New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 31, 1923, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press I=— ESTABLISHED 1870 AMERICAN MISSIONARY NOW HELD CAPTIVE BY CHINESE AND 2 OTHERS ARE WOUNDED Famous Bandit Leader NEW YEAR'S DINNER Swoops Down on Town in Northern Hupeh Pro- vince — Woman Is Around to Be Newspa- per’s Guests Tomorrow Prisoner | New Year's day may just mean S Leg‘atlon Takes Imme- | Tuesday te some people, but to The | Herald newsboys - it means a i B ing | rather splendid time featuring tur- diate Steps to B"nng‘) and other essentials of a good oid | o 1. |fashioned New England dinner such About Captule Of Brl as the dear old Pligrims were \\onl ito eat vears ago, long before,New gands and Liberation of |7, (5 Z0F 00 tor our csteemed | . | souther neighbor, Berlin, to manage. Their Hostage. Annually for the past 30 years The ' | Herald has played lost to its news |carriers, and every year it has been Peking, Dee, 31.—Followers of the |noted that there werc more guests to notorious bandit leader, Lao Yao-Jen, |SUPPIY with a turkey dinner. Start- captured an Amepicen missionary, | Mrs. Julina Kilen, and wounded two other missionaries, Professor ].u’rn hard Hoff and Mrs, Hoff, in a ra upon the town 4f Tsaoyang, in north- ern Hupeh Province, ncar the border town Stagyangfu, according vices reccived here today Legation Acts at Once, The American leg has taken active steps to bring the cap- ture of the brigands and the libera- tion of Mrs. Kilen, The Chinese gov- ernment has offered a bounty for the cupture, dead or alive, of the bandit now reaches about 300 from our own city, Berlin, Kensington, Plainville, jq | Pristol, Newington, Eim Hill, Maple Hilf, Barnesdale, East Berlin, Beck- lcy, Worestville and Mountain View The dinner will be at about o'clock New Year's day at the New Hotel Beloin Church street. The boys will congreg: at The Herald at about 1:45 and nfarch in a managed line to the Delaney boys establishment and again put the theory to test that Jack Wright knows the secret of managing the de- talls of a regular feed, The Herald's guests will treated to eandy and oranges to take 'home after the feed is over, Mr, Av- v, the well known soda man, will all who bottle of his “pops” and tonics, generally called on well also be missonaries are repre- church of the Lu- theran brethren of the United States and were conducting a mission at Tsaoyang when the town was raided. | Warned of activitics of the bandits in|ugoaie” by the hundreds little the vicinity by the Tuchun, or mill-|gioias who are going to be all for tary governor of the province, they!pim tomorrow. had vacated their station and em- barked river craft for safety, be-| fore the rold Later, however, on reced s from the Tuchun t heen suppressed, | mission. three sentatives of the attend y gl\( a L. F.&C. WILL HONGR mnmesota, 1. ~The three reported cap- Chinese ban- re former resi and repre Lutheran | Ar tur dits dents sontative brethren They are and Mrs, Grand Forks and Dakota, and Mrs, Northfield, Minn Mrs., Kilen is a worker in China, groater part there, Mrs, stonary work years, much Kilen, Professor yeurs ago, lust August, HUERTA PROTESTING SALE OF MUNITIONS | Mexican Rebel Leader Offi- cially Complains of U. S. Action |Testimonial Banquet for Veteran Workers Thurs- day Night in Hartford by nonkh west ol the church ot Professor Bernhard Hoff, HofY, Abererombie, Julina Kilen, 50, A unique innovation on the part of North | 4 factory organization will be in aug- of | | urated Thursday night when Landers, {1 y & Clark will honor at a ban- missionary | quet in the private dining rooms of having spent the | the Hotel Bond, Hartford, those em- of the past vears' ployes of the company Wwho have Hoff has been doing mis- | served 26 years of more, in China for thr No member of the organization, of the time with veteran {quet unless' he has served the full 25 years or more, and it is planned to form a club kunown as “The L. F, & C. Club,” to which members of Landers, Frary & Clark's organization will become eligible as they have com- plcted this length of service Attractive club emblems ing 25 years of service have made of gold and blue enamel and will be presented to cach member of the club at the banquet, Annual dinners will be given the ciub by the company, at which mem- bers of the organization who have completed years of service and | thereby become cligible for member- | ship in-the elub, will be initiated. At these affairs every member of the lclub meets on the same plane re- | gardless of whether he is one of the leading officlals of the company or & wember im the humblest capacity. Matters that have to do With the two there Hoff went to China and was married symboliz- heen Dee. 31.—The De la Huerta in Mexico today filed ! with the department a formal | / protest against the plan of the Unite d | welfare of the company or its em- to war_materials to the | ployes will be discussed freely with City government General | the honor group of which the club is composed, and by the contact thus | formed it is expected that a wider ac qualntance and a closer relationship { between the company and ployes will be achieved to the of all concernel. A special ear will be provided for all attending, which will be attached to the train for Harford leaving the station at 6:08, detached at Hartford, and for the return trip will be attach- ed to the train leaving Hartford at Those on the who have served tury and who will banquet number and are as follows Frank Albrecht, William Atkinson, Bancroft, Jacob Bristoll, ¥ Washington, faction state a States sell Mexico Obregon The protest was signed by the De la Huecrta confidential agent at New | York. The Obregon authorities alone are recognized by the United States in its dealings with Mexico, and there was no indication what consideration the communication would receive 4t the state department State and war department officials continued their consuitations today over details of the plan to sell guantity of war materials to the Obre- gan government of Mexico. Secretary Hughes discus: the sub- ject at length with Secretary Weeks, who said afterward that several points remained to be settled before the war department orders Major General ¥ benefit L. ¥. C. honor ro L quarter of a ce » present at the approximately 100 Martin A. Ander- Frank Axelby Baumgart - voch Broc- Buitner Chute Clough, son, Trwin ner, Truman H 7iis, John L. Burns, George Frank O. Carison, James J. Peter T. Clark, Frederick John T. Crowiey Charles H. Deming, John . Harry . Dolan, Ddward Charles Dunbar, George Dyurr Joseph O. Eimer, Henry Fagan, James Farrell Fay Anthony Gieason, ( Gechwin 1 A Mich Has tinger Chy J son. Fugens Oscar Kallin Cuhllrmed on T)!lrd Page). BURGI.AR IN 00"‘8 HOME Orook G ts Gas Meter Contents, Gold Dilton, Drew Rings, 88 in Bank And Gold Piece : oter In Kelsey Strect House, Anna o Geisie org: John Giaves, reen, BEdward Guiberson Denmis Jdohnson, John A Oliver N. ). Kelly The home of Policeman William Poherty at 44 Kelsoy street was on tered sometime vesterday afternoon the gas meter was broken and rob bed, three gold rings, a small bank containing $8 and a $2.50 gold pices were stolen, Entrance was gained by foreing open the front door according to the complaint which was made at headquarters shortly 11 o'e Jast night . The family was Haller. Johy Judd Frank “l les J Aones, John On Page even). (Continued E) Yefore not at home the time the robbery alleged to have cecurred but Adam Consicavitz, own- er of the house told Officer Doherty that he saw a suspieions person about the house at about U ok He wore a brown coat and a cap, Con- sieavitz sald. The police are investi- | gating. HERALD TOMORROW is ormity Britain Herald. in its usunl cus- an edition to ar's Day with sh Ye tom, will pul morrow FOR HERALD CARRIERS {Little Merchants From All| ing from less than 50 guests, the list | in 25 YEAR EMPLOYES Mrs, | gardless of rank, will be @t the ban-| its em- | “TWO POLIC POLICEMEN SUSPENDED | | | ‘loseph Bloom and William Souney Alleged to Have Been Under the Influence of Liquor. . Hart. Chief Hart conducted an in- \lk!lkalion as s result of which™ he learned that both Officers Souney and Biloom were under the influence on the same night. They patrol adjoining | Policeman Joseph Bloom, recently | appointed to the regular force of the | New Britain police department and Policeman William Souney were suspended today by Chief William Hart on charges of neglecting du beats in the west end of the ecity. and being under the influence of| Officers Bloom has been serving on | intoxicating liquor while on duty. On the regular force for about two the morning of December 23 Police- | months and therefore has not com- | man Souney reported at police head- | pleted his six months probati | quarters, after he had compléted his period. The matter will be | night's work, in an intoxicated condi- | to the board of police commiss | tion it is alleged. His appearance was | and it is possiblc that a special meet- wuoled by Dest Sergt. Matthias Rival|ing of the hoard will be called to | and it was reported to Chicf \\lllldml act on the matter, ELMIRA CONVICTS p BLIG F N RECAPTURED TODAY ‘qu4GMA"YR[]l|]1MsSPILAN Made Sensatmnal Escape From pg oo Suggests Topics in New Prison Durmg Banquet Year's Resolutions BiG BREAK AT ATLANTA pyipiNG LINES DISCUSSED Four of the Most Desperate Criminals City's Chief Executive Pavors - in Federal Penitentiary Tunnel Way strictions on Construction On Al to Liberty and Escape—Get Away Streets—Wants Conside Driv- to Good Start, ing. Elmira, victs who reformatory | ed carly tod as they were tracks toward miles from here ed no resistunce, Lscaped During Banquet The four men were rusties” last evening were called upon by Su- perintendent Frank L, Christian to aid rving dinner to party of his guests, Leaving the superintendeplis quar- ter's in the front of the buil#ug they Jumped into a closed automobile own- ed by one of the guests and sped to- | ward Buffalo, At an overhead rallroad their machine crashed into ar and they took to the cks on foot, N. Y., Dec. 31, escaped from {he Klmirg last night were recaptur- by reformatory guards walking along railroad Cornin ten The fugitives offer- our con- Public for discussion as to future use forums the of the old state normal school, park development programs, a swimming pool and public reere: by Mayor A. New Y up to adopt. tion center are urged M. res and | o ioh The New Y the publie »s prompt and payment operating of fally in the Paonessa in a set of jutions he has drawn and public n the message. In the he urges the m of resolutions are a a addition forums, mayor to filing of property of taxes: considerat motor vehicles congested districts; ablishment of building lines on 1 streets and numbering all houses s a public convenience; keeping side- walks clear of snow and ice, and tive interest and co-operation in affairs, The mayor's “Resolved—That independent, active fairs, “That rums so ur, espe crossing another rallroad ity scape at Atlanta H Atlanta, Ge.,, Dee. 31.—In the most scnsational jail delivery in the history of the Atlanta federal penitentiary, four convicts, one a partner of Gerald hapman, million dollar mail bandit, at liberty after having wormed their way to fredom through a narrow fifty foot tunnel which n under the conerete wall encircling the prison late yesterda Of the quartet, of the four is was serving By participation in the York mall robbery, man was convicted, Three of the men ly today to be in hiding near Goeorgla, Thr seen to alight from Royal Palm, n tourist train, as it that city early this morning after a signal tow- erman here saw them swing on board the tender of sthe train bear the peni- tentiary early last night. With Anderson were Hiram Lepper, 50, sentenced in Baltimore in 1914 for fifteen years: Ludwig Schmidt, a Ger. man sailor, sentenced in Rochester, N Y. for ten years for mail robbery, and nk Haynes, sentenced in Chat- tanooga, Tenn., for eighteen months, Fled Through Tunnel tunnel, barely large enough of a human body, found to lead from the center small tent in the prison tubercular zones to a point fifty or more aw nd outside the big stone wall The wardens and guards were at loss to know how the prisoners cor veyed the enormous quantity of loose dirt from tha tunnel to reshiy graded spot 75 feet away from 1l o tent, but thought that the passage had | ” been In process of excavation for per- haps two months and the dirt h been smu 1 to the site in buckets A small shovel and a lighted miner's lamp were found by officia tunnel near the exit Entrance to the tunne a trap door, which had structed in the wooden tent. Under the trapdoor was of eight feet through a hole three In the sides of which had been | small steps the passage ra to the wall where it curved dows r the foundation wuntil the foot thickness of the wall was passe and then went straight up alongwide the wall to daylight The quartet are thonght to hay three and four o'clock wa® not discovered five o'clock eheck-up follows take eity resolution 1 all part in s fo- im- dis- shall advocate public that matters of great may be thoroughly , such *‘What we ate Normal school ‘Are we to continue in gram of park development? *Shall there be a publie ming pool, a recreation building?* “I'hat T shall place with the the first week October, so that 1 will not be he hun.n. I1s of taxpayers who pay an additional 10 per cent penalty for failure to file my Althongh this is a state law, the is often blamed for the “That 1 shall pay if 1 have not it there will r's budget. expect lower ta hat 1 shall become movement to tell the next legislature that we in New with efficient department sessments have need for to! that requires the filing wan | 11818 That 1 shall not drive in the congested more than 10 hour, having always ir own child may be ti front of Uniess this is voluntarily desire to the 1 as do with the old shall our pro the notorious who most Anderson, ar sentence for £1,000,000 New for which Chap swim center or list in of my property assessors the thought 1 Ma- SUEpects were wer re one the cared con, st administration penaity, my already be no deficits By doing xes next year, part of a year's Britain, the law property taxcs done at onee, 80, so 1t the m in wo, 1 y a our no fi admit passage autor streets of of a my bile city our ar mind that my to run in done protect children, by order or 15 miles ' feet a my ' with particularly ¥ be a pedestrians, w the That eventua law 1 snow st l my sidewalk 1 1t will | numerous accidents ana will also sa the city “I'ha my coep a1 | Clear and ice avold money 1 wili etreet publie place number a great not 1 conven- am as 1o the was thre - house, city will b will ca of the informatior d t floor or st a drop e S 1 [ mishe feet | 1 will investigate and building line on my meone comes along small store the sis cupon the W1l rise up prote th administratior the fact that powers to prey square s dug ont Then orizontally 1« close 1o residents of my in st, many sight it was lonr age aped betweer The ti it alwene 1 after the ture of ressive city hands of its citizens and those ept ite task independent wrtic and me citize and work out thi at must rob hy Invalid Dies of Exposure and Shock After Bad Fire Norwalk, Dec Edward Bro- of and Mrs, Patrick d from his fipor the house destroyed W died today in t Death was said k and expost and the circum- srmetive Mr was m the s carrie ond of Ofigen apartment arly Saturday, walk hospita THE WEATHER Dev. 31—t oreast for New Britain and vicinity : Rain and dightly warmer to- wight. Tuesday rain or show and colder. munch colder Toes- day wight. <hifting winds be- coming northwest Tucsday af- termoom 10 1t eas Hartfon SKI RUNNERS RESCUED Vienna, Dec. 31.—Four of the en ski runners reported vesterday * perished in an avalanche while ascending the Feldalpenhorn were res- | eued, according to later advices, but their condition is critical. to J * R | | lists | Daily Circulation 10,0_26 Average ‘(‘(‘A Ending l Dec. 29th lA FMNEADNITS BURNSIOE MURDERER WAY BE DRINKING WHILE ON DUTYi CHESHIRE HOLD-UP zpENTIFIED BY BUTTONS HE Polie Say New Briin Youh T 00K, THINKING THEM COINS Has Gonfipgsidfl Robbery HAS LONG COURT RECORD Pimes and Police Are Seeking John P. Cook of East Hartford Slayer, After Having Found Box of Trinke i Inden- m i pst Five i ; Room-——Has Placed Under A tified as Property of Victim, Has Served Time in Jail and State Prison Record: in Sunday Reformatory—Caught Waterbury. Dec. 31 buttons mon Hartford, of by the pos the crime. Thé was found by the po= i room and ind aluminum knuckles « sed in the ught tin it 206 Arch BH% with Frank Hartford erbury Sunday were wanted for | ing into the Milldale waiting stat Christmas eve and who are wanted in Hartford for several alleged breaks in that city, has a long police record in this city and has served time both in jail and at the Cheshire reforma- tory. Akl this cit g rge of theft, placed on proba LaFlamme of street, New Britain, who Cirella of P P was arresied where they Eugens lues tracia Monsell, ) Burnside, Silver Lane stre ice Cook’s Mrs Mary street with it wer to Joh East Hart- vhich n k- Cook, 35, of 1ssan on WiLL SPEND $3[ll] 000 IN GREETING MR. 1924 50,000 Have Reservations in N. Y. Cabarets— Agents Active The tied by box of as been identis of Mrs. Monsell's a8 en the property of the latter 1d usually kept the window sill Mrs. Monse droom. Buttons of particular pattern, very unusual in sign, were found in the box which matched other buttons found on the floor of kitchen in the Monsell hor It is believed Cook seized the box, shook it believed it to cons tain coins. He then carried it to his { home without examining the contents, Missing Since Wednesday be missing from t Hartford 1 neighbor having ar of mme was first rreste on November 191 ¢ that time i on & he was October 'mm,) has E: Cook his early gh his itohed on home | s six Hartford on lighway robbery, John J. Cook and term of the superior was sentenced to the squads some them their greetings October 2 or prohibition | V¢! understood o Under t Washington, were listed, in- |2t the Decemt among the 50,000 holding COUTt that year w. in cabarets, hotels and State prison at Wetherstield for one to three years. Prior to this crime, he had served two terms in the Hart« ford county jail for theft. He was ree leased from the state prison June 15, 1912 and then went to New York where he was next heard from by the when he was arrested on July that year for larceny, and was d to Blackwell's Island for name of agents, of be from cognito, reservations clubs, The number of them made at at from $7 to $20 more, was Broadway's memory, and the gold which will flow along white way is expected the stream of some pr New Year's celebrations Bootleggers said thelr deliveric justified predictions that it would be wet greeting but hotel managers rted they we low law violations. The agents said it would be rvations, most ach, but many 1 few at even in amount the to sur- -prohibi- " of $5 and one of the higgest of great pas tio ne one year Served in Wos After his release he into the Canadian a overseas and whe d War found his way my and served n he discharged returned to East Hartford. In the fail of 1922 he was employed in the Bakt Hartford yards of the N, ¥,, N. H, & H. railroad, making his home with his mother, Mrs. Anna Cpok, Hast Hartford. The last place Cook was employed in this vicinity was as & 1o Myor and Mandels sohn, atfinue, LOW TEMPERATURES IN WEST CREEP EASTWARD Wyoming Remslels 31 Be- low Zero—Snow For This Section Eugene LaFlamme a gain arrested on a and committed to the t Meriden, On #0 1911, he was @ charge theft st school for boy March 4, 1916 he was arrested on a drunkenness and breach of the peace charge. When arraigned in coart the next morning he was given a 40 day suspended jail sentence. On April ¢ 1916 he wrested for the third time on a charge of theft, He was bound over to the superior court at Hartford from where he was sentenes ed to the Cheshire reformatory. His Arrest was September 27 of r when he was brought in on of carrying concealed weapons of first big seizure of New Year ¥ liquor was made yesterday on the South of Long Island by prohibition Eight men were arrested $20,000 confiscated Unusual efforts were the city halt the flow liquor that caused the deat) persons and the serious illness more since Christmas eve, TUG BURNS T0 WATER'S EDGE AT NEW LONDON Total Loss and Vessel is Shore agents. lquor valued at 651 Wina. for wnd wis being made in poison 1n of to t of last @ on this y cha on (Continued Sixth OPPOSE GROCERY STORE ON BELVIDERE SITE win Guardsmen sunk When Firemen Are Une Residents of That District Ask able to Quell Flames wa cold bla overspread Northern states, the pier | terior zero e corp, . 1gton, from Dec, 31.—Tho great Alaska today had the Rocky Mountain and Plateau regions, the plains Missouri valley and the ine the wost Gyl states, with mperatures as far south as the Texas Par It was twenty many Dee Dan 18 o8- » the broke this morn- Scott for Prohibitive Building Line on London, mes 00 was ca ardsimg when fla in her fire room early she was tied up Chapman . nt and in order m burning to were Plot ~, Haley Upon 1 of f have been vcery store formerly known plot on Stanley stre that district came to morning to discuss with Building Inspector Chairman Thomas g commission and L. the gove being inform prepared in Be ) sma on what the Haley residents City Mayor A Johr Lir A pows prohibit he Me conc or a eritt crn ownes he fird departn t blaze r sea whi The able to preven the wat and 1 nan co er, aided anding by b broke morning idere handle at points in the at Yellowstone ero e below zere northwest and Wyoming, 34 de- stered, Lake Erie this to the weather northeastward, ate precipitation over the Mississippl river owed by decidedly, / city was un- . to check all t rk, M t cra her big tug tinued by tug A mo I te the and ow irbance or movy r's edg cocks Br was reg Peonessa, o Gilehreest, the i man Frank the city construction o over i pulled sank slowly as the fir 10 play stre which ams of 701 | 4 ire: wil Conlon ¢ Casutc nt general st will be woather wane of of the dential nime states ¢ it of Guardsmar whart abou caus out T The ocal aze ek the had two a st f district A« Cold Being that under unknowr « existing ormed city ow ings have been ise sylvania, Ohie, Kentucky, Tennessee, pl, South Carolina, Western North western Vire conditions the prohibit the putting Schaol Lourne and a petition the works asking tor the building ed a bul " hing abou 1 from | purpos: 0. Ki the 1o use this ymmitteeman I, Peter O'Donnell sued for fire Hunt vher was discovered, and of o8 qulekly eir forward into the staterooms oc- cupied b fcers and men. The city fire department were unable to : xkbri-f ¢ | cop he rapidly spreading g vas found neces to ¥ S < ner of jar his crew it ( alarn Al th giv way drew p ment of to bos ' ‘ re ablis trom Block M luring all ) foot ine The a i or erty cor of s or establishme the of the 1 wil e s tug in ord Lowering ning Pa- weathe YOUTHS 60 ON TRIAL ary New York \\ oman Is Killed Tl\m;.r lo ield Huxhand New dersey Boys, Accnsed of slanghter. Burned Two Youngsters A Stake Last Sammer HAPPY NEW YEAR last day of 1923 the New Britain Herald, its o hl-\u llvl« occasion to wish everybody New Year. May 1924 bring you And may Herald help you and busier city and distric > On the 25 stafl and its office A Happy and Prosperous ) all health and prosperity in uhl.flrm}: a hw'rm‘ bette