New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 31, 1923, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 WILL INVOKE PADLOCK LAW W IN ORDER TO CLOSE EVERY SALOON NOW IN NEW HAVEN e s o ) 1 Underwood Announces | He Is Willing to Be ! Democratic Nominee v o Police Chief Serves No- tice and Asks Aid of State’s Attorney and City Prosecutors Conn. Federation of Church- es, at Hartford, Starts Movement for Respect of 18th Amendment. New Haven, July ers of this city were no police today to dism:\nlla and to stop selling liquor. prosecutors will jointly s»n'l"b tices to the saloon keepers selling liquor or injunctions v\g served on them. Police officelgs®y &4 report to Chief Smith as to the & ~& G of each saloon keeper. % ‘s ief of Police Sm ’A & 2 \ OSCAR UNDERWOOD antgomery, Ala., July 31.—In an ss before the Mobile delegation Alabama legislature, this - at a local hotel, Senator Os- The Chief’s Letter The letter of . tequesting support of State's Attorney Alling, E. 8. Pickett, prosecutor of the sommon pleas court and Sheridan |“ Under{\\:frl‘ declurl‘t:m!s:lg: i‘tf W , city attorney said: t£ @ onry of Alabama r d it, l‘(;i‘,:‘:]l;:ps. i 4 | Ui #nis hat was “in the ring for the “In order to assist me in enforcing | Wfslde"cy % the laws relative to the sale, posses- LuSisRnot Atorsin e oaTAmE Ag: sion and transportation of intoxicat- | Pama’s candidate for president of the United States, but this great state 1 " \ ivr‘afinlli!t{]uo!;se. L v:g;x‘l(dp ’;Zq‘:;“q,‘,;.“,,l{,‘d)g: names me as her standard bearer, all : O |'the fighting spirit I have will be en- :l‘n persons identified with such traf- | 8 JEEENE B s call to it e | triumph.” The notice requested is but prelim- | “y "o ator was introduced inary to application for an injunction, Governor W. W. Brandon, who de- &8 provided by the law, which will ab- clared he was commissioned to say solutely close such premises for a that Alabama demanded that he period of one year. “throw his hat in the ring and make “We assure you now that vou shall | 5 fight to place democracy have and continue to have our imme- | sontrol of national affairs.” He pre- diate and complete support in the en- |gented Mr. Underwood as the senior forcement of the laws of the United | senator from Alabama, ‘“the States, the laws of Connecticut, and | president of the United States.” the ordinances of the city of New Senator Underwood told his audi- Haven, applicable to the situation that|ence that he had been designed by you describe."” some critics as a “wet” but that he The letter incindes: objected to a government heing run “It would seem to be highly ad- WILL PRAY FOR PRESIDEN T Protestants, Catholics and Jews of New Britain will be asked to- morrow to attend church and synagogue to offer prayers fqr divine me ¢y and the speedy recovery of President Warren G. Harding who is ‘eported as critically ill. There will be masses at the Catholic chi sches, special services for the Jewlsh people and open churches for she Protestants. Average Daily Week Ending July 28th . 9 186 £L41?226NH?' CJEII?ZD41MLI’.ZZZL éfl?l)lfllflk? , SOME IMPROVEMENT, DOCTORS STATE; SICK WITH BRONCHIAL PNEUMONIA Prayers were offered in the Catholic churches at masses this morning and<they will be repeated tomorrow morning, Rev. John T, Winters, pastor of 8t. Mary's church, said today. The majority of Protestant churches will have their doors open all day tomorrow and it is suggested that members of the various churches gather at times during the day to offer prayers. It is especially suggested that in the Protestant churches the people gather between 12 and 1 o'clock at noon, Rev. Samuel Sutcliffe, rector of St. Mark's Episcopal church, stated today that the church will be open during the entire day and other ministers who will have their churches open for prayer are Rev. ‘William Ross at the First Baptist, Rev. Henry W. Maler at the First Congregational, Rev., G. E, Pihl at the Swedish Bethany, 1. I. Neu- man in the absence of Rev. John I. Davis at the Methodist church, Deacon 8. H. Woods in the absence of Rev. Dr, George W. C. Hill at the South church, Rev. M. W, Gaudian at the St. John's German Lutheran church, Rev, C. H. Schneck at the German Baptist, Rev, Dr, Abel Ahlquist at the First Lutheran church.” Oscar Marsh, in the ab- sence of Rev. Rayvmond Gilman of the Stanley Memorial Congrega- tional church has asked that members of that church join with the members of the First or South Congregational church in oftering their prayers, Itabbi J. H. Arnass has asked that his people meet this evening at 7 ®'clock and again at 12 tomorrow noon at the Hebrew schoo! hall on Elm street to offer prayers. Regular services will not be conducted in the Protestant churches but the people are asked to LATEST BULLETINS FROM SICK ROOM By The Assoclated Press. Presidential Headquarters Palace Hotel, San Francisco, July 31.—Definite indications of the improvement in the condition of | President Harding were contained in an official bulletin issued at | 10 a. m. today by, the attending physicians. The bulletin: “The president had a fairly comfortable night with consid- erable rest and sleep. “His temperature at 9 a. m. is 100; pulse 120; respiration | 40, and regular. There has been no expansion of the pneumonic areas and the heart action, is definitely improved. “Nourishment and fluids are being taken regularly. Elimina- tion is satisfactory. “He expresses himself as feeling better and less exhausted. “C. E. Sawyer, M. D.; Ray Lyman Wilbur, M. D.; C. O. | Cooper, M. D.; J. T. Boone, M. D.; Hubert Work, M. D.” Gen. Sawyer’s informal statement was quickly communicated enter and make prayer, e by | back in | next | ¢ NEW ENGEAND HAS HAD MUCH ~G()A_L BROUGHT IN New Haven Statement Shows Excep- LOCAL GOUPLE ASSESSED $300 Jait Sentence of 30 Days Is Suspended tionally Heavy Shipments Since First of April New Haven, July 31.—A compara- tive statement as to movement of an- | thracite coal over the New York, New HAD ALCOHOLIG PARTIES | Haven & Hartford railroad was issued by the operating department today, and its figures show a greater num- Mr., and Mrs., Kaminski Entcrtained ber of cars moved for the past four months than for the same period in 1921 and 1922, The statement says: “The coal year commences April first and our figures for the first four | ! months of the coal year, namely, April, May, June and July (figures for the latter month being estimated on basis of cars so far received) in- I dicate a total of 28,263 cars of an- thracite coal received, which cém- pares with 25,986 cars for.the same period in 1921 ard 4,961 cars for the same period in 1922, this latter In\v’i figure being due to the anthracite coal Men and Young Girls Says Prose- cutor—DBoth Plead Guilty to Charge Fines totaling $500 and a 30 day suspended jail sentence for each were | given Mr., and Mrs. Martin Kaminski of Parkview avenue when arraigned before Judge B. W. Alling in police court this morning, the former on two charges of violating the liquor | law and keeping a disorderly house in reference to disturbing the neighbors | 1 pneumonia had developed and that M grave, WATERBURY TAXI-MAN He Is Missing, But Blood of driver who has been missing from his stained automobile was found by New and a woman | wife by another taxi to members of the presidential party and soon there was a notice- able lessening of the tension which had existed about the execu- tive quarters since last night when announcement was made that r. Harding’s condition was REVIEW OF ACTIVITY CAUSING BREAKDOWN 7.500 Miles of Travel and 60 Speeches, Part of Presi- dent’s Tasks IS THOUGHT MURDERED Spattered Car Is Found in New York State Waterbury, July 31.—Weslie Trinyle 67 Burton street, this city, taxi San Francisco, July* 31.—Here is the work performed and difficulties undergone which wore down Pref dent Harding’s physical condition so that what was believed at first to be but a mild case of ptomaine poison- ing developed into serious illness.*® home since Saturday and whose blood York state troopers on a deserted road in Bedford Village, N. Y. 15 miles from here yesterday afternoon, was employed by three young men to drive them from he Waterbury ,railroad . station to Bridgeport Saturday afternoon. This nformation was furnished to Trinyle's driver toda automobile approximately 7,600 miles. He delivered 60 speeches, of which 13 were set addresses and represented careful and laborious preparation be- tfore hand and exposed himself to all orts of weather and arduous condi- [ | | He covered by train, steamship and | | Attending physicians say that his weakened con- dition is handicap in present sickness. Later Bulletins However, Assumed Decidedly: More Favorable Tone Though Qutcome Is Not-Certain. By The Associated Press. Presidential Headquarters, Palsce Hotel, San Francisco, July 81.—Paasl- dent Harding, characteristically oalm and determined, is fighting the gpeat- est battle of his career—a struggle in which his life is at stake. Is Weakened Physically. Arraigned against him are broncho- pneumonia, symptoms of which were discovered by the attending physic-. ians late last night, and also the dan- ger of other complications. Arrayed in his favor are his calm determina- tion, a subsidence of the earlier ab- dominal trouble and the hopes and prayers of a nation. His handicap is an admittedly weakened physioal re- sistance. Make No Predictions, None of the five attending phyaice : jans will predict the outcome, al= though all are optimistic. No word came from the sick room during the early hours today, it having been agreed after a bulletin was issued at 9:15 o'clock last night that no ad- ditional formal statement would be made until about eight o‘clock this morning unless there occurred a de- cided change one way or the other. So, to those who wait, no news.1s con= sidered good news. Right Lung Affected. The 9:1% bulletin, ' issued after a | consultation of the five physiclans at- tending the president, contained the first announcement that broncho- | tions pneumonia had developed in the right b o | lung, authough a statement given out wz:fi‘ ;{:‘:s ,h(t S::V,"n?n“: :;;e:l::“;tsl four hours previously had spoken of H:’ mulr?mx:cd Lfl":(m connta:;‘ “evidence of some congestion in one AR f § | lung.” It also conveyed the first au- touch with his office and transacted | ¢y oritative Information that:his con- much official business. dition had turned from ‘‘serious to e RS P Y gra.\'e." | by nicknames, So far as he was con- visable for thoge who are violating the | cerned, he said, the decision of the laws to quit now. country on the 18th amendment which he had opposed, was final. Churches Start Move. “Now that it is a part of our law, Hartford, July 31.—-Concerted ef-!I am in favor of its enforcement," forts to urge upon the people of Con- Senator Underwood declared. He re- necticut . the necessity for enforcing|peated his previous explanations of the law and 'of observing the edicts State and Waterbury police are com bining in an effort to locate the mem- bers of this party in the hope that they will be able to furnish informa- {tion which will lead to the finding of Trinyle either dead or alive. It is feared Trinyle was attacked, robbed and elther slain or serfously injured and then dragged toc some deserted and the latter for violating the liquor | strike last year. law. IKKaminskl was fined $200 on the |~ “This is considerably more coal liquor charges, $100 on the disorder- | than has been brought into New Eng- ly house tharge and given a 30 day |'and by the New Haven for any first suspended jall sentence. Mrs, Kamin. | four months perlod of the coal year, ski was fined $200 and costs on the | With ome excepflon, namely, 1915, liquor charge and also given a 80 day | Uring Which year there was fthe s | 1argest number of cars of coal re- suspended jail sentence. Charges of celved ‘of any year of which we have Pulse Runs High. his vote on the Volstead law. ‘‘The of prohibition, have been started by |difficulty confronting us,” he said, “is the Connecticut Federation of | not more law, but enforcement of the Churches, working in co-operation present laws."” with the judiciary and bar nssorianan of the state, 2 . Definite plans for the campaign were completed Monday In 4 confer- | ence held in Bridgeport between Chief . Justice George W. Wheeler and the Rev. Morris E. Alling, secretary of | SHIPSTEAD GIVES LIE e et T0 GABINET OFFICIAL According to the plans, all churches | (| in the state will be asked to co-oper- ’( ha”enges Statement on ate in bringing to the people the um (mp%—Brookha]t AS- sailed by Mer: edith importance of creating a change of 1eeling concerning the enforcement of all laws and particularly prohibition | Jaks. Pastors of the churches will be urged to preach frequently upon th phase of publlc duty, and it is ex pected that the campaign will ecul- minate in the observaton of a law enforcement Sunday, early in the fall, when speclal exercises will be held by religious and civic organiza tions. The detailed work of the movement | has been placed in the hands of the committee on law enforcement of the| Connecticut Federation of Churches| ahd will be directed by Harrisen B. Freeman, chairman of the commit- tee, and the Rev. Morris E. Alling, gecretary of the federation. \"'mht‘r: of the bar will be asked to speak to church and civic organizations on the eubject of law enforcement, and thej| judiciary brought through the direc- tion of Chief Justice Wheeler will be Minneapolis, 31.—President Harding session of Congress to deal withe ag- ricultural problems at a conference here yesterday, attended by Senators Brookhart of Iowa, Lynn J. Frazier of North Dakota and Senator-elect Magnus Johnson and stead of Minnesota. The telegram was sent to the Pres- ident at San Francisco with the re- quest that it be “delivered when the president's health permitted.” Senator-elect Shipstead that he has reliable information that the report of the secretary of agri- | culture that there are 200,000,000 bushels of wheat surplus is erroneous. July gource . that there is very little sur plus,” he said “1 have investigated | this information afd I am willing to accept it rather than the department of agriculture report.” “If it is true,” RBroekhart inter- especially active in the movement. | rupted, “that the secretary of agri- culture’s report on the surplus is not HARLAN IS WOUNDED | true, then he is the worst scoundrel Film Star and Former Lyceum Play- |in the country.” er Accidentally Shot While Filming 5y e Acsociated b was urged to call an extra! Henrik Ship- | declared | “I have information from a reliable | keeping a house of ill fame and en- ticing women to the house which had been preferred against Kaminski were nolled by Prosecutor Joseph G. Woods who presented the state's case. Attorney Willlam Mangan appeared for the accused. Plead Guilty { Mr. and Mrs. Kaminski pleaded guilty to the charges preferred against |them, Prosecutor Woods in summing up the history in the case stated that on Sunday ef last week, Detective Sergeant William P. McCue, Police- men Patrick’ O'Mara and Thomas Feeney visited the Kaminski home on ( Parkview street on complaint and ar- rested the couple for violating the (Cont!nued on Fifth Page). ' POLICE AR R ARE RECALLED | and Retwrn to Duty When Trolley- men Vote to Strike Tonight. | | Newark, N | of trolleymen tabulated | showed that in this district 1429 were for the strike and 31 against, William | Wepner, head of the | union, announced Director of Public Safety Brennan of this city ordered cancellation of | police vacations despite assurance of the traction company which serves | most of New Jersey, that no strike- | breakers would be employed. | Employes of the FPubllc | Railway company’s Iines in Newark, Paterson, Camden, Jersey City, Eliza- beth, New Brunswick and other New Jersey towns today voted overwhelm- | ingly in favor of a strike to begin at | midnight tonight to obtain their de- Newark Bluecoats Must Cut Vacations J., July 31.—The strike early today trolleymen’s | Service | record."” DRY CRUSADERS ACTIVE During Past Month Govt. Made 1,175 Arrests Yellowley, chief agent, penalties aggregating $474,00, quarters, bition directors and sgnnt | Three Suspects Held in Scranton Murder- Sranton, Pa., July 31.- conviction of the seven who vesterday held up an | car near Moosic, ing with a $70,125 payroll, biggest man-hunts in the history northwestern Pennsylvania was progress today. Three suspects rested In Wilkesbarre were still | custody today. Arch Henshall, | pany from whom the payroll taken, and the two guards who fy the prisoners as bandits. Catherine the car was positive, they were. however, Agents and Recom- mened Total of 1.8351 Prosecmtions. Washington, July 81.—Federal pro- hibition agents operating under E. C. made’ 1,175 arrests last month and recommended 1,351 prosecutions involving taxes and it was announced today at prohibition head- The figures, it was said, do not include operations of state prohi- Robbery ~Spurred by the offer of $2,500 for the arrest and highwaymen clectric killing one passen- ger, wounding four others and escap- one of the | ar- the paymaster of the West End Coal com- | was ac- companied him were unable to identi- Mrs, Choostick, a passenger on that To Address A. F. L Meeting FOR SELECTIVE POLICY Investigator Thinks Some Foreign Governments spot and left to die. A canvas of hos- | pitals and surgeons was to be made today to determine whether or not the missing man had been treated for injuries, | Labor Department Ridgefield, Conn,, July 31.-—The taxicab of Waslie Trinyle of Water- bury was found by New York State troopers who had been notified by |‘as if some governments arelsending residents on a road in Bedford Vil- |their social inadequates to the United lage, N. Y., fifteen or more miles from | States to avoid their custodial care’ here, that the vehicle had been in |Mrs. Muriel Lynch Crichton, an in- one place from Saturday afternoon |vestigator sent by the labor depart- until yesterday afternoon. ment to study immigration in Europe, ‘When the troopers looked the car [reported today to Acting Secretary over they notified the state police | Edward J. Henning. barracks here and the state officers Recommending a ‘'selective poliey” sent word to Waterbury in order to | Mrs. Crichton added that she had begin tracing the driver of the car. heard of “young criminals receiving It was hoped to get more definite | suspended sentences on condition that | information about the car during the | they emigrate to the United States.” day. The road on which the car was | “The selection of prospective immi- found is not well travelled and for |grants should be made overseas,” she this reason information about it was |said. not earlier received. The New York troopers have begun a search of the country around Bedford Village but | no report has been received from them this morning. No further information came to | the police barracks here from the New York troopers who are making an inquiry in Bedford Village as to the automobile party. It is under- stood that the articles in the front seat of the cab which showed stains apparently of blood were the tire jack, and a hammer used in putting on tires. These are usually carried in the tool box but the fact that they were in the front seat and showed signs of use.as weapons led the troopers to surmise that the driver of the vehicle had been struck with these. At the state barracks here it is not known what means the New York troopers have taken to search for | Trinyvle and his passengers. The | Are Sending Undesirables Here Washington, July 31:~It| SISLER HOPES T0 PLAY Baseball Fans Will Welcome News | That Great Player May of | in Game Again This Season, St. Louis, July 31.—George today asserted he had high hopes of playing with the St. Louis Americans | | before the season ended. {that his vision was much improved, |and that he was able to hit a golf ball with regularity. Persons who have | watched Sisler on the links quality of his game indicates no evi- dence of seriously impaired vision. |W. Va. Sheriff Is Killed As He slept in His Bed in appears | The hulletin also contained rays of hope, for it said that “nourishment is being taken regularly and that ab- dominal symptoms are less notice- able’” and that the chief executive as “tempermentally well adapted to make a strong fight against the infee- tion.” Another favorable statement was that his temperature was re- maining about constant at 101 de- grees, even though his pulse contin- ned at about 125, as compared with his normal of 80 and his respiration was about 44. X-Ray Is Used, The broncho-pneumonia syraptoms. described in the bulletin as “definite central patches” were discovered both clinically and by the x-ray which was used yesterday afternoon and contin- ued to be uged during the night. All of the physiclans who have been called in spent the night within easy reach of the executive's bedside, and Brig. Gen. Chdrles E. Sawyer, his | personal physician, and Lieut. Comdr, | Joel T. Boone, assistant to Gen. Saw- | yer, were in the sick room nearly all Get Into | say the [here Sunday morning, | the strain | of the type | the time. ¢ Dr. Work Is Disturbed. Dr. Hubert Work, secretary of the { interior, who has participated in ail consultations, visited the president's room from time to time. Dr. Work, | who from the first has been most Sisler | calm, appeared perturbed for the first when at nine o'clock last night soon nmn he announced that a bulletin He added | Would be forthcoming None was more faithful at the pres- ident's bedside than Mrs. Harding, who since the executive was brought has obtained | little sleep or rest. General Sawyer | said that Mrs. Harding was standing well, adding that she was “who is bhest under fire,” Determined, he said, to give the | American people all the facts in the Legion Commander Plans Indianapolis, July 31.—Alvan Ows- ley, national commander of the case of the president, General Saw- ver last night had a long talk with Connecticut officers may not cross the | Beckley, W. V., July 31.—A few | line but are ready to give any needed Des Moines, July 31 Declaring | mand for a thirty per cent wage in- “The Virginian” in the West. that Senator Smith W. Brookhart of | crease and improved working condi- today, Towa had never exhibited sufficient Los Angeles, Cal, July 31.—Ken-| 'sustained exertion” to neth Harlan, film actor, accidentally shot himself yesterday while filming| ™ 2 scene in “The Virginian" on loca- agriculture, pointed out to the Asso- tion a few miles from Los Angeles. |Clated Press today that the grain He was supopsed to make a quick farmer will receive $500,000,000 more draw, but the gun caught in the hol- | for his crop in 1923 than he did in ster and was exploded, [ 1922, in spfte of the slump in the The bullet made a long wound in;m{f_l‘_‘hg‘f_fiw’-:wno. ; ! igh and forced a, bit| a conspiracy among cer- Harlan’s right thigh and force 4 I Bt el e of his overalls into the leg. Dr. J. J. O'Brien sald the wound itself was not f‘“ "“"’P(ry"'“‘"' and :l“n”mw the serious, but feared blood poisoning ‘:”':‘n:'k“ nnn:’"‘:l ':;Pp“lf 2::;":’;9&:: T ter ent a d he star Gollapecd after 1hh SOciAent:| genelt whieh oin . be used to the) Harlan will be remembered as n‘;’;“}ih sdvantage of thoss taking part former leading man at the Lyceum |, b o0 00 b0 eked theater and, incldentally, it will be re-| T SCOEE SHOOCMIT Tl o de membered that he made his initial DERS S rors P S0 MR SVRTEN O , { partment of agriculture he wouk ppearance on the Lyceum stage as 2 e the hero in this same play which he|Nave found that on July 1, 1922, corn 2 The ‘»fl, infan.” | was 62.2 cents and on the same date L | this year it was 86.5 cents per bushel { Winter wheat slumped from 93 cents {to 87 cents per bushel, oats increased American Repmted Blain |G a1 ceafe-ts 2.5 conts per By Radicals in Mexico | bushel. These prices were taken as E. Paso, Tex., July 31. —Mexican | of July 1 each year and they are the correspondents for newspapers pub-|farm prices, not the prjce at market- lished in El Paso telegraphed that M.|ing centers, from which transporta- Marion, an Amaerican, who managed | tion charges have to be deducted.” e electric light and power company | s e B Ofisabs, Vera Cris. . Mex was| DEBTS $12.108; ASSETS. 8875 stabbed to death yesterday by radk‘ah New Haven, July 31.—Mohammed workmen on the streets of the town. ‘\l Quadruddin, a Danbury merchant, Several crimes during the past few|has debts of $12,708 and assets of weeks were committeed by the radi-| $875 according to papers of his fall- ~<ia. the correspondents alleged. | ure filed today. get at facts, | T. Meredith, former secrettary of | | tions. | Terrific Floods do Great | Damage in Maryland Areas Baltimore, Md.,, July 31.—After causing heavy damage to property,the | flood which swept the counties west |and northwest of Baltimore reached its crest early today and slowly start- | ed: to recede. The flood was cansed | by cloudbursts, causing the Patapsco | river to overflow its banks driving hundreds of families from homes. Rescue parties fought | through the darkness and rising wa- ".rs to save families whose homes | were marooned. Richmond, Va., July 31 and electrical storm during which the local weather bu- rean reported 7.26 inches of rain fell. Scores of persons were made home- One man is missing and esti- of the damage range from to $500,000, less. mates $250,000 27 REPORTED KILLED By The Associated Press. Berlin, July 31.—Twenty-seven per- sons are reported killed apd 25 in- jured in a collision today between the | Hamburg-Munich express and a sta- | tionary train at Krejnsen station near In “assal. their| —Extensive | | damage was caused by a cloudburst| here last night| | American T.Agion, wention of the of Labor, in October 16 to Poraltnd, 13, it was here today. legion officials declared, in the northw has accepted an in- vitation to address the national con- American Federation Oregon, an- nounced at headquarters of the Iegion The industrial workers of the world, have made a bitter attack on the American Legion | HIGH TIDES o August 1 (Standard Time) | At New Haven— ] 1:45 a. m.; | At New London— 12:32 p. m. | 2:14 p. m. | % i | | THE WEATHER | —o0 |’ Hartford. July 31.—Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: l Unsettled, probably occasional ; light showers without important B changes tonight gentle winds, temperature and Wednesday. i mostly easterly. l« of alleged hootleggers early Deputy Sheriff Luther M. Foster was | shot to death as he lay asleep in his home here. The assassin placed a block of wood under a window and from this position fired both barrels of a shot-gun at the deputy. assistance from tthis side of the state border. Tax on Beer in Gelmanv Going to Be Increased By The Associated Press. Berlin, July 31.—The German cab- rlnnt today adopted taxation measures | with the purpose of supplying the |.country with the money it needs owing | to the depreciation of the mark. The| | bills provide for a 100 per cent in- % | crease in the income tax to meet the | expenditure necessitated by*the ocen- | pation of the Rhineland amd the Ruhr. { | The beer tax witl be increased. New Haven Road Official Boston, July 31.—Elmer H. Morse, assistant superintendent of the Boston division of the New York, New Haven & teday when he was struck by an au- tomobile shortly after he had \eft his Lome in the Jamaica Plain district. Samuel Chevitz, driver of the automo- bile ,was held on a charge of man- | slaughter. MACK QUITS MOVIES Los Angeles, July 31.—Wiilar Mack, actor and playwright, just re- | covering from what was described as a nervous breakdown, had practically retired from motion pictures as an actor, but would con- | tinue as an advisirer to a producer. PRAY FOR H’\Rnl\(- New York, July 31.—Several hun- dred children prayed today at the In- stitutional Synagogue for the recovery of President Harding. At the sugges- |tion of Representative Isaac Siegel, the 121st psaims, the president's fa- vorite was read A message of sym- pathy was sent to Mrs. Harding by the United Synagogue of America with | {25,000 members. SIX ARE INDICTED New York, July 31.—8ix indict- WU A e fidnls were ‘returned today againat FIRE DESTROYS CHURCH Louis Montgomery Kardos, formerly | = Attica, N. Y., July 31.—Fire late head of the stock brokerage concern yesterday afternoon destroyed St. Pa- of Kardos & Burke which failed last | trick’s church at Java Center after # | year for more than $2,000,000. lightning had struck the spire. hours after he had arrested a number i | newspapermen, discussing the condi- Run Down, Killed by Auto | Hartford railroad was killed early | announced he | p | lose his job. tion of the executive in non-technical language and answering all questions. President Very Weak, In his talk, General Sawyer said a fight was on between the attacking | forces, as repreSented in complications | pilot boat, (Continued on Thirteenth Page.) FEARED FOR HIS J0B That Was Greatest Worry of Man, and Buffeted About in Sea For Several Hours. Swept Overhoard New York, July 31.-—~Swept off the scow Sea Horse by a heavy wave and | buffetted for several hours by choppy eas in Ambrose channel, yesterday, oseph Palestro was picked up by & Although near death fromr exhaustion, Palestro told his rescuers his only worry was whether he would TAKE OVER FIVE MINES % Duesseldorf, July 31. — French | troops today occupied five coal mines in the town of Doorstfeld. The mins ers immediately quit work and the . French forbade them to reenter the premises,