New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 1, 1924, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press CITY PREPARES DELEGATES TO MEETING OF ' DIES OF SMALLPOX: ' NEW ENGLAND 30th District Conven- tion Opens Here Thursday And Con- tinues Through Fri- day —Action Planned For Every Minute. * Program Includes Talks at Burritt Hotel and Odd Fellows’ Hall — Between 400 and 600 Are Expected Whean the cold ¢awn first appear on the ho; day morning of this week a unusual activity wiil be 1 400 gray and 600 required to rise city, when Letween tarians will the sun, time at a Rotary club breakfast at the Purritt’ h I, which will be served promptly at 7:30 o'clock. The breakfast will be one of the feutures, eyl according to Committec Chairman Leon A, Sprague, one oi the real big featurcs of the spri conference of the 30th or I land district of Rotary clubs, opens TPursd morning in this ci About 80 v pmbers of the Fritaln Rotary ub attended a spe- cial meeting o the club in the New Britain club headquarters at noon 1o- day to discuss finul plans for the big conclave, Tt was announced by Chair- man Spra thal the, two highest Rotary of s in the worl Guy Gundaker, international president, o Philadelphi; 1d Everett W, Hill, in- ternational prestdent, of Oklu- howma City, be present, and spoak. 1t was reported that been 387 registrations alrcady for and indications are that more men will be present, A. 1, Corbin, chalrman of re- ception committes, told of reeeption plaus, and sald he oxpected visiting Rotarians from all parts of the coun- try 80 be_coming in at all hours of the day. Howard registration, table in the Thursday morning registrations, I'resident Pred O, Racklife report- ed that the chamber of commerce had buttons made containing the sk Me, 1 Live Here,” which will be distributed, ¥, G. Russell, chairman of the teansportation committer, reported that parking had been arranged for on Lake stroet between High and Wash ington, which will be closed for t oceasion: at the Corbin Serew property and at the Corbin garagl. Policamen will be on duty on lLake street until midnight anfl at the Corbin property day and night, ant John J, King will be on duty at the hotel to relleve traflic congestion there, Chatrmar E, J, Porter of the ¢ committee reported plans for the meals. Various cities will take charge of programs as follows: Thursday moon juncheon, New Britain; Thurs- day evening dinfier, in charge of Was terbury; Friday morning breakfast in charge of New Britain, Friday noon juncheon in charge of Hartford and Vriday evening dinner in charge of | Epringficld. A. 8 Jourdan, decorations committes, plans; Ralph Britton musical program und nounced that at most ferences the breakfast session was the “snappicst” of any. Convention Program Chairman Sprague of the general committes, read the following pro- gram: be with in order to be present on ow vic wilt have paid 500 o there the o be & early of chaleman would from take care Crummer, sall there hotel lobby o eome word. f th his | { chairman o told spoke of the it was ar of these eon- (Continued on Second Page) SINCLAIR 10 GIVE BAIL Indicted Oil Magnate Coming From New York to Washington To Up 85,000 Security. Washington, April 1.—District At- torney Peyton Gordon was notified to- day that Harry . would come to Washington | ay from New York 1o furnish bond of $5:000 10 afswer when he is © all on & charge of contempt growing out of his resusal to answer guestions of the genate ol committes M Tt was &rranged that Mr 114 be allowed to malke jmmediately upon his W, Zevely, Sinclair's at , #aid he was unab'e to say definitely whether jent would come to Washington Sinclair is plea | here, J his o today Inquiry Ordered But N Money to Pay for One of I Washington, Apti The rush etigation resointions throngh g althongh antioriziv reraft in ¥ in P [ inte furnish s, the 1the ai ustry. the inauiry ot te ex- money Tor stigating mittee met r the ob dive Lampert, © ut adjourned o an ¢ the house in aut penditure which ha «d in a resolution. sen aft the ac- rizdng the Fressary o * boen burean o wilt | | Jaeger, ats” | , detatned lm" sth 1o a maximum of § TO WELCOME MRS, M. M. CASHMORE ROTARY CLUQS Fairview Street Woman Follows | NEARLY 67 MILLIONS Husband and Son -in-Law to Grave ~ SOUTHINGTON Average "Daily Circulation Week Ending l 0, 461 March 29th . 1, 1924, —EIGHTEEN PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS BLAIM Al DAUGHERTY !BEG]IV AT TOP AND CLEAN ALDED LAND GRAB DOWN IN WIPING OUT RUM Senate Probers Hear of Alleged} SELL]NG WHEELER ADVISES 260,000 Deal i | §230,000 Deal in Oklahoma RECORD VOTE BEING THUNDER, LIGHT) SNOW N WASHINGTON Washington, April 1.—Rum- bles of thunder, flashes of lightning and clouds of drifting snow—all at the same time— provided the April fools day joke of the capital. It was the strangest freak of weather since the Inauguration Day blizzard of 1909 swept over the city. ————————— Chief Justice of Conn. Supreme Court Up- FOR APPROPRLATONS “ll‘\ Llizabeth Draper, Aged 68, Who Commerce "State, Justice, and Lahor Depts. Bill Re- ported to House Today Contracts Reaches Five, Within an hour ¢ diagnosed Mark at fter hier case had smallpox, | died heon as one of Cashmore at Irs. morning Washington, Appro ! tions totalling 366, partments of state and labor are I i a bill ported today to the house. Of the total, whic Al more than hut $214,54 mat $14, department, partment diciary, $22, partment and $ Lor department, Inctuded In appropri 000,000 for a payment to scttlement sialms growing coustruction of the Panama 40 for the ¢ claims comm al - year, of erime 9.1 home ustiee, commere: ) for th hushand died 1l he had been . the health anthe d that he did not d Ipox. Her son-in-law, ¥, icd Saturday at the isols il after a few days’ ilines: t vietim, the fifth of th present epidemie, had been indispose tor several and ¥ en undersobservation by the health wthorities, This morning a positiy as announced, but bec ndition was eritical no pl e for her immediate us has heen the Death are sm appropriations capeines budget ,646 is is for the 264,893 for the 1stice, uding the the commeree 316 for the la- thus is. 85, lombia 1 an “f sta de ju- tion hospi inc The lat days lier case of e prac- came Lire nor e Spe d ritain shortly \ in This City was about 60 years lif resident of i6 survived by shmore of Passai daughter, Mrs, Frankiin who whom had made o brothers, Willlam nd shop sister, Mrs, Elizabeth York eity, former. and three prosecution ment of just tion of war depart- progecu- for the com- » the census bu- on 1 stand- Mrs age New arles H son, o meree, reau, . a o wmburn she Bishop of this city Hartford; a Oldershaw of N¢ this city, * bureau of the 10,965 home; for the in 91,5140 for ation law a bureau of natral g-ml‘ tie sury bureda of fi orcement of ti 2670,480 for the tion, The report of the appropriations committee sald that during the years 1920 to 1 nclusive 120,410 erim- inal “prosccutions Legun _under the prohibition conetions in 79,0 in fines to- talling $13,83 80 71 had been e M5 was 1 of W of drer Her been ties i nd prominent in the od that later had in seeond for many political ward, district an alderman. bourd “ly at one many years has been o probute conventions. Mrs, rnoon at 4 i Fairview sory us ind clerk of time, and u detogatc Funeral more with resulting 560 which Tn addition i from ju ments in clvil ..u”nuno‘u cascs. The report airo sald i of federal prisons s “stili on the crease,” on January 8 last, there ing 5,558 inmates, or 623 mor the normal ™ He th for law services for held this afte byrial wers o'clock and metery, ‘ ina ving old Newton Lutore he left Litehtield, the stitution have cination The ~ work started 3 population was than n at Litchfield School the discovery that He had developed smallpe the Junior Republie authorities at that in irrunged for the vace every boy in the pla of immunization was and was comploted capaeity GUNMEN FIGHT POLICE Taken in ol Two Lives Battle Between st Crdiny Detroit Thugs and Members of e health department night 1) boy Repiblic was in the d that Newton agre®d to go back once, D, RW, back ®o that héve might was noti- from the city and had small- to Pul- the | be fied lust Junior had leg pox Litéhfield len drove nger roarcd in ohbe row of shucks in Kcorse, o suburh took two lives in a fight betweeh gun- men and the police last night, 8ix men are in jail suspee of several 1 berjes and holdups; $6,000 § olen currency hae heen recovered and de tectives in a police flyer in Ohlo ar pursuing a freight train on which another members of the gang caped fhe dead men are an Beorse patrolman and 1. gunman, who despite han Montie who was guarding him and them himself was shot by Albert chief of police in Keorse, The Kcorse liee were ing a store robbery whoen they cras through a door of the shaeks, They found two men counting money from Commonwealth Savings banks wrappers, A branch of the common woalth b was robbed of more 1} $15,000 in estorday by armed bandits, shootivg fo Reve roost” down tows April he at the infection boy minim a Smalipoy in Southington, (8pecial to the Herald,) Southington, April 1.—Mre beth Dreaper, 68 years, house Keengr in the of George Woods at 151 Main has developed podliise oam or. Wil- jam H health officer, has Bad the under quarar for whout « following notific ro Dy Pullen, health super- intendent Brit that she hid come dircct contact with a & in New DBritain, A meml of the state heaith department wod in consu \ Dr. Cushing yes@r- day thorough examina- t doctors that Mrs, Lliza home streot, of smallpox Benjamin Montie, » Torhett, 1ffs shot 18 o weelk, now investis New and hot per had Mrs, Draper with 11 A the fu of ter on br ated n w1 pox came into direet con. disease when she at- 1eral of Mark” M, Cash- Fairview street, New about two Sunburn, imore, a few Sunburn died 8 when e Ipox ‘ four i ] " ore 1 Britaiy k l‘umlga(e Police ( ‘ell To Kill Smallpox Germs The cell room in wihich Iow Newton 1120 Stanley strect at the police station t ago, awaiting hig return to the New Republic Home in Litchficl fumigated by the board of health { day. which oceurred works rd v 56 days atur loy Mr afte irrent wma (C on l»' ntinugd Fifteen) SENATE PASSES BILL DESIGNED TO (EVEN UP ALL PENSIONS PAID lv' (h- lml was g being Sena- Iirnce, Mary- arolina; Texas: Stan- Wississip- Tdaho and e vote passage Is Similar to One Vetoed by Harding and Its Esti- mated Cost Is Additional $55,000,000 First Year. opposit and; ! ay I, pirens, ad remone 1 igne gratuities verai past w A Washington, pension April I rec Radio Bmadcaslmg April 1 After April 15 musicians dr singers in Chi ting free vresident of Musi the 83 for 1 inequites between paid veterans of the se w today by the senate, ced by 8 Pursum New biN . hin alls 1 t " etord last scesion 14t wo e or Mon fat now s, do o broadcs 18 passe Introd ubliean, nator o texico, as swul Pire the : ting of After April th ing r hurean estima and ( prezent the ailo per mont A new inserted to the veto widovs of e of St each from asic ane ine ision t o for ad of - pro 1 10 to mee Jast l’inan(e Committee Takes p Mellon’s Pmpmah 1 civ rriage prior pril igible " ticiarics or Juction were grad ra carries b r mouth at ston. cale for 1 m 250 ih : Aisability. Americar ranging visions, Attended Mir. Cashmore’s Funeral, | case—Death List Hl'l\‘v g | bis commission ad | removal | grandehils laving | couneilman | was | | Cash- ation | wae | cretary . | s committee sition to both pro- + holds Judge Maltbie And State’s Attorney Alcorn In Their Drive. Denies Hamon — 'TEAPOT HEARING TODAY 100 e POLLED IN HARTFORD | spent Money to Nominate Harding, iy pect 33,000 Ballots Will That ::.l:llc Another He Gave Have Been Cast h)’ 8 0’Clock Tonight ERWIN'S COMMISSION IS EFFECTIVE TODAY {Confers With Delaney ' About Taking Over Postmastership Insists | 25 herty $25,000 For Fund. Washington, April 1. »— A land frauds case in Oklahoma and a feder- al judgeship appointment in New | York were gathered today within the | far-flung miscellany of topics receiv- ing attention of the scuate Daugherty | lm-lsug.nh\;: comm H. M, ck, form United States attorney rur western Oklahomas tified that Harry helped cause a ) prosecution of the * | Hartford, April L—With voters| [yeclares That Campaign for passing lI\Iul.,, A the polls at an aver- 2 of an hour per machine and Enforcement ould Start at Upper Rather Than in some places as frequently us two | cale | | a minute, the indications were early | Lodiv that the 1694 it election would L0 PIOYMRHL led. Lperts failu “ylag APV, T O o tiler Brotiyi] 3jT}8 ‘“M"’e“u“) which out land case in that state, with the voters on the sult that the Mjller group obtained and still held land worth more than a yuarter of a million dollars &nd have paid only a fine of $10,000. Wayne Wilson of New York was | called to testify about an effort to anveehten Oleott appointed a 1l judge. He denied that he had Olcott it would be necessary to amount of money for discussed the | officials of | Herbert E. Krwin today received as postmaster and or F Y 1s | was in conference this afternoon with | Lower End of Social ! :t‘.x-l’uxlmuhh r William | . Delaney | ' elative to taking over the office. | The commission is eftcelive as {Mareh $1. Mr. Erwin will sever his { connections with the sales department of the New Britain Machine Co. at an ¢ date and assume the duties of now office, | Vormer Postmaster Del {to devote his time to th law. He discontinued pr years ugo when g he became master, but he has maintained an of- fiee in the National Bank bullding. PREDICTS TAX SLASHES BEFORE CONGRESS ENDS Declares . st ‘.m i v 75 per ce The clection this year is unusual in e Bridgeport \e proce April 1 (B} Ju Wm, M. Maltbie and St another respect. The precing system | Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn in the I8 being trled out for the first time in | Hartford county superior court in the Hartford and balloting is being done | trial of two was in places instead of the 15 used | upheld by of in other years. The polls were varied | the supremc a in fire engine houses being | Statement isst 1- used in some precinets, school houses | €F further in others, stc vacant buildings nm\ ull laws, b shacks in others. aw should The names of Mayor Richard J.|top and go down rather f Kinsella, democratic candidate for & | bottom of the soclal acale.” third term and Alderman Norman C.|Went follows Stevens, the republican who hopes to| I have read the unseat him have become familiar to | noi-Courler of this morni every Hartfordite old enough to vote | from the vote it 1 to a great many who have not yet | the meeting been n voters, Serious camy I\:llx; :,L\lnlu; _\’M\.)uul ing has been going on for three | meeting concer:! b v ey aldermen, three membrs of | Judicial action nor that of State's AL the hoard: of education and a high|torney Alooru's courss i’ the ONMA school committee will be elected against Bliss :A‘MI .\1-':;! for violation Supt. Robert T, Hurley of the state o the liguor law, The subject of yolico department assig: alx men | Judge Maltbie's statement from the 15 watch the polling places during the | bench to and of the patrons of these lay. State police were at the polls bootlegger criminals was not men- {wo years ago for the city election and | tioned at our meeting. Judge Mait- : bie's course sound in law, sound ugain in the fall during the state elec A [:n o in morals, fearless and courageous and BULLETS FLY RTPOLLS |5 i e of law enforcement, 1f his example Workers Shot, on of N at “society bootleggers” Chief Justice Wheeler court today in a form d here. Ju Whee urged fhat er ement of including the “prohibition begin if possible at the than the Hiy state- his 1o, pr plans 1 tice of told eight | put up a large post- | the “boys”, or had ever matter in any way with | the department of justice, The political activitic of the late | Jake Hamon, republicah mnational | committeeman for .Oklahoma, came under scrufiny before the oil commit- tee again today in avowed effort by the committee prosecutor, Senator | Walsh to estublish conspiracy as far pack as 1920 to select a “complacent character, forc story in the Jour- 4 aside d at , it 18 as v.l\' at our Maltbie' | recites as pas judges’ veste we Reductions | sooretary of the interior. Under the Montana senator’s insis- tent gquestioning, J. E. Dyche, who | managed Manon's campaign for the place on the national committee, tes- {tified that the fight had cost Hamon $105,000, but Insisted that he never desired to have a place in the cabinet Ridicule Jenning's Tale The witness vidiculed Al Jennings' testimony that Hamon had told him of large money payments to the late Senator Penr of Pennsylvania and others to secure the nomination of | Warren G. Marding, and of indis- criminate use of money among mem- bers of the Oklalioma délegation to the Chicago convention, As a matter of fact, Dyche Hamon did not spend dime 1t fluence the delegation of his state vote for Harding, but on the contravy ladvised them to vote for Lowden on | two ballots after they were ready to get on the Harding bandwagon, 1. Wilson, formerly O superintendent of public instruction, testfied dhat Hamon had hoasted to him of putting over Harding's nom- | ination and had told him of con tributing $25000 to Harry M. Daug) rty, v'h- n::.uuz ww;.nmn..n man- De'llh Ple\ent% l)unbur . The committee adjourned the hear- | Man From Being Dcported ing until tomorrow, but no e »slnn’ Danbury, April 1 Death inters will be held at that time uniess Wil ered today |l.| prevent the deporta- liam Boyee Thompson, formerly tion of Charles Ropertl, who has been the republican national committee, government charge here several reaches Washington in the meantime while awaiting the competion A new subpocna his appearance ments to return him “forthwith" but pro man had been in failing CORS BOTVErSs to it was ascertained that his sorve it. \ prior to his AFTER ALIEN AUTOISTS Senator Smoot Will Be Passed Prior 1o Re- cess or Adjournment, Washington, April 1.—Congress will enact a tax reduction measure before it adjourns or recesses for the national political conventions, Chair- | | man Smoot of the finance committee | ared tgday in the senate. lled upon by Senator Walsh of achusetts, a democrat on the committee, to assure the country that there had been no unnccessary de- lay in the handling of the tax mcas- ure, Senator Smoot said: “l want to say to (he poople of the country that the congress is.mot going to adjourn untl a tax reduction bill has become a law, There has ‘been an effort on the part of a great number of peopds, particularly some of the business people, to make it appear there i& going to be no tax legislation at this session “l have answered all such in- quiries addressed to mo by saying that 1 l\nn\\ there is going to be tax reduction.” Asked by Secnator tobinson, of Arkansas, the democratie leader, as | to the accuracy of a stutement that he had told President Coolidge a bill could not be enacted before June 10, Senator 8mooth denied that he had made any such statement, “I don't see what can happen hold tax legislation in congress until that time,” he sald, “unless it be that there is an absolute filibuster against 1t.” Sertor Kmoot agreed with Senator Robinson that th had been no in- dication of a filibuster either in com- mittee or in congress. The finance committee complete consideration of Saturday, Chalrman Smoot to report it' next week Is It the purpose of the tee to report the revenue bill ahead of that dealing with adjusted com- pensation?” asked S or Robinson. “The bonus bill' hasn't been con« gidered by the committee, or fin- deed, 1 might say, even the mémbers outside the committee room,” Sen- ator Smoot replied Tater, he amended ment to the extent of describing the gteps he had faken to obtain an ey timate of the bonus cost from treas- ury experts ind to “analyze the re sons for the large riance betw |this and the house estimates.” IS NEAR A DECISION To | were emulated by every trial judge in our land we would have a country where law and order were better sup- ported and respected thap we have today. o Judge Maltbie immes diately arning of his _wction, | commending and thanking him for his great service to the cause of law nforcemen “One 1hing cnforgement and of all sible at th go down and go up. I'wo Democratic An- other Beaten and Kidnapped at Cicero Election Today. ald, : in to Chicago, April 1.—Two democratic workers in Cicero, a suburb, were shot another and Kidnapped voting proeinets In the village jon today, democratic workers de- | claring that the violence was dir by men recently named in the beer running war in Chicago. Onb polling 1 believe that probibition law it pos Ie and bottom more. of the aws giould begin, top of the soclal sc rather than atethe Ovedlence 1o law should vequired of high and low, righ and poor, educated and 1l altke without respect to person, d, race or color. 'This is the principie whic? | underlies Judge Maltbie's and Mr. Al action, and American institu stronger if this principe upheld by public offi- and beaten neur el homa b place was closed, Bullets first gtarted to fly campaign closed, as the S corn's \ tions will be is universally | clals, Judges Hold Meeting News | April 1.~ According to Journal-Courler today several lges offered criticism of methods sod In lucting trials for violation with spectal reference Harry Dliss and Don- gel of Hartford, at the meeting idges of the supreme and su | perior courts held In the county court t this city yesterday after- to a W of aly health 4 dilment rival | deportation *was ramily rrang con for law, hins been issued, have bee unable veloped ar this country, Jectded upoy tlaly, man leaves a in e in - According to the Journal-Courler o officlal statement as to this phase f the mecting was obtainable it being it all concerned had mselves But to | bill and hopes the said, HARD TO FIND MAN 1l April 1T today tha slon but ment New Haven Judge to Demand Revoke | 200 . - lent told t expectt ortly visitors a d that | Are commit- ing of Licenses of Al Who Are itimated sedged Che rom reports about ceording to the P did not § to be gathering of th Wolf t the 1 to seerecy conurthouse or the meet he usual » ™ ounce was trying to malke add 1 rested and Can't Read Statute ( 000 man ne compe Lutomobile New Haven, April 1.-—Judge bers in elty court today said he require every alien called befor on a motor vehicle violat read a section of t] notor laws, is unabia to read t fele stoner will be i of that the person's voked, A violator today conl English. He ed 8 less driving and his name the capitol BROOKLYN’S BOB-HAlRED BANDIT AND COMPANION SHOOT ( CASHlER "~ COAL PRICE CUT COMING Dealers Lapect to Make K Reduction When 1 ud of the superior tth ting wing resolu wge Tsaac w o m ced t dopt that ™M OPLEN II’(IIII ve comniis tore o the elul floor of the 1eVeg srmed this state- ) consisting Aver ted te rae e ‘ T n rminate with e was f was s ¥ on rt mecting Wolfe th- Judg $11,000 THEFT OF TIRES Resisted | 5:) cacnge seing shipped from Rart- Ni- Coolidge 1s Believed Be Almost Escape in Motor Car After| Firing Three Shots at Vietim Who Hold-Up Attempts Ready To Name Man To Succeed Yormer Atty. General Daugherty Washingto April 1.—Presifnt Coolidge is approaching a deciston | with respect to 2 essor to Harry M. Daugherty as attorney general and indications were given today after the | president had conferred again with Senator Pepyer, republican, ™ vania, that the selection wou made within 1wo days. The president has ascertained which under consideration would place it were offered is engaged in choos- em. The list of eligibles to rontain enly names n mentioned in wspaper dispatehes since Mr. gherty resigned last Friday at the sident’s request President Coolidg: today with Senator (" the rep Kenator € president Bepator ( “edera Sonrces of Supply. tord to Detroit Are Stolen ar PRl ct to price o id hich su K dealers here a fe oxp It Vit Coal rounce a r within a | day that the local 4 new sprir to do so shor Dr. Cooley Not 11l From Smallpox, Opinien feet that Dr, €. M | sction in ’ agara Falle During Night N not annound eir 1e rs 1 prices yet but are oxy ¢ o those accept the them, and ing among th is understood f those who have Rumors to the e t b Cooley, who ed by hiad we sma lpos statetnent | onnected wit health and g4 sick Rumor s 1ays a al newited rtis of Kansas whip of the senate, and mmins, republican, Towa pro tempore of the senate ‘ummins, republican, Towa Ju William 8. Kenyon 1 Dy s his visite spinio for the the docte that Tise health officer ill man h vietim of br. Pa city, said th carefully watched against p his developing smalipos, omary in all cases where th ave been an exposure, No were taken in the and Jiagnoses were made by loca line with m adopted here » state authorties, expressed this morning. should rest the ru- mors that haev been circulated, bad been ssibility is re may chances frequent and state policy of opinion 1 . wire - he 1 Violent Erup At Strombol = o as works said rom a hotel i WEATHER i Hartford, April | —Forecast for New Britain and vicinity : Snow or rain tonight and Wed- nesday : little change in temper- ature. mac e while A good T companion anarters rders to “shoot ssary,” set at * and 15 ¥