New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 23, 1924, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ] FSTABLISHED 1870 ROCKWELL SELECTS SLA EFOR Imgw BRITAIN GIRL BRISTOL BRASS CORP. BOARD; HIKING "CROSS U. S, WOULD ADD SAGE AND ROBBINS wiss Marguerite Sengle Walking g \ East From Calilornia wtai:: Cli. l:chte:l & AT E. L INSTIT”TE BEAGHES HOT SPRINGS, ARKI g::‘:’m:"' Head’;Rev. B (. Capeter Tught ed PArectors | Future Prosdent in Vermont Suggests Names of Men RED HAIRR AND FRECKLES Whom He Wants Voted . | N v st Says Pres ; DOWII, Including Hermanr\ew Haven Minister Says President, As Boy, Was Quiet But Had Dry Schmarr of New Britnin. Sense of Humor—Father Compared by to Old-Time Squire. (Special to The Herald). Dristol, Feb. 23.—Another engage-| (qivin Coolidge is a red-haired freckle-faced, blue-cyed product of an ment in the Rockwell-Barnes war over the control of the Bristol Brass | | o1d, crude, field stone schoolhouse at | Plymouth Notch, Vermonth, a boy| Corporation toek place today when who stood among the first five schol- I'resident A, 1. Rockwell nnnounced‘ the names of men whom he would ars, a steady plodder, punctual and reliable, but who In his boyhood days tike to sce elected to the board of | directors at the annual stockholders’ indicated no particularly promising abilities such as would be likely to mecting on Friday, February 29. He recommends the addition of two new directors of his choice, George H. ;‘:fi:l.n p&%‘;g&:‘:fl::: él;flm:iedr a{a]l&:? alevate a man to the highest honor in Itobbins, president of the Standard |!he Sift of this country’s electors. This is the recollection of l.ev. L. C. Carpenter, Americanization director | in the city of New Haven, who is at- | tending the Winter Institute of the ! Steel and Bearing Co., in Plainville. His other candidates are old members Epworth league at Trinity Methodist church and who during the winter of of the board, including himself, Wil- llwm 8. Ingraham, George L. Sanford, Judge Roger 8, Newell and F. H, 1884 and 1885 was Coolidge's school teacher at Plymouth Noteh. Mr, Carpenter is an ardent Johnston, Mr. Rockwell would like to depose as members of the board Jullan R. porter of the president. He ap- proved the executive’s stand in the present oil exposures, believing that lolley of Bristol, Roy T. H. Barnes of Hartford, James E. Inglish of New Coolidge has adopted the right policy in remaining cool and going into the Haven, Samuel B. Harper of Bristol, Vicrce N, Welch and Dean Welch of problems of his office in methodical manner rather than striking at every New Haven and Herman Schmarr of head that appears above the surfacc. New Britain, Urges Attendance at Meeting, Mr. Carpenter avers that Coolidge will win the country’'s approval by the In a statement issued to stockhold- mauner in which he will handle the ers, Mr, Rockwell says: oll land expose and its developments, “It would be of help to the com- pauy if you would personally attend No “Littlc Red Schoolhouse” The schoolhouse in which the presi- this mecting, as there are many spuints of interest that will be brought dant first took up his studies was placed shertly afterward by a white ont that are difficult to cxplain in eorrespondence, “If you cannot be present it is wooden bullding and it was in this structure that Mr, Carpenter had Cal- vin for a pupil. Coolidge was not, at Soeped that you will give most serious consideration to the issue at stake, any time, an attendant at the “littie red scheolhouse,” Mr. Carpenter exe which is a radical change in your bueard of dircctors, “I'ire usual proxy contemplates that ihe ggents of the stockholders. 8o plains. The New Haven man was born in the same town as Coolidge. He de- seribes it as a village of some 350 crealed, will conforih eloscly to the inhabitants, with no graded school, [ Springs, Arkansas the unearest school, the onc attended They have had numerous interest. | American Hardware Corporation, in ' Company With Two Philadelphia | Nurses, Cuts Through Ariz. Desert. Sengle, daughter | Sengle of 57 Black | {ock avenue, in company with two other young women, is hiking east! from San Bernardino, California, hav- | ing left that city on January 29. The | party, aceording to the latest word re- ceived, has reached Hot Springs, Arkansas. Miss Sengle left New Britain about ear ago for Los Angeles, She has | ‘spnnt the intervening time with her | sister in that city. She made fl\t original trip nur(l\' for the npurn-nve Miss Marguerit of Mr, and Mrs. T a sup- MISS MARGAUL ulll SENGLE to be ;:.unenl nnrl her health In Lox Angeles she made the ac- quaintanes of two nurses, the Misses Thompson and Ritchie of phia. Recently the two other women decided to hike east and Miss Sengle Joined them. Thetr trip so far has included the 'Ullm\ll\u impostant, cities lx' the west | nd southwest; ’ Juana, \ln\lvn; Tueson, Arizona K Forth Worth, Texas; Dallas, and Hot “partly to improve nix, xXas; Texas, had numerous “lifts” on It is not known when arrive in New York eity, as taking their time on the trip. planned to take the route home, but roads were in bad their course. is following the hav vels, on a of the town from which each on ond Tage) (Continued on Page 13) by Cooltdge, being two miles from [lug experiences, one of them being a any train or trolley and scveral miles | five day trip to the Rooseveit dam. NEAR STATE Anmvlomnmtcnunm society, though itin- [there aund then returncd to their route |erant preachers of travel. They also had dinner at a a building used |gold miner's | for that purpose. Untél Mr, Carpen-| In one of her messages home, Miss R' H HIIICC 0[ Bridzeporhm Was 4 grown man and went to uks of a 1Z-mile i county fair, hé had never seen a drun- |through th 8he Heart bn“‘lre V‘Ctlm on also tells of a day’s hike through the' |same holds true of the president. | There never was a saloon in Plymouth | good. oo s cmm— They 't ot ° o able in Plymouth Noteh during I, M, Hance of 21 Hoddon “"e""(‘oulldr"n boyhood days and electric- | they will they are sidewalk of Grand strect near Arch v 4 street this morning about ,0:30‘:u;:lahrd what illumination there Ay a B, learned that the Linwood strest. She found hitm) o Gerpouter had grown into :::n dition, %o ch ve ! pvle . D 1 \ - lying fuce down on the sidewalk, evi | hood when he returned to his home | Miss Hengle nily party down Grand street. The police were | notified and the body was taken into |°F In the school attended by Cool- (ldge who was one of about 25 pu- Cont 10¢ The man was dead when the police v by g ardved and the medica) ecxaminer, | Dad & peculiar nasal twang, which he 'rn ’ | still possesses and had a dry brand of due to heart fallure. The man's nose . was broken from the fall, but' the| C8vin was a boy who sald littic and Mr, Carpenter notes from news- T PENALTY IS DOUBLED Hance was a traveling salesman for | 0L 108t this characteristic cuses with him when diseovered, /He | Political characteristics of his father, was about years old and has many | * Intimate fricnd of Mr. Carpenter, ‘sc“[ A\“fl\ f(ll' 60 D‘“s and ', otified his wife of his death, and the | #0 education, which his father di 1 not medical examiner gave permission te | POSSESs, and by blending the two has Judge MOV await | from’ the Coolidge home. It had no |They spent the night at the hotel did occastonally conduet services in camp. Sengle wpe hike desert of Artzona. ken man, and it is his belief that the (;rllld Street rain which, apparently was not so {Noteh., No illuminating gas was avail- their tr EYNEIIPS, S0 LYORE Swhd - gn_ S ity was unknown to them. Of lamps They originally ‘elock by Miss Dernice Emmons of | Cool Had Twang And ¥ condition, so changed dently having fallen while walking viliage and accepted & place &8 teach- name T e s pils. The teacher recalled that Calvin | Waterman Lyon pronognced death S[;HWARM fiflES ‘"] JML humor. wdical e iner s . " medical exuniter HiE (hat donth wab| ber teports that the president has | a New York firm and had sample The president has inherited the | quaints « in New Britaln, Police | @0d has added to them the benefits of Fined $50 by Hartford the body to an undertakers to | Made a great success in public life, ner arrival to elaim it, the New Haven man says in cxplana- | a small United tion of Coolidge's nise from |town boy to president of the States. |- © uis Heori de ete Reginald Van et Britain police was brought York yesterday wlho have beer gus count for was scheduled to HEROIC POLICEMAN other- and Prince wise knowr known to the plain Harold Schw {to ¥ ord from New Hart ‘s Pather Like Old Squire | John Coolidge, the father, was u| New York Bluccoat Saves Nine Lives | shrewd politician. He was not, how- |ever, one of the type that siaps hts | 1 i % Fiven, Tt 0o et oot '"""‘Lonnlmenu on the back, passes out| o 0 ot e 1 | cigurs and treats the boys, but one| . mm"”” He who went about doing an otcasional | h appear in the Superior court at Hart- New York, Feb Patrolman | §00d turn and maintaining the respect | 0V : " > PCCt | tora several months ago, and when his | of the electors. As long as Mr., Car- Joscph Moioney saved the nine mem- case failed to appear, bers of twe families in & burning | Penter can remember, Coolidge bas o was forfelted. All Brons flat early today, helped the|becn an office holder. He was efforts of the Hartferd police to 1o firemen beat out the flames, and then | constable, school superintendent, Toim' wure wnavaliles calmly continued to patrol his beat. | lector of tases, etc., sometimes hold- | "0 LT LU0 T An hour later he was found haif |ing one, sometimes several offices ot | o T ] conscious from (he smoke he had in- 4 Ume. Though not at attorney-at- 0 O " T C haled in four rescue trips through the | 1aw, he was often called wupon to ', oo, w York city, nnd burning house. He carried four chil. | Struighten out estates, draft legal doc- | o Lo LI Ll L, Lt dren to safely on twe of the trips and | Uments, etc., for his townsmen. He | S8antoro of the Harfford polic The on the others Jed panic-stricken | resembled in many ways the old- | TEOEEE O TP FEEIEIC BOGE adults to the street. fashioned squire. At very nearly every | OF gt egr g tingl ot He was nmmmj toa election, he was up for office, and e o i Aoy Seipeste three out of four times he would be Manager of the OSSN S ected Schwarm served 30 da in jall » B) Screams Of a Woman | e 1e1t Plymouth Noteh and taining a marriage licehip here lagt w York, i'eb, ~—Newspaper | years was prosperous in the practice '\y-vu \ulp; - came to New Britain m-ovmt- of holdups made the bandit| of 'aw, later entering the political | Trom New Jersey on a motoreycle. profession appear so simpic and lu- | field and repeating his successes He appearcd in the Hartford police crative to Stanity Swierozek, 13, that | Mr. Carpenter has not seen court this morning in the most clabor- he pocketed an automatic pistol today, | president since the days when ste uhiform conceivable, having all selected a Erocery as the scene of his | his teacher. He has followed the brald, gold cords, butions and fiest job, and entering the store, or- | movements in politics and is an in- | £andy colors to be found in the court dered the manager to give him §$5, | terested reader of whatever coucerns | Uniform of European royaity. He was I lve Sories Swierozek had read, how- | his former pupll. Following the Lin. | vefy democratic and talked with the ever, had not mentioned what a ban- | coln Day address in which the presl. | court officials in a very cordial man- dit ussally did when a woman screAm- | dent ouliined several of his policies, | nef. The appeal which he entered, ed, Consequontly a yell from one of Mr. Carpenter wrote him commending | and on which he was being held on the female customers so disconcorted (him for his stand on several impor- | badl for Superior court was withdrawn bim that he dashed out of the flcor‘hn‘ problems now before the coun-|and his case reopened und down the strect, to be arrested [try. He anticipated formal reply He was fined $50 and sentenced to by a motoreycle peoliceman after a chase of three Wlocks. rm yrd police Collapses. lled, bond was e his 350 he N “ col- regt. William P. detective lur-nu fugitive was 1 loca e re has Chee ond ina few grew to mi a he the was his he (Continued on Page 14) and 36 days in jail. i | Coolidge, Philadel- | marking down the | serve 60 days in jail. His original sen- | | lBORAH WILLING TO LAY FOUNDATION FOR IMPEACHMENT OF ATTY. GENERAL At Same Time Coolidge Publicly Endorses Daugherty As Candidate For Delegation to the National Convention As His Supporter Washington, Feb. 23.—Lead- t;llale rel:;-u.;mud vas ;x efended by Jemn 4@ e tobinson, who ing & renewed attack on Attor- "de‘vr.l‘aorce’: rficp&t‘;‘m .’rn \:n:.:.n Chair- | ‘ney Gen. Daugherty today in the'man Adams by taking an opposite | senate, Senator Borah, repubh-‘ {can, Ohio, declared he was wil ling to help lay the foundation | for impeachment proceedings to |get Mr. Daugherty out -of the cabinet. Republican senate leaders who want Attorney Gen. Daugh-: erty to retire immediately from the cabinet were defended |against the criticism of republi- can National Chairman Adams today by both Senator Robinson ' of Arkansas, the democratic sen- ate leader, and Senator Borah. Accuses G. O. P, Chairman Senator Robinson declared in the nate that the republican chalrman !was attempting to confuse the issue and said that Senator Lodge of Massa- chusetts, the republican leader, had |sought to serve both his country and (his party by urging Mr. Daugherty's | retirement, | Senator Borah asserted that respon- |sibility for keeping the attorney gen- |eral in the cabinet now rests squarely (upon the shoulders ,of President and that the president, SENATOR W. E. BORAH |“must answer to the people of this | wuntry" for retaining him. | position had sought only to confuse { The Idaho senator's offer was|the lssue, imade during a general debate in| Borah's Argument. iwhich the position taken by the re- Daugherty should | publican senate leaders, who have |dvmanded Mr. Daugherty’s imme- 'STAMFORD TROLLEY RUNS OFF TRACK “Mr, (Continued on Second Page) ONTO WALK, les CROWD, ONE KILLED MOTHER D THRE OF i o v i i HER [;HII.“R[N K“.I.E" Accident—Mo- torman of One-Man Car| [ Held Pending Investiga- 13 Others Suffer From Gas tin Poisoning in Watervliet, ’ New York Waterviiet, N, Y., b, ’motucr and three small children were asphyxiated and thirteen other per- (sons suffered from the effects of in- lmllng illuminating gas which Jeaked [from a main in the street in front of | their home here today, Members of the four familles were rendered une conscigus by the fumes, y our dead: Mrs, Joseph Prenzi; her son, John, 8 years; her daughter, Clara, 3 years old, and an Infant son, | Dantel, cight months, Stamford, I'eb, trolley car jumping a switch ran up- group of persons work, this morning. The dead man was > tucel, 21, of injured: on their way t holas Car List of Injurcd William P, Mulread, fngton avenue, serlously; Jerry Al- ceria, 84 Liberty street; John Canda- | line, 100 State street; Aleck Eggert, 55 Smith street; Vit Santors, 63 Lib- The father and five other children erly street; Joseph Caladrelll, 101 were overcome by the gas, but were | City Lane: Paul Westimike 7 resuscitated by the pelice. A pul-!City Lane, and Vito Fabato, §1 Myrtle motor was used on Mre, Prenzi for strect, all at the Stamford lhospital, {nearly an hour without resuit. and James Bliott, 1656 North stre The accident happened in the Ital- who went home No in the fan colony in a manner similar to fa- crowded car was hurt, tal aceidents which have occurred in Most of those hurt at least three instances in this vieinity | of the Yale & Towne during the last few days. A gas main with many others 'In the strect froze and burst, but the | through Manhattan street, reed gas did not work up through the | row poiot close by the jground as in other scasons of the is a trolley switel year, but followed a water lateral un- runs ioto the Yale & Towne freight der the pavement into the cellars of yard. The main track runs 'urlnfr two dweilings. along Manhattan street, A canary feebly » Coond. cage gave one of the intimation of trouble, Grasping the aden with employes congster's cage, he started for the reached the street and fell unconscious in a snow- truck passed bank. The shock of the snow and the . rear trucks fresh air quickly revived, him and he first took the switch swinging th summoned assistance from several [TONt trucks off the rails, the car passcrsby on their way to work. then swerving to the left, mounting the sidewalk which was only a destrians. Eyewitnesses sald wards that the accident was over in a & 5 fqw Carlucel was found to be pinned under the car and was dead when taken out The others hurt had knocked 1o side and thrown to the ground Samuel Capolla, operator car, which was a one-man held by the police on the charge of manslaug fes were opened at one oner Phelan and the oth public utilitiecs commissio Car Not Speeding It was said by passeng car was not being driven motion of the car was that the deraliment of th ing swung the front the left thought be disch of were Mg were employes Co., and ctory there o rall which struggling in its vietims his first - A trolley car from Cove road district switch. The forward over it all right but the pe- after- conds. ! Doctors Attending Senator Today say That Condition is More Encourag- been one ing Than At Any Time, the one, was technical Two Inquir- by C by Washington, Feb, ~Steady im- provement continued today in the con- dition of Senator Frank ). Greene of Vermont. “Senator Greene's condition is im- this morning, and it is mo! at any other time, #aid shortly be- proved encouraging than Dr. Thomas Linville tore noon While the normal, temperature is slightly ¥ a twis it 1s no more than ex- PR Bav The patient is taking nour- nd the physician believes ralysis of the right side is The wound Is without above up. clearing Infectior Statement T Conn. New Haver after being Co. Feb apprised ¢ Stamford sued the following stateme “At 6:50 this morning car or first trip to the Yale and Towne tory at Stamford split Manhat “tre her on a ca walk and a bra trac Sidewalk to the trolley tion. The rear trucks the branch track causing the car to strike a group of g |trians where the track | #idewalk, Killing juting eight “Investigatic termine the the changing its position after the trucks had passed over it and the rear trucks had the car was v th of Veterans in House Renew Their Fight for a Bonus Washingtos, Feb, Hepublican members of the house former men renewed their fight today A delegation headed by Fitzgerald, Ohio, was resentative o t ley o troi- accid today, is its fae- on who are service switch tra authort to call on N Longworth the party les with a demand that the ponus be taken up by the house us soon as it disposes of the tax bill ¥ rosses the expreses { the car took the B — cro - THE WEATHER —g- Feb. 23 —Porecast for New Britain and vicinity : Fair tomight. Semday partly | doudy, probably followed by @ow Sumday afternoon or night wot much change W lompers- switch front catse of Hartford. before cause the that an addition contributed n preventing it realize,” ~-One man was| Mr. Lenroot said, could take whateve killed and nine others hurt when a|@ction it might deem appropriate. on the sidewalk #nd crashed into o 18 Virgil street, and the | 56 Wash- | +| Ohio Man Shovts Woma passing | | room, tew | Average Daily (uculatioll i 10,320 PRICE THREE CENTS _MAN WHO DID NOT WIN BOK PEACE PRIZE BRINGS SUIT FOR MORE THAN MILLION SECRETARY SLEMP e of 2200 Mejority AGREES TO APPEAR ~ Claims His Plan Woul \Will Go Before Teapot Dome Have Won If It Hel { Committee to Testily Monday Fair Reading < DORENY RAPS WHBELER "y pamans wiich o S f i o Is Value of Publicity That Publisher-Donor Has Re- ceived. | Latter Replies That Oil Man is Seck- ~atnddle Attorney General- cut . : 3 Ate [ ), Ming to Testity Cony, Washington, . cw. 25.—C. Bascom | Slemp, secretary to Pre 'lom Coolidge, | agreed today to appear before the | senate oil committee Monday. | Senator Walsh, democrat, Montana, chief prosecutor in the oil scandal, | called Mr, Slemp on the telephone and | the secretary readily agreed to ap- | pear. | Seeks Information While Senator Walsh deoclined to| indicate the subject matter on which | \MrA Slemp would be questioned it is | understood the committee desires to| | ask about the extent of any communi- | cation he has had with government officials and others concerned re ing oil inquiry since the beginning ur the startling disclosures a month ago. | The program of the committee thus far has been mapped only for next Monday. The order in which witnesses will be called after that time will de-| pend on the reports from the expert accountants now examining the books of stock brokerage firms in Washing- ton, Cleveland and New York. Senator Walsh expects to confer late today with the chief accountant who has been conducting the examination | ble plan by which the Unitea States of the books of Harry Payne Whitpey | Might cooperate with other nations and J. P, Benkard & Co./at New York, | 10 preserve the peace of the world," Gets After Doheny | Alleging that the best plan subs Chairman Lenroot anounced today | Mitted “hus not been selected by the he would lay before the committee the | JUry of award or otherwise in aceor- | letter written him by E. L. Doheny, | dance with the terms of the adver- ‘uml demanding that Senator Whecler, | Used offer,” My, Hendriek complained | democrat, Montana, be called to give | that the popular referendum to which | the tacts on which he based his recent| M*- Dok looks for final judgment Is charges In the senate against Attorney | VeINE operated in an “unfair, partial { General Daugherty, The committee, 404 improper manner” He added that My, Bok “failed and refused to ,mmnu his plan to the votors,” | | | New York, Feb. A summons and complaint $1,100,000 damages was filed against WKdward W. Bok, donor of the American peace award, today by Frank Hendrick, a lawyer who was one of the more than 000 persons to submit peace pians in competition ror a $100,000 price. Basis of Action Hendrick based his suit on the con- tention that the plan submitted by him, “if fairly considered,” would have been unanimously selected as the prize winoer, The demand for . $100,000 is for the prize offered by the former publisher and the suit for $1,000,000 represents, Hendrick cons tends, the value the publicity Me, Bok hus received as a result of the prize award, Praises Own Plan Hoendrick avers that the peace plan he submitted “was und Is so novel and clear and interesting, as well as original and convineing, that it would, upon first reading, the serious uttention and consid tion of any person competent to judge of the merits of the proposal of a practica- of Willing 10 Appear When his attention was dircoted to [ the letter, Scnator Wheeler said that of course he would appear before the | committee if invited. “This Is merely an attempt by Do-| LINKS OF EVIDENGE ‘\.wnnuon What the people want is | Bullet From Israel's Gun Killed Priest, Expert Testifie | an investigation of Lhe attorney gen- eral himsell, That is the main issuc | After that is over they can investiga | me an Lln, want to. GRUESOHE TRAGEDY | Iiridgeport that kilied pastor of on the night of from the re of Harold 1srael which Dahme, Joseph's It church February 4, was fired volver found in possession I Israel, ex-soldier, when take into custody, and admits he was carrying his room less than an murder in the opinion, rles Van Amburgh, r the Remington 8t . Drags Body | I W Another Room, Lies Beside It and Kills Himself, Bellaire, Ohto, Feb. 3. a miner, shot and killed Bonice und then committed |eide in his home at Warnock, here, today. Mrs., Bonice rented & room !'hm after her husband died months ago. She went there to Wve with her two children. The children told neighbors that Ulus broke into the room, shot thelr mother, and {then dragged the body into another where he lay down beside it | oo fired |and shot himself in the head that | = Amburgh FOR THE WORKINGMAN " 1 was n Tsr when h left hour before the of Captain ( ballistic cngi Phelan today Coroner Pl Amburgh there might 1 1 The impre that t spattered Father Dahm Frank Mrs, suf- near Nl-\n for lan questioned Captain length in order misunder- from three v that an at no 1 wish to convey-is indicating the bloods pellet taken from 1 in the autopsy) r revolver tham Captair Van pointing the revelver Israc t when he was Norwalk a after at bull from n weck murder am quite con- ed from other hurgh has been at the re- { Police ited to the at his eon- Gros Broken Today For Million ! Dollar Apartment House Vor Work- ers in Bayonne, Bayonne, N. J., ¥e was broken today lar apartment house ing men's homes at rent $7 to $9 a room Mayor Talbot in an address project was progressive move benefit of the workingme were not intended t profit to the builders. J. Hicks, repres 23, ~Ground | ., ’ Moy - ¢ for a million dol- to provide work- neariy cost. The i th Lomes Deforest, i ¢ Isracl on the N stand t ] leclined to 1 testify ¥ e sald his «s not good v the pe. when Deforest offered » put the any Clare v terestod hr h in the proje fay thropic t 1 ir HURLS TWO T0 DEATH After 10veme als oning by Amburgh esult of incom- Father from md in related. he had riment i lond- sts which and his let= offer. Throwing Children 1 rom Top of 280-F oot Tower—London Woman Jumps O Herself Five Firemen Injured as W all l-all« at \ew Oflenm N Five e of them ."1. themn this fighting & iepartment ot that seve ed in the < were digging for Ages Total 329 Years in Approaching Ceremonies Bruss-is. Feb —A Wwedding in which P prir parties announcement D ipa of Eloise Henti Ne be g widon The bt father 76, wi wi aged be Her desmatd