New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 10, 1924, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 BANDITS ROB POST OFFICE, SAPE WITH LOOT OF 25 TO 30 THOUSAND AT INDIAN HARBOR, NEAR CHICAGO Seven Auto Robbers Fol- low Taxi From Rail- road Stgtion, Pull Guns And Escape With Registered Mail Sacks. Three Armed Men Hold Postal Employes at Bay While Companions Select Pouches Containing Pay- roll Money. Chicago, May 10.—Seven automobile bandits who held up the East Chicago, Indiana post office, escaped with be- tween $25,000 and $30,000 according to estimates of post office inspectors here. One Shipment of $20,000 The money was being shipped by registered mail from the Federal Re- serve bank here to the United States Nutional ‘bank of Indiana Harbor at Fast Chicago. The money is believed to have been intended to meet at least cne payroll, as one shipment consisted of $20,000, The robbers selected four registered pouches from among fr- teen sacks of mail dispatched from Chicago and escaped. The robbers fled with the currency in an automobile in which they had followed a motor car from the Penn- sylvania railroad station at Indiana Harbor. The mail had just been dis- charged from an eastbound train. Upon searching the post office the bandits, held up five postal employes and quickly sorted out the four regis. tered pouches from the other mail. Bandits Work Fast As the sacks were belng carried from the taxfcab into the postofiice the bandits appeared. Three of them rushed inside with drawn guns and held up five post office employes, while their companions eeized the four 1egistered pouches. Jdward Standish, a post effice olerk, sald that the bandits spoke few wnrdn if any and worked expeditious- GLASS AT NORMAL SCHOOL LARGEST IN ITS HISTORY Diplomas To Be Given To Between 130 and 135 Girls at Graduation Exercises June 17, Jetween 130 and 135 girls will com- P the graduating class of the New Britain Normal school this year. This number is the largest in the history of the institution, Principal Marcus White said today, Graduation exer- cit * will be held on June 17, “oe list of State Normal school geniors who will receive assignments to teach in the local public schools next September was announced today Ly Chafrman P. 1%, King of the school board, as follows: v8 Virginia Tallard, Marie Cav- 1, Alice Sweeney, Helen North, Jouise Unkelbach, Jeanette Light, Ma n jive, Martha Clark and Mildred Zevin, FIRE IN N. Y. HOTEL onsiderable Damage Done By Water In Blaze at Today. New York, May 10.—Tons of water ere poured into the Waldor({-Astoria Hotel today to subdue a fird which, tarting in a sub-basement carpenter hop, nearly trapped 100 kitchen em- 10 and spread to the third floor efore it was checked. Black smoke bellowing through the eptire structure quickly emptied the ower floors of employes.and guests, Thousands of Tifth avenue pedes riane thronged to the scene; traffic wvas demoralized and firemen Wwere -ut oft {rom apparatus until police re- erves were called to keep lines clear. he fire burned for an hour and & alf. N ged | nated valuable tapestries were dam- y smoke. at $25,000. parade and Banquet Today For “Feeters” in Richmond Richmond, Va., May:10.—A parade and banquet were thie principal items sn today’s program for the Connecti- uwt Foot Guard and the Richmond IPlues, the two oldest military organi- zations in the country which are cele-* rating the 135th anniversary of the atter's organization. The Connecticut party, headed by jovernor and Mra. Charles A. Temple- on and comprising the first and see- nd companies af the Foot Guard and he governor's staff, arrived late yes- erday. A reception to the visiting xecutive and his wife by Governor nd Mrs. Trinkle and a ball at the! Blue® Armory were social featu jast night. The visitors will remain un- il Sunday night. UNFILLED STEEL ORDERS New York, May 10.—Unfilled orders f the United States Steel corporation 4 4.208.447 tons, & decrease of 574, %0 tons, compared with the end of lhe previous month. * the Waldorf-Astoria | The loss was esti- | n April 26, made public today, fotal- L 0 ] T R \__ AERIAL ARMADA ENDS FIRST LAP OF FLIGHT U. S. Airmen Reach Attu Islands—All . Trace of Major Martin Lost By The Associated Press, . Cordova, Alaska, May 10.—Three United States army aviators encircling the globe landed safely at Attu Isalnd at 9 o'clock last night, Pacific coast time, after a journey of 530 miles from Atka Island in the Aleutian Archipelago, according to a wireless message today. The squadron, under command of Lieut. Lowell H. Smith, piloting the air cruiger Chicago, made the trip in ten hours and 50 minutes, having left Atka Island at 10:10 a. m, yesterday. The filght was made in fair weather with some head winds encountered. The arrival of the aerial armada at Attu marked completion of the first of seven divisions of a 27,000-mile around-the-world journey. Despite strong gales, blinding blizzards and the disappearance of their former com- mander, Major Frederick L, Martin, in the neighborhood of Chignik, Alaska, the intrepid fliers haye covered 4,690 miles in 61 hours and 53 minutes, ac- tual flying time since leaving Clover field, Santa Monica, California, March 17, From Attu lIsland, the aviators will traverse the longest single stretoh on their schedule, an 878-mile jump to Paramashiru Island, Japan, Meanwhile no word has been re- ceived regarding the fate of Major I*rederick 1. Martin, and his mechanic Chignik, 26 miles north of Chignik. Cannery vessels and coast guard cut- Sea and the north Pacific ocean coast searching parties, were overland between Chignik and the ex- peninsula, Additional preparations to enlarge Washington, where an alrplane will be shiped board the United States coast cuarly Monday., Jdeutenant ¥arl M. Tonkin was scheduled I'rancisco today on a non-stop flight to Seattle, where he will board the Bear for Chignik, the search, reach Chignik llmllL May 22 By The Associated Press. / Mrs. Mangan Alternate At Big Convention of Democrats in Gotham Sl New Britain will be officlally represented at the democratic national convention in New York in June. Claimant as Heir o Spanish King| \ Alphulwe lmll\ Jerom Mrs. Laura P. Mangan of 41 Bassett street received notice today that she had been ap- pointed an alternate delegate and she said she will attend. Mrs. Mangan has been active in democratic circles for some time, She was head of the woman's organization which helped re-elect Mayor Paonessa last month and was the moving spirit behind a number of suc- cessful rallies, Mrs. Mangan has served a term as a member of the board of education. She is the wife of Judge William ¥, Mangan, New Britain's repre- sentative on the democratic state central committee. 1,000 MARBLE PLAYERS IN RINGER TOURNEY Herald—Junior Achievement Championship Contest Has Many Entrants It has been found that many, many, | more youngsters, boys and girls, are tansious to try for the city marble who were last seen April 30 near Lake ' ters continue to comb both the Bering ' possible, treme southwestern tip of the Alaska will guard cutter Bear lute tomorrow or entry the aerial base for liminary tournaments championship of New Britain than the Herald and the Junior Achieve- {ment Foundation at first thought So the limit of players has been raised from 500 to 1,000, There iine. Dog teams, carrying numerous ' gre already on the list well over 700 scurryIng names of prospective champs and it is very probable that the 1,000 limit have been reached by the time Monday chance for the entries are to close, evening will be the last the search were being used at Seattlc, ! any local boy or girl under the age of 15 to get their names on the list, To do #o it is necessary to clip an blank from the Herald and hand it in to the Herald or to W, to leave San W. T, Squire in the old Burritt school | Luilding. ; nounced he APPEALS 10 lEAliUE 70 SETTLE DISPUTE Presonts Case ~ | SCORES OVERCOME BY AUTO FUMES Week Endmg May 3 ...... 10,489 IN PITTSBURGH TUNNELS; CROWDED AS RESULT OF CARMEN'S STRIKE ASKS RIGHTS AND HONORS'JAPANESE EXCLUSION DEFINi ELY i ‘?--urhon says Catholic Ghurcl ) cl ed. So Ee‘ ‘Wants lt'lkln, ui New York, A]phonn XII of Spain, today an-| had submitted to Sir ! James Eric Drummond, secretary gen- | eral of the league of nations, for set- | tlement by the league his clailm “to ‘all rights and honors,” as “a rightful | and legitimate son of the late king.” Don Louis declared he had submit- ted his case to the Sacred College of Cardivals of the Roman Cathollci mhurch but that that body had taken | no action on it, The claimant, ‘who is a naturalized | | Anierican, sald he was born July 15, 11884 in Galatz, Rumania and that his mother was *“‘eccesiastically united in | marriage” to Alphonse XII by a Ro- | man Catholic priest in the presence of two Spanish Grandees in Madrid in lsw. He was the only child of thn( nion, he said in his communicltlon !o Sir James, Don Louis declared he appealed to | the league because there was no other jurisdiction to which he could appl and because he felt the league lhuuld make a ruling on the question of in- | ternational law involved. NEW RADIO TRANSMISSION WITHOUT CARRIER WAVES Station WRM Succeeds in Tests Which Give Clearér Tones and May 10. — Alphonse | | Louis Jerome de Bourbon, who claims | | to be a legitimate son of the late King | | | . SET TO BE EFFECTIVE JULY 1, reement 15 Reached DNAPPING 33 YEARS | Today by Members of House and Senate Con- ferees. Washington, May 10.-—The Japanese exclusion provision in the immigration bill will become effective July 1, 1924, under a new agreement reached today | by house and senate conferees. The compromise reached today is | substantially that reported as the first Aagroemom of the conference, which was reconsidered in deference to the | wishes of President Coolidge. New | action by the conference was made necessary when the house yesterday refused to approve March 1, 1925, as | the effective date. The exclusion provision aproved to- day s identical with the section in the bill as it was passed in the house, END FOUR YEAR TRIP ' T0 PACIFIC WITH OXEN [Mr. and Mrs. Berrang Started From This City in 1920 Mr, and Mrs. J. C. Berrang, former- ly of this city, have completed a four | years' journey across the plains by ox !lum and have taken up their resi- Distance Urbana, 1L, May 10.—Radio trans- mission without carrier waves has| been successfully demonstrated by station WRM, of the University ot | Illinois, and further experiments are under way, scientists at the institution | announced today. Tests have brought responses from | all over the United States that signals | braadcast by the new method dis-| | covered at the university came In | “loud and elear.” temember, boys and girls, the pre. | are open to The vessel is expected #o | anyone in the city under the age of | 15, The winners of the preliminaries | will meet in the finals for the city champlonship and the boy or girl No in-, winning the championship will be sent formatién as to the whercabouts of to Atlantie City for one week, June May 10.- Major Frederick 1. Martin, missing army flight commander, has found by the United States coast guard cutter Mghnquln, which has returned | Cordova, Alaska, ’10 Duteh Harbor on Unalaska Tsland ror fuel, according to a wireless mes. | be games in every school yard. sage today. FISHER ASSAILS LODGE o Is Attempt to Keep U, S, Out of Any at Al Moberly, Mo.,. May 10.—Senator Lodge's plan for a world court as pre- sented to the United States senate Thursday was considered to be “an at« tempt to prevent our joining the only court available,” in an address here last night by Dr. Irving Fisher of Yale, nationally known economist. “Senator Lodge ¥ one of eleven men in Washington who are determined 1o block any effective plan for Ameri- can cooperation with Europe,” Dr. IMisher sald. “Mr, Lodge must well know that the other nations will not consent to changing the method of elecling judges, cspeclally as there is ‘no valid reason for doing so. Mr. | Lodge is here trying the old pelitical trick which he tried successfully once | berore of substituting an impossibility for a poulhll\l) TWO GRUESOME SUICIDES | New York Girl Jnmps Seven Stories— | rajjef N ewburg Man Blows Self to Bits the rdles With Dynamite, New York, May 10.—Josie Lom- bardi, 22, leaped seven floors to her death today from a window in the Fast 15th street factory Where she was employed. ¥riends of the girl | who vainly tried to pull Wer back from the ledge, told the police that Josie had been jilted by the man she loved. Her body narrowly missed hitting pedestrian. Newburgh, N Nest, 72, | vlowing himself to pleces with blast- ing powder in a bedroom of his home here. The explosion rocked surround- ihg houses. Van Nest had been de- spondent, his friends said. 5 s 5 1,000 New Coast Guards | To Man the Dry Navy Boston, May 10.—Copies of a call ,being sent out from Washington to all divisions of the coast guard for an increase of 4,000 in the personne! in order to man the new boats to be used for cambatting rumrunners were re- ceived at the eastern division head- | guarters here today. Enfistments for one year only may be made at the custom house here. The men are wanled for deck and engine roam work and will be glven {# brief period of intensive lnll!n at 'Philadeiphia. been pick as an adult companion. o Xo \hr 10-—Peter Van | gomery Flagg. artist, today committed suiclde today bY |4 marriage license to wed Mrs, Dor- with whoever he or she might | The | 1to 7, winner will likewise get a medal. The tournament is to start Wed- nesday after school when there will The lists will be so made up that school- mates will play against each other in | the preliminaries. Thus a cham- pion marble player will be selected by the elimination process, champlonship will be in order. the case may be, until the eity cham- pion is selected, The city winner will have a chance to win the national tournament at Atlantic City, where he will enter a tournament with 60 other cily champs. . (Continned on |.«p 12) PARM RELIEF MEASURE . MeNary-Hangen Bl Will Be Brought Up Nest Week or First of Following Week. . Washington, May 10.—Definite de- ciston to have the house consider the MeNary-Haugen farm relief bill at this session of congress was reached today by republican leaders, As#urance was given suporters of the measure that it would be taken up by the house the last of next week or the first of the week following. Senator Norbeck, republican, South Dakota, who has charge of the farm fight in the senate, sald he would be satisfied with the action of committes, if It was sup- ported by similar verbal assurance from some majority leader. The farm bloc was not content with the agreement reached this week by & |republican conference that “some re- tief measure would be considered, it was indicated, but wanted the prom- ise made a plr1 of the prinlfld record. » | James Montgomery Fl.gg Takes License to Marry New, York, May 10.—James Mont- obtained |othy Virginia Wadman, nee Free- 1and, a widow, of this city. Flage., who is 46 years old. is A widower. Mrs. Wadfman is 25 years old. Her husband died in 1918, She 18 a native of England. A HOLLOCHER SIGNS TP Chicago, May 10.—Charles Holloch- er, star shortstop of the Chicago Na- tionals, who has been holding out, to- day signed a contract. He is expected to get into uniform today. k] I’Fm‘l DROWNED Tokio, May 10.—Seventy persons are belleved to have perished as a result of the capsizing of the motor boat Kinga Marn near Keelung, For- fmosa. press dispatches stated today One hundred persons including pas- sengers and crew were aboard. Under the present system of broad. casting, the carrier wave, upon which the sound wave is impressed, conveys | dence in Medford, Oregon. They left this city in 1920 after | thelr home burned and started out to | find a new home in Oregon, says the “United Press.” One advantage they | had over the ploneers of olden days | who travelled by ox eart, was that | these modern “ploncers” had a radio set. Each night they would draw up | along side of the road, gat their stp- | per and turn on the radio. They lived (in the wagon exclusively, there being |‘a stove and the few necessitics of life in the vehicle. | They stated on thelr arrival in Med- |all manner of sounds and only the.mm that they had onjoyed the trip moduylation intensity of the trnnumnu ter and the action of the detector in | immensely and Mrs, Berrang sald she was sorry the trip was over. They | eliminating the carried wave to more ¢ravelled a great deal of the Wme or less degree, enables the sound fre- | {quency to be heard in the receiver. | thoroughfares were casier on the feet |the Often foreigh noises picked up by the | earrier wave become audible sounds Qn the receiver, interfering with per. fcrl reception, With the new device only the modu- on out of the way roads, as the dirt of the oxen. The Oregon Trall was | followed, whenever it was possible, | The couple stated that the hardest part of the trip was the crossing of the Rocky Mountains, lated sound frequencies are broadeast | and these, according to the college scientists, | noises. the city | Bach ! Yale Professor Says His Court Plan ! schoo Ichamy will play with another ¢ school champ, winning or losing as ment and much greater distance may | Sending efficiency is lm‘rn‘nos, tun- ' Ing is made more selective at the re- viu-r because of the sharper decre- | be covered. | ORCA MAKING PORT Steamer In Collision Yesterday is Fx- pected to Dock at New York Some- time Monday Moming. . New York, May 10.—The steamship Orea, which was damaged in a col- lision With the Norwegian rreightor Porsanger in fog off Father Point, | Quebee, Thursday night, probably will this port early Monday | Captain Matthews advised arrive in norning, the Royal pany, the owners, in a wireless mes- sage received early Monday. % “Expect to arrive at 8 a. m. Mon- day, “ag o drydocking required. Ship can sail in itinerary. Nothing to add to previous wire regarding incident.” Fifty-one passengers are aboard tie Orea. None of them was injured in| the collision. The Orea, if morning, wiil schedule time, it steamship offices, New London Robbers Are Given Jail, Also Are Fined New London, May 10. — Arrested she arrives reach New was sald York on at the here yesterday in connection with a | daring daylight robbery at the laun- dry of Bddie Young, Chinese, of 276 Main street, Joseph O'Brien, 20, of 23 Light street court, Lynn, Mass, self for similar offenses and who Js .at present under a ohe year suspended sentence at Chelsea, Masa., was given | | #ix months in jail and fined $200 and costs of court, assessed at $45, and his two companions, Joseph Lenowski, 16, ‘of 200 Raliroad avenue, Jersey City and Vietor Selvaggio, 17, of 162 Mer- seles street, same city, were each giw en six months raigned, before Judge 8. Victor Prince | in police court today. - THE WEATHER o S | Hartford, May 10.—Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Unsettied tonight and Sanday, probably showers, little change in temperstore. 1 | 1 are devoid of the carrier| wave tendency to plck up extraneous Monday ! admitted descrter and holdup man, | wanted in many Massachusetts cities | séntences when ar-| PROTEST TENNIS RULE 18 of 25 Ranking Playbrs in Metro- poittan District File Formal Protest At Player-Writer Edict, New York, May 10.—<The player- writer rule of the United States lLawn Tennis association was protested to- day and its reconsideration urged in a petition signed by 18 of the 25 men ranking players In the metropolitan | district. The list of signers includes Francls T. Hunter now of Beckley, W. Va.,, member of the Olympic team, and Sam Hardy, former Davis cuP o e disposition of the bodie captain, GIN RUINS DAUGHTER Off Dry Am‘nli Who Make $150,000 Haul. tated Captain Matthew's mes. | Newark, N. J, May 10.—Acting on what he declared was a tip from a mother who said her “daughter had been ruined by gin,” Federal Prohibi- |tion Agent LaFara, of the New York ‘dl\|s|nvml office, today scized high grade liquors, which he valued at |$150,000 at the plant of the | Chemieal corporation, larretsed. ‘24 AGO BELIEVED SOLVED '58 Year Old Missouri “Man Claims to Be Long Lost " “Freddie” Leib . Jopiin; Mo, May 10.—A woman's desire to avenge a blighted fove and to blackmall the man who spurned her was the motjve behind the kidnapping of FreddieLeib at Quincy, Illinois 63 years ago, according to the statement here of a man known Robert T. Clark, 58, who declarcrlm has es- tablished his identity as the long lost Freddie. He claims to be the son of Professor W, H. Leib, widely known music master, who died less than a year ago, after having spent a lifetime and depleted his income in vain ef- forts to find his son. Clark has been a steel worker at Croydon, Pa. His story is that he was taken from his home by a woman, the hireling of a wealthy woman who had once loved his father and had sought revenge againgt his mother. He also declared that the woman sought to blackmail hig father after the kidnaping by at- tempting o brand him as the father of a child born out of wedlock, The woman alleged to have kidnap- ed him, Clark said, resides in the east. He refused to divulge her name. He said he has obtained her name and the names of several other persons, ac- cessories to the erime. Clark claims to have been accepted by the music professor's daughter Mrs, Bessie Sutherland, and a son, as their brother. He bears a resemblance to Professor Leibs FENN NAMES HOLDEN FOR FORESTVILLE POST OFFICE Recommends Reappolntment of In- cumbent—No Responses to Ex- amination Invitation. BY GEORGE H. MANNING. (Washington Bureau of N. B, Herald) Washington, D. C., May 10.—Con- gressman E. Hart Fenn has recom- mended to the post office department reappointment of Postmaster James I, Holden at Forestville, Hart- ferd county, for another four years. Holden's term will expire on June 6. The civil service cominission re- cently announced an examination of |applicants for the job which pays [$2,300 a year but nobody applied. The department consulted Con- Ritz Two men were Many packages of liquors ready for shipment were found in the plant, LaFara declared, as well as scores of small leather bound trunks he said he believed Were used for expressing ig- uor shipments. Ground Broken Today for | New Conn. College Building M New London, for Women, here for a tory which has bee® given by a Con- necticut iname be withheld 1t |the building wili cost\ $250,000. approxinfitely y 10 —Ground s being broken at Connecticut College new dormi- man who requests that his is sald that The board of trustees have votedl an inerease of $50 a year tuition efditive for the class of 1928, Benedidt, Sweet PBriar | Dr. Mary K. president of formerly college, Sweet Briar. Va.,, has been appointed dean of students and college physi- | GERMANSIFREE RUsSIANS | Berlin, May 10.—Al members of | the Russian soviet government com- | mercial delegation ¥ho were arrested in the recent rald by police on the headquarters of the delegation here have been released, according to Vos- sische ZeUng. S\ e o gressman Fenn and he, after present- ing the question to the republican leaders of Forestville, recommended the reappointment of Holden His nomination will be sent to the senate short) TAKE BODIES AWAY Today for Preparations Under Way Disposition of Remains of Six b | Hanged Yesterday in Loulsiana, Preps New Orleans, May 10 arations of the six men hanged at Amite yesterday for the murder of Dallas Calmes, May §, 1921, were under way tod ‘ The bodies of Andrea Lamantia, Joseph Gigilo, Roy Leona and Joseph Bocchio arrived here last night and Mail Steam Packet com. SO Asserts \!"'lrk Mother in Tipping before a crowd were removed from the train to an undertaking estab- lishment., Those qf Joseph Itini Natala Deamore were taken to Ham- mond, the former to be sent to Chi- cago and the latter nt Lamantia's, Giglio's bodies late today wil Brookiyn, N. Y. Boechio, mer home was in Chicago buried here tomorrow Lamantia stabbed himself when he attempted to commit yesterday. Methodists W nn( All to Be Admitted Into U. S to be hetre, be se whose will 27 times sui By The Associnted Press Springfield, Mass, May 1¢ A plea for the admission to this country and to American citizenship of all peoples “segardiess of racc, color, or nation ality” was approved by the Methodist Episcopal general conterence here to | Cay. “We deplore as unpatriotic and ur Christian” the rosqy introduced hy the Rev. Ralpl®W. & pkman o New York city, vead in part, “the movements x % x and that single out certain races and religious groups for discriminatory and unfriendly treat- mgnt.” anhc Farmer llu Chick Vith Four Perfect Legs New London, May 10. — Serafin Rando of Niantie is Jml-)“'w a freak chicken just hatehefl from a setting The chick has four perfect wings and { four perfect feet TOBACPO FARMER BANKRUPT New Haven, May 10.—John H. Bean, 2rd, of Granby, tobacco farmer, has $10,138 debts and allets of $7.251 in a bankruptes petition fled today. He valved his Horses at $106 and two | antomotiies at §55 and 310 exch. 4 and | and Leona's ) nt to) Many Taken To Hos- pital By Rescue Crews Who Have To Use s Masks To Bring Out Victims. 3,200 Street Car Workers Quit—Company to Re- sume Monday — Police Armed to Prevent Out- breaks. Pittsburgh, May 10.—8cores of per- sons were overcome by automobile exhaust fumes in the Twin Liberty tunnels through the uth Hills here today. Increased traffic in the tun- nels as a consequence of a strike of 3,200 street car motormen and con- ductors, caused the tubes to become choked with the gases. I7irst air crews of the United States Bureau of Mines and the city fire department were rushed to the scene, Many Sent to Hospitals When the rescue men reached the tubes they donned oxygen helmets and went in. The tunnels were closed to all trafic and soon the rescuers were busy carrying out men and women who had collapsed. They were given first aid treatment, and a num- ber reported in a serious condition were sent to hospitals.’ Main Gateway to City The tunnels form the main gateway into the city from five thickly popu- ¢ lated suburbs. With the street cars tled up, the tubes were crowded to capacity this morning, hundreds of motorists using this inlet to Pittsburgh from beyond the South Hills Shortly after 9 a. m., a traflic jam tied up many mashines in the tubes. The drivers, it is sald, failed to shut off thelr motors and soon the tunnels were cloudagd with fumes and virtually every oecupiint of the stalled machines was affected. Opened Few Months Ago When the tunnels were thrown open to the public several months ago it was discovered that airshal sunk from Mount Washington were m-um. clent to carry off the deadly gases. Bureau of mines men condubted ex- periments and found that persons passing through the tubes affected by carbon, polsoning. The tunnels, they sald, were safo as long as motorists kept moving. The Allegheny county commission- ors, when advised of today's accident, ordered the tunnels clesed. The exact number of persons overs come in the tubes was not known, but more than a score were sent to hos- pitals for treatment. Prepare for Pight After receipt of a letter from offi- clals of the railypys company in which Mayor Magee Was informed that the company looked to the city to protect its property during the strike the mayor addressed council, urging that pending ordinances for the use of 150 tear gas maces, 50 riot guns, 100 grenades and 10 tear gas tanks, be passed and the equipment purchased immediately, He also asked that council provide automobiles for the rapid transportation of police from one section of the city to another, Jam is Complcte Tens of thousands of Pittsburgh and suburban residents moved to thur work in icles of every conceivable varlety. ‘Thousands of others were foreed to walk The traffic jam in the dowmtown section began at daybreak, although every available traflic officer was on duty, long lines of motor cars and other vehicles moves at snail-pace. Will Resnme Monday. The Pittshurgh Rallways company will resume strect car service here on Monday morning, using men from other cities to replace 8 200 strikiog { motormen and conductors, it was offi- cially announced today. More than 500 out of town men ate available te man the cars, it was said, and others | will be brought in iater. | Deadlock Ensues. Mavor William A. Magee who acted as mediator between the carmen and {officials of the rallways company in the last two wecks remained in his e until midnight last night in case Al of a change of attitude by either the olley workers or the company heads. Both sides have agreed upon arbitration but are deadlocked over the question of how and what 1o ar- bitrate » No statement was forthcoming trom the railways headquarters as 10 l‘\ cther or not the company would | endeavor to operate its fines with the employient of other meh The carten have akked an increase of trom 67 cents an hout to 75 and 77 cents an hour | |Borg Breaks World Record In Swimming the Half Mile Stanford University, Cal, May 10— Arpe Borg of Sweden, broke ofe of sven world's swimming records held I By himself when he swam the Bal mile in ten minutes, 38 3.5 seconds here today. The old record was ten minutes 43-2-5 seconds. STARTS FOR SPAIN Nangoon' Tndla, May 1 Fremeh aviator, Lieutenamt r‘lfi ! Doisy, who is figh Tokle took oX t-:y'r Sam.