New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 21, 1924, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press S e TAMPICO BLOCKADE AS U.S. | WARSHIPS ARRIVE ON SCENE |EASTERN STATES DU T0 HAVE GOLD SPELL lieves Tension At 12 Below Zero at Olean, N. Y.—Chicago Has Drop to Washington —Hope 95 il Crisis In South Now i gl ok et e Has Passed. Information From Ad-‘ miral Magruder Re- { { | { { New York, Jan. 21.—New York to- day experienced one of the coldest | days of the winter with prospects of | more severe weather tonight and to- | morrow. The thermometer dropped 16 degrees between midnight and 10 | a. m. when it registered 12 degrees above zero. Special Train Carrying 1,500 Federal Troops Passes Through EIl Paso for Juarez and Scene of Hostilities. Niagara Falls, N. Y., Jan, 21.—The | Niagara district experienced the cold- | est weather of the year last night and today. At Prospect Point, near the | American falls, the temperature was | 10 below zero, at 8 o'clock this morn- ing. Ten blocks east of the point the mercury stood at 14 below at the same hour. Washington, Jan. 21,—The rebel blockade of the port of Tamplco has been ‘“postponed” until the end of the pre.ent month, Rear Admiral Magruder reported to the navy de- partment today on his arrival off that port aboard his flagship, the crulser Richmond. In announcing receipt of this mes- suge the state department said that Admiral Magruder had not indicated the source of his Information. His message served, however, to relleve tension in Washington in connection with the Tamplco situation. Richmond To Remain The Richmond will remain off Tampico for the present. No orders have been sent to the crulser Omaha and the six destroyers accompanying her from Panama te Vera Cruz, but probably some of them will Join the Richmond at Tampico. Oificials are unwilling té comment on the significance of the word “post. poned,” in Admiral Magruder's mgs- ve. 1t Is evident, however, that they Olean, N. Y, Jan, 21.—~Olean ex- perienced the coldest siege of the win- ter when the temperature dropped to 12 below zero today. The piereing weather was accompanied by fine dry snow. Chicago, Jan. 21.—The third cold wave of the winter, which struck Chicago last Friday, continued today with thermometers registering 13 be- low zero, | In the great central valleys, the re- gions of the Guif states, and the in- terior of the Atlantic states, sharply reduced temperatures prevail, Last night temperatures were be- low zero in Michigan, Ohio, Indianw, Illinols, Colorado, Wisconsin, the Dakotas and Minnesota, and as low as the freezing point as far south as the central portions of the Gulf| states, It was 23 above at Moblle, | Ala., today, | The lowest reading last night was | pet 40 degrces below zero at White River, ere hopeful that the blockade prob- |Ontario. At Cary, TIl, yesterday Jem will not be revived and that the [Where a ski meet was in progress arning to Mexican rebel leaders em- |readings of 18 below were recorded. ¥ {zed by the presence of American | Eighteen women who were attending war vessels at Tampico has been suf |the meet were reported to have col- ficient, lapsed from the cold. | The Richmond steamed northward The outlook is for fair weather to- | to Tampleo after picking up at Vera day and tomorrow throughout the Cruz wmost of the erew of the strand- |states cast of the Mississippl river. ed crulser Tacoma, These men prob-| A cold wave 18 probable in the At« ably will be distributed among such |lantic states, Mher vossels as may arrive later at Storm warnings remain displayed Tampico, The Richmond was report- (on the cast gulf coast and on the At ed as lying “off Tampleo,” which was |lantic coast between Jacksonville, taken as meaning that she was out- | Fla., and Boston. gide the proposed blockade line, ob- werving conditions and prepared to render such assistance to American merchantmen as may be necessary. Tacoma Probably Lost Jeavy weather was reported along the Mexican gulf coust and it was feared the Tacoma would be battered beyond any hope of re-floating. Troops Pass Through Bl Paso, Tex., Jan. 21.—A special train carrying approximately 1,600 Mexican federal troops passed lh;ough | 3l Paso today at 6:45 a. m., and was » ! B medintely routed to Juarez. Special Storm in Years | guards of United States troopg and | ¥ Paso police accompanied the train By Tie Assoclated Press, | through the lower part of the ‘cnv._ Port Arthur, Tex., Jan. 21.—The | The troops came from western l;‘xl- United States naval tug Bay Spring | fco by way of Naco, Ariz, and has taken refuge in Vera Cruz harbor | be sent to the interior of Mexico. from the “worst hurricane in years,” | Major Earl Landreth, United nmr"_';‘,cmrdu\g to a message received here | intelligence officer in the Bl1i,q.y by wireless from the Mexican | district, was in charge of the | 7 o | port. | {rain from Columbus, N. -“;\ “:Jf}» The radio message broadcast from paso, a distance of 78 miles. A guard |y o To Nl L ened “Marino Her- | of 20 soldiers accompanied the major. i O ons thers wers dne ¥ | nu‘nler, and lfM the de la Huer The preca 1 of rebel raiders government gave permission for the reports that a band of -~ weven | BaY Spring to enter the harbor aft had ww-nrw(!‘ -Iw'v:‘rhul_fl-g“ the Mexi- |the vessel had wirelessed she was in miles below Colu 3 b | i can side of the international bound- danger of foundering. f d The wireless has been forwarded to ary with the intention of attacking Washington, train. | Washington Statement. Following s the text o(l the state L nt's announcement: 5 p:“:’l’r‘:rm: jssued at Vera Cruz orvy January 12 and signed by Adol!:u X : La Huerta announced that a blockade | of the port of Tampleo would be es- tab.ished on January 16. The dl-pn\"\- ment on January 16 ln_xtrm-t:-:l the American consulate at Vera _(,ruz to: rotest vigorously against this inter-| Los Angeles, Jan. 21.—Mabel Nor- :.-r-nce with commerce and 10 express| man, flim actress, looking none the this government's expectation umv:. worse for her recent operation for ap- e ntate steps would ho taken by | pendicitis, today failed to identify as e sesponsible for the proposed | hers the .25 callbre pistol with which blockade to remove this threat. Morace A, Otoes, Mis Nommand's| “Bubsequently, on learning that the | chauffeur, shot Courtiand 8. Dines order for the attempted biockade had | New Year's Sight. Miss Normand was ot been withdrawn, this government 45 minutes on the stand at Greer's ordered the United States Cruiser| hearing today. Richmond to proceed to Tampico 1o - B tect adequately the peaceful and - proteet adequmte gates commeres| Wife Sues Husband for $500 on Money Loaned | going In and out of that port Srom interference under any assertions © : beverii : Vincenzio Fioridia of 106 Beaver “Ime Ameriacn consul at Vera Cruz strect, has been named defendant in a peported to the department on Janu- | suit brought by his wife, Marie Ofive ary 19 that following the presentation Floridia, for $500 to recover principle of this government's protest the Pro* land costs on a loan of $360. Con- | stable Fred Winkle today attached properly owned by the husband. AMERICAN TUG SEEKS " REFUGE AT VERA CRUZ |Naval Vessel Hustles Into| Port to Escape “Worst | o0 MABEL ON STAND the Movie Actress Fal to ldentify as Hers, the Revolver With Whic Pines Was Shot, posed blockade was postponed until the end of this month. “On January 17, the American con st at Vera Cruz Informed the depart- ment that he had been notified by Mr. De La Muerta that the ports of Fron- tera, Puerto Mexico and Vera Cruz were to be mined. The consul imme- diately was Instructed to say to Mr. De La Huerta that this government not enly on its own behalf, but on be- half of humanity most vigorously protests against this prmm' ddlr,u“"; ¥ ") ing an unwarrante real Bt the comimerce of the world BIG BANK CLOSES and as involving grave danger 16 the| Mitchell, 8. D., Jan. 21 The West- fives of peaceful ritizens of all nation- |ern National bank. with a capital plities stock of $100,000 and deposits of | “$e was also 10id to inform Mr. De $435.000 was closed this morning by | fa Huerta that If the proposed mea- [the board of directors. Depleted re- |serve, due to heavy withdrawals was |l|‘°l as the reason for the closing. POLICE TAKE SOWA'S LICENSE John Sowa of 143 Washington street was notified recently by the motor vehicle department to turn in his antomobiie license. He neglected to do so. This afternoon State Police men Panl Lavin and Samuel Metcalf arrived in the city and confiscated the Tiernse. — | (Continued on Fifteenth Page) | P EXICAN REBELS POSTPONE RAILROADS WIN IN {ance of the mileage | during the war had resulted in ma | twenty-eight vears, the | soverity CONNECTY HIGH COURT APPEAL 1. G.'C. Order for Inter-Change-| able Mileage Books Set Aside WALTON ALSO LOSES CASE| | Impeached Governor of Oklahoma | Cannot Bring Proceedings Up for Review Direct from Legislature— Devision Reversed. | | | | Washington, Jan. 21. — The order | of the interstate commerce requiring | railroads to issue inter-changeable ! mileage tickets under the act of 1922 was set aside by the supreme court today in a case brought by the gov- | ernment against the railroads east of | the Mississippi and north of the Ohio | and Potomac rivers. The court tok the position that the order of the commission could not be enforced because it was issued | without proper hearings. 'The opin- ion does not affect the power of the commission to order mileage tickets after proper hearings, | Those railroads which opposed the | commission's order contended that proper cognizance had not been taken of all the factors involved in the case. | They denied the government’s conten- | tion that the sale of mileage books | at reduced rates would in reality in- crease passenger rates by stimulating | travel. Commercial travelers' organiza- tions, intervening on behalf of the or- der, told the court that discontinu- book privilege terial reduction of the road forces of commercial houses, and that a restor- ation of the practice would impel a corresponding increase in such travel. | Walton Loses Appeal. The supreme court today declined to permit former Governor John C,! Walton of Oklahoma to Bring up for review direct from the legislature the impeachment proceedings which re- sulted in his removal from office, The case which the court acted up- on was distinet from another recently appealed from a decision of the fed- eral district court for western Okla- homa, but it may have a controlling offect upon the entire proceedings. Decistons Reversed, The supreme court reversed today the decision of the lower court in the | case brought by the district attorney of New York against Edward M. Fuller and William ¥, McGee, who did business as . M. Fuller & Co, The lower court recision in the case brought by New York county officials against the bankrupt firm 47 8 8, Ruskay & Co., also was reverséd, START TAX REVISION | House Ways and Means Oommitiee, 2t the battle of Chapualtepee, in the | After Week of Hearings Gets Down | to Active Work Today. Washington, Jan. 21.-—The house | vays and means committee today | started revislon of the tax rates in| the revenue bill after a week of public | hearings on these schedules and a| month of consideration of other sec- tions, The bill must be reported Feb- | ruary 11 under orders of the republi- | can conference. | The proposals of Secretary Mellon | for reductions in the income tax rates came to their first test today with | democratic members of the committee standing out for revision along lines suggested by Representative Garner, Texas. The major fight in committee is expocted on the sur-tax rates, which Mr. Mellon would cut to a maximum of per cent on incomes of more than $100,000 and which Mr. Garner would reduce only six per cent from | the present 50 per cent maximum Prestdent Coolidge talked over the ax revision question ih detall today with Chairman Green of the commit- tee. The chairman pointed out the difficulties of an agreement on a 2 per eent maximum surtax as recom- mended by Secretary Mellon. But there was no indication of a change in Mr. Coolidge’s announced opposi- tion to a comproraise. British Cabinet Starts Probably Its Last Debate Pr The Associated N London, January 21.-The house of commons this afternoon entered upon the last stages of the debate which is expected to culminate Jate tonight ir a history-making vote resulting in the overthrow of the present government and the ecstablishment of the first labor cabinet in English annals. The house was crowded and animated in anticipation of the event. It was re- marked that a government had not been forced to resign after an actual defeat in the house of commons for last case be- ing that of Lord Rosebery's cabinet Cold \\'eather”llolds No Terror for Aviator d at about 1:45 By I'eople were surpri today to see an alrplane gliding and playing around the clouds A few fiakes of snow had started to fall and everybody was looking into the alr to inform themselves, If possible of the of the storm. The flakes ceased to fall but the people kept looking-®wondering, no doubl who had the nerve to be up in this cold weather . AEARINGS POSTPONED New York, J 21.—The ftrial of four district police iInspectors who | recently were gited with nine others by Police Commissioner Enright on hundreds of specific charges lH"linl‘ failure to enforce prohibition was PO postponed until next Monday when they appeared before First Deputy commissioner Leach at headquarters today. |road operated by a fruit company in| |ragua, {his fighting and, in a large measure, {he was taken CUT, MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1924 ORIGINAL HERO OF ° FAMOUS NOVEL DIES - PEACE PRIZE OFFER (Gen. Les Christmas Used in Rich-|Senate Commitiee Hints at In- ard Harding Davis’ Story | ternational Propaganda “SOLDIERS_OF FORTUNE? |SAYS HE Famous Old ¥ighter Served in Five| Kutire $100,000 is | | | i His Money, Wit- | South American Armies At ness Says—Tells Committee Tiotal | Time—His Life Like A Romance ur]i FPight and Adventure. One Amount He Has Spent is Entir His Own Personal Affair. " New Orleans, La., Jan. “Gen.| Washington, Jan, 21.—Fdward 1 n,,,,\ l.ee Christmas noted soldier of for-| k, donor of the $100,000 awar b tune, died here today after a long ill-| the best world peace plan, was called | |today before a snate committee |charged with investigating propa- | While Compelled To Fight. | & 3 A olcomotive engineer compelled to | tion of congress and the government's fight in & revolution as o matter of |fOT°ign policy. self-defense, General Lee Christmas ~11°¢ PUrpos { comd ] took such a fancy to the smoke of | dctormine whether therc Is any battle, that he decided to become | ation between the Tok award | soldier. For many years he was an CTBunizations having for "h'" ""'r'_; international figure because of his| PO American adherence to the| exploits s a soldier of fortune in|L°88Uc of Nations, Examination of o ALl iy Vg '/ Mr. Bok is in the hands of Senator entral America and probably no eiti-| oo 0 L T o author of zen of the United States—he never | i o dvmocrat, dissourl, a . the resolution of inquiry and of «the relinquished his American citizenship | gonatq “Irraconcilables” on the league —could boast of a greater acquaint- of nations. ance with revolutionary activities in The cross questioning of Mr. Bok that part of the world. is expected to continue through to- The entrance of General Christmas ., oow After he leaves the stand into the upheavals of Central Amer- Miss Esther Everett Lape, head of fca was an accident, or an Incident to the policy committee of the Bok a revolution in Honduras in 1897, At|award, will be called, that time he was an engineer on a| He Selected Root. Mr. Bok told the committee that he Honduras and one one of his trips|personally selected Elihu Root to ran into a revolutionist stronghold.|gerve on the jury which made the The revolutionists piled aboard his award. train and ordered him to run it to a| *“1 did not give my approval to the point where the federal forces were | gther members,” Mr. Bok said in re- concentrated. When the fighting be-! ply Ao questions by Chairman Moses, gan there wus no avenue of escape “I was not asked to approve them."” for Christmas und in self-defense he| The witness said that “cooperative was obliged to take a rifle and pltdw agencies” had sent in the names of in. The battle was won by the revo- | several hundred persons as eligible to lutionists and Christmas, because of act as jurors his conduct under fire, was made a Doesn’t Know Winner, captain on the spot. From that time| Mr. Bok said he did not know the until 1911 when he assisted in over- | hame of the winper of his award. throwing the government of Presi-| ‘D0 you know his characteristics?" dent Davila in Honduras and rein. | asked Chairman Moses, stating (hat of General Bonilla, he No," sald the witneas, spent the greater part of his ttme| Couldn't you describe him in gen- fighting or planning to fight, Nica.| ¢ral term the chairman pursued Salvador, ~Honduras and ®Mid laughter from the crowd which Guatemala were the scenes of i | pagked the hearing room. of most of | "5l "Hok sald he had “detrayed he was instrumental in placing ”‘"’l‘w‘:!d Brn;:ly’ .u’\h'i:“d o::“' 7"”,&,,,\“,1 residents in rlcllcn y it Mvolulton.rylw”u of the prize plan had : { printed for distribution, but was un {able to say how many baliots had| boen printed for the pubjic vote « ness. re- | ramed The 192 in the HE It is been .Was Lake Piot | QGeneral Christmas was born in a [ plantai’on on the Amite river in Lic-| the plun, ingston pariel, Loulsieps, 10 Anked bow wiich wosg wos i |from DButon Rouge, on Washington's | grust fund ~him he erowled to de [ birthday 1863. His father was Win- | fray oxpenses of the award, the wit fleld Scott Christmas who had the | noss replied: [double distinction of having been | “I prefer not to discuss that” named for General Winfield Scott and | “You famillar with the of having fought under General Scott |tutes?” asked the chairman, “No, 1 am not,” Senator Moses then said it was his duty under the statutes to inquire | whether an answer would “tend to de- | grade you." “1 decline to go into that,” was the Lomen raites hi sta- Mexican war. paid Lee's first work was aboard pilot and tug boats on Lake Ponchartrain, but in 1879, before he was 17 years old, he went to rallroading as a brakeman out of MeComb, Mies, on what now is a part of the Iilinols Central system, Because of his youth off the road several times, but the influence of friends al- ways managed to get him back. Two years later he joined a construction crew buflding the Louisville, New Orleans and Texas rallroad, now the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley division of the Illinolis Central, By the time the road was completed in 15.84 he again was In train service and was baggage master aboard the first pas. [moral menaoe.” senger train to enter Memphis over | “No, not if the new line. Then he became a fire. | was the reply man and quickly was promoted to| Mr, Bok said he hoped to engineer, { public opinton by his award Adeep At Throttle clared he never had seen any litera- | ’ ture lssued by those in charge of the Christmas ran engines between New | E ¢ g yersons to write to thelr Orleans and Memphis until 1891 w award urging persons te he went to sieep at tho throttle, -ran | TRAt0r Gad represcitatives in sup- Py flag crashed into another | POTL Of the prise peace plan . 4 “You probably are the only man in vl i severely and |4, United has not seen when he recovered friends succeeded | 1'% N in obtalning reinstatement, for | ;" there were extenuating cireumstancs. | cione” sovoral ,‘l Was beiore the Gays of the L0-hour it out by the ard organization . 't GOVHIOPRS _SSm - and other agencivs Among them was been on duty continuously 54 hours a ballot sent out in the na- before he started out om the run. When heu nderwent a physical exam ination preparatory to returning to | work it was discovered he was color bilnd. He gine for his this country juncture to railroading any questior accepted. It this employm in his first fought it as mucl tionist, ¢ to the superinter Christn armies of publics at one by ronrtesy. a e was rank ments response, Is His Own Business Benator Ieed, democrat, Missourd, |later pressed the same question and Mr. Bok then said he did not think it would “degrade me." He added |that he regarded the amount of money In the trust fund as solely his | own business | Serator Greene, mont, asked If there circumstances unde {fund would pre riod | pe | The | Schatz Ver not such of republican might which something be a rightly administered,” affect but de- | New Yale | enforce was scalde States who Reed ot A Ator i showed the literature Missouri scna pie of Prof science had a copy of referendum ask augh questior tionwide i Mr. Bok from the spee unan- Did you vote There issue went but th sibi was offered a switch-en- by lays of road service ir ere o but at this vortunity to go Honduras without fMindness, and N wgaged i . participated nded Although he {405t know o b8 l45 be undertaking to fairs of the world.” senator Caraway (rkan ed the witness back to the the amount of th him with the G Philadelphia th hieve Call nator 1t Sterature What is your 1 Mr eferred to muc jefinition of « Tt Propaganda evd 1 et useless the propa lor o dor s while nto that utior wars he Ite he canus re what i seamed revolu- d many a raflroad man as a r betwe he retur femoctat romd later 1 As ent question of fund created by Trust company My, Bok refus in one republic 1 1 nother. The |ane ot is command while at other trust ral the " i ard American those was a Ce time ntra of 1 to state th the five for in ave, ~t ofa amount has to satisfy mat a rest 1t's purely “q largest fo o 114 was conducting r nnder | curiosity a persona ) e e numbere times he handful his machine gun the whole of an opposing force. “regiment” and e sisted solely Guy friend of Christmas ar the New Orleans police “Don‘t yon award by | much you have Senator Caraway Trusts American Peaple an replied Mr. Hok |trust the American peopl belie they trust me, and are not interested |in what 1 have spent Applause which greeted this state ment drew a warning from Chairman | Moses against furth netrations “1 don't think the {are as much interesiod spent as the committee is, | witness. | Senator Greene asked Mr {@id not consider the law publication of campaign |good for the public | “I'm not a eandidate {said the witness r with a he ordered to attack The hurt ¥ think you have declining to say expended 7 o asked On one occasic rous regiment burned commander s th night The of Motony Sot.* hosom { " later superin r tendent of ie partment Wounded Seven Times 1t was the boast of Christmas that American people in what 1 have udded (Continued on Third Page) o n | | Rok if he requiring so-ca THE WEATHER >— Hartford, Jan. 21 —Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Pair and colder tonight: Tues- aay falr and continued cold G ronsul Aayy tor office Robert | foreign (Continued on Third Page) | . —EIGHTEEN PAG BOK IS QUIZZED ON SEVEN FIRE anda designed to influence the ac- | Refining company today. CORMICAN ASKS $5,000 OF WMAHON ESTATE |Actor Says Leg Was Broken Through Negligence of The New Britain Trust Co., execu- | tor of the last will and testament of | . the late Patrick 8. McMahon has been | ! the plainti¥, Cormican, was a | guest at the by McMahon and that he was so bad- |1y Injured by a fall through an exit sustained a compound fracture of the leg lexecutor was negligent Lase of the exit was about from the ground and that it had feli- | «d to provide a stairvay exit to the pround, * wt it kept doe plulntitt of ti 1""" use of 1 his, plac or watehman Cormican claims he months in the St. Francls hospital at | Hartford and paid the hospital $600 for services, a Hartford surgeon $2560 professional services and that he has | been compelled to make use of nd- | ditional medical and surgical attach- been unable to follow his professic | of acting since the accident and will | be unable to do so for an unknown | court the first Tuesday | Cormican is represented by Attorneys -/ STRONG FOR ENFORCEMENT Recount of Yale Paculty Referendam shows Margin of Three Vor Strict | Observance of 18th Amendnent. lots recelved since Saturday in News referendum amendment turned the scale for |the vote on Baturday was declared to have been & margin of three for modi- fleation forcement, $3 48 for repeal. in an anal told the N e opin and that it thousand minority what th drinking and 100 for it not stop drinking Johms Man's Children Dic children ably fats here today #d from an explosior OPPOSE AUTONOMOUS GOVT. London, Jan majority Bavarian palatinate is opposed to the opinion of € investigation house of com Average Daily Circulation Week Ending 7 0,21 2 Jan, 19th . .. ES. PRICE THREE CENTS MEN DROWNED IN OIL TANK AS LADDER FALLS Men Were Fighting Blaze At Butler Street PUT UP MLL CASH Plant Of Atlantic Refining Co. In Pittsburgh This Morning — Others Injured And Men . 21.—Seven men were drowned in oil, two osemen of the Pittsburgh Fire department, e at the Butler street plant of the Atlantic The bodies were recovered after the fighting . »fire_ had been brought under control, with the monetary loss un- of the committee is to | €Stimated. : The dead are: Captain Edward Jones, Captain Rudolph Bliske, and | Hosemen Patrick Abbott, Robert S Frazier and Samuel Bollinger, mith, John Markham, Harry J, Several Injupred A number of firemen also were in« Jured, The fire broke out in a tank eone taining ten thousand gallons of olil, soon after 5 o'clock. Seven com- panies answered the alarm and fire lines were thrown out for four or five city blocks on each side of the re- finery, which adjoins a residence dis- trict and has been the scene of a | number of costly blazes, Many | families deserted their homes and additional fire apparatus was sume | moned as the morning wore on. Ladder Collapses Shortly before 9 o'clock the cap= ins and their men were on a ladder hich extended above the top of a defendant in a suit for $5,000 | tank adjoining the burning oil. The Defendant |brought against the McMahon estate | Oil in this tank was being drawn off by James Cormican, formerly manag- er of the Lyceum theater and Cormican players. Constable Fred Winkle this morn- ing served notice on the Trust com- | pany of the suit. when the ladder broke and the men fell into the tank. A chemical ex- tinguisher, automatically released by the heat of the burning oil nearby, | the ‘authorities sald, covered the oil and fumes arising from it was be- lieved to have overcome the strug- gling firemen, They sank almost at owned | O"¢¢ and the bodies later were ro- |covered through the manhole at the bottom of the tank Below Zero Weather, The other firemen suffered severely | beewuse the mercury was two de ipes below zero All ot the Injurnd were ficomen, who fell from tae joy of the tank o which they climbod The the | suit alleges that on June 6, Hotel Bronson, rear of the bullding that he| alleged that the uefends as in that the five feet tops ha T the fi by officery would (hay from the o i h. et the determined pany, nog ’ to wirn fatle dange. a8 FIRST PUBLIC FORUM TOBE HELD NEXT WEEK Mayor Wants Views on Dis- posal of Normal School Building spent aany He also clairas that be for ever since, He sayw he has in the future, suit is returnable in superior in February. and Schatz of Hartford The first of of publie fore ums on topies of eivic interest will be held early next week, it is expected, and the topic for discussion will be the disposition to be made of the old state normal school shortly to be take en over by the city Mayor A. M. Paonessa is an ardent exponent of the idea of public forums, In his New Year's message to the eity he urged a series of such meetings ag which m to the city might and sentie ment pro expressed, At the last meeting common council he was uthor 1 to name a com- s and means of facilitles offered in i1ding, and this com- mittes amed tomorrow. The mayor will ask the committee to lay E. 8. Furniss of the social and | p) once for department of the university is of the whole vote cast ws that prohibition is an jature that true pub- regard to it is impos can be settled process . ment thought members the on any question Prof. Furniss sa mujority thought That is be- ) persons were L th a ser rulty bal- the 18th aw votes wherns tters of b Haven, Jan. 21.--Fa importance talked over on the m ment by three mittee tc pytting to use thk old s discuss w the The faculty voted 86 for en- for modification and a forum today, the exe public would roblems hy cutive sald he evide atte floor bi such a n 1 " ar to get two university A vote he vote Is because would r THREE BURNED T0 DEATH in Fire and Wite Probably 1s Patally Burmn- ol Today Chatles to death, his = NEW HAVEN GRAND LIST ¥ Tawble Property Valued at news of ® is beiteved to fire, -~ 081210 With Winchester Arms of Largest Corporate Taxpayer 21— This city's to by d m public. is 8 081.210 an estimats New grand H st was sworn 1 Prese 21 —An overwheiming population of the 11 made The of $11 dividnalis 328, and Z. Poli wi jot property of the Co., the large as property English, in on $2.105 jargest holder, 8 $1,524.790 worth onomous government in Robert Rritish at Munich after five on the scene the ons was told today by under secretary for d ad ive cor yor ners! ¢y P MeN pas or affairs,