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formatory with one y an those citics and [ —— et ——— News of the World T By Associat “uuo) 'pIOJIILH ) ciated Press A CLTBIQIT VIS JNI1PIIUU0) WIATAA LT ¥ T ESTABLISHED 1870 BOMB EXPLOSION STARTLES NEW YORK COURT BUT DOES NOTDO ANY GREAT DAMAGE Whteridatts And De- BHHUN BA[ANE[ fendants In Magistrate Farrell's Traffic Di- Ending June 89 Authorities Believe That Infernal Machine Was of IEXPORTS ARE 34‘857,&15,344 Time Variety — Only Burns Hole in Bench. [rmports Amount to $3.821072,845— Gold Exports Exceed Imports by New York, July 14 (P—A bomb | More Than 114 Milllon—June Was exploded today in Magistrate Far- rell’s division of the traffic court. Busy Month. The explosion caused no serions damage, only burning a hole fn the benchi under which it had been placed. Court attendants and d fendants in the court room dashed | out th doors and windows, Pal | able bLalanc “nited States for the fis ended yune 30 \live the explosive was|geq 654344 and the imports were time bombs, orimuss I'he explosion oceurred just as the | Vi Balance mugisirate was sentencing a t violator to pay a fine of $25. 10 be affic early cases with a similar pen dl 4 lsp ,'" LA 1% showed an exact balance, b - ; d fmports being $326,000 The magistrate was the calmest |POFts and dmpc & 1000 June imports rson in the room, remaining in his A ; 5 > | since November, 19 Beat and banging his gavel for order | whils men and women serambled ; down the s« fo safety. the fi The magistrate said he had It n enemies and w n June ports were lower 1l year except Jul s pointed ouf, ho 1024, 1924, the 1924, kn to account for the V\Mr»niun. | were FIREBUG SENTENCED e ars. The f. vorable balance was [that of any of t} ars, for the year ending June 50, 19 Gold and Silver Pepe Pleads Guilty, Gets From Two to Six Years . Gold movement for June was o ), < —Others Punished small but the tendency for gold to — lleave the United States was shown {to be still in ope Haven, July 14 (A —Louis I harged with arson in nine | 105t $2.286 e, ch X arson ©ling $4. and exports $6,712, cou n setting tire to buildings 1 i ing fire to buildings fn |0 Dirby and Ansonia, last winter, | 1 guilty in superior court to- duy, and was given a sentence of from two to six ye Pep sentenced on four of ne counts. | port was $134,1 $245, | 684.562. Ivatore Capibiunco who was 'd by Stulc's Attorney Alling as goat” given from one year net gold gain was $406,818, mont hs 2ding of case came un cted] A jury had been called Pepe had previously indieted a vu of not guil When he pleaded the state’s attorney moved i WEST HARTFORD AN HAS 108, 1 po $108,823,344, Ralph Sicilaio, was ne ngelo Cappetti v co years, Adolph two vears and Dom glven one 1o e o pallo, one to | be { Herhert J. Potte tone nick ( 10 two yeurs The sentence of Fepe was two to three years on the first count and Reached Neither Place, vach on the other three Tondon and Norwich But West riford, connts. e [HerterthT Pt 1. of 1681 nuwber offic from Ansonia | BOUlevard, mployeiin Hartford, has heen missir { home I Chief Joseph I, Grog Hartford police h Derby who h taken part fn the inaniry into the several fires in the arrests of for more than two w al ier [ Charmelio w > | tias J ; St f“' a search for the missing man PO HTERLOL A G s lnitheid On June 20, the day of his disap- | did not appear in court | | pes nee, he clanged his position He made one call on a prospeet in {to ma e cally One Mon Probably Fatally Hurt ad either place When the Two Collide At Bridge port Grade Crossing STRIKE IN NEW HAVEN flames, N FOREIGN TRADE vision Rush For Exits. | United States Report for Year, over 400 acres. The other s &ix | miles south of the village and has|the scene fighting fires and two afr- | jumped the control lines estabiished |plane forest patrols ara on their | Missoula forest. Several were start- [the Uni ed by lightning. 1s a physiclan at Cincinnati, O shington, July 14 (A—A favor- of $1,042,651,407 re- sulted from the forcign trade of the al year he exports were valued at $4,- For June the figures on the face | of commerce depurtment figures | b ex- | were the lowel 4, while the ex- yan any month in ever, that total im- orts are $274,000,000 and exports $306,080,000, showing that | {June of the present year produced imports and exports for taken for that of then and with bushy auburn halr, mou stranger answered the des of Knapp to the minutest detall, it ar excceded those of Y | o oonner yvesterday that the strik-| A ple ing resemb greater than st three fiscal | take him to Buffalo from Arthur ' Atterney S. Gerard ¢ although §t was less than tha New York Central depot. According to the story he told at the depot, he arrived here from the east, having been given a list Ly attempted to trade his uniform, It on. The nation i, was de in gold, imports be- recently discharged from the! marine lake ve For the fiscal year the gold im- 5136, and export 9,698, making the net loss of |the metal to the United States $114,- | )06 declared today that the most {plied equally to T notie For the vrevious fiseal vear the ; The silver import during June was $4.917,001 and the export $8,517 1Por the fiscal year silver im- $71.606.358 and cxport Knox Knapp, army air corps desert- |the defense. He er, who is sought as a thrill-sla was stil a fugitive today despite a Sork cten aad to atosasiira oy on | NEW BRITAIN FINANCING i, | BEEN MISSING TWO WEEKS searched the region around Platt . | burg without ok Teft For New o Mitchel field, wrote of his desire to | experience a super-thrill. Louls Pen- | clla. Hempstead taxicab driver, was | High slain shortly afterward and the body July 14 (P from his | b ang | [Knapp's handwriting. n of the West | en condueting | |t ey night. He checked | out e Mitehel field that In ¢ | he could find refuge in the Thmi- sand Isla | friends th zentry and that he could go tothem | in case of need. otwieh | n those cities hut so far as ecan be learned o never | [ sent from Mitchel field for distri- buti LW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, JULY 14, 192 Montana Town Hemmed In On Two Sides By Raging Forest Fires Missonla, Mont, July 14 (A— Priest River, Tdaho, Ju'y 14 :‘M“"l ](wm‘;' "1 P‘“",‘“”""‘“ :”"” Paul Blickensdorter, lookout at res, Loth burning flercely and one | . ) AL IS0t of aontiol. South Paldy ranger station, north of One hundred and sicty men are | Priest lake, was killed an fighting desperately to check the [est fires were set by the electrical for storm which struck One of the conflagrations s five One hundred and fifty men are on I'rida way to map the fire areas A dozen fires are burning In the | Bllckensdorfer was rsity of Idaho, His father THRILLSLAYER SAD VIOLATED LAW BY ‘ T0 BE NEAR BATAVIA 1 MAKING SUNDAY SALES uspect Tried to Trade Plainville Court Find: Army Suit for Civilian Storekeepers Guilty: Clothes There Appeal Taken | | | (Special to the Herald.) Batavia, N. Y., (®—More than a L Plainville, July 14— Vincenzo Min dozen residents of this city today | were positive that Philip K. Knapp, | ©/lo and Mrs. Jennie D'Antonio, lo army air service deserter, and cal provision storekecpers, were ¢ sought as a thrill slayer, was in this victed in the | city Sunday and a part of yesterday, | and ventures to = v be hiding in this viclnity while searchers are combng the Canadian Just horder for him. He is wanted for |honds being set at $100 apicce. They the m taxi driver. | compl n- town court here today, |of violating the Sunday selling law, that n e he and e = ch was fined nd costs by L. 8 Mills. Both uppe rder of a Hempstead, L. L !had been arrested after failing to Aftired in a milita uniform, ! local merchants that they must ceasc arine corps, sclling provisions on Sunday. L. Vincoski and Stanley Thirsk, inve the | tigators in the employ of a Hartford tache, and prominent teeth Sunday, June 28, they had purcha S | ed provigions in both stores and in- Tt was not untll a plcture of the |troduced their purchases as evi- fugitive appeared in an afternoon ‘Jence. nce was realized, He attempted to borrow funds to interpret 1 liber: le, couns rles i for the defense. Attorney Jewey, night ticket agent at the s W) Diebh lessc meco "> 1% Conlon of Plainville, who prose cuted, showed that the old law had been continual time in 1923, and was still on the statute hooks, He pointed out 1h both had been warned, in spife of | ared, for eivilian clothes but | whjch they had “violated not only S unable to do so. the law of the state of Connectic Tho stranger sald he had been | hut the law of the Dinle.” Attorney i and wanted to ship on a!pyAntonto was ot a motorist. He the owner of the cutor argned tn the statute opriat store, but the y ive Stivers of the railroad |the termn “keper Dete le thing about had been present belled [ed to show that the sale was not ance tha the “blind baggage” rider. {made through necessity and t ~ fore legal, hut Justice Mills ruled w York, July 14 (®) — Philip the burden of this proof rested with | f hen imposed sen r. tence and an appeal was taken despite a ™ an airptane from Menet noanas | STANDS BLODGETT TEST alning clues. Knapp, before his desertion from €05t of Bond Sales Low, Returns On Sinking Fund Tnvestments stuffed under an ash heap. A survey of municipal financing The name “E. K. Rogers” on the |Contuined in a report fssued by St register of a hotel at Albany s in|Tax Commissioner William 1 Blodgett shows that the City of At Platisburg a man answering DUtAn Ui nd Knapp's description registred at a (CcTtflcates of ndebtedness at a er cost, and invests its sinking fund S0 as to bring in ( ithan Hartford bury, and at fig other eity in the aven w Britain and New Have 4 1-4 per ecut payments on 1 debt while cach reevives s Investments an average of per cent. Hartford, Rridgeport ind Waterbury pay 47 per cent on their debt, Hartford and Bridgeport rt or Wat on par wit “Big Five,” New rly the next day. Knapp intimated to a friend a ¢ of trouble d region. He sald he had re among the bootlegging Photographs of Knapp have been o n in upstate cities and adian border. Rridgeport. Conn Il 14 (M| b s TR = S fund investments and Waterbury re men were hurt, one £eriously (Work on Three Buildings Today 15| Few (‘lues to Bold ccived 4 1-4 per cont B el R o Lol a0 B naticy Linion Daylight Robher Here| . : 1 1 [ hshir 1 P +] \l New Haven railroad | . o A voung lad. approximately 15/ ]GHTF;RS ON (AARPI‘.T ade crossing on REPORT SEA SERPENT o One 80 Feot Ton and 15 Feet in | Circumference Said to Have Been Rilled By Steamer i Waterbury Woman Saved Pre R e T From Fire in Binghamton ports that a huge sea serpe Binghamton, N, Y July 14 (#- i struck br a steamship or other |infury wh pparen: ocean going vessel was cendiar Atlantic between N { here early tod ! ed the o | Mrs. Edw r bury. Con of ia fireman was carrving her ;«mic”, rck t y v:'m ‘ ARRESTED FOR ARSON ‘ Haven, Conn., July Is ALLLN K. SMITH RESIGNS superior court t Hartford Cor July 14 P—Al- | warrar = len K. Smith. assistant United »‘wu‘fi-. to his s in G for seven vears, L Rail was fixed at $5 «lwned. was not v for trial somewhere at large in New partment has as to the prot nerson responsible for the the £190 from the pockethook of Mrs, Newtll 14 the truck were | garage ~ und . o fatal tionwide, an ta I shortly after that Mrs. Eppler told him that as she was entering her |meeting. He was ord kiteher ing, she noticed the boy 1in fthe agreement as to whe kitchen and he asked Walnut street was. She teld him.!Walker wants the Huyk”‘\ B was, him, ' Waiker v t without scrious of in- | ars old, wearing gray pants, | e waist and a pair of sneaks, 3ritain, | Walker and Shade and haplan and clue the local poliee de- | \ble | Herman Ordered To fiet Tog: oLl On Place to Batrle er of 7 Webster Hill. Mrs. Ep ~ York, reported the theft to headquar- | Walker w s at 10:° 0 this mprning. and De- |New York state tive Sergeant MeCue was sent 10 | to fulfill his ment to fight rgeant McCue reperted back !the welterweight tit Walker failed to from the garden this morn- | Friday in ar where 'weight title bout ) ght i r she 4 then he departed. |nia, while Shade held fo After he had gone his way, Mrs. Ep. |New York. Shade and his 1 pler further stated. she went Into appeared at the meeting toda r front room and found that $130 | The commission orderad the man missing from her pocketbook |agers of Kid Kaplan, feathorwes hampion of Meriden. Conn., and Kid Herman, his challcr o reach ork Races Auto and Anjamresment a8 10 Wins in New York Town [contract (o stage Rochester, N Y., July 14 (P—4 o sl ace between an antomoblle and th bury, IOLLEL NN T Bndzmmlm Shoe Workers n of Menroe or Orleans count =2 sed by one, was won | Strike Against Open Shop the stork, giving the honor to Bridgewater, Mass July 14 (P leans county. The race was re- | Workers in the plant of the the first time today w 0uld be inere it nas learned that the mother, Mrs. | strike today in pr | Margaret Heinzler. of Rochester, |action of the co. ht to a hespital here with |ing that It would conduct ar shop and payv ing at X hoard of i and the 1 was npany moved to Bridge- | born in a little farmhouse on the | water from Rrockten two months || Million Dollar highway. | ago. 5. —EIGHTEEN PAGES Ti MILE WIND TO HFFP AR FRESH Man-Made Hurricane fo Clear Jersey-New York Tunnel N0 RULING GIVEN 0N TI]MPENSATIUN GASE Which Probably Will be Ready Judgo Rl'u\\ n Wish to Set Precedent in His Counrt 48,000 Motor Cars Dally Wi r’uu Under Hudson River i student at ) A man-made | ane will clear the New carhon monoxide gas gener- 14 (P—The ention began for daily far beneath the | of the Hudson rlver, ventllation sys ossions today with the pening of the awarding con of Domonick Cor engineering | een approved and blds for its This announcement today | supervising marked the solution of the la the most difficult of the many prob- s met in planning the great sub- terranean double 1 75 Mile Wind v immense electric will whistle through ven foot airway under the traflic road fo which \e last year to public in a report that commission ‘smwl be det . Sullivan of New {national chairman of the welfare committee, &0 to the supreme Corvi and other ¢ in charities since money went he was followin 1id children, welfare work had a per capita expenditure of ir total membership now increase of 10,563 hes from the bottom “baffle-plate,” with a warning trom mrurl {dren sought compen JIks was outlin- aging a Jack Irive in Colorado, to paying alghtening the limbs of ecrip- on | . assuring a continuous move- s contention wus | eld and compen ption | detective ageney, testified that on | FAILED T0 ASCERTAIN DAMAGE T0 BICYCLE 7. Rakkowskl Ts Acquitted of Reck- 0 on each ride of the the Intake and outlet owing announcs that the law was more than | 200 years old an dthat it should bhe | lly was made by |" 1] {the declsion | prineiples of 1a Engineers Were Anxlous requires shall be de nels has been study to engineers since the use of subways began as a me .1t always has been a problem | nining engineers who faced {errors in ordes less Driving In Police ans of trafc revised, the Jast | of iy car and | property dam- d when he ran down a bo; he night of July 4, cost own motion reserves th opinion of the su ; i properly estimate the [ decp ¢ ,me v the plans of the tunnel commission, ¢ passes In whic rowed that Mrs, | a distingulshed DENIES AL GUILT 7 Year Ol Scheneet vorking model and to the boy:run another witness and Rab- arged the 1)(‘ na | Visit the hie man was \agent or emiploye. The dctense safd | his air of culture, refinement, and |that no evidenc his physical appe Recognizing the load which could | passage or more an sixteen cars a . $40 remitted, on the Death of Companion in our chambers the opening with pray cfal to the Interests of the defendant | Most of the opening pray by ministers so far have heen larg |argumentative. of their model, Schenectady, Hayden Smith, tioning concer 's to the rate of speed the where touring cars was traveling, n hour, and fendant contending it as be- | ta of North Burritt street, w on his bieyele 2 Alden street when | 1 a goodly dis » to a stop and e driver speed- | he had time to talk | Rabkowskl declared around here, Tt is the us |this part of the country. us of the air at any [Mr. Malone broke in |“that they are fust as | where T come from as they are any where."” oy sald he was not hurt was imposed d to get out of te the amount of | MACMILLAN'S TROUBLES sonnection with regulation of tratic both ends will Engineers de » continuous Difficult to Make, THREE INDIANS KILLED lan Arctic |rule the objections tlon, said that he un -|the court himself, that Run Down by jay, but seeing this is persiste every No Congestion at Ends | case b Anticlpating the conflict be glon, above all other «¢ | should be no part taken to insure rapid di 1 the evidence in this e streets In Ne Transfer oh rivals that of the o HIGH TIDE (Standard Time) New Londorf 5:11 the fast as to chool tea tate, think it ie v CRUSHED TO I‘l ATH this eourt with nraver if the co esen fit to dn it and = FIND BOY'S 14.—Foreoast Britain and vicnity Walter Geak | [the ta e Average Daily Circulation For i 12,007 PRICE THREE CENTS DARROW PROTESTS OPENING COURT WITH PRAYERS, SAYING THEY ARE BEING USED TO INFLUENCE JURY FLKS ACTIVIIES IN CHARITY WORK TOLD Report Outlines Humani- | tavian Efforts—Member- ship Now 850,182 ‘Malone Also Objects In Evolution Case But Judge Raulston Over- rules Their Objec- tions. Ruling Sometime Today Ts Expected on Defense Lawyers’ Motion to Quash the Indictment Against Scopes. By The Assoclated Press, Court Room, Dayton, Tenn., July 14—Objection by Clarence Darrow of defense counsel, to the daily cus- tom of prayer in court created some excitement for a few minutes at the short session of the trial of John T. Scope: today. Judge Raulston overrnled the ob- jection and then ordered a court re- |cess until 1 o'clock ,that he might |complete the preparation of his opinion on the motion of the defense to quash the indictment argued yes- terday. Darrow Raiscs Objection Soon after Judge Raulston mount- ed the bench, Clarence Darrow step- ped forward to say “I want to pro- test, your honor, at prayer belng of- fered here dally in the presence of the jury in this case.” The defense continued: “I do not {object to anyone praying In private, Ibut T do object to this court being turned into a meeting house.” Malone Also Protests Dudley Field Malone was just he- hind his colleague with an inquiry to the judge if it had always been the custom to have prayer in court every day. “As a member of coun- {sel for the defense who is not an agnostlc,” he sald, “I desire to add my objection to d |offered here when it $10 In police court this | Benjamin W. v prayer being 1as not been an exacting and unbroken custom in the | past. “T have every respect for what Mr vl\nrro\v belfeves and does not he- vllmé said Malgne, “and 1 wisl to |offer an objecticy as a member of defense counsel. Prayer Argumentative “We have talked this thing dver and believe that er {8 prejudt s offeree i “We hold that this practice creates {a religlous atmosphere here which s harmful to our cause. Will the |court say if this has been the prac tice here without exception? Attorney General Stewart rose to : “This is a God-fearing commu- and we are accustomed to pray al thing fn Lawyers Clash “And T would have you know hemently -fearing “T hope that is true” sald Mr | Stewart, ot ™ “T am glad to know {t." Judge Raulston broke in to say that the court did not want tn be unreasonable to anyone, “but T be lleve I have the right. T am respon- |sible for the conduct of th Bowdoln and Repairs are Proving |1,y 4 court en my custom sinee T have heen judge to have prayer in court | There ts no reason why T should not llow this custom. So T will over Darrow's Fxeeption Mr. Darrow in making his excap R I R T o e ot -| sometimes 14 not took ne position an the first ssion, and the nature ng one it 1s claimed re is 1 no at tempt by means o ror { othe g t delibera ration of state makes no contantisn tated as state glon insofa a1 r as taught a Anctrine rohibited by statute, and we, for the te proper to open h an e extended by the agnostic counsel for the defe ta the e iz forei ghts and ideas of the people <|who 4o not know anvthing about Infidelity d care less Malone Defends Darrow. Arthur G. Hays noted an exeep- (Continued on Fage 18)