New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 22, 1925, Page 1

le ita ree us, News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 ) W BRITAIN HERALD Piojym, b AT NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1925. --SIXTEEN PAGES. Average D Week Ending April 18th .. iy Circulation For 12,165 PRICE THREE CENTS QALLNG LEADS FIGHT ON WHEELER BILL AND HOUSE TURNS IT DOWN, BELL WAGES BITTER FIGHT ON IT io Division of Vote On Rejection But Par- liamentary Challenge Is Lost by Count of 148 to 60. Salisbury Champion of Measure Calls Attack | “Bunkum”—Local Solon Says It Has Dangerous Principle. State Capitol, The Whéeler bill, name from Chief Justice George W. Wheeler of the Connecticut supreme court of errors who had sponsored it as & means to secure more drastic enforcement of the 18th amendment than can be now secured, according to state's attorneys, by the state en- forcement laws, was rejected by the house of representatives this after- noon. The senate rejected the bill last week. No Division of Vote There was no division of the vote on the question of rejection but a | vote to order the previous question on the motion to reject showed 148 for and 60 against. . Before that Representative Bell of Salisbury who was for the bill could not mus- ter the necessary one-fifth to have | a roll call. The debate on the committee re- port was a vigorous one, and Mr. Bell fought stubbornly his fellow committee mempers. There were some parliamentary maneuvers but | Ar. Bell was unable for lack of votes to win a point. Alling Sums l.t Up Just before the vote!to reject was | made House Leader Alling made a | summing up of the Wheeler bill in which he claimed it had a dangerous prinelple in it--that of invasion of the | constitutional rights of a citizen Mr. Bell In his argument for the vill and arralgnment of the commit- | tee for acting summarily on the bill said that it was a “most humiliating spectacle to see the president of the state bar assoclation charge that| lawyers were intimidated” and so would not appear against the bill. Mr. Bell said he for one did not want the state turned over to a lot of hootleggers and their patrons.” He claimed the judiclary commit- | tee acted only on the original and never gave a thought to substitute one. The house adjourned after the bill | was rejected. Debate Was Lively The Wheeler bill produced long and lively debate. House Leader Alling moved acceptance of fthe committee report and the bill. committee moved division of the question, Mr. Alling saw no reason for this, claiming the house session | “would be interminable” if this were done. Debate began at once. Air of Tenseness, There was an air of tenseness in the house chamber when Clerk Hick- | senate came to the Wheeler bill. Every seat was filled and many spec- | tators had cl\'\lrs or were standing against the wall The gallery was | 1l filled. The debate started with a vigor that apparently made good the fore- cast for a lively session, Mr. Alling speaking In opposition to Mr. Bell's motion declared the committee had fully considered the bill and its sub- tute offered at the hearing a week ago. The committee, he said had voted unanimously to reject the and that Mr, Bell discovered he | “had voted on something he didn't know about” and so reserved his right to oppose the report. Mr, Alling | could see¢ no reason for dividing the | question and knew there was no hance of the senate receding from its rejection. He thought every mem- ber knew how he would vote and for uimself he did not belleve any fur- ther legislation was nceded on this bject. Bell Makes Plea. Mr. Bell said the bill was an im- portant one and he hoped the house | would not give it the “summary treatment” it recelved from the ommitte Applause was frequent especially when Speaker Darbie, who had left the chair after placing E. T. Clark of Haddam in it, took the floor. id the division of the motion ould merely make amendments possikle. He sald the question was ot one of prohibition, traftic in Juor or a buyer's responsibility, but ane of the constitutional rights. He thought the bill was a blow gt the | American form of government and the principles of constitutional 1ib- o Ly the Lead of the judicial branch of the government assisted by Attorne Claims Infringement, What kind of a law will it two departments—the administrative ind the judiciat—infringe on the rights of the legislative branch?” hg asked. He declared that the three jepartments of th government “must | (Continued on Page 18.) Hartford, April 22. | which took its | bill | the | Mr, Bell of the judiciary | , going through business from the | He | He said the bill was prepared | State's | bo 1t || Fought Wheeler Bill | (GET NEW BRITAIN MEN WITH GARGO OF BEER Michael Boyko and Joseph McNamara Arrested Near Pm\‘idepce (Speclal to the Iferald.) Providence, R. I, April 22.—Mi- | chael Boyko of Oak street, N Iflriluin, driver of an automobile | truek, and his companion, MeNamara of 193 Hartford av New Britain, are being held by the local polite at the request of pro- | hibition agents who yesterday seized | the truck on which they were riding |and are analyzing its cargo of beer. { A canvas covering over the truck attracted the attention and aroused {the suspicion of Motoreyele Polic man Callery as the truck was pass ing through Cranston yesterday af- ternoon. He followed the car and N ‘tomn to a stop. The driver admitted | the nature of his cargo, but said he | didn’t know whether it was *“good eer’ or “n beer.” At prohibition headquarters | Providence it was announced 14 barrels of beer and two quarte [barrels were found on the car. T | Providence police are holding Boyko Namara :\l the request of tha in that r WHEELER | TAKES STAND | | Positively Denies He Ever | * Met Hayes«in New | York Hotel | By The Assoclated Press. at Falls, Mont., April 22 Senator Burton K. Wheeler took the | witness stand in his own defense to- | { day at his trial on charges of illegal- ‘ ly appearing before the department | of the interior for Gordon Campbell, | Montana oil operator. “I never met George P. the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York,” he sald in a positive tone. “I never heard of him until he ap- peated before the Daugherty investi- | sating committee. He was attorney ’mr a bootlegger by the name of Gorinl—" His statement was interrupted by an objection by the | which w | Hayes, who wa he government's star witness, testified that he met Senator Whecler in D York in aler a » inte March, 1923, and that W ed him to appear before t department in his place. Senator Wheeler denied spoken @ Edwin 8. Booth, the licitor for the interior dey just befora he left Wasl |about making arrangements b or it on cphone for a meeting with Mr. { Hayes in New York. T waa introduced to Mr. Hayes |tn Washington in March, 1824, by |A. B. Melzner,” said Secnator Whoeler. Senator Walsh asked Senator he | Wheeler to account for the time spent in New York, just before sail- ing for Europe. He sald he ar- rived In New York late on the night of March 15, 19 and met Mrs, Wheeler there early the next morn- I spent the entire day shopping with Mrs. Wheeler,” sald the ac- cused senator. “We had to have clothes be | next day. Weo ehopped until t | stores closed for the day, which was |5:30 or a We had to go to i hotel th ess for dinner, "We we dinner at 17:30 with Harriman, { Then we went to the opera with | Mrs. Harriman, Colonel E. M. Hou Mrs. House and Colonel Stone of t :United States Army. Weo returned to the hotel about 10 o'clock that night, made ready and boarded the ship.” Joseph | slgnalled Boyko, who was driving, to | INHIS OWN DEFENSE rejection of | Hayes in | government, ! :se we were sailing the | 24,000 ALIENS LAND IN AMERICA MONTHLY Of the 189,602 Arriving in | First Eight Months, New | York Gets 43,488 | Washington, April 2 In the first eight months’ operation of the new immigration act 189,602 aliens, re {resenting many ra came | American shores, This average of a little under month, New York state got 43,488 of the to shows an 24,000 a immigrants; California 14,810; {nois 12,880; Massachusetts 20,45 { Michigan 18,112; New Jersey 7,779; | Oblo 5,923; Pennsylvania 10,637; immigration bureau survey crado, Georgia, Illinofs, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippl, Missouri, Nebr: , New | Jersey, Ohlo, Oklahoma, Pennsyl- vania, South Dakota, Utah and Wis- consin had more Germans than any other race settling within their bor- ders, California, Florida, Tdaho, Massa chusefts, Michigan, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, | Washington and West Virginia had a preponderance of English among their newcomers. Alaska, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota and Wyoming found a ma- jority of their immigrants Scan- dinavians. In Arizona, Louislana, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas the | greatest influx was of Mexicans. Connectieut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont attract- | ed French in greatest numbers, and {Delaware and New York found that | mitted as students and professional men. No immigrants were recorded as going o the Philippine Islands. Nevada showed the least number of allen newcomiers lands received the lowest number outside continental United States, with only 6. Alaska had but 52 im- sml;:r'\n(' An(’TIC L \\h NAME Miscow,* April Lenin Land” is the new name to bo | given to the large stretch of land on |the Soth parallel at 100 east longi= tude discovered by the Russian Arc- tic explorer Velketzky fn 1913 and uwnmn known as Nicholas IT Land. Tie soviet government plans to «mm an expedition to the islands |shortly under Prof. A. Panegin to | hoist the red flag and make geologic- al and geographical surveys of the |entire region. HENRY FORD AND ~ HIS PAPER SUED (Made Defendants in Aetion (laiming Million Dollars SAPIRO CHARGES LIBEL Originator of Plan of Cooperative Marketing For Farmers Says Dearborn Independent Slandered His Character, |avows that his character have appeared in the | |Dearborn Indepcemlent. The articles, |the Irish sought thetr borders In | greatest throngs. Despits the Japanese exclusion | provision, 498 Japanese were ad- | 66, tHo Virgin Ts-| “Viadimir | Detrolt, April 22.—Henry Ford and the Dearborn Publishing Com- |pany, of. which he is owner, were ’nlmed defendants In a $1, 000,000 | | libel suit filed today in United States | District Court by Aaron Saplro, orig- !inator of a plan of co-operative marketing for farmers. In the declaration filed by Wil- Hlam O. Gallagher, attorney, Sapiro articles defamatory to the declaration says, charge Sapiro 11li- | with being one of “a conspiracy of. Jewish bankers who seek to control the food makets of the world.” Work Of 15 Years The declaration asserts that Sap- ‘lru has spent 15 years bullding up agricultural marketing organizating | Texas 10,425, and Washington state | 7,103, | An |shows that Alabama, Arkansas, Co- i which now exist in 38 states, that he | {1s attorney for those organizations and avows that h the farmers of America and Canada has been irreparably damaged by |the articles published in the Dellr-‘ born Independent. 1 The articles, the declaration says, accuse Saplro of seéking to galn control of the wheat, potato, hop, hay, tobacco, cotton, raisin and bean markets, | The declaration covers 92 printed | pages and is divided into 21 separate |““counts,” each quoting from articles | lalleged to have appeared in the Dearborn Independent. No Retraction Made Demand was made upon the de- |fendants for retraction of the arti- |cles quoted, the declaration asserts. No retraction has heen made. “Plaintiff avers,” says the declara- tion, ing, writing and publishing of said |talse, scandalous, malicious and de- ‘fuma(ory libel by sald defendants, !sald plaintiff has been and is injur- ed in his profession of an attorney, and has lost and been deprived of |divers fees, gains, rewards and com- |pensation which otherwise would |have irizan and acerued to him in | his sald vrofession and is otherwise | {njured and damaged.” All of the plaintiffs activitics in |behalf of farmers and producers and their assoctations, the declaration asserts *“have been engaged In upon |the request and solicitation of sald farmers and producers and their or- ganizations.” Tn conclnglon the declaration says: | “Plaintiff further avers that h has no knowledge of the existence |of any conspiracy such as that al- |leged by the defendants, or of any | conspiracy to oppose the interests |of American farmers and producers other than that evidenced by the | | campaign of said defendants to mis- lead and deceive the farmers, pro- |ducers and people of Amerlca the repcated publications of half- (rmr: and full falsehoods.” | {Mys. Isbell, 77, in Agony and Unable to Move Un- til Family Returns Home l From Work. 1al to the Werald.) Forestville, April 22.—Mrs, Mary E. Isbell, aged 77, of 70 Kenny street, is resting comfortably today . Francis' hospital in Hartford, after the harrowing experence yes- terday of having fallen down th cellar steps in her home, breaking her hip, and being forced to remain lying on the cellar floor all day until after 5 o'clock last night members of her family returning from their day's work, discovered her absence and after a search found 'her in her miserable plight. Mrs. Isbell has been a very active wom#h. Yesterday morning when her family departed for work, she was alone In the house and after taking care of her daily chores' the rooms, she started to go the cellar. While descending stairs, her foot caught on o steps and she tripped, plung- dlong down the steep in- about into t of th ing h c ha She landed at the bottom wit decp thud and injured herself so severely that she was unable to without excruclating pain. as later found that she had suf- She fainted the unbearable found herself It tered a broken hip. away at first from agony in which she | and when she came to, the pain had | increased to such proportions that she was unable to call for aid loud | enough for anyone on the outside to hear her. All throughout the day, every minute of which seemed an cternity suffered her purgatory alone Part of the time she was uncon- scious when her strength aiready sapped by the severe fall, gave out and part of the tim sh ay e cellar floor unable to do anything but pray for ald or dellverance om | her suffered | The minutes dragged by, and stil no help eame and Mrs, ‘Tsbell | her suftering made more intense be- Aged Woman Breaks Hip and Lies on Cellar Floor Throughout Day cause of the damp and chilly in- terfor of her prison, finally gave up hope. Her resistance was gene, and she passed into unconsclousness. Members of her family returning from their day's work, found her. They immediately noted her ab- sence. They looked through the rooms, around the house and ally celiar. sum- in frantic anxiety, in the They bore her upstairs and moned Dr. Georg Cook of Plain- villk The doctor rt she regained co ordered her removal to St. hospital It was reported from tion this morning th: ing comfortably though she was be- selged with the inevitable reaction wh follows torture. NO SLIGHT INTENDED Lexington-Concord Committee Says the institu- was rest- Conn. Delegation Was Not Expect- ed—Had Not Replied. Boston, April Judg tt ves, chairman of the ord 13 committee, in a statement today exp d an apparent slight to Governor 1bull of Con aring tha 't the commi make provision for his visit be no reply to invitationa sent G and his staff were re s expressed keen r the incident Two Connecticut militia reportad slighted in th he said, were not in Concord. ¢ road space prev i ations outsi THE WEATHER For Ncw Britain and vicini- ty: Generally fair tonight and probably Thursday: warmer tonight. | Have | standing with | “that by means of the compos- | by | ‘| ards MACR! GIRL $AYS . OHE REGRETS ALL ‘Somry She Killd Bagnane, Is Statement in Court HER TRIAL “OPENS TODAY Work of Selecting a Jury Begins—- Big Crowd Flocks to Courtroom to | Hear Evidence — Accused Shows.| | | Repentance. New Haven, April 22.—Special ar- rangements have been made by the | court to preserve law and order, os well as quiet, during the trial of | Olympla Macrl on a charge of hav- ing murdered John Bagnano on Ieb- ruary 26, which opened here this morning before Judge C. L. Ave The public was admitted to the courtroom but when every avallable seat was taken the doors w closed, not to be reopened untll re- cess. Depuly sheriffs have been stationed about tho courtroom s keep the spectators from moving | about, Sheriff James Geddes yesterday refused camera men permission to take pictures inside the jail or to have Miss Macrl to pose for them. The sheriff also Informed the photographers that no plctures could be taken in the courthouse, Murdered in Lobby According to the finding of Cor- | oner Eif Mix who held an fnquest after the shooting of Bagnano in the lobby of a theater on Church street, ! | the latter met death from bullet | wounds inflicted by Olympia Macrl, who told police that Bagnano was { the father of her chiid which he ‘L\VMI!I] not support. | A grand jury later returned a first degree murder {indictment against the girl, who 18 20 years old, The girl claimed that Bagnano who was marricd and whom ghe had | known for a number of years in De- cember 1923, took her for an auto- moblle ride and that after she had eaten some figs given her by hel companion, she became “crazy like." | Driving to a side road, Bagnano & tacked her, she clatmed, From a panel of talesmen, num- | bering 123 men the trial jury is be- | ing selected. Sorry it Happened i “I am sorry it ever happened,” | Olympia Macsi declared shortly after she entered the courtroom today. | The young opera student who is on trial for her life was visibly nervous | as the names of the 123 talesmen were called. Repentance for her act was mani- fest when she said: “If 1 had to do it over again it would bo different.” As the talesmen | left the courtroom prior to being callod in individually to be subject- ed to questions by counsel, the young girl burst into tears and sob- bed. Hundreds started formiug in line in the corridor of the courtl early as 8 a. m. and by 10 a. £ m, the witnesses had to fight their way { through the throng. A near-riot oc- | curred shortly after 10 a. m. when the courtroom doors were open to allow newspapermen to er | ter. Several women were slightly ir | jured as they milled and fou to | gain admittance to the chamber. First Talesman Callexdt The first talesman was Clinton C. Peck, 50, a farmer of shire, Conn, He was rejected by Attorney Jo- | seph Koletsky for the defense he had replied to questions ti considered a girl of 18 or ture woman and to be | ble for her deeds as such. | Double Moral Standard “Do you belicve tn a double standard of morality?” he was asked { by counsel for the State's Attorney | interrupted to “What is that Attorney Kol | was a differcnt set of m for a man a standard | clared that he believed was questionad 19 a ma- lield responsl- Arnon A. sk | for a wom he was n in such hour by both sides be tejected. Indications we ury could not possibly permitted to cha | by the Conr ss a third of exhausted by Self Defen When court re for lunc n the pa T excuse 1 h 4 cha cnged f those calle excused by During men, the ¢ eral realtives o row of the s ther was rtroom It was in ture of the 1 sisters talesmen by . t ¥ that the probable 8 the de- fendant wou. ea C def e. Woman Auto Bandit Given 10 to 25 \ear South Bend, Ind.. A Aspinall was thrown 0BJECT OF BURGLARS AT PALS OF GERALD CHAPMAN SUSPECTE Chauncey Depé\; to Observe His 91st Birthday Working as Usual Declares “World is Getting Better, By Hickory!, l)e- spite the Calamity Howlers and Prophets of Evil” New York, April 22.—Chauncey | M. Depew, formér United States sen- ator from New York and now active as chalrman 1 of direc- tors of the N road, tomorrow will cel ninety-first birthd by going to| work as usual at his desk in the rallroad’s offices here, Ne sald today. Mr. Depew in a pre-birthday in-| terview, discussed many topies in his usual optimistic manner. Asked | whether he thought the world was getting bettor or worse, he sald: “By hickory, it is gettlng better despite the calamity howlers aud the prophets of the world is con-| | stantly getting bette Peopla getting to know and v nd another better than they used to.” Mr. Depew then told of his plans for his birthday tomorrow. “I will have a lot of fun,” he eaid. “I will plug along at my job here to- morrow and have a old timers at dinner tomorrow night. One din- ner at a time is all Mrs. Depew will allow me, although 1 personally feel able to conquer n “The doctor came I this morning to look me over and his bulletin reads, , normal; temperature, normal; blood pre arcful of your diet and tem- guess that about tells the story. Jt| perate in your appetites and the rest shows that there is a way fo grow | of the problem will take care of it- | young as well as a way to grow old. | BRIDGE BURNED, FAST LOS ANGELES MAKES TRAINRUNS INTOTT - FLIGHT T0 BERMUDA ve in your country, your fellow lave faith in God, be r Two Known Dead, Several Is § uccessful in ‘V[ooung to | Injured in Wreck in | Montana t Tender Patoka Early This Morning Miles City, Mont., April 22, 22, ning o€ high speed, the Columbian, one of the crack Chicago, Milwaukee & St a burned out tod Run- | April s moored th Arn der Patoka In milton, Bermuda, morr frship wl - at Paul passenger trains, ran into bridge near Ingomar Y g 1t D yesterday, * arrived he engine turned over and Kkilled | ovot"Bormuda at 2:10 o'clock this Alex Bugby, cngineer, and Hans| o' Stuve, fireman, both of Miles City, 5 Ui erattll according to word reccived at the Leder LE island before | railroad’s offfces here. 1t also is re- ported that a number of passengers were injured > train is one of transcon- fivers, traveling between It was due to shortly 90 af miles Ingoma of h noon. west SENTENCED TO DlE Will Pay Texas Youth of 17 Death Penalty for Criminal Assault Up- on Young Girl. Mi Doy April 2 rnold, was found nd given jess than v of crim on- hurst | 'RECORD OF SKELLY AUTOPSY THOUGHT LANE HOME; Pathologlst Wl.o As- sisted In Removing ‘ Fatal Bullet From Po« ' liceman Scares Crooks Away. | Intruders Believed to Have Worn Gloves and Left | No Fingerprints—Silver and Money Undisturbed. which fact that n are stope A mysterious hurglary, seems to point to th friends of Gerald Chapr {ping at nothing to prove his inne- in the ent of a new trial, to light with the At persons unknown | cen has ju [ knowledge ti 1 broke into the house of Edward F, |Lane on Winthrop street Sunday |night and tampered with the records {of the death of Patrolman James {Skelly, whow as shot in the Davidson |and Leventhal department store, Oc- {tober 12, and for whose murder Chapman has hoen convie st at the New hospital and with Mr. Brita ane is pa General Medical Examincr Waterman Lyon, performed the autopsy on the body of the murdered policeman. He is probably the only person except Dr. | Lyon who would be able to identify ‘tl e fatal bullet, It is Mr, Lar custom in writing reports of autopsies he performs at the hospital to make carbon copies | for personal reference purposes, The ‘mlgnhns are filed among the ree- EDWARD F. LA} C th Wl the carbom copies he files in lesk at home. The copy of the Skelly report is thought to have been what the bur- g after, s Light Under Door. burglars surprised the H“V is home glout y bya y at 0 Laloh gopieannfine vesierday AL Alyman sWVall R etain ¢ Luibs ¢ fentified was charged that Arnold and Y e Sl an, who has not | East H'\mpmn l‘ FHh e | Al up with 1 s th ral Wells n y m ‘ toned t and threw ROGERS T0 BE TRIED 'y n n Waterbury Man Will Be Brought To 2 = e New Haven To Stand Trial Por ! e : Murder Of Infant Son s hut Mr, New Ha A - ) \ e % Skelly 1 \ot Taken : N 1. - Deteciive Agency Fails To C -‘l"(l From C 1'\ Cat Electrocuted Seeking Safety in Buell Street Tree Wh g fr ot was ound on e have the