New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 18, 1923, Page 1

ews of the World By Associated Press AMERICAIV mrUDE 7S NOT CHANGED BY REVOLUTIONIN MEXICO, WASHINGTON STATES In Meantime Dispatches From Republic Indicate That Obregon’s Forces Are Gaining Upper Hand Rebels Evacuate Puebla and “Change Their Plans”— Federals Advancing To- ward Vera Cruz. 18.—The revolu- tionary movement in Mexico has not operated to change the policy of the American government toward Mexico, | it was announced today at the White | House, ington, Dec, Puebla Evacuated The Associated Pre Mexico City, D 17.-~ Revolution- ary forees evacuated l\l"ll tonight | federal troops have upied the 1o a depurtment By and city, according announcement war L Federal Troops Tal San Marcos El Paso, Tex., Dee, 18 troops have t-ken San Marcos, the im-| portant strategie point between Vera | Cruz and Mexico City, and are advanc- | ing steadily toward the seaport strong- | hold of the rebels, according to ad- vices recelved today by Mexican con- sul General Enrique D. Ruiz, IPighting for possession of San Mar- ! cox had been under way for more than | sixteen hours before the rebels were !l torecd to retreat, Mr, Ruiz was advis- | ed. The VFedernls captured’ an jm- | mense amount of ammunition, small ms, @ number of eannon and several ns used by the rebel forces for isportation, Mr. Rulz was informs. wd. ~Federal | Obregon in Charge Prestdent Obregon himself s di- recting the Wederal troops and is com- manding the pursuit of the rebel | torces in on effort to muke the victory | oven more complote. The message was rom General Serrano, oL of war, expressed | belief that the bellion would end sOON Sumiminry of Siteation | Following s a conecise summary of the situation The Mexiean moving east from the capital have come iuto direct contact with the rebel columns operating from Vera Cruz, and fighting for the possession of Apizaco, 70 miles east of Mexico City, is reported. The battle went on all day duy, according to dispatches through Vera Cruz, where the rebels | maintain their heagquarters, but no | indication of the pnnlhle outcome has been reecived, Rebel reinforcements belng hurried to the scene from | the const. ¥ ed advices from Mexico l'lt) guy ihe rebels cvacuated Buebla City, goutheast of the capital, last night. While not admitting the truth of this the rebels through their Vera f_'ruzl headgquar annoufiead “a change of | plan,” whereby their forces from | Puebla “advanced upon Apizaco,” for the purpose of consolidating rallway communications, The rebels also admitted that fight- | ing was proceeding at San Marcos, | raflway center east of Puebla and | Apizaco, which might in- a body of federals had ! in flanking the rebels in and thus forcing their government forces yester- received are the southeast of dicate that succeeded la City cuation regarding the operations in zone to the west of Mexico City lacking in the meagre government advices reaching the United States, but the President Obregon was compelied In the face of superior General Enrique Es- | to withdraw hls troops from | sato in Goanajuato and from the an Luis Potost and Tama- is | rebels say forces nder trad: GOLLAPSBS IN GOURT New York Woman Vaints When Her | ¥rank Schoble, Alleged Confession in Murder Case s Read Today. | York, Dec 1% Mrs. Marie trial with her husband on having murdered Alonzo former lover, coilapsed the state introduced a confession she was alleged to have mads was carricd by her hus band and court attendants to the Queens county jall and court was ad- | Journed Mrs, Vetter, mast of the e on her husb: New Vetter, & charge of J. Storey.. her today when She has listened to with her head 's shoulder for sup port, hall rvose from her chair and nervously bit her nails rs came to her eyes and she appeared abowt to speak when her husband quieted her. Suddenly, with a ery, she fell| back in her chair. In the alleged which the state was preparing 16 read to the court when Mra. Vetter fainted, she admitted intimacy with Storey before her martiage and deciared her | conscience forced her to tell her hus band before her baby was born The confession related how tured Storey 1o her home where was killed by the cowple after had regroachdd him for betraying her, her sigter a married woman liv ing in New York who nee contession. she he <he YOUNG HUNTSMAN 1S {left home | turn, | committee, to which office | Licutenant Schoble, Blind Veteran of | sehotarship i colle | Braille visits to New England manufacturing HOUSTON HOTEL FIRE - CLAIMS THREE LIVES Y Firemen Believe That Other. Bodies May Be Taken From Ruins Houston, Tex., Dec. 18.~Three bodies had been recovered at 10:30 a. m. from the ruins of the Capitol hotel, | which was destroyed by fire this morning, and firemen thought many more bodies would be found. Identity of the bodies, all men, had not beem established. The flames, which broke out at 6:30 and for a time threatened the entire district, were brought under control shortly before 8 o'clock. Originating in the hotel building the fire spread rapidly to the adjoining buildings, y A falling wall crashed to the roof of the adjoining building, occupied by the W. C. Munn company, a depart- ment store. The fire was checked there, but all stores on that side of the block were badly water-damaged, Only an incomplete check-up has been of the registrants at the hotel mad: | SLAIN BY OWN GUN| | ew Falrfield Man s Body | Found in Wceods Near I Hls Home New Iairtield, Conn., Dec. 18, The dead body of Jucob rison, years old, was found in the woods a sbort distance from his home in New Iairficld about noon today. He had been shot in the abdomen. Carlson yesterday afternoon on a hunting expedition and failed to re- Search was made for him this forenoon but without suceess uptil a neighbor, driving along a little used highway, discovercd the body at the iside of a stone wall, Carlson's gun lay on the opposite side of the wall It is supposed the man was accident- ally killed by the discharge of his own gun, but the authorities are mak- | ing an investigation to determine | definitely the manner of his death. Carlson was unmarried and had been | employed in New York, returning to New Ifairfield recently to spend the winter, Bride’s Father Confirms Kiniry-Lynch Wedding Edward J. Lynch of Kast A‘llflll street this afternoon confirmed a re- | port that his daughter, Miss Claire Lyneh, and John J. Kiniry of Lur(la[ street, had been married, Mr, Kiniry is an accountant. chairman of the democratic he He is town was el(‘(‘ll‘d last year. |Regular Dividends by Stanley Works Board The quarterly meeting of she board of directors of the Stanley Works was held this afternoon, opening at 2 | o'cloek. A regular dividend of 2% per cent on common stock payable January 2 to stockholders of record | ,l\m-cml:‘-r 18 (today) and a regular | packages. dividend of 1% per cent payable Feb- | ruary 15 to stockholders of record of | February 2 were declared. Drive Against Salary Increases | the { communication HUfiHES FR[]WNS ON fiREClAN HING 1§ IS RUSSIAN PROPOSALS Says America Will Not “Barter Away Iis Prmcnples” TIME 1S NOT 0PPORTUNE Secretary Gives Immediate Reply to‘ Soviets’ Note of Yesterday Propos- ing Negotiations TFor Recognition of Government, Washington, Dee, 18, —Becretary Hughes informed Russian soviet of- ficials today in a statement transmit- ted through the American consul at Reval, that there would seem to be at this time no reason for negotia- tions with the soviet government such as suggested in the message from the soviet foreign minister re- ceived yesterday at the White House, The secretary’s statement says that the American government “is not ing to barter wway its princi- Text of Note The following is the text of Secre- tary Hughes, communication: “There would seem to be at this time no reason for yegotiations, the American government, as the presi- | dent said in his messuge to the con- | gress, is not proposing to barter away | its principles “If the soviet authorities are ready eftestive ff the American citizens or make compensation, they ean do o soviet authorities are ready to repeal their decree repudiating Russla’s ob- ligations to this country and recognize them, they can do so. It requires no conference or negotiations to accom- plish these results, whieh can and should be achieved at Moscow ns evi- dence of good faith, “The American government has not inenrred liabilities to Russia or re- pudiated obligations. Most serious is continued propaganda to over- throw the {nstitutions of this coun- try., This government can_ enter into no negotiations until these” efforts di- rected from Moscow are abandoned.” The announcement wus described as a statement by the secretary of state with respect to the telegram to President Coolldge from Tehitcherin on December 16, At the conclusion of the quoted statement the announce- ments aid: will deliver this statement to the soviet representative at that place for to Tehitcherin,” ! Another Barred Doctor Files Notice of Appeal Bridgeport, Dec, 18.-~Denying that any grounds exist which under the statutes can be made the basis for the action of the state bourd and the state council of health in revoking his license to practice medicine, Isidor Yochelman, deposed eclectic doctor of this city, today filed of the two state bodies in the superior | court here, | tition alleges that the state examining board acted without hearing to establish facts and that he eclectic examining “ nation would do so at the carliest possible | hence was | to restor® the confiscated property of | did not, as charged by State's M.tnr-‘ ney Hugh M. Aleorn of Hartford, cure his license in this state by traud, | Moreover, he avers, he twlee passed the examinations of the Connecticut examining board, Robbers Get $20,000 Worth Of Xmas Smoking Packages New York, Dee, 18.~—Five bandits in Brooklyn today held up an Ameri- can Tobacco company truck loaded with $20,000 of Christmas smoking driver to FLong Island City cenfederates drove away Orr, the while their lwnn the truck. Reported Under Way In Council - WINS PHI BETA KAPPA World War, Gets Highest Honors at University of Pennsylvania. | Dee, 18.~Lieutenant ) ‘ Jr., a blind veteran | of the world war, has been awarded the Phi Deta Kappa key, at the Uni versity of Pennsylyania, award ‘os!ll e Y Jeft the univer. aepartment Licutenant Schok sity in 1909 without completing his college course. At the outbreak of the war he enlisted, was commission ed and wenl oversas Five days before the armistice he was struck by piece of shrapnel while leading his men into action Blind, he devoted system for re mastered it, and ggentere sity in the fall 1921, 1o s work In his classes, he has found time for extra currienium ac- | tivities, being on the debating team and taking part in v important intercollegiate conteste, He will be graduated in June, { Philadeliphia, in the himself to $the ling by touch, d the univer- Tn addition Russian Representative to Buy American Machines New York, Dec. 18.——Nogin of Mos- cow, director of the New York to arrange the purchase of materials for the Russia. He machinery and raw textile industry of districts and the cotton belt of the fire Ali-Russian Co- | by | operative Socicty and former minister | reported to be turned down on any of commeree in Lenine's cabinet, is in | increase for the can plans | will Leaders Said to Look With Disapproval on Employes’ Stern Raising City Wages. casier a for a rich camel to man get 1t b man will riding on for many pub- raise in salary heaven than it will be liec employes to get a this year This is the word that has gone from common council cireies. The axe is being sharpened The! entire list proposed salary in creases will be scrulinized closely and wost of them will be lopped off. 1§ is reported that there is a well |organized md®ement among republi- can members of the couneil to make almost sweep of raises that are brought before them for action. Aceording 1o report it has been de- cided that the petitions of the fire- men and pol consideration The higher salaries are said to look With more favor on increases for officials | department but with dis-| approval on the subject police offficals’ salaries although it is prob able that the chief may be granted part of the increase recommended the commissioners. Thumbs are out of a clean opponents of | of police sergeants Wint that has gone abrosd refied upon, few increases | granted in any department and those which do survive the storm If the be e ‘Hfll be small. Two robbers took John | L. {tions to sct aside Average Daily Circulation Week Fndmg 10 107 Dec. 15th PRICE THREL CENTS ROI/SCH CHESHIRE SLAYER, THOUGHT ASKEDTO DEPART SURROUNDED BY BIG POLICE POSSE Indicatons Are That Monamhy1 Is Bemg Abohshed Koundouriotis Regent. London, Dec. 18.—An ELECTION DEGIDES FATE Overwhelming Sentiment in Favor of Liberal-Republicanism Is Probably New agency dis- patch from Athens says that the king and queen are tonight without signing any and that Admiral leavi K be appointed regent. tiras, agency letter afl Premier Gona a advices requesting the ter they had been in Rumania decrees oundouriotis will ng for nd Colonel Plas- say, signed king to leav iterviewed by the military and naval delegation and by representatives of rganizations in the rged removal of the dynast or of Premier Gonatas titions signed by the officers and men | garrison of these" the Athens also recelved political and other province: All pe- asking that steps be taken to remove the monarch, | soversign's latest was imperative, steamer Beperia | the The letter to King CGeorge, “he United States consul at Reval | Was couchied in rather stern language, 5 ¥ |and contained the intimation that the | "ad sald he had given bis testimony departure by evening at |t He was [N dy, | further 11d that the {would be requisitioned for his leave | man, into his law nrm;' r taking. di seemed to be The king was not surprised at this |Some |development and promised the first thing this morning. that 1| in the him to d, saying for moment. b= | By The it is said, to it the he nasmuch as interests of leave Greece Official Stateme a petition for o review of the Action |py The Aoy Pt Athens, Dec, 18 Yochelman in his pe- Queen Elizabeth \\|I| leave eclectic | night for Rumania, it is announced by @& the newspapers here today. —King George and s to- | Athe Asked to Athens, Dec. 18, Teave Assocluted Pross. <~The government last night informed King George in (Continued on Third l'ng: GETS JAIL SENTENCE . Dwyer of Torrington Sentenced W 30 Days and peals to State Supr Dec, 1 the Torrington, eme Court, 5. After verdict and | rest judgment had been denied in the costs, su s |Judge Arthur 1. | Dwyer ja of charge s de th ro fu at Els for court il and imposed on the ¢ conductiy T ound guiity € ury had been ed cticut supre s notice rs. Monds were rnished Litehfield Torrington fine of today sentenced 1 to 30 days in of $100 and of reputation where intoxi- The defen- 1 this 14 o st week today the appe to me court of er- at $2,000 ahd iven An 1] | Chicopee Priest Is Civen Medal by Govt. of I’oland its v man here cruiting { nouncement laward Rev, an countrs Ne Mass., ma Chicopee was the LW el by 1 Cyma the h!ghlfi(\l\rmu,h the eye of a needle and into the Polard Restituta med Warsaw from tor st tistinguish volunteers £ Ly s « my and raisin, He 1 =aid v Eng man Polis@ medal Fox Not to Tes By i entered a have parancnac Fox not testify | triat men will recelve seant| oo . | { Is Crazy, l Atlanta Dee former Ku Klux in his ow Assoriated his & Coburn, was an insa testified he condition P I'olish mo to 4 charge nounced today. Dee. le today of u.( government to this city of now (ther on Cy- tanislavs church service in re for the Polish t third the or the ive to be ree ; He ms yers Say 1S —Philip ¥ Kian editor h behalf at of murder of Klan attorney, Fox has ea and alienists in a chronie THE WEATHER Hartford, Dec. for New Britain 18 —Forecast and vicinity: Fair tonight. Weddnesday clondy and warmer, diminishing west- erly winds tonight. J Fome Yactor— | lllr“ reply | This he | testifying med $100—Ap- | r| Aflter | IN WOODLAND NORTH OF UNION CITY gWaterbm;y Bld;coats and LIFER CLAIMS HE WAS JUDGE SMELLS BOTTLE, UNJUSTLY SENTENCED |~ SENDS MAN T0 JAlLEnie Nugatuk Frc SRR ‘ '~ Scouring District Seek- Alleged Union City Slayer e B Says Testimony Was ing Murderer “Twisted” Dec. 18.—The claim that | he was sentenced to life imprisonment |through “twisted testimony” was made on behalf of Joseph Peculia alias John Mitchell of Waterbury |Builty of second degree murder before the pardon board e m_ n-c‘lbl'- Sta |in Wethers | The 12th Acuvt, Dept.. |serving a1 fl,,umd Conn. of Benjamir . | 1909 and it Uy mr the most spec- | tacular appeal yet made by him for release from the state prison. The lit- tle hearing room the prison was crowded with spectators as the par- | | don board took up the the first |of the day Mitehell Louis M he informed th T would consume more {before. He had a Satisfies Evidence Has In It Himself Liquid Kick Carload of State Troopers Whiz Through This City Hartford, Antholy Sebatis, proprietor of a store at Washington street, \!uu} fined $200 and ntenced to jail for | 20 days when arraigned before Jurlh{".1 En Route to Take Up the B. W. Alling in pol court this| Libra! @ charge of violating the | Chase. o) Prosecutor William presented the state's case. | illiam ¥, Mangan appear- | Waterbury, Dec. 18.—Twenty-fiva accused man members of the Waterbury police de- Policeman Patrick O’Mara testified | partment and the entire Naugatuck that he and Officer Thomas Feeney | police department were searching the went to the store Saturday afternoon | woodland just north of Union City last week, Liquor was poured into|this morning after hearing a report the sink and on the sink board, the | that Philip Rousch, alleged slayer of officer claimed and Policeman Feeney | Albert Hoag, Cheshire reformatory d some of it. The officer said | guard had been seen in tha vicinity, atis pleaded with them to let Chased Three Mil tinr Waterbury police were noti« that a man answering the description of Rousch was seen walk« ing along the railroad track hetween Waterbury and Naugatueck. Detective —— ented b rbur hearing sald v ¥ Wate Patrolt Tiert s opposite the Sebatis docu- tore, testified that liquor has been ments with him to support his con- ®C'd in the place and a man is kept | tentions that Mitchell, as an inno- &t the door to be “on guard.” Three | Hickey and Patrolman McCabe of the cent man, was sent to prison for ]i{‘.'wllnesss& for the defendant testified | Waterbury police later spied the on deliberate lying, twisted lnsnmony\”““ they were in (hj? place Smurduvhoung man walking toward them as and unintentionally false testimony, afternoon and no liquor was h-mx‘!hnv were walking the tracks ju Mitchell, with Sophie Kritchman of sold, Scbatls claimed that the liquor {south of Eagle street in Waterbury, Unlon City, was convicted of second |th® officer sccured was only a mix- | On seeing the police the stranger re- degree murder on March 28, 1910, |ture of ginger-ale and moxie, Judge | versed himself and started on & run Ben Kulvinskas died in a Waterbury | AllIDE satistied himself by smelling us | toward Naugatuck. Patrolman Mc« hospital Safurday, September 18, 1909 to what was in the bottle and then|Cabe chased the fleeing youth for having been found in a lonely patch “nlffii!‘fl the penalty. | three x.nllen, losing him in the woods of woonds atout noon that day. | Truth in court is always better [near Union City, Affidavits were offered to show that |than fiction” Judge Alling said in im- Acted Very Suspicious John Weisman, & former deputy sher- | POSINE & fine of $15 and costs upon| The police did not get close enough iff of Hurtford, had been in this eity | John Hoggerty charged wth breach|to the man to tell whether or not it on two days when he testified he had ©f the peace. Haggerty was arrcsted | Was Rousch. They belleve, however, geen Mitehell in Waterbury, by Policeman Charles Anderson on | that if it is not Rousch it is some- Six of the surviving jurors who con. | Omplaint of a neighbor last night|body else who is wanted by the [victed Mitchell have made affidavits that Haggerty had threatened his | police. that if the statements sinco made in | '1fe That the authorities believe the | the had been presented to them Buggesting that conditions man in hiding may be Rousch is in- |at the trial, they would have returned ' Place be investigated Judge dicated hy the fact that state po- u different verdiet, continued the case of Henry McNa- lleemen are joining in the man hunt, One affidavit said mara, charged with breach of the Several state policemen arrived in peace, He was arrestod last night by | this clty this afternoon to take part Policeman Hanford Dart on a eom.|in the search, plaint made at headqvectors that | State Police Speed Through !there was trouble at 3%0 Elm strect At about noon today one of the m howe of My and Mrs, Patrek | state police department automohil Rafrel nmglllcflulm loaded with state policemen, sped of the ovidence oftered by a| The officer suid that lle went into|through this city headed towards Murphy who thought she was |the home and fgund that Mrs. Me. Plainvilie and Waterbury, That the; against Sophie Kritchman, Guire, who is & sister of MeNamara's, Were bent on an important crrand and flancee of Mitchell in Was locked in a bedroom while Me. @nd presumably the Rousch case [the killing of Kulvinskas had aided Namara was in the kitchen. He said | Was evident by the great speed of the {in the conviction of Mitchell and 'that the woman told him she had |Machine as it shot through the city, “twisted testimony.” been locked Into the room by her 1N addition, the special siren on the brother. Mrs, McGuire testified that CAf, Was being operated to clear traf- her brother came to the house, slap- ' and admit of free passage throu !ped her in the face and locked her in | the streets, the room. A R— CASE AGAINST MILLS that he might take his mother home. The mother and daughter, who is the Local Man’s Lawyer Will Present Arguments Friday Morning wun that 1 than ever hat he li tim e mass of in the Alling that Welsman Attorney Willlam Ken- counsel for Sophic Kritehman, tuken Welsmeu's son, Her- befriend who had |1t was claimed by | Mrs. accomplice 'PERSONAL TAX LIST IS INCREASED BY 1,161 [ FIfth Ward in Lead With Sisth Ward Close Second, Ziegler-Smith (Continued on Fifteenth Page) CLOSE POST OFFICES T0 RED GROSS SALES Cannot Use Federal Build- ings to Further Tuber- culosis Relief Work Teport Slows, An increase of 1,151 over last year is shown in the personal tax enroll jmuent for 1923, which has just been completed and reported to Mayor A. M. Paonessa by Registrars Willlam J Ziegler and Thomas J. Smith, Tne enroliment in 1 80.% and that of this yvear. The enrollment lows Deec. 18.~A metion to information against J. Willie Mills of New Britain, former prohibition enforcement officer, was filed in the superior criminal court today by his counsel, Henry J. Cal« nen, and Judge Haines assigned argu« ment on the motion for Friday at 10 a.m. Mr. Mills was in the party with | Benator Covert and Alderman Dehm at the Southington inn when that place was raided last October, and is charged by State’s Attorney A 1 with malfeasance in office. The motion to quash is on the ground that the state court is without juris- diction Mills was a federal eme ploye Harttord, quash the by wards is as Wards Total Women Hartiord, Dec. 15.—Sales of mas seals for relief of sufferers which have Chirist- tuberculosis been held in the the post office here and at t places in the state was stopped today Ly a general order from the treasury department ac cording to a message received at the office of state tuberculosis commis- flon from Dr, Linsley R. Williams, managing or of the national tuberculosis associatio Christmas sa years ago as a money with the obbies of oth some ' HE GOT HiS MEN as GUIMARES SENTENCED New Yorker Who Spent $60,000 on Brockport Veteran, Robbed Month | Ago, Awaits Robbers' Return - Kills Two. ol 18 Wining disc lobbies has bee to many thousands understood had port of free gn the raised § gave money 85 1 N L s were organ ns of ob- to fight in post office attractive feature The moncy used Tt h Conn Two Arrested, Edward which teran and gurage here, kept a month for the re d robbed him ~ et - ¥ Brockport 18 Coapmar proprietor nightly vig turn of burglars who ha of $1,500 Barly | A Gets Three Years in ' ase annual sale “A Woman" of a ) Atlanta Prison as Swindler, it is S.—Albert E. in the ine Dorothy ¥, today was three years had resorted order 10 * on York, 1 over wh 1 ing they came country Gumbrecht of heart killing . mortally wounded w0 of Rochester. Rochester hospital companions plunking ile riffs rge [ Rochestor cut 38 e him instar Mict severa AP nto 1t They Jeputies identifie Laruc Zamt ™ 1 he per going into t & t $6 Twe e w Have bout 31 the post December B lluildim; Operalion . in \member at ngh Point i Johr by tres ~ ) emt ne of buildir country jesued by the - ment authori About pot Aquitania, ');I(' (‘hfi tmas I'« \anla (Iam- Boat 8.—The Aqu ¢ New York with . At 1 severa taken 1sstans 1 be urrent g4 i mber New over October of this alue Twe 1ding - ire its reported by cities was Each 16, Wed 3 Yeéars, Are Given Divorce 5ld Giovannia Ses " oy KORETZ INDICTED ago, D 15.<Leo Korets, missing promoter of an alleged Pan- ama indicted today on a charge of operating a confidence game argh 1% year e Med States Sixteer Senate Deadlock Still Has Not Been Bmken Washington, Dec. 1% = nate remained in deadlock ¢ . tion of a chairman of 1ot today, the 15th since the tieup de veloped a week ago yesterday. oil bubble,” was & was gr + husband is the same age of cruel treatm martied thres years Common P ter, who heard urged Tegislation surh martiages. Hvorce from 1 Sessa, who the grounds They wer, ago Judgs Carpe the dence " Jos p 100000 FIRE IN V. ¥ New York, Dec. 18.—The National Cold Storage ompany’s six-story 3 RBronk waterfront was damaged to the extent of $100, |900 by fire early today. v(!« the interstate Pea to ant on the ¥n