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New Britain herald., 1922-04-04
WES7ERNER KILLS MAN
 STRUGGLING WITH WIFE
It. Col. in Aviation Branch of Army Shot in Fash.
 ionable Residence

Oklahoma City, April 4.--Lieut Col. Paul W. Beck attached to the aviation section of Fort Sill was shot to death here early today in the fash ionable residence of Jean P. Day widely known oil operator. Day is held at his home in custody of a deputy sheriff pending an investiga- |tion.
 According to statement issued by
 R. w. Dick. Day returned to his house after escorting home a number of guests which his wife earlier had entertained at cards, and found Mrs. Day struggling in the arms of the army officer. Dick, who is an intimate acquaintance of the family said Day authorized the statement
 Lieut.. Col Beck had long been a close friend of the Days. He came here yesterday by airplane from Fort Sill to be one of the guests at the card party last night, according to Dick and was left alone with Mrs. Day when her husband saw their friends home in his automobile.
 Upon Days return home, Dick said, the former peered through a porch window and saw hts wife lighting to break the aviator's hold on her. He rushed upstairs and obtained his re- volver Dick asserted and returned to the room where the couple were still struggling.
 Beck made motion as If to strike Day, continued Dicks statement and Day struck him over the head with the revolver the gun exploding. Beck fell to the floor and was dead before police arrived.
 The commanding officer at Fort Sill has been notified.
 Mrs. Day this morning was in state bordering on nervous collapse and would make no statement con- corning the affair.
 Day has been prominent in political and financial circles in Oklahoma for many years. He was a member of the supreme court commission and of the two men who framed Okla homas first code of statutes He is 50 years old and president of the Four some Producing and Refining Co.,, and vice president of the Continental As- phalt and Petroleum Co.
 He was active in the political cam paign of former U. S. Senator Thomas P. Gore.
 Mrs. Day is said to be few years younger than her husband. They have 'ne child, a'daughter studN>g at the University of Oklahoma.
 Lieut.. Col Beck was one of the irst four aviators in the United States | Irmy. He has been in the service | ince 1899 according to the post ad utant at Fort Sill. Beck was sent to 1 'ort Sill from Arcadia. Fla, in July 92l. He is said to have been a
New Britain herald., 1922-04-04
LEWIS TAKES UP
 30 HOUR WEEK Miners Head Explains That Production Would Be
 the Same

Washington, April 4.-N1iners dc mands for a six hour day, and five day week, issues involved in the na- tional coal strike-were described by John l.. Lewis. president of the Unit ed Mine Workers in continuing his testimony today before a house com mittee as largely move to force regularity of employment.
 Men employed by the day." he said, would receive the same wages they are now getting, and put in less time, but the miners who dig coal would be paid as they are now for the number of tons Of coal they pro duce."
 Repre- sentative Black, democrat, Texas, calculated that if the five day six hour demand was granted, the public would pay $224,ooo,0oo addi- tional for the same amount of coal they are now getting each year,
 Who will tbat come out of?" Mir. Black demanded, after figuring up his total.
 Nobody" Mir Lewis retorted. because your ngureS are aDSurd. can't follow your mental gyrations on this subject in the field of mathema- tics"
 Mir. Black pressed his calculations.
 "Congressman, when the 12 hour day was changed to ten hour day" Mir. Lewis interrupted, "the efficiency was increased and the production per man per day increased The same effect continued when the ten hour day was cut to eight hours. The eff ciency increased more than sufficient to make up the loss. The fact has been authoritatively determined and universally recognized"
 II can't figure out how you can ex pect the production to increase MT. Black said, "after you have reduced the hours of work down below req sonahe basis
 "I'd like to point out that we are willing to discuss all these demands a round a council table with operat- ors' MT. Lewis returned. and then if we cannot show them to be req we don't expect to press them.'
New Britain herald., 1922-04-04
y'yGARY PARED KING @ FATHER
NORWICH BOY FALLS FROM BOAT, BROWNS Sailor on Pequot Dragged Down by Heavy
 Boots

New London, April 4.-The coast guard cutter Pequot. returning to this port from a trip to New York reported that member of her crew. Thomas Hargraves of Norwich. was downed last Wednesday. The cutter made an unusual stop at Nepeague harbor on the Long Island shore, and in approaching the wharf it was seen that her surf boat would strike. Hargraves was engaged in hauling this boat on board when he fell over board and was dragged down by the heavy hip rubber boots he was wearing A boat was immediately launched and an all day search in stituted, but his body was not re- covered.
 Hargraves was 22 years old. un- married, and left parents. a brother and sister who reside on rural route beyong Norwich. He was rated as seaman. second class, and had been on the Pequot since entering the service last July.
New Britain herald., 1922-04-04
GETS AUTO LICENSE AND HITS TRAFFIC COP Policeman Meehan Injured While on Duty by
 Ryder's Car

Policeman Michael Mechan and
 Frank Kelly of 100 Hart street, re- ceired injuries shortly after II o'clock today when they were struck by m
 automobile driven by Merit O. Ryd CT, Of Plainville. an cmploye of the Trumbull Electric company, and
 judge Of the probate court in that town. The injured men were taken to the New Britain General hospital. and after an examination Kelly was sent to his home, while Policeman Meehan will undergo an N-ray ex- animation 10 determine the nature of his injuries. Kelly suffered slight in juries to the right leg and arm. Po- liceman Meehans right knee was badly swollen. and fears are enter tained that there is a broken bone.
 Mir Ryder was taken to the police station, and will be in court tomor- row morning, to answer a charge of operating a motor vehicle recklessly. The accident occurred at the corner of Commercial and Main streets. Po- liceman Meehan had only been on duty short time when the accident happened.
 According to information of eye witnesses of the accident, Mir. Ryder was driving his automobile on Con- street toward Main street, was given the proceed signal. To those who witnessed the accident, Ryder, who was on his way back from Hartford, where he secured an operators license at 10:30 o'clock, seemed to lose control of the car. Po- liceman Meehan and Mir. Kelly were standing at the traffic officers spot. The car seemed to increase in speed. and striking both men, they were dragged over against the curb. The machine passing over the curb, final ly stopped at about the middle of the sidewalk in front of the shoe shine parlor in the Stanley building,
 Several persons rushed to the as- sistanca os tts iriia~ed nen, Dc, Inn mediately the police ambuia,Sce was summoned. Policemen Matthias Xii val, PdITlCk O MHTd I1tl btil N' i's o'' rushed the injured men to the nos pital. Here they were attended by Dr. Henry IT. Bray.
 The accident to Policeman Meehan s tho second he has figured in With n the past two years. While ascend ng the stairs to the patrolmen's room at the police station one evening" a outlet accidentally discharged from he revolver in his pocket hit him Tn he leg. causing him to be incapacf- ated from duty for several months.
 Following an examination by pr. 3ray at the hospital, Patro'man deehan was found to be suffering rom a fractured right knee cap. In ddition to this he had general bruises about the body.
 Frank Kelley was removed to his ,omc at 100 Hart street. He was ound to have bruises and cuts on the ody.
New Britain herald., 1922-04-04
HARTFORD POLITICS
 LEADS TO FISTICUFFS
Election Strain Too Severe for Some of Those Intrrested--
 Two Scraps.

Hartford, April 4.-There is deep interest in the city election here to- day in which two full tickets are in the field. Both sides are claiming the lead. The mayoralty candidates are ex-Mayor Richard j.. Kinsella. dem ocrat and Captain Anson T. McCook, republican. The vote up to noon indi- cated large polling before closing at o'clock tonight.
 The fist fight in the second ward polling place between booth officials enlivened things this morning. Peter Zaccagnimo democratic machine tend : CT. hit Abraham Zimmerman, repub- lican checker. and they had general mixup in which zlood Sflowed. Later Jacob Leipzinger. a well known re- publican politician, came in, and in an alteration with Reuben kusnitt, moderator, grabbed the latter by the throat. Some hard names were called but there were no blows struck.
 This afternoon Zimmerman entered complaint against Zaccagnino and the latter was arrested.
 Zaccagnno is a deputy sheriff.
New Britain herald., 1922-04-04
PFEFFERHUCK GETS
 AUTOMOBILE FINE
Local Man Assessed $142 in Plainville Following Accident While
 Driving His Auto
fsnanial Ia Tho loraldl

Especial to The Herald).
 Plainville, April 4--Lous Pfeffer- huck of A Chapman street, New Britain. was fined in the Plainville police court this noon when Judge Edward P. Prior assessed him $25 and costs for reckless driving and $1O0 and costs for driving his auto mobile while under the influence of liquor. The fines and costs totalled $142L6.
 Pfefferhuck was haled into court following an accident on Forestville avenue, Plainville, at | o'clock last evening when he ran his Dodge tour ing car into the Bristol Painville Tramway trolley car He was said to be under the influence of liquor at the time and Patrolman E. w, Furrey of this town placed him uMder ar rest.
 The man did not have anything to say in court but pleaded guilty to both counts. His companion, Andrew Roddi, who was with him at the time of the accident, did not appear at the trial.
 Motorman Kennedy and Conductor Greger. of the trolley car, claimed Pfefferhuck drove head-on into the car when the trolley had come to stop. Pfefferhuck, it is claimed, was hardly able to stand. so intoxicated was he at the time of the crash.
 Not only did the local man suffer the costs of the court in addition to his own damages on the automobile but he had to pay for his wrecking the front fender of the trolley car. Representative c. Roland of the Tramway company advised him to pay for the damages and those amounted to S2o.
New Britain herald., 1922-04-04
FORMER U. s. TRANSPORT IS, HREA TENED BY FIRE
 WH7LEITLLES w DRXDOCX
Blaze Starts In Mongolia and Is Prevented From Reaching Oil By Heroic Oiler

Hohoken, N. J., April l.-The for. mer |. s. Army Transport Mongolia doughty veteran of many adventures, escaped destruction by fire at dry. ] dock today through the strenuous ef. forts Of tiremen assisted materially by Tom Waldron of Jersey City, ah oiler.
 When the blaze was discovered In the engine room Waldron placed a wet towel around his head. grabbed an acetyene torch. plunged through clouds of smoke and burned a hole in steel bulkhead through which tons of water were poured.
 The prompt flooding of the engine room undoubtedly prevented tho flames from spreading to the great tanks containing thousands of gallons of oil
 Officials of the steamship line which has been repairing the Mongolia pre- paratory to entering her as a pas- senger and freight ship, estimated that the damage would be between s1o,oo0 and s2o,ooo.
 The fire was under control at 11:30 a. m. Officials V said the damage would not be heavy
 The fire started in refrigerating plant directly above tanks containing more than 150,000 gallons of oil.
 The Mongolia's sister ship, tho Manchuria. which has just been re- paired, is in the same drydock.
 The New York city fire boats and two Lackawanna railroad fire boats assisted the local fire fighters. The Mongolia listed heavily to port
 Early reports said the fire started from a spark from a gas burner fall- ing into a pile of rubbish.
 On account of the dense clouds of smoke the fremen were unable to enter the hold for nearly half an hour.
 An electrician. John M. Clark, ran into the hold and managed to string up line of electric lights which en- abed the tiremen to fight the blaze to better advantage.
New Britain herald., 1922-04-04
OFFERS MARY GARDEN
 SALARY OF S25O,OOO
Vocalist And Leader Of Chicago Opera Company Considers Salary or
 Quarter Million Annually

San Francisco. April 4,-Mary Gar den has received from Charles l." Wagner, her former manager, an of fer of $25O,n00 for a seasons concert tour, and if the Chicago Opera com pany desires to keep her, 1t must meet that figure. according to state ment accredited to Miss Gardens sec retary by the Chronicle today
 Miss Garden will sail for Monte Carlo in June and will be gone until September, Upon her return to Am erica. she will announce here plans definitely.
 Miss Garden has been ill since her arrival here. but is reported practical ly recovered and is expected to sing later in the week.
New Britain herald., 1922-04-04
PRINCE OTTO OF HAS BEEN r<9,,' SUCCEEyss.
 N,,,%
Young Son. However, Cannot Be Coronated- People 'Must Choose Form of Government

Budapest. April 3. (By Associated Press)-A legitimist proclamation de claring that with the death O, Charles Otto. the second. Is king oi Hungary. although temporarily pre-. vented from coronation" has been ts- sued. signed by 19 aristocrats headed by Count Albert Apponyi
 Cardinal Czernoch, primate Of Hun- gary, made the declaration today that in his opinion Otto had become king.
 The municipal council has adopted resolution by Count Apponyi that the former emperor be buried in Budapest
 With the death of Charles, crowned king Of Hungary, the provisional con stitution. which was based on the fact that the king was prevented from e3- ercising his prerogatives must be re- drafted by the assembly about to be elected.
 Further postponement of Hungary's choice of a form of government has become impossible and through the coming elections the people must de- eide the question and elect king if the monarchial form is preferred.
 Candidates for the throne are be- ginning to spring up again. strong parties forming for the support of the Archdukes Albrecht and Joseph Ferdinand but many deputies are re- viving the proposal for the election of an English prince. The party favor ing Francis Joseph Otto, eldest son of the dead monarch, however, is un- questionably the strongest.
 Although the legitimists arc united on a platform upholding the claims of Otto, and their program is grow ing more radical, the indications are that Charles death has strengthened the position of the government of Ad- miral Horthy. the regent. The men, ace of a putsch, or uprising, has lost its acuteness and the opinion is grow ing that Otto will lose the support of those pro-Hapsburgs who founded Charles claim to the throne on the fact of his coronation.
 The government is conceding the legitimist desires for national mourn ing, as for sovereign, and also has stated there is no objection 10 the burial of Charles ip Hungary Off he expressed such a wish in his tcsta- ment.
 As regards the claims put forward for Otto the government insists that the rights of all the Hapsburgs were abrogated by the dethronement act passed in the national assembly, and that even the election of Otto. which Is now barred by that law, depends upon the consent of the allied powers.
New Britain herald., 1922-04-04
FORMER PASTOR
 IS FINED $500
Rev. Densel Pleads Guilty to Viola ton Of Mann ACt-Disappear-
 ed With One of Flock

Newark. N. J.. April 4.-Rev. Cor nelus Densey, former pastor of the New Netherlands Reformed church of Passaic was fined $500 today after pleading guilty to violation of the Mann act. Federal Judge Lynch said he felt the clergyman had suffered enough, so he would not send him to jail
 The minister left his family and his flock in the fall of 1920 and disap- peared with Miss Trina Hannehurg, a member of his congregation. They re- turned a few months later.
 Then the parents of the girl sued him for 0,o00 and he sold his home to settle the suit.
New Britain herald., 1922-04-04
APPEARS RESTLESS
Olivia Stone. Nurse Accused ot Mur- der of Cincinnati Lawyer. Neither Eats Nor Sleeps.

New York, April 4,-Escorted 10 court today by two police matrons, instead of one. Miss Olivia M P. Stone, graduate nurse, heard add'- tional witnesses testify concerning her attitude toward Ellis G. kinkead, for mer corporation counsel Of Cincinnati whom she is charged with having murdered in Brooklyn last year
 The defendant appeared calmer than she did yesterday when she col lapsed for the second time since her trial started, but she kept mumhllng to herself A special guard was placed over her during the night when she neither slept nor ate, ap- bearing restless after discussing the days events with her cellmate, Mrs. lillian RaiSen.
New Britain herald., 1922-04-04
POLICE WORKING HARD
Chief Rawlings Says Everything Pos sible Is Being Done to Apprehend
 the Man Guilty of Attacking Women

Chief William J. Rawlings said to- day that everything possible is being done to apprehend the man who has been terrorizing women in different parts of the city, and whose attack on Camp street Sunday night has in censed the public. The police have been furnished with an excellent de- scription of the man, Chief Rawlings said today. and there is hope enter tained that he will he landed.
 The description seems to fit one man. being the same as has been fur nished by residents in the Bassett and Camp street sections. Persons resid- ing on Black Rock avenue today made mention of the scare given women in that section last week
New Britain herald., 1922-04-04
LAPS FIGHT CHlTA
Latter Force Fighting Is Report From Tokio-Eighty Chita Soldiers KM- ed-Fighting Continues.

Tokio April 1. (By Associated ss)-Srecial dispatches from vla- divostok today report a clash be- tween Japanese troops and forces of the Chita government when 500 Of the latter attacked the Japanese near Spassk, about 100 miles from Vladf- vostok following demand by the to disarm. Eighty Of tho Chita soldiers were reported killed.
 Later the Chita troops attacked In force with field guns. and fighting 1s along the usuri railway, the reports said.
 The war office this evening con- firmed the news of the clash near Spassk announcing it had received word of the hostilities there.
New Britain herald., 1922-04-04
GUNMAN'S BULLET
 HITS NIGHT STICK
Yonkcrs Policeman Knocked Out By His Own Club-Is Not Hurt But
 Clothes Are Pierced

Yonkers. N. Y, April 4.-Patrol- man Harold Sheeky had a narrow es- cape from death today when a bullet fired by man he found sukling around the home of Frank Hedley. president of the Interborough Rapid Transit Co.,, of New York. struck his night stick, passed through his cloth ing, hit his revolver and lodged in his pocket. -ea.
 The impact Of the bullet, drove tho night stick against Sheeky's stomach so hard that he was knocked out The suspect escaped.
New Britain herald., 1922-04-04
COMPARE FIGURES ON FREIGHT CARRIED Railroads Moved Two Per Cent.
 More Under McAdoo PRESIDENT OF B. < 0. SPEAKS Y. S. Railroad Chief Had Small Claims To Glory in 1918 or 1917 Says Willard-Organizatio Co-op- erated.
PRESIDENT OF B. & 0. SPEAKS

Washington, April 4.-Figlre, showing the railroads of the coun. try moved only two per cent more traffic in 1918 than in 1917 were cit ed by Daniel Willard. president ot the Baltimore and Ohio Railroac company before the senate interstate commerce commission today to re. flute the recent testimony of William G. McAdoo, former director general ot rail1oads 10 the effect that the rail. roads had broken down In the latter year before being placed under gov. ernment control. He appeared at a resumption of the committees inves- tigation into the general railroad situ- ation.
 Asserting that he was unable "to find anything in the record to justify the statement that the railroads in this country have ever broken down either before, during or since federal control" he declared the 'serious situation" which developed under the war load in 1917 might rather be at tributed to failure if not break down. of our system of railroad regu- lation as then in effect"
 Costs Increased Rapidly.
 Rapidly mounting operating ex- penses in 1917. were proving serious financial problem for many of the roads, he said, because under the law they were unable to advance their rates without permission from the in terstate commerce commission. The commission, he asserted, did not seem willing (perhaps did not feel author ized under the law) to deal with the matter with such promptness and lib- erality as the situation in my opinion demanded"
 Two Per Cent Little.
 Former Director Gen. McAdoo has pointed with pride and justifiably so, :" he continued. ito the record of ac- adjustments of the railroads under his decision during 1918 but the fig ures shows that the same railroads that moved 430, 900, ,0oo ton miles in 1917 moved only 44o,ooo. 900 ton miles in 1918, or about two per cent more. I submit that difference in ps;shment of only two per cent betweGn the two periods Is hard ly sufficient to indicate a breakdown in the one year and satisfactory ac plishment in the other"
 Despite the congestion and confu sion" which naturally followed the entrance into the war he said, the railroads showed an effec- tive capacity for cooperation under their executives railroad war board in 1917 solving many difficult trans portation problems. he said, and ham Hing a volume of traffic 127,000, 0,000,- 100 ton miles greater than tliat handled two years before.
New Britain herald., 1922-04-04
STOLE MOTHERS CAR

Stamford. April 4,--Rohert Stewart, son of MT. and Mrs William c. Stew art of Bayville, l.. l.. arrested last night on suspicion of having stolen automobile in his posse ssion was turn cd over to Sheriff Frederick Miller of Long Island today. It was said the machine belonged to Stewards moth CT, who had missed it. She claimed it had been taken without her con- sent
New Britain herald., 1922-04-04
POISONED SALAD
Mrs. Chumley, Of Washington, Gave Her Husband Fatal Dose-Anothcr Man Involved.

Bremerton, Wash. April 4-Mrs. Hugh c. Clumley. has confessed, po- lice announced that she poisoned the salad she gave her husband. Hugh C. Clumley, 2s. last week Clumley slied as he was on the street a few moments later. His death at first was believed due to disability he re- ceived during the war.
 According to officers, Mrs Clumley declared she had been induced to kill her husband by another man. A war rant for his arrest was issued.
New Britain herald., 1922-04-04
First Disorders in
 Soft Coal Regions

Pittsburgh. April 4,First disor- ders in the western Pennsylvania coal district were reported from Fayette and Washington counties today where the authorities stated. high tension electric wires carrying current for coal mines had been cut and a detail of the state police had been called out to disperse a crowd endeavorinE to in duce non-union men to leave their work.
New Britain herald., 1922-04-04
TWO YEARS IN PRISON.
Man Who lmpersonated Naval Officer
 Goes to Atlanta.

New York. April 4.-stephen $. Weinberg. charged with impersonat- ing n naval officer and failing to pay for his costume, today was sentenced in Brooklyn to two years in the At lanta penitentiary,
 During a spectacular career, Wein- berg served as secretary to Princess Fatima of Afghanistan and to ,Dr. Adolph Lorenz, famous Niennese sur geon. While conducting the princess around the country, Weinberg pre- sented her to President Harding m the White House.
New Britain herald., 1922-04-04
PLEAD NOT GUILTY.
American Cotton Exchange Asks for
 Early Trial.

New York. April 4.-The American cotton exchange recently indicted with six of it's directors on a charge of bucketing orders today entered a plea of not guilty and asked for an early trial on the ground that the case was injuring its business.
 The, directors yesterday pleaded not guilty and were continued in bail of $1,000 each.