New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 27, 1923, Page 1

ews of the World By Associated Press [———— ESTABLISHED 1870 SEVENTEEN KILLED IN MADHOLSE FIRE 30 Violent Lunatics af Large After Chicago Disaster | BLAZE WAS AN AWFUL ONE| Old Wooden Structure Goes Up in One Sheet of Flames—Fire Appa- ratus, Stuck in Mud, is Delayed in | Getting to Scene of Catastrophe. eventeen per- Chicago, Dec. 2 sons were killed last night when a swiftly spreading fire of unknown origin destroyed an old wooden pavil- ion known as the “death house™ at the state hospital for the insane at Dunning, at the northwestern edge of Chicago. Fourteen of the dead are | known to have been patients in vari- | ous stages of insanity. Three others were K, Caraker and his wife, at- | tendants, and Towell their 8-year-old son. Only One Identified { Only one patient has been identi- fied, The bodies of the others were burned beyond recognition. About 35 of the patients, inelud- ) ing several of a violent type, broke away in the excitement of herding | more than 500 inmates from the danger zone. Several were taken | back to the institution after hard | str with the police Dozen Still At Large A dozen supposedly dangerous pa- | tients were reported still at large ear- Iy today. Tt was the in Tlinois’ witnesses said, great burst of flamg. the name “death house the property of Cook county hecause | of its flimsy construction, it is sald, 1t was 800 feet long and four hun- dred fect wide, one story high at one end and rose to two stories at the | other, 1t houses approximately 600 patients suffering with the milder forms of insanity. Patients Do Rescue Work the patients were in full control of worst institutional fire history. The building, seemed to go up in one 1t was given | when it was | A number of epileptics, nsually thelr faculties, and they aided In reseuing the helpless after one of their number had given the alarm, The institution houses approximate. Iy a0 patients and the shrick of the fire alarm siren threw them into A frenzy Attendants battied to drive them back from doors and windows nnd to quiet them, while the flames | consumed the woeden strictyn The erfes of the charges lad t the bulldings housing the mors dangerous patients excited them all the more, and for un hour the seens was traly one of Redliam, Apparat than a dozen Chie partment companies responded 1o genersl alarm, but their apparatus | was stalled fn the mud of the institu- tlon grounds, and it was with great difffentty that the fir fought Ted tieking, hlankets clothing | were Jabd In the mnd to provide trac. | tior ro trueks, and some Nt- | or brought by man- | Gets Stk ‘I o fire de. | More was for the 1y wer up | power 1t was thought at first that all per. wons had been taken alive from the Yurned building, and It was only when | firemen began exploring the smoulder- tng ruins that the first body was found Go Back For Presents Some of the patients broken from ines being lierded to gafety and dushed back into the flamed to obtain | Chiristmas presents and other posses- slons, but it was thought all again had been brought Three patients ocked themselves In a closet and | fighting, by policemen, re were o number of other heroic ! cscucs by the police, attendants, and inmates suffering with the milder de- | gree insanity. Seek to Place Blame Blame for the deaths in the fitmsy buiiding will be fixed by a joint inves. | tigation of five official agencies work- | ing with Oscar Wolff, Cook county | coroner. C. H. Jenkins, director of the state board of public welfare, will/ have charge of the combined agencies | reporting to Mr. Wolf, which will in- clude: The state fire marshal's office, the Chicago fire depaptment’s volun- | tary investigation, the county board, | County Judge Kareckl's investigation ind that of the United States govern- | ment on behalf of the Veterans'| Pureau concerning its patients at Dunning. Institution Crowded The institution had been crowded be- vond its limits by an influx of patients | the county courts, Psyesvathic nospital, and from county institutions, nd the frame structures, including t burned, constructed ycars ago for had been pressed out. saved of rom “tha tuberculosis patients, into serviee The Dunning asylum ing that of last night, cight fires since Mareh, 1910, but none the others | was of any serfous consequence, A check of the dead and missing this morning, made littie change in the figures. ldentification of a body today as that of John Bennett brought the identified dead to five ANl the dead and missing are Chicagoans, according to the records institution, except Thomas Hall, scounted for, whose as Eyracuse, N. Y. uperintendent of inel had 1- | of of the among the una address was glven pr. D. D. Coffey, the hospital, suggested spontaneous combustion #s the probable cause of the blaze. Floor polish was stored in a closet of the building in which the started, he said “Ihie building was to have been wrecked next year,” Dr. Coffey said “] have been trying to wreek it ever 1 beeame saperistendent. Two | half years ago | got $20,000 “t make some im- d 1 haven't got a cent siniee and a from to provemw {not abandonea hope and are work- | received the resignation of Frank L. {Herbert E. |from the race but it is claimed that | chance {he is not being considered. There has X‘ Poison | alrendy have lagainst 8 ST 8 PN = e ———— e oo NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT. TIMBRELL REPORTEDIN . | POSTMASTERSHIP RAGE Said to Have Inside Track Beardsley Resigns His Position As Head of Trolley Company Here; | Wm. J. Bryan Probable Successor Howard A. Timbrell, a newspaper- | | man, 1s the latest candidate for the |(yenera] Manager Punderford Receives Letter Explaining | postmastership, according to reports. | It is said that he has definitely dectd- | . T e ehtor The vios s0d-bin hat 13! Retirement of Official Here 12 Year now ia the ring. Despite the recent notorlety in cun-: nection withthe Southington Inn case, | i Senator Richard Covert is said to be| Spraking from his office New- the leading candidate for the posl-\l!u\en today, General Manager J. K master’s berth. It was belleved that | punderford of the Connecticut com- his connection with the case had| ¥ “r killed his chance but his friends have | ‘Hereidt et ho -hag Covert With Erwin and Ex-Mayor Curtis Out of It. his | Mr.{ and there was being apopinted Beardsley. Mr. Bryan has had of ex- | perience in catering to the transpor- tation needs of the public. He first went into the raiiroading in Hartford in 1901, After a year in Hartford he went to Palmer, Mass,, and work as motorman on the in no question of to succeeed vears | pany told the * ing tooth and nail to have the plum | Beardsley as local superintendent of fall into his lap. | the company and that “without ques- It is reported that the chances of | tion” Willlam 4. Bryan, now acting Erwin, chairman of the superintendent, would be named for! republican town committee, have be-|the position permanently. fleld line. He came to New Britain come nil. He is an active candidate| Mr. Beardsley was granted a leave |in the fall of 1904 and was employed for the berth but, the “curb market” |of absence last summer for six|as a motorman under Superintendent | erOr(‘! there is gufficient .opposition | months., He is now in San Francisco | of Transportation Uriah Foss and ! to him in manufdeturing cireles to | and a letter from him to Mr, Punder- | Munager Lincoln Risley. He fre- preclude the probab that he will|ford stated that he was resigning be- | quently held down the “rear end” of get the nomination at the hands of | cause his health would not permit him | the car as well as being behind the, Representative E. Hart Fenn. to continue to hold the position. Mr. | controller handle on the front end. Orson F. Curtis has not withdrawn | Punderford said he and other offi- | He was selected to help the starter on cials of the Connecticut company P had splendid reports about Mr. Bryan (Continued on Twelfth s, Page) MR. AND MRS. BLOOM MARRIED 50 YEARS Well Knmvn S\\'(-dish Resi- dents Observing Golden Wedding Anniversary he is past the age limit and that his is about equal to that of Chairman ¥Erwin, which means that | HARTFORD MAN JAILED ON CONTEMPT CHARGES Ref to Answer Ques-‘ tions Asked by Prose- | cuting Attorney been some talk that Mr, Curtis might be made superintendent of the post office bullding TWO MORE VICTIHS Fatal Liquor to New York Men — Six Additional Liquor Pa- tients in Hospital Today. % nd Mrs, Charles G. Bloom of | 3 Stanley street are today obsers New York, Dec, 27.—Holiday boot- leg liquor claimed two more victims today, bringing the list of dead SINCe | park avenue was committed to jail ‘nx’ the 50th anniversary of their| Christmas Day to seven, when James | ron 4y indefinite period by Judge | wedding day with family reunion Marahan and Edward Churchill, Jab- | crocdon in police court today, when |and celebration at the home of their orers ,died in Bellevue hospital, Spal subpoenaed by the state ‘nrduughhn Mrs. Herman Johnson at 18 Slx more beds In the alcoholle |ycgiry in a liquor case, refused to an- | Hart strect. Eight children, 20 grand- ward were occupled and the suffercrs | gwop the questions of Prosecuting At. |children, Mr. and Mrs. Victor there numbered more than 50, MAny | torney Bonee, He was found gullty |the latter Mrs. Bloom's enly surviving |! of them women, | of contempt of court. Spalter's attor. | S1ster, and a few friends of the couple g ney, Jacob Schwolsky was present in | Were present at the giathering held MAY GOMPROMISE the court room and he told the court |this afternoon. Throughout the day | York Bullding Trades Council, {his client was acting upon his ude | Mr. and Mrs. Bloom were the reeip- Demanding §1 Day Increase Tikely Hartford, Dec. 27.—8amucl Spalter, owner of a grocery store on 8, New vide fents of congratulations and beautiful The conrt admitted a sworn state. | floral gifts from their many friends ment signed by Spalter at the request |10 un'll :T[oul New \:%rlm’u“‘ of police officers, in which he stated | Sch e A i |that Samuel Darling had rented a[born in Sweden and on December 21 garage from him for the storage nf\”"‘ 'Irlf"\" \\|"l1‘ :;l.\ll’;!wl |I’;."|\" ‘llU‘ ; [liauor. ~Dariing wan bound over to town of Orebro, Kwedon, They came vepresenting 100,000 |the March term of the superior court |10 the VEHAd Stalds 42 years ago oo mechanics who have demanded an |fO° trial. Darling was convicted Of |y, o i hore sinee that time first increase of $1 in the day wage for | Mansiaughter in the AMassachusetts \muklng thelr home on Franklin !Vrr-‘ll 1024, met today to conglder a reported | COUrts and wentenced to jall m'r ONe | .nd later on Stanley street Mr. offer of employers to compromise on | YEAr for his purt In the d-!hrr‘y' Of ® | Bleom sccnred smplosment #t the n 50-cont inoreass, Carpenters and |truck load of wood alcohol in Massa- g 0, Tl & Level pant whon he sheet motal workers' unions, which | Chusetts which was retalled o per- | oyoo4" v bhis ity and worked for re members of the trades €ouncil, |%ons in Chicopee and Holyoke during . " 0 "0 "ol six years ago when agroed to uccept tho 50 | Christnas week 1919 and resuited in |, &% SECVRCEL PHE B0 VIR & number of deathn. Eight children born of the union are now living. They are: Robert C. RBloom of Forestville, Emil G. Bloom and Fred R. Bloom of this city, Mrs. A. 1% Carison of South Manchester, | Mrs. Herman Johnson of New Britain, | Mrs, Willlam P, Merrill of Hartford Mrs, Frod Guite of Berlin and Mrs, A. I1. Johnson of Stanley strect Al n')‘:w children and the 20 grandehil- ar®h were present at the celebration today which i8 the first time that the entire family has met together in three years, DEHM 70 “STAND PAT" New were to Agree on 50 Cents, Dee The building New York, Trades Council, cents, Slushy Novels, Booze And Styles Blamed For Uncle Sam’s Illness Boy Scout Official Tells Ro- tarians “What’s the Mat- ter With America” at Today’s Luncheon Alderman and Priends Decide There Is No Reason Why He Should The misguided men who think they good Americans, | steal bed sheets and pillow cases from zeal Quit Council. a who J I has pressure being ceording to rumor Alderman Cornelius ided not to resign mon uncil, despite brought to bear on him a report picked off the bush today Mr. Dehn on pals in the Southington In was fined in superior court or charge. It was reporte had decided to the council but several staunc who are influent 1 machine had Iy and declded that there son for his tendering his re 80 Per Cent Dividend I Given Out by Coal Firm w York, Dec Reccipt by olders of the & Wilkes un- 4 whip siushy novels, sentimental movics, of silly styles, the tendency towards a disso- lution of the American family circle, the elements of crass individualism instead the respect for rights of others: flippant attitude social leaders and influential people for laws of the nation; class consclousness, liv- ing for the pleasure the moment, were ment ed at the noon luncheon f the Rotary club today by Ray O. Wyland some of the diseases from which Uncle Sam is suffering. Indifference to the 18th amendment people influence is responsible he intimated for the crime w sweeping the country and sald those who have shown a flippant at titude towards the will in the end suffer from their mistakes Mr. Wyland is educational director of the national council Roy Scouts of America. He opened his address by ! stating that there are 149,000 men ir ted States today engaged ir it movement. He refer wih the Rotary club, n y addressing names and service women and children and go out these and the N « der cover of sheets decent citizens, craze for politica the princi- n case and on a min- was of quit with the republi a conf e recent no rea- of was o signatior WYLAND MORE TALK OF TRUGE RAY O, by of Ne stockl barre senting a share tod it par va | Mexican Federals Ready Laun - we sto 85 laws, equ Offensive As Rumors of Peace Are YW h each any Resumed. Dec. 1 (Via Laredo d Press) offensives Mexico City, Dee. Junction by the Upon the eve the rebe manded by Generals Enrique ¥ and Manuel Dieguez in the . Jalisco and Generals Fortunato and Castro in the state of reports are a In eirculatior a peace move. The reports the author of the cffort toward meac 15 General Angel Flores, ernor of Sinaloa, a presidentia ndidate According to unconfirmed reports which are given prominence Ex celsior, Judge Manuc! Tellez, heading a commission from Sinaloa, has @ rived in Mexico City with t s peace préposa After conferring trada at ada reported to have communication with Gen and with de ja Huerta, leader of revolt atl Vera Cruz. Details of reported peace proposal eould not learned Associate of fe llious I“\ N \HHI\ idle ate winn York, T commit o1 deral forces com rada May- Onx Mi X0 tod of s vaded Oklahoma idea of helr the form o that organ who stan d that ble nace and the cotte " how and explained aca is ¢ smposed of re say M. t sq to joned t Lor “ ¢ th were B spittting ile tike sengion w INCREASE ) e r of t a New G As man splits directors offer Dry company riy has to Sam said, 1 sympt dise Une Sm suffe tendency towards the American family cir to the speaker. He duto, hotels and which are helping to the family “Th ¥ is losing many functions it once had,™ he. said osing the companionship be- and dad. disease “Seouti Jend t ymm 1 usna " preferved preferre o - ng 1 Some of yms with « Ju which 15 erly Tellez is wireless Mayeotte the the lajara first of the ond s rding 11 ace ¢ eluie of THE WEATHER hearthstone o Hartford, Dev. 27 —<Vorecast for New Britnin and vicinity snow or rain and not qu cold tonight: Triday rain or wow. warmer and increasing east and southeast winds PAL APPOINTMENTS De 27 It was announced al Pope Pius in the consistory Sunday appointed Monsignor Francis J. 1 of Cincinnati as bishop of Lincoin, Neb., and the Alphonse J. Smith of Indianapo- lis as bishop of Nashville, Tenn. P Rome, today t} of “Another of the exaggeratod dividualism, the failur ation of coop (Continued on Twelfth Page) cments crase recognize of oth- Ia most in- ration Yeckmar |attractiv 'the wedding o Palmer-Spring- 'to |largest factors in AT KINNEY DEC. 31 Stanley Quarter Woman and dence Man {0 Marry on Eve of New Year. Albert F. Kinney of Westerly, 1. 1 and Miss zabeth Alden Andrews, of 1484 Stanley street will be married at the home of the bride on Monday | evening of next week. The hour has not been set for the wed- ding, which will be private and for members of the immediate families only. R Henry W. Maier, pastor | of the First Congregational church,, will officiate. tobert Andrews, brother bride, will be the best man while Mrs, | 1.70. Lusk of this city, will be the matron of honor. The home will be | decorated and following reception will be held which invitations have been ex- tended to many to attend. The couple will wait until spring before going on a wedding trip. During the winter months the coupie will make their home in New Britain but in the sum- mer they will reside at Pleasant View beach, \\'m-‘r\,- ; SILZER BRINGS HIS FIGHT INTO STATE exact of the THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1923. —SIXTEEN PAGES 'MISS ANDREWS 10 WED — Average Daily Circulation Week hndmg 10 143 Dec. 22nd . PRICE THREE CENTS EX-KLAN OFFICIAL CALLING ON MEMBERS TO DISBAND OR REMEDY ITS EXISTING EVIL PREFERS AN AMERICAN GIRL TO ROYAL TITLE [Prince Viggo of Denmark Renounces All Claims to Throne The Ass Copenhagen, D tian today consented nouncement of the young kinsman, Pr anor Margaret Dr. J. O. Green of g publie gement of Viggo Greex New hris an- his and York city. Miss v'r (r" the witt nf IUQ-' Green, who is ] daugl late Mr. and Mrs. Abram and a great granddaughter Cooper, founder of Cooper ¢+ eovgral months in 2 ‘?Ih Co | e the A Princ: Prince Va, Christian | celebrated Champion of Fair Prices for Coal Speaks in Har ford CONN. 1S HIT VERY HARD | Explains That Increase of §1 |~'1I Ton Means Tax of One Million, | Three Hundeed Thousand llnlll.l.\ w | People Here, | Governor ; v, In an | Hartford, Dwc George 8! Silzer of New | ddress here teday, Lefore Hartford | luncheon deelared that the people of 0 anthracite-consum- ing states should petition Pennsyl vanla to take such action as will climinate “the fraudulent and extor. tionate practices and the unfair com- petition and control which are the | the curtafiment of production of anthracite coal.” People Have Rights The people of the 30 states have a right to demand this, he asserted, be- cause they use about %0 per eent of the coal of domestic sizes that is mined in Pennsylvania Unless the state or the federal gove crnment takes soine action in bringing about a reduction in price of conl and | tablishment of it on a more honest | basis, Governor Silzer declared, he believes the people of the nation will demand government ownership of the mines, Not Pennsylvania‘s “It will not do for to say that this irreplac resonree {8 solely its own, to do with it pleases,” sald Governor Silzer. “It will do to say that this re- wource s not for the common use of the entire nation: it will not de say that those who have seized upon and, by private ownership, econtrol this irreplaccable national resurce, can make it a vehicle for extortion ate profit. It will not do for the na- tional government to say that it is impotent to pr t the public in the use of this God.given resource.” vises For Repeal Silzer recommended that | repeal tax on at mine, Alone Pennsylvania able national not to | | Goverr Pennsylvania coal, based or ind added by the operator to the cost coa i hence paid largely by the consumers in other states. He also said ania should prevent the payment of extortionate royalties, sometir as one dollar a ton, 1 ers of coal lands. | H 40 0 tons of distr during the Apr 3 1,20 used in " state the its cost the Pennsy the sald that o sizes nding in ns were mesti year 1,000 te g0 that an increase of one tax o $1,300,00 is state of Strikes Do Some Good proved to 1 mis rs tha € been encouraged o met whi tro: met FINES AMOUNT 10 $1350 Maney Plows Preely Into Coffors of Court—ail Semten Al Bristol Are Tmposed ¢ SHOOTING Home Ministes ssuming respor ti-socialist | Copenhagen |first met Prince Viggo, | tist eiergyman, | police ston Christmas prior to t his engagen public nt all elair §uee and his highness. will officially known Viggo, Count of Rosenhgre. His bride will be styled | viggo, Countess of Rosenborg any issue from the union will known as counts or countesses of | | Rosenborg without the prefix of |prince or prineess. This procedure is fdenti with that followed when Prinee Viggo's cldest brother, Aage |in 1914 married an Italian common: the autiful Countess Mathilde di Bergolo, It was during Miss Green's visit to last summer that she who like other members of his family is a frequent | guest at the American gation royal he Princess and be | Throughout the Amerlean kl”h stay |the couple met often at the Vocullnll! They y at is yacht many ox at sporting avents together and meets, Prince horseman and ed race cellent ELOPED WITH WIFE OF CLERGYMAN, 13 CAUGHT were seen Viggo i North Carolina Business Man Arrosted | in Syracuse for Mann Act Violation —Rugene Hamlet rday by charg et it Harril Bap r o Syracuse, N. Y., Dee, 27 1t Langston, a jeweler of . ., was arrested here yeste a department of justice agent, ed with violation of the Manr with Mrs, Gertrude Rev, Benjamin Harril), and bringing } it eloping wife | this eity to take Langston made a statement making it unnecessary Mrs. Harrill into custody as a material witness, According to the statement, Lang and Mrs. Harrill, quaintanc® of several months, met at | Petersburg, Va., from where the | went to New York and later to \|~l treal. They remained there but a H. ort time to Syracuse w November 14, they registe hotel, the next day moving rooming house where they re according to the proprietor, rooms under the names, until the arrest. Langst [ working in a jewelry Mrs. Harrill had ment in an automobile WANT NATIONAL PARK Mass after an and came separ and ¥ age Recomumendation Made That Cede Mount Tom to Govern -l to werval Reservatic M Bristol Clergyman Given Automobile as Present Wis CELEBRATES I( Ny “\l "\\\ Middletowr lul\‘; E. Y. Clarke Writes To Coolidge Offering Full Cooperation In Ending Activities Of Undesir- able Element Declares Organization Has Degenerated Into Disap- pointing Thing — Better Class of Members With- drawing Washington formerly gh Dec. 27.—E. Y. Clarke h in the councils of the Ku Klux Klan, wrote President Cool= idge today offering to cooperate with | the executive in endi the activities an element” which is converting into an organization vastly n Will Issue Appeal men cither to existing ization, and “remedy and the orgar told by Clarke steady withe or from operating “voluntar- 1 connecs than ' or The pr |that there | drawdl” fre participation ntrol, and that ily severed his [ tion™ with the year sident had n the i been a Klan itself its active had offiel rization more act ox la “go, Makes Various Charges Various charges were made in the letter against the activities of the ors | gantzation in disregard to the “high | ideals, princiy ind purposes” for | whieh it was formed, and these ace | tivities, Clarke eharacterized as “a keen disappointment 4o me." Accepts Responsibility, am perfectly willing,” the lettep “to assume the moral responsis rightly mine havieg instrumental in the Klan. In justice to hundreds of thousands have been hocanse of it and principles, fot rose passive and by in face of 1 | said bility as whieh i been chiefly { building of the myself and the of high grade |Arawn inte the Kian aration of ideuls and wi fan dittons, men who and the st tter that des wed out welentifie the printed lits of dife 1 satd 4 Tt ark velopmer |was 1o have b educational lodge v erature wros ferent parts of the na the buillding of magnificent The ntly, he in entirely differer Offers Assista in hrough inside on propaganda yms through and educational n 1) establishment iversitios in ton and through hospitals, 1 heen dircction by ot trend roce sald, ha “all toward of the tion as character organizas the forcing knights assigtunce out cer ements high tone, building active fraternal title Ku I owas sigr “lmperial Giant, Knights of x Kiar . HELD A§ BOOZE BURGLARS Miss Frances Beebe's Home in Thompe son I« Robbed of Rich Stock of Real Od ashioned Staft Miss Fr Yorl T pag ship Arkansas Woman Murders Her Son-in-Law, the Sheriff Northwest Is in Grip of hut Severe Snow \mrm » of S fenl at ieht and ler weather. 18 snow t.mile an rereury