New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 24, 1923, Page 1

o f 595 51 V), Average Daily Circulation Week l'.ndlng 10 143 Dec. 22nd . ws of the World By Associated Press | R A ESTABLISHED 1870 USE OF LIQUOR BY PEOPLE NEW BRITAIN HERALD DECEMBER 24, 1923, —SIXTEEN PAGES FOUR SHOT, ONE SERIOUSLY, IN MOONSHINE ROUNDUP IN J NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT. MONDAY, PRICE THREE ChNT LRI s ——— PROMINENT IN WASHINGTON “bite in MAY DEVELOP BIG SCANDAL Sweeping Inquiry Which May Result in Charges | Being Brought Onto | Floor Of Congress Is | Threatened ? Prominent Banking Inter-| ests May Be ldentified With Bootleggers’ Finan- cial Operations. Washington, Dee. 24.—The Nation- al capital’s biggest bootleg scandal, ! which originated from a modest po- iid, gives promise of developing eping inquiry into oft-repeated s of liquor drinking in high Hes char place T'he teto uice of u por- t n dur- nt de- sudden disappes pMmers raid ted in insiste veral quarters today planation. There were indi- that district attorney’s of- which s threatened to prose- whose pames appeared on 1ld investigate thoroughly the evidenee vanished into thin and that the demands for an in- quiry would be taken up in Congress medintely after the holiday recess, Bankers Involved, Meantime both the financial back- g of the bootlegger ring involved nd the actual source of its liquor pply are under investigation by soveral agencies of the municipal government of the District of Colum- bia. An cifort will be made to con- nect prominent banking interests with the financing of the project, and an inguiry adve has been made of department as to the im- a lquor stock which the prevented from seizing of an official of 18 list of ¢ W hy alr, the state munity of e intervention foreign legation Owned By Polish Logati Some of the liquor suspe officials of belonging to the ring was stored in the of w private house here, but when o police squad broke into the wmd were about to carry the goods uway, they were informed It belonged to Dr, Ve lus 8o MNowskl, Pirst Secrs y of the Jolish tegation, Dr, Sokolowski subsequent. Iy produced permits showing that the Wauor had been obtained by him through the regilar ehannels provid- | wd in the law for insaring supplies to the Representatives here of Foreign | governments, | STRICKLAND ESTATE VALUED AT $74,384 Inventory Is Filed This Afternoon in Court of Probate by the u ted by polier the stock of late Anna C. Strick. | afternoon in pro- shows holdings valued at! $74,000. The estate is nly investments in niacturing socks strickland lihu Wgarritt ago in Mhe temized shares American $1.190; 100 rdware e The I of the 1 approved this wil mor than composed of ma A ma who was a niees 0 died weveral months e west follows & Foun American Company, riean Paper Goods, Billings & Spencer Bristol Brass Connecticut General Blectrie, General ¥ special, Telting & ., 843 § New Biritain Britain Machine Peck Stow & Pratt & Whitpey, $1.740 inventory Car dry o shares s s o6 0 pany Locomotive Amie hares $21 $4s 0 compan com pany n 21,000 32 tri tewell Company, $1.42 66 North & M pid Wilcos, $1.7 15 Pullman Republican 1ron Stanley Works, it & Hine Co., $6 Flectric ( $2 8 N. : Rights on 8. N. E. Anaconda Copper, Topcka & Santa &8 1.1 & St Paul, § $i4 AN Y. & 11, $44; 10 Norfolk & West $1,030; 10 N K. 1., prd Southern 1. N 8655 " 8517 10 Kansas $030; 5 Metropoli company, & Steel 1011 10 Trumbull Western Union Vil maukes & S P ern LE Union Pacific, Gas & Flectric Co. ton Kdison Co., $440; i Scranton Electric, $450; 8§ Tenncasee Kieetrie, $712; 10 Thompsonsitie Kice, $300; 2 City of Waterbury, $2,000; 3 N. ¥ N. 1. bonds, $336; 1 N. W. Ohio Light $500; Liberty bon £ bank deposits, $20,410 American Real Estate bonds, $45; 2 Ohio Power Co., $180; 4 Rockford Kie $260. To 1, $74,384.90 e mu» AS AUTO THIES e 21 Benjamin NewYork eity, held in de- tention here for the past two weeks for having an alleged stolen autnmn.‘ s posscssion, waived exami city court today and was bonds o 2,900 for State police made was identificd as orence 1. Croner of Br 1)‘;”,4. aeport o tation in toand the superior co the arrest The the property of F New York car { Dirigible Adrilt Three Days May | William ton the | have | maintain | ward for Tunis, DIXUDEWASBUILT T0 BOMB NEW YORK YetBeSaved FIFTY PERSONS ON BOARD British and Ttalians Co-Operating Ln‘ Big Air Craft Effort Which to Tocate Has Boen Aloft For Three, Da, Mitchel Field, N 24.—The | French dirigible Dixmude, now drift- | ing helplessly over the north African coast was built at Friederichshafen, Germany, during the war for the pur- pose of bombing New York Major ‘ which Henry M. Robinson of Los Anel Picked as U. S. Expert IS LAWYER AND BANKER Westerner Will be Named a Member of the Committee to Amount of German Capital Abroad —Meeting to be Held Soon. By The Associated Press. Paris, Dec. 24.—Henry son, lawyer M. Robin- ican to serve on the expert committees are to investigate the tion of Germany’s finances under the | auspices of the reparation commission. Young is Prominent The other two American members, | previously selected, are Charles G. Dawes and Owen D. Young. Mr. Rob- inson who is president of the st | National bank of L.os Angeles and prominently identified with other financial institutions, was a member of the supreme economic council the Paris peace conference in 191 N. Hensley, commander of the air station here said today. The ship had been almjst com- pleted and her erew was being as- led when the w d, Major Hensley sald lirigible then was known as the By terms of the armistic, the Fle later was turned over to the| ¥rench army and renamed the | Dixmude, sem armistice as The | rnnl.,p; was Hope Held Out Toulon, France, Dec, 24.—The avia- | tion authorities here are hopful that | the Dixmude will soon be located, but | are concerned over the lack of lw\\sl from the dirigible, which is believed to be drifting over the coast of 'I‘urfls' or the Guif of Gabos. The French are recefving the co-operation of the British authorities at Malta and the Ttalians in Sardinia and on the main- land There ny some hope which with wred this morning to be | saving the Dixmude, | fifty officers and men aboard has been drifting helplessly for three days over the Gulf of Gabes north coast of Africa and over the interior of Tunis, News s Sparse Although news received in | has been sparse, the latest advices | sald that tho great airship had drift- | ed well inland and, taking a north- westerly direetion was hovering in the vieinity of Foum Tatahouine, 30 miles south of Medinin Military authorities houine w reported pared a Cair landing pe ship was able to de bile headlights were set to mark out the spot through the night. A strong force of troops was also presen he Ttalian authorities in Tripoli | instructed all military posts to a close watch for the Dix- to take all necessary steps | should help be necessary. | British officials at Malta have warned naval units in the Mediter- ranean to keep an extra lookout by day and searchlights playing by night. i Gasoline Runs Low | Suceessfully accomplishing a three day flight from Cuers-Plerrefeu to In- | salah, southern Algeria, the Dixmude last IFriday afternoon headed east- Her gasoline supply was necessary to put 8he | Parls at Foum Tata- to have pre- | 5, In case the nd. Automo- mude and to ald her low and it of her six motors, then began to drift, sending out d tress signals that put in motion Freneh naval units within call all garrisons in the Tunis district. Last September, the Dixmude es- tablished a world's record duration flight fo 4,500 miles. She was deavoring to break this record when | trouble overtook her. THOUSANDS MADE HAPPY Vor America And ran her out one all and en | | Cries of | Cheers Thanks Vor Gifts From U, & by Little German Kiddies 24—« heers for Ameri- ca and cries of thanks for the Christ mas gifts from the United States rang through the opera today when a thousand girls and boys were transported into fairyland by Hump erdinek's opers “Hansel and Gretel,” and their happiness made complete by 11-porund packages paid for by funds subscribed in all parts of the | United States Frau Ebert, president; Mrs, RBerlin, Dec., state food wife the German Alanson 1% Houghton, wife of the American ambassador; Miss Matilda Houghton, Mre. Warren D. Robbins and many other women prominent in Berlin's officlai circles | assisted in distributing the gifts the children, who were 'yv.rhlnrvl after the opera in the B | ahere they danced around two gi tie Christmas tree 1o cone National Bank Declares Extra One P. C. Dividend A meeting of the board of diree- tors of the New Britain National bank was held at noon teday and the regn r semw cannual dividend of f por cent was declared with additi per cent The declaring of a dividend was the principal ftem of business before the | hoard at this morning’s scssion, mem- | hers of the board sald today, the only other matters discussed being of a routine nature *‘flR or \"\'IIIRT | Cincinnati, O.,.1 24.--A score of | men were hurt today when a «m-k-l train in which they were riding was | sidewiped by teh digging engine | in the West vards of the Big Four railroad Sharonv Ohio, today. an |at the |assisted in the rescuc | November was improperly He also represented the United States IFirst International Labor con- | ference. Tie Legion of Honc 1924 To Estimate Capital Mr. Robinson will be name member the committec to estimate the amount of German capital abroad. Al the delegates of the powers cnted on the reparation com- ion have notified Colonel Janes A. Logan, the American representative that they will attend a plen session of the commission, to be held shortly, and join in extending the invitations to Mr. Robinson, MOTHERS’ QUICK WORK SAVES MANY LIVES 'Hartford Scene of Exciting Fire—Youngsters Are Dragged to Safety Hartford, Dee, 24.~Only the quick work of their mothers saved flve | families of small ehildren from suf- tocation, this moming when shorily before & o'clock fire broke out in the apartments at numbers 7-9 West land street, The children who were late slecp on the first their Christmas vacation, rushed out into the awuke and partially motlicrs who themselves wera enjoying a morning of liad to be snow storm, half by the frantic lad, with fright over the suddenness with b < H\\ aiter H, Clark who was called upon which their with fire and smoke, ed in the cellar bat through the partitions of Ming of the rooms with smoke and aking out into | flame on the top floor. The mothers were getting thetr family breakfusts when the smoke suddenly broke into the rooms and forced them to drag or carry their children to safety The cries and shreiks of the chil dren, who were terrified when awak- ened and rushed through rooms of smoke to the street brought a large crowd of neighbors to the scene, who work, filled start. rapidly | house dense homes had been The fire spread th all HUSBAND LOSES SHARE OF COMMITTEE umsm? | Connecticut in condi- | at 'HIK who shall be ESTATE IF HE WEDS AGAIN Inheritance of Emil €. kahl o Shrink Two-Thirds in Case He Takes Another Wife, The this property left to for life among upon that shall receive mainder to be dren and will of afternoon Bar in represented her husband Kah! was filed probute court, T in the estate is Bmil C. Kahl use, to be divided equally children and grandehildren his death: provided, in the event of his marriage he only third, the re. divided among the chil- grandchildren, COUNTESS RELEASED State however, one Troe Government Liberates Georganna Markicvicz—3,181 Other Prisoners Are Released. The A Dublin, government today lease of Countess Georganna vies f the leading | publicans, who was The 1need By ~iat Der 4 Free State the Markie- woman Arrestes ann one o " here The government a that between December 1 and 1w ber 23 political prisoners to the ber of 3,451 had been libevated ues for $10,000 Almost Year After His Accident eme num Bridgeport, Dec herg of Stamford Nathan Stein- one day than year, after the accident, brings in superior court today against Hartley Operating Co.. owners of the Stamford theater for $16,600. The plaintiff claims he fractured left t falling down a stairway which tighted lons one swit 1he his FOX ASKS NEW TRIAL Atianta, Dec. 24— Motion ranew trial for Philip B. Fox, Kn Kiux Kian publicity man. convicted murder for the slaying of W. 8. Coburn, his torney and sentenced to life impris- onment was filed by his counsel today. of {and i stimate the | o body and banker of Los Angeles | has been selected as the third Amer- | full | cal | as presenting a | them h- ili- the rnor|service. Uninfluenced by His lings, and His life, our boasted zation would degenerate into chaos and welter of the jungle. “Qur own splendid commonwealth,| “We appropriat observe thls |founded in the Christian faith of the day as the supreme festal day of the fathers, has never faltered in its al-| Christian year. We observe it by |legiance to the teachings of Jesus of | faesting and the presentation of th Nazareth, and while we rejoice at its|tokens of our good will and affec- material prosperity, its culture and|tion its civilization, let us not forget that| *“We ought also to celebrate ‘righteousness exalteth a nation' and |eultivating within ourselves the |that the ‘life is more than meat and of charity, mutual tolerance, and good “While ':!nr:;fl::;”\‘o‘u:l;w:lu lwing‘ “I!“'i'o all the people of Connecticut Preslden[ C%lldge Frws! Alnong my most (‘41r<lm\ (Others, Two Negroes WIFE KILLED, CHILD FATALLY HURT ONE WAS LIFE PRISONER AND FATHER lNJURED IN A CCIDENT |+ semites ana scotences ot must all agree that Jesus Christ wi ¢ Christmas and prosperous New the supreme exemplar of love and Down in Other Cases of Federal “"T"‘“BB"IK ::"“"“t"’":gII]IES SUPREMELY SURE o Brattleboro, . to pend Christmas, Struck! flF "‘PP Y HEREAF TER When Auto Skids Onto Mal' Railroad Trac S Jngysh v Waterbury, De: 24.—Gov Lh.fl‘lu( A. Templeton to issued a | Christmas message to the people of | which he states: COMMUTATIONS AND it by Offenders by Action of Executive Today. Washington Dee, 24.—Christimas pardons and commutations for 11 men serving terms in federal penitentiar- were announced today by Presi- t Coolidge. sentence of two ye a che altering United State Joseph Diga Helean' 1 nyg Invanu, Be Buried With He- Mo, ‘? ey at At oblig: Anta of an S W port Christmas seusor who was convicted a old uis Grimstad, Unga, Ala , of assault and battery and sentenced last July to imprison- ment for six months and to pay a fine {of $500 remitted. He his jail term but was bein ment of the fine, e sentence ol Peter | | undergoing a sentence of nine months in the county jail at Atlunta, Ga., for violation the prohibition law was commuted because his phyhical condition. John I, Pet five years in the District of Columbia reformatory for forgery, had his sen- tence cut to four year. He had been in | jall more than a year awaiting the de- vision of the court of he began his five year sentence Two Negroes Freed Christnfas pardons were gra day by President Coolidge to Alvin K White, held in Leavenworth prison und to Willis ®wofford prisoner at Atlanta White tence was train desired, the for which south of | prayed—death Racked Bernardston, today, The Tylers were| by almost intolerable driving toward Brafticboro, Vi., Mr. ruptured heart——the resuit of o child- Tyler aware approach- ish prank eight yeurs ago—the heroic ing train as his automobile neared |jittle girl died vesterday with her | the ¢ ing and applied the brakes, mother's arms about her and secu [Lut the light fall of snow caused the'in the helief that she would find car to skid and it stopped on painless, perfect happiness in | crossing and was struck bef world beyond Clasped tightly to her | occupants could get out. Mr. Tyler breast was her favorite doll which she and the child were brought to the asked be buried with her. Her last Franklin county hospital Mr. words were a prayer r death is a traveling salesman. “Jesus, take me, Take Jesus,” His home is in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.| ghe said With his wife and 18 mos. old son,| Her pale he was on the way to spend Christ- | might live mas with his mother, Mrs. Addie' ber 26. She had hoped to die that Tyler, of Brattieboro. duy When it passed she appeared REAL AND ADOPTED MOTHERS 207 i INLEGAL FIGHT FOR BABE was aroused The climax of ther Harttond Probate dudge Asked to. Dy | injuries @ hurt when Mr. Tyler their automobile struck by a Boston and Ma at Hale's crossing mile Helen Hamilton the gift she most 1€ one she had for months pain, due to a becanc of the non- of of serving a ips had untiy prayer that she her birthday, Novem- appeals befor she ra suffering came Saturday morning and |\\4' © hours later she told her Mrs. Emma Hamilton, a that she kvew the end was ar. “Take mie i your lap, Mothe she said , ] this is the end cide Which Shall Have I know w minutes T will lie, feel your arms around fme. 1 want to be held close 1 go.” “Then,” dear thin Three have Both negroes. wus serving a five having forged vmployed in the are year sen “uu.“ tor pay « while navy depart- ment was regarded know th a fe se of Swofford, life time at the department ustice through which recommenda« tlon was made, us one the most “Her | meritorious pardons granted in recent neck, | 8 i sentence Never | the sweet, so never - ol tle Tot before Hartf Dec. 24 conflict between the maternal affec. tions of the real mother and the adopted mother of tive year old Law- rence Gifford Pettit was alred in the probate court today before Judge eperate said Mrs, Hamilton, arms came around my times she kissed me known anythi Kisses was on the Depart- pris- murder dian territory 21 yes %o, ment records disclosed thut t oner, then , went to t of his sister AT | by her step ™ | made the y M| weath and comi 1 terrible ynu:vl them a Solomon eid- move given the for 4 which both pleaded imploringly ""';1_ 8 The case has many tangled and tragl. |SUTEFINE 8o muc ! Then her hands Thero l'u:;m“ 'Ivm' a swint ort convulsion and | i " she was gone,” | ment ¢ 2 nown that she ago but with | ¥ Pl sied fortit, the court. Approval of this adoption | 007 e agreement §s objected to by Mrs, | 5 Edith Wills Cope, to whom | = was born out of wedlock Mrs. Cope desired to adopt g the little fellow who has been iy and whits o) an o Teuented ashington of Mrs, Pettit since he No gl St eft by months old { Helen that it . nearly over, ‘With | o humber of Judge Clark characterized the case |y S 0 o A smile. she |this year than ever “most unusnal situn- confide bee y 1 had her 1a & ramification ny wishen, tha Lond tow banks has hecame deeply invol Nt Metho bee thar 000,000 in th aring eded Mrs ated mw in a a notice of a baby | adopt 8 %0 po % those I can efense sstepfather bject bullet wofford 1 saw oifgpe vas waying, °l take minutes later ver lips who ather uth reecived hands was to act the role of in from s0 e his nse stiffened I a ot pistol in the Iy the hearing An ap- Mrs, Ernest G. Pettit for of adoption agr into five was o1 wttracted nation- it became with suc A substan d girts t her f oval red which never leat) ty bont vears riise " was | Total Gold Reserve in U, S, Has Been her a | About Hundred criptions were parts of the country be buried Wedne and in a ite s Depleted by on wrer M many and | ghe will with | Millions, Records Show dress lny egally satin 1he was five Dec. 24 SBanty Cla stockir care . 1s in one better ~ f Christmas g8 before eld by the 1e ederal mother ased by more days op of ed AMId | froquent » - Wbout and the sordid the he sobs and tears in February small advertise that its mother wisl cd. ®he got in then ' it tion m James mi ‘ as proce while nt fund Pettit 1919 reselve 84 of she inscriptior | H. Mo p noma ™ stocks er's Darl wit employ the ment e 1 1 to have v with the lith Wil 1919 un Mr. where. |, ot « onir who was h s, and | Christmas The of t weeks The e re and Mrs the by was entered into ind Miss Wills was to b Pettit Pettit child Christmas nd the Re come legally |of the w the son of the Poor Zbyszko, He Says His Wife Abuses Him Awfully | 24— Wiadek asking for a charges that his wif jected him to atment, The for NO “WHITE CHRISTMAS" BERTHON GIRL FREED Riddeford But Weather Man Ho Ot iy Zbyszko, the divores He has sub tre Maine., De wrestler, ! ope To. arie Acquits Vamons Girl Anar- is | For a Rite of Frost in the Aj it of Murdering Reporeer Last Amelia eruel abusit the tria the York Mrs. Zbyszko 1s height and of slight build . orrow Moming Sanuary case January supreme it st the W term of county court a over |y five feet in mor FRANCISOO GROWS Dec. 24.—The popn SAN Francis summn Sa 0 ver withir municipal Springfield Postal Men peed Up to Get Holiday consus esti survey in Examiner a omy Francisco Christmas The Herald not tomorrow istom wi published Day wiill cease at e Gets 30 Days and Fine ' THE WEATHER A Of $100 as a P"?“"‘t Shoe Manufacturer Jumps gy e Five Stories to Death o— ™ 1. —Bes Hartford, Dec. 24.—Forecast for New Britain and vicinity : art of 1 Clowdy tonight: Tuesday fair fined $4 and <lightly warmer; westerly wil in winds. harge © He fur i * pealed the ca York S<ho. | worried about his busis - ILLINOIS; 75 ARE ARRESTED Special Agent G. J. PARDONS GIVEN I1 Simons From Wash- ington Conducts Raids With Klansmen As- sisting, According To Reports. Scene Near That of Herrin Massacre and Several In- volved Are Captured. —Four men shot, one seriously, in a round- alleged moonshiners and boot- rs in Williamstown county, Sate night d yesterday, and to= v 1d in the Marion were 1p of legge urday day I Raid Was ders were ons of Washington here by Prohibition Director Hay The raids were conducted without the knowledge of county au= thoritie he volur r raiding party which d 1o include Kiansmen was assembled at ( and in=- structed by Mr. as to how to proceed aguinst the law vioe lators, it was stated. Ammeto Terhercho of the hospital at West I in the head, stomach and back. others were treated for superfis buliet wounds at West Franke secret led by D. C, G. J. Sime who was sent was s urbondale Simons alleged in shot Threc cial fort Clark Is Otis Clark, the connection with ings, was among those arrested I'he ralders, swooped down on all nearby towns almost simultaneously, and carly yesterday there was great excitemient in Benton, it being csti- mated that more than 3,000 persons were gathered in the town square The raids came at a un when the ged bootleggers were prepari or @ big Christmas on the belief t the dry agents had caljed into Chica holiday One Woman Arrested woman was among those About 400 klansmen particie the raids, klan leaders Arrested. first man indicted in the Herrin Mine kil - at u duty majority o o for One rested pated Ir scrted, In re every case, federal warrants were presented, raids being made only at places where federal agents alleged they previously had purchased fore bidden liquor. Clean-up Songht Was! Dee. 24 bition s in Willlamson county, Tilinois, Saturday Sunday, fole owed n recent visit here by a delega- tion of of that section who sted & “clean up” it was said to- ibitior rters here, nowle The prohi- clitizens day at eadqu had no | ried participation of Kiux Kian in the pro ment officials the rep s of the cdge mer Ku ibition ed chief of prot P he in sent Pitts- possible ty and i1 the render of mty Sature G under by s J. rhk yut Christmas Bonuses This Year Are Not So Lar with P $2,000. worth