New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 26, 1925, Page 1

SESTST & L i# =33 ESTABLISHED 1870 . STONELIKELY 10 EXPLAIN POSITON His Nomination Retarned to Ju- " diciary Committes Today GOOLIDGE APPROTES MOVE This Gives Candiate and Administra~ tion An Apportunity to Make De- tailed Statements Relative to Ob- fections Volced. ‘Washington, Jan. 26,~The scnate today recommitted to the judiclary committee the nomination of Attor- ney General Stone to bé a supreme court justice, 1t 1s probable that Mr. Stone wiil make a statement with reference to make & statemeit with reference to the actlon of the justice department in seeking a second indictment against Senator Wheeler, democrat, Montana, in.the District of Columbia. Will Make Reply. Friends of the attorney general say he would reply at length before the committee to charges that there is an attempt to persecute the Mon- tana, where he already is under Indfctment. The department is said to regard the two proceedings as entirely in- dependent of one another, although they both relate to land questions. It is the plan to press the Montana case to trial there. At the Department of Justice to- day it was learned that the trial of BSegator Wheeler at Butte, Mont., which has long been pending, has been set for March 15, Action of the senate on recom- mitting the nomination was by un- animous consent. After the session the leaders, both republicans and democrats refusing to answer questions and it developed that the major portion of.the debate was taken up with discussing how what occurred behind clgsed doors last Saturday became publie. Some senators pointed out that a strict interpretation of the rules would prohibit leaders from inform- ing the president of l‘xet&flve ses- sion action as was done last Satur- day. Chairman Cummins of the judicl- ary committee.said he would call an early meeting of that committee, probably for Thursday, to recon- sider the nomination. He belleved the full committee and not a sub- eommittee should hold whatever hearlogs may be decided upon. “Unlees the committea directs that that be done, Mr, Stone will not be invited,” the chalrman said, adding that he would not make a move in that direction. DIES FROM EXPOSURE Body of Stratford Man, One Arm Hooked Onto Ice, Found in Hole ' in Oreck—Cries Attract Attention Stratford, Conn., Jan. 26.—Leo F. Arnold, 36, a toolmaker living here, dled from exposure when he broke through the ice on a small creek which runs through the Salt Meadows between Devon and Wa nut Beach early today. Residents of the awakened by his cries for help noti- fied the Milford police and officers went to the creek to investigate. They discovered the body in a hole in the ice, held up by one arm hooked onto the edge of the ice. BIG SCANDAL HINTED Firther Arrests Are Likely in Dan- bury Liquor Rondup—State's At- tomey On Case. Bridgeport, ' Jan, 26.—~Intimating | that further arrests are imminent in cbnnection with the sefzure Satur- day at Danbury of $143,000 worth of liquor, for which one man is now held, Prosecutor C, A. Hallock of Danbury and State Police Sergeant J. C. Kelly of Ridgefield today con- ferred with State’s Attorney William H, Comley, Jr. “We found this thing was of such proportions that the aid of the state’s attorney is needed” sald Prosecutor Hallock aft- er the conference. ANOTHER COLD WAVE - Nebraska and Towa Shiver in Zero Weather and Chicago Is in Grip of Blinding Snowstorm. Chicago, Jan. 26.—The latest cold wave from Alaska had pushed gero temperatures as far southeast today as southern Nebraska and northern Towa, with an expected drdp to near zero in Chicago to- night. Sub-zero temperatures rang- ing from 20 to 40 degrees below were reported from North Dakota, northern Minnesota and Manitoba. Snow, driven by a strong wind, began falling in Chicago and vicinity this morning. Fighting Cocks Valued At $15,000 Are Seized Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. 26.—Ninety- eight fighting cocks, worth $15,000, instead of dying in the arena, are to be butchered and served in vari- ous city hospitals. They were seized yesterday in a rald by state police on Morris Sulll- van's roadhouse, the dining room Jf which had been converted into #n arena. The officers arrested 171 spectators and fifty others escaped by jumping through wimdows, neighborhood, | FIVE ARE IN HOSPITAL FOLLOWING AUTO CRASH Motor Truck Skids Into Touring Car In Stamford—One Girl Badly Injured Stamford, Jan, 26.—Tve persons were taken to the Stamford hospital this noon having been hurt in an automobile crash when a truck skid- ded and crushed a touring car at the foot of Clark's hill. The injured are: Belle Rapoportte, 17, of 620 Falr- fleld avenue, Bridgeport; her father, Nathan, who was driving; her moth- er, Mrs, Bertha Rapoportte and two sisters, Hannah, 156, and Gertrude, 7% years. Belle Is quite badly hurt having a broken right leg. She las lost most of her teeth and may de- velop internal injuries. 4 The Rapoporttes were on thelr way to Bridgeport. At the foot of the hill the motor truck bleonging to Berman. and Sternberg, of Norwalk, and driven by Douglas Raymond of Strawberry Hill, BEast Norwalk, pskidded and pun*od the touring car agains a fence. Mrs. Rapoportte had her nose broken but aside from her daughter, Belle, the others were only shaken up and bruised. Ray- ‘mond is being held by the police to await an inquiry. All the injured are at the hospital under observa- tion. COTTON MILL OWNERS WILL BUILD IN SOUTH Plan to Move Necessary Equipment From Bid- deford, Me., Plant Boston, Jan. 26.—The Pepperecll Mfg. Co., cotton manufacturers, will construct a new unit at Opelika, Ala., and will remove to the south the necessary machinery from its plant at Biddeford, Me., Russell . Leonard, treasifrer of the company announced today. The new unit will have 20,000 spindles and G00 looms. DEER HURDLES TRACK AS TROLLEY CAR APPROACHES Animal With Large Antlers Springs | in Front of Electric Near White Oak. .~ Charies H. Kuhny ¢mployed as a” motorman by the Connecticut (e and operating a one-man car be tween this city and Plainville, had the novel experience of having a | Jarge deer spring across the path of his car while passing White Oak this morning. The animal, according to Mr. Kuhn's description, was a large male buck with a spread of antlers of about seven feet. The place where the deer crossed | the tracks and disappeared into the woods is about 50 yards this side of the New Britain corner of what used to be Electric Field. Motor- man Kuhn first saw the gdeer as hls‘ car took the switch at Sharp's sta- | tion on its way to New Britain. lt; was nibbling at some blades of grass | | which shot up through the covering | of snow. Suddenly, hearing the | noise of the car, it raised its regal | | head and seeing the yellow \'ehlrlo; approaching, dashed for the tracks, | bounded over not ten feet ahead m‘; it and landed in the woods to the | right of the tracks and was gone in a flash. The sight of deer in this spot ls; very unusual in rccent times. Years ago, groups of them were wont to come to White Oak Pond for a| | drink and were rather tame. None | have been seen in that section for many years, however, until this morning, about 9:20 o'clock. Ap- | parently the decr was making for | the high hills between l'!uln\'illc‘ and Meriden. {Shore Line Electric | Has Annual Meeting | New Haven, Jan. 26.—The annual | report of President W. Scott Eames, to stockholders of the Shore Line Electric Railway Co. in annual meeting reviewed the operation of | the road and outlined possible fu-| ture developments. The existing board of directors | secretary-treasurer added to it. The | directors later reelected the pres- | ent board of officers. TELLS OF HOLD-UP | Leaving the home of Stanley| Tosazko of 24 Clark street yester- day morning about 3 o'clock, An- drew Pickena of 7 Franklin street bad proceeded only a short distance when he aileges he was held up by | | three young men and robbed of his | watch and $2. The holdup occurred | |1n an alley nearby, according to the story he told Sergt., Michael J. Fiynn, who investigated the case | with Sergt. George C. Ellinger. Out- side of the fact that the holdup men were young, Pickena was unable to | give any description of them to the police., The investigation tinued by the police. DR. CONWAY DIES New Haven, Jan. 26.—Werd came here today of the death in St. Louis Mo., of Dr. W. F. Conway who for| a considerable period was on duty here and in the state for the U. 8. Bureau of Animal Inspection. is being con- COLLEGE HEAD DI Wheeling, W. Va., Jan. 26 Brother Antonius Jacquay, C. F.'X., head of St. Joseph's college, Balli- | more, M., died at a Wheeling hos- | pital today after an illness of three weeks was reelected and Leonard O. Ritter | WATER FAILED, S0 |Grand List At Least $96,000,000, Disclosed By Preliminary Survey; - Big Increase Expected Next Year BUILDINGS BURNED P.U. Com. f B hsked o Proe Sharon Supply Source —_— LOSSES KMOUNT 10 $50,000 Casino, Playhouse and Homes of Fire Chief and Neighbor—Fire Siren Also Was Out of Order, Ad- ding to DifMicultics of Firemen. Sharon, Conn, Jan. 26.—Because ot failure of water pressure when it was needed during the fire yester- day morning when the Casino and two houses were burned, the public utllities commission will be asked o Investigate the Sharon Water Cb, it was stated by town officials, today. g Loss 1s §50,000. The fire destroyed the Casino, a playhouse and the homes of Fire Chief Roland Marckress and Miss Ruth Prindell, the aggregate loss being placed at $50,000. 3 It was clajmed that several bad leaks in the water mains which made pressure in the hose impos- .sible had been known to the water company officials. It was necessary to get water from the McCann Springs reservoir an hour and a half after the fire started and there was delay in finding the man who had the keys to the gatchouse. Church Bells Rung. The fire siren was out of order and the alarm had to be given in the old fashioned way which was on the church bells. The roof of the Casino fell in 20 minutes after the alarm had been glven.” The fire had started on the first floor, The fram- ing of the building was of pine. After fire hose had been brought into use the water pressure was sufficient only to send a stream to the eaves of the burning houses, scarcely ten feet from the ground. Fire apparatus was called from Mil- lerton, Lakeville and Amenia, N. Y. The origin of the fire is undeter- mined, TAKES HIS OWN LIFE BY HANGING FROM BED Note Left By Amston Man Says He'd Decided to Die—Nothing Teft to Live For, Amston,.foun, Jan. 26—Freder- ick Wachter, 67, committed sulcide by hanging with a clothesline to the bedpost in his room at the home of his sister, Mrs. Charles Schmid, here last night. Wachter, who has been visiting his sister, was found in his room by his nephew, Charles Schmid, postmaster here. Medical Examiner Dr. W. E. Pen- dleton of Hebron, sald the man had been dead about three hours. A note addressed to his sister written in German was on the bureau and in it the writer had said there was noth- ing more In life for him to do now and that he had decided to die. Wachter and his wife formerly kept a rooming house in New York city but sold out last fall and went | to his old home in Switzerland. They returned a month ago Mrs. Wachter going to Philadelphia sister and Mr. Wachte here, HAD NARROW ESCAPE Norwalk Man Suffers Only Minor Bruises When His Auto is Demol- coming ished in Collision With Truck. Norwalk., Jan. 26.—Philip N. Knapp, of the Crofut and Knapp Co. escaped with minor bruises thi morning when his automobile was completely demolished by a truck which crashed into it. Mr. Knapp was driving his ma- chine up Mill hill and the truck was coming down the hill. The wheels of the truck caught in the trolley tracks, causing it to skid and swing around to the south side of the road, | crashing into Mr. Knapp's car. The truck was operated Charles Thomas of 113 street, Bridgeport, and was owned by Louis Sinaro and Abraham Gram- s of 116 South street, Bridgeport. by | Coolidg;?‘;)ming to New Engiand in April or June ‘Washington, Jan. 26.—President Coolidge plans to make a trip to New England either in April or June. He may attend the battle anniver- |sary celebration at Lexington April 19, but should be he unabie to do so, probably will go to Boston in June for the anniversary of the battie of Bunker Hill. Levy to‘Have Operation At Wethersfield Prison Bridgeport, Jan. 28.—Jacob Levy, of Westport, who last week was sen- tenced to state’s prison for tra porting beer, it is expected will un- dergo an operation for a stomach ailment at Wethersfield infirmary within a few days. An examination was made of Levy while at the coun- ty jail here, a report of which will be ma Sherift Pease, = Mrs. H. A. Rider and Ansonfa, Jam. 26. Rider, widow of H, A. believed to be this city's oldest wom- | an resident died at the home of her daughter, Mrs, Carlos H. Storrs last night at the age of 92. She sur- vived her husband who died at the age of 93 by less than a year. to visit her | Winter | » to the prison authorities by [ _NEW BRITAIN New Britain Will Probably 1926 Because of Officlal figures on the grand st for 1925 will not be available Yor another month, but a prelimidary survey of records at the office’ of the board of assessors In city hall indicates the largest grand list in city's history, probably running past | the $£6,000,000 mark. It was also predicted today that the City of New Britain will pass into the group of municipalities with grand lists of $100,000,000 in 1926. since extensive buildings pro- gram of this year, much of whieh does not appear on the 1925 lists, will probably be of sufficient vol- ume to carry the city into the h{gh tax list class » To appear on the grand lists 1¥ids necessary that the buildings be comt- pleted before October 1. This yeals building boom started in Septeniher and has continued . throughout the clesing months of the fiscal year. Morris Cohn will again be the city's heaviest individual taxpayer. The amount of assessment charged against Cohn has not been definitely docided by the assessors. Despite the | fact that Cohn disposed of much of | his property in 1924, he retained titie in a sufficient amount of realty to maintain his lead over Fred Beloin, | who for many years headed Hm} group of individual taxpayers and who will be second on the list this| year. The Cohn and Beloin assess- | ments will show a difference of less | than $50,000. | Figures for the city's manufactur- ing establishments, from whom is derived about one-third of the tax revenue, are being prepared by the | board at present and will probably| be completed this week. The Ameri- | Enter $100,000,000 Class in | Building Boom. can Hardware Corporation will head the manufacturing group. The Stan-| wilder of Pistol Will Be Arraigned | ley Works and the Landers, Frary & Clark plant will occupy the secqpd and . third positions, Items of merchandise will take a decided drop in this year's gl‘llllh‘l list. DBusiness conditions of the past year are responsible for thls condi- tion which will affect both manufac- turing and mercantile groups. Automobile asseesments will show | an unprecedented increase. This condition is brought about by the in crease in the number of care owned | by residents of New Britain and by | the large mfmber of car owners who will be called upon to pay a 10 per cent penalty for fallure to rpport Their automobile as taxable prop-| erty. In the past 45 years the grand list of New Dritain has increased more than 2000 per cent, an extraordinary advance euch as has been exper- fenced in few municipalities in the country. HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1925. —SIXTEEN PAGES. URDER FOLLONS FGHT OVER D0G Eliof, Maine, Man Shoots Neigh- for Following Quarrel SURRENDERS 10 SHERIFF in Court on Charge of First De- gree Murder—Vietim Died at Hos- pital From Wounds. Eliot, Me., Jan. 26,—As a result of a quarrel over a viclous dog Howard Spinney of this town is dead and Harlan C. Leibman, & neighbor, is held charged with murder. Spinney died last night in Portsmouth, N, H., hospital short- ly after Leibman shot him while the two men Were fighting in the road- way in front of Spinney's home. Immediately after the shooting Leibman gave himself up to a dep- uty sher He was to be arraign- ed at Kittery today charged with murder in the first degree, Leib- man told the authorifies he fired in self defense, intending only to dis- able Spinney who had knocked him down twice with his fists, In 1880 the ta valued at $4,748, praisals were $7 4 in $10,580,067; in 1910, $39,367,682; in | $03,060,621, The last increase | s greatly out of proportion which came before 1t was| the result of installation of a new acsessing eystem prepared by Ap- praisal Engincer Thomas Linden, | who is now in charge of the assess- | ment of propertics for thig city. Al-| though the new system brought | about enormous Increases it has re- | ceived the approval of the city's tax- | payers and has resu o fewer| complaints of alleged inequality in assessments than wers heard under the old syetem. able proporty was | 47; in 1890 the ap- | BUT NOT ANY NONEY Alleged $50,000 Creditor of ‘ Turman Shows Letter From Forger Moses Turman, who last week con- fessed he committed $1,300,000 of | forgeries in repaying a $100 loan, was adjourned to Wednesday when | he appeared before general sessions | Judge Koenlg today for pleading on | an indictment for second degree forgery. Counsel for 20 of Turman's vic- tims appeared, with six of ~ his clients, at the distriet attorney’s of- fice with documents which he said would prove that the accused made his great borrowings on thq strength | of promiscs of profits, not interest. Among the documents was a let- ter received by A, IT. nd: f Cleveland, a realtive of Turman's who claims to be also a $50,000 crditor. “I owe you a million apologies for not having written but T did not | have anything definite to say as T have had only temporary uses for your money until yesterday,” read | the the letter. | “Now I have succceded in pla | same in a good way and T can you that you can depend on a min ome of $50 a month with a income that 1 would at, but I know will| New York, Jan, 26.—THhe case of | | . mum |ir maximum | rather guess #Enclosed Is my note, p | demand. Thanks and hope you are ina (Mrs. | | the butt of a pi | Tyrman) sends ARTIST DIES WOMAN Rochester, N. Jan. H. Emily Wells, well known artis is dead, here at the home of Mr. and Mrs, Harrison A. Baldridge of this where she had made her home o leaves a brother, three nephews, Hayes of Mount Professor Joseph York and Harold me time. Perkins, and or Samuel Holyoke College: Hayes of New | Hayes, Rochester. CRITICALLY BURNED Norwich, Jan. 26.—Mrs. wife of Josepn, curling her ron yusterday | | | Jessie hair with a heated was critically burned w paper lying close by the fire and suddenly blazed up. news- eater took || Infant Suffocated As It Lies in Bed Between Parents (Special to The Her Plainville, Jan. 2 five- {] day old infant daughter of Mr. {| and Mrs. Steven Starr of Farm- {1 ington road was found dead in {] bed early this morning by its || parents who wupon discoverit | the condition of the child sum- moned Dr. George Cook who has been in attendane Dr. Cook after viewing the b | for Dr. Charles W. Moody fcal examiner for Pla lle and he pronounced death « to ac- cidental suffocation. The inwes- tigation showed that the babe had been placed hetween the parents in bed in that way had become su The parents are overcome with grief. The funeral will probably be held today. . pcated MILLION APOLOGIES JAILFOR EDITOR WHO who knocked { ground CALLED VETS ‘TRAMI’S’i Court Illinois Appellate Confirms Conviction of German’ Chicago, Jan. 26.—Arthur Larenz, former editor of the Illinois Staa Zeitung, German language new paper, must ge ix months in the liouse of correction and pay a fine of $1 for criminal libel against the American Legion, the appellate court | decided today The court affirmed a verdict in| criminal court two ycars ago, t higher court holding that Loren. editorials referring to legion mem bers as “tramps, vagabonds and bums” was obviously “a deliberate | attempt to impeach the honesty and | reputation of the American Legion.” Lorenz was brought back here from St. Paul for trial after indict-| ment, largely through efforts of the | legion officials. BRUTAL ATTACK Tormer Phila. Dry Agent Shot Down in Own Doorway—Wife Knocked Unconscious With Pistol Butt. Philadelphia, Jan holding his in James F. Mc tion agent, was the door of his rmer | hot down today at ome by three men, s wite unconscious. The men sprang from hehind, fell- ing Mrs. MeM: with a blow from on the jaw. Me- Manus fell, shot ee times in the left thigh, and once ti the | right ankle. The baby rolled on the | unhurt assailants are to have fled in a waiting the hospital, McManus | convinced the outcome of & believe motor car. A told police h shooting the grud wspired by his prohibition ¢ Boy Mi;‘lal\:e.; Mafi for Bear, Shoots Him Dead Bratticbora, Vt., Ja —Wilfred | Douglas of Winhull was shot and | Killed last night by Wesley Moffatt, a boy, who 'k him for a bear. Douglas, who W on his hands and kr Moffatt was r tion of the s was activitics in YER ADJUDGED INSANE Omaha, Neb., J 2 J. Warren Hahne, real estatc who was held by a coroncr's the slaying -of his wife, their home recently, wa today. County there would be murder charge. no p DOG BITES SIX CHILDREN Brookfield, Mass pupils of the Blanchard s bitten, three seriously this during the périod in school yard by a shepherd dog fore the animal off a teacher. Six were Jan. 26 forenoon the be- | by recess was driven * THE WEATHER —0— Hartford, Jan. cast for New Rritain and vicinity: Rain and colder t¢ night; Rain or snow and muchi oolder. * hm According to‘the police a bulldog owned by Spinney attacked Leib- man’s little daughter yesterday, tear- 1900 ling her AT e ;Ffl”“ w RKMEN Klu.[l] ‘ Last night Leibman went with the child to Spinney's home intending to complain about the dog. A quarrel developed which was continued on the roadway ‘in front of Spinney's house. Spinney, Leibm: said, struck him twi nd knocked him down each time, Leibman drew his pistol, intending, he said, to shoot pinney in the leg, but his aim was high and the bullet lodged in the groin, Spinney died at the hospital | before the bullet could be removed. MYSTERIOUS FIRE | Vacant Honse, Windows Boarded, | gyrance Union building here. Burns in New Haven—Loss Is Abont $30,000. New Haven, Jan. 26.—Unoccupied for two years, empty of furnishings and with all the windows boarded fire broke out mysteriously in the by Joseph H. Hubinger, at the junc- tion of Elm street and Ellgworth avenue late last night and firemen |were at wprk until woll into 1k orning jours, The' dmais was placed at $30,000 or over by the fire department., v The property had changed hands several times since Mr. Hubinger sold if because of ill health. It was not far from property of his broth- er, the late Nicholas Hubinger, fronting on Whalley avenue on which is a sightly residence he long occupied. The Hubinger brothers were prominent for many years as starch manufacturers with factories in the middle west. Joseph Hub- inger now in Florida. home now stands in the Henry Morris. name of IS BADLY EURNED Norwalk Man Taken to Hospital After Vuleanizing Outfit in Auto Supply Store Blows Up. “Norwalk, Jan, 26.—W lo of Monroe street this city is id the Norwalk hospital today as a re- sult of burns received when a vul- o ng plant blew up in the store of the South Norwalk Auto Supply Co. this morning at Daniel Melillo his brother and pro- prictor of the store is confined to hi suffering from slight burns ar serious shock. The two men were in the rear of the store repairing some tubes wi machine blew 'up. The ¢ the explosion broke all the wind in the place and blew out the n the rear room, INPURE AIR DEADLY sSmoke, Soof, Dirt and Gases in Chicago Atmosphere Blamed For ° Increasing Death Rate There. Chicago, Jan. 26.—Air laden with smoke, soot, dirt gases and pollutions is increasing the number of deaths here Health € Bundesen says. In the last 20 y have dicd of sons | eases, he reports. In lod 99,098 died of fectious diseascs About 15 per were killed in th that period by than by dirty air, Bundesen declares, five years of t more persons dicd of co air than of other diseases. Pistol With Lethal Gas Is Found on N. Y, Suspect New York, aln 1 of German make lo: on Elmer Low | while lurking I | ond avenue., The and one half inc an inch in diamet shell of t ANOTHER FCLIPSE BABY. —An- ma that am He of William Kearncy, N. J. nouncemen s Mr, and Mrs. W given the nam | Hedlden to a solar eclips have Eclipse during the His former | Illam Melil-! 12:15 o'clock. | other | | | Miss Helen Vosburgh Either Jumped l or Fell Accidentally At Bar- ’ | | | [ nard Hall | New York, Jan., 20.—Miss Helen E. Vosburgh, 23, of Norwalk, Conn., | feil or leaped from the elghth floor of Brooks hall, Burnard college this | morning and died later in Knicker- | | bocker hospital. Ehe was an Lonor | | student of the class of 1925, Her | father is George !l Vosburgh, a | lawger of Norwalk. | | Miss Vosburgh was said to have | | been suftering from a religious ma- | | nin. Some of her friends asserted that she was a vietim of somnambu- lisin, and expressed the opinion that |she had walked out the window | | whils asleep, Her left leg was frac- | tured and physicians found internal injuries. | Classmates of ‘the young woman | | recalled that she had been acting strangely of late, but assumed that her trouble was only temporary and only the result of ov dy. L | night she talked incoherently and in | | the middle of the night aroused | | some of the students on her corri- | | dor attempting to discuss religion | with them., | | Her plunge from her window this | morning was seen by a door man jof an apartment house across the | | street. She had broken the window | | pane in her fall. The room was in | | disorder. | ' INNINETY FOOT PIT Construction Men May Have Been Gassed at | Cleveland Building Columbus, O., Jan. 26—Four men | met death shortly before noon today | | within the narrow confines of a 90~ | foot concrete piling, a part of the | foundation of the new American In- | Construction foremen are at a 105 to explain the tragedy. Three of the victims are said to have been |at work somewhere within the nar- row shaft of the huge filing. A | fourth 1s said to have just come to the top. He was seen fo stagger and then topple into the shaft. The | Jarge house occupied for many years | four bodies were taken from the | hottom of the shaft. Traces of gas within the !those who assisted in bringing out the bodieg said, mightybavh beemré- |'sonsthis, Whether the wen with- {in the shaft were pvercome and fell | knocked down by the man who fell | from .the tap, is unexpiained. | William Martin, structural fron | { worker, was the hero of the tragedy. | | Wearing a gas mask, he was low- | {ered into the shaft. Ninety feet | | underground he tied the bodics, one | by one, to a-stcel cable and they | wera hoisted out and rushed to hos- | pitals. When Martin was bropght | to the surface he was Wwithout the mask. When he had recovered, ne explained that the mask had ham- pered his vrork and he had tossed it away. | One of the men was ideptified as Jack Smith, Brooklyn, N.'Y. The | other three also were said to have lived: in New York. 'O MEDICAL LICENSE, * | STAMFORD MAN FINED Stamford Man Assessed $500 and Costs For Practicing as Physiclan. arged with i without a of 447 Eim ned a total Judge Samuel = pol court today ted this morning on 8 nt issucd by County Health Officer Marr of Bridgeport. The ar- rest followed westigation under the supervision of Dr. Stanley Os- born, state health commissioner when a woman whom he had attend- @l Geveloped blood poisoning. Lully had a diploma from Modina Italy. He does not He failed to pass th examination last mont W convicted He pleaded guilty, " torney he promiscd te within ten C n who w said the pre stamford, Jan racticing as a » Dr. Vincen , this city, s a counts, lays Judgment Suspended on Counts Azainst Wessels C. H j on ssely was charged registered au without eitk ng device, and oper- with driven Britain | was kept LOW WATER. MILLS CLOSING Holyoke, Jan —Mills here lepend upon wa day ng t down by |extreme low w ter power w n account of the Connecti tonig ter In the cut river, | | remained | two later the news reached Gover- shaft, | 1o the bottom or whether they were | Week Ending Jan, 24th .., NORWALK GIRL KILLED IN IGHT STORY FALL PEACE EXPECTED Youg o Thomss and Two | Others Killed in Herrin, I 4 TROOPS POLICING TOWN Citizens of Little Tinols City Hnm‘g 4 Reign of Bloodshed Is Over—Mrs, | Young Says” Husband Was Shot From Behind. By The Awmsociated Press, Herrin,, Tll, Jan, 26,—8. Glenn | Young, pleturesque young Willlam«~ son county dry ralder and Ku Klux Klan leader, two of his companjons and his avowed enemy, Ora, Thomas, deputy sheritf, and anti-Klan leader, lay dead here today, and in fheir passing citizens found hope that Herrin's days of bloody turmoil were over, Peace Scems Likely State militiamen again had cus- tody of the town, although on many sides it was insisted that, with the 4 leaders fallen, none would be found to carry on the struggie, Many conflictipg theorles = faced officers seeking to establish the pre- cise manner of the fatal meeting, but it seemed that from them this was the best reconstruction of what oceurred, ¥ A single shot was fired from the vicinity of the European hotel, about 9:40 o'clock Saturday night, Young, Ed Forhes and Homer Warner left a nearby restaurant to Investigate. Four Di¢ in Battle In the hotel cigar store they met Thomas and when the smoke had cleared, Young, ehot through the | heart, and I"orbes and Warner were. dead, while Thomas lay on the floor dying. 4 Despite Mrs. Young's statement that witnesse would be on hand to- day, none could he found yesterday. At least four men were known to have been present but their names unrevealed. An hour or nor Small and he immediately di- rected Adjutant General Carlos Black to send militiamen to Herrin '3 from Carbondale, a few miles away. Today found everything quiet With & only shattered window panes and bullet-scarred wylls as a publie tes- | timonial of the hight's conflict. i Much of the bitterness and desire | for getaliation which had marked: o(J\s claghos \¥l|!|\n the county, The investigation of th& state marked time pending the inquest. A coroner's jury impanelied yesterday | viewed the scene of the shooting, but returned no verdist, pending further |} s Attorney Arlie Boswell, on his arrival, gave no intimation of the coutse the state would pursue. Sheriff George Galligan, who was in Marion at the time of the shoot- ing, said he-expected to see peace and quiet restored in his county, as did the mayor of Herrin. The downtown district was almost desgrted last night. The national guamismen cleared the streets at 9 hootings were mentioned in = srmons yesterday, Young be- ing extolled as a martyr in some, while others merely urged the neces- sity of peace, Young a Prominent Figure For almost: two years Young had® been considered the central figure in the civil strife of Willlamson 8 county, his name, being coupled with fights and rumors of fights. Last summer Young and his wife were fired upon by unknown assail-* ants in another automobile as they drove toward East St. Louis, Jllinoiss Young's right knee was injured and: 4 Mrs. Yaung v ded permanent Iy by a ch t The first February open break occurred o last, when Constable C a Kian sympathizen was killed. Following ti on Young; Skelcher, coal miner, was slain. s later pistols again came into men were killed capons once more were attack <men on Guard Young today lay church, & » foot of the coffing ping vigil, the 2 puted Klans- 1 by sfreet rst Baptist and the in theit iition when, as a , he cap. of draft ited ates ks scarching th a at whom Took Seven Single Handed zlo-} Yon 1 them captive -stricken. 8 d from Axiant where s} t had fail ed to restore her sight. “What have I done to be widows s way?" she eried t night, “He J ved the game square—I know be 1 wa th him all the time He never fi shot in this count} until this f Mrs, Young maintained Youngs was lured to the hotel and shot Srouss behind o Versions of Duel. Versions given today by two essed sses of the fight were that Young fired ‘but Sheriff Th shot and that Deput (Continued on Page Thirteen) eye-wit