New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 16, 1924, Page 1

ESTABLISHED 1870 'NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSD CHAPMAN'S TRAIL | COMMON LAW WIFE’S CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION DENIED Has No Right to Benefits From Estate of Man'With Whom She Lived—Commissioner Rules in Giving Legal Mate His Insurance. LEADS BACK AGAI Assailant of Officer Skelly Re- turned to Springfield- NOTE FURNISHES CLUE Attempts Made To Reach Shean At Hotel Cooley Sunday —- Accoms plices May Have Been Present— Burglar's Tools Taken, That Gerald Chapman, notorious bandit for whom the police drag net of the entire country has been spread, returned to Springfield after he made his getaway from the store of Davidson and Leventhal, follow- ing the murder of Policeman James Skelly, Sunday morning, is the bellet entertained by detectives working on the case. This opinion is strengthened by the information secured at the (‘ooley hotel in Springfield that on Sunday afternoon several telephone calls were_recefved for Shean, Chap- man's accomplice, and that towards evening a printed note addressed to Shean was left at the hotel by a boy. 1t contalned this message: “Arrived 0. K., will call you every half hour.” It is thought that Chapman, un- aware that Shean had been captured by the police, had supposed shat he would return to Springfield and that e spent some time during the day trying to communicate with him. Nothing definite has been received by the police here as to what action has been taken {in Hagerstown, Maryland, regarding the man arrest- ed as a suspect in connection with the killing of a state trooper in Get- tysburg, Pa., on.Tuesday. Chapman is also believed to have been the as- sassin of the Pennsylvania police- man. The authorities, however, are of the opinion that the suspect has heen released, press dispatches in- dicating that the man proved that he was nof Chapman and had no connection with the killing. As several people in Maryland who saw the lone bandit before he made his spectacular holdup in Ab- Iottstown have expressed the opin- ton, after looking at Chapman’'s photograph, that it bore a remark- able likeness to the gunman, police beljeve that it may be the man for whom they are seeking and on whose head there is a big price. What is regarded as a highly im- portant discovery was announced to- day by Chief Hart. It concerned the finding among Shean's effects in Springfield of the trunk belonging to the car in which the burglars came to this city, The trunk con- tained sawed, off shotguns, revoly- ers, other burglar tools and several articles of value including sllk dresses, rugs and valuable suit cases. These are belleved to have been | plunder obtained in other robberies. The police are making an effort to trace the ownership of the goods in | the belief that it will throw light on some of the actlvities of the daring crooks before they made their vislt to New Britain. A pair of glasses that correspond to the ones Chapman is shown wear- ing in circulars sent out by federal officials was also found, and the po- lice have sent them to New York for identification as those worn by the super bandit. The man hunt for Chapman is fast revolving itself into one of the most intensive ever conducted in the country for a criminal, police, federal agents and state troops unit- | ing In their efforts to unearth evi- | dence of the bandit's movements. The trail for Chapman is warmest near Chambersburg, Pa., | where the machine in which the | bandit who robbed the Abbotstown bank of over $1,000 was found yes- terday, reduced to a heap of ashes, the. bandit having poured gasoline over it and then set it on fire. A set of New York reglistration plates were foynd near the ruin and bore the number 466-007. The owner- ship of the machine is being traced by the New York police. The ashes of a black hand bag contained tubes and chemists bot- ties, said bg the police to be used for carrying high explosives. Other discoveries made by Pennsylvania police, the nature of which they refused o divulge, strengthened their theory that the bank bandit s none other than the murderer of Policeman Skelly here. The cash- fer of the bank in Abbotstown and employeea of a gasoline filling sta- tion near Abbotstown have positive- )y identified pictures of Chapman as the bank bandit. Search Hereabouts The search for Chapman in these | parts is resolving itself into a hunt for traces of his movements in this part of the country as it is now ac- cepted as a fact that he has been in New England a greater part of the time since last July and was making plans for ad irdefinite stay as his purchase of a house in South Had- Mass, from the Rev. C. 8 Balley would indicate. The house was to be used as a coupterfeiting plant by Chapman, George “Dutch™ Anderson, and Shean, according to Shean's confession to the police here, The local and Massachusetts po- lica have unearthed evidence that is considered to be sufficient to cover all Chapman's movements around these parts, and are now giving considerable time to a tracing of the activities in western Massachusetts of the *“Mr. Sher-| burne,” said by Sheah to be An- derson. 1t has heen established that Anderson has been in Springfield, ass, with Chapman on several oc- He s reported to hav registered at the hotel Cooley, the Springfield hotel owned by Shean's father, as recently as the middle of the ley, (Continued on Page 11.) Bridgeport, Oct. 16—A common law wite has no clalm upon the man she lives with, Compensation Com- missioner Fdward T. Buckingham ruled here today in denylng the claim of Catherine Corlino for com- pensation as the result of the death on June 23 of Guiseppe DeCarlo of Stamford. DeCarlo employed by Theodore L. ‘Wright of Glenbrook, to tear down a building, stepped on a rusty nail. Blood poisoning set in and DeCaflo’s death resulted. He left a wife, a common law wife and three legitimate children. Commis- sloner Buckingham agvards the legal wife $18 per week for 812 weeks and $100 funeral expenses for the support of herself ang three chil- dren. Henry Levy, an employe of Yale and Towne of Stamford, was award- ed $14 a week for 52 weeks as the result of his Incapacitation follow- ing the running of a lead pencil through the thumb of his right hand and its subsequent infection. Bennie Rupp of Glenville, working at the American I'elt Co,, Stamford, strained himself in lifting a heavy box. An operation had to be per- formed, He was awarded $12.76 for six weeks. Commissioner Bucklngham acced- ed to the contention of Richards Co. of Stamford in the case of Joseph ‘Cernak whose right eye was injured by a flying plece of steel. Cernak presented a doctor’s bill for $466 or $4 a visit. The company claim- ed this was too much, Commission- er Buckingham allowed $441 or $3 a visit, John Mate of Howard avenue this city, an employe of the Siemon Hard Rubber Co. strained hirhself and will be obliged to undergo an operation, He was awarded $12 a week pending the operation and his return to work. 5. M. DAVIDSON GIVES §1,000T0 MRS. SKELLY Store Proprietor Also Ex- presses Regret After Shooting of Veteran Samuel M. Davidson, of the firm of Davidson & Leventhal, owners of the store in which Policeman James Skelly met his death Sunday morn- ing when he went there with other police to investigate a report that there were burglars at the store, presented Chiet Willlam C. Hart this morning with a check for $1,000, with a request that it be tendered to the widow of the police- man with the sincerest sympathy of the firm. Mr. Davidson called Chief Hart to the store this morning and in the name of the firm, presented him the check for the widow. The for- mer police commissioner sald that he felt unable fo face the wife of the veteran and beloved policeman who met his death while in the performance of his duty. “I would rather that the hurglars had taken the store and all that was in it rather than to have Policeman | Skelly meet his death in protecting Mr. Dgvidson told Chief Hart, ‘and T am sorry now that I called the police at all, for if I hadn't, the policeman would still be alive, performing fils duty in the honest, fearless and quiet manner for which he was noted.” In announcing the receipt of the check from the Davidsen & Leven- thal company, Chlef Hart called at- tention to an apparent injustice that exists in the provisions of the city ordinances regarding pensions, and the need for an immediats change | 50 that the widow of tha policernan | will not suffer as a resuit of his | death in the discharge of his duty. An agitation is being started to| have the city make allowances for granting the widow or degendents | of policemen killed in the perform- | ance of their duty a pension of half pay during the rest of their life, | and also to pass a resolution appro- | | priating money to cover the amcunt | of these payments to the widow of | Policeman Skelly until such an ordinance has become effective. GOLF PROVES FATAL Prominent Jersey City Man Dies as Result of Twisting Vertebrae ‘While Driving at Ball, | Jersey City, N. J.. Oct. 16.—John | J. Ferris, 48, president of the Jerscy | City board of education, and mem- | ber of the firm of Stillman, Delehan- | ty and Ferris combany, builders of | the Central New Jersey bridge over | the Raritan river at Perth Amboy, lied at his home today. | His death was caused by a stroke, suffered yesterday, which resulted, attending physicians declared, from | a twisted vertebra which he re-| celved while playing golf at Deal, N. | J., this summer. When Mr, Ferris| drove at a golf ball on the Deal course, he wrenched his back. He was taken to a New York sanitarium for treatment. LIEUTENANT ISHELD | Army Aviator Arrested in Hartford For Droping Handbills Over the City. Louls | instruc- Hartford, Oct.| 16.—Lieut N. Eller, the regular army tor of the 11§th observation squa- dron, C. N. G, was arrested this morning by State Policeman George Pranaltis, chafged with violation of section II, of the aircraft laws for having dropped handbills over the city yesterday to advertise Satur- day's aerial circus. Lieut. Eller will | appear in police coyrt tomorrow morning. The trial Will be in the nature of a test casg to establish the exact meaning of the section of the | law which provides that nothing| shall be dropped from airplanes| unless it be directly over a place | established for that purpose. It is| the flier's contention that the slate| aviation authorities have the power to permit handbills to be dropped over a city. | Yate, FREE LEGAL ADVICE GIVEN IN NEW HAVEN “Law Clinic” for Persons of Limited Means to Be Tried New Haven, Oct, 16.—Legal ad- vice for persons wh means are limited, and who have grievances which might require adjustment in a court of law, given through a “clinic”” is an experiment to be tried out in this city, beginning next week. 1t has been advocated by City At- torncy Whitaker and will be opened through assistance of the members of the senior class in the Yale law school. Miss Dorothy Luddington, daughter of Dr, and . Mrs. Nelson Luddington, who is a member of the class, will preside over the “clinic” next week. Persons needing legal advice and who cannot pay for the same may tell their troubles tosthe law stu- dents who serve in the clinic and the applicant will be advised as to the merits of his or her grievance and as to whether it would be better to try for mutual'settlement than to try to settle it in court. No cases will be tried out in form, that is by trying to get the other side of a grievance described in order to bring about an adjustment as the “clinic” will simply serve as a medium of an airing of the grievance and any getting together for a settlement” will have to be done outside, MAY B PURNELL Man Claiming To Be ‘‘Jesus Christ Revealed” Arrested at Kansas City Thought To Be House of David Man Kansas City, Mo, Oct. 16.—Police today arrested a man here calling himself “Jesus Christ Revealed,” and are investigating the possibility that he may be Benjamin Purnell, missing head of the House of Da- vid. With him were arrested three white women, three negro women and one negro man. In.the man's pockets was found a clipping telling of Purnell's practices. Purnell is wanted by Michigan authorities for immoral relations with girl members of the House of David colony at Benton. Harbor and on a charge of getting money under false pretenses. The man told the police that his real soul self was “at least one thousand years old” but guesked that his “material” age was about 50 or 55, Purnell I3 about 60 yea old. The man denfed Le was Ben- jamin Purnell. The negro and all but one of the women, arrestsed with their leader in the basement of a bungalow here, told pollce they had no earthly names. The leader was booked at police headquarters as “Jesus Christ Revealed” and gave his home as “Heaven." HELD AS FORGER Scion of Prominent Rhode Island Family Bound Over To Superior Court in New Haven Today. New Haven, Oct 16.—Norman C. Lynch, a pleasant appearing young man reputed to belong to a well to do family in Rhode 1sland and who had also matriculated at Harvard, Brown and Dartmouth col- was held for the superior on ten counts charging checks. It is sald worthless checks here, forging both the signature and en- dorsement on them and a check he gave to pay for fees at Yale was found to be worthless. Lynch is said to have spent $50,000 in a short time in various ways. He has been held in ja nee arrest and although he asserted his parents would ap- pear and bail him out this did not happen an derstand that this have to stand trial Lynch is said to have glven wa Septemaber 24 for $200 drawn Frederick Lynch and offered to & tank in New York. forgery of gave many s on hé4heen defes 3 the police say they un- (oo % time 1“"""'“[: |ated from cr The last check |¢p e eatoiies in a findin DELAY 15 COSTLY, SHAVER DECLARES Says Coolidge's Hesitancy on Sugar Tarill Hurts People CHARGES 1T T0 POLITICS | Democratic Chairman Asserts That Republican Contribution Collec- tor is Benefiting By High Tariff On Sugar, Washington, Oct. 16.—Declaring President Coolidge apparently had declded to delay action on the sugar tarift petition until after the elcc- tion, Chairman Shaver of the dem- ocratic national committee said in a formal statement today that the | president's “caution” was costing |the public heavily during every day of delay. “Chairman Marvin of the United States tarift commission, speaking presumably as the “proxy of Presi- dent Coolldge,” sald Mr. Shaver, “gives the information that the lat- ter intends to postpone for another indefinite perfod any official ac- tion on the commission’s recommen- dation that the present profiteers’ {arift on sugar be reduced by half a cent a pound. Apparently the resi- dent intends to defer until after election the decision which many persons belleve will favor the beet sugar trust when eventually it is an- nounced. Calls Tt Injustice “This further delay ip cutting the dost of living by decreasing in part an unnecessary and unjustifiable tax on a common staple of the people's food will be sad news to millions of American housewives. They had hopes that the tariff commission’s recommendation, coming as it did after more than ‘a full year of in- vestigation would prompt the presi- dent to proclaim the reduction and save consumers millions of dollars. ‘These hopes have gradually dimin- ished, however, as it becomes evi- dent {hat the representatives of the Dbeet sugar interests were bringing pressure to defeat the tariff com- mission’s recommendations and when it was learned that the treas- urer of the republican national com- mittee, Willlam V. Hodges, the man who gathered the funds which are being spent to accomplish President Coolidge’s election, was one of many republicans who profit from this tarif. “A delay of only a month in pro- clatming the resolution which the commission urged and the public expected will mean a loss of §$2.- 000,000 to consumers and a corres- ponding gain for the beneficiaries of the tax. “But there 15 ground for belleving that the president will reject the commission's recommeéndations and continue the tariff. The newspapers have published statements that re- publican leaders in certain western states have opprsed lowering the duty. He has had the tariff com- | mission’s findings and recommenda- tfons before him since the latter |days of July. Now within a few | days of the election he cails for | more information. | “This is the sort of caution that | costs the consumers of sugar more [in & month than it takes to pay the esident’s salary and maintain the enfire year. Whoever may benefit from this ‘caution,’ it 18 cortain that the users of sugar, including millions of wom- en, are losing by it.” SEVEN GARS DERAILED 1,200 Feet of Roadbed Damaged in Accident When Freight Goes Off Track at Willimantic Today. | willimantie, Oct. 16.-—Seven cars in second BO-1 west bound freight over the N. N. 'road were derailed at Phelps cross- ing early today, tying up traific for a time, Trains west bound were | passed around the wreck the t bound rails. | The wrecker from {ford yards ha {rear sections o yards here wh v train wa made up and procec The seven |cars were reg 1 on the rails and |about 1,200 feet of roadbed re- palred. The accldent at- tributed to a burned ov e Fast Hart- front and the train to the a was journal. Seven Million Dollar Fire in Canton By The d Press. Hong Kong, Oct. 16.—The naval authorities here were advised today that the g t ¥ incendiary origin which was raging vesterday had been put under control this morning when the |damage was estimated at § and when it bhelieved probably had been a large loss of | ite. [By The Asso Hong Ko Associate fire, suppose in Canton, 000,000 was ted Press. Qct. 16.—The merch- |ant volunteer corps of Canton, |known as the Chinese fascisti has ed by the army forces of |the “red ar composed of Chinese | 1aborers, ire in the streets |of Canton lasting two days, accord- |ing to a wircless messag here today from Canton authorities. DRIVER EXONERATED Torrington, Oct. 16.—Roy Bradley, driver of a truck which killed Mary , on Octo iminal responsibility for by Coroner o ter warf by naval S A. Herman, a copy of which has % |peen filed with the state commis- | | sioner of motor vehicles. The in- quest was held Tuesday. picked up | 3, is exoner- | AY, OCTOBER 16, 1924, —SIXTEEN PAGES. ANOTHER RUM VESSELIS . BROUGHT 10 NEW LONDON Converted Yacht Captured by Coast Guard Destroyer Jouett Off Montauk Point. New London, Oct. 16,—€aught in the act of taking on a cargo of al- leged liquor from the steamer Nieuw | Capello, of Antwerp, in rum row, | the converted yacht, Marguerite was | captured at 10:30 o'clock last eve- |ning by the coast guard destroyer | Jouett, 21 mlies south southeast of | Montauk Polnt and brought in here | today. With approximately 400 cases of | Scotch whiskey and 600 cases of | alcohol, containing 10 gallons each |in her hold, the Marguerite was towed into port and her crew of five men arralgned before U. 8. | Commissioner Earl Mathewson at | the customs house. | Charles M. Dunn of New York, | confessed to be the master of the | vessel, was placed in jail pending a continued hearing at 2 o'clock Mon- | day afternoon in default of a $1,600 bond. The other four men, who were re- leased, gave their names as Martin | Jonnson, of Atlantic City; John | Smith of New York and Hans Da- vidson‘of Brooklyn, N. Y. HANGS HEAD IN SHAME ASLETTERS ARE READ {Mrs. Willow, Accused of Murder, Only Woman in Courtroom Middleburg, Pa., Oct. 16—With all women and children excluded from the court room by order of Judge Pétter, the alleged love messages of Ralph Shadel, 18 years old, farm- hand, to Mrs. Annie 8. Willow, on trial accused jointly with Shadel of murdering her husband, were read to the jury today. The notes are al- leged to have been written in jdil after the arrest of both Shadel and Mrs. Willow. Mrs. Willow was the only woman in the court room to hear them and she hung her head as they were read. She wept and her father, a rugged tiller of the soil, edged near to her to give her comfort in her ordeal. The court asked the newspaper- men not to quote from any of the messages. A dozen women of the neighbog | hood where the Willows lived, thsti- | fied as character witnesses. They agreed that her reputation had been good. Shadel is serving a 10 to 20 years’ sentence for his part in the killing of Harvey C. Willow, who was shot while on a hunting trip last Decem- ber. Shadel's defense was that he urged to kill Willow by the lat- ter's wife, Mrs. Willow declares that she protested against Shadel do- ing away with her husband, despite the fact that she loved Shadel and | that her hushand treated her | cruelly. LIP STICK INDIGESTION | Leipsic Reports New Ailment Among Women Who Resort to Touching Up Lips Too Much. 16.—Lip stick i- among too Letpsic, Oct. gestion has developed here young women who use rouge freely, according to Many of the cosmetics, particularly the cheaper kinds, contain harmful ingredlents, assert the doctors, which cause complications when they come lin contact with food | Victims of lip stick attacks al | ways maintain that their lliness has H. and 1L rail- |been caused by food or drink, and | are not inclinde to change their | habits unless they have suffered |three or four severe seizures after | dining in restaurants or cafes where they have applied an unusual |amount of red in endeavors to look their best tL N0 FOUL PLAY Coroner Finds Nothing Suspicious in Death of Men Who Fell Off Barge at Bridgeport. Bridgeport, Oct. 16.— no foul play in |ing last n ain Louls A. Hansberger of the coal barge Maria oir- | erg- | er's falling that both Hansherger | had been drinking and t | captain apparentiy lost lis balance | when he fell between the barge and the dock of the Sprague Ice and Coa] Co. and drowne is wife he barge 400 DEE IN FLOODS Dy The Assoclated Press. Moscow, Oct. 16.—A rise of tw feet in the level of the river Amur has caused flodds in the Nikolacvsk region where two native villages were submerged with the loss of 400 lves. elve *® THE WEATHER —0— Hartford, Oct. 16.—Foreacast for New Britain ang vicinity: || Partly cloudy tonight and Fri- | day; slightly warmer tonight. | | * —— Johnson of Brooklyn, N. Y.; William™ physicians. | th by drown- | H. Bully, police said today, follow- | $100,600 15 PAID FOR LEFTY GROVES (onnie Mack Buys Famous Baltimore Pitcher SEES - PENNANT CHANCES Price Is Not More Than Babe Ruth Cost—Groves Has Won 108 and Jost But 36 Games—Athletics Hopes For Next Year Are High. Baltimore, Oct. 16.—Robert M. (“Lefty") Groves, the Baltimore - ternational League club's pitching ace, was sold to the Philadelphia American league club today for a sum announced by Mr=eeer Jack Dunn as $100,600. This price tops by $ mer record sum paid by to the Red Sox for Ba Has Won 108 Games, ¢ Groves, who hails from Lonacon- ing, Maryland, is 25 years of age, weighs 170 pounds and is six feet two Inches tall. He has been play- ing professional baseball for six years. In his five years as an Oriole pitcher has has fanned 1,107 bats- men and has won 108 and lost 26 games. His part in winning the sixth straight champlonship for the Baltimore team this year was 26 victories, six defeats and 230 strike- outs. Lack of control has been his chief trouble and was the one and only thing which kept him from leading the International League every year in games won. Sees Pennant Chances. Connle Mack, manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, made the of- fer for Groves at Oriole park after watching him piteh against the Athletics several weeks ago. Mack is quoted as saying: *A star flinger will make my team a flag contender in'1925. I believe I have that hurler in Groves.” Since he bought the Baltimore club from Ned Hanlon in 1910, Jack Dunn has developed and sold play- ers for the high figure of $305,100. By a coincidence his first big deal was with Connie Mack to whom he sold “Lefty” Russell for $11,000 thirteen years ago. Dunn's second largest deal was the sale of Jack Bentley, pitcher, to the New York Nationals for $72,500. Not As Much as_Babe, New York, Oct. 16.—#%he price in- volved in the purchase of “Lefty” Groves, Baltimore southpaw ace, by the Philadelphia Athletics does not eclipse the amount involved in the acquisition of Babe Ruth, accorfing to Edward G. Barrow, secretary of the New York Yankees. Ruth was obtained from the Bos- ton Red Sox in 1920 in & deal in- volving $135,000, Barrow said, al- though only $100,000 of this was represented is cash at that time. COP'S ATM WAS 600D |Knocked Off Running Board, somerville Policcman Opens Fire —One Man Is Dying. Cambridge, Mass, Oct. 16.—A Somerville patrolman early today emptied his revolver at a speeding | automobile whose driver refused to stop at his command. Some time later a milkman in Cambridge re- | ported to the police that a man was | {dving in a car parked on Eliot| Istreet. Fred Allen of this city was |found with a bullet through his |body. He was taken to mu- nicipal hospital where said he would probably companions, Paul Weiss and James | Griffen, both of Cambridge, were arrested and turned over to the Somerville police, Patrolman Frank Begley of Somerville, who fired the shots, said he jumped on the running board of | the speeding car, but was knocked to the ground by a blow to the jaw. He opened fire as soon as he | gained his footing. .In addition to |the bullet that wounded Allen three re- | Wugn 4 . ..2 PIOJLaRY connection with the Y1 o g, INPRESSIVE FUNERAL FOR SEN, BRANDEGEE Ceremonies at Washington Rivaled Only by Wilson’s and Harding's BY GEORGE H. MA NG, (Washington Bureau of N, B. Herald) hington, D. C., Oct. 16.—The 01;1(;,1 ‘JAPY of the late Senator “39UUO) gegee of Connecticut, at his resiu... ‘e at 1700 Eye street, Northwest, a three o'clock thig af- ternoon were the most impressive held at the national capital for any public man for several years, with exception of those of Presidents Wilson and Harding. President Coolidge, members of the cabinet, senators, congressmen and score of prominent men in the upper tier of official and business life in Wash- ington are to attend. The commit- tee appointed by Governor Temple- ton to represent him and the state of Connecticut at the funeral ar- rived this morning and called at the Brandegee home shortly before noon. In the party were Theodore Bodenwein New London, John H. Buck, Hartford; Abner P. Hayes, Norwich; Benedict M. Holden, Hart- ford; Chagles P. Lockwood, Stam- ford and Lucius F. Robinson, Hart- ford. They will accompany the funeral, train to New London where they are expected to be met by the governor, Senator McLean and the five Connecticut congressmen. Colonel M. G. Zalinsky, U. . brother-in-law of Senator Brandegee has arrived from Atlanta for the funeral. The honorary pall bearers are all sonal friends of the late senator, include John Hayes Hammon, Colonel George Harvey, 'Truxton Beale, Charles G. Glover, Horace H. Westcott, John F. Wilkins, Edward B. McLean, Woodbury Blair and John M. Biddle. In this group are several mililon- alre bankers and real estate men of Washington. The funeral cere- monies are set for three o'clock and the funeral party will leave for New London on a section of the federal express at 7:30 p. m. The remains are to be interred with befitting cere- monies at New London Friday after- noon at 2:30 o'clock. Harttord Oct. 16.—The state cap- itol will be closed at noon tomorrow for the remainder of the day as a mark of respect for the late U. 8 Senator Brandegee. Flags on the capitol, state armory and state li- brary are at half staff, The repuplican state central com- mittee is meeting here this afternoon for receipt of campaign reports from the thirty-five districts. Se cretary Alex W. Creedon said he did not {hink the question of a special sen- atorial election would be discussed. YALE STUDENT HURT Charles Blunt of Port Huron, Mich- igan, Falls Four Stories and Re- celves Dangerous Injuries. New Haven, Oct. 16.—C] ‘ash Blunt, of Port Huron, M e freshman, injured when he fel four stories to a concrete walk at Fayerweather dormitory Yale | last night, was still on the da | |e list at the hospital today, his con- dition being reported as only fair. | Blunt who was climbing along a window ledge from one room to an- other when he fell, sustained | broken elbow, fractured leg others struck the mobile. | | HIS ARM BLOWN OFF Litchfield, N. Y., Man Badly Injured | back of the auto- When Stick of Dynamite explodes | —Also Loses One Eye. | N. Y. Oct. stick of dynamite exploded pectedly, John S. Avery, for many years a supervisor of the’ town of Litchfield, had his right arm blown off and received other serious in- surles. Avery placed a stick of dynamite beneath a stump which he |wished to remove and lighted the fuse. % When it di¢ as he expected he thought it had | |falled to explode and he advanced to examine it. He was brought to a hospital here where his condition is serlous. In addition to the loss {of his arm, he probably will lose the sight of ane eye Tiion, 16.—When a unex- | 1 not explode as soon |Skeleton of Indian Brave 1,000 Yrs. Old Uncovered Montreal. Oct. 16.—While digging the foundation of a new warehouse in Outremont ,a suburb, a laborer covered the skeieton of an Indian sald today 1 {0 be over a thousand | brave they believ years old The body was in a sitting position {head beween the knees, according to the funeral rites of the ancient Algonquins. | which scientists probable internal injuries. FLOUR PRICES SOAR 25 Cents a Barrel Increase Today Represents Highest Level Reached | in Several Ycars. Minneapolis, Oc vance tod: 5 family pa milling co ended to several years. terday’s inc millers On t tations flour flour when sold in ca Girl Who Ate Pins, Etc., Out of Hospital, Cured saginaw, Micl Mary | the 15 vye whose ch mo 1 1.2 includ- physicia metal washers cifixes, chains, was discharged he hospital Her physicians covered Inte girl has been subjected show ac ing to her physicians, that she normal mentality. This medica assert, indicat sub- al eration was & her | objects, broc last n hes, cr ligence tests to which now the that ality is of her apparent ar men at the time of her result rather than a cause of diet nth {said t | Average Siaily Cireulation For : Week Ending Oct. 11th ... 11,771 PRICE THREE CENTS REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN HAS RECEIVED $1.714.317 THUS FAR: LaFOLLETTE, $190,535 Senate Investigating Committee Gets No Definite Figures Other Than $32,500 From Democratic Party. 14,962 Have Given From $1 To $99 to G. 0. P— 72,000 Individuals Have Contributed to Progres- sive Cause. Chicago, Oct. 16.—The republican national organization had - received gross contributions of $1,714,317, up to October 10, W. V, Hodges, treas~ urer of the republican national com« mittee testified today before the spe« cial senate investigating committees The net contributions totalled $1,« 342,959 the remaipder having been contributed for the congressional and senatorial and in some instances state campaigns, Hodges testified. La Yollette ¥inances The total contributions to the La Follette-Wheeler campaign up to the same date were $190,5635, John M, Nelson, national manager of the independent presidential campaign, told the committee, Expenditures by the organization in the same time aggregated $155,062, he said. No Democratic Figures The committee did not get precise information as to democratic con- tributions and expenditures. Line coln Dixon, manager of western headquarters, said his division had received awsl expended $32,500, ex- clusive of rentals paid by the nation- al committee. Mr. Dixon said all of the $82,500 except $5,000 had come from the democratic national committee. The $5,000 was contributed on October 7 by George E. Brennan, democrfi- tic leader of Illinois, he said, at a time when the western headquar ters was “short, Mr. Hodges told the committee that the $1,714,317 gross total re- ceived by the republican organiza= tion had come from 16,902 contri- butors, the largest sum received from single contributor being $25,= 000, G. 0. P. Contributors “Those contributing from $1 to $99 number 14,962, he said. “Those glving from $100 to $500 numbered 1,446; those giving from $501 to $1,000 numbered 287; those contrj- buting from $1,001 to $2,500 totalled 105; those giving from $2,501 to $5,~ 000 numbered 78; those giving from $5,001 to $10,000 numbered 14, and those contributing over §10,000 num= bered 12 Camgpaign Expenses Mr. Hodges listed expenditures as follows: Publicity $437,000, including “newspaper service,” the amount of which was not listed. Speakers’ bureau, $105,000, Colored bureau, $31,860, Research bureau, $3,000. Women's bureau, $19,889, Labor bureau, $46,425. College bureaus, $26,760. Club bureaus, $2,671. ° Foreign bureaus, $12,799. Vermont to California $31,413. Administrative expenses, republi« an national headquarters, $13,908, torial campaign committee, caravan, campaign commit- Washington headquarters, $21,384, Petty cash expenditures, $44,000. Mr. Hodges unable to give fhand the names of those who had more to the that he of Chi- He a detailed recess. was 000 or fam Wrigley contrit $25 sted to re 000. statement Ta F as by his ma ad N to 1son been y 72,000 jvances or cons National Treas- Mr. Nelson ived one and three con of $1,00 ach, and the tributiong are in smalls mostly in sums of $1. f expenditures unded National Headquartérs ast daily report of wiljam To 4 h amounts deta Chicago hown by the g co er the Treasurer Nationa (Continued on Page 18.)