New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 2, 1925, Page 1

ESTABLISHED 1870 2@ NEW BRITAIN HERALD kot 8 oty NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1925. —SIXTEEN PAGES. WANTS LEG AMPUTA TED 10 LIQUOR LICENSE SAVE MAN IMPRISONED IN| AW HEU] VALID| Dead, Leaves Estate To Employes PIT 300 FT. UNDERGROUND |yt hmeniment, o Be B ‘Brotller of Victim Of- fers $500 To Sur- geon Who Will Thus Release Prisoner Pin- ioned By. Huge Boul- der On Foot. Man Has Been Held Pros- trate Prisoner Since Friday—Water Rising in .Cave Threatens Life as His Strength Ebbs. ! L] Cpve City, Ky., Feb. 2.~In one of the crooked little crevices of Sand Cave, three fect from the entrance, Floyd Collins, 35 years old, has lain pini®ned by a huge boulder since Friday morning, A squad of men, bringing a port- able drill, was to leave Louisvilla to- day. A truck was here, ready to transport the equipment to the cave, six miles away. With this drill the rescuers hoped to cut 'away enough of the stone to release the victim. Directing Workers His strength slowly ebbing, Colling devoted hi¥ consclous moments to directing the workers, who for more than forty hours, have been chip- ping tiny flakes from the huge rock in a futile effort to release him. Handicapped by lack of tools and by the narrow passage, the rescuers have made littel headway, but kept unceasingly at their task. Water, slpping in from the ice-covered cliffs added to the discomfort of Collins, and the men who had squirmed through the crevice to take him food amd to do what littie else they could for him. , Rewards Offered Collins’ brothers, Marshall and Homer, themselves experienced cave men, have worked incessantly since their brother was entombed. In desperation, yesterday they offered a 3500 reward to any one who would reacis Llmn dead or alive, The workers needed no prospect of re- ward, however, for everything possi. bte had been done. Every experi- ment had been tried, only to fail; every suggestion had been consider- ed, but none proved helpful. Found 24 Hours Later Eser singe Collins' plight was dis- | covered 24 hours after the accident, scores of persons have stood ready, but helpless around the mouth of the cave. Singly and in pairs, volun- teers would go into the cavern, make thelr way through the tortuous channel down to Collins, a drop of 80 feet. They would work until, numbed by the cold, their places |the January report of Inspector Ed- | Business Section Threatened, wora taken by dthers. Sand Cave is five miles from the new entrance to Mammoth Cave and Is is a region of many unexplored | caves and subterranean passages, Colling had gone into the, cave I'ri- | day morning to explore it and was making his way out when the| boulder fell on his foot, Caught Once Before While exploring Crystal Cave two vears ago, Collins was entombed by a falling boulder. He after 48 hours. Brother Offers Reward Loulsville, Ky., Feb. 2.—An offer of $500, to ady reputable surgeon who will crawl through Sand Cave to Floyd Collins, chloroform the im- prisoned man and amputate his leg was made today by Homer Collins, brother of the victim, says a dis- | patch to the Louisville Post. ‘ Brother Leads Rescuers Homer Coliins, grief stricken and worn by exposure, led another res cde party 20 feet into the narrow opening of the cave at 2:30 o'clock his morning, declaring “I'm going | in there and get him.” After more than five hours of chipping flinty limestone by the aid of gasoline torches, several of the party again | gppearcd at the surface, wet and grimy, asking for more gasoline and Nghts, Around the mouth of the cave scores of persons stood in soggy mud, awaiting a call for whatever peed might develop, but unable to do more than cheer the volunteer rescuers, who when they reached the qutside world, grabbed sand- wiches and & cup of boiling coffee and returned underground. A big fire roared near the en- trance. As the rain ceased, cheer- less men found little consolation in the weather change, asserting that melting snow and rain already fallen | wontinually driped into the mole-lik hole where the imprisoned man lay. Collins was able to use his hands, said a special despatch to the Louis- | ville Times, and took some food at 8 o'clock. Blocks Off Rescuers The imprisoneq¢w man himself | blocks the best efforts of his rescu- ers. He was trapped from behind while crawling toward the entrance of the cave. All efforts to free him must be made by men who work facing him, hampered by the small passage which Collins himself near- 1y blocks. Nearly half the distance between Colitns *and the cave cntrance is a parrow passageway through which was rescued | Ipicd by |fire in & barber shop i | street. | building owned by Henry F. |but smoke penetrated mar |ing buildings so that a socre or more | kept INCREASE IN' PRICE OF BREAD EXPECTED New Britain Bakers Claim They Are Making It at Loss New Britaln people must expect a raise in the price of bread and other bakery commodities after a meet- ing to be held In Hartford Wednes- day of this week, which all bakers éf Hartford county will attend. The meeting will be held for the purpose of considering a raise of one cent a loat in the price of bread, due to the Increased cost of wheat flour. One New Britain baker stated this morning that it was a foregone con- clusion that the price will be raised. “Every baker in town s selling bread at a loss, now" he said. He stated that wheat flour has increased from $3.76 to $4 a barrel, since the last time the price of bread went up. “There {s no' question about it, it is bound to be raised,” he said. George D. Beroth, president of the New England Baker's Association is quoted as stating that “undoubtediy the price will go up.” Practically all of the New Britain and Hartford bakers, it is understood will be at the meeting. BUILDING OPERATIONS CONTINUE FAST PACE Permits Yssued in January For Struc- tures Representing Cost of 8485,355, The bullding boom begun in the latter months of 1924 has continued into the new year, with operations for the month of January coming close to the half-million dollar mark, ward J. Hennessey shows. In the month ended Saturday, 63 permits were Issued for operations estimated at $485,355. During the month £ tenements and one stors were added. The building has been itemized as follows: 21 frame build- ings, $126,795; 10 brick buildings, $330,400; 22 alterations, $28,160. To- tal, 53 permits, $485,355. Plumbing Inspector P. J. Tormay reports 55 applications to do plumb- | ing work, 193 inspections and 471 fixtures installed. FIRE IN NEW HAVEN But Damage is Comparatively Slight— Ccllars Filled With Water. New Haven, Feb, 2.—Taking no risk because the blaze was in a place where its spread would have threat- ened a large arca of buildings cccu- retail stores of all kinds, much fire apparatus was cajled oui by a second alazm cariy today for a the building | adjoining the C. ¥. Longley (whm:;\ Co. on Church street, near Chapel The fire was held to the | ghish y a loss from | of storekeepers may hava its effect. The daraige to the buiid- ing was placed nt $3.000, the barber clalmed several taousand dollars luss, and smoke damage is yot to be ie- {termined. The fire marshal is tr ing to determine how the fire star ed. It was first seen by a police | sergeant . The fire apparatus was on duty several hours, chiefly |to pump water out of store cellars. After a forenoon of inspection the | fire department and insurance men figured that about $18,000 damage had been done in the aggregate, distributed as smoke damage among ) or more firms, and that the fire | damage was not large. | wover | Gas Light Ci { lowing directors were reelected: forced, Says Supreme Court BANK REGORDS ARE OPEN Tighest Tribunal, Among Other De- clsions, Rules That Income Tax Ofricials Can Search Accounts— Verdict given in Insurance Cases, ‘Washington, Feb. 2.—A state Jaw requiring a license for the eale of intoxicating liquor 1s valld and can be enforced notwithstanding the fed- eral prohibition amendment, <the supreme court held today in effect in a case from New Jersey, The conviction in the lower courts of Anthony Colora charged with se)l- ing intoxicating without a state license was affirmed. Colora contended that the federal law prohibiting the sale of intoxi- cating liquor had the effect ‘of re- pealing state statutes enacted to reg- ulate the sale of ".such' beverages. Nelther the state nor federal courts agreed with him. In another liquor cose, hrought from South Carolina, the highest court held that evidence of the pos- session and transportation of whis- key obtained by state officers with- out a search warrant or a warrant of arrest can be used by the federal government in a prosecuiton arising under federal laws. Bank Recbrds Open Bank records are open to inspec- tlon by the federal government in ! the assessment of income taxes, the supreme court declared in effect to- day in affirming the lower courts in a case brought by First National bank of Mobile, Ala, The bank refused to permit an internal revenue collector to examine the accounts of two taxpayers, con- tending that its records were con- fidential, The lower federal courts, | Lowever, sustained the government. Can Collect Insurance Owners of vessels insured during the war by the federal government can collect insurance for vessels lost or damaged while being navi- gated with a prize crew aboard. The supreme court so held today in a case brought by the Standard 01l company of New Jersey to re- for the tanker Llama, suak | on the coast of Scotland in 1615, A decislon of the court of ap- peals against the company was re- versed by the supreme court, The question whether matchmak- ers and managers of New York | clubs conducting boxing exhibitions can be held for the government tax upon admissions to such contests was fixed today for argument in the supreme court on April 13. Property Not Returned The supreme court today refused | to return to the wiss National In- | surance eompany property valued at | approximately $1,000,000 seized by the alien property custodian after | the close of the war. The court found the seizure legal on the ground that the company | had been engaged in business with | Germany during the war, Justice McReynolds, in a minor- | ity opinion, denounced the decision as “monstrous,” and asserted that to retain property taken atter the war ended was “dishonorable and dis- | creditable.” i 1to Mr. Chicago Publisher, Relatives All Chicago, Feb. 2.~—The Chicago Dnlly Journal was left by John C, Eastmon who diéd last week, to a group of employes, the opening of the will today disclosed. Eastnan was sole owner, No estimate of the value of the property was made but the probate judge fixed & $1,000,000 bond for the executons) The estate 1s left to three execu- tors, W. Frank Dunn, the busingss manager; O. L. Hall and H. C. Deu- ter, who announced & plan of Mr, Eastman under which Harry L. Spencer, Richard J. Finnegan, the managing editor, and O. L. Hall would be assoclated in the publica- tion. Under a plan worked out'by Mr. Eastman, the Journal, the oldest af- ternoon paper in Chicago, is to be published by the Chicago Journal company, with the following organ- lzation: W. Frank Dunn, president; O. L. Hall, vice-president; H. C. Deute treagurer; Harry L. Spencer, secre. tary; Richard J. Finnegan, co-edi- tor; O. . Hall, co-editor. Mr. Hall is dramatic critic, Mr. Deuter is auditor of the Journal, and Mr. Spencer was Mr, Eastman's sec- retary. The executors announced that Mr. Eastman's policies would continue | without change. Tor the greater part of a year, Mr. Eastman, wish- ing to conserve his health, relin- quished most of the heavy burdens of the publication to the men who assume charge under the aill, which was dated April 1, 1922, “The entire resources of Mr. East- man’s personal estate are back of the Journal” the announcement said. Accompanying the will following memorandum: “My father was killed in battle, June 23, 1864, My mother died at Dayton, Ohio, Nov. 191t. My beloved wife died in Chicago, March 15, 1918, My only sister, Anne De Bruen, died at my farm, August 11, 1918, I ve no broth- ers. I have no sons or daughters.” was the 00 MILLION DOLLAR COAL FIELDS MERGER Fairmont - Morgantown - Clarksburg Distriet in West Virginia Involved By The Associated Pross. New York, Feb, 2.—Plans are un- der way for a possible merger of bituminous coal properties valued at $100,000,000 in the Fairmont- Morgantown-Clarksburg district in | northern West Virginta, according to an anouncement today by Tlint and | §3 050 pending further developments | Co. Inc, and A. H. Bickmore and Co., organizers. The negotiators, and A, H. Bickmore Charles R. Flint said that the FOUR DANBURY MEN T BE HELD IN RUM CASE Arrested in Liquor Round-Up P Bridgeport, Feb., 2.—George Borton, 58, real estate dealer ar- rested on a bench warrant in con nection With the state police investi gation relative to the ownership of | $270,000 worth of whiskey reized re- | cently in a raid on a farm near Dan u,ur, has been released in bonds of | | in the case, State's Attorney Willian | H, Comley, Jr., admitted today in | rosponw to guestioning on the | Bench warrants for four other Real Estate Dealer Already | 0. | EMPIRE STATE IS fic Being lmpeded HEAYY SNOW IS FALLING Rochester, Syracuse, Albany uul York Places From. Last Again, Other Northern New Not Yet Dug Out Blizzard, Threatenod Albany, N. Y., Feb, 2.—Another blanket of snow was spread over | New York state today. Although | the fall today was not nearly as| heavy as that of last Friday it | erved to 4dd to tne difficulties of | restoring traffic to normal, In some scctions of the state to- day's snowfal! was accompanied by | a high wind. Olean feared it would | be agaln snowbound and Auburn re- ported country roads to be drifting badly again. Two inches of snow fell during the forenoon in the area about Al- bany, JFour inches were reported at Utica and six fell as Auburn. Many traing were still running behind their schedules today as an aftermath of Irida storm and gome rural districts remained al- most snowbound. Six Inches Auburn, N, Y., Feb. | couraging spectacle of falling snow again met the sight of citizens of | Auburn today. With oniy a partial victory won over winter's preelpita- tion of last I'riday when 42 inches | fell in 24 hours, the white forces | were reinforced by six inches of snow during the ferenoon and ft continued to fdll. The railroads which succeeded | only last night in clearing all tracks of snow were again faced with seri- ous conditions, A wind was drifting the flakes and many farmers con- More merger Involved more than 75, mm,mm in Danbun suspected of bflngk,m\,“d to be isolated, acres of developed coal lands, with 160 mines having an annual capacity of at least 21,000,000 tons. The pro- posal for a consolldation, they sald, | members of a “ring” engaged in 11- licit traflic in liquor have not yet been served, it was stated. came from the West Virginia mine | owners, and conference on the plan had reached a pgint which indicated | a lkelihood of an ment. STONE IS ENDORSED early develop- i Senate Judiciary Committee Agaln | Sends in Report Favoring Him for Supreme Court. Washington, Feb. 2.—Tor a se ond time the eenate judiciary com- mittee today ordered a favorable re- port on the nomination of Attorney General Stone to be a supreme court Jjustice, The action was taken hehind | closed doors after senators had re | viewed again the clrcumstances sur- rounding the new legal proceeding here against Senator Wheeler of Montana and the objections ralsed Stone's argument before the supreme, court ears ago as counsel for the Morgan estate in the Ownbey case. Administration leaders expect con- firmation by the &ecnate without much delay, opponents of the nomi- nation having indicated that they ece little object in attempting a pro- longed fight Members there when the committee of the were no vol committee | their votes. DIRECTORS REELECTED. 1 At the anhual meecting of the | stockholders of the New Britian | . held at 3:30 o'clock afternoon in the ' company’s | of West Main street, the fol- A J. Sloper, E. N. Stanley, F. M. H. T. Sloper, R. 8. Brown, amberlain, A. H. Bcott. | this offic BUS AND CAR CRASH Chicago, I'eb. 2.—A score of per- sons were injured, four seriously, In the collislon of a motor bus and a | crowded street car here today. Wit~ nes: id that the street car mo- torman disregarded a stop signal at a boulevard. SHIVERING WAR VETERANS IN HOSPITAL TO Sick Ex-Servicemen at Allingtown Without Enough Bed Covering, Senator Bingham is Teld RY GEORGE H. MA (Washington Bureau of N. B. Washington, D, C., Feb. rangements have been made by the U. 8. Veterans' Bureau, through the | prodding of Senator Hiram Bing- ham, for the Connecticut World War veterans In the hospital for disabled veterans at Allingtown, near New Haven, Conn., to be furnished with an adequate supply of blankets to protect them from the rigors of a | New England winter. 1t was recently brought to Senator, Bingham's attention that the veters ans in this Institution, many of | whom are suffering from tuberculosis were not furnished with sufficient blankets to keep them warm. “They are shivering in their beds™ wrote the se informant, a | ING. He ator's roscuers crawl head foremost (Cofittnued on Page Suree) resident of Waterbury, who added that in their treatment it was nasce sary to keep the slecping rooms &y & GET BLANKETS with plenty of low temperature fresh air. A number of citizens who are in- terested 1 the welfare of these pa- tlents have clubbed together and raised enough « money to provide | electric warming pads and the ad- ministration of the hospital furnish- es the current to keep them in oper- ation. This provision did not take the place of blankets, however. { Senator Bingham 1is in receipt to- day of word from the medical di-| rector of the Veterans' Bureau that the bureau is grateful to the senator | for calling attention to this shorage | of bed coverings, It 18 further stat- | ed in the officlal communication | that “the medical officer in charge | of the 1. 8 Veterans' Hospital No. 41 at Allingtown, has been instruct- | ed to requisition at once a sufficient | number of blankets to cover all pos- sible needs of the station.” { four hours Senator Walsh, democrat, Mon- tana, who is counsel for Wheeler and who took the cross-examining the attorney eral when he appeared committee last Wdnesday ent at the committee m During r's discuss took place before the committee vot- | ed, Senator Walsh told his colleagues | it would not be within the ad in gen- | ties for him to cast his v Husl)ang'and Wife, 90, Both Die on Same de Pa., Feb of county's old nd Perkins and Perkins, died ¥ 1 home near of each ¢ were 90 years old. Mr Perking' shortly after noon and her band’s at 5 o'clock. Dea case was due to old ag Both Mr. and ‘\l!~‘ P n in good hea their 70th wedding ann ry Christmas. Warren, Warren They rred hus- death occu rkins had observed last Women Are Fined for Non-Payment of Tax tratford, Feb, r the time on record in this women were in city court to Stratford for failure to pay the annua! personal tax of $2 im- posed by the state. Those whose neglect was deemed willtull were assessed the tax, plus $2 as c — ¥ < . * THE WEATHER | —hn Hartford, Feb, 2.—For New Britain and vieinity: Snow or rain tondght and possibly Tuesday moming; Followed by fair and colder Tuosday. ——— nator | before the | in each| T0 FIGHT DEMPSEY | Gibbons Agrees With Rickard for Match About June 1—Winner to Take on Harry Wills, The 1atec irops ek York, Feb, 2.--~Tom bone, St. Paul helvywelght, today came to definite terms with Tex Rickard for a title match with Jack Dempsey about June 1 elther in New York or Jersey City with an understanding that the winner will | | oppose Harry Wills, negro contender, | in Beptember. Rickard announced his plans for two title heavyweight shows t year after an hour's conference With | Gibbons and the latter's gnanager, Eddie Kane. At the same time the promoter asserted confidence that he | would have little difficulty signing Dempsey for the titleholder's part |of the program. Riddle Will Remain as Emoy to Argemma | Gib- | hington, D. rumors that John IFarmington, ambas: States ntina, would re- sign his post we dispelled tod: vhen he visited the White House to v his respects to President Cool- | that some of the senators withheld Riddle declared he to Buenos Alres within two weeks | and that his health was much im- proved. Reports were current that he would be forced to resign the ambassadorship on account of health. would return | Widow Shot by Former \ale Student Is Dead | , Feh, 2. —Mrs. vear old widow, rsday by Nee- | Georgia War who was shot last student, wi lim, died in killed himself & let Mrs ¢ Warder s surviv Her hu e 1 to marry today. ding two bul- to 1y Mrs. | Oran, four years old Oran Warc gineer,’ W three years by a son, nd, ens 7 Cows, 2 Horses and Bull Die in S. \lancheater Fire | South Manchest Seven cows, two ho burned to early today silo, two acres of tobacco a hay on the farm t Tedford, two and one-l | miles south of the towr brigade saved a N o across the The mated at \\WW )} rn d sev of alf situated loss is esti- $10,00( STRIKERS RETURN on who ¢ a etrike | two weeks ago in prot rainst & | 10 per cent wage reduct 1 to work today. It was said the s came to an agreement with management that whenever s were increased in New Bed ford cotton m as to them COLUMBUS HAS BIG FIRE Feb. 2.—Fir swept thr ugh and routed Metropole 1 riy t aus- $300 Ohio. or downtown guests ir rooms mined of the oss estimated at r Yale| Woods | ould | At least half of the army of snow ing roofs of the deep snow which fn | shovellers at work here were clear- | collapse of buildings. ; Trafiic Is Held Up | Rochester, N. Y., |eity which has not yet fully recov- mr»d from the blizzard that swept western New York Thursday and H' riday, today was in the grip of an- | other snow storm ‘that delayed the | traffic and added an .ddition Xu the {1all of previous storms: More Is Predicted | Syracus Y., Feb, 2—Worn out hree-day struggle to throw off the paralyzing effect of last | Thursday night's storm, the gr |of a half century, Syrac this morning to find another storm | sifting several more inches of snow into the hard-won trenches and | threatening another disastrous t up of transportation before night. There were 3 1-2 inches of new mow on the ground at 8 o'clock this morning, more than seven inches at noon and indications that | the fall would exceed 12 inches be- | fore night. Forecaster Sanford, at | the United States weather bureau station, predicted “snow all day and probably tonight,” without much of a rise in temperature. Mr. Groundhog Absent. Chicage, Feb, 2.—The perennial groundhog fa see his shadow this morning if he emerged in the aditional fashion in an effort to forecast the ther of the next six ks. The an, however, we co | ering & 2 2 | cating coneiderably colder weather tonight in this imniediate vic with sharply rising temperature the northern plans area tomorrow. | n ! Bonia Becket Marrigd to Jackson Hines Decemher 29! | New York, , 2.—The marriag Sonia Becket, 16, to Jackson flines, short story writer, singer ar ‘ar at Mar at, L. I, cember 29 became known Hines is 39 years old. Mr. HMes said { veloped from a n | Church of the Ascer | the Rev. Percy Stickney formerly rcctor and writer-actor was a me | chol of Gr mber 2—The dis- | Average Daily Circulation M i Week Ending Jan, 31st .., 11,642 MAGNUS JOHNSON DECLARES FATHER WANTS TODIE - INPLACE OF HIS SON. |Younger Man, Sentenced to | i Death, Wins Short | Reprieve | former pro-.oter of Toronto, |former promoter of Toronto, uder sentence of death for murder fn connecion with a holdup, today won a twelve day contluance of & mo- tion for a new trial. Judge Kflourl criticised | neys, when the ’ insisted on a con- tinuance on the had been an agreement among coun- sel for both sides for a postpone- ment to give the defense further time to prepare its “You have been stalling since the | first of September,” sald the jurst, “If this were a penitentiary sentence I would order the case to trial. Since |a life is at stake, agaist my will, I'll continde it until Feb, 14, Thomas H. Scott, the prisoner's father, declared today he was will- ing to die ia his son's place if he could. He insists that his son is the vic- | tim of enmity of promoters and speculators, but says he has r $1,500 to finance state supreme court. 'DISCUSSION ON POLICE Lighting Company Officials to Con- fer With Commissioners at Meeting Tonight. Representatives of the Connecti- cut Light and Power Co. will also | appear before the police board at a meeting tonight to discuss the pro- posed installation of a flash signal| | system for the police department | throughout the ecity. The board has asked for an appropriation for the | installation of the system in the! budget prepared for the coming year | and the discussion tonight will for the purpose of getting a reliabie | estlmate on the cost of instaiigtion. | Patrolman William Grabeck, against whom formal charges of abusing a prisoner were brought last week as the result of a report of Po- lice Commissioner Thomas F. Jack- €on to the full board of commission- ers, will be given a hearing at the meeting tonight. Three men who are known to have witnessed the ar- of Louis Squillacoite, the com- | | plainant against patrolman, have been subpoenaed before the board to | | | tell their storles of the aftair, | 38,000 CHICAGO ROBBERY Car Barns Visited By Systematic Bandits Who Socoop Up Receipte And Flee In Automobile, Feb. tactic years rbarn bandi a hold | parn of the carly today. Unlike the rot was no Then two rail- way comp: employes were slain, three policemen lost their lives in capture of the bandits, and three the latter paid on the gallows. Today three of the seven appear- | #d suddenly with shotguns at th cashier's cage, inside of which four men were counting Saturday and receipts, beat two o ors with blackjacks and money in sight into victims said the & rohbr ¥ we Chicago, army even men used precept famous and obtained of an outlying Chicago Surface lines ery of 1903, there life Y | 3 Sunday co scooped anvas sacks. maneuy timed as thot re deploying as skirmishe on, Wh their nt outside the barn o to the machine. s rs W ha , one stood ! mobile d close ee others took | accident 'BANDIT IN FATAL HOLD-UP - SENTENCED 1| Two Others Get Prison Terms For Parts Buffalo Robbery Last December A bucket | Ny Lockport, member of which attempted to ho tional Carbon comy Niagara Ialls on Dee: was sentence chair to ard R, master, and two oth | Auburn prison | Matthew Wasser years old, of Buffa by Supreme Cot to die in the Sing during the Wasser was ¢ | master's slay ury on Jant 2 David Goodwin ra and Arthur Perry of Ni Y indicted f i der, were allow | charges today for the March 16, the pay eme court Falls, also mur- i to plead to lesser TO EXECUTION Played in Goodwin 1 cond degree manslau 1 to not more t was acquitte ler by a jury Ay liate ar ath sentence It was sald t an imme Wasser de be m based al of the r membe four we witnesses at ti of Wasser convicted man, of h shot which killed the paymaster. undar | Thomas Lynch in criminal | the defense attor- | ground that there | FLASH SIGNAL SYSTEM the aving fired the HITBY NEW STORM| BOOTLEGGERS IN MINN. HAD e ——r 'TO AID SCHALL’S CAMPAIG: Defeated Candidate, In Petition Contesting Election, Asserts That Liquor Interests Were Blackmailed Out of Upwards of $75,000. Furthermore, He Declares “Dummy” Judge Was In- stalled at Campaign | Headquarters to Lend ! trength to Immunity Promises. Washington, :ging Feb, extortion of upwards of | 4000 from Minneosta bootleggers | for use in the senatorial campaign of Representative Thomas Schall were made in a petition of contest filed |today in the senate by the defeated opponent, Scnator Magus Johnson farmer labor, s “extortion” was with the “knowl- |edge and consent” of M. Schall and \Umt the money was used in the | campaign. He declared it came from persons indicted in Minneapolis and other citles of Minnesota fér viola- tion of the liguors laws. “Dummy Judge” Installed The further allegation was made | that a dummy judge was installed in the Schall campaign headquarters to give faith in promises of protec- |tion and immunity. | Besides, Senator Johnson avowed | that large sums of money in excess of the amount allowed by law were expended “by and in behalf of the | election of Thomas D. Schall,” and | that large sums of money also were | expended unlawfully in’enlisting the laid and support of numerous per- | sons in Minnesota, “in the pubiica- | tion and cireulation of false and de- | tamatory publictions,” |~ The Farmer-Labor | declared that on October 0. [ Thit River Ialls, sald: “Magus Johnson knows nothing. He is nothing but a damned ignor- amus. The court kicked Magnus Johnson off the Board of Equity Co- Operative Edchange because he stole farmers’ mone offered At another place Mr. Schall was quoted as said that two days before he W “with a highly prefumed cigar told the congressman he had 000 for him if he would work for the world court in Minnesota.” Mr. Schall is then quoted as saying t Senator Johnson told him Ne was against the World Court, but that a week or so later there was a news- paper statement that Johnson was for the court. N “Did the man with the perfumed and the $25,000 see Magnus Johnson,” the petition quotes Mr. 1 as asking his audience at St. Minn., on October 18, 1924. $139,000 FOR WORKERS 71 Employes of Alexander Smith ®ewalor alsn 1924, at Minn., Mr. Schail $25.000 in the petition having left nd igar Cloud, and Sons Carpet Co. Will Benefit | by Big Bonus. stribut ml 6,974 > miles, to st bonus paid by z P $6,20¢ he Alex s Carpet Co he Bigelow ¢ Thompsor at the offic -d Co. both illc New York Find de\ ol 75 Y ear Old ‘\Lm m Cemeter 2.—The bo: 14 Wi was fou 75, of Jnum‘(‘(} ()VfVT”'Vl'rnllm-' F; 'i“ l ndcl the Wheels conditien irke, a janitor school who was platform at the night and fell a lex rl a Soun ad st as serious al r the w d was T the hospital today amputated. ush hington a man visited his office . ilis loft log was al. Senator Johnsor alleged that the ' an appeal to lhe