New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 14, 1924, Page 1

Sews of the World By Associated Press EWBRITAIN CONNECT]CUT THURSDAY FEBRUARY 14 1924, HOTEL COPPORATION TAKES TUT'S TOMB CLOSE, STEP TO COLLECT PLEDGES; | ARMED PATROL USEI]; CASE IN HANDS OF LAWYER No One Is Permitted fo Go Near Famons Excavation of Luxor ! CARTER IS __EXHAUSTED Differences Between Himself And Egyptian Government Are Believed Disposition of The Atty. Donald Gaffney BflB-HAIREIl WOMEN Sends Out Letters Ask-| NEW YORK Rl]BBERS ing Delinquents to Pay|, i Up Store, Amqnmts They Promis-| Empty Proprietor’s Pock- ed ets, Take Coats. May Bring Suits to Test To Be Over Finds Made. By The Associated Press, Luxor, Egypt, ¥eb, }4.~The inter- rupted slumber of King Tutankhamen has been resumed. The great golden leffigy of the pharaoh remains staring up at the raised granite lid of his cof- | fin behind the padlocked doors of his tomb. The precinets are patrolled by spe- cially strengthened police guards with loaded rifles and with strict injunc- tions to prevent access by anyone. Howard Carter has retired to his Louse worn out with fatigue and worry, while in Cairo the Egyptian premier is personally inquiring into the legal aspects of the dramatic breach between the excavators and the government, Cause of Dispute There is reason to belleve that the question of the proprietorship of the treasures of the tomb played a certain GLA[MS POLITICIANS SEEK To RU[N HIM part in the long dispute which led to Claud ¥, Bossic, Arrested Under Mann |4 “violated sepulchure” it is sald that |according to the, excavators’ license {the treasure would be divided between |[the Cairo museum and the excavators, | If, however, the tomb is ruled to have New York, Feb, 14—~Claud ¥, Bos-|“een intact, the whole of the find goes to the Cairo muscum, Mr, Carter is reported to claim half of the treasure on the former grounds while the government has taken the standpoint that as the outer door bore the impression of the rolay necropolis seal the tomb must be held to have Leen intact, Tourists Disappointed Meanwhile bitter disappointment at the turn of affairs exists among the crowd of tourists now thronging Lux- or, many of whom had applied to the ministry of public works for permits to enter the tomb during the 10 pub- lic days which had been arranged for trom February 17 to 27. BURGLAR ARRESTED AFTER CHASE THROUGH STREETS New Faven Police Feel Sure New York, Teb. 14—Two bob- haired women today robbed the Parisian Fur Shop in Brooklyn. While * one of the bandits held a pistol over ContrECts o Pmmlnent Max Cooper, the proprietor, the other took $375 from his pockets. FEach Citizens Said to Have; woman then chose an cxpensive fur { coat from stock, donned it and fled. Police think the robbers were men who were impelled to don feminine | disguises by the success of the girl !hnndl!‘v\ho for three wecks has preyed on Brooklyn and Manhattan merchants and escaped capture, Attorney Donald (.mflno). acting for the Elihu Buritt Hotel Corporation, today sent letters to a large number of pledgers to the hotel fund, inform- ing them that their pledges are due and unpaid and advising that unless | payment is made action will be taken | by the corporation to collcet the amounts pledged. The claims have been placed in the band§ of Attorney Gaffney in large numbers, Just how many the at- torney refused to state this afternoon. 1t is understood, however, that there is a great number, including pledgers who occupy high stations In the city’s |sie, former city clerk of Omaha, Neb., lite, |who was arrested for violation of the he and Marion Just what procedure wiil be adopt- | Maan act when ed has not bclen decided as yet, Law- | Walmeley, his third wife, disembarked | yer Gafiney is in close touch with the |from the Berenguria yesterday, de- dircctors of the new hotel and, at |clared before United States Commis- their suggestion, hus sent a first letter | sloner Hiteheock today that his arrest to the pledgers who have met the re- “;‘s part of a political scheme to ruln uirements of their ugrcements |him . :Ixn:d during the drive for funds. His enemies in Omaha and in Kan- The corporution’s attorney is of the 8 City, where the chmsflsl“brdo lull;i. opinion that the pledgo contracts Were back of it all, he declared. He were drawn in such iron-bound fash. | Waived examination. Officials said he jon thut those who signed will have ‘“ouldpl:;:ut:tzvdl;cl\.:;:m‘« ity as soon o Ticulty in avolding payment |88 pa :{l‘;:.n‘\lx';vldll:n-:- \\)lnh to do #o. i | Bossle and the woman were interw: May Bring Test Cases copted when they reached the other likely that o few fest cases Wde and oravred back on the Majestic will be brought into the court should MY the A"‘L"*":{““’"“"‘fl“: P:nfli; mlx’:' the situation warrant such drastic ac. Partment of justice agonts . tion, Lawyer Gafney sald this after- nm(ulonor Hitcheock today that Bossie .o,,.', A few men of prominence in | lmarried the third time before being £h8 vemtaunity; Whe Mt ot Sande | MY ldl‘\lo;?fi-d trom hl!n second wife, . | Maybell MeKeon, an uctress, their payments in accordance with v / his 1ho wgned ugreements, will be singled | Jowfic declarnd, however, that Act, Declares It 1s Work of Enemics It is They Have Captured the Famous 'WEB TIGHTENS ON SLAYING SUSPECT Accused Nearby When Bridgeport Pnest \'las Murdered | HE PROTESTS INNOCENCE, | Harold Israel, Ex-Soldier, is Identi- fied From Among Others As Man | Seen With Priest—Hcld For rying Concealed Weapons, . | Bridgeport, Feb. 14.—Harold Israel, | ex-soldier, committed to ‘the county ! jail from Norwalk early this week on a charge of carrying concealed weap- | ons, was within one block of Main | and High streets five minutes before | Rev. Hubert Dahme was shot and killed there on the night of February 4 police learned today. Despite Israel’s assertion that he was in bed in his room and did not leave his boarding house on the night ¢of the murder witnesses rounded up by the police swear that he was not only away from his room that night | but was seen on Main street in rront' of the Majestic theater but a few min- | utes before the priest was shot down | less than two blocks away. Positively Identified Three eyewitnesses of the murder| Car- | FALL AUTHORIZED Daily Circulation Wec Ending 10’244 Feb, 9th J THREE CENTS —EIGHTEEN PAGES PRICE FALL PLEDGED LEASE 70 SINCLAIR BEFORE HE TOCK CF FICE, DECLARES CHICAGOAN, TELLING OF OIL DEALS | | | VANDERLIP TO BI QUENTIONED TOMORBOW Washington, Feb. 14 committee decided A. Vanderlip v questioned until Publisher Recounts Mys- tericus Acts Involving oil that Frank not be DENIAL, OF lEASE Rssistant 4., ""o; g 1AL By Paay,, 2w, Sinclarr n.. hm,, z.,," ) o) SECRETARY HANDLED Dt Finne; Thousands — Says Deugherty Gave An “Informal Opinion” JHNSON S4YS 6. 0. P. e HASGOTTO CLEAN UP Ieft At Once For His New Mexico (‘andidale “40“](] “elllalld B0k “Ax oow As _Xeapot Resignations of Daugher- ty and Denby Too Upholding Leasing Policy Dome | I nderlip wait references to t t Harding's Mari ymmi produ day 14 While tees! Frank regard- Presie senate sh flock er wits Lease Was Signed, gion, Washington, I'eb. 14, . Finney, | assistant secrotary of the interior, tes. | tified before the oil committee wduq{n\ The Assoclated Pre [that his recollection was that Secr Danville, Til, Feb, 14 vepubli | tary Fall told him a short time be-|can party must “sweep its house and tore the Teapot Dome lease was an- |sweep it clean,” if it is to retain the {nounced that arrangements had been |confidence of the electorate, Senator made with Harry Sinclair to give | Hiram Johnson of California declared = nsutions fr The 1 Tall Pla Post t { the newspapers, Fall had told testified the picked Isracl from a “lineup” at po-| lice headquarters today, pointing to| him as the man who most resembled | the priest's assassin, Despite the clrcumstantial evidence against him, Isracl maintains that he did not commit the crime, The theory which police have held from the time they inspected the bat- tered bullet taken from th skull of let was of forelgn make, shot from a | foreign made revolver, The revolver which Israel had in his possession when arrested was a German made weapon of a type known as an “Erbe- | Hispania.” Until ballistic experts have checked up on their investiga- tion of the type of bullgts found in the revolver police are declining to announce the make of the four bul- lets, Both the bullet found in the priest's skull and the four found in Israel's five chambered revolver were of .32 calibre, police say. Probably Pan-Handler The police are working on the| theory also that Father Dahme was shot down by a type of beggar known as a “pan-handler,” who was driven to the point of insanc rage by the priest's refusal to give him money, and who whipped a revolver fron his pocket and ‘hot down the priest in resentment ai having been refused, 'ARTFORD BURGLARY CASE BECONING MORE SERIOUS i m Is An Alleged Case of Amendments Measure Are Permissible v Yorker Ac-| of Slaying Bank Messonger Helps Defense, cnsed New York, Ieb, 14—A man who was close to the bandits who killed and robbed William . MeLaughlin and Willlam 8. Barlow, bank mes- | sengers in a Brooklyn clevated rail- | way station last November, testified | {at the trial of Joseph Diamond today | [that he was positive the defendant! | was not one of the men who fired the Bm”‘n Cafe B.'!d"’s fatal shots. Diamond is being tried Get Avu) With New Haul | ror nrst dcgree. New York. Feb. 14.—Brookiyn's| The witne Henry L. “cafe bandits” staged snother raid!sald he stepped from the train di- early today, holding up 23 diners in|rectly behind the messengers. The two restaurants and escaping with man he saw fire, he sald, was smaller $2,000. The bandifs, five in num-|than Joseph Diamond ber, are the same who jJast Sunday | Diamond's attorney yesterday drew | morning engaged In two sensational from Jacob Selikowitz the admission restaurant hold-ups in which they | that he could not positively identify obtained $2 {the defendant as one of the murder- ors although at the trial of Morris mond, Joseph's brot he had| d Joscph fire hots | Channing, T, he saw Heflin Denies He Ever Was Member of the K. K. K. Washington, Feb. 19.—A flal denial that he was or ever has been a mem- ber of the Ku Kiux Klan was made in the senate today by Senator Heflin, democrat, Alabama, in the course of an address regurding his proposed in- vestigation of alleged Texas land frauds, |} e Pays His Fine Then Goes To Jail for 10 Day Term New Haven, Feb. 14.—Edward Torello fined $1,900 and costs a liquor vielation and then given un- til today to ralse the money, paid his fine on time today and sald he would $250,000 VIRE LOSS. serve his jail term Hanover, Mass. Feb. 14.—Fire o s early today destroyed the recelving. [ shipping and raw material rooms of OVER 1,000 ARRESTED. the Clapp Rubber company plant at 8t. Louis, Mo., Feb, 14.—The police | Hanover Four Corners, together with |campaign to “clean up the city”| two loaded freight cars. The loss 18 |since Monday has resulted in the ar jestimated at $250,000 and 200 menjrest of more tham one thousand per. jare thrown out of work. sons, ninety of them women. ! cember was legal out and haled into court it tho Jaw. | Wedding last 156 H',:";"_"o‘;':h'.;"r:; g i';:‘_" r“'::"o';‘:_m '""7: :’P:‘i":nrap:r.:'!‘;::.. | parently had been destroyed at the in- boliof that the outcome of tho cases |™once of his politicul enemies, Dinner Burglar, will be sueh that lttle diffieulty witt New Haven, Feb, 14.~Perhaps the | be experienced in making the remaine police have the much-wanted *din- ing collections, ner burglar” in a man caught on the Answery Lo gqueries made to Attor- street today. They think so, and as| ney Gatfoey this afternoon indicated evidence that he is somcone who s/ that the numbn of delinquent vum(cul the police say the man’s| pledges is large and that it includes (‘Iothlnl was filled with jewelry, in-| some of the leaderse in this and oth--r Interwoven With Vour Arrests Ttlll)“c]unnng diamond rings, stickpins, | eivie mov nts. |trinkets and a watch and chain, He | The lawyer's letters have alrcady | gave the name of Theodore Lester, of | been plac in the malls and re. e 615 East 135th street, New York eity, | #ponse s expected n a fow days, , In Wil Sy 4 view of the faet that the hotel is to ”,m“m Veb, 14.-<Four arrests have belonged to Tyler Tolleson qf‘ be open for busineas within a short |, by the polle: of this city on “\'flwpnrr. R. I. In the bag was a suit | time, it 15 Jikely that definite action ¢y pasis of a robbery took on a of clothes taken from a house here. will be taken at once to require per-| proader aspect today when they found | Miss Alice Bugbee sons Who made pledges to ¢ UP | that an alleged violation of the Mann |street, returned home from a shop- to their promisee, law was improved. Philip Salineto |ping trip and found Lester in | = v cobbler complained that Salvatore \ruoln He handed her a jewel case NEw REVENUE BILL ls Milll, 82, a rooming housckeeper at|and told her to say nothing. Springfield had taken from his Tucs- | Bugbee followed the man to the| .lxy night a gold watch and $35 after | stroet and ealled for help and eitizens ‘unl Mth making of threats while ! lice and firemen joined the pursuit {they were in the shop. ie Hartford and he was caught. Debate Closes Neat Monday \H-m“.nuu got Milll at Springfield and aft- | The mysterious “dinner burglar” “or bringing him back found thut in<|who has operated here made some- terwoven In the case were the cxper- thing lke 24 calls in the early eve. ienees of Mary Desimone, 17, mar-{ning at houses in the residential dis- rid, who had leit her husband’s home | trict entering through a window and Washington, 1eb, 14-<The new |in Revere, Muss, with a man, and | |making his selections of jewelry in revenue blll carrying a complete re- | finally had gone to live at Mili's lmlromnn while the family members vision of the federal tax rates wes|rooming holise, mes Sarle and 8%4- | were at their meal. taken up in the house today under |inelo met the gir! at Milli's piace and —— un agreement to close general debate | she came here with Sarle, Milli with | Ly next Monday at 4 p. m. after which | two other men came to fartford in SAYS ”' WASN'T D[AHOND the measure will be opencd to amend- | search of the couple. In Salineto’s ment 'shoe repairing shop they demanded | "mrnulmw to the major provisions | information about the couple and as Witness in Trinl of Ne of the bill Including the income tax | the shoemaker would not give it they | rates sections which already comprises | robbed him. Salineto alse said that the 207 democrats as a unit, as a re- | the men boasted that they would “do sult of & party caucus vote yesterday |up” Sarle, was strengthened today by the atti- | The police found Sarle and the tude of the insurgent-republican | Desimone girl at a rooming house group. and had them in conrt with Ml After a mecting of the insurgents, | The hearing was continued until the leaders expressed the opinlon thelf|zigt to give time to capture other crganization gould vote for the dem- | e T federal authorities were ocratic reduction plan should thelf | .iw notified of the case. own proposal to be presented by Rep- e resentative 1rear, Wisconsin, for a 50 per cent reduction in the normal rates and no change in the surtax rates be rejected. The insurgent organization cast 17 votes against Speaker Gillett in the house organization fight and this num- | ber of votes combined with the demo- crat unit wonld give a majority for the democratic plan if all the 435 members of the house were voting. Sneak Thief Gets $20 In Pleasant St. Home Mrs. Mary Petit of 138 Pleasant street reported 1o the police today that $40 had been stolen from a dress- or drawer at her home yesterday. She told the police that two $20 bills were taken and that she did not misy them until this morning, when on opening the drawer she found the contents had been disturbed and the money taken. The last time that she saw | the money was Monday. Officer Thomas J. Veeney was assigned to ! Investigate R. 1. CONVENTION. Providence, Feb. 14.—The republi- | ean state central committee today fixed April 7 as date for the party convention to elect the state’s 13 deje. gates to the republican national con- vention in Cleveland nest June, ! partment to the | cently, when he one of the | SMALLPOX PATIENTS ARE, REPORTED INPROVING Four Adults and Child Responding to Treatment, Superintendent of Health Declares, Very favorable smalipox situation from the office of Dr. Richard reports on the emanated today w. and a handbag he had is thought to Pullen, superintendent of the health|negotiations,” and added announced that no reported, the family from department, who new cases have been four patients in the living in York!which the first case was reported are| recovering rapidly and will soon be her | ready for release from quarantine un- | Mexico ranch immediately less there are unexpected deovelop- Miss | ments, and the little Burr child whose | testified. mother and aunt died this weck, is responding to treatment and his re-| covery is looked for. Dr. Pullen’s letter to the school de-| urging vaccination in schools was circularized today and sent to members of the board. The | letter follow | r. Stanley H. Holmes, “Superintendent of Schools. New Britain, Connecticut. “My Dear 8ir: “As you know, there is more small- pnx in New Britain, and I wish to ake this opportunity to emphasize again the danger of having unvacci- | nated children in the schools. It still appears to me that while we have no definite contacts traceable to school | children, if the number of cases in- creases, thera surely can be nothing| lost by having the children vaccinated | in advance. “I surely that vaceination of the school children is advisable at| present in order to be safe. | “Very trdly yours, MNCHARD W. PULLEN, "~'up“r1m"ndr‘n' of Healt Pulitzer and Wife Seek s P orce Decree in Paris Paris, Feb, 14.—Proceedings for a divorce between Ralph Pulitzer of New York and his wife have been begun in the French courts. Owing secrecy observed by the courts in such cases information is not ob- talnable as to which party i the ap- plicant, but it 1s understood the ap- plication is made mutuaily. Mr. | Pultzer has been In Paris until re- went to London. in 1900 married Vanderbiit Webb, W. E. Webb of New of the Wm. H. Raiph Pulitzer Miss Vrederica daughter of Dr. York son-in-law Vande Mr. late Pulitzer, son of the late Jo-| seph Pulitzer, is president of the| Press Publishing Co., publishers of the New York World and vice-presi- and|dont of the Pulitzer Publishing Co.,|at given ten days in jail last Saturday for | publishers of St. Louls Post Despatch. | worth have 4 * | 1 # | | THE WEATHER —o- Hartfornd, Feh. 14 —Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Tight smow this aftermoon or tonight, rising temperature; ¥Friday gemerally fair. | - the murdered priest is that the bul.| | ney some land in the reserve to John C.|today in opening his Illinois cam- Shaffer, the publisher, paign, he address was the first in Pinney said he disagreed with Oscar |4 three-day speaking tour of 1" Sutro, counsel of the Standard Oil | state, |company, of California, a previous| The witness, who held there was no legal | p.u'n authority for the Fall leases, The witness could not recall all the circumstances but said he would not deny Mr, Sutro’s testimony as to their talk about the reasons for not ask- ing Attorney General Daugherty for an opinion, “My superior having decided * Pinney said, him in M he ente ing 1 Harry Dome the very month net that he was go- ireh th 1th the Sinel > of cam- issue paramount iss the senator said, ’ not My risdictlc how he himselr interest in t} Standard Of) with sy ad bsidiary gave up an old 1 Scerctary asking, of upons “it wasn't up herty's upuunu Bal re the nto the 1 v Foster director leases commit. writer General informal ty of the ry pre- ny opin- to Secres written opinion attorney gen- the obe an opinion,” ro the Stan- rnia testified Assint, B interfor departe obtained from Mr. Finney Il thought it ) step, “So-Called Bids" said there had called bids” for the offset wells in the Californian naval erve and the Poarl Harbor tankage proj The bidders included the Standard Oil Co, of Calitornia, the Associated Oil Co. and the Doheny Co. Asked directly why Attorney Daugherty was not asked for an opin- fon Finney said the secretary did not regard it as necessary. Finney said the Teapot Dome con tract was handled “very largely” by Secretary Fall, The real reason why the pot lease announcement was held np, Fin- ney sald, was because Fall didn't want it raade public until the Doheny' lease to the California reserve had been signed. {of just sorvice, from o Attorney ing “the Finney been “'so- 1 that « Attorne lon upholding sing policy y had k) I ask Gen, vious tary the 1 be eral but realize tions Arthur dard Ol ut 1 sutro Co., 1w couns 1 ) th opinion hut t t Seerotary » tuk Negotinti Winne HIRAM W, JOHNSON i I nent ] Daug replied 1) ar wrty honesty," He suggested the ice of Secretary Denby General Daugherty dec public must b above all suspicion suspicion from or stupid incompete “Standing by the navy now means nothing tect than approval or vacillation coneer ate and the president pressed, ar e in the public 10 and lar put in common Private Authorized Denidal Finney testified that Fall instruect- ed him to issue a statement denying that leases had been entered into a week after Teapot actually had been leased to Sinclair, Explaining how he came to sign the Doheny Pearl Harbor contract, Fin- ney said Fall was in New Mexico and wired him to sign after the secretary | had studied the summary of the bids {sent to him at his home, He said the lease negotiations were | conducted in “the manner of private stand of the 1 to the icitor He cre come private structed wes had [ pot to was publi- service erir arises ninal g secr alike ABe as acts ¢ s it, reasor xpre attorney ger y his entire » 1o confider 1 Devoting virtug to Teapot stated that it in s Dome | that way." would not bhave ndled them . It impressed me as a wrong | tana, hen the iwked ade developments « nd prog again in the coming presider system whiek i reactiol Ran ' for Now after sign- Finney it Left For His left Washington out the The ploit to @ Fall his be ch It m government re lease, or ir must ing the Teapot Dome He could was signed, Finney disclosed as to the legality gram never was referred to interior department solicitors, e said he was very certain the program w e , Before leaving he sald locked the lease up in his desk it re- mwained there until he retu Hopes Fall 1s Honest Asked if he “euspicions,” was ald: “I thought then and Fall not say where mus that the question the Jeasing pro- and driven materialism the nation cous guise but main.” Sketching parallel betwes today and ti and lauding the Roosevelt i the ' in again i this y . of purchase of t Advised Agains Bid Fall and d Fir hope now, was an absolutely honest “4rousin man.” In dismissing the cover sections 36 Californ larec fighting the ment 1 proceedings to re nd 16 in California from the Standard Oil Co. lifor nia, Finney sald Fall he 1 partment officials oniy if was a dispute as to the facts There was no dispute as to the facts Finney said, but there was one of law. Fall did not ask as to that, he testified adding that he then and now selieved Fall's action was wrong. philosophy err of ( the camy ptic (ffairs there s 1nee ruption k to a be ognized the of L0OT IS RECOVERED Gems Worth $20,000 Obtained Bring Sehocll- Great dple At Stake There is tt ¥ not b Total Recovery of Mrs, koph's Jewels up to $181.000, New York, Feb. 14 precious stones stolen Hugho P. Schoellkopf f. New Year's Eve, covered for the poliee Mahan, the jeweler were sold by the thieves valucd at $20,000 had been ts their settings, Hahan, who is under indictment criminally receiving T cently revealed that $86,000 worth of Mrs, Svhoellkopf's gems were hidden In & fruit jar in Der 1 he gave information that discovery in another batch The total value from Mrs. Schoelikopf 5,000, of which n recovered und 44 smal — One from Buffalo, 1922, were today by 10 hundred Mrs N. re they gems from whom All the stolen jewels to the f Fall Wanie local jewel « valued of the shop $75,0 gems tak at Mellon Denies Duplicates In Issues ol l \‘. Bonds Was estim 181,90 wa The stones 1 ed 28 sapphires rubies 28 large DIVIDEND DECLARED Springfield, Mass. Feb. 14 United States Envelope Co. in a rectors meting here today declare semi-annual dividend of $3.50 o ferred and $4 on common stock. pay- | able March 1 to stockholders of rec- ord February 16. ™