New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 5, 1930, Page 3

Two Shots Fired At Pickets In Elizabethton, Tenn., Strike Clash; Worker Insists On Going to Mill Taxi, Halted by Labor Line! Is Stoned Before Man In- side Opens Fire — Com- pany Gets Injunction to Keep Employes Off Prop- erty. | | | Elizabethton, Fenn., March 5 (®— Two shots were fired during a clash i1 the Stony Creck scction early to- (lay between pickets and workers en reute to the American Bemberg and American Glanzstoff rayon milis Liere, but no one was injured. Claim Workers Discharged In calling a walkout, the union Charged that union sympathizers had been discharged and that the plants had instituted the “stretch out” sys- 1cm through eliminating two operat- ing departments and alloting addi- tional work to employes in other de- partments. | Landon Estep, a worker in the ilanzstoft plant, officers said, fired | the shots after warning the pickets who had stopped the bus in which he was a passenger that he was armed. The pickets congregated on the| road in the Stony Creck section, 12| miles from here and halted a bus| und private automobiles to enlist workers in a strike called by the local of the United Textile Workers of America. Stones Smash Windows Estep attempted to drive throush the crowd, and, failing, commandeer- ed a passing taxicab and warned the pickets he would shoot it molested. £tones from the pickets smashed the | windows of the cab and Estep fired two shots, both of which were wild. Later Estep said he would swear out warrants for those in the crowd he recognized, and would return with officers to have them arrested. An announcement by union offi- cials said the labor leaders regard- s leading into nearby hill communities as “open territory"” | for picketing. despite a clause in the | court order forbidding congregating on any road *“‘used for the purpos of transporting ecmployes to their | work in Carter or any other county.” Sheriff J. E. Moreland said war- rants would be issued for five ov six persons who aided in releasing 1wo pickets arrested for disorderly conduct during an attempt by of- fizers to disperse crowds mear the | textile plants at the time of the rrival of a new shift. Order Kept Secret Granting of the injunction by the Carter county chancery court Mon- Jday night did net become Lknown until the order, which is returnable March 17, was served on the crowds gathered on the highway. Tear gas was used in dispersing a | part of the crowds and Deputy Sheriff Bill Fair arrested two per- sons on charges of creating dis- | turbance, Sheriff Morcland said the crowd followed the deputy and his oncrs to @ magistrate's oflice where demands were made that the 1wo be releascd “or fight.” The soners were freed, but the she said he would arrest five or six of the crowd for in ering with an officer, No action had becn take: last midnight Must Leave Property Alone The injunction enjoins the union- | ists from trespassing on mill pro- perty, and also from interfering with taxi drjvers engaged in transporting employes. Paul Fuller, southern educational director of the American federation of labor, said the walkout called for | Monday had been 65 per cent effec- tive, but plant officials sai “know nothing of a strike. POTATO-WHISKEY RACKET IN COURT Jharacter and Gaillard Plead Guilty fo Fraud Walter Character and Henry Gaillard, both of New York, plead- ¢d guilty in superior court at Hart- ford today to the charge of at- tempting to obtain money under Isc pretenses by operating potato racket” in New Britain a few weeks ago. They were repre- sented by Judge W. I, Mangan and disposition of the cases was de- ferred. It is undcrstood that State's Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn will make @ recommendation but he was busy in the supreme court this after- noon. The cases may be disposed of tomorrow or later this week The men went about New Brit- ain visiting manufacturing con- cerns and business places and rep- resented that they had shipments of Jiquor to be paid C. O. D. The po- lice found they had only boxes of potatoes in their automobile. Joseph Nobaris and Mrs. Anna Mitusz of New Britain, who pleaded guilty to the charge of improper conduct, were brought before Judge Jennings this afternoon. Nobaris wasg sentenced to jail for four months and the woman received the same sentence with execution sus- pended. Donald Messenger of Plainville pleaded guilty to the charge of as- sault and sentence was deferred un- til March. 18. He was represented Ly Attorney Charles ¥, Conlon of Plainville, who told the court that Messenger's aunt was critically ill nd might not live through the day. I"or that reason, Judge Jennings de- terred the sentence. Messenger assaulted a store Leep- «r in Hartford so scriously that he was in a hospital for some time. Attorney. Conlon suid the season | for the ault was that Messcenger | heard that the storekeeper called him a vile name. | e | Great Dritain's wealth is esti- mated at $112,500,000,000, and that TARDIEU BEGINS lin an atmosphere | premier was frequently interrupted | { provided in a way [lieve most of this within the very | 0 1408 |gram essentially pri- | the nation to achieve greater pros- |will propose that |taxes burdensome to | duction | ganizations. | premier, the | |including Chief of Police Timothy J. |New York Men Held in ‘ af Germany at $97,500,000,000, NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1930. INSURANCE TOBE PAID | ON SUICIDE OF MURTHA leged Lapse in Policy—De- murrer Favors Widow. John Hancock Mutual Life Insur- ance Co., it is said, will pay the pre- mium on the insurance policy of Thomas Murtha, who committed sui- cide at his home on East Main street several weeks ago. At first the com- | pany questioned whether it would | pay the policy because of the claim that thers was a lapse last October. | In a demurrer filed in city court yesterday the company through the law office of Kirkham. Coper, | Hungerford & Camp claimed that | Thomas Murtha's mother, Mrs. Deb- orah Murtha, and two creditors, Harry Najarian and Louis Marchin- kowski have no right to the money from the policy which was made out to the widow, Mrs. Clara Murtha. CABINET BATTLE | be largely to blame if the | thorizations which Lelt Interrupts Frequently— Hard Fight Foreseen Paris, March 5 (P—A sharp cleav- age in the French chamber with the |right and center solidly arrayed against the left was apparent today when Premier Tardieu read the dec- laration of his policy of his second ministry. The premier was given an ovation from the center and right benches | but the radicals, socialists and com- | munists plainly manifested their | hostility by silence. Cries Halt Speaker The cabinet declaration was read | of battle. The| by cries from the left. J. L. Dumesnil, radical-socialist | who joined the Tardieu cabinet as minister of marine and later was| ousted . from the parliamentary | group of his party, was a particu-| lar target for the left's irc. In the address on which the fate | of his new cabinet hangs—and with it full resumption of the naval con- | ference at Yondon—the premier trimmed his sails to the recent ad-| verse winds by ecnlarging ideas (or‘ tax reductions. However his pro-| was the same as | that offered by his first ministr which was defeated two weeks ago. | The premicr told parliament that | his financial pla nwas based “on a | firm policy of a balanced budget and policy of amortization which in four years saved Irance.” He congratu- | lited the country on the splendid | condition of the treasury, the re- sources of which might help equip perity but must not be dissipated. | He advocated “massive tax reduc- tions” and it was understood he a few important | industry will | be reduced rather than a general slight scaling of all. Outlines Tax Theory He gave as a principle that ** of excessive taxes alw causes a compensating increase o taxable matter” meaning that tax | relief will increase business and so | a lower tax would yield an equal or | greater. amount for the governmes Farm relief was dwelt on as a pressing necd and measures wera outlined “to increase the vyield of | cultivated ground, to give Fren farmers priority on the natior consumption, to achieve more aceur- ate quotations on farm products, to scck foreign outlets and to develop farm cooperatives and the farm or- “Agricultural prosperi aid the “is in fact a requisite of the moral and material health of the nation and other French acti i- ties should in their own intercst work to'increase it.” The premier summed up Frensh policy as ‘“organization of peace abroad, but with sccurity,” the maintenance of order and liberty and “financial, economic and sociul | reforms $o there may be greater jus ticc and greater prosperity.” federal Grand Jury Has | Counterfeiting Evidence Boston, March 5 () — A federal grand jury today heard testimony in the case of Michael Settembre | and Salvatore Manzi, both of Spring- field and Peter Vallee of New Lon- don, Conn., charged with possessing counterfeit currency. The three were arrested in an automobile in Palmer after they were alleged to have exchanged approximately $500 in counterfeit bills, Police recovered $2,500 in coun- terfeit bills which they allege was thrown from the automobile in which the three defendants were ar- Tested. Nine witnesses were called today Crimmins of Palmer and three other officers. | Silver Fox Theft Probe Northampton, Mass, March 5 (UP)—Two New Yorkers were or- dered held under $20,000 bond each when arraigned in district court | here today in connection with the theft of 15 foxes valued at $6,000 from the Hampshire Silver in Williamsburg on February The defendants, John Merritt of Pound Ridge, N. Y. and Alfred Ilindlay of Armonk, N. Y., pleaded not guilty to breaking. entering and larceny in seven counts. The stolen foxes were traced to| a tannery in Mt Vernon, N. Y., and Merritt and Findlay were arrested about 10 days ago and returned here for trial. March 13 was sct today |are |agencics and more statistics, and as | passed by the senate. as the date for hearing of the case. HOOVER APPROVES DAVIS STATEMENT Fegls It Is Up fo Congress fo Pass Tarill at Once ‘Washington, March 5 (#) — | 11(00\‘0r administration feels that it Held Up Payments Because of Al-| | is doing what it can to relieve un- cmployment and that congress will who are out of work remain jobles The White House discloscd tod that President Hoover was in cord with a statement made last night by Secretary Davis of the la- bor department, saying among other things that “the delays of tariff leg islation are more responsible today for creating unemployment than any other factor.” The tarift bill has been under de- bate in the semate for weeks, while action waits on public building au- Mr. Hoover employment pects to provide many now idle. Sccretary Davis' statement, ing broadly. the question of cover- ply to Senator Wagner, democrat, of New York, who repeatedly has call- ed on the administration to do| | something about unemployment. No Conference Considered Tt also was disclosed at the White House that the president has not considered calling a gencral unem- vloyment conference of labor and | capital, feeling that everything pos- sible in the way of executive aid ulrcudy is In operatiorn The full text of Secretary Day | statement, referred to today by | White House, follows: | Sccretary of Labor Davis when in- | terviewed by the press today as to what he thought the specch in the senate yesterday of United States “Senator Wagner makes a great show of indignation that the admin- istration has not heen able to over- come the whole of the terrific dis- location of business and consequent unemployment resulting from the stock crash in New York, the sena- tor's home city. I is distressing unemployment, but for the first time in the history of these cvents by its actions and policies the administration has held unemploy- ment to less than one-half that of | previous crashes, and by the stabili- zation of wages and cooperation of the business world, work is being| near future. While employment for | the week of Iebruary 17th as comi- { pared with February 10th, showed a | drop of three-tenths of one per cent, the situation today is greatly im- proved over the low point of last December. “It is a fair estimate to make that the new census will show som thing like 46,000,000 individual arning a living in the country, and | certainly 43,000,000 of them are at work. Program Having Effect “The construction program work- | ed out by 1 and is having its effect. sccretary of commerce has nounced a seven billion dollar The an- pro- | |gram for the government and a\hor‘i civic agencie “Senator for more federal employnent L see it. hoped-for cures of the sult of futurc crashes. I am in cord with them. these things create jobs right now. For what they are worth, the pres- ent administration recommended necessary expansion in employment | agencies and statistics through the department of labor budget, not yet But of far more importance, as I see it, is the urgent necessity for the public buildings bill which passed the house, the appropriations for pub- lic works in the deficiency bill now ac - |awaiting senate action. “But above all, the workers of the country nced the passage of the tariff act to remove uncertainty and allow the workers to make in our own factories the hundreds of mil- lions of dollars worth of goods now The ac- | for | unem- | [ ployment, was in the form of a re- | 'vmnon of some praiseworthy the | | admit that there| that should re-| President Hoover exceeds| High street, Wagner’s own proposals| However, none of | |coming in by import. 1In fact, the ‘uoms in tariff legislation are more |responsible today for creating un- ‘cmplmmcnt than any other factor. | “Push the building prosram, pass |the tariff bill, and our workers will | find en\plo)mcnl. DR, DYER TALKS Between, Dr. Dyer Says Dr. Annic Dyer discussed adjustments and mental hygienc the Y. W. C. A, last evening, | that no onc is mentally health is not master of a situation. questions as why people are me inferior and the various mental disorders were discu ving who Such tally ed. ¢ dividing line between sanity nd insanity has never been drawn by experts, she said. Dr. Dyer char- acterizes an insane person as onc | with whom society cannot live and a sane persons as one who adjusts himself to the world and life and | causes no troub fental disorders | she said, were often caused by the | wrong use of emotions. Mental ill- ness is the inability to conform to customs, inadjustments. People are | most sane when the can adjust | themselves to the group in which | they live. “We arc dependent for our emo- ilwns on other people and homes and { environment,” she said. substi- object of inferiority subjects | will often help inc complex. Outside rove helpful in ‘pulling oursclves together’.” Dr. Dyer's lectures which will be held on Tuesday evenings the |rest of the following subjects: Sclf management, work: psychology or the |of the job within and home, psychology of management of other people, creative powers and group relations of men, women and children. se without the City Items [ Open alleys tonight | Recreation Bldg.—adyt. | Letters have been sent out by |Chairman David L. Nair to cach member of the finance committec of the common council notifying them | that there Rogers on disputed bills on Wed- |nesday evening. March 12, at 7:30 loum ik in the office of the mayor. | Ichestra at Paragon Thursday ‘Ilm\m" 0 until 1 2. m. Adm No cover arg advt. | Stanley Woman's Relief Corps and | triends will be entertained by the | president, Mrs. Lillian Weir, at her home, 440 Church street, |afternoon at 2 o'clock. Open alleys tonight. | Recreation Bldg.—advt. Vincent Uroblaski, and Frances giving the same ad- have applied for a license to The prospective bridegroom employed in a restaurant con- | ducted by his future wife. Axelrod's drugs, we deliver advt. The regular meeting of the Royal | Arcanum will he held tomorrow |evening at 8 o'clock at Red Men's hall Main eve i1 Rog ski, a widow, | dress, marry. call 10 WILL SPEAK TO ROTARY | James L. MecCarthney, M. D, | chiet of the division of mental hy- giene in the state department of health will speak at the meeting of the Totary club tomorrow on “Mental Hygiene As a Preventive of Crime.’ BENGTSON NOT IN Repr: dicated this afternoon that he is not in the race for the republican nom- ber of the common council and was political agent for Mayor Gardner C. Weld in the 1926 campaign. He w clected to the general assembly year. 357 MAIN §' NEAR COMMERCIAL St. SPECIALS FOR THURSDAY and FRIDAY ALIBUT STEAKS ... 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Trumbull, Robbins B. Stocckel, commissioner of motor vehicles and the state’s attorneys of every county in Connecticut in an injunction action brought by ten oil companies operating in the state to prevent the enforcement of the much contested act: “Concerning the of motor lubricating oils,” which was passed at the last session of the gene assembly and ap- proved by the governor on July 2. The act dealing with the specifica- tions of motor lubricants offered for sale in this state, requires that every container of oil sold for internal combustion motors, with the excep- tion of that intended for airplanes, shall be marked with a written uarantce that the oil being sold is good or better in its quality and specifications as that specified in the United States government specifica- tions (class D) for motor lubricants. Claim It Restrains Trade This act, the oil companies claim, docs not in any way promote public health or morals, and acts in re- straint of interstate trade. Tt is not a protection to the public, but a mat- ter of great inconvenience both to motorist and the oil companies, Assuciated U'ress Uhoto na MzCormick, who is campaigning for a seat lection to the house of representatives. They ave, left to |the hey say. Plaintiffs in the suit are as fol- lov Atlantic Refining, Beacon Oil, Gulf Refining. Shell Eastern Pe- |troleum Products, Tnc., Sinclair Re- se Rogers of Miassachusetts of | Florence P. Kahn of California and Mary Below: Katherine Langley Kentucky, ". Norton of New Jersey. Ex-Gov. Weceks Vi Governor , Conn., hours today en route to was the Walcott might feel at howe, con two other ex-governors, | fining, Standard Oil company of Towt Jr.. of Dela New Haven was complainant against [N York, the Sun Oil company, Allen of Kan- |the brokers. ater Oil Sale company, Mexi- Bingham 4 Petroleum corporation and "\(‘"u“‘ Oil company. John G. and Senator Henry J. Hir its Walcott and Bingham GEORGE 11, MANNING X, B. e ASSN. MEETING 0. Smith sas. 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