New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 11, 1924, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 & PHILADELPHIA COPS HUNT ARMED BUT UNMASKED MEN WHO LOOT JEWELRY STORE Five Daring Robbers §TRIGT MARRIAGE LAW Steal Diamonds And AMENDMENTS PLANNED, Gems Worth Close To $100,000 And Easily, Escape. Measure Makes Changes — Prevents Hasty Marriages Hartford, Dec. 11.—Welfare | porting a bill which win Force to Guard Every / state legislature calling for Exit and Seatch Every,chunees in the present laws of Connecticut, Judge Street in Cit Philadelphia, Dee. | haps close to $100,000 were stolen |Plication for license, today by flve armed men who, un- masked and In broad daylight, held check divorces. North Philadelphla, and escapod | PlIc2 with the loot n a large touring car | D UITRET bearing New Jersey license plates The robbers, described as young and well dressed, first overpowered a member of the firm and a_visiting | {20 VRO diamond buyer, forced them into a| oo rear room where they were bound, and then seized two employes who came into the store. With all four |Of the five day Yotkad in the room, the men emptied | Much take the oath. the safe, threw quantities of gems into handbags, and then strolled lelsurely out to thelr car, driving oft as a traffic pollceman stood nearby, unaware of the crime, Butler Acts Quickly. lcenses. During intention of paper having circulation in town where the years of age, the consent of a judge of probate. Dhrector of Public Safety assigned | Applicants who have been divorced an- T 5 prv_\hapflrul that a joint report of the | a shocial squad of detsctives {o the|or have had their marriage case, and ordered motorcycle police |nulled would be re and armored cars to guard poasible exit from the city, while | status before a license {is Issued. atreets for trace of the rohbers’ car. A eheckup of the loss showed tha among the gems stolen were soli-|ficate. 000 and $4,000 a piece. up men, according to their vie-|er to make exceptlons. 18, joked ‘as they bound atber to scrutinize ir features| provisions of the bill to hold witn Lo command, “heads down," backed by the menace of a plstol. "been made. Train And Liner Services Being Held Up By Dense e Fog In England BASEBALL MEETING Day Is Like Night, T)afi‘lc Barely Moves and Crip- | pling of Industry Is Cost- Todax's Joint Meeting Of ing About $5,000,000—11 Ocean Vessels Fog-' Bound. & But Adopt Schedule. 8 Ass v Yor ted Precs. . Dec Seven or- 1 Gen. Butler Orders Motm‘ ganizations of the state are uup-frnmenlsmnx the accounts must be be pre- |devised or the funds discontinued | sented at the coming session of the | seven marriage Epa- phrod!tus Peck of Bristol will pre- sent the bill which has already been | jointly on a new system of pensions, drafted by Judge Peck and Prof. E. M. Morgan of the Yale law school. 11.—Dlamonds | The bill aims to prevent hasty mar- and jewelry sald to be valued at per- | riages, discourage perjury in the ap- misal- liances and decrease the number of The new il would require a five up the store of Rosenblatt & Son, in|day walting perlod between the ap- | plication for and the issuance of & that marriage would be published daily in a news- | the | ceremony would Both parties would be required to appear before the li- cense-lssuing office before the close | OnCe they begin to become a period, and each |} The proposed | Increased costs and overthrow them. |law would still require parental con- sent from parents in cases under 21 but in cases under 16| it would do away with the consent ot the first selectman and require every 8ent a certificate stating thelr exact | her motorized units esarched the|Two witnesses would be required at | ry marriage to sign thelr names | and addresses to the marriage certi- | Exceptions to these clauses taires, diamonda valued respectively |are provided for in the new bil and | The | the probate judge is given the pow- | It objections | taxation a total of $2,850 to these the store |are made to a marriage, tha probate | funds, $1,6560 being paid to the po- mm. frustrating all attempts of the, judge is given the power under the |lice and $1,200 to the fire depart- up m marriages until an investigation has | Two | | ment in many instances. Leagnes Probably Will Do Nothing | the 11.—Club owners CHANGE DESIRABLE INPENSION FUNDS New Method of Financing Ne¢d- ¢d, Chairman Hall Says 70 AVOID TAXATION BURDEN| Fire and Police Boards Should Work Out System for Increasing Income Before Charter Is Re- vised, Senator-elect Belleves. Assiftant Prosecutor Aloysius Me- Police and fire department pen-|nahon who secured evidence that sion funds in this city are rapidly | may take the scandal to Washington. approachigg a condition where a | radical change in the method of | ;r entirely, in the opinion of Edward F. Hall chairman of the board of finance and taxation. Chairman Hall has Aunama‘ that the fire and police boards work details of which he belleves can be worked out in conjunction with state departments who have like funds. While a member of the general assembly as chairman of | the committee on upprnpnallonn.‘ Mr. Hall has much experience with pensions and he followed with inter- {est the investigations of the Rocke- i feller Foundation on this subject, which governed in a great measure the preparation of state pensions. Should Not Become Tax Burden. Discussion the need for a re- | vamped system, Mr. Hall says: “It has been the expericnce 1in pension funds in many cities that | tax | burden the taxpayers resent the It a pension funds is to be success- ful it must be so conducted that it cannot become a great tax burden.” The question of taxation must be | the plvotal point about which the | various considerations that will en- | ter into the joint conference must resolve, Mr. Hall belleves. He is Rev. Father George Bennett whose discoveries have aided in un- earthing liquor scandal, | JUDD & C0. REPORTED WITHDRAWING OFFER Said To Have Decided Against Giv- ing $450,000 For First Con- | boards will be In readiness for adop- | | tion at the charter revision commit- | tee meetings two years hence, but | he belfeves the question is one of | such magnitude that work should be started without delay. City Contributes $2,850. At present the city pays out of gregational Church, The Herald was informed late this {afternoen trom a dependable source that Judd & Co., has withdrawn its offer of $450,000 for ths .property of {the First Congregational church et the corner of Church and JMain streets. The offer was made recently, the first news becoming public last week. accounts. The maln source of revenue for the fire account is the annual Fire- men's ball which is held New Year's eve, whils the police department | derives its chief revenues from the |annual police baseball game with |Since then, it {s reported, other of- |the Meriden department. In addi- |fers have been made for the prop- tion, members of both departments |erty. pay a percentage of thelr wages| A Mmeeting of tha church commit- into the account. Contributions |tee Was scheduled for this evening jare made by citizens usually follow- |to take action on 4 & Co, |1ng gocd work in fighting fires or proposal et e o 5§ ARDED CONPENSATION | tres also being turned owr to the Widow of A. and P. Manager Killed | pension fund of the police depart- There is now a proposal befere | charter revislon committee | | which, if adopted, will Increase the | police fund by about $1,000 a year. by Bandits Gets Declsion Under | | NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, L()NNE(‘TI(,UT THURSDAY, DE1 Aug e ey Figuers "In Weehawken Rum Scandal | At present a supernumerary police- y | : uling of Commissioner. man recelves $3.50 for service at| SCNE o i the American and Natlonal | stores, halls and athletic games, $3| Bridgeport, Dec. 11.—Herbert J. London, Dee. 11.—London teday leagues prepared today to go into [ 0f which he retains, 50 cents being | May, of Danbury, manager of an A. e sLiliin ihis ei1n oiiona ok lheiljomee h the prospect that | turned into the office for the general | & Apri worst fogs in many years, It de-;the only cfore them would be | fund. The officers are desirous of death by a seended upon the city Tuesday night (€¢lection of a date on which they having this 50 cents turned into tha | 1 the store, met and continued throughout yesterday can reconvene with Commissioner | penston fund. - By & recent charter e of his regular and this morning. its density and |Landis presidin enactment, money reecived from | on Commis- dnration bringing up unpleasant | National ieague supporters of | the sale of old fire apparatus is memorles of the Christmas season in | Commissioner Landis, anxious <o | turned fnto the fire pension fund, | 1004 St « {he metro. | Press the advantage gained through |affording a small revenue. 'snm. of $4,5 N Balls wis closely Wrapped i a blap-|yores ot : en the com- Several Nearing Pension Age. | mar missioner by the two leagues, were - ket of Styglan et avor an early dats| At Present thers are few pay- | Scores of thousands of the city's for the it seseion with the sceng | MON!S oUt Of the pension funds. In | population were again considerahly to Chizago. On the other | TETY few vears there will be sev. | ed In going to work today be- Sy i 2 slieen ,— & 1€ 8107 \vere said to desire postponement e R exDectec BpRATlicl SRR, wonted numbers seek-{ "o CA By larly if the city adopts a charter | g to burrow t Leslia O'Connor, secretary to Lan- &mendment making retirement from | past Season Has Been Quite Success. Aergrour dls, arrived today from Chicago to | the police department at the age of h 5 50 ye ompulsory., o re ) e Discases of '“r(“ preside at the joint meeting, which | 50 ¥ nwr‘n o nI:v! sory, 1: cases wher ful Insofar as Fungus Disea fees. The was not expected to witness any ad- | (h® officor has serve 25 years. S through the inky mist, occasio! ditional devolofments in the con. | With the payment of half pay, the | Are Concern d bumping the curbs _wl ,“‘.'h e en Landis and Ban | Present fund would not last long Hartford, Dec. 11.—The fruit missing collisions with each other— yop (o0 Lragdent of the American |#nd under the present scheme of | (0™ o i ’ not always missing. in fa lleagne | reptenishment would probably 0 |y ey S Yesterday was a day-long night IR e | out of existence in comparatively leaivas R during which several persons were| e interested in city | H ich A CROSS WORD TP . one of w! omnibuses injured was a | in col easily ¢ finances believe, Members of the flnanca hoard The weather glve look with displeasure on any move- | 5 much hope ¢ of the Department of Agricnlture Explains ment to increase the payments out ; ", hich tr TEPOILS of taxation and if pension funds are ' 1° el R degres | “Goddess of Agriculture” is Three | (o o continurd, Chairman Hall feels Bon g1, he adicd over half of ¥ e 3 Ietter Word “Ops.” a comp revisal of the present | ?' T The cost 1gh the scheme will be necessitated ey : atmospherie damper upon activitieS | \vachington, Dec. 11.—The god-| Chairman David L. Dunn of the |€727¢ ey i {s estimated at nearly $3,000 s of agricultire three letters | Police board and Chairman John E.{ 11 192% P = Much shipping is being held up, -is “Ops." R. Keevers of the fire board have SIOWW. he said i) the crews of many vesscls The depariment of agriculture |already informally discussed Chair- &g 4 Lo hound in the Thames are short of | 4jade this announcement to the |man Hall's recommendation and a 1be Erox rilns 5 fo0d country todav for the benefit of | joint meeting of the boards will be !l e : Trains Held Up zlers, but refrained |called shortly to give further eon- . st Main lina rallway services a tmation that the action | sideration to it ¥ x its EROLEES T ut the country were plur w e idered a precedent. | —— trees. Chaos by the mantle of myirs Ops 1o the ¢ pondence,| SEN SON | of the expresses e £ the artnient when the Phila-| i' ;:T?'Tl‘:::” ST COL. HAGGERTY NAMED destination as n phia office dbliging!v searched a | 080 Al o5 S riford Dec il Temes late Race meetin dietlonary to picase a young woman | daY. Brent. Glasscock, and the four | L.\ ot New Haven, comma have been aband siimle aad Newton brothers who pleaded gutity | “*%8%0\ % NG iree scicesithe Thames TR, in the ‘1\ ] ‘houndom‘ mn]; SOl ¢ 1l the rontingnta se A B train robbery trial were sentence 3 R :.mfnw \ Torrington Chinaman to Leavenworth prison today, the s — Gets i‘econd Warning |sentences ranging from one s : & Liners Ihll l P Torrington, Dec. The dens- laundryman Chinese here, est fog known here In years is h 11.—Sam Sing, a yesterday | a day to one to 25 years . 4 received by telephone a second = - ol , Shi R o ,.‘;‘;: s ‘warning from Waterbury friends to m .ym“r- 1 ° t nert ven liners, in¢ S [r— ol Ia. va v T stk ® be on his guard as tong gunmen T . 2 Arcadlan, the Ohtc and the OIS% [\ oo gecking The first warn- | | Senate 0. K."S Merrill becomes < r of th due today, are fo, 'oun” ‘utside the = s o . 102 ‘1‘9“‘ nl’:r‘o\:‘r}‘ i rs start. |06 came & week ago yesterday. For Bristol Berth R : ut have beer qet far- RN CIENE L Washington, Dec. 11.—The sen- LINE GROUND szrpt‘)wn e wd the | ' MILLION DOLLAR FIRE ate today confirmed the nomina- ‘f \,l 1 Y R ch ot | Pine Bluff, Ark, Dec. 11.—Proper- || tion of Frank 8. Merrill to be || London. Dec. 11.— Ll e < Carrived |ty loss estimated at about $1,000,000 | | o8 mater at Bristol, Robert D. || Ping cy reports Britian e was caused today by a fire which || Bristol at Gulifor George W. Un": k : " a “The troc arglen, with hun. swept St. Louls npress No. 1, a || pajrgrieve at Bantam, William J ’("" gouthemy % S > Qreds of 8. & from Tn and property h ntly acquired by || Beehler at Brookfield and George | | Shingles ne ; o Eevpt has been unable t get nearer | the Pine B Compreas and || 1. Rockwell at Ridgefield fog. Three tugs have g port thas e ks of Whgha | Warehouss compa | assistance NGRS IAyeragg Daily Circulation For | & Week Ending 1 1 9287‘ t Dec, 6th ... o) P.m“_“,“ ' -WENTY PAGES. PRICE THREE CENTS BAYONE CITY OFFICALS * 2ND POLICENEN REPORTED " INVOLVED I RUM SCANDAL BERLIN BUSSES BAGK Specia | lnvestlvator OVERTHE QLDROUTE Ssd To Have Str ' tling Information Second Ward Which Is To Be Pre- ‘Kick by Milton who will | ‘I‘Mrlrk Hays, chief of detectives Prosccutor ;1, hn i onguhopmin Residen Pmducti\'e g ittt e G e i sented To Prosecutor. eting Al the reuestiotis Nargs | B! ving Activities i PRIEST, LIFE THREATENED, SAYS HE | aaet ot in,aves i Dor BEEME Betiites i Mayor A. M. Paonessa today took N Jerse y WILL CONTINUE DRIVE ON LIQUOR |iys'couis e covscess s i 10 Rival Those at to operate its Berlin bus over the | same route 28 was followed by the | troltey cars, Since the inzuguration of the Ber- Iin bus line, the cars have been sent Jersey City, N. J., Dec. 11.—How | the Weehawken police could have reported hourly from thelr beats and Weehawken. Turns Chalk White as Dynamite Car Tips Over at the same time, have escorted Newton, Mass, Dec. 11.—One ||ffom Main strest into Franklin| Jersey City, Dee. 11.- liquor trucks from the Weehawken || O tWo automoblles that crashed ||®dUare, to South Main street andtlon now inthe hands ¢ 5 : here tonight overturned, pinning || Intdl Berlin, service over Maple, |Investigator w . cted 1o watertront, s the question the pro- || tha ariver beneath. WitreinS || Whillpg and Ash streets being dis. | reveal Bayo 150 secutors Investigating the WeehaWk- | | jifted the car and pulled out the | COntitued entire licemen as being ir j boot en liquor conspiracy hope to answer || man Ho gaameq 1 rt but was Mayor Paonessa wasa in communi- legging oper 8 &l that after scrutinizing pollce books of the | chaik white, shook violently and || €ation today with Chairman Higgins exposed in Weehaw .2 po- department selzed early today. The /| couiq not speak. He pointed to || 0f the Publc Utilitles Commission. licemen and in- selzure was made by Prosecutor || two sticks of dynamite lying in || He Was advised that the Connecti- | dicted will he ] ) | John Milton, Assistant Prosecutor || ¢ha rond beside the car. Later he | |Cut company's charter gives it tor Milton fc s pr Aloystus McMahon Patrick | f oxplained that he was transport- | sweeping rights, but the commis- the grand jurs, it is Hayes, chief of ‘the prosecutor's |ing the dynamite for s blasting || sloner Belleved sanction of the com- | reliable at today | staft. job, for which he showed a per- || mon council should first have been Those Implicated What report was made by the ||mi s RO TE e Al Weehawken police on the alleged Glirintendent Wi Tt Biyaninc tho St | setzure last Thursday of a truck Tocal Al alonaalab s i & Dre lloaded with liquor is another dl(« BTTREL G U e the 12 men indicted covery the investigators hoye mo knowledge of what it e e consniracy. prosecutor asserted that tedera) pmmmom Bryan told M was sald, to involve Bayontte agents had reported the selzure to Patreia latar toaas thath Eoplt 1 offictals, Rev. George F. Bennett, P"""’" of over the old route and that the com- {the St. Lawrence Roman Catholic it g el docks were | chureh, has reeeived anonymous let- tion to the common council at its , were part- | ters warning him that he will not Reports of His Death in next meeting to allow it to operate cult of & be allve to say mass on Christmas day, it was learned yesterday. Father Dennett furnished part of the evid- ting stories ns existed ken, busses via Franklin square. The previously held a ¢ th Prosecuting Attorney Mexico False—High Al- mayor terence there like those in Weel ence leading to the indictment of titude Afl'ectcd Him Woods, Chief Hart and Corporation Probe Ordered L o police officlals, & Jersey City {n- Counsel Kirkham with a view to| Commissioner of Public Satefy surance broker gnd nine Weehawken bringing proceedings against the Daly, to sift the charges, has or- | policemen on charges of L“’"‘SV’;";-; San Antonlo, Tex, Dec. 11— !company. tered Police Chiet O'Nelll to cor- 3 it reported, % a vigld T f h. (f Father Bennett, it s repor 88 | samuel Gompers, president of { SRR AL e Auet a rigid on of th | fold Assistant Prosecutor Aloysius = i : o partions McMahon that he would centinue to | American Federation of Labor, will PAPER WINS AGMN e A that aid the investigators. The priest ob- |arrive here Friday afternoon from liquor brought to po- tained part of the evidence Which re- | Mexico City, accompanied by 27 - s o b suited In the indictment of Willlam \ .\, 1400 jengers, Second Indictment Against Herald- fore proper exan of thelr G, Hthflfl kg of, the TUM | "y Tl axt day for ents had beer g 3 runners,” Harry J. ff‘atns.'llo!wc‘l:{‘h iNen o A Tribune For Publihing Tax Lists eporie to police commissioner, Captain Me- "' PR BEERTE e Pk Namee of the Hudson Boulevard ‘pw that Mr. Gompers becam is Quashed—Govt. to Appeal. 4 . e lice and nine Weehawken polic€men. ;) y..nyq0 of tha high alt Dec. 11. — Federal | rum runners’ t i S that his condition at one Knox today quashed | a few months S serious. He was brought out of ¢ men will be ca e ” : 4 train speeded him into a lower alti- w York He tude. He i3 now sald to be recov. for the publication of T P QO CENETERY VANDALISM RIS RSN TR e Wiliam ¥ — | Mexico City, Dec. 11.—"Prest hat an appeal would be : e P = v Kine porch Climbers Sentenc Gompers is standing up better than taken immediately to the e King of Porch . e A ecte ness: Sent : Behind ve Foreign exrected. sald a message sent in to Tive to Seven Years Police Belie U e S S Tribuns on T Guilty of the special train on which Samuel guilt Bars Element Guilt) ad of the s ) Desecration bor, {8 traveling i aes, city. Tt t at of both parties an- Callcs, who du nt was framed on ; Although no offiefal report has for reports ik e ed by Detectives Feeney and condition. who are investigating the 1s sald that t dalism at St. Mary's cemetery Saturda night is ascribed in p : . disgruntied foreign eler Mary's corgregation ccording to report McCrann, while act istrator of St. Mar heen O'Mara, Mr. port of TRAPPED BY Ff WS Two in Binghamton Tire Have to ° last bberies from hom for a Empalm short time at t} ion e de Gonzalez. Jump From Third Story Window DT 1T Farly Today. e WRIT IS DENIED : pastor, fssued Instructions to this lement regarding th failure to \ v keep their plots in the cemetery ne 1L Chinaman, Feld in Boston Tor Hart- : ) At ford Police, Fails To Get Habeas ! kn[];\ D yuikimaral JUDGE DO Tormer New Havem Connty Official . 2 ] const 5 K and G. A. R. Man Was 80 Years s A . was of Age. et SAMES xow ¥ ( Man Who Picked Up Dime Cal Dmppcd Rolu»m It Washing o BOLEYISELECTED miom o # - Hartford Athlete, Star Halfback At i syracuse, Will Lead Orange Foot- Winsted Man Arrested 1 P ball Team Next Fall s You do not ki : (h\ (tho of Ilaud g Sickness Interrupts Trial of L. Ay gheiore, sO1LEn el De Syraguse, Dec. 11. — James D. With Maorder in valking in n ] & . 4 N Tt f coffee and two rolls. Vg e T 4 8 ¢ E plenty of dimes r . r : o g Nk t 1g one fn p s z A A il irs truly, pra ) ; A FRIEND. - bonds of $1,400 w - fur — EXTRA DIVIDEND ferbo fens ‘ s m—— Would Revoke Weddings | of ~ : Sent dlvidena ana _ NEW PLANE RECORD If \turl\ 15 Tnu Tardy , o ! & per cent e . Omat 5 . — M s, Fra A e N : THE WEATHER | ¥ _ the € Bt - 3 R AND Tartford, Dec. t1—Forecast ay, v E 1 44 K e 1 H.\l IN ‘I ! ‘II : ; for New Britain and yicinity: tres g "1 i Cloudy tonight and Friday; from t 14 " chu i : ovs possibly light snow tonight; ye n W slowly rising temperature g : 8 States * te1d Nov 4 1 ' ‘