New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 26, 1923, Page 1

e IS News of the World By Associated Press [——— ESTABLISHED 1870 YOUNG WOUD AT 25 HAS MADE FORTUNE Gov. of Philippines’ Son Admits $700,000 to $800,000 Proits SPRCULATED BY CABLE pine Securities—Will Retire From | Army and Engage in Diplomatic Career, Since He's l"ln_lncil-lly Able. New York, Dec. Osborne Cutler Wood, car cld son ot Governor Wood of the l'hlllpplnel, has admitted making between $700, 000 and $800,000 in Sweculation in Wall street seccuritics cable from Manila, where he is an/ aid of his fathe says a copyrighted dispuich to the New York Times, to- day. Copy of Dispatch. dispatch, by Richard V. Cula- in part follows: 1923, by the > Times compuny. By permission of the New York Times Manila, Dee. 24.—Lieutenant Os- borne Cutler Wood, son and aide Governor Leonard Wood, will return to United States soon, probably by.the end of January, with the inten- tivn of resigning his couunission an riy the diplomatic step is not only in wccord with clinations, but he is better able take it for the reason that he has ceumulated cnough money through fortunate investinents lo enable him to follow a diplomatic career inde- pendent of ry conisderation, Bought Oil Stock. Licutenant Wood's streak of good | fortune began in September or Octo- ber of last year when he bought stock of the Jorsey The han, Copyright, w York service, to its sensational rise. Altho... his capital was ex tremely smalt then, he told me today, the that \nis stock rose approximately 60 points gave him profits which placed him in a posi tion to muke further investments on @ lurge scale, Practically all of them woere profitable, While Licutenant Wood said today that he did not know off-hand lh[‘ exiet amount his |||ul||n he mna them at $400,000, For some time in cirenlation in New ton, Chicago and Manila that Liou tenant Wood 1 engaged in hea investmenty in securities and it was reported that he had made deposity I New York and Chicago nggregats g 82,750,000 x x X Rumor Involved ( the course of sometimes took the phase that large sums had been sent from the Philippines by Governor-General Wood, x x x Nothing ever appeared or has t here o bear out On the I am assured #ol mains » is obliged frugal methods I w General an end to Lieut ventures when Thin attitnde just prior fuct stories have been York, W VeTnor. n story these in the Governor-General il means, congerve with Wood ree which true, ow, man of ht to Wood also who put ant Wood's financial he med of them on his part is stood ta be not duc to any that Licutenant Wood's weer not legitimate, but to the that it was unwise that smich a man should accumulate a fortune so rapidly and to desire to afferd no ground for gossip that Lieutenant Wood's investments were in the Phil- fppines x x x. Asks AN Details, matter of Lieutenant Wood's operations was brought to Wood's attention on his re- belief young The fnancial General turn from his Java trip t6 Manila in| connection with the resolution of Representative Frear calling for congressional Investigation of Philippines. X x x General immediately sent for the lieutenant, who was in the palace at the tim and in my presence asked him to give me all the facts of his financial ventures, “1 want nothing General Wood Lieutenamt Wood said it that he had made considerable profits dealing in American securities, but sald they did not approach anything like the sum of §2,750,000, the amount I had mentioned as the ag- gregate reported deposited to his credit in New York and Chicago. His profits, he said, were between $700,000 and $806,000 x x x. “While 1 regard these transactions as private matters,” asid Lieutenant Wood to me, “I am perfectly willing to tell the story without going inte Intimate detalls of my personal af- fairs. None of these transactions had anything to do with Philippine en terprises. Efforts were made by peo- ple here to have me invest in en- terprises in the nds, but 1 de- clined to do s0. Mine were Amer- ican transactions. Eaplains Dealings. “While 1 don't know the origin of the stories of the large amounts said to have been deposited by me, they probably got about through the fact 1\ A 1 made a practice of transferring the same amount back and forth be tween Manila and New York as often as occasion demar i Favorable exchange rates governed me in this When there was a chance to make profit through transfer | did so “If the banks know have they will make a good offer #t and through that fact | transterred the same amount froquently, 17 T had gold deposited in New York and hange rate made it desirable * it to Manila 1 4 so. It untrue t 1 incorpo- concealed,” sald isia “ gold for you you - ila Viutels tinued on Twelfth Tage) 26.—Lieutenant | conducted by ! of | andard Oil company of New ! Its circulation the| | disclosed by investigation | such an insinuation, | contrary, according to what| best-informed | under- | feeling | transactions | al the | Wood | was true NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1923, —EIGHTEEN PAGES. DIXMUDE, WITH ITS HUMAN FREIGHT OF 48 PERSONS IS NOT YET FOUND, By The Assocluted Press. | Paris, Dec, 26.—At 9:30 o'clock this | morning the ministry of marine was 1 | without information as to the where- 1abouts of the great French dirigible IDumudc, which for several days has condition with 50 men aboard. Location Is Uncertain Search of land and sea by Irench, British and Italian naval and military units, while one hundred fleet-footed natives scour the mountainous region | around Medini, Tunis, where the ship is reported to have been sighted on Sunday night. However it is gener- fragmentary rumors of the airship’s presence over the South Tunisian | frontier ,in the vicinity of Metin; Tathouine and Kebili were really only | suppositions and therefore in the words of the official statement “the | greatest uncertainty reigns as to the present situation of the Dixmude.” | Last Seen on I'riday, | Officials at the ministry said today considered that the latest tru news wi skra la iva | they | worthy | from | her poi od by beeause | French coast, The message Friday ther It Dixmude announcing this instruct- south m along the W W 18 at the wireless to remain in the a violent stor in question was sent at 11 p. m. Friday at which hour the dirigible was seen 12 miles from Uled | Jellal, 33 miles from Biskra, which is ;n.hnu( ranean coast, The Dixmude | procceding southward. Landing Dangerous, If she continued to travel as a fres balloon, without help from her tors, department officials expressed the opinion that she might cover con. i siderable distance, | that she had 12 tons of water on board for ballast, without reckoning | her motors and accessories, It ghe has landed it is considered improb- able that the landing could have been effected without accident. was then | | been drifiing over Tunis in a helpless | ‘all) believed at the ministry that the | s the official dispateh ' 125 miles south of the Mediter- | mo- | S it was estimated | French Air Ministry Admits Lack of Information But . S" Penn, and COflSllI]]l!lg Still Hopes That All May Be Finally Saved— (,ood ‘ Food Supply On Board Air Craft. ‘SILZER'S COAL ~ SOLUTION | Plenty of Food | Regarding the food on board the dirigible, it is stated now that in addition to fresh meat and other per- ishable foods sufficient for three days | #he carried an ecight day supply of | biscuits and an cleven day stock of | | preserved meat, together with 3230 gallons of water, a three day supply, | and her tweive tons of water bal- | | last, A revised statement of the persons on board given out today was 50-—14 officers and | 86 men. N Lieutenant Du Plessis | de Grenedan, who commauded the Dixmude, was the officer who brought ‘ t her from Germany with her German | crew when she was surrendered un- | i der the peace treaty. He has con- |f tinued to command her ever since, but this was to be his last voyage, as he was about to be promoted. { Has Six Cars Suspended The Dixmude, as Zeppelin took very little part in the tions. She has six cars suspended from her main structure, each with a | 4 0-horscpower motor, Between Sept. | ¢ 25 and Sept. 30, tabli a ord for a noi flight v a 118 hours flving. aviation expurt I.'Auto, the Dixmude for granted and expre: the hope that it will in- |y duce ance to abandon her plan nfl of creating a fleet of dirigibles, He de- | a nies that the war showgd that dirig- | ibles can be of great ufility in naval "r 'operations, saying experience has | shown the contrary, He quotes Field Marshal von Hindenburg's reminis- cences stating that Count Ze himself admitted t out of date as war machines declared that the future -mastery the air belonged to airplanes. Those on hoard the Dixmude her staff of four officers, ten officers i.-urriml as passengers and crew of | 36 men, 14 of whom are especially | [trnlnn.x to conduct landing operations; | t number | of la says the tota J el I ope | e p she n réc stop total o M writing loss of the W P le I‘arous, th today to takes o5 and | of are b & BOY, ONCE ACQUITTED | Justice Pnrker Puts Prompt lmeslor\ Christmas ' Gifts | Stop to Plans of Jersey Prosecutor | Morristown, N, J., Dee, 26, - Franeis Kiuxen, 16, eannot be rotried for the murder of Janet Lawrence, a school | gl it was declared today by Justice Parker, who presided at the | which the boy was acquitted of the [ murder charge o y | Justice Parker's statement was in Jr"l.u'lun to County Prosecutor Boli- | tho's application for records of the trial in which he sald he would seck | “rnuhwl for retrial. The prosecutor' | satd he would base his fight to reopey the on the téehnieal ground that the evidence was heard by an Essex county jury, rather th jurors of Morris connty, where trial was | held, Nothing to it,” Justice Parker sald. “The trial wus perfectly regular and once a man has been tried and ac quitted; that's the end of it." Prosecutor James H. Bolithe has filed with the Morris county clerk an application for records of the trial as a preliminary step The prosecutor stated that a trial would be asked because the jury was drawn from Essex county in- stead of from Morris county, where the erime was committed After his acquittal young |was taken under the patronage Monell Sayre, wealthy Madison, N. J., bachelor, who last I'riday filed pa pers for his adoption. On Sunday Mr. | Sayre stated that the rector and vese trymen of Grace Kpiscopal chureh of | Madison, had. said the church w closed to the boy because of his y | This was later denied J STUDENT 1S SLAIN University of Arizona Athlte Killed case the new Kiuxen of and Girl Companion Badly Wound- el by Negro, 26.—Ted athlete, com Miami, Arizona, Dec Grosh, University was shot to death panion, Miss Maxine Globe, Ariz, is in a Globe a serious condition the result of an |attack by a negro here early today A passing motorist found Grosh's body in his car, and Miss MeNelly wounded and heipless, Iving in the road. She is expected to recover ‘Auto Accident’s Echo Is Two Suits for $15,000 Each Dee. 26 Two suits for in faver of J. €. Me- James ¥ Meclean, both against John Christensen were filed in superior court it would appear from the complaint, to an automobiic acei- dent on December 2, when both were hurt in North Stamford by an mobile driven by the defendant Arizona his McNel hosy of an Sridgeport 00 eueh Lean and Famford, that place today. incident of auto DENIES ENGAGEMENT Cincinnati, Dee. 26.—Cafl Wiede- ™. Newport. Ky.. owner of In Memoriam. denied today rumors that he and Miss Allyn King, actress, were |engaged. “1 am neither married nor lengaged to be marricd,” be said of | INFACTORY DVIENDS, e | Aggregate $1,721,000 I | f } With More to Come : | SBanta Clans will bring very come gifts 10 investors in local manu- tacturing industries and banks this| [ werk Included among mouneed are the wels | dividends already following: Amer- | iean Hardware corporation, three per | cent quarterly dividend, § | American Hardware Corporation, | per cent extra dividend, $62 i Pafnir Bearing Co,, two and one Hu" & per cent quarterly dividend, $ a9 Hart & Cooley, three per cent quar terly dividend, $20,700; Landers, Wrary & Clark, two per cent quarterly and two per eent dividends, | $420,000; North & three per leedt quarterly, Stanley Works two and auarterly, $16 | Estimated | week Include and one-half $75,000; extra - Judd, $75.,000, one-half 500 n cent 1 per dividends expected this Stanley Securities Co,, per cent quar Commercial Trust Co,, half per cont quarterly, | Britain National bank, semi-annnal, $25,00 Trost, hatf " seven terly one and one 500; New five per t New Pritai per cent quarteriy, SKATERS TRY OUT Fntrants Today two and one $12.500, o m American Olympic Through Their Stunts Mirror fake, New York, e, 26— today Lake, Lak~ Placid, N, ¥ Olympie 1 skating had Ns first workont or near here The team consists of '] |traw of Lake Placid, Joe | New York, Harry Kasky and Willlam Steinmetz with Valentine B and Richard Lake as altern Drinking Bout Ends in Death of Three Persons New Yorl Three found ¥ in Long Isiand Melatyre, with four ope Melintyre, his Smith were the ¥ bott Mirror arles Jew Moore of Chicago, of Chicago, | lLake Placid Saranac persons i tod Johy from wete city apartn of gas fumes pour on the wife, and vietims, S ound in the Kitehen Mrs. range Mary mpty whiske apartment wors Gets One Year in J For Accepting a Bribe Cambridge, Dec A sentence of .1 tod was correction am M th ¥ of ity orn stay ouns ptions. Ho accepting to move one vear vas impos Hog Middlesey accepting a bribe willor. After i while he o Sisk ot of N pending the filing of exce gan was four gailty |money to expedite a permit & buiiding teme grante BANDITS GET $306.000 Okla., Dee. 2 Twe held Goldberg Loan Co. and escaped today with about $30,000 | | in cash and diamonds. | andits Tulsa ip the 'REALGO-OPERATION | New Jersey Governor Today Outlines | { | state of Pennsylvania und the late the anthracite by Gov | We seem to be in the midst whether giver competition Pennsylvania to take some action. | Pennsylvania in all fairness { with the duty of secing that Prein |0 late at dirigibles were | 10N | should | to repeal the coal tax, xax It is unfair, | prevent the royaltics, dificulty of course L CANNOT RETRY KLUREN FORTUNE DISTRIUTED Ly " “hief, N more poison.” Reparations (o Five Wallingford .‘ien 'PARENTS NOVE T0 FRA FRANCE IS WHAT IS NEEDED Mr. and Mrs. Edward McClure Peters of Brooklyn to Spend Remaining Years Near Cemetery. New York, Dec. 26.—Edward Mc- | Clure Peters of Brookiyn sailed today on the ¥rench liner Chicago to join his wife in Toul, ¥rance, where the will spend their maining days hear eir only son. The s n soldier, Captain ¥d- Peters, Jr., command- division machine gun company He was killed in Mar 1918, along the first American front which in those days skirted Toul, Nancy and Baccarat. They buried him in the American cemetery at Thia- court only a few kilometers from Toul, the favorite “blighty” of the first division doughboy. Young Cap- ! tain Pet mother journeyed to France recently to visit his grave. industry was urged | When it came time to return, she ilzer of New | Wa8 reluctant to leave. the Bos.| Nor could her husband be led to have the body removed where the son had ) Lurial place across the boy's native land. So they g0 and live near his grave up their Brooklyn home to put fresh Howers -m"?al every day ' States Should Work Together —— His Proposals I'or a Genunine Im- provement in the Anthracite In- Boston, the Dee. 26.—Cooperation be- government, the various consuming states 1o regu ween federal rs' nthracite nor George in an addre on Rotary club today. “The president,”” he said, “in deal- ug with the question coal xxx asks or the power to act in an emergency. of an L persuad- from 10 & new in the J ' to .""o ersey before sei mergency all the tim Could Prey Frauwd “Whether the federal government an exercise to the fullest degree the ower of price fixing and regulation or it cannot, there is no doubt t all that through the powers which he interstate commerc a similar ould doubted L0rity ower to eliminate the fraudulent and xtortionate practices and the unfair| ¢ and control which are|¢pe he largest factors in the curtailment|getts and formerly f production, the creation of short-|giate, expressed the and the raising of the price. XXX |{hat President Coolidge would be re- he people of the 30 wnthracite |yominated at the republican national onsuming states should petition | gonvention, Mr. Barrill spent Christ- XXX | mas with relatives in this city, charged | In his opinion, President Coolidge oal and |ig a5 good as nominated now. He is sent to us for consumption. | gapved with Coolidge when the lat- an easily accomplish. We |(.r was governor of Massachusetts ask the state of Pennsylvanis|unq is an original Coolidge man, hav- ng voted for the nomination of the then governor of Massachusetts at the Royalty Regulations [last national convention, “Penusylvanin should regulate and | vy are going to send a solid Cool- payment of extortionate delegation to the convention and This is can also do. {T think Connecticut will do the same,"” “Within our respective states we | zp. Burrill said. Is first to get a suf- Starts PREDICTS COOLIDGE is Burrill Massachusetts, commission | Charles 1 ar ) it or commissic Visiting Here, Contident Pr lent tholl | Will Win Renomination Burri member of council Massachu- treasurer that opinfon today rles l.. executive of of njust and immoral, xxx 10ge into the stato | thut it arrives here This being ac- | n prevent extortion 8 within the state lelent quantity of nd .~m-nvi to seo a fair mn|v\l~h‘vl oo House Tmmigration Commitiee In 1o Secure Information For New Q Washington, Dee. 24 were begun today by the "Il ustry and the who shouwd control | fail in theie duty, to the publie, | they have only themselves to) slame if the public in sclf protection [migration committee on legisl orces upon them some radical ac- {take the place of the ion.” law which expires next Chairman Johnson has {a bill which would provide for select this ind ntal agows govern- ta 1. Hearings house im ion to quota hen present June per cent basen on the number of persons of each vm|‘|lvn<\|l\ here un der the 1890 census | The first witness today, L. & leb of Washington of the {selective immigrants' it vocated seloction abroad, but Ithat other features of the pr be continued INCORPORATE N. Y. POST ht by w Smnggled in 1 R Fleet Gott weerotar lass ll'-ully Than That Made at atd ® Home, Drey Agent Declares, ur e, 3¢ sent 1 the New York, led ashore from eadly than made.in- Q. Merrick, divisional declared today York's dead than Liguor rum floet is oss | America hooch, |uu'\|ln|mn pointin ta Christmas s lv-H of five probably dying and 50 under hospital treat. | smug- w hree New York Paper Reoontly 1 vent Curtis and His Acsociates Flles Pa. It must drink, drink foreign quor rather than the Jocal product,” 1 Mr. Merrick. “The New York de stuff contains all kinds of \Y one pers With Secrsary of Sate . Albany Y. Doe, 26 3 g Post, It sed by Cyrus H. K his associates, was incorporate office of the of state [ Thers 20,000 shares cent preferred stock, with of $100 a share, a " common k | directors named « [eortificate are ohn . Martin, Davie | Charles ) Hug! New Curtis, M and | Curtis secretary APPROVE OF NAMES Pormally Fn- 'u ares The incorporation " Curtie, Smiley and Iphia, and Vessra. =T e stated mitter vilade York nurke named, s GRAFTING CHARGED N ehicke The ormally approved situation, and 1 to Henry M. 1t wyer and bank Am member, I Owen D, Young invited vat o January 14 th are to i third Daws tously Group of Mass. Motor Ta- heen thee spectors Are Aconsed of Misuse of budget, and the Germar January time to get here ritish nominations " a Kindersiey, a di- {Open Campaign Offices Of Two in Chicago Today I-,a('h Are hned *200 ‘ ' s THE WEATHER -0 Hartford. Dec. 26 —Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Fair tomight and Thursday somewhat colder tonight: west- erly winds, diminishing and “hifting to easterly on Thurs- dny O Dy Jn introduced | Daily Circulation *10,143 Average Week Ending Dec. 22nd PRICE THREE CENTS 10 CHRE FOR SO iy BURNSIDE MURDER ' SCENE IS MUTE EVIDENCE WOMAN MADE BRAVE FIGHT FOR HER LIFE JAMMING OF REVOLVER ALONE STOPS SLAYING Albdm Bandit Holds Gun Against Cop and Pulls Trigger Four Times De by the Alb 26.—A bush arranged police lobby of the Hampton hote North Pearl street early to €d in the captur two holdup after an exchange of shots return to the hotel clerk money which the bandits had obtain- ed from him. A third man, ed as lookout the bandits, red, annex o an of amount o who a for the strangers, homas ( =red the rted, clerk, who later aham and otel lobby, Alfred 1, irew up o ’: at rear One Patrolman stunding torward 1 fire, then of the officer, stomach times, but tury Tuffe elevator, the bandits opens directly in front the gun at his the trigger fo pon jammed Polic: firing, fore ck the of Who was stepped stepped placed and the i wea- across the waring the rushed 1 Graham eluded them, short distance fired as the found to have penetrated his cos times, but with no injury to None of the police The holdup was timed night and varly morning the police department shifts, The s one pla was and the entire 1 joined in th who had escaped RESCUED BY FIREMEN Al into the lobby, and to surrender. Laurie but ured a up Shots police was the str er. when platoons King hooting occurred roundi were mg their just 001 nearby broke 1 for the corner nks a bandits Guest of Haggertys in Greenwleh Taken From Upper Window as House Burns Mrs. Mary bride A Greenwich, belonging to gerty, wealthy surprised her (riends third husband, Charles Edw gerty, was burned carly tod of the at a Chris there a hrri doseph MeCormack, o upper wit bungalo Hug whe st by marry guests had to mak taken from an low 1 firemen The many The in the furnishings of the articles of fire is butler had ente of house et Heved to have starts Mrs, Hag rtained Christmas Day holiday party and My trne value wers pantrs gerty bot thos with a on her marriage 1 ha Ha fortune by William J 100 ROUGH T0 b= NS ne just 1 elgatres Kmit) of Newp Fight Members Coast Guard Police Think Bridgeport Fire of Incendiary Origin Four Post Offices Neai New London Are Looted pulled | -{through a pantry Crsndltw'n Of House In- dicates Burglar Finally Felled Her With Brutal Blow COn Head With Hammer State and Police Think Murderer Was ome One With Intimate Knowledge of her Home, County 26.—Working on the Mary Muns 3 , who was found mure Mrs, ) Nty of in an urderer. That the committed by a man living who was intimately perhaps police do was acquainted was mer not doubt Killed barking w who tally defective, the Ahout of noom. owned by o'clock Christmas indicatc the pr in the ality at the, police are murder was coms The John R morning ms t of u strung about that hour, inclined to think the mitted that time. The murderep gained entrance to the Munsell home window from which been broken, and then womun in the kitehen of apparently aps droum, attracted the breaking glass, in the 18 felled t now bes ence and at the attuc her prared by The struggle bedroom ur by a blow with teved to An wutopsy Henry Costello o the Co Kdw 1 key and Gy glass had 1 the home fr the 1 ke n o she m was continucd til the woman w i plene N beer hammer formed o his morsing Hart(ord, 1 Mrs, by was e nsell o'clock d ent ut topsy Were ive officu, Risley of tl WASHINGTON POLICE T0 PROBE LIQUUR SCANDAL Are Determined (o go 1o Bottom of Booze Activitics, Regardioss of Who is Hi Though a today in the pital's bootleg t evidence in prose he missing had not AnNOUNCes the ine cvenue 1iplos ile itely iared p that sate nal made, Distriecg said ing on & ed & SENDS HIS GREETINGS resident Coolidg G Dispatches Wishies To National Convention of Cosmopolitan Clubs Today 1O RIEDILC DEPTTnEs