New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 18, 1924, Page 1

\e\\s of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, SLEMP, CURTIS AND COLERICCO GOES ON SPEED VACCINE FOR 0Pubter biess, ELKINS HAD STOCK ~ TRIAL FORMURDER NEW BRITAIN CASES IN OIL COMPANIES Atty. Gen, Also Owned It Around Time of Leases of Naval Reserves TEAPOT DOME HEARING | BRINGS IN NEW FACTS Brokers' Reports Read Today Indi- | cate That Practically All Made Money on Their Speculations— Cleveland Man Tells of Fall Ask- ing Him To Lie About Making Him a Loan Washington, .March 18.—The oil committee resumed its hearings with u double-barrelled surprise today in the form of fresh evidence of oil| tock speculation by government offi- | cials and further testimony about the famous $100,000 loan to Albert B. Frall, Brokers' records submitted by an cxpert accountanpt showed that Attor- uey General Daugherty had dealt in both Sinclair and Doheny stocks since | he entered the cabinet; that C., Bas- com Slemp, now secretary to President Coolidge, also bought some Doheny stock before he retired from congress in 1923, and that there were records of dealings also by Senators Curtis of Kansas, Elkins of West Virginia, and a number of representatives. Tells of Fall's Request Price MeKinney of Cleveland, then testified that Former Secretary Fall had sought late last ycar, when the committee was inquiring into Fall's tinances, to have McKinney say that he had loaned $100,000 to the former secretary, That was before Fall made the same proposal to E. B, McLean, Senator Curtis issued a statement explaining that he had purchased the Sinclair stock for his daughter, Mrs, Permelia Curtis George, and that it had been delivered to her in July, | 1522, under an agreement by which she deposits the dividends in bank to the account of her children., Details of Testimony Attorney General Daughert, turs Cuntis of Kansas and Elkins of West Virginia, and C. Bascom Slemp, now secrctary to President Coolidge, were among the public officials who had transactions in Sinclair or Do- lwny oll stock around the time of the leases of the naval oil reserves. The names were disclosed before the senate oil committee today when it called to the stand Louis I". Bond, | New \Accused of Killing Sebastiano Gigenti Last December rJURY 1§ SELEGTED TODAY NEW PATIENT REPORTED Accused Man Pleads Not Guilty After Information in Warrant is Inter- preted—Two Berlin Residents Are Sitting on Jury. (Special to The Herald.) Hartford, March 18. — Francisco Colericco went on trial this morning Lefore Judge William M. Maltbie and a Jury in superior court, charged with first degree murder for killing Sebas- tiano Gigenti on December 6, 1922, at 173 North street. The entire morning was taken up by the selection of the Jury. Attorney Donald C. McCarthy, rep resenting Colericco, having been ap- pointed by the court to defend both Colericco and Frank Holecz, the other Britain man to face the court for murder. Attorney MeCarthy is connected with the office of IHolden | & Peck. State's Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn, assisted by Assistant State's Attorney Rinehart Sideon, prosecuted in be- half of the state. Attorney Alcorn questioned the jurors & to their gualifications and feelings toward capital punishment. Judge Maltbie gave a talk to the 63 prospective jurors who appeared in court, speaking of their duties s citizens which compelled them to be honest with the court, and with themselves in their statements in an swer to questions put by attorneysand in clailmng excuses from service, He classed service on a murder jury one of the highest duties citizens ar called upon to perform. Attorney MceCarthy questioned all the jurors on their knowledge of the Itallan race. He asked if they knew that it was a romantic race, quick to love and quick to kill, and if that knowledge would affect their decision, They were also usked by defending counsel if the fact that the grand jury has indicted the man, and also the fact that Attorney l‘n! den was (h foreman of that grand jury would & fect their decisions. The full jury 35 jurors had been examined and the charge read. Colericco stood befor the bench and the charge was inter preted to him, He sat throughout the mornings procecdings in the prison- ors dock and watched intently every actlon of the jurors as thoy were ques tioned and as they entured the eourt- (Continued on I Fifteen) is | was inpanelled after | 20,000 Points Rushed to This City From New York Assault Resulting From Class Scrap this afternoon, in reply to a query from the Herald, absolutely denied the [truth of the assertions made in a news dispatch blaming Edward De- laney of this city for assaulting an- other Trinity student in a class rush. According to President Ogilby the class scrap was a minor affair and a companion of Delaney did hit the % other student with a stick, inflicting Offers to Enter Isolation Hospital— ', "1yinor scalp wound behind the ear . lwhieh bled somewhat. President Ogil- by denied that the student was badly hurt and added classes as usual this morning. He ab- solutely absolved young Delaney and expressed the sentiment that the press story was simply an exaggeration. i Fairview Street Man Develops Small- pox—Suspended Derby Physician Hundreds Crowd Public Clinic. Sanitary Inspector Thomas Crowley was sent to Hartford today to meet a | consighment of vaccine points sent| (out by speecial delivery from the| Lederer laboratories at New York city, | the original shipment totalling 17,000 having been exhausted, The new ship- | ment contain 0,600 points, bringing the total t 000 or an amount suffi- | clent to inate more than half the/ | entire ecity’s population, The points were brought immediately to this eity. New Case on Fairview Street Following a consultation today at ;the home of Hurold Parfait of 125 Fairview steeet, the health department | announced that it uncovered an-| other cg of smallpox and the home | was placed under quarantine at once. Parfait, 24 years, had not been un- der gnarantine A suspected case, | his illness having come to the atten-| tion the health department this| club, morning for the first time, No, 125 Iairview street is the same| Members of both cla: house in which the Danielson mm(ly‘ suspend hostilities at a meeting hel is quarantined for smallpox. The | at 3 o'clock this morning. Duniclsons live on second floor and - Parfait’s hame is on the first floor, Developments in the case of Mrs, Swi of 107 Dwight street, who was quarantined as*a suspected case of smallpox, were not sufficiently posi- tive to warrant a definite announce- ment this afternoon, it was stated at the office of the health department. The patient was examined by Dr. R, Pullen and others who reported many of the symptoms smallpox, | they would pr to allow se to stand for at lcast another v before attempting an announce- ment of their diagnosis, The city hall was continued through the morning, but the stock was 80 low that it was feared that the | offices would closed for want of vaceine, Crowds Throng City Hall | Thousands are being vaccinated duily in the frec clinic and in the | offices of local physicians, The free { elinic is open in the morning from 9 i in the afternoon from 2 to 6 | o’clock and in the evening from 7 {to 1 o'clock. Threo doctors, three Durses and several volunteer workers ‘heertain terms, The' press dispatch follows: Hartford, March 4 Noble of East Hartford, a sophomore o | fracture of the skull in « pitched battle with freshmen last night, caus- ing the colle enate to cancel the annual $t. Patrick’s Day scrap, which has been postponed until today that the preliminary merriment might be indulged in on Monday rather than Sunday, Noble and another sophomore | grappled with Edward Delaney of New | Britain and Donald B. Kennedy of | New York, freshmen, and in the tussic s¢ °s. have hit Noble on the head with a WOMAN SHAKES FIST on Court and Is Punished for Contempt Bristol, to The March 1 Heraid.) ~Judge M, Emma Garlick, liek, of peace. The Lo noon, have been given so | (Continued on Page [ifteen) she rushed from the polie the Judge by Ofticer MARCH 18, 1924, — ! Absolves Local Student of Blame in’ President Ogilby of Trinity College ' that he attended | 18.—Herbert J.| at Trinity college, received a possible | 50 over a class flag Delaney is said to|Bliir also wers s agreed to|lon in an investigation of the |“u|n;: AT JUDGE, IS JAILED Creates Scene in Bristol | Joseph | was the Donovan was the subject of a vi- clous tirade this morning from Mrs, wife of Arthur Gar- 0O, who had appeared in the police | justice agent, yesterda: lcourt on a technical charge of breach | classified everybody woman was incensed!the film that the complaining witness should| much credence ! late Jess W, Bmith in the and she expressed her opinfon of the!denied that Smith had any inferest in local police and cowrt pOictule iu ne the picture, \ " Afte /¥ shaking her| /st unden the nose of (hc genial judge|of the phlurn contract in retaen (oF L i station, e | bUt was brought back at the orders of for his help in getting Henry | shown, as Rickard knew of Orr's pre- it not | /NEW BRITAIN HERALD [&#is5 LIGHTEEN PAGLS. PRICE THREE CENTS& BONUS BILL PASSES HOUSE T ODAY; EVIDENTLY HAVE FNOUGH VOTES TO OVER-RIDE VETO BY COOLIDGE MELLON AND WEEKS ARE CALLED IN TO TESTIFY IN DAUGHERTY PROBE Prohibition and Revenue BER[H]"LL I]EN!ES ANY Commissioners Also Sub- . = poenaed—Orir Gets Badl} (:\0‘1'1""5';51!{( State IIRETURN Tangled in His Testimony Hartiord, Cenn, Today. Offe However—Legion Issues Statement WINE W st Waushington, March 18§ were issucd today for t tlon and Weeks vy the senate tee investigatinug Attorney | Daugherty. | The two secr:tariss are 10 be quos- tioned about *he government conmract {with the Standard Aireraft corpor tion, in connectict, with which Gas- ton I3. Means previously testiticd he cepted $100,000 for the late Jess Smith to stop further legal |tion, Prohibition zz.nd Iaternal Subpoenas Med- commit Gener . Bader tergdoll, t ach, March 18.—Gro- ver Clevy drart to state land American ader, aut th greed to return to the his secretary today rgdoll had not Unite dStates, but that he proposals had been reported, to giving irances as to the exact punishment he would to undergo in such a case, was = | willing consider Commissioner Haynes | Revenue Commissioner m aoned, presvm- |ably for questioning about Means' sertion that he “got” Secretary Mel- | have ew York, March convieted aft I Grover Cleveland Bergdo during the war a evader, has agreed to return to America to {8 A1 his sentence in a fods prison, it s announced by Norman Hapgood cditor of Hearst's International magazine, Bergdoll of permits for withdrawals of whis- o l)\oy, Alfred R. Urion, a lawyer, named in the wlleged film “deal” also was | subpoenaed as was W. H. Votaw, su- | perintendent of tederal prisons, and a | |relagive by marriage of President Harding. Among others subpoenaed were: | Assistant Attorney Generals \nm |Anderson and Johnson: James Finch, pardon attorney of the de ;mn» {ment of justice; and Elmer Dove former assistant secretary of { treasury. | a ul will return at the invi- (Continued on Sixth Page) WATER BOARD HAS BIG IMPROVEMENT PLANNED XI|4 The Heaving in Detail Willlam A, ex-Governor [8420,000 Eapenditure Is Involved In Orr, former secrctary to | Whitman, one of the al- | MOSURecent Development 1 leged parties to the fight film “deal” first witness today in the | Daugherty investigation. Orr said he was “sore” because G. Holdridge, a former department volvin exponditure s witness, had | will be recommended by connected with | water commissioners to crook, He de-|council at its regular rep nted the |[tomorrow cvening, deal,” and | The present system is In wdeg it [the elty's necds, The % Celons Yhas buen feil particularly b storn section of the city where departm has reported di In getting up sutricient to fight fires effectually voted Ly the | nd taxation to proc iy Being Worked Out Adoption of w plan to reenforcs the city's distribution system | of $42 the board of the common March s “deal” as nled that he (Orr) sston Orr testified e owned 20 per ee?l | che ¢ asked flims Rickard the ficulty pressure his “services.” X water Hud urd ed wit) of finance 355 Congresswen Favor Measure While But 54 Register Cpposition By Their Ballots — Margin Over Necessary Two Thirds For Passage Was 82 Waus toc he in the il ve March 18 soldier ticated th 10 over-ride lington passed t ‘Thie house bonus bill, ere are votes u president- resuit i ouse to. o me after 40 minutes des quiring a two barring amend- to 54. The two-thirds bate unds thirds majority m The vote margin over tl was 82 AN sent ot rules r and was 355 e necessary ate bill provides endowment life payments titled to more ympensation, credit is figs as in the old hou st service and $1 a duty, the first 60 not counting. Cost Over 2 Billion © total cost of the bill is estima- 00 to be spread YOurs. maxis year is placed insurance 1o those than licies and cash rans not en $50 inn he adj ured on the same bill which twice a day for day for usted ¢ hasis passed th days of service over a period of 2 mum cost for the ot approximately It would $11 estimated 8,088, veterans titled to insurance policies Lo casr payments of $50 \\HA 41 would not be bonus having served lays, 1t is also estima- 1,805 had died up to Jan- whose dependents to their adjusted less 865,7 18 this year bhe entitied credlt COMMUTERS' FIGHT 1S RESUNED TODAY Attorney Cassale Asks for Suspcnsion of Increases empunu ily uary 1 would sorviee Jeglinski, The judge bave the Vious attempts to get films past t woman an opportunity to become re.| New York state censors and also of [the new water system, it would hay spectful toward the legal officials hut' Nis political connections, His part was {been necessary to provide the depart she continued o upbraiding all of 1o help overcome difticulties of cen ment with a new steam pumper this them, A jall sentence of 10 days for!SOrshil and also in public YOur, members o hoard contempt of court was imposed and| It Was announced during Orr's tos- | admitted costs of $3 worc assessed for the UMODY that the committee had issued | The water board s Lad the dis woman's actions. Saying that she “Ubpocnas for fifteen withesses today, |tribution system studied by its con would glndly go to fafl, £he marched iNCluding Secrctaries Mellon and [sulting engineers and P belligerently Into the woman's sce- plan whish hae approval of Weeks, tion of the lockup. Others for whom subpocias wore National ‘Board of 1%ir Garlick, the husband, In conr with the was arrested | SUed, were Internal Revenue Commis- [on a breach of peace charge on com.|%oner Blair, Prohibition Commission- |tion, the water board sabmit the p " % | financial schedule whic v oxt askeq plaint of “Dickie” London, of Forest- . YRR Wi ! Haynes and H, 11, Votaw, superin- ayvments over g riod of five ville, after a dispute over a bull, own- ; oo : ’ .('nvlr nt of prisous, ur relative of ed by Garlick has almost provoked FALLS SIX STORIES g the late President Harding. fisticuffs, London did not like the New Yorker Then is Arvested by Police a federal trade commission account- ant who has cxamined the books Licvin i St e voos| Branford Volunteer Fireman Dies Others Who Speculated | o In Fire That Threatens The Town Slemp at the time was a member 'RESIDENT OF THIS CITY FOR OVER 50 YEARS DEAD Well Home March the Hartford 18, <The hearing commuters pros increase in the the N, Y, was state publio it the state Cassule of New the commuters, ¢ commission suspend s until a decislon on b ched, He commissgion to make a dee this point today I Kent, enginecr the railroad mitt the rallroad lines July 1, 2 such lnes, taken t ad company e had & edule agalnst pmm utat H. railroad sumaod today e utilities commission ) Attorney speaki it inercased rate the financ fon on the res fore has prepared a e Underwrite commer DBritair asked ) the g for (Continued on Page 14) LONERGAN SUSPIGIOUS (OF IMMIGRANT BAN Tells Dnughters of Isabella Sinister Influences Are at Work th Smoke While' ) Trying to Save Valuable Papers—Loss Estimated From $75,000 to $100,000., | Overcome by ction e da e protest could the Wilbur veys for wil T a | Michael Known Resident, Chestnut Street at Age of 90, Naughton, Dies says He Knew Danghoerty sul | manner in which the farm animal was Orr told of knowing Dangherty kept in such a well populated section Urion and others named in the film as Forestville and expressed his opin. | Ci8€ He had been associated with {ion to the pollce, A warrant was fs.| M. Daungherty and Jess Smith sued and Garlick was arrested. [n|the Harding campaign v Ohio [court Gariiek was no meck lamb ana| freauentiy visited Mr. Daugherty Iy officially estimated at $35,000 to $100,- | WA given a jail sentence of 30 days, ‘:‘ ‘('-l" :”:'l'“ 1{;\"1":'[:"' '“:‘ '.‘.‘I.”L.‘.""‘,, 000 caused by a fire which completety | Which was suspended. He rofused to| PINEON B TS Ttile Freen FEOTEE G wrecked two frame business blocks onH‘"‘ the costs and was locked up to! * ";‘ e “‘; had tkaded Mutn streot eatty today 4 |awalt transportation to jail. Then his ;‘I"‘"\h;‘h'l"::\': of the fight ,.,.« g for a time to spread to other struc. | Wife began and the police headquar.) (H€EREIE AR W (B (R P e, tures, Firemen from Stoney Creek,|!®rs quivered and shook uander the ad he had never met Daugh- Slort Beach, Kast Haven and Guilford | Wrathy denounciation, pot e ook 4 metne N OLITIOAL RALLIES repudiating a state post office block, a moving pictur: Democrats (o Convene ol " at n wing in fon in this state 1861, shnee over Brantord, Conn, March orge | reser Vickstrom, a voluntecr fireman, was suffocated to death, two other firemen overcome, and pro damage un- 0 during He Michacl Naughton, years of age, and one of the oldest Irish resi dents in this city, died at his home, 343 Chestnut street, early this morn- |ing. Mr. Naughton has been a resi- dent of New Britain for over iv |years. Of late years he has been re- |tired. He leaves four sons, James, Thomas, William and Michael; two {daughters, Mary and Margaret; a sister, Mrs. Catherine Heenhan of Springfield, Mass, and cight grand- children. The funcral will be held | Thursday morning at 9 o'clock from the Church of St. John the Evangel- list. Imnterment will be in 8t Mary's cemetery. DEATH OF JOHN A. DUNBAR S en une 1865 ad 1 in and in the Baldwin, n 1856 has said he rates to whieh statutes pplies ™ for searel raiirond offices iry not 1 pia Speakin the 13th annual ban- from the v of a quet of Tsabella cire National | Duughters of 1sabella, last night at the | Burritt hotel, tormer Congressman \ugustine Lonergan of Hartford clared that underneath the propagan- Ja in favor of restricted immigration | altack on certaln races and! 1et them (the propagandists) geny this if they will” Throughout his address, ex-Con- gressman Lonergan referred frequent | Iy to socictics which meet in the dark | and challenged those who question the Americanism of Irish-born citizens or | their descendants to prove their | elaim Ve endorsed sentiments ex- | Spanish-American War Veteran pressed earlier in the evening by Rev, Raymond 1. Clabby of St. Mary's chureh, who urged Catholic women to | make wse of their franchise to de-| fend the church and its institutions against attacks made through the medium of national legisiation. The banquet was attended by and threatened y West liv ment buail Tepart ind lived, ¢ that h erty in street,” he had met Orr said he reighborhood but denicd ving mith “about the f money “Did you talk the pletures sked Senator Somethi the confise de- . T Tapia a rde whe that the hetween told the polic ot artford to impr service and bim there theater and the Masonic hall, which had been were endangered. The Totoket hotel o 300, brick structure, was badly damaked noke and water. Two Families Rescued Anthony | Jacobs, num- were reseued of the *a 1y % 1eligion injurics Tonight—Tte - Tapia re- ow f the him the H put publicans to Hold “Get-To; over the possibility Ured to rob him en he Members of the families of agrande and David ring a dozen persons, from the second story of o) fburned buildings The started from origin in the dry goods store Suval and spread in both toward Park Place on the Hillside avenue on the cast, store, Antheny Casagrande’s fruit tore, Louis Mark's clothing store, Jacobs' news store, the Branford Pub. e Market and a store of the Economy Grocery Co., were completely destroy- ed o contents rulned by fire, smoke or | wate Offices dentist be confiscat would Thursday Night at Headquarters, Jones improve. 1oker s wera Ad and rally wil) be held tonight in K. of C. meeting kall on Main strect. [ Jeaders| “You will discuss the iseues o cam- toge paign and plans will be made for put in drives in the six wards of the eity, Refreshments will served and en- tertainment specialtics have been ar- ranged. Chairman Wiitiam 1. Judd of the republican town committee announced | Holdridge had today that the republican party would tin” was a dumm hold a smoker Thursday evening at 8 |gelf, o'clock at hcadquarters. on Main| Senator Wherler pressed = sireet. The affair will be informal | orously for details of Vhat Wilson Thompson, | 453 ns special speakers have been -mr:.:-n;p: and he told of seeing the New Kinney, attorney: DF. | cyred, Al republicans are invited.|York censors and discussing “uplift George ¥. Wood, chiropractor and DF.| perrashments will be served {ers” whe opposed certain films } Aprihipsmsepibaros etiicntoest e Ratecd Campaign Money drygoods cones republican peivties ond floor. were completely burned out. | g -Convict Admits He Is “You raleed some money, $54 - S LEAPS INTO RAP[DS He leaves two brothers, George thtn B ¥ Nadocsr! y No Xo mocratic sn u werated, 1 Muma, a ther alrma ke : a i unknown bear of Morris directions | west and Suval's cumbs To Pneumonia i Hartford fire the wer e on road After Tliness of One Week Brands 1t A« Lie the thi true,” real TODAY COURY Monier was Tudge Henry P, plaintiff and rford and dant. The iefendant stating 1 further found to be as orr perso swar. 300 Bridgeport H. 8. Girls 1. Are to Work in ftoch Kirkhan Mareh 1 Bridgeport number cxperien ok at the rn, by “No listened that's one to t fen‘t “Martin was a New Britain of IN Cmy early this John A. Dunbar of 487 avenue, Hartford, d morning after a week's iliness with 170, | preumonta. Mr. Dur was 49 years It was almost an Adamless Eden, the |of uge and was a carpenter by trade. men present consisting of a few in-|He was well known in New Britai vited guests and newspapermen. ¥rom | having formerly resided in this beginning to cnd an air of soclabiiity | 1le was a charter member of and pleasantry reigned. The dinner | Juntor O. 1. A. M., was a Spanish was excellent and this, combined with | War veteran, a member of St. Mark's the splendid aking program, com- 1“..,.'. club and also a member of the - |Carpenters’ union. While in New, (Cohtinued on 1ifth Page) ! Britain he took an active interest in that Muma him titied really Camp r Orr “exactly” Bridge port dents in 1) to 1 of Dr Frank of ister w tor filling positi the r from the exeentive of fore through wa Wherler s. rin bl i $40,000 for the front porch cind | Brookivn and Charies J., of Kalama- _\Iokstrom SVENVRNES V- Sbwwe s at Marion?" asked Scnator offic {200, Michigan; two ssters, Mrs, UFYINE to rescuc valuable papers from | Batavia, X. Y. March 18.—John| 1 raised some. e Jumes Loughlin and Miss Jennte Dun. (1" offices. He was taken out by his| Vetoski, paroled convict has confessed | Orr suggested that Senator Wi bar of Hartford, and a nephew Georg: jons and cfforts to resuscitate that he murdered Mr. and Mrs, | afled. Charles Lay, another fire- | Thomas Walley and Mrs. George Morse er should go to Willlam Boyee | W. Dunbar. still § ™ n | Thompson of the republican nation Funral services will be held from Wwas Ul in a serious| gt Linden Jast week, the police Here carly today. The burned| said today. Mr. and Mrs. Whallay were committee to find out his campaign his late home Thursday afternoon at fund raising efforts, ock, Fev. Bamuel Suteliffe of 8. Dlocks were owned respectively by | shot in their home and Mrs. Morse,| “You raised some money Mark's chureh, this city, officiating. Thomas J. Teole and James O'Con-. 4 grocer's wife who was calling on the 1 turned it over to Dangherty . ““” t ol """"' Wil be in Falrview cemetery B Whalleys, was beaten to death with Not one cent.” gt gher g g o | TEMEn an axe handle. The bodies were covered Caught in Misstatement. the lower steel Arch bridge into the Iy re-| with oil-soaked rugs and set on fire, ou ever meet Daugherty whirpool rapids at midnight last night RLOWS OWN HEAD OF1 i green howse on K strvet A woman who' walked across the Greenwich, Mareh 18.-—John Wat- bridge soon after tie man Jeft the jine an Fnglishman, 40, killed him- Ametican side reported that he elimb- | geif by shooting today. The body was “d the ling at the middie of the|found in a row b in the garage bridge and plunged into the rapidf|of the Bdwin 8 Binney estate at George Harvey, tickel seller at the |Sound Beach. He was employed there American end of the bridge, said %¢|as chauffevr atkins had placed the remembered selling n ticket 1o the | muzzle ngle barrelled shotgnn Aeseri ¥ the woman and said d disc w~a whes he irls St and sig case city o'cloc was court Ate is representing & McDonough th endant intiff claims 1 by comp him man overcoms manage schedu come th Unidentified Man Jumps From Ni- tomorrow torney H he k rry Ginst agara Bridgt Into Seething Waters Will Ask Credit Corp. To Help Wheat Growers M 200 Feet Below. Niagara Falls, N, ¥ Washington, - Coolidge and his cabl ¥ 1o ask the Agricultura tion recently formed rs in the northwest T es Lay. one of overcome was said to have f covered this forenoon. Heard Report of Explosion Investigation of the cause of the fire was begun this forenoon by the thotities. Rumors that an explosion had been heard just before the fire darted were unconfirmed The blaze was discovered by rick Prann, who was returning 15 rty held his farm t the The was 1h ning Sercels in Lhe sloTe ¢ to Credit with or - wheat tiversiry yesterday Commissioner nted com- for 36 and elo “And you met President Harding tal of st there 2" rowe o “1 never did in my life Hartford. Mar. 18 —Forecast “But you did meet Daugherty for New Britain and vicinity: Mannington there Falr tomight and probably ‘1 never did Wednesday: little change in ere temperatnre The 1 THE WEATHER o resources the nted wir crops. Greco, Stanley David and the Insurance Staniey by a tio corporation, suy rom the War ¥ or $34 direct nt a of Fred- meet Daugherty about ordingly be omplishm By s nate. mouth a arged the we fr Ajscre eompar | Works. r pon by ing at 1 with tekirts atirk pre 1rigs He jsaves a widow, he wdan it w188 bidee n ® Suv ‘Contivued on I'age 12)