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EW BRITAIN FOLKS GOING TO EUROPE Tany Book Passage and - Will Spend Summer Abroad of Many New iring passage through the office ‘vorge A. Quigley for trips tbroad is symmer, moat of them going to irope on a visit Vlisses Adele Murray and Gertrude illiams, school teachers, will sail for urope some time this month, return & in the fall, Mrs, Sarah Lovell of Plainville will il on June 21 for Liverpool, going n the Baltic of the White Star line, William Corbett of Pleasant street t Saturday for Queenstown, going N the White Star liner Celtic. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Smyrk will | *il en the Baltic, June 21, for a !hree months' trip to Liverpool. Mrs. Kenneth Sloper, who is visit ing in ¥rance, is expected to return «hiis month, Miss Leonie Crowe of Grove vill sail July 5 on the Bal Red Star line I'rance, Mr. and Mps, J Sritain people are Hill land of ihe Cherbough, for H. Van Oppen of 11 street will sail Saturday, June on the Holland-American liner totterdam for the city of Rotterdam. ! Mrs. Elizabeth Timbrell of Cedar tréet and Mrs, George H. Dyson Harrison street will sail July the 8. 8. Laconia for Liverpoc spend three months in Europe. Mrs, George L. Smith will sail June on gha Swedish-American liner lirottingholm for Maimo, Sweden, to he goné three months Mr. and Mrs. Alex Gross, proprie- tors of the York hotel and daughter, Anna Stanislaw and Frank Szydiow *ki, of Bristol, John Szydlowski of | Southington and John Brominski of | iristol, will sail on the Olympie June of on to NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1 GRAESSER GRADUATE DAUGHERTY REFUSES OF NAVAL AGADEMY T0 TAKE STAND BUT CLAIMS . INNOGENCE (Continued from First Page) New Britain Man Finishes Course at Annapolis Today partment of justice. Before definite- Walter M. Graesser, son of Mr. and ly replyingq to your suggestion that 1 | Mrs. M. M. Graesser of 61 Hawkins street, is a member of the graduating class of the United States Naval Academy which graduated from that | institution today. | He graduated fro mthe New Brit- ain high school in 1919 and in August of the same year he enlisted in the navy. In the summer of 1920 he took the examinations for the academy and received his appointment from the secretary of the navy. While at the academy he has beit a Tigh man in his class, He was a meniber of his class iifle team and re- coived his elass numirals for partici vatico in this epor’ He has taken puari in the summer cruises and has traveled through Kurope, the Canal Zone, and visited the West Indies, lowing his graduation today £ &n Graesser has been ordered to re- peri immediately to the U, 8, Wyom- flagship of the scouting fieet, which will leave Annapolis tomorrow for a tip during which it will visit Thesy, Prance; Weymouth, England; Loifer Holland; Gibraitar, An- twerp, Lelgium, and Ponta De Boba, Azores. He will be in Antwerp at the time of the Olympics and will prob- ably huve a chance (o sce some of the games, He is a member of Harmony lodge, No. 20, A, I\ and A. M., of this eity and & member of Mount Vernon chapter, No. Royal Arch Masons, Annapolis, Maryland lappear before your committee, 1 wigh (to call your attemtion 1o certain mat- ters which seem to me ¥ be pertinent t this time. “1—The great volume df business of the department of justice, so diver- sified that it vitally touches every branch of the government is of neces sity handled in detiil by the various igant attorneys general and :weial | assistants to the attorney general, hut undeér the general direction and super. | \Vision of the attorney general himself, | Tn order to arrive at a correet judg- | ment regarding any cular fit is absolutely nees to call said assistants who have had that case i charge and who, having access to the files of the department, can fully and accurately advise the committee ipn every detail in éonnection therewith. “It would be absolutely necessary | for me or any attorney generak to | refer to the assistants and the files before T could with any degree of | satisfaction attempt to make a state. ment before your committee. That being true, such assistants and others having the active charge of ecases and fully advised with reference all details and exccutive work under inquiry, and who have full access to and the use of records and files per- taining thereto, and are famillar with every phase of such ca should have heen called before your com- | mittee prior to my appearance, The | adoption of such a course would in all probability eliminate the necessi of my appearance in connection with the investigation of my official duties, by reason of the fact that full and ac- case, | ing, am, to 25, | committee of of producing witnesses on my own b half and on behalf of the department of justice, The decision of the court above referred to has changed the whole situation and rendered it un- nece: ry for me to appear before your | committee in person by and their attendance at ' ydur ings will be discontinued after this date, “For your scrvice and for purposes the record, 1 submit herewith a copy of the opinion of Judge conusel, hear- from and of true Cochran “Very truly yours, “H. M. DAUGHERTY " Afraid, Says Wheeler, 8t. Louis, June 4—Former Attorney General Dangherty “did not care to lay himself open to the rigorous ex- | amination that would hav awaited | him,” Senator Burton K. Wheeler, of | Montana, asserted here today in com- menting on Daugherty’s refusal to ap- | pear before the senate investigating | which Wheeler i3 a | member., ! THREE GREAT ENEMIES Hindrance To Progress of Country Women's Clubs Hear, l.os Angeles, June 4. seven- teenth biennial segsion of the general The federation of Women's clubs opened | it night with the president, Mps, Thomas G. Winter, of Minneapolis, Minn., presiding and a rec@bd-break- ing roster of delegatees, including many women of nationa! and world prominence in attendance, In her “keynote” address, Mrs, Winter declared that the three cnem- ies from within threatening the tion were “the plotter, the and the sleeper.” Only in an indirect way did the re. | tiring president refer to the subject which is expected: to be the greatest center of dehate at tha federat sessions, that of world peace, said na- schemer m's She | through | of | Glastonbury, Highland Park and | Berlin, | composed mostly of employes at the I be BERLIN NEWS (Continued From en). rage James McPherson, Henry A. Taylor, stationary engince Luther Turncr, factory; C . Woodward, carpenter. Cow Deal Causes Suit Walter Rudnicker of his counsel, Arthur W. Up- Britain, has brought suit against Salvatore Satalina of itain, The plaintiff claims that 5 is due on the saie of a cow. Dep- v Sheriff Martin H. Horwitz served the papers. The is returnable in the June. Prepare For Heavy Season The East Berlin community baseball team 1§ preparing heavy s n this year with other members of the league, it was stated today by Harold Clark, president of the oragnization. The league consists teams from wdsor Locks, farmer; case club Wi last Locks team The Windsor is Dexter and Sons company in that rlin meets Windsor on Saturday on the homs ficld and & 1ast game is expeeted. Mr. Clarl stated that kEast Berlin has an cellent team and that the boys been practicing faithfully time ex- have for Mass to Be Celebrated A solemn high month's mind mass the late Rev. John F. an of Danbury, will be celebrated at for morning at 7 o'clock. Iiev. John intimate friend of the deceased priest, will be the celebrant, Rev. Dr, Thowas F. Drengun of Hartford will deacon and Rev. W. D, Casy of Hartford will be sub-deacon. hiour as changed from 7 7 o'clock because of the fact Rev, Father Brennan has to attend a similar service in Danbury morning. Lerlin, city court the third Monday in | | volver for a 153 viding storage space. some | St. | Paul's church, Kensington, on Friday | | Brennan, pastor of the church is an | The | 7:39 o'clock to | that | 'RUM BOAT ABANDONED 'y AFTER FIERCE BATTLE Craft In Fight Of New London Sun- clerk; | day Found Riddled With Bullets, New Bedford, Mass., Fantasma, which The June 4. vacht was engaged in crated by customs forces out of London on Sunday, was found, an- chored and a doned, 16 miles off Block Island the coast guard cut ter Acushnet yesterday and was towed in here todsy The Fantasmia hore mang marks of attle, The pilot house was dented in number of places, apparently by re bullets, were shat- tered and u life preserver of the house was riddieq New by late portholes with bullet { holes, There littla i the tanks and the boilesa were dry., The Fantasma is 114 feet long and equip- ped with powerful burning tur- bine engines. Painted beneath her namae on the stern is the name “Pres- ton.” She is not reeorded in the American shipping registry. In the crews' quarfers forward and aft, bunks had been ripped out, pro- There no was very oi oil was liquor aboard MARKING OLD GRAVES (Fast Lyme Cemctery Has Resting Places of Eight Who Fought in the French-English War Here, st Lyme, June 4.—For the first time in the state's history the graves of eight participants in the French- English war fought on American soil were to be officially marked and dec- orated here today. The ceremonies were in connection with the annual | meeting of the East Lyme historical Friday | society, At the same time ILueretia Shaw chapter, Daughters of the Am- a battle with two patroi hoats op- | One Grateful Mother’s Tribute “I would not be without the famous Dr.TruesElixir for it is a faithful friend all year 'round, At first signs of dull feeling, fatigue or restless- ness I give my children a few doses and then rest assured that everything will be all right.””—Mrs. Flora Desaults, Worcester, Mass. The *‘kiddies” LIKE Dr. True's Elixir—grandmothers call it The True Family Laxative Will relieve every member of the family of constipation. $1.20; 60c; 40c. Successfully used for over 73 years hox on top | e fied ‘as the muster rolls of the Connm- ccticut troops in the last French war, Hitherto these soldiers' graves were unmarked and the veterans were among the “unknown dead.” In its announcement of intention to decor- ate the graves the East Lyme histori- cal society said: “We should honor these early sol- diers as the wars in which they fought wers momentous to us since without successful issue we could never have become an independent nation.” ASKS FOR DESTROYER Washington, June 4—The American minister of Tirana has asked that an American destroyer be kept in readi- ness to proceed to Durazzo, presum- ably to protect American llves and property endangered by the Albanian revolution, and the navy department :lmn instructed Vice-Admiral Andrews, : City Items 14 for Cherhough They will be gone P e three months. John and Thomas Lomax of Wost Main street will sail on the fune 21 for Liverpool Avadio Vortirosian of street and Krehor Harouty Main strect will sail June White Star liner Majestic hourg. Mr, and Mrs, Seymour street for Cherbourg. They will he accony evening at panied by Mrs. B. Arata of Maple | street street, 8 Columbia 1 Mrs. Mary J. 1lolmes s daughter, ' Plerce Co, vt \iss Cora M will sall on the Homerie Miss Alherta July 12 for Sount ampton, ngleand f Mr. and ¥ Mr, and Mre, Thomas Heal'n of 177 Ha fake and Hich stree will safl on the White Star liner Cedrie for Queens town, July 12 Iaseph R, Thuplon and eil of Plainville, will sail for 1.i crpool on the Cunard linver, 1.a Mre. N. E. MleKne of Grand trest and daughter, Dorothy, will Al on the Womerie of the White Star ine for Southampton, June Baltic e Misses treet o'clock, for the benefit of Presh Air Camp at Burlington Get your new 1 107 off price Page 3 Stella will hold Whittiesey, West Lafayette 468 the Cher- at n of on for list. See advt, Anthony will sail Crova. of 21 . lodge, 1 ite regular me Odd Fellows' 0, on Juns hall, ecords, $1.00. C. MeKenzie, ain general for eight an operation ! ospital MOy « a8 a result of dieitis, 12 A daughtar, 1 night at th , to Mr. of this efty 21 Am C. L WILCOX PRESIDENP & OF THE UNIVERSAL CLUB Landers, Prary & Clark Socinl Organ. = A mecting of ‘the and taxation will be R o'clock at the office of Mayor A Paonessa 1o fssue bonds authoriz the board, onin, July atrice, was born ney and Mre ting Star wding hem, a0 o'clock William stroet and Union streo to marry.* Temple of 208 Miss Anna board of izat Flect Officers—Outing In Meriden, June 7, The annual mee ting of the ib was held at the t Main strect ports for Univers. club house ning, The the past year were read hy the ehairman committees, and showed that the club had a very sue- r. The annual outing will aturday, June 7, at Hanover park, Meviden, 1t fs expeeted 400 will attend this outiig going to Meriden by aute, Officers for the ted as follows: President, C. 1. Wilcox; 1 prest- dent, William Schultz; recording see. retary, C. H. Deming; financial secre- tary, Faul Theren: treasurer, H. A, Traver; chairman service eommittee, 1. F. Scheidler; ehairman socia mittee, 1. A, Johnson five A sotial time was enjoyed after the urday regular business meeting A, m, on re GERMAN BUDGET Beelin, June 4.—T1 empire today approved the budget which was declared by resentative of last e of the governmont He added that revenues balanced at marks economy ftures and billion gold coming year were Special Notice Commencing Monday, June com- a. m. and will close at 7:30 faturday will open at nd wjll close at 8:30 p. m, SILVER FOR THE BRIDE Let your gift be silver. Its intrinsic value is lasting, its beauty outlives changing fash- ions, its usefulness is unfailing. We invite your inspection. The Porter & Dyson Co. Jewelers and Silversmiths 54 MAIN ST. NEW BRITAIN The annual civie tea of the Wom- in's club will be held at the home of Main tomorrow afternoon from 3 to Chevrolet now auiry to an end at an earlier date, at 0, F, ting Friday Arch daughter Archie MeKenzie of a pupll at the Senior High sehool, returned home Tuesday after heing confined to the New Brit- wosks appen- Nile strent hospital, Hart- Louis Raphaei lodge, will ba hetd pall tomorrow night at Churceh Leonardi of 2 have bheen granted a li- finanee held tonight at ecent session of the eity meeting APPROVED. council of the 1924 A rep have been drawn up with the utmost expend- 1924, Barber Shops will open at §:00 P m. v8 a week, excepting Sat $:00 curate information would he in the possession of the committee as a re sult of calling the assistants in active charge of litigation, The calling of these witnesses at the . commenen ment of the inquiry would have en- abled the committee to bring this in least ! ficial insofar conduct as it concerned my of- as attorney general, Since the commencement of your inquiry, that is to say om the | 12th day of March last, T have hoped to be asked to appear befora your committee, and have been somewlhat | surprised that T was not asked to ap- | pear at an earlier period in ysur pro- ceedings, as I was under the im pression that the investigation would be confined to my official actions as Attorney.general of the United States and matters direbtly relating thereta “The fact that your committes has not up to the present time ealled a | single witneas suggested by me, and has sought for evidence from unex pected sources and generally from persons so situated that under ordi Dary eircnmstances very little ere- dence would be given their testimony has from the heginning caysed me to feel that thers wes a ,w: of an tagonism toward by certain members of your committes and that these members of your com mittee, instead of prosccuting a fair and impartial inquiry inte my of fieial conduct as attorney general of the United States, have made a dew perate attempt to blacken my repu tation and injure my standing in the by the statements of un witnesses which would not be ot entertained conntry relinble admitted in any court Attacks Investigation “I have heen able to under. | sta your investigation was con ducted upon sweh unusual and ar lines, and with such bittey feeling toward me on tha certain members of Nevertheloss, full of confidence in the ability of the department of to d to the satisiac- tion of vour commitice, or any other, the fact that ite functions during ti time of my admjpnist-ation attaiucd 1o a high degree of efficiency, T have baen ready and ansious to assist your committee in thin my power to maka splenail of accomplishment of the de partment “At this point contradict and surmise or supposition, that 1 profited {in any illegal corrnpt or unethica way, dircctiy or indirectly by reason of any activities of political associates or friends at that my conduct, either personal, | was directly in at any time corrupt peared | has suposition or otherwise, intimated the existence of any such circumstance, excopt by way of the grave, and the silence of the tomb, dered the direct denial of these slanders impos- sible “3. The which arose in regard to the power of your com- mitte to jesus a subjeona duces tecum 16 the officers of the Midland National Washington honse to produce certpin books and Aocuments, resulted an appeal to the courts on the part of the bank and a judicial determination of the powers of your committes “A_ copy ustice, never 4 why pech- pers part | your commit- sonal o nstice monstrate every way w publie 1he réecord occasion to inferenc any time, official indirectly by venal and css has Ap- or or or enced in any ¥ No wit committe motives. fore your who has forever re controversy court of the opinion of Cochran of the federa southern district of Ohio was placed in my hands on Monday evening, June 2 A careful examination of this opinion, has settied as it seems to me, the course which 1 must now adopt in connaction with this investigation and has answered ¥o request that 1 appear before your committee on Friday squarely been and not granted court for the for me next. Judge Cochran holds that your commiftee has is now oxercising a power by the o pressly or by implication, and that each and all of your actions under senate resolutior . Tutely void. Th view of this decision, and in obedience thereto, it would scem 1o ma to be a vain thing to con- tinue an illegal proceeding and in- quiry, and T mu therefore decline 1o appegr before r committe (the very commencement of your hear- Inge, that twelfth day of March iast, 1 heen constantly represented atoa hearinge, and during 2 have entsetained the heen encanrazed be ulfimatily T would hdve the privilegs | constitution, are abso yor From ie, on the have conns of #aid this hy time have the promizes that hope and commanding American naval forces in Furopsan waters, to hold a vessel in readiness, | erican Revoltuion held memorial ex- ercises. Iepresentatives of many his- terical societies and Governor Charles A. Templeton were among the guests | invited, The Louisburg cross, emblem of the society of colonial wars, is the insignia used to mark the graves, which were located after the papers found a few years ago in an old attic were identi- EED POTATOES Maine Seed from Aroostook County Certified by State of Maine Agricultural Birth Certificate urned A Lirth certificate has been re. turned to the office of the town clerk | anuouncing the birth of a = to Mr, and Mrs, Alexander of Kensington Items of Interest The outdoor carnival of the T. A, B, drum corps enjoyed great success ast night and will be continued 1o0- night w!lh many new attractions, Mrs, Wilfred R. Moore af Barfin is Visitog relatives in Springield and Greenwich Village, M Phugtte, | Fast Berlin Items The regular weekly meeting of the Community club will be held in the basement of the Methodist church thls evening at 8 o'clock | Arthur Benson has returned to his | home after spending the past few days in South Bend, Indiana The weekly meeting of the Junier league will be held in the social room “We are going to remember that | brotherhood is wider than America, and that our fate a% wall as our hearts is boupd up in the destiny of peoples unlike us in blood and tradition, yet with the same longings and needs, | struggling along other roads toward the same end that we seek, “Our country is a demonstration that brotherhood is not an idle phrase but that it is the only practical solu- tion of the world's difficulties. And there is no brotherbood that does not entail duties as well as privileges,” STEAMSHIP OTFICIAL DIES New York, June 4. —~William 1, Lightfoot, head of the claims depart- ment of the Old Dominfon Steamship company, died in a hospital here last night, DOISY IS DELAYED, By the Assoc Press Tokio, June 4.—Captain Georges Pelletier Doisy IFrench an hopped off from Taiku, lKorea, where he had arrived this morning for Hiro hima, Japan, at 3 o'clock this aft- 'noon, but was foreed return to Tatku after a short flight, Weather conditions stormy for him |of the Methodist church Thursday af- to venture passage the Korea |ternoon at 4 o'clock channel, he said, on refurning. Doisy A number from this place will at- is within a few hours flying of |tend the weekly barn dance to be held goal of his long journey from at the mme of Mr, Wolke in West Cromwell Iriday evening ! An interesting program is Leing ar- GAINS. nged by the pupils of the Methodist (.l:een‘Mounlams T funday school for chitdren's Day | Irish Cobblers continued which will he observed next Sunday. | in the primary The final Parent-Teacher's meeting | Rurton 1. 0f the year will be heid at the Hub an bard school Iriday evening at 8§ o'clock. New officers for the ensuing vear will be elected at this meeting. | The program commit hae been very fortunate in securing I'rederick v Britain, past depart- | ment eommander, Dept. of Conn, G, | A. R aker of the evening. | A full attendanes is desired fator were 100 across Dept.—Our seed is bought in car lots direct from growers now ko, Paris Spaulding Rose Carmin No. 3 Gold Coin Rackliffe Bros., Co., Inc. Park & Bigelow Sts. Agri. Dept. BROOKHART Des Town Smith increase election over L ol of Waverly from rural districts came night. Returns from cinets of 2,412 in the Brookhart 191,791, and Sw 191 Streeter of New Moines, ator W. 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