New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 8, 1925, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press -uno:) pum' “daq Py S gy ] IS FURITREION ) ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, MAY 8 , 1925, —THIRTY-SIX PAG Average Dail; Week Ei ndmg May 2nd .. Cireulation For 12,082 PR ILL THREE CENTS BONDS CHAPMAN STOLE IN BIG MAIL ROBBERY ARE RECOVERED -— JAPAN JOINS U. 5, |BRITAIN MAY TAKE N GASEXPORT AN CONTROL F FOD Matsuda Heartily Agrees With Establishment of Council for|. Supervision Recommended 3 ENGLAND CAUSES SURPRISE. REGULATE MEAT AND BREAD Resolution by Burton Delegates At Geneva Upset By Brit-' Opening of Public Shops For Sale of | 1sh Declaration Excluding Traffic Necessitles of Life Suggested—— Fear of State Socfalism Expressed | in Airplanes and Tanks From Con. trol of Nations, By T. H. Ryland The Assoclated Press London, May 8.—The royal food | commission, witich for many weeks has been hedring evidence regavd- ing food prices, today issued its re ports—one majority and two minor- | ity { The ority report. signed with various r vations by Chalrman fAuckland Geddes and other mem- bers of the commission, recommends | |the establishment of a food council | {to maintain supervision over the taple food trades. This principal | ation dominates most of e suggestions madr By The Associated . B Geneva, May 8, apan went on record today as favoring a atrict in- terdiction of the use of polson gas in war D. Matsuda, Japanese delegate to the league of natlons’ international conference for the control of traf- fie in arms and munitions, made this declaration in a speech ardently sup- porting the proposal made y 1 by Representative Theodore F. ton, of Ohio, head of the American delegation, that all export of poison | gas for use fn war be prohibited. The American proposal was re-| Tho commissioners recommend ferred to two sub-committees, mili-lthat the food council closely watch ' Polish {future developments in connection of fmportition of meat from | the Argent think it may become n gover- 18| ment to intervene, eithe acquir- ing a controlling int r.wv in the British companies operating in Ar- gentina or in some other way, If at any time the supply of chilled and frozen faeat from this source should adverse trading and juridical. The t condemning the ria in warfare was re- 1 to the same committacs Matsuda sajd that Japan ] ¢ to the poison gas nt made during the \Wash- ington arms conference, and avowed in prohibiting the exportation of polson gas for war purposes it should also be understood that T s of warfare are forbidde tuternational law, He urged the le- gal committee to take up this as- peet of the problem thoroughly. The Turkish delegation heartily supported ~ the Amerlcan proposal but agroed with the Hungarian dele- gation that the rights of states that do not manufacture gas to Amp!rr gas If they so attacked shoul be respected, and thelr nppur(vmil.\ for defense should not be removed )y too rigld a ban on exportation, British Stand Causes Confusion t o tiona use with the ssary for such nl (un(r(»l of Bread Prices In connection with the making and distribution of bread, the r‘om»i mission recommends that the food council {nvestigate t} apparent overlapping, maintain close supervi- sion and intervene when prices tend | |to hecome unreasonable; v > operations of the milling and p: iixing assoclations and intervene if in the interests of the 1 1s made thoritles give care ir port ch it possible are confused,” was the com- one delegate to the int 1l confere on contral of in arms and munitlons to- ing the British proposa Ips tted from the aments subject to control. s feeling of confusion was ap- by many of the , who learned onl er-| 5 viey to fons In the near fu- making ture, i 15 1 old storage Kear Admiral Aubrey Smith tc committee that his country fav- T8, taking war vessels out o feithetar 1 was Dritish and Italy rvise mnecessary view was Supy in tact wtion pres: ed to think it over, ts Tanks Ilu Tnde ‘I Municipal Bread and Meat Shops Trench Fxcited by British | ing for | misslons | optimistic in tone. i AMERICAN SUMATRA TOBACCO CO lS ACCUSED OF MAKING PREFERENTIAL PAYMENTS WHILE IN BANKRUPT STATE New York, May §—The An matra Tobacco Co., a § concern, was decl: wrl te be insolvent | $8,000,0 in a pefition in bankruptey filed against the company in federal | court today by three creditor pany were given as The tobacco firm was placed company has had a in equity recetvershlp Thursday. cearly 5 hoin Wi The petitioning concerns, in ask- appointment of a receiver in bankruptey, the tobaceo com- had ments while past four acts of bankrupt tition claiming 4. Co cticut and tts valued at more tha . ad well as real estate ir several cities. At the end of last year the total asscts of the com- Su con- cerns, m purpos 's affaira, ed States the equity &p- pointed Thursday of reorganizing itus Mayer Ro W. Spitzer were crs appointed. pany ntial within the thus committing The firms filing were Percival R. Lowe, $219 in unpaid com- Neuer & Hoffman, Ine, 3 due for merchandise, | o man company, with ay- insolvent nonths, George recely- New Haven, May 8 ivers for the Ams Tobaceo ('o., were nams Judge F. s here tod claiming 3 and the H. 1 a claim of § The petitioners for equity | ership on Thursday did not indicate that the company was In any finan- | ford, a lifficulty other lack and a of liquld assets with w et | p current obligations, including $600,- 000 to harvest this y crop of An official statement Is- behalf of company, ty receivership, rocely- of H iltus Mayer of New York 1 ot cial oint bon The con in the suit of Newell Tilton against the company $14.000 18 ¢ and York about tobacco. sued on after the eq the was n shading ts of the company land and holdings T and The fixed cor e plantations pany cauipm nt | Hartford, ine BABY HOSPITAL OWNER LYNN MASb., WILLBE. T0 ANSWER FOR DEATH U. 5. SUMMER CAPITAL As Many as 12 Died in Pr One Month, Nurses Say dent to Have Suite of Offices in Shoe City By "he Assoc ated Dress. May § A e of the East E! York, th street baby hospital whos Mrs. Helen Auguste ITALY WANTS $3,280,000 OF VRAZIL GOVERNMENT For 1t Demands Indemunity Losses Caused to Nationals in Sao Paulo Rebellion. Alling and Colleagues At Mrs. Darhie's Funeral Henry F. Morrls, Agent For Meat Packers, Shot By Stenographer Who Is Caught At Scene Will Foirbid Japanese To Own Florida Land AN ACRF THE WEATHER Britain Y Hartford. for New Fair tonight recast cinity light frost in ey wosed places, Saturday partly ¥ ¥ V cloudy. not wnch change in temperature BATTLE FORGIRL'S 10 MAKE HAWA LIFE 1S CONTINUED GREATEST 0UTPOST Lawyer for Miss Macri Trips Chairman Butler of Naval Com- | Up State's Witnesses Initteg Wnuld Fortify It SINGER CONTRADICTS SELF “STRONGEST IN ST INTHE ORLD"! Ticrney Changes Testimony June to Make Survey With View 1o Cross-Fxamination—Coroner Mix Bocomes Confused Under Ques-| FStablishing Invulncrable Base fn Pacific Ocean tioning of Defense Lawyer. ’ The Assorlated s grilling cross-examination ssew called by the of Olymp rofd tate witnesses t whett 21 as red 8o prome| his {ntention daid roing t or ita pur 1t was intimated early ir by guestions put to talesmen seloction of the jury t) ever to want_reais ransoived durng ' PEACEFUL RECRUITING 10 e o o o G e G i UNION NOT UNLAWFUL ater Jour and Federal Judge Baker Upholds Con- tention of United Mine Workers of America . THROWS CHILD INTO CANAL, WOMAN THEN DISAPPEARS Lmployes of Stecl Wil Half Mile Away Unable t vent Murder at T Mix Mixed Upon Age 500 Cases of Alcohol Hidden Under Groceries t | the Wi New York Pohce Arrest John J. Phalan, Who Refuses to Explain Where He Got Securities Which | Were Part of Bandit’s Loot in Sen- ~ sational Broadway Hold-up on | Members of Congress Will Teaye ln‘ | \M\ York, May 8, —Bonds that formed part Gerald Chapman, convicted murderer and mail recovered today with the arrest of John J. Phalan, charged with grand larceny in connection with a loan of $8,500 obtained from the First National bank of Lynnbrook, L. I., on some of the stolen collateral. Nassau eounty authorities said the numbers on some of the bonds deposited by Phalan corresponded with those on i bonds stolen in the sensational lower Broadway mail truck robbery, in which Chapman and two pals were charged with having escaped with $2,400,000 worth of loot Other \mmn were believed to have been taken in a raid of 1st company at Wilton, Me,, ,in 1923. This laid at the door of Chapman and his of the loot of bandit, were | robbery was also sociates. Phalan, Seventh ave who is 37 vears old, was arrcsted in a cafe at > and 125th street, Harlem, early today, on complaint of Alexander Petrovich, a real estate dealer of Long Beach, Long Island, who ‘hegotiated the deal whereby tho bonds were used as collateral. He said that Phalan a year ago had purchased several lots from hir producing $10,300 worth of bonds upon which Petrovich gave his note to the Lynnbrook bank, returning his customer title to the lots and \'R.'.Hll in cash. . FIRST INTER-SCHOOL ' GONTESTS TOMORROW WinsWatSBartlett[Snrail T omias S School and Zigas at Smith friend re- bis r nvestigation of the bonds who Semceo Shean May Go to Trial At lun(‘ Imm M Court Phalan Held Wit TIRFMAN HIRT