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G, 0. P. TREASURER UPHAM 10 RETIR Republican Machine Will Have New Sef of Officials By the A Cleveland ham of Chicago, has quish his place as treasurer of republican national committee ervice of many yeurs. Announcement of My cision was made today after had conferred with William M. Butler, manager of I'resident Coolidge's con- vention campaign and incoming chair- man of the national committee, There no indication as to his probable Mr. Upham has been in ratlier poor health for some months. With the retirement of Mr. Upham a new sct of oificials must be chosen when the n, ed Press, June 4.—Fred W, Up- decided to rejin- the ra Uphiam's de- he w tional committee is reorganized. sides Chairman Adams, Secretary Qeorge B. Lockwood also is to retire, Mr. Upham is oftered for election as national committecman from Illinois, le is opposed by Representative Al- n 1, Moore-of Tilinois, Annour Mr, Upham's de- ermination committes treasurer wa in this statement sued from Coolidge general head- quarters by Mr. Butler: “Fred W. Upham, treasurcr of the has in- retire close of the the past winter he has been ill and now finds it im- that he refrain from the ac tive and strenu work required in the campaign and sccupy the summer in rest and recuperation, “Mr, Upham has served the party s treasurer long and faithfully cement of to retive made republican national committee, that hic to oifice at During desives the ormed me from that convention perative Be- | i BARBERS' STRIKE REMOTE POSSIBILIPY, 1S CLAIM Scveral Emplogers Favor Granting Journeymen’s Demand for Shorter Working Hours. Several m there is very little likelihood of a strike among journeymen barbers who are secking a change in their sched- ule of king hours, The proprictor of the Universal Barber Shop is in favor of granting the demands of the journeymen bar- bers and posted a shop stating that the shop weuld close at 7 on week nights and at 9:3 on Saturday night. A similar not has been posted in the Herald Barber hop and the Bosco Barber Shop !iicspite their having signed a petition | circulated by the Master Barbers op- | posing the demands of the journey- wen barbers, Tha proprietor of the Model Barber Shop on Church street is opposed to the demands of the ourncymen barbers and stated thi morning that he would not accede to| their demands regardless of what cov the other barbers take. The petition eirculated by the Mas- rhors s as follows: the Master Barbers of New Britain, have come to the conclusion that we @} not close at 7:30 p. m. week days. The hours should remain as they are now, $ a. m. to 8 p. m. ind Saturday 8 a. m. to 10 p. 3. gigned, Audacio Perez, Angelo Blan- not, James Bazzo, D. Christien, 8. Hriglio, Andrew Cantall, Oscar Gian- N. Sandals, I'rank Bosco." tono, Sa THREE KILLED IN WORCESTER WRECK er barbers believe that | notice in his | NEW BRITAIN DA PRISON TERMS FOR 3 BANK EMPLOYES (Continued from First Page) not lose any money as a their misdeeds. In explaining the method used by the trio to defraud the bank, he said that they did it by means of fraudu- | lent collateral loan notes which were | supposed to he covered by stocks and other sccurities deposited with the ! bank. A combination was effected by the three men which made it pos- sible for them to put the fraudulent | notes through the bank, to replace the money they were removing for their own use with little fear of de- | tection. result of Alcorn Attacks Brokers Golng into the reason for the re- moval of the money, Mr. Alcorn took | the opportunity to launch an attack ! against brokerage houses in the state | that handle accounts for young men, especially employes of banks, in- olving sums of money that they must know have not been obtained legally. He said that the case was a sample of the utter indiffercnce shown by many houses as to the source of the money customers use for their opera- tions. He suggested that it was about time brokerage houses, in order to protect themselves,' banking and {other institutions of the state, should take steps to apprise themselves of | the source of the money young men | use for stock operations, when they | i have reason to know that the ‘opera- i tions are beyond the mcans of their | customors, | { He said that the three men were exceptionally brilliant and intelligent, | {and of good families, and therefore he did not know of any excuse that | could be offered for their deeds. He said that he had told counsel |t for the young men that he would fol- |t low the same course in disposing of | known that | forging notes to cover their defalea ILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1924, “This Freedom” in the Caucasus Everybody’s hobby Outdoors or indoors, summer or winter, daytime or night, thirsty people think of Clicquot Club Ginger Ale. And it's a happy thought —because they all like it. There is a pert freshness in its gingery taste, a keen, cool, pure quality that gives a thrill to any- body's throat. Why on earth shouldn’t they all like it ? Order by the case fror your groees, druggist, or eonfectioner ‘The Clicquot Club Company Oh, yes—woman'’s rights are having an inning in the Cau- casus as well as elsewhere. This interesting and exclusive photo- graph shows a gathering at Usbeck where the right to abolish the veil, with which women of that region have been swathed for generations, is the question. Also they are being instructed as to their rights under recent emancipation rulings. Clheane ‘,,C,\\x\o the market would and they would be enabled out again at a profit without the shares delivered to them. usual time it took for the deliv delivered, g0 IS having The ery of they were doing some hing that was decidedly wrong in aing the money from the bank and up the case as he has done with similar cases in the past, and asked the i court to impose a severe penalty, He | =aid that Domijan was of reforma- tory age and recommended that he be sent to the reformatory for five | years, and Snelgrove and Smith be sentenced to state’s prison for five years each. Five years is the maxi- mum penalty under the statute for forgery, McDonough Also Blames Rrokers |tions, and that they could not con (tinue it very long without heing de itected, They knew detection would | mean arrest and punishment by the | court, He said that the intelligence of Domijan and the statement of the state’s attorney that he was the hrains of the trio would put him on an equal | footing with the others, eliminating |any consideratiom that might be given | him because of his age Ui et 5 Lcomotive. Leaves Track and Goes Over Embankment and 1 know that it the shares was about three days It at the end of the three days the market price of the stocks had not advanced and delivery was made to them, they would pay for the shares with the bank’s money and deposit the stocks as to guarantee the notes they forged mongy taken They [ has | performance ties of the office be with ssistants | Ginger Ale vegret that his his retirement. His | a debt | ervices,” | | will sincere arn of party owes hi of gratitude for Worcester, Mass, June 4 Three | smen were killed when the loco- motive drawing westbound train No. ), known as the Twilight Express on Boston and Albanry railroad, collateral of his generon, ont the suades Him to nlace the 4. —Mrs, 1'red Wire Chicago W. |the : are eved to have followed the per the trea of 11 committee Upham. wife of surer republican nat him to retire from the ardu f the suaded duties financial o learned Mr, Upham, regardle convenience and the heavy res hilities of the place, desired throughout the present Defere to Mrs, of genius toda s of party, it was personal ponsi to con cam Upham’s his tinue palan wishes, n s own 1t winte 1 ~considera*'on of own him to 1o Mr, the health ision, wish " and tIrnIng lition mom A recent had | physicians en Upham said 1 pham uree days ago, Mrs relinguish some head of th of the large v of the corporations of the and pre alth ty ve his ) or twe n the fin national manship Mtters o Upham h M by clal & repub conventions of the reason Chic e Al con- ican ar ywention eomi the five natie tions held 1 He by of the national committee In 1004, the st yoar the s dinth nts ements for came treas n 1918 con Colisenm here t $70,000, In in vention W £110,000 1l the arrangeme 1816 the cost wa and 1420 expense increased 1o $150,000, st in ed in to the umber of time Wisconsin, He v of the national com raft campaign of 1908 the Hughes camp offices he the « 8 for M1 pationa 3 yoars. ation , first was from tv board of tax reviews 1" and alderman I'p ham accompanied him to Doom Astor Mansion York-—The wi marble of As New ite gion birthplace s or to m way n th of New " York's most 1" of ment hotse ere held mar nous and not nts " a huilt W before the death am Astar in Paris In 15 s the 1ast of the show places of that perind j | ack and went over a 20-foot em hankmont fnst as it was entering the railrond vards here late yesterday, A seore ofs passengers suffered cuts and and were shaken up but none rionsly injured dead Willlam avenne, Natick Egdgal lor, Malden, a fice Milliam Staples, 49 Royal street, Allston, the engineman, Pind ocks On Track dragging brake rod on the fen of the locomotive, it was first be. 1 by railroad might have caused the wreck officials said last night that the theory had been wbandoned because of had been found Plans were made for a rigid investigation in which the state polieo and Worcester will with railroad polic Medical aid the presence of shale rock on the where it 18 believed the pony trucks of the tender were derailed, and the fact that there is no rock of that variety in the immediate vieinity 1 warrant the theory that the was placed t State Detective Ttob- the where the ® found ix crossed by a used hy persons going from one street 1o another Passenger Coach Deralled The baggage car and the passenger coach directly behind the engine were devailed but remained upright, al though the passenger car was tipped angle and was held from the coupling of the car and the passenger coach the t hruise was Th Cireular Peterson, fireman; man and A dor le men, hut which oin [ clurye woul sh or persons, Melt ale rock w said curve pathway at a perilous turning over by haggage behind A fow of the women passengers be- came alarmed but were quickly quist ed. Emergency calle were sent to po-. lice headquartsrs and to City hospital, A fire alarm was sounded to bring ap paratus that would have the neeessary 1o reach the wrecked en after leaving the tracks ind going over the embankment, turn 1 completsly over. caquipment gine, which Monk Adopts Hoge Kas ck, a diminutive 8 been a regular inhabitant on the farm of W. W, Me- here, for thres years. In numerous families of pigs nod undsr Jork's and have become expert with the as Repub! monkey, h of a pigsty that time have grown 1 guiding car saddie K o monkey Incorporated 177 MAIN STREET Anniversary Sale NOW GOING ON Never before, to our knowl- edge, were better values offered m Millinery and Hosiery There ave still plenty of good values o be had. traveling | later cevidence | Examiner Frederick H, Baker | ere by some per. | | Attorneys Patrick MeDonough ‘nnd Alfred LeWitt represented the trio, McDonough making the plea to the court, He blamed the stock i brokers for the predicament in which :lh-' men were, saying that the brokers 1 had cireulated, tipped and telephoned i | | the young men to such an extent that | (they finally decided to purchase [ Stock with tha money that had been | |saved from their salaries. He said that the brokers had filled them with | Inside tips and other such rot, paint- | Ing rosy pictures of the future if they | bought certain issues, until the young men belisved that they could not lost by dabbling in the market He said that after they had lost their savings, the brokers did not leave them alone even then, hounding them with inside tips and confidential information with which to recoup their 8 and give them a hand- some profit in addition. He said that the constant pressurs and the hope of recovering thelr losses finally BOt the better of their judgment and their will and they took the money from the bank with the expectation | | that they would ba able to replace | {1t in & very short time He said that at all times, the stocks that were purchased by (he men with the money taken from the bank were In the posseesion of the hank, as the trio would use the stocks they purchased as collateral for the forged notes, Attorney McDonough his opinion, if the men were turned free now and allowed to resume their positions at tha bank, the pun- ishment they had undergons thus far would be enough to make them go hack and work their hardest to regain the confidence of their superiors, Not of Criminal Type He #aid that the men were not of | the vicious criminal type acoustomed to be seen in criminal courts, but are Young men of very fine parentage and training, who made a mistake and by that mistake had hrought great,suf: | fering upon relatives and friends. He #aid that he had never seen a case in his 28 years of prac tice {n which s0 many pesple had been affectad by the arrast of a per. son. 1 ¥ 1 . said that, in On the question of ponalty, Attor ney McDonough said that in view of the fact that the thres are so veung, the court should take into considara. tion their families and hold some hope out ta them for the future, MHe sajd he felt that the ends of justice would be met if a sentance was im posed that would give the men an opportunity for parole at the end of ia if In that tima they had shown they wers worthy of it Alcorn Opposes Leniency Ktate's Attorney Aleorn elosed his argument on his motion for sentence {by saying that there was not much difference in the case of the three men and other similar cases that had been before courts before. He maid that it was not unusual for men to | bring great sufferings wpon innocent | partien as a result of their erimes than they suffercd themselves | He said that the eyes of all bank | employes in the state were upon the courtroom o see what disposition was made of the cases against the trie, land that leniency on the part of the | court would be an encouragement to | them to follow their steps He said that ording to the in- formation in his hands, Domijan was the brains of the trio In their apera tions in spite of the fact that he was | the voungest | | Judge Calls Aleorn Incomsistent At this point, Judge Biis interrupt- ed, maying that he could not quite un. | derstand the consistency of Mr. Al | corn’a statement that Domisan was the brains of the trio, and then recom.- mend that he be sentenced to the re. formatory where he would be efigible for parole at the end of a year's time ;Hc said that he feit to send Domijan |16 the reformatory under such cona; tions would be an unjust discrimina {tion against Sneigrove and Sfith. | State's Attorney Aleorn then said that he recommended the reforamtory | for Domijan only because of his age. Knew They Were Doing Wrong In imposing sentence, Judge FEils #aid that he felt profoundly sorry for the relatives and friends of the young the He M that be gence and training lof the three men, they must en in cane cause of the Damijan first, | Smith last, | operations of | about taken purchased posited and they ent the bank will seeurity panies’ He then sentenced tiem separately, loss then Snelgrove and to suffered s the dis. with nature this plan and atfor loss as a result, It wa of at the bank stocks of a speculativ Bank encountoered have Vegetable Seeds For Best Results Buy Bulk Seeds You are sure of fresh, new seed of high ger- mination—More seeds for your money Rackliffe Bros. Co., Inc. Park & Bigelow S Agri. Dept. note highly an collateral, Deputy Commis- sloner & during his examination of the bank's books and caused the detection of the men The examiner did not like the idea of the bank making a Iateral of that nature and took it up with the bank officials, An investi- gation into the note was started and thing led until the operations of Smith 1o light, and ar- covery a Loss $53.000, Bank Says, Tt was estimated by an official of he trust company today that the net oss of bank funds as a result of the the three men was 000, More moncy was them, but the stocks they with the money with the bank as collateral have been sold at the value. The net loss to be submitted to the company the transac- fons have been checked by the com accountants, and restitution 't the difference will be made to the hank. The trial ippee E} by loan with eol. were pres market one to another Domijan Beought ssions antire tnelgrove were their after and followed by confe rests iy { could cation and that search is being an effort to I« where the | mainder of the money is. This point to the of Mr, and he after ro- the bank men £30,000 defal. m is reported that account for only yesterday brought out ie more clearly the method used by the three employes to use the money of the bank to finance their stock trans actions, The plan they are supposed to have followed was to order a number of stocks from a broker, in the hopes that before the stocks were CLOSING OUT SALE OF CHEVROLET CARS 0% Reduction We are going out of business and will sell our stock of brand new 1924 model Chevrolet, comprising Tourings, Coupes and Sedans at 10 per cent off price list. 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