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New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-07-25

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New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-07-25

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New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-07-25
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Entered at the Post Office at New Britain
as Second Class Mall Matter.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-07-25
erRscRIpTroN RATES:

NB.0U Year,
$500 Three Months.
7bc Month.
The Washington times., 1923-01-07
CHARGES SENATOR
IS BREWERS TOOL
Wayne B. Wheeler Flags
SpenCer's llltoxioatiOn
Test Proposal.

Charging that Senator Spencer Of
Missouri is tool Of the brewers
in his proposal for a scientific com
mission to determine what is i1toxi-
eating liquor, Wayne b. Wheeler
stated for the Anti-Saloon League
yesterday that the plan win face
the united opposition OF the prohi-
bition forces.
The findings Of such a commits.
sion would serve no helpful pur-
pose in determining what legisla-
ton is necessary to enforce the
Eighteenth Amendment. declared
Mr.. Wheeler. The plan was origi-
mated by the brewers and is in
their interests.
No scientific commission can de.
terrnine accurately what is intoxi-
eating liquor for a group of 1l0,-
0O0, 900 people. Alcoholic liquors
affect people differently according
TO age, temperament, tolerance to
use and many other conditions.
Consequently no accurate conclu
sion could be reached with refer
ence to this question.
The dry leader declared that the
one-haIf per cent standard adopted
in state and federal enforcement
codes was first enacted into the
liquor tax laws at the suggestion
OF the liquor dealers themselves aa
the best standard to prevent u
legal competition by bootleggers,
The Washington times., 1923-01-07
VERDICT
HOLDS Mrs. G|VASH
Mother Accused Of Admins,
tering Poison to Her
Infant Son.
on ) charge q having poisoned

On q charge of having poisoned
her baby son on November ]
last. Mrs. Hazel Gnash. young
wife Of william +. Gnash. 1910
Potomac avenue southeast, yester.
day was held for action OF the
grand jury at an inquest held by
DR.. ]. Ramsay hewitt, District
Coroner, 1t the morgue.
The principal witness was Or.
H. Hertzberg, OF 1922 u street
northwest, who testified that he
was driving through Rock Greek
Park when he discovered Mrs.
Gnash and her son suffering from
bichlOride of mercury poisoning
He took them to Garfield Hos.
pitaI, the child later being removed
to the Children's. Hospital, where
he died.
The mother admitted administer.
ing the poison to the child, as well
as swallowing several OF the poison
tablets. Her husband did not ap
pear at the inquest. He is al
Knoxville, N. c., employed as 9
fireman in a stone quarry.
The Washington times., 1923-01-07
JUSTICE
RETURNS TO PULPIT
"cIeans Up" Princeton Ii
Two Years. Toll With
out Remuneration.
BY Universal service.

PRINCETON, N. j., Jan. 6.--The
Rev. DR.. David B. Tomkins, who
made Statewide reputation by his
novel methods Of cleaning up this
town, retired today as police
magistrate. He will henseforth de,
vote his time exclusively to his
duties as pastor of the Second
Presbyterian Church.
During his two-year term he toiled
without pay. Once he fined both
the plaintiff and the defendant and
stopped speeding with large fines.
Two years ago he criticised the
laxity Of law enforcement from the
pulpit. Mayor Browne promptly
offered him the post of police
magistrate. Criminals smiled CON
temptuously, and respectable par
ishioners shrugged their shoulders
when he accepted.
The smiles broadened when he
went on his first gambling raid
Policemen quickly seized the dice
but the pastor remained behind to
hunt the guns with which the
craps" were shot.
But these amusing stories ceased
when the pastor got down to bust
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to turn back his salary and a part
OF all fines and costs to the Dor
ough.
One of his first cases that at
traced attention outside of Prince
ton came up when woman had
a neighbor arrested for "cussine
her out on the street." The magis
trate asked her what her answer
had been. 1t was unprintable. He
fined both the accuser and the
accused.
He stopped automobile speeding
when he fined a parishioner, a fell
low-minister and several prominent
citizens. who were caught in his
dragnet. He did this by the size
of the fines he imposed. His fines
went up faster than the cost OF
living and $25 to $50 became the
minimum for first offenders.
Through his church training he
believed in original sin, but his
term in office has convinced his
that some sinners are more original
than others
The Washington times., 1923-01-07
RIVAL ARMED BANDS
ON TRAIL OF NEGRO
Law and Order Element In
Florida Seeks to Avoid
Further Riots.
By Universal Service.

GAINESVILLE, Fla, Jan. g.
Two bands Of armed white men are
still securing the woods near Rose
wood for Jess Hunter. negro, ae-
cused OF attacking young white
woman at Summer last Monday.
One of the bands represents law
and order and will turn the negro
over to the authorities if they find
him. The other group will probably
take justice into their own hands If
they get chance.
|, In addition to searching for the
fugitive the two bands are keeping
their eyes on each other, the law
and order advocates hoping to pre-
vent further bIoodshed in the affair
that resulted in seven deaths and
the burning of negro homes,
churches and lodges in Rosewood
Friday morning.
Additional outbreaks seeming inn
minent, Sheriff Walker OF Levy
County ordered several additional
automobile loads of arms and am
munition when he heard the lawless
element had sent representatives to
Tampa to purchase arms.
Governor Hardee in Tallahassee,
is in constant touch with the situa-
ton and has said that drastic action
will be taken in event of another
outbreak.
Sheriff Walker said tonight that
the law and order advocates have
the upper hand, having prevented
the lawless element from commit
ting additional murders last night.
He added.
However, I believe it is only a
lull in the activities Of the mob and
further trouble seems unavoidable. I"
tween the officers and their sup
porters against the rioters should
further outbreaks begin.
The Washington times., 1923-01-07
Search Rock Creek Park
For Missing Woman

All Washington, especially the
wooden places and streams of Rock
Creek Park. are being combed by
police in an effort to locate Miss
Elizabeth barley, fifty-five years
old, who has been missing from her
home, 2231 First street northwest,
since December 80.
Owing to the fact that she had
been in i'll health, and that she had
cashed check at a downtown bank
a short time before her strange dis
appearance, her sister, with whom
she resided, is fearful for her safety.
A search of all hospitals in the city
was futile. Owing to the fact that
Miss barley frequently hiked
through Rock Creek Park, a thor.
ough search of every section of the
place is being conducted
The Washington times., 1923-01-07
Sc VEN MEN To DIE
on GAL 0NS HERE
Four ConviCts IN District jail
q Be Executed During
This Month.
ALL HOPE FOR REPRIEvES
Prisoners Walk About Cells
il Good Spirits, Confident
Death IS Not Near
IL HOPE FOR REPRIEvEs

Seven conyicts. four c9 whom are
sentenced to die during the last
full week OF this month, are await.
ing execution at the District 3aiI.
This Is the largest number of cone
victs awaiting execution ever held
at the jan at one time.
Those to die this month are h.
nest Stands, Ruford Gordon, Charles
Price and George s. Epps, all col
ored. They are occupying cells u
the death row at the JAIL with
the others convicted Of murder. who
will hang during February.
IN GOOD SPIRITS.
As they daily walk about their
cells they all appear to be III GOOD
spirits, none Of them apparently
realizing their lives viii be snuffed
out soon. All appear confident that
stays Of executions WI be granted
them.
Gordon ana Price were to hang
November IL However, techni-
cality of the law, relative to y
proper Eaangnaarl, resulted in the
pOstpOning of their execution.
Stands, the last one arrested, viii
be the first to die, his day Of exc
cutiOn being January 23. He was
arrested four months ago and con-
victed. Of numbering hts wife with b
hatchet. He admitted the crime,
pleaded guilty and has given no
sign Of relentfng.
Gordon. with his brother. Roy
Gordon, was convicted Of killing y
white man during 81 robbery early
IN 1891 Roy Gordon was sentenced
to serve thirty years in the peni-
Tertiary. Ruford Gordon viii ~
hanged January rs. He VIII b.
followed by Price. who was con-
victed Of killing another negro four
years ago.
EPPS TO DIE JANUARY "a.
Epps, who win die January 2s,
was convicted 81 killing another
negro during the latter part oIIs21.
Ziang Fung Wan. Chinese. con-
Victed OF murder four years ago In
connection with ID triple killing ak
the Chinese Educational Mission, III
to die during the latter part Of Feb
riary, although suffering from tu-
berculosis His health IS fast fall
| Ing and hospital authorities believe
he win die before the day of his
execution.
Edward Perrygo IL the only white
man awaiting death. He win be
executed with George BantOn, col
ored, late In February BantCn was
convicted OF shooting 8 grocer near
Sixty-first and Dix streets north
east during an attempted h0ldup
five months ago.
The Washington times., 1923-01-07
Yelled Prophets to Hold
Their Election January 25

Monarch M. w. Pickering ex-
poets to announce during the COM
ing week the meeting place for the
annual meeting of Kallipolis Grotto
to be held January rs. At this
meeting the annual election of Off
GERS will be held. The following
are candidates: For monarch, Henry
]. Gompers; for chief justice, Will
liam p. Jacobs; for master of cere-
monies, Paul c. Grove and Irwin
B. Robinson; for treasurer, Joseph
H. Curran; for secretary, E. w.
Libbey;- for sentinel, Alex Schmid;
for trustee, Edward S. Schmid.
The Grotto will visit the Vaughn
Bible Class of Calvary Baptist
Church on Sunday morning, Janu-
airy %. Prophet o. A. C. Oehm-
Ter will represent the Grotto as
chairman. The prophets will meet
at Masonic Temple and march in
a body to the church.
The Washington times., 1923-01-07
West Virginia Legislative
Farm Bloc Grows Active

CHARLESTON, W. Va, Jan. e.
The probability of a farm bloc in
the State legislature becomes appar.
ent as the assembly opens it's ses-
sion here. The principal object Of
the organization is said to be the
enactment of depletion" taxation.
In several counties of the State,
representatives of the farm bureau
have held conferences with the new.
ly elected members of the legisla.
ture and are acquainting them with
the needs of the farmer"
The Washington times., 1923-01-07
Spanish War Veterans
Install New Officers

More than 800 members of the
Richard ]. Harden Camp No. Z,
United Spanish War Veterans, at
tended Thursday night the install
lation Of officers at the Pythian
Temple. The officers installed were:
Clarence P. Brewer, commander;
William z. Rink, senior vice com
mander; Daniel Foley, junior vice
commander; William /. Jenkins
adjutant; Thomas A. ludlow, quar-.
termaster; the Rev. Terence Fielder,
chaplain: John A. Shuster, officer
of the day; William r. Heritage,
historian; George Cook, sergeant.
major; John Mclaughlin, quarter.
master-sergeant; Charles Wood
color sergeant, and Fred Kaske
chief musician.
Senator Helm, of Alabama, ad.
dressed the gathering.
The Washington times., 1923-01-07
Let Contract for Link
On Road to Washington

RICHMOND, Va, Jan. Con.
tract for the construction of the
link of the Richmond Washington
highway lying between Fredericks-
burg and Spotsylvania courthouse
has been awarded to the Spotsylva-
MIA Construction Company of High
land Springs, following consultation
by Henry G.. Shirley, chairman of
the State highway commission, with
other members of the commission.
The adjustment of this contract had
been pending since the opening of
bids some weeks ago.
The urg.Spotsylvania
courthouse link is of Importance to
Richmonders. 1t will be con-
crete roadway, eighteen feet in
width. The distance to be covered
is ninety-nine miles. The contract
price is $336,127.78.
The Washington times., 1923-01-07
Report Shows
Fewer Arrests

Day by day the people of Wash
ington are getting better and better.
This is shown in the monthly re-
port Of Major Daniel Sullivan,
superintendent Of police, submitted
yesterday to District Commissioner
James F. Oyster.
The report shows that during De.
cember there were Soil arrests for
various offenses, a decrease of 597
over the previous month. Major
Sullivan says the decrease is not
due to laxity of the police in en-.
forcing the law, but to the fact
that the people of Washington are
getting better.
Twelve automobiles, 1852 quarts
of whiskey. 337 quarts of gin, and
244 gallons of wine were seized dur,
ing the month, probably making
Washingtonians drier and drier
During the month 2,199 persons
were arrested for traffic violations
The Washington times., 1923-01-07
Thiefs Victim Gives Him
Spending Money III Jail

william Thomas, confessed thief.
yesterday when arraigned before
Judge MCMAHON in Police Court.
got i six-months Jail sentence and.
a SIS bill, almost an at once.
The sentence was imposed for
the theft Of clothing belonging TO
Alpheus III. Ryan and Charles q.
Rowe, tenants in the Kellogg
building where Thomas was en-
ployed as an elevator operator.
The So bill came from Ryan who
felt sorry for the prisoner and
presented him with the cash To-
buy cigarettes with while in jail.
The Washington times., 1923-01-07
so DAYS FOR COAL THEFT.

Russell Brown. former orderly
at the Emergency Hospital, was
sent to Jail for sixty days yester.
day by Judge Mcmahon in Police
Court for stealing an overcoat be
longing to Dominik Trevessant, a
patient. The accused said he was
hungry and stole the coat in order
TO sell IL and get food, but failed
TO mention the fact that he could
eat at the hospital.
The Washington times., 1923-01-07

FRANCES WHITE, musical comedy favor
II tie, IDEO has just been named By Mrs
Hazel RebG DOnneLIy in her suit for divorce
from Clinton ThGyer DOnneuy, the dancers
press agent The complaining ICife says she
surDrised the actress Nth her husband early
one morning in a Chicago hotel.
The Washington times., 1923-01-07

nNRS. HAZEL C7NASH, 1910 Potomac aUe-
Ia nue. southeast, held yesterday for action
Of the grand jury as a result Of the poisoning
Of her 6abu November being taken to the Dis
trict Jail bv Policeman Harry PyICeM
Evening star., 1923-10-10

OF enc of the strengsss locals IN the
organization and debarred them from
holding Office after a trial In which
1t was shown that they were affiliated
with w. z. Fosters organization, and
espoused his boring -from.within" tao
tics in an effort to contaminate organ
lied labor in America with foreign so,
cialistic and communistic doctrines. :,
That organized labor in this country
Is thoroughly alive TO the menace of
foreign propaganda along this line, and
resents it, is shown by constantly re-
curing incidents similar to those of
yesterday. Too much credit cannot
be given labor for it's watehfulness and
prompt action when facts are de.
yeloped warranting it.
Organized labor in America is not
ready for communism yet, and from
the signs Of the times the foreign doc
trines will never make much headway
here. But as eternal vigilance is the
price of liberty, the safeguarding OF
labor organizations from pollution
must entail constant alertness and
swift Reputation. Boring from with
In" is insidious. and labor must con.
tinue to be constantly on guard, as it
is showing itself to be.
Evening star., 1923-10-10

standing firmly by the eight-hour DAY,
will not support any government that
accedes to this proposal. If, there
fore, the Stresemann government
yields to the demand Of the industrial.
lists it risks defeat in the reichstag.
SHINES game, it would appear. is
to smash the Stresemann government
and to replace it with dictatorship,
He wants work resumed in the Ruhr.
He favors an early beginning of the
procedure of payment to France and
Belgium in kind. He wants German
industries put upon a basis of full pro-
duotion. To show his power, it is
stated in 6fte of the dispatches, when
he was rebuffed the other day by the
Berlin government he went into the
bourse and sent the mark down to a
quotation Of 100000, 900 to the. dol
lar"
Stresemann, it thus appears, faces a
dilemma. If he yields to SHINES and
the industrialists who confront him he
is virtually certain to lose his reich
stag support and his coalition govern.
ment falls. If he adheres to the So
cialists he affronts SHINES and his
group, who hold the real power in
Germany, and invites the establish
ment of dictatorship By a revo,u-
tionary movement.
France and Belgium. it would ap-
pear, viii not reply TO Gernany's pro-
posal at once, but will consult. From
present indications there will be no di-
rect acceptance Of the proposition to
reopen negotiations but counter pro-
posai may be sent to Berlin demand
ins that guarantees be given that work
will be resumed at once. One particu-
lar requirement will probably be that
Berlin order the idle railway workers
back to their posts.
There are three parties now to this
discussion, counting France and Bel
gium as one. These are the allied
powers, the Stresemann government
with its coalition support in the reichs
tag, of which the socialists are the
most important factor, and the indus
trialists. France and Belgium are in a
position. through occupation Of the
Ruhr, to ''sit tight and demand that
Germany act as unit, whether
Stresemann or SHINES may be the
final factor Of government.
Evening star., 1923-10-10
More Mail Employes.

The -overwerked Washington post
Office gets a small increase in clerks
and carriers. Fifteen of the former
and thirteen of the latter are to be
added to the rolls. The increase is not
enough. and not all that has been
sought, but it will help. Later, when
the government finds itself able to
spend the money needed to take care
of it's growing business. and when
some Of the postwar problems are dis
posed of and calls for economy be-
come fewer and less strident, the
Washington post Office may have the
number Of employees IL needs, Stats
tics have heen compiled showing the
vast amount of mail handled at the
rome Office and how the Office cem=
paFes in work done with other big
post Offices. The increase in the vol
un,e OF postpaid mail is in greater
ratio than the increase in population
of the District, and the volume OF
post free government mail grows by
tons. Calls for help have often been
made on the Post Office Department
by the Washington postmaster, but
these, where they have been met at
all, have been answered haltingly and
with no remarkable liberality. The
present small increase in clerks and
carriers is part Of a nationwide in
crease which the Postmaster General
has been authorized to make by the
bureau of the budget with the ap
proval of the President.
Evening star., 1923-10-10
Playground Athletic Meet.

If the recreation congress- or
convention of playground supervisors,
shall decide to hold the national play
- ground athletic meet at the National
~ Capital next September Washington
will provide splendid setting and a
fitting welcome. The recreation con-
gress" will meet soon at Springfield
S4ll., and Washington has entered the
lists as candidate for the honor of
rsbeing host to the athletic meet of the
National Fairgrounds Federation. A
zeSommittee of arrangements has al
ready been named. Washington's in.
terest in Fairgrounds is at least as
strong as that of any other city, and
: IN achievement we have done pretty
NEeA in the face of some, discourage,
nlont. But we are making progress.
:Ssnd we have ambitious plans which, IL
carried out, would give Washington a
sEplay ground system that would be a
model for richer cities. Just now we
are having some trouble in providing
the play facilities needed by the city's
children and in securing sites for new
Fairgrounds, but with the will to sue
ceed and with persistence we shall
overcome all obstacles. Washington
will be happy in entertaining the ma
tional Fairgrounds athletic meet.
Evening star., 1923-10-10
Cure Them All!

Whether the District budget as
sent to Congress carries an item for
the elimination of the Lamond station
grade crossing, or that measure is
carried in a separate hill, there should
be no question Of action at this COM
ing session looking to the cure Of this
death trap. Although years have been
lost in the course of the work OF abol-
ishing these deadly crossings in the
District, and attention is now particu-
larly directed to this particular one by
the fatality CT Monday morning, any
move for it's cure should include all
others of the same character.
In connection with Mondays tragedy
in the issue of The Star Of that day
the fact was noted that there are at
feast three other grade crossings be-
sides that at Lamond within the Dis
trict. One of them is at Michigan
avenue and Sth street in Broollland,
another is at Bates road in Brookland
and the third is in Takoma Park. All
of these are frequently used.
There can be no such thing as a
safe grade crossing. Not even one
that is at present used by a very
small number Of vehicles can be
deemed as safe. For the infrequently
used grade crossing of today is vir-
tually certain in a few years to be
the scene of a heavy traffic. SO rapid is
the growth of the population in the
suburbs of the Capital.
The only safe rule is that Of COM
plete abolition. There should be no
place in the District, whatever the
frequency of traffic at present or in
prospect, where highway crosses a
railroad track. No such crossing can
be made safe. whether by gates or by
bells, with or without watehmen.
One of the worst grade crossings in
this part Of the country is at Hyatts-
vile, where many thousands Of Wash
ingtonians are weekly exposed to de-
struction. But the District, of course,
can do nothing about this. nor can the
general government. 1t is up to the
state of Maryland, which is thickly
spotted with these menaces. In the
light of the Lamond accident the other
day the Governor of Maryland has an
nounced his intention to move for the
abolition of some at least OF these
grade crossings in his state. near the
cities. He will confer great bless
ing upon all users Of the road, whether
they are Marylanders or Washing
tonians or residents of other parts Of
the country, if he can abate this dead
ly nuisance in any degree.