New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 23, 1924, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN CONNECTI(,UT 'IUESDAY DFCLMBJ R ..3 1924, ‘uuo)) ProJH NS I — R T CT R BY Y 29uu0 ) HERALD SIXTEFN PAGES. DR, WOISARD BANS PUBLIC MEETINGS Bristol Health Ofticer Favors Abandoning Dances and Socials 113 SGARLET FEVER CASES Permits Valued at $5,578, With Twelfth Month In complete. Last year's monthly reports fol- | : [ low: January, 16 permits, $245,585; | 22 Other Residents Under Suspicion : Sl ahd T UL 3 X e March, 65 permits, April, —Handling of Toys and Blowing| With the report for December In- | 15 pormits, § May, 156 | | complete, bullding operations for | permits, $243,724; June, 104 per- of Homs in Stores Means Of (hjy calendar year have almost|mits, $144,200; July, 88 permits, | Spreading D 5 doubled those of 1923 and it is ex- | $149,625; August, 120 permits, $199,- pected that the present huildin, Action toward the establishment | boom will bring the total to a figy of an isolation hospital in this city s being seriously considered. Nu- |calendar y Building Operations_In 1.92.7 Nearly Double Mark In 1923 505 Taken Out This Year twice as great as that of the last|November, point was experlenced when permits taken out. The calendar year of March with work valued at $578,820, | = |and its low period in February with | | work estimated at $100,320, g‘ 139; September, 103 permits, $23 1923 experlenced its high mark n| | WANTS IRELAND OPENLY on Trish Treaty IT REGISTERED Great Britain Has Notified League of Nations Pact Was Not Susceptible to Registration—Free State Sends Reply to Geneva, October, 141 permits $274 106 permits, $304,448; 82 permits, $468,172. December, merous requests have been made in In the first 11 months of this| Tot 1,184 permits, ,298,197, the last fcw years in the annual|year, 1,395 building permits “flrL, The 1924 report, by months, fol- bealth board reports and the need | taken for a total of 8,605, 1In|lows: January, 48 permits, $200 ot such an institution has been evi- | the entire calendar year of 1923, | 100; February, 62 permits, $2 denced by the present scarlet fever spread. Neighboring citles, which bave accepted cases from this city, have refused to take any more be- cause of a lack of space and efforts | of the health authorities to stamp there were 1,184 permits and $3,298,197, The high boom was reached in the month of September when building operation al out the epldemic may be delayed | mounted to $81 , and it was i October, 144 permits, $409,960; | somewhat, The local hospital has|thought for a time that the million November, 95 permits, $541,703; | no ward in which to offer aid ana | dollar mark would be touched. Dur- | December, (incomplete). Total, 1395 the health board must get along as|ing the month of January the low permits, $5,678.5605. 1 the cost of new building was v.«,mnnmh 105 permits, point of the h'lfllh\l: | March, 108 permits, $550 $575,484; y | permits, $639,959; June, 107 per: mits, $477.577; July, t | 36 s August, s | 869; September, 153 permits, 159 permits, 151 permits, $430,- $815 best it may. Announcement was made today by Health Officer Joseph I. Woisard that the checkup on the situation showed a total of 113 cases and 22 suspected cases. The lattes are un- der observation and ifithe culturas, sent to the state laboratory return positive, the regular scarlet fever quarantine sign will be placed on the homes. In the case of suspects, a epecial sign has been placed on the houses as a warning 1o the people. Ban On Public Gatherings Gunman-Burgla Recommendation was made today | zines. hayer fired six shots at the by Dr. Woisard that all forms of | U . o burglare, who dropped 20 feet to the contact be avolded as possible, To | Responsible for 181 sround 1 a winiow of a be this end, he recommended that . q Y’O’ml on the second oor of his Gances be called oft and other gath-| Breaks in Southport,|nome. One ot tho burglars re-| erings in public places. The handling | Fai ‘Conn. And New York Cops After 50 % Chase Over Icy Roads | Fugitive Believed to Be rSuspect Eludes erybody's and tha Smart maga- turned the fire, of toys in stores, blowing of horns eld and Westport| Suspicious of an automobile seen in the business places where such d 5 near the i nu\l‘jnmr.‘t‘ur state po- | articles are sold and like forms of | Area—Robber in Pistol | !\c® askud the Norwalk police d The ma- partment to endeavor to halt the contact should be stopped. ady is being checked so that the epidenile is considered in its sec- Duel With One Man. was reported New York sedan or coach with machine. T} machine ondary stage, according to the health e lm“;«’_‘-”x‘l"xr e YL “d{rn_ Oflx‘;:r'\\‘v rd and Dr. P. F. Knowl-| Danbu —State pollce- | céived, Patrolman Dorney hurried ton of the state board of health feel | Men of Connecticut and New Yor 1l street ommerce gratified over the manner In which | $tate troopers took part in a wi ‘;I Tes Juet o sec the the efforts to combat the epidemic chase over 50 miles of icy country i : i ‘v.t? vcmmm‘;‘ up ,I.e are working out. Every possible [F0ads late last night, in pursuit of ”"1‘~ ! ]N['w »rs‘h‘.w_w‘ W‘.l? t[,\n{- suspect is being routed out, thercby an automoblle believed to have been | F°ad and stopped the car and told | st but assuring the city tion as the as soon swelling the at large of further prot i Proper measures are s as & case is fllscovered. The con- |, SIRCANE )¢ i @ «e0 Carro cealment of cases will mean a seri- | ( ous drawback to the rracks in I | | carrying the bandits who conwmitte: | | Kelley and Dol of the state poli alth offic In the automobile, the police eay, 1 an interpreta- : from this ef Ridgefleld about " cording to stateme about | L ove two men T oIS Tagis Sorins coi according to i ten o'clock when they met on the | WEre 1o men. | tion of the ‘I[..%u world’s court of | been lssued from the health b ] s on tho lez tus of the beer Norwalk road, about 0 miles ot o ial con The' two school mursea, Misses H Lcan e dine MYSTERY UNSOLYED [ vention, a pofnt of view which Great Mary F. Mulligan and Eugenia Nor- [t0 the i BT HecTobENs secenth | ton, are working faithfully and have ,‘"“" St D) = stration of treaties at the i ST emen bout and sta i 5 : contributed lrm 'rm ]! *!jfw ‘m “5 pursuit o Is Waterbury Woman, Reported league, however, comes under the success of the health department's| supervision of the world's,court and offorts. Through thelr work, a fol- | S Killed in Fire, Dead or Alive—Po- |1t evident that the Dublin govern- jowup system has been put into op- 29 | ment, by its communication today P ‘ing conditions for the 0N the lice Think She May be Alive. i ) soy cration, rel patients and physicians all Boys' Club Closed The gymnasium at the I s club a robbery in Wesiport earier i the re driving i [the driver to turn around. Instead | of obeying orders the driver stepped | on the and shot up K r stree ¢ of &peed. The' police gave ¢h in another machine, but | the New York car made a g L Te Misa Neilie ed dead Waterbury, Dec, ictory fore was closcd last night until further |8 notice by Superintendent James G. Bind. Dobson to ¢ fleatth | A sk Thoaen : ‘({Ill’:’r’m‘: ;rvlrll"fl "¢ the club Tuve |lice car and the c a8 contl : in l‘ in the ruims today which Heen called off but the reading room i1 an automobile procured f owed she “'-‘“ anbengagement s} at the club will remaln open as|Farage of a farmer. Yo pae Wil usy In addition, Superintendent |t Brewster s the letter in the hope Dobson will conduct an edutional | supposed bandit ca : nce on the night | campalgn among the boys io eniist | through that tou The theory that the their efforts n the reporting of any | telephoncd to | s strengthened by the suaplclous cases of fllness about the ¥ Ml | fact that a » professed to thereby assisting tbe health de- | stzhted ine? henreq | have seen o fire rtment in kecping close checl g hea : e partment i kecping et v T state; sLSC SR . quarry into | ™ = White PR e o ) Call In State Authorities e Sterling, Conne et S IS JANITOR ALSO tional cascs of scarlet fever wer nuies perted in today and the to ‘ St et s Bloominghurg Clergyman Gets New ITealth Commissioner Osborn for as- | ave G sistance in cnforelng quarant Tinyeatun Joh From School Board to Eke regulations be ents will not poLs n at h heir. childr o T0 JURY TONIGHT keep t b revolver Case of Mrs, Sweeten And Hight 0f 1% 1 A Will Be Concluded, Judge Says, If | The desperado exeha Evening Session Will Do 1t Mount Vernon, Til, Dec. 23, — L Judge SAC. Kern annpunced today i ; that ev@y effort would be mado to place the case of Lawrence M. Hight and Mrs, Elsie Sweeten, charged with the poisoning of her husband, Wilford, In the hands of the night. Another ni on would be held, he said, 1 Rebuttal test the state to it s ne ny was oftered by cessary = controvert the Out Living. Dee. 23.—The pas st church at cre, has been wnitor of Union e. He applied to place w formerly prineip: and every other occ pant of t) b ding made a hasty o pressure of the steam reat as to cause fear psion, The former n satd, did not und 1 gs of the system t resigned the chWrch time ago. but has 1 to live in Bloomingburg on trial for ¢ fontention pUtheldatensmd el Lo Hushand and Wife Die is of low mentality and respon- : e e . sibie for his conduct at all times i ”* \V ! Within Three ])fl)> Dr. Frank Fry, St. Louls alienist, o 1 1 . e Rl sy ®estified that he had examined Hight 3 . e e and found his nervous system n mor: [3 T A Al e S oA ot e mal. Cross examined by Attorney | of it table S f~,~qf‘. n sl Nelson Layman, representing Hight, | §2,000 SR .I“ he was questioned as to the nature | Last night ] a gy of the examination which he gave | brought the t of : . ».' ~‘ Sat- Hight when he pronounced him |attempted 1t el I usband sane. Southport and a ineral s the past fort i g t wh h," to ha orwalk Has First Death B e (e heen A In Diphtheria Epidemic ine sccona verware | morrow. F &6 Mekent Norwalk, Dec. 23.—The first | worth § st £ 1 Chr pal church will \ death from diphtheria, during the | Herman Aarc W k present epidemic, occurred last was od of § r when Catherine Marie Smith, § | 100 SACKS OF MAIL BURNED old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thom- | Worthington, Minn., Dec as Emith of 3 Henry street, died at | an | One hundred sacks of Cl her home after a three days’ illness. | Yere [ oyed here ear Thers are a number of cases ot s tw . . whon & mnilie the disease In the city and in two| attempted to b 1 = b : s schools In the Bpringwood section home in Westy « Railway v, passenger the town severgl childres Rave been | o'clock of John Adams Tha $rain ¢ ot Tromt & gy quarantined as carriesthy [ ¢ ewuer and p Lot &m Ev-|heated The car was ruined | league | firm in tone, de | be served by the init iticle 18 are, in | 1rish | the cont Geneva, Dec, 23 tate he Trish Free defled Britaln today when in a note unequivocally Great to the league of nations it dec unable to accept the British conten tion that the Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921 was not susceptible to registra lon with the league, After the Dublin government had registered this treaty with the lcague, Great Britain wrote the sec- retarfat neither the league covenant nor any convention concluded under the ausplees of the were in nded to govern the relations between the verious pmls of the British common communication also decls wl ‘h,xf article 18 of the covenant, whieh ! regulates the recording of all trea- tles, was not applicable to the An- glo-Irish agreement, Reply Is Firm The reply, which {5 moderate but res that the gove ernment of the Irish Free State can- not see that any useful purpose will on of a con- troversy as to the intentions of any individual signatory of the covenant. It continne: “The obligat ned in ar- r expression, fm- posed In most specific every member of the league, T e State is cquivocal regulations of that article are susceptible of any interpretation compatible with the limitations which the British government now secks to read into them. We ac- cordingly dissent from the point of the British gov- [ ernment that the terms of article 18 | are not applicable to the treaty of | Dec. 8, 1921.” Issue Is Ended The Irish note ends the ersy, so far as the league cerned, because neither t nor Irish governments has request- pressed by controv- is con- {ed apy more leagu ction, It is | poinited out here that 1e Dubli, g0 iment bad wished to make a international issue of the affair it might have demande ts on its right to eppeal to the the terms of the ght into questic cou treaty m SKVED BY OPERATOR Alert Night bre Phone Girl At Somer- ville Instrumental In Saving Lives Of Four Persors In Fire, Someryville, Mass.,, Dec alert telephone girl in the change t t about the rescue of un aged woman and three otlier per- is city ly to- t operator ed a flashgg Wh hut sum- signal i lc remen ,,‘m» r 1 a nurse nnl HAVE FOOT OF SNOW Buffalo Awakes Today To Find Jts Streets Buried Deep Under Mantle Of White Buf wok WALLINGFORD FIRE Hall Avenne =ailding 1s Destroyed, With Loss Amounting To About §10,000 This Moming Wallingford, Dec. 23.-—-Fire 1 by 1 ¥ ] William 1! was burped 1 others ver Ke J. LaFlame DEFIES BRITAIN;. 'Refuses to Acoept English View for work estimated at $200,100 were | lared it was ! terms upon | Jle to accept | fon that the clear and un- | Britisn | ?Nsw HAVEN ROAD WANTS. 10 ABANDON 60,55 MILES ack of Patronage Given As Reason Tor Desiring To Discontinue Service, Hartford, Dec. 28, New ork, New Haven and Hartford rail- ul may soon abandon 60.53 milcs ts tracks In Connecticut becuus of h:k of palronage. At the ll.nl ford-Waterhury bus hearing hefore the public utllities commission at the | v of capitol yesterday General Manager C. L. Bardo of the road sald that it | might be found necessary to aban- | don fully 261 miles. 'The greater | part of this mileage 18 on short | ines in Massachusctts, The Connecticut short Wnes that | VT ) P BT to Ridgefield, 3.72 miles; Botsford to Bridgeport, 14.6 miles; Feeding Hills, Mass,, to Tariftville, Conn,, 12.23 miles; Rocky to Sadds Mills, 5.5¢ mlles; Amston to chester, .59 miles; Webstor, Mass,, to East Thompson, Conn., b5.80 miles; Windsor Locks fo Suffield, 4.46 and Derby Junction to New Haven, 10.52 miles. TYPHOID OUTBREAK BLAMED ON SHELL-FISH New York's Hcallh Com- | missioner Thinks He Has Traced Origin Col- New Y diagnosis by ex ork, Dee. 23 lusion almost definitely determin excH | s in seive number of typhoid v Yor sumption of shell-fish from contam- inated water, Dr. Frank J. M glhian, health copimissioner, day He said f thus far was confin W i due to the con- city her that the d large omobilc y motored out of tow re consequently at plac » supervision of departme: cases ur tion approaches new ones w , s compared with six ye and nine on § | A true picture of the ait not presented, however, | re plv’\fl of ropolitan hea lhe number of it and o v York t com- diso! ted a6 “typ anges on | tions, ! pared with §90 nuinber of deaths s compar with 136 in 1923; and t typhoid mor pared wi {in 1923 phoid now 11 prey ¢ tnceptlo ter, milk, me nd «v,.pun«u\o pre el tecaal i picion. e, the 1 of 1 ¥ ugs learn that shellfish figures 1 the history of nearly every case v have on han We have und taken to test t gro coast, from > 1 but it 13 a big job. Al may be harming the she must advise products be eaten ur are able safely to gi bill of health.” Man W ho Deficd Ldll("fll d Is Sent fo an Asylum Somerdlin, Mass., D Anton Funcke, who r 1 to him, wa W L san ior IS NEEDLD MONEY re ré in as rap 5 “I hope it ssary to curta sald Pr e — THIL. WEATHER Aartford, Dec. 23-—Forecast for New Britain and vicinity Snow late tomight and Wed nexday; slowly rising tempera ture IN MONEY MUDDLE, ATTENPTS SUICIDE C. 5. Jackson, Resigned, Wes | Officer of haslern Mass R. R. SHORTAGh Ol’ $48,000 Who Dentes Defaleation, Treasurer Slashes Wrists With Razor and Turns on Gas—Says He Spent Money for Company the ¥ ¢ Rallway cc y and of the in- business 1 sulcide ¢ today after unecemient that had resigned s of per dispositicn of i ) of th insur ance fu 1 ) a sist A Dres: who hared R | ich he tried to kill hims 1 he had| | ruined hin t Denles Deficit, hospit irderly who ] m about { ti sald to have ked e Is no defleit, t y for lie co v didn't ap- prove 3 rm with a razor aftc e gas from a T 10 relief hospital 3 t ported in a s not on the would recove Ampl ublic public breac I.. Sher President Doesn’t Like to Dance, and Won't: There! DISEASE SPREADIN -3 p— Average Daily Cireu'ation Fer Week Ending 1 1;464 Dec. 2Cth ... 8 PRICE THREE CENTS ANDERSON T0 BE ARRESTED A4S HE LEAVES SING SING; FOUR CHARGES AWAIT HIM PfllhfiNHJ fANI]Y lS Former New York Su- SENT lN XMAS PARGEL '~ perintendent of Anti- R— Saloon League Is To Olean, N. \.. Woman ('riti- : cally Tll—Love Missive Be Paroled Tomor- Accompanied Box row. p ) He Will Be Arraigned at t | Once, Bonds Fixed at G ; [r“ zos t ‘v',i $5,000 and Trial Ordered rjoil et cellonlTion in Usual Course. of pa New Y Dec. 2 \ " H y nt of t gue of . ! wife of | N Yor 1\ ha re-ar 1 as he and her orrow on of vear's Of | nounced today by strict at- Wh torney's office, Four indictments C are pendin ag: 1§ izl It was annouu 1 that Anderson f would be bro i I3 i York from ( 5 General 8 who will 1 600 tc on t e usual co of court pro- prison, Pecora ders cora INEXCESSOF 15000 42 ent to Sing 8 Samuel Berkowitz's ng having made for a writ after his Inven- s = ic! Supreme tory Highest Filed Court Justi 1§ s During 1924 L P i 2ol —————— on Christmas eve v to time off for “gaod hehavior Anderson’s ¢ third d ith 0. The Pending Cha TAKING STRIKE VOTE I'wo Local Unions at Scranton De- cide to “Follow 11,000 Strikers of Penn. Coal Company FARM ]’O‘L BURNED \ Vourteen Room Building Tn Hart- 3 A t land Is Destroved — Defectlve Chimney The € Il 3 1 Report of Pope's Illness Is Denied at the Vatican ©" HRISTMAS PARDON Chicago Band xet - ; : Away With 225,000 Gems WOMEYN “RITX# 1 100000 IN BONTS . o over » = R