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

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 Wl MAN WITH SMALLPOX VISITED WIFE IN ELM CITY HOSPITAL; CONNECTICUT, "W BRITAIN, BERLINLOSESITS CALIF. JUSTICE IS OLDEST RESIDENT ~ NEW SEC. OF NAVY FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1924, —-TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. Average Daily Circulation Week Ending 10,434 March 8th . PRICE THREE CENTS MEANS CONFESSES RECEIVING GRAFT OF HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARSFOR ONE NEW CASE T ODAY S GRIST ‘Fredenck H. Norton Woul Have Curtis D. WllRur Accepts Ap- SMI T H FR]END OF A T T ORNEY GENERAL Aaton Piersm f 511 MRS, STLLWANVICTOR Church Street Was Host [N APPELLATE RULING To Sick Visiting Comi- mittee Of His Lodge Not Entitled to Divorce Decree P vag o Free Chnlc Opens at (Jlt) New York, March 14,—In appellate 73 y H division of the supreme court in Han “lth Mal‘l) Chlldl'el'l ln)ouhl)] n today unanimously upheld for Tl'eat;llent “Avoid ' the recent findings of Refer Crowds,” Pullen Warns. » tin favor of Mrs. Anne U. Stillman wife of James A. Stillman, former {head of the National (! bank, in defense of her divorce suit. sy The court afiirmed the findings of One new case of smallpox, the lower court and of the referee Picrson living at 511 Church street, that Mr. Stillman was guilty of adul- | was reported this morning to the de- /Ty and not entitied to a judgment partment. of health and the house was °f divorce according to the evidenco placed under quarantine at once, land that Baby Guy Stillman had not The patient had not been undgr heen proved illegitimate as the for- quarantine previously as a suspicnouu mer banker had alleged. casc. The department learned from | The findings of the lower court wnd the patient that he had been in New |Ffeferee “as to the innocence of Mrs, Haven three days last week and visit- Stillman are immaterial and unnece ed his wife at St. Raphael’s hospital, Sary.” oday’s decision declured and and the state department of health Were ordered stricken out. was notified at once so that precau- | “The judgment in this respect ‘Joes tions might be taken to prevent an Inot depend upon a finding that lln- outbreak at the hospital, |adult defendant (Mrs, Stillman) was Vaccination Clinic Opens innocent of wrongdoing, nor is such This afternoon at 2 o'clock the free |2 finding nocessary to support it,” the vaceination clinic was opened in city |@ppellate division held. “A finding | hall with Dr. Robert M. Clark in /!0 the contrary would not change the charge, assisted by a trained nurse, |T¢Sult. Under these circumstances, More than 50 boys and girls v\areT"‘“ findings of the court and referec vaiting forithe opening of the clinie |88 to the innocence of the adult de- it is expected that several hun- |féndant are immaterial and uuncces- « will be veccinated before b vlose of the day, and that before the | The judgment as thus modified, and | end of the week the 1,000 mark will | the order, are unanimously affirmed | o with costs.” Aaron | reached, | cw Britain sanitarium 18 now | red of tuberculogs patients and |®ree that the plaintift (Mr, Stillman) the first smallpox sufferers will be | W8 gullty of adultery and not entitled tuken to that institution today. {to a judgment of divorce are amply Selecting Hosphtal Stasy |supported by the evidence,” the deci Dr. Richard W. Pullen, superin- |8lon continued. tendent of the health department, is [ Puted and hence these findings are in communication with several doe- |firmed. tors and will sclect one as superin. | far as the question of the tendent of the tsolation hospital, The |timacy of the child is concerned, this physiclan will isolate himself as win |court also affirms the findings of the Mira. Jennie Bassett, a maid and the’|o0urt and referce, our conclusion ¢ initor now employed at the place |INg that the evidence faily to estul and the staft of nurses which will be |lish his illegitimacy.” selected today, All attendants at the | John I hospital were vaceinated today by Dr, |Stliman, declared that he would make John T. Donnelly, no move until he had received a eopy In several of the local manufactur- |of the decision. “It's a good deci- ing plants vaccination is going on this [#1on,” was his only comment afternoon during the working hours. | Isaac N, Mills, assc The treatment is offered employes in | Brennan as counscl for Mrs, Stillman, the ghop hospitals, asserted the deecision established her Mbnday morning there will ba efr. [full rights as Mr. Stillman’s wife, and culated in all the schools of the city, |entitied her to the support that was copies of the Connectiout vacelnation to be expected from such a man in laws, a questionnaire to furnish the |such a position in life, department with information as to| “If Mrs, Stillman does not suc for previous vaccinations, and a slip to [divorce and Mr, Stillman does not re he signed by parents consenting to |fuse to support her, there will be no this treatment for their children. Al |further litigation,” he said who have not been vaccinated or who Both attorneys refused to have not been successfully vaccinated | Mrs, Stillman's whereabouts and de within five years or who have certi. [elared they did not know if she would ficates showing they are physically [start a diverce action. Mills said the unfit for the treatment will be requir. | decision vindicated his client and ox ed to remain away from school after | pressed the opinion that it lert one week from Tuesday. * |ground for appeal. Dr. Pullen this afternoon issued a BOHBE-RS ARE GAUGHT statement advising the public to re. main away from erowded meectings, Los Angeles Man Admits Jle W to Blow Up Wite and Obtain Her divuige no places of amusement, ete, until the ey iic has subsided, Cannot Trace Early Cases The health board has been unable | to trace the source of sc ne of the | varly cases and has reached the con- | clusion that there has been a walking | case of smallpox in tie eastern section | 108 Angeles, March 14 of the city, the district from which | Lanzit, 52, businessman, Fr the greater number of cases has been | erick Tate, cxplosive expert, were ar- reported. Someone not sufficiently 111 | rested last night when cavght y to be confined to his home, contracted & bomb under the bullding occupied tie disease and has been mingling | by Mrs. Josephine lLanzt, Mrs, Dor with the general public spreading the | 0thy Reutler, her mother, and the germ, it is rcasoned. This would be | latter's son, Edward G. Reutler. lan possible In the case of anyone vac- |7t confessed, according 1o officers, cinated many years ago who still held (that he had arranged the bombing, some immunity and would therefore | hoping to dispose of his estranged have a very mild case. The superin. | Wife and obtain her 1900 tendent’s warning against crowded |and the $150,000 fortune of her moth places is issued to avoid a repetition er and brother. . of carrying in this way Mrs, Jemnic Bassett, superintendent | Eats Plaster of Parn; of the isolation hospital, today netified Pnncake'l ‘ ot He l i\'es S, " Corning, N. Y., Mareh 14.-—Dlaster Continued on I.mr- Twenty-five) of Paris pancakes was the menu Sam uel 1, Smith, contractor, had for Nil‘le Of Ship\\'rfl:kd Cre“‘ breakfast a day or two ago, and al Are Plckfd me Ocean though he ate four, he suffered no ill effects, apparently. Mrs. Smith, in New York, ‘“"f h 14.—Nine mem- | e the batter, dipped into a bag bers of the erew of the American left in the flour by paperhangers re Schooner = Spendthrift which WAS o e and the mistake was not dis. abandoned at wea while on her way y covered until Mrs. Smith's daughter from Jacksonville, ¥la., 1o Portland v * | notic he peculiar taste. By this Mo, Lave been picked up by s e . . y < 1 b s time Mr. Smith had devoured four, steamer arrillo, outhound from |y, o (Lt ey in York to Kingston, Jamaica, of- . health. 8 of the United Fruit steamer Santa Maria declared today on her arrival from Kingston Kills Girl, Then Puts aed | Fortune—FExpert Aided Him, Jose and his usual w 12 Election Inspectors Are Indicted in New York \m« ork, Mareh 14— Twelve tion tors, an them Bullet Into OWwn Head ... 2 s omme mbly district Bionghton, Mass, March 14.—Mieh- wers indicted today char, aci de Bardis shot and killed Annette making a false returs tie la Civita, 20 yegrs old, today ip a 'cast supreme court shoe facto here where both were dates in the election last employed. He then sent a bullet into his own head. At the Dirockton hos- pital, wher was said he had an Nantveket. Mase even chance for recove was mast 72 placed under arrest come from - Wyoming was picked up |guardsnten near shore, off Chairman ¢, |end the istand today. Thes 8. Biake of the committec which can- |found a part of a schooner's vassed here for debenture bonds for | With a hawser attached. No relief of farmer banks in the nofth-|have been found and- there was sent today to Chaiss T. Jef- |trace of lifeboats. fray of the board of the organ- | p g «d American eredit corporation the £25.000 LIQUOR RAID aled allotments of ihe subscriptions| New York, March 14 —Liquor 1 re. These agure $447.000 of wed ut $250,000 was seized by the 8510000 taken sout bitlon agemts in a raid or eent. Ton insarance y Manhat'an warehoase 1. ton banks take the amonn liaise P or justice N for MAST TODAY March PICK TP feet jon the const weet 147,000 SUBSCRIBED, Hartford, March 14 of WIso “tert Vodies in no pro lower st it wnd | \Banker i{imself Guilty and’ Gleason | the [8ary, and are therefore stricken out, ! “The findings of the court and ref- | “In faet, it is un:ll\- 1 af- | legl- | Brennan, attorney for Mes, with | Been 96 on March 17 pointment Offered by Coolidge WAS BORN THERE IN {818 AN ANNAPOLIS GRADUATE Friends Say He Was Last Living Per-1Kenyon, Who Declined Position. s son Who Rode on Virst “New Ma-! Reported (0 Be fn Line For Daugh- ven” Train North of Meriden— erty’s Job As Attorney General of Funeral Sunday Afternoon. United States. Frederick H. Norton of Kensington! Washington, Murch 14.- "urtis | died L private hospital in Harttord, | W.'bur, chief justice of the Calify where D2 had been under care’ for |supreme court and a graduate several months, at 1 o'clock this | Naial Academy has Loen se | morning. | Prosid Coolidge to suceced Alr. Norton was 1 |Dénby a veteran of beth the in the town of Berlin ana tae marine corps, us head in the Blue Hill district nuvy department, 1828, and lacked three days of pounced 96 yecars old. poiniment He was the and Mr, rode on the mit his nomination cdiate on the New the senate. Judge Wilbur was | Meriden. dered the cabinet post after W He was a son of Capt, 8. Keryon who resigned from th | ton and his wife Itebecc spent the carli part the Norton farm in Blue {moved in 1875 to Southington, where he nained until the death of his wife in 1906, when he returned to | Kensington, and for the remainder of | his life made his home with his |y daughter, Mrs, R, M. Griswold. IFor more than 70 years he Was & it cubinet would prove member of the Kensington Congr: ceplabie to Ju\}go Kenyon | gational church, and for many ye: % an active member of thy Grang Will Leave Soon He is survived by a dilighter, Mrs, Franeciseo, March 14, - R. M. Griswold Wensington: & {yygtice Curtis D. Wilbur of the granddaughter, Miss Esther D. Gris- fornla supreme court today | wold, teacher in the York high it tay aside the ermine school of comumerce: o grandson, and tuke up the jor Matthew I, swold, AL D., [the post of secrotary of the navy. Kensington, formerly of the Tendered the office by ond 1 . Regulars: one great- late last night, Justice Wilbur son, and a half sister, Mrs. Butler of Meriden. The funeral will be D. ornia cted Ly ' lwin o oldest resident oRvy He was born Mareh 17, being aceeptanc ane last person living who steam train running road north of st oolidge is cxpected to tirs Han Albert Nor- a Kddy. He of his life on Hill, and re- judge had deelined because he felt he lacked aualifications” for a naval see Poth jurists had Leen conside: in connection with the attorney the appointment I that if Harry M. Daugherty more ac- ow accept- Denby last Monday. from the home 'Washington as soon {of Mrs, R, M. Griswold in Kensing- \ment is confirmed by "nate, ton Sunday afternoon 2:30, Rev. President Codlidge’ ummons Carlton Hazen will officiatc the California jurist was terse LIVED HERE FOR 56 YEARS “+ s ' for the navy” the president telegraph- Aged 85, Dies at Home He the at ed. “Am drafting you today, lanswer.” Accepts Tn 10 Minutes Within 10 minutes Justics eick Hayes, replied: of Danghter in Sayhrook—i5 Years confirmation as possible, He annowneed th he would repign from the Californin su court until he had been sworn naval secretary. “T cannot make any statement rogurd to the poliey T will pursue, ex copt to say that T will do my bost to sen that the navy ie absolutely first class in overy way,” he said The new eabinct appointee was he. With It, & 1. Mfg, Co. aged N years, Britain for the this morning Mrs. Willidm was employed at the I, &, K, from that con- He'was born to Canada to New atrick Hayes, nt of New years died | home hi Abbott of Suybrook. for more thun 35 y Mg Co., but re cern about 20 year I Ireland duughter, He d ago, and emigrated from which country he came Britain after the Civil war, lutory telephone calls an'd messages, He ds survived by four sous, Thomas | A host of newspaper men and photo Newark, N, J. James W, Mi phers also aided to Keep him oe and Officer Willlam . Hayes cupied until after midnight daughters, Mrs, Chief Jus Wilbur has for many md Miss Agnesiyears been one of the leading lawyers a4 15 grandehils and jurists California and a leader in child welt Sunday echool work, He was ustod from the naval academy 1888 c chael 1%, of this city Abbott Haye dren, The Cath Sl kwo Saybrook this city ral will be held from the church in Baybrook Monday morning at Burial will be in 8t Mury's ¢ this city fune v 9 o'clocl metery Nineteen) (Continued GRAND JURY FLAYS ECLECTIC MEDICAL BOARD AND DOCTORS ,Radio Oulfits quted s Among Taxable Property Match 14, Also Bitterly Arraigns Cer tain So-Called Medical Bridgeport, \Ch(ml\—“akes l’lellml' fits are mentioned among the articles address in Leonia, N. J be recenlly testified before the senate oil of personal ]nu]nl(\ which 1 | listed for taxation in®this city. Tax Commissioner Wm. H has called the attention of relief here Yo chapter nary Report to Superior Court. the of 207 of ‘ board in any city or town may, in three months of the date preseribed by statute, make of taxable property It was announced that jewelry, musical instruments, bonds and other similar would undoubtedly listed board during the ten per cent of the turned over to the 141t is difficult action of the Con- socicty the state examiners with hone * in permitting the graduates condemned medical cols leges 1o obtain licenses to practice in this sts said the pre- special grand jury investigating the the state The pre superior Benedict Harttord, March “to reconcile the necticut ecleetic Loard of celeetic esty or igence a su list nie by medicin s ntation which has vack- value tax collector, ol the been ridden condition past five months made 1o the ourt this neon by Foreman M. Holden of the jury nl © With Trauds, prescntation charges that ate examin- on with it medical that Con- a dumping presentation iry finds evi- on the part otain- tion in udicial pro- proper pre- court in or nee- sentation Senate Tncreaséfl Poneru Of Daugherty Committee Washington, March 14.—A resolu- tion broadening still further the pow- eres of the Daughertly investigaling committee was adopted today by the senate, Under it the committeg can nold mectings outside cify of Washington, whenever wher deemed nec by it chairman; and any commi member can sub- poena witnesses and papers, admiy ter oaths and take testimony W e of ol vard raudule exte ools to nt b ver ssary tes grounl for quac T suys ¢ v a 1ns- casily PROFITS 14.—Th ‘turing compa f $2,800,6 to $7.22 a shar of $25 par valy $6.01 n's @ YALL & TOWN New' Yor Yale roe irofits tock agaipst $2.406,664 share. Remington Arms company re- ports net income of $1,638,71¢ 1923 after charges and provision federal taxes, for cqui on Open To AN Cults wticut,” 1 s or tation position ion to and ad the unique ' explo Toring P stionab) npies a field icing theories persons ™ P yus not “ise in the United The S1. Lowis College., Concerning the St ns and Surgeons the ¥s In part examination, colloge to ty ge of presen- Lowis Colle THE WEATHER F— Hactford. Mar. 14—<Vorecast for New Britain and vicinity : Fair tonight and Saturd: Ve the ¢hange in temperatare. feels this leads ns at pleing sons wh d on Page (Conting of the! of the Judge Wilbur an- | st night at San Francisco l‘l ate to become a federal cirenit court ulso gen- 1:t is understood and a helief pre- {should resign, an offer of his place in | Chief Call- prepared of his office welghier duties of telegraph «d the portfolio surrendered hy Edwin | will leave f(-r 18 his appoint- to Please Wilbur “I will accept the appointment and will come to Washington as soon after not preme N 48 period of from fifte in level " Isleged for into the night by congratu- Radio out- State | committee Rlodgett board the lacts of 1923 which provides that the with- pplemental list omitted from the radios, stocks property | Harrison Says President Wil the nest three months, added and "y —_# | were YOTE ON BONUS BILL | Says Money Was To Stop Govt. Prosecution IS SET FOR TUESDAY Of Standard Aircraft Case—Tells of Pay- ments For Noninterference In Prize Fight Pictures—Describes Spying On Mellon, Sen- ators Caraway And LaFollette And Others At Harding’s Request. One Day for Debate and Two-Thirds Vote Will Carry Measure Waushington, March will vote bonus bill undes 14, Tuesday house next on the sol Washington, March H -Another Pandora’s box—brimming over with allegations of corruption in the department of justice was opened today hefore the senate committee inv estigating At- torney General Daugherty Gaston B. Means, former department of justice agent, an- nouncing that he expected no quarter and would give none, related an amazing story of colle eting money for the late Jess W. Smith, Attorney General Daugherty's “bumper and friend,” of intimidations calculated to prevent his testimony and of es- pionage of senators. $100,000 Paid As Graft The most sensational of Means’ tes stimony, if could he assessed as greater than another, was a charge that he (Means) in February 1922, received in the old I,v!h\uc hotel here in Washington one hundved thousand dollars, from a Japa- nese representative of the house of Mitzui and Co. which he paid over to Smith and which he said was for the purpose of stopping government prosecution of the Standard Aireraft Co. against which the war department was claiming over- -payments aggres gating $6,000,000, diers’ an agreement reached today Ker Gillett announced he uin o motion irules and pass the f would suspend the approved by committee, 4 two-thirds or pu i "'anm ) ue impossible f house wembers to ufter dments, Chairmun Green had intended call the bonus Lill up Monduy only day in the week on whieh mo- tions to suspend the rules ure in or der, but Iepresentative Longwort the republican leader, got unanimous consent to take it up on Tuesday. Representative Garrett, the eratic leader, protested inst fon the il under rules which cut off amendments and [tive Huddleston, to bi meuns <10, h.h' ame he one sensation demo action would Reprosenta Alabama, who favors 1 cash bonus declared the suspen- Moprogram was an effort te “ram down the throats of house membye " the committee insuranee policy plun LONDON CONCERT HEARD BY MANY IN THIS STATE Keports Money On Fight Films On behalf of Smith, Means further all »d he had received |;l|'u' sums of money, which he turned over, and which he sald were for the pmpow of guaranteeing that there would he no prosecution for lmpml.ttmn and showing of the Carpentier- Jempsey fight nhm in interstate commerce, Liquor Permits Paid For In other instances, Means testified he had rece ved money i connection with "Ilqum permit n New Haven Getting Harding Ordered Investigation transuctions which deseribed money currier his activities, alleging that 1 tion of nt Harding Smith and WO 1, Uy conducted tigntion of tury Mellon in connectior permits in New York, He slipped through our | st time™ Means said, hin J ' Vo Ransack La Polletie’s Ofiee La Folict . i U Distance Broadeasting—\W to today 1o | ported 1 stimony continue tmself as|her t with told on Loud Speaker the Replets Mean An leelded to waive agalnst s TR New Haven, March 14, dio enthusinsts here and o where the state heard Willlam Murconi ta tand the coneert broadenst don last night, Leports received | (trom vavions citivs os Jasippi sald that the London, had hecn heard cleurly " to twenty Many ra in Ik from lLaon details of story Preside thro . i unse i inve orney goge Wheeler, . e the day the Miss coneert i LR witl ator assara Suvoy main |} for a miu edera indiet with a New utes, W. 1. Speller of Long Island ity attached a loud epeaker to his set and entertained se I friends with the music which said heard per { feetly, More than 500 of the 8 dancing in the ballr concert was . pre the Americans present spoke the microphones, but whether their messages to fricimis in this try were received had not been report ed to the receiving station her noon today CALLED T0 CAPITAL Sudden offfee of Renator with the te e Wisconsin tion of tifled tor al y t type room we of to took nts 8o may e wive he as he V'S guests m while Some were the of gan his testimony Means turther Ser | a letter from lor osplonage o1t ' et of Justice suggesting ooun King Atte ! : receive immunity 2 1 M, Hardis ‘ . et if Marylund into Y ot he ommittes wted immunity, Means but up to Muans ewly elected e under espi mueh ators Being Watched Wheeler interjected testimony at that vm!‘wl that stood five men v cking him in Monta nator Liart ahont Ll iy 1 no quarter for Germ, alsoh ad worked itis Mexican Know K o quare - nu. ed Senator Montana democrat o Mean's unders for and for into summons Vor Vanderlip - up on ketehed nd insurgent republica the | Causes Him To Cancel Speaking s varly if his experience Engagement in Leonia, N 0. of vestig that h ehairman wtion n understood 100 he ' Fran A ntial ma New York, March Vanderlip today cngagements for row and took an a Washington in response seeretary suid had call.” The secretary des matter as of “great would not divulge its Mr. Vanderlip, who 14, and trai what after mor ~ for g a4 his today turned sudden He the by hut I of every known never when ) but Means 10 - Lxoncrated o« - M testimony bout the aircrarnt cases his Beail might ernoon o to heer A cribed importa was assisted | Captain 1 or who presentation ormer i lopartment of jus ft the department i Means em fully a suste vestig e has itating tigation of the phasized that he in Washington regarding ), sald were current concern- | giq Macton Star e banker's sccretary said aid Mr. Vanderlip wonld capital the | ture Afters of was to make an this evening beer congressiona s 1 at gane Seaife a p Means' ruption an bill of healthy in e 1 rimors h ing the sale of the The not know when return from the COOLIDGE IS WAITING 2 in co ™ he Beaife would'nt M Notables See prizetight Washing money,” said Pictures, films 100, Mea 1 pot Dome Oust Daugherty When Ohio Delegates Were 1 i Have Been Chosen. L )00 " Marcl 14,8 - Mississippl de today that Presi “until the have orney Washington, Harrison, democrat clared in the dent Coolldge was walling presidential electoral delegates been chosen in Ohio to oust Att General Daugherty from the inet When Mr Judge Kenyon been offered the y general” of the navy liean, Nebraska “It is not The president’s Kenyon, Senator “was a political the good will of Kenyon's progre northwest.” money ngers senate s was presse Harrison suggested ight 1 folio of attornes offic of Sucrelars Norris, r an Senator put . remarked offer Harriso op Purstitics arme . Two Barges Forfeited to Govt.; Rum Running Craft New Haven, March 14.—A Judge Thomas of 1t court today forfeits to the gove the barges “City of Malden™ and “City Boston” on evidence which had been proven that they were rum rur ners in Long Island Sound ft were found ubandoncd h being used to carry 1 off Island The owne the court Attorney im, and in the Jo-cisic s First Witness Mareh 14 department o Gastor isti nt » former al's office tipped me off up ®ajd 1 knew | was to be suspension wer the sneprne Hauor from Bot pro ter < pro Slock Jess Smitt cged rney wil according Boston men, be sold leals™ in Daugherty, to cedi a Genera (Continued on Scventh Page)