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

New;unf the World By Associated Press NEW Flood in Colorado Sweeps Away Homes of 1000 People Causes $1,000,000 Damages COAL PRODUGTION COST INCREASES VERY MUCH Federal Commission Sub- mits Data as to Greater Mining Difficulties Irrigation Dam To Res- ervoir Gives Way And Wall of Water Inundates Country (! Jong River Banks. ‘Washington, Aug. 23.—The cost of {labor in production of one ton of an- | thracite increased from $1.62 in 1916 |to $3.97 in the first quarter of 1928 the U. 8. Coal Commission announced |today in a report giving the result of | its exhaustive study into production costs in the hard coal industry. The | report called attention, however, that while labor costs formed 61.6 per cent of the sales realization price in 1913, they had dropped to 59.5 per cent in 1923. Based upon sworn reports from 140 producers, representing 98 per cent of the total output, tRe commission’s study considered in great detail every phasg of the financial side of anthra- cite production., Separate analysis were made of operators classed as railroad companies larger independ- ents and small independents, a final comparison being made of the returns from 13 companies who supplied com- prehensive reports for the January- March period of 1923. In the case of fen railroad com- panies the commission found the la- bor expense factor to be $3.92 for the first quarter of this year, compared with $3.90 in October-December, 1922, supplies unchanged at $0.71, general expense $0.91 compared with $0.87, and the total “F. O. B.” cost $5.64 compared with $5.48. With a sales realization of $6.58 p®r ton this gave the companies under study a “mar- gin” of $1.04 a ton as compared with $1.01 in the final quarter of last year. Three representative independents vere shown to have paid $4.44 a ton to labor in 1923 against $4.45 in Oc- tober=December 1922; $0.80 for sup- plies against $0.68 and $1.08 for gen- eral expenses instead of $1.07 the to- tal cost of production being $6.32 against $6.20. With an average sales price of $7.57 this year, the independ- ents received a margin of §$1.26 against $1.16 in the fourth quarter of 1922, ““This margin cannot be considered net return to the operator,” the report said, “It is practically equivalent to net operating income before payment of interest or federal taxes. It is not a good measure for trying to arrive |at relative profits of different opera- tions, ‘With special regard to indicated in- Cattle, Trees and Houses Swept Along—No Loss of Life Yet Known, Pueblo, Colo., -Aug. 23.—TFertile farms and ranches in the Ankansas valley in southeastern Colorado ex- perienced one of the worst floods in recent years last night and early this morning when an immense irrigation reservoir on the Apishapa rver north of Fowler cracked and precipitated a great rush of water down the val- ley. The reservoir built two years ago by farmers of the valley was more than 100 feet deep and had a storage capacity suffcient to irrigate 20,000 acres. It drains a 90 mile watershed, but recent rains and cloudbursts in the region imposed too great a strain on the structure and part of it gave way. High Wall of Water. A wall of water variously estimated at from ten to 20 feet high rushed down the valley. The break had been toreseen, however, and telephone warnings had been sent out so that residents in the path of the flood had time to escape to higher ground. No loss of life had been reported early this morning. It was reported from various part: of the valley that the loss in livestock would be considerable and that great damage to farms, buildings, crfops and | highways resulted. lstimates early| today were that the loss probably would reach $1,000,000. The famous Rocky IFord cantaloupe belt was in the path of the flood aid the crop, which was just dabout ready to be harvested, was practically destroyed. Flood Sweeps On. As the wall of water rushed onward it spread out until it covered a course from two to three miles wide, This morning, with the crest of the water still moving forward, the inundated area was approximately 50 miles long. Telephone communication with the valley towns was destroyed early in!crease in labor costs, the report said: the night, but shortly before day-| ‘“Two important facts should be light messages got through to Fowier, | kept in mind. Only a part of the in- Ordway and la Junta. crease is due to increased wage scales, I"ears were expressed that La Junta|a part being attributable to the would suffer severely when the flood | 8reater amount of labor necessary in waters reached that point far down the | later years to produce a ton of coal, valley. Damage to other towns in the |due to physical changes in the mines, district, it was believed will not be |ete. Another consideration which ap- great. At the town of Hider, 1,200 |plies to labor costs as well as other feet of Santa Ie railroad track was washed out and power and telephone lines were down. Cattle in Water. Tho Associated Press, Fowler, Colo.,, Aug. 23.—Approxi- mately 1,000 persons are homeless to- day and damage estimated at $1,000,- 000 has been done by flood waters which rushed down the valleys of the Apishapa and Arkansas rivers yester- day and today following the breaking of an irrigation project dam near here. Five hundred persons have moved out of the danger zone in North La Junta, according to word received here, and approximately that number fled from their homes in the valley below the dam. Observers saw a dozen houses, and many cafcasses of cattle and horses as well as huge trees, tumbling along on the crest of the flood after the dam broke yester- day. The wall of water swept the valley from the dam which is 36 miles south of Fowler to the junction of the Apis- hapa and the Arkansas river three miles east of here, traveling at a speed of five miles an hour. Then it swelled the flood in the Arkansas which be- cause of recent rains and cloudbursts, already had risen to a point near that attained during the disastrous | Pueblo flood of June, 1931. The city of Fowler is not in the path of the flood. i Crops in the lowlands for many miles along both rivers have been de- stroyed, it is declared. The flood waters were expected to reach Lamar, Colo. late today and residents in the lowlands there were moving to higher ground. ‘When the dam washed out, a wall of water 26 feet high swepf down the channel of the Apishapa river then spread out over a territory a mile| wide. As it spread out the depth de-| creased to four or five feet observers sald, but took trees, houses and live- stock in its path. g of the dollar 1913 than in the purchasing power was much greater in 1923, “The labor cost each successive year has either equalled or exceeded the previous year except that, following the strike year 1922, the labor cost for January-March 1923, was lower.” Average cost of supplies was given as 85 cents per ton in 1913 when it was 13.3 per cent of the realized price and 72 cents per fon in 1923 when it formed 10.7 per cent receipts. Similarly “general expenses” was shown to have increased from *33 to 92 cents per ton in 10 years but to have decreased from 12.5 to 11.5 when figured agairst sales realization. By Leaders for G. 0. P. Alderman D pleased by Police Depart- ment Probe cil. Alderman Peter J. Pajewski of th fifth ward, a republican, today issucd a statement denouncing the actions his fellow republican members of tif« | common council who introduced and supported a resolution at the last ses- sion naming a committee to investi- gate the police department. The fifth warder is the third of thc city's six aldermen who have con- demned the G. O. P. members actions and of the three, two are affiliated | with that political party, the &ther Reach Ia Junta being Alderman John F. Gill of the By The Assoclated Press. La Junta, Colo., Aug. 23.—Flood waters rushing down the Arkansas river after the breaking of an irriga- tion project dam near Fowler late yes- terday reached La Junta at 8 o'clock this morning. The river rose gradually. Shortly after 8 o'clock the high wa- ter began tearing away the approach to the North La Junta bridge. | vote had been taken on the measure Alderman Pajewski |city on his vacation and Alderman Frank ‘L. Conlon of the sixth, a dem- ocrat and the only one of that politi- cal faith selected for service on the committee. was also away. and Conlon, Pajewski objects chiefly | to the action of naming the committee |instead of allowing the mayor to se- lect those who shall serve. The alder- man asserted that his fellow republi- cans are evidently attempting to gm- BELGIUM REPLY Rrusséls, Aug. 23. — The Belgian repiy to the British reparation note wi] sent to Paris tomorrow eve- ! ning and wii be forwarded to London | on Moaday, l (Continued on Twelfth Page) costs and to sales realization is that | Pajewski Denvances Oun Party was out of the . As was the case with Alderman Gill ‘ BRITAIN, ORDER BETTER FOOD Inmates Have Had Enough of Corned Beel and flabbage OTHER MEAT T0 BE SERVED Butter Now Provided With Only One Meal Daily and Milk Used Sparing- | ly—No Fault Found With Superin- | tendent Kibbe. The board of public charities he.‘i! issued orders to Superintendent and | Mrs. George F. Kibbe 6f the town farm that henceforth better meals must be serwed to the inmates of that | home, it having been found .after| perusal of the bills for food that beef | and corned beef were the only meats being served and that butter was fur- nished at only one meal during the | day, while milk, which is producl’d on the town farm, is being used sparingly. This condition, it was explained, | was no reflection upon the work of | Mr. and Mrs, Kibbe. In fact, it was | said, the Kibbes have rvpeatedlyr urged upon charity boards that the menu be improved. Some years ago it was found that the use of corned | and fresh beef only was not meeting | the approval of the inmates and re quests were made of the caretakers of the home that changes be made. The matter was brought before the charity board. As a result inquiries | were made at other town houses | throughout the state and when it was found that the New Britain bill of fare compared favorably with the others, the board decided to continue the use of these meats. There have been few occasions during the year! when another kind of meat or fowl was substituted, but this was on rare occasions, such as holidays. Under the.new system, already effective, butter is to be provided at all three meals, steaks, chops, ete, will be served and plenty of milk will be placed on the tables. Despite the fact that the changes| will occasion more work for Mr. and | Mrs. Kibbe the decision of the board to improve the menu meets their hearty approval. STAMBOULISKY AIDES FAGING DEATH PENALTY| Eleven Members of Cabinet To Be Tried on Serious Charges It Is Announced | By The Associated Press. | Sofia, Aug. 3.—Hleven members df | the late Stamboulisky capinet now un- der arrest will be tried on charges in- | volving the death penalty, including bribery, incitement to riot, and mur- der, Minister of Justice Smiloff an- nounced today. The accused ministers ave ' Mm. | Zografsky, Atanasoff, Raoloff, Dupari- noff, Pavloff, Marchevsky, Muravieff, Tomoff, Hourlakoff and Manoloff. | The Stambouliskey cabinet was overthrown early in June and ‘Pre- mier Stamboulisky himself was kill- ed during an alleged amsmm at res- cue. ATTEMPTED HOLD UP \\'hmod, Aug. Salvatore Love- tre, driver for a local taxi company | who arrived this morning from Pitts- fieldy Mass., reported that last night while going through Great Barring ton, two men who jumped out of a car parked beside the road ordered | him to stop. He did not stop and they fired twice, bullets going through the side curtains four inches over his head. ‘Babyish’ Action CONNECTICUT, ATTHE TOWN HOE| THURSDAY, Al ALIFORNTIA MAN WANTS TO BUTTERFLY FARM 23.—An to "‘l‘y s Re\...fi%x i John Hewlett of Hewlett plans to plant the entire tract to flowers which butterflies like and raise,the in- sects for decorators. BALDWIN PLANS T0MEET POINGARE Further Exchange' of Notes Is, Fatile, Premier’s Beliel N O sUST 23, 1923. NEWBRITAIN BINY SIX INJUR CHALLENGE WINTER '“Do Your Worst” Their Message, fo Approaching Cold Weather | Sufferers Will Be Those 'ho mly Failed to Get Fuel in During Sum- mer—Repetition of Last Year .\'o'1 | ’ Anticipated. With little or no coal in domestic inter may shiver this winter. The “Herald” made a survey of the coal dealers this morning, and so far | British By futility of a ® | lengthy. netes on the reparation issue | | Premier Baldwin has decided to meet Poincare upon the former's Aix-les- | Fremier return from his vacation at Bains, it became known today. not for- Leader Will Not Ask for Interview But Belicves That Suggestion Will Be Mecting to Be Held Later. The Assoclated Press. London, Aug. further exchange The British premier will Formally Sufficient— 23.—Recognizing the as could be ascertained there is Jess than three weeks' supply in nut and | | stove sizes on hand. yards'a fairly large quantity of egg | and pea. coal, 'which will be used as substitutes if necessary. 50 Car Qrder Cancelled. The prospects of getting more coal before September 1 .are slim, as shown by a telegram received by one f o order for 50 cars and stating frankly that it was “on account of the strike.” Without exception the coal dealers feel that if there is a strike it will not lamount to very much and that there will be little or no scarcity of coal in There is in some | coal dealer late today cancelling an | | mally ask his French colleague for an {ings to the cabinet. GOLD WEATHER MOVES Resolution | § Passed by Common (7oun-! | states and #econd ward, who spoke his feelings, /in no uncertain terms just before a| ALD. PETER J. PAJEWSKIL | } Glider Remains in Air * I Six Hours and Four Min. | » Vauville, France, Aug. 23.—Georges ]' Barb®, the French aviator fiying in || a motorless airplane, yesterday cov- ered 212 kilometres (approximately 132.5 miles) over an officially meas- |ured circuit. This i3 a record dis- tance for this fype of machine. Bar- {bot remained in the air sjx hours, !four minutes and 21 seconds. th appointment, but will make known quietly through second partics his readiness to discuss the whole repara- tion problem in the light of ¥rench premier’s latest note. The British premier feels that while in France he should profit by the suggestion contained at the end of M. Poincare’s note that I'rance was ready to discuss the indemnity problem verbally. It is thought | possible Lord Curzon, the secretary for foreign affairs, may participate |, in this conference, since he plans to remain for some time at Bagnolles, where he is at present recuperating. | Both Aix-les-Baines and Bagnoles | are within easy train distance o(j Paris. It is felt there is no immediate need | of such verbal exchange of views and |in fact that it would be preferable tr)‘ postpone it until the British govern- | ment experts charged with the study | of reparation questions have carefully | examined all the clauses of the Prench note and presented their find- The raceting, therefore in all likeli- hood will take place artér Mr. Bald- win has had his vacation and has the | considered and matured judgment of the cabinet before him. British treasury officials who e amined the financial features of the | reply said the French figures were|p wholly inadequate. They drew the inference that IFrance, after collec ing her own irreducible 26,000,000,- 000 gold marks out of the class A and B reparation bonds to cover the prop- erty devastation in the war zone, in- tended to pay her debts to the allies and the United States out of the class ¢ bonds which are generally regarded here as little more valuable than waste paper. Before his doparture Baldwin on Saturday for Aix-les- Bains, Premier Baldwin will discuss the Poincare note with such cabinet members as remain in town. p P with Mrs. | la | | 81 T0 SOUTHERN AREA i @ A Temperature Is Dropping There—32 at Conn. Point —Birds Start South o | d The first | brought \ Aug. of Washmgton, tentative touch winter | record low August temperatures early ! | today of 48 degrees at Richmond and 46 at Pittsburgh, and weather bur- eau reports indicated that the cwll breezes would spread during the next | 24 hours through South Carolina, | Georgla, Alabama and Mississippi. The unseasonable weather is ex- pected to relax somewhat tonight in | the Ohio valley and the lower Lake region, and slightly clsewhere in the northeastern scction of the country. No frost was reported to the bureau this morning but cool weather con- tinued over the northern and middié the temperature dropped | the Carolinas, | interior of the | | C | during the night in Tennessee and the Gulf States. Weather Bureau officials do, not put much faith however in the lay- | men's predictions of an early and severe winter. They cxplain the cool snap as being due to the rapld chill- ing of the atmosphere in the Polar | v m (Continued on Fourteenth Page). . AT - HIGH TIDES e August 24 (Standard Time) At New Haven— m. principal a’ Pegli where the works were unroofed and several per- | sons injured by falling tiles. Pier d’Arena the damage to the An- | veyed to the hospital. longer ‘ommittee syndicate of rent” yesterday and servants who came to buy their daily food supply to go to the headquarters of the strikers, | membership list and immediately de- | | clare a ten day strike. he city this winter. Practically all | dealers last spring warned their cus- tomers to lay in a supply, stating that coal would go up in price and that the |there was likely to be a shortage on | September 1. Shipments To City Normal This advice has been accepted to such an extent that between April 1 land the present date the shipments of | coal to New to that of months. England have been equal the entire preceding 12 In other words if New Brit- not get another pound of in does coal between this date and April 1 it wi 11l have had its normal supply. Dealers see in this condition a re- (Continued on Twelfth Page). WATER SPOUT COURSES ON GENOESE RIVIERA Much Damage Done by Freak Storm in Italy— Several Are Injured y The Assoclated Press, Genoa, Aug. 23—A huge waterspout burst upon the coast of the Genoese Riviera today, injuring numerous peo- le and doing much damage. The places affected were Sestri, egll, Cornigliano and San Pier Arena. The storm lasted nearly an hour at Ansaldo pig iron At San depot and is estimated various wounded Ido at 100,000 re At one point brick house levelled the round. All the ano were long the c was to wooden houses at Cornig 12 t The electric power lines are down. It is believed they cannot.be restored n the eastern Riviera for several ays and on the west side for a much | time. were con- | 1 and for a half mile| all bathing establish- ments and trees were swept away, | —SIXTEEN PAGES. ON BERLIN 'BROOKHART ATTAGKS 0 FAMINE, DEALERS SAY| BUSINESS IN SPEEGH |Says that Laboring Classes Are Being Capitalized— Distribution Costs Big | sizes on hand and little chance of get- | ting any, with all probabilities of a ! strike, New Britain people who did | not take the advice of the coal deal-| ers last spring and stock up for the jusiness abandons the present preda- |w (FRENCH INVITED ~ PARLEY/ By The Associatod Press. Des Moines, Ia., “cconomic war' will ~The “until Avg. not «end tory methods and unites with pro-| Gucers and consumers of the Lountryi in sharing with them their just re-| | wards,” U, Senator Smith W. [ Brookhart declared in an address here today before the Lions club. Liconomic operation of all | said the senator, is the solution !the problem created by reward, | Senator Brookhart declared that capital is “‘taking a vast toll of labor” {and that this, with the decreased earnings of the farmers, rendered la- | boring men and farmers natural allies. Propaganda seeking to separate them, he declared, was being given wide circulation. “Out of the dollar labor pays for the products of the farm,” he said, “the farmer gets 37 cents as officially reported by the joint committee of congress. Out of the dollar the farmer pays for the products of labor, the laboring man gets even less. The last fact is disputed but I think it is substantially correct. “The cost of distribution in the United States is unbearable. Its waste and inefficiency is destroying business itself. During the last ses- sion of congress a disténguished United States senator said that 95 per cent of American business as now organized ultimately ' fails. This sitvation is unstable and unsound.” SEVEN MEN ARRESTED | AFTER K. K. K. INITIATION Charged With Carrying Firearms in | classes, of Automobile—One Says He is Minister | Plainfield, N. J, Klux Klan initiation meeting here ilufl. night ended with the arrest of seven men, one of whom said he was |a minister, on a charge of carrying | firearms in an automobile, The men | were held in $500 bail, each failing |to post bond, were locked up for “n hearing today. The entire police force of the city was called® out to guard Junior hall, the headquarters for the initiation meeting. The actual initiation was held on top of Watchung mountain, back of the city. During the night klansmen drove back and forth from-the moun- tain to Junior hall in small groups and it was in one of these groups that the police discovered an auto- mobile containing seven men in which were a shotgun and two revolvers. Aug. 23.—A Ku re Indicted For Defrauding U. S. Col. Launce- retired, of Two ! New York, Aug. 23 lot M. Purcell, U, § Seattle, Wash,, former chief of the urplus property division; John C. Skinner, chief of the sales division of the quartermaster’s corps; Bertrand Weiss, Herman Carter and Harry Miller were indicted today charged with conspiracy to defraud the gov- | ernment. The alleged frauds of near- | ly $1,000,000 involved surplus army | property. Massachusetts Coal Bommlttee Belleves Puhhc Should Assert lndependence of Anthracite \VERA CRUZ VIRTUALLY IN' STRIKERS' GRIP Has Taken Over Control of Police—Servants Forced to Declare Strike Vera Cruz, Aug. irtually under the control of a com- | nittee of rikers which has taken | over direction of the police. Order is being maintained. The wives of the members of the “tenants who pay no marched to the city markets compelled domestic sign the syndicalist The league of maritime unions, re- —Vera Cruz is | 9:38 a. m.; 9:55 p. At New London— THE WEATHER —— Hartford, Aug. 23.~—Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Fair with moderate temperature tonight and Friday, westerly winds. | considering its previous decision has | | voted not to declare a strike without financial aid from the striking unions. The dock workers therefore remain at work and ship cargoes are being load- ed and discharged. No trains are running and no public utilities are in operation. Stores are kept open. TWO MORE MINES By The Asspciated Press. New England Governors in | Conference at State Average Daily Ch'!llllflon Week fildiflg 9 l 73 Aug. 18th . PRICE THREE CENTS , CAR WRECKED, ANOTHER BURNED IN CRASH PIKE AT 2 A. M. New Rochelle Man Arrest- ed for Reckless Driving and Being at Wheel Under Influence of Liquer. Colored People From An- sonia Run Down, They Claim—Stanley Steamer inequality of | | Bursts Into Flames and Is Destroyed. Charles P, Parnell of 31 Coligny street, New Rochelle, N. Y., is under arrest on a charge of reckless driving and driving while under the influence of liquor, John Brady of the same city is under arrcst on a charge of being drunk, five colored men and a colored woman of Ansonia are badly cut and bruised, a Stanley stbamer automobile was burned to tha chassis and a Paige badly damaged as the result of an accident on the Berlin turnpike near the home of Adam Adamovitch at about 2 o'clock this morning. The New Rochelle men will be arraigned before Judge George Griswold in the Berlin court tonight. Accident at 2:20 At 20 &clock this morning Ser- geant Patrick McAvay received a tele- phone call at New Britain police headquarters from Mr, Adamovitch who reported’ thit a sefious accident had occurréd near hfs ‘home. The Berlin authorities were notified. and Prosecutor Charles ¥. Lewis and Con- stable Frank Brown, arriving upon the scene saw one automobile in flames and another badly wrecked near a fence. Upon investigation they placed touring car wa | Parnell and Brady under arrest. According to the occupants of the Paige car, they were headed south for their homes in Ansonia after having | played an engagement with‘an orches- tra at Laurel park in Hartford, when suddenly a car traveling north at & tast rate of speed and on.the wrong side of the road crashed into them, sending the Paige backwards for a distance of several feet into a fence alongside of the road, Car Destroyed by Fire A heavy pole in the fence was knocked over and the guard rails were broken off. Soon after the col- lision the Stanley steamer burst into flames and the car was consumed in a short time. The radiator and front ieft fender of the Paife car were crushed and the rear of the car badly damaged when the mach‘ne was push- ed against the fence. The occupants of the car were frightened and all of them were in- jured by cuts and bruisessfrom the broken glass of the windshield and - when they were thrown to the floor following the collision. Dr. A. J. Goodwin of Kensington was called and after first aid had been administered they were allowed to proceed to thelr homes but not in the Paige car as this machine had meanwhile been towed to the Berlin garage. The two men in the steamer were not injured. Lewis Blames Men In Stanley Prosecutor Lewi d this morning that the colored people were appar- ently in the right as the north bound car was traveling at an excessive rate of speed and on the left side of the highway. The men, he said, were un- der the influence of liquor while the occupants of the Paige were in a sober condition. Those riding in the south bound machine were: Fdward Smith, 41 Main street; William How- ard, street, Charles Green, 410 Main street, Joseph Jack- son (driver) 117 Central street, Kve- lyn Goldson, 117 Central street, all of Ansonia and Leonard Reeves, 48 Prout street, New Haven. CHILD SUES FOR $400 Alice Helm, Aged 6, Claims Damages House Redeive Recom-| mendation From Legisla-“ ture Today. - Boston, Aug. 23.—The belief that| “the public should assert their inde- pendence of anthracite” is expressed in a memorandum presented by the joint special coal investigating com- || mittee of the Massachusetts legislature to a conference of New England gov- ernors at the state house today to consider the railroad and coal situa- | tions. | “By the substitution of bituminous | for anthracite,” the memorandum says, “the people of New England would save not less than $50,000,000 | a year.” of its Investigation visited the anthra- cite fields of Pennsylvania says that it feels that “both sides to the present controversy belween operators and see the price of anthracite advance to any extent which the consumers will tolerate, this price advance resuiting of course in each case in higher wages to the miners and increased profits to the operators.” Essen, Aug. 23.—The French have occupied two additional mines in the Essen district. They are the Langen- brahm Gottfried-Wilhelm Ludwig and | llthe Neue Essen mines. Recommend Fuel Administrator The committee recommends that an (Continued on Fourteenth Page) for Injuries Sustained When Ane drew Kubala's Horse Ran Away. Alice Helm, <\gPd 6, actin, | mother, Mrs. Alice Helm, hnsghllzs))ufil‘:: suit against Andrew Kubala of 111 Lawlor street for damages resulting from injuries sustained last winter when Kubala's horse ran away and trampled upon her. Damages have been fixed at $400, and property owned by Kubala Lawlor strest has been attached by Constable Fred Winkle. Attorney A, LeWitt is counsel for the Helm girl. on Federal Officers Board Fast Schooner The committee, which in the course | miners have been and are willing to| After firing Scveral Shots, and Find 300 Cases of Rye Whiskey in Cargo. New York, Aug. 23.—Firing several shots federal officers early today cap- tured the Martha E. The IL. between Perth Amboy, N. J., and Staten Is- land with 300 cases of rye whiskey. The officers found the Marth E. 1L a cabin schooner, stalled because of engine trouble. When the boarded her a struggle de\'elnm- The schooner, 62 feet Jong and equipped with a 250 horsepower en- gine, is said to be one of the fastest boats in the vicinity of New York,