New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 22, 1923, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 REBEL ARMIES START MOVE ON MEXICO CITY, MORE GO OVER T0 JOIN INSURGENTS Obregon’s Chief of Oper- ations in Hidalgo Latest To Desert Federals— Tayano Also Deserts Huerta Govt, Declares Peace _Overtures Will Not Be| Entertained as Revolution Is Triumphing. Galveston, Dec. 22.—Rebel armies under the command of Gen, Cavazos have begun an advance on Mexico City, according to an official dispateh received here today by Jiminez, rebel agent, Desert Obregon Forces Washington, Dee, 22. vices ved here today from de Huerta headquarters at Vera Cruz said Abregon's chief of operations in the state of Hidalgo, and Tayano, another Obregon ieader over to the revolu- tionists, n. Covazos, Gen had gon Will Not Talk Peace eston, Tex., Dee. ~Empha- tic denial that overtures for a peace parley will be entertained by the de Ja Huorta government was contained in an official dispatch from Alvarez del Castillo, secretary of foreign af- fales for de la Huerta, at Vera Cruz ' received here today Adolfo inez, rebel agent, : revolution fs triumphing everywhere,” the mes- v declared. al Ter Obregon chieftain appeared at the de la Huer- rters in the rebel fold with ne yesterda ta headqua tered the his all of wen, according to digpatches recelved | Brownsville gram received today by the Re tative of the De Lau Huerta govern- ment, announcing that General Mare el Cavazos, commander of the Obr gon troops at Apizaco, had announced his allegian to the revolutionary cause, and that General Lopez Paylo had also joined the revolution, stules that these officers are in command of 2,000 troops, of General Cavazos at Apizaco has cut the line of comw munication between Obregon's ad- vance troops, operating east of San Marcos and Mexico City, the telegram stuted, placing them in a very pre- carious position. It also declared that rail communications of the fed- | s attucking Puebla lad ¢ A despatch from Vera announced the rebel evae- Puebla.) ( azos has been instruct- the offensive immediately and deliver an attack on the rear of the federal forces in both the San Marcos and Puebla districts, the tele. gram stated approximately The revelt eri s forc b cut, Cruz today uation of Genera ed to take 27 BILLION DOLLARS TOTAL WEALTHINU. 5. Vast Amounts Exempt Securities, Es- timates Show the per eent While na increased 217 19.6 per cont of , or $54,000 reach of the to figures today by the National ! iteal Estate boards, Of | $56,000,000,000 was ex- Chicago, Dee. 22 tion's tax tota in the last 10 the total v tex coll made public Association of this amount empt personal property of which a large part was tax ex®mpt securities “What effect does it have on pockethook of the average man gain- fully employed, when suchoan invest or as the late Willlam Rockefeller puts away something like sixty per cemt of his total wealth in federal, state and local securities so iseved as their income entirely out of tax collectors?” asks the s beyond the according tor, to make reach of the ascoriation The nation’s tax bill inereased from | to $7,081,000, to most the associa representing per capita, or $170 for every over ten years of age gain loyed in the country jon's total wealth approxi 006,000 according to 400,000 in-1913, 1922, according says figyre $2.194,0 woo n , eareful tion the $64.60 fully emy ™ n the Liberated From Jail So he estimates, latter s ctimate He C an ( are for Family | Trer Judge 1 town court here Mitford, Cor . Brown, I today on petition of Orange residents remitted the unserved portion of a %0 day jail sentence imposed 40 days ago upon Frank Maneo Mango's wife has operated a farm cared for three children while - juil n the and Mango was SPECIAL CREDITS Paris, Dee The chamber of deputies today adopted a bill provid- ing for special ecredits wnder “the tudget recoverable from Germany™ of 560,970,000 france, to be spent in work in the devastated January and February reconstruction reglons during next. —Private ad- | Jim- | field and en- | ° |ante-chamber of the the | Dressed as Santa, Bold Bandit Gets $38,000 in Booty Sl Moline, Ill,, Dec, 22.—Dressed as Santa Claus a man held up the Cox jewelry store here last night. Mr. Cox, proprietor says the robber obtained $800 in cash and diamonds valued at $30,000, GET LITTLE GLINPSE. UNDER TUTS SHRINE Carter and His Aides Ex- perience Trouble in Rais- ing Heavy Lid By The Assoclated Press, Luxor, Egypt, Deec. |of the three sections of which heavy curved roof of the canopy Tutenkhamun’s mortuary chamber composed was raised something over three feet by Howard Carter and his assistants today. They labored four| hours, but were unable in that time| to detach the section. The lifting of the lid is proving a most formidable business, owing to the care with | which it must be handled and to the fact that it is much heavier than was | anticipated, The work of raising it is done by inserting a series of light wooden wedges, which Mr, Carter taps into position with a mallet immediately under the lid. The raising of the | first section has made it possible to |see from above the great linen pall, blackened with age, that covers the second shrine immediately within the canopy or outer shrine, Chemists were busy today in laboratory applying restorative treat- ment to some of the larger articles of furniture removed last vear from the tomb, These include the so-called hathor or cow- headed couth, inlaid with ivory and cbony (Hathor was the goddess of love, to whom the cow was sacred); a bed, one of the cere- monial chairs and part of the chariot {harness. The gilding and colors are coming up well under the treatment and Tutenkhamun's cartouche has been found on all the pleces, 22 The first the o in Chicago, Dec ~Dr, James Henry | Breasted, director of the Oriental in- stitute at the University of Chicago, will leave the latter part of next week [for New York to sail about the first |of the year for Luxor, Egypt, to be Jpresent at the opening of the sar. ’ cophagus of King Tutankhamen, He {said today that he had been invited by Howard Carter to be present when [the Kking’s remains are disclosed, | which is expected to be about Janu- ary 15. Dr. Breasted attended the opening |of the tomb. He said that Cambridge {history had accepted his spelilng of | most closely eon- context of historical Tutenkhamon as | torming to the data WOULD GIVE VENIZELOS FREE REIN IN GREECE - Are Tax! | Councit of Ministers Ask Him o Tte- Unhampered and Political Muddie turn Solve. By The Associated Pross Athens, Dee, 22.--The councll of ministers has decided to instruct | Colonel Plastiras, of the revelutionary | committee, to ask ex-Premier Venlze- | los, without any conditions and with | complete liberty of initiative, to return | to Greece and take the political situa- tion in hand | Former Greece, Dee. Premier Informed bearing a astiras, head of Patis, Venizelos of today that a delegation letter from Colonel | the Greek revolutionary commitiee, inviting the ex-premier to return Greece, had left Athens for Paris, to re plied that he would be glad to receive | He expressed doubt, | the delegation. however, whether the companying the nation ae would exp invitation the | Pestered By Swarm York, Pa., Dee. 22.—Summer-like weather has brought to full bloom the flowers in the yards of many Yerk county residents, More than a thou- sand pansies in bloom were counted in the yard of P. O, Lauer at Dover, Dandelion and daisies are blooming in many sections of the country. Bald Knob, ,\Pk., Dec. sonably warm weather and rains are causing growth of straw- berries in field in this vicinity. Thou- sands of blossoms decorate the fields and a few specimens of ripened fruit have been found. Toronto, De¢. 22.—Unable to work in such fine spring-like weather, John Rothwell unlimbered his yesterday for a round over the Hum- ber valley course, John is a good golfer but he had one of the poorest cards of his career, MAX J. SCHMIDT DIES = AT HOME ON CHURCH ST. |Retired “Rule Shop" Fore- man Succumbs in Sleep to Heart Trouble | ! Max J. Schmidt of Church | street, retired foreman of the Stanley Rule and Level factory, was found 8 o'clock by a daughter, Miss Lillian. | Life had been extinct for about an| hour, Mr. Schmidt was years old, He | was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1850 but came to America when he was only 14 years old. He spent a short time in New Haven and Greenfield, and- had been in New Britain ever since. Shortly after coming to this | eity he was married to Miss Louisa | Doehm, who died 18 years ago. | Mr. Schmidt worked for the Stan- | ley Rule and Lever Co. for 47 years, Egyptian | peing a foreman in the plow DlaAne pey reinman Tas Mrs, | department when he retired on a the past several years he had not been in very good health and had suffered from valvular heart trouble, which is thought to have been the cause of his death, He made his usual rounds of calls yesterduy and retired about §:30 o'clock. 1t was his daily custom to re- tire at this time and spend about an hour reading before going to sleep. He followed this same habit yesterday and seemed to be in his usual health, This morning as was her custom, Miss Lilllan Schmidt went into the bedroom. She found that her father | had not closed his windows, %as he usu.dl\ does, but she imagined he had ralept. Pailing 1o arouse him she commuvm with other members of the family, and Dr. W. T, Marsh, the family physician, was summoned. Dr. Marsh in turn notified Medical Examiner Waterman Lyon, who found death was due to heart failure. Years ago Mr. Schmidt was active in local military cireles and was first sergeant of Company D, Connecticut National Guard. He alsc was a mein- ¢ of the historical Bloper Guards, and took considerable pride in a Jarge photograph he kept as a valu- able relle of old Company D. In his capacity as a military man he was at times to tell interesting of the tivities of “the | guards” during early political batties {of the community He is survived by four sons letter carrier; Kugenc Frank aiso of this city E. P | Newington, and three daughters Misses Lillian and Hope at home and | Ruth, now Mrs, M. J. Smith Severa! grandehildren also survive. Miss | Grace Sehmidt, a teacher at the Lin- | coln street school, is a granddaught Vuneral services will be held Mon day afternoon at 2 o'clock from the home, Rev. R, N pastor of {the Stanley Memorial church, officiat- A interment will be in Fairview | | | wont | stories John, and a local of | | and | Gilman, ng and cemetery ROB 24 CRAP SHOOTERS Inree Armed Men Dine New York | | cause him 1o alter his decision not to | return to Greece for the prescnt, Nevertheless, close friends of the | fermer premier say he l= greatly im, pressed by the receipt of a telegram from the military group representing | {1,500 army and navy officers also re questing his immediate departure for | Greece Although he repiied in the | pegative his friends say he will be g1ad 1o meet his compatriots in Paris discuss the situation with them and give them the benefit his ady | and 1ong experience in Greek afairs. ¢ ~ joe, HELD AS DOPE PEDDILER New Haven, Dec. 22 - Charged with iolating the Harrison act, Frank M Johnson of 778 Broad street, Bridge port, was arrested at the railroad sta- tion here Jast night by federal and lo- cal authorities. A quantity of nar cotic was sald to have been found on | | his person. Johnson, according to the | police is known as & “runnet” or go | between and was on hie way e | Bridgeport when arrested OPIUM CONFERENCES Paris, Dec. 22 -To meet the wishes of the United States, the two pro- joeted opium confercnces will be held at Genewn in November 1924 after ‘4'.\. American elections Gamblers Against Wall and Take $10,000—Two Arrests Made. Twenty-four up against New York crap shooters the wall of notion store early today by thres d, armed men who relieved them of $10,000 in of rings d 1ater the police and Morris were lined s Prookly maske number Two hours Andres (' Bries proprictor and clerk of in the re which the held and charged them g and participating in the cash teh arrested Menorofeky the store game was | wih pla robheors and ar of Big Quantity of Liquors Seized Today at Essex Bssex, Mass., Dee. 22 Following & wispected motor truek to a farm quarfer of a mile from the E river, Gloucester and Essex police day seized 3,879 allons of alcohol, |twelve cases of whiskey and twenty | eases of champagne. Part of it was on the truck, part was piled near barn and the rest was dump cart. The police haa learned of the arrival in the Besex river of three rum-running motor launchrs 4 1 to a cow jaratered in a Strawberries And Ripened Fruits In Arkamas, Daisies, Pansies, Dandelions Bloom in N. Y., While in Toronto Golfer, Picking Flowers As He Goifs, is in Italy It’s Snowing golf bag | dead in bed this morning shortly after | 'pun-lou seven or eight years ago. Jor, # of Mosquitoes—But | FORD FOR COOLIDGE WILL INJURE LATTER So Declares William Jen- nings Bryan in Cam- paign Statement and for the first time an alibi “Tarnation,” he said, “where's the follow that can putt with a swarm of mosquitoes pestering him.” Then he went home, wearing a flower he had picked from the course. | Naples, Dee. 22.-—The temperature | fell suddenly throughout Italy over- | night and today the mountains sur- rounding Naples were covered with | snow. The outline of the crater of | Vesuvius could be traced in white Some little snow fell even in the ecity of Naples itself. Snowfall here is a| rare occurence., Miami, Fla., Dec —~Willlam Jen- | nings Bryan, candidate for delegate to the national democratic convention | frem this state, issued a statement to- day in regard to Henry Ford's en-| dorsement of President Coolidge in | which he states that the reaction wiil hurt Coolidge instead of helping him. Washington, Dec. 22--Christmas | without the jingle of sleighbells is in | prospect for practically all of the United States. And the famed, steam- | ing mince pie will be suightly warm to| The statement adds: the palate, for the weather man also 1r Pord has been talked of as the says this will be one of the warmest | candidate of the masses, his support Christmas days in history. | soming from both demoerats and re- 'lmo;) MIDWIFE AND FORD HELD trqry oy FOR SUPERIOR COURT| i mocr~ milliona of reac- : re- f the s the peo Waq ’"“banuoo ¢ champion of 1 the try, we e bis nak 1s with the | Mr. | Charged With Being Connected With | Inspiring " . his promi the s men in support big busine a reactionary condidute “He will not carry with him any the plutocrats, because they are | ready supporting Mr. Coolidge; | president’s opposition to the exc | profits tax made sure of their support But Mr, Ford's desertion of the masses will create an irritation that will be- | come more pronounce d as the cam- | paign approaches. The men who have dt'm ulty in expenditures within the men, who as a rule [-——will resent the abandonment their cause by one of the in the country, whom they regarded —mistaken, it now seems—as their friend. “His use describing President suggest a companian DEMANDED WOMAN'S ARREST FOR BREAKING AUTO LAW it poa's, oommar | men and political policies. talk of a ‘safe’ and ‘sane’ Death of Margaret Hull of | rest of | of Kensington | Mrs. Katherine Odalrymowitz, 40 years old, of 1568 Governor street, Hartford, and Thomas Ford, 40, of | 84 Church strect, this city, were ar- | raigned in the Hartford police court {today and bound over to the March Lterm of the superior criminal court under bonds of $5,000 each, on seri- | ous charges. The arrests followed the death of Margaret Hull of Kensington, Thurs- {day night at the Hartford hospital, after an illegal operation had been performed upon her December 13. Judge Day found probable cause and bound the pair over. of al- the S their incomes-— of t fe' in will ‘sane,’ of the word s Coolidge, word s the cribe public hese, who candidate t ! Ruth B, Lascaster Taken Into Custody Por strect Varking Judgement was suspended in police’ | court today in the case of Mrs. Ruth | B. Lancaster, charged with parking an automobile more than 12 inches from the curb. She was arrested yes- terday by Policeman Willlam Strolls on complaint of VWred Steinman of 49 Buol strect. Policeman Strolls said that Steinman came to him and insist- ed that the operator of a car parke near his, but five fect from the curb, be arrested as he could not drive ahead with his car. Judge Alling stated that automobil. ists are becoming careless in regard to parking but due to the fact that this is the first offense of this kind to be brought into the local court he sus- pended JUV|RVn' nt - MADE CHIEF OF POLICE Boiler President Cooildge will find Mr. Ford t fl i i action emphasizes the deepening di- vigion between those with big incomes and those with smail incomes. 'NEW YORK'S EAST SIDE "Feudal Alley” Withholds Secret of Murder in Which “Sailor Mack" I Was Victim, | ~=Kenmare, the gloomy East Side street known as “feudal alley,” saw another murder at midnight and swallowed the story in its dark tenement hallways. | Across the intersections of Ken mare rolled homegoing pushcarts of the Kast ®ide venders. A dim light of a gas jet burned in the doorway of a pool room. The block was de sertod save man, Salvatore di Aiello, homeward bound A fusiligde of shots, di d ¥ Bome New York, bee. Husky Maker, Appointed to Head Depart. ment at Paducah, Kentucky, Baptist Clergyma Afello fell t ¥ T 22 g0 Sailor Ma few medals and became the Kast es work 1922 he wi and serve as Ky., Dec W i.eigh, a Daptist preacher, pastor of a chureh here, formerly a boiler maker employed by the 1llinois tral railroad and sometimes voluntecr | assistant to officials in enforement of the prohibition law, has been chosen as chief of police, effective The Rev. Mr. Leigh fir attention about a yoar L accompanied federal sherifl’s posse a liquor raid in the 1inois “bottoms” opposite this city which resulted in the breaking alleged moonshiner's ring and the of distilling year di Ajeilo won amateur pugllis ations that lice. Early in of - manslaughts mouths Peeling long hallw body, the Fanelll's the one-in ped off and Whether di ob they Ui Alello was released tormatory be had ina promise to sin no more, WALLINGFORD PENALTIES Bt Paducah, as an mem en 0 Sid o 1 [ Jan. 7 B attracted » when I and a through the | und the rear in which they s to the of and found window robbed 4 a part e handis bars the A 1 not I 1 of a rip up of “tore in this Whes the o an destruction MURDERS THREE WOMEN Me., cquipment coul rmine from > re A slemn [ Conpers Mills, j Tragedy and Murderer Himself Is Has Gruesome Liquor s Cases Continuedd Probable Swicid Operator Gets $200 Fine—Another ath in John ant, was be a st Inflict Me shot Cooper's Wiils wern to ¢ | Three a lonely here today Srow rew lieved to be dying from T Lran Pays $100 for Similar Offense. woemen farm house The raids Jant their allege Mt wound i nntit " women were Mrs, Ruth and Mrs. 14a The women and 1t was understood ra 1ead M Nu Fva Fate I Je 7o fine wife o they Releued From Jail Fri. topether € was Mini fine were sist Pasqnale € il was Mre. Antonio Porte guot violation, was eis on each of two “ today e At wine for, we Porta ty the . street here early knew ' of . were Vit alone was arrested several weeks |s6iz The courtroom was crowde ago on a charge of attempted murdes brought by Frank Nicolaza, | business mar when the cases were heard Brave "Phone Girl Quiets Fire Panic, All Are Saved New York, Des Mise Rose Greenstan, teleph " & fears of sixty wealthy % | | | calmed es when yperat empin THE WEATHER > Aartford, Dev. 22 —Forecast for NSew Britain and vicinity : Rain. not much change n tom- perature towight and Sunday; easterly winds, th wir she discovered Royal Foe formed 1 to lines and mar burning building cave the structure girle s the L iast to R I - state secretary of the Y. M. richest men | gervice the Y, San of New the most expensive booster who has state Y. yet olimbed inte the band wageghis among the frst states Ju the union I yyade for improvements ",;:i,. uidere includdy Rxten- HAS ANOTHER KILLING CHRISTMAS CELE | Sever Wrue | gand European and South will celebrate Christmas at sea. fi The spirits field Pact with ANCIENT WALL CLOCK 1IN CITY HALL IS DISCARDED With the redecorating of City Clerk A. L. Thompson's office in city hall this week, an old wall clock was taken down, never to be placed in use again in the main office of that de- partment. The wall clock was presented to the city during the early days of Loren I, Pen field’s ineumbency as town clerk and was hung in his of fice when the town officials were housed in Stanley building on Main street. The old clock has not been out of service in more than a score of yes the time of recording pr Iy every big realty des r consummated here was marked by the old timepiece, Next week an electric elock is to be placed in the town clerk’s offiec 'w‘ci""‘“"rvt"d his candi- [ FRED FAGG RETIRES AFTER 37 YRS. WORK merly Was in New Britain Hartford, Dec. Fred ln, 29 A service, under the C. A, pension fund. During Mr. Fagg's many he has been connected M.« Brooklyn, Milwaukee, Diego and the state committ Haven. He is a graduate he Y. M. C ass., and received the honorary wi on, d nstitution in 19 Mr. faven, will be succeeded by Har secretary. to compilations t ', A, Colnecticut ran ounty work According M, ot he number of men on Y. M, C. rommittees number of employed ficers, assoclation members, men ndustrial occupations, net value sroperty, and annual contributions. « LEBRATION Fagg, whose office was in Ne Fagg, has | city; the department is undermanned keéping their household | retired, after thirty-seven years of as- |and equipment in some respects des | soclation buy Ford cars ' . R national ty A, in New Britain, Bos- Denver, ce of A. college at Springfield, word gree of master of humanics from that w Ty reflect upon the intelligence as well as H. Smith, for the past six years stat upon the good purposes of the masses, ' o he ks A in | burning of rubbish; | —1 | Fire | political —_— ey Average Daily Circulation Week Fndmg 10 107 Dec. 15th PRICE THREE CENTS EIVGINE'ERS REPORT UNFAVORABLY ON FIRE HAZARD SITUATION HERE; SEE POLITICS IN APPOINTMENTS Water Pressure Too Low For Some Sec- tions, Department Un- dermanned, E quip- ment Not Up To Re- quirements. Building Regulations Below, Standard—Large Part of Mercantile District Open to Risk of High Loss. In a report to the National Board Underwriters, made public toe day, Engineers A. ¥. Ballou, G. T Swan and Allen Roberts who made a survey of New Britair tions last July, point out me ed dee ts in the system here and mak l ant recome mendations Sallent features in the reporti ne State befleta“ Of “Y” For- |clude the m[m\\w; findings of the cngineers: Methods of appointment to the ew Britain fire department are une tisfactory, opening the way for preferenc: the water prese sure here is too low to effectually fight fires in some sections of the ficlent; the fire department is fairly competent, but weak in engine capae« years of | city; the fire alarm system has unres ltable features; building laws are dee cidedly deficient and structural condie tions poor; explosive and inflammable laws are meagre and inadequate poorly enforced, and inadequate bee cause of garage conditions and the old wiring in houses and buildings is in poor con- ditions; a considerable part of the mercantile district is subject to se- rious fires, and practically the entire disteiet is in poor condition from a fire prevention standpoint 21 Recommendagions \mong the 21 recommendations lined as most urgent sion of the water distribution tem; establishment of at teast two of |new ongine companies with 700 gul ON GIANT OCEAN LINERS Mid-Atlantic Dee, 25 ance Planned York, Dec. 2, —~Several passengers yeean liners between New traveling on merry-making festivitien are planned All the 1+ Christmas at home second and third classes with gifts Three vessels which left New oday-—the Berengaria farding and Cedric in mid-ocean on Christmas d iled with lounges, salons, decorated with mistietor thelr passengers in mately abins holly hi and over the ng Yuletide aboard ship. Among the well-known ships whi Wil celebrate Christmas s he President Polk, Presi Zecland, Tyrrhenia inland, American Legion nen v LIQUOR TREATIES With Great Britain Enters other Sage and Probably Basis of Al Others Washington, De Great Britai - transmissic suggest British rea Washingt Briti Americ althoug erests of ave to be & specific pro Holiday Mail Breaks All thou- thirty w York and | American ports 1 Thousand Persons Will Be iIn | of on nt ay gh ch An. eack every ship, with Christmas trees for hung York Preside —~will be approxi- and and prospects of spend- Will Re with Records in \eu York City New York, e Christ int 1 o ~ mas mai 2 "t of v arde Edward M. M extra motor mploves additional trucks were o Motements of i i [tlon pumpers, [near West Main and | purchase of a new | exception of those Big Observ. | limits vietnity of and one Jerome street system for receiv- transmitting alarms of fire; of a new and strict restrictions on the and inflam- prohibition of within the ecity in the o stree one Staniey and Allen ing and inauguration building eode handling of explosive mable materials, rubbish burning The comments favorably upon the organization of , the water department and its recerds with the for consumption of found to be for effective hydrant hose Suffic protection Wi manufacturing districts, pressure in some of the districts, while the northe he properly served the high pressurs the report saye found to be report water, | o too sireams. found in unfarorahble resident er SUres are low ent 1 section could by of reservoir Valves a well wysten 1 hydrants are 1 survey s 1 ¢ a ground perfected of the supply permits i igainst been arger tse Whigville and safe. undue depletion of Meadow reservolr, contemplated for supe will, when comg, supplies de- and parts of the city whicl supply guards e fron distribution the er plete protec iable mann improve tion in a predict on of Piremen Criticized fire at the ode fire department remarks, invites The departs under mainly commanded sperienced et side 1 i meth t to th hort to he ot appot unsatistacs office P ted out in motion are tenure r findi i - Othe "t g poi g slightly def inadegnate Deficient 1 to PBuilding Law« aw be dee appeary fricient & outside St rictaral Jediy at ts be goo these able lawe forcement Exy meagre not cent jitions (Continued on Second Page)