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

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 POINCARE STIL FRENCH STAND IN RUHR IS PERFECTLY Legally, Morally and Economically France’s Position is Unassailable, According to His Views —Cabinet Agrees on| Reply Answer to British Repara- tions Note Awaits Bel- gium’s Findings—Thienes | Reported in General Ac-| cord. | | | Paris, July 24.—The French cab-| inet today unanimously approved Premier Poincare’'s attitude toward the British project for a reply to Germany’'s reparation note, which the| premier set forth to his colleagues| this morning for the first time. | The fact that the cabinet meeting which was to have been held Thurs- day was advanced two days to hear| M. Poincare’s report on the situa- tion was taken in political circles as ‘indicating that the premier's reply was ready and that it was negative | on some of the important points in| the British proposals. Premier Poincare, it is learned from an authoritative source regards the French position on the occupation of the Ruhr and on the reparations ques- tion generally as unattackable legally and morally and from the economic| point of view. By The Assoclated Presa. Brussels, July 24.—The exchanges| of views between Paris and Brussels| have developed the fact that Premiers Poincare and Theunis are in perfect| agreement on the fundamental ques- tions raised in the British memoran- dum and the project for a joint reply to Germany's reparation proposals, aceording to authoritative iInforma- tion. SCHWAB TESTIFIES IN SHIPBUILDING TRIAL “Says He Warned Morse Not‘ To Have Sons in Employ | Osborne. | near Three ‘Washington, July 24.—Charles M.| Schwab, who served during the war| as head of the emergency fleet corp. appeared in court here today as a witness for the defense in the trial of Charles W. Morse and others| charged with conspiracy in connection | with war-time shipbnilding operations The steel magnate had been men-| tioned in previous defense testimony | an expressing a high opinion of the| Morse plant at Alexandria, Va., the efficiency of which has been ques- the government. He came ton from his home in Lor-| after a week-end 4*nn1“r.‘ ence with Morse counsel. Detailing a conversation with Morse | and his three sons in which he urged more speed in shipbuilding, Mr. | Schwab said he recommended ith | considerable force” that Charles W.| Morse curtail the activities of his! sons in the busine; “In all my experience,” he said, “T have never found it wise to have my! relatives in my business. T would| never have any of them. I told ('harles W. Morse he was making a| mistake from the standpoint of ef- ficiency in having his sons in there.” What did the Morses say?"” | “They did not agree. Like most| men’s sons, they wonld not work like I would have people work for me.” Reaferring to the salaries of Morse's song, the witness said he recommended that .they be cut 80 per cent and that Morse agreed *“as an example of patriotism.” He had no knowledge of whether they actually were re- duced ' Local Young Man to Wed Blue Grass State Girl Announcement is made of the en.| gagement of Gerald S. Vibberts, son| of Mr. and Mrs. Dana L. Vibberts of| Lincoln street to Funice Alden Walk-| er, daughter of Mrs. Herbert Graham Walker of Louisville, Kentucky. Miss! Walker is assistant supervisor of art in the Louisville schools and \n Vib- berts is with F. H. Dewey Co., architects, of New York clt,\. Both young people are graduates of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y. They have been spending the last two weeks at Mr. Vibberts' home, leaving here Sun- day afternoon. S ARRESTED. Fourteen news!| DEALE Ottawa, July ;‘ venders were arrested yesterday | when police began rigidly to enforce| the new provincial anti-betting infor- | mation bill. New York newspapers| alleged to contain betting informa-| tion were seized as evidence. NEWS “'l""l' TRA('K \l’\ RACES Columbus, O., July 24.—Today's| Grand Circuit races were postponed on account of a wet track. The pro- gram that was to have been run today will be presented tomorrow. !three children | travellng fast | aged |to Miss Anna A. Gordon, world NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTI(‘UT TUFSDAY L BELIEVES CORRECT ONE MRS, DEMOS AGAININ LIMELIGHT IN COURT Wants Ex-Husband Re- moved as Guardian of | The treaty ¢, Their Child Through her attorneys, Holden & | Peck of Hartford, Mrs. Laura Wads- | worth Demos, proprietor of the Court stret hospital, has petitioned the New | Haven probate court for the removal | of her first husband, Auley of Hartford, as their 15-year-old daughter, McAuley. Mrs. Demos, when she was Laura Wadsworth of Hartford, became the guardian of Adeline | arthur’ Me- | Stiletto, Axe and Rev. wife of Arthur McAuley when only 15 | years old. | was born. Subsequently McAuley sued and | obtained a divorce, according to the superior “court records of Hartford | county, on the grounds of intemper- | ance. The child was committed to the care and custody of the Hartford or- phan asylum by Judge Joel Reed, who presided at the case. McAuley mar- ried again and lives with his wife and in Hartford Mrs. McAuley married again and a short time later her second h\mhan-l | obtained a divorce. Several ago she married George Demos, pro- prietor of a Church street restaurant, and now has brought suit for divorce against her third husband, asking $50,000 alimony. The case s re- |turnable at the September term superior court in Hartford. In the meantime the daughter came back into the custody of her mother, but instead of remaining with her in New Britain has drifted around, a cording to reports, until she has !ltved in 20 different homes, nrr(\!nl’-‘ last January in New Haven where she now resides with relatives of \lrs. Demos on Whalley avenue, that city. The Children’s Aid society has ob- jected to the guardianship of the mother. MISS SPENGER INJURED New l\ri'lu Woman in Automobile | ¢ Ma- Y. Crash Which Wrecks Two chines Near Three Rivers, N. The Herald). Auburn, July 24— (‘atherine Spencer of New Conn., was cut and bruised and suf- | fered a shock to her nervous system whon an automobile which she was iriving yesterday collided with u(hfll’ machine occupied by William Carter of 733 Montgomery street, Syracuse, N. Y., his wife and Glenn The accident happened Rivers Both automobiles were wrecked by the impact. Tt is sald that both were when they came to (8pecial to Miss gether. SHOWS REMARKABLE GRIT Ansonia Boy, 17, His Hand Crushed in Machinery, Calmly Waits Aalf Hour While Mechanism is Broken Apart. 24 by his Ansonia, July was exhibited 17, when eaught in the vator at the mill «f 0., at 5 o'clock vesterday afternoon The machinery had broken to remove the hand, attempts to take it part failingt The boy had to wait half an hour before he was released, The three left fingers of the hand were taken off and the wrist so badly crushed that the X-rays will be used to ascertain whether the hones were bhroken Clifford was taken to St Raphael’s hospital New Haven, Clifford, right hand was mechanism of an ele ihe A. ) and 7 Willlam to bhe ACGEPT 25 CENTS ON DOLLAR Three years' later Adeline | | stiletto, of Britan, | 18Rt an-| | ling the state's troops. ' Remarkable grit Majority of Creditors of Max Spiegel, | Defunct Theatrical Promoter, Agree to Terms of Counsel. New York, July 24.— A majority of the creditors of Max Spiegel, theatri cal promoter who failed recently for $1,200,000 have agreed to accept a set tlement of approximately 25 cents on the dollar, Joseph Otterberg, counsel for the creditors’ committee announc- ed today. Mrs. Mitchell H. Mark law of Spiegel who now tarium at Stamford, Conn., fer. W. C. T. U. Head Receives ‘ Bouquet of 25,000 Pieces Chicago, July 24.—A bonquet 5.000 flowers, each representing a new member was presented yesterday nd Women's mother-in is in a made the sani of national president of the | Christian Temperance union. The blos | soms represented new members that | have joined the organization since | June 14, 1922, and filled a room about 15 by 20 feet in dimension. Posed as Se&'fl Agent, Vacationer Is Arrested Bridgeport, July 24,—Joseph Mos- covitz, 18, of this city arreste last night at Pleasure Reach ar- raigned in the city court today charg- ed with impersondtion of an United States secret agent. He was held in bonds of $500 for trial August 7. was | overturned | the i | War in Near EastFormaIl Ends With Signing of Lausanne Treaty Lausanne, July 24.—The Lausanne peace treaty formally re- establishing peace between the European powers and Turkey was | signed today. The treaty was signed at 3:15 o’clock this afternoon. The general treaty,-formally ending the state of war, was| signed by Great Britain, France, Ttaly, Japan, Greece, Rumania and ’lurke) Jufio-Slayi= mced at the last minute her refusal to sign. ! the Ottoman debt among countries like ‘red parts of the former Ottoman empire, HAPPILY h g-%:’ "D 40 YEARS, COUPLE IN NEW It 3 GED 63 AND 61 YRS. FIGHT BLO" 4UEL TO THE DEATH .“Figure in Gruesome Double . '9 & Jugo-Slavia w. '% Killing in East Side Tenement—Participants Struggle in Dim Light of Flickering Wick in Glass of Olive Oil. mother. About 3 a. m, the sisters were awakened by screams. They heard the sound of breaking furniture and the passing of epithets. Unable to open the bedroom door, the girls ran across the street to their brother's home. As the son, Anthony, Jr.,, hurled himself against the unyielding door, he heard two shots from within. The police smashed down the door. On the bed with her head where the pillows had been, lay the woman. Teh fingers of her right hand clutched a revolver, A stiletto rest- «d in a pool of hlood under the bed. The body of the husband lay about five feet from the bed, the throat cut ear. New York July 24.—Fighting with axe and revolver by the light |of a flickering wick in a glass of clive oil in a tiny room of an east side tenement, Anthony Giordano, 63| years, and his wife, Theresa, t1 years old, today inflicted fatal wounds on cach other. Both were dead when found by the police. Both bodies were pierced by bullets and slashed in several places. With 40 years of happy life behind them the aged fought for 30 minutes. Two daughters, in an adjoining room heard the death battle and helplessly tried to force an entrance. During the entire day one of the married couple girls told the police not a cross word and | from ear to | \ between father had STATE INFANTRY REGT. WILL BE CALLED 102D Either 169th or 170th Is to Perpetuate Name of Fa- | mous Yankee Division passed FRESH AID F' ND Previously Acknowledged sesecirssiassanss $4,231.00 Girls' League, Senior H!g‘h School 5 . & C. Girls’ clul) $4,286.00 Today is girls' day as far as the Fresh Air Fund is concern- ed. Two organizations of local young ladies saw fit to contri- bute to the fund which is being raised for the malintenance of the Fresh Air Farm in Burling- ton. The Fresh Aid Editor of the “Herald” is glad to receive and acknowledge contributions of any amount whatever to the money which' will be used for sending 300 New Rritain chil- dren for a vacation of twe weeks in the country. 30.00 25.00 New Haven, July 24.—One of the infantry regiments in this state, either 169th or 170th wil be re-design- ed the 102nd it became known to- Adjutant Gen. G. M. Cole men- tioned this fact at a dinner of the 170th regimental line and staff com- plimentary to the 160th officers last | day. Gen. Cole said the war department is holding open the designation. Col. Greene of the general staff, Washing- ton has urged an early decision as to | the selection, Col. Bdward K. Hammond said that Connecticut leads the country in the rajsing of its quota of militia. He added: “1 want to tell you gentlemen thn'\ the Connecticut National Guard ing in Air, Anxious to Make nlgml stands exceedingly high at Washing | ton and I can readily sce why you| Next Month. | are able to accomplish such fine re- aults by observing the spirit which | Hanbieso caly has prompted this affair tonight.” Mae|another attempt to break the world's | pald a glowing tribute to Gen. Cole !endurance flight record and to estab | and his expeditions manner of hand- ||jgh several speed records are being | made by Captain Lowell H. Smith and Tieut. John B. Richter, Kockwell field airmen who last month were forced down by fog when they apparently ahout to achieve, success he s, practicing with [ieut. Virgil Hines and Frank Seifert, have attain ed a high degree efficlency in fuelimg while in and believe thair next flight new marks If the chief of the air service ap proves the plan the flight will bhe| made in the full moon pertod of Ang ust NEW ENDURANCE TEST Army Fliers Who Excel at Re- I-m\l-‘ July 24—Plans for | FIRE ON U. §. VESSEL perican Gunboat Reported As Re- of re mid will turning Fire of Chinese Bandits, sal Who Attack Foreign Craft. Associated Press, Hupeh Province, China, Steamers arriving on the from C‘hung-King re American steamship and a British vessel un der escort of the American gunboat Monoc y were heavily fired on near| Chung-King. The Monocacy accord- ing to the report returned the fire doing considerable damage Ry The 1-Chang, July 24 Yang-tse river port that the Alice Dollar GOLDY IS PAROLLED Bridgeporter Serving Term as Auto Thiet Going to New York to Sup- jated Press. | port His Feeble Mother. 24.—Chinese bandits have captured Dar Wetherbe, a British mining engineer near Chiuho | province of Yunman, rding to a report received by the stoms com- missioner here today. Wetherbe for- | merly was a resident of Peking. ! By The Assoc Peking, July Bridgeport, 24 , sentenced on May 22 to six months his plea of ®uilty theft has been parolled by July Nathan Gol A in jail on to of an automobile the state's attorney after order of serving two months of his sentence s sentenced at the same time as Harold who pleaded counts of automobile [thefts and sentenced to state's prison for to eight years. Harold Goldy committed suicide in his cell in the county jail here the day rfter seltence was passed. Nathan Goldy has gone to New York to lfve | with his mother, who is in ill health and dependent upon his support He ws his bréther guilty to seve Bridgeport Merchants Are Accused as Thieves 24.—Charles and merchants of 1024 Main strect, were bound over to the | superior court in bonds of $1,500 when arraigned in city court here to- day on a charge of theft. They are | alleged to have stolen hardware and paints valued at $250 from the bank- ; rupt estate of Samuel Machotte ix Band; s Rob Bar;k's Clerks in Toronto Holdup | July 24 jnmped from a large day, attacked messengers Standard, Sterling and Commerce banks returning from the clearing ho with numerous bags of money and escaped with what is believed to have large sum, after wound- ing twa Sterling bank employes in a pistol battle Bridgeport, July was Isadore Birnbaum, three HIGH TIDES —— July 25 (Standard Time) At New Haven— R:52a m At New London— 5t a.m.; ¥ | 5 | Six bandits| | automohile to- of the| Toronto, 9:13 p. A, H 15 p. | | been a sensational DIES OF INJURIES, R. L. July 24.-—H. Cary New York who was in- the seaplane Fleotwing in making a landing here died at a hospital here today On Sunday it was found necessary to amputate Mr. Morgan's Injured ieg and he did not rally from operation. HE WEATHER Hartford. July 24.—Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: ¥nsettled. probably showers to- | night and Wednesday, not much change in temperature, moder- ate southerly wihds, | * | = Newport, Morgan of jured when last Friday, |confronts the people | tetting SN i | sold at 002 1 i JUIY 24, 1923. wFIGHTEFN PA(‘ES Average Daily Circultfinn Week Ending ’036 H July 21st .. PRICE THREE CENTS WATERBURY SALOONS MUST GO, SAYS JUDGE WHO DECLARES THAT OWNERS CAUGHT HEREAFTER WILL BE JAILED MORE PEOPLE HERE EUROPE THAN « S0 Declares U. S. benator David I. Walsh on Return | From Abroad — Impend- ing Coal Crisis Stirs Him to Criticism of Congress. Clinton, Mass., July 24.—"I regret- | ted to hear upon arriving home after three months’ absence, in which I have been out of touch with can affairs, that the anthracite coal situation is again a critical one, with the prospect®that coal will be scarce and high next winter,” said U. S. Senator David I. Walsh this morning. The senator arrived in Clinion last | night from New York where he land- |ed yesterday from the Leviathan. Fault With Congress “I still feel,” said the senator, "llmt congress made a grave mistake at the | last session in not passing substantial legislation instead of the coal question to a commission for investigation. The commission prob- ably cannot report before the middle of the winter and its findings can have no effect on the situation as at this time.” Don’t Want Moral Aid While in Europe Senator Walsh completely convinced that the uropean people do not care a rap |for moral assistins from the Usned | Staies. More people in this sountry 21¢ worrying about Europe than in urope itself, n> said. MAXWELL IS PICTURED AS HOMES DESTROYER Y. Dist. Atty. Presents Love Letters Involving Mrs. Allan Ryan was © York, July 24.—FEvidence of an Falleged 1ove affalr between JAlrs. #llan A. Ryan, wife of the finaneter and George Maxwell, prestdent of the Am.- erican Society of Authors, Qomposers and Publishers, who is under indict- | ment for writing poison pen letters to | Mr. Ryan, was disclosed hy Assist. | Dist. Attorney Maloney today in a ! brief opposing Maxwell's motion for dismissal of the indictment. Contending that the letters address- | ed anonymously to Mr. Ryan, contain- information possessed only by umwn \ir. Maloney quoted from love letters and radiogra; have been exchanged by Maxwell and He also detailed at length friendships with several \\hi Ryan Maxwell's | other womgen. Detafling the love affalr, which he asserted was followed by the sending of letters to Mr. Ryan in which it was charged that Mrs. Ryan had been un- dwly intimate with Maxwell, Mr. Ma- loney's brief read “On April 6, 1922, Mrs. Ryan sailed for Europe on the Mauretania with Mrs. Huhn of Park On bhoard they met Maxwell and the infatuation between Maxwell and Mrs. Ryan then developed. Mr. Ryan and Maxwell stayed in T.ondon and Paris and took trip to Como and Milan “While in Europe Mrs. Ryan Maxwell exchanged letters and tele- grams when they were separated. Mrs, Ryan returned New York June on bourd the steamship Majestic, exchanged radios with Maxwell dally board ship. On her return she York Harbor, Me, with her family. Maxwell returned June 14 and made two trips to York. Harbor He visited Mrs. Ryan, spending days or two woeks each time: While in New York he called Mrs. Ryan al- most daily the telephone October 7 Mrs. Ryan five children on the steam Reliance Paris, leaving nd oldest son in this conn ind Maxwell exchang ed radios daily her trip After her arrival she exchanged three or four cablegrams a week with Maxwell. On March 7, 1923, Maxwell sailed for France Paris and ex changed r Mrs. Ryan from the steamer. “It was three days later,” that Mr. sories of of the alleged Ryan and Maxwe writing of has avenue a lake and to § while on went to ten on “On with ship husband try. Mrs. Ryan & on acros: on the lios daily with the brief Ryan received the anonymous letters familiarity It is for the etters that for sserts,” first of a of Mrs. alleged Maxwell gery as well as communications Mr. Ryan as heing 43 member of the T delphia and the eldest Ir manager of one o cations. Maxwell was said to he indieted ending heen for Maloney's brief de years of ok family age, a of Phila of six children Allan A. Ryan, at Yale university and the student pubh mot of whom is a senior 32 years a whose of wh Scotlahd fictitious. T3 native of Glasgow aim tc am Maxwell was said to be Maxwell was and has daughter. ving in New York. He was separated from his wife 20 years ago. He started life according to Mr. Maloney, as = piano tuner in Scotland being a son of Rothesay apparently married 34 years a Anna MARKS AWAY DOWN New York, July 24.—Gerfaan marks & new low record. Ameri- | handling over | it | ang | sailed | her | cribes Mrs. | WORRY ABOUT IN EUROPE ITSELF fiERMAN PRINGESS S - GUILTY OF TREASON [Sent to Prison for Six | Months for Aiding Lover to Escape By The Associated Press Leipsic, July 24.—Princess Mar- guerite von Hohenlohe-Oehringen, 29, was convicted today of complicity of | treason and perjury for her part in the escape of Captain Ehrhardt, com- mander of famous “iron brigade” dur- 'ing the Kapp “putsch” of 1920. She | was sentenced to six months’ impris- | | onment. Her alleged blind infatuation for a | dashing, free-booting naval officer with whose career she was perfectly | famillar, led Princess Marguerite be- fore the bar. of the newly created court for the defense of the Republic. The Princess was charged with per- jury and with aiding in the flight of Capt. Ehrhardt, who succeeded in es- caping from the federal prison here |10 days ago. The case against him and two of his alleged accomplices have been indefinitely postponed. The proceedings were devoted to | the trial of the Princess,’ who swore before a court in Munich that she was not acquainted with Ehrhardt, while the prosecution alleges that she was at the time in daily association with him. Marguerite made an effort to be brave as she stepped before the | presiding judge, but the contradictions and seeming evasions which marked 3 Court’s Ruling is in Har- mony With Edict Issued by State’s Attorney Carmody Who Asserts “Wet” Clubs Also ' Must Close | | | Waterbury, July 24.—Waterbury's |saloons must go. Such is the sub |stance of a warning given this mosfi- ing by Judge John F\. MeGrath, i the city court, who stated from the bench that all persons found guilty of viglas- ing the liquor law in the future ywould be given jail sentences. |also stated that no one would be |given the privilege of dismantiing he saloon In the future, all the violators | to be treated allke receiving jaidsen~ tences. Judge McGrath took this gection when Alex Klun of 706 North River- South Leonard street both charged with violating the liquor law, were brought before his this moraing., These two accused were allowed to| dismantle their | weeks or return to the city court-and be sentenced. The judge's action this mmfin‘ in harmony with an edict State's Attorney Terence F. cumndy. who has announced that all saloons and clubs where liquor is sold .must ' close absolutely. 'MEMORIAL ATHLETIC FIELD '~ COMPLETE IN SEPTEMBER { her testimony soon made her pliable | in the hands of her inquisitors. Presently, in a tearful, almost in- audible volce, she launched upon recital of how she succumbed to whnt she termed FEhrhardt's hypnotic in- fluence. “When he assumed the allas of Herr Von Eschwege, 1 supposed that he meant he had abandoned his past and | bhecome a different individual, and | that he was no longer under indlet- | | ment,” the Princess explained when | Judge Schmidt reminded her that she | was famflian with Ehrhardt's record |and the fact that he was wanted for high treason. “As to the circumstance of the fugi- tive llving in her home, she said: “You see, T rented a house near Munich and the housing commission threatened to billet a stranger on me, owing to the shortage in dwellings. T therefore decided to take in Capt. Ehrhardt as a lodger. I didn't charge | him any money; he was an old ac- quaintance and also | garden."” 18 REAL ADVENTURER Real ms alleged to | | Gen, Lee Christmas, Hero of worked in my | Supt. Wainwright Says Sports May Be Enjoyed in Willow Brook | Park Soon | | Memorfal Athletic field in the Wil- |low Brook park will be ready for use by the middle of September, Park Su- | perintendent Ralph B. Wainwgight said this morning. If the American | Legion wishes to stage athletic events in connection with its state convention | | al the grounds will be availablp @uring . the convention " days. This part of the park has Dbeen | dedicated to the service men of New Britain whe died in the World War. |A first class running track will be | constructed and fields for baseball and | football are to be laid out. Work is progressing rapidly on oth- er features of the park plans. The | drainage system over which consider- able anxiety was felt is working to perfection, Mr. Walnwrlght finds. ODTBREAK IN FRANKFORT anhllv Prosecutor Killed, Wife and Father Maltreated, In Communist Disturbances—Peace Restored. Richard Harding Davis' “Soldiers of | Ready to Start Again. New,Orleans, July 24.—Gen. Christmas after having, as he pressed it, grave” lies in a hospital here but with the prospect of getting out some- time this week. He already is plan- ning another venture in Central Am- erica. This time the man who has had a finger in the Latin-American revolutionary pie for the last 30 vears nd around whom Richard Harding Davis wove his character Clay, hero of the novel “Soldlers of Fortune," Is going gunning for oil in Guate- mala The general is convalescing after a battle of 11 months with tropic fever and a bullet within inch of his heart, relic of a jungle fray, has come to life recently and is worrying ’ him Fortune™ Lee ex- 1 an RAIDER IS SLAIN | Little Rock Detective Shot and Com- panion Wounded While Trying to Capture Diamond Thieves, Little Rock, Detective George and killed and L. tective was seriously today when they attempted to raid a house here where diamond thieves were re- ported to have made their appearance in an effort to dispose of stolen gems. All of the dwelling escaped Ark w C Inly 24.—City Moore was shot Gay another de- wounded occupants of the Rupert Hughes, Author, Is Honored by Polish Govt. 24.--Rupert auth n picture di- has been decorated by the Polish government with the order of Polonia Restituta grade of officer, ac cording to word from Washington to the Goldwyn studios here. During the world war Hughes was a major in the army intelligence service and wumhnd in r‘«n-h affairs, July motic Angeles, and rector Helene C had\\ |ck \umg To Divorce Her Husband fos Angeles, July 24.-—Helene Chadwick. motion picture actress, yes- terday filed suit for divorce from Wil- liam Wellman whom she charged with desertion “pulled one foot from the | She asked the court! to restore her maiden name, Mary| | Helene Chadwick. | | By The Associated Pres: London, July 24.—Reuter's Berlin correspondent confirms report of com- ! munist disturbances in Frankfort. He says it was the public prosecutor, Dr. Haas, who was killed yesterday and that his wife and father also were maltreated. Dr. Haas' wife and father were in- jured while the prosecutor's private residence was being ransacked and Dr. Haas himself was so severely handled that he succumbed to his injuries. The police eventually restored order. In response to an appeal from the soclal democratic and communist parties and the trade unions about 100,000 persons demonstrated yester- day against “usury and fascism" the Reuter message states. After the meeting of the demonstrants adjourn- ed collisions with the police occurred in varfous parts of the town. All the shops the message adds, | were closed. |Glass Quits Pictures Till Freed of Charges Los Angeies, July 24.—Gaston Glass, motion picture actor and former stage protege of Sarah Bernhardt, has an- nounced his retirement from the screen until he has been cleared of police court charges growing out of a vaid upon a residence in the Holly- wood district several weeks ago. Glass, Louis J. Glasnire, motion pie~ ture director and Mrs. Helen McClos- key and Miss Alma Rhoades, screen actresses were arrested at Mrs. Me- Closky's residence. a \mencan Farm Implements Are to Be Used in Turkey New York, July 24.—A contract to supply American agrienltural machin- ery and to introduce modern agricul- tural developments in Turkey has heen signed by the Turkish govern- ment and the Ottoman-American De- velopment Co., owner of the “Chester concessions” the company announced today. The contract it was stated 18 tor six years and is guaranteed by the Turkish government Woman Is Selected for Home Economics Leader Washington, July 24.—Dr. Louige Stanley, a native of Nashville, Tenn., and now dean of home economics at the University of Missouri, Columbus, Mo., has been selected by Secretary Wallace to head the newly established Isume her duties September L. N The judge | | side street and Peter Vilinas of 43| caloons withio 8Swo 1 bureau of home economics of the de- partment of agriculture. She will as-