New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 14, 1925, Page 1

(P — e s . News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 HYLAN'S CHANCES FOR NOMINATION BELIEVED SLIGHT Wall Street Betting Odds are § 12 to 41-2 Against Formey Tammany Favorite DEMOCRATS ARE WORRIED ABOUT COMING ELECTION Confident of Walker Winning in Primaries Tomorrow But Fear That Hylan May Head Independ- ent Ticket if He Loses — Smith Adds Fireworks to Campaign. New York, Sept. 14 (P—One of the most sensational campaigns in the history of New York city will develop tomorrow into the nomina- tion of democratic and republican and sociallst candidates for mayor, and the sensations seem likely to continue until the election a month hence. The fireworks have been largely on the democratic side, John F. Hylan, elected mayor for twe four- vear terms with Tammany support, is opposed for renomination by State Senator James J. Walker, Tammany designee, who has had the actlve aid of Governor Smith. Smith vs. Hearst By both republican and demo- cratic spokesmen the campalgn has been interpreted as a battle between Governor Smith and W. R. Hearst for eontrol of the democratic party in the state with a view to presiden- tial polities tn 1 . The governor, giving up a vacation, come from Albany to stump for Walker. Ex- changes between the governor and Mr, Hearst at long distance and between the governor and the mayor at close range have been sharp and pereonal, The mayor has ignored demands nt Waker that he say whether he will support the democratic nomi- nee, and Tammany supporters con- fident of success in the primary, are looking forward to the election with less assurance because of what seems to them the possibility of Hylan heading an independent tieket s Republican hopes of electing the axecutive of this heavi city run high. In fact the organiza- tion cardidate for the republican nomination, Frank D. Waterman, pén manufacturer, has largely ig- nared his opponents for the nomin- ation and centered his attacks Loth Hylan and Walker, saying they have been telling the truth about cach other and that which supporteed Hylan for two terms, has been just as responsible as Hylan for eight years of misrule, Charles E. Hughes, in indorsing Mr. Waterman for the nomination re- forred to “The pitiable plight” of the eity administration. Mr. Water- man's opponents are John J. Lyons and William M. Bennett. Pirst Big Fight The campaign marks the first big fight within the democratic ranks since the death of Charles I, Mur- phy, head of Tammany Hall for many years. Mayor Hylan has quot- ed Murphy in death-hed praise of the Hylan administration. Tn supporting Walker, Governor Smith and Tammany have thrown overhoard a man elected mayor twies with tremendous majorities against the opposition of the lead- ing newspapers of the city except Mr. Hearst's. FEchoes of the Madison Square Garden convention have been heard in the cam an. The governor in- augurated his appearances on the stump of accusing the mayor of conferring with “the representative of the Klan"” at the convention. The Hearst papers then printed inter- views deploring what they inter- preted as the governor's attempts to injeot religion into the campaign. Mr. Hearst said the governor met McAdoo and compromised on Davis, The governor has read the mayor out of the democratic party and ac cused him of “blind subservien to a “super-boss,” Mr, Hearst, who in the colrse of exchanges admitted he was not a democrat. The gov- ernor has charged the mayor with unfitness for office and with failure to solve problems like transit sani- tatlon and education. Walker has been praised by the governor as a leader in constructive legislation. Hylan's Charges The mayor has accused the gov- ernor of “hobnobbing with cor- porations, of conspiracy with trac- tion interests to raise carfares and with boasting to a traction lawyer that he would put Hylan “in the ash can.” Walker, in the mayor's view, desires a wide-open town, and the mayor has defended his adminis- tration for being efficient for keep- ing carfares at five cents. Tammany's argument is that everybody is for five cent carfares, as it 1s a matter of contra Tam- many has put through an ordinance requir referendum before car- fares can be raised, The mayor's use of the city radio was forbidden by infunction at the behest of tax- payers, \Wall Street Betting Wall street betting odds are 3 1-2 to 4 1-2 to 1 against Hylan. Tam- many leaders predict Walker's vic- tory by 100,000 votes, assuming that 60 per cent of the 794,652 eligible democratic voters will go to the polls. John P. Cohalan, campaign manager, predicts a similar victory for the mayor Tt is admitted on both sides that the mayor’s strength is in his home (Continued on Page Five) democratic | on | Tammany, | W) pavypegy e APy £RAQIT PYWIS TD[HIIUUO) Fire Losses Gain; Destruction in ‘24 Reached $550,000,000 San Antonlo, Texas, Sept 14 (P —America's fire loss gteadily has risen, exceeding $660,000,000 in 1924, despite efforts of fire mar- shals and a larger percentage of fire resistive buildings, g In calling this to the ntu‘flon of the Kire Marshals' Assoclation of North America, President 8. W. Wade) insurance commissioner of North Carolina, also pointed ‘to the loss of."more than seventeen thousand lwes." ‘ Fire losses were divided into four classes, the loss from care- lessness being $360,000,000; de- fective flues and chimneys $2 800,000; stoves dnd furnaces $18,- 658,000; defective electrle wir- ing $12,000,000, LLEGED SLAYER ONCE IN ASYLLN Police Seeking Kasmer Norke- wicz for Bridgeport Murder KILLING ~ FOLLOWS ~ GAME ‘.\lun Sought As Killer Was At One Time Inmate of Mass Insane Re- treat—Description Is Sent Out By Authorities, Bridgeport, Sept. 14 (#) — Police leurned today that Kasmer (Charlle) Norkiewlcz whom they are seeking | for the murder Saturday night of | Mike Fedora of 19 Hallam street, was formerly an inmate of an insane asylum in Massachusetts. In their investigation of the fatal stabbing affray they learned that Norkiewicz has a wife lvirg in Cambridge, {Mass. It was while they were try- ing to locate Norkewicz through his | wife that they uncovered the infor- imaticn tha Norktewicz wasa former |inmate of an asylum for the insane. | At the coroner’s inquest today it |was brought out definitely that Nor- kewliez is the man who was charged by Fedora with the stabbing, in an ante-mortem statement made at the | Bridgeport hospital. Bridgeport police communicated with the sanatarium in Shelton yes- terday, but found that: the alleged murderer was not emplo: cd there as Irst reported. Authoritivs now be- llfeve that he was employed on a {farm near Shelton although efforts Ito locate his former employer have been fruitless. Tell Same Story The four witnesses of the stabbing | {told the same story of the affalr to! {the police. Nirk Noxford, 38, and | lex Suchoskl, 40, are being held as |witnesses for further investigation. |The others at the drinking party at the Fedora home at the time of the fatal stabbing were Mrs. Mary Fe- dora, the dead man's wife, and Mike Smith, an employe on fhe oyster {boat Josephine, The storles told by Noxford and 1q\|r‘hnsk1 are that the two men be. | came involved in a wrangle follow- ing a crap game and that Federa put Norkewlicz out of the house. He |returned shortly afterwards for his hat which he had forgotten. When |Norkewicz was leaving for the sec- ond time he was followed to the door by Fedora and it was then that the stabbing occurred. Norkewicz ran back into the room and escaped {through a bedroom window. Police | |were then notified and Tedora was taken to the Bridgeport hspoital where he died. Send Out Description The description of the alleged | murderer given out today by the | police says the index finger of his |1eft hand is missing. He s sald to {be about 40 years of age, five feet |10 inches in height, very thin, large nese and black halr streaked with giey. His hair is combed In pom- padour fashion, ' PRISONER TRIES SUICIDE | Harry Kirby, Acensed of Murder of Miss Hayward in Maine, Slashes Wis Wrist, Augusta, Me., Scpt. 14 (P—Harry A. Kirby, charged with the murder of Miss Aida Hayward at Lake Maranacook on tha night of May 19 | last, attempted suiside in his cell in | [ Kennebee county jail here tody, by {cutting a vein In his left wrist with |a knife or safety razor blade. His condition was not considered serlous. Miss Hayward's body was found in a coftage which had been occupled by Kirby. She had been abducted from the cottage of her aunt, Mrs, Emma M. Towns. who was shot and | | serlously wounded, and the cottage burned. Mrs. Towns later re- ‘Cm-\rm]. wai HOVE OUT T0 FINISH WORK ON LONING ORDINANG aws T Gorem Constration i New Britain to Be Dralted in Plainville — PROPERTY OWNERS APPEAL PERROTTA GASE DECISION Dispute Over Three-Family Houses on Shuttle Meadow Avenue to Be Taken Up to Common Council— Will Ask for Rescind of Permit. The ordinance committee of the common council will meet tonight in Plainville to complete work on the most important pieceof legisla- tion undertaken by the city, the es- tablishment of a zoning system. The committee's decision to go into another town to perfect a system of building layout was not actuated by & desire to stand off and get a gen- eral birdseye view of the entire city, but to meev the convenience of the city's legal adviser, Judge John H. Kirkham, who has a summer home in Plainville, Appeal Against Perrotta Permit Formal appeal to the common council from the action of the build- ing commission in granting Joseph Perrotta permits for thres three- famlly houses on Shuttle Meadow avenue was taken this afternoon by Klett & Alling, representing 12 property owners within a radlus of 500 feet of the Perrotta property. The appeal will be held at the Wext meeting of the common coun- cll. It is alleged by the appellants that the permits were not properly issued; that the construction of the bullding planned by Perrotta will depreclate property in that neigh- borhood, and the petitioners ask an order rescinding the grant of permit. Perrotta on July 23 applied for a permit to build a house at 169 Shuttle Meadow ave- nue. vertised the fact and allowed ons week for the filing of remonstrances. Opposition was voleed at at public hearing.. On.Sept. 10, according to allegations of the appellants, Per- rotta was granted permits for threa- family houses at 165, 167, 169 Skut- tle Meadow avenue, although appli- cation for but one house was befors the commission, they claim. Sub- stantiating this claim, the complain- ants have secured certified coples of the application for permits showing the date of Sept. .11, the day after | the permits fssued. Tt is alsqs, allegéd allowance of three threedenement houses on two Tots-will ‘be a ‘violatjon of existing ordinances, since theré will be more housing units than now exist, a con- ditlon prohibited by ordinance. SAID SHE WAS STARVING, TOOK L!QUQR FOR FOOD Wife Arrested Soon After Husband, Teaving Four Little Children Without Protection Joseph Domrad was arrested Sat- urday night on a charge of drunk- enness and while in the lockup at police headquarters, a complaint was received that condi- tions . were not. as they should be at his home. Investigation at the house revealed that the doors were locked an when the police succeed- he was jed in getting in John Alexinski of 11 Orange street ran out the back door. He was arrested in the back- vard. ITn one of the bedrooms, the | police found Mrs. Domrad lying on |the bed in a stupor and she was taken into custody. Both had been drinking. When the couple was brought to the police station, Detective Ser- geant Willum P. McCue was on duty at thedesk, and he was in- formed that the four little Domrad children were at home without any- one to care for them. He then re- lease Domrad so that he could go home and look after the little ones. Asked why she had been drinking liquor, Mrs. Domrad told the court that she was starving for want of food so she had to take anything she could get outside of water, and that happened to be liquor. HOLDUP IN NEW YORK Five Armed Men Send Crowd Scur- rying to Sivety And Rob Yellow Cab Official of $8,657. New York, Sept. 14 (® — While Selects Pall Bearers | Then Commits Suicide | | Webster, Mass., Sept. 14 (P—After | borrowing a peneil and paper on | which to write the names of the Oscar Mauk |to nis body | his famil 46, sent two bullets in- died stretched across lot in East Webster Ceme- tery yesterday. Police helteve the |man was brooding over real or fancied troubles. Cemetery visitors heard the report of a pistol and saw Mauke running. Then he fired |again and fell across the grave of his brother in the family lot. Several hours before he took his life he bor- rowed a pencil from an acquaintance and scribbled a note which he sent |side, and stole $8,657, | en he wished for his pallbearers, [week-end traffic which were being | scores of passersby scurried for cov- er before menacing guns, five armed men today held up a Yellow Taxicab company machine in the lower east receipts of transferred to a bank. Th holdup men escaped in an au- tomobile. Four policemen pursued in a commandeered machine but were distanced. s HWELMY TRYING CHANNEL Cape Gris Nez, France, Sept. 14 (P——Nine hours affer the start of his channel attempt, Ishak Helmy, Egyptian swimmer, was twenty kilometers (12.42 five kilometers (3.10 miles) east of to his wife and which proved to a list of friends he wanted as bear- ers at his funeral. this place, his starting point. The water and weather conditions con- tinue favorable, OFTONN | Fede three-tenement | The building commission ad- ! miles) north and | | ral Agents Sent to lowa to See if Body is Anderson’s ‘Washington, postal to D Sept. 14 (A—Two inspectors have been ordered ubugus, Iowa, to determine whether the body of a man found there and Belleved to be that of eorge (“Dutch”) Anderson s in reality the . former companion of Gerald Chapman, Instead of awalting fingerprints, Chief Postal Inspector Rush 1), Sim- mons has detailed one of his men from Chicago and another from Cin- cinnati, who knew Anderson by sight, to go to Dubuque and make certaln whether the body is that of the man who escaped from Atlanta ANDREW LARSON DIES SUDDENLY IN SWEDEN Camp Street Man Lived in New Britain for 40 Years While on a tour of Sweden en- joying the fruits of long and faith- ful service that had won him a pen- sion at Landers, Frary & Clark's, Andrew Larson of this city died suddenly last Saturday, friends here were advised today. Mr. Larson was 65 years of age | and had lived in New Britain more than 40 years. Kor the greater part {of that time he was employed in Landers, his position in later years | being that of a gatehouse man. penitentlary and is wanted at Mun- cle, Ind., for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hace. A reward of $1,000 was offered by the Delaware county (Ind.) com- missioners for the arrest and convie- tlon of Anderson and an additional reward of $500 by the warden of the Atlanta penitentiary is stgading for his delivery to the penitentiary. Post offic. department inspectors have been active in hunting Ander- son and the department has just issued a descriptive clrcular hearing five plctures of the man to post in Post offices and other public places. D AIRPLANES IN CRASH AT BRAINARD FIELD Simon Davey’s Machine Badly Damaged by Collision Simon Davey of Belden street this city with two passengers and C. D. Tuska of the Tuska Radio corpora- tion and one passenger had a nar- Tow escape from death at Brainard field in Hartford vesterday when two airplanes crashed, at noon with such force as to completely wreck both machines, Mr. Davey with his plane had landed and was taxi-ing across the field when the Curtiss C-6 Oriole, in charge of Mr. Tuska took off and His home was at 88 Camp street, He was a widower and leaves only one son, Thure Larson, a resident of Niagara Falls, N. Y. He was one of | the best known of the older Swedish residents of New Dritain and wa active fraternally and in the congre- | gation of the First Lutheran church. ! Mr. Larson left May 29 for a visit in his homeland, Sweden. His health was reported to bs good| upon retirement last Friday night. | In the morning friends with whom he was living went to his room to arouse him and they found him | dead in bed. Arrangements are being made by the Erickson & Carlson Undertaking Co. to bring the remains to this city | for interment. INJURIES PROVE FATAL Five Year Old New Haven Girl Dies | As Result of Accident —- Father and Sister Badly Hurt. New Haven, Sept. 14 (® — Lucy | Verdi, 5, who with her sister and | |father, was hurt in an automobile crash yesterday, died today. There 18 some hope of the others’ recover) Verdf was driving a machin through Kimberly avenue. Persons who saw it elaimed that it was not holding a straight course on its own | side of the avenue. A car driven by Oscar W. Hicks of Philadelphia, grazed it but with force enough to hurl it over. Verdl and his children were thrown some distance and all |were very badly hurt. Mr. Hicks and hi family were unhurt. No arrests wers made, the police for the time heing accepting statements that Ver- | d's reckless, zigzagging and fast driving were responsible for the up- set, | Dr. Halstead of St, Joseph, Mo., Was 107 Years of Age—Was Physician To Henry Clay. St. Joseph, Mo., Sept. 14 (#—Dr. Joseph Singer Halstead, oldest Free- mason in the United States, possibly the oldest in the world, died at his home at Breckenridge last night at the age of 107. He had 80 living |descendants. He was family physi- |cian and personal friend of Henry | ‘lay. He was born in Lexington, Ky., March 4, 1818, He was a mem drove directly towards them. The passenger on the Tuska ma- chine saw the Davey machine and shouted but too late to avoid a col- lision. Tuska tried to climb over the Davey plane and collided when bout three feet in the air, No one was Injured but both machines were competely demolished. Tuska was going about 60 miles an hour, and within 20 feet of the Davey plane before he saw him. So badly interlocked were the wrecked machine that it is said con- siderable trouble was experlenced by repairmen clearing up the wreck- age. “BROKE,” SAYS McQUILLAN, “BUNK” IS JUDGE'S VIEW Giant Pitcher Receives Scant Sym. pathy From Justice Who Hears His Plea New York, Sept. 14 (F)—The plea of Hugh McQuillan, New York Giant pitcher, that he was “broke” and could not possibly pay the ali- ony long overdue to his wife to- day failed to arouse any echo of sympathy from Supreme Court Jus- tice Strong in Brooklyn, “High class ball players, with the present high standard of pay, can raise any reasonable amount of money,” commented Justice Strong. In adjudging McQuillan guilty of contempt of court for failure to kecp abreast of his alimony payment. Mc- Quillan was ordered to pay $400 to his wife immediately and an addi- tional §350 next Monday, as part payment on the allowance stipulated by the court, pending settlement of the divorce action, or go to jail. Through his attorney, McQuillan, who was suspended from the Giants for failure to observe training rules, promised to make the payments, but under protest that he was without funds, as he has not been paid sal- ary since his suspension six weeks ago. He said two suits are now in the supreme court against the New York club for salary he claims f{s due to him. He charged his wife is in no need of funds but is motl- vated by a “desire for satisfaction.” Mrs. McQuillan's divorce suit was filed August 1. She named a Bronx beauty contest winner as the other woman Involved. Pending settle- ment of the action, McQuillan was ordered to pay $500 a month ali- mony. ber of Breckenridge lodge No. 334, | |A. F. & A. M. i | Dr. Halstead came to Missourl in | {1841 and began practice near Breck- | |enridge, where he bought land from $2.50 an acre. | His wife, who was a niece of Gov- | ernor C. A. Wycliff of Kentucky | {died last April, at the age of 95. Little Interest Shown In New London Election New London, Sept. 14 (A—Very little interest was being shown here in the annual city election. The voting in the early morning hours was light. The voters are to elect three members of the city council and- two school visitors. The two outgoing school visitors are unop- posed while in the city council race the three outgoing councilors, Mayor Waldo E. Clarke, William A. F and Lucius E. Whiton are opposed by James A. May and Mrs. Emily A. Splers. | |the government at | | | | | KILLED BY LIGHTNING Corning, N. Y., Sept. 14 (P—Word was received here today of the death yesterday of Mrs. Willard William, 36 of Ruthbone, who was instantly killed while standing on her porch when she was struck by a boit ot lightning. She leaves her husband, | seven children and two brothers. | | THE WEATHER g Hartford, Sept. 14.—Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Generally fair and cooler to- night; Tuesday fair * —ui] ; \ | [ SEDAN OVERTURNS West Hartford, Sept. 14 (@ — A sedan owned by Willlam Bousa of Main street, and driven by Murphy of Buckingham street, Hart- ford, overturned on Gin Still Hill carly Sunday. Turning out on the down grade to pass another car the brakes were applied and the car commenced to skid. After turning about three times the machine over- turned. None of the occupants were injured. Month in Jail for Each Blow Struck While Beating Wife One month’s suspended sentence for each he admitted striking his wife with a heavy leather belt was imposed .on Stanley Kovolski of 71 Smith street in police court this morning. XKovolski admit- ted striking his wife twice with the belt before he was arrested by Policeman Edward Kiely on complaint of the wife. From the testimony given in court this morning Mrs. Kovolski has been having considerable trouble with her husband because of his alleged weakness for fre- quenting houses where liquor is sold and gambling is conducted. She told the court that he struck her about five times with the belt, but he claimed it was only twice Judge Alling told him that the only reason he was not golng to spend the next few months in jail was because he had four ehildren, but warned him that if he ever struck his wife again he could expect to go to jail. Jall of the blows John | HITCHELL T GEY FULL CHANCE T0 GIVE HIS VIEWS 1¢ss in Coming Aircraft Investigation —— RODGERS DOES NOT WISH 10 BE GIVEN LAND DUTY Commander of PN-9 No, 1 Tells Sec. Wilbur He Prefers Active Sca Duty With Airplanes 1f Possible But He Will Accept Post in Case Department So Decldes, Washington, Sept. 14 (P—Com- mander John Rodgers of the PN-§ No. 1, appointed assistant chief of the bureau of aeronautics, advised Secretary Wilbur today that his per- sonal preference is to remain on sea duty with airplanes. Commander Rodgers added, how- ever, that he would accept the posi- tion, If in the opinion of the secre- tary, “my services will be more valu- able in the department.” The message was sent by Rodgers by radio from Honolulu, It convey- ed the thanks of the crew of the PN-9 No. 1 and his own apprecia- tion for “the honor attached to my seleotion as assistant chlef of the bu- reau.’ Mitchell to Testify At the time Mr. Wilbur was an- nouncing the personnel of the Shen- andoah board, the war department made plans to have Colonel Willlam Mitchell, chief figure in the whole controversy, available as an expert witness at the president's special board, when that body begins Its in- qniry. The work of this hoard will sup- plement that of the special Loard of nina men appointed by President Coolldge to delve thoroughly into the broad question of the nation's air policies, which has been ject of bitter controversy since the Shenandoah disaster. The announcement of the person- nel of the board to investizate the Shenandoah crash came on th Rear Admiral Moffett, chief of the navy bureau of aeronautics. Those On Board Those who will serve with ad miral Jones In conducting the in- quiry are Captain Frank H. Clark, alde to the a tain Lewis B. McBride of the navy construction corps; Commander John H. Towers, Lieutenant Com- mander Ralph C. Pennoyer, Captain Paul Foley, director of the experi- mental laboratory at Bellevue, D. C., and Lieutenant Commander M. R. Plerce. Captain Foley will be judge advocate of the court, and Tleu- tenant Commander Pierce will be his adviser. It was explained at the war de- partment that nelther disciplinary proceedings, which have been initi- ated against Colonel Mitchell, nor his officlal duties as chief of alr service In the eighth corps area would be permitted to interfere with his appearance before the special hoard. The war department will make it clear to the board that it does not wish to restrict in any way the testimony Colonel Mitchell may be asked to give and that the board itself will be the only hody with power to control the scope of its in- quiry into the charges Colonel Mitchell has made. In connection with the announce- ment of the policy in regard to Colonel Mitchell, it is known that Acting Secretary Davis of the war department, who first proposed that |such an inquiry be held, would wel- come a thorough airing of the charges against the department's air administration, Although Mr. Davis believes that |the inquiry into the Mitchell charges will form but a part of the broad field to be covered, he nevertheless is of the opinfon that, in the inter- est of the army air service the mat- ter should be fully investigated. It the presidential board should decide to call Colonel Mitchell, as is thought most probable, Mr. Davis further would desire that his testi- mony be received at an open hearing because of the belief that charges that have been made against the alr service from time to time since the war, and especially in the con- troversy stirred up in the last con- gress, has to some extent public opinion in the service. Secretary Davis feels that his de- partment has received unjust eriti- cism which it has been unable to answer adequately. With the assem- lleves an opportunity to make that answer and to relieve public con- cern will be presented. The report from Major Ernest Hines, commander of the elghth corps area, transmitting the formal answer made by Colonel Mitchell accepting responsibility for his San Antonio statement reached the war department today and was started on its way through the rou- tine channels. vis until Colonel George A. Nugent of the Inspector-general's depart- ment, specially assigned to the case, prepared to submit his recom- mendations as to disciplinary action, {at which time Major General John | L. Hines, chief of staff, will be ready to take the Mitchell incident wup with the secretary for final action. Pending a study of the report by the inspector-general's office and the army legal authorities it will not be known whether a courtmartial shall be ordered for Colonel Mitch- ¢!l on charges of insubordination. Will Be Called as Expert Wit Av Daily Week Endln; Sept. 12th .. 17 Week-End Deaths From Violence With Motor Cars Leading et Chicago Sept, 14 (M—Seventeen persons met de; throughout the country over the week-end by violence or through accidents, automobile mishap fatalities leading the casualty toll with six, Three persons met death under mysterious circumstances, while other deaths resulted from fire, 2; alrplane fall 2; drowning 2; sulelde 2, Deaths from automoblle acef- dents for the week In nine mid- western states totalled 85, dis- tributed as follows: Hiinois 20; Ohlo 18, Indiana 20; Minnesota 9; Michigan Missouri 6; Kansas 8; Texas Oklahoma 1, YALE PROFESSOR FALS T0 RALY 'Rev. Albert Clay Dits Following an Operation (DISTINGUISHED ~ STUDENT wr—— It Was He Who Dectphered the Babylonian Tablets in the J. P, Morgan Collection—Formerly Was at University of Pennsylvania. New Haven, Sept. 14 (P—Rev. Al- bert Toblas Clay, William M. Laffan the sv)h-’ eels | of a denouncement of navy critics by | istant secretary; Cap- | shaken | bling of the board, however, he be- | General | 1t probably will not reach Mr. Da- | ‘lonlun literature at Yale university jand who deciphered the Babylonian |tablets in the J. I. Morgan collec- tion, died today. Professor Clay | went to the hospital several days ago for an operation. j'(.nguishul students of {history and also was president of |the American Soefety for Oriental |Research. Some months ago he re- turned from service as the head of |the collegs of the soclety in the Near East, | Prior to coming to Yale Professor Clay was at the Uniyersity of Penn- sylvania Born in 1866 Professor Clay was a native of Hanover, Pa, and his birthday was Dec. 4, 1866, He was graduated from Franklin and Marshall college in 1889, The next three years he spent at Mt. Ainy Theological semi nary, from which he wae graduated {In 1892, with special henors in He- brew and Assyrian languages and archaeology. He continued his studies at University of Pennsylvania, taking a degree in philosophy in 1594, In later years he received his «naster of arts degres from Yale, LL 1. from Pennsylvania and Litt.D, from Muhlenberg college. Professor Clay taught Hebrew at Pennsylvanla and later Old Testa- ment theology at the Lutheran sem- inary in Chicago. He was called to Pennsylvania in 1898 and remained there until he came to Yale. His courses have heen Arabie, Semitic languages, Syriac, the Koran and Riblical and Palestinian and aramac. GAR CRASHES INTO POST, NEW BRITAIN GIRL HURT | Miss Clara Metivier of This City In- jured in Motor Accklent At East Providence (Special to The Herald.) Providence, R. I, Sept. 14.—Miss Clara Metivier, 20, of New Britain, Conn,, was badly cut and bruised after being thrown through the windshield of a car fn which she was riding after it had crashed into a post in East Providence vesterday. George Marin of Bristol, driving the car, tried to avold striking a boy learning to ride a bieycle. The boy was dragged along beneath the ma- chine and men had to life it to re- lease him. He was removed to the Rhode Island hospital and Miss Metivier was glven medical treat- ment. Pollce held Marin for receipt of a report from the hospital, Last evening Miss Metivier and an- other couple returned home by train the car heing too badly damaged for operation. Another Scriously Injured When Train Hits Anto at North Tona- wanda, New York. Ruffale, N. Y & 14 P — Three motorists were killed and an- other seriously injured last night struck their automobile at a cross- ing In North Tonawanda. The dead were Daniel Dunham, 50, Percival Dunham, 27, his hait brother, and Michael Farmer, 43. The injured man was Jymes Hay, 24. He is in a hospital and prob- aby will live. Hartford Woman, Hit by Hartford, Sept. 14 (M—Mrs. Anna L. Hagarty. 56, the widow of Joseph |Hagarty, former milk inspector here, and the sister-in-law of |Mayor Frank A. Hagarty, died here early this morning as the result of a tractured skull received when she was struck by an automobile early Sunday as she was returning from church. The police are endeavoring to find the driver of the car which killed Mra. Hagarty. professor of assyriology and Baby- | Professor Clay was one of the dis- | Babyloniun | when a Lehigh Valley express train | Auto, Dies at Hospital | former | 12,04 RAVAGENEW YORK STATE DISTRICT New England, Penn. and Mary- land Are Also Hard Hit-- Several Known Killed —— RAINFALL RECORDS ARE BROKEN BY DOWNPOUR Two Inches Falls In Two Hours In Western New York—Much Dame age Is Done Near Worcester—One eonta, N, Y., Suffers Damage To« talling About $75,000, Albany, N. Y., Sept. 14 (P—Terrle flc rain, electrical and windstorms, sweeping across upstate New York over the week-end, left a trafl of injured, damaged property and ruin. ed crops. Rural sections of western New York today were a maze of wreck~ age after nearly 48 hours of rainfall, wind and lightning. The Tonawanda, Valley sustained damages estimated at thousands of dollars from wind of tornado intensity with crops suffer- ing heavily. Electrical stofma caused damage of approximately $75,000 in the vicinlty of Oneonta, {with details lacking because of dis- |rupted communciation. Electrical storms sweeping over the northeast- orn part of the state left burned {homes and barns, dead cattle and ‘ruined crops. The Casualty List Four persons were injured near Oneonta last night when automobiles collided on a slippery highway. Three farm workers were stunned Saturday when lightning struck their scythes in a field in the town of |Middlefield, Four persons were in- jured when lightning struck bufld- ings at Mineville and Elizabethtown, Four more were injured near Sheri- dan when their automobile was in a rear end collision with another car during the storm yesterday afters noon. From all upstate sections came re- |ports of heavy and continuing rain, with electrical discharges which set fire to barns and out buildings, shattered trees, broke telephone and |telegraph wires and did damage gen- erally. In addition to the heavy |rains washed out gardens and high- ways, sent streams over their banks and inundated low Iying areas, Tornado Like Winds Tornado like winds swept across an area three miles long and & quarter of a mile wide, through At- tica, Varysburg, Strikersville and | Johnsonburg in the Tonawanda Val- ley. Residents said an awe-inspiring yellow glow in the sky was replaced as a “twister” which struck at Ben- nington Center, Wyoming County, swept a mile east and then swung southwest, twisting barns from their foundations, leveling silos to the ground and demolishing smaller structures. In- one apple orchard |alone only one of 122 trees was left | standing and in another place a five- acre plot of hard maple stock was | fattened. Rainfall records were broken {n {western New York with a precipitas |tion of 8.29 inches since Friday noon | | and two inches in 12 hours Worcester Hard Hit Worcester, Mass.,, Sept, 14 (A — Homes and farm bulldings were struck by lightning, trees were up- rooted, telephone service was cure | tailed and thousands of dollars dam- age was caused by a short but severe electrical storm in Worces- ter county today. Athol was hit hardest, & number of bulldings be- ing struck by lightning, although ne fires resulted. David Farrar had & narrow escape from injury when & bolt entered his kitchen and ripped up part of the floor, Several other dwellings and a storchouse were struck but the heavy rain prevented fires. Scores of trees were blown down and hundreds of dollars of damage was done hy street washe outs, at Athol. Eight Known Dead New York, Sept. 14 (A — Eight persons are known to be dead as & result of Sunday electrical storms in the east which broke a record- breaking September heat wave. Property damage is estimated at $500,000. Western New York and portions of New England, Pennsylvania and Maryland were hardest hit. Twe women and two children were drowned in the Susquehanna river at Cly, Pa. last night when their rowboat capsized in the storm. At Portland, Me., a falling limb of & tree killed a motorist, Another man was killed by lightning in Hagers- town, Md. Two men were drowned here when a squall upset their boat in the East river. While the rain came as a boen to crops after the prolonged drought, the wind reaching tornado propor- tions wrecked orchards, blew down small buildings and crippled wire communications. Traffic at Seran- ton, Pa., was paralyzed. In western New York the storm climaxed 48 hours of rainfall, reaching 3.29 inches in some localities, a record | for 54 years. Lightning destroyed scores of | bufldings, - Athol, Mass, was hard- est hit in New England. Prayers Are Answered Atlanta, Sept. 14 (M—Morale was revived today in the southland as | southern folk saw an answer to | their prayer in supplication for re- {tMet - from the unmprecedented | drought, and industrial plants were (Continued on Page Two) *