New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 13, 1924, Page 1

N News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 BRISTOL BRASS HEAD HITS BACK AT BARNES IN LETTER SENT OUT TO STOCKHOLDERS Rockwell Accuses Hart- SMALlPflX EP"]EM'C ford Stock Broker of 1 FAILS T0O MAKE GAIN Trying to Hamper {Police ,Stationed at " Homes to Enforce Quarantine Standing of Manufac- | | | | ‘1 turing Company- The cases of smallpox reported so |tar to the health department are not |of 50 serious a type as would in them- |selves be likely to cause death, and {had it not heen . for complications |there probably would have been |fatalities, Dr. Richard W. Pullen superintendent of the health depart- | |ment, said this morning in discussing the smallpex situation and the two |deaths that have occurred thus far. There are now five ses {which the department is keeping close (Special to The Herald) watch and maintaining strict quaran- Bristol, Feb, 13 — Lxplanation of {ine and in none of these cases are fairs of the Bristol Brass cor-{{here any complications wyet, th yration and of the “interest” of ROY health superintendent reports H. Burnes, a Harttord stock brok-| Discussing the of Mrs. Elliot er, in the concern is presented in a Burr and Mrs, Bas , two letter to the stockholders sent out to- ters who died this week after being day by President Albert K. Rockwell lunder treatment for smallpox for sev of the company, He tells in the let-|eral days, Dr. Pullen said that in both ter of the difficulties of the company cases there were complications, The during a- slump in industrial condi- complications we of such a nature tions and accuses Mr, Barnes of in-|that, aggravated by an attack of ty- terfering to the detriment of the phoid fever, measles, or any one of firm'’s standing. The letter follows: |several other discases not considered “On December 10, 1923, acting in as severe as smallpox, death would my official capacity T led a cir- probably have resulted, Dr. enlar letter to botli the preferred and S 3 common stockholders, giving figures| The first case reported during the and making deductions tending to|Present mild epidemic o |four year old boy and his diagnosis | show the recovery of your company| 8 ’ ol |showed the most severe case of small- {pox. There were no complications, {however, and he is now recovering. {His father, mother and sister were r {ported s smallpox suffer: lafter his case came to the nr the authorities and they, too, are ow on the road to recovery, Mus, hur s 8on is recovering as there have hoen no complications, the records of the health department indicate, A strict quarantine boen placed DAUGHERTY DENIES IMMUNITY PLEDGES Rephes w RIllllOl‘S Concermngnu ors being stationed at the houses to War Fraud Settlements Th Mohs. T aotion e ko 1|)|: |h~ lmu The action w taken HIS DEKIAL 1§ SWEE ING tOr. Pullen and Mayor A. M. Paonossa, Claims Latter Tried to Get| Control and Says He “Passed the Buck”—Calls Gray Inexperienced. K (Continued on Fifth Puge) I of- during which the anestion of emplo the poliee in thix, copocity discussed, People 1ving 1 the neigh borhoud of theso houses have been complaining to the police and health uthoritics, thief of Polie quested by the Mis Stagement Comes As Result of senate Resolution Remarking Pails William (', Hart was health board to sta thon police at the houses and the po liee quarantine went into offect at o'clock last night, Thoe only persons fwho will be allowed enter houses are the physician who is tre ing the cases und a boy permitted to bring tamilies A double atl Fairview | Mrs. fott K. Bare A. Riley, As soon of the family ntine, servies ticipate will be wre of Prosecution in Several War Time Cases, 4 Attorney om- Washington, Feb Gene Daugherty munieation today that the department of made uny settlement eases by which immunity prosecution was promised d the eivil Hability was met, wes hud Deel settled with the attor- involved denfed in to the senate justice had in war contract from crim pro- ral at who will b to the sent supplics funeral s ceemtery i v Waus held sterday for and Mrs, Basil as other members are 1 from qu i which they can y held at 11 inul vide Many out eriminal prosecution ney general said, but i the main over-payments by the government through mistake of law facts and other contentions which would eriminal prose cutior reloase these comete ADVANCE Okmulgee, Okla, Waite hillips compa an advance of five to & rel in the price o crude oil, effcetive tod Hartford Seekmg PRICY ¥ not warrant 11 sweeping Denial 1 settlement of civil Hability, in the matters and cases referred t0.” Attorney General Daugherty wrote, “there has never been in any jnstance or case any agreement what ever, direct or indirect, immedate or remote, cxpressed or inferential, by the department of justice not to prosceute for any criminal lability where there was such lability.’ Attorney General Dauvgherty's com munication was sent in response to yesojution introduccd by Senator N rie, republican, Nebraska i adopt- ed by the a week ago, It lows 5 conts Mid-C ¥ al - . mtinen DIES IN HER 83RD YEAR ser fol- Widow of Test of Resolution Passes Away at “In the prosccution of no person riners corporation, charged with defrauding the government in any war contract whercin both a eriminal and civil liability was either alleged claimed, has de ment o m scttlement the civil without the same Viability isted or M Home, 91 Lilis Steeet pe hip or Adelin talph Ken 94 Ellis str Berlin and had she 9, wdula was Bivira Ke died 1 o t or the t ustice been prosecuting criminal lability exe iability She mber detendants criminal for chureh, b Daught« vived | Moo sons, rs of Liberty one davgh Hartfor Howard A. M and Guy B. Bennett ¢ al will be whe was develop »w row v ker of contracts e b criminal in, beeause involved prosecutio said over-pa through misconstrog cascs fune mer noon o'clock Buri - officiating : One Dead Three h(- Iiadh rnmen mistak acts, tion or “m contract of w York, Feb I and two we burned i Dirooklyn dweiling g on t ui badiy bility above drageed Jow inte ime been in i areaw His Ethe abont 1 by boarde urned ab immedi- ir a- istice not Tabitity indire ot 1 Janghtor barned expressed or infer grun; 3 being Rennic) y eriminal . fability in each instanee ettlement of civil Jamts were warned possibic or also was Gangster and Mail Robber Suspect Is Found Slain $t. Louis, Feb. 13.—The body of Bdward Rinehan, 19 ye oid puted member of the “Egan™ fand mail robbery susy was carly *his morning. Ivine in in the northwestern part of t ™ had been riddied Habiliti that minal contempla ment might ne of any invoived civil settie- statements they cemintions relat- was such a re gang. ¥ re ments were not ¢ b the body { Two | no | over | Pullen | was that of a | shortly | attention | the | Halt Increase in EW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1924. —TWENTY PAGES. | 'DENVER MAN PROMISES MORE ] ED, |GRAFT IN SALE OF MARION PAPER? I%%LEREI;(IEE‘[(%“ g BANKER VANDERLIP FIRES VERBAL | BROADSIDE INTO ADMINISTRATION Claims Discourtesy of Egyptian: ! ‘ Govt. Makes Work llllpOSSlh]e ] Says Some On Investigating Committee Are Not Fit loi Serve—Declares Fall Was Excused Because Tesfl- | mony Might Blacken Other Politicians. :REPORTER SEES CASKET‘ | | ! | | Ossining, Y., Feb. 13.—In the|even more flagrant than Teapot Dome, | course of a scathing arraignment of | he added, declaring the ‘veterans'| Effigy Makes Ancient Ruler Ap-| public officials, past and present, de-|bureau has spent over $500,000,000 | livered by I'rank A. Vanderlip, finan- belonging to the wounded veterans” l pear as.an Older Man. cler and former president of the Na- | and that the shipping board had | tional City bank, in a Rotary club ad- spent millions in the previous admin- | dress last night, the banker criticized | istration, “which, if not dishonest,| the recent sale of “a certaln Marion | was incredibly stupid.” He called up- courtesy” of the Egyptian public newspaper.” — works department, Howard Carter,| *“A certain Marion newspaper sold {head of the ation work, closed | for $550,000 when it was well known | | Tutankhamen's tomb to and aban- | to everyone that it was not worth | doned operations. It is understood | half that sum,” he said. | precipitated by the re-! “Two young men of no financial > government to standing purchased it. Everybody in | permit the wives of the excavators to | Washington, including the newspaper | visit the tomb this morning. correspondents, knows this, but no| Carter's Statement | one wants to look under the edge of | The following notice was posted in!a shroud. ie hall of the Winter Palace hotel: Whose Money Was Jt? | auxor, Feb, 13.—Owing to the im-| ‘“Where did the money come from? possible restrictions and discour-| Where did it go? These are matters | sies on the part of the public works of public interest The last administra- department and its antiquity section, tion stand challenged. We cannot \mn all my collaborators, in protest, have | for congress or the courts, “!p(.chlly refused to work any further upon the | when we remember that Mr. Daugh- | scientitic investigation of the discov- | erty is attorney general." ery the tomb of Tutankhamen. 1| Then the banker whirled into the wm therefore obliged to make known | Teapot Dome scandal. He attacked the public that immediately after| Senator Walsh’s associates on the! the press view of the tomb between senate investigating committee, say- 10 o’clock and noon the tomb will be|ing several of them were undesirable | closed and uo further work will be|investigators of any moral question. | carried out. | Slaps McAdoo Also, i (OIRANI B MeAdoo testified,” he went on, “that | HOWARD CARTHR, he was only acting as a reputable at- Wonders torney for a reputable clicnt in the “I'he correspondent of the Associated | (0" oeer hut like any boy with Press was the first newspaperman ad- § that client | stolen jam, he dropped mitted today to view the gOrgeous ..y eqiately after the client had tes- mummy case of Tutankhamen, which ore the investigating commit- {was disclosed yesterday by the raising | 3 befor ” ol e.” of the massive 1id of the sarcophagus. | *° At the first view of this wonderful Bizarre, golden coffin with the face, ! houlders, breast and arms of the Pharaih standing out in boldest mm,“nd bt g1 N (;‘ll -U”‘ g m}“ ’| '“M:(l that this|yave gone into high places. They |t make us continue to belleve in his discovery was indeed an event in the | yiq e “anren g st ocnghatedy | REiMis ot Bwrplolegy There were other national scandals |y " Nothing has ever bLeen found in| aalbar b 1"’““‘ we all think he has, Lgypt before resembling this COlOBSUS | s e oo et + et S BALINGE OF S10000 VANDERLIP WILL BE % IN GITY'S TREASURY - SUMMONED TO PROBE - dignity of line, The only paralle |stone effigy carved on the 1id of the | Associ scribes jated Press Correspondent l)e- It as Wonderfol—Tut's By The Associated Pr Luxor, Egypt, Feb. 13.—Owing what he characterized as the “di to| Ad flec( rify o FRANK A. VANDERLIP on President Coolidge to demand the | resignation of Secretary Denby | public min Demands the Truth, “All of these things are floating in the scum of Washington,” he said.| | “What is the truth? We are entitled | to know. high places to find out, The president has got to say something. Silence will sald would | not answer. He must say something Afraid of Disclosures, Later he said: “The senate did not | go further in investigating Secretary | Fall because I"all was ready to ‘peach’ one can call arcophagus of Merenptuh, the res puted Pharaih of the Exodu | It now seems clear tha Ahr\ nmz) e ‘f;ht_.'}ln’"f"{.'.:"‘.‘ S sarad Jumps From $i6,000 ut Bud To Be Alked to Explain| from that of Tutankhamen, and of Fiscal Year | Speech—Purchasers of 1922—1923 | Star Deny Charges hitherto regarded as unique In Egypt, {merely represents in stone the habi- tual form of the mummy case of | | Bgypt's kings, | Sheets of Gold. The slght of the sheet The fiscal yoar of 1923-1924 will be gleaming on the mumm of Tut. concluded with a balance of more unkhamen tells its own t of the than $100,000 in the city treasury, reward that awaited the enterprise of |this amount being $90,000 more than committec for examination on al t tomb robbers und readily the balance on hand at the close of basis of statements made in his why, of all the sepul- business last fiscal year, Mayor A. M.|dress last night at Ossining, N. Y, Sgypt's old rulers, only Tut-| Paonessa said this afternoon. The referonces about which he will ankhamen's has come down to us in-| This large balance is made possible! be particularly questioned were those violate, | by the excess of income over estimat- | relating to the sale certain When the correspondent entered led income during the fiscal year, and | Marfon newspaper the tomb he found a sheect of glass the favorable payments of taxes dur I think it is laid across the open sarcophagus be-|ing the year. Vanderllp will be called,” neath the crucked granite d which| The estimated for the ator Walsh, Democrat, hung from its tackie some three fect|year was $205,000, which together ter reading an account ubove. The first sight of the dead |with the excess will make a total of derlip’s address, Other king's effigy was overwhelming, 1t1$305,000. Estimated expenditures for the committee expressed might have been a huge golden 1dol. | yext year are 32,362,105, minus the view. \n incredibly bizarre effect was lent | pajance and income, leaving a net of| “Mr. Vanderlip :,‘ !I\-I T“'“' "..,\ 1 headdress, the 000, Calculated o grand (tion to the story about the ong H“\,HI golden beard, the thick- 500,000, @ 22 mill tax will Star,” Senator Walsh said He e a ship's cable, and the gi- it to run the city, Mayor charged that the committee dec up!a\vm to hear Mr. Fall further beecause was ready to “peach and to lead acts of high officials which the mittee did not dare go into. Washington, Feb, Vanderlip, New York financier, be summoned before the senate 1 Frank K. will oll the ad- of gold! 18 inevitable Mr, Sen- that said Montana, a of Mr. Van- members of similar income a has glven circula- a of be Paonessa BUY CHURGH PARSONAGE M. Barnes and James Lincoln Pur. he to com- H'mv!lnn: d Tnj junctlon to Ium 14) Cleveland, Drush of Salem, Moore, purch Star from Pr Feb. 0., who with 1. d the Marion, O, ident Warren G. Hard- ing, when shown the statement Lincoln | Frank A. Vanderlip entered a flat de- church Mal that there was anything irreg: in the purchase of the paper Mr. Moore and myselt furnished all the money to buy the Star outside of the of the ferred Mr. Brush said t stock of Star is owne by Mr. Moore and myselr.” Mr. Brush said he formai statement tonight 1 H L. Louis N T Faresf Temporary Order chase Property of South Congrega- tonal Church on Washington St of to Be | . narnes and Asked Tomorrow—Wa- today purchased the South parsonage property on Washington terbury Appeals to Public street from the South church congre- Utilities Commission, James lar gation. The properly was formerly a part of the Erwin estate stock, ommon 1 absolutely of pre the St. Louis Police Captains Must ‘Clean-Up’ or Get Out Feb, Fourt 8t captains have been tion for 30 days with | can up their respective prepare to be repla The drive against criminals and 1) associat s i L o ped nitely, according to an ann neement by Ce Philip H. Broc dent o board [ \ the om temporary NY.NH putting into ext Monday th por ir commutatior superior knows metio rain would i ailroad in, V10 res < 8t. Louis Louis police placed on probs orders districts tic cent B Associated York, Feb, 1 today t Ossining of tr months 1o « Frank A discnssing th nors that were regarding son the or derlip his tomorro ome the pries had no pro current Marion St My | investigation dead presid rageous, if I have ety i idge ar dirty house ast night, that 1 comn represented by Attor- teh ind James E for the the r k purpose bringing s10 e gossip gossiy it to p neourag cerning i out SUSPICIOUS FIRE r before superior injunc- ie said an ba fire groce Kings 1 timated ' are origin of a t b the 088 o8 t the the ommeres 1 intrastate consider- nowever, ork ore 1 erstate g was ¥ ry pro and s wonld be ny. sympathy him ame enth question of interstate SOVIETS RECOGNIZED comp: - . N tet goveramer Kol Norway Mos ow en the Hussia ognition dr informed today |ed from Madame Corporation | tay, prose presenting s petitioned to find tare of the t into effect ble. The utilith and res harge ti Alexandr tative Waterbury Appeals " W Counsel Charles city of Wit public a A him ir ement that se of assistants investigators of any que tion. 1 think he is extremely acute and almost Iy highminded Vanderlip. nformed tod that he would summoned be the senate oil committee said | U be glod wh |about the cire the sule of the Hart rbury, h utilities commissior which vde eral abie my o | | i his wer esir- | at the increase mor THE WEATHER o Hartford. Febh, 13 —<Foreoast for New Britain and vicinity: Fair and continuedd colMd to- night; Thursday increasing Aondine and warmer. prob. ably follomed hy mow. Conmecticut C - February 10th petition prays that the p mmission prescribe maximum er made cut nd that reseind its order fixing ¢ of fare at 10 cents e is unreason cal wh i ’ ww to te Co. the « v ate Presid J r'i{m “and | every other official besmirched in the | It will demand courage in | Average Daily Clrcu]ation Week hndlng 10 244 Feb. 9th PRICE THREE CENTS SUPRISES IN TEAPOT INQUIRY; COOLIDGE MAY HAVE TO ACT Senator Robinson Pre- dicts Public Opinion - Will Compel Executive to Oust All Officials Connected With Leases Stack Says He Knew Sinclair Was Going To Get Teapot Plot Washington, Feb, 13.—Leo J. Stack, a Denver oil man, testi- fied today before the senmate oil committee that Pioneer Oil Co. officials had told him confiden- tially a week before Teapot Dome was leased that Harry I, Sinclair was to get the lea President Coolidge's York speech in which he n ferred to the oil disclosures, le Senator McKellar, democrat, nessee, t0 make a renewed demand in the senate for im- mediate court action. The sena- tor said Mr. Coolidge's promise of prosecutions would be ap- proved by everyone, and then added: “Everybody knows that Do- heny and Sinclair bribed Fall, and that Fall accepted the brihfls and yet no indictment haen found against any of Cut Stata Why the delay? Lip attorney should ce. Everyone knows Onp, mple ground for ” dictu. _——— PRESII]ENT 10 DROP OTRAWN AS COUNSEL Also That He Will &ithdraw Name of Ex-Senator Pomerene Expect Sensational Testi- mony by Westerner—Sin- clair-Bonfils Wrangle Is Further Aired Today. Washington, D. C., Feb, 13.— A prediction that public opinion will force President Coolidge to remove every official connected with the oil reserve leases was made today by Senator Robin- son, Arkansas, the democratie leader in reply to the president’s —_ refusal to accept the senate’s ad- vice and immediately ask for the resignation of Secretary Denby, Karl C, 1 in- Schuyler, a attorney, telegraphed Senator Walsh, democrat, Montana, to- day that«he has in his posses- sion correspondence which he thought the senate oil commit- tee should have. Senator Walsh said he would be summoned. At the same time the Mon- tana senator received a telegram from D. F. Stackelback of the Denver Post, saying he had good reason to believixthat the correspondence in l>!|u_\'ler'l possession was “sensational’, Text of Telegram Stackelbaek's telegram fol'ows: S l\:;'yllx.n- good -'mli\:.‘l}lrl'h-llv\l under 4 has sensationid ¢ é x vossesston regar. any Heve he should with Denver ’Possnblht) | Washington, Feb, 13 Coolidge apparently s j withdraw from the senate the nomi- nation of Silas H. Strawn of Illinois {us special government counsel in the oil lvase cases, 1t is ;munml.- —President eparing to “ that the name of At- Mr, Strawn's colleague, withdrawn, Garield of Ohio of the intertor e chogen Po |wiso “m be James K. secretary ‘hoos- “It, may Mr, Stfawn, | Oppasition bas devetdped to both | of the men who had been selected hy {the president enators have de |elured that at t the law- yers should be a man trained in liti- gation over land leasing laws. M Garfleld, who was called to the White House today by Mr. Coolidge, is re- garded by the president’'s advisers as having the qualifications desired The president does not desire to subject Mr. Strawn and Mr, Pom- erene 1o embarrassment through fail- ure of senate confirmation. He has considered the possibility of appotnt- ing them special assistant attorne general, for which no senate mation would be necessary, decided not to do The president is convineed that the country, desiring a full and impar- tial investigation and prosecution of the oil cases, would not he sati:d to have the inquiry and legal pro o ronducted solel by those with the department of that attorney, spondence. in his teapot matter, 1 subpoenaed ang correxpondence wspaper pubs of weked to bring had him lshers,"” huyler's telegram s acted personal Leo Stack in connection contract with Pionecr Oil id his cluims arising Char, been made in Jocal which, by im- wrongdoing subject matter, possession certain 1 believe your ast one of ‘1 Joh his pany from the plication, 15 counsel to with coms- theres have NEWSpa pere I e in connection with the I in my correspondence whic committec should see and hereby re- quest opportunity to appear before at carliest convenient time, Ploase wire invoive i have confir- but you has Stack Testifies When the committe its hearings this morn testified yes by Chairman sized the danger pot Dome by we Fese oil resumed Stack, who rosg-cxamined Stack emphas nage Teas h would ing terday was Lenroot of dra of w e the action which 1 surrounding ler the jepartm the 1020, wi Chairman mittee Mr returned ing that Lenroot of the oil com- is understood to have informed Coolidge immediately after he from New York this morn- there was slight the confirmation of My and some doubt was whether Mr. Pomer interior ken in on publie possibility awn also expressed ne would be ap " proved Mr. Garfield ing the commission with ¢ \fter who has on department to ' interior's letermine to 4 policy sald presi Fed tion his 1 that visit con . dent his the formation bave t regardi president THREE NEW INQURIES -~ STARTINWASHINGTON © Colombia Treaty, Railroad Land Grab and Texas Frauds to Be Probed Talked With Naval Men belief would solution " his at- mtract k said, con- and Seventee@) i on Pag: