New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 28, 1925, Page 1

By Associated Pr e NEW ) ) "J ‘P“Mn "'Wsu ’ ESTABLISHED 1870 @ “WMpy Muo', N BRITAIN HERALD GRAND LIST REACHES $98,188,515; INCREASED $3,748,015 OVER 1924; HARDWARE CORP. UP BY $259,05 e Burritt Hotel Property Appraised At $477,- 000 — New Britain Machine Co. And L. F. & C. Valuation Reduced. Morris Cohn Heads In- dividuals With $336,100 —Horses Decrease by 49 and Number of Autos Jumps 1,375, A boost of more than $250,000 tn the assessment of the American Hardware plant and a valuation of ¥ arly $500,000 on the Elihu Burritt hotel, which is appearing for the first time on the city's grand list, contributes in a large measure to build up a $3,748,015 increase over the list of last year, placing the new grand list total at $98,188,5615, The increase of approximately $3§- 000,000 not accounted for in the as- sessments mentioned above is repre- sented almost entirely in new con- struction carried on during the past year and there are comparatively few individual taxpayers who will find their property valuation has been boosted. The American Hardware corpora- tion with an appraisal of $11,6009, 650 heads the list. Last year's fig- Jure was $11,350,600, $259,050 low- er than the present assessment. Morrig Cohn heads the indlvidual taxpayers with 336,100, which is mbout $75,000 less than he paid taxes on last year, the difference having been brought about by the sale of some of his interests. Fred Beloin, for many years the highest assessed Individual property owner, | will pay tax on propertics valued at | $320,975. Last year's appraisal on | his holdings was $324,425. The Booth estate is again the highest as- sesced estate with a valuation of | $553,300, about $13,000 more than last vear. The &tanley Works has been in- Creased 00, Luflding up last year's $8,437,000 assessment to $8 490,000. Landers, Frary & Clar was allowed a $21,025 reduction, last year's figure of $6,466,000 being reduced to $6,444,975. A lower in- ventory in the New Britain Machine *Co. plant caused a reduction from 1,700, to $1,285,000, a cut of 5900 in that (ncLory's ASSCSS ment. The Elihu I\VIrerl hotel, appraised for the first time, is valued at §477,- 000, A cut of $272,704 in the item of general merchandise in sto and shops 18 shown in the recapitilation, this year's figure being $16,701, as against $16,874,286 last year. The increase in the number of automobiles owned by New Britain | pPeople was grea out of l\rnpor»‘ tion to the increases of other yed Last year 5,806 autos were owned here, while this year there are 181, a jump of 1375, Horses growing fewer in number, total of 316 heing cut by ing this year's number are 9 more dwelling: this year than lust Delinquent taxpayers who failed to file lists of their taxable proper- ties with the assessors will pay faxes on an additional §4,711, which is made up chiefly of automobile as- sessiments. | | ‘mak- There in the city ((thinuml on Page 10) HRS. KATHERINE NORTON, PIONEER RESID! RESIDENT, DEAD Prominent Arch Street Woman Had presence here | | Iived in New Britain for Past 56 Years Mrs. Katherine Morton, widow of | the late Albert Morton, of 132 Arch wreet, died this morning at New Britain General hospital, after short illness with pneumionia. was admitted to the hospital Tuesday. Mrs. Morton was one of the pio- neer German residents of the town, | having lived here 56 years. She was born In Wasseralfingen, Germany, November 21, 1850, and was mar- ried on Thanksgiving Day in 1870 to the late Albert Morton who served the city at various time as town' elerk, tax collector and city auditor. Ehe was active in the Harugari so- eiety, in which she held all the | offices, the Frauen Vereln and other fraternal bodies. 8he is survived by two sons, flam of Fort Lauderdale, Fla Harry E. Morton of this city; thres grandchildren, Albert E. Willlam Morton of this cf Blanche Morton of Florida Funeral arrangements, which are | n charge of B. C. Porter Sons, are | incomplete pending the arrival of | Mrs, Morton's son from Florida. | | | 4 o last wil- and also and | BANKRUPTCY New Haven, Feb. ey petitions today were Florimond O. Trudeau, operating the Sportsman's Store, Bridgeport, ' with debts of $11,833, and assets of $2,272 and Boras Pokras, merchant, Bridgeport with debts of $12,841 and asets of $2,600. PETITIONS 2§, —Bankrupt- | file hy | Martine of New | siclans advised him to go to a hos- la trusted RECAPITULATION Number 6,977 1/3 Assessments Dwelling Houses $27,417,950 Barns, Sheds, Ice & Store Houses, Private Garages ete, House lots & Ihxfldlng lots Stores, Shops, ete. ..., Mills, Machinery, etc. ... Lands . Horses ... Neat Cattle ., Sheep, ete. Carriages, \\ngons, ntr Automobiles and motor Vehicles ..,,. Jewelry ..... Furniture and \Im c struments . Farming ]mplnnrnts fln:l Mechanics' Tools Merchandise ... Cables, Wire, ete, .. Excess of Credits of Me chants, Bonds, ete, Money at Interest . All Taxable I'roperty nut previously mentioned . . Ten per cent additional, . 1,540,710 21,782,265 8,665,025 18,026,265 500,790 8,152.76 (acres) 267 218 .ll In- 100 4,208 10,814 390,281 Deductions on account of Blindness Deductions on account of War - 405,196 Tota! Grand List for 1923 Excess over 1923..,.4 PRINCIPALS IN VOTTARI ANTHONY FIN FORMER U, S. SENATOR LONGWORTH DIES IN SECLUSION| A5 HOUSE J. E. Martine of New Republican Ca Jersey Passes Away in Selects Tilson Bdarding House | | | | | Washington, Feb. Miami, T Longworth of Ohio, United Stat b. 28, — Former | nator James Edgar | Jersey, after more than 40 years of public life, died ust night at an obscure board- house, to which he had retired that he might he alone. Mr. Martine first went to a hotel when he arrived in Miami three weeks ago but, suffering mastoid affection, he removed to a \ to 85. more quict place. leader. selected by republica clect of the house in As the ¢ A week ago phy- | (he majority member, the candidate when was de- | ganizes and the ‘repu his way about | clear-cut majority, | pital but he told them he [ termined to make until the end, Few of his friends knew and he had (l ontinued on l' ge of his| kept to Martin B. Madden which the 85 vo 12.) (Continued on GIOVANNI VOTTARI speaker of the house in congress, and John Q. nectieut, Will be the republican floor hi the speakership is certain. $08,602,711 414,196 $08,188,615 94,440 3,748,015 CASE § CHOSEN SPEAKER ucus Also | of Conn. | worked frantically & new House Leader 28.—Nicholas will preside as the 69th Tilson of Con- | The present majority leader was an 1 members caucus last | night as their candidate for speaker | m., but with the from 2 | oy the first ballot by a vote of 140 |to the dete caucus decision binds s to vote for the house or- ublicans have a is electlon to of Illlnois, for were cast, im- !‘lc(‘ 12.) PLEADS GUlLTY TO LARCENY OF $22,3%0 WORTH OF BONDS Mrs. Sweemy, Allas “Miss Jones” Held Under Bail of $15,- 000 — Secretly Mar- ried 15 Years. Feb. etter “Miss Jones," | —— {Find Missing M Hanging in New York, Feb. lice were looking fo belsky, who was last Monday, har int ent. nitor made The verdict was sui, sky's brother, cupied the his b Harry, | told authorities he was unaware the presence | bathroom. s of the Boston, 28.—Mrs. A.| Aimee neney, known in busix for 18 years| Miss the Agassiz circles as employe of | Mining Companies, pleaded guiity in district court today reeny of bonds valued at $2 e prop- erty of ‘Mrs. Gordon Prince, daugh- ter of Rodophe L. Agassi ident | of the Calumect and Hecla Mining | Company, Judge Parmenter de red sentence until March 7 for fur- ther investigation of the case. Mrs, Sweeney told the court she was gullty as charged and desired to | start serving her sentence immedi- Atlanta, Georgla, Alexa Sterling of At York, thrice national ing champlon and southern champion, Wilbert Grieve Frao Canada, March 26, saild here today. In addition to winn al title in 1916, 1919 Sterling took the Cai 1920, For the lasty with a connected | house., (Continued on Page 12) repo; the apartmen an llhm"ek:u,' demonstrating the ability of | with Licutenant I, | over the prospects of success of the Vottari Arrested In Canada For Killing His Rival In This City; Papalia Held Here Without Bonds Mus. Scorsoto and - Anthon, Witnesses—Fugitive (Speclal to the Herald) Oshawa, Ont., Canada, Feb. 28— Taken by surprise by a squad of local police and Detective Patrick O'Mara of the New Britain detective force Glovanni Vottarl, 38 years old, for whom 2+$3,000 reward has been offered for his arrest on a charge of murdering Joseph D'Angelo if his home at 66 West street, New Brit- ain, Conn, and serfously wounding Mrs. Amelia Scorsoto of 157 Wilcox street last September was captured last night. Vottari offered no resistance. He had been in hiding in the home of his cousin, J. Esparno, at 158 Bloor street and when arrested walked calmly to the car, which rushed him to police headquarters. Every precaution was taken to prevent him from escaping or com- mitting suicide. He was not even allowed ‘a handkerchief while in the‘ cell and the police constables guard- | ed him. He was given permission to talk to a friend, who declared that if he was not guilty of the (Continued on Page 12) |homes of Mrs. Amella Scorsoto at y Fin Taken As Material } Waives Extradition Arrested last night in small | Canadian town by Policnan Pat- | rigkk J. O'Mara of the local police | and Canadian provincial police, Gio- | vanni Vottarl, alleged murdered of | Joseph D'Angelo last September 21, I8 on his way back here this after- noon to answer the murder charge. | Chief Willlam C. Hart received a telegram this morning from O'Mara, who has been in Canada for several days, nctifying him of the arrest. The telegram also {nstructed Chief | Hart to have Bruno Papalai of 187 Corbin place arrested and held | without bail. No information was | glven in the telegram as to what connection Papalat had with the case, but Chief Hart sald that he belleves Vottari has made a con- fession to O'Mara in which Papalai was involved in the affair. After a consultation with State's Attorney Tugh M. Alcorn, Chief Hart sent Acting Detective Ser- geant George C. Ellinger and Po- liceman Thomas J. IFeeney to the (Continued on Page 12) FLYERS DETERMINE 10 FINISH TRIP Rccidents at First Landing Hold Them Up. Awhile COLD WEATHER AT START One Plane of Michigan to Florida Flight Squadron Wrecked — Hop From Dayton, Ohio, is Made At 0:55 A, M. By The Assoclated Press, ‘Wilbur Wright Field, Dayton, O., Feb, 28.—~Grim determination was written on the faces of ten army air pllots of the first pursuit group, who took off at 9:55 a. m., intent on reaching Miami, ¥%h, yet today, pursuit groups to function as a fighting unit under extreme cold weather as well as in summer tem- peratures, all within a day. Fate did not deal kindly with Ma- jor Thomas G, Lanphier, comman- der of the twelve P, W.-8 Curtiss plane, which left Selfridge fleld with the temperature hovering near Yero early today. First the ship piloted by Lieutenant 1. C. Whi head nosed over when it struck a | rut as he was landing here. 7The plane was wrecked but Lieutenant Whitehead escaped injury. ond, with all of the 11 ships serviced and motors of ten of them | running, the 12-cylinder power plant in Major Innpuwra plane proved | balky, due to a dead magneto, After many mechanies Thad magneto was Installed and ten of the group feft here fully an hour and 4¢ min- es behind the contemplated sched- | Shortly before 10 o'clock a new ship arrived here from S fridge fleld for Lieutenant White- head, who will resume the flight . Hurd In an- | other plane as a companion. Major Lanphier was enthusiastic Se | 1 | ile. | | | flight on his arrival here at 7:15 a. ¢ delay this gave w rmination which became 80 pronounced just before the start. “We will do it even if we have to fly part of the way after night,” he declared as he climbed into the | cockpit of his ship, The next stop is at Macon, Ga. From there to Miami it is slightly more than 300 miles. The first 200 miles were covered in one hour and 5 minutes, 5 It had been planned to substitute water for an anti-freeze solution in the cooling systems of the motors here, but as the temperature stood at 16 above zero, it was abandoned The fliers will doff their furlined flying suits at Macom and don | lighter garments there. The 12 airplanes from Selfridge fleld, Michigan, arrived at Wilbur Own Home | 28.—~While po- r Isadore Dra- ed missing was found of his own discovery. | cide. Drabel- . who had oc- t for a week, | of body in N(elhn" to W ed Dr. I‘rauces of Ottawa Feb. 28.—Miss lanta and New women's golf- soveral times will marry Dr. er of Ottawa, | announcements ing the nation- and 1920, Miss nadian title in ar she has been | 'w York bond Wright fleld shortly after 7 a. m., central standard time this morr he first plane arrived at m.,, but officers at Wright field posed it was from McCook Eleven more planes arrived at T all making perfect landings with the exception of Licutenant E, C, White- head, who crashed his plane on anding. Major Thomas TLanphier, com- manding officer of the first pursuit eroup flight, sald that the first 200 miles of thelr flight were highly suc- cessful. “We left fleld with a temperature hovering around 200, Major Lanphier said. It was about 16 above zero at Wilbur YContinuedon Page Twelve) 7:12 a. field Selfridge * THE WEATHER | —— For New Britain and vicinl- ty: Fair tonight. Sunday in- creasing cloudiness and warm- er, followed by &now or rain Sunday aftermoon or night, SIS Y MITGHELL DID NOT {the officer to keep them 1$239 OBEY PRESIDENT Secretary Weeks o Tells Air- cralt Committee HAD ~ BEEN CAUTIONED Articles On A rcraft Were Not Sub- | mitted For Ap- proveal Dispite Orders To Do So | Department’s ‘Washington, Feb, 28.—Secretary ‘Weeks today told the house aircraft committee that Brigadier General Mitchell, assistant army air chief, had directly disobeyed President | Coolidge's order in writing maga- zine .rtlclc» \xlthou! obtajning the approval (3%e WarPepartment, The General, Mr, Weeks said, had the articles published without War Department approval, despite the fact that President Coolidge had written him cautioning him against it. After the 1921 tests Mr. Weeks sald the secretary of the ¥ ob- jected to several articles written by the general, and in crder to prevent further controversy with the navy, he was ordered to submit further articles for approval. Last fall the secretary eontinued, Mitchell went to the White House accompanied by a representative of the Saturday Evening Post to d ent some articles he proposed to write. The president | informed Mitchell he had no obhjec- tion to the articles provided they | | |were passed upon by the War de partment and later wrote Mitchell cautioning him against publishing articles without permission They sushsequently were published, Mr. Weeks said, without being sub- mitted to the War department. Case of Muzzling? Mr. Weeks explained he had is- sued the order regarding. Mitchell | after the secretary of the navy had | objected to the articles on the 19 tests as “reflecting on the navy.” “Then there was a case of muz- |2ling?" asked Representative O'Sul- lx\fln democrat, Connecticut. No, it was not,” answered secretary. “What was {t?" “He might have printed thing he wrote if it had been sub- | mitted. “Then there Is no muzzling?" “No." “Didn't you tell General Mitchell you were going to remove him?” asked Representative Prall, «lrmo-‘ crat, New York. *I did not. I never told him any such thing as that. “Didn't you threaten to order him away?” “I did not.” The secretary then added neither he nor the president had rhr |authority to make General )htr)zell | resign. cretary Weeks added that wished to state “emphatically” the war department had not “muzzled” either General Mitchell or any other from “telling | the truth” to congressional commit- | He read the war department order on that subject made public yesterday and said if any officer did | not know he was permitted to give | 1 the every- | he tees, {his personal views “he must be a | timid soul.” | “I wish to emphasize this point.” | he repeated, “as thee is absolutely | no basis for any charge of muz- | zling.” The discussion question of war priations and Mr. Weeks the department had asked proximately $280,000,000 next fiscal year and had recelved | ,000,000. The air service allot- | ment, he said, had been curtailed from $26,500,000 to $15,000000. The ordnance bureau was reduced 13 per more than the air service “How many first class planes have ed Representative Prall. “What is your definition of a class plane, one bullt this to the| appro- testified for s for ahifted department cent. | countered the secretar: Prall gave a long 4 (Continued on Page |1y until this morning, clared that her situation was pre- | |canse of a | retired, |search but fatled to locate him. | sicians believed tha EW BRXTAIN LONNECTICUT SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1925, —EIGHTEEN PAGES average Daily Circulation for Week Ending l 1’944 Feb, 21st , PRICE THREE CENTS PRESIDENT EBERT OF GERMANY LOSES STRUGGLE WITH DEATH AND PASSES AWAY THIS MORNING MRS, D1 SALVATORE ON VERGE OF DEATH by 8 ¥ o Bristol Woman Held for Murder in Critical Condition (Epecial to the Herald.) Bristol, Keb. 28.—Mrs. DiSalvatore of Cherry stree of Ivatore DiSalvatore, th of murdering Antonlo Tottore month ago, s dying at the Hartford hospital as a result of the slashing she suffered during the affray, which . wl held at preceded the fatal shooting, accord- | by relatives | ing to word received Lere this morning. Mrs. DiSalvatore was badly cut by a razor in the melee which followed a card party at her home, Shortly after being received at the hospital, sho gave birth to a chiid, helped to further weaken her con- | dition s0 that she has failed Swnd-l it was de- carfous. The plight of the DiSalvatore fam- fly has aroused much sympathy about the city as a household of youngsters is heing cared for by Angelina DiSalvatore, a 17-year-old girl. There is scarlet fever in the home, The father is in jail. The breakup of the home seems evident to the local authorities as | the probable life incarceration of death of the mother and the the | tather or his hanging will mean no | yf one to care for the children, (0L LOTUS NILES FOUND DEAD ON CLUB ROOF Retired Army Officer Went Out To | Get Air And Dicd of Heart Discase, v York, Feb, 28.—Colonel Lo- tus Niles, a retired army off whose home is in San Antonio, T died suddenly early todey on th roof of the.exclusive Uhton club in Fifth avent 1t discase was th amining physi- cians announc Colonel Niles, aged 70 y led the club last night with a friend, Robert 1.eol of Mt. Ki Shortly after 1 a. m., Col. left the lounging room. When he did not re- turn, Col. Leonard instituted a Colonel S. A, dawn an employe of the club found the body on the roof garden. Phy- Col. Niles, feel- ing ill, went to the roof to get some fresh air when he was stricken. Col. who been retired from active service was well known in New York. ing his frequent visits here he lived lat the Army & Navy club. He served in the Spanish-Ameri- can war, the Philippincs, and in the Boxer rebellion. The body was removed to an un- dertaker's establishment, pending word from relatives in Texas, Last Deficiency Bill Is Reported to Senate | Washington, Feb. 28.—With $1,- to the house total of | second and last ur- | appropriation bill as reported today to the senate. Appropriations added by the ate include $960,00 for agricultural experiment $500,000 for the Arlington memorial bridge; 200 for the purchase of law books for federal judges, distri and other court officers, and $16 902 to pay the final judgment to Jens Samuelsen and B. Olsen, owner; |of the Norwegian Bank Thekla, | growing out on a collislon with the American steamer J. Luckent 1 en- ch. This | At for many years, | Dur- | $196,- | Salvatore | Hartford county jail on a charge | a| *mL DRI cu JERSEY COUPLE WED |Will Celebrate Anniver- sary Monday—“Go to Church,” Is Advice | Wyckoft, N. J., Feb. 28.—Seventy- five years of married life will be celebrated by Mr. and Mrs. John C. Demarest at their home here Monday, March 2. Today Mr, Dem- arest, who is 97 years of age on arch 8 and Mrs. ]lemdrf‘!t 92 last !0( tober 4, continue to keep house | for themselves and are active in [civic affairs. They were marrled at on Preakness in the Dutch Reformed | church, March 1850, It all married couples lived strictly to the highest common sense as motheér and I have done for 75 4 Mr. Demarest said today, ‘In\.m would be no divorce courts, |no unhappiness and not so much Lru\llm‘ in life.”” His advice for long |and happy married lives is “not to be afraid of hard work, early to bed and ly to rise, | business for p! | plessure, forg] {your own meals, sure but Have some wafusl faults cook nd g0 to church.” Mr. Demarest is very active for { his age while his wife's sight and |hearing have dulled with the years. Shortly after their marriage the Dema traveled by ox team from | Crystal Lake, Bergen County, N. J |to Jersey City, two days being re- |quired to make the journey, T |crossed the E n in a flat boat | propelled by a horse driven tr mill, and engaged in vegetable far | ing at 35th street and Ninth | nue where now is located an insti- t blind. commenting on | | their '\\u d\\ ox team (Hn compar- | ed her lot with that of tod \g women who complain because 24 out of Jersey City doesn't WycKoff in less than an hour. | After a few years on their New | York city farm the Demarests re- turned to his father's home at Crys- tal Lake where both operated gri ind wool mills. Mrs. Peter Pul vivor of their n althou |there are hildren and |eight grnu’\!rrr'wrM'MMrL n. Fired at 10() Tnmes. Is Finally (aptured New York, Fe L of Newark, who claims to have \fired av by police 400 tim never hit was captured early with George Nel also of Newa \ter a hand-to-hand battl tectives on the firc |eleventh floor of today's e only sur- 28.—George been sor esc W (wenty counter, cigh I h. |tives parti been wour shots were ‘FRANCE FEARFUL OF EFFECT (OF EBERT'S DEATH ON GERMANY Weakens The Repubhc Is Belief—May Give Added Impetus To Royalist Movement — Hughes Voices Re- | President French he was rgare can ani th sion lest his succes. st leanings Dot in gove and Berlin was i gover German man pr convey thy to the Gerr Killed on Birthday \t(cl Going to \\ ork Pay Raise Fails to Pass, Federal ,Ldf‘(‘ Rc-mu SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS never neglect | ad- | s !First Leader of New ’ Republic Had Many | Trials To Beset Him —Working Man, He Succeeded Hohenzol- lerns. | | | AILS TO RALLY AFTER OPERATION By The Assoc | Berlin, Feb, edrich Tbert, {the first prcshlflnt of the German re- | public, died at 10:15 o'clock this | morning, succumbing to the ravages |of peritonitis following upon an operation for appendicitis five days 1280, | The former saddiemaker, whose skill in guiding the infant republic |through the first turbulent years of its existence was acknowledged even |by his bitter encmies made a gal- lant fight for life. But his system |had been undermined by an attack of influenza preceding the operation and his heart was not equal to the irden imposed by the poison which |had spread throughout his system. Around his bedside when the end |came were grouped his wife, their |daughter Amalie and her husband, | Dr. Wilhelm Jaenecke, and _their |sole son to survive the war, Fried- {rich, Jr. State Secretary Meissner | was the only other person present, stme frora the doctors and nurses. Political Attacks The political attackd upon the | president which culminated in the Magdeburg trial, and the efforts to connect him with the Barmat loans scandal added greatly to the burdens ‘lmposul upon him as chief executive of a new republic whose people have not been trained in constitutional government and whose chancellors | have changed almost with the moon | because of interparty strife, ! Putsches and. threats of putscies |and the jibes of the monarchists who {could not bear the idea of a working |man succeeiling the Hahenzollerns, {had helped to undermiine his once |rugged constitution. But the firm with which he managed the I nes hmlmml crisis arising from the tan- |gled party system and the simple {dignity with which Frau Eberf met {her duties as first lady of Germany |disarmed many of her sharpest critics. | A Great Leader There was probably not another leader in Germany, his enemies ad- mitted, who could have succeeded |where he did, and his death, four | months before the presidential elec- tion, produces more confusion in a political situation already badly mud- dled. | President Ebert | the patriotic Germans to forget party {lines when it became necessary to the extremists, either in the or conservative camps. He *quently brought curses upon his rom one side to the other by wpproving meas which they, ae- vpoints, deemed reactionary or too radical. ttitude won the confidence of he ambassad and ministers ae- credited to Berlin and he was 2 pow- erful factor in bringing about e ceptance of the Dawes plan which prom T ged about t as t t of all ors ikened To Gompers ert s d life as a saddle- but years of experience as a aniz d official of unjons, with his wide training In politics, developed him admirers pointed out, ompers was de. whor or together practical ven as, veloped in His lack »pport mpensated for by won in S, 1 T £ early pifien whs raining he He wase of the responsi » presidentia his own office ath comes on the lay of mournins morate Cermany's There wil servie in all the f Derlin, the chief one in t1y 1 an the world war.