New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 12, 1924, Page 1

ews of the World By Associated Press “STABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, McLean Misled Investigators In An Attempt To Help Fall ‘ DEEP IN []ANIE[S[]N GETS UNI]ER WAY CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY , MARCH 12, 1924. —EIGHTEEN | Week Ending March S8th PAGES. PRICE THREE CENTS SNOW DRIFTS 9 FT, ~ DAUGHERTY PROBE DR. PULLEN VOLUNTEERS TO ISOLATE He Admits At Hearing Today Stm Pays v Wit Roads Session of Special Semate Con- Secend Story Correct— Loaned $100,000 But| Checks Were Returned Became Investigator For Secret Service In| Harding’s Term Senator Asked if He Could| Say That Money Was Cash Transaction — De- nies Knowing Sinclair. Wushington, March 12.-—Edward 1 Mei.can told the oil committee today that he had given it mislcading intor- n about the celebrated £100,000 loan Lecause he trusted and desir to help his friend Albert Fall, I'ne publisher insisted that Lis sec- ond story about the loan, told to Sen- tor Walsh in January at Palm Beach, Fia,, was correct. He said he had icaned the former sccretary $100,000 m 'n(ll«n for a ranch enterprise, but it the chiecks were returned to him shed Uis previous assertion that the loan | was made in cash, he said, was mad at 1’all’s request, The latter appeared | to be in trouble, he added, but had Jroen represented to him that it had noth- ! ing to do with oil, He declared he never had any reet or indirect interest in cithe Sinclair or Doheny companies Kuow nothing about the leasing Lram exes NEWSDAPCrS, Ashed about the hanged between Puim B di- the and code messages ex- lington and his ach, he wus un- ipher or explain many of 'm. He said William J. Burns had given one of, his employes g depart- ment of justice code, but that he him- self never had code messages. Is Secret Agent hecume seeret agent of the department, he continued after the beginning of the Hurding administration, The "principal” veferred to in one the telegrams sent by his employes, said, veferred to Attorney | Daugherty and did not refer ident Coolidge., He identitied attorney general as the author of MOSKUGO W98t hecits ottag e to He Justice shortly of Melean cverything that eould be done “will be donc by us” Led into a long discussion of his re. Jations with My, Dougherty, he said the attorney general had lived in one of the Mel.eun houses here for seven or cight months atter coming Wasnington But he added that Daugherty “wouldn't Jdo anything wrong for me, if he had been ankod, In a prepared statement read the committee the publisher made reference to his previous conflicting testimony regarding the loan and when his attention was directed to ! that subj he sald he had no fur- ther statement to make. Cannot Pind Stubs Me said under questioning that he had searched cverywhere for the stubs of the checks he testified he had given Fall, but had been unable to | tind them, “There aren’t any, were there?” asked Senator democrat, Montana, “Why, yes there are, senator, to the hest of my recollection, as 1 told you,” the witness replied. Melean then sald that at a confer ence he had with ¥all at Atlantie City last December, 11 asked him i he would say that he had loaned him the 3100,000 in cash instead of in un. nsed ehecks, No Conncction With Leases Fall assured me,” he said, “that the had nothing to do with Sin- clair and Teapot Dome.” MeLean insisted that his credit was good at the time he gave Faill the no and never were, Walsh, | atd 17all under- 20 ) necessary. He advise him before taking ash the checks scnator Curtls “Principal.” When he asked about che fa- | mous “principal” telegram, McLean | said e did not know whe the “prin- cipal vas unless it was Senator Cur- tis of Kansas. “M Benne sent the messag if to i K. Bennett whe has testificd it was ator Curtis,” said he witness. | “Senator Curtis has testified to the opposite; and President Coolidge has testified it was not hitn “1 didn’t understand the had mwade any statement, r Walsi. tra ) prestdent remarked thing siruek me when 1 W Inessa g continued McLean, hat the ‘principal’ referred to Dungherty. 1 know who you think 1t was, sonator, but have remt idea nator Walsh deiinite 4 was glad hay abused.” Some MeLean the source of ment to the Inquiry. AL one Benator Walsh 1 in the Mecles sSome papers from Mele posit vault h witness over a long Ao nt Aemerily the Harey 1 a “a and dis- he it mind had was suid a whe considerable amu attending erowd ¢xamination reters clegrams 1o, an's safe de- passed stage a This a1 ranch prope (Uontinued on Fourth 'agr.) | pro- ‘pt what hie had seen in the ! ' him not to wor- | |and asks $5,000 for his daughter who | to | 10| 1ocks and that he could have raised | WANT TO KEEP ARMY AT PRESENT STRENGTH JAppropriation Bill Carries Estimate for 137,000 Personnel | | | | Washington, March 12, Mainte- for another year of the regular t strength of 12,000 25,000 cn- the | on, |nance army at theg presc |commissioncd officers and 1 {hsted men is recommended army appropr : As reported today to the |measures carries $826,224,09 24,268 less ti priation and §: uudget estimadt, Of the total available for river provements during the next year, ‘This amount, recommer {he budget is §19,446,7 I last yeu appropriati | would be allotted hy the ment. : The bill carrics an item of 000 for continuing work on dam in hu\m» the r§16, np]\ln -‘nv3 less than the 00,000 and harbor Le im- fiscal ded by less th The funds war depart- would | No. | feet and Wires About State mittee Called Ior 4 0'Clock +10,000 PHONES DISABLED | WILL GET- s vernight Storm Nearvest Approach l"'l’arl Played in Attorney Gemeral's Af- Blizzard ,)v\- M March or !th&_—Luunlrr, fairs By Man Who Committed Si Towns Practically Isolated Today— cide Will Be Inguired Into—Other Heavy Snowrall in Hills, Summonses Daniel The worst son, Conn., March wire 12. serviee Washington, lerty Mar will b 12-—Tk b under the demoralization of investigation afternoon at opened this deci- special Brook- | ¥ last night's About evel and in | goate P'rovidence-Dan- | =0 drifts of nir |r ted traffic, $tate ,‘1’ A ey | bou ing out| The justice of Atto ceticut wa L committed lone service it i electric light and high | augherty |inquired int lines arc orted down | gatlon. Hund of poles | B4l X wind and weight of [ _Senator Wheeler. Wp snow on the wires, | tand, preparing the i | wires ave | committee announced ! sl Wwas estimated | STAMS sent to and received | be required to |81 Columbug, O., after the President Harding had been practically without | 2ed. The sc tlephone service | ; Mmfluence of oil ars resulted nd and foot of snow some pl ielson state highway depth hu highway dopartme |were busy this the roads. Northeasts | tically with forenoon m power directions, fel the heavy, (h ma in a tangled that two weeks v restore service, wi frow 1 o'clock snow storm onelaia s d today by il on the ou the commitfuc D 1d Chairmar 2 announe ses testimor at of wo begun that in dvpurtment of Smith, friend Daugherty, who veur Mr, fore Bk rn Co ut and suicide partmer in detail telep a 1t 1 Smit) alecti subpor n of n- a in Mexi- e nator that erest in the | 2 at Musele § contract authorization 33,0140, land provides $10,000,000 for tood control on the Mississippi and $300, {000 for similar work the Um nto river, ‘SUES FOR $6,000 FOR GIRL'S of on Sacra- Paul Bagdasirian, For Daughter, Brings Action Against James l'ormay and Son dealer, local ice his son, Russell, have $6,000 by Pau! Ragdisirian daughter, Mary, through her jeged to have James Tormay, and been sued Tor his acting und 4 minor, father, for dumages ul- been incurred as the result of the girl's being run over a wagon owned by the The alleged accident occurred January 30, on North street, when horse, owned by Tormu A driven by his son, became unn ible ran onto the sidewalk, by 10 g her home, Bagdisirian sucs for $1,000 oy a re- sult of medica bills that have been lineurred as result of the accident, {reccived a broken arm, The broken ‘mear the shoulder and physi- clans think that the girl will suiler permanent effcct from it as the arm will be ghorter when the hone heals | Attorney «David 1., air reprosents {the plaintifrs apers were served on !the defendants by Constable 1red Winkle und are returnable in superior |eourt on the second lvl-'ulxv\ of April arm was 'CLARK WILL PROVIDES BEQUEST T0 EMPLOYE Gift of $1,000 Made to Housckeeper— Hospital, Children's Home and Church Residuary Legatees The will of the late Alfred H, Clark was filed in probate court this after noon, and by its terms, Julta Ha tapelye, for many years housckeeper for the testator, will recelve a cash gift of $1,000, After making bequests of $175 for the care of his plot ir Fairview cemetery, 8150 for the care of the plot in which the remaing of his father have been interred, and $100, to Miss Ethel Clark, a cousin, of |8t Paul, Minn,, the testator provides {that the residue be divided into three | equal parts, one to be given the N¢ Britain general hospital, the Children’s Home and one South Congregational church one the WOMAN IS ARRESTED | Chicago Divorcee Mela | When Come- panion’s Body., With Bullet in Head, is Found in Her Motor Car. 12.—Mns, ertner, formes Chicago, March Brown Overbeck G cabaret singer and divorced by Wil- Ham Gaertner, wealthy instrument manufacturcr, was arrested carly to- day after policemen found the body of Robert Law, 32 automobile salesman abandoned in her motor car street near her home., Law had shot through the head. A discharg automatic pistol of which the said Mrs ertner admitted ship, was found on the floor of the tomobile along with a bottle of gin. M Gaertner hysterically was pac ing the floor when the poliee ived at her home they ssid, and he ments at first were incol t was quoted as saying that Law had been drivin when upon r home, d a and dropped over the stecring wh said she had given her Law so that he might protect The police said none of the wis of the closed car had been brokes a bullet Mr. Guertner's seit for divor nearly four years agd, received much publicity. Both testificd they had cm ployed detective guise of rrante unti was nearly Be on been a potice owner- au rey and ar- she v pisto house thedr HURTS WHEN HORSE BOLTS defendants, | and | running over | the girl who was standinz in front of ! Trolleys are A in X Both the |can revolution, planned for ingniry lat the opening session, probably would and Kastern |8t lines which |8V way fo some other | subject. supply clectric light und power in this . seetion aliveted, Many mills| Another without this forenoon, Considerable Dama; Marcl Fallin the south Atlanti stutes today added to the difficulty of restoring w commu jon and train schedules ke of the blizzard which considerable damage in that during its northeastward swi | The { snow | many telephones and eaused Jdam [und vicinity and | East Riverdale, Md., died a result intermittontly Connceticut Power ° | Connecticnt Power for Un- ap- issued was of the . to subpoena Hays, manager gerleider Co., Columbus, ( |pear immediately a documents. A flrm « at name s a |stock brolk house which formerly had a Washington branch office. A forecast that the would go into the relations between the at- torney general and Smith was given by Senator Wheeler in an address i wind put |[several wee ks ago in the senate in commission | Which he referred to the activities of Washington | Smith, who occupind an office O'Brien, of |joining Mr. Daugherty’s in the .|.~ Jorted to | partment of justice, | “Everybody knows,” h mith who 1 a fall ! through the snow-laden roof of a [ "thot h fehteken house, Tr arriving from |from the state of Ohio the departme justicr and who was not on the oll was the south continued two to six hours |office in epting money in connection with wert o sater Wil RA Wa temperatures w and out in Joseph hii then, ‘brought had wi and of Jess s |t d few disect telephone or te graph lines to the south were in op- this morning. Muny lines to und west also remained down e them were be- | 1 |ac partment of justice.” The plans to delve were disclosed by Se wpon his return today mission out of town, He conforred today ookaart and committee in the pre tlon of additio | poenas, it florts to | ing pressed into this angle tor from store n secret S will \hlfl‘ Mareh storm | pt New hagla terday last night continued this morning ather burcau predicted that late during the | <o EEARS. HOUSE BILL WILL CAUSE DEFICIT - with Chalrmar Lostor v .~- |ana bt the Lit would T'he it «uh probably wind v 12 miles ar nuy. highoest o (Continued on Page Fifteen) TWO DIE IN FIRE amily Seriously ecretary It Will Not Produce Needed Revenue Two Others in Sa Injured When Flames sweep Last | Tencment 12.~The death| and the serious | fire last today | elieved for March wite two children in a shde tenement rged by the polic ed man who is the fifth floor New 1 na York, and hi injury their noa lower of March 12 bi made Lievision the Washington, of the revenuc e defieit, passcd by cast to prevent Mot commit housc tr st night were ch kit ent fi wury Scerctary n to- told to an uni to have ¢ the senate finance ay tee, The rever Mre and her Long- tax use tary condemned the income [ s old were | worth compromise and 5 rute schedule Anna Kiulk 28 ¢ o husband on the criticised inereased tax and ‘tion by Stephen 87 | kitled, and their t boys, § years old, were badly burned. Mrs, amendments | Kluback died of burns and suffocation. | taxes, d | Her husband died of injuries received |tux returns to ins he jumped firth floor |slonal committecs window when all other exits had been of the cut off by flames, The police look would man who several days ago thr inst the 1ife ceusing him of having which erea a g Ccongres- from a f the in moditication necessiry red by the and miscellanvous taxes bill would mean a loss revenne of about $450,000,000 Mr ellon said against an estimated sur- | plus of 395,000,000 for the fiscal year 5 under existing lav | Ir ow it by |the committer prepat the | consideratic the rate edules in 'h' tax bi sceretary and under- secretary Winston were asked to fur- ther amplify their statements bef the commit later this week While Secretary Mell broadside today at the tpasscd by t house erats turned their president’s message resolution to ma ply to incomes payal of them a| Meanwhile r and left wction jewelry | recommended the Itle disposition to conres Mr. Mellon te committee that stands must be treasury deticit mittee long which " Some o measure the iner Hin the excise The house « hous« [ ing for a muttered Kluback, “ruined his A tin receptacl ed oil was found th $30,000 ROBBERY IN K. Y. Pour ats a futu 1 had contain- hallway out- flat, wiii in the to t entranee Kluback ig atory o Th ta ore seven Armed Bandits Bind tiring a bill as demo- « on the | urging a joint | reduction ajy next Katurday. th days such as the ident | leaders 1 1it- | start on such Clevks and Escape in Automobile With Jewelry yenate 12 en armed ,,.y| the Hlev sof t bound with tele-! New York, Ma vandits today en Sccurity Loan Co., wire four clerk « v P only A with « for « more than senat bin fina Irishman Says Neighbor, 100, Threatened Assault March 172 A dangerous n Connolly are, Connol- ked 9 miles tpanswer o Senate Orders trick gave L modi On bl ¥ hale goro € courthous chargd of ¥ Probe anguage and 1 i Washing tect e Maret quiry smmittes Iy He of the de- | administ ternal * the senate mped ence @ d me with A Brady magist o ue was ordered today by ¥ case isscd i at * Tetanus Kills Cobbler; ! Scratched With Av March A cobbler oday to u THE WEATHER . Hartford, Mar. 12— for Sew Britain and Partly clondy tomight day fair and colder oreeast vicimity T [ S - * mes B reported | undisclosed | ) | | | various charges that arose in the do- | White House Wheeler | 1esistants | | House ‘\!cllon Declares | ;" o ' gecret | communieuts the { Wilkins | #Bmither | Washing {cha |bertor day { honse Of Internal Revenue Bureau .4 who di HIMSELF IN SANITARIUM TO ATTEND TO SMALLPOX PATIENTS WHO GO THERE ospltal Is Ba| red To Visitors Except Patients’ Families —0 Dr tendent General day that smullpox will close: the exception relatives of the step is taken by precantion me the spread of scarlet smallpox to the institution [ ek, superin- Britain the it announced to- a Hospital, until scarle subside tever u liospita tors, with immediate be puti i ASULE Reel ary against fever and e z | DR, RICHARD W. 1"l DAY " OTHER WITNESSES BEFGRE 0L PRUBE l)oorkeepcr [ and Secret Service Man Appear Today Mare Waushington Kenna ehi K¢ exceutive offic: oil commit e the fore 1bout B, Mels Seer a tolegram ddward 1 Slemp 1 tary w.wl‘ He nd Mchean sald sur emp had 80, Ww. Wit servic wiho a pul el ph folle I MeKenna te stitied mployn Hopkinsvilie, Ky d. Wilkins, rling related to ousho v Was his 1 ) committ ehis Hou end the Whit wire to Palm Beach v+ HOUSE ORDERS PROBE OF SUSPECTED CONGRESSMEN Vote, Gareit's Passes by Viva Vv Resolution Calling Por Thor- Investis siona rg two fercd by | democratic 1 commitis quiry Difference in Compensation Planned for Veterans would 1 ~d Farmer Leaves His Whole Estate to l'cdcral (-ml Lancaster by W ed te “debt of t for it made ntly gratitude 'y his mer the rstate [ This Head of Health Department, Faced By Prob- lem, Offers To Solve It At Personal Sacrifice Until Epidemic Is Stamped QOut — Physician Now Handling Cases Balks. e “Proceed At Once and Spare No Expense,” Mayor Pao- nessa Orders—Health Board Votes For Compulsory Vaccination of All School Children — More Police Needed to Guard Quarantined Homes. requests wing the tendent in of treated The cont b aurant pati Pat to Lor g ow bring hospital is I hospitat patrol to pt pub- 1 e be 1 otherwise healt calt oy ‘projprey dag “Japy, '] 91038 Jn2ndduu0) u rposes if properly to the New of the will that | fumigated after eacl | Britaii Hhikelil trip m t be prot wdopted, 1t ary vitari anse wis wornmg son u r rtak with an un that the paticr dise wrried iblic, crmi Ol 8oy e bulance epldemic city o 15 10 the g § now in the cognizes thut pul Vi has passed Without con dling Homes Pul o doctors har Guard persons wh and the dipox ¢ vietins this condit Dy rred Hart to p morning polite disvas B of net C icing t n e tine, Two physician ala m'vlw a4 nitariun cmployed and a shack > man : on duty, It 14 more wie has on this Attending Declines By arranger department eity at proser of by one physic epideniie ha Physician L with Ipox cuses | e being taken ular some duriy ONERg medic nnd is pa ling SUper not beer ner tee o wmerar o nt arr ws miade the 1gement opinion T v public situation, been in nd par ent ha . I fan this work, this perience littlo Policeman Not "o ANeeted William on quaran- night city d smallpox. The cd at lepartment ' ieemar w been was take ast the sick t thout spread mt ot wrt was de it was exe cond ind 1) a ition disgch ingto s noon that in the city v patie it 1 i (o is provided Mayor ( Wl spare rium uy ‘ the A s tion as has pust " N0 Eiprs 1 at ot nder two and Hary W Can Purnish Police wi e Varm in Moriden Pree Vacomation link depart- i on all 1rege