New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 9, 1924, Page 1

= News of tile World By Associated Press (LT — ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW' BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, KLAN DEMANDS REMOVAL OF {L00KING AHEAD FOR SHERIFF AT MARION WHERE TROOPS NOW ARE ON GUARD Asked Use of AUTO INJURIES FATAL T0 THEODORE 'NEARA Was in Machine Driven by Joseph Smigel, Now in Jail Official Asked Use of Soldien, Saying He Fears Bootleggers’ War Following Wholesale Liquor Raids Knights of—;{a;ing Circle Opposed to K. K. K., Are Actively Engaged in Cam- paign in Troublesome District. Theodore O'Meara, age 20 years, of 67 Cleveland street, died at the New Britain General hospital this morning from injuries which it is alleged he received while riding in an automo- bile driven by Joseph_Smigel in the early morning of December 24 which crashed into an automobile owned by C. R. Anderson, on Stanley street near Franklin street. Smigel is now in the Tounty jall at Hartford for driving an automobile while under the influence of llquor, Dr. Waterman Lyon, medical ex- |aminer, withholds the cause of death . . until he completes his investigation. Marion, Iil, Jan. 9.—Removal of| ywhena sked If he thought O'Meara Sheriff George Galligan from office| gjod of u fractured skull the doctor has been asked by Governor Smull,|gaid that it was doubtful. He said according to John L. Whhiteside, lead- | that he might have received a con- Ing member of the Ku Klux Klan in{cussion of the brain which later de- Williamson county. veloped into meningitis, Sheriff Galligan yesterday requested At the time that Smige! was ar- troops saying he feared rioting as a re- | raigned in court it was testified that sult of “bootleggers wur” and today O'Meara was one of three men rid- three companies of Natlonal Guard|ing in the automoblile when Smigel were on duty in the county, Whole- | was at the wheel. Irom what has sule ralds have been conducted In the | been learned O'Meara was taken to county recently without the sheriff's| his home and left on the fropt porch !hy the men in the machine. He was knowledge. Three Companies on Duty later removed to the hospital where he has been confined since, Three companies of the Illinois Na- . tlonal Guard are on duty In Willlam- | “D'Meara is survived by three broth- ers, Francis, Harold and George; son county under orders to be in read- iness for any emergency occasioned by | three sisters, Mrs, James Callery, Mrs, the alleged growing bitterness between | Mary Arbour and Miss Mabel O'Meara the Ku Klux Klan and an anti-klan|and his \\;lfi. Funeral services will faction known us Knights of tae|be held Friday morning at 8:30 Fluming Cirele, following a series of|0'clock from the home of his sister, pl‘uhihluon' raids. | Mrs. Arbour, at 257 High street, and lat 9 o'clock from St. Mary's church. Seoret Mam Moctings | Interment will be in $t. Mary's ceme- Mass meeting sald to have been an- ftery, ' ACCUSED AS BOOTEGGER Kuights of the Flaming C#cle and the | Hartford Man Claims Legal Action Ku Klux Klan is suid by some to hu\l‘{ been the real cause for Sherif George Brought Against Him is Result of Deal in Mieit Tiquor, Galligan appealing for the troops. The Hartford, Jan. 9.-<The surprising theory, although lacking contirmation, was strengthened by the departure from here of Co, 1, of Salem for Her- rin shortly before midnight. Two com- punles, X of Cairo, and L of Mount Viernon, remein in Marion, with head- quarters at the county court house, s Adjutant Goneral Carlos Bluck, who | défense that the plainuir was his ordered the soldiers Into Williamson | PooticgEer, was oFtred M tH COUFL OV connty arrived from Springfield at § | SO s Sie Satnd. v ing against the action of Anthony Anchesfsky who sued on a note for | $110, signed by Hussey and his wife. Anchesfsky claimed the note repre. sented a share of a real estate comn- mission due him for a sale of Jefferson street property. Hussey's story was that he had paild Anchesfsky the $110 in real’ money but the note was given By The Associated Press, | | u. Sherift i Sick Sherilf Galligan is confined to his bed with ap attack of mumps. It was from there yesterday that he tele. graphed General Black that the situa- tion was beyond his control and that he fcared rioting might start at any tin | » sherill's action followed im- mediotely the acquittal yesterday of 8. Glenn Young, former prohibition enforcement oficer and recently deputized for work in ralds, on a charge of wssanit in a courtroom ip which a large group of his fricnds had mounted two muchine guns for “self protection,” 212 Are Arrested "Within the last three weeks federal agents, aided by hundreds of deputiz- ed vitizens, many of whom admitted membership in the Ku Kiux Kian, have, without the officlal knowledge of | Sheriff Galligan, carried out three| series of raids In which 212 persons have been arrested for alleged viola- tions of the prohibition law. The last rald was Monday night when twenty men were arrested. | “I don’t want this county to be ac- cused again of Talling to send for the #oldiers in time,” sald Sheriff Galligan in discussing the situation. That charge was made after more than a score of Strip Pit mine work- ers were massacred at Herrin two years ago. Hardware men in Herrin report that the present crisis has brought the sale of more guns and ammuni- tion than ever before. Klan N The klan recently gave a demon- stration, hooded and gowned, in which the declaration was made that Wil liamson county was to be cleaned up. On Baturday night, December 22, the first spectacular rald was made and three quarts more which he was to bring. Mrs, Hussey's signature to the note was explained as having been ob- talned to get rid of Anchesfsky and| | his demands and to get him out of the real estate office. Anchesfsky vehe- | mently dented he had ever brought Hussey any Mauor or had any liquor dealings with any one. SEWERS ARE CLOGGED Moonshine Mash Causes Great Trouble | With Drainage System in Worcester —Evil Becoming Acute, Worcester, Mass., Dec, from which home brew and moon- shine are manufactured, is clogging | the sewer mains of Worcester with surprising frequency and effectiv rn'un,! | Bupt. of Sewers Ralph G. Lingley de- clares. He says this evil is fast be- coming acute in thickly populated sections of the city, particularly| through the east side. In some instances where the moon- | shine industry is flourishing the refuse | fills manholes and even reaches the | | street level through catch basins. On Lafayette street, Mr. Lingley sald, one | manhole recently overflowed with mash which had been dumped into the sewer through sinks, bath tubs and| 9.-—Mash | | cnumeratd them | be agcomplished after FUTURE OF AMERICA Long Yiew National Policies on Transporfation Are Essential EXPERTS IN- CONFERENCE Hoover, Bames and Hines Discuss Problems—Former Beliéves In Con- solidation of Railroads Into Few Powerful Systems, Washington, Jan. 9. —Formulation of “long view national policles in transportation” is a fundamental necessity for securing the economic future in the United States, Herbert | Hoover declared today in an address | before the opening session of the transportation conference called by the chamber of commerce of the| United States. The commerce secre. tary listed 10 points of application for guch policles, among which were a statutory revision of the raliroad labor board’s power on a basis to be deter- mined by agreement between labor crganizations and rallroad executives, reorganization of the rate structure carly consolidation of the railroads into a fow powerful systems, and in. land waterway development under a national plan. Three Day Session In the conference, which was called | to counsider problems invelved in the development of a national system cov- «ring all of the agencies of transpor- tatiod——raliways, waterways and high- ways—will continue three days, with representatives of each of the three branches of the Industry taking part in the discussions. Julius H, Barpes, president of the chamber of commerce of the Unpited States, opened the conference with the declaration that “the time has come when national policies which affect railgoads, through regulation, and affect §s well water highways and motor highways, must be coordinated, to stimulate and encourage the ex- pansion which every study shows will be Inevitably required.” Hoover’s Views . Mr. Hoover, in urging the need for “long-view national peolicies in trans- portation,” declared “the solution of the problems In such policies is only in part a matter of legislation and governmental relations.” “They are in large part to be solv- ed by inltiative and voluntary coop- eration amongst the business com- munity,” he declared. “If T were to attempt to express my personal views of such nationalgpolicles—stripped of secondary considerations —- would mewhat in the foi- lowing terms, and much of your sub. committee reports support such eon- clusions: “1—~Railway service uunder private ownership In order to secure the | driving force of individual initiative In «fficiency in deeviopment, . Government regulaton of fair vates and rallway finance in order to ! protect the shipper to glve stability | to honest investment of savings “J-<Recapture of excess profits in order to allow rates which will assure to cover up a bill of $80 for liquor |opcration and service from rallways | University of Michigan students s un- | that Anchesfsky had brought him and | In less favored circumstances yet pre- | der way. {vent unjustified profits from any par- | from achool of three youths and &linitfal results of his order, rl is sald to have precipitated action. | Butier visited police stations in the | ticular rallways, - The earliest practicable con- ( solidation of the railways into larger | .. systems under conditions of maintaln- | c.ouity not to return after the Christ- | work, ed competition In service in order to se- cure greater economy in operation, ? WEDNESDAY, FAMOUS BANK ROBBERS' GANG WIPED OUT TODAY Ashley-Mobley Handits ¥all Under Withering Fire of Machine Gun of Florida Posse West Palm Beach, Fla., "Jan, 9.— The notorious Ashley-Mobley gang of bank robbers,*which has made the everglades its rendezvous for years, was wiped out this morning by Palm Beach county sheriffs and posse. | Deputy Sheriff Fred Baker and five members of the, gang were killed. The battle was fought near the gang's camp at Frulta in the Ever- glades. The fight started at two a, m. the officers using a machine gun. Deputy Bheriff Baker was sald to have been working for months. to lo- cate the gang and on several peca- | sions had seen one or two members, but waited until he had them all in camp. John Ashley and¥Handford Mobley, were escaped cbnvicts with a long rec- ord of robberies, alleged murders and general lawlessness against them, Members of the gang were also wanted by the federal government for| high sea piracy. A telephone call to the sferif's of- fice at 11 o’clock said the battle be- tween the officers and remaining members of the gang was still raging. Deputy Sheriff Fred E. Malphuss wads reported slightly wounded. Sheriff Baker with a posse of 160 men was reported rushing to the scene, | | ’ HIGWAYHEN PREYING | ON MOTOR TRUCK HEN | Another Attempted Holdup | on Boston Post Road Near Noroton Bridgeport, Conn,, Jan. 9--High- waymen were again on the post road in Darien early today according "°| reports to the police here. A driver of a truck for the Beacon Falls Rub- ber company, claimed that about 2 |a. m. in Noroton, near the place of three other attempted holdups in three days, two men with guns tried to stop him. He kept on and the men fired six shots at the truck which punctured cases of goods on the rear. Bupt, Robert C. Hurley of the state police is expected today to have & conference with the Theads of the Bridgeport and Ridgefield barracks on the matter of a patrol on the post 0. OF MGHGAN SCANDAL INVOLYES WHOLE SCHO0 Co- | | Your Already Expelled—Comell Eds Held Up as Models of Virtue By University Proctor Ann Arbor, Mich, Jan, 9--A| | searching investigation into alleged misconduct on the part of certaly | The reported withdrawal gl The four students, persistent campus ports say, were requested by IM: mas holidays. The sitnation wae| handled by President Marion leroy| | bribe which General NEW BRITAIN HERALD JANUARY )9, 1.—SIXTEEN PA OF BUTLER IS THREATENED TWICE Head of Phila. Dept. of Salety Warned as He Starts Clean-Up TENDERLOIN IS NOW QUIET Story of $100,000 Bribe Proves To Be False—Notorious Resorts Are Being Rapidly Closed By Police Squads In Serics or Raids. Phitadelphia, Jan. 9.~ Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler, who be- came director of public safety on Monday, revealed today that twice during the short time he has been in office threats have been made against his life. The new director sald that one was contained in an ano ~mane letter. The other was brought by a marine who had overhear nien in the Tenderloin say the: “get him" if he visited that the city., The marine, the ggnera M {vesented the remark of thc men and | was badly bruised in a fight with | them. He came to city hall and re- ported the affair direct to himself, General Butler said. Police Lieut. Holton, who led a ’squml of policemen in smashing his way into gambling places and disor- derly houses in the Tenderloin said today things in his district were quiet, “Going to make any more ralds?” he was asked. “Can’t raid places that are closed, but we don't know what will happen, this afternoon or tonight,” he replied. Bribe Story Wrong Col. Cyrus 8. Radford of the marine corps, stationed here, today threw some light on the alleged $100,000 Butler in a speech to policemen sald had been of- | fered him if he would not molest race |track handbook men. The colonel sald that in conversation with a man who was conversant with gambling in Philadelphia, he was told that if Gen- eral Butler were not an honest man, it would be worth $100,000 to him if he let the handbook men operate in Philadelphta., The colonel sald he in- formed General Butler of this conver- sation to show how widespread \ace track gambling flourished in PhilaGel. phia, but did not intend to indicate that & $100,000 bribe had been offered, Orooks Leaving City. . An cxodus of gamblers, bootleg- gers and other notorolus characters of Philadelphia’s underworld was re- ported in full swing today as a result to the police tg dlean up i, within 4% lours after he had sworn In by Mayor ¥endrick as director of the department of public safety. g Ralds conducted by the police yes- terday afternoon and last hnight re. vealed that many disorderly houses had already been closed and the pro- prietors had left the city. Cider saloons, which had prominently dis- played the “never closed” sign, wer shrouded in darkness early today and not a drink was to be had In any of the establishments that generally had been blamed for flooding the eity with polsonous liquor. Apparently well pleased with the General 24 n tenderloin district and congratulated the lleutenants in charge on their It was well after 1 a. m. be fore the new director declded to call it a day and left for his home in| assurance of development and 10Wer | g, qon Dean John R. Effinger of the | Overbrook. He ly - put in more than rates, and [;rhlvr stabliity in earn- | ings. “5-~R basis of employer and em- ploye relationship that will stimulate mutual responsibllity as the flnl: requisite to continuous service. “§—Reorganization of the rate structure in order to secure a better' adjustment of the burden between | commodity, class and less than car- load rates, most of which can best consolidation and consequent wider diversification of traffie. | “7-—Cooperation between the ship- per and the rallways In order fto we. cure a better distribution of traffic over the year and to aveid congestion of peak periods of car shortages. “§-<Definits development of rellef in freight terminals, includng coordi- nation with motor truck feeders and | | distribution. Development of proper joint | rates amd service by water and rail| transportation in order to relleve ex-. | tension of rallways where unnecessary | and give the pubiic the advantage of | cheaper water transport | “10-—A eomprehensive national | plan of inland waterway development 136 persons were arrested for boot- legging. Three men were shot. The Ku Kiux Kian then claimed to have raised $3,000 to conduct that rald alone, which statement was followed by one Gus Simmons, special fed- eral officers from Philadeiphia, that both kiansmen and Knights of Colum-. bus participated. The next day the roadhouses and other places reopened, precipitating another rald January 5, In which more than 50 were arrested and some previously under custody retaken. On Monday of this week the ralds were resumed, MILLERS T0 OBSERVE WEDDING ANNIVERSARY Cedar Street Couple Wedded Quarter of a Century—Pian Recep- tion At ks other receptacles conected with the sewer mains. Fermentation of yeast, | refuge in heaps of accumulated mash in the sewers adds to the ofensiveness | of the odor given off when such | clogeing takes place according tosthe sewer commissioner. AL OREHAN OARS On and After January 20 Waterbury Iines Will Have No Two Orew Trol- leys Except on Out of City Runs. Waterbury, Jan. 9.—According to) announcement made here today. only | one man cars will be run on the Con necticut company’s lines in this city on and after Sunday, January 20, Twe | man crews will continue on the Che.'! shire-New Haven, Waterbury-Derby and Waterbury-Middlsbury runs, with onic man cars running from Middie.| | | convicted of murder Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Miller of Cedar street, will observe their 25th wedding anniversary January 19, with & reception at the Elks club. Mr. Miller was for many years in the dry goods business on | #ireet and more recently has been en. ‘ gAged in real estate activities, The couple bave three children, Mrs. Juck E. Lash, and Misses Evelyn wrd Josevhine Miller, | | bury to Woodbury. | pany officials here stated today that|ts the stand and asked him if his| | under the new system, reducing the son had comfessed to him and ¥f he| Cennecticut eom- | number of employes having, regular i of be o uit of thelr own accord ns, no men would be discharged, but Main | 211 the present force would be retained and those without reguiar runs given! the old man testified, extra work to do. According to some | looked me right in the eye, and sald: the trolleymen the walting Nist will #0 large that many of the men will | | in substitution of hit and miss activi- (Con“nlfcd On Vl"n"- Eleven). ' REFUSES TOLIE | | and Son s Convicted of Committing Murder. Jersey City, N. J., Jan. 9.—Arnold | Anderggn, allas Arthur Lindsey, stands | largely because nis father, Alvin Anderson, a Brooklyn tallor, would not lie to help his son. | The younger Anderson, charged with having killed Harry C. Moore, a wealthy real estate man, during a holdup, had admitted that he had told his father he was the murderer, but | explained thet his admisston had been | made (o shield his partner crime. Then the defense called the father| in the| did not belleve he had done S0 to) shield another man. { “I asked Arnold if he was gulity,™ simply. “He I kitled him.' What he sald he meant | and 1 befleve it was true.” The jury recommended mercy. Iiterary college, and Dean Henry M. Bates of the law school instead of by the discipline committee as is usual | In such cases, | The present investigation is distinet | | from the case In which President Bur. | ton is said 1o have taken personal ace tion and includes a general inquiry in to moral conditions at the school. Ithaeca, Jan. 9.-If all the women in | the United States were ke the co-eds| at Cornell, the Volstead act would be enforced to the letter, according to Lieutenant ‘Theodore N Twesten, Cornell university's proctor. The proctor, formerly a lieutenant in the Philadelphia police department, In & statement made today, said “1 belleve there is less drinking at| Cornell than In any other largeé uni- versity in the country. This, I think, is due largely to the activities of the girls| who have refused to dance with a man who has even a faint smell of liquor about him. No man can drink at Cornell and be in good standing soclal- | Iy. The girls have banded together and refused to permit drinking at any so- clal funetion and have boycotted men from thelr parties who have infringed on this rule.” Senator Mayfield Denies All Charges Against him | Waghengton, Jan. 9. -Sweeping| deniul of all the allegations of George | New York Father Tells Truth on Stand | £. B. Peddy. his opponent were made toduy @ answer filed with the senate elections committes by Senator May- fleld, democrat, Texas, in the Texas| senatorfal pgmary and election con- test Dept. of Justice Knows About Russian Plotting Washington, Jan. 9—Attorney Gen-| eral Daugherty declared in a formal statement today that the department| of justice had Jabundant evidence™ to back up the stale department’s recent statements concerning communist propaganda in the United States. 1 " | » THE WEATHER by Hartford, Jan. 9 —Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: in- J | would have to “get busy” at onee | forth, Y 18 hours in his full day on the Job. w Red L g8 District. The clean-u Btion in the light district was quick and sure after General Butler had called two of the leutenants in charge to his office and warned them that they| or be “busted.” | Twenty-seven cider saloons were| closed, their doors padiocked and the | alleged proprietors of two arrested In many of the places there wers| neither proprietors, bar-tenders nor/ customers, they apparently having an- ticipated the raids and sought cover elsewhere. Some of the saloons were selling soft drinks only After this work was completed Lieutenant Holton armed himself with an ax and again led his men This time disorderly houses were the objects of attention anll every one known to be operating was visited gnd ordered to close red Filipinos Ask Once More To Be Given Independence Washington, Jan. 9.--The plea for Phillippine independence was renew- | #d by the Phillippine mission here to- day in a memorial to congress making severe criticism of the administration of Gov. .Gen. Leonard Wood. The petition signed by Manwel Roxas, speaker of the Phillippine house, and Pedro Guevara, the resident commis stoner, declared that “the theories and principles underiying Gov. Wood's a tions are utterly repugnant to the policies that go to make up the neérstone of Phillippine autonomous government Thirteen Filipinos Die At Hands of Fanatics By The Associsted Press Manjia, Jan. 9.—Thirteen members of the Phillippine constabulary, in- cluding two officers, have been killed by religions fanatics on Bucas Island | | off the northeast coast of Mindanao, aecording to officiai advices from Su riago, lsiand of Mindanao CARRIE JACORS BOND 101 Héllywood, Caiif. Jan. 9. —Carrie| Jacobs Bond, song composer, is ser fously ill at her home hers. Mpa. | Bond has been ordered to take a sea voyage and if she is sufficiently re- | covered will sail January 29 for| Hawail. | C of Brigadier General Butles's orders, Average Daily Circulation Week Ending 10)061 Jan. 5th .... PRICE THREE E GOVT. OFFERED ONE HUNDRED 'MILLION DOLLARS EXTENDED | \OVER PERIOD OF FIFTY YEARS MIKE MORLEY, FIGHTER, For e 1A NARROMW ESCAPE Jumps to Safety as His Car Goes off Bridge Into Meriden Stream ric Power To B(\e Generated At Muscle Shoals Plant By Nine Southern Power Com- panies | Meriden, Jan. 9.—A large sedan automobile crashed through the rail- ing of the long wooden Cheshire street | bridge on the Oregon road in South | Meriden during last night gnd dropped | A% €ast Anin Ten Mile river, % i HES 1 about five feet | 3‘"‘“5‘" It State Lyered there early | vt. Bept., on their way to artford, Conn, feriden and the; tall light was sun vurning. The police’ made a plank bridge | over the water to the car and when The Associated Press. | they opened a door a registration card | shington, Jan. 9.—A new offer floatad out, showing thecar to be the .10r the electric power to be generated property of Michael Morley, of at Muecle Shoals, promising a return Squire street, Hartford, well-known in | °f #100.000,000 o the government the state as a welterweight pugilist |9 " @ Period of fifty years, was ten- | There was no one found in the ma.| 0cred today by the nine principal as- chine and all the doors were cloxed.\::;fi‘:d p:m!"r Rompenies . ob The police searched the river In valn | " ie"0 S0 { and whi drag Hanover Lake if Mor- |, (1 OFer, G068 not ‘:;’“"" the mis ley does not turn up. His sister | por "p, pebip i - (" WOulS he. bors Bt Hartford sald he left home n the car | o, “pord or sraone s 26l by about six o'clock last evening and had | some to terms “m), congl:'u“ “?‘dmuld not been home since. It s posssible | oifoq(ly reserves a certain part or!r:; according to the police, that an oc-|power to be developed at the Wilson cupant of the car might have been|gam next year, for the manufacture of thrown through the windshield when | tertilizer under such terms as the gove It started its plunge off the bridge and | ernment might prescribe, the body might lygve floated down the | Representative Hull of the houss stream. Morley was famillar with the | military committee really developed country road. {the new proposal by his recent re- o |quest to the federal power commis. Hartford, Jan. 9.-—Michael A |gion to invite offers for the lydro- (Mike) Morley, former New England |electric energy to be developed af welterwelght pugllistic champion, was' Wilson dam in 1925, at his home today suffering from a Ford's Ofter Too Small sprained ankle but with no other in-| After the submission of the offer to« Juries. Morley stated that he was the day Mr. Hull in a statement declared only occupant of his sedan automobile | the Ford offer “utterly inadequate” when it plunged off a bridge into Ten innd “of doubtful possible benefit” by Mile river at SBouth Meriden during ' comparison. He sald he would intro- last night. Morley said he lost control duce an appropriate resolution in the of the machine but managed to jump house. to safety before it went off the bridge. That part of the offer which pro- e — vides for the manufacture of fertilizer ’Mm Acts to Bln RQCIB which has been tho storm ceater in all the negotiations asd discussions for Showing Mabel Normand the disposal of Muscie Shoais 14 Bpiton, Jan, 9.--A recommendation | Henry Ford is as follows: 4 that n~ iuetion pictures of Mabel | “Under the pian projsed. aiivie Normand be ‘exhibited in Ythis state Provision would be mafe for &+ sup- was sent to its members Loday by the PIY of electric energy for the mmmie Massachusetts branch of the motion facture of fortiiizer at Musele Ghoa pleture theater owners of Amorica, | ®uch energy to be supplied at aectual — reost to the licensee.” Have New Processes Manufacturers Believed to Have Entirely New Plan for Making Fertilizers at Great Reduction in Price. | ! Topeka, Kas., Jan, 8.-—The | motion picture board of censors Although the offer jtself does not should not undertake to “censor the|disclose the fact, it is known manu« | conduct of actors and actresses w..o|factures not now assoclated with the | appear. in motion pietures” Gov. J. R.|fertilizer business are prepared to dis- Davis sald in a letter today to Mrs. | close new processes, which, it is said, | Gertrude A. S8awtell of the board. Al-|when used in conncction with hydro- | torney General C. B. Grifith recently [electric power, promise revolutionary | wrote the board asking that tilms in [developments ni the production of fers 'which Mabel Normand =~ appears, be|tillzer and tremendous reductions in eliminated. i price. Kansas |- i SR— — Sal a;'y bommittee F;vors Increase For More Than 25 Public Employes W0 KILLED,M HUi‘T k [Prosecutor and Assistant Lose Because of Dispute —Boost for Hart, None for Noble. | Bad Train Wreek Ocours When Two Trains Meet Head-on Not Var From Houston, Teaas, Houston, Tt Jan. 9.~ The en | gineer and fireman of one train wers (oan 55 sl IneTeasis Silh the salary committee of the council at its meeting last s voted to recome the wages of other employes remain the present, with the excepe chairman of the fire board instance 0 ¢ was Mor voted by common night. It mend that offictals and same at killed and more than fifty persons ir probably fatally, when Kansas Jured, three two Missouri, w o and Texas rail way passenger traine met head.on at Hiltendahi pight. The wreek, serfous in Eouth years, is thought from misinterpretation sponsibility has not been Train No. 26, north bound for St Louis, had left a blind siding at Hil- lendahl about five nilnutes before the crash and was picking up speed for the run to the next station when train No. 23, south bound from &t. Louis Dallas and Fort Worth, loomed into The impact was heard »# from here, last of the Texas in have of ordets cight mi as the which 1 patrolmen and the firemen but their most many resulted Re- one tion of in approv The partm for increases celved scant of both departments stances, will receive common counci! accepts committee’s report No Raise For Prosecntors. Councilman Clifforda W. Hellberg ade an unsuccessful attempt to rease the salary of Prosecutor J seph G. Woods from $2.500 to §3,004 " being offered by Councilman Stanley. Councile n Staniey pted to have pay of Assistant Prosecutor W. M. reenstein raised fro $1 $1.200, but H posed 1t so strongly in view action on Woods ley's motion was lost Rai 1 in the police des vetitioned requests fes consideration. Officers in some fine increases if the the salary ) placed view, for mile Raggage cars, telescoped crash, wera piled in passenger coaches and slecping cars kept the tracts. The front end of the the th bound ral neg pases scald [ but opposition B . M then atter vear torward coach of %0 train was split oper 1 mer passengers were hurt. Severs gers and tralnmen also wer by live steam from the engive VATCHES OPERATION Mertden Woman, 75 Years OM, Takes Only Local Anacsthetics as Surgeons Remove Rer Stomach Councilman “rg op- of the that Stan- request, or Hart. Favor When s from chief me i Stanie and Ce ed that the | Thure amer the salary $3,000. Both amendments wers lost and before the original question was put man Heliberg moved that it be fxed at § A tis vote teq and ame at up, ol % the Councitman Hellberg granted. ma ne increas. amend 1 yancilman Rengston ed to make o —Mrs. Henry who was dis- the Meriden had the novel ex- Meriden Jan Lange charged as cured hospital yesterday of this city, from Coune resu | pertence of watching the surgeons re move half her stomach and ecut a large growth from her intestines while she was under the influence of loca anaesthetics only Dre. Davia P, Smith and E. W. Smith performed the operation. It took two hours during which Mra. Lange conversed with the surgeons and was fully awdre of what they were doing. Chalrman A. F. Eichstasdt broke the in favor of $3.200 a year. No n. was granted Ohisf W Nobie fire department, the councll members cxprossing a belicf that both vhiefs shouid work on par Curtin Wins Increase 1t was voted to recommend that the (Continued on Thirteenth Page) the reags ] of the