New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 24, 1923, Page 1

News of the World ' By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 RESCUERS STRIVE TO SAVE PEOPLE AND PROPERTY IN PATH OF MISSOURI FLOODS LAST INGREASE IN JUDGES WAS IN 09 Cities and Towns in Ne- braska Threatened — More Than 400 Homes . in Sioux City Made Un- tenable by Rising Waters ators Try to Bomb Ice Jam 11 Miles Long—:llun- dreds of Hogs and Cattle Swept Away by Raging Torrents, i | | Another Waterbury Citizen Then Sat in Gubermdoral Gl PRONOTIONFOR_ HOLCONB Small Banks Oppose Bill To Impose Tax On Bonds Now Exempt From Asscasment By Stato—Week in Leg- islature, BY CLARENCE G. WILLARD. (Special to The Herald). Hartford, March 24.—The recom- mendation of the judiclary committee which passed the senate this, week and which is assured of passage in the house next week Wednesday, that the {number of judges of the superior and supreme courts be increased to eigh- teen, will place in the hands of Gov- ernor Templeton the privilege and responsibility of appointing three new judges, one to succeed James H. Webb of Hamden, who retires by age limitation in December, 1924, and two new judges created by this act, | | Omaha, Neb,, March 24 (By the Asso. Press)—Unprecedented mam- moth ice gorges in the Missouri river and tributary streams near Vermillion, 8, D., Sioux City, and Onawa, Ia,, and Dakota City, Neb., today have pre- cipitated conditions which present a flood menace for all the lowlands be- Paonessa Victorious in Effort to Check Building of Schools; $625,000 Bond Issue Rescinded City Meeting Board Votes to Halt Board of Education Program, Despite Gaffney’s Appeal. By a two to one majority, the. city meeting board at a special session last night sustained Mayor A, M, Pao- nessa's proposal to rescind action taken in January in authorizing the issuance of school bonds to the amount of $625,000, and also author- 1 (w or less than six Onpgggie! acoom- 141, Dty State tlam‘ d) of not more thy to conduct a sy modations and/ board in npt 1 ® Lively debal Hay both propositions wa.. Mayor G. A. Quigley, Chairmu. Gaftney of the school board, Alder-| man F. Raymond Gilpatric, Finance Commissioner T. H. Kehoe, Attorney George LeWitt, Willlam H. Attwood | and Attorney D. I. Nair leading the discussion, City Clerk A. L., Thompson read the call of the meeting as “to consider and, if deemed advisable, to vote to rescind an issue of $625,000 in school bonds.” Chairman E. F. Hall of the board of finance and taxation moved adop- tion of a resolution to that end and in so doing explained that he was acting as a private citizen, not as chairman of the board of finance and | taxation. A. Gorbach rose when Mr, d concluded and suggested Hall ha that |lzed the mayor to name a committee Judge Gaffney be given the use of the | floor to explain why the bonds are| The, judge replied that he to discuss the question, reason for argument at the proceedings. At his ras excused. irgues For Rescinding (ing was then turned over to Alderinun Gilpatric to preside and Mayor Paonessa took the floor. He opened the argument of the propon- ents as follows: . ““Most of you remember when we voted to appropriate $625,000 to the school board, there was quite a little discussion. When Mr. Chamberlain who, at that time was chairman of needed Librayy, (Continued on Becond Page) xford Crew, Stroked by Yankee Boy, Defeats Cambridge in Boat TELLS OF SABOTAGE ONNEW HAVEN ROAD Chiel of Railrad Police Tstiis| at Injunction Hearing MANY CONPLAINTS HEARD Evidence Received Today to Be Used May 2 in Government's Effort to Get Permanent Injunction Against Railway Erfiployes. New York, March 24.—A hearing | was held here today for production | |of evidence to be used in Chicago |May 2 when the government will seek a permanent injunction against the railway employes dgpartment of | the American Federation in connec- | tion with the shopmen's strike o(‘ 1922, J. M. Dickinson and Orville J. Tay- lor of Chicago, special assistant to Attorney General Daugherty, con- ducted the hearing, assisted by David A. L'Esperanza, local special assist- ant to the attorney general, and Ryland W. Joyce, special assistant to the U, 8, attorney in this district. Frank L. Mulholland repreurnted! the defendants. Tells of Walk Out, George C. Bishop, superintendent ! of motor power on the Long Island railroad, said that he had about 1,800 shopmen working under him last July and all but 10 or 12 obeyed the strike call. Because of the strike, Bishop tes- i | W BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1928, —SIXTEEN PAGES. { BIG SURPRISES Britisher Laughs Self to Death as He’ Watches Movie London, March 24 (By Asso- ciated Press).—The metaphor of “dying of laughter” was translated into fact in the case of Joseph Chatfield. He was so tickled at the antics of an American “movie” comedian that he was unable to control his laughter and suddenly col- lapsed, dying in the arms of a woman sitting beside him in a cinema theater here. Physi- clans said that Chatfleld’s heart had been ruptured. e — QUARTER MILLION IS COLLEGE FIRE DAMAGE Assumption Institution At Greendale, Mass., Razed; Incendiary Suspected Worcester, "March 24.—Assum ption Average Daily Circulation Maren 178 9,215 PRICE THREE CENTS NEXT YEAR FOR POLITICIANS UNLESS Senator Ladd, Republi- can, Asserts That Old Party Lines are Crumb- ling—Calls High Sugar Nothing but Graft Says Seven Cents a Pound Is Too Much and Asks Prosecution of Those Re- sponsible for Present Robbery. | ‘Washington, March 24.—A predic~ tion that 1924 will contain important | surprises for the old line political parties unless something is done to curb big business was made today by Senator Ladd, republican, North Da- kota, in a statement joining in the demand for an investigation of the ‘'sugar corner,” 2 The people, said Senator Ladd, are “long stretches ahead of the backward looking parties, who seem without ' courage to face the problems of the the present number of the judges of the supreme and superior courts be- ing sixteen. It is an interesting fact that the last time the number of judgeships was increased was in the encumbency of office of another Waterbury gov- ernor, George L. Lilley. This in- crease was made in the early days of American masses.” As a consequence he declared old party lines are crumbling. Seven cents a pound for sugar to the consumer, the senator character- ized as “pure graft and worse” and he asked for the prosecution of theso responsible for the present “robbery of the Amercan people by a sugar cotlege in Greendale, Mass., establish- | ed in 1904 by a band of Assumption | Fathers who had been expelled from | France, was destroyed by fire early today, but the 130 students escaped in| safety, although they saved little ex-| cept their night. clothes. The blaze was discovered shortly before 4 o'clock | tween Vermillion and Omaha, the flooding of thousands of acres of rich farm lands in the three states, de- struction of hundreds of farm homes and at least the partial inundation of Slux City and several lesser citles and towns. tified, rolling stock had to be re- paired outside the shops, and the | walk-out cost the railroad $317,782 additional expense. In July, he said, ten per cent. of | the road’s 160 locomotives needed re- | | pair and this percentage increased | during the next three months. Race on Histo Another American Athlete‘ ric Thames River IS FATALLY INJURED 400 Homes Untesible, More than 400 homes in the bottom Jands of Sioux City were untenable to- day and a two foot rise in the waters the legislature of 1909. The courts had been congested and the recom- the mendation had' been made by State Bar assoclation and by other ‘bodies previous to the incoming of | that general assembly, so that it was generally understood that the legisla- | ture would increase the number of | judgeships. Among the judges ap- pointed at that time, some of whom were appointed by Governor Lilley and some by his successor, Governor Weeks, were Lucien ¥. Burpee, now of the supreme bench, Gardner Green of Norwich, who retired some two years ago by the age limit, and Mar- cus H. Holcomb, who was then attor- of Floyd river, backing up from the Missouri river, would, according to police, inundate an additional forty résidential blocks, The occupants'of the near river section were driven out by police last night when the swollen waters gradually crept up. An ice gorge reported to have at- tained a length of 11 miles and a width in places of seven miles is hold- ing up the mighty : Missouri river. The stream, strengthened by thaws and spring floods, is engaged in a ti- tanic struggle to break the deadly grip. , In its grapple the river s dissipating its strength in overflow. Homer, Neb,, I‘n l)lngm-.I 4 A dangerous situation was alsp de- .vm?g 'y. pimer, Netr.; the acenc of t)fa preat 1920 flood when the town WSV igtually wiped. out, F:l!om‘ were being made to dynamite a gorse that has formed in Omaha creek there and had caused a rike ,of five feet ip a few hours, flooding Main slreet. More than 1,000 hogs and many head of cattle were reported swept by | the Missouri river from a strip of | land near Dakota City late yesterday. | Two ferry men rescued William | Hanson who had decided to face death rather than leave his property | pr |, P. Lee, superintendent of o flood ‘:’N “":‘]’1“‘:;’ ';‘l::i ‘“C:t“; |the health department, mailed a let- Missouri ver, soul City, TG UNSUITARLE AS PLACE FOR SLEEPERS Woman Ordered to CI Up Part of Stanley " Building i ter today to Mrs. Julia R. La Flamme while an airplane overhead dropped isvho conducts a rooming house in the | bombs near them, was learned tod: Stanley building, ordering that she Late yesterday,when apparently, all | gjgoontinue the use of her attic rooms it wn. Tomoves 'C Keliy. 'ang i'lor sleeping quarters since the rooms | (:"‘t”;' "'w‘:t"‘l'l ::';;somnen t::'cfi‘.f;:d {do not conlo::: :vnh the state tene- | HsL siuvaon A ment house statutes. which was then covered by a foot of |~ q1pe jetter followed a personal in- | water: " ' {vestigation by the heaith superintend- g ners Seare g‘" had jent as a result of complaints mu:fle b;:‘ Although Kelly and = Newton had | scting Bullding Inspector I Wexler | "’""'""fsfsmn,“:"“‘;mt'::‘r e ialons | that the place was not a fit habitation | 0 e v for humans. i they called for volunteers to help | "CL NI on 1y the bullding in- them In golng to the “?‘“d" :7?::::’_ spector and Plumbing Inspector P.J volunteered. I spite of proteste- imormay wil follow shortly, they prom- Ui Mo :Mm |ise, since there are numerous v L;‘n-i tm&““,;g;:;‘::;“';:‘. 'u"y knoll tions of the laws on sanitation, they | They with several head of livestock about|*CE® o iery were found by him, the water running around thelr |, “hyjiding Inspector in the attic teet. Hanson refused to get into the o)\ "4yore was no light, heat or boat, insisting tfat he wanted to stiek | VG 0nana where fthe celling was | ynpldee R i 8o low that occupants of the rooms Faputs Akaing, Biosou were required to stoop to enter, Mr. Kelly grappled with the Wezxler reports. In one part of the y t ers, one 3 - pied by several roomers, plane suddenly swept over them and apparently seeking privacy, had built bopan, dR0p 08 h‘lg};hex?loalveu. y Th; a partition of chicken wire, boards | airmen did not hit the ice gorge an % several of the misles struck within ““g“"e"cr‘g:'n S S Naera to- have 100 yards of the fighting trio. & \ibposes. of ‘s, Hall; The resouers finally’ succeeded in ‘;‘;:cl ’h';defw:hl‘;“; o? SN, ate. ovat hudiog Sanstn, WER A Fope .nd‘un open staircase. This, the heaith | brought him to shore. |superintendent cannot order removed TH[RDfiGREE l" SGHO(]L ‘ulnce it is ventilated and lighted and does not in any way violate the state Teacher Accused of Cruelty In Seek- law. ing To Obtain Confessions From islander Answering criticism of Henry Schu- | pack, manager of the estate that owns | Stanley building, Inspector Wexler to- day brought members of the press to Wexler's building at the corner of Main and Lafayette strects. The Wex- ler building showed the effects of recent renovation .being clean, light ‘ and alry. | $200 Fines Imposed on Two Waterbury Coal Men Waterbury, March 24.—Hearings of cases against several coal dealers, charged with violations of the coal welght law, were held in the city court today. Fines of $200 and costs each were imposed in cases against Pavid Sulsman and Michael Dichiaro. Notice of appeal was given in each in- slance. Abraham Wolfenson, charged | with selling coal without delivery | slips was fined $200 and costs and took H an appeal. The simllar case against | Louls Alberts was partly heard and then continued until Monday. Officers | of the state police department were witnesses for the state in all four | cases. SUSPENDS TWO LICENSES Robbing' B. Stoeckel of the state mo- | tor vehicle Wepartment notified the | New Britain police that the operat- or's licknses of Fdward Horwitz of 318 North street and Alfred Hadden | Truant Pupils, Newark, N. J.,, March 24.—Supt. of Schools Corson today ordered an in- vesiigation of alleged third degree methods employed by Louis A. Hor- witz, physical director of the Miller street school to obtain truancy con- fessions from two boy pupils. The boys, Kenneth Kinsey and Ber- tram Brown, were stripped of their shoes and stockings and, with long ropes, tied around their waist, were lowered to steel spikes #f running shoes sharpened in their presence, ac- cording to the story told by Charles H. Gleason, assistant’ superintendent of schools,” Girl pupils lgoked on dur- {ng the proceeding. Horwitz according to Mr. Gleason has admitted the story in some re- spects but denied that the feet of the boys actually touched the spikes. Hor- witz wae quoted as saying: "1 just T realize BANDITS GETS $1,300 PAYROLL. New York, March 24.—Three ban- dits today attacked Jean Appléebaum, cashier of the Diamond Press, in the hallway of the plant on Seventh av- enue and fled ia a taxi with a $1,300 payroll | been suspended, i rvalry. suddenly with pneumonia last evening. " . N Mr. McKinnie was occupied with his ! walked and ran seven miles to the |The interview was arranged .Mr. Pe- |duties as general sales manager of |Buszards Bay railroad station boarded ©0ra said to see if “Mr. Marshall” en Co. and 8. 8. Scott & Sons Tne. Rowed No. 4 for Victors, | Who Won by a Length—j Oxford Also Wins Inter- Varsity Track Meet. Putney, Eng., March 24 (By the Associated Press)—The Oxford crew, stroked by W. P. Mellen, Americap, | defeated Cambridge over the four and | one-half mile Putney-to-Mortlake| course on the Thames river today in| their annual inter-varsity race. Ox- ford won by a length. Kane at No. 4 also is a Yankee boy. Cambridge was _slightly favored in| the betting to defeat -Osford. 'rmu‘ was the 75th renewal of their crew The varsity seatingi follow: Oxford—Bow, P. C. Malan. 2 P. R, Wace. 3 A. C. E. Irvine. 4 R. K, Kane. 5 J. C. Mower White. 6 J. F. Pedder. 7 G. O. Nickalls. Stroke, W.! P. Mellen. Coxswain, G. D. Clapper~| ton. Cambridge—Bow, W. F. Smith. 2/ F. W. Law. 3 K. N. Craig: 4 8. H. Heap. 5 B. G. Ivory. 6 T. D. A. Gol-| let. 7 R. E. Morrison. Stroke, T. R., B. Sanders. Coxswain, R. A. L. Bal-| four. Oxford Wins Meet. London, March 24.—(By Associat- ed Press.)—Oxford defeated Cam- Dunn of the police commission a ver- | bridge in the 55th annual track meet | bal opinion on the status of Thomas District Attorney Pecora today of the two universities held at the A. Dolan, a former policeman, who nounced that the Queen’s club today. Oxtord won the mile run in the Ox- ford-Cambridge dual track meet here today. W. R. Milligan for the dark Davis of Cambridge second, and E. P. Hunter of Oxford third. The time was 4 minutes and 26 seconds. H. M, ! Abrahams ot Cambridge won the 100- a uniform. yard dash in ten seconds flat. A. R. J. Bird of Oxtord third. Yankee Shot Putter Wins. The shot put was won by F. X.!| Brown, an American from Washing- ford, at 42 feet 8 inches. | Cambridge has won 26 of the in- ter-varsity track meets and today’s| vietory brings Oxford's total to 24.| The high jump was won by R. I.| Dickinson of Oxford with a jump of | five feet 11 inches. H. M. Abrams of Cambridge won the broad jump with 28 feet, T3 | inches bettering the former inter- | varsity record by one inch. T. G.| Devitt of Cambridge was second with | 21 feet 4% inches. Princeton Man Second. Abrams won the quarter-mile run. | Stevens of Oxford and Princeton was | second. | N. A, McInness won the three-mile run; time, 16 minutes 22 seconds. No Change in Condition | Of A. C. McKinnie Today “There has been little change Mr. McKinnie's condition,” was the | New Haven Road Employe, While at Work 1s Struck by Traim and His| Recovery is Doubtful. Stamford, March 24.—Frank Snyder {of Portchester, N. Y., employed in the Ligh tenslon department of the New Haven road was struck and probably fatally hurt by a work train on the New Canaan branch. He was pounding a plece of iron on a rail as an ex- press passed on an adjoining track and he did not hear the approaching work train on the rails over which he was bent. New Haven Discussed. | J. M. McMahon, chief of police for the New York, New Haven and Hart- ford, next was called. McMahon deseribed attempts to in- timidate workers, asserting that the New Haven had to employ many spe- cial officers to protect property and employes. “We had complaints of assauilt from all divisions,” he said. “We protected the men while on the prop- erty but the strikers attacked them on the streets when they were com- (Continued on Fourteenth Page) J. K. MITCHELL OF PHILADELPHIA EX-POLICEMEN MUST TAKE EXAMS. FOR REINSTATEMENT Commission Cannot Appoint Dolan and Litke Until They Pass Civil Service Tests Corporation Counsel J. H. Kirl ham has given Chairman David resigned from the force and who has petitioned for reinstatement. According to the corporation coun- sel, Dolan can take the civil service { blues was first by 15 yards with C. E.| examinations and may be reappointed to the force if he ranks with the five having the highest marks and if the commissioners favor putting him into An ordinance specifies that a man must have had two years' ! Alston of Cambridge was second and ! experience as a supernumerary po- liceman before he is eligible to take the, civil service examinations for the regular force. Mr. Kirkham holds that Dolan has fuifilled this require- | ton, representing Exeter college, Ox-| ment, having had experience both as a supernumerary and as a regular policeman, A verbal application for reinstate. ment has also been received from Gustave Litke, a former member of the police force, The same condi- tions apply in his case as in the case of Dolan. It is the understanding of the board that it has no authority, to re- instate men until they have passed the civil service examinations, ROBBERS LOSE LOOT After Ransacking General Store At Sandwich, Auto Collision. Mass,, They Figure in Sandwich, Mass., March 24.—Burg- in lars who robbed the general store of | Nicholls and Atkins at Harwich last MYSTERIOUS MAN 1N, |District Attorney Identifies Last Person Known to Seen Dorothy | Have 1 Keenan. 24.—Assistant | an- mysterious “Mr. Marshall” who was the last person | known to see Miss Dorothy Keenan, slain model, before she was chloro- {formed was J. K. Mitchell of Phila- | delphia. Lawyer Also Implicated. Mr. Pecora also identified the “Mr. | Wilson,” *“Marshall's” secretary, who was said to have accompanied the | latter to the Keenan apartment, as! | John H. Jackson, a New York lawyer. Prominent Socially. | Mr. Mitchell, listed in the Phila- | delphia social register as J. Kearley Mitcheil, is president of the Philadel- phia Rubber Works Co., and husband | |of Mrs. Frances Stotesbury Mitchell, | prominent in Phlladelphia and New/ York society. i Mr. Mitchell came to New York| {last night in response to a request {from Mr. Pecora who wanted to ques- tion him further about the possibil- ity that he had written Miss Keenan letters which could have been made {the basis for an effort to blackmail him. He returned to Philadelphia this afternoon ‘‘for further data,” after a telephone conversation with the as- sistant prosecutor. With scores of reporters and photographers seeking to"establish the |1dentity of “Mr. Marshall” it was | announced that the prosecutor had talked over the telephone with the “mystery man,” but that he had to {return to his home city for “further | data.” New York, March | | | Was Shielding Family. Mr. Pecora repeated that he was statement made at 2 o'clock this after- |night lost their loot when the auto- Shielding not the man who admitted- noon at the home of A. Cy MaKinnie mobile collided with a motor truck of | |¥ Bave Miss Keenan $10,000 cash and of 31 Forest street, who was strh'keni | the Cape Cod freight express here ear- ly today. They abandoned their car, {more in jewelry within a year, but | his family, a wife and three children, the Staniey Works during the day and a train for Boston, parried the qu",‘cannot shed light on a putative black- GET 1214 PER CENT INCREASE. Uxbridge, Mass., March 24.—Wool- | en and worsted mills today here an-| nounced wage increases of 123 per| cent effective April 30. The plants include the Usxbridge Woolen Co., with mills here, in Lowell, Millbur and Woonsocket, R. I.; the Waucan- tuck Mills, the Davis & Brownr Wool- | s g TO DISCUSS WAGES. Lawrence, Mass, March 24.-=A plant .committee representing em- | ployes of the Pacific Mills went into conference with officials of the com- | | { of 218 Main street, this city, have pany today to discuss the wage ques- || tion, * Trace They left John W. Toole of Boston, driver of the Cape freight truck un-| conscious in the road beside the wreeked automobiles and apparently took with them two revolvers or pis- tols, leaving the emply holsters be- hind with the goods taken from the Harwich store. A * THE WEATHER —o— . Hartford, Mar. 24.—Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Generally fair and colder to- night and Sunday: strong north- west winds. | | * | | | | | as evening approached complained of \um\s of a policeman at Brockton and | mail plot which according to the now feeling ill. He went to his home and |jumped from the train, one at Mon- | most accepted theory cost Miss Kee- his condition became so serious that [tello and the other at Avon. a consultation of physiclans was called. of them thereafter was lost. | nan her life because she would not aid in defrauding the ““Bostonian.” Dead Girl's Property, A list of 28 articles consisting of | jewelry, furs and handbags, valued at 814,835 belonging to Miss Keenan was | sent to pawnshops as missing prop- | erty by Inspector Coughlin. The most valuable piece of jewelry was a large | |diamond ring, with a stone of seven | karats and smaller diamonds, valued lat $3,200. A platinum cigarette case, | (with the initial “K" set in with rose diamonds, was valued at $800. BANK CONDITION: i New York, March 24.—The actual | condition of clearing house banks and | | trust companies for the week shows| an excess in reserve of $5,556,460. This is a decrease of $1,152,470. | Him as “Mr. Marshall,”| by Joseph Michaud, a member of the freshman class. He gave the alarm on an automatic signal in the dormi-i tory corridor on the top floor of the three story main building and all the students fled into the chilling air, most of them wearing only the clothes in which they jumped from bed. The fire was first seen in a section of ‘the building close to the physics and chemical laboratories and it is be- lieved it started from an explosion of chemicals. The members of the fa- culty who live in a house in the col- lege grounds were aroused by the flames glaring into their windows and they hastened to seé about the safety of the students. When they were as- sured that all the .boys had escaped, they gave their attention to saving |some of the articler of value in the Tlower scoticm” of the college but they were able tolsave little. Firemen from this city were handi- capped by lack of water pressure and the height of the college building on a hill The loss is estimated at between $200,000 and $250,000. The boys were taken in by neighbors and arrange- ments will be made as soon as pos- sible to send them all to their homes. State Inspector Edward J. McCar- thy in making an investigation of the fire found at the foot of the elevator well an empty kerosene lamp without lany wick, but showing signs of hav- ing contained kerosene recently. This lamp had never been scen around the college before by any member of the faculty or student body, and it was not needed for any college purpose. The finding of this lamp, coupled | with the fact that Rev. Louis A. Dey- dier, A. A., president of the college | received an anoymous letter several months ago threatening the destruc- the belief that the building was set on fire. MAY SELL OUT INTERESTS Frank W, Holmes to Go to Tampa, Purchased Fian—Said to Have Large Tract of Land There. Frank W. Holmes, of Holmes & Hancock, doing business under the name of The Home Banking and Realty Co., will leave New Dritain early next week for Tampa, Florida, where he expects to make his future home. While Mr. Holmes has not yet sold his interests in the Home Banking and Realty Co,, it is understood that his partner, Harry G. Hancock, is contemplating the purchase of the en- | tire_business. Mr. Holmes is said to have pur- chased a 2,000 acre tract of orange groves, citrus trees, ete, near Tampa, and will devote his time to his inter- ests there. When questioned by Herald reoresentative today he simply said his plans were not definite but that he was leaving town early next week. MAKES DEATH CERTAIN New Jerscy Man Shoots Himeelf Mouth, Then Fifth Suicide in Family, Trenton, N. J., March 24.—W. Swett a Mercer county farmer ended his life today the fifth member of the family to commit suicide during the past 15 years, His father, an uncle, a brother and the brother's wife killed themselves, Swett drowned himself after firing a bullet into his mouth. in Leaps Into Water— Livte Temporary Injunction Against Railroad Union New Haven, March 24.—A tempo- rary injunction against the striking shopmen on the New Haven railroad was granted the railrond company today by Federal Judge Edwin 8. Thomas. He filed the decree in the U, 8 court here. He scores the ac- tion of the strikers. tion of the college buildings, leads to | corner.” BUTLER LEADS FOR DEPUTY FIRE GHIEF Examinations Held by Civil Service Board for Six Candidates The civil service commission was session at City Hall untfl 1:30 o'clock this morning. helding &m?uflm for six men:desicons 0¥ having . She: position of assistant dcputy chief in the fire department and two other men seeking appointment in the regu- lar fire fighting force. Captain Michael P. Butler averaged 92 per cent in his examinations; Cap- tain Michael Souney, 88%; Captain George Hoffman, 843 ; Driver Stanley Rozanski, 82%; Master Mechanic Ed- ward G. Burke, 81; Captain James J, Crowe, 74%. | Joseph Ryan averaged §8 per cent {and Joseph Tynan 87 per cent in ta%- ing the examination for regular fire- AL a special meeting of the fire~ | men's pension board held in the office . of the mayor last evening it was [voted to retire four members of the callmen’s board in the New Britain |department. They are Albert W, |Hesse, George Recor, Fred Schneider and Patrick Tobin, They will be placed on the retirement list on pen- sion April 1. | A meeting of the board of firc com~ | missioners will probably be held Mon- | day evening to interview the men who "took the examination for regular firg- |men and others who failed to appear last week but were excused. The | appointments will be made either on | Monday evening or at another mect- ing to be held on Tues: PHOTOGRAPHER CLAIMS HE 60T “SPIRIT” INPRESSIONS Los Angeles Spiritualist Also Pro- fesses to Have Seen Woman's Ghost Over Casket. Los Angeles, Mach 24.—Three photograph plates exposed with the lens of the camera encompassing a view of the casket containing the body of Mrs. Mary Fairfield McVicker, ase sociats pastor of the Central Spiritual- ist church, against a background of green velour, showed “evidence of a spirit form." According to €. H. Monroe, a com- mercial photographer, onc plate was spoiled in developing. Mrs. Mary C. Vlasek, pastor of the Central Spiritualist church, stated that she had scen Mrs. McVicker's &pirit hovering over her friends at the funeral late yesterday when the | photographic test to determine whether Mrs. McVicker wonld be able to return to ecarthly life was made. Monroe refused to comment further than to say that he could not under= stand the appearance of “distinct ime pression” on the plates. The attempt at photographing her spirit was made as suggested by Mrs. MeVicker Two weeks before she dled, the spiritualist arranged for her funeral and directed that all possible effort to record her spirit's return to carthly life be made ‘ After the funeral Mrs, McVicker's body was taken to a erematory, hee ashes to be scattered among the roses lat the spiritualist temple as she di- rected. {South Carolina Mills In Line, Raise Wages Spartansburg, 8. C., March 24—The Clifton Mills and D. E, Converse and | Co., two of the largest cotton mills | in this vieinity yesterday announced an increase of approximately 10 pep | cent in wages effective next Monday.