New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 28, 1924, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 ANNULMENT OF TEAPOT DOME ;I(I]WALSKI ATTAEKS CONTRACT TODAY IS LIKELY; COOLIDGE SEEKS 2 LAWYERS One Republican and One Democrat ‘Will Be Asked to! Prosecute Annulment Suits Independent of Depart- ment of Justice—Walsh Says Harding and Cabinet | Approved of Leases. Apprové $100,000 for Oil Land Prosecution ‘Washington, Jan. 28.—A bl to make a fund of $100,000 available to President Coolidge for prosecution of the naval oll suits was reported by the house appropriations committee today at a 10 minute session. Washington, Jan. 28, — The naval oil disclosures were de- bated by the senate today in a history making session with all indications pointing to adoption before adjournment of a resolu- tion favoring annulment of the Teapot Dome contract, { While the debate was in pro-| gress, President Coolidge was completing his plans to place| prosecution of annulment suits in the hands of two distin- guished lawyers, one a democrat | and one a republican with in-| structions to act independently of the department of justice. ! Senator Walsh, democrat, Montana who has taken thelsupmme Court Rules Such lead in the senate oil inquiry,| Action Conflicts With Existing Federal Laws NATIONAL BANKS CAN.T ESTABLISH BRANCHES presented on the senate floor the | annulment resolution approved! in principle by the investigating committee, | Washington, Jan. 28.—National | The discussioh pointed to gen- banks are prohibited by the laws of eral acceptance of the pxoposall““‘“’“" from establishing branches, ¥ . |the supreme court held today in a on both sides of the chamber. | use brought by the First National ; | bank of St. Louis. The opinion stated ! Walsh Starts Debate that the state law does not conflict Scnate debate on the oil 10ascs | with the laws of the United States. opened today immediately after the | justice Sutherland added that senate convened, | < branch banks can not be established Senator Walsh, democrat, Montana, | py National banks under existing called attention to an article in the rederal laws. Washington Star of Januvary 24, in| National banks had which the statement was made that ymore than half a century without the question of leasing the Teapot| pranches, the justice said, without Dome reserve to the Sinclair interests any apparent detriment to their effi- had not been submitted to the cabinet ciene, and that many members of President! Justice Van Devanter delivered a Harding's official family learned of | gissenting opinion in which he said the Teapot Dome lease for the first| Chief Justice Taft and Justice Butior tme from the newspapers. joined. There were only two questions *I'his is a syndicate article,” Sena- to be considered, Justice Sutherland tor Walsh said, “and has gone into|sald. The first was whether the state #cores of cities. 1 do not believe this|statute was valld us applied to Nation- purports to give the writer's own in-|al banks, This the court answered formation but some which must have|in the affirmative. The second ques- boeen glven to bhim by high oMelals, |tion was whether the proceedings to “Bolely in the interest of accuracy' call national banks into account wus history, 1 read a lotter transmitted | followed in the present case were B ary Fall to the president ..r proper and could be maintained. The United Rtates and by him to l)u-'(‘nur(n answer was that the proceed- operated for by th particularly the Teapot Dome|that the decision of the Missourt and the sons that uclun(ud state courts was affirmed, ken." . e v Connas " Senor GOYT, LOSES 118 SUIT Fall,” continued Senator Walsh, “that before the leases were executed the leases themselves not only became a subject of cabinet dis- cussion, but the question of their legality became a subject of debate in the cabinet.” Senutor Walsh also read the letter of President Harding transmitting the ‘tter, which concluded with this sentence: “I think it*is only fair to say in this connection that the policy which has been adopted ¥& the secretary of the | Page and lease Court Dismisses Charge of to Violate the Supreme / Conspiracy Anti-Trust Laws Washington, Jan. —The govern- ment's sult against the New York sugar and coffee exchange which was charged with operating in violation |of the anti-trust laws, was dismis: by the supreme court, chief justicg, delivering o[\luhm sald there had been solute failure by the government to in any way connect the defen both corporate and individual with any such conspirs ably Will Not Be Able To Appear charged by the governme The chief just Jsald |h< ment could deal with corners it it de- sired, by bringing anti-trust suits | against spe culators and gxmh'nrl (Continued Fifteen) FALL IS 700 [LL Doctors say Former Secrctary Prob- on the “abe govern- Betore Committee Tomorrow. Washington, Jan, 281t was indi- cated today that former Interior See- yetary 1 probably will not dbe able to testify tomorrow before the senate oil committee. Although it said there had been no definite ehange in his condition, the physicians regularly attending him chlled in seve others today and plans were made for issu- watement later regdrding Dnughler of Banker Ends Life by Suicide Boston, Jan. 25.-—A finding of sui- cide was reported by Acting Medical Examiner William J. Brickley ‘today in the case of Miss Margaret Eifot Harding, 23, daughter of W. . G Warding, governor of the federal re- scrve bank of Boston. Miss Harding died at the Harding home on Beacor street last Saturday. 1l heaith was the probable cause of ide L Brickley said. Several Repom;d Injured In Train Wreck in Texas Palestine, Tex., Jan. 28 Several persons are reported injured in & head-on collision early today between a southbound passenger train and a freight engine on the International | Great Northern rallroad near Overton, Rusk county. A relief train with doctors and nurses left Palestine for the wreck. of a iliness BRITISH STRIKE SERIOUS ot Held Out Until Viclently | ance his Hopes Vor' setth This Afternoon Are Dashed o the Ground. Associated Press 28.—Hopes of nego- tiations which would lead to settle- ment of the railway strike were dashed this afternoon with the jssu- ance of a statement by J. Bromley, secretary of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, to the effect that his organization had waited patiently through the rumors of negotiations but could, not wait lenger and would have to Intensify the strike, The situation up to the time this statement had been hopeful the railwa * managers were in s and the executlive committes of the locomotive men was waiting for a call which would bring the disput- ants together. Meanwhile the rallway services throughout the country were reported to be gradually improving and more of the strikers affiliated with the Na- | tional Union of Railwaymen returnea to work in the big rallroad centers. The London, Jan. By Anderson Defense Ruu, Case Ready for the Jury New York, Jan. 28 —Both pr Washington, Jan —A cution and defense in the trial of "". | that R. B. Cregar, national committee- fiam . Anderson, state superinten- | man for Texas, exercised political in- dent of the anti-saloon league on & | fluence with the postmaster general forgery charge, rested their cases | and the attorney general, “to stifle an shortly after o'clock today and inquiry into land frands in Texas, was court adjourned untll tomeorrow. and Attorney General. 25 charge scnate in explanation of the leases|ings had been properly brought, and AGAINST SUGAR FIRMS Heflin Accuses Cabinet Officers of Stifling Land Frauds Charges |Democrat Accuses National Committeeman Cregar of |fine Using Political Influence With Postmaster General made today ln a resolution introduced JUDGE THOMAS HAS 10 FINE AN OLD FRIEND GUARD AND FLEES Havener Until Tomorrow o Col- {New Britain Man Makes Sense-| tional Escape From Greentield (ARRESTED IN SPRINGFIELD lect the Money. 28.—Dispensing jus- the o Hartford, Jan. tice sometimes comes hard on {heart strings, for Judge Thomas of | the federal court said today that he was also punishing himself when he had to impose a fine on an old friend |of his. Adam Hess of New Haven, Py 3 {manager of the Aschenbroedel cafe. Prison Guard Unconsclous, | 3 300" rhomas sald he knew Mr. Hess Steals Revolver and $40 and Surlal“ell and knew nothing but good of \hlm but he had pleaded guilty to hav- Out on Road to Freedom—Recap- | liquor in his possession at the tured . After Struggle Miles Away. Beats ing icafe, and it should not be said that n offender against the law went “scot free” because he wi a friend of the judge. Judge Thomas saw nothing to do but fine Mr. Hess $3 but he | paroled him in the custody of Attor- ney leardi of New Haven, to allow Mr. Hess to get at his funds and pay | the fine to Clerk Pickett in New Ha- {ven tomorrov POST OFFICE ROBBERY Get Frank Kowalski of this city, a fed- | eral prisoner, serving a sentence of | |a year for transporting a stolen auto- | mobile from one state to another in {the Franklin county house of correc- |tion at Greenfield, Mass., attacked and brutally clubbed E. A. Masterson, a jail guard, just before midnight Sat- {urday night and taking the ||nr‘0n»v scious guard’s keys made his ecscape from the institution. He was captur- l~d Sunday in Springfield where he at- tempted to draw a revolver on a po- lice ofticer. Guard Found Unconscious uard Masterson, who is 71 years was found lying unconscious on floor of the cell room by Jailer . 'W. Doane soon after the escape of l\ownlskh The guard has 10 cuts on the head and was taken at once to the Franklin county public hospital where he was in serious though not dangerous condition last night. Kowalski arranged a dummy which he placed in his bed in his cell and seereted himself in the cell room to await a chance to escape. Guard Mg |terson, who is the onlytwatchman who | Butte, Mont., patrols the cell room at night, was ler, 19, ofgsutt - - Joston and Ber Kalispee, Mont., students of th | vorsity of Montana at Missoula are under arrest in that ecity charged with robbing the Missoula post office last night of $35,000 currency, The monvy ‘h.nl been consigned form Spokane to the Missoula Trust Co. The three students confessed, cording to post office officials and de- clared they had concealed the money under a bridge ove the Missoula ! piver. The money was later recover- od 40 Year Old Son of “King” of House of David Is Dead lenton Harbor, Mich,, Jan, 28 oy Purnell, 40 year old son of Ben Ljamin Purnell fugitive “king” of the House of David \uluu). died at Shiloh | House, his fati home late Sun- ay, following a lingering iliness ag- !gravated by pneumonia His death made 'onown today Two Masket Robbers Between 3 $£30,000 and $85,000 at Missounla, b l'l the Montana, This Morning. Butte, Mon an, 28,—Two masked robberg cntered the Missoula post office early today, held up two mail clerks and got away with from $30,000 ,000 in currency counsigned to | a Missoula bank, local post office offi- cials announced, Post Office Inspector Tenncyson Jefferson, of Butte, has gone to Missoula to investigate, 8.~ Iuvhn\ Ack- R. A. Helle ard Quesnell, Jan, 28 MO DEATH rores of persons n to death in the ex- wave that prevalls throughout Greece, One message (rom oniki says that three soldiers and 166 civilians Nving shelters have died of exposure SCORES FRI Athens, J have boen froz ceptional cold FRANK KOWALSKI under canvas suddenly attacked by the prisoner as ihe came around a corner, and was struck repeatedly over the head, A club of some kind is supposed to have been used, but the jail officlals have been unable to find the implement Masterson put up a fight with the man but was finally overcome by the force ot the blows rained upon his head. Takes Guand's Keys, Robs Desk The prisoner took the guards keys, let himself out into the jail FAVORABLE REPORTS Washington, Jap. 28 Favorabie reports were orderpd today by the senate commerce committee upon the nominations of Frederick J. Thomp- Alabama, Willlam Hill Dakota and Bert E. Haney Oregon, to be ping board | Imposes $350 Penalty But Gives New | ' |engaged In conside members of the Ehu»l Daily Circulation 10,202 verage \(-e,\ Ending Jan. 26th IlI(I‘THF\'PL([\'IS 5 PERSONS ARE BELIEVED KILLED - AS EXPLOSION WRECKS COTTAGE AT MANVILLE, R. L., EARLY THIS MORNING COLD SNAP PUTS END 'SIGHT OF BLOOD AND 0 ICE FAMINE FEAR SOUND OF GUN ENOUGH Good Week for Harvest 3 fl'\'ouldl‘“’na;‘.'m-d Ban- Predicted—34 Below at d"h FI&" Frohi" Prin- White River Junction ) . 'Oumg"‘nr iy o 9 e iry 'IL).\ ’"‘"333::12)3 Hartfora, young men New Haven, Jan. 28.—Fears that an ice crop would notibe harvested were entered the Princess . ter in the practically banished by the cold wave center of the city early this morning, which brought below zero tempera-| crashed a .38 calibre revolver over the tures in many parts of the state yes-| head of Sebastiano Bucchieri, janitor terday and today. The officlal ther- and night watchman, and then escap- mometer at-the local weather bureau ¢d without touching the theater safe showed a minimum of 8 degrees above| in which were receipts of Saturday zero this morning following a drop to and Sunday nights. It is thought that zero early yesterday. Warmer weather one of the young man was wounded, was predicted for today. But a con-| possibly by explosion of the gun with tinuation of freezing weather was ex- Wwhich they knocked Bucchieri uncon- | pected to make commencement of an scious as blood stains were found on fee harvest a certainty during the the floor along the aisles by which thf, present week, men escaped. MAN 15 DYING AFTER Springfield, Ma Jan. 28.—While the cold snap today abated some ten degrees in this part of the Connecticut valley southern Vermont points re- ported colder weather than yesterday. White River Junction, Vt, was 34 degrees below compared with 30 yes- terday. At Athol, where yesterday an ice jam was blasted out of Miller's Bristol thsman river after considerable damage had been done by water that had backed| (Case Mysterlously With- held From Police up, another fce jam formed today, re. sulting in a second submergence of & coasiderable area One large ice eompany in this eity began harvesting today, taking out ice a foot thick. (Speclal to The Horald) Bristol, Jan, 25,—Report was made . to the police this morning by Dr, Hu- Boston, Jan. 28.—Zero weather con- | bert D. Brennan of a ferocious assault tinued to prevail in Boston and vieini- upon Victor Avery and Fre d Giguerre, ty today, the mercury reaching three both of Maple avenue, Edgewood, Seaii bl the lowest oM. Which took place two weeks ago at cially reportod, at six o'clock this|the hands of three unidentified men. morning. The weather bureau prediet- The physician was called in today to ed a rise in temperature during the 8ttend Avery, who is apparently in a o dying condition and who Has been moved to the Bristol hospital for treatment. Giguerra suffered three broken ribs in addition to numerous bruises, One ear was nearly torn {from his head. Immediately upon 8 C, Jan, With ' seeing the condition of the men, Dr. pin lodg in her Brennan reported to the police who the one yoar old are conducting an investigation in the and Mrs, W, M. Gll- | hope of landing the culprits before was taken to a Phile | nightfall, ufter un-| According to reports of the affair, successful attempts to dislodge it had|three men entered the Avery home, seen made by a Greenville surgeon, | wher guerre also lives, two weeks An X ¢ photograph showed its point | ago Saturday night and without any imbedded up to the hinge preliminaries jumped upon the two e men, After wrecking their will, the DELAY RUSSIAN HEARINGS assailants left, Why the assault was not reported at once to the police is Washington, Jan. 28 President |, mygtery that has not been explained Gompers of the American Federation | ¢, the officers but the officlals are Labor, appeared today before the | yworking on a clue that is expected to senate sub-committec considering | ghow the motive within a short time Russian recognition, but hefore his 1 A8 Av who Is commonly known testimony got under way the hearing gq wyor,” i belleved to be in a dying was adjourned indefinitely. Chairman .., 4ition an antemortem statement Borah sald that members Wwere 80 ywijl be taken at the hospital and this fon of the naval pay clear up the affair, a delay of a| Ag the result of an Detective Sergeant Daniel MeGilii cuddy today arrested Ralph Rhodes zero, Open Safety Pin Gets Stuck in Girl’s Throat Spartanburg. an open safety throat, point up, daughter of Mr. lesple of Arcadia, adelphla hospital last night oll lease situation that inveatisation. |» w days was advisable, of room and there broke open from which he took $40 in money o a revolver He then left the l»lnh]lnk and went to the railroad station where he chartered a taxicab to take him to Holyoke, The taxi driver had an other man with him in the machine When the taxicab reached Wapping in Deerficld a blowout stopped s progress as a truck came along ap- portunely, the taxi driver arranged with the truck driver to convey his Lipman Variety Store, A, i uh,|‘,‘|'\.1)n;:;‘l:;l"‘:vl;l';':-:: & P. Branch, Palace of Sweets, Offices and Club Rooms Destroyed. Springficld T homaston Busm rest of Instead of Kowalski remained truck nntil it reached where he was eapturcd Breaks Glass to Aronse Jailer who was asleep in his qnarters at the jail was awakened by the smashing of glass, The prisoncr in the eelis were excited by the attack on 5 the guard of them tried to Chomaston, get nelp 1 arousing the jail- was cans er. They were unsuccessiul until one | and of them {1 his tin cup v win- dow and broke the glass with the hope that attention would be attracted by the Luckily the falling glass had the desired effect and within minutes after the cscaping prisoncr left the juill, Mr. Doane was attending to the injured guard and after called the police authorities in rections to be on the alsk after 4 o celved word of the fleld and left for that city the man back to his cel Lseaped Once Before Kowalski was convicted under the federal law relative to driving a stolen automobile a state line and was | given a sentence of one year, being fare valley ake, Jailer Doane re and some r him 000 by morning rew it ter when the t man on Mai stroyed. 1% ducted by stores of Palace of Lout_wh 1 by Dr Ros: B Thomaston Beauty varicty store, con nois the Mt block the o ‘o, and t entirely wiped t, and Parior were rooms of th Wars and the At 1 Gun ciub suffer- lestruction. the part the a volur soon s on t F. & Parsons, dentis rdsley nse Mrs thr in Spring- | also destroye and took | Veterans « Thomaston I ed in th Ye B Thomaston fire d teer ¢ zation other business stru of hose were laid to | shortiy e rictor Koon clul on on of over tures lines which (Continued on Page Fifteen) the fi th unti Hose Fromn Solid The street in front of the a mass of sheet jce from r-mmq on the flames and was Held up as the the rails line biock was the watet us One of firemen into service, the that the whole nd prec was ng it out Discovered at 1 a. m. discovered 1 .,,,‘ and when the ,.m n-y put it ious time ost | w re was ¥ WEATHER —o Hartford. Jan. 28 —Forveast for New Britain and vicinity: Fair and much warmer towight and Tuesdas THE by Senator Hetlin, democrat, Alabama. Proposing a senate investigation, the resolution declared that citizsens of fifteen states had been defrauded of | many milllons of dollars, and that| there had been misuse of the mails in | connection with the operations. | * By Fire Causing $b'0 000 Loss —% | ress and Herbert Chaplin on a charge assault. Frank Deloy, who is now at the Bristol hospital recovering from « minor operaticn, is expected to be afternoon. It s thought men concerned in the af- a drunken brawl dur- handle was used as ess Center Hit arrested tl that five fair engaged in ing which an axe e @ Weapon, all AMERICAN TEAM WINS homeward bound about norning who saw flames stores and saw smokes, furiously arm was the firemen saw | was doomed, The like tender and so that hardly any ef- to save the a gaso door several| \rpited States hock volatile fluid was| . .0 (yctory ock on the north| gyyiar gports in the rear |, . defeating the to the ndid | 4y v of 19 to ( Childs, o'clock in t in one of the which was billowing the structure in at once but the structure nt up blaze made out The from a Hockey Stars Defeat Belgians in sent that butlding we pot Olympics 19-0<Swedes Troun Swiss § to —Canada Wins, ort con tent was kept from amonix. France fine d where ! brick oden atch in the Olympic games Belgium team by tanks A large bar: work of the fire fighters The origin of t fir an overheated steam boiler, under the P the tenants of th sple . ted Switzerland by the attributed first of the ocated is 9 to 0 in the fee hes of t today. feated score hockey m played he Canada d 20 to 0, i Olympic games s Caecho-Sie Olym pic he boiler - game a8 e RECOVER ANOTHER BODY 32 In building had inspected g shortly before time, nothing out ticed. The building by insuran During 1} firemen, Clarence man of t% escaped d through to caved in w handling a blazing structure., Fe Pratt from his dangerous found that he was suffering ight and at mid today way was partly covered strenuous work of the Pratt, assistant fire any, narrowly hose com " This Brings Death Total Up To floor assisting in inside men pull- | g tion and Lo body his ! the cashire brir the de afternoon’s exp dead as th Last saturday’s Mancashire, Pa s s ot heis e Mine Explosion ow fi ktown, Pa., J was tak e Shar from on Terry- as it was but the of faces, L mes erbury, four many vilie reported peor and Bristo that wa P he town where, w New British Labor Member ACTION 1S POSTPONED Washington, Jan. 2 t Walking 115 \hlce to Speak . nominat London Miss Dorothy | tian, y:- e of commons for Norwich, start- vh ed yesterday with a woman friend to| postpor walk from London to Norwich, a dis comm tance 115 < fulfill an en- gagement to address her constituents but Miss , saying that working them |, Jr Har federa son, new labe nan state re of miles to weeks FIRE IN DANBURY Several trains were avaflable Jewson refused t regarded the 1 « strike at a raiiw ga breakers Jomph Ma Westingh | street y strike is now in § use | | Reports ' across the . Lighted Lamp ln Hall- way Presumably Ig- nites Cellar Full Of Gas As Door Is Opened By Members Of Family Seeking Leak. Million Dollar Fire Sweeps Littleton, N. H., and Lynn, and Millinocket, Have Disastrous Mass., Me., Blazes. MERIDEN’S LOSS IS FEROCIOUS ASSAULT PUT AT ABOUT 525000 Pawtucket, R, L, Jan, 28.—Fifteen persons were killed when esoaping gas flooded a two family cottage at Cumberland Hill, Manville, early to« day and an explosign and fire which followed wrecked the building. The vietims were Michael Conway, who lived in one side of the house; Adel- ard Hamel, his wife, six sons and five daughters, and Miss Apolline Dan- cour, a boarder with the Hamel fami- Iy. Medical Examiner Marshall ate tributed most of tho deaths to as. phyxiation, Conway was found wedged in the debris after the explosion. His two sons tried to rescue him but he ordercd them to get their mother and out of the house safe and while doing so he fell into the cellar, which mass of flames, Conway was formerly a Cumberland police officer, So far as the authorities could learn ing gas opened the cellar door and light in the hallway ignited the ga The explosion which followed is be Heved (0 lave detonated spme mite which Hamel, who w chopper siste they were was a smel dynas had stored in Hundreds of wi half a mile combined gas and dynamite and the detonation was heard away Miss lows wit of were shattered by explo 20 milc Dancour had come to¥ the Hamel home boarder only last night, The Hamel ghildren ranged in age from two to 21 years. Million Dollar Fire Lit New Hampshire, Jan. 28, Fire swept the east side of the Main street this White Mountain town to« day and was still beyond control after it had raged for three hours and caused damage estimated at near. ly a miilion dollars, It started in a bullding which housed the Premier theater and the Meriden hotel, It is believed that no lives were lost. The builldings destroyed Included the Boyiston th Bnowden lock, the ( °l, the Round- ville 1 the Boyles Specialty shop, White Mountain studio and several smaller wshops, Windows were broken in bulldings street by the intense heat, eral familles lived in the Royl. It feved that al block ottage h ho block whi 18 8 ston block 18 b re. of the fire has not yet 1ed. Apparatus was sent em and Lisbon to aid the who were handieappsd Rethiel ., Jan w 25,4 The reported fire to ng pleturs hotel eot to have house nd s also is Maine Church Destroyed 28 The d early The of nte re Lynn FREDERICK ROBBED me of PATLINE been ry valoed police.