New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 8, 1924, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press uamuu Sl 10,623 Oct. 4th . _NEW HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8 1924. —SIXTEEN PAGES. WALTER JOHNSON AGAINST BENTLEY:|ETS INORCES) o s . SIEyp HAINTANS SENATORS TIE SCORE IN 4TH FRAME WIFE CAN REWED CLAIH 1S UNTRUE 61-Year-Old She Had Confessed “A- Perfect i Score Stands 1and 1 As W ATERBURY PITCHER eriec Brands La Follettes Charge of ‘ 3 Passionate Love” “Slush Fund” Pare Fabrication Teams Take Field for [mEs '"] BR[]“K”NS OllVet, Cameros, B1 Wostas it Fiflh lnning_Both LIYING w]TH AFF]NITY ::::1;'::3"}?:":: l:xlu:ywvvl?u;:‘LATTER DEMANDS PROBE i Rush Drafted—Star of 10 University of Pittshurgh Extension Teams Phymg Good Years Ago Getsa;;aock i J. Gay, 62, whom Cameron thought | he had killed. . Professor Accedes To His Mate's Ball, Eamng lei On Into Big Leagues Request When She Tells Him of i . Bunched Hits. Indictments agalnst Cameron long Devotion To Another, By The Assoclated Pross. had been dusty in the court files when a report came from Portland, Oregon, of his attempted sulcide he- cause of remorse over a Birming- ham murder in 1902, Immediate steps were taken to bring Cameron to Birmingham for trial, ; Quarrels over the sale of land by Fns Smiitad Bt o Cameron’s landlady to Gay led to Johnson, veteran #ar of the Wash- Ll ) m&‘mo"yumu{ v showed. Cameron made no attemp El::;r'\lynl;lcc!g::w»j:fl:;;r:;:;:h—:};?: to mitigate the offense, belng happy BB et e pvar Jactdocer that his mind could at last be freed L h’ero Aot 5ik) + | of the always impending claims of y. Bentley was Mc- justice, Graw's eleventh hour selection to 3 v v : pitch today in place of Art Nehf, ur::;mnce At et winner of the first game, who i 4 nursing a sore thumb. Another crowd of approximately 50,000 was in the park to see the last ganfe here before the battleground shifts to Washington for the sixth contest. Bentley retired the Senators in or- der in the first inning, Eindstrom making a sensational leaping catch of a line drive off MeNeely for the SITH HAS TO GANCEL HIS SPEAKING DATES With Rheumatism— ts the box. If the fans were wWith Not to Be Heard in Washington in the first two games ESTABLISHED 1870 PRICE THREE CENTS SHENANDOAH IS EXPECTED TO REACH FORT WORTH BY 7 OCLOCK THIS EVENING Giant Dirigible Making Fast Time and Is Re- ported Crossing Miss- issippi River Late This Morning Birmingham ¥ound Guilty—Man He Thought He Killed Still Lives Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 8.—After 22 years as a fugitive from justice, — Wisconsin Candidate Inssts There is N . Slush Fund of Three t uuo) ‘proypreyy lion To Put Coolidgr “1doqy *Japy, Doubttal states, 07T 21¥IS 4n21300Uu0) New York, Oct. 8.—At the annual selection meeting of the major leagues at the headquarters of Cem- missioner Landis today the follow- Ing players were drafted: Boston Nationals—Burrus, first baseman, of Atlanta; Marriott, third baseman, of Mobile, Philadelphia Natlonals—Knight, pitcher, of Houston, Texas; Plerce, pitcher, of Topeka, Kan, St. Louls Nationals—Ralph Shin- ners, outfielder, of Toledo. Chicago Nationals—Percy Jones, of Seattle; C. L. Taylor, outfielder, af Beaumont, Texas. Cincinnatj Nationals—James Clark and Harry Topel, Oneonta, N, Y. Pittsburgh Nationals—J. C. Sher- lock, Quebec. Brooklyn Nationals—Rush, pitch- er, Waterbury, Conn; L. B. Hartline, catcher, Atlanta; Jerry Standaert, Atlanta, 5 Chicago Americans Bishoff, catcher, Fort Worth; Ashe, pitcher, Rocky Mount, N. C. Chicago, Oct.'8.—To enable hlis | wife to marry another man *for | whom she confessed a “perfect pas- sionate love,” and with whom she was said in evidence to have been living in Evanston for more than a year Dr. Alfred Lawrence Hall-Quest director of the University” of Pitts- | burgh Extension work and noted lecturer, has obtalned a divorce. ‘Would Sacrifice All Every precaution was taken to guard the name of the man, the cul- tured love letters telling of her in- tatuation for him having been cop- fed into the record with the name deleted. In her letters, the wife pleaded for her freedom, so that “soclal laws might eanction” her life with the other man for whom she sald she was ready “to give up everything else.” After the signing of the decree by Judge H. A. Lewis every effort was made to shield Dr. Hall-Quest from publicity, Washington, Oct. 8- .. Bascom Slemp, secretary to President Cool- idge, branded as “pure fabrication” today the statament by Senator La Follette, independent presidential candidate, that he would have charge of a campaign “slush fund" for the republican party, Knows Nothing of Money “I know nothing about the repub- lican national committee's finances," sald Mr, Slemp, “and I have had no connection, direct or indirect, with the handling of them. Neither will I have in the future. “It has not been suggested to me that I leave Washington in the in- terest of President Coolidge's can- didacy, and I have no intention of leaving."” La Follette's Charge. Hoboken, N. J,, Oct. 8.—Deter- mined to preas his demand for a sen- ate Investigation to establish wheth- er a “slush fund” is being collected to “buy the election for President ‘Alabama-Miss. State Line Big Gas Bag Was 3,500 Feet in Air and Making 56 Miles an Hour Fort Worth, Tex, Oct. 8.—Ac~ cord{ng to navy officials and afr navigators here awaiting the arrival §of the Shenandoah, the big airship | should arrive here about 7 o'clock tonight. They base this time on calculations of the vessel's present speed, Preparations are being made to receive the ship about dusk, 1l = Flying 3,500 Feet in Air The Associated Press. On Board U. 8. 8. Shenandoah, By here it seemed certain they would be Connecticut Cities even more partial to the American leaguers with the great pitcher on the mound. First Inning. Senators.—McNeely up. Ball 1. Strike 1, Lindsttrom robbed Mc- Neely of a hit with a leaping catch, Harris up. Ball 1.: Foul, strike, 1. Ball 2. Ball 3. Strike 2. Wilson took Harri's long fly. Rice up.| Terry captured Rice's hoist. No runs, no hits, no errors. Giants.—Johnson got an ovation PASSENGERS TURN 00T Walter Johnson 10 BE BRUTAL PIRATES Board Chincse Boat at Ningshin and Make Away With $300,000 in Chinese Money. Boston Americans—Ernest Vache, Dallas, Cleveland Americans — Joe Klug- man, infielder, Minneapolls; CIiff Lee, St. Paul; Lehr, pitcher, Green- ville, 8. C.; Eichrodt, outfielder, Charlotte N. C. Philadelphia Americans—William Bagwell, outfielder, Galveston, Texas. St. Louis Americans—Robert La- motte, infielder, Memphis. Washington Americans -— Spen- cer Adams, Oakland, Calif.; Wade Letler, first baseman, Worcester, Dr. Hall-Quest, aged 44, was edu- cated at Pringgton and recently while a professer at Columbia Uni- versity took the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, He taught at the Uni- versity of: o0ls and Univergty of Cincinnati and wrote a number of scientific works. 4 Married In 1908. He married Shirley Ivy Knox in Minnesota in 1908. In 1923 he said in evidence, while has was at Colum- bia, she left his.home in Cincinnati, and came to Chicago with the other man. Boston, Oct., the 1., tonight It was said any rheumatism, 1 for 8.—Governor Smith | of New York, who has been cam- paigning in New England for democratic national ticket was forc- ed today tocancel speaking appoint- ments at Providence, R. and at New Haven and Waterbury, Conn,, tomorrow because of an at- tack of that there was no cause for alarm about his condition but that he was advised to remain in | | Coolidge In doubtful states,” as ‘he charged in an address last night at Scranton, Pa., Senator La Follette invaded New Jersey today for a speech in Newark before swinging westward on a tour to the Pacific| coast, | On his arrival here today, the special car of the independent pres- idential candidate was shunted onto a sidetrack to remain until he leaves| at midnight for Detroit. On reaching | Hoboken the eenator issued a stat ment reiterating the “slush charges. over Alabama-Mississippl boundary, Oct. 8.—~The Shenandoah, approach- ing the Alabama-Mississippl boun- dary at 56 miles an hour, 3,500 feet above the flelds and valleys, com- pleted the first 24 hours of its 9, 000-mile test voyage at % a. m., central time, today. The airship sailed into the upper strata of Mis- sissippl, over Columbus, with {ite course laid directly west across the | state to reach the Mississippi river ;\xt Greenville before noon. Birmingham At 7:16 A. M. fund” | as he walked to the pitcher's box. Mass. Lindstrom up. Lindstrom hit the 24 hours to avold any possible com- A few days atter the clopment she | ;oo » To Tnsist on Probe. By The Associated Press. Birmingham, Ala, Oct. 8.—The, first ball for a clean singls to center. Shanghai, Oct. 8.—More than 80 Beattle, Oct. 8. ylvanus Gregg, wrote her husband a letter, which | was introduced as evidence, in which Members of the governor's party “I intend,” he said, “to follow up| vigorously my demand for an inves- | | Shenandoah passed over the center passengers who boarded the Chi- nese steamer Ningshin here Octo- ber 2 for Foochow, revealed them- selves pirates and took possession of the vessel near Wenchow, off Foo- chow. They compelled the cap- tain, O. Torgerson, to sail to an isolated inlet near Hong Kong, Secol 4 L il | where they looted the ship, selzing Senators.—Goslin uyp. Ball 1./$200,000 in Chinese currency. Goslin beat out an infield hit. Judge | When the steamer was selzed at 0. 1t was Goslin's fifth sraight | Bias Bay, less than80 miles from hit, eniinting yesterday's game. Ball | Hong Kong and a known rendezvous 1. Strike 1. Ball 2, Btrike 2. Wil- |of pirates, they put off in iighters. veteran left-hander, who was the star of the pitching staff® of the Cleveland Americans ten years ago, and who was forced out of big league baseball because of an ailing arm, has been sold to the Washing- ton Americans, the Seattle Pacific Coast league club announcdd today. Gregg has won 23 games for Seattle this season. USED AS TARGETS sald he had no temperature. He had addressed two meetings here last night and at the Mechanics hall rally crowded !ondnmm may have prevented propér ventilation, it was sald, His indisposition however pre- ceded that to some extent because he cancelled a golfing engagement at Nashua, N. H., vesterday which he was to have filled en route from Manchester, N. H, where he had spoken. The cancellation of the Rhode Ts- Matd and Connecticut—eppolatiients Frisch up. Strike 1. Ball 1. Strike 2. Ball 8. Miller took Frisch's high foul. Young up. Ball 1. MeNeely gathered in Young's fly. Kelly up. Ball 1. Strike 1. Lindstrom went out stealing, Ruel to Harris. No runs, 1 hit, no errors. of Birmingham at,7:16 a. m., flying [very slow, at a low altitude, Her motors were making little nolse and the vessel was moving €0 slowly that the crowds got a fine view of ber. Vost, motion picture actress, from The Shenandoah Was donvoysd g o | seven planes of the Birmingham whom the superior court today | C'C" B granted H. L. Gerke a final dovrw\"""""d“"e of the 163th oheErvia | squadron as she passed over Birs of divorce, will be married next { Mark | y A mingham. After passing the busi- | 8aturday to Kenneth Harlan, also of ness section, the ship. took; WM 1896 . gong [1B0 Screen. it was announced hefe. |y o4 and helght and was losf to o sleng In thres ‘minutes, headed' due - tigation of the special slush fund| which is being collected under the| direction of W. T. Mellon, of Pitts- burgh, brother of the secretary of the treasury, and Edward Stotes- bury, the Philadelphia partner of J. Pierpont Morgan, for the alleged purpose of buying the election for Coolidge in the doubtful states. “It i evident that this is a repeti- tion of the tactics used by Hanna in the campaign of when the, famous messdg she said: “I wanted to show you it possible, that my going away with was necessary, not because it meant a consummation of the love that is between us, not because it offered as we saw it the only way for an up- | building made necessary by years of tearing down process. ‘Will Take All Blame. “That public scandal should be lavolded for your sake T caw quite | reatize, bt —— and”“T can whd must KENNETH HARLAN Los Angeles, Oct, 8.—Marie Pre- son took Judge's fly. Bluege up, | Strike 1. Ball 1. Ball 2. Strike 2. Ball 8, Terry dropped Bluege's fly but Goslin was caught at second. Frisch to Jackson. Ruel up. Ball 1. Ball 2. Strike 1. Ball 4~ Ruel The captain sailed for Amoy, where he arrived yesterday. He is pro- ceeding to Foochow, Among the forefgn passengers were three holding round-trip tick- efts, whose names were nédt listed in 24 Criminals Captured by Peking Forces Tied to Cart Wheels and Army Practices on Them. The Assoctated Press. ease of |take all of the blame that attaches to our decision to live together and therefore no secrecy was even con- |templated when we left.” Other letters portrayed her hope [that freedom would bring terminates Governor Smith's New England tour. After spending a day |in bed at his hotel here, he plans to go to New York and rest up a day or two before returning to Albany and Comln\lh\z his campaign for re- New York state, it was to Colonel Dudley, of Indiana, with its instruetion, ‘Vote them in mork(‘]?fldmz i ARe T | of five." | fund than ever previously had been In that campaign a greater collected for political purposes was aksemblied by substantially the same methods that aré now being used, Kenneth Harlan was at one time in this eit COLUNBIA PRESIDENT Lyceum theater | west. The squadron of planes accom- | panied the eraft to the Warrior | river, 25 miles west of Birmingham, At that point the ship was sailing | eight degrees south of West. It was ot a base on balls. Miller up Ball 1. Ball 2. Ball 3. Strike 1. Strike 2. Frisch threw out Miller. No runs, 1 hit, Glants—Kelly up. Foul, strike 1. Ball 1. Strike 2. Ball 2. Ball 3. Kelly sent up a high fly to Miller, Terry up. Ball 1. Terry went out at fiest to Judge una ssted. Wilson up. Btrike 1. Ball 1. Jndge raced over to the stand and took Wilson's foul. 2 No runs, no hits, no errors Third Tnning. -Johnson up. The stands rose anwd cheered Johnson as he walked to the plate. Strike 1. John- son got a gingle into left and was thrown out trying for second, Wilson | to Frisch to Terry. McNeely up. Ball 1. Strike 1. McNeely beat out a bunt to Lindstrom, catching the. Giant third baseman flat footed. | ono of the ships will carry a radio 1‘"’”‘ up. Harris scratehed a hit | tejophone set to be operated by Cap- o second. Rice up. Toul, strike 1. | a1y H. W. McCleland who will Rice popped to Gowdy, Gosiln up. | By election in N | satd. Dr. James H. Stevens, physiclan | the Shanghai oftice of the company. | The other four were Mrs. N. Over- lho\l C. H. Bartlett, R. High- helfeved the vessel would pass over Colombus, Miss and Greenville, Miss, and when election day came votes wera openly bargained for in the doubtful states, mind and reasserted her love for the | Tien Tsin, Oct. 8.—Twenty-four : lother man. The last of the letters jeriminal prisoners, captured bY |45 15w helpless would be the hus- | tower and L. Brown, Peking army forces in the vicinity | |at Governor Smith's hotel who as | OPEAKS HERE OCT. I8 no errors. - Crosses Allegheny Mits, Aboard the U. 8. 8. Shenandoah, ‘\“‘holag Mul’ra\‘ Buuer to Fn Route from Atlanta, Ga., to Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 8.—Sailing Address Ra“y in Palace smoothly at an altitude of .2,500 Theater Bombing Machines feet the Shenandoah crossed the Night Country, Flight, October 10. Leave \kh!m: ‘up his wife * * * who after lower tip of the Allegheny moun- tains at a speed of 45 miles an | hour at 6 o'clock a. m. tianta was passed at 4:45 a. m., day was breaking and the orgia metropolis was awakening. The =alvo of locomotive whistles echoed up into the clouds of the wonder of the ship. Carrollton, Ga., was passed at 5:32 a. m. The sun, a golden ball, was peeping over the | eastern horizon of the Blue Ridge foothills at 6 a. m. The haze broke away from their tops, the rays of the morning sun rippling in long |lines like a new cloudfield. Langley Field in Cross | ccived here today. Washington, Oct. Nine army bombing planes will leave Langley | | Field, Va.for Mitchel Field, L. L., on October 10 in the army's first cross country night flight in formation, The | | fiight will be commanded by Major | 0. Westover and the machines will | | be equipped with running lights and landing flares, for emergency use, Senators. |band’s plea for an interview in the | f sives. | -~ of Shanhatkwan, were bound on |y, .. 0t ending the situation. | called in this morning said his pa- ‘,F‘Pr":;:"c:'”:" i Ll NINE P carts and taken outside the elty to | ™ \4, nove for Dr. Hall-Quest, who | tient had a mild attack of rheuma-| /8 "Vl (O R en aticking NES To GO be used in target practice, a Peking |\, \agt night for Pittsburgh, ex- | tism, without any serious phases. He | me." ,",fcé‘g campaign expend\iur«: | general who gave the order remark- |pressed chagrin that the case had had advised him to stay in bed 24 | zoy]. [c rrfllv;nt 'hz ufc- Al A ing the procceding would be an | |become public and declared the |hours as a precaution he eald. ‘::rru;'p Solttieal ‘;“mmes fn rmy example ot other had chatacters ac- | oo0ne, PR S ATL CRORES B S - — v e oaten |cording to a communication re. | BUsPand had done “a noble thing In asyeiiatroducedimunyolllaicesipns PBU’I‘ to remedy these evils andi purify | lall cannot be blamed for following | American polities. In every instance Bubsequently two sples in the |, Ly " | ctionary . Manohuriaaltor asattoraplin ito the dictates of her heart. } ;Tf r/;\arl',:vly:n.ll‘l",\\:ll;’!i:::’m'ofi;r:‘):::. |take Shanhaikwan were captured A Tl law that had | After several weeks communica- | and executed by Peking soldiers. ‘SAYS HE IS DESERTER KIL thefenactmentioanyilaputhatidad oy sas i e e b Lave T ommittee | All eriminal prisoners captured ,n" “"‘;‘l’: La Follette was awaiting a |at republican national headquarters the district have been ordered exe- | FROM: BRIT[SH STEAMER | | reply today to his telegram to Sena- | CHtirman Wiliam H. Judd of the S s e S com \Truck Driver Dies When tor Boran ot Idaho, - chairmen g [Eeubiibenmitons gisomunliies eh, | the senate committee on campaign [nounced this afternoon that Pre Figthing continued for nosm\l;ion B polic | | dent Nicholas Murray Butler of Co- | Bobert Houston Tells Police He Quit expenditures, in which he demand- | 8 a h v Tvan] ¥ S 0 o 1 n been secure of Shanhaikwan throughout yester- ; g | Train Smashes Int e e i iaton has been secured day, but the attacking Manchurian Vessel at Brooklyn, N. Y., e | vestigation of the alieged slush fund |to address a rally in this city, Sat- ff’:::sg‘,’:,,fi?-“"m,.l‘ (,",h';" bT'M'" in July, 1923 and urged him to subjoena Chalr- ober 18, at the FPalace ,mkmg‘”n;‘,‘y(wr'.r‘;";':; el :'h? | man Butler of the republican na- [ theater Heinatcnncisl foreat ot tional committee, W. T. Mellon, Mr. | Pr Manchuria rces were re- Stotesbury, Joseph Grundy, presi- Rutler 's program of speak- had been | Robert Houston sygrendered him- | Tavian Ger n, aged about self to the local polite today yith a | Flaviano Gervansint, R | broadcast a lecture on the purpose Frisch threw out Goslin, No runs, 8 hits, no ercors, Glants—Jackson up. Ball 1 Ball Strike 1. Jackson scratched an infield hit. wdy up. Strike 1. Strike 2. Ball 1. Ball Gowdy fanned. Bentley up. Bentley singl- | ed into right, Jackson going to third, | Lindstrom up. Ball 1. Ball Strike 1. Strike 2. Ball 3 ckson scored | when Lindstrom atched it to | third, Bentley going to sccond. Irisch nup. Strike 1. Strike 2. Bluege teok Trisch's grounder and tossed to Miller and the umpire ruled that Bentley was safe. It was a flelder's choice. Young up. Ball 1. Ball 2, Young lined out Rice and Bentley was doubled at the plate, Rice to Johnson to Ruel 1 run, 3 hits, Fourth Inning. udge up. Strike 1.} oft the right field | ge up. Strike 1. Bluege | sacrificed. Bentley to Terry. Ruel up. Jackson threw out Ruel at first. Miller up. Strike 1. Judge scored on Miller's single to right. .\mw; tried to stretch it but went out, | Young to Frisch. 1 run, 2 hits, no errors. Giants.—Kelly up. Strike 1 Strike 2. Kelly went ont strikes while the crowd howled. rv up. Ball 7. Strike 1. Ball Terry got a long hit into right for three hases. Wilson up. Johnson | foo% Wilson's splash and Terry was | Johnson to Miller. Wilson Jvent to second on the play. Jack- son up. Ball 1. Strike 1. Strike 2 Rall 2. Jackson sent up a high fly to Harris No runs, 8¢ no errors, | | Senators ! Judge singled wall. Blue Ball on Ter- 0 rin down, 1 hit, no errors. Vermont’s Oldest \\'on;nn Has Her 106th Birthday Burlington, Vt., Oct. §.—Mrs. An- geilne Willette of this city, said to be the oldest woman in Vermont celebrated the 106th anniversary of her birth today. She was born in St. Denie, Quebec, in 1818, but has spent most of her life here. | between the fire baard and the city of the filght as the proaching their northern tion. “The purpose of the fiight will be to demonstrate the feasibility of a quick change of base by a bombard- ment group at night,” a war depart- ment announcement said. “The fol- lowing morning these planes would be ready to undertake the defense ships are of New York by bombing an attack- | ing fleet.” BODY IS RECOYERED Finding of Remains .fn Lake, N. Y., Solves Mystery of Men's Disappearance. Syracuse, N. Y., Oct. §.—Mystery | surrounding the disappearance of | August Schmidt of Liverpool, and | Harvey Klunder of Highland, on the | night of September 28, was cleared today with the discovery of | Xchmidt's body in Onondaga Lake, where the two men were drowned while duck hunting Klunder's body was recovered yes- terday near the spot boat occupied by the two had last| been seen a week ago Sunday. Calls | for help were heard at the time the two were believed to have been drowned. but lake shore residents were ubable to reach the men be- cause of rough water TO DISCUSS NEW PUMPER The board of fire commissioners | will meet tonight with the commit- tee appointed from the city counch to consider the purchase of a .new pumping engine for the fire depart- ment. The meeting is expected to tle once and for all the difference council regarding the purchase of a pumper. The fire board has twice sent a recommendation to the coun- cil that a Seagraves pumper be pur- chased, and the councll twice turned it down In favor of a Maxim pump- er. Tonight's meeting was theg ar- ap- | destina- | | .Onondaga | in which the| ported to have made local advances | today as the battle continued. The criminal prisoners executed were held on charges of looting | stores and homes in towns along the Manchurian-Chihlian border. ADMIT STEALING AUTO Sentence—Other Must Other Cases on Docket. Torrington, Oct. §.—In the su- | perior court at HH“\H-‘H tovl y Hor- | ace McC: ‘\\mrl A. i\ummnml(‘ m\v.ud h)’ | Winsted. Both were sentenced to | the reformato but in the case of | | Finley who is on y 16 years old, exe- | cution was suspended and the. ac- |cused released in the care bf the Torrington probation officer. In the, | case of Frederick H. Zimmerman o Pine Plains, Y., charged with blgamy in Salisbury, execution of a | #ix month jail sentence was suspend- | ed. The case of Jennie M. Rossman of Salisbury, also ¢ rged with big- amy, ed when the court was informed that investigation had dis- that the first husband died in the state in was |Japan Aw alfinz Result Of American Elections Toklo, Oct. 8.—Japan will not de- clde its attitude towards the proto- col arbitration and security voted by by the league of nalidns at Geneva until after the November presiden- tion election in the United States and the Bri political sitnation is set- tied, Baron Shidehara, foreign min- isted told the Privy councll in ses- sion today. it was authoritatively stated The outcome of the political situ- ations in the United States and Eng- land will be leading factors in the ranged for settling the dispwth Japanese descigion, it wag explained. Youth Gets Suspended vannnnlory‘ Serve— | Jetter in which he confessed tha be had deserted from a British ship in July, 1923, and has been living in this country since that time. ‘]\l)l\t‘h have notified the federal im- | | migration authorities and are hold- |ing Houston awaiting word from | them. The letter prescnted to the read as follows T, Robert Houston, | | surrender myself to the police of this | town as having deserted from the | British merchant vessel, 8. S. Hya- ing to R. P. Houston, ver street, New York, while | the ship was Iying at No. 3 Krie Ba- sin, Brooklyn, in the month of July prior to said ship leaving for | Town, Africa.” Houston Is chman subject of Great Britain to his story to the p police | t ] Soutl and according He has some time a THIS FALL London, Oct proposed im- perial conference which it was plan- |ned to hold in London this autumn | hasno w been definitely postponed and will not called no what h British politi clared in autho day RENCE Th The 8- it was de- iarters to- al situation, itative q NAMED DEPUTY SHERIFK Waterbury, Oct. S.—High Sheriff James Ged appointed John Mintfcucci of Naugatuck a deputy sheriff, Hugh Burnes of Naugatuck who resigned Saturday | | because he felt as am active demo- crat it was unfalr to himseif and to Col. Geddes to serve longer. les has 1 ucceeding * | THE WEATHER o Hartford, Oct. 8.—~Forecast for New Britain and vicinity Fair and cooler tonight and | Thursday; probably frost to- night. | Wit | | il | | | * t |35 Killed yes west bound The (into & truck he was drivi Wooster | striking the truck, I past the crossing for feet, driver falllng from the wrec mu to | |the side of the tracks a carried a from side of the toward the Pla accident occu that he apparen of the had driven onto t in the path of t They said that he just before tl |attempt to j was too late. way, {and the St. Louis Southwestr way, commerce commission for a to assume obligation for $3,531,000 of first mortgage five per cent gold bonde of th | |sas # 'and Terminal Company. of the Gervan: ruck loa; a s ap The er: the truck comple shower of engine and breaking window | cab occu engineer. matter |strewn along the spens in connection with the |chassis was tangl | the engine. out e the |gine and tracks, engine was damaged, but i to proceed. Neither Sterner o {artford, Sullivan, (Con orrington, was instantly erday afternoon when the Danbury train crashed at the ter 4 crossing train ahout badly mangled body street con! er being | bout 800 feet. sint was driving ded with tone crusher on the south crossing and was headed le road when the Witnesses said aware a large rushed crushed v was not pproa in irectly onrushing train saw the train crash and made an bo the of off, stone o ¥ ling a r the knocke y ash crushed and were fireman pied by the Parts of the tracks 1 on the A wrecking cre from the wreckage from t was able 1 front of was to w Isaa stre c East Maurice Hart- the englr 38 Stanl nor t firemao, of 29 ams street 14 ¥ A ntinued on Page 13.) RAILROAD ASKS PERMISSION Washin, Rock the toda and gton. Oct Island and Missouri Pacific g1 Chic Pacific Ral Railway Wil y applled to the ==rstate hority una Arsan- Memphis Railvay Bridge stone | | | | |of him, ump from the truck but | fore in the |} the |operation a success liability } under the influence dent of the Pennsylvania Manufac- turers' association, and others he declared in his Scranton he had reason to believe ha (Continued on Page Eleven) BLAMES BLOW ON HEAD Convicted Forger to Have Operation In An Effort to Get Cured of Criminal Tendencies, Oct. 8—Eight ve up man in Leadville, | Edward May butt of a pisto making a forger told the judge be- recently pleadec of passing w Tos Angeles, g0 a ho Colo., hit nead with the dented his skull, Mayerle whom gullty to a ¢ reke. Today, with the surgeons at the Methodist cre will operate on Mayerle's attempt to undo the work of up man. Tf they report the Mayerle’s appli- will be granted g less ol court's consent, ospital skull ir the an ol cation for probat! DRIVER EXONF II\T] D Bridgeport, Oct Leverty, driver of a which struck : Dorts Virginia Mo old daughter of ¥ W. Mor exoner 1. Phelan could avoid an in Da today by who said that the Kee the girl accident hy Coroner not in time the ACCUSED OF DRUNKENNESS Waterbury, Oct rge Val re of 23 Crescent street this city mechanical superintendent of the American Pin Co., was arrested in this city Monday night on a charge of operating a motor vehicle while of liquor, it be- today. Although the arrest was made Monday night the news of the arrest was not given to came known | the newspapers until this morning. | ing engagements which a nged by the com- mittee made provision for only one Connecticut during the and after much delibera- ervices granted to address in campaign tion his New Britain. Because he is not to appear it is likely that big deles tions of republicans other s will be on hand. The town ittee plans to place 200 chairs heater With ex- ption of the ther o reserved s vals will be the ats and as will be allowe But t his asgignme His talk will La TFolle tion which were from 10 th the stage. boxes, its and the o T has bee |the best camp: More thar Brvan (-'occ Into Okla. For Campaign \pecc|w~ Wict A by wyer te w van as a “Gre liplomat and grea pre candid s exalt Governor Br. tl Bry what or n gav took st of veople luring the istration ¢ row Wilson 1 what aring in generaltie or to make a y ce he h not deal lities pers: artisan spe ad- | Starkville, M Oct. S.—The nandoah passed over Starkville at 9:17 o'clock this morning saldng gracefully in a westerly directlon. Oct. over m. reenwood, Miss. ndoah pass about 15 nwood at 10 8.—The Leflore nty south of River Oct asses Miss, wwille, M 8.—The doah 1 Greenville ssed the Missiesippi river on 1 vovage at 11:44 a. m, FAVORS PRESENT METHOD passed over Vice-President of American Fleet Corporation Sces No Need to Change Method of Fixing Rates B. Keene ican fleet Ay before was in steamship ean rates ved. He [a Gulf ports, are dis North At- ion in the it 1s de- erences,” tes should be v desirable among 1in 1920 of steamship ctions. Mr. Keene conference in request of gulf their 15 cents n was takenm, gn operators conference the unanimoy v cause fore the north Atlantic thdrew preventing | vote mecessary for action.