New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 23, 1923, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press NEW BRITAIN MEN DROWNING VICTIMS Johm E. Munson, Regular Army Man, Loses Life at Shore SWAM SOON AFTER EATING] Attempt Made At Rescue Fails—Peter Czoch, Leaving Wife and Two Chil- dren, Drowns at Watkins' Swim- ming Pool in Plainville. “Now watch me swim over to that fsland,” sald John E. Munson, aged 36, army bandsman, formerly of New Britain, to his nephew at Momauguin yesterday. These were the last words Mr. Munson spoke. He started for the island and was well on his way when his sister-in-law, Mrs. Charles Mun- son, of this city, noticed that some- thing was wrong. Before a boat could reach him he had drowned and, al- though his body was soon recovered, an hour's first aid work failed to re- suscitate him. It is thought that a cramp, caused by swimming too soon after a meal, was responsible for the fallure of the ordinarily strong swim- mer to make his goal. Mr. Munson was on furlough from his present station at Fort DuPont, Delaware, where he played in the band. He had been a bandsman in the army for about 13 years and only a day or two ago told of his intention to make it 80 years in the service, He was once in a New Britain band. He was visiting his sister, Mrs. Gustave Molander of Commonwealth - avenue and left for Momauguin with his brother, Charles Mwhson and Mrs, Munson and their son early yesterday. The party had Junch upon thelr ar- rival at the beach and shortly after- ward the soldier and his nephew hired 4 bathhouse and changed to hathing costume. They lounged on the beach for a while but the temptation to en- ter the water proved too great. The nephew, who could not swim, was giv- en a little instruction and Mr. Mun- gon then prepared to show him how it was done. Mrs. Charles Munson watched him and saw him suddenly cease striking out and appear to lose his headway in the water. She called to her son and a hoat was immedlately sent to the rescue. Body Found Floating Upright When Munson was reached he was found to be floating in the water in a nearly upright position, with just his hair showing. The ecccupant of the boat was unable to lift the body into his craft and boat and all drifted np against ‘a motorhoat. Munson = was Kfted from the water and while first a4d work proceeded, the party made for shore. He was taken into a boat house and every effort was ‘made to bring breath back to his body without avail, Dr. Charles A. Holbrook, who was summoned, aided in the work which was persisted in for about an hour and a half Dr. Holbrook, who is medical examiner, said that the death was due to drowning. The short In terval between eating and entering the water had, it was theught, induced cramps. Dr. Holbrook praised the firet ald work of the would-be reseners who tried to revive Munson. He was of the opinion that the deceased was bevond aid when brought ashore. Ericson and Carlson removed the body to New Britain vesterday after- noon, May Have Military Funeral Funeral arrangements have not been made pending an answer to telegram sent to Ifort DuPont asking for instructions as to army procedure, Providing the answer does not con filet with tentative plans the funeral will be held tomorrow with the Rev. G. E. Pihl officiating. Eddy-Glover post, of the American Legion, will supply buglers and a firing squad for a military funeral. Interment will probably be in Fairview cemetery. The pallbearers will he David Ahl- gren, Frank Duggan, Felix Kaminski, Stuart Hellberg, John Preston, Dwight Skinner and ¥red Ensworth The color guards will be Fred Tyler and 1.ouis Fletcher. The firlng squad®will be composed of Harry Ginsberg, John Oster, Robert Rertini, FFred Hofiman, 3 . Hellberg, William Rice, Roy P.nsmmmgm, H. B. Pfeiffer and E. Burr. All are requested to meet at the post rooms at 1 o'clock. Drowus in Watkins’ Pond Peter Czoch, agea 27, sought re- sp'te from the heat yvesterday .\lff‘l- noon with a party of friends in Wat- kins' swimming pool in Plainv None of those in the party could swiin, it appears, and when Czoch got in he- vond his depth he was not rescued in time to bring him to hy respiration. The medical Dr. C. W. examiner, K. | | | | LB artificlal | Moody, gave the cause of | death as drowning and permitted the body to be removed to this city. Besides his wife Czoch leaves smail children. be held from the Sacred Jesus church Wednesday morning and interment will be in the Sacred Heart of Jesus cemetery. two DR KOO TAKES OFFICE By The Assoclated Press. Peking, July 23.—Dr. V. K. Well- ington Koo assumed the portfolio of minister of foreign affairs today. Funeral services v\'HIy Heart of! | | | i | _ Herald Megaphone Will Announce Bout Tonight Complete details from the ringside of the world champion- ship lightweight bout between Beuny Leonard and Lew Tend- ler at the Yankee stadiom to- night will be megaphoned from the Herald office. The main bout will begin at 10 p. m. and as the Herald will have a di- rect telegraph wire to the ring- side, the annonncements will be practically Instantaneous with the actual fighting. {their attitude | totalling more than $33,000 | brought against accounts discovered last year. llllmts Town Panic Stricken as 23 Criminal Insane Gain Liberty After Fierce Ba By The Assoclated Prens, Chester, Il,, July 23.—Twenty three of thirty convicts who escaped in a wholesale delivery from the state hospital for the criminal insane here last night remain at large. In the melec which preceded the break for liberty, 227 prisoners in the steel wire enclosed exercise stockade at-! tacked the ten unarmed guards who were supervising the nightly alring| stabbing two of them probably fatally. William Jackson, negro, sentenced at Chicago for murder, was shot and killed as he tried to escape. Numerous posses, including 50 guards of the southern Illinois peni tentiary which is adjacent to the ho: pital, police officers and citizens, are scouring a thick wooded section north ttle For Freedom of Chester where most of the fugitives | are believed to be hiding. The rough topography of the section and bluffs ! skirting the Mississippl river nearby | afford the escaped criminals many | secure hiding places; acording to leaders of the posses who sald the work of the pursuers was torturous. Chester, a town of 4,000 and farm- | ers residing nearby received news of the escape with terror. Within a short wpile the streets of Chester were de- serted and most of the male residents remained awak last night guarding their homes with firearms. The town has negligible police protection. I"ifteen of the insane convicts, who last night escaped from the state hospital for the criminal insane here e Heiress to $1,500,000, ~ Girl Weds Soda Clerk Her Pal of Four Years Ottawa, July 23.-~—DMiss Mon- ica Mousseau, drug clerk, re- cently fell heiress to 4 share in a $1,600,000 estate left by her aunt but she remained loyal to KEudore Guberd with. whom she has mixed soft drinks for four years. She married him. | DELORME JURY GAN'T SEEM TO SETTLE CASE In Event of No Verdict. ex- Priest Will Be Tried Again, Court Warns Montreal, July 23.--Adelarde De- Lorme, former Catholic priest, accus ed of having murdered his half-broth- er Raoul, today expected to Jearn his fate from the jury which heard fhe evidence against him. The jurors got the case late Satur- day and yesterday notified Chief Jus- tice Sir Francois Lemieux that they could not agreée, They were sent back to deliberate with a stern rebuke from the court which contended that was Imperilling the whole jury system. The defendant showed the effect of the strain. Throughout his trial his bearing was erect and confident. Now his figure is bent and he walks with bowed head. i Tt was on January 6, 1922, that Raoul DeLorme, an Ottawa univer- sity student, was found shot to death in a suburb. His half brother was arrested and placed on trial March 27. Thrée months later a special jury pronounc ed him ineane and on July 13, 1922, he was transferred to Beaufort asylum, near Quebec, The next month, however, Dr, Brochu, head of the hospital certified, that DeLorme was sane. The for- mer priest's re-trial was ordered and hegan on June 21, the government secking to prove that Delorme had shot his half brother to death in the hope of collecting on an insur-; ance policy which he had induced the young mgn to take out a few weeks earlier. De Lorme's defense was an alibi, several witnesses including his sister, Lil being called to testify that he was in his home throughout the night on which Raoul was murdered. The defense called witnesses who tes- tified that Dbullets extracted from Raoul's body had been fired by at least two different pistols. The jury again reported this morn- ing that no agreement had been | reached. Sir Francois sent it back :md;’ adjourned court till 2 p. m. | The judge reminded the jurors that if no definite verdict was reached, the > would have to be retried at the xt session, with additional expense. Sir Francois said the case already had roflt the people $50,000, WHITFIELD IS ON TRIAL Police- Alleged Slayer of Cleveland | many | claims and procure evidence for pres- Yad been ""capturpd this morning. ) NO CO’ ?d""‘c‘t cyy "tLMP IN l’lh\,'"""'ttm Onp, Hammond and Marshall of U, = | Commission, Agreed That New Eng- landers Won’t Have To Pay More. Boston, July 23.—John Hays Ham- mond, chairman of the U. S. Coal | Commission and Thomas R. Marshall, former vice-president of the United States, who is also a member of the commission, are agreed that there will be no strike in the anthracite flelds this fall; that the coal com- mission will not urge President Hnrd-‘ ing to call an extra session of con- gress in’'connection with the fuel situ- ation; and that the price of coal to New England consumers will not be | higher than during the last two years, according to a copyrighted article ap- pearing today in the Boston Herald Mr. Hammond and Mr. Marshall are in Gloucester gor the summer. PAID BACK OVER MILLION Alien Property Custodian Gives Es-‘ tate of Owners of Peheco Trade- mark This Sum as Refund. July 23.-——More than a million dollars was turned over hy the | allen custodian today to the estates| of the ownerg of the Chemical firm of P. Beirsdorf and Co. of Hamburg. The suny represented proceeds from the sale during the war of the trade- mark Pebeco, uced as the name of a tooth paste The American rights were seized and sold for $1,000,000 by the alien property cnstodian, 1t was later found that the origina- tors of the product and their de- scendants were natives of Posen, which became Polish territory by the treaty of Versailles. An amendment to the Trading with the Enemy act, adopted in 1920, provided that the proceeds of sales of seized property should he returned to persons who | had become citizens of new states carved from the German empire. LITTLE wm' ls" ADOPTED Child Left in Broadway Hotel Last ‘Washington, Week Is To Be Brought Up By | dersey City Woman New York, July “The littlest girl on Broadway" a month old, blue eved baby, abandoned a week ago in the Marlborough hotel, will be adopt ed by Mrs. Garfield Grater of Jersey City, the department of public wel- fare announced today. The infant was found in a room of the hotel vacated by “Mr. and Mrs. Williams, Balti- more.” It was sent to Bellevue hos- pital. Claims Against Germany Go Over Until Next Fall Washington, July 23.—Decisions of the mixed claimsicommission in the Lusitania and other damage claims of Americans against Germany are to go over till fall. The German repre- sentatives on the commission will sail from New York fo. Germany next Thursday. They will not return until October. Robert W. Bonyngne the American agent also will sail for Ger- next month to investigate entation later to the commission. man is Being Tried Under the New | 13 Jurymen Law Cleveland, July 23.—John L. Whit- | field, charged with slaying ra:rolman} Dennis Griffin, went on trial today, | under the new 13 juror law. The 13th juror will sit apart from the other 12, will hear all testimony in | the case and be prepared to act in | case of the death or incapacity of one of the regular 12 Northfield Wins Verdict Of $33,000 for Shortages Greenfield, Mass., -July 23.—The | town of Northfield was awarded sums| in ver- dicts returned here today in the suits Warren J. Wright, former treasurer of the town, and the Massachusetts Bonding and Insurance | Co., Wright's bondsmen. The suits grew out of a shortage in Wright's PETERS' MOTHER TO TESTIFY White Plains, N. Y., July 23.—Mrs. Inez O. Peters, mother of Clarence Peters, slain by Walter 8. Ward, will come from her home in Haverhill, Mass., next Wednesday to testify in the extraordinary grand jury investi- gation into the slaying which began its fourth week today. BSix new wit- nesses were produced. iSuit Against Chemical Foundation Prolonged Wilmington, Del., July 23.—The trial of the government's suit against the Chemical Foundation for the re- covery of the seized enemy patents | sold to the foundation of the alien“ property custodian entered today upon its eighth week with indications that it would not be concluded for several days. Federal Judge Morris| ordered stricken from the record the | colloquy between himself and de(enm* counsel on Saturday explaining that some of the language he had used was “too strong for a courtroom.” Chamber to Aid in Attempt To Solve Wheat Troubles | Chicago, July 23.—The chamber of | | commerce of States 1n a tentative agreement under | which a joint committee will seek a | solution of the wheat growers' proh.‘ lems, it was announced today. ‘ AMUNDSEN TURNING ] Nome, Alaska, July 28.—A private message received in Nome from Roald Amundsen states that he will return to Nome on the first boat from Wainwright. te Ub% | he : he the United States has | ¥ | joined the wheat council’of the United BOY, 15, ILLS HI PAL, 11, WITH GUN |Same 01d Story of “Didu't Know It Was Loaded” TRAGEDY IN NEW HAVEN! shooting Takes Place as Boys Were Playing “Robbers” — Victim Hartford Youngster, Visiting at Other’s Home. New Haven, June 23.—Wilbur Me- Leod, 11, of 992 Albany avenue, ford, was almost instantly killed by William Guardenier, 15, iu the play- room of the latter's home'last night during a game¥of ‘robbers.” The boys at play began to talk about “robbers’” and MclLeod picked up an old nistol and aimed it at Guardinier Vhat would you do if a burglar ‘e in?” Guardenier picked up the 3 of a brother, Kenneth MclLeod which was thought to be empty, aud aiming it at Wilbur pulled the trigger. A report followed and Wil- bur fell to the floor and died. ,Medical Examiner Kowalewski of West Haven gave a verdict of acei- dental death from a bullet which sev- ered a vein close to the heart, The body was sen® to Hartford. It appears that Kenneth Melood brought the rifile from Hartford when the two boys came here for a visit at the Guardenier home in Alden avenne and had target practice in the hack vard Saturday afternoon. Afterwards Kenneth asked for a rag with which to clean the gun‘and it was supposed that the barrel was empfy. It is single shot weapon. Tt now appears that the gun was not cleaned at the | time and the fact that a cartridge r mained in it passed unnoticed a H. Guardenier. - Dr. Kowalewski today said in re sponse to inquries that he had given a verdict of accidental death and did not deem it necessary fo hold Guard enier. "It was another case of ‘didn t know it was loaded’," he said SLAYS HUSBAND, FREED, S PRAISED BY JunGe Cincinnati Court Lauds Wo- i man Who Shot When Man Threatened Her Cincinnati, July 23.—Mrs. Bessie Bush, 38 years @id, was compli- mented for killing har husband, Wil- iam Edward Bush when she was ar raigned on a charge of murder in the municipal court today. Judge Yeat man, in dismissing Mrs. Bush, praised her and said she was justified She shot her husband yesterday after he threatened to kill her and| his step-child. She told the court that he objected to the child going to Sunday school, Bush was a stationary fireman. FREAK TINE MIXUP Harding's Speech July 31 Will Heard in New York Less Than Sec- Be ond Later, But Will Be Next Month San Francisco, July 23.—Although the words of President Harding when speaks in the civie auditorium here July 31 will be heard as far away as Now York and Washington within one fifteenth of a second after they are spoken, according to tele- phone engineers, it will be the next iay and month when they are heard in New York and Boston. here at 8 o’clock July 31 which is mid- light saving time) and consequently will be heard there August 1. Arrangements have been completed to transmit the speech over telephone wires to radio broadcasting stations, 10 Stowaways Arrive on Liner Leviathan Today New York, July lLave found the luxurious Leviathan to their liking. Ten arrived today on the liner from Southampton and Cherbourg, making the passage in five cays, 12 hours and 11 minutes with average Hpeed 23.—Stowaways CUT WORKING SCHEDULE Ludlow, Mass., July 23.—The Lud- low Mfg. Associates manufacturers of Jjute products, employing about 2600 persons, today cut the working sched- | ule to five days a week a reduction of half a day. HIGH TIDES e 24 (Standard Time) Haven— 49 a. m.; | At New London— 6:54 a. m.; * i | July i At New 8:13 p. m. 620 p. m. | * * | Hartford, July for New Britain and vicinity: Generally fair tonight and Tues- day: warmer Tuesday, moder- ate northeast winds, bhecoming variable | | ! | | | * * Was | Hart. | Guardeniar is the son of Fdgar V.| The president is to begin speaking | night in New York and Boston (day | | [the apostolic Butldmgs Rocked Plaster Falls in San Bernardino While Other California Cities Are Affected! 2 San Diego, Cal, July Several gre carthquake shocks were felt here |second he: about 11:30 o’clock last night. | morning. A fall of dust from hung over San Bernardino minutes after the first shock. At the southern California lospital at Patton where appro: |ly 2,600 patients were quartered, the shock rocked the buildings. In one wing much plaster fell. The patients | were terrorized but were quieted by attendants, Telephone and telagraph communt- cation in the vicinity of Los Angeles was disturbed for several minutes be- The entire ginning about 15 minutes hefore the tier of southern (“.xlirorniu countles earthquake shocks were felt, accord- was rocked by an earthquake of from ing to telephone company employes. 11 seconds duration at 11:28 o'clock |The opinfon was expressed that inter- last night. San Bernardino, where the ference was due to earth currents. atest damage was caused, feeling a} v tremor ut 1 o'clock this falling bricks | | | | for five San Bernardino, Cal., July 23.—The severest earthquake in the history of the city was recorded liere last night at 11:28, state hate- los Angeles, July 23, Several | sharp earthquake shocks were felt here about 11:28 o'clock last night. Shocks also were reported from San Diego and San Bernardino. | By The Associated Pres Los Angeles, July SIX CLERKS INURED &S [f=——= | SWITCHER RAMS MAIL CAR||| Svicide Theory Set | ANELHS Aside, Woman Slain; Qelat Grand Jury Called New Haven Railroad Station — In- Peculiar Accident This vestigation is Under Way. New Haven, July 23.—When a mail car standing in front of the railroad | station here was hit by a switching engine today, six clerks were hurt and sent to 4 hospital. They were: 1. McCarthy, Springfield, Mass., ribs fractured; A. E. Carney, Meriden, back wrenched: H. A. Gilmore, Meri- | den, hrui A. Doiphin, left eye cut.| |R. P. Ross, New Haven and Clerk ilorraine, of Worenster, bruises. All will he out of the hospital during the {4y and have been relicved of duty. | An inquiry has heen opened to de termine the for the incident. The switcher had three cars to be placed on the Springfleld mail tram and it ran down the track at excessive | speed and gave the mail car a crush ing bump. The men wege hurt by he ing thrown against the interior wood work as it broke under the impact. The same car was in a slight accident at Springfleld Saturday night RAGING 0N GREAT LAKES 17 Yachts, Speeding From Chicago to Reported With Rails Awash. reason Frederick, Md., July 23.-—~The spe- cial session of the grand jury called to consider the death of Mrs. Grace Simmons Kepner, found shot thgough the head at her home on June 18, he gan in the historic old court house of Fredobick today. She was the wife of B. Evard Kepner of Frederick A verdict of suicide given by an acting coroner was set aside by a jury of inquest which found that Mrs. Kepner came to her death at the hands of a person unknown. HAPPILY MARRIED IN GONN. ARE ON DECLINE | Marriages Fall Off and Di- vorces Gai ~ SEVEN ARE DROWNED in Steadily in | S State Since 1916 Connecticut’s Week-end Aocidental Mackinae Tsland, as | Traveling Fast, By The Assoclated Press, | Aboard Sub Chager, No. 419 off ’ Frankfort, Mich., July 23.—With their | rails awash the 17 yachts in the 16th annual race from Chicago to Mack- ! inac Island, early today were traveling fast under a strong breeze after more than a day of failing winds which carried them less than 100 miles. Doorleo, the Milwaukee maintained its lead Intrepid, the cup defender wh|ch left the fleet soon after the start Sat- urday still was unheard from this| | morning and its position had not h(‘fln| | ascertained, ; | sloop, Deaths Also -Include Two More as BY GEORGE H. MANNING hingtun Bureau of New Britain Herald) Washington, D. (., July 23.--The number of happily married couples in| Connecticut appears to be rapidly on the decline. There has been a marked decline in| the: number of marriages since 1916 and a considerabie increase in the number of divorces. This condition is most marked in Fairfied county with | Hartford county ranking second. | Last year there were 12,095 mar- riages performed and 1,030 divorces| granted in Connecticut, compared with 15,168 marriages and 961 di- vorces in 1916. In Fairfield county the number of marriages declined from 4,515 in 1916 . in 1922, over 50 per cent,| while the number of divorces jumped from 278 in 1916 to 345 last year, an increase of about 20 per cent. | | In Hartford county marriages dropped from 3,390 in 1916 to 3,180| last year, while divorces increased from 188 in 1916 to 230 in 1922, In every county in Connecticut ex- cept Tolland there were fewer mar- I riages last year than in 1916. In Fairfield, Hartford, Litchfield, Middlesex and Windham there were | more divorces in 1922 than in 1916. |In New Haven county, New London county and Tolland there were fewer | divorces last year than in 1916. | Tolland was the only county Result of Auto Crashes, New Haven, July — claimed seven llves over the week-end Thomas Donahue at Stamford; Herbert Booth at Koensington; Blmer | Alcott and Battista Negretti at Tor rington; Eddic Bombalinsky at Bra tord; John E. Munson at East Haven, and Peter Czok at Plainville. Two peysons died as the result of being struck by automobiles and there were two sufcides. NEED NOT STAND TRIAL Case Against Mass, Man, Whom Au- 23 Drowning in Connecticut They were: | | thorities Wanted to Bring Back to Vermont, Is Dropped. Boston, July 23.—Federal Commis- sioner William A. Hayes today dis- | charged Joseph A. Jacques of! | Worcester who was given a hearing| last week on the question of his re- moval to Vermont to stand trial on a federal indictment alleging conspir- acy to bring liquor into this country from Canada in 1920. DeWitt Russell, also of Worcester, who was indicted with Jacques, pleaded guilty in Vermont and served a’ jail sentence. in | Connecticut showing both more mar- | riages and fewer divorces last year| than in 1916. MANY PHYSICALLY UNFIT Physical Statistics From War Dept. | 100 American Pilgrims Received by Pope Pius | | Rome, duly 23.—Pope Pius today received a party of about 100 Ameri- | can pilgrims conducted by the Rev. Robert Kelly who presented Peter's | ’Penco The Pontiff delivered a shorf | address in which he thanked the pil- | 1grims for undrgoing the hardship of ithe journey. He imparted upon all benediction and also | | | P | Training Camps Shows Need For! Development of Youth of Country. | reports today from | Nicholas Washington, July 28.—Physical sta- | tistics of ‘the war department drawn | |trom the summer military training | % i [camps a year ago apparently sustain | ‘S’\ H01se€ Bulned to the showing made in the war- time | v Death in l\e“- Haven Fire |draft examinations that from five to | | New Haven, July —Fire which|Six out of every 10 young Americans | destroyed a barn of the Hugh Plun-|suffer more or less serious phraimli | kett Co., movers and carters indefects. P Howard avenue, early today took the/ Out of more than 23,000 men ex- | | lives of six horses. A fireman was amined for admission to the camps| kicked by a horse pital treatment. blessed the religious objects carried hy the Americans. and given hos-|last year, 4.1 per cent were rejected | for physical defects, In addition, 47f‘i men in every 1,000 were found to |ha\'o defects that could be corrected. Examination of the boys at the ter- mination of the camps showed an average gain In weight of about three points and there was also evidenee of generally increased chest expansion. CASTL IRENE Dl\ OR(‘I D. T Associated Pr Paris, July 23.—Irene Castie Tre- mane, the dancer, was granted a di- vorce here today from Captain Rob- ert E. Tremane, By Average Dailly Circulation Week Ending ’036_- July 21st JOHNSON TS SILENT ON HIS 1924 VIEWS | Chicago Launches Organization to Boom Him for Presidency ARRIVES BACK INU. §. TODAY California Senator Declines to Dis- cuss Domestic Politiecs But Asso~ He Will Make Night, ciates Think That Announcement Wednesday Chicago, July membership drive for an ]Illl\uh branch of an organization to support Hiram John- son for president was announced to- day, to start tonight at a meeting the Morrison hotel. The organi- zation has adopted the name of the Progressive Alliance of America. of Back From Europe New York, July 23.—United States Senator Hiram Johnson of California, boomed by his friends for the repub- lican presidential nomination in 1924, returned from a tour of Kurope today on the Leviathan, refusing to indi- cate to the reporters or the crowds who gathered to greet him whether his hat was in the ring. Johnson enthusiasts professed to see two good omens in the incidents of the homecoming however. One was the fact that in the little fleet of craft that went down the bay to meet him was the tug Menominee. The other was the fact that while he did not shy his hat into the ring, a capricious wind shied it for him into the bay. The senator only laughed however, when he was asked to. comment on the omens and declared: “I will not be interviewed on do- mestic politics at this tim Later T may have a little to gay. Friends of the senator indicated they expected an important statement from him, Wednesday night when he addresses the testimonial dinner be- ing arranged in his honor. He Simply sSmiles The senator smiled and answered in the negative when he was asked if he proposed to follow the trail of Presi- dent Harding's recent swing through {the west in the delivery of his message to America about foreign affairs. “Y have no plan,” he said, "I will deliver my message where I can and how I can.” He said he was not pessimistie about world conditions but left unan- swered a question as to whether he was optimistic. \ The only event so far formally on Henator Johnson's program . fer Thia | stay here in addition to his address at the dinner in his honor Wadnesday night is an informal luncheon tomor- row at which he and a ecore of his friends will be guesis of Mr, Payne at the wpuhhrun elub VILLA MUCH MARRIED Already Five “Widows" Have Claimed His Estate—His Murder May Bring ¥ Ahout New Civil Strife, El Paso, Tex, July 23.-—Rumors prevalent along the border since the murder of Pancho Villa that his fol- lowers would organize in pursuit of the murderers were strengthened by Mexico City that Fernandez, Villa utenant, had returned to Canutillo with such an object in mind. Government troops are sald to be firmly established at Parral a ecity which changed hands many times in revolutionary movements of past years. DParral is near Canutillo and Villa's body rests there. Meanwhile residents on the border are counting the number of “widows' who file clalms for their share of Pancho’s estate. I'ive already have lodged claims. g Ramsay Fears England Is Starting Armament Race By The Associated Press London, July Donald leader of the opposition in the house of commons, ‘today moved a resolution deprecating the increasing expenditures in military preparations which he asserted formed the begin- ning of another race for armament. He urged the government to take ime mediate steps to call an international conference for the limitation of arm- aments. _— FRESH AIR FUND. g acknowl- $4,066.00 Previou; Y. M. ciety . “Fafnirites” Friend Friend cecses Girls' club of rew Corp. L 50.00 7.00 3.00 100.00 A. & B. So- Corbin The “Fafnirites,” ‘whose place of employment need not be further mentioned, the Girls' club of the Corbin Screw cor- poration and the Y. M. T. A. & B. society were organizations which today gave to the Mresh Air Fund. A Friend gave $100 and another $3.00, raising the total up to a point where there is only a few dollars more than $260 further to go to get the full $4,500 originally planned. || The Fresh Air “Editor” of ] the Herald is lending all pos- sible assistance to the collect- . ing of this fund and would be glad to receive and acknowls cdge any gifts that New Britain |