New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 6, 1926, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 187 2 FAVOR AWARD OF $60,000 ON CLAIM BY TRAUT & HINE Co. Tucome! Tax if;it Rec-t l m‘_fik—wfi_ Review| 10 STAND THIAL ommends But Board of Review! Must Pi’i?_“ I Ganiel G, Benker of Norwich T | Pleads Not Guilty B CASE 10 OPEN WEDNESDAY fncome tax unit of the Were a) Jan, 6.~T! internal rey | enue department W t working on emortization of approved a claim for ¢ $60,000 filed the Mfg. Co. of New BB Conn. claim {8 based on an ove of taxes made for the Although the claim lowed Ly t income tax un the decislon Is mot final as it must he! paseed upon by a bourd of review, | This board docs not consider facts| in connection with v but passes only on the law, Traut & Hine's cluim has n hanging fire for several years, Of-| 4% 5y Soics fictuls of the company have visited | ™y e the Internal revenue department for |y o o iy purposes of n and s lement the hooks of the company have heen and reciicr it | mer sald, the of the becoming more and mor Under a government may find it nec 1 interest of six per aim prosimately it & Hine | Oharges st Accused by Brought in Connection With L. year |+ bezadement has be of George 1. Plnn-s $10.024 Involved, Norwich, Berk: 6 (P broker defunct Gabriel € of Norwich, ilty to a chage of nted befe own in ¥ pleaded not g hezzlement | Judge Allyn superior court a- claim Lk L b : nst Berker conneetion with th by George B. Finn, treasurer and secretary Bunkers Trust Com Norwich, 10 embezzle- g we the consultat Sor of the checked 18 ny of justice h claim apparent serker is ¢l ment of $4 | Judes By 'Y 10 fnext Wed on the | pussed last year the | sned the case 13, plead- and was prison for from i for C January ember 15, 1 to embezzlemen o state ¢ Ifinn on S led guilty | sentenced | to Traut & Hine Mfg, Ci sed by North & Judd Mg which took possession in May, 192 v the terms of the sale, any clalms ainst government which are | hig pleas of pranted revert to stockholders 1n | eqyt, Traut & Hine and if the 860,000 plus Interest is pald it will be distr among those who owned T stock when the business of the com- peny was brought to a close. THO YALE MEN MARRY AND GIVE UP COLLEGE Austin Curtiss of Sim bury and Seth Terry of N. Y. Take Brides The 0. 9 years. g Howard 1 London policer {one year in t formerly sentenced to v dndl following the guilty to indecent as- Bigamist Jailed. Weyant of New lLondon sentenced to ten months in the county jail following his plea of |gullly to a charge of higamy. | He has been in for |months, His first wife, Alice stead of North Cromwell, 1 plea for Weyant in court, | that she was willing fo take back, On April 18 last W through a marriage ceremony Tola Richards of Waterford, DAVENPORT PROTESTS four Wal New Haven, Jan. 6 P—Two Yalc undergraduates, who have dropped from their classes with of the college aftor the lolidays, took unto themselves brides recently, 1t became known here today, There fa a college rule vhich provides that undergraduates rry while at college and lies, and this means E antomatically is pped from his class. Austin Cur 18, Conn., a freshman, Accuses Superintendent’s Office of Misinforming Him 1 1 i LXpress: € conviction he has been s . Clifton E port of 1290 Stanley street has {ien a letter to the hourd of 4 of Simsbury, | tion concerning the all 1 practiec married Doris | of children living in Connors, 18, of this city, who in|school district to attend school 1924 won a "bathing,beauty” con- janother district, a privilege wh test at the nearby Savin Rock resort, | 1 s, was denied his child, My and Seth Sprague Terry, Jr, of New | Davenport claims that he wus in- York eity, a senior, marricd Helen | formed that his child could not at- , a friend of Miss Connors. | tend the and Miss Connors went to | on Decembe 1 that I | | | | it- allowir e, anley school beea Davenport family lives in the He 17 | ley school district. v of other cases where ried by the Rev. i Jearned ett A, Burns, pastor of the Metho- |t} is not st church there, and at the cere- | Terry was best ban and Miss | fac nnon bridesmaid. N since been shown the | city day previous Terry and Miss Cann were married. They are now ymoon in the w and Mrs. Cor city and groom, howe without his - Joseph T. C student, ter to inquir claim o ruld Mr. or Davenport that o sed hetwe orce eals th pondence has i hool ¢ r, dated s letter rey er corre n him His last Junuary 4, follows: For a time, New Britaln falled to TURN RULN “To the School Committes | New Britain, Conn. Tn S - attends Stanley school by nte ten w that offici on a| d riment. to City of too ver e bride tis 1 per- i my son, who 1 E g 1 Juate | mission of the tering kind | report | which district had gone ahout the ered to in Feeling i s or naliey ros rdship to tran aled dent to sehool to mayc allow his contin 10t Tem but Mrs. Connors, his moth w, said tod from ot W ome | the Stanley *The | hasis school returned to his s appeal refu ¥ chairman o 1 was v that Curtiss had g Dean siated that th direetly 4o us, to t col but at your lige atter committ gnation ar uneessary i S [ v is rtiss nor ollowed that b in the it city two DR, FARRELL FREED Waterbury Physictan, Charged With eptions exist 1ild and a ve lowed entire ry voung child vho 1 ny an W plac t e Sn 2 order and loing so called th your to © rule subsequently n Perjury, Dismissed On Request of TN was not he by lette ng enforeed Prosccating Attorney Waterbury, Jan Farrell, Wl ¢ P—Dr. Charl promincnt local physi- was placed on trial for city court here yos- | result of ent Ly (Contirued on VESUVIUS ERUPTING 6 (A—>NMount Vesu into violent eruption to. 10) Py terday gave in a diseharg: i s testimo y he| Naples, vins brol an. murder trial Jud Abner P. Haves this mornin { et t iramatic er court James 1 g€ lay. A and |on the n- | erug w side of cone was formed mountain, while ity opened near the base on the .\1-",0,;),.,,, slope quantities of for | Lava and top. Tonight the ! \ fields of Kist at se eame rupt the 1 shor ac of when Pro: A Large discharge 3 “that | 1 here of per- an in- ed for nd e snow and ice tinge the reddish clouds, Iching volea evic n covered tence 1l not support ary that ustice the ht h | no which Iy charg, uid and it b to further w disch Attor acted in perjury warr under ction 1 by w is tri I move from ne his A% 1t Pe good LIFTS AT LAST Vi, Jan. 6 (P —T fog that covered No. ast from Bot r two i issuing the 10G us mem rtment. 11 tire cc pancies ir here s had ight safety in harbors moved out of port. 1 Wl other acquainted to trial, ings th th until the came criminal | | being made for the Daven- | one ¢ hich, | fact | also in- | g from both the cone | St s 2 EW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, J.\Nl_—'.‘\lt\' 6, 1926, —TWENTY PAGES. StwATOR REED IN WO PERSONS DIF IN WORCESTER AS FRE WRECHS HOME Two Omers—fifu*sly Burned- Family of Seven Is Trapped by Roaring Flames GOVERNORS OF TWO GREAT AVIGOROUS DRIVE | 574 7S ARE INAUGURATED AT PROPAGANDISTS \Declaves Before Senate That Foreign Powers Ave Seeking {0 Inluence Foreign Policy HOUSE COMMITTEE VOTES AS COOLIDGE REQUESTS Brings in Resolution Asking $50.000 [TWENTY BOSTON FIREMEN | Vive Story Warchouse Burned Farly to Pay Expenses of American Par- gAY ¥ | This Morning and Loss s Put at | | ticipation reliminary Disarma- ment Conference—Senate Flnance Mass,, | Bad Blaze and Amherst, GOV, I'ULL Clinton | | Committee Takes Up Tax Provi- s | W YORK | R OF MASS, | SHITH WOULD A FULLER OF MASS, |°*" CONSTRUCTION OF ANXIOUS 10 FAD | TENEMENT HOUSES ~ WAVE OF CRINES Advocates Measure Permitting Proposes Eight Amendnents Municipalities Helping in | o Criminal Laws-Urges This Construction Work | Vigorous Prosecntion LIKEWISE COMES 0UT |ALSO URGES BUILDING | PROGRAM FOR THE STATE slons Today. RepOR el AL Con N Az rations) | Washington, n 6 P —A resolu- Mass,, Jan. 6 (P)—Firc en members o Wiltred Morin of second floof of their midnight last | ; of two ator Recd, democrat, Mis- proposing investigation of | “propaganda® for 1t acceptance of the war debt settle- approved today by the | gn relations committee. Reed said would at- for: in the 1gerously \d eived vorld cour nents, 1and fae Morii his sons. | Morin rec wurns and | youngest children escaped unin- 1 | Oll Stove Starts Fire, vome ta Mr i\l,\ | | two of Tl mpt | ot slight however proposal was 8 to 8,1 h and favorable re- on th committee vote with Johnson port. Senators 1, Bo e the foot stairs Starting an overheated oi ¥ of the front sta in the house, imes qu engulfed and upper hallways a locked es- |cape. The family with the excep- {tion of Mrs. Martin, es gh front bedroom windo o porch and were taken down | ladders. Mrs. Martin rom a rear windo Dead and Injured. {injured are: Poudre died at a from second 4 st irs the the lower only Before Senate, committee ad- :d got his reso- senate® and began declared that the furvignl sottiements behind them most astonishing propaganda | country and perbaps the world s ever known.” “An organization has emissaries in ery hamlet of the United e, | s sent out literature by the ton |Ne nd has paid agents going over the nited tes 10 produce sentiment | woring government goi t 1 e e U e Vo lala e And A%l Re- | an equally organized cffor peal of the Motion Picture Com- | purpose of de- | ates into debt | mission Law—Places Resources of | h Italy and oth- Speaks Soon after i, orld coprt and d by FOR TAX REDUCTIONS il | | | aunt ospital | degree | s [l Morin, morning burns. Mrs Checks Made Out to State, Rather ; Mrs | . w York Executive’s Tnaugural | Inaugural Message Likewise Ree- Speech Advises Biennial Sessions | ommends Payment of Taxes By he ague Nald 7. mother of | Morin, dicd at a hospital this | morning from burns and inj S re- celved when she jumped fom a scc- honesty Among Offictals—Touches | 004 story window, S Wilfred Morin 17, on | with first Wilfred M Than to Individuals, 1o Curb Dis. | S ng the United ettlements for whi countries stand | want to know who is putting | p money and what Intluence is | back of it.” Broadeasts Challenge “I challenge any man to produce good and sufficient reason why this resolution should not be lald be- {fore the senate, There ave forelgn influences being exerted here. “I want to knoy originated | he argument on this side of the an for cancellation of the for- | debts. I want to know if the | the dan nd second deg forin 30, pronounced out : mother of ‘he Mor and two of her children, K 3, and lucille, 2 are at the Tome of her brother Arthur T. Mar- tin in this eity. Mrs. Morin received 1 bu face and hands ated by Polic The damage to t nehed the State at About $201,030,228. | On Public Utilities, | Albany, N. Y., Jan. 6 (A ~-Gm'-1 Boston, Jan. § (A Smith wen* on record today |Ments to the criminal laws designe a8 favoring municipal aid in tene- |10 reduce the erime wave were rec- {ment honse construction, biennia! |ommended by Governor Alvan T sessions of the legislature, tax re. ‘I uller in his opening address to the | !duction, and in opposition to spend- | (W0 branches of the legislature nr—' |ing for personal service any of the [day. The “law of stage coach days.” 819,000,000 available from the re- governor sald, should be cently authorized $100,000,000 per- |Placed on the statute books by mod manent bond issue, ern legislation capable of handiing Tenement House Suggestions twentieth century conditions. To solve the tenement house prob- Misdirected sym and lem, he urged in his annual mes: highly developed expertness of “rq‘.‘:x“(”\”;‘,‘.,;:;l.v,!‘),:‘_'m'“ EC SUMS | 06 the leglslature to that ates who have iiht } want know whether we |State should pro by law for the s M‘\il“vvn’vlr;v(m..”un the pub ave come to the point in this coun- |IncorPOration linifted ,.'h' e fans 500 '\',',‘r.‘,-w ,‘U: eri ,‘ try that these international bankers |CoTPOTations clothed with the power |reformation of th im can use the United States for their | o enrichment and profit, | want to find out if it fsn't it gentlemen put forth the | it 8o | LUWELTCY AGED PRIEST BEATEN BY FANATICS WHO CLAIM HE HAS CAST A SPELL |Bomhon France, Has RE{SGHOOL BOARD MAY NOT ; | Yigious Orgy That Re-| NEED DEFICIENCY FUND “We know practically nothing of | 1tions for the settlements g -utality of | sembles the Brutalit; |May Complete Year Without Asking the Middle Ag debts, We are told that —Curate | Stripped and Scourged n pay no more than is pre- in Own Church. Pe burns, ght amend- (ernor | | 3 Casseli. will nc W © house as the by the bl the parole ad- lost sight of the s que Firs Tan n Boston. 6 (A-—More than 20 overcome in a fire that ! five story warehoust is morning in the South Bos ther district, Thre ded. Two men Sullivan ullivan w Rostor to o1 men w ged | G (Continued on page 11) | (Continued on Page 11) | ms 1 wool and were o s — and Captain foseman De to a hospital. Dense elouds of smoke rol of the windows as the firemen battl- | cd the flames. Part of the building is occ 1 by the W. H. Claiflis Paper Company. e ir r Com nat da the securiti mors u to a ware $40) spreg house of The ol I unless €he fs to hecome bank- | ste Ttalians | ld our commissioners, but what s v told the international en they horrowed $100,- ar i That's v at £50,000 Worcester Fire. Mass, Jan 6 (&) story the | Bankers w Fire 1o from them Tt For Additional Appropriation, nator tart wante old the 1 the d then read advertise- Ttalian loan saying that | contrast “the comumissioners | | | on the first floor of a six kK on Main street earl swept As In Past (, te storles “Baring an unforesec the school departmen jin its appropriation |George W. Traut, cl finance committee {board announced today. | Should this be possible the first time in many ye: school rtmn tiirough the y the city for ance over th Mr. Traut fee will be eme through t will 1 ankers republican, American ssion, interrupt was never represe Tk t 1f she had r cent interest on her nator Norris, Nebraska Ttaly this al of nator Smoot, Ttah, | debt to | 6 (P priest Bombon, France, Jan At women s des Noyers, the parish apartment Italy was bankr day still was sufteri from iktuptey wonld he scouraging he received at the witho added amount t to the f e while the of members of ettt naf oug then was bank- | * r of Our Lady of Tears antic ankrupt whep | o jay gtripped and gagzed in s. | 1 P able re House Razed », soeristy of his church e eived 1 onomy Last year the amount only Amberst to bs : (Continued 0) MAY ARREST THREE FOR FEDERAL CRIME Serious Charge Said to Be | Pending Against Trio Here board of nde ¢ P T he from im is said to h r to he spirit taxation priation of $1,00 board. This amo |about a half of the |propriation. Up has been little over $30 partment months of t! Boston Has Over 18,000 Drunks Arrested in 1925 Boston. o (P runkenne ' o pel of evil which pos: Aged Wonion Take Part A dozen persons from Bordeaus, some of them aged wom as- serted to have comy party which, in a manner savoring of the dark agos, rendered the priest help- less and flayed him with cords and left him in such a serious condition |-hm it is asserted he will not be able to resume his prie s for a (3 month en | Janitress is Accused | Marte Mesmin, a fanitress, of | Jordeaux, founder of the “Order of Our Tady of Tears,” has been cited | Only 6,560 of appear before the authoritics and | peared in court, ar- {explain her act. She claimed after | released by prot a [the priest had been helabored that | he a spell over her. She | r are being held by Charles E. Welch, Grape _Juice King, Dies Today t ¥ Jan Arrests for . Fla.. Jan. 6 of Westfi as no more h of against serfous ¢ the peace has L nim, it is expected court tomorrow morn- New York | be formally charged with crime, Mazzone was ¥ morning followin in whic was shot at & f iis et 9% We rer in police i | municipal o Louis Mazzore, of i as a can- United a short {line for presi to At N 1ther i s shooting Buchard |street. fie | with n rest rate party to SDOESN'T WANT JOR | Quiney, Mass, Je Giovanni mont scrap» s castir and Albert ¥ the authorities. ected with the affair were permit- to go their way. Froger's father is described as a wealthy farmer. He said he had faken job as a street e unable {sweeper “to mortify my pride " wr * 1d in Lor Dor force would Grar ichard, who e a wound ir |arrested also, Wl him t in arm, the hospita has been | ough police refuse n placed | police “Red He was tw € being M delpl o Rrain b me to say s be b a practiced Iphia for twenty ye ime he was one of the Welch there. He began t} f grape juice in 18 anized his own comps president of the Welch company and the Welch 1, with headquarters erines, Ontario. He wa Relve [ in to | ble the up- inde- stu- gainst will answer to reports of t | rolice trying to 1o ard’s brother, Arthur, disap- |attack | peared f llowing the shooting, and |per-mida {they may produce him in court to- | pendent mea MOrrow mor Th Buchards | dents, Mazzone row 0scoutor was surp! all the members onged to t < of the Den mar are Buc’ ate at it tal 75 company THE WEATHER . e Hartford. Jan. 6.—Forecast for New Britain and vicinity Unsettled tonight, Thursday cloudy: somewhat colder tonight can It 1t will ¢ - emt | | missions ot # | church. | nothin: the Methodist Episcopai |has leaked out. Mass, and Providence Also | GORMICAN HURT IN HUB CITY BLAZE Former Claims He Was Mc- ' v | £10.000—Worcester - Has ‘lnn(lu'r‘RESPONDENT DEN[ES | | | ! i | | judicial distriet, | company | tnvolving | declaring jumped | Dower of Hartford, receivers of | ceivers of the Middlesex { company. | Pirst | Bridg | W | Mahon was not sustained, but t} o storeroom of a phar- | Th Hot | Mrs ¥ er of the board of foreign | e — Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending 12,522 Jan, 2nd .. .. PRICE THREE CENTS ALCORN UNDECIDED ABOUT CALLING GRAND JURY FOR PROBE IN GILPATRIC CASE AU"[]N ‘;Govemor, While Not Opposed To Such Ac- APPEM_'S _AREUH] tion, Is Not Yet Pre- | pared To Give It His Whole-Hearted Sup- - port, He Indicates. Meanwhile Baker, Other Putnam Banker, Insists He Has Told All Con- cerning His Own De- falcations From Bank, Hartford, Jan. 6 (®—The the department of ame from Springfield Guy L. Baker re {lations at the a motion for Igment [of Putnam, have been replaced by settlement final under | ! |an examiner from Roston, who way contract covering cropping opera- [sent 10 Hartford by Chiof Bang po tions on western lands for the sea- {aminer Norman §. Bean, on reques S {of Assistant United States Attorney T vationn| banka George H. Cohen, i ettty Visits Baker This Morning error from the super The examiner reached Hartford Sl last evening and early today was a1 ot Midaletown 3 the county jail for an interyiew with Baker, the former assistant cashier at the bank. The examiner was one of the four who investigated the Putnam bank before it closed its doors, and is fully conversant with the affairs of the bank 80 far as they have been disclosed, i So far as could be learned the de. partment of justice agent who con ferred with Buker was not able tq obtain any additional Iinformation than had already heen volunteered by Baker in his affidavit to My, Cohen, fmmediately following his surrender to the federal authorities last Saturday, Baker admits the theft of $16,500 and specified the items of his de. falcations, Seeking ¢ Mahon Employe When Injured IT Widow of Former Local Theatrical Magnate Says That Cormican Was Guest at Hotel. Not Lntitled to Compensation, Hartto ments preme ¢ for the Ar, by the su- sitting here | of the first| case of the x B lay rrors term o of the Middles: against t} company of urt of January agents Justice who to question lative to his pecu- I"irst National bank receivers nking In- vestment a- 5 m The 1 on writ r court, Robi John A son L. Investment Company and as re- Banking | Banks interested are the | National bank of Middletown, the Bridgeport National port, the Hanover bank of New York, the Chapin N ional bank of Springfield and the | Springfield National bank of that Central rmican of ford, against Margaret McM respondent’s appeal from the on of the compensation com- missioners was argued this afte noon. Cormiecan, actor, was a close friend of the Patrick 8 Me- Mahon of New Britain, husband of the respondent, The claimant con- tends he came to her hotel in New Britain to attend mass in memory of McMahon and because the man- | ger had left, he served in that | ipacity on agreement with ) McMahon and that while perform- his duties he fractured his leg. McMahon contends he and not an employe. occurred on June 4, 1 asing a boy from a re- frigerator, he fell through an open loorway. The appeal of Mrs, M ] ilpatric Data The bank exu ainer will sndeavor |to obtain from Baker what infor. mation he may have had relative the transactions in which Gilpa the real wrecker of the Putn 1K, was Involved. The real story ? the bank is a story of Gilpatric it has been pointed out, and there jx nuch of the Gilpatric story that hae ver been told and without this in. formation it has heen most difticult |to recover for the bank any consid- erable part of the money squandered by the former cashicr. Baker's hearing before United States Commissioner Frederic J, Cor. hett is scheduled for Thursday, and the federal authoritles have been ious to check up on the Informa tion he has given before the actua hearing is held, overnor 1s Lukewarm Governor Trumbull today indicat that he is not yet prepared to give his whole-hearted support and cooperation to State's Attornes |Hugh M. Alcorn’s tentative proposal |10 call the grand jury to investigate the defaleations from the First Na- | tional bank of Putnam by G. Harold Gilpatric, former cashier of the {bank and former state treasurer and suy L. Baker., former assistant cash- of the bank, as well as Gilpatric's manipulation of state bonds. Governor Trumbull said that h nothing of the plan prior to to and has not vet had time f{o onsider it carefully enough to deter ine what his attitude on it will be. On the face of it,” he said, “and om what little 1 have learned o today, I am not opposed to it." Alcorn Undecided Mr. Alcorn admitting that he ha [for some time considered the possi |bilitles of requesting that a specia |erand jury be called for the investi |gation of the Gilpatric case and all [suggestion had not yet erystalized into a decision. It fs still only in the procuss of consideration, but the |suggestion s regarded in many s as being a possible solution storm that has followed the tion that st bonds were 1 by Gilpatric for his private poses “I pre as it A right M gnest His 923, a in 8¢ was reverted commissioner, but to add to his finding Judge Brown In superior court di »d the appeal, FARMER TIED, ROBBED AND BARN DESTROYED Is Story Alleged West Brookfield, Mass., Vic- tim Gives State Police to the compen- he r ay West Brookfield, Mass I'hree masked men ound George Petraena I s in his lone- |' of this village watchdog and They left, only me to set fire to roying it with its con- his o the story Petra told his nearest neigl M George Hocum who live abou le and a half away. one of the Id 2 gun at his head while ond tied his hands behind severely cutting his wrists and hird went through the house. | The robhers got $52 in bills and er to let the matter remair is for the present,” said Mr. orn today when asked concern- g & possible time when the grand would be asked for. He will ask the court for the calling of special grand jury until he s satisfled in his own mind that erime en committed in Hartford by Gilpatric, Baker, or any of their associates, and that the in- \estigation a grand jury might un- ke would result in probable eing found against some in- o the Ho- he fell in a daz ntion of the ma story of his experiences. at Il as a large in the building. as w tity of hay, we was over Hocum nobile were immediately got in h with the West Brookfleld fire department and firemen made a run isolated house. police 1 of the holdup and er of the barracks im- started a search through se fog for the m The victim told the police knew of no way the men had come to his home, id he had heard no automobile stopping or starting in the v He was unable to give ption of the PENFIELD CRITICALLY JTLL Penfleld, for many years rk of New Britain 1 Originated With Himselt | Mr. Alcorn said today that the suggested grand jury probe into the scandal originated with himself, and had not been suggested by Governer Trumbull. If the proposed grand ury took up the investigation of the | Liverty Bonds, claimed to be in the he | possession of the state and pur- hased with funds stolen by Gil- patric from outside sources, it would probably lead the investigators into |channels hitherto unexplored be- | cause of the lack of authority to ex- |tend the probe along certain lines. It undoubtedly would permit the tracing of certain bonds from the state treasury, through Gilpatric's Thompson succeeding to |bank, and would enable the ipvesti- is reported today to be |gators to determine the origin of Ny 11l at his home, 659 Stan. |bonds now held by the state and ey street. Mr. Penfleld has not been in good health for montha e also v cinity desc LD 1 ren D prior %o (Cotinued on Page 1%)