New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 16, 1924, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press [ — ESTABLISHED 1870 DEMOCRATIC DELEGATES TO NEW BRITAIN HERALD =% NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, PAY OWN HOTEL BILLS AND SAVE PARTY ABOUT $25,000 This is One Measure Vot- ed At Pre-convention Session Which Ad- journs Today Committee Extends Felici- tations to Wilson and Ref‘ fers to Him as Its In- spiration, Washington, Jan. 16.—The demo- | cratic party today squared away for‘ the 1924 campaign. Its national com- | mittee, having selected New York for the party convention June 24, con- | cluded lesser details of its work and | disbanded. | No change was made in the con- vention roll of 1094 delegates and al- | ternates, but the committee provided | places for women delegates-at-large, four from each state, with half n; vote aplece, There was no attempt to | chapge the two-thirds rule governing i party nominations, Reception s Held Its work completed the committee wus given an informal reception by former President Wilson, In a pour- ing rain, the members went to the Wilson residence, filed through the library and shook hands with their former party leader and Mrs, Wilson. Previously a4 resolution had been | adopted extending greetings to Mr. | Wilson, assuring him of the party's/ fnterest in his record and politics, | and expressing hope for his prompt physical recovery. The plan for additional delegates-at-large was presented Benator Glass of Virginia, Another resolution, proposed by Bamuel B. Amldon of Kansas, and adopted, provided that national com- mittea members shall pay their own hotel convention bills, an innovation that is expected to save $25,000 or more to the national committee | treasury. Message to Wilson fellcitations to in this women by — The committee's Mr. Wilson wero expressed resolution: “Resolved that the democratic na tional committee hereby extends its cordial greetings to Woodrow Wil-| son and assures him that the party is preparing to enter the approaching presidential campaign inspired by the incomparable achicvements of his great administration and confident of the compelling power of the high ideals which he brought to the serv. fce of his country. It wishes for him an early restoration to complete health” MASTER PAINTERS ARE AGAINST WAGE RAISES Hartford Convention Ob- jects to Increasing Pay of Journeymen thoritative assertion that there | duction of revenues NO CONFIRMATION OF FARE INCREASE RUMOR {Report Conn. Co. Is to Re- turn to “Three-for-a- Quarter” Rates New Haven, Jan. 16.—Inquiry at the executive offices of the Connecticut Co. here as to a report that the com- pany had under consideration an in- crease in trolley fares brought an au- | was nothing to say at this time but later on President L. 8. Storrs would prob- ! ably make a statement.”” A denial was made that President Storrs had either affirmed or denled a report that a change in fares was under considera- tion. The report concerning which execu- tive officials of the Commnecticut Co. were questioned gave intfmation that there would be an increaso in fares on lines throughout the state, due to re- and continued | high cost of operation. The report was to the effect that the Increase would be from 7 1-2 cents to 8 1-3 cents per ' ride. Under a ruling of the publie utilities commission the 7 1-2 cent rate | was granted as an experiment in the hope that the company might be able to make both ends meet. A return to| the three-for-a-quarter rate, it is un- | derstood would not require suuctlon by the commiselon, DEMAND FEES BACK FROM GOUNTY COMMISSIONERS Ex-Saloon Keepers Make Formal Re. quest to Board Which Wil A committee of former license hold. ers in New Britain and Hartford visit- ed the county commissioners yester. day afternoon and made a demand for the return of license fees which, they clalm, are owned becauss of the en- forcement of the prohibition amend- ment, 1t is sald that the commissioners in- formed the committee that they will eonsnlt logal eannscl and inform thom of their decision, The llcense holders expect that it will be necessary to take the case to court to get a decision, and thelr money. RADIO AIDS PATIENTS Consult Council U, 8. Medical Service Says Wireless Keeps Minds Off Aflments and Per. mits More Prompt Recovery, Minneapolis, Minn,, Jan, 16, 1s a valuable adjunct to the treatment for tuberculosis and is “of therapeutic value in treatment of hos- pital cases,” Dr. Waiter K. Ioley, chief of the medical service of the United States Veterans' Bureau hos- pital No. 68, here, declared today. He revealed that more than 260 radlo sets are being used in the hos- pital and that when a patient enters he is given the option of recelving a set as part of his hospital equipment. Hartford, Jan. 16.—~Objection | against any further increase in the wages of journeymen painters was| voleed at the opening session here to- day of the state convention of the so- | “A radlo eet will do more to cure tuberculosis than any other apparatus | yet devised,” said Dr. Foley, “The boys forget their troubles with radio. A worrled, unsettied state of mind is the biggest obstacle we have to fight in ciety of master house painters and treatment of tnberculosis. decorators of Connecticut when the | committes on resolutions was em- yowered to bring In a resolution em- | bodying the society's convietions on the subject. C. R. Turner of this city | brought the matter to the attention ! of the convention when he expressed & protest against the demands of the| local union for a five day week and & scale of ten dolairs a day to be ef- fective on April 7. It was the feeling of the delegates that the resolution shoufd not be confined to conditions in Hartford but to the whole state and against any further raise. Dele- gates expressed the convietion that house owners are balking against such increases and doing thelr own work where possible. About 50 dele. gates were present at the opening ses- sion. A report which received consider uble attentlon was given by E. W. Waish of New Haven for the commit- tee on trade tralning. The report criti- cized the attitude of educators In re- gard to trade training and expressed the convietlon that efforts should be made through the national organiza- tion to have painting taught in public schools. ACCUSES EX-SECRETARY. Washington, Jan. 16.—Former Sce- Albert B. Fall was charged to- Scnator Waish, democrat, tana, With having misled the public lands committee when nquiring in the Teapot Dome into the wource from obtained funds for the en- and restocking of his New retar day b} . senat " w i which lurgement Mesico vestigation he COIDGE ADDRESSES “DRYS” Jan. 16.—Soaked and under umbrellas delegates to the an- nual convention of the anti-saloon league tramped to the White House 1o & rain storm today and were rewarded ‘,n, gy short address by President Coolidge in which he declared “thers was no such thing as liberty without “hgarvance of law.” | Washington “I would rather give a patient suf. fering from tubcrculosis and other diseases as wel, a good radio set than a whole handful of pills. It does him more good.” $200,000 ms'sjn' FIRE nington, Vi, is Gutted by Flames Early This Moming Jan street, 16.—-The one of the Bennington, VWVt Hawk block on Mair | largest business buildings in this town, a loss s fire Ben- unde- was burned early today, causi estimated at about $200,000 started in the basement of the nington Candy Shop an termined cause and spread quickly to ajl parts of the building. ¥ The three story brick building occupied by the F. W. Woolworth company five and ten cent store and stores on the ground floor and offices on the upper floors, the largest being that of the Wills insurance sency. Because of the danger of a o ead of the flames to other buildings help was called from North Adams, Mass., but by the time the apparatus arfved the fire was under control. Oc- cupants of adjoining bulldings, includ- ing Bennington Evening Banner carried out many of their goods ] furnishings in the bellef tha could r cked, but it w fined to Hawks block. from other e cor 1 t the t e oh as Burglars I'orxot to Put Bung Back in Wine Keg Bridgeporty. Jan. 16.—Fallure to re- place the bung In a barrel of wine in the cellar of Joseph Bordosh last wight resulted in the arrest today of Joseph Bordosh, Jr., 17, of this city, and Louis Dates, 26, of alrfield. They were later held in $1,000 each for the superior court charge witn vurglary. The barrel was empty when the elder Bordosh was attract. ed to the cellar by the odor of wine Radio | great | 1924, —SIXTEEN PAGES. ! WIFE, HELD IN EUROPE BY WAR MAY SELLBRISTOL ' McLEAN FOR ADJUSTED PAY 1 RI( E THRE! ———y ly Circulation *10,251 7 CENTS Week Ending Jan 12th AND DIVORCED, FIGHTS DECREE PIANTTOCUT DEBT FOR VETERANS, HE ASSERTS; Receivers for Bristol. Mig. Co. Mrs. Dombrowski, Returning to U. S. and Finding H Prepare Pelmon 0 Supenor Gourt PROPERTY WORTH $100,000 band Married Again, Accuses Him of Fraud i ‘Connecticut Senator Says | | Alleging that her husband sent her| European war, according to the al to Europe on a business trip and, not legations of Ler complaint, she was being an American citizen, she was| accompanied to the train in this city unable to return at the outbreak of | by her husband, “boarded said train the World war; that her virtual im-|in New Britain for New York city, the prisonment in Russia had cut her off | intention of both husband and wife | from communication with the United being that she should sail from New | States and she wrote but received no York on the following morning, M | replies from her husband; and that 25th, 1914, for the purpose of eventu- her husband taking advantage of her ally going to Bogus, post office predicament, by fraudulent misrepre- Graivo, then in Russian Poland, at the sentations and perjury, secured from | request of and on an errand for her the superfor court a divoree, alleging husband in connection with his father sertion, and has remarried, Mrs. who then resided in Bogus.” Eva Dombrowski has brought an ac- Caught in War's Maelstrom lion to set aside the decre of divorce, She alleges that, in pursuance of his ‘namu\" her former husband, Leonardy request she sailed from New York city Dombrowski, and his present wife, and subsequently la *d in Hamburg, Victorla Dombrowski, as defendants. which at that time ws possession The writ is returnable in the su- of the Impetdal German government, perior court at Hartford on the first | 8he claims her husband had instruct- | Tuesday in February, ed her to wait until she arrived in Married Here in 1901 | Burope before seeking a passport to | The plaintif, by the name of Eva enter Russian Poland, Neither the ‘Halizrm‘ka, was married to the de- plaintiff nor the defendant was a citi- ‘andu.n[ November 27, 1901 in this zen of the United States, Her husband |eity. On May 27, 1914, about three _— months before the outbreak of thc (First Step in Liquidation Taken by American Drama. American Trust Co.—Plainville Branch to Be Retained Pending Washington, Jan. 16. nually in the United States for twice over, Senator McLean, rep day in a senate speech in which of Future Developments, to The Herald) L3 Ameri . N Bristol, Jan. 16.-—Judge \lmk attorney for the ‘0., receivers for the wil apply to court at Hartford tomorrow mission to sell all the local p of the Bristol Mfg. Co. in ord an initial dividend of 75 uma{l( dollar may be paid to The property of the wmpan,\ has a value of about $100,000, Although the Hristol holdings will S f ROERS | | vume 1o RIEF HERE. disposed of, under the plan of the American Trust Co., the Plainville plant will be retalned intact for Smash lnto Pole in East further liquidation or reorganization. # 5 End and Four Are A letter was sent recently tot stock- holders polling their opinion on Arrested seli "3 oy, "a 3 . 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CRUISER TACOMA IS AGROUND 16 MlLES OFF PORT OF VERA CRUZ (Tommander Appeals BANI"TS [iET l"m m: Innmcdl;t;a--;id Feari : $7 5LN BANK RA"] Delay of l‘]vc‘n 'l:wo }:(:::”: Would Be too Late. ! liquidation of the company's assets, The majority of replies favored | liquidation, it is expected that creditors will receive 100 cents on the dollar, The Bristol real estate consists of | a manufacturing plant on Riverside | drive, opposite the railroad station, a for warehouse on Riverside drive, op- posite the new High school and a small parcel of real estate in the rear of the post office. ing an accident at the corncr of Since the compahy met with finan- | gust Main and East streets at about cial reverses about a year ago, the g:15 o'clock when their machine Bristol plant has been closed down ooi1ided with a telegraph pole, Me- | but the Plainviile plant has been | Kennu is charged with driving an | operated intermittently. automobile while under the influence | S of liquor; Edwards and McGlivery are JUDGE LARKIN SAYS, four will be arralgned in police court When Ashton Edwards hired a taxi in New York at an early hour this morning to take him to Hartford he | lttle suspected Yt at a luter hour he would be arrested in New Britain, FEdwards, James McGilvery, Edward McMorran and James McKenna, all of New York, are under arrest follow- Wound Man Who Tries to| Interfere and Escape at | Lansing, Il Chicago, Jan, 16.~8ix bandits held| [up and robBed the lansing State Bank of Lansing, Illinols, suburb near Hammond, Ind,, today, shot and | perhaps fatully wounded John Beck- man, a lumberman of Hummond, who tried to prevent their and fled with §7,600, Police of Hammond and Gary were | notified and posses at the latter city were put on guard over n leading from Illinols, Beckman was roshed to the hospi- tal In Hammond.” but was sald to haye small chance to survive The hold-up was the third day- MHght bank robbery in Chicago and vi- jeinity within two weeks. | Galveston, Tex., Jan. 16‘-— {The United States cruiser Ta- coma is aground and in distress on the Banquillas reefs, 16 miles from Vera Cruz and is sending out distress calls, according to advices received at the Hydro- graphic office here today, Asks Immediate Help Wireless messages intercepted by the naval station here sent out by the Tacoma at 6:25 a. m., rouds | appealed to the Ameriean consul tomorrow morning. Four full pint bottles of whiskey and two empty ! bottles were found in Edwards' and McMorran's possession. At about 7:45 o'clock this morning Angered by Southington Inn ja New York taxi was scen traveling | eust on West Main strect and the ac Proprietor Getting Po- | tion of the men in it was reported to litical Joh | Policeman Clarence Lanpher who In escape, {turn notified Detective Sergeant Wil- | ilam P, McCue. Soon there was a {telephone call at police headquar we have come to tha' state |that a New York taxi had figured 4 > y when the so-called people or political | an acetdont at th or ofuh at Vera Cruz for two strong p ok, 0® CHeLire, O e Pontick- | East Main "m,': "::r';" Y thugs.l ng }l!at unl' o8y .{.hv gers and criminals i s tme we [\win Policemen Herbert ¢, Liyon, John tugs arrive within two hours it cleaned them all oul, und that's a job | “seadier and Wiliam m”.m went might be too late to pull the ',"'I’””r':m’,"'n"""‘r‘ "“':“-r')""fi;‘ :"‘"‘:':“'w the seene. The found that the car | warship off the reef. dress 10 the members of the Kiwanis | 184 Struck a telegruph pole, the front | OF To Rescue club today. Judge Larkin denounced kof the machine was badly damaged | Washington, Jan, 16 'rh. me > bkt o and the glass in the cab sgmashed Ihrl-uv\v to Panama has |...n instruct cently raided by the state police, to}"‘“”' street. ed by radio to go 1o the assistance o t o McKenna and McGilvery were | political job in Waterbury, saying the cruiser Tacoma, aground on Blan. standing next to the car and McKen. | PUSSYFOOT JOHNSON 10 SPEAK l“ NEw BRITAIN $ - 4 The keeper of the Bouthington Inn< quilla Reet, off Vera Cruz {was sent to jall for bootlegging. Foi (N8 told the officers that he was the | Another rescue vessel probably will was | | some unaccountable reason he was|driver of the taxi. Edwards | Prohibition Tecturcr Bookald 10 Come ‘1"‘.::»‘.«“ v'ule : ‘ left out before his term had expired, |AbOUt to walk away when Officer ntercepted § calls from the lphe ity of Waterbury has just ap- | | Lyon grabbed him and found three Tacoma forwarded to the navy de-|ooiniad this bootlegger a member of | pint botties of liquor In his pnpnl~‘fl|v | of Churches tment today, sald the ship struck jiq hoard of control, handiing the eity |S¢rgeant MeCue had learned that | | g i ! |the reef some time during the night |gnances, The Kiwanis club in Wa- |there were five men in the party and | Wiillam E. “Pussyfoot’” Johnson, lund was in need of immediate help. |yurbury {8 starting & sentiment |after a search found MeMorran on world famous prohibitionist and | The Blanauilla Reet is outsido the [, 0 e the retention of this man. | Harvard strect. He likewise possessed | turer, whose adventures in Europe in Vera Cruz breakwater, directly oppo “If we have come to that state |three pint bottles, Two of them were the interest of world prohibition have site the city. It is u small submerged |ypon the wo-called people and the | partly filled with whiskey. The fifth |attraeted attention n many countries, ‘\_" and on it Is situated a lighthouse. | ,1itica1 machine, and I'm a member | member of the party s still missing ‘\\lll speak in New Britain some time - ‘n' it other reefs, With [ of the machine myself, will put into | The men, with the exception of Me- next month, according to reports to. lighthouscs, office boot) g 3 . t ffice bootleggers and criminals it 18 | Morran, were drunk it is alleged, and :ln)'. The date ix said to be undecid- Bearing in mind the warning re time cleaned them all out und‘au four were taken to ]y:"]v]r“l‘d”lll')‘ ed but is thought to bo February 4.|cently glven by the navy hydrogra- yhai'w o job for you fellows. You| Irrom what the police 'h,,'\ been [ The meeting will be held in the Phic office that vesscls should not en- |pqve got to bulld your own individual | apie to learn McGlivery was driving | Congregational church in the evening tcr Tampico harbor at night because |yoivey on the solidest of rock foun-|(he machine when it left New York and will be under the auspices of the |Of the possible change in light signals |4, you have a beslang until l!p lost his way on Arel combined ehurches of the city nuu nt to the revolution, some navy your own constitution and | g it 40 New "m““' when MokKer : the "'vw,‘!l la Nght might have been charge of McGllvery, whe | Connecticut State Police do Not Think ‘1t Here Under Ausploes are ulso we ot 1o be liever in laws “It's o disg: disgrace to You've got to obey {don't know how in you cxpect the man do i7" HIT BY FlERCE GALES " & was in 6 to Waterbury, it's every community the 1f you name do Russia ‘o is em company admitted it darks or that the syste of 1 rkened or t 1 ystem of lights ployed by the Premier taxi was altered in such a way that the Tacoma s thrown from her course of New York. The 1t been impossible, Sty aee = thes eruiser to they have Fun ¢ lHghthouse for had been fuy FIVE HURT IN WRECK Wien aws. Wi mern yod's a rid taking Edwards office rs said, for t Were the f the tioning Thugs From Philadeiphia And New York Will Come To State. ARREST MAIL ROBBERS Five Arrested for $1.500,000 Chicago Hartford, Jan No influx of crooks has been washed to Connecti cut on the wave of General Smedley 1. Butler's eleanup campalgn in Phil. adelphia and none is pected cording to Captain Frank M. N of the state police department department is confident that it handle any forced rush of business, 1f one occurs on ount of the activity in the Quaker city Captain Nichols today offcred a rea son for s confidence that Conneeti cut wonld not be affected. “Criminals general have leary vr'vvnn,,.” ut i & good state lo steer clear e sald. “The Madden murder and Portland bank robhery were good and the town pluation for Iness whe it comes to New York and Phitadel Passengers on Cunarder Ausonja Tell ; ae. ONe Man Serioudy Injured of Terrific Storm at Sea Which hols The Theft—Conntrywide Round-up of sedan Hits Tree and is Demolished . Held Up Great Liner Rrokers to 1ol 14 1) Ta eir e dan which he two days in ngers W Bost s of in Norwalk This Morning told by liner Ausonia day, hours | Liverpool 1o N of her 121 passenger wded Tren s culminatin, noor vashed in lifeboats rhoard threw pass decks damag ™ Aus hours on said board to ca Whil cefved distress \uto Hits \m “alk Wagon srivisn stean ames H the French the jatter about Norwaik stean in going to 1 Durham Chicago. Jar Depot 1 192 ywi Norwa v 1 of this ity ' type Fodor v injured and irt today yus passe four otl when a sedan they ] Were passengors s was complete ¥odor and is fracture Louis Ver Louis 1 Coreora 4 SO Five mor | aid day and ag to ¥ the endous wav January is k hospital sustained a Otijen and which quotes I he beli on § the object lessons for them conrt justices hard heart 1 Jicted nents ar have other was he o for nin says ext day, her was then poured o 1 scores captain T sent te fealing wit " tt phia crooks.’ Father Bll’" Trlnsfen'cd Two Are Injuled Today as To Broadbrook Plnshl john Rarry, formerly a curats Mary's this the Catholie Catholic church ir Broadbrook. the transfe made this month, # has been ar Hartford t Ausonia fro Durbar Magusy ay hos csages e and | the eity church appointed a boy spital eived Hol and churet New pastor o pastor o Canaa the and uries wher Aus - to e frective York ~d Body Found Last Fall Is ldentlfied as \e“ \ orker Stamford PAPER MILLS CLOSY klin, New Hampshire, Inferr closed today Jar atio Vrar The ond APPEALS LOSS OF LICENSL, Hartford 16 Willlam Feld- man, through his attorney, Thomas J Spellacy, today filed notice of an ap peal in superior court from the actio the state of healt in ret g his lie a practicing ocal mills of dar " Septe that of 1 Lexingto whos ported t inst Satur the missing mar were recognized o had € poisor the busi- The Paper company were indefinite period, by mber of the be the cause oki physician counci ne 50 persons THE WEATHER Aartford, Jan. 16 —~Forecast for New Britain and vicinity Rain with rising temperatare tomigt and protably Thursday morming: «dder Thursdas af- terom var WINSTED GAS REDUCTION Winsted, Jan. 16.—A reduction 20 cents per thousand cubic feet gas was announced by the G 0. today, effe t ruary consumption ‘lne ‘on a siding scale with .——_—J erwannd sa the top figure of of Winsted r Fet present prices $2 per MRS, MACKENZIE DIES tsethel, Conn., Jan. 16.—Mrs. Harry E. Mackenz wife of the state com- missioner of labor and factory in- spector, died at her ho here this morning after a short iliness he | was 40 years of age as t wt k imself pody whic taken by for re-buris ctive The co also buried brothe e here be wi Néw ¥ Soldier Bonus—Famous Playwright Urges W Means Committee to Lift Levy Which is Strangling Bristor ‘tion in favor of adjusted compensation. superior \tandk pledfl'ed b\ its pldlfmm tJ a similar attitude, he asserted. | removal " | g d | |At THOMAS HITS THEATER TAX | Republican Party is Pledged to s and One per cent of the moneys spent an- luxuries would finance a bonus iblican, Connecticut declared to- he formally announced his posi- The republican party Thomas Fights for Drama repeal of the ten per cent ater admissions, Angustus Interna« sociation, and means the tax not Urgi tax on ’1 hnnn\ lent of the ,\Inu' R presic al Theater s’ f(vH the houss | committee today (lml S| MeLEAN anly “imperilling dramu but is destroying reduction in the number housing the spoken drama number of cities where are staged attribute Thomas to the tax Advancement of the depends upon the spoken drama, Mr of this art frop the Jntcitigenae ATOR GHORGE © the " spoken The thenters and in the such plays by M, wus il natoinal life ineluding the ot (hy alvr!ll)_lnl the in e 4 x the republican, ey was plan, Kansas, use for paye ll"mnm'nvll.l Meiion Senator Curtis, however, has proposed to revenue from such a levy ment of a soldier bonus, SLASH COAL PRICES IN CITY OF BOSTON ame Time Predictions of Cold. Wave From West Are Received L] £0 cent cut In anthre became rate for egg, dropping from 1t ror pea Boston, Jan the retail price of genaral here today stove and nut sizes $18 to $16.50 coal from $13 Dealers drop we conditions at yeite said th improved ad and In reases nt pros re open w ent indey transpo in price duce nd round 1) 1ur 1his prospe furthe ight axpr HOLD-UP IN NORWALK Victim Beaten and Robbed of S84 snspect Admits Robhery and Severs Other Crimes in Town ¥y, Josep Wi robbe & wit Tudge in nd aiso e holdup i a stors ziement of ¥ w who made ¢ police some time Ago. compiaint to t