New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 3, 1923, Page 1

1 /) ¥ Foreign Minister Protests News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 CATHOLIC PRELATE PUT TO DEATH ~ BY SOVIETS; FACES FIRING SQUAD Execution Took Place FARRELL AND O'LEARY FREED March 31, “Russians OF CHARGE OF - BLACKMAIL o No Evidence Produced to Show They H.“ng Tumed Deaf Accnsed Francolino of Crime, Judge Ear To Pleas For Clemency. S Action Political, Not Re- " ligious, Is Statement— Klett Says in Decision, Judge George W, Klett in police court this morning discharged Ed- ward Farrell and Willlam O'Leary, who were arres on March 7 on a |charge of allegea ‘ckmall and given a hearing [ Jaturday of last | weel, In disposir 'Kiett stated | been produced |had accused P |a crime or of ¢ », 7" |the United Stater % | Farrell and O'L "% on March 7 on a |blackmail. It was at their hearing that @ empted Jto secure money from's siino by |threatening to expose '..m for con- cealing bankrupt merchandise. | WOME IN COMMIAITY DRIV Amount of Pledges Report- ed at Today’s Luncheon | cases Judge . wvidence had 7 that the men <, rancolino of *© assets from _ Poland’s Action as Un- « friendly. Moscow, April 3 (By the As- sociated Press) — Vicar Gen. Butchkavitch has been executed. The Pravda says the execu- tion occurred on March 31. The newspaper Izevstia asserts: i “The sentence of death on| Butchkavitch, whose reprieve! was refused, has been carried| out.” The time and place are not N SPURT AHEAD | .given, | It The Iszvestia prints the, announce-| ment on an inside page under a one- Is ss'slz line head in its court news depart- { ment. ! | Women's teams in the United Com- | In the Pravda the execution 1S, ,ity corporation drive for $50,000 noted briefly without comment in ‘Juututr!pped the men by far in the column of local news. first report made today at the lunch- | Executed By Firing Squad. | eon of workers at the Elks’ club, THe Monsignor Butchkavitch met death|New Britain Lions' club acted as host| before a firing squad. | at the luncheon. Even up to last night there; were| The total amount of pledges report- | Tumors that an exchange might beled was $8,912, the highest report arranged. Responsible officials, how- | being made by team No. 23, Captain STATE DEMANDS THAT FOSTER BE CONVICTED Penalty Would Be 10 Years In Prison, $5,000 Fine, or Both St. Joseph, Mich,, April 3 (By As- sociated Press) —Defense of fcan institutions de: tion of Willlam Z. charged with violating the Michigan law against criminal syndicalism, the state argued today at Foster's trial. Foster was arrested as a’ result of attending a secret convention of the communist party of America held in the lonely dunes on the shore of Lake Michigan last August. He is the first face trial, Charles Core, state attorney for Berrien county, opened for the prose- cution with a plea jor guilty which carries a sentence of ten years in prison or a fine of $5,000 or both at the discretion of the court. Mr. Gore was followed by Humphrey | Grey, Benton Harbor banker, philan- thropist and church rounder, senting the defense. The closing arguments will be made repre- | this afternoon by O. L. Smith, assist- |tendents, teachers, school committee-| ant attorney general of Michigan, and Frank P, Walsh of New York and ‘Washington, chief of counsel for Fos- of 32 arrested after the convention to | State Should Pay Greater Share of School Expenses, Holmes Says in Analysis of Education Taxes {New Britain Superintendent Explains His Views On| Increasing Burden On Cities and Towns. | At the request of the New Britain “Herald”, Stanley H. Holmes, nupor-| | intendent of public schools, has prepared a statement of his views on the| increasing burden of taxation caused by the expense of educating boys and girls, Mr, Holmes believes that the state should nssume a larger share of the burden because education is primarily a duty of the state although re- | sponsibility for it has been passed along to the cities and town e R s URNING TO DEATH, - BATTLES RESCUERS Mrs. Theresa Derenso, Formerly of New Britain, Crazed With Pain Ilife and praperty, then it would seem HUMAN TORCH IN STREET | taxation for eilibation should Be fair- ly distributed and borne equally by Victim, Theresa Leclair, Once Traut & Hine Employe, Ignited Dress at | cach dollar of taxable values in the state, whether it be In the form of Home In Brockton, Mass., and Dies| | general property, incomes, Inherit-| ances, gasoline sales, bank stocks, in- dustrial stocks or other values,” Mr. Holmes declares, The statement follows: “That the tremendous increases \which have taken place in school ex- | penditures as well as in all other ‘braucheu of municipal expenditures | during the past six or seven years/ |should have aroused general com- |ment, criticism and opposition is not {a source of surprise or wonderment for any school administrator, It is rather a cause for deep concern, care- | {ful study, and serious consideration | by all of us, whether school superin- | in Hospital. (Special to The Herald), (men or citizens, | Brockton, Mass, April 3.—Mrs. | “This question of increasing school | Theresa Derenso, a former resident of |costs is fully discussed by President|New Britain, Conn., died iIn the | Pritchett in the recent report of the‘Brockwn City hospital early this| er. | The state announced today that as| scou as the verdict is returned it will ment of Teaching. ask that the trial of Charles I, |uniess the increase in the cost of pub- Ruthenberg of Cleveiand, one of Tros- | lle education is checked there is no ter's co-defendants, be set for next hope that the most of the school sys- Monday. {tem will stop short of the financial Carnegie Foundation for the Advance- He contends that | morning from burns received yester- day afternoon while working in kitchen of her home at 51 Turner| street. i Mrs. Derenso’s clothing caught fire from the stove and she ran to the NEW BRITAIN HERALD : NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1923, —EIGHTEEN PAGES. BUCKLEY TABLES PROPOSAL COMMENDING Delinquents Will Lose Water Service on Wed. Unless Bills Are Paid Drastic action is being planned by the board of water commissioners following an- nouncement that delinquent water rent payers will have thelr service cut off tomorrow if they have not paid up in the meantime, Figures on the number of de- linquents could not be obtained this morning, but it is stated definitely that the board will begin shutting off "the water supply tomorrow where the water charges have not been paid, This is said to be the most drastic action the local water board has taken for a long time. Last month notices were sent to a number of delinquent payers stating that if the back bills were not pald by April 1, the water would be shut off. Several people phoned and asked for a one or two day ex- tension. This was granted but the time has expired and action will be taken tomorrow. e ALCORN AND CALHOUN % CONDUCTING INQUIRY Neither Will Comment on Average Daily Cireulation Maren1nt 9,24 1 PRICE THREE CENTS HARDING FOR WORLD COURT SUGGESTION !House Leader Objects to Democrat’s Measure, Saying Assembly Ought Not Force President’s Hand |Senator John Trumbull of Plainville Presides Over Upper House in Bing- ham’s Absence. 3 Hartford, April 3,—Lieut.-Governor Bingham did not preside in the sen- |ate today, his place being taken by Senator Trumbull president pro tem. | Lileut.-Governor Bingham was in at- | tendance at the meeting of the Am- {erican Chemical society . in New | Haven. A resolution calling upon the gen- eral assembly to commend the action of President Harding and Secretary Hughes in opening a way for the United States to joint the permanent BOYLE WALKS OUT WHILE | COURT IS NOT LOOKING | @ver, branded the rumors as false and | Mrs, Catherine Wilbor Smith. The asserted that soviet justice must take sum was $1,046. The second highest| its course regardless of protests and|amount in pledges received was by! attacks abroad. {team No. 24, Captain Mrs. Buell B.| Details Kept Sccret, | Bagsette, sniount $1,002, The The details of the prelate's execu-| having th r of tlon probably will never be known. | pledges wi ptain Mrs. new | } Judging from what has happened in|Herbert €. Warner, total number of previous cases it is thought probable | new pledged, 18. that after the executive committeo, The team captains and the amounts i had refused to reprieve him he was|received are as follows: 1 4/ New Sub- scriptions Amount $415.25 175.25 375,00 removed from the prison in which his colleagues were contined to the prison for the condemned and that there, | after tho death sentence had been | ’ AN | Team Captain 1—Max Coe 2—Fred Housman . 2o trank Woods 4—*George Christ® . 5—D. L. Bartlett,. " ! 6—Harry Traver .. 7—R. McCutcheon. 8-—Carl 8, Neuman. | 9—George T. Bean. - i 844.00 236.00 419.00 453.00 (Continued on Thirteenth ‘Page), i | | 13 BELD ZERO IN MICH, Falls A¢l10—*Logan Page .. Six Inches of Snow Also 540.00 236.00 4 11—F, W. Macomber ' Sault Ste, Marie—15 Feet of Snow | 12—>Maurice Johnson | 13—*Sturman Dyson Drifted in Strcets. 14—F. O. Rackliffe. Saut Ste. Marie, Mich, April 3.— | 103 o oo I Lee. City officlals here today were planning | 17__yames 1, 0'Brion a shoveling bee to clear the streets of | 15 meani hields snow, which is drifted in some places | ja_p. J Smith. ... to a depth of 15 feet. A call was|ag_c. W. Wilson. .. sent out for 500 eitizens to arm them-|21_pr. Gertrude J. selves with shoyvels and attack the Kinsella . f drifts against which the street sweep- | 22_Mrs. Herbert C. ers and snow plows were useless. Warner ..... Six inches of snow fell yesterday | 23—Mrs, Catherine and the temperature was 13 below | W. Smith zero, | 24—Mrs. B. B. Bas- Ice in the straits of Mackinac and | BBEWAL UL v the Beaver Island river is 30 inches! *No report. thick. | - W. C. French, president of the Tions' club opened the meeting and thanked those present for making the Fol"-y Acres Of Seethlng Orpheus club concert a success, an- o - Fire in Kilauea Volcano | nouncing that $2,200 had been turned Hilo, T. H., April 3 (By the Asso- over to the two local orphanages, He ciated Press)—Kilauea volcano 15 said the lLions’ club was glad of an more active than it has been for opportunity to help in the present years. The glow in the sky is visible [ drive and assured his hearers that the for miles, ‘With 40 acres of firc less|club was ready to stand behind any than 300 feet from the rim, ten foun- community service whenever it could. tains arc spouting an amount of lava ' A solo by Master Charles Haggerty of estimated at 3,000,000 cubic yards| Y weekly. \ 588.00 219.00 577.00 243.00 309.50 105.00 415.00 204.00 18 247.00 3 1,046.00 1 1,002.00 (Continued on Page Fifteen) CAPTAIN AND CREW RESCUED team | New Haven Youth, Held for Robbery [ at Jewelry Store, Makes His | | Escape ! New Haven, April 3.—Lester Boyle { who with his brother Edward was { scheduled to have a hearing in city | court today on a charge of holdlng? up and robbing Edward A. Zernitz, a ! | State street jeweler on March 21, es-| | caped as he was entering the court- | | room, communities.’ SPOONING AND HOW IT ;This Is: Question to Which solvency of the various states and|gtreet, her clothes in flames. The |wind fanned the blaze as she ran, Mrs. Celia Dandeau of 58 Turner | | street heard her cries and ran to her assistance, throwing dirt and sand| {over her and rolling her on the| | ground. | While Mrs. Dandeau and | were attempting to end her wild fright and subdue the flames, the {victim, suffering terrible agony, used talmost super-human strength in her {effort to battle them off. | Her agonized screams were heard {blocks away and within a short time a large crowd had gathered. |force the young woman was held to the ground, several suffering severe burns in keeping her there. Police |and doctors were called and first aid New York, April 3.—College women | was administered, after which she was (Continued on Third Page) AFFEGTS YOUNG WOMEN Bureau of Social Hygiene Seeks Answer others | By| Developments in Recent Hartford Disaster Hartford, April 3.—The coroner’s inquest and the half dozen individual ! investigations into the cause of the collapse Saturday noon of the Fuller Brush Co. tower which resulted in the | death of nine men working in the structure, continued today, with the hacked and battered steel support of the huge 50,000 water tank which was lodged in the top of the tower the | chiet source of interest to the e¢n-| | gineers and architects on the scenc of the disaster today. Coroner J. Gilbert Calhoun and State's Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn re-| 8 CURRTR1Y Bt “OHN 173,00{ | Boyle disappeared completely after | leaving the courtroom and aithough an dlarm was sent out no trace of him | had been found at noon. | HEdward Boyle was arraigned and held in $6 000-bonds for a hearing to- morrow. He was manacled to two deputies while being taken to court|; while Lester was in the file of other| | prisoners the total number being 13. As the flie passed into the courtroom an officer counted only 12. { throughout the country have been| tasked by th': Bureau of Socld! Hy-| |giene, Ine., founded by John D. | Rockefeller Jr., to answer unuuunlly‘ |frank questionnaires concerning love, | |it was learned today. Questions put to unmarried women | clude: | “How old were you when you first, began to spoon? I “‘What effect, as you estimate it | . inow, did spooning have upon the { Lester Boyle was missing and it 18| quality of vour character? | | thought he stepped into a woman's “Will you give the reason why you.| | waiting room, springing the lock after {have not married? | { him and then getting out of that room | wyyhat things are most atimulatlng‘ by another door, One report was that |y, you 9 | Boyle ran into a nearby business| aarried women and widows | block and still another was that he|,gked these questions: made his way to Orange street and to| «“Hag your life been a happy one? | the railroad tracks. Police all over the |1t not why not? state were warned that Boyle might| “waere vou strongly attracted tow- shoot at sight if he had a gun. |ard young men? | | “If so how would you describe this lattraction? ITHINKS COMMUNIGATION **"5i 3 e i on o e |young men in the intimacies usually | {embraced in the term spooning? ' WITH DEAD IS POSSIBLE *5tcse oo i ety ™50 — ‘spoonlngi’ The purpose of the questionnaires is to aid in solving vexed questions of education and hygiene. “We must have more information about the average woman in order to were | in Spokane Episcopal Bishop Sees This as Eventuality—May Become Common as Wircless. sent to the hospital. She wis badly burned about the face and body and suffered terrible agony until death came. The young woman, but 35 years of age, was the wife of Joseph R. Derenso. Before her marriage here she was Theresa Leclair and was a dancer of note. She resided at New Britain several years, being employed by Traut & Hine Mfg. Co., in that city. VALUABLE FORMULA STOLEN Private Treatment For Tuberculosis} and Diabetes Taken by Holdup Men Who Rob Doctor. New York, April 8. — Dr. Thomas W. Edgar, president of the Central sanitarium, and Bruno who says he is the discovered of a treatment for tuberculosis and dia- betes, reported to the police today that they were held up late last night and robbed of the only copy of Sud- erman’s formula, Their automobile became stalled in Washington Heijghts and when Sud- erman, who had gone to a nearby house for water for the radiator, re- some ! Suderman,’| sumed their conferences to determine | the cause of the collapse at 10:30 o'clock. Neither would make any statement prior to the conference as | to what witnesses were to be examin- ed today but it was learned that among those present at the confer- ence was James Bush, assistant en- gineer of the Aetna Life Insurance Co. Among the engineers at the scene | of the acicdent today was Edward H. McClintoch of McClintoch and Craig, engineers and architects of Spring- fleld. Mr. McClintoch is cenducting an investigation of the ruins for the | Holyoke Valve and Hydrant company, for the tank 1 sub-contractors responsible installation of the sprinkling which fell Saturday. AMENDMENT T0 CHARTER NOT GIVEN TO HOUSE | Move to Establish Municipal Garage Commission May Be Delayed Un- { | til Charter Report is Presented | | (Special to The Herald). Hartford, April 3.—Mystery still surrounds the charter amendment | eourt of internati troduced in the house this morning { by Representative Ayes (dem.) Wes- port. The resolution was referred to the committee on federal relations but later ‘at the request of Mouse Leader Buckley was tabled. | At the'time Representative Ayers |was absent. Mr. Buckley declared [that the house had enough business | on its hands. | Asks Reconsideration Representative Ayers later asked that the action in tabling be recon- sidered, and that it be again referred to the committee on federal relations. Mr. Buckley opposed reconsidering the action, and the resolution re- mained tabled. He declared that the ihand of the president should not be | forced by the assembly. | The democrats attempted: to |vent tabling of the resolution |were not successful. | Vaccination stirred up the house by majority and minority reports on | House Bill No. 526 which amends the |general statutes so that conscientious |objection to vaccination of school !children may be allowed and = chil- drén excused from school attendance |during the effect of the order. | The majority report for rejection | was supported by Dr. Eddy, of Can- {ton and Mr. Allyn of Waterford. Fa- pre- but Spokane, April 3. -—-Church people and many others interested in the possibilities beyond life were discuss- ing today the prediction by the Right Rev, Herman Page, bishop' of the Spokane diocese of the Protestant Episcopal church that communication with the spirits of , the dead, will eventually “be as possible as it is now to communicate by wireless." Bishop Page made this forecast at the meeting of the Spokane minis- FROM SINKING SHI DRUNK FOR TWO YEARS This Will Be Unique Plea of Former Pine Blufts, Mayor, Now Accused of | terial alliance. He took occasion to give recogni- tion to the Christian Science church which, he said, would progress as long as other churches refrained from taking part in the movement of spir- itual healing. The bishop added that he had no antipathy toward spiritualism. In his opinion “the world todny i P AT SEA ISteamer President Fillmore Saves 'Lives of British Sailors—Second Rescue in drifting toward a spiritnalistic move- turned he found the men pointing pistols at Dr. Edgar and Mrs, Edgar. Suderman sald he drew a pistol and fired six shots. The - bandits fired back twice and escaped into the woods nearby, taking with them the formula, which was in a leather bag land jewelry valued at $250 belonging to the physician, PORTER SUCCEEDS KINBALL Councilman From Third Ward is Ap- have any reliable guidance in the training of our girls and our boys," the introductory statement reads. 'LOWELL ONLY CITY NOT | RAISING TEKTILE WORKERS | All Other New England Circles Hav. ing Large Mills Have Inoreased | Employes' I'ay. Boston, April 3.—Only Lowell |among the principal textile centers of | | New England was mot included today | lin the wage advance announced else- | where almost generally at 12% per ent and effective April 30. J. C.ling appointed Councilman Maxwell §. Wadlelgh president of the Lowell ¢bt- | Porter to the board of park commis. [ton manufacturers’ association leaving | sioners. Mr. Porter succeeds George sioners by Mayor Paonessa. clause relative to the creation of a }‘.m.,“g the minority report were Repe commission of three for the municipal | garage at New Britain. Representative | onttnued on Fourteenth Page) Alling still has the amendment and at noon today Senator Park, chairman of the legislative committee on cities St SPEED TYPING HONOR Senator Covert of New Britain has | suggested because of the delay in the | submission of the garage matter for | legislative action, that the matter be | held up until the New Britain charter pointed to Board of Park Commis- Mayor A. M. Paonessa this morn- | Embezzlement. | Pine Blufts, Ark, April 3.—The defense of M. C. Hollis, former may- or of this city, who is on trial here| on a charge of embezzling city funds, and forgery, will be that the former executive for two years' prior to the time of the alleged offense was con- tinuously under the tnfluence of moon- shine whiskey, according to an an- nouncement by his attorney. He will seek to show the former mayor's counsel said, that due to the effects of the liquor the defendant could not distinguish between right| and wrong therefore did no wrong. Short Time. New York, April 3.—Captain Clu- | ett and the erew of six of the Brit- ish schooner Rita M. Cluett, were rescued carly today from the di tressed vessel Dbadly damaged by | storm, about 360 miles south of Cape | Race, the steamer President Fillmore | reported in a radiogram to the U. 8. Shipping Board today. The schooner, bound from Oporto, Spain, to St. John’s N, F,, with a cargo of salt, was then set afire. The President Fillmore left boken Saturday for Bremen. The schoonet's crew wili be trans- ferred to the first west-bound ship, the President Fillmore’'s message said. All were reported well save one man, Louls Miller, who was suffering from hunger and expysure. He is ex- pected te recover, ” Captain Randall of the President Fillmore who, in January, 1922, res- cued the crew of the jchooner Rene Des Mers in virtually the same posi- | tion, sald that he found the Rita M. Cluett leaking badly with her rudder and lifeboats gone and short of pro- § visions and water. Ho- STEAL 8 TRUCKS OF LIQUOR Baltimore, April 3. — Whiskey thieves broke into the Spring Gardens general bonded warchouse of No. 1 District of Maryland, in southwest Raltimore ear'y today, bound the three watchmen and carried away three large truck loads of liquor, CARNARVON HAS RELAPSE Cairo, April 3 (By !h~ Assoclated Press)—The illness of the Farl of Carnarvon took a sudden turn for the worse this afternoon. His condition 18 characterized as criticw ment, though still in its infancy may | Lowell for this city teday would say ¥ ‘nn!y that he was not ready to make develop to great heights.” | lany announcement. The announcement yesterday by the | cotton mills of Kall River and New Acute Alcoholism Killed ton mille of River and Nev o, int | Bedford that they would grant an ad- | Woman, Coroner’s Opmm“n:mv:rm 1215 per cent which affects New Haven, April 3.—In the opin- (ahout 75,000 persons in those two fon of Coroner Mix given today, Mrs.|gjties, brought to more than 200,000 |Tlena Curtis Huntington whose body|the number of textile workers who| was found in a shack in the city's|wij share in the higher wages an-| castern outskirts Saturday died from |nounced in the past fortnight, As- {acute alcoholism. He held also that|guming an average wage of $18 to the three men who were detained | gog woekly New England mill pay-! {were not_responsible for the woman's| roie will be increased approximately | |death. The men later were before the | gas 000,000 in the year beginning city court. and were heid in $2.500 | Apry 20, each for idleness while State's Attor- | In Fall River however the textile ney Alling decides if he shall act|couneil has yet to agree to accept the against the men. 1123 per cent advance instead of its 115 per cent demand. Greek Legation Makes | Denial of Accusations * Paris, April 3.—The Greek legation || in Pavis today issued a statement characterizing as untrue the allega- || tions from Sofia of Greek reprisals|| against the Mussulman and Bulgarian || population in Thrace. It was stated || that the Greek army commander had || merely deported to Crete from West- THE WEATHER —oe I Hartford, April 3.—Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Rain, warmer tonight. Wed- nesday rain, becoming colder by afternoon or night. Strong southerly winds, T. Kimball, who recently resigned be- cause of the pressure of other busi- ness, Mr., Porter is just finishing his first term as councilman from the third ward. "He is too good a man to lose to the service of the publie,” said Mayor Paonessa today in regret. ting Mr. Porter's defeat for the nom- | ination for alderman. British Steamer, Afire, Speeding Toward Azores | New York, April 3.—The atumar‘b Colleda Norfolk for Avonmouth, wire- | lessed today that she was proceeding to the assistance of the Rritish steamship City of Victorla which re- ported last night by radio that she was on fire. The position given by the Vietoria was about 600 miles off the Irish coast and she was reported to be steaming at full speed toward the Azores. MILKMAN ARRESTED | Wadislaw Bursiewicz of Middletown | was arrested this afternoon on North street by John Deolan of police hend-‘ quarters for peddling milk without a | ern Thrace persons of RBulgarian || origin suspected of being spies. *] license and from a container exposed ' to the open. and then submitted as an amendment. It is thought that this method of procedure is the only fair one to pur ! sue because of the fact that a hear- ing on New Britain charter amend- ments has already been held, expected that there will be no oppo- sition on the floor of the senate or the house, it this method of procedure is | adhered to. ' FOUR BURNED 10 DEATH Kineo House At Van Buren, Maine, | Razed By Flames—Victims Had | No Chance to Floe. | Van Buren, Me, April 3.—Four lives were lost today in a fire which swept through the Kineo house a small hotel. The dead: Charles McCarthy, Grand Isie. Mrs. Charles Bouchard, Caribou. Two children of Mrs. Bouchard, aged 5 and 7. Joe Madore, owner of the hotel, Paul Parent of Grand Falls, N, B, and Mrs. Mary Roix of Massachusetts sus- tained severe burns. The fire, starting from an unknown cause, spread o rapidly that the vie- tims had no.chance to escape. The | building was a smail frame structure. DRY OFFICER IS SLAIN Florence, 8. C., April 3.—J, Lee Roy Youmans, a federal prohibition of- ficer was shot from ambush and amendients be brought up for action | It is | (Clara Strunz of Plainville Captures Laurels in Bos- ton Contest (Special to The Herald) Boston, Ma April 3.—Miss Clara Strunz of Plainvilie, Conn., a New | Britain high school student, was the winner over all in the one minute lamateur typewriting contest, the fea- ture event of the national business show which opened yesterday after- Inoon for a week's run in Mechanics | building. j Amateurs from all parts of | England were entered and the stairs |and balconies on either side of the ‘hnlcol\\‘ at the end of Paul Reveros {hall were crowded with spectators lwhu desired to catch a of the race. The qualifications for entrance state (ed that none who had had typewrit« |ing experience before last Septembes could compete. The contest was open to boys and girls in High schools and colleges within a hundred miles radius of the Hub, Miss Strunz wrote at the rate of 87 words per minute without error. New glimpse Six Army Planes Arrive After 6,000 Mile Flight Washington, April 2.--8ix army air planes arrived at Bolling field here today, concluding a circuit of more than 6,000 miles from San Antonio/ Texas to Porto Rico and return ta Washington which was officially regds orded by the war department “as one killed early today during a raid on moonshine stilis near Hartsville, 8. C. | of the most remarkable ploneer fights in the history of aviation." onal justice was in- .