New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 4, 1923, Page 1

of the World By Associated Press ews ESTABLISHED 1870 AGTION COMPLETED 10 0UST DOCTORS Alcorn Provides Necessary Legal Basis for Revoking Licenses BUCKLEY CALLED ~ TODAY Grand Jury Hears From Speaker of House—Dr. Blumer, Whose Na- tureopathy Is in Limelight, Expects No Adverse Report, He Says. Dec. 4.—Major John M. | republican majority leader Connecticut legislaturs, | was the first witness called before the special grand jury investigating gal- | leged medical frands in this sm.w when the jury resumed its ses the county court building this f(xnv noon. Buckley Makes No Comment, left the jury room @id that he received Buckley He Major at 11:30, forenoon and immediately responded. | The nature of his testimony was not subject to comment, he indicated. Major Buckley had much to do! with the handling of medical legisla-| tion at the general assembly early this year. Tt then recalled that wctice bill was vetoed A. Templeton the o tion of whose licenses was requested, but stated that did not know who the individu: were who consulted him and that he | had not agreed to act as their coun- sel. medical by Gov M rmor Buc by cer pr Charles Kley re lectic physicains revoca | and Dr. Louis A. Blumer, of the Hln»i mer colldge of naturopathy, which was unexpectedly visited by a squad | of deputy sheriffs last night and Dr. | Blumer, the president and 26 of his| students summoned before the grand | jury was again at the county court| building today. It was anticipated that he and some of the students not heard last night would appear before | the jury during the day. It was made known this forenoon | that the grand jury would be sworn | in this afternoon at the regular De- cember term of the eriminal superior | court which meets at 2 o'clock with | Judge Frank D. Haines on the bench. | The grand jury which was summoned | at a special term of the eriminal| court will thus end its duties as an extraordinary body and |mu|(d|utt~ly take them up again, under the uu-‘ spices of the regular court term, which i8 expected to continue in ses- slon for some time, Eelectic Still Meet, eclectic medical 4'\!!;(-‘ waus again in session at| the court building today in accord-| ance with the request of State’s At torney H. M. Alcorn that they con- tinue their mectings in order to mku' any uetion which the investigating jury might request of them Action by the state health com. oner, Dr. Stanley H. Osborn, 1s | ted shortly with reference to! the request of the etle examining | board that the state licenses of 18] physicians presented to them last | week by the state's attorney und turn turned over to the heaith partment be revoked Action of health commissioner had been up pending the presentation of evi dence in suppert of the request for revosation which Attorney General Frank ¥. Healy had opined was sary The state ining board m AP de the held nees Alcorn's Letter Alcorn has sent to following State's Attorney Commissioner Osborn the jetter, which, it was stated, Is con- sidered by the attorney general to be sufficient to justify the necessary ac- tion by the health authoritics: “Dear Sir: | “On November 28, 1923, | request- «d the Connecticut eclectic examining board to take such action as was necessary to enable the state depart- | ment of health to revoke the licenses of the men whose nam are ap pended (Here are inserted the | names of the physiclans) “You are advised that I requested sald examining board to take such wetion, upon the ground that in each a certificate of registration was obtained by fraud.” Blumer Not Worried. Dr. Louis Bl of the Blumer whoo! of naturopathy, in an inter today stated that he did not an ticipate unfavorable action by | the grand jury with reference to his school. He sald that he had been wsked partieularly regarding the mail | nrses offered by his school and | had also been quizzed regarding the Aetail the school's conduct. He| declared that the oftered a | gular three year of instruc- 1% prescribed by bil practice case view any of sehool conrse the [ anthor ithy in tion | - | | fzing the na his BOY DISCOVERS MURDER By of Young Man With His Throat | Slashed i« Discoversd Ry Child l, Near Staten Tdland Home. ear-oid | home on the body throat cut aying 1 Isjand a young ma dered, presumably #! . than that wher 1. Neighborhoo had just Staten ind er bods Y o residents they scene &1 Year Old Bootlegger Gets Two Years m Ja Fulton, Mo, In seen @ tomobile efore daws allaway 1y g nee wenitentiary on operating i 1o two 3 1 a o 1 an was s ars I nowski, in |- | agatin in | vesterday a | ties, pius i the | t NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1923. —TWENTY P OSTRICH FEATHER SWALL QUANTITIES flOUSE DEADLOCK KEEPS UP FANINTUTSTOMB BRING HEAVY FINES| BUT PRESIDENT CONTINUES U. S. CUSTOMS UPON BY RUM RUNNERS CREW| Riot Guns and Revolvers Used and Ship is Captured Only After Hand-to-Hand Struggle New York, Dee. 4.—The motor cruiser Herreshoff was seized by cus- toms agents off Port Readin, N. J., today after a running battle with riot guns and revolvers. 8ix men on the cruiser were arrested. Patrolling in a speed hoat, the customs agents hailed the Herreshoff, suspected of rum running. The | eruiser's nose was turned seaward and she showed her heels, with bullets AGENTS FIRED fiying from the guns in the hands of her erew, the agents said, Returning the fire, the government boat overhauied the cruiser, drew | alongside and placed & boarding party on her as she ran at full speed. The | government agents said the eruiser's cargo had been jettisoned and was | | tloating alongside | A short hand-to-hand engagement | was had aboard the craiser, accord- | | ing to the agents’ report. IR MAYOR SELECTS BODY FOR GITY ZONE PLAN Assessors, Probable Choice | for Chairman r Thomas Linder isor to the hoard Appraisa who ady his morning by May essa to take over t New Britain, according ports coming (rom rome who are expected to be most active in the zon- ing movement. The data prepared by Mr. Linder his staff will be very useful. It will relieva the city of an expensive survey of every street and building, making possible the preparation of land value maps and maps showing the uses to which structures are at present put. of those M. Paonessa, Chairman s of the park board, and neer Joseph D. Willlams will -officio members of the com- Following is the committee: E. Attwood, J. C. Sloper, representing the . IPrank Porter, 8. Davidson, stone Vance and L. Doyle, senting the merchants and publish- Joseph F. Lamb, L. W. Young, ¢ Russell and A, . Corbin, rep- resenting the manufacturers; I, ©, Platt and P. . MeDonough, senting the residential interests; T, W, O'Connor, Louie 8, Jones, P. J, ray and Morris Cohn, representing the [ real estate dealers; Revs, J. T. Wiy ter, Samuel Sutcliffe and Lucyan Boj representing the churches; T, | W. Crowe, Albin Carlson and Conrad Cianci, representing the builders; At- torneys 'rv.nn as . MeDonough, W. ¢ (Continued on Page 17) w. be e mittee w. A bank- John- Loomis and | repre- ! repre- | Mur- | lAUfiHEI] AT THREAT | TODAY HE IS KILLED the notice to appear at his oftice this Thomas Linder Adviser to Brooklyn Man’s Family Is| Chloroformed While He Is Being Murdered New York, Dec, 4.—Dominick Mag- weeks ago manding today in his Brooklyn h after his wife, three children himself had been chloroformed, Gas* masks, the empty , the murder gun and cartridges were left by the slayers beside their vietim's bed. His wife, only semi-conscious from the fumes of the drug that had been sprayed with an atomizer, heard the shots und made a feeble attempt to aid him, but she was felled by a blow on the head, After Mrs. Maggio had been revived | she told a story of her husband's mies that led to the arrest of two men as suspects. One esfablished an alibi and was released but the other was held for examination by the district attorney, Mrs, Maggio sald therc men in the murder party, | ed through a rear window of the apartment and began spraying the drug. It took immediate effect on the children but Magglo and his wite were only duzed. | Maggilo, who wus u cobbler, leaped | from his bed after the drst shot was ! fired and attempted to protect him- [mu but the second bullet finished | him. His wife screamed, bringing po { licemen, Fingerprints on the window sills wore taken and these, it was be. leved, would lead to identitication of the slayers. and chloroform the two were three They enter. a Fire Truck Is Out Of Commission After Collision E. 0. KEELER DYING Former Licutenant Governor of S Sinking Following HMines After Nervous Breakdown, 1 ditio “rnor f in wistior Mr Norwalk, Der The e« Edwin O. Keeler leut 1901 was that of extreme ¢ today and death was impe Keeler has in bed night following nervons bre Mr. Keeler in the tive life state politics lature many for representative in the close vote of 189 1874 went ling for a fort kdowr f hi g ed in the en yrars of 1 an outstanding He ser was havir run g by g 1 with 71 ) r to the He claims [ erved banks, ra 4 next thne wit) margin committ s roads, bridges years in the legislati was elected hieut mate to G He went to the convention at delegute from the Mr. Keeler s a fleld and if he next aill be FINALLY PAYS UP and rive ring hranches governor as running vernor G rept Lot fourtt lives until 7% years old After 20 Years and Py Nrw Yorker Comes Through With In. heritance Tax and Keeps Out of Sail To 4 going Morri nee tax ed him New York, Pec. 4 a to jall for contempt of 7. Kerr today pald an inherita for which the state had dunr for 20 years and 20 day Kerr, an executor for th Edward L. Hanning, who died in had consistently refused to pay tax of $490.70. Fack bin the the amount for fallure ourt, estate of 1892 an in ' ance Armandad L an ertors 1 state's col added to pay per cer nually and carried the tolal forward The district attorney d Surrogat took Foley snte mpt per 1ot a hand order- Rerr ent pena $1.- ed Kerr into conrt patd the bill, p terest “ al o 47482 Ponzi Writes Coolidge Pleading for Pardon Washington, I ‘ Charles Ponzi stion- wide w ¥ g0 cansed a i resulted | i written President Cootidge making overtures for a pardon. a sensatio a Ttimates the On Myrtle Street |Smashes Into Car Parked at C'urb While Responding to Alarm From Orange Street. truck of the deering pring of the « No. 4 Engi . was broker headlights smashed and 1) broken when the triuck collided 1 by M parked Works | geur with an autoomobile gwne vhich was on ar the Stanley Wnpany was answer arm from Pox at tha Jamaged out of a hich five be ring nnly Noble stated swible haste w parts the truck snd 8¢- was Pro nding the a4 rour In or 1o tary i nt of him @riking the struch regular merge om the inds and damags Nobi at $50. | Excavators at person Great Artistic Interest in Thls Relic of Former Age FIND MANY EMPTY BOXES Luxor Believe That Gaouls of Bygone Years Made Rich Hauls of Gold and Silver Relics— | No Work is Done Today. T ted Press pt, Dee, 4.—One of the "utankhamen's funerary which modern, especially will take a sentimental as well as artistic interest, pharaoh’'s great ostrich feather fan, now await- ing treatment in the tomb of which has been fitted up as a tory. A articles m state in women, is the Thing of Beauty Howard Carter, head of the expe rhv tion, found the fan more or cident, by opening at random one the many boxes in the so-called store chamber that opens off the scpulchral room, and the contents of which have vet to be inventoried. The fan lay atop the other contents of the box, its bushy curling feathers, apparently white, discolored wit s 1 by ess | one interest has bec of the pomp that « emist i age this T men’s that a « gland hest way of pre feathers. 3y making them rigid Carter hopes to procecd with search for the handle without feathers falling to bits, No Intrinsic It is understood t has reconciled himse bility that nothing value will be discovers chamber, which, howev contain ‘articles of the work. he excavators have satisfied themselves that the ancient tomb rob- bers made a good haul from the store chamber, for many of the boxes are empty. Others, il se d, obviously hold articles which the expert eye of the thieves told them were uninter- esting from their point of view, as they were In search of jewels or gold. There was no work in the tomb to- day, as Tuesday is the market day in Luxor and the native staff of the ex- pedition, recelving its p. deseends to the city to purchase its week's sup- plies. MORE THAN 1,300 BLIND PERSONS IN THIS STATE W way from F amine the serving t Mr, the fln .“\lo ver pe otz yeanid store & known to Oldest is Eastford an Who 1Is Are Between Ages of 1051 20 and 50 Years 4.~Th persons Hartford, Dee. are more than 1200 blind the state as shown by reports compiled by the board of education of the blind now in hand. The re by selectmen under The oldest bLlind Sarah Bradway of 105 years old, ro in “aute and which are turns were made the general law s Mrs Fastford who is real daughter of the vigited each members of Ameriean e The reports blind persons 5 s a volution and is hirihday ghters o year o by the Day, olution 875 between 2 o0, Of the grou years, Of those Ar w Aapproximat have heen 1 Vind ' ar born MAY ALLISON SUES M Sar Save Hushand Called Wer Bad Names—Ton Bad o Montion on Complaint prop Whining of Puppy Saves Li dves nl \\ hnlo Family 0 MADL HOMILE Ss THE WEATH) Hartford. s § —~Vorecast for New Pritain and vicinity: Unsttled. followed by rain late tomight and Wednesdas: <lonly viding temperature; easterly wind= | || *1 highest artistic | West Havener Pays $250 for| ' Having 22 Onnces of Ligor ; ANOTHER $150 FOR 13 OUNCES ' Federal Court At New Haven Imposed | Fine of $25 on Fach of Five Counts Against Hellman Brewery of Wa- | terhury Hartford, grand jury at the opening of the United es this ecity. Judge I gave the charge to the United States District Attorney Smith and his assistants presented six cases for indictments, Winfield Scott Rogers of Litchfield was designated foreman of the grand jury, which numbers among its mem- bers Jesse James of 1 eyville, Pleas in liguor cases were heard by Judge Thomas while the jury was out, The Hellman Brewery of Waterbury 15 fined $25 on each of five counts beer in its posses- Dec i 1 The federak in attendance today of the December term R distriet court in win 8. Thomas and jury anc K. having illegal $15 rtford paid Ger Haver rd of the West -\fl;g \‘\“9) y .. PLANNING FOR FLIGHT TO POLE Exploration Will Uncover More Than Million Square Miles exhaus- Arctic ex- data is Washington, Dee, 4.—An tive study of the rederds of peditions and other scientifie to be started shortly by special board of naval officers appointed to work out a detailed plan for a flight next summer to the North Pole, Expleration of more than Mon square miles of unknown polar territory rather than a mere dash to the pc itsell is held to be the chief object of the expedition by aeronautical experts at the navy partment In the event the lected as the exg gested by nava might be and glons be it is dec a mil- north de- enandoah ship, it is sug- experts that tablished at N erations v directed from th ided to ey perts believe a 1 ship cinity Point 8) is se- ort n the would them of Barrow b ser b a or Should ighter and than-alr machine he d is some fef that this may f it held be operating vould A majority ol he inve board said Shena though e which is voth heavicr s and there to logica be to authorized that {w necessary tigating the ing biase now he doah, to be not th iry mad WOMAN GOES T0 PRISON 41 Year Ol Minn, Woman Autoist Starts Term at Hard Labor—Killed Woman With Car While Intoxteated Winoua, M n flnh Since \almda\ Mart 108 Sacks of Sugar Are anon in l‘ark City Sto: e Rridgey wr:«» aht th Coach company of New York. | other jurors, I Trwek Drivers Semi-Official Statement From Vatican be Average Daily Circulation Weels Endmg ,929 Dec. 1st .. AGE PRICE THREE CENTS PLANS TO SPEAK TOMORROW ALCORN TOACTFOR s Said To Have Reason “WHITESIDE’S ARREST ~ To Think That Speaker Will Be Chosen By This Evening If After Eight Ballots ne Dee. 4 State's Attorney Alcorn plans mlrvqms! to l)eci [s court a bench war. Made Be Postponed. |Plans to Seek Bench War- rant Agai Driver of . Death Car Hartford, Hugh M day in rant for George whose mad ride fr Hartford ended in disaster a week ago today. This is by agreement reached by Mr. Alcorn and Prosecuting At- torney Nathan A. Schatz in conference vesterday. Whiteside will probably appear in court tomorrow, At the Hartford Retreat it was said that “there has been no materia change” in Whiteside's condition since he was taken there | Tue on for Speaker Will superior enneth Whiteside New Haven to Voting m e House Adjourn: ’ Deadlock Remains Washi ast 18ton, Dec incor 4 After Watert iry was to the superior here. His name was called today Acting Clerk George H. Freeman ported him absent, the reason being that he was insane. Judge N. Nicker- scn ordered Whiteside's name stricken from the list. Had Whiteside been chosen it would have been his duty to judge, with whether the late Susan Dowling Brennan who left a $60,000 estate here, was or was not of sound mind when she made her will. KEY WORKERS CLEANS 0UT ROOMS AT PARK HOTEL Traveling Bags and was kil is car, resumption of was made at that President Cool« idge expe the basis of advices reaching him that the house organi- zation would be completed during the day. No details as to the reasons be- hind the president's expectations were given, With no break in sight, republican organization leaders decided to move for adjournment the house after the cighth ballot, if no election was made before that time, and to resume balloting tomorrow, Lack of Interest, 4 ted ballots without result, the voting became more like that on routine roll calls and it was evident that tension on the tloor had relaxed. Republicans, dem- ocrats and insurgents gathered in the and lobbies to discuss and to give added eirs to a variety of rumors that 4 compromise was near Although the total vote on each bal- of totalled within approximately Wd o the house embership, times ess than half the mbers woere floor, many of them appearing vote, dropping out the civil j ir co balloting the t the White statemer House cts on but e repe were taken Suits, Overcoats, and cloak the culation rooms Gold Watch Among Daylight situatior Robber's Loot Four suits of t about $50 each clothing valued a tvo overcoats valued at $60 each, two traveling bogs an Elgin wateh were stolen rooms at the Park hotel yester according to complaints which en made at police headquarters hn MaeInnes, John Doherty Fred Cochrane, The three men, hotel, left their o'clock yesterdny return unti! entering their rooms they sensed that something and M that apparel had solen, They t was gained roo a key Two suits of cloth and a traveling bag m Maclnnes' room, aveling bag from Doherty overcoats, and Elgin from Cochrane. An investigati being conducted by the detectiy reau RENDEZVOUS WITH DEATH To from o " on the huve by and only the sleh Republi tepublican to of organization to openly aders with leclared wk une e amend-, yowed clinatic lea who live rooms at morning last at the about 7 did Upon the Msurge who thl definite no effort s and ; U ntati ine the rr ssured there would not evening Rag me Roepres wae wrong P ew York, anship of privately anges to them for ace ! they mndific covered thing in th he trance the nuse of ing was S fro a suit \ ' and ) - 2 suit that the ns ized Whiskey Valued at $55,000 \lolon From Brownsville Coast Guard Cutter Put To Sea Find Lone Sailor Who Intends To Commit Snicide. 1 1 Gresh v York, Diec s Semiy today under Otis B, Bradley, Fim City Merchant, ¥ Veteran Dies Brad ADVISORY €Ot NCT $13,600 BOOZE HOI Dup Report Robbers While Are Priving Into New York O rest 1s Made NO AMBASSAT LEAPS TO HISs DEATH York. 1 1. Bernard Green imy; clan down was saild of a NO FOREIGN CARDINALS states that Pope Will Name Nome WILL FAT SCRAPPLE From Out of Taly created at the coming consistory. |speak