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ALL WORLD
M0lJRNS
SARAH
international Tribute to Be
Paid Mime. Bernhardt, Who
Died Last Night.
By FRANK e. MASON,
Jnterua4ional News Service.

PARIS, March q. - Messages
of coincidence from all nations
poured into Paris today, express
ing the worlds sorrow over the
death of Nine. Sarah Bernhard
Hthe divine Sarah" who died last
night.
me body was en1balmed today
and placed within rOs 200
coffin. In death the face was
serene and calm, just zip " had
been when Sarah passed from he.
AN Nations To Pay Honors.
Maurice Bernhard. son Of the
world.famous actress, conferred
with the leading theatrical men OF
Paris regarding the funeral. Inter
national honors viii be paid TO
Nine. Bernhard 1t 10 expected
that all nations will be represented.
Tntern1ent probably will be Friday.
President Millerand and Premier
Poincare were among the first to
extend their sympathy to members
of Nine. Bernhardt's family. They
said that they felt a great French
citizen and an international force
for extending French friendship had
passed away.
Able Rissler. Of the Roman Cath.
Ollie Church of ST. Francois. who
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S3,8OO,OOO
For Residents of Washington.

The Potomac Electric Power Company has mpounded
approximately $3800000 overpayment by electric
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Chief Clerk Is Appointed to
Succeed M. o. Chance as
Postmaster.

Appointment Of William H.
Mooney, chief clerk Of the Post
office Department, as postmaster
of Washington, to succeed Merritt
O. Chance, was announced today
by Postmaster General Harry s..
New.
MONEYS appointment had been
considered q certainty since about
six months ago, when II became
kasOWn that Chance would retire
this spring He will be succeeded
BY Robert ). Regar, appointment
clerk.
In Service Thirty Years.
Connected with the postal service
for thirty years, Mooney has gained
a thorough knowledge of every
branch of the system. His appoint-
ment today comes as the realization
of a long cherished ambition.
Mooney, widely known as an
athlete. entered the postal service
az secretary to T. b. Coulter, auditor
of the department, in 1893. He
was born in Steubenville, Ohio,
where he was employed in his
fathers bank up to the time of his
He later became a clerk in the
finance division and then under the
superintendent of the registry sec
ton. In November, 1906, he was
assigned to the disbursing office
and was later made cashier. His
as chief clerk of the
Department was made
March 16, 1921.
Robert S. Regar, who will sue
coed Mooney, has been connected
with the department since 1909. He
was born at Swartzville, Pa, jan
uary Is. 1882. and graduated from
the Pennsylvania Business College
at Lancaster.
While holding his first position
in the postal service he studied law
at nights at the Georgetown Law
from which he was gradu-
ated in 1912. He has been admitted
to practice before all local courts,
including the United States SUI
preme Court. Serving continuously
in the Postoffice Department since
1909, he has passed through all the
clerical grades to that of chief
clerk He was made appointment
clerk June /, 1918.
Mooney was a close friend of the
late President Roosevelt, acting az
a sparring and wrestling partner
for that strenuous executive. He
accompanied the former President
on several Of his vacation trips.
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MADE
TO TAKE
HIM
On
Absolute Privacy Maintained,
Even Rail Employees Being
Barred From Car.
By international News Service.


For the first time since his
name was connected with the Dor
othy King murder mystery in New
York, John Kearsley Mitchell,
Philadelphia millionaire, came face
to face this afternoon with his wife,
who sped northwartI on special
train from Palm Beach to meet
him.
Met I'M Car Here.
The meeting took place IN j q.
Stotesbury's private car Lynnewood,
which passed through Washington
on the Atlantic Coast Line.
In order to- avoid the scores O.
neWspapermen and photographers
ton, the train made s special stop
Tor Mitchell to hurry aboard. No
one was permitted to enter the car,
railroad officials even endeavo
lfo keef1 the curious fhrOng away
from the ain Itself
ctote Insures Privacy.
orders q II,su prfvacy Tor the
dramatic meeting between Mrs.
NTIfrheIl and her husband, the
John MarshaIlD of the New York
have been issued by Stotesbury,
who Is Mrs. Mitchell's father
The Stotesbury car. which Was
picked up at Jacksonville, Fla. by
the northbound train, was switched
in the railroad yards here to q
train for New York via Balti-
more and Philadelphia
The destination of the car could
not be learned. Some railroad en-
ployes said it would stop at Balti-
more, while others declared it would
continue through to Philadelphia.
May Stop at Baltimore.
II q stop is made at Baltimore.
the MitchelIs and the Stotesburys
are expected to go to the Cromwell
estate, near that city, for the fam
lily conference in which Mitchell Is
to explain to his wife his relations
with the slain New York model.
It was generally expected, how
ever, that the meeting here would
result in the entire party continu
ing on to Philadelphia. where they
can retire to the Mitchell home in
Rittenhouse square.
Denies Interviews.
During the long trip here from
Florida, Mrs. Mitchell denied herself
to all interviewers and her father
issued strict orders to train service
employees that no one was to be per.
mitted to enter his private car. This
order even extended to railroad en-
ployes not connected with the Stotes-
bury-Mitchell party,
Mrs. Mitchell sat at train win
dow, scanning the faces of all pas
sengers who boarded the train at the
various stops. When the train was
moving she held handkerchief to
her eyes as IL weeping.
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HIS EASTER LIQUOR GONE
AND HE'S FINED AS WELL

PITTSBURGH. March 27.--John
Renshaw's arrangements for an
Easter celebration went amiss when
the police raided his home and con-
fiscated more than 100 gallons of
mash. Renshaw was fined 500,
with the option of thirty days In
the Workhouse.
Ike Teeper, a grocery store
owner, was held on charge of
selling whiskey to his customers at
Is cents a drink. charging Il on
their grocery bills.
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GIRL STUDENT ON ROOF
TO WRITE, DIES IN FALL

NEW YORK, March 27.--A story
which sixteen.year-old Miriam Will
son had started to write for her
high school magazine will never
be completed. She went up to the
roof of the five-story apartment
where she lived. seeking quiet to
write her masterpiece. A few min
utes later a tenant heard crash
and. investigating, found her body
on the pavement of the court.
1t is believed the girl, who was
subject to attacks Of dizziness,
swooned and fell to her death.
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CONGRESSMAN VESTAL
HERE FOR OPERATION

Congressman Albert H. Vestal of
Indiana, who was compelled to leave
Secretary of the Navy Denby's
party at Panama and make a hur-
ried return here because of head
trouble, was resting easily at his
hotel today.
Physicians attending Vestal said
as soon as the irritation has been
allayed an operation will be per-
formed to remove the source of the
trouble.
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NoRWEGIANS ABOLISH
PROHIBITION ON WINES

CHRISTIANA, Norway, March
27.-Both divisions Of the Norweg-
ian parliament have voted by a
small margin to abolish prohibition
on heavy wines. and the bill has
been sanctioned by the King, 1t is
officially announced today.
At its last meeting parliament au-
thorized the government to con-
clude commercial treaty with
Portugal on the basis of free i'm
port of wine into Norway Prohibit
ton on brandy Is unchanged.
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The woman who makes the &C.
cusation is said TO have been gradu.
ated from the fashionable Wellesley
College and now to be an instructor
in one of the foremost educational
institutions in Massachusetts,.
The child was born four years
ago, and, determined that Hart
should recognize it as his son, the
woman came to Los Angeles recent
ly and conferred with the district
attorney. The result of this, the
district attorney said. was an agree
men whereby Hart is TO provide
for the child's care by paying the
mother $50 a month.
WOman's Name Withheld.
The name Of the woman Is with.
held by the district attorneys office
for the time being, she being re-
ferred to as Miss NJ"
When asked for confirmat ton or
denial of the information gained at
the district attorneys office, Hart
is quoted as saying to the Los
Angeles Examiner:
II never answer this sort of
thing. l don't discuss it at ALL"
When the woman had told her
story TO the district attorney, Hart
was summoned. He is quoted as
emphatically denying the paternity
Of the child. The meeting at the
district attorneys office beween
Hart and Miss M" is said 10 have
been under dramatic circumstances.
Woman Confronts Hart.
When told of the accusation Hart
In said to have demanded that the
woman be brought forward. The
district attorney than had the
woman enter from the adjoining
room where she had been waiting.
The district attorney said:
Mr.. Hart, II this woman Is an
| impostor and you can produce the
evidence which will cause me to
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SHIPS S o S FOR COAL
COSTS FORTUNE IN RUM

KEY WEST. Fla, March 27.-
With 2,1OO cases of liquor aboard,
the Cuban steamer Monetennotte
was lowed into this port by the
coast guard cutter Saukes.
The steamer was found anchored
within United States waters off
Sombrero lighthouse without coal
and supplies by the tug Relief.
which responded to s o s calls
from the Monetennotte.
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Many Persons Killed
In New Outbreak
In Hungary

BELGRADE, March 27.-A
serious situation exists in Hum
gary with fighting in progress
between government forces and
insurgents led by General Kro-
noy, said advices from the from
tier today. Many persons are
reported to have been killed
and wounded.
The trouble started when the
value Of Hungarian money be-
gan to fall on the exchange
market and prices began to rise.
A general strike was pro-
claimed. Then fighting broke
out. Demand is being made
that the government Of Count
Bethlen at Budapest resign.
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BOY HANGS HIMSELF AS he
PLAYS "WlLD WEST" SHOW

NEW YORK. March 27.-Edward
Whitson, thirteen, accidentally
hanged himself while playing wild
West" in his Brooklyn home.
The boy tied one end of an inn
provised lariat to a door knob
on the second floor, placed a loop
around his neck and then, APP
parently, fell down stairs. His
mother found the body
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MOONSHINE- DRINK KILLS
NOTED CHICAGO BEAUTY

CHICAGO, March 27.-Miss Eliza
beth Orisinger. twenty-eight, fascl-
mating owner of beauty shop, died
in a hospital here today, after hav-
ing been stricken at a moonSh1ne
party Friday night.
Two men from Dubuque. Iowa.
who gave the beauty a highball
just before her illness, according
to a chum. Miss Edna Watson, are
being sought.
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Son of Daugherty
Admits Acquaintance
With Dorothy King

. NEW YORK, March 27.-Major
Drayton M. Daugherty, son Of At
torney General Harry NJ. Daugh-
erty, was to be the next man of
Dorothy Kings acquaintance
against whom the guns of the
blackmail band were to be trained
in the event that the plan to ex-
tort 100000 from j. Kearsley
Mitchell, the murdered cloak mod
els "heavy sugar guy" was sue
cessful.
This discovery IL the latest de-
velopment In the sensational mys-
terry which surrounds the killing
of the bobbed-hair blond known
along the White Light district as
the Broadway Butterfly"
Admits He Knew Girl.
Daugherty. now in Atlantic City.
today he knew Dorothy
King and liked her. but denied that
he was more than a casual friend
of the girl.
81 am the SON Of Attorney Gen
eraI Harry Nj. Daugherty, and
there IS no cutters blood IN that
family" he declared grinly. IF
any bIackmailers attempt to try
their tricks ON me, / viii shoot
them fun of lead. / knew Dorothy
King. l liked her. But ! am
no Marshall
Suspected Plot.
Daugherty said he suspected q
blackmail plot when a man. evil
IDENTIFY being coached. telephoned
him last Thursday and threatened
to expose his relations" with the
slain model If he did not provide
the speaker with well paying Job.
Dorothy King entertainsa
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MUTT SAYS ARMY DRUGS
LEAK TO ADD|CTS

Vast supplies Of narcotic drugs unfit for legitimate
leaking from warehouses the hands of addcs Col
G. Mutt chief of the national narcotic forces today
charged conference of manufacturers and Government
authorities narcotic control, in Federal prohibition head
quarters today behind closed doors.
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BILL HART FATHER OF HER
CHILD, SAYS WOMAN
BY Cosmopolitan News Service.

LOS ANGELES March 27-In transcript taken by Dis
rct Attorney Woowne, of Los Angeles county William S.
Bill Hart the motion picture STAR is accused of being
the father of the infant of Boston according
Los Angeles Examiner which today prints the story under
ne
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Admits He Was Pal
OF Slain Model
Son of Attorney General
Denies Intimate ReLG-
tiO1ss, HOIUeUer.

! :
Major
& Daugherty,
son Of the
Attorney
General, has
admitted that
he was q
friend Of
Dorothy
King,
slain New
York cloak
model, and
that he
visited her
apartment on
several
occasions and
once ave
her ! chi
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Fair tonight and Wednesday;
Wednesday and Wednesday night.
New Britain herald., 1923-08-24
'BROOKHART RESUMES
Fight ON MEREDITH
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The senator declared he would like
to offer Mr.. Meredith the profits from
his 24o acre farm in settlement of the
proposed 80 cent libel damage suit,
If Mr.. Meredith should accept. under
the condition that he pay the oper-
ating costs. interest and taxes, said
Mr.. Brookhart, Il would be several
hundred dollars ahead"
II am glad that he has been 30
considerate in the amount of dam
ages sought" said Senator Brookhart,
for if he beats me. that is about all
can save out of my salary after pay
ing this years deficit on my farm.
THE most amazing part of Mr..
Mcredith's statement is the war
finance corporation. The farmers of.
Iowa did not borrow one cent from
this corporation. The war finance
corporation is Wall street controlled
institution that lends only to banks
and selected cooperatives. These Iowa
loans were all to banks"
New Britain herald., 1923-08-24
MISS 0'BRIEN TAKES VEIL
New Britain Young Woman Admitted
to Order of Sisters of st. Joseph in
Parkyillc.

Miss Helen O'Brien, daughter of
Mrs. John j. O'Brien of Stanley
street, yesterday took the final veil
which admitted her into the order of
the Sisters of ST. Joseph. The en-
trance exercises were in charge of
Rt Rev. John j. Milan, bishop of
Hartford, and were carried out at
the mother house of the order in
Parkville. Miss O'Brien was one of a
class of six who became nuns at yes
terday's ceremony. She will here
after be known as Sister Mary Greg
DRY and will be assigned to Parkvile
for the present.
Miss O'Brien was educated at St.
Marys parochial school in this city.
Following her. graduation, she pur-
sued her studies at the New Britain
High school and after her graduation,
entered the training school for
nurses at st. Francis hospital, in
Hartford. She graduated as a
trained nurse and was stationed in
the hospital until she decided to enter
the order of nuns.
Mrs. John j. O'Brien, her mother,
her sister, Miss Esther O'Brien, and
brothers, Joseph and John O'Brien,
attended the ceremonies yesterday.
Present also, was Rev. John r. Win
ters, pastor of st. Mary's church, this
city.
New Britain herald., 1923-08-24
HARRY MULLEN, POPULAR
ATHLETE, DIES, AGED 27
Member of Factory League Baseball
And Basketball Teams Fails TO
Recover Following Operation

Harry Mullen, age 81 years, a popu-
lar member of the Factory league
baseball and basketball teams and a
resident OF New Britain for the past
10 years, died at the New Britain
general hospital last night at II
O'Clock following an operation for
ulcers Of the stomach. He was adj
mitted to the institution on August
10 and since the operation has been
lowering between life and death.
Mr.. Mullen was well known and
popular among the younger set of
this city. He was employed at the
Stanley Rule e. Level Co. office and
for the past few seasons was an &C
tive member of basketball and base
ball teams of that concern in the Fac
tory league. For some time he made
his home at the Stanley house at the
corner of Maple and Whiting streets.
New Britain herald., 1923-08-24

His mother and q sister, Mrs. John
Morrissey, both Ill at their homes In
Rutland. VT, survive him an do Dan
lei Mullen of Willimantic, cousin
and former resident of New Britain
another cousin, Mrs Joseph Mclean
of Stanley street this city. Mr.. Null
len was born in Baltimore but when
young moved to Vermont with his
parents, later coming to New Britain
to live.
At the time the war broke out
young Mullen Joined the navy and was
in the service for rs months Most
of this time was spent overseas with
submarine chasers.
The body was sent to Rutland this
afternoon by M J. Kenney & Co.. I'M
dertakers and funeral services will be
held in that city probably tomorrow.
New Britain herald., 1923-08-24
CUT COST OF GASOLINE
Independent Dealers In Sioux Falls
Come Down to Price Fixed by Stan
dard OIL, Is IL Cents Per Gallon.

dard OIL, IS IL Cents Per Gallon.
Sioux Falls. S. D., Aug. 24.-Inde-
pendent oil dealers in Sioux Falls will
reduce their prices of gasoline today
to IS is cents. the price maintained
by the Standard Oil company in South
Dakota, according to an announce
ment made last night.
I'VE realize that this price," the an
nouncement said, will put large
percentage of dealers out of business
for no dealer can sell gasoline at
Is IL cents except SO long as his cap
ital holds out"
The announcement criticized Gov.
w. H. McMaster for his action two
weeks ago in precipitating the gaso-
line price war by retailing the product
for 16 cents gallon through supply
depots of the State Highway Commits
sion.
1T may be a personal victory for
the governor--it is sad tragedy for
the helpless dealer who must be sue
rificed to the governors ambitions"
the Independents announcement de-
clared. 1.-THE governor is quoted as
saying: 1T is going to be a finish
fight 1t is. 1t is going to be the finish
of large number of legitimate deal
ers who are perfectly helpless"
New Britain herald., 1923-08-24
R. R. CROSSING CONFERENCE
Officials of N. ", n. IL. & II. win
Meet With City Officials on Elm
Hill Hazard Next Wednesday.

Representatives of the New Haven
railroad will be in the city Wednes-
day afternoon at o'clock to confer
with Mayor A. NJ. Paonessa. Corpora
ton Counsel j. II. kirkham and
Chairman A. G.. Crusberg of the rail-
roads committee relative to the citys
request for adequate protection at the
Elm Hill grade crossing.
Thescrossing in question is in New
ington just beyond the city line, but
because 1t is used daily by hundreds
of vehicles coming in and leaving New
Britain, the common council has in
terested itself in the hazard. 1t is
likely that the railroad will be asked
to provide flash light system similar
TO the one installed at the South street
crossing which has proved most salts
factory.
New Britain herald., 1923-08-24
DIES AT AGE OF 81

Mrs. Christina BlaiIxie PASSES Away al
Home of Daughter, Mrs. II. l.. Red
deil-Funerai In Providence.
Mrs. Christina Blake, aged 81,
died last night at the home Of her
daughter, Mrs. H. l.. Reddell of 1872
Fairview street Prayers were con-
Quoted at the home this morning at
10 o'clock by Rev. Henry W. Maier
of the First Congregational church,
and the remains were taken to Provi-
dence, r. I. Funeral services will be
held tomorrow morning in Providence
at the home of Mrs. George A. Day,
a daughter of Mrs. Blaikie.
New Britain herald., 1923-08-24
kAT0, WARRIOR and
STATESMAN, IS DEAD
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later promoted to vice admiral which
post he held until 1909 when he was
appointed commander of the Kure
naval port. While yice-minister of the
navy, he was appointed councillor to
the board of the Anglo-Japanese ex-
hibitlon and also chief of the reception
committee appointed in connection
with the visit of the American squad
ron to Japan. In 1913 he was APP
pointed commander of the first squad
ron. and upon the outbreak of the
world war. participated In the hostili-
ties as commander of the battleship
Settsu.
When the Okuma ministry was par
TALLY reconstructed in 1915, Admiral
Kato was appointed minister of the
navy In succession to Admiral Yashiro
and was promoted to the rank of full
admiral the same year. This portfolio
he retained in the subsequently es-
tablished Terauchi and Hara minis
tries. He was raised to the peerage
In 1920.
Kato was generally recognized as
one of the most able statesmen among
the naval officers of the empire and
was also known for his peculiar calm
ness and boldness as naval stratc-
gist.r He was the holder of many for
eign decorations.
New Britain herald., 1923-08-24
CRUELTY TO INSECTS

London. England.-On the proposal
Of Sir Walter de Frece reptiles and
fish are added to the animals pro-
tected by the cruelty to animals" bill.
Sir Walter wanted to put in insects"
but agreed to drop It out when 1t was
pointed out that 1t would be difficult
to convict when man was cruel to
flea.
New Britain herald., 1923-08-24
Farmland With Girl
Held for Abduction

North Adams, Mass, Aug. 24%-
Russell Smith, of Fairfield, Conn, a
farmland who is alleged to have left
the Tenney farm in Williamstown
with 10 year old Evelyn Betters on
the night of July 16, was ordered held
for the grand jury on an abduction
charge at session of Williamstown
court today. Smith and the Betters
girl were arrested in Greenwich, Conn.
Wednesday. The girl is now home
with her parents.
New Britain herald., 1923-08-24
mrs. CREAM TREASURER OF
STATE AUXILIARY OF A. 0. h.
New Britain Woman Elected 10 Inn
portant Office at Convention
In New Haven

New Haven, Aug 24,--Before con-
Guiding its session yesterday the
Ladies' Auxiliary of the Ancient Order
of Hibernians chose state officers, Mrs
John j. Carroll of No. ~, this city,
being made president; Miss Aileen
Mulligan of No. IS, New Haven, vice
president; Miss Mae Finnigan, Hart
ford. secretary; Mrs. Minnie Cream,
New Britain, treasurer and Mrs. Chas.
A. jackson of Waterbury, chairman of
Irish history.
Adoption of resolutions denouncing
the Ku Klux Khan and urging of an
old-age pension law in the state tea-
tured the Hibernian conventions close.