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New Britain herald., 1922-12-20
STRAITS DISCUSSED BY
 CHILD AND TURK CHIEF
American Observers Re- ported Not in Sympathy
 With Allies Plan

Lausanne, Dec. 20. (By the Associ- lated Press )--Op the eve of what threatened to be critical day in the life of the Lausanne conference Am bassador Child last night had long conversation with 1smet Pasha about the straits problem, which Lord Cur zon yesterday declared must be dis posed of immediately.
 It has become known that the Am erican observers at the conference be- lieve that an international control commission associated with the league of nations. as suggested in the allied plan for supervision of the Dardan- elles, is unnecessary. In other words, the Americans believe that freedom of the straits should be an actual free dom guaranteed by treaty between Turkey and the other world powers, and that it should not be a freedom limited by an international commits sion.
 The American observers have so far on the conference floor limited them eral terms on the Dardanelles ques- tion, without suggesting as to how the straits should be kept open to the commerce of the world and to the fleets of the powers Neither have there been intimations of Americas attitude toward an international board of control
 Allied leaders last night served No- tice that the Turks today must either flatly accept or reject the allied project for settlement of the straits question.
 Although there was uncertainty as to whether Ambassador Child as tie American spokesman would voice the American views at today's meeting, it is understood that every delegation here claims to be cognzant of the fact that the naming of an interna- tonal commission meets the strong disfavor of the American observers.
 Ismet Pasha received a message from Mustapha Renal today an- nouncing that the American college
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New Britain herald., 1922-12-20
Wholesale Cleanup of Civilian Employees En-
 gagged in Rifing Gov
 ernment Store Houses
 at Brooklyn.
Detectives Forced to As sume Role of Crooks to Avoid Suspicion of Real Thieves.

New York, Dec. 2o.---Twenty-two civilian employees at the Brooklyn navy base were arrested today on in dictments returned several months ago by federal grand jury charg- ing that government property to the value of more than $1,ooo,ooo had been stolen since the war
 The arrests were made by agents of the department of justice, who took the prisoners to the Brooklyn federal building in army motor trucks.
 The grand jury indicted 23 men after its investigation of the alleged wholesale thefts, which the authori- ties said included clothing, oil and various other materials used at the navy base. The twenty-third man under indictment was not found at the naval base today.
 The investigation has been under way for months.
 Discrepancies Create Suspicion.
 The navy intelligence service un- dertook to find out the cause for the discrepancies between the inventories and the stock supposed to be on hand. The thieves were too cunning for the regular naval detective force, the members of which were apparently we'll known to those who were doing the stealing.
 William J. Burns, chief of the bu- reau of investigation of the depart ment of justice, was asked for help and ordered Edward J. Brennan, head of the bureaus New York office, to assign operatives. Brennan con suited Police Commissioner Enright and borrowed the services of Detec- tive Francis Trainor.
 Detectives Forced to "Steal."
 Under the direction of Federal Agent Robert Walsh and Ralph Ma varro and Lieut.. Trainor,, men were put into the warehouses as checkers, laborers, watchmen and bookkeepers. These detectives found themselves watched narrowly until they took ad- vantage of opportunities obviously put in their way of stealing small articles such as wrist watches and marine glasses. Not until they act ually concealed these articles and pretended to steal them were they able to get any evidence against the men now in custody. They learned that government property was beng stolen by the truckload. including great boxes of clothing, paint by the barrel crates of glass and commercial alcohol by the gallon. Instances were found in which waste and sal- vaged materials bought by contractors were substituted for new goods or by other merchandise than that men toned in the contract; in other cases twice the quantity of actual salvaged stuff contracted for was delivered.
New Britain herald., 1922-12-20
POLICE CRITICIZED
 FOR INVADING HOME
Defense Claims They Did Not
 Have Correct Warrants
JUDGE DIFFERS HIS DECISION
High Handed Action Alleged in Da- mon -Jcdziniak Case Ciannonc Claims Whiskey Found in House Was for Personal Use.

Charges of high handed business in the manipulation of search and seizure warrants featured the trial of Louis Damon and Charles Jedziniak on liquor charges this morning, Attor- ney M. A. Sexton devoting consider able time to cross-questloning on matters pertaining to warrants. At the close of a lengthy hearing, Judge G. w. Klett continued the matter to next Tuesday morning taking the several warrants figuring in the case for examination.
 Damon lives at 25S Oak street, and is partner ofAJedziniak in the grocery business at 800 Stanley street. The police received information that liquor was being sold in the store and that the source of supply was 25S Oak street, where. It was alleged, the stuff was manufactured.
 Another Name on Warrant.
 On Dec. 15, Sergeant w. F. McCue and Plainclothes Policemen Patrick McAvay and John c. Stadler, accom- panied by Traffic Policeman Edward Riley, went to the house at 25S Oak street, armed with a warrant. Ques- tioning by the defense counsel brought out that the warrant was intended for Mrs. Theresa Scalise, while the tenement is that of Louis Damon. Ar irving at the house the police found a small boy to be the only one in the tenement. They delayed searching until his mother came in. Finding that the warrant was no good, the search was delayed, Sergeant McCue meanwhile telephoning to headquar- ters for a warrant to search the store lat 800 Stanley street.
 Liquor Found At Store
 At the store two bottles containing alleged whiskey and one containing alleged wine were seized, The bottles were on a counter and no effort was made to destroy them, 1t was testified, Jedziniak was present at the time; When Damon returned to the store the police took him to his home and, with a new warrant properly made out, conducted their search. They denied that any search had been made (Continued on Sixth Page)
New Britain herald., 1922-12-20
WANTON SHAVING AT
 HEREIN MINE RIOT
Witnesses rssrribe Brutality Of
 Strikers, E: s::s;.i;; s.;,,, s;.,. TT, I,,.. HELPLESS VlCiisSs'N issss'
Survivors Tell Narrowing Tales of Massacre-Non-Un Union Men Hcrded Into Group, Told to Run and Then Fired On like Beasts.

Marion, H., Dec. 20.--(By Associ- ated Press. )-With the scars of bull let and knife wounds on their bodies, three survivors of the Herrin riots testified today at the trial of five men in connection with the killing of 20 non-union. men last June. They were Joseph O'Rourke, William Cairns and Robert Officer.
 Cairns, who followed Robert or ficer, the first survivor to take the stand testified that after the defenders of the mine surrendered under white flag, the prisoners were marched out of the pit with their arms above their heads.
 After the march started some men took me back to the mine to point out where we had kept our arms. They let me look in my locker for some keepsakes I prized highly and then we reioined the mob without finding guns"
 The witness then pointed out Otis Clark as one of two men he had seen with C. K. Mcdowell, superintendent of the mine, and that Clark had a gun in his hand.
 No Mercy Shown.
 Then we marched on and heard someone shout: Hugh Willis is com ing'," the witness continued. Willis is an official of the miners union.
 We marched on until we came to barb wire fence with four or five strands and someone shouted: Now you fellows run and the firing start ed.
 T tried to climb through the fence, but fell with load of buckshot in my body. A rife bullet grazed my scalp. While was lying there, saw a blood covered, wounded man leaning against tree. A big man with a gun came up and said to the wounded man: You great big -, can't we kill you?' and he fired into his body"
 The witness then pointed to Peter Hitler, one of the defendants, as the man who fired the shot.
 Prostrate Man Fired On.
 Then I saw another man fire a shot into the body of John Shoemak- CT, assistant superintendent Of the mine. as he lay wounded on the ground" the witness continued. Cairns said that a crowd had then found he was alive and subjected him to all kinds of abuse for an hour when Sheriff Thaxton of Williamson county came up with some other men and removed him to hospital. The witness said he was one of the guards at the mine.
 Officer testified today in response to questions by the defense that the mob seemed to have several different leaders at different times as it march, ed toward Herrin. He said he was short sighted, the nearest he got to any of the leaders was fifty feet and that he could not identify any of them. The witness described the route taken by the mob as gigantic "J" with the mine at the bottom of the hook and the cemetery at the top, the march covering about 1-2 miles.
 Shot Down in Man Hunt.
 Mcdowell was killed about a mile from the mine, 14 more of the origi- nal 48 prisoners about two miles fur ther on, and four were shot down in a man hunt through the woods after they had been lined up before barb wire fence and fired upon as they at tempted to flee.
New Britain herald., 1922-12-20
W0jciechowski Elected
 New President of Poland

Warsaw, Dec 20.-(By The As- sociated Press.) stanislas Woicie- chowski was elected president of Po- land today to succeed Dr. Gabriel Narutowicz, who was assassinated last Saturday.
 M. Wojciechowski, who was minis ter of. the interior in the Skulski cab inet, received 29s votes of the 5l9 cast by the national assembly. He is a member of former Premier Witos' "Piast" or moderate party. Professor Morawski of Cracow university, the only other candidate remaining on the final ballot, was supported by the radicals.
New Britain herald., 1922-12-20
CUT TROLLEY FARES
 TO PROMOTE RIDING
Seattle Believes Revenue Can Be In creased by Reducing Charge
 to Five Cents.

Seattle, Wash, Dec. 2O.---Fares on the municipal car system having been reduced to five cents from s 1-3 cents effective March 1, Seattle officials are laboring to educate the publit to ride more.
 Present revenues, according to of- ficial statements, are barely sufficient to operate and maintain the system and pay installments on its purchase price of $15,00o,o0o. To make the system pay its way 4s per cent more riders must use the cars after the fare is reduced, 1t is estimated.
New Britain herald., 1922-12-20
Hinton Off Again on
 Dash to Rio JaneirO

Camocifh, Brazil, Dec. 20.--(By As sociated Press.)-The seaplane pilot ed by Lieut.. Walter Hinton started on another lap today in the New York to Rio Janeiro flight. The plane got away from Camocim heading south cast down the coast, with Aracaty. 25o miles distant, as 1t intended next stopping point
New Britain herald., 1922-12-20
Break World Mail Record
 At Chicago Post Office

Chicago Dec. 20.--Proof of the Christmas mail rush was seen here today when Arthur c. Lueder, post master. announced that the Chicago post office established a worlds rec ord Monday for the volume of mail handled in single day by one post office. Postal employees, he said counted 6,ss9,3oS pieces of first class mail and 1.573.3 tons of second, third and fourth class matter. mostly parcel post.
New Britain herald., 1922-12-20
pUTNEY IN NEW HAVEN.

New Haven, Dec. 2o.---Federal pro- enforcement activities are be- ing directed here by Frank Putney of Gulford. an agent who has been on the stan of Ralph Blakeslee, just re- moved, It is understood that Putney will be appointed to take Blakeslee's place as head of the force operating here.
New Britain herald., 1922-12-20
REID FEELS BETTER,
 MAY REGAIN HEALTH
Temperature and Respiration Normal and Pulse is Down to 100, Bed
 side Bulletin Says

Los Angeles, Dec. 20.--Improve- ment was reported today in the con- dition of Wallace Reid, motion pie ture actor, whose recent breakdown, according to relatives, came after he quit the use of drugs and liquor.
 The latest report issued from his bedside in a Hollywood sanitarium stated his temperature and respira- ton were normalyand his pulse down to 100.
New Britain herald., 1922-12-20
Customs Officers Guard
 2.O0O Cases of Whiskey

Halifax, N. S.. Dee. 2o.--Customs officers were placed aboard the Brit ish auxiliary schooner Robert and Ar thur at her dock today to guard her cargo of 2.o0o cases of whiskey. The schooner. bound from St. Pierre for Nassau, was forced to put in here for engine repairs.
New Britain herald., 1922-12-20
REJECT HARDING PLEA
Rcpublican Leaders in House Decide to Postpone Action on Prohibition of Tax Exempt Securities.

washington, Dec. 20.--House re- publican leaders decided today to postpone further consideration of the Green resolution for an amendment to the constitution prohibiting issuance of tax exempt securities, urged by President Harding and Secretary Mel Ion of the treasury
 Futile efforts were made in the senate again today by supporters Of the administration shipping bill to bring to vote the question of whether that measure should remain before the senate or be displaced by the Norris agricultural financing measure.
New Britain herald., 1922-12-20
COP, IN AIRPLANE, DROPS
 SUMMONS FOR SPEEDING

San Francisco, Dec. 20.--Bad luck literally rained on Dom- inic Bifore yesterday when a "John Doe" summons charg- ing him with speeding fell in front of his automobile on a highway near here. Looking up he saw an airship circling about.
 It developed that Robert Ryers, traffic officer, was talk ing the air" with an aviator when he saw Bifiore speeding. Pulling summons from his pocket Byers had the airship swoop down and dropped the paper in front of the automo- bile. Bifiore stopped and picked it up.
New Britain herald., 1922-12-20
ALL IS NOT GOLD, ETC.
Two Vegas Flee After Robbing Assay OHice. But. Their Loot Is Copper, Worth 60 Gents.

Portland. Ore, Dec. 20.--~Two men who held up the Montana assay office here escaped with the money belts with gleaming metal,
 They thought if was gold but offi- cials stated it was copper worth about 60 cents. The assay office manager. however. was forced to hand over $60 of his personal funds.
New Britain herald., 1922-12-20
L. F. < C. TO CLOSE
shutdown EHcctivc From Dec. g to Jan 2--Annual Inventory Will Be Taken In Interim.


 All New Britain factories of the I,anders. Frary & Clark Mfg. Co. will close on Saturday noon of this week and will remain closed until January 2 for the annual inventory, Pardon z. Hickey, vice president of the concern told a representative Of the Herald" this afternoon.
 MT. Hickey stated that the shut down is an annual affair and by no means implies that business IS on the decrease or Is poor.
 Tn fact" Mir Hickey said, it IS quite possible that several divisions will be back at work again the lat ter part of next week if the inven- tory is anywhere near completed at that time and all divisions will De working on January 2.
New Britain herald., 1922-12-20
THE WEATHER

Hartforl. Dec. 20.--Eorccast for New Britain and vicinity: Cloudy with rising temperature. followed by snow late toni~i'f or Thursday: increasing caster ly winds.
New Britain herald., 1922-12-20

New Orleans. Dec. 2o.--Company G, national guard of Monroe. has arrived at Mer Rouge. La, and pitched camp. according to a tele- phone despatch received here today.
New Britain herald., 1922-12-20

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The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1922-02-24
E DIT ORlAL
JEWISH MONEY AND
WOMEN

The cupidity on the part of ma
tons in medieval times for Jew
ish money is only too we'll
known. Nine-tenths of all the
prosecutions directed against the
Jews of the middle ages were
caused by this cupidity on the
part of prince and potentate for
Jewish money. The rabble, too,
took part in the anti-Jewish up
srisings with the hope and expec-
tation of sharing in the plumber
of the mythical Jewish wealth.
The same cupidity for Jewish
money is responsible also today
for the policy of pillage and plum
der that is carried on in Euro
pean countries where it manifests
itself in the anti Jewish pogroms.
While inherited prejudice and
reactionary tendencies are in no
small measure responsible for
these pogroms, yet, as far as the
masses are concerned, the most
enticing factor in these pogroms
is undoubtedly the knowledge
that they afford the best means of
pilfering and plundering their
helpless victims.
Not SO we'll known, perhaps, is
the fact that with the cupidity for
Jewish money has always gone
the cupidity for Jewish women.
From the time of Ahasuerus to
this very day, the princes and
rulers, whose hostility to the Jew
ish people took the form of per-
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1922-02-24
A WASHINGTON DAY
THOUGHT

In letter sent by George
Washington in 1870 to the He
brew Congregation of Newport,
R. l., the Father of his country"
wrote the following pertinent
paragraph:
"The citizens of the United
States of America have right
to applaud themselves for having
given to mankind examples of an
enlarged and liberal policy; pol
icy worthy of imitation. All pos
sess alike liberty of conscience
and immunities of citizenship, It
is now no more that federation is
spoken of, as if it was by the in
diligence of one class of people,
that another enjoyed the exercise
of their inherent natural rights.
For happily the Government of
the United States, which gives to
bigotry no sanction, to persecu-
ton no assistance requires only
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1922-02-24
Mende1 SLIDER.
NEEDING THE CALL

The response at the mass meet
ings in the Twin Cities when
Judge Harry Fisher told his story
of the terrible conditions in the
war-torn European communities
was, to say the least, magnificent.
1t was not pleasant experience,
but one that wrung the souls of
the audience. One was begin
ming to doubt and despair of hui
man nature, when he heard of the
atrocities that had been commit
ted by beasts in human form.
But just when our confidence in
mankind was at its lowest ebb
our faith in human nature was
restored by the evidence of the
heights to which some, hearts and
minds can rise, in the response of
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1922-02-24
LORD NORTHCLIFFE'S
REPORT

One must be disappointed in
reading Lord Northcliffe's un-
favorable report of his visit to
Palestine, although if he did not
occupy such a prominent position
as publisher of several of Eng
lands most influential journals
there would not be so much
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1922-02-24

secution, nevertheless showed a
peculiar preference for Jewish
women and chose for their wives
Jewish maidens. A most strik-
ing illustration of this cupidity
on the part of Jewish oppressors
for Jewish women is furnished
just now by Poland whose Presi-
dent, Mr.. Pilsudski, has just been
married to Miss Perl a daughter
of humble Jewish parents. Thus,
the tragedy that was staged for
the Jews in Persia in the time of
Queen Esther is now being enact.
ed in Poland where a nefarious
policy of death and destruction
is maintained towards the Jews
by the government, while a Jew
ish woman shares with her hus-
band the honors of heading the
Republic.
Of course, the wife of Presi-
dent Pilsudski, in all probability,
does not feel the tragedy of her
people as did Queen Esther of
old. 1t may almost be taken for
granted that she will not COM
plain about the cruelty and in
humanity with which her people
are being treated in the reproach-
full terms with which the Per-
sian Queen rebuked her royal
husband. But that does not make
the pathetic popularity of the
case less pathetic nor less pecu-
liar. Nor, is the conduct of Pres
ident Pilsudski without parallel
in the history of the world, nor
even in the history of Poland her
self, whose most powerful ruler,
King Casimir the Great, was mar
ried to Jewish woman. And
while there is little consolation in
all this for those of Our people
who suffer oppression and perse-
cution, there is an element Of
qualification in the fact that even
the blindest kind of prejudice
against the Jew is powerless to
withstand the charm and attrac-
tiveness of the Jewess. There is
in this, also, the element of prom
Use that in time, the very teach
ings and traditions and the char
acteristic family life that pro-
duced the Jewess will come to be
appreciated even by the traduc-
ers of the Jewish people and the
Jewish faith whose appreciation
at the present time extends no
further than to a manifestation
of cupidity for Jewish money and
Jewish women.
Mendel SLIDER.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1922-02-24
THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD

importance attached to his views.
However, if one knows the cir
cumstances under which he re-
ceived his impressions, one can
understand and therefore ap-
praise the reasons for North
c1iffe's unfavorable impressions.
AS a wide awake journalist he
made it a point to see and inter-
view as many elements in Pales-
tine as possible. He spoke with
Arabs, Christian missionaries,
Zionist representatives and sew
eral ultra orthodox Jews.
Northcliffe really need not have
gone all the way to Palestine to
discover that the Arabs were OPP
posed to Zionism. Neither is
there is any doubt as to the atti-
tude of the missionaries, who can
work better among an impover-
ished Jewry than with an indie
pendent progressive young ele-
ment. The other two elements
with whom he came in contact,
the ultra orthodox, and the Zion
lists indicate not that Zionism is
a detriment to the future of Pal
estine but rather that the Zion
lists who met Northcliffe are un-
schooled in the arts of higher"
diplomacy. If they were, they
would have placated the ultra
orthodox, and made impossible or
unnecessary their giving an i'm
preston to the visiting journalist
which, to quote. Chief Rabbi
Hertz of England, represented
the views of no one but them
selves. Nor would they have per-
mitted Lord Northcliffe to visit
and leave Palestine with only the
Arabs to indicate and guide him
in forming his estimate of the
country.
How much mischief North
cliffe's papers have been able or
will be able to accomplish is still
~problematic. However, DR..
Weitzman very willingly accepts
Northclife's suggestion that an
impartial commission be sent to
Palestine to investigate and re-
port. From such visitors, who
will be accorded the opportunity
to see Jewish achievement in Pal
estine at its best instead of
through unfriendly Arab eyes,
the Zionists' aspirations have lit
tie to fear. -