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Average Daily ! Week Ending ldlrilzlén NEW BRITAIN HERALD & Dec. 22nd %3 CONNECTICUT. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28 1923. —TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. PRICE THREE CENTS REVENUE BILL IS | BODY OF DIXMUDE’S COMMANDER IS PUBLISHED TODAY, FOUND IN SEA AND GIANT BALLOON s || 1S OFFICIALLY GIVEN UP AS LOST . Mello's Proposals | il :[][INFESSE" STRANfiI.ER 10 CURTAIL TAX DODGING ew Superintendent | Fisherman Off Coast of MAY SOLVE MYSTERIES |New lork Police Thmk g, e Of Connecticut Co. | Collins Connected With Also Includes Provision for Board nf 28 Appraisers to Act As Cowrt of ~Reversing its | < House ways and Other Atrocities Appeal in Disputed Cases—Tax Re- made public the form it by Secretary News of the World By Associated Press [L————— ESTABLISHED 1870 CHINESE SCHOOLBOY FIGHTS | TO STAY IN UNITED STATES; WAS BORN IN SAN FRANCISCO . Robet Jun, Atendin SES FIRST WIFE'S SISTER FOR $10,000 New Britain School, Accused of Being Smug- Albet F. Willams, Aged About l {78, Wants His Property Returued‘M“ST EITIES B O gled Over Canadian | previous policy, the Border | Charles Ping, Laun.dry Own- ool g e er, Says Jung Has Been . in Connecticut for Six; Years and in This City | Two Years '"NEW BRITAIN, 36 Years Steeplejack Without Injuries But Falls Sleep Walking Fhiladelphia, Dee. 28.—After @ 36-year career of scaling dizzy heights without accident, R. F. Atkison, steeplejack is in a hos- pittal today from injuries re- ceived in a fall downstairs while sleep walking. Atkinson, among other activities, had gilded tne top of the Woolworth building, New York, put lightling rods on the Washington monument and repaired the statue of Penn atop Philadelphia’s City hall, b Sicily Find Corpse In Nets, But No Trace Of Others In Dirigi- ble. Bare Possibility That Some Of Crew May Have Es- caped by Making Descent in Parachutes — Search Being Continued. ductions Likewise Included. 0g Queries from citics where New | police women last few headquart York, Deec. in 4 numbér of Ly been murdered in the into police C”"neclm.v S Benuer, a Advt, Depi confessed “,“wg Sa¥ Estelle Pinllips, w-. oy ecutive, in a New York #pu... last October, and to an attack on Mrs. May Mitchell, @ n in the Chest- nut Hill district of Philadelphia early Plaintift Claims He Transferred Title | to House While Suffering From 1. | {Govt. Report bho“s Them Generally to Be Living ‘Beyond Their Incomes But Few Changes, test contains few changes from he outline of the bill-which has been | publicly announced at the treasury. It follows Mr. Mellon’s proposals’ for « sweeping revision of administrative | to The lerald). | | provisions to prevent tax dodging, in- s ,e b B o3 ovisi for a board of 28 —Albert F. Witd Shia 0 4 R cludes a provision for |, Washiagton, De The cities of | (oo horaisers to act court of suit ".""lf"‘:"”,- generally——there are ex-|, .. .1y in qisputed cases and makes against Ella E. Beardsley of Broad | ‘éPtlons—are not living within thelr| .. 5109 provision for the tax reduc- | this month. S street for $10,000 for recovery of | INCOMes, census bureau statistios an- | (o 4led PrOVIion 10 Lhe tX Captain Arthur uske o Asocisted Press property said by the plaintiff to belong "0Unced today indicate. < oA oner if he Cleveland Dec. 25—/ to the defendant during a temporary A compilation of ex- 1 teac ement made this to the defenduntd uring a temporary | Penditures in the Dixmud sickness of the plaintiff with ti 261 cities having a population of identified un A I derstanding that it would be trans- The ness and Has Deen Ejected l"nmL . Homn Meantime, (Special | Plainville, Dee, 2 liams of Plainville has brought a s a Facing deportation, although he Claims to have been born in San Prancisco, Robert Jung, aged 19, a Chinese pupil in one of the junior high gchools, has retained counsel to fight for rights It is said t Jung w immigration i arey revenues and Fight for Publicity t publicity e meas- . ’ d in a sub-cor 21 : s e Find ¢ . fiscal year 1922 for swe his 3 v 8 4 conducte ommander's Body 3 2 t | - eceipt from the nav in Rome, ane body of Lieutenant ) or more shows a indeb a month 55 ke ferred back agaln upon his recovery. 3 The writ is returnable in the superior | 10k B ORACLO d that year amounting|'®® ™¢ S \ The cost|tive Garner of Te resident. Democratic member xas, t rankir Frenc At that 1 m who the | been smug- it g 1 smug ) §$5.56 each urred. Hme said nouncing that the anadian border, spite of the boy's assertion that was born in the United States in he court in Hartford the first Tuesday in February. Mr, Willlams has retained of government per capita, including| ¥ J Chairman Green expenditures for permanent improve- and other majority | members insisted that the B fae tha text should | Captain ¢ was pro in order wrey g Benner" r that the ongir purpos examination authorities in other| Photo By Johnson & Petcrson. WILLIAM J. BRYAN Greepnadan, commander of the. missing dirigible, had been found in Sicilian Be- | As forecast in yesterday's “Herald", | William J. Bryan has been appointed | [ superintendent of the New Britain [7hoge hopes had flared up last evens lines of the Connecticut company. He |ing on receipt of reports that the received word today of his appoint- | | Dixmude had been seen floating helpe ment from General Manager J. | lessiy over the Babara Desert. Punderford. Mr. Bryan has been| he Rome advices convinced the connected with the operation of trol- | officials there could be no. possible leys since 1901, He believes in giv- | doubt as to the identity of the bo ing the public service and it is pre- | picked up, as Lientenant Grenadan dicted that an ecra of good feeling |wore an identification tyg attached to reen the company and its patrons | his wrist on all his air trips waters, caused all hopes of the safety of the Dimmude to be abandoned, ment amounted to $57. year | | be held in confidence 4 courtesy to | against revenues of .81, the total figures being $2,222,566,519 and $2,-| Mr. Mellon, Inasmuch as the princpal | 08,796, respectively. provisions already ha been pub- The total net indebtedness at the|lished, however, Mr. Green decided t close of the year was $3,618,967,2 day that there was no sity for or $93.42 per capita, “H‘lhl'r withholding publication er's apartment on West 89th street in The total t of government in| 'The sub-committee r after | 1920, 1922 was highest in the cities having | yesterday's session until after the first| pepner denied the population of 500,000 or over with | of the year when the full committee ‘mulng he was serving a a per capita cost of 366,88, The next|again will take up consideration of | cony in Washington undemgthe nam highest per capita, $64.29, is shown |the measure, ‘ul Thomas J. Bert, at the time. for cities with a population of 300,000 The bill was made public in the| prompt investigation was said to dis- B Sy e L t | 3 i 3 g B [ to 500,000, The per capita cost of | form of a reprint of the voluminous| glose that he was rnot arrested in Neves in the value of education, hay. | house and land and furniture in the | 8Mounted to $48.71; of cities from | teriineations and other amendmentsigie girl was killed i sont. aitother Chinese -boy to a | house to the defendant to be kept by | 50,000 to 100,000 $44.94, and in theindicated. Detailed outlines of these He was held without w Britain school, y | her until such a time as the plaintift { ;m‘ulll" u‘lliv[«;‘ II:.;\I.‘\LQ‘n“pul‘umn of ‘;nu ndme n\x‘a :\-. re m\lull- :ml:!:r; b)]' short ,.m‘x.u‘- ch .-,:m.(‘ suspic mn“ . N g e ' - 4 0,000 to 60,000, .38, | 8ecretary Mellon on November and | murd based the de Mis Ping told & “Herald” reporter this| Waa again In good heaith, Deedwand |6 . 0.yl "Siatistion for 199 of |on December 16 and were printed | Ph { witernoon that he ecan personally | titles were duly transferred from Mr, | ] d @ i { « . the principal cities show the per|throughout the country, o r Jung's reside re Iliams his sister-in-laav. 3 grieh. Br SNRER Coilame dioas, D] WELSEE S S eI capita cost has increased from $34.65| Tn so many cases the Mnguage em- LOCAL BOY SHOT two years and says t9 ¢ b P Mr, Willlams says that on or about | o years and says that the boy has| s in 1918 to §3 | ployed to earry these changes into ef- Acci- cause the birth records of the Chinese Judge William Malone of Bristol and i San Franeisco are not dependable, | Attorney Charles F. Conlon of Plain- he may have a difficult time prov- |ville to represent him. Property of Ing his case. Those who have heard |the defendant on Broad street was | of the boy's ‘predicament sympathize | attached by Deputy Sheriif Joseph P. with him and already he has enlisted | Harding of Bristol today. Y no little support in his Aght to re- Transferred Property While 111 main in the land of his birth. | Charles Ping, proprietor of & laun.| The complaint states that on March dry on Church stree where Jum." 16, 1938, the plainuff, while 11l _asnd paralytic | has been making his home, 1s author. | Suffering from a partial ity for the Statement that the boy | Stroke, was induced by the defendant | has been living in New Britain for the | Who 18 a sister to his first wife, Mar- | | cities might supply him with Informa- tion concerning other unsolved crimes, | One of the murders of which Ben | ner is suspected is of Ream Constance Hoxle, attacked and slain in her fath- | Hoxie murder, a term for lar- out to dawn, Take Corpse Fron Itallan fishermen hauv | nets at the end of their d | e ing brought the bod face, After it had bee from the meshes it was that of a French naval « uniform. It was rushed L small cove near a southwestern shore of Sic the fishermen was able tdentification tag and th the dead man was only | tainty when the ma wx teacher of the vi which was then tak a telegram annou was dispatched to Ships Are Seant Out message reached th of murine Raibert), immediately ministry of was closeted with nier Polncare unti! 11 o'elock, and announcement w public in brief communique rtly after 01, immediately teles raphed to the base at Toulon to digpateh light specdy | erart to Sictlian w continue the N svare or bodies the ill-fated AR GOES OFF BRIDGE, 4 PROBABLY AR DEAD | Two Bodi \lread\ Taken From River at Wayland, Mass. ' . bail on & on ath o lved in Connecticut for six years, ' June 1, 1922, he recovered from his | i Nala R, ‘ s Jung's father, J. Y. Cheong, died in sickness and reguested the return of | ‘"."”')t"" of the 4n.:~ m‘llu’ :::) | fect is so highly technical as to \w,'l Hartford about a year u the property. He was refused and | EOvernments "“"“‘“ the per caplta| upintelligible except on the hasis o Everett 17lint Damon, his claim_to it was denied by the de. | 08t for mainténance and vreration offbxplanations by the experty attaches #9 Chauncey stre fendant who was then fin possession, general departments was '_‘:' privei-| 5 the commitiec and to the tregsury Jung's lnwyer. | pal item and amounted to Ji3.15. The | ror that purpose : jected Prom Own House per capita cost of permanent improves| e pormal income tax scetions of dragging the Sudbury Ve 875 IN YEAR IN PHILA. made additional requests for the 16 Year Old Bov Rescues rate is reduced to three per cent and Tt oM police, drs ot e here carly today expressed belie a n attorney Boston, s lage Victim of body when discovery Janes Managhan the dent with Caliber Rifte—ul- Mass,, Dec 5 The ministry Minister arrived He hurried to the | proporty and the furniture, but these A the present eight per comt rate is re s or RISy y 5 Children From Drowning | James Managhas had perished when an S o were again refused and the plalntiff duced to six per ce The S was ordercd from the premises, which | Danbury, Dee. 28.-Ulve young |, ovided for are R L driven by Arthur 1 children who were plunged into a ering intensely Cambridge era s rig ¢ be . “One entum of the Peputy Coroner Mak ol ims rightfully belong to him, . One per ¢ m of ¥ e Nohes. Raown mast vo plaint furthor claims that Small pond In Padanaram district, aliy whieh the net income n ratiing and plu ter in the river since April 11, 1923, has paid all short distance north of this city, yes- 810,000 and does not exceed § taxes and water rents and pald |terday afggrnoon by the breaking of | “Pwo per centum of the amount by dragging, | interest on two mortgages hetd on the the lee, were rescued by Clarence fwhich the net coeds $12, and Frank ul is not allowed on the Olmstead, 16 years old, who plunged (060 and does not exceed $14,000 Mra all into the water and walking upon his | hree per centum ar hous skates carried them to the shore, by which the net £14,000 and docs not cxe DESTROYED. | “Four per 28, ~The village | by which the net was almost eom- | $16,000 and o fire yesterday.| “Five per o Hundreds persons were made by which the home 818,000 and does —— ———— Six per centum of the an {which the excecds $20,1 and does not exceed 2,000 Seven per « which the net inco: 22,000 and does not execed Bight per contum of the which the net income _‘vnmv and de “Nine per centum of the amount by which the net inc coeeds and does not ex 1 €000 “Ten per e which the nd does “Eleven which four persons ant, surtaxes yet summoned, foreign Huf- result hav- hot through by veral hospita . ¥ antomobile who had 1 Deandreau of through a woode el wi Atter h us follows: n . amount was uccidentally ceeds . W the ing been the lert nst be rifle in the Swam, ymat th norn wrm, elbow, of uirs where he possession o Th ling Vigures—Says City is caliber I'mu-H ent oceurred Lrewery plant this youth rushed ) "“ ‘ '”'l‘ r'»l u; .“.H attended - ot | 1AM Flanagan iatle "( Managhan and Swam w U8 | ear the browery plant youth came along am {last night the bodi Moodie! Bertha keeper I Aty Moodie L 2 ' has . oh I s made income ¢ ul of the “Wide Open near ars old son of sh PBeandre covere #ix y ry Moodie property, e Orders were " ligno deatis of § ing the pr published Paul today “This city i wed o-cilied 28 sonous vas held ponsible for the » porsons in this eity dur- i year, statement Deputy ner Frank | Wladelphia 1 n \ nava | premises Mr. Willlams claims a deeree for the eonveyance of the titie to the property and to the furniture in the house and damages of $9,000 claim- | ing that the entive procecdings which | income ing M a all available e te from . - centum of \l(l‘\ Ttaly, D of Salter, near here, pletely destroyed by WHOLY Trent, o i - e playing neom A when a third s not exe alrship Wreckage no vestige No Sigi that amount ds 1 $20,000; de it open f & You can' buy' But most of it 1s poi can't buy the preswa will sell it. They stuff,’ hut' most denatured and is poisonous.” wn old-fashioned here, with new fashioned Coroner Willinm K. Knight ard city with = et e posters showing photographs the | ages, and bearing warning inst in diseriminate p W p R ‘drink will b herever ntum of net ineom: not exer boy o hold Page of wreek irship or other bodies caused the nor is bei bd of oxe Cin . ent down the hi Swam took the gun b fdent pulled 0o | 2°C ' Il jischarged the The Ma open corners (Continued on Twenty-Five) all you wa sonons, You liguor, for ne one may call it ‘imported it is either unt f i und AT 90 SHE WILL HELP COOK DINNER FOR 34 DESCENDANTS | Mrs, Cecelia Selander Has Four Children, 22 Grand- children and Eight Great | Grandchildren. net ineome sul rofr sconti desert e an you S . i ition that ! Ag Wi of the of moonshine, me com or deohal, inst bration To guard "New ¥ 2 matter unt e Policeman T lique will 1 & not exeend of May Be savesd ntum of the SIX INCHES OF SNOW 1 all—Bos- 0 rch ome exeeed ed $3 ntum of net i Venders of poison- | Lrnest Vetter Are To- not with anin- | ath from thelr wares, making his wn- | tion of ous homicide quest indi the coroner sa nouncement {00 T0 BE SUBPOENAED |« | { each Many Additional Witnesss, Tncduding | 0 Mr, and Mrs liquors charged per o the Greenfield Neporis Heasy results of dny Sentenced By New York Conrt | o i 24 ot ton Thinks Belated Start of Winter in n Mandaughter Case ; Woarensmiea i Will Prove Vizde Th Ernest and convicted of Gree ARMED BANDITS AND WINS years | Belande half a « ik Battles who were 8 York, Vetter, manslaughter Storey last May, sentenced 1o to 15 today | | Before 1} gentone wn nounced Mrs, Vetter ‘}uj,'.." had nothing to say but hfr hus band pleaded for leniency. Mrs, Vet [ter will ser her term In Auby prison and her husband 1n Sing Sing Storey, a former suitor of Mrs, Vet ter, was killed in the Vetter and his body wrapped in ne into groe Alonzo J tomorrow day who, “h w1 in this eit and serving sons grand- great-grandehil elght hom made her cooking Ainner vhich four children and vight dren will sit dowr Mrs. Se known and the older Britain, has € tury, prison aseist i Doctors, Are Calledd in Diploma Mill that Investigation. Hartford, Dec. 5. —Approximately 106 subpoenas were placed in the hands of process servers throdghout the state today summoning witnesses | to appear before the extraordipary grand Jury when it resume its hear. [4nd sacks and throws Their Guns Ten she | Disregards of the best! Minutes and They Plee, Two With respected of New | her at highly edish residents of been at the of H. M. Johnson, Pristol, for the tinner home s ander most Black Fyrs home Sion Yor . YOung worr with feet defeated today i home P JETE Jamica andchild, Mrs fists treet " and five ar Pirthday a hand-to carly gage ment street 1 s of apartme Selander's honor ' b Melma She Jeft renmion Mrs eden her to th Unite Britain to hand, ran Mrg. Co., died During 1) a span o activ p_ . tur 0.000 1IRY o e LOss was born in sie Simmor - December 29, 1933 3y Reports Heard 1 in ¢ 1 ®ta ings on Wednesday, Janwary 2. It | Doy = was sald today the list includes prac - ticing physicians in Harford, New SAILSTAD SENTENCED e Haven, Waterbury, Bridgeport, Meri o den, Bristol, Willimantic Norwich, Stamford and Greenwich, who win be e called to Inform the jury as fo thelr |Gets Four Years in Prison for Arem ogredp- I Wi Her hus af the 1 native la comir “ legal status in the state, Included in the are sclectios, paths, chiropractors and * healers and Same Penalty Given pake her hom naturen magnetic number vete employe vio about 25 ylars age cMire pertod of her res w Britain. which covercd years, Mrs. Selander was alfairs of 1t Swedish Anderson, His Stenograplh Superior, Wis., De Sailstad andgDorothy pleaded gul to a « e @enced to were Woodrow Wilson Today Has 67th Anniversary Washington, Dec. % Wondrow Wilson is 67 ol today, there was no celebration of stration to break the guiet routine his home The former president much in the manne passed his time W roc continues hie prog with frequent astomobile the country arge of arson and four vears im prisonment Sailstad cottage # in which e has Allen MePhes pear Sailstad had | burned to death He sadd he dug up Mo ¥ earlier, for that tending to disappear becs clal difficuities in his phonograph business at Kau Claire, Wia Miss Anderson was Lis stenographer ngrega Evolution Expert Changes Female Dove, Fully Grown, Into Male Bird bt nrmi sutn Nebagamon placed the it confessed t ) vear g a mon of near here el to ma gang N vack Mre spent the day he remark s a Iy has He varicd | inte Simmons satd ive Ay > wort piors or rides - two d aration of the gathering Two of and Magr August S in Plaintd son, mekes of the prep - family . ' ¢ ough a tube Bigger Than Shenandoah THE WEATHER o Hartford. Dec. 28 —Foreeast for New Britain and vicinity: Clearing and colder tomighn his home in Florida. Sev- Saturday fair and colder, shift- grandchildren and great- ing winds becoming westerly. residents this i s AN linner INJURY FATAL Y. Dee. 25 —-Morris died today I YOTBRAT Syracy N Rutkoff, suffere.d ) gnme 0.3 this city Mre nder os Selander, five nder, a third son, resides and Chavies, the fourth S sons, PIRATES {8y The Asssciated Hong Kong. Dec. 28— The British | steamer Hydrangea was attacked by |eral pirates 1aet night while her way | grandct | trom Hong Kong to Swatow. city. juries ir ATTACK Press sy wore Other con- tackled a the Yog and he Then Wlood pol wive Dr gatione ars players 1o tinwed ir soning deve fidren arc of