New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 27, 1924, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press m FSTABLISHED 1870 : A i ' HUGHES EU[,l][iIZES T.J. Lynch Ex-President of Natlonal WARREN G, HARI]INfi; League, Dies After 6 Weeks’ Illness; i Speaks at Joint Memorial Ser-| Brought Many Theatrical Stars Hereé iees of Senate and Honse v i ;Rose From Sandlot Catcher to Highest Office in Majoy ¥AS OF THE PLAIN PEOPLE Baseball Organization—Was 65 Years Old < i Seoretary of State Lauds Late Presi- | dent, Both As a Man and As Chief United States of Thomas J. Lynch of 202 Chestnut street, a national figure in the base-| ball world for many years, one of the | founders of the Lyceum theater and the man who was personally re-| sponsible for the appearance here of many of the country's leading per-| fermers and some of the world's best lsho“q of 20 years ago, died this ! morning at the Hartford hospital. g the eulogy of The. late | Mr. Lynch was operated upon six | the- joint session of the |Weeks ago today. Destl' . oame | and house, which formed the shortly after midnight after a period | official memorial exercises for Presis|©f What appeared to show """"““"“". ¢ Harding, |of recovery that was followed by | “He was cquipy { gradual failing. i i e S e g He was born in this city 65 years| i rago, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick s Laneh, both of whom are deceased. | | His early education he received in the | lold town school, and when still a boy | {he took a job with the Staniey Rule 1 & Level (Yo, where he was employed | for a number of years, In his carly years he proved adept lag a baseball player and was one of the star performers in several of the toyn teams that were highly regarded |among the amateur nines of the s |He was a catcher. From a pl | he turned to be v umpire, !services in that capacity were in de- {mand for sev 3 about the | state, and his ability all them™ together with his absolute impar- tiality, attracted the attention of the | big leagues, Becomoes National League In 1888 he was given a chance {umpire in the National Teague, took the offering and muade {For about 15 years thereafter given permanent assignments ‘umpiring squad, About the year 1803 (here was a {demand for a playhouse In the elty ! that would Lring the leading roud rdm\\n and the best performers in the untry befor: w Britain audiencos \h Lyneh visnalized the possibilities of a theater that would serve such u | purpose and with this end in view yneh, arranged with J. €, Gllbert for the | Natio e Wil died today in jopening of the Lyceum He tried | Hartford, was “ondgof the greate out his policy of the best in theatel- pumpircs of wdl time und a fine exee- cals with great success and for afutive,” John A. Heydier, present number of years the theater drew |exceoutive of the senlor major league, packed houses, its clientele being [declured. Me characterized drawn not only from New Britain but | Lynch as “onc of the big men of the also from the surrounding cities and e, Courag: Exceutive of the America, Washington, Keb. 27.--Warren Ga- 1 Harding “belonged to the aris- | ¢ of the plain people of this| secretary Hughes said Yoday | s his task by | were for Wing which pire to! e ! good he was on the UMPIRES-HEYDLER National Lcague President Pays Warm Tribute to Thomas J. Lynch 2 ~Thomas J. sident of the New York, and typieally American safd, “He was neither heiped nor hampered by vseeptional covironment, He sufferyl nelther from poverty nor riches, ifis endow- ment was a keen mind and w strong | body. “Alert to opportunity, wu’-mllnnt. fuckle and warm<hearted, ho made his | own wny, owing his success to his | toWne trelews persistence and his unguonche- It was under the management of | joftn living.” Lyneh & Gilhert that such stars as Hughes sald it was fitting ”‘”Hm-nn Farnum, Willlam Varnum, “hould bo pald to the | Mary Miles Minter, Mary Plekford and numerous other s who later (Continued on turned to the silversheet were brought . befora New tain anudiences, For a little less than a quarter of a'ecentury, Mr, Lynch was connected um. the Lyceum. Of this time, pobert al endeavors, .\h Lynch divided | jougne's officiating staff in Hs time between by all the vith the playhouse, later being assisted by W retired from the game fekerson as manager of the play- the prosidency. "‘num- Aboupt 20 years ago he es. ¥ tablished thé New Pritain Poster Ad vertising Co. with which business he was connected up to the time of his | death, Prestdent of National Jeague About 10 years ago, Mr. Lynch was elected to the presidency of the Na- tional Baseball league. He held that offfee four years In 1917 he| discontinued his activities in the theatrical ‘world and o his committ the Bristo} Proxy commit- | poster advertising plant that tec issued an explanatory statement | time he ha¥ been devoting his atten- of the presence of Mr. Ingraham’s tions entireiy to this business naipe on both proxy committee liste Mr. Lynch was married 38 years today, ne follows: ago' to Miss Minnte Holmés, theling of Miss Louise id that the United States daughter of Mr, and Mrs. George | old teacher and new laws in one year H. Holmes. The cercmony wag per- diara women's prison her The the bilauc the world in formed at St urch by the | young swoman, who escaped from the double the length of time, and it late Bishop Mic rney ution after the slaying, was taken would appear though some pro Mr. Lynch 1s survived by v squad of detectives vislon must bhave been made to pun- & brother, Dernard Tynch, who is a alighted from a1 taxicab at a ish a man for using the name of an- downtown corner where she had other without his consent and caus- mn made an appointment to meet a man. ing him to appear in a role to whic she told the police she struck the vith the Dristol lrnu to prevent her from es 1 continually opposk She had succeeded in pick ing a { wher consisféntly arrayed ac matron’s room, she de- o5, in hie attempt to Sk ciared, Khe concealed hersell there pight. When Miss Richards foll Mr. Barnes ta advan- aslecp attempted to take the absence to put his name Flood of Petitions to Congressman completely Mr, Hughe ous, of td 1o Mr. Lynch served as |-r--vldcn\ National league from 1910 inclustve, He was elected compromise John T Brushy former of the New York Glants, ¢lub owners were dead- two orighhul candidates, Ward, of New: York, Brown of Loulsviiie, Lynch first gaiged able a Mr, oftfelul tribute s a president ufter the locked on John M Tenth l'age) attention Kastern National 1888, re- and maining 1509 when he until recalled to take 28 YEAR OLD PRISONER ADMITS SLAYING MATRON Bristol l’rox,\' (‘ ommittee ; Claims He Is Opposed to Barnes’ Policies Heraldy, —Saying t ad- taken of the abe #ence abroad of William 8. Tngra- Fam of this city and his consequent nabllity o deny immediately -any en- dorsement of the MWartford Proxy Bristol, 1'eb. vantage has been Convict, Escaped Fromn Canght Last Night for Yesterday, oot In Indianapolis Nince ~Gladys El- gors, 2 Years night to the slay- Richards, 70 year matron at the In- ludianapolis, Feb, Katherine old cssed last is, alias than more his wife, ! into custody by as she (Continued ou Page s inst Mr graham i= thorough!ly ve when Mise Richards at- - until the Jatter returned Monday Wut Mr. Ingrabam has gone | Friends of Squlre Send and f his ¢ opposed. uctoss the | ad with the FENN DELAYS NAMING 5 tempted tvities in -hrr:t‘:orn ock in t or incorrigibles vus 10 the ale the company. keys from beneath the keeper's pillow his own list of dir . convey- on but the latter awoke and grappled impression that now en- with her. the Hartford group. This 1-'1 Miss 1 stated she then struck and we arc informed £ 3 t across the | 1 with the Ingraham’s proxy will withd: " BY GBORGE W keys e matro binding and gagging her his name if prescated by Mr @Vashington Bureau oceeded 1o make her escape, Bhe oy v ] e Washington, D, —Up to did not know t had been noon today Congressman E. Hart fatally injured vestor- |Fenn had not receivgd from the ay's papers s jofiice department officiz] notificatio {by mail giving e unes of the two ‘ candidates for postmaster New uscd o Britain who suc uliy passed, the cxamination and got on the eligible list. Mr. Fenn said would not |make a recommendation for appeint ment of one of the twe Hetbert B, Erwin and William Squire, until obtained the announcement According to certific made to the post office department by the civil Harold K. English of New |gorvice commission yesterday, Erwin was Maven and Herman O. Sehmarr of | made a rating of 76 per cent, Squire New Britain, all directors of the |mage 74.60 per cent, and the other Bristol Drass corporation. These Med (hree candidates, Frank & Cadwell, aiso deny that “Mr. Ingraham’s proxy | Nathan C. Avery and Howard A. Tim will withdraw his (Mr. Ingraham’s) | bretl, failed to make 76 per cent name, if presented by Mr. Barnes at | which is necessary to get on eligible the meeting, as @ member of the'|jigt, 1t appears unlikely now that bonrd Mr. Fe will make his recommenda- then until tomorrow. 1t js be ed he ‘will endorse Herbert E. Erwin, luniegs the flood of «ndorsements for Squire, which has begun pouring in from New Britain for him, should ¥ {Onence the congreseman to ¢ hange his ! mind. . | March and matron Ting as a unti clare the p consider tl fully an own conc post Miss Ellis way downtown itiit of cloth- 1 taken from the prison day st a down- ay evening friend here meet Jonnston m place ‘A. R. Rockwell.” A statement was issued today deny- tng that “Mr. W. S Ingraham 1s thoroughly in aecord with the Bristol mittee” The statement was 4 by Samuel B. Harper of Rristol, N. Welch of New Haven, J. R of Wristol, Dean Welch of New garh. town hot tetephone he Wwho are W. T. and i Volic lear made to Prosy official ed 6f the appointment #nd placed her under arrest™ when she reached the place. Miss Eills serving ggne for forgers Son of Prominent Man Is Guilty in Robbery Trial New York, ¥eb, 27 Robert A. Franks, Jr. son of the treasurer of the Carnegie Foundation today plead- ed guint etimina receiving $14,000 Miami Hotel Co., ds which were part of the loot #n $106,000 Westorn and Southern Insurance Co.. rolibery st €in i reelased on scitence on Holl Haven, to worth of BIGAMIST 4\ Veb. £7— William Hope, 3. of Norwalk, found guitty of big- my, wnteneed by Judge Allyn Brewn in the snperior court today to | in jaal b Bridgeport o, yuat t | mitteo the feariess and hon- | ing & close In the house leaders again | candidate, | and | sentor circult until ! Indiana Prison | ¥ i g ‘ " . Railroads Planngf On Daylight Saving New Havén, Feb. 27. ~— De- partments of the N. Y. N. H. and H. railroad were notified today, officially to prepare for the advent of so-called daylight saving time beginning at 12:01 a. m. April ‘27 and continuing untll an autumral date. The rallroad schedules and depart- mental hours are adjusted on standard time to meet condi- tions brought about by some communities using daylight sav- ing ume’ MELLON'S FIGURES "CALLED ONRELUBLE ' Garner” Shows Personal Tax Loss; of More Than Was Predicted | iGOMPARES WITH HIS OWN l;ndu.-r Treasury Plan, Revenue. De- cline Will Be $350,000,000—Not $280.000,000-=While Under His It Will Be $183.000.000, Gamer Says.| “u.shinglon. Feb, 27.—A new set of | casury figures, made public today " Representative Garner,, Texas, runklng democrat on the house ways 'and means committee, estimated that | |the perseagal income tax reduction {schedule of +the Garner tax plan would result in a Yoss of $483,000,000 lin revenue in 1925, and the Mellon Iplan would cause & lost of $350,000,- m.n he estimates did not take into o unsidl ration proposed the miscelluneous taxes and were !based on estimated revenue for the |calendar year 1925, Joseph McCoy, government actuary, ulw made the | estimates, said also they were predie- | |ated upon the passage of either plan, | “s6- that their effect will be felt by | | business in the latter pugt of 1924 ! Commenting on the res, Mr, Garner, in a statement said it “would be observéd that the estimates on the, Mellon plan show a $350,000,000 lom,, | whereas in the letter to Chairman | {Green of the ways and means com- treasury secretary estimat- $289,000,000,” ed the loss at He said he called attention to these | | matters “to show the unreliabliity of Mr, the figures that have been omanating ate from the treasury department.” With the tax bill discussions near- soldiers’ Gar- devoted attention today to compensation, Ropresentative rett, Tennesseo, democratic floor leuder, called a conference of the democrats for tomorrow afternoon to outiine a porty program on the bonus fight, reductions in | \ Ayerage Daily Circulation 10,308 || Week Fndlng Feb. 23rd . PRICE THREE CENTS :READING‘ OF TELEGRAMS OCCUPIES - ATTENTION OF SENATE COMMITTEE THAT IS PROBING TEAPOT LEASES a0 p.lonh-ll oo --),daq 4PV gCai)itol Now Believe . GE RIS Offer To Quit Labinet As Morning Conference BANI( ROBBERY FOILED the President, and | Early With " Promise of . “Soon, Gives Rise to'Defi- | nite Decision. rSu:Gpect.ed Bandit Naugatuck National Em- ploye and Flees sated Pre Washington, Feb, An offer Attorney General Daugherty to retire N |to private life when the senate com 9 pletes its investigation of his official accounts is believed in some adminis- | tration circles to be imminent. Under the plan he would step out lof the cabinet regardless of the out come of the senate inqu and would {announce that intention to the coun- try in advance, A statement from him |is expected before the day is over There is a bellef in some quart | that it may end the bitter controversy | of which he has become the centef, There still are some of President Coolidge's advise however, who he- {lleve that a promise to resign ut a | future date will not satisfy the at- PR e i torusy génoral's deftion {n: the no trace of Adkiny® assai'ant Whether it would he entirely 8- | gation ut the bank disclosed the fact factory to Mr, Coolidge himdell re- ).y rear window hud. boen forced ! mains undisclosed, e conferred for | . ¢yne jntrudor. An examis t an hour again today With the attorney | yi.ated that nothing was |“s sy m‘v‘- . [general, but made no statement. the m~|m.|u .4 ‘l': b " I“':_ Ry rom Compromise @lan which it believed were taken by From the start the attorney-gencral g 50 0 4 v . No attempt had been mac has Insisted he would not retire from o = 0. g he bank safe the ald, office under fire, and the plan to an ek officials and'the polics did mot nounce his willingness to resign igree as to the ;wm-v.h plans of the [ termination of the senate Investigatiop [y o ® 1 A0 PICEEE B RIS B0 |“u suggested In the hope that it dtze “‘I“."“ |II1HI' cony ted st r‘\' n'\ would satisfy his own desires In that |, o BOY @ it S ey ! wou Y the incident, e says the regard and at the same time meet the | oo " 0ahe ) o0 iiler over nose and mouth, and a revolver | each hand. his hands but the junitor refused, burglar tried to rush him lnto a eloset but Adkins resisted and over the head By The Asso by ugatuck, I olice believe to tempt to rob the e, What the have been an at- Naugatuck National bank on Church street, a short dis- tance from the police station, frustrated this forenoon by the arrival at the bank of Albert Adkins, the {bank janitor. On entering the bank to attend the fires at 6:50 a. m. Ad Kins was struck over the head with a revolver by a young inan, who im mediately fled from the bullding. Ad- | kins, thongh da Hl.i way to the | ported the occurrence he lust saw the young north toward Wuterbury. atlon and re- He sald that man running Police put police o police on | persistent demands of republican sen- leaders that he rotive, The president has considered pains- (takingly how such a compromise | might be worked out, e has con- ferred with gl parties to the con- | troversy and has sought the advice of his closcst perso: friends in an ef- fort to compose one of the most dif- situations with which he hase gy N FIRST ILLNESS FATAL | (Continued on Third Page) u‘n.unnm on Third Page) In Education, U Per Capita Expense in IOZZE Was $12.28, Against $5.75 | in 1917, Bureau of Cemmsi Sa;s. . A\l BY GEORGE N (Washington Bureau of N. B MANNING Herald) Washington, D. C,, Feb, more than three times as appropriation for schools in in 1917, New Britain made lent showing in edudation pared with other cities of the United States of comparable size and with the other cities of Connecticut. The cxpenses of maintenance and operation of the New Britain schools showed an increase of 145 per cent in the five year period, having been 763,000 sfor 1 against for 1917, Outlays for permanent im- provemeuts the school system 7. —~With large an 1922 as an excel- owed a greater gain, as compared with increase of 512 72,000 $61,000 per cent New Britain's expenses tenance and operation of the schools represented in 1 ment of the total expenses general departments of against 44 per cent in 19 The average per.capita expense $12.28, against $5.95 in 1017 lays for schools amounted to cent of the total outlays for the city, per cent 1917, and the capita oul was $5.99, 1917 with for for for main- public , 49 per of all the the eity, was Ont- e per against 30 average per against $1.12 in As compare leading cof uritai R T capita expenses for the highest averag pendi for outlays 'er capita schoo ¢ other cities, for the year 1 as announc- ed today LY the Department of Com- merce from reports compiled by the Pureau of the Census, were New Haven, expenses, $1489; out- lays, $1.87; Bridgeport, expenses, $11 |.14; outlays, $0.65; Hartford, expenses $13.7 tiave, $1.76; Waterbury, ex- penscs, $15.80; outlays, $4.74 the other Conneeticut, to the Jowest per maintenance, but por capita exs four New ext §————a 2 THE WEATHER —0— Hartford. Yeb, 27 —Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Increasing «londimess followed by rain or smow tomight: Thurs- day generally fair: Vittde change in temperature. L} s % New Britain Makes Great Strides as ‘wom- $311,004 to have taken refuge on a f P being ! [{1n he Miss Laura Bradshaw of Orange, years of Age, Dies 1 Before Orange, N, J H. Br until recently her health ever having home last night A rigidly abstemious diet ting-up exercises, which were until a year , and the Iy mile walk attributed by Bradshaw to the excellent health and Igngevity FIGHT IN DANBURY Men Feb. 27. 100 years of uge walked two miles daily Ishaw, . O Report Shows CHICAGO STRIKE RIOTS Brings for and who been 111, died at daily set | Walkout of Union Dressmakers Police to Scene When Manufacturer o iy 48 [ 1s Avacekd and Beaten, A strike of union internatior ried out ca 1 re- lence Chicago, Ieb. 27 dresmakers called by ti al garment workers to with a half dozen riot ports of several mcts of Vi According to golice reports a manu- facturer facked and a number of non-union workers we slugged The reports said that Jtempts were made to wreck some of the dressmak ing shops that damage caused. The first Jdedinit ports to 1t A' police stated that two men had been stabbed, two others serfously beaten |loda and fourteen strikers arrcsted A | ert crowd of working giris were reported ape wit Powr Arrested. Two Badly Bat- tered, After Mot Scrap On Post Office Steps and waus fie re the and were rescie e drawr strikers MINISTER ARRESTED Pastor of York State rs who revols CATHQLIG COLLEGE of Land at Congregational With Admits Flopement Church Organist of His Church Purchase Reidville Be- Jamestown, N. Y. Fel Fréderick Harold the Pligrim Congregationa Mansfield, O, ander ity on an open charge of federal auth say th fessed weeks ago the organish mobile arriv i days later and has one child The police say the living at a rooming ho arriva Store Clerk Swallows 16 Pins; (ondmon \enoufl Toledo. ©., Veb Urban, department & serious conditior hospital, as a result o teen pins, it was ed e While at work Saturday fhe pins in her mouth when | offered her some candy. St candy into her mout the pins with it. The and was an X ! Heved to be First Step in F<tablish Johnsor ment of Institution of Learning is rrest orities. Tt with Pear his chur Jamestows Belgian Cabinet Defeated And, Tenders Resignations girl = clerks rosh hastened 1o ation ¥ examir “omact | been made to remove the Beats | |the White House, was | from 1, immediately made |ing the | service buf found | Investi. | revolvers | cottag {could have | the young man his | He told Adkins to put up The wits struck Adkins rushed towards 100 Today—Never 'thut under Miss Laura who boasted of her pursued two Miss her 1 Yor) Many From McLean’s Employe To Himself . Are Published— Offi- Soon As Investigati | estlgatlon Is 0ver3 cial Telegrapher At White House Mention- Statement| BY JANITOR'S ARRIVAL |~ ©d As I Secret Service Operative There Washington, Feb. 27.—The attene tion of Washington today was divided between the activity Dome investigating committee and torney General Daugherty was seen to enter shortly after breakfast. He had a long conference with the presis dent and an important statement is pected soon, In the senate commite most of the time today was taken in reading telegrams, many of which were made public. Many were to Me« Lean, the Washington publisher, an employe and the name of tary Fall, A, Mitchel Palmer, neis McAdoo and others, include officiul White House telas and a White House secred operative were mentioned, Telegrams Read Telegrams sent to Edward B. Mos Neal, A. B. Fall and others at Palm Beach, IMla., and relevant to the ofl inquiry, were d into the record se grapher | today by the oll committee, The first, | Washington Beach, the V from John Major ag to McLean at Palm suggested a leased wire from wshington Post to MecLean's in Florida so the publisher sy and quick access to White House," The message sald also that C. Base com Slemp, secretary to the president, would be in Florida shortly. Another message from Major to Mclean said that Major had “had & talk with Smithers at the White House,” (Major is an employe of Melean; Smithers is chief telegrapher at the White House.) In another message Lean he had talked again with “J, W Zevely, Palmer's law partner, who sald the matter would be uttended to in a manr isfactory to you." n Important Matter Anothicr mess U Fred Starek, n director of the war finance corporas tion, was anxious to get in touch with MelLean on an important matter, “Palmer and Zevely told me loni(ht ne circumstances should message to the commite tee,” sald another message to .\I‘Lenn Major told M you send a from Major, “They said,” the “that after the man Park (Fall's hotel) compnittee wanted take care of you.” A\ message from the signed W. Starling’ to McLean said that EStarling had “wired Wiikins at Hopkinsville, X (Starling is of the White House secret service staff,) Major reporte ad delivered a 1 Palmer g ot} message added, at Wardman testifies and the you, they ecould White House " und addressed d to McLean that he message “to MeAdoo 5 per your instructions.” messages there are refors ancis McAdoo of New ved by committeemen to be W. G. McAdoo) Working On Walsh date Ja 1924 Mclean that Mitchell Pal rmer attorney-general and M had gained the ator Walsh that before er belie the Major called ted Wais Other Smithers, ts to get t Ward. McLean, He 1 and closed ng for ut had cretary rning.” t hime Chorus Girl Sues Theater \lanaur for !nflom‘ s Rose, & " Dene neainst the Cup- for promise & = Rose as two chits facts from ourt. She her stage ap- r of the Carden. ot of the Teapob, de- . Ty at which place Ate )