New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 3, 1924, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLHHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN HERALD REVENUE OFFICIALS CANNOT BE PREVENTED NAME OF INCOME TAX PAYER Another Court Decision Today Upholds Right Of Public To Secure Address As Well As Amount Paid. Judge Does Not Rule on| Right of Publication, Ex- | plaining if Tt Ts Tllegal o Then Redress May Had. Be| FROM GIVING SEN. BORAH TO URGE BINGHAN'S ELECTION Will Speak at a Rall .in This City Next Week United 8t Borah of Idaho will speak at a Re n rally in of the ters on Thursday evening, 1. Senator Borah ed chairman of the lations committee of the terd the Henry this position s one loc n senate yes edin Be 0 Cabot L eee late By virtue Senator Borah the most importar powerful men in congress. comne and one Washington, Dec. 3—The commis- sloner of Internal revenue may be enjofned from making available to public inspection the name ana post office address of an income tax- payer as well as the amount of tax raid, Justice Hoehling held today in the District of Columbia supreme court, The decision was handed down in an opinfon granting the motion of Commissioner Blair to dismiss the suit for an Injunction filed against him by Gorham Hubbard of Boston to prevent the publication of the emount of tax paid by the petitioner. Not Newspaper Case Whether fon of tax returns carries the right of publica- tion in newspapers or otherwise, the justice stated, was not involved in the proceedings before the court, but paragrap A and B of sectlon 257 of the revenue act of 1024, relating 10 gpening the returns to the pub lic, he added, were valid and forceable Should it develop, gested, Vised statut not | public tnsp en- the justics sug- that section 3167 | forbidding he courts of the publication | valid and publication of would entltle under | re- Hm to appropriate redress that statute. It is the duty of the commission- | away from Fox's theater, where the the ahle | | er of internal revenue, however justice ed, to make ava for inspection the name, ad q unt of tax when the ween determined under the Basis of Opinion. ased Unite the cas court its opin reme court Stone Tracy compa urt rejecte gress may inspection of me ¢ | such returns 1| g e | | i | | s of more properly se accuracy thereof at this feature ence to t tional protec amendment the fifth amen s s vi Tnod of Living. So Park ( lt\‘ '\Lm r4ll\(‘~ ()\\n L m‘ Drive on T Hartford, Dee. Hubbard, New Y Berrotih it was stated at t LEADS LABORITES The Ass Dec, 3.—R the former 1 ch jamentary labor part of the party today hosen deputy labor pr say was Ber i chief w President This the will be his only speech i state during the contest fo WILLIAM. E. BO:! ates Senator Willlam B, al Do was foreign re- of be- NEW BRlTAIN NNOT (GAS LIGHT €0, T0 INGREASE CAPITAL Directors Recommend New Issue of $400,000 in Stock WILL MAKE 1T $1,000,000 Growth In Business Makes Expan- sion in Plant Necessary, President Bloper Writes to Stockholders— y| Speclal Meeting Dee. A notice will be malled to the stockholders of the New Britain Gas Light company In a day or two calling for a speclal meeting of the stockholders for December 22 to vote on an increase of the stock of the company from to $1,000,000. The following letter from A. J. Sloper, president, will accompany the notice: “To the Stockholders of the New o Britain Gas Light Company. »r| “On account of the rapid growth 'of the population served by this company and the large number of new customers added the past few years, we are confronted with the [ of adding largely to our nt n necessity | at the gas works. facilities “In order to do this, it wise to call upon the stockho! for additional capital. of business has heen every prospect that tinue, >ropert seems rs Thd growth steady with it win con- contiguous to our pres- ent work recently been pur- chased and propose to proceed immediately with the erection of an additional large storage gas holder. Extension of mains has been con- tinuous and there still remains W demand for more extensions which | we have been unable to meet on account of shortage of labor of that class. This also has and will re- quire more capital “Payment on tha new probably* not be called such time the new spring. “Yours truly, stock will for, until gas holder the ‘coming J. SLOPER, "Prnmdan & senator between Hira Binghar - SILKWORTH 1S GIVEN and Hamilton Holt§ e spoke v:uw Hard and four y Cox president was nece ago during t 1al campa rally was Mrs. Ha ton, v sctts s Merritt of auspices of 1ge clul preside ed to aid the Mrs oity i ers in N GANGSTERS ARRESTED Tight Chicago Young Men Held fo Series of Assaults on Well as Robheries OBJECT TO NEW HOUSES Hart Street Residents Protest Ag; Ereetion of Two and Three-Fami 1y Apartment Bulldings MERRILL NOKINATED Coolidge Makes Recom wendation to Senate For wastership at Bristol ok ry to turn many people | club re- Women as ainst Post- fl. NINETY DAYS IN JAIL dated Stock Exchange Sentenced New York, Dec, Silkworth, former president of Consolidated Stock Exchange, who was convicted in the Unijted States district court of using the malls to aud, today was sentenced by Augustus N. Hand to serve ays in the Westchester eounty il and to pay a fine of $1,000. Blaine J. Nicholas and Earl H. ell, partners with DeWitt C. in the bankrupt firm of Ray- Truesdell, who nvicted with Silkworth, re- ceived a sentence of two years each in the Atlanta penitentlary. Raynor, ed guilty, and assisted the ent {n the prosecution, was to 90 days {in the West- county 4 A. McQuade and Fra lan, members of the curb age firm of McQuade Broth- 1 Quillan, were sentenced to the Westchester county 8500 each ough, former member of 1 means committee of idated Stock Exchange. for Raynor, Nicholas | on that exchange, re- ence of 90 days in the county jail and was the b who plea governr r 5% broker ers an Quil or trader Would- Bc Bridegroom Is cnt tn Jail fm 10 Day Dec n Buzza,| Hwi vesterday on marrie 1 W m eourt of pe rv.*\ ob- marr Lee Ha I~ ( ‘hinaman Who Is Identified by Girl Dac. 8.—Lee Ha, alias e of tho two Chine n a charge n o wit Hartford i- ol New Y in L rk o f the 1, Bronx Day, tdentified by as © who on Wedne and killed 1 n in the former's lau on T man Holt Will Make Campaign Speech in Waterbury Tues. Wat Dec. -F.amilton ar a app: SIGN PEACE TREATY gned today by two counmtries. mmerc and representatives Swedc was L()NNELTILUT WI DN hBDAY MINERS WHO STRIKE LOSE THEIR CHARTER 10 Local Unions With 12, 000 Membership Affect- ed in Pennsylvania Scranton, Pa., Dee. 8. —Charters of capital | 00,000 as dellvery {s made on' 3. —Wiltam §.| ten local unions of the United Mine Workers of America in the Pittston district were revoked by the district board of the unlon here. Fallure of 12,000 striking miners to obey the order of International President John L. Lewls to reiurn | to work was the reason assigned for the revocation. The artion means that the strikers are no longer mem- | bers of the miners' unlon. District unlon officers said that the revocation deprives the strikers of all rights and privileges of the miners’ organlzation and that it Is likely that Internatior President Lewis will send organizers here to reorganize the Pittston workers and bar the members of the grievance committee blamed for the walkout An interesting feature of the re vocation of the charters is that Dis |trict President R spellini and several board hold their membership in miners unlon through one the local unfons whose charter voked. District their membership i protec ternational union law. The present walkout is the third | strike fnvolving a considerable num- ,ber of men that has occurred in the upper anthracite fields this fall with- out authorization of the district or- ganization. Tha other twn walkouts agalnst the Glen Alden Coal pany and the Hudson Coal company were ended by the men obeying the fnstructions and returning to work pending the adjustment their grievances, Two collferlas of the Miners' members t of has been re- belleve 4 by in- officers com- o | Lehigh and | Wilkes Barre Coal company. Involv ling about 1,600 men are also |strike. A meeting of the general | grievance committea of the miners | employed by this company will be held n Wilkes Barre tomorrow night In an effort to settle the trouble OFFER 81, 31 000 REWARD Oonéord, Mass, Volunteer Watchmen Secking Firehngs— Patrolling Streets Every Night., Concord, Mass, Deec. 3—A re- ward of $1,000 has been offered by the seiectmen of this town for in- formation leading persons responsible of fires in the past ¢ prevent further a diarism armed cit strects nightly, body they meet state fire mare, aid in tracing t fires. | According to the fire department 1 been turne since May. was the buri Congre with to the arrest of a long series months. been asked for ithors of records of the 2 have towr alarms tn the llttle serious Trinita in The most several re ces had fire late citizens' vig been set recent weeks, smmittes was or- Rev. Gall burned chu Tn many departme bufldi have been set pastor of th ces whers the fi gs W i ‘Wojak Back From | Wnth Barnstor GHEEI\ L ARTERBACK 5 NEW HARVARD CAPTAIN] Was Kept Out of The < Season Because of Injuries THE WEATHER Hartford, Dee, 3.—TForceast for New DBritatn and vicinity Cloudy tonight and Thur colder Thursday; fresh and northwest winds wes [ S Major Games | — n‘uu) ‘paogpel ndaq Ay FIBIRE) N McLEAN OF CONN. SELECTED FOREIGN RELATIONS MEMBER| Edge Also Named While Chaiyman to Succeed Late Senator Lodge. Was} rah an of t eommitt » time med on Connecticut two of the gue of oppr Amer} wor court unless 1580ciated from the and i3 an ardent tate department’s snition of the Rus ment m Committee ced 1o the foretgn \anship, nator to relinquish the nate educa- Senator ded him ifornia wa s Senato: mmigratior ing that place “fr- ha in to the 18 d natlo of the poliey of not slan sovict gove Of ¥ducat i In order to 8 relations chai Borahwas oblig chairmanship tion and labor c Phipps of Color (s chalrman of t Senator named to Colt as chairma ommitt league « oppor et it comr Johnsoi of ( uee P M¢e LEAN_J ator Johnson reti ership on the military commi Senator Borah Is Chosen | the | —EIGHTEEN PAGES. | ‘SHEAN TRUAL DELAYED Quick Arrest of Gerald Chapman for Murder Hinted at Walter E. § Gerald Chapr | the Davidson & the morning of with first degr cessory before ler of Patrolm he store, wil fore the December term perior court, tlon received at the office of S Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn Shean will be held at the County for the No a to ice of irglary of hal store nd char on James not t i according to inf Hartford term of attorneys charge admitted e he court. Shean ged il 18 expected ion to posty an until the n for have 8o that he can be b s trial it ached a' & conference representing the Willlam J. Cranfield tford, repre state, a of an sought ed, In who did the be apprehended term an 1ly, the murder oec- store just about the heing placed und strest by Patrol- arrest man Wal The arraign actual | | curring in the on ¢ h e oha hapman, the before the grand would work to the according to was succeeded by Senator Willis counsel for Shean, who are expeer- of Ohlo as chairman of the insular committee, Cummings Succeeds Brandegee Benator C chairman t tes m/fi the vaca ath of ler, and patents, Means, Col 5 o comm 1sed by the thr orado, immigratior ines and dakota, and Bro inated from t1 & confer their pres- ed to make efforts to have the charge against the prisoner changed ‘m armed robbers. With the man h shot that ended th before them, it the ould B cx; thought hore W v 1s be > the pleas of to list counsel for a against Shean s of Shean in Springh have agen apm heir e 1 a v to work on and to assist orts to appre- The local police that Chapman will be 1y soon as the fed- X police are bellev- PRISI}N SENTENCE IS employed TILL MARCH COURT, Today’s Session Washington, Dec. celved Pres message todayv 1 3.—Congress re- ent Cool annua upon tdge's mediately ter listening to it 1 into the sion reading, pl work of the & With the exc years Woodrow W White House, t since 1813 that ti delivered his annual cor fn person. It was transmitted by messenger and read separately in the two house Congr: Is was t e presi /to change the t held out little ho tion of many posals into law, this congress dies on March helr views al- ready have been given to the tive at conferences, which was held early today between the president and Senator Curtis, of Kansas, th ihlican senate lea er, and Se reput Pennsylvania A number of the vanced by Mr. Co by bills which last session. ng measures to voiced disappro them being Sen t's pro. exect ot the latest ator proposals ad- r from th are other pend hich the preside ar yolidge are cove came over re luation of the raflroads. Big Crowds Present. The reading of the message the two houses was simul Ther, comparative galleries were crowds in the | peared to give even closer attention ! to the president than did the and senate. As the reading went forward there were private conferences on the floors by groups senators d ot the s fol- ‘s recommendations members of the house representatives. Much ime, however, the lawma lowed the reading espe- clally that relating to the ot of taxation, agriculture and Muscl Shoals. closely, Map Out I‘lngmm!. before tie ge ar house steering committee } mapped out a legislative program ! the El | providing for passage by the house | | before the Christmas recess of at least three of the dozen annual sup- ply bil Tentative a 128 week at | expressed | adhered given session, plans holiday of the call for recess lay-off R n were bills throughout th 1 be to and appropriation right of way all of m wil in hands March 4 Interior Dept. BilL president befor department first appro- of the supply taken GIVEN SILK ROBBER Judge Malthie Gives the Others in Bridgeport ‘| Case Suspended Terms Trip To Europe ming Basebailers !'l". Shook 'Ands With Jukes and Hoils and 'Elped to Show Bloomin' British- ers 'Ow Gyme Is Plyed. | | | Prisoner Tries Suicide In the Superior Court JEWELRY WINDOW ROBBED New Have A PENNILESS, SHE STEALS FOOD FOR HER FAMILY Baker Has Néw York Woman Ar- restad—Police and orters Con- tep tribute Money Her Use Westport Constable Dies After Being Hit by Auto leaders | Average Daily Circulation For Week, Ending 11,461 Nov. 29th . PRICE THREE CENTS CONGRESS' MOST IMPORTANT JOB IS T0 PRACTICE ECONOMY 30 TAX CAN BE CUT NEXT YEAR, SAYS COOLIDGE | Executive, In Annual Message, also Touches On World Armaments And Outlawing Of War. Asks Farm Aid Legislation —Wants Dealings With Foreign Powers on Basis of Friendship and Un- derstanding. w xi';lrg'mv Dec. | lxl message tod most important work such econo a redu fiscal year “The governm remedy the ¢ ills of the peo ple by a system of rigid economy in public exp " he said can be ac rough i other actl \ Other Re Although str s in his a 4t perhaps it could do at Ay t it the t can do more t “than any mmendations my, Mr ge of Eome new prop his fimt le ra and others reiter made a ye message. s ot sals ar ago in of these relatad tdent went in tions to r adherence of Internst { declare the Unit disposed to join can to Permanent Gou s not to be laration of opp by United owedline Two New Pronouncement T®o new p 4 for a one-day “It has bee hat we might 1t pow n as the est fey of Et orably opport gard to armame !on account ed po of pre already been made by