New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 22, 1924, Page 1

l\ews of the World By Assocmtcd Press ESTABLISHED 1870 FAIL T0 CRITICIZE (ONN, SENATORS State Chamber Resolution Anent Bonus Is Modified WANT ‘CEOCK LAW' CHANGED Ask Legislature to Repeal Act For- bidding Showing of Daylight Time Also Recommend Statute to Stop Itincrant Vendors, Bridgeport, May 22.—With three lelegates to the Connecticut chamber of comm »th annual convention sion opposing, supporters of Senas s George 1. Mclean and Frank B, degee tod; had stricken out of esolution condemnation of the two scnators for voting to over-ride th President Coolidge’'s vego of the bonus bill, . E. P. Jones of Winsted in asking 10 regorded in opposition to the reso- ution whicih commended President Coolidge, said that he did so becaus pproval of the president’s course v in effect condemnation of the action of the senators, although not expre ree 2 The resc offered by the Hartford chaiabor commerce through Thomas Kelley of that city. Horace Cheney of Manchester offer- #d an amemlment to the resolution which in effect deieted the condemna- tion for the senators and amenc resolution was adopte: Resolutions Adopted. he convention also adopted resoe ittons on favorable report from the csolutfons committee asking the leg isature to repeal that on of the anti-daylight time law which prohib- i the display of clocks showing such time; in favor of legisiation to put an end to the business of itinerant ven- for the protection of Connecti- cut’s water supply through couserva- tion of watershed tributaries; against neroachment by the federal govern- ment on the powers of the states; hanks to the Bridgeport chamber of commerce for entertaining the con- ention against changes in the trans- portation act and in opposition to the Howell-Barkley bill which amends the ransportation act. Dircctors Flected, The following directors were elect- d for two years: Thendore Bodenweln, Arthur Reed Kimball, Waterbury; tHarold Glipatrie, Putnam; Winthrop M. Dan New Haven; Frederick N, Pelding, Rockville; Henry M, Shart- nberg, New Haven; Ralph B, Tves, Hartford: (‘harles B, Cook, Hartford; Theodors 1. Kristol, Ansonia; Leon ard 1. tiealey, Hartofrd, N0 MORE “KEG PAR'I‘IES" Princeton Ol Grads” Tssue Plea For ution was lors; New London: No Tdquor at Any of Their Rennions Next Month, Trenton, N. J., Ma Keg parties nd other festivities that have played ich a gala part in the class reunions Princeton university commence- ments are to be no more. Sixty of the old grafls” today issued a plea for the aholition of all booze at the alumni next month. This follows unanimous aetions by various alumni therings, representing all graduat- ing classes from 1500 to date. The merits of the eighteenth mendment and the Volastead act are in no wise involved; in fact, we would ot hesitate to say that & majority of those who have attended the various meetings are opposed to the Volstead aet, and many to the econstitutional amendment also,” declares the appeal f the committee of the graduate ouneil, addressed to the alumni, GIVEN JAIL SENTENCES Three Fined $100 Each, One Gets 60 Days and Two Others Are Given 30 Days Each. Dridgeport, May 22.—Jack Green, William Turner and Abraham Gersten, arrested in Stratford May 9 for trans- porting 59 barrels of beer through the caded gullty to charges of ransporting beer when arraigned in superior court here today. Judge L. P. Walde Marvin imposed a fine of §100 n each case and sentenced Green to £0 days in jail and Turner and Ger- sien 1o 30 days each, Arthur Jacobs, Morrls Ziegler of Stamford, also ar- ested on charges of transporting beer € not in court when their cas era called and their bonds of §1,000 were declared forfeited. X Sisters in Suicide Pact; Despondent Over Finances Somerville, Mass, May 22.—Miss ¢ Burke, 57 yvears of age, and her or, Mra, Nora Fuller, two years were found dead in a bed in e today, with gas flow- ihe placed with one end wesn their ows. The furniture 1se was packed preparatory ing. 1t is supposed that jemt from financial r home e from a e hot their mos creon Sleuth Finds Man With iquor, }hkes Arrest rnesta gliardi of 140 t was notified to appear in tomorrow morning to charge of violating the n Policeman Thomas d & quantity of liquor he policeman Aeepon home today a wan of tal Mre Gagliardl for and the man hawed it from Raiph Adler and | - NEW BRITAIN HERALD MEASUREMENTS T0 PROVE IDENTITY Youth Claims He Is War Vet Reported Dead PARENTS IDENTIFY Body Soldier HiM of Supposed Disin- terted and Measured and Scientists Are Secking to Establish Case, . ., May 22—Doctors of the United were enroute measure- war vet- In- . Neb, be sub- ho will be the body is Sioux lis, ind field representativ ates Veterans' burcau to Minneapolis today, with ments in the remains of a cran buried as Arthur Frazier, dian ser » man, at Niobr: The measurements will mitted to archacolo 8, usked to determine if that of an Indian. The body was ex- hmmed yesterday in an cffort to sub- stantiate or disprove the ciaims of a vouth who says he is Arthur Frazier Indian scrvice man, and whose par ents claim him as their son War department records show th Arthur Frazier, Indian youth, who enlisted at 8t. Charies, 8, D was Killed in action in I'rance October %, 1918, in Say He Is Son. Arthur Fraz Indian shell shoek, without disch and unable to tell how e from France, is in the home of the razier family at IFort Lookout, 8. D. The parents and many of his former comrades say he is the real Arthur I'razier. e war department prints show that the men who enlisted at St not those of the man ut oul. American Legign the fingerprint records may neous. he real Arthur Frazier was well lucated, the son of an Indian clorgy- man of the iscopal chur A body was brought back and interred as his at Niobrara, Neb, Some months ago the parents were notified that Arthur had been found vandering in Oklahoma. American Leglon officlals brought him to South Dakota, The parents identified him by body sears and habits. But the war department officially did not know him GROCERS ARE FINED —One victin of papers returnd files of fingtr records of the Charles are IFort officials be Look- sy erro Waterbury Men in Couw Pays 4 $15 for Adulterated Hamburg Steak —Two Pay $10. Waterbury, May 22, \arged with selling adulterated hamburg steak, M, Greenblatt was finad $15 and costs in eity court here today. Greenblatt was also fined $10 and costs for selling adulterated sausage frankfurters and John Hullstrunk was fined the same amount on a like charge. In affida- vits signedd by Inspectors from the state food and diary commissioner's office it was ected that “excess cer. eal” and “undéMared coloring” ha been used in the frankfurters, Counsel for the accused claimed the excess of cereal had been the work of care less empioyes and that the meat had not been harmed by substance used, ANOTHER RUM PRIZE Auxiliary Sloop s Captured by the Jed eral Boat Off Montauk With 190 Cases of Scotch On Board. New London, May 22 running auxiliary stoop La 1elico, of Gloucester with 190 cases choice Scoteh whiskey on board was brought into port today. The sloop was cap- tured last night a few miles southeast of Montauk Point by the coast guard cutter Seminole, according to an an- nouncement of Deputy Collector of Customs, Jeremiah Dillon. The liquor and boat were brought to this city by ldeut. R. B. Hall and a ecrew of guardsmen while three prisoners, Roderick MeNeil, skipper of the rum runner and two men comprising the crew remain in the brig of the eut- ter, which is » at sea, The rum of Guilty of Poisoning Bull Hoping to Get Man Fired Hudson, N. Y., May — Lester Shook, a youthful farmhand of Clav- erack, today was free in ne custody |of his attorneys, following a three- day trial which ended with a verdiet finding him guilty of having poisoned a bull on the Jacob Mesick estate stock farm. The jury which eonvieted him recommended leniency with the restiit that he was piaced on proba- tion. The state had contended that Shook poisoned the valuable animal in the hope that an employe of the Mesick Farm would be blamed and discharg- ed and that would get the job. Shook had once worked on the Mes- ick estate, he BARING TRIAL JUNE 5 White Plains, N. V., May County Judge Bileakley today June § as the tentative date for the trial of Clarence O. Paring on & charge of attempting to murder his wife with polson and germs. Paring was present in court, well dressed and ovtwardly confident BANDITS GET 81,815, Newark, N. J., May 22.—An armed bandit awakened Mre. Margdret Hol- den, 67, with a flashlight in her bed- toom car lered her to #i- ence. and rough a door t the dining room and escaped, taking with Wim $1.815 in cash and jeweiry from a safe. today. or backed NEW BRITAIN, 22 {WORLD COURT WRANGLE STILL IS UNSETTLED Wit Be CONNECTICUT, TH'URSDAY, MAY 1924. —EIGHTEEN YANKEE FLIERS NOW IN SIGHT OF TOKID ... Reported Befor SUICIDE THOUGHT T0 BE GhRMAN IMMIGRANT Hanging to Tree On ' Proposals wever, Man Found senatg Ad- Hartford Road is Partly Reach Kasumigaura, 50 Miles From Japanese Capital 354 MILES IN § HRS. 10 MIN. journs Next-Month, Tdentified Washington, N 22, — “Further progress” was reported by membeps of the senate foreigm welations commit today after dévoted consideration of aling with adhercnce States 1o a world court The plan for The body of a man, whose name is thought to be Irantz Heffe, was found dangling on the end of a cord | suspended from a tree behind a bill- board on the Hartford roat last nigit y Edward Kerrigan of 90 Seymour strect. Identification of the nrin has not been completed by the police but a bilifold found in the man's pocket ore the name of I'rantz Heffe, lead- | ing the police and Medical Examiner Waterman Lyon to believe that is the man’s name. A workman's card is- sued in Luxenburg, Germany, was in the folder, and in another pocket was py found an expeive German watch, His clothing was evidently of foreign make so the police believe that he is a recent immigrant to this country, the o e also had two bills, a 1,000 mark Japanese naval aviatio bill and a 2,000 mark il northwest of Tokio at 5:40 p. m. toda Kerrigan was going to at a Their flying time the 354 mile Bl of mm‘ 1.:: owns in the |.1r>ml\— hop was five hours and ten minute proposed Presidents Harding ana rorhood and saw the man’s body. He | and their flying time for the day's two ' “oolidge, designed to define the jurie went to Sedgewick’s farm and the po-, jumps, they having reached Minato = “.“; of the oottt in j"m‘mm ‘\f|, liee we alled. Patrolman Guastav | from Yetorofu Ialand in the Kurlles.isory opinionsi. ta place. clection. Hellberg and Michael Brophy went to | this morning was 12 hours and 40 o0 DPIROns: 18 Puace s the and the medical examiner | minutes. The two jumps totaled over ‘1o the court protocol, rather than in was’ cal After viewing the body, — (e HaRdaior £16 Tebbas Kod o ey Dr. Lyon said that the man had been IS b acensry dat Sk AR ol the dead for several hours, and gave per- ™ { court statute incorporated in any plan mission for its removal to the under- Y l'ot Ameriokss membership bs' taking parlors of Frank Brodzik, 5 tion by other members, LELAND WILL NOT PUSH WO KILLED, SIX HURT WHEN AUTOS COLLIDE CHARGE AGAINST POLICE Crash at Norwood, Mass,— Merchant Had Claimed He Car Hits Truck, Second Goes Over Bank Was Not Being Given sion w ron0s United 1s by ‘the membership in th present court, with reservations which would divorce the tribunal from the icague of nations, continucd the cen ter of discussion. The committee considered the Lodge plan which would involve erea an entirely new organi wd one proposed by Senator Lenroot Adjowrnment was taken subject to call, but members indicated a definite proposal would be reported before tie scssion ends, Senator Pépper, Pennsylvani before the committee today drafts of amendments to the plan n Two Jumps They Make 701 Miles €1 in 12 Hours, 50 Minutes Fiying Time —Now Expext to Rest Until Sunday tle Machines Are Overbauled, tion of ated Press Japan, The Assc Kasumiguara, May 22 Three American aviators flying around | world arri at Kasumiguara, base 50 miles laid tentative formal ratifics Protection Providence, May 22.—Two are dead and six others are scious at the Norwood, as the result of the utomobiles on the near the John Holl, pital in Norwood this morning dead ar George streot, Julia 0% The injured Miss Florence Walsl nue, Cambridge; Miss M sister, seme address; Miss 167 Bewcon et, Boston Anderson, Foxboro, Mass.; Jo. seph Hofron, § Cordon stret, Chavles town, Mass.; Miss Marion Sumner, 65 Emerson stroct, South Boston; John Flaherty, Somerville, Mass.: Ted Red. gate, 310 Bunker il street, Charlos town; all but two of the above were ported unconsclons an hour and a half after reaching the Norwood Mass, hospital, The victims of the crash were bers of a party returning from 1. Pearl near Wrentham in t . mobiles. The first machine ran @ truck parked at the side of the road The second car, close behind was swerved to one side to avold piling up om the others and went over a 25 foot embankment. The third stopped Miss Florence Miss May Walsh persons uncon Mass, hospital, collision of two Boston Post road and veterans' hos. about thres A special meeting of the board of commissioners will be held to- morrow night to take up scveral af that came to the attention of 0 miles, making the ard the last meeting, and | plishment one of the 1 purchase a new patrol and | tained motorcyele the department, ' The meeting was originally the purpose granting a hear ing to W. W, Leland of 1t Besse | Leland Co. and give him an tunity to prove churges of inefficiency on the part the de partment ring the beat that in cludes his store, He said that the doors of his store had not been tried by the police on 10 out « nights on which he had private atives working in the store, The members and elerk of the of commisstonera held a ference with Mr, Leland last after which Chalrman David issued the following statement “Mr, Leland conferred tonight with the members and the clerk of the police rd with reference his eom- plaint made at the meeting of the board that the doors of his store are not being tried, He road extracts from re private operatives to substantiate his complaint, and after a general discussion, Mr. Leland in- formed the board that he did not to further in the mat. or have charges preferred against man, and further stated aim in bring the to try and get in- Licut. protec at his store.” Origi y it as it now stands to the discipline board tomorrow tion that it might cupy su ke, Lieutenant e tried the manding the Leland store have found ' nava ‘ that the burglar alarm 1 try to leased when they tried the rear o« here € to reports turned in ton adquarters, Mr, Leland st meeting of the board 1gn warcraft « impossible to set off the o ing town's harbor, ti was opened An sirplane accompanied the the first view of th door to cral at. police fairs the by also to day's accom- st thus far at- o'clock fop st 1 This was a not American army circling the globe by hours they drove down bleak, windy North Pacific region where storms and foga have hampered their progress for d to a temper- ate elime, where they probably can make up some of the lost time They made the first landing Amerdcan air men have made ta Japan and they dtd two days’ task in one Taking of from the Hitokappu Bay, off Yetorofu Island, in the Kuriles, at & a. m,, the aviatorg | swooped down over Kushiro, on the Tsland of Hokkaldofi, four hours and ifty minutes later, circles once ever the American destroyer John D, Ford, on duty there in case the filers needed aid, and wenteon without landing to Minato, af the northern end of the vl off Hondo, on which Tokio is They landed at Minato, 364 Hitakappu Bay, at 10:40 calle The Alfred able avia air r the are Within fifteen out of the Huse, 28, of » Mass., and ‘ambridge, for of who nnell oppor. Aberdeen Walsh, her Mary Ma 4 ave of members of cove honey, sty Oscar opy hoard i jey waters of night, Dunn nem ake auto inte last o ports of from the air asumi 0 p ey took car was care ter ) mile hop to ed at Walsh and her both of Cambridge, | were in a serious condition at the Nor wood hospital today as a result of iy from Yetorofu Island to the | juries sustained in the island of Japa the fur- ' cident on the ¥ Kasumig ywuld oc- ¥ in which Alfred Huse of cessive da rday and Julia O'Connell « com- willed Massa hey arri sister ¥ poli t is only matter smith Speeds Up 1 been planned that iy wis creased police The complaint will rned over comm of the night for sire to Policems of the W on was door, ac i at 1 said that it w rm un vl commissior prove tempts one of 1in set r was boilt fon utomobile Post road early the jump ae main tostor ther hop to W rlestown Cambridge were were taken to the Ford that the eral hospital in do bbth today. | hurt in the accident the Americans | to their homes s WOUNDED BY POLICE visit of the Ford, Alleged vest Smith it, advised American ) persons n who ha doors % T to enter eir first and to any air w8 the he s to rtion the ing off door erican last night most of them Rum Runner Pinally Cap- Thousands Line Hills ' cring nds lined ywn and gathered atch the planes Clinton, ( ts hoped, to Angelico, driver of 18 of the town | was hedved west must pause and which pre lisapppint- | London was ¢ ter circling | Main street t on to Minato. ' officers, The ared the landing resisted and in a fight he regarded as the flesh wound in a Jeg from a bullet accorded the, After emergency tretment at office of Dr. 0. Welimar here, the man ken to Mid hospital Midd the car was som co w there was but the state police do n It 18 underst of the state highway has constant pa Angeli Ha Says He Was Kidnapped, Then Makes a Denial Phi I+ ly 3 2 U ¥ rear After s commissioners suc- the alarm while 1 by a simple push his asse tured After Gun Fight Between New o London and Clinton Irectio che I'o i the eman T mayor has asked American the ground There wad 1 by the board alreraft taken up ¢ mayor's letter give Rouskie s notice of the y offich Rouskie, whic that the p impos I8 insufficient, will not at the meeting was received oo the ired th hearin CITY MEETING TUESDAY ~ .; A be re fec Graham hered at Mina- with thousands waved flags Ameri s wWere nd before they land- ed, fiying bay | p formatic into line, circled ab he buoys placed for their fings and setiled onte the ws gracefully as birds. " T - Take Only Short Res o, ot Shoond There was no ceremonies at Minato, held nest Tues T A all the time the fllers apent there ock at Central - - being t with re-fueling the sir anditorium 10 et DO t ark and subway o resh supplies of wa.- - o aoneoy. | I & rd. The Mlers had ' Q ané & funch rest and then went 'der tria * and taxa e that he brought st esex T school and shou sighted t tows who ol. The 1 quarts of iskey firm this. this Bond lssues Will Be Settled At Sese - ot ec section sion 1o be Held in Central Junior been under once mo as Wigh School Auditorium. Mayor A rant today for meeting hoard to day evening at § o' Junior High s on issues of water bonds, T ed by 1 tion and 2,000 Attend Wedding of Blfl'alo Mayor's Dlugllter ale Y. May ~ Miss Sefiwab, hter of Mayor nd Mrs. Frank X. Schwab, was mar- tied today to Albert ¥ of this eity. T tormed ner. bishop Taffale, in ware guests atten caen sig mee en up it half way between, and Minoto, a grotup of es met Ameticans kidnapp 10 this city as he tola lice today Pittsh southward Philadelphia police cast de Word flashed h from the $tord and he was g adio siation at Tomioka that the ination by the fliecrs had passed over that peint at resulted in 4:10 p. m., and virtually the entire his reason for walking into police unoccupird of the maval headquarters here and declasing b reremony v aviation bas be the fliery was k apped we n sympathy fev. Wil + nest few days, Of velatives as was out of funds ot the Catholie - He came here with a party of 4 on Page i ” Joyce Wethered Regains Her Lost Golf Laurels Ao the early re nd escort em tht on wae re A ge local authotitics wh Thetess his admission. Quinn & by the R adquarters for 1he at he dincese of Cathedral in thenear ] s e ve Two By Tie Por Antrim, Treland Miss Joyce Wethered today the British Women's which she efenting Mre. F. Cautley, o plain of the Kent County 7 and § the 36 hole final mateh tated Press VETY New Ha AN PIE MAN DIES THE WEATHER May —Charle o dent of 1 Hartford, May 22 —Forecast for New Britsin and vicinity ed Generally fair tomight and Fri- champi day; warmer Priday. year, by Thanet, ¢ ish, May 22. reg: open et g0 ast gaged ne of the oldest ts of Columbiss, died at his home early today, aged 74 * * team ion, | given | PAGES. Average Daily Circulation Week Ending 1 O) 529 MAY 17th PRICE THREE CENTS WELLON LIKELY 10 THREE TRUCKLOADS REGOMMEND A VETO ~ OF LIQUOR SEIZED Considers Tax Bill as Framed 850,000 Haul Made by Cops in “Yery Unsatisiactory” New London ALL REFORMS ARE OMITTED FIND PURELY AGCIDENTAL e retary of Justis -ation Treasury Also Finds N\ For Inclusion of Such Provisions As Infreased Estate Ta Rates, Washington, cations wer day that Secre om president wi mitted to the | tio: mend n and High “very len and th tun at he nate lieves of the tax system and of sec available tion CONgress the procer view, will h siness, and di tors The estate tax rates by the bill experts to tion of revenue base that large fortu Th by and s. ey their ,the obtain 1 of the estate tre the the reduced treasury. the would be for we when receiy provisions « ye P on neal sury o soOr irely 1 tak Fnaet t in a treas ar s arsal ley, « future given at tary M L veto of the en the review dec unsatisfacto that the stat viewed it as of legis officials ieee of t to o and «dings of th har working t lige are expec resuit in this belie o8 W owners in a government ittle if any t re Poresces 1 of fore etar, se 8 unc akes t income new fiscal p New present nec ine car ssary ased curr begin t the bill ment of a iss ury held by of a we artain to fiscal Mr 1 est pr treasury have the de law deficit ove ong treasury to- wi tax bill measure y for ry’ 'to 1 larcd the 1 “most lation,” opening . e mful o injure ted by low f on il be dvan, ¥ is sub- considera- ¥ therefore ax on Deficit ficit der he rogram ues ent T that Me Ahlishe odnee programs. the position would require an d for funding arrangements 1 outstanding in his opinion, as of secyrit uirements N that aining intact, that measure, that rec- by th un. e » provisions for reform been omitted istification for inclusion fnereased estate th turns s of publi card of tax re- cts o credit rade secrets to competi- as now carried treasury el produc instead of an increase, indications distributed e of death will part th th in unde would d national 10 METHODISTS ELECT Goorge Chosen Bishop of Church at Voting A ed to. CGir ty A, Miller Held Today, Springfield Miller bial urch by lay on shoy & wit 1 Rev, ond with ose, president of India was said that Bishop-elect Mi be sent 1 pi lence at AMIESITE CONTRACT READY " Compl Last Year Rear in ' Agrece w d Adm Mass., of South »p of the ¥ the ge A the p-clect Met fourth Mille neces Titus 1. h42 and na was third robably Mexico City n of Grove mnts, ays topplng of South May 22 hodist ballot Amerion neral conference effec icorg America was elect Episcopal her rrgeeived 57 Sary { Nebraska was . George Pauw ur with to relec o Hilt Joh, Is Calenlated 1 ler New in Starte ) aying Grove W H H iversi resi wit 1 Ha ral Qutranks i- New deb! 0w b odered et hol 0 Suspicions Policeman Notifics Head- quarters and Arrests Follow—Seven A Men Held in Bonds of $10,000 Fach, —Liquor and than $50,000 London, May trucks valued at m was seized here early this morning © when police in charge of Sergeant Joln J. Cavanaugh swooped down en three large trucks of the moving van iype, confiscated the cargo and placed under & st seven men all of whom held in $10,000 bonds for their appearance before the lorcal » May 24, when Judge 8. Victor Princa charge of illegal were further court, Satur raigned before this morning on transportation of liguor. Two others were further chargel with carrying dangerous weapons, two revolvers having been found on their e person, s iz Is Accidental The seizure of the trucks was part- of accidental nature. According 1o the shift had just been when Patrolman Howard of relieved officers, who was riding down Ocean avenue with a friend, taking other officers to their homes after a tour of duty, no- ticed a large truck standing at the side of the road, His curiosity Sloan stopped driver as to his 4 ation, Upom being told, Sloan w bout to de. part and after telling the driver of tha truck to “take the first right azd keep on going,” he called police headquar- ters, telling officials of his suspicions e and Sergeant John J. Cavanaugh, with 4 detail consisting of Patrolmen Gra ham, Manice, Murphy and Lyden, was patched to the scene in the polics e automobi aching Ocean found (the wery e ly he police N relieved Siona, one the Patrolman of the aroused, and inquired avenue the police truck, but the twe on the seat when first them, were missing. They were found on Montauk " venue, trying to find the New Haven rond. They were taken into custody and after being grilled at police head- uavicrs they admitted that another belonging (o the same compan; also on the road with a similar md of contraband. The fruck was vegistered Mass, B-53814 and was list- od under the name of George 1. Tal. bot of 44 Lyn“street, Everatt, Mass, Chase Continues starting out to find the truck, Federal enforcement Joseph L. Fitzpatrick was call. ed and, meeting the detail at Willetts ind Occan avenues, the chase once nore started, leading the police through Waterford to Niantie. Find- ing that the other truck had not crossed the bridge at the latter town the retraced their steps and noting a large moving van just ahead bf them on the New London-Water. ord road, Sergeant Cavanaugh pass- I in the police auto and parked across the road The men driving the truck surron- without and upon *d what their load consisted immediately red “aleo- The drivers were placed under and th truck brought to the Patrolman Sloan. Upon Wng the station it was found that s not the truck wanted but wan ther shipment, evidently, it be. ng a Bridgeport truck, listed to Pat. Murphy, 97 Henry street, with Murphy himeelf a9 t detail s men wl saw later a tru vas te Oner other Agent more police e hesitation wing asl of they answe e rrost station by el is w ok J idge drive port Get Second Track izing that th had not taken md truck told of by the drivers Talbot-owned machine, the po- in started out and the chase ve time led to Hen street just off AN avenue w the third truck found mired the mud The surrendered when approached it was then found men first seen by 4 turmed t as told by run into a blind woods. Poli ere in ed w was officer ending in the ivilians worked to extricate this intil late this morning fre from the befora was Major General of Army Was May lisputs For a s as settled manding Dirigible Starts But 'l'hen Retums to Hannr V‘ r ty-two tu offi m on s pre High T ed to elghun ute: pose wind Newspaper to Pay $30,000 leel Suit v Ma a ray syt el, The In Watert rie W inst t - rting Dr corporation, own ¥ flson, a of §2 e 0,000 racuse Telegram paper that Mise W P. D. Bail tendent of 1dea e Miss Wilson brought suit for 0, May by a \dlon American an vh publishers action former was awarde l today New of the for ished a story <on had eloped super- held in $10,. Patrick Murphy, f the second truek e, Rridgeport; st Main street, Murphy: of the twe Iriver of the ed, Albert Brown of 1. and Jobn Lyons of Boston, heipers: and of the car mir Goodle- Phila- tiding with Talbot, ewner and t, Morris Third street awned carried gallons each of the alcohol, the other twe % carrled 82 and 168 cases of the same in similar cans, giving fed- impression that an were working for the Murphy es of five i tquor, all & eral officers the re Losses in U. 8. in 1923 Totatl $508,000,000 New York, May 22.—<Fire Josses In the United States last year amounted to about $508,000,000, or A greater total than in any year since the San Francisco disaster, eaid Harry A. Smith, president of the national board of underwriters In a speech at the anization’s convention today. Des » this loss, he asserted the aver- age fire surance rate has declined from $1.02 per one* hundred doliare t in 1914 1o ninety cents in 1928, Bev- sty-five per cent of the number of fires are preventable, Smith deciared. sica