New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 15, 1924, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press Ui, ESTABLISHED 1870 TWO DEAD, ELEVEN MISSING, " PROPERTY DAMAGE $300,000 | | IN MONTPELIER, VT., BLAZE suys o had “Imsistitie In, = | | Hero of Fire Who Ran Through Burning Building To Arouse Others ' Believed To Have Been Killed. H, E. .II]HNSI]N LIVED HERE OVER 50 YEARS Barnesdale Resident, For-| mer Undertaker, Out- lined Own Funeral Plans v t Britain and! \ [ t t v years a resident of New Two Entire Families ‘Viped'pmbamy one of the best known men Out—Man and Wife Die 71"t St ot 0w \Vhen The," Leflp fOl' Lil'e about 8:40 o'clock, afte Net and Mlss. six we home on ls- lust evening au illness of Six weeks ago yesterday Mr, John- son underwent an operat Hartford hospital and has | ling gradually ever since. Recently s —Two per- | his own request he was brought home Sing | preferving to spend his last hours 1Ves | with his family. Law- 1 Ar. Johnson was born in Bristo! and resided in that eity and Norfolk for a short time, coming to New Brit- ain more than half a century azo, He, vas an undertaker by trade und was a partner in the firm of W, Mitchell | & Co., for over 30 yeu About five ars ago he sold out his interest in that coneern to Mr. Mitehell and since! that time has been connected with the B. . Porter and Sons establishment. He was an tive member of the 2 army of Everyman's Bible ol and for 42 yea was ushe Trinity Methodist ehurch. Vor ernl years he was a member otficial board of that churel He was a son of the late Jolingon, for @ number of year of welghts and me He leaves a widow Mrs, T, W, Mitehell l.. Stearns, both of Vine street; one brother, Wiltiam M, of Dayton, Ohio., and two sons, Hareld 15, superintend the 1 Latand and! M. of Stamford, grand- Vhambeth o . 80 survives v wi wli=gt e 1l Montpelier, Vt., Feb, 16 sons were Killed and nine ar and believed to have lost thei in a fire which destroyed the renee building on Main strect, today. A number of others we riously injured. The loss is estim $200,000, he known dead are Walter bu a prominent insurance and Mason, and Mrs. J. I wan., Both sustained fatal when b Jjumped from and missed the life net, List of Missing. missing o Ryder, an « Waterman, st Waterman, b W t Wish- d man | Water injur windows 1 1 | t “he 3 Dr. un the his son. ; t Mrs. Lupicn Williaw Gisbourne and his wife, Mrs, Walter Waghburn and W t [ t 1 W John seuler he £ re and two sisters, ken to o hospital red N g i and Mrs, George Miss Trene Dingwall, beoken hip, Mrs. Hurey Dodg serionsly burned Miss tu bae Clane injured Mis, hovt A Mois, [NTR] I nd n Mys, sty of Bda Clough, serious injurics stors A nson, 0 N Martin, probably fatally George J. Paige, not 1 o'eloek 1. Mi A tohn L Wil b 1k, i H reallz 1o wr ! e Hart ord ® Dopu 1 speclly 1he t i o el C starts in Bas 'h ry by oceupivd on P the W L'n sto of irand W us poss il ont 1 TYI38108 O BIDIET I3 SCHEDJLED flooy t ol i o up 11 s, y suppuscdly frow spread il stakry upwa Thos i into upants v Mavor Pavmesa Calls Informal Meet- e eseapes oF e e A Mis Ofice Tor w's net Probahiy Monday Faening Dies, Willinm of awaken and other on gur ! thi Aller Mayor A, M. ommen an in % ol the com- it Nils office to dis- the offic Notice iy PPanessn 8 Wer m the o members of couneil nolityng them formal session of men e mon counctl wilt Le peid Monday evening s the budget recommended by board of finane: and taxation, Members of the bhourd be present to explain the i | contiuned in the budget and the rea- cutiing other departmental diss a upp Upants, Wy to neon safety 1 ool s I sucemimbed ways of ing eved the £ Long altor the e AN, . ‘ at & o'vlock [ daylight 1l th i ruing W still too hot for Hremen 10w thorough search for 1he which they believed w there, burned building adjoined t hall and the firemen had a hard o son: in zero weather to prevent further y yequests spread of the flam Thos who |y, vscaped in their ghght clothing sut- 'y, scvercly from the co . bets of Ited g8 chapter qu station for their relief, Fwo Familics Wiped Ow, aude N. dortin, th injured and expected 1o 15 the lo agent of the Montpelier and W, River railroad. Krnest Waterman, wio is among the missing, has been cngaged in news- paper work and formerly was om- ployed on the Springfleld (Mass.) Union The dead and entire families, Washburn and J, ¥, W, At noon the ruins were still smoul- dering and the police and firemen had been unable to penctrate themn to scarch for bodies. They turned their attention to tearing down two walls Jeft standing after the fire. Both police and fire department officlals sald they were unable to throw any light on the cause of the fire With the exception taud N Martin, who was in a critieal condi tion hospital physicians cxpressed the opinion that all 1} injured would recover, Jack Johnson’s White Wife Suing for Divorce New York, Feb. 15, hn Arthur (Jack) Johnson, former heavyweight boxing champion. was sued in the s | preme court today by pite: wite Luciile Frances Johnson. for u divorce on the ground of infidelity. The tion, undefended, was speedily before Justice Wasservoge!, who werved decision Boy Dra“q Pay and Disappears From Home John Womano, 17 years old, drew his pay from the factory where he has Leen working and left the eity this afternoon, according to a report mmde 16 the police by the bos's moth ked to have the ted returned to his home. ot & any reason why according to hWer story 1 ho tavin for r plained today wequaint mem- budget night's meeting to take this me H. Hflx wil) r with lae up counci! the esday a positior ind they ac tion. The charter mon counell must of income and cxpet month of February, meeting, must ther til f « one of provides that the com- vet on the estimates titure during the | it the regular every evening rionsly recover, \ or ction Kken, after u « missing include two of Walter aterman, thowe Explorer of King Tot's Tomb Is Re- Adhmvission Special Onder fused "y of Egyptian Governn By The A Lusor, Carter Ankh- i i By presentid Amen’s tomh admission by lice who a from the rmment Ithen retired himsel today th of po- orde Carter. writte My of & presents In Army 7 Hours, He Gets Tax Exemption ¥ Thoug New Haven, a ) 4|... the army. Dale | of 161 Bassat strest is entitled to the $1.0 exemption on his properts reason of the service, according to a ruling of Town Clerk Johy E. Doughan The question arose when Kammerer present ed his discharge paprrs show- ing that he was inducted into the army at Fort Madison Ohio, at 7 a4 m. on November 11, 1918, four howrs before the armistice dgned, and was granted his discharge papers st 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day he n his Kammerer this city ae- trie re- t 't 1 i |, wae " The mother or. hoy loca She did he lert ow o over say, a when Israel was arraigned. saying that he I odidn't sec then satd that with gun with me Man Chosen Roberts, counsel regarded as He CARTER IS KEPT wur o phia United States Attorney General Greg- were ' ous matter against the during the World ral, but the p soparated in {not certuin as to the date. {he teft her and that efforts to induce | | him to return falled {appear in court. Mrs. Richard Henry an authority on tax gquestions. ISRAEL l][lNFESSES HE KILLED PRIEST pulse to Kill Someone” § HELD WITHOUT BOND Accused Says He Didn't Know It Was Clorgyman Te Had Shot—Would| Have Been Same Had It Been Any- body Flse. Bridgeport, Feb, 13.--Harold wel, 23, recently nited States army today was bound to the superior court withou sonds on the charge of first degree| nurder in connection with the assas- sination of Rev, Hubert Dahms, pas-| or of St. Joseph's K. C. church, on he street here on February 4. TIs- rael’s arraignment followed the police complete confession in which sracl is alleged to have ascribed the| rime to “an irresistible linpulse to iill someone.” Walves Examination. persons were in court today He waiv- d examination and was immediately sound over, He did not utter a word whi the courtroom, indicating by | L wave of his arm that he understood he prosecutor's interrogution as to valving examination, “1 didn't know it iad killed until afterwards” he is sald o have told the police. » me pull my gun and fire, one clse, instead of the priest, had wen coming along at the moment hey would have got it.” races Movements, Israel traced he shooting IFew scene o after the within a few blocks of the he murder within an hour riest wus shot. hen went home, ater in the aalk where 1 He duy. ‘ext of Confession. Tsracl’s confession mude to the follows: this man?" po- in part ‘Did you shoot “Yos, “Wiy did you do it?" “1 don't know, Sonmething wpened to come into my mind, just drew out the gun ,mv! shot + this anan passed m “Dil know who Just you you were shooting?"” w the man T shot, at guy e to him be. “No, | never sa his tuee suy anything him ' “id yon ore you shot “No. Dl e you “No s Did sire No, | irh, e say unyt to shoot hi not thut valk " ot of hiu know vou in back up 1 { waus sianding there on the did you do atter the saoot he Isracl told in wd ed dututl of the ront aking his the shooting he of The the ne the follpwing week. window whes I Ly he said "I along Mu(’otnl aves know at time funeral of man nost wus i vent by didn’t the Iring “ 1 the e but hat it Liad sh Awked it night don't first time why he had taken a revolver when he Ieft his room on of Pebruary Israe! said: know just I had night and went ROBERTS G0OD LAWYER Special Givernment Ceonnsel Has Good Reputation in Philadeiphia. Philadelphia, nomir in the Washington, 1s aw practice in he 1 " lie I just stuek t into my poc out.” 15.-~Owen as one of e investigation at igaged in general Philadelphia, and is Ieb, ted t oil a has engaged in both eriminal and orporation work Mr. Roberts, whe 4, is a graduate dennsylvania his younger days he was an as- t distriet attorney in Philadel- in 1918 he was appointed by of the Universi ta 1 assistant to prosecute in Philadelphia whe publishing sediti- United States charged with wat Whea Governor Plochot was select- ng his cabinet, Mr. Roberts was con- ed for the office of attorney gen place went 1o a persona nd of the governor's Mr. Rohe American and iations and o t ar as- Phita mber member s hvania x number of He also is a of the board of eity trusts of Phi ia which manages larg ¥, *uch as the esial He is married and phia clnbe a of Stephen a3 one wn for Dana of Pardee Steel Co. A ] Is Divorced by His Wife temo. Nev., Fob. 16— Morcnce M. Yana has a decree of divores tod rom Richard Henry Dana, an offi- jal of the Pardee Steel corporation n New York She obtained the late yester in the district testifying she and her husband 1920 or 1921, she was She said re onrt Dana did not My of A pro made ou’ court Dana is 4 son of 2nd.. known as been said. Drana has Dana ment s arrested on Mon-| | | Ts- | discharged from the! t! |employed by the | | brother in Plantsville. was a priest 15,400 Seores Jurymen ¥or Giving “Something | 1t his movements after| e, in his salary cording to the police, | oyug claim, when a jury in clreuit returned to a theater| ...t here today brought in a special | verdict awardiag him §15, He saw a movie and | on ey left his room | guestions which the court presented ek and went to Nor-|yesterday when it retired, {the Jury for the verdict in the face of USE Judge Jolm Walsh Rules That Person vscape | and | Jutendant. has & ocounter stuyed in his room | would have to be f | | were | cupants de- | settte. | | He 1s survived by a high class trial lawyer, | Bacon ORENNNILED WORK IN CROMWELL Howard Douabue, 34 ol Plats- ville, Is Victim ‘ 'TOUCHED A LIVE WIRE Taken Victim Dies While Being 1o Middictown Hospital—Survived "’1 His Mother and Brother in Plants- | ville. Conn., Feb. of Plantsviile, I|n&-n\an. 1d Connecticut Power | Co.,, was fatally hurt today while |t | working on a pele. His hand came || in contact with a high tension wire, | | The shock causcd him to losc Cromwell, Donahue, 31, hold on the cross-arm and he fell 30 | were later feet to the ground. His three com-|L panions sent him to the Middlr»sexl hospital on a truck after administer- ing first aid, He died while taken from the truck at the hospital. | f mother | JAGKSGN GETS VERDICT FOR $15,700 IN SALARY 1 ex-Ball Player An Award of $15,700.10 Milwaukee, Feb, 15,—Joe Jackson, tormer outflelder for the Chicago club of the American league, emerged vie. sult and $18,800 i t t t 700.40, The jury found in favor of Jackson ary point in the series of 10 i i ¥ I Judge John J. Gregory, however, set | aside the vrdict after severely scoring | the evidence presented and dismissed the action. NEW POINT 0F LAW t { I Sued by Government Has a Right fo Tiring Couhter Claim. 15.~+A new point of law in this state is raiscd by Judge | John J. Waish of the common pleas court in the decision handed down by bhim today in the case of James C Davis, director general of railroads of | the United Statee against the Nanga- tuck Valley Crucible Co., of Shelton, his ruling that if the federal gov ernment brings action in the state| courts against anyone the defendant has o right to bring a counter claim | in the same degree that defendant has ™ a right to file answer to the yuml»v plaint, ‘T'he contention was that if the | claim d in the court of | This .thlz‘ [ h Bridgeport, "o, It ’ t | ¥ t it A 1 claims at Washington Walsh dentes jadgment s (ound for the defend- ant on its counter elaim to the amount of $1,087.40, ROBBERS GET LITTLE g Total of Less Than $100 In Cash Js Obtained In Two Daring Breaks On Windsor Street. Hartford. Hartford, Feb, 15.A total of less than $100 in cash was obtained In two | daring breaks on Windsor street Wed. nesday night when tv safes were forced open in jobs believed to have been committed by professional yeggs About $15 in cash was obtained from the safe in the office of the Builders Bteel Co. aud from $50 to 875 in cash and about $6 in postage stamps from a safe in the office of Whitaker and Both safes were reduced to & mass of wrockag and the office equipment scattered about as 1if the place had been hit by a eyclone, Liberty bonds to the value of $4,000 passed up by the veggmen as be- ing undesirable and were thrown about the office of Whitaker and Pacon T t HARTFORD RD MAN KILLED Two Others Meet Death in Same Au- | O tomobile Accidemt in New York City Barly Todas 15.-Two ed and jured early 16. e w hich ged off Burke 1 down a forty o Bronx park pinning all it Rodwick O Miss Stephanie N. 1. and New York men and a woma man v they W avent 1 roite foot | embankime upeide dow b 1 the oc- ¥ i neath The of Marttord strow, b, of Cra red Hodshan Lynbrook, Ti.» injured woman is Ruth | 27, New York whoe was to Fordham hospi- | the |t L} taken unconscio tal suffering from a fracture of skull e 261 | stove e | ¥ {1 | THE WEATHER p-ow Hartford. Feb. 15 —~Vorooadt for New Britaln and vicinity : Falr tonight and Satarday; oolder Saturday. { | * I pe 15--Howard | 4% declared in a letter | laine, of the rich Mantanusk hls“of Alaska along the ecuted, but the”letter said the being | department, and | had assiduously refused ever since to| | permit use | Alaskan runner of dent charges that powerful intere work to hinder the Alaska, charges to several senators including Chairman Lenroot of the senate tary Fall of the Matanuska field from the navy to the | tlations and the coal parallel with the negotiations and the {terms of the lease of the Teapot Dome res: reserves Wi P closed in May, | $00,000 tons of coal blocked out in Matanuska coal reserves, | bureau of eng it ead. $200.000 in | pletely school the Post road In timated the $200,000 floor, have ween and another East Greenw spread of the severa! | eovered by insurance, landing | it | men. were strewn big dee-covered —® warehouse Average Daily Circulation Week [‘ndmg 10 244 Feb. 9th PRICE THREE CENTS AIVDERLIPADMITS VEILED CHARGE HE MADE WAS ONLY RUMOR, SAYS HE DID IT TO BRING OUT TRUE FACTS Denby ar" s ,?,':;’gag%{,’ .ccused of Planning vte:.., of Alaskan Coal Flelds Similar to Teapgg i Te Bk o tary Fall m,‘d s.mur; 1"nl>) were " J RUBERTS NAME" SCOtCh Reflections On AS GOVERNMENT ATTY, The Dead. Declares He Thought It His Patriotic Duty To Attract Attention, Ob- lent Coolidge today by John E. Bal- an Alaskan railroad construc- or, to have entered into negotiations ! n July, 1921, for transfer and leasc coul reserves ame lines as the Teapot laid before Presi followed in dome oil lease, The Alaskan coal lease was not ex- navy largely through the ef- orts of Rear Admiral J. K. Robinson, | 'Scandal Investigating (om- mittee Finds Absolutely No Evidence Implicating Late Pre Phila. Lawyer ('hosen as Special Counsel in Lea Prosecutions of Alaskan coal by the| navy. | Has Presented Charges Ballaine, who constructed the Central railrond, the fore the present government presented his letter to the presi- as a supplement to previous ident Harding. Owe I lected Washington, Feb. 15, n Roberts, of Philadelphia, wa: | by President Coolidge today as publican member of the special coun- sel in the oil land leasc prosecutions. He succeeds Silus H, Strawn of Chi- | cago whose nomination was with- its are at | 4rawn from the senate by the presi dovelopment of | dent vesterday after it 1 been has presented | found unacceptable. The nomination of Mr. Roberts was sent to the sen- ate today. . President Coolidge has declined to withdraw ‘the nomination of Atlee tnterior and Secre- | Pomerene of Ohlo the other attorney ary Denby of the navy began nego- | ¥ciected to act in the oll al- Giats 6 sy an 3y 1 for | though his nomination also has been he transfer of conl reserves in the | found unacceptable to the sil com- | mittee A vote on it in the senate leas- | WAy be taken today and should the 50 | nomination be rejected the president {will be asked to appoint Sherm | Whipple of Boston or Frank X beker of Salt Lake City who was as- tant attorney general in ¢ . publie ivision Wilson administration. Mr. O ———————— HARDING'S NAME CLEARED NO EVIDENCE PRESENTED o 17eh. itte ine, Washington, 15, went The senate o into the story abo sale of Prestdent Harding's Marion Star without findir evidence to implicate Mr. Harding in the oil scan cor He also oil | any nvestigating committee, | “The official fles show that Scere- vases Washington, Vanderlip told i} o today that ever to D brought the I'eb. 15 —Frank A. senate oil commite had no facts whats when he recently name of President Harde ing into the oil scandal, don't even } the price paper sold at,” Vanderlip said current story was ,000," Knew Only Rumors, rumors, he “whispering the nterior department and for the “"" ng of that reserve for a period of years,” said the letter, he nego- terms d upon petween the two sceretaries in this reserves ran along Mnes cxaetly Ne- oW the “The und He regarvded the akin to t that marked Harding can “I had full continued Thomas rent rumor H. Fpil's (" ranch caled §s @ that the before ofl cominit said, as campaign™ month of the erves, Operations Transferve) lease of the Matanuska executed, But the was that naval mining opera Matanuska were trans- [ ywochingte and abruptly [ Now Mexico at a time when | L5 ny reports show 3 ol but gave 1o Information as to, the d ecquipped - cost of the rovenents tons @ day, with | €08t Of the improvements m to the ranch subsequent to the oil wou Jol 1 said had checked those against bank accou for the ranch expenses, but kpew nothing of the source of the funds that 1 been de posited The wit ittance amount testimony Arehd had been told S hecks in this sum to J last in cont | Fall net Foreman Denies He Ever Got $68,000 Check Feb, ‘man of “No what 1 wore said,"” esult cure fons in the erred by Seeretary erfor departme 19 navy, offfein) wd a m doveloy vady to produce he there Albert was v r hieard any intimativa id for the was pu the 3 Jo Gt that he L) Trehy e my statements d bring Kill rumor ‘You thoug to broadeast ru u reflec Senator 1. hat mine, and with 00,000 tons of he same quality in si by diamond irflling in the coal creck distriet “During the negotiations over the and for two ears continuously up to the present ime, misleading announcements con- rary to the estublished official facts bout the gquality of Matanuska coal, have been given wide publicity by the | t vy, © is 1 e | Question e Denver Lawyer Promises bt the ! e o N 2 push the To Bare Oil Transaction . attorney The K i g read in th Teapot: Dome of constitutional Ay made public by v lotters roceived yminently newspaper pub- the ¢ 1 Denver Won't Divalge Names i to do that, or the persons who re He said 1 not » ity were ed was did no or t get some any of bring out T'his such teh ce to that sent retere the rumors,” eply friend Mr, wanted to clear his meme was my only Blanes Newspapers d about statement committee | not dared to questioning of Albert B, Vanderlip said it was an im- he got from the newspapers, witness admitted he had not newspapers 1 had immunity, published every pas a I Haurdi ory Roosevelt was of ir had phnson he 1 purpose.’ s 0 e na obison lica mines of Dr. Bain which Admira) by the bureau erior, of which his ad HIGH SGHO0L DESTROYED nver, Cole., LN . Denver sent lLeo 8 Stack’s claim in th leasing controversy t ph from Joht isher of cerning Do .-‘\ uy who repre- 0 Sta enforci claimed {though p per « als story was Warwick Building Near boto coples of by practicaily Shafler ar Providence is Completely Buarmed ( in ountry Chicago waifer's > 1 derlip said not care w t Pown Varly This Morning. «t Te wou 15, ~I is morning, Warwick high icture, on more than apot Van« ames peated there remem- atart com Fob. ock t destroyed the a 16 room brick str Appanoug o will be Provid g at 3 d bef myler he of some of § would pear as & witness the investigating committee next ind would give the committee account of his connection witl g controversy. announc ap- senate Monday full | ber t r slush 1 e the rumo: i many m heard un- the 1) cast i - eadlines on ard have the fir. On nearby resi- flames were building, believed t laborat » Walsh, Scandal Prober, As sidential Aspirant shemical been pxplosion was he ¥ dents shortiy before the emanating s soon as the oil Mons- from = as heard company tments th lepi ival of Pire from W part st War- m 1t Mot Georg heir effor flam houses. nearby CATCH “DAPPER DAN" Paris And Wil Be Fagan and Cowles Eligible for P. 0. Berth at Berlin aptured in Brought to New ork on Charge of Murder Committesd in 1921 New York another O Ne ‘. wi York Artment wction eid o ma apariment o n 1921 Sc\cral Thousand Dollar Loss in Fire in Hartford Hartford. I'eb. 15 A f ral thousand dollars was cau his morning by a fire startin ales of i the ware Mischel-Sallivan ¥ jding o Mair Sparks fron used to heat two wilding are believed to e he blaze, and dense clonds of rathers serioudy The cottor hundred No Legal Information strest “ the tors started ampe and feathe different and wide vard in Wb ng in a T “tood Nineteen).