New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 29, 1925, Page 1

L B I | News of the World By Associated Press COOLIDGE'S FATHER MORE COMFORTABLE NI U\lo’-) «xw BRITAIN, CONNEGTI(,UT .LEVEL 700 DRY AGENTS WILL LOSE JOBS Rallies Following 0peralion'Reorginization of Prohibition’ Though Set-Back Is Possible Bureau Slashes Sta PRESIDENT IS WORRIED |FURTHER CUTS POSSIBLE Hastens From Swampscott to Bed- side of Aged Parent—Young John Coolidge Busy Doing Grandfather's Chores About Old Farm, By The Assoclated Press. Plymouth, Vt, June 29.—Marked improvement in the condition of Col. John Coolidge, aged father of the president, who is ill at his home fiere, was reported today by physi- 2 e ~ JOAN COOLIDGE clans In attendance | The president, who made a hur- | red trip here from Swampscott | essurdd that the putient apparentiy wae out of 4 , altho noit emphasized in view of celonél’s age k was possibl Dr. A sur who yeste tion was was the | morni ru longer ne Remaining Dr Quring the 1oy 10 jth two \ atiending oxeen- phivsician hold cons physicians, the § old fatner of 11 tive Will Stay Few Days ed that Cecsident remain 1t that the pres ndi e tirn to address Tonra- v of ¥ ever command ef heen worried cordi- tian, appeared 1 Ly tha new that the night recovery hal speat a rostful arently on uld he able way to | ) §it up in bed during the lay John Does Chores c room ‘1 to e, the DPresiden Coolid in the fro eon, J ing the his gra After he began | aw Fave him SR ¢ them work should b Has Mrs. Coolidse resident into v gave instru ax to how the 1ad Spelt Shortly suffered grandson w t on of the White House biles for Dr. | Coupal, who is q red in a farm house near the vill After a few mbments in the sick room physician ppeared on » tfont porch to converse with Mrs. Coolidge and At- Sargent, had sw to pay a call. hen retu d to room while Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge r ained on the porch. President Left Hurriedly Accompanied by Mrs. Coolid the presid tedly left the sum- mer White House at Swampscolt yesterday h his father. He had already sent to the bedside his the who come oV morning the sick (Continued on Page 13) Iploves to be dropped State Directors May Be Required to Operate With Smaller Forces— 22 Zones to Be Established Au- gust 1. Washington, June 29—A sweeping reduction in the mobile prohibition forces and the dropping of 400 per- #ons from the Washington prohibi- tion headquarters personnel is planned under the newly ordered decentralization program of the treasury department. The fleld enforcements, which will be under 22 administrators through- out the country, will employ two hundred general agents, instead of | the 500 now on the rolls. Whether the 200 men will be se- lected from the present made up entirely of new men has not been decided, although the more efficient of those now employed will ba absorbed {into the new moblle staff. These men will operate out of the administrator's headquarters E. C. Yellowley, chief of general agents, probably will supervise thelr operations from Washington. How the reorganization will affect the 1,000 prohibition agents operating under state directors fis handling small. . basis | which officials expect now to leave largely to state and local ment agencies, it {8 belleved staft also will be materi The cut of approximately two- | thirds in the Washington force witl | be felt most severely In the three important divisions—law, permit and industrial alcohol—where some section hes as well as clerks and other employes are to be dropped. The work of these divisions, after August 1, will be administered by the new zone chiefs. this Few of the central office employes | are expected to he transferred to the {new field administrator's staffs since priority for sueh positions will be given the large number of field em- in the ahol- ishment of 46 of the 70 fleld offices (Continued on Page 16.) " THREE NEW DIRECTORS ADDED TO BANK BOARD Goss, RKing and Shepard Elected by Commercial Trust Co~Divi- dends Declared president of the & DeLeeuw Machine Co.; P. King, assistant secretary of the Stanley Works, and Harold E. ary of the Lumber Co., were elected members of the baord of directors of the Commercial Trust Co. today. It had been ducided to enlarge the person- nel of the board and their election resulted The directors declared the regu- lar quarterly dividend of 1% per and an extra dividend of one- half on one per cent. inley T. Goss, G force or | as investigators, on big cases, and | now ‘ vet to develop but inasmuch as they | .|have been enforce. | lly reduced. | Shep- | 1055 HALF MILLION IN HONTANA QUAKE No One Killed: But Score of Buildings Are Razed PEOPLE STILL FRIGHTENED Residents of Gallatine Valley, Cen. ter of Temblor, Remain in Wide Open Spaces—Geologist Gives Re- assuring Views, Helena, Mont., June 29 (P—Resl- dents of the Gallatine Valley, the apparent center of the earthquake |which shook: fout | states Saturday night and yesterday, remained out in the wide open gpaces today, lcoking |back at about $500,000 worth of ruins—the aggregate cost of the temblor, No Onc Was Killed It was a whimsical earthquake. {No one was killed. Nearly a score jof buildings cracked and fell. There |were a half a dozen land sides. A |crevice extending at Jrregular inter- Ivals from Manhattan to Three Forks, la distance of 10 miles, remains as one of the scars caused by the quake, The Lombard tunnel of the Chicago, | Milwaukee and St. Paul raflroad was caved in and an avalanche at Deer Park covered 500 feet of rallroad track nearby, leaving it buried under arth and rocks 100 feet deep. This |was caused when a cliff, 800 feet | high. toppled and fell. Rallroad officials announced last |night that a forcs of 2,000 laborers would be put to work clearing the |tracks and the tuniiel, The three trains which were hem- {med in #aturday night by the ava- |lanches were released today. Thousands In Panic The quakes began about 6:22 |o'clock Saturday night. Thousands {of persons in Butte, Great Falls. | Billings, Livingston, Missoula, Hel- lena and other cities and towns werc |thrown into near panic and rushed clear of buildings. - The shocks con- tinued intermittently until well after {10 o'clock. Yesterday there were slight recurrences at Three Forks, |White Sulphur and Anaconda. Three Forks, Manhattan and Lo- !gan, all near the juncture of the |Madison, Gallatine and JefféFson | Rivers, which form the source of the Missouri, sustained the greatest loss. {The courthouse at White Sulphur Springs fell and several smaller structures were demolished. The {1oss thers will exceed $100,000, and Three Forks, |greater, lost about $200,000. Three !Forks residents counted 41 distinct shocks. The Jefferson river, a short dis- tance above the convergence point, [was lowered two feet by the quakes. No Damage In Mines , Hundreds of men were working in the mines at Butte and Anaconda as the earth's surface trembled, but in Ithe 1,000 miles of underground workings there was no damage, ac- cording to Butte reports. The min- ers rushed to the surface when they telt the shocks. ings In Manhattan and Three Forks probably will have 1o be razed by dynamite in order to forestall danger of their falling, residents said. Dr. C. P. Clapp. president of the University of Montana, who fs con- |sidered an authority on geology, de- clared last night there is little poasi bility that another quake will be (Continued on Page Twn) Cnme Wave Breaks Out Afresh In N. Y.; 3 Murders, 3 Robberies New York's crime wave broke out last night amd this morning and a list of three mur- ders and three robberies before 9 Iwith renewed vigor o'clock today was the list of the ma- | jor activities of the outlaws. In an East Side street crowded with men and women on their way | {to work, Joseph Ruseo, 45 years old, |a cabinet maker, was shot and killed shortly after 7 o'clock this niorning two unidentified men who es- ped. he pair emerged from a doorway near Russo's home, fired six shots at him, two of which took effect, threw their revolvers away and escaped over a fence The shooting, in a scction largely populated by Itallans, caused such crowds to gather that police reserves were called to han De- tectives learned Russo had spent yes |terday plaving with some |triends. He is survived by a widow them. cards |and seven childr A gangster's bullets in what said was a drug peddiers’ cost the life of an unidentified wo lan bystander early today tion to that of Angelo Marino. ex {convict and alleged Beau Brummel leader of a Harlem drug ring. po- lice war, into from a Five Marino had stepped jauntily his expensive automobile building on East 107th st shots rang out from the Marino slumped behind the wheel of his car. The woman fell on the side- walk Rme bullets entered Marino's hedd, killing him instantly. The woman, about 25 years old, dled on the way to a hospital. The gangster escaped. On the roof of the bullding from which Marino had come police found a box of narcotics. Two armed men in an automobile held up (hree Sobol Brothers gaso- | 4 where the damage was | | HELENA AND GREAT FALLS, MONTANA AGAIN VISITED BY SEVERAL SHOCKS S By _The Associated Press. | " el Holena, Mont., June 20—Helena | ™/ The Attecisied Press. A DRODIs were ewekents nris g [ h Great SFalleEMonte t Tune: 20— o'clock this morning by an earth- | Great Falls was visited with it quake shock that lasted seven sec- | fourth earthquake In 32 hours at onds. No reports of damage by the | ,. :30 o'clock this morning. Houses latest of a serles of shocks that started Saturday evening have been | Ve 8haken by the quake that last- ed several seconds, FRE BREAKS OUT _ RELE TRAS RUSH TO SCENE INSANTA BARBARA Litle Damage From ThisTSpecial 15 Dispatched for Aid of Source Is Reported Santa Barbara People LARGEST BUILDING STANDS Granada Block Not Demolished, Al- Dispatches, However, Indicate That though Other Structures Are— | No Material Damage Has Been Great Tidal Wave Rushes In From | suffered At Los Olives, Santa the Ocean. Maria, Tompoco or Other Places MANY THOUGHT KILLED San Luis Obispo, Galif., June 29, 2[33 p. m. Bastern time (P— A Southern Pacific dispatch says the loss of life and damage to buildings at Santa Barbara is much 3reater than at’ first in- dicated. A number of small fires have broken out, It is reported here that the carthquake at Santa Barbara demolished the building of the Pacific Southwest bank and the Commercial bank. Santa Barbara, Cal., June 29 (F)— All the brick buildings in Santa Barbara were demolished this morn- ing, including the Arlington hotel, by the eartnquake which swept the state and it seems to have centered its feracity on this city, Water mains and river reservolrs were broken and the city was partly flooded. Two Fires Start Two fires started in the city but eo far little damage has been re- ported done by fires. It is feared that there may bekon- stderablo ‘oss of life, particaladly in the ruins 6f the Ailinctan hotel. on of whose Walls collapsed like an egg shell. The main street of the city up- heaved and buckled under the| Reports received here by South- temblor and as the water mains |ern Pacific officials say that the rail- parted geysers shot up through the [road roundhouse, the city reservoir, pavement. |the San Marcus bullding and the ,\r- Big Waves Roll In. |lington hotel have been destroyed. Accompany the quake were tre. | It also was reported that State mendous waves which rushed in street had been torn wup "by the from the bay and flooded the low- [shock. Reports from Los Olive lands. nta Maria, Tompoco, Orcutt and | The largest Nipomo, south of here, said that the Granada hlock, those points had been shaken up but | thock. Inot damaged. Al telegraph and | telephone wires between here and Santa Barbara are down Messages Held Up San Francisco, June 29 (P—Hun- dreds of messages from eastern cities directed to the earthquake swept area in the vicinity of Santa Barbara were held up here by telegraph companies this because communication section has been stopped. The Cabrillo House and a big San Luis Obispo, Cal., June 29 (A -A Southern Pacific rellef train is ving here at once to assist at Santa Barbara. building in the city withstood the Is Famons rt San Franclsco, June 29 (A —Santa Barbara, seat of an old Franciscan | mission, dating back to 1756, is one of the best known watering places of America. Its beautiful situation, partly encircled by hills and moun- tains, has given it the namo of teh mentone. of America. Tt s 367 miies from San Franclsco and 104 miles from Los Angeles. Santa Barbara has been long not- | morning | with | | | | {fame than its tourist att Leaning walls and twisted build- | | darkness. | | |line filling stations within 20 minutes | |carly today and escaped with $2,760 in cash The robbers bound attendants at the 110th strect Sobol station with picture wire and escaped with $2,000, the night's receipts. Ten minutes later Willlam Manson of the company's 133rd street sta tion, reported the men had robbed him of $500. 1In another 10 minutes the station keeper at 145th street complained to police thit the pair had robbed him of $250 after bind- |ing bhim. | works and the beach hotel at Santa Barbara were destroyed in the earthquake, the thousands of visitors annually from Southern Pacific company was ad- all over the world. FEarly reports vised here. Most of the buildings on sald that some of these hotels had State street were destroyed been damaged or destroye The main entrance of the Pacific Santa Rarbara has oth Telephone & Telegraph company at Santa Barbara was demolished by the earthquake here this morning. information to company headquar- ed for its tourist hotels and its mild climate, both of which features drew r claims to ractions. Tt is in the midst of a vast citrus fruit area and flowers grow there in lux- uriance, e said shortly before 9 a. m. City is Flooded Cal., June 29 ( — The nta Barbara is flooded as of hursting water mains which cracked under the strain of FINANGE BOARD WILL Vill Act Monday Night on jturmed from there. S0 far no fires have been reported Proposal to Increase m Santa Barbara and all the Force gald to he intact. Wire Ventura, city of € the result gs are unication is entirely cut off. Was Big Hotel The Cabrillo hotel, which wae re perted demolished, was a recently ’ constructed brick huilding of con- siderable size, and lorated one biock State street, the fare of the city Chairman Edward F. H board of and called a meeting for n evening at 8 o'clock to co common cou request for additional patrolmen, and two addi- tional motor policemen, and to o o consider the expenditure of $50,000 loaned the city by ex-Park Com miasioner B. A. Hawley The three proposition through Wednesday evenir pertaining to ptv icing for considerati by the finance and taxation i has been appropriated to take of the new policemen taxation Mond sider th main thor- The hotel had neil's accommodations for Dam Bursts Gibraltar Dam to be part of city's water system, hroke and emptied the message said. The Cabrills hotel = first split in two and then collapsed 4 up i apo board of | the el by the commor \ HIGH TIDE Hearing on Myrtle St. Switch Up Tomorrow Members of board of ¥ common counc —o— June 30, 1925 (Standard Time) At New London—3:44 a. m.: 1:20 p. m. At New Haven— 1:49 & m.; 3:20 p. m ceompany Mavor A and Corporation Counse Kirkham to Hartford afternoon to tak par cussion over rcmoval of ticut compan on Myrt street. The city has ordered re and the company has expressed lingness to have t out, but stipuiates t paid by the city public works re s switch THE WEATHER Hartford, June 29.—Fore- cast for New Britain and Vi- cinity: Local thundershowers this afternoon or tonight matter comes before Tuesday generally fair appeal of th from the cit Connecticut comp ‘s order OTHER PLAGES ROGKED o rccves it the | 10§ ANGELES AND OTHER PLAGES HIT (Today’s Quake Also Is Felt ati Hollywood BUILDINGS ARE ~ SHAKEN| | | Early Reports From Above Men- tioned Cities Indicates That Little Damage Was Done There—San Francisco Not Affected. San Francisco, June 20 (P— Southern Californfa,-in the vicinity | 300 miles south of rocked by an earthquake of major proportions at | 5 o'clock this morning, informa- | Western Union Telegraph company indicated | The principal lines of communica- tion in the area believed mo verely affected have been snapped Damage 1s Reported | Reports from Gaviota indicated | that the region most severely rocked | |18 between Ventura and Santa Bar- | |bara. At Gaviota rail lines were | broken by the shake and a large water tank was tumbled over on the | raflroad right of way and was flooding the yards. ; Frisco Not Affccted | The earthquake did not reach San | | Francisco. An oil tank collapsed at {submerging the Southern | company’s tracks there, the company | was advised. The quake scemed to | |center at a point between San Luis | Obispo and Carpenteria Small landslides were reported at {Benham and Puenta, | e | Hollywood Rocked Hollywood, Calif., June P — | Hollywood experienced a shock carly | (Contln!md on lus;fl 16) | LEGION CAMPAIGN FOR : §30,000 GOES OVERTOP Total of $31,7 Naples Pacific [t | 50 Pledged Up to Noon Today— | Manufacturers Help | commercial | the manuf underwritten rive to the ¢ Announce | turers of the ent that city had the American Legion d tent of $31,750, the statement Rev. Lucyan Bojnowski that 1 ie completion ofprojects nos he public life. Sacred He in the drive and until July ters at San Francisco overa crippled ALDERSON tmmediate tinued on Page 16 .‘A‘verku; (l’)nlly Cireulation For e 12,054/ 5 June 27th .. ED BY QUAKE " Zarly Dispatches From Stricken City Are Meagre But Tell of Flood and Tidal Wave Following Tremors—Another Report Says 65 Persons Are Known Dead — Cabrillo Hotel Splits In Two, Then Collapses — Practically Every Building on Main Thor- oughfare Razed. San Francisco, June 29 (AP)—Santa Barbara, the pic- turesque little city perched high above tke ocean in Southern California, suffered disaster, the extent of which had not been determined late this morning, in an earthquake which was general over Southern California shortly before 7 a. m.,, but apparently struck lightly in other towns. Most of Buildings Reported Razed Communication with Santa Barbara was cut off immediate- v after the shocks but meagre reports, filtering into San Francisco and Los Angeles within the next two hours, said that most of the buildings on State street had been destroyed, one of them the Arlington hotel, a leadmg hostelry. There was no mention of loss of life or injuries. Two other hotels were reported destroyed, Cabrillo House iand a big beach hotel. Streets Said to Be Flooded Eye witnesses returning to Ventura from Santa Barbara reported that Santa Barbara’s water mains had burst, flooding the city. No fires were reported. The earthquako was felt stlong]y in Los Angeles, Holly- | wood and surrounding towns, in slow, heavy tremors, but no |damage was reported. The shocks extended as far north as | Bakersfield. Population About 20,000 Santa Barbara’s hotels usually are not crowded this time of the year, as winter is the big season, yet there is a brisk influx of tourists the year around. The population is about 20,000. Buildings Leveled. | —— 65 REPORTED DEAD San Francisco, 29 (A—Th Railway The assoclated Ofl company re- ived over private lines from Santa Maria that “many large buildings in Santa Barbara had been | Southern Pacific levelled.” reports 65 dead at T“rH’ wire as a result of the rhara falled at 6:41 a. m., a wrvq n\, time the earthquake was | felt h o"rr towns between Baker: Angeles. Vn ]ms eles the enough to ildjngs. Hotel Split In Two. | Late advices said that the Gibral- | tar dam, part of Sania Barbara's | ater system, broke and emptled. | The ( hotel, according to a | and then col- | + June repor Company Santa communication with | earthat || Toll of Quakes in Quarter of Century L shocks were | sway down town | Nineteen major earthquakes and eruptions have caused loss of life and property in various parts of the world in the last quarter of a century Only one of these was in the United Stafes, The larger disasters of this nature follow “abrillo eport, eplit in two tro reported that the earth- | as not felt in the imperfal || San Francisco. April 18, 1306 , on the Southern boundary of || 452 lives lost; 000 in te. Aprarently it extended no | property” lost; persons orth than Bakersfield, It did || made homeless. ancisco, {| ~“Japan, near Tokyo and Yoke- whose location has || hama, September 1, 1923+ 192, th that of Naples, || 000 dead av r 102,000 T injur b8( Persons Reported Killed Oon yrt received by the South- at Santa Bar. r message to the com- homes destroyed Jamaica, January 14, lives 000, in property Sicily and lost mages December lost; homeless. 1ary 18, Avezzano en lost Calabria 76,488 lives ) persons slides were highway 29 (A —The & ot ne schoo cember 16 s lost 1220 ten citles de- BI ACHMAILS COUPLE IN PARKED AUTOMOBIL Dugroo, Posing as Police- man, Exacts $10 From Victim rked below minutes have He showed g n up ang st of the first round