New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 22, 1924, Page 4

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, e COURT COLUMBA HAS DINNER AT BURRITT Annnal Banquet Attended by 160 ~Interesting Speeches Delivered bri held last eve hen Court most ant socia ar was One of the events of the ve ning at the Burr Columba, No. 27, of America, banquet. There were 160 and guests present. Among of honor were Mayor A nessa, State Regent Mr of Bridgeport, William J Thompsonvillie deputy Knights of Col ohn O grand knight of Daly Council, €., and m bers of the ( clergy. An excellent Rev. Charles Coppens, pastor of St. Peter's church, pronounced grace and ary Maguire acted as toast Following the banquet, Miss Catherine O'I rand Court Columba, welcomed those pres ent. Mayor Thanks Women For Support She was followed by Mayor Paones- sa who thanked the women of New Britain for helping to reeclect him. He urged the women to become voters whether they selected a party or T and said that women should take a deeper interest in politics Rev, J. Leo § van of St. Joseph's church spoke al g the same lines as the mayor, urging the women to be- come voters, He said that the women would be the means whereby politics would be purified. He said that not more than 40 per cent of the women of the country were voters and thi was proved by statistics. He said would be satisfied only wl Catholic woman hecomes voter a exercises her ri ts. He that t women were going to preserve the na tion, state and city through the homs Mrs. Nell Murphy followed Father Sullivan and ndered ““Roses of Picardy” and “Someone Love Yon After All" in her usual excellent man ner, She was followed by Mrs. J McNamara, state regent, who gratulated the local body on cellent showing at the hanquet. stated that there were 850,000 mem bers of the order in America; thers weare six courts in Porto Rico and two in Cuba and efforts were being made 1o have the sorcicty extend its activi ties into Canada She congratulated Miss Agnes Fox of the local court on her work with the ile branch of the society and urged the members to support the movement, John O'Leary, grand kr Couneil, K. of C., expr that the court would enjoy a prosper ous year and extended to the mem bers the ald of Daly Council whenever it is able to help Mrs. D, Jugo rendered s numbers which were rec applause. Mrs, Jugo a singer of powerfu derful expression by Rev, O, T. Mag Joseph's church®in gratulated the court « eity. William J. Mulligan Spea Willlam J,. Mu tate the Knights of Columbus, cipal speaker ing. an excellent on and religion, 1 was as fol lows “Patriotism and hand, you from the other either stand. The p olie faith have an interest in the gov- ernment of the United 8 well as the followers her faiths, Ther 18 no class of p le fn this country today who ha iny better right t claim pure Amer m than Catholles, and 1 i people who have eountry than the Cat [ pher Columbus, the ered this great countr Catholie, as were t made their home on The majority ea today are Cat many sections of where the people of are few and scatie one of these & bill was pas the private ar 1926, The bl it came to one was &aid ts be une ndge At this ti Kilan etepped in a member 1ests K atholic ner was served, regent o &0 con its ex She ight of Daly sed the wish eral voeal ived with proved herselfl and won was followed pastor of St tol volee the wha s work the prin- of the eve delivered addres patriotism His pee haod one v go divoree t to 1 ople of the Cathe and glon innot the no class o fo risto who discove es who first Ameri ‘ot nted e are ® | where it is waiting for a hearing. It is up to organizatiors such as the Catholic Daughters of America and the Knights of Columbus to take an interest in these matters and settle this important question in the right y, once and for always. It was not at the private schools, |’ that this bill was aimed, it was meant | to hit the parochial schools, which | have a right to keep open. We are the majority in thig country ami they | cannot close our schools if we get out | and We ought te be proud of ! ve fact that are Americans, and should also I oud of the fact tholics. We are all hts in a free country and will, fight to keep ANTI-TRUST GASES NOT PROSEGUTED This Is Claim Made Against Daugherty Today Washingten, April 22. — Chairman Huston Thompson of the federal trade commission today lald before the Daugherty investigating committee further evidence to support his testi- women of New Britain, mony that anti-trust cases were not out and become voters, have a properly prosecuted under Attorney e ¢ government. Do not let |General Daugherty after facts war- ign born people get ahead of ranting legal action had been develop- Lour vote for what you think |cd by the commission and turned over ; you will help to the justice departemnt. red and! Turning frem conditions in the to- and the forty-eight lLacco industry, which he described at ite stars upon a field of blue, float- |ength yesterday, Mr. Thompson proudly and long over the land iated how he and his colleagues un- ‘and the home of the covered “price fixing” and *coercive measures among lumber producers in an investigation in 1913, The results |of this inquiry, he said, were laid be- |fore the justice départment before ‘\Yr. Daugherty took office. |against the Southern Pine association |was instituted in the closing days of the Wilson administration, he declar- | ed, but “has remalned in status quo| |ever since and now rests in the dis- trict court at Kansas City."” The Southern Pine association, Mr. FIT OF ANGER AS | commodity. “The investigatjon as we reported —_— it to the department of justice,” he ped him in a New York hotel. The said, “showed price fixing and price ivil suit of the Gumps has been set- |regulation and production restriction charge is still | by different groups of the Southern against Thaw, Pine associaton and coercive meas- spent Night Packing. ures towards various concerns to make Thaw is confident he will be de- them work in cooperation with the as- clared sane. So sure is he, that at- sociation. tendants said he spent last night at 14 Organizations Probed the hospital packing some of his per-| «There were 14 organizations in dif- 8, ferent parts of the country, such as the West Coast and Northern Hem- lock associations. We made investi- gations of them all.” The department of justice proposed that we are ( proud of our and we should, get voice you 4 in that wz flag with the of free brave.” (Continued from First Page) tied but the eriminal held sonal belongings. Even it Thaw is declared still to be insane, it is not expected The will remain at the institution, as the au- thorities there are sald to have ex- pressed a desire that he be removed to some other hosp! It was ex- plained that hospital authoritics do not want to be involved in further litigation. “We refused that,” the witness eaid, Dickson went extensively into “hecause it would be just like letting Thaw's car He lald great stress g criminal go with the gyn still in his upon the allegation that after Thaw hand.” was released from the New York statc John H., Kirby of Texas, Mr. asylum at Matteawan, he administer- Thompson said, had been head of the ed a beating to the Gump youth and |Southern Pine association. Senator that as a consequence he was declared ' Wheeler read into the record a speech ane by a jury in Philadelphia 10 made by Mr. Kirby in New Orleans 1 . Mr. Dickson said that Thaw last month, vigotously defending At- has always been insane, | torney General Daugherty and Sccre- “He suffers from a moral dent,” jtary Tall, Mr, Dickson, “and his condition o criminal prosecution of any a mental affair that goos deep down [ Kind has ever beery brought!” Senator and does not show on the surfac Wheeler asked, Showed His Real Nature, Mr. Dickson asserted that Thaw showed his repl nature by the way he vated his Mibbits. During Thaw's first year of confinement in the hos- pital, had been seized by recur- rence of “brain storms,” the attorn said, in which he revealed “a contin- ual m depravity | JFor ast six ycars, the attorney prices had gone up during recent said, Thaw plotted for his liberty. He [months “to points higher than they cultivated friends, talked freely with |were during the war,” one hie might use later a8 a Wit-| “In the spring of 1921,” he pro- s#, and prepared in every get out, hus, Ohio, came down to see Attorney Mr, Dickson said Thaw and hisGeneral Daugherty, Nothing has been ounssl had “jockeyed” the Gump af- done since.” y waited seven years| [fe was asked if J. B, Todd, Daugh- se was settled before Thaw |erty's former law partner, was one of madb an effort to obtain his freedom. | {hese lawyere, but said he had no Mr, Dickson added that if it had |positive information as to thefr iden- not been for the trustees of the Thaw | tity, estate, there would have been no con- test,. All the evidence would have| pe witness declared the Southern n in favor of Thaw, he sald. The|pine group had financed the “Build records about the rabbits would never | yaur Own ¥Home” movement and have been presented | “promptly raised prices.” Thaw Glares at Doctors, Taking up the case of the West During Mr. Dickson's address, Thaw | oast Lumber association, he satd glared at the hospital doctors from | pat in 1920 the trade commission time to time as the speakers appar- ently made telling points, Thaw's |y, nether came into the court room Dr. Dickson was speaking and there was the daily scene of affection between her and Harry, which ended when the son helped the mother 1o a William A. Gray, counsel for Willlam Tha 13-year-old n Nesbit, divorced wite of Harry Th followed Mr, Dickson alse in opposition te Thaw's release He explained represented “the mother of Thaw's son” who was per- tted to intervena in the case a week Ha sald he had a right to ap- ar for the child on account of the '8 interest in the Thaw estate, HEARST MAKES REPLY Ballard On Tea- he entered against the Southern Pine association and allowing it to continue some of its operations. court Mr, sald otwithstanding, the evidence |shows conclusively there had been sviolation of the criminal statutes?” Chairman Thompson replied, “hecause mind there is no doubt about it.” Chairman Thompson said lumber Build Your Own Home of that organization, ““Nothing has been done sinc sald, “and no action taken. There was a better sentiment out there and they were not £o well organized as the Eouthern Pine but they soon got |together and joined in the ‘Build | Your Own Home' deal. Prices mount. (ed-~they ran them up to the levels corresponding to the Southern Pine, “My opinion is that the evidence is much more direct as to the West Coast than to the Seuthern Pine.' Altogether, the witness declared, thera was strong evidence of a gen- eral “‘conspira among lumber as. toclations, resulting in high prices and “very considerable profits to the lumber manufacturers.” Against the Western Pine associa. Mr. Thompson said, the depart. ment of justice did file a civil suit in 19 Cutside of this, he said, no ac- tion “was taken, H. for Daugherty, asked why the commission had not instituted on its own account. “We are going ahead on many Sherman act cases now,” the chair. n replied. “We have other cases ist as serious as these; and we are simply overwhelmed with work. We've field while seat Russell won of Evel he tio Calls Statement By Teasing Being Well | ot Dome el George Chamberiain, counse! JKnown In 1920 “Supremely Silly.” trade suits Replying to re- Apir Senator Stanficld Willlam 1 ph Hearst said in a telegram made to that the testimony of H. rd, of Los Angeles, before the oil committee that the Teapot yome lcasing proposal was a matter of general knowledge at the republi- s national ention in 1920, “is remely silly Oregon m the tione. “Well, wasn't the department of uetice overmhelmed toe?” “1 was five under present appropria- re- | | the lumber situation, followed Chair- | man Thompson on the stand and said | |he had been convinced there “criminal violations” in the | Coast Lumber association. Price-fix ing operations of the West Coast as- | soclation, he sald, affected lumber | users “as far east the Mississippl.” “The Southern Pine association has | placed its emphasis upon the control of prices by control of production,” he |sald, “but the Western Pine Manu- | facturers’ association has moved open- ‘|)' to fix prices by direct action.” Recalling Chairman Thompson for a moment, Senator Wheeler asked whether the offices of members of the | commission had not been “searched.” “Some of the commissioners have charged that—mine hasn't,” | Thompson replied, | Chairman .Brookhart announced | that with Senator Jones, republican, | Washington, he had completed an in- vestigation of the cases agalnst war camp bullders and had decided that ino further inquiry into that subject was justified by the Daugherty com- mittee, Warren W. Grimes of tHe depart- ment of justice then produced for the | committee, by direction of Attorney Genefal Stone, reports from the file of the department dealing with selzed liquor that “disappeared.” Suit | {Major Martin Installs were | West | Mr. | TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1924. Blue Ribbo Suggeslti ons —" - —— MATRIMONIAL MIXUP — Club Sandui Colored Preacher, Without License, Weds Couple and Wrong me Also Appears on License Sheet. Hartford, April 22—The Rev, Oscar iJ. DeLoach, 60, negro will be pre- sented in the Hartford police court | on Saturday charged with performing a marriage without a license, The ar- | rest of the Baptist minister who is 'also a waiter, grew out of testimony heard in police court this morning during the trial of Lem Humphrey, 34, and Ross Humphrey, 29, brothers, Lem Humphrey is charged with sub- |ornation of perjury and a serious of- | fense alleged by the father of Susie | Humphrey, 15, of West Springfield, | Mass. Ross Humphrey is charged with perjury. It is claimed Ross secured i the marriage license here, giving the girl's age as 21 at the direction of his older brother. The state also claims that the minister married Lem and the girl, though the mame of the, vounger brother appeared on the license. S BAYONNASE " HELLMANN'S BLUE RIBBON' ‘Mayonnaise ' v = e —————— | EITPFVIPECITRITIVOIIIPOTPVVPEVOIIPPVIPIITVIPITINTIONeRe Seamless Wedding Rings |Decision Reserved in | Fatal Auto Accident| 22,—Decision was New Motor in His Plane Stamford, April reserved by Coroner Phelan today af- | Platinum P'lain, Carved or Hand Carved 14 and 18k Yellow, Plain 10, 14.and 18k Yel- at one time to let “a consent decree” | “I don’t want to say conclusively,” | that is the point for a jury, but to my | way 10, cecded, “two attorneys from Colum- | had to call our men in from | By The Associated Press. Cordova, Alaska, April 22.—Major Frederick T. 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