New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 13, 1925, Page 1

(2% K LN S T 51 .4 S oL [ e News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 ’ s .‘“ .. CONSPIRACY TO USEx:5VT. BOAT T0 SMUGGLE L.quOR FROM RUM ROW UNCOVERED Coast Guard Officials MRS, CUNNINGHAMNOW Arrested And Bever- ages Valued At About $150,000 Taken From Patrol Boat. Booze Worth Half Million Confiscated at Bay Ridge After Hi-Jacking At- tempt Fails — Johnson Still Optimist. PLACED UNDER ARREST 'Suspected ‘of Poisoning | | Members of Her Own 4 i Family | | By The Associated Pres | Chicago, April 1 Cunningham, | four of their children died after | | brief flinesses within six years, today | | was taken into custody at the county | | bospital by two police sergeants and a matron from Gary, Ind. £he was New York, April 13.—A conspir- | {aken to Gary for detention pend- | acy to'smuggle liquor from rum row | :?fig:":fig:z"h’:“fm'5"“"" of the mys- | 8board a coasl. patrol hoat haa been | A utporities redoubled thelr effort uncovered, coast guard.officials sald (to untangle the mystery of five | loddy, after the arrest of two agents | deaths and two cases of sudden con- of rum row on the government pa- | ~ Mrs. Anna | NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1925, — ELIMINATION STARTS FOR MARBLE New Britain Boys and Girls to Have Chance for Trip to Atlantic City. ——l New Britain will again this year | through the Herald-Junior Achieve- ment Marble -Shooting Contest crown a champion and send him to Atlantic Gity to participate in the national tournament, Arrangements for the second an- nual city marbles champlonship are being made by the Herald and wil. liam W. T. Squire, director of the New Britaln Junior Achievement Foundation, and undoubtedly hun. dreds of school boys and girls in the city are anxlously awalting the words, “Let's go.” The championship of the city not and a lot of satisfaction but also affords a weok's trip to Atlantic City with all the best that that fan resort has to offer free to the win- ner. Alexander Zaleski 13, of the Elithu Burritt Junior high school was the local champion last year ana repre- sented New Britain at Atlantic City SOON CHAMPIONSHIP | whose husband and [only carries with it a gold meda) | NDER ZALESKIL Last year's New Britain champion In the national tournament, course, Zaleski, the defending cham- | plon, will have to withstand the on- slaught of about one / (Continued on Page Six) | CONTROLAT STAKE I UPPER WARDS ‘Republicans and Democrats Want Filth and Sixth trol boat C. G.-203, ahd the seizure | of 500 cases of whiskey valued and '$150,000. Flies British Flag Captain Jacobs said the supply p from which the liquor was tak- en flies the British flag. This ship apparently learned of the capture of ihe agents, and immediately put out for the high seas. Coast guard ves- sels which went to rum row yester- day intending tp capture the supply ship found it missing. champagne and between $100,000 Captain Jacobs said that several , Walching her eaw her tear the hem | days ugo & man approached an of- | Of ® sheet from the bed and twist it | fieer of one of the coast guard picket toats and ask® 1f he would bring 2 load of liquor from a supply ship ‘o a certaln place ashore. This was reported tosCaptain J. 1. Bryan, a | Stricken with a mysterious illness| tese commander, who directed pick- ed subordinates to pretend accept- | snce and afterward bring in agents and liquor, The patrol boat started for rum row Thursday and in accordance with the plan picked up the two ngents who are now under arrest from a motor boat in Ambrose chan- nel. Jtswas too rough Thursday night to land the agents on the sup- oly ship, but ¥riday night they were placed aboard and Baturday ihe agents had 300 cases of whis- key and champagne loaded on the patrol boat, the Bay Shore, N. Y., April 13.—The discovery of about 3,000 additional | cases of liquor near the unoccupied Tenson estate at Ditch Plain, which was' revealed today, brought to 0,000 the total estimated value of vhiskey and champagne seized as a result of the hijacking attempt of Willlam Deimadge, state trooper, Lieutenant Lynch, of the state po- lice, who on Saturday led the expe- dition which discovered £,300 cases ot liquor in the home of Frank Dick- erson, caretaker of the estate, and nearby, returned to the vic inity early vesterday, and found three additional lots Wdden In swamp bushes three 1"Nes from the estate, he said today. | Lynch was accompanied by a state trooper and two prohibition agents, Unable to remove lquor, they spent breaking bottles. Accused Is Wounded. Delmadge has been placed under arrest and dismissed from the force as a result of the charge of Dicker- son that the trooper appeared at the estate on Irifay night accompanied by three men and demanded two automobile loads of liquor, Del- madge was wounded in .the back, when he attempted to escape. Denying the accusation of Dicker- son, Frank and Thomas Smith, of Patchougue, taday told officers that Delmadge was not wounded on the estate while demanding liquor but that fnstead he had gone there with them to ask the return of four trucks stolen from them that night, The Smith brothers #ald Delmadge had joined them in Patchogue and that Delmadge was shot as they were ahout to drive into the Benson estate to demand their trucks which they saw parked there, several hours Thinks U, S, Is Dricr. New York, April 13.—Condltions in the United States regarding the uée of liquor are “just like a Sunday échool compared with what the were before t§e war” William E. (“Putsyfoot”) Johnson, dry crusader, sald today when he arrived here for u speaking tour In the east. “It's all bunk—this talk about liquor being as plentiful throughout the country as before prohibition,” lie said, adding that he has made ob- servations during a tour through the middle west, just completed. United States District Attorney Buckner'€ padlock campaign against cafes and restaurants violating the lquor laws received * Mr. Johnson's endorsement a® the “one common sense courss under the circum- stances.” Mr. Johnson sald he still hoped New York city and state would some day be dry since “not all the people of this state are de- praved.” Man Aged 80 Missi_nz From Home Six Weeks Adam Koloski, $0 years old, Yeft the town home on March 1 1 not been heard of since, to a report received by Licutenant Samuel Bamforth at police head- quarters from Peter Koloski of 226 Washington street, the man's son The son asked police aid In locating s father. the contraband | vulsions in the family within six {years when it was revealed that “Mrs, Anna Cunningham, mother of the tamily had attempted to kill her- self. She {s guarded by an extra ‘oflicvr in her room at a hospital here. L The condition of David Cunning- ham,. Jr, 24, who is eritically il from poison, was reported to be un- changed carly today Mrs. Cunningham's attempt at suiclde was thwarted yesterday when policewoman, who had been | around her neck, | A daughter, May, 17, is the only | other surviving member of the family and she has told of being twica in the past year. After Mrs. Cunningham had been ESCORT HILLED, TEXAS - WOMAN IS ATTACKED ;Two Negroes Being Sought | for Murder and Fiend- | ish Assault Dall Texas, April 17.—A man | Was beaten to death and his ‘woman POSTAL CLERKS ARE - FINED FOR OFFENSES ’These Include Theft From ‘ Fund and Sending 1 Obscene Letters | New Haven, Aprit 12, Two post offica clerks were fined and placed INTEREST EBBS OTHERWISE [ ‘! ey Low Vote Expected In First, Second, | Third and Fourth—Rallies To- night Mark Close of.Campaign for Votes, ‘ When the polling places open to- | morrow the major political parties | will concentrate their strength on Ot |the fifth and sixth wards with the billions, had been abs lower wards practically deserted and it is expected that the lowest vote | |the precincts in the southern and |central sections of the city. | The republican party, victorious in | all six wards in the last two elec- | |tions, hopes to repeat its success in |spite of somewhat different condi- {tion The presidential election, Istripped of ward interests, resulted in a republican sweep, while the spe- clal senatorial election, coming but a few weeks afterward, was of the same nature. Tomorrow, however, | the election is almost entirely a ward affair, with selectmen, constables |and school committeemen the only | candidgtes on the ticket in all wards. | Those™In the latter group have no ontest for their offices and of the | candidate for selectmen and con- stables, one only in each group can {be defeated. There are four candi- dates for selectmen and three will he companlon was criminally aseaulteq |°® PFOPation and & New Haven |elected while thero are sevén candi- by two negroes here last night while the couple was riding near Southern Methodist university campus, The negroes slugged the man, Roy |woman placed on probation for |sending improper literature through |the mails by Federal Judge Thomas sitting here today. Earl B gel, clerk at the post office questioned by doctors and allenists | AKINS 28, to death with pistols. |gullty of taking $10.72 from the pos- |all day yesterday they pronounced | her to be sufering from an epileptic condition, . YANTIC POSTHASTER TAKES HIS OWN LIFE | William Edwards Manning Cats Throat—Was Well Enown Also in Norwich Yantle, Conn., April 13.—Willlam | Edwards Manning, postmaster here, | took his life today by cutting his throat. He had been {1, left his bed during the absence of hia wife and gone to an attic room, where the body was found. Mr, Manning had kept a general master. He sold out the business April 1 but retained his postal office He had been il in bed for a week. This morning Mrs. Manning took his breakfast to him and returned downstairs, Later, when she went to the bed- room her husband was not there. Search was made but Mr. Manning had died from hie wound. Mr. Manning was well known tliroughout the village and also in dent of the Norwich Building and Loan association. He was born in Lebanon October 1, 1866, married Grace Harrlett T'uller at East Green- wich, R. I, in 1891 and was employ ed in Bozrahville for eight years and also was postmaster there for a time. In 1898 he bought here the store which he so long conducted and in 1901 became postmaster. !a son, a daughter, three brothers, and two grandchildren. G0P WOUDS FRIEND | For Auto Thict and Shoots Him in Leg. | | Portchester, N. Y., April 13.—Pa- | trolman Timothy Ryan was wounded | today by a fellow officer who, see- | ing him on the running board of & speeding automobile, mistook for an automobile thief. In the speeding car was a man who had been run down by the driver and whom Patrolman Ryan was hurrying to a hospital. Edward G. Dunning of Stamford, Conn., was griver of the automabile, which injured Thomas Johnson of Portchester. The car was speeding down the main street of Portchester at the rate of about 50 miles an hour when Patrolman James Ma- v fired at it in the belief it was a stolen car. Patrolman Ryan was wounnded in the leg. Johnson was found not to be injurcd when he arrived at the hos; \N serfously s “So There!” Say Women As They Go to Church Minus Easter Bonnets e Cottage Grove, 13.—Women of church here atter ices yesterday left their new E home to. disprov men in th principal re church was to d hats, —e e Oregon, April Christ 1 Easter serv- hatless. They ster bonnets assertions church that went th their new store in addition to being the post-| Norwich where he was vice-presi- | Mr. Manning is survived by a wite, | | Portchester Bluecoat Mistakes Him him | | The woman, Mrs. Mary Sterr is in |tal employes fund. He asked len- dates for constable and seven will | be elected. | Contests in Wards | In the first ward the republican at Storrs pleaded | ticket 18 headed by C. J. Dehm, can- | | didate for alderman; Clarence H. {Maxon and Thure Bengston, candi- a serious condltion in her home in |lency owing to family reasons and he | 43¢ for councilmen, They will be | the fashionable Belmont district of Dallas, Police reported the couple was riding elowly along when the (wo | negroes jumped on the running | board of the automobile and beat Atkins, ! and wrecked {t. They escapei. 'FIRST COMMERCIAL AIR + LINE MAKES FIRST TRIP | And Arrives at Chicago 1 At 11:13 a, m, tor company today inaugurated what " |is sald to be the first commercial alr [line to be estabiished in the United States when the “Mmiden Dearborn |an all-metal monoplane of the “Af Pullman” type, hopped oft from Ford airport, Dearborn, at 9:24 a. m., with a cargo of company mail and ex press for the Ford plant at Hege- wisch, Illinois, near Chicago. It hed Chicago at 11:13 a. m, | Today's flight marks_the opening of a company-operated airplane servico which 1s to be extended gradually until several planes will be leaving here daily on regular flying schedules, the Ford Motor compan: ahnoun | The Ford air line, the statement {says, will not be available for pub- lic use, nor connected dn any way with outside intercst: “Plans for extending the com- pa airplain fleet will proceed at | once,” the statement adds. “These |include threq air lines. One will | have & terminus at St. Louis, Mo., |another at St. Paul, Minn., and the third will terminate at Iron Moun- tain, Mich. HURDER IS CHARGED | Bristol, R, 1. Ship Master Accused | of Firing Shot That Killed Mem- | ber of Coast Guard Vessel, New London, April 13.—A war- rant charging John W. Mulligan of Bristol, R. I, with the murder on April 2 of Karl Gustafson, guard chief boatswaln's mate was sworn out this morning by Tieut. Com- der . H. Young, commanding base 4 here. fted by U. 8. Com missior arl C. Mathewson of Norwi will be forwardeq to U. S. Attorney John H. Buckley at Hart- ford to be served on the man whom Boston federal authoritles are hold- ing at his discretion Muiligan, suspected as beln ter of the rum runner 237 G, | Is'alleged to have attacked the patrol boat CG- of which crew Gustaf- son was a member, three miles south of Race Rock light in the early morning of April 2 will probably be tried In New York jurisdiction as the shooting took place, It is believed in New York state territory. Two Killed When Auto Is Struck on Crossing | Richmond, Ind., April 13.—Wil- | llam Lawhorn, 24, and Frank Bus- v killed yesterday i ile w apolis, Te Haute and Eastern Interurban car near Centerville, Aftor leaving the woman, the ne. |5¢nding postal cards w groes ran the machine several blocks PFOPEr Words. got a warning and g | Gemocrats, all candidates for coun- Detrdit, April 13.—The Ford A\Iv)-l iw.u fined $100 and placed on proba. | tion for six months. | Abraham H. Rudberg, a clerk in |the Hartford post office for the theft of $8 from a letter was given a like | sentence, | Tose Schwartz pleading guilty to | Hausmann, republicans, and Samu- ich bore fm- |8ix months probation perfod, | Several liquor cases were disposed ‘bf with fines. 'UNDEFINED SUBSTANCE | IN DR, OLSON'S BODY and had Planc Leaves Detroit at 9:24 a. m., | Report Therefore s Delayed In Lat. est Fixhumation In Shephera Case, Chlcago, April 13.—An substance whizh will be poisonous properties been found In the organs of Dr. Oscar Olson, it was learned today. The discovery de- ayed the report, which had becn |expected today, of an g s made “hemist iefined ested for of the organs by | William D, M, Dr. Mc) Il conduct experl- | ments to ascertain tlons of a vital organism would be to the newly discovered subst and whether the substance is harm- ful. It is expected that t1 mentg will take several d: | Dr. Olson's bhody was {fter the question concerning | circumstances of his death three | vears ago had Dbeen d at the McClintoek inquest. Dr. Olson had been the physician of the late Wi liam Nelson McClintock and a child- hood friend of his dead mother, Mrs, Emma Nelson McClintock. His death 1s one of a number which have been connected with the tragic history of the McClintock fortune. Although mercury was reported to have been found in the or some time ago, it has not been made clear that this was not part of nor- al dose of medicine said to have been scif-administered by the doc- tor. e exper]- the NEW BEDFORD FIRE Blaze in Roof Garden of a Leading Hotel For a Time Assumes Dan- gerous Proportions. New Bedford, Mass, April 13.- Fire startifg shortly before 11 clock today on the roof garden of the New Bedford hotel in the center of the city threatened to d building and spread to property. Because of the he the hotel firemen were hampe ir efforts and foreed to fight the s from the interior 1 The fire was brought under con- trol before noon and the flames were confined to the upper part of the hotel, The guests were dangered, Girl Attacked by Man Has Fracture of Skul Newark, N. J. Aprll 13—E Thompso s old, 1s s at her hor re from skull frac and bod tions and shock tack by a man who entered thre the open window of he o ruck her as she of th not en- len following an ago the girl's g Tom™ through the window | room, what the reac- | exhumed | | opposea by Frederick G. Holfeld- | er, candidate for alderman; John F. | Callahan and Dantel Sullivan, coun- icil candidates. | The second ward will choose be- | | tween Thomas Orchard and F. el Nesta and Frank McMahon, | cilmen. In the third ward W. H. Judd, { republican, and Lawrence P. Man | gan, democrat, seek election as al derman, with D. L. Bartlett and W. S. Warner the republican candidates | for councliman, and P. J. Murray | and William Wilbur, the democratic { nominees. | Victor Watking and Edward | Scalise are the democratic nominces for councilman in the fourth ward, and they are opposed by Thomas Cabelus and John 'son., The fifth ward has an aldermanic contest with Attorney REllas T. Ringrose, democrat, and Stanley | Karpineki, republican, the nominees. ¥or councilmen, Frank Zapatka and B. F. Karpinski have beem named by the democrats, with Charles Mun- son and Boleslaus G republican nominees. In thesixth ward Alderman John F. Magrz sceks reelection with T. ¥. McDonough, his rival for of Thomas W. Fay and S8amuel Sablot- | sky are the council candidates of the democratic party, and T. J. Meskill | and Willlam H. Day are the nomi- | nees of the G. Q, P. Rallies Planned For Tonight Street corner rallies, a big factor in the democratic sweep of the city last spring, will be resorted to to carry the message of the democratic party to the voters tonight. Council | candidates in all the wards will ar range the rallies and will be the speakers, The republican campaign will be concluded tonight with a rally in Skritulsky’s hall at wiich Alderman Peter J. Pajewski will preside, and Senator E. F. Hall and others will talk. The Women's Coolidge club will hold a bhridge party and political gathering tonight at Grotto hall to which all women are invited. | Alderman W. H. Judd wi candidate for reelection pro tem. of the common council, he has announced. He has held that position for the past year and is re- garded as one of the best parlia- mentarians in that position in years, he a president Where To Vote Polling places will b row from 5:30 a. m. to 5 p. m oting booths are located as “Irst ward, Sen.or high sck street; second ward, South Maln stre mp schoal, Prospect strect fourth ward, Central Junior High school, Main street; fifth ward, Bart- ett school, Broad strect: sixth ward, Elihu Burritt Junior High school, The Election Day Officials The mbderators are: First ward Michael Hapnon; second ward, Al rt Rice; third ward, Mart fourth ward, Louis H James Egan; sixth ward, W Rawlings. Republican workers lows: Checke a (Continued on Page 13.) THE WFATHER For New Britain and vicini- ty: Falr tonight. Tuesday wn- settied and warmer; probably showers Tuesday afternoon. a nble o 0 open tomor- | SIXTEEN PAGES. rganize New |Awaits Decision of Social-| ists Regarding Willing- ness to Participate i Government — No One- Day Ministry Likely, By The Assoc ed Press. Parls, April 13, - Briand, asked by President Dou- mergue to form a cabinet tonight in- formed the president he could not glve a definlte answer until tomor- row afternoon. He fs awalting’ the decision of the national council the goclalist party regarding its will- ingness to particlpate In the ne government, Upon leaving Presidant Doumer- gue, M. Briand told newspapermen that the idea of a 48-hour cabinet which would ratify the bill author- izing the Bank of France to in- crease the circulation to forty-five ndoned. M. Briahd’s conference with the president came after a fruitless day thousand |in many years will be turned in by | of interviews with individuals and groups in an effort to form a minis- try today, The alternative suggestion that a provisional ministry be formed to put the Bank .of France situation | into proper legal form occupied | much attention, but found little | support except with M. De Monzie. YEAR AND A DAY FOR 'HONEST’ EMBEZZLER Former Mount Holly Bank | | Cashier Gets Minimum { Sentence Tranton, N. J., April, 13.—Clifford 8. Heller, former assistant cashier of the Mount Holly National bank, was sentenced today to a year and a day in the federal penitentiary at | Atlanta, on his plea of guilty to em- bezzling $18,510.50 from the Mount | Holly bank. | Martin P. Devlin, Heller's coun- el, asked for a full measure of clemency for his client, saying that it was Heller's y offens Devlin produeed letters from business men, of Detroit where Heller lived for nearly thirteen years after the bank theft as Luther W. Smith, head of an fron and steel commission busi- ness. The letters described Heller as an honest business man and high type of citizen while he was in | Detroit, Production of the letters, some of them dating ba thirteen y , put {at rest the v that Heller had fled the country after his di ance from Mount Holly |ago. Heller said today that he went to Detroit about a year and a half after the theft, and denied that he had left the country. J Bodine interrupted Devlin's account of the high regard in Heller was held by his Detroit b n associates by*saying he could > that the man had a ntly liv: straight life, face shows he ng a low life, been remarked the while declaring that undoubtedly done the bank obhery as an, trap- Mr. Devlin, his client had wrong by committing theft, characterized the o mistake of an innocent 1 ped into crime by false accusations. » building and loan company of which Heller w tary showed a shortage, Devlin said, and when the directors of the bank where Heller s employed tried to make him the ortage, Heller lost s head and became a thief 2 ough money to take hir away from Mount Holly; his co avow — Southington Woman Is Trustee of Estate Bridger 13 The ¢ te of Margars lins who we ratlroad eng of Anric E. Erbe administratrix in the I new 1 first case under a when a man and w in an ac they died e Another legal complica 1 distrit suranee tancous! policy Colling carried in favo It is d that te total Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending April 6th ... COMPULSORY ARBITRATION Cabinet Today, May Tomorrow IN INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES RULED UNCONSTITUTIONAL | [ PERRY MEMORIAL UNVEILED TODAY Port-ol-Spain, Trinidad HONORS U. 5. NAVAL HERO American and British Saflors Take Part In Exercises In Tsland City Where Famous Commander Died In 1819, Port-Of-Spatn, Trinjdad, Aprll 13 -In the presence of 10,000 persons the memordal gate In honor of Com- modore Oliver Hazard Perry, of the battle of Lake Erle in 1813, | Iwas dedlcated here today with ap- | propriate naval, military and ecivic ceremonies. The golden key to the ded by Captain H. H. | of the United States Cruis- phis, sent here by of the Navy Wilbur for the 1o the mayor of the city. farty from the Memphis with the ship's band and a detachment of the | local forces of this British colonial possession took part In the exer- cises. | Died In 1819 Commodore Perry, who died American warship here in 1819, was buried ashore, and the gateway ded- icated today stands at the entrance Laperyhouse cemetery in on at Newport, R. I. g The principal address was dom'f’r-. ed by H. D. ker, American consul in Trinidad, as “A heroic | descendant of that stock of the mother country, prolif- | ic in traditions of patriotic service, Imanly chivalry and devotion to duty. He paid tribuie’to the Americans | in Trinidad who presénted the & to the cemetery, not only as a memorial to the American naval lero, but as “their token of appre ciation, even one hundrediyears : Iter his sad funeral, of the chi rous sentiments which inspi people of Port-of-Spain to do their |utmost to express sympathy over his death He referred also to the fact that |8 the navy department in Washington had shown it did not forget with the decades that had_passed one of its off. 1ad rendered such il- lustrio -, and had sent the and the submarine V-1 for participitation in the cere- monies of the day. Message From Wilbur ‘ A dispatch from Secretary of the | ¢ Wilbur appropriate to the oc- jon was read, and the mayor of he city \e address of Consul Baker. gateway, is of iron with sup- porting pillars on each of which is a bronze tablet, one bearing Per last words: “Few people have gr er inducements to make them wish to live than I; but I am perfectly ready to go if it pleases the | Almi v to take mé; the debt to ature must be paid. er tablet 1 Na at- the facts presentation of the ga dad in appreciatio Kindr shown by Port in, and tween 1 people of British F " ORLD FLIER COMING Licutenant Arnold 10 Speak to Aziz Grotto Friday—Bridgeport Dele- gation to Furnish Entertainment hero | o | dus which | his hody %ay until it was removed to | !the United States in 1826 and buried | ho referred to Perry | spoke in reply to this and | s [Pose and fleld of operation.” 12,009 ‘Supreme Court Decides . That Kansas Indus- ' trial Tribunal Has No perremer 10,000 Attend Exercises at Right To Enforce Set- ; tlements. Verdict Deprives Organi- | zation of Much of Its | Authority in Industry’s | Differences. | Washington, April 13 sory arbitration in industria lis stitutional, Compul- disputes the supreme ion, rendered by Justice Vandevanter, was in two cases brought by the Charles Wolff Pack- ing company of Topeka, agalnst the Kansas Industrial Relations court. n the supreme court had these before it in 1923 it held un- constitutional that pert of the in- ial court act which provide that in labor disputes in essential | industries the industrial court could fix wages. Kansas Court Action. The Kansas supreme court i acl- ing upon the decision of the federal | fupreme court construed as not af- fecting that part of Its original de- cision in which it had approved the action of the industrial court fixing hours of Inbor and ordered that that part of s original decision should stand. he packing company contended that the Kansas supreme court should have get aside all of its orig- inal decision sustaining the order of the industrial court, and insisted that the regulation of the hours of labor, especially when coupled with the regulation of pay for overtime, was as objectionable under the fed- eral constitution as the regulation of wages, which the federal supreme court has held invalid. The state contended that to de- prive the industrial court of author- ity to regulate hours of labor would | cripple it to such an extent as to de- prive it of much of its value, and would leave If with jurisdiction only | over working conditions and the set- | tlement of industrial disputes in es- al industries. he declared purpose of the Kan- act, the court said, “is. to insure | continuity of operation and produc- |tion in certain businesses which it calls essential industri and to that end it provided for “compulsory set- v a state agency of all labo¥ | controversies w h endanger the |intended continuity Although led a court the su- |preme declared the state agency in fact was an administrative board |since no general authority is given |it to fix wages or hours of labor. “On the contrary,” the* opinion jcontinued, “it {8 but a feature of that | (compulsory arbitration) system and |is correspondingly limited in pur- the been XKan- establish arbitra- th the s to the firal | On three separate occasions, court recalled, decisons {rendered to the effect that ute undertook to system of compulsory tion,” since it dispensed onsent of the princly had plving its principles to the present >, it must be found that the pack- is one which the state 12 0wn- er and employes to continu system of com- > gaid, the aun- nvalidity of the NOT GHOSTS, STOWAWAYS Eight Italian Boys, Hiding in Coal Bunkers of Lincer, Frighten Mems bers of Engine Room ' of Wheeler Bill, is for Others Hearing On Much Discussed Liquor Measure Comes Up in Legislature Tomorr Adoption. Hartford. Apri Attorney John Buckley the hearing in the w affernoon on ns of the of flleg wit ow—Alcorn Will Urge Its rking as coal at Naples 1;\ccidcl;tal Death Ruling In Danbury Fatality John ling today. the coroner maehine led Shane vy causing # pole. Godish's the crash. . d ram a telephone was broken in