New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 17, 1924, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 NORRIS DECLARES MUSCLE SHOALS BILL TEAPOT DOME LOOK SMALL Credits Coolidge And Underwood With Hon- esty But Declares Re- sult Would Become Known As “The Rape Of The Treasury.” Exhorts President Not to Tarn It Over to Wall Street—Postal Bill, Op- | position to German Treaty and Appropria- tions Come Up. ' Washington, Dec. 17.—Asserting that the Underwood Muscle Shoals il would make Teapot Dome look “like a pinhead” and Doheny and Sinclair look “like pikers,” Chalr- man Norris of the senate agriculture committee told the senate today that enactment. of the legislalon would later become known as “the rape of the treasury.” “Oh, President Coolidge” shouted the Nebraska senator “how can you, just after receiving the vote of con- fidence from the *people offer this great position such a proposition? At the oars and heading this great ship, straight into Wall street.” skids Are Greased The Nebraska senator declared “the skids had been greased and the steam roller brought u; to defeat Lis own bill, providing gowernment ownership and operation. The op- position to his measure, he sa planed to turn Muscle Shoals over to some private corporation. “Giiving President Coolidge eredit for his honesty in every move, he eaid, “and giving Senator Under-| wood the same credit, it seems the inevitable conclusion will be that if this bill Is enacted it will be known s the rape of the treasury.” ared Muscle Shoals to & “great ship” with the American flay swinging at the mast and the “Cool- idge republicans tugging away.” The General Electric Company would get the property if the Ala- | bama Power Company obtained it, | he asserted. Explain Our Bill. After two years of consideration, genator Norirs said, the agriculture committee Pad brought his bill to the senate where it was confronted with the opposition of the adminis- tration. “It is not fair and it is not con- ducive to future efficlency, of com- mittees of congress” he said “to have the work of our committee condemn- ed at an outside midnight confer- ence—either on the Mayflower or elsewhere.” “Oh, President Coolidge” he ex- claimed “how can you lead these confiding, these trusting, these obe- dient senators into an arena to use their votes as you would herd sheep into a corral.” 1f the Underwood bill is adopted” he added, “it will be possible for the Jessee to defy every single one of the state regulatory agencies.” “It may be Mr. Mellon will manu- | facture aluminum there and get a subsidy from the government as well as a high tariff.” Senator Norrls said the Alabama Power Company and all other power companies were in a trust. “There isn't a place in the United Btates,” he sald,, “whers the in- fluence of this might trust {sn't felt and the whole control goes back to Wall street.” Appropriation Measures. Holding to its program of conced- ing appropriation bills right of way, the republican steering committee of the house declined today to give preferential status to the bill to ap- propriate $53,000,000 for river and harbor improvements. Treaty Opposition. So strong an opposition to, German commercial treaty has de- veloped in the senate forelgn rela- tions committee that a sub-commit- tee was delegated today to confer with Secretary Hughes with a view to modifications. The treaty was submitted at the last session as a model for comn- mercial arrangements with other countries. inate in tariff duti in American ships. Some of the leaders declared it would be impossible to muster a two-thirds vote in the senate to rat- ity the pact in its present form cven if the committee reported it favorably. on goods hauled The committee did not consider | e world court proposal at today's session. Several bilis pertalning to the postal service among them a meas- ure giving the postmaster general wide powers to establish and main- tain air mall routes had right of way today in the house, As a resuit he naval appropriation bill, taken ip vesterday was laid aside for the ay Chairman Griest of the post office (Continued on Page 17) the Renators object primar- | fly to those provislons under which | the United Btates could not discrim- | EW BRI N Gasoline Filling Explodes, One Woman, in Cellar of Build- | ‘ ing, Blown Through Floor Into Seething Mass of Flames. WOULD MAKE DISSATISFAGTION N~ Dunkirk, N. Y, Dec. 17.—TLoren DEMOCRATIC CIRCLES Lack of Financial Support | ;i o/ was kiited, nis two daugh- - ut pIo gy o) Station Parfip Killed, 3 Injured DEPORTEES ON BOAT WHICH GOES AGROUND |Cape Verde Packet Ro- | mance Later Floated Off Point Judith Stil's Leadel‘s Of | ters were injured, and Mrs. Alice Party day when a gasoline fllling station | at Hanover was wrecked by an ex- plosion, ¥ Stebbins stopped at the filling sta. With the only ward regarded as | tion of W. 8. Cockburn, had the tank democratie, the sixth, lost twice to of his car filled, and went inside the that party in successive elections, a | building to pay for the gasoline, His |shake-up in that political camp is | two daughter remained in the car. i”‘r"’""d to be imminent. | While Stebbins was inside the build- | Party leaders are dissatisfied with | ing an explosion occurred. The the work of some of thefr col- | supervisor was-killed outright, and | leagues, and the democrats who in | Mrs. Cockburn was severely burned past years have contributed about the head, chest and arms. {shown 1lttle dfsposition to The walls of the building fell out- {along fthe cause of democracy in ward, burying Stebbins' automo | some {instances. Tt en been bile and the girls in debris, {found that democratic office hold- were extricated and escaped With | ers have not been making the con- minor injuries, tributions expected of them and of | Mrs. Cockburn, who s believed to size corresponding with those of have been in the cellar, was blown oftice holders in the G, 0, P. fold. A statement attributed to ona of the recognized leaders claims a hieavy contribution to a republican campalgn recently while nothing was given the democrats by a demo- cratic office holder. Chairman John B. R. Keeverg of | the democratic town committea fs ' understood to have financed to a | reat extent the recent campaigns, this in addition to personally super- vising arrangements for rallies, hir- Ing of poll workers and assigning them, collecting and disbursing funds. That portion of the have help ing up through the floor. She was plcked up in an adjoining field. Cockburn, who was in an upper room of the building, also was blown through a wall into a field, but was not much hurt. Stebbins droped through the floor of thestore into the flaming celiar. The remains of the building burned after the explosion. 'NEW YORK YANKEES NOW dlrectly from the echatrman came | | from a few of the “faithful” and on | Give In Exchange Joe Bush, Two cam- | numerous occastons a gecond appeal | was made to contributors so th | party might e | through without a defielt, The town committer {s planning | to meet soon for a Fiaesiey party organization plans and ft {s expected that changes will be sug- | gested in the ecommittens, the com- mon council and in some of the | elty’s leading boards, it s clatmed tRat in many instances the | ers, Milton Gaston, former semi-pro present demoeratie representation {« | star and Joseph Giard, obtained not tenly democratic or benefielal to | from Toledo of the Amerlcan asso- | the rarty. clation B e Shocker was secured by the Yan- | kees after several weeks of negotia- | REGOVER STOLEN GARS i tions in which Washington, Chicago | and Boston clubs of the American S league also were understood to pave bid for the §t. Laeuis pitcher. Shocker wore a Yankee uniform 916 and 1917 but has been the pitching mainstay for the Browns for the last seven years. At vari- ous times it has been reported he was at odds with the St. Louis man- ement and this was said to have nfluenced the acticn of George S manager of the Browns, n on the market. The departure of Joe Bush mark first break in the "fis star’ Yankee pitching corps which been a bulwark for the last th Bush, who had previou service with the Philadelphia and Boston American , league clubs, me to the Yankees in 1922 from I Rookle Hurlers, Gaston see the and Glard. iy The Assoclatec P York, Dec. 17.—Ths New York Yankees announced today they had obtained Urban 8hocker, Louis spit-ball ptiching star, in exchange for Jos Bush, vet- eran pitcher; and two rookie huri- T thre veteran St. since Two Located in Bridgeport and Five More Likely to Be Recovered— in 1 Brothers Accused. Bridgeport automobiles | and detecti more as a fession m son of th cates his bre and Charles ( The automo were atole city and Henry The atolen ma the engine numbe cars 60ld to a he San 1 of $10,000 dach, bonds of § Dee were 17 Two s to result of an a #tolen t0a eged con- 1 Sande in which he imp n from of this Milford vears. Red Sox season he lost some of his eness, wining 17 and losing games, However, according to official averages, he showed ore effectiveness than Shocker, al- 3.57 earned runs per gamao d with the mark of 4.18 Louis star, who won 16 3 games. aston came to the Yankees Doherty Sitk Sox of Pat- J. He worked in 29 mes last season, mostly in a re- and was credited with win- 1d losing three games. {010 20 YEARS Hartford Chinaman, and Chittem in | Entirely New Set of Officials for Atlanta Washington, Dec. 1 | ment of an entirely new set of of | as comparec | clals at the Atianta federal prison is [ belng considered by Attorney Gey | eral Stone as a result of a prelimin- ary investigation b, departr 1 of justice into conditions there, Mr. Stone said today that among ‘thcse consl: ed as a successor to A. | B. Sartain, the deposed warden, was | Warden Whitman of the Illinois state penitentiary at Jolict. He declined to say how much of a house cleaning of the Atlanta staff | would be made. Two officlals al- ready have been removed, Warden Sartain and D. J. Alle on pur- chasing agent and the intimation was given that other ti | might be expected. DENAND WAGE ADJUSTMENT Employes in Buffing Dept. of L. F. Gullty of Man- slaughter in Tong War, Sentenced At Schenectady Today. Te ns tady, N. Y., Dec. 17.—Joe convicted of man- degree, murder last s sentenced to Dan- ra prison for a term of ten to earg at hard labor by Su- Court Justice Borst. Counsel ctense moved that a certi« reasonable doubt be given but this was denied and it was an- rounced that an appeal would be taken | famm, who Is said to have lived in H d, C murder of Wong Chong, laundryman, October when the recent tong war was first & O. High Street Plant Arounsed Over New Working Conditions. Dissatisfacti conditions wh Was expresse ployes in the Landers, Frary & plant this n men assem tinue at their work ports. Col. Herbert superintendent tories, and ot ed in to appease are sald to have ent attitude. It | threatened to strike The Herald what the employes way of adjustme dispute has be son “hadn’t cor yet” up to 2:15 noon. ew working wages em- ent of ( street I ragir Indictments Against Harry Thaw Dropped York, A g New . 17. — Three in- ng Harry K. Thay ssault, kidnapping and . were discussed today by + MclIntyre. The indictments, ned in 1 leged that Thaw ar ipped Frederick was P t Gu \p was 19 years old when kid- in s City and brought York by Th ectives, as charged. t District Attorney P d to the p stating be Long Be 1 r happiness case. di n e 1 naped to New vate d Assist Kan ora court an affidavit of his Calf., as GAS PRICES LOWERED New Haven, Dec. 17 the price $1.05 to feet met pald within t | today by the New Haven Gas Co. submitte from Gu ause ss in ch, of sons af and Gump is n $1 per t eace and his 1 w from cubie N furt | married. They | out of the building, her body crash- | in | was tried for the | aw and two pts Cockburn was critically burned to- | | Charlestown, R, I, Dec, 17.—~The |Cape Varde packet schooner Ro- {mance with about 20 persons aboard, | |11 of them aliens deported from Providence, went ashore today in a thick fog two miles northeast ot Point Judith and was floated later by the coast guards, leaking badly. Captain Hippolite Lamas who took the packet out of New Bedford in a | 8tift northwesterly gale Sunday, said he planned to put into port some- | where along the Sound for repalrs. The Romance, a slick little schoon- er that was a fisherman out of to the rum running traffic and sub- sequently sold after scizure for the | Cape Verde packet trade, wz off her course for the Brava. It was helleved she wasg caught in the blow first and in the fog afterwards. The deported passengers were for- merly members of the crew of the W. A, Graber, another packet plying between Cape Verde and Providence. RS, SWEETIN'S SON | TESTIFIES AT TRIAL | /11 Year Old Boy Tells of Seeing Former Clergy- man at His Home ‘ Mount Vernon, Ill, Dee. 17.-—Vil- lagers of Ina continued today to | tell what they had seen and heard that had given rise to gossip about Mrs. Elsie 8weetin and Lawrence M. Hight, former clergyman, at their trial for the polsoning of Wilford eetin, “I saw him flirting with her” | | Luther Fitzgerald, the first witness itestified. He said he had seen | Hight climb on a railroad tle pile |near the Sweetin home and wave | his hat, apparently at Mrs. Sweetin | who was on the front porch. |told of having seen Hight follow | Mrs. Sweetin about Ina. | Virgil Underwood, railroad station agent at Ina, also said he had seen Hight on the tia pile. | Stanton Sweetin, 11-year-old son of Mrs. Sweetin, called by the state, testified he had seen Hight at the | Sweetin home “lots of times." | At times, Stanton said, his father | was present when Hight called and at otlier times he was not. | On cross examination Mrs. Sweet- ¢ asked the boy had attended Sunday school Stanton replied in tl ve, and sald he had a ree- |ord of 18 consecutive Sundays with- out missing. | Hight's home, the the Sweetin signs affection he showed toward " his sitting up with the sick Sweetin, and the n he preached over the body of the man he is charged with poi- - related in testimony efore a crowd that filled visits to ot d of Sweetin, he had with in which they dis- the poison rumors. sald,” testified, “that had been hinted to her that if th found poison in Mrs. Hight's stom- |ach they would dig Sweetin's body out for examination. ‘I know,’ she said, ‘they’ll find poison in her {stomach and in Wilford's stomach, for I w myself.' She thought poisoned by Lon Gossm. {told of cc Mrs. Sweetin cssed it visits said “Hight 1 2 the would times and to b s in i > ther on s wou some tim ning ernoon an the aft * DROWNS AT CONGAMOND Hilding Bjorkman of South Man- | chester Meets Death Skating on Middle Pond. Ing | € Mi BILLA D VERY ILL Lis | — THE WEATHER Hartford, Dec, 17—Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Unsettled and colder tonight and Thursday; probably rain changing to sloet and snow. * | #———— —— ey WO IAPY [ITERTIITIN SRl e e me A He | 1suit for §5 19; H. C. M. Thomson Tenders Resignation at Annual Meeting This Afternoon Because of Il Health. At & meeting of the board of di- rectors of the American Hardware | Corporation this afternoon, George |'T, Kimball was elected president of the corporation, succeeding H. C. M. Thomson, who resigned because of ill heaith. dividend of 75 cents per share and a special dividend in the same amount. | " Mr. Kimball has been vice presi- dent of the American Hardware Cor- | poration for a number of years and has been the active head of the con- dent, e is an attorney by profes- !sion and has handled the factory's legal affairs for a number of years, About five years ago Mr. Kimball | was made first vice-president upon Gloucester before she was converted | the resignation of Charles Glover, | | which position he had held ever since. Mr. Thomson was in charge of the voyage to | Chicago warehouss of the American | | Hardware corporation for eome | time, He left there and entered the i employ of Hegson Brothers, ot New | York. About 10 years ago he came back to the hardware corporation, Fresident-Flect Kimball is a for- mer member of the board of park | commissioners, which commlssioner- ship he relinquished a short time ago becauss of the stress of fac- | tory business. He was directly re- | sponsible for ths recent improve- | ment in traffic conditions at the | corner of Park, and Main streets | and Franklin Square, which was | brought about by a grant of land by the American Hardware Corpora- | tion to the city, to round out a bet- I ter corner for traffic. Mr. Kimball urged the grant before the board of | directors and it was acted upon | favorably. | | 0P IS DISARMED 1(h|mqo Pagrolman Enters Jewelry Store During Robbery, But Does Not Have Chance to Act. Chicage, Dec. 17.—A policeman in [uniform who entered a jgwelry store | While five robbers were gathering up loot today did not disturb the hold- 1 up men. “Hands up, quick,” they told the | policeman. “Don’t try to get at your weapon or it will be sulcide.” | The policeman was quickly dis- larmed and put in a rear room with | five others, including the proprietor. | The robbers fled with $50,000 in Jewelry and currency. |Mass. State Police 1 Seek Highwaymen | Northampton, Mass, Dee. 17, — State police are secking to trace to- day thres armed robbers who last night attacked Dr. M, E. Chapin, tax collector of the town of Prescott and after blindfolding and gagging him robbed him of nearly $100 in cash and then made way with 100 fowls valued at $370. The robbery ap- parently was carefully planned, for the men brought two auto trucks, equipped with crates, in which they took away the poultry White Star Line Chief | Off on His Last Trip ew York, Dec. 17.- Bertram , commodore of the White Star bégan his last voyage as com- mander of the Majestic when the liner departed today Sir Bertram, who is 60 years old, retires after 40 years of sea service, Leo Ditrichstein, sailed on the vessel Italy, Bankers Make Plea to Congress to Cut Taxes ‘Washington, Dec. 17 s immediate action by congress on reduction was made today of the American Banker Charles De RB. Claibo lent, who called on chairmen natz and house comm liately co 1. The sured Secretary Mellon of proval of his plans for tax Tire Co. Brings Suit Against Accessor The Kelly-Springfield through Nalr & Nair, has bro 000 against ( Accessory Shop, ¢ for merchandize. A. Stark has attached ging to the defend is rcturnable in the co pleas the first Tue: veteran en routs actor, to tax f the cer: 3G its ap- ref ihqp st e BREAKS OWN RECORD Montthery Autodr Dec. 17.—The Englis} drlver, Capt. Eldridge, dr | horsepower machine, tod own record for five k miles), by covering the one minute, 27 2-10 sec officlally timed. Hls pre, was one minute, 29 2- Frar RETIRED LAWYER East Orange, N, J, De Samuel K. Palge, 80, a retir | yer of Boston, died early today came here recently 1 Paige, who is house First Baptist semir Boston also survives. fces will be held 1} 'the Body will be sent burial. DIES serv- hich for are row n The dircctors declared the usual | cern during the {liness of the presi- | SENATOR BY 40,624 stablishes Record Tor Politcal | Honors in Connecticnt VOTERS WERE APATHETIC Senator-Flect Says He Does Not Comsider It So Victory As In Republican Party. Much Personal Expression Of Falth New Haven, Decc. 17.—Hiram Bingham, late a professor In Yale university, present lleut. governor and governor-elect 1s today the junfor U, 8. senator-clect from C necticut as the outcome of yester- defeated Hamilton Holt, democrat, by a plurality of upwards of 40,000 votes. Bingham's Statement Col, Bingham in a statement after his election was assured that he did not consider his choice & personal victory so m as he did |an expression of faith in the party and a desire to see the hands of President Coolidge upheld. He will succeed the late Frank B. Brande- gee, republican, who had represent- ed the state in the scnate for nearly | 20 years, | No man in the political history of Connecticut has had so many honors placed upon him in so short a time | as the electorate have given to Col. ingham. After two years’ as licut, governor the rept E party In the state convention early | this fall named him their standard | bearer and on the ticket with Presi- | dent Coolidge last month he was | swept into office by the largest | plurality ever given a gubernatorial { nominee in Connecticut. Named as Candidate { The death of Senator Brandeges | has created a vacancy in the Conn | tieut delegation and with the state organization behind him Col. Bing- | ham. within three weeks after he |had been elected governor was | named as the republican candidate | for the senatorship over Congress- {aman Tlison and Merritt, both veter- | ans in years of serviee in the lower | branch of congress. At the same | hour that the republican convention was picking Governor-Elect Bing- | ham “for the senatorial nomination | the democrats were giving Hamilton Holt, advocate of the League of Na- tions in his writings and speech & like honor although he had been an elector in Connecticut ce August 24 last. As opposing candi- | dates they had one thing in com- (Continued on Page 10) BINGHAM STRONGER THAN IN NOVEMBER Receives 72 Per Cent of Votes Cast for U. S. Senator study of vesterd which Hira Y city's entire g Hamilton Holt his de ent by 3,004 votes, i A statistl e x wards moc governor. The to whi al vote cast yester h was 41 per Bingham received 4,6 1 per cent of the T | vote Yesterday's elec 1 in t the sixth republican party, concerted to mainta ward was ¢ a been questiona ber when a strong was built v 1t ried the d There was tion and it est k ess than & In the third was ¢ BY MISTARF arp | error HERALD EW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, George T. Kimball, New President || Women, 77 and 80, Take Up Boxing for Health Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 17, Miss Joe Davidson, 77, and Mrs, Ann Peabody, 80, members of the Old Ladics' Home here, have becoma 60 interested in boxing that they have started sparring in order to ep in good trim.” They became Interested in the sport recently when it was an- nounced a boxing match soon would be held for the benefit of the homs, BOY OF 8 YRS. KILLS SISTER WITH SHOTGUN day's special election in which he Terrible Tragedy in Ash- ford—Youngsters Were Alone in House asserted | ! Willimantle, Dec logh, aged 8, shot and killed his sister, zabeth, aged 6, their home rm in Ashford 12 miles from here last night. The boy took a loaded shotgun from a closet and while playing with it the gun w discharged the load of shot en- tering the girl's neck as she stood about three feet from the weapon. Death, was instantaneous. Mr, and Mrs. John Belogh, par- ents of the boy and girl left thelr four young children e In the house to go to the barn. They heard the gunshot and rushing into the house found the lamp had been e tinguished apparently from the con- cussion of the explosion. The chil- dren were screaming and pani stricken. Relighting the lamp the parents discovered the dead body of their daughter. Dr. F. medical after 17.—John Be- at examiner was called and an investigation reported the to the coroner. The boy was 1. He was the oldest of the four children. The father said he had recently loaded the gun and placed it in the closet, SANTA CLAUS VISITS L. F. & C. STOCKHOLDERS Directors Declare Extra Dividend of Three Per Cent in Addition to Regular of Two Per Cent. Stockholders in Landers, Frary & < were made happy today at a oting of the board of directors when an extra dividend of three per cent was declared. This is In addl- regular dividen nt. The dividends are pay December 31 olders of INSISTS WOMAN LIVES Anonymous Message Says Waterbury tion to a ¥ to stockh r Resident, Feared Lost in Fire, is Alive and Well, ining to give he effect that Miss Nel 3 Walton ap Stresemann Is Asked to Form German Cabinet One to Five Years on Charge of Manslaughter B. Converse of Willington Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending l l ’591 Dec. 13th .., : SCARLET FEVER EFIDEMIC IN Of American Hardwar_e E&'BR[STOL SCARES OFFICIALS; BINGHAM FLECTED 18 TEACHERS A’RE UNDER BAN ‘,!nstructors Excluded From Rooms Because They May Have Been ' In Contact With Dis- ease Germs. Health Officer Woisard ‘i Says There Are “About | 20 Cases"—10 Patients ow in Isolation Hos- pital. { (Special te Bristol, Dec The Herald.) | 17 —Scarlet fever has this city in epidemie | form, despite all efforts of the health E?wr’u‘l‘ health officer, and school au< thorities to check its spread, accord~ {ing to statist compiled today by the & rd and Health Officer J 1 discussing the situ- ation today, Ith Officer Wolsard 1 “about 20 cases” had been re- ed but expres the opinlon possibly all not been re- ¥ that had ported to him as yet 18 Teachers Barred Eighteen teachers of the publle schools were 1 yesterday fram their rooms by order of Super- intendent of Schools Karl A, Reiche after a confe Dr. Woisard instru n eating in a dining re two cases, both children, had been discovered. Although the ted youngsters have b to an isolation hospita Haven, it was | thou, icials that the least picion of contact should be con- ered reason for the exclusion. At least two teachers are i1l with the malady and have been placed on their homes. In botn cases, where have roomed in ith the af- fected persons, the others have been removed and have been excluded from ching Or has developed B sed ns 1 t by the off auarantines he Touses hotel or t has been removed New | Haven. Practically 10 people have been taken to New Haven in the lase few dazs to the isolation hospital for treatment. the Laurel street but the to Officials Confer Wade and Health rred on the g but nothing carned as to t lecision That the scariet had . not anticipated he first cases ated by the fiicials, who uation Wi Mayor J r We d be on this morn assumed proportion were serious were ¢ ficlently ¢ tion and th as ef- no isola« he cases, ady over= a menace smallpox r the hougn were offi= tion ard oth- ordered other malady was nd the t of an then, ealth lon of hosy faces yester- icke for instruc- . Rel schools horning oss by major