New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 4, 1927, Page 5

530,000 BRIBERY FUND TRAGED Plot fo Fix Federal Grand Jury in Chicago Chicago, Jan. 4 (A) — Confession of a plot to “fix” the federal grand jury, which recently cleared Former Sherift Peter M. Hoffman and seven others in the Cook county jail scan- dal, put the government on the trail today of a bribery fund alleged to have totalled $50,000 or more. After 15 hours' questioning of three men under arrest, Hope Thompson, assistant district attor- ney, announced he had “a definite notion as to where the big bank roll came from.” Deputy Marshal Thomas Smith, wlho voluntarily revealed the alleged | plot said he had refused a $15,000 | bribe to ald in placing Joscph Plunkett on the jury which acquit- ted Hoffman and his co-defendants. Smith did not go through with his | part in the transaction, and Plun- kett, one of the three under arrest, did not get on the jury. Federal | investigators indicated, however, that | Smith may not have been the only | individual approached. i “Several persons in the federal | building have reason to be extremely nervous,” said Thompson, who was before the ymen as prosecutor in | the trial growing out of liberties al- | leged to have been allowed two beer | runners held in jail here for the gov- | ernment. ' “We are fully satisfled that seri- | ous, determined and repeated efforts | were made to fix the jury but as yet | we have no evid:nce.any money ac- | tually was received Mr. Thompson took steps, however which would facilitate examination of the entire jury, which was suc- ceeded today by a new panel. It was indicated that because of leg obstacles the government would be unlikely to attempt another. trial for the eight defendants. LEWIS BEATS MUNN strangler Scttles Two Year Old Dis- pute Over Wrestling Title in Two Straight Falls. | Chicago, Jan. 4—(@— Ed (Strangler) Lewis settled his two | year old dispute with Wayne Munn | over the heavyweight wrestling title | last night, Lewis took two sraight | falls with a su ion of crushing headloc Munn, who two years ago tossed Lewis out of a Kansas City ring and claimed the championship when Lewis did not appear for the third and deciding fall, had Lewis in danger only once. He made Lewis | tussle for almost an hour for the | first fall, but appeared hurt and lost | the sccond in 12 and a half minutes The match, in which Lewis' $10,- | 000 diamond championship belt was at stake, drew a record . Chicago | wrestling crowd of 10,000 fans, and | o gate of $25,000. DUKE'S ESTATE WORTH | MORE THAN 89 MILLION Late Tobacco Manufacturer and Philanthropist's Holdings Valued ‘ at $89,704,859.66. Somerville, N. J., Jan. 4 (®—Tho \ estate of James B. Duke, tobacco | manufacturer, and philanthropist, | was worth $89,704,850.66 at his death, according to a petition for a | first accounting filed in surrogate court today. Money paid out for ta administration expenses, lega- cies and trust funds, since Mr.! Duke's death in 1925, cut the value | to $53,451,778.76. | Legacies were paid and trust funds set up to the amount of $36.- 3,080.00, while taxes and ‘the ad- | inistration of the estate cos 710.92 ! The bulk of the estate, or $52.- 443,383.20, was made up of stocks | and miscellancous bonds. $18,605,- | 700.71 was invested in government, | state and municipal bonds. i Cash, notes and accounts receiv- | able totalled $4,524,634.71. The exccutors are Mr. Duke's wid- ow, Analine H. Duke, and George G Allen, and Wiliam P. Perkins. STAGE DIRECTOR DIES st. Paul, Minn, Jan. 4 (@) Walter Baldwin, 76, pioneer stage | director, is dead. e developed many stage and screen stars, includ- ing William Farnum, Dustin Far- | num, Bert Lytell and Belle Bennett. Lots Less kitchen sink whenyou use an Aluminum Kitchen Katch-all to receive the table refuse. You will appreciate the sani- tary features of the Katch- all because it does away with the disagreeable staining and odorous old style in-the-sink garbage strainer. The Kitchen Katch-all is approved by the Good Hous keeping Institute. Order by mail phone. Price $2.98 installed. W.R.FENN Plumhthg—Heating TEL. 2079. 139 HART No Odors. No Drip. Empty When Convcnient or tele- {machine in Pittsburgh and th {ten machine in all, DNy GOV. PINCHOT OF PENN. TAKES LAST VICIOUS WHACK AT SEN.-ELECT VARE Says He Is :Disgrace to Oywn State and Should Be Excluded From Senate— Brands “Mellon Ma- chine” as Defender of Organized Crime. Harrisburg, Pa., Jan. 4 0P — Charges that Senator-elect William S. Vare's republican nomination for that office was “partly bought and partly stolen,” were made by Gover- nor Gifford Pinchot in his final mes- sage to the Pennsylvania legislature today. The ‘“Mellon machine in Pittsburgh,” and the “Mitten ma chine” also were assailed by the gov- ernor. Says Vare Is Disgrace Declaring that he had refused to upport Vare in the elections for hat reason, Governor Pinchot said: I have no doubt that Vare deserves to be and will be excluded from the senate, but whether he is or not the mere fact that a senator-elect from Pennsylvania is in danger of losir his scat because of seandalous penditures in the primary and notor- ious cheating in the election, is a bitter disgrace to this community.” Governor Pinchot opposed Senator clect Vare and Senator George Wharton Pepper in the primaries, Vare galning the nomination by the votes rolled up in Philadelphia, his home. Hits At Moneyed Interests Part of the was directed at the “great moneyed interests” he saw controlling Penn- sylvania’s political life, and a de- fense of the primary system. Tiwo “political machines,” the “Mellon Mit- Philadelphia,” he d, “spread their black, hawk-like shadows over the community borne jupon the wings of eminent respecta- bility and organized crime.” What Interests Buy r many years” the governor said, “the politics of this state have been run as a part of the business of intere: vhat these interests buy is non-interference, extortionate rates allowed public utilitics, and other special privileges for them- selves at the expense of the people. ‘hey give the orders, and the men who take the orders are the political bosses whose names. we see in the papers every day. The real purpose of every regular political machine is the advantage of the interests which | maintain it. “To operate machine must diffe successfully, have behind rent kinds of people. Tirst of it must have a hody of polit cians able and willing to deliver, for value received, the control of gov- ‘rnment, the unrightcous favors, and the unfair protection for the. sake of which the magnates are in politics. Politicians ahle and willing to do these things must he corrupt. Lowest Politicians “Hence any such machine include a body of the lowest ticians, such for example as the Mellon machine fn Pittsburgh and the Mitten machine in Philadelphia every it two must poli- governor's message | ' NEW BRITAID lactually do control—men who de- |pend for their living and their |power on liquor, crime and vice. |These are the men the magnates buy with valuablé congiderations, and lfrom time to time protect against Ithe revolt of honest citizens |would otherwise destroy them. The Other Faction | “This is one wing of the machine. | The other consists of men who are so tied in with the business organ- |ization of the magnates that they |profit from the existenco of the ma- |chine; partly of business men lare held in fear because of their loans and credits; partly of the gen- |erally decent citibens (of whom there are many) who follow the ‘magnates because they assume that it a man is rich enough he can do ‘no wrong; partly of |cannot resist the craving to stand |well with those in power, and part- ly of such of the ostensibly respect- |able elements of e community as lare willing (in Pittsburgh, for ex- lample) to.shut their eyes and make |[common cause with gangsters, vote |thieves, dive-keepers, criminals, and {harlots, because of the social {financial eminence of the Mellon {name.” | Governor Pinchot made four |recommendations, appointment of fiscal officers, abolition of the inter- nal affairs department, revision of |insurance laws, and building of *a Inew executive mansion. | ]I)eath Certificate Frees Bond Calling for $5,000 | Milford, Jan. 4—— A death | certificate valued at $5,000 made its | appearance in the Milford town | court yesterday morning. The case of Mrs. Mary E. Conlin, alleged in- cendiary was formally nolled today | when her attorney, James Murphy of Bridgeport presented a | certificate of her death to Prosecu- tor Omar W. Platt. The cas been carried from last Monday's | court session at the request of At- torney Murphy, but Prosecutor Platt was prepared to forfeit the bond if the death certificate did not make its appearance. Mrs. Conlin died from asphyxia tion in the kitchen of her daughter’s | home in Erooklyn three weeks ago. She had been arrested by Miiford | police after they followed her foot steps in the sand for two miles from | the scene of the alleged incendlary | blaze at Silver Beach. 154 TREMORS RECORDED Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jan. 4 (F) e seismograph at La Plata ob- srvatory registered 154 earth trem- ors during 1926, it was announced today. Twent curred last month. The Andes ridge s the center of most of the trem- reported,” the Chile a, Peru and Central America suf- {fering in turn. MARRIED FOR 25 YEARS Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dorozenski of ller street ‘observed the 25th janniversary of their wedding at their home New Year's Day. were pr from Bridgeport, Ter- ryville, Bristol and this city. Mr. and Mrs. Dorozenski were the reci- pients of many gifts. S LEADID Ll ol who ¥, who | persons who | and | had | of these shocks oc- | n coast, Bo- | Guests | Lats daa. AMERICAN MINISTER T0 CHINA CALLED HOME MacMurray Summoned to Washing- ton for Conference With Secretary Kellogg Peking, Jan. 4 (A—Announcement Twas made today that John V. A. MacMurray, American minister to | China, has been called to Washing- ton for a conference with Secretary | Kellogg on Chinese affairs. Mr. MacMurray will sail Jan. 25 from Yokohama aboard the President Cleveland. Charge d’Affaires Mayer will act during his absence. Washtgton, Jan. 4 (A—Although Minister MacMurray has been sum- | moned to ‘Washington for confarence on the Chinese situation, it was in- dicated at the state department to- day that the statement of American “hina in respense to ently published British memo- randum would not be delayed to await his arrival. No definite period for the minis- ter's stay in the United States has been set, and it i3 assumed that he will spend some time at home on leave unless conditions in China re- quire that he hasten back to Peking. |Bodwell Company Votes 10th Annual Dividend | The directors of the Bodwell | Realty company, doing business in New Britain, Hartford, Providence, 2. 1., and Sanford, Florida, today de- clared the 10th annual dividend. The | aividend 1s of elght per cent and amounts to about $25,000. The com- | pany 18 reported as being active both |is the concern which developed the | Belvidere and Lincoln Park tracts | here, the University Heights in West Hartford, and Sanford, in Tlorida. {England to Have More Kick in Beer Carlisle, Eng., Jan. 4 (P—Beer with a heavier “kick” s being made in the government breweries for sale in the state inns during the remain- der of the winter. The present beer is too mild for he northern working man and the forthcoming beer will have more “body" to it. Managers of the inns have re- ceived orders to serve only a glads at a time, however, as the beer is said to be too strong to be-sold in large quantities. MORE WOMEN PREACHERS Cljeago, Jan. 4 (®—An increase in the number of women ordained | | as local preachers, deacons and eld- ers of the Methodist Episcopal church is shown in a report publish- ¢d in the 1927 year book of tI church. Zleven women were ordained as elders, soven as deacous, and four- teen local preachers, a total of 32. 666 Is a Prescription for | Bilious Fever and Malaria It kills the germs. » FURRIERS New Britain —Offering the Greatest Fur Values During Our Annual - JANUARY FUR SALE —Leading ‘in New Britain as We Lead | in Hartford THE REASON! GREATER VALUES CONNECTICUT FURRIERS Incorporated 70 WEST MAIN STREET Hartford Store 90-92 Church Street in New England and in Florida. This | | Colds, Grippe, Flu, Dengue. iy wiaivlUaadea OHMAN AND ARDEN MUSICAL WONDERS Contribute Heavily to Success of Broadway Theater Hit 1 Tribute to Phil Ohman, formerly of this city, and his partner, Victor Arden, who are making a hit in the orchestra pit during the presenta- tion of *'Oh, Kay" n New York city, | is paid by a writer in the New York | Evening World, who sketches brief- ly their rise in the world of musical entertainment to their present point | of eminence. The article follows: “At one of the recording pianos in { ths plant where the Q. R. S. piano | rolls were made was a young man, | hard at it, turning out yards and yards of paper stenciled in fnnumer lable places by cuts that would re sult in the rendering of the latest | popular song on many a player | piano. That was six years ago. In | those days the player plano had ito do its best to imitate an | orchestra by rendering the fullest scoring. As many notes as possible had to be cramped into the opus. The more scales, arpeggios, flourish- | es, breaks, cadenzas and other mu | cal what-nots the better. As often |as not the ultimate rendition by the owner of the player was done fortis- simo throughout, until a complaint from the long-suffering neighbors | put an end to the proccedings. All {of which serves to show why the |young man was hard at it. It was | tough with only elght fingers and | two thumbs. ~ “In the same establishment was | another young man finding it equal- |1y tough. They got together and de- cided four hands could do a fuller |and easier job. That started the | fourhanded business. All the same | there were drawbacks. The fingers of the right hand of one of them | would get tangled up with the fingers | of the left hand of the other. Elbows jabbed into ribs. Both of them 1 would reach out for the pedal and | then one of them got a quick one on | the ankle. Two pianos, synchronized | for the recording, solved that diffi- culty and started a partnership. “The partnership, while continu- ing to make piano rolls, blossomed out on the air. They were among |the original members of | Gang. Then they were seen and | heard in the flesh at tho Capitol | theater. Shortly afterward, another | partnership had forme: thea al management. Their first show was rehearsing. One of the partners happened to go to a party. So did the piano combination, who played. The former straightway of- fered to put the latter in the pro- duction. The pianists were doubt- ful how they would get over in a show, but after the opening night no more doubt remained. They got {over. So much so that the same dosil. management has featured them in| the pit With the orchestra with their | succeeding shows. The managerial| partnership is Alex. Aarons and Vinton Freedley. The first show | was ‘Lady, Be Good,’ the second, ;‘Tip»Tu\*s' and the present one.‘Oh, | | Kay." | “The piano partnership is | Ohman and Victor Arden. | "It s not an uncommon sight to | see many members of the audience |at an Aarons and Freedley show | ! rise in their seats and crane their| | necks to sce who is doing those! | things with the pianos. They con- | sult their programs, but remain in ignorance, of who is which. To set your minds at rest: Ohman is the one with the beaming countenance working on the right of the orches- | tra leader, Arden with a rather more solemn expression is on the | left. “These two have played together S0 much that they instinctively play into each other’s mood. While pl ing, one of them will hit on a flash nd the other will almost automatic- |ally pick it up and combine. They |have no secret signs to presage the |changes, ete. In fact, they seldom look at each other at all while play- |ing. When they get the score of a new show their method of orches- | tration is to go to a rehearsal, see what the requirements of the players | on the stage are, then get to a couple | |of pianos and ait for the flashes. Little of their stuff, outside of the zaps in the orchestra score deliber- itely left for the pianos to fill, s definitely set. They continually im- provise for new effects, working on the basis that novelty of melody and rhythm is preferable to piano tricks | and finger hysterics. Naturally their worl is built npon the score originally written by the composer, but outside of that it up fo them. When Paul Lanin, the orchestra leader of “Lady, Be Good handed them their band parts they found many pleces of manusecript paper blank, except for the number of bars which they had to play and the words ‘Use your own discretion” scribbled on them. They worked for about two weeks to get the piano | arrangements fixed for “Oh. Kay". Numbers for their Victrola records require time to get set, but for the plano rolls, on which much of their | day is still spent, they have only | time to run through perhaps twice | before recording, owing to the fast and furious rate in which these have |to be turned out. This, in brief, | is how Arden and Ohman started b making piano rolls singly and hav Phil is !part of the Aarons and Freedley musical productjons. i | “For a relaxation from jazz thes the way, they play ‘as written.""" ‘Tiges scalp remedy. | plication stops that | e itching. Money-f | i Whyte- § | | Q) Fox knocks pimples, poison f§ | ivy, piles. Barbers ordruggists. § | | —MAIR REMEDY — | | right kind of shoes to wear so that RADIOPHONY NOT ; n |an official of the British post office Roxy's lnow become sort of a dual integral [told the Daily Mail. Plans to insure lout: by experts, that of two turn to the classics, which, by |thefr efforts to foiling possiblo eaves- SHOES FOR WOMEN 10 BE DAINTIER Smaller Too, Is Vogue, With Higher Heels Chicago, Jan. 4 (P—Smaller and aintier feminine feet are required to meet the demands of 1927 shoe styles. Fashionable women must trip through the coming seasons on heels one-quarter to seven-eighths of an inch higher than the highest that have been in vogue. | Other edicts of the shoe stylis(s;‘ here to attend the National Shoe Re- | tailers’ convention opening today are | that toes will be more rounded, and | all these features combined, say the stylists, will make any foot appear s smaller than it really is. Light colors and two-tone effects | will be favored. Mannish designs | will prevail for sport wear. Ftcp-ln] types, tics and airy open shoes with | straps will be popular. | lized man outlives his feet in | | | tion, hard board floors, pavements | and modern style shoes, Dr. Joseph | Lelyveld, director of the National As- | | sociation of Foot Hygiene, here to | attend the National Shoe Retailers’ | convention, said yesterday. The necessity of walking having been lessened, the muscles of the feet do not get enough exercise, he ! aid. The people should be told the | their feet may be saved and their ! usefulness continue as long as the | body needs them, he declared. { ENTIRELY SECRET Use of Code in Confidential| Talks Urged London, Jan. 4 (A — Absolute secrecy will not be attained in trans- tic radiophony for some months secrecy, however, are complete and it is only a matter of working them who are devoting droppers. “We are well aware,” the official 1d, “that the service for some little time will be only semi-secret and that, if a person cares to go to the trouble and expense of fixing the necessary appa-atus, he will be able to ' messages. We very much doubt, however, whether he will be able to overhear two way conversa- tions.” I he, ce sounds from America, he coltinued, would be very faint and not understandable in London unless conside. ly amplified by & special process vhich the post office has elaborated. He advised that users of the radio- phone service, pending the attain- ment of complete secrecy of coms munication, avoid the habit of re- peating immediately what the party at the other end says. He also sug- gested that eavesdroppers could be outwitted if the users adopted code names. GET YOUR GOSHAWK State Board of Fisheries and Game Offers Bounty of $1 for Pests Which Destroy Other Birds The influx of goshawks to this state has been =0 unprecedented as to numbers and their predilection for game birds and particularly tha ruffed grouse, is o obvious that the state board of game fisheries com- mission has decided to offer a houn- ty of $1.00 for every goshawk killed n Connecticut before April 1, 1927, if promptly mailed to the office of the commission. The amount of pos~ men will be added to the bounty fee, The specimen should be heavily sprinkled with table salt rubbed into the feathers, then heavily wrapped in paper or enclosed in a pasteboard box. Within the package should ha | an identification slip of paper write ten in pencil with the name and ad« dress of the person killing the bird, stating where killed and any other particulars, such as the kind of prey—if —it was pursuing when shot. If more convenient to deliver the bird to a warden or deputy | warden, the same particulars should be given to him and he will see that it is deivered to the office of the commission. Packages should be plainly ad« dressed on the outside to State 3oard of Fisherles and Game, Harte ford, Conn. Upon the receipt of tha bird at the office, check will be malled to the person named on the inside identification alip. Wagner Documents To Be Made Publid Magdeburg, Germany, Jan. 4 (A— The German theater exposition, soon to open here, will make available for the first time to the public ma- terial giving an insight inte Richard Wagner's sojourn in Munich and hig friendship with King Ludwig II. For many years students of Wag« ner's life and works have been anx« ious to gain access to the docus ments, as there is much mystery, connected with this episode in tha composers history. Hitherto, how< ever, the commission which admin< isters the properities of the former ruling house has refused permissions After the Magdeburg fair, 'the ‘Wagner material will be on exhibit in Herren-Chiemsee castle in upper Bavaria. B. C. PORTER SONS PRE-INVENTORY SPECIALS We Have Several Fine Suites Which We Are Going to Sell at Greatly Reduced Prices Before We Start Taking Our Stock Inventory. RUGS REDUCED NINE PIECE GRAND RAPIDS WALNUT DINING SUITE ™ Consisting of Buffet, Extension Table, Server and Six Chairs — The original “Model Home” Suite. Regular price, $469.00. PRE-INVENTORY PRIGE:.. v vt oo $349.00 FOUR PIECE WIDDICOMB BEDROOM SUITE Made of finely figured Walnut. The large Dresser, Full Vanity, Bed and Chiffonier are aesplendid value at the regular price of $500. PRE-INVENTORY SPECIAL PRICE .........c00vunneen. $439 AT PORTER’S BIG