of being present where intoxicats were for sale, They were found in the South- ington Inn when it was raided Although the December term of court opens tomorrow, it is not ex- pected that the Mills, Covert and Dehm cases will be reached until later gave an identical answer v»hn n hc was ' in lhe session, estate follows: Liberty bonds with ac- | $149.51, $198.06, 240 shares American Hard- ware corporation, $13,660; 210 Lan- ders, Frary & Clark, $10,710; one share Sovereign’s Trading Co., $50; Stanley Securities interest, $168; 4211 shares Stanley Works Common, | 680.60; 1012 shares Stanley Works | household furni- bank deposits, $2, $171.74; $81.92. Total, $88,286.43. The estate of Aaron M. Bell has been valued at $8,133.64, showing the following items: House, lot, barn and silo, $1,000; tillable $1,800; pas ture 1 $400; wagons, etc., $16 cows, $ tools, $2; b deposits, 3,480.92, $1,120, Total, $8,133.64. The late \'\'Nlh\m Elliot left $1,.. inventoried as follows: Rank $516.61: Foresters of Ameri- cn benefits, 10; Sons of 8t. George | benefits, $100; Red Men's benefits, $76; Degree of Pocahontas benefits, five shares Stanley Works stock, ; bank deposit, $956; clothing and a watch, $25. Total $1,272.56, Appraisers John J. MeCarthy and Joseph IMeigcher have fixed a valua- tion of $2,760 on the estate of the late John Jacob Voight, consisting of an interest in Belden street property, Other inventories filed are: Thomas | King, bank deposit and an antomebile, £109.79; Michael Coffey, bills recelv. able $359.48; Nichola Correia, bank deposit, §40 ; Lolin R. Littiehales, 99 Prospect street, real estate, $3,500. ABANDONS HUNGER STRIKY Chicago, Dec, 28.~Otto Malm, held for the slaying of Edward Lehman, a watchman, has broken a 72-hour hun- ger strike. Mallm had told guards he intended to “smoke cigarettes un- tl he starved to death He agreed to ent when guards threatened to take away his tobacco ration. BIG lml’ ™ “'H\\ll' Winnipeg, Dee, 3.—Fire of termined origin in the Mason Risch block, Portage avenue, carly today caused damage cstimated at $226,000, The bullding, a three story structure, contained a number of apartments, the occupants of which escaped unhurt. Increased Express ture, $300; land, k | | | | | unde- | and And Charges On Some Must Be Cut Gover- today was/ INDIANA GOVERNOR IS SERVED WITH WARRANTS Bonds of $25.000 For His Appearance In Court Fumished By Dozen Vriends Ind., Dee. MeCray Indianapolis, nor Warren T. ance to answer to the charges con- tained in elght indictments returned ngmrm him by the Marion county grand jury last Friday. Bond of $25 000 was provided by twelve local men, The indictments resulted from a grand jury investigation of the gov- ernor's financial transactions after he admitted to his creditors last Angust that he was unable to meet immedi- ately his obligations to them The criminal charges against governor in th dictments are em- bezziement, larceny, forgery, ot n- ing money by a falsc statement and issuance of fradulent checks. Harry C. Sheridan, master in chan- cery of the federa) court, today re- sumed the hearing on a petition of three Fort Wayne, Ind banks to have the governor declared bankrupt it was indicated that attorneys for the petitioners would attempt to show that the governor has placed infiated values his assets, especially his farm holdings. Gen. Peck Leaves $2,000 to Care for Favorite Horse New Haven, Dec. 3. —Under the will Gen. Henry 8 Peck, filed to- day, a trust fund $2.000 is left from the income of which his fav- orite horse, Andy, is to be cared for until death takes it in a natural way. The horse may not be sold n Peck's estate isabout $200,00 in value and severa institutions are re- membered with amounts $2.500 an 4 §5 Proposed Bill Would End Judge’s Power to Jail Washington, Dee 3 Federal udges would be prohibited from de- termining the guilt or innocence of persons ordered up for contempt com- mitted outside their coyrtrooms under a bill proposed by Representative Stengle, democral, New York He sald the measure was signed to prevent recurrence of such senten as that imposed by Judge Mayer upon the on o of loc of | Comptrolier Craig of New York city | General Sessions | corrupt the ! or before District Attarney Ordered to Act in Every Instance MANY COMPLAINTS HEARD THOUSANDS ARE ¢ 137 Bottew it | ford, Conn, Judge Collins Instructs Grand Jury Warrants— Metropolis To Indict If Evidence Determined To Make Clean, New York, Dee. 3.—The first of a series of moves against alleged sala- cious plays in Broadway theaters con- templated by local authorities and reform leagucs, was made today when Judge Collins in- structed the grand jury to investigate and indiet if evidence warranted Many Written Complaints Written complaints of objectionable performances, Judge Collins said, have been received and sent’to the police department for investigation. n every case where there exists the slightest instance for believing the complaint well founded, it will be submitted to the distriet aftorney with a recommendation that It be pre- sented to the grand jury. This procedure would he followed, the judge declgred, because the num- ber of complaints received “have heen | wholly out of proportion to what might be reasonably expected if much of the adverse comment one seriously intended.” Asserting that association with production found guiltg of tending to morals of uth or others misdemeanor usually constituted a (Continued on Twelfth Page) Rates Refused {L C. C. Rules for Reduction Ranging From 10 to 11 Per Cent on Food Articles of Nearly All Kinds. Washington, Dee, 3.—New bases for the application of interstate express id down today by the in- te commerce commission in a ion which refused the American Iway Express company the right to make general which it asked. Express companics wer dered to establish new February 21 changes Reductions Ordered Present interstate express rates plied to food articles of unearly kinds, the commission held, high and should be reduced by amounts ranging from ten to eleven per cent. The companies were requir- ed to make the reductions by install- ing charges which will equal those in effecct on October 12, 1920, when creascs to the present levels were made ters increases schedules next incorpor- on ating the ap are too Principles of Revision In outlining the principles to govern the general revision, the commission pointed out that rates are up on the basis of five he northeastern section of the try, for the southeast, one Mississippi- Missouri territory, the Rocky Mountain tor the Pacific coast ferences in the fact tween cach zone, and commission de cided that these result in too great a discrepancy. Accordingly, zone systemn was ordered into effect one zone to take in generally the northeastern section of the ftates, the second the southeast and the third to include all of the terri- tory west of the Mississippi rive In the reconstructions to b on the basis of the zones, the commis- sion held that the cxpress carriers might include a haulage factor charge of cents per 100 pounds for the first miles in the northeastern sec tion; a factor of cents for the first 50 miles in the southeastern zone and 30 cents for the same distance the third zone The general arrangement towed of Wocking out the connty in 30 mile squares for the purpose of fix- Ing express charges was said to be (Continued on now zones, one for coun one for one nd are dif- rat be- area, a o There ot 50 now fe Page 12) | hears s in-| three United | in| SMUTTY PLAYSARE HUNDREDS BELIEVED TOGOINNEW YORK ‘Death Toll i Talian Disaster May ™ DEAD IN BIG FLOOD ! Reach 600 Persons Up to Midn | Recovered—30 Squa | Miles Inun- dated When Dikes of Take Gl Collapse. Tho Associated Press Bergamo, Italy, Dec One hun- dren thirty seven bodies had been ve- covered up to lust midnight from the Bergamo valley country, 600 of whose | inhabitants believed (o have drowned when the great dike | pounding the waters of Gleno collapsed lust Saturday Troops and ecivilian worked throughout the night in the mud and water secking out the vie- tims of the deluge over an area of | fifty square miles, and endeavoring to give aid and comfort to the thousands who have been made homeless by the | | disaster. The minister of publie works {and the sub.secretary of wa rived on the | | B | been in- lake rescue parties have ar. to direct the res. eue work, while King Vietor Emmuan- nel and the sib-socretary the in terfor are expected tode 3 Villages Wiped Out Hundreds of ontire Mages Rueggio, were millon cabic yard of water swept from the artificial glacial lake The course of the flood was stopped at | Lake Tseo, 15 miles away | The in the vieinity Darfo has become a vast lake, and as the water gradually subsides it 1o A waste of mud that has engulfed in numerable cattle, The seenn homes, B of Dezz wiped ot the and ten that including y, Corna by the countryside of ves pust torrential of week, reaching serious proportions last 1'riday and Saturday, made the pressure inst the Gleno dike great- ter than the four-mile wall could with- stand, and although the masonry Was 35 vards thick (he dike and the water thundered val ley sweeping before Relier W rain the went out down the It kers Busy Rescue dertaken district of the royal soon as it began the as to brin T duriy der the brought Special effc work was immediately un by relief parties from the Milan and Brescia, while engineers relief corps, hed the flooded construction of bridges so g food to the popu and Villamaggiore ue toration work was carried out un huge archlights by t army being made pl-a bridges and roads to make as reac area jons of ario ight glow to the rts construct the build up the transportat All the re severe scene are to re W Away workers are und ip, fach swept down in addition ft in the ng the iadr ation- he ground rendering battalions of regu- likewise making every the situatior Id from the to trail of ing van w nd Aips w the vaste flood uous. is rer Fift al militia ald, whi lar forces effort to re vork most ard- sq s of the | FINED AND IMPRISONED | 85,000 buiit | and Three Years in Leaven- worth is Penalty Imposed on Bank- ript Chicago Broker, Wilk aggreg | worth pe cde imposed ¥ Micage 1 rsc b brokerage ny Ne rm. P h was day and f l ! i £ WEATHER 0 Hartford. Dee. 3—Forecast for New Britain and vicinity : Increasing clondiness tonight. Tuesday rain. not much change in temperature. moderate north- west winds. Connectieyt § Stat \r Dept.. el | 88 |in | erease 1923. —SIXTEEN PAGES Average Daily Circulation Week Lndmg 9 929 Dec. 1st . PRICE THREE CENTS "PROGRESSIVES HOIST INSURGENCY He May Press Further Charges | FIAG IN HOUSE AND THREATEN IN Against Mils, Covert and Debm gy 72 WHEN CONGRESS CONVENES GOST OF GOVERNMENT IN - THIS CITY $41.90 PER CAPITA by Census Burcau—Waterbury Leads State MANNING ew Britain Herald) BY GEORGE H. (Washington Bureau of Washington, D. (., Dec, 3.—Because of the large program of permanent municipal improvements undertaken the cost of the city government of Waterbury in 1922 was considerably higher than that of Hartford, port, New Britain, New Haven Meriden Waterbury’s cost of city ment last y was $58.64 man, woman and child, an increase almost 100 per cent since 1917 when it was $20.58 per capita. The in- crease for Waterbury over the five years was also greater than in any of the other large cfties of Connecti- or The cost in Wi was $5,658, reau announces, capita. In 4, t} terbury for the which 1917 the the year . 8. Census was $58.64 per capita 1914, it was vears be- pe $: i tota < aa7 Abrm-- 1is per capita tax nent in Waterbury the per capita in 7.31; w Britain New Haven Hartford and Meriden While Waterbury's government cost 54 Brius o, $41.90; 5 $ . per capita city | |\|mpw’ from $29.58 1917 to ] 9 ths |n- in New Rritain was 19 in 1918 to $41.90 in 19 0 in 1917 to $37,70 m $12.38 in 191 and Bridgeport to $47.31 in $ Haven from $2 Hartford fr \t-w to § from 1922 in 1018 TUT’S RESTING PLACE TOBE OPENED BY WED, Carter Has Almost Com- pleted Demolishing of Parh(um \\ all Luxor, Egypt Carter, chief of the in nkhamer Wednesday tion of the ante Thebarrier o tect the pulehre b De Howard expedition engag- th of tomt uneovering e mysteries expects by to have finished demoli partition wall between the ym and the iry chamber, o the i mortu planks wooden canopy in the latter room removed prior to the delieate taking the r shrine The that the ed and the relief by ful eleetric mne. At the g the n, t erected pro over se will ther work present aspect of the 2 workshop with men busy ffolding which across to the sepulchral hrown tomb is f on s a8 been erect. s chamber Beer into bold brilliant rays of power. aflixed to the ceil- wl B the lamps far end of the chamber, f 10- the roon shri and get nts of photographi floor den tray om th wal seree on roughly piece fragme of the paint Phars fitted The the pulehral the copl rock shrine, to c wall aw ster f 1¢ v the to lem wit ished eArish ntation ¢ ne are nd whic prescrved the o tomb they niche the splinter 40 REPORTED KILLED Mans Others Belicved Injured in Brit- ish Mine When Flevator Cable snape in Pit Both Parties Fighting l-or Rocknlle Offices Bridge- | of past | LINERS STOP IN MID- SEA T0 SAVE LIFE OF CHILD, Littde Eleanor | Taken to New York Hospital and May Survive Ilness New York, Dec Eleanor Fairchild, for whose two big steamships changec and drew together in mid-ocean Thanksgiving Day, was carried from the liner Minnewaska today rushed to hospital for an opera- tion which it was hoped would save her-life. Sleanor is the daughter of Prof. H P. Fairchild of New York university teturning from Europe with her par- ents, she became dan, ously il Thursday morning. The sea was too rough for the Minnewaska's surgeon to undertake an single handed. Besides, him self was ill. A call for help was wirelessed to the Baltic, followed by a worded “Hurry. Urgent.' the funnels o Baltic ¥ the s course ast ope the tion surgeon second call Sho the horizon, and soon g r her su temporarily cast without un opera tior A wireless message Minnewaska to port, and n ambul- ance was waiting for the littic girl when the ship dnvkl»d today CONG. FENN PRESENTS preceded t % (. OF C. RESOLUTIONS .. Mellon Tax Plan Endorse- ment Goes to Ways and Means Committee GRORGE W, MANNING Buread of New Britain Merald) Washington, D, ', Dee Resolu dopted by the New Britain mher of commeree and the Hart ford chamber of commeree endorsing the Mellon program of ta were placed before the house resentatives today by K. Hart Fenn as soon o vened the Ixty cighth congress All the major recommendatior retary Mellon's plan ne the endorsement, particular emphasis od o the recommendations ating o th BY (Washington tio; of for oy the 1% of Re wi those e in ane plac eetions of secretary the surtax rates The house proposed reductions I rate of normal income tax and the referred to the committes resolutions were ways and means which will be called on to co ogislation affecting taxation may be introduced, and whatever measures they decide BLUENOSE FOR SALE Also sider which out report Angy Walters An- nounces He Will Fight For Trophy He Halitax, N Captain says He Won Dec whose skipper abide by the decisior mmittee directing t nter fishermen's 1 the Iters. 8. 3.~~Owners of refuse to o £ ra 1ooner sailir to se gus W nounced Jareho had bee He ided 8¢ a today e instr he ACCEPT $1 BEQUESTS v Nieves Withdraw Objoction v mission of Julia . Godkin Before Hearing Opens in Probate Court. Burglars Rifle Chinese Laundn in \m'lh End . estigating BROKERS ACCUSED Fairchild is ‘ and | luded Rebel Bloc Makes Good Its Claims And Dead- lock Occurs In. Elec- tlon of Speaker. Possibility of Fight to Force Reorganization of Upper | House Looms Up Today. Washington Facing an organization row at the very outset, the sixty-eighth congress convened at noon today for a session which prome ises to write a colorful chapter in [the history of legislation and polis tics, The ing the militant progressive balanee in the the greatly bloe, hold« of votes ced by pub virtue of T Mg flag a ic ad Trouble In Background 1 and decorum, force and committees ide the with opens the the re-organi= some of its was in Altie Pus off usual outward calm threat of a fight to zation of senate more important {the background The progressive nm m vu throw a bloe the v ection uu 'lu first ballot no l'vl\lr] va majority over made house good its into a speaker, andidate re- all required of a (Y" ”l' first ballot in the house speakership fight Speaker Gillett re- cefved 198 votes 195 for Repre- sentative Garrett 17 for Repre- [sentative Cooper Representative Madden, republican, Illinois, Was given votes he five seventeen who voted for Coops Wwere ck, Browne, 'rear, Lamé Nelson, Peavey, Schafer, Schiefs and Voigh, all of Wisconsin; gue, Davis, Keller -and Knuts thilcans of Minnesota: Kvale dependent of Minnesota dermer bor, Minnesota; pblieay W York and republican, North Daimta The who for e and or pert, der ( . Nine King voted Madden Retd, Woodruft, Michuelson and James and all repu ns. voted tor Gillett Wisconsin, voted “present™ Gillett, Garret and Cooper Start on Second Ballot, Tmmediately after t) the house beg; Mi Berger, dia ote was ane nounced take a an to second ™ .4 e w0 egar ofore it vas in the the its first was an throes elec. today hour old th it over Refuse To Back Gillett Progressive made up of Lalollette of Speak- and preciple other bloc of follo Senator Wis q to support ctior Gillett for tated a de blocking all Mr. Gille support of but of the his ority The or Represen. Atior ngt P the strength soper of went pre.ar on and until enators monthe Adjonrne Senate CANADA AND U. S, NEAR AGREEMENT ON BOOZE Anti-Smuggling Treaty Will Be Completed Short Time in ween the ntoxi- ports; it otics, the the i after the to- As- treas- mem- ded the Canada, that