New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 15, 1925, Page 1

o © é News of the World By Associated Press s ——r ————— ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW YORK CITY’S PRI.. FAR REACHING ONE AND IS REGARDED AS 1928 SIGNAL Not Only Democratic Also Nomination Is In Of- fing. Governor Smith and Pub- | lisher Hearst Real Com- batants Representing Walker and Hylan Re- spectively. By The Assoclated Press. New York, Sept. 15 (A—The tu- mult and the shouting died today as | New York city's electorate went to the polls to end with its ballots one of the most stirrirg and far-reaching primary campaigns ever staged in an American city. On the surface, s merely the expression of repub- lican and democratic voters choosing thelr respective mayoralty and local candidates for the general elections, November 3. Underneath, however, in the minds of many is a struggle between two powerful fig- ures, ona a governor and one a pub- lisher, for the leadership of New York's state democracy, with a fight | for a presidential nomination in the offing. General Dissension Althongh internal dissension the republican camp has added to the general melee, interest centers on the democratic internecine war- far for the mayoralty nomination. Long before the fight actually got under way, circumstances eteadily accumulated a background and a ageful of figures which could but culminate in a great political drama, Today marks a climax in that drama Mayor For Eight Years For eight years John T Hylan, democratic protege of William Ran- | dolph Hearst, has been the chief executive of the largest city in the United States. Under his guldance the city has been confronted with mmany pressing problems of interest to the entire country., Subway con- <truntion, relief of traffic congestion, J.ousing, suppression of crime, grade crossing removal and garbage dis- ycsal have heen some of the most vital questions. During six of those eight years, the mayor had a nominally united party behind him, held within the “firm grasp of Charles F. Murphy, the leader of Tammany Hall, Split Follows Death Farly in 1924 Mr. Murphy died, ang with his relaxing grip came the split that he had combatted suc- cessfully for many year: His death marked the starting point of two democratic factions, one that looked toward Mayor Hylan and Mr, Hearst for leadership in city affalrs, and the other that turned to Governor Smith, This latter group more and more chowed dissatisfaction with he n l be Tork's problems and i dis pplanted. There was no open break untfl the democratic leaders of the five hor- oughs of New Yorlk gathered togeth er to select their slate for today* primaries and the general elections. Tammany Hall, under its new laader, Geerge W. Olvany, and the Bronx connty committee, broke definitely with the mavor a.d sclected State 8¢ nes J. \Walker, minorit Eena and long a politieal co- worker h Governor Smith, Brook- lyn. Richmond and Queens threw their support to renomination for | the mayor. Smith Makes Drefsion was then that all New YVork's 1 eyes wera turned teward or Smith. Whom would he 2 with' his great mersonal ularity, attested by his fhree terms as chief exerutive of the state ard the determined fizht mode by | (Continued on Page 13) (}RANTFD ‘Vfl“{“" Rocloville Man Claims That He Was Cheated Inte Marrying ¥ Minded Young Weman., ¥ Rockville, Sept. 15 (A—-On the ground that there had been fraudu- knt contract, Edward I Paimer was given a divorce from Cordelia Rebeeca Fatmer by dee Isaac Wolfe in T d cour superior ehil court teday On Nov. 29 last. Falmer, driving over the Munson-Stafford road in his | automobile, stopped nswer in- quiries from two women who were the roadside as to the where- of a man named Williams. to a He says that not knowing Williams, | the women asked him fo take them to town and he did so and kept them at his home over: Next day he married one of them Cordelia, and the day after the head of an institution for the feeble- minded in M Both womer pla The as said to have had the In- tellect of an 8-year-old child Palmer brought action for divorce end Dr. McPherson of the institu- tion, a8 a witness, told of the escape of the women. He aleo said Mra M r:imer would be sent to an insane ayylum. bride. d from the State| Leader- | ship At Stake, But Presidential today's balloting | g in | in | cor's accomplishraents in solving | Ing its intention that he shouid | achusetis came and | Afraid to Take Own Life, Admits Murder, Expecting Execution —— Los Angeles Cal,, Sept, 15 (P— H. A. Gibbony, 51, who last week walked into a newspaper office here and told reporters he had murdered C, L. Button in a Los Angeles warchouse eleven years' ago, has confessed to police that his murder story was false. He concocted it, he sald, In the hope that the state would hang him, and thus end the suspense he has been under since ha found his nerve always failed him when he tried to commit suicide, S e ———————— (HARTFORD MAN SAYS HE DROVE DEATH CAR | Admits William Conlin Early Sunday Morning Hartford, Sept. 15 (P—Bernard chefdel, 23, of 32 Chadwick ave- nmie, arrested by the police here to- v folowing a difficult investigation { has confessed that he drove the au- tomoblle which struck and kllled William Conlin at Windeor and Al- bany avenues early Sunday morn- ing and that he sped away from the scene of the accident bLecause he was frightened. He is held here on |a charge of manslaughter, A bystander saw the accident but | was too far away to read the num- |ber plates. later he saw a car parked at a curb which he thought resembled the one he had seen in the accident and copled the number, | Investigation disclosed Scheidel as the owner of a car hearing this number but he could not be found in the city. It was learned that he had |and the police arrested him at that time. Ile sald he went to his sister | in Collinsville following the accident and left the car there. WARRANTS ISSUED IN NEW HAVEN MYSTERY {Macri and De Milio to Be Brought Back for Homicide Hearing New Haven, Sept, 15 (P— rants for Joseph Macri and Nick De Millio, now under arrest in New York, charging them with being fu- gitive of Heary B. Johnson, late of Hart- ford, whose body was found in Al- | lingtown last Wednesday, have been 'n to New York by a West Haven | he warrants were issued by the ©'s attorney office today and it s ted that they will be changed to ones charging homicide, XP! ! was advanced today when a witness me ult upon Johnson wasi for the pu | pose of rohbing him. The witn id that Johnson usually carried $200 in his pockets, and that he s not a drinking man. On the con- trary the witness, Arthur Yoemans, sald that Johnson was religious, had a cultured mind had a good ed- ucation. He carr with him which A loaded cue has ha valued. stick with blood been found by the d avenue police, in a car which Edward J. Buckley is said to own and which was used to carry the body from the city to Allingtown. Buckley is held on a charge of idleness, Buckley has claimed that he did not know who used his car on the night of the assault upon John- son. Buckley’s bond on the charge was { raised from $3,000 to $5,000 in city court by request of tha city attorney's offies J | the bo on'a relatives today claimed v and it will be sent to Hart- for interment. EMRE 77LTR SHOOTS SELF Lowell, Mass., Sept. 15 (A—Physi- ians today held ont no hope for the 'recovery of J. Harry Boardman, confessed bank embezzler, who shot himself at his home here yesterday. Doardman was to have been sen- tenced in the federal court at Bos- ton yesterday after his plea of guilty to improper conversion of $70,000 of the funds of the old Lowell Na- tional bank | TAVORABLE TR\D]‘ n!b\\(‘l" | Washington, Sept. 15 (P—Em ports from the United States August were $383,000,000 and im- ports $375,000,000, leaving a favor- able trade balance of $8,000,000, The figures, made public by the Commerce department, compared with exports of $330,695,000 and [imports of $254,542,000 in August, {1924, when the month's balance of de favorable to the United States | was approximately $76,000,000, WILL WEIC | “Providence, R. T.. Sept. 15(—The state board of public roads will lo- cate eight platform scales in various | parts of the state on which trucks | suspected or being overloaded will | be weighed. They will be under the control of the stata police and em- T TRUCKS. playes of the automobile depart- ment, and will be ready for use November L. Running Down | |#irables in Chinatown, which netted in lr\.mrrl!on with the death ! forward and said that an as- | T —— . . ‘ 3(1 3 Kavaqry aymyg mauaaugty;) NNON e | | | an | appointment with a man here today | r- | The inquiry into Johnson's death | d a lot of papers | for | | day |pensation law has been |Commissioner Kleiner to Mrs, e HUNI]REI] GHINESE HERDED FOR DEPORTATION Federal Agents Clean Out New York Chinatown, Making 500 Rrvests During Night WHITE WOMEN PLEAD FOR YELLOW SKINNED FRIENDS Already Sent Orientals to FEllis Island—U, S. District Atty. De- clares Round-Ups Will Gontinue Until Every Chinese Who Has No Business in New York or Country is Deporte, New York, Sept. 15 (#—All-night actlvities by federal authorities in thelr round-up of suspected unde- a total of 500 Chinese, resulted to- in 234 belng sent to Tombs prison to awalt rémoval to Ellls Island for deportation. White Women Plead Dozens of the suspects were found with were the men's wives. Some these women produced their mar- riage licenses, while to the federal buflding to plead for the men, Chinatown was the scene of hec- tic excitement throughout the night | ag federal authoritles rounded up | suspeets singly and in groups, tak- questioning. Patrol wagons made trip after trip between the federal building and the tombs in transfer- ving to prison the men held for de- | portation. They will be transferred to Ellis Island later. Truce is Signed The round-up, unprecedented in its extent, came within a few hours after leaders of the On Leong and | Hip Sing tongs had signed a peace | treaty calling for a truce in the deaths of a dozen tongmen within the past few weeks. Most of the men held for deporta- tion proceedings today were Chinese seamen who had overstay- | ed thelr leaves, One scaman it wae learned, had been in Chinatown three years, although the only paper he had was a 60-day leave from his ship. Rivals in Same Wagou The Hip S8ing club rooms in Pell street was on of the places ralded. Rounding up a large number of men, the federal officiale started with them to the waiting patrol wagons, which had been parked in what was considered On Leong ter- ritory. When the Hip Sing members saw this, they objected to being (Continued on Page Three) CLAIMS RECKLESSNESS IN SUIT FOR §15,000 DAMAGE Aimic M. Roberts, Knocked Down By Truck, Brings Action Against Royal Typewriter Co. Claiming she was serlously and | permanently infured because of the negligence of Frank R. Tillman, driving a truck owned by the Royal Typewriter Co. of Hartford, Annie M. Roberts of Newington, today brought an action for $15,000 dam- ages against that company Allegations in the writ which was prepared by Attorney S. Gerard Casale, declare the plainfifft was in { the exercise of due care in crossing Asylum street, in Hartford, July 2, when the company’s truck knocked her to the street, causing fractures, cuts, bruises and other injuries, re- quiring the expenditure of sums of money for hurgical and medical services and loss of time from work. Recklessness on the part of the dri- ver in that he was speeding, and failed to sound a warning signal, are alleged. * The actlon is returnable in super- {or court in Hartford netx month. GETS COMPENSATION Mrs. Pickhardt, Policeman, Is Granted Money By Widow of Meriden State Commissioner, New Haven, Sept. 15 (® — An award under the workmen's com- made by Mary Pickhardt, widow of Frank Pick- hardt, who was a policeman in Meri- den. It grants her $18 a week for 312 weeks. Her husband died May |16, from chronle nephritis and myo- carditis The claim was against the |city of Meriden. Testimony was given showing that the ofticer s assigned to investi- gate the case of a man whose body was found on a roadside Sept. 9, 1924. The man had been dead sev- eral days and flies and insects were on the body. . It was clalmed that in handling the body the officer was bitten by the insects, his face be- came swollen from Infection and death was indirectly caused by it Medical experts supported the tes- timony given, the widow having al- leged that nephritis was induced by the infection. The commissioner held that evidence showed the policeman be- came {il in court of duty and his death was one covered by the com- pedsation law. others went ' 1ng them to the federal building for | tong warfare which has caused the ' the | pce e v | i | | | | an agnostic who had e 1 1 Armless Man Staris Task of Signing His Name 1,300 Times b Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 15 (P Sam Bloan, state treasurer, who 18 handiess and armless, has started a task that would daunt most men—signing his name 1,300 times by holding a pen in his teeth, The signatures are being placed on $650,000 worth of state honds issued for the purpose of erecting bulldings at the University of Arkansas, There are 650 notes, $1,000 denomination must he signed treasurer, 'ZONING ORDINANCE READY FOR COUNGIL Gommittee Reaches Agreement on Details of Law ADOPTION - ANTICIPATED Study Continued For Two Years Reflected in Draft of Building Re- each and twice by of each the strictions — Board of Adjustment to be Appointed. Sitting In the library of Judge white women who sald they | JOhn H. Kirkham's home in Plain- of | ville, the ordinance committee of the New Britain common ing two things it has failed to do ot any of its in-town meetings this ar, namely, to show a full at- lll\\]‘!m‘f‘ of committec members to reach final agreement on de- ils of the zoning law. The zoning ordinance, as a result of last night's gathering, s now ready for submission to the com- mon council cation or rejection, but it {e predict- ed the zones and code will go through without a hiteh, practically every objection brought to light to date having been incorporated in the now complete law. Result of Two year's Work The codified land and bullding restrictions together with the are the product of nearly two years of work. Arthur G. Crusberg, a former councilman from the second | ward, Is credited with being the father of New Britain's zoning act, having introduced and worked for passage of a resclution to appoint a commlttee for this purpose. Mr. Crusberg was a member of the original zoning committee, Mayor A. M. Paonessa selected a committee to study details of zon- ing, naming Appraisal Engineer Thomas Linder aa its chairman. The committee made an . exhaustive study, reporting back the desirabili- of the plan. An estimate of $5,000 s placed on the costs of is in- auguration and this amount was sought from the hoard of finance and taxation in February, 1924, When the money was made avall- able, the committee entered into contract with the Technlcal Ad- visory Corporation of New York | city for expert advice. vey of the city, started by field corporation. Ordinance Committee Takes It Up Simultanconsly, the wnr'\ of draft- ing an ordinance hegan. A series of conferences with the zoning commit After a sur- work on maps was engineers of the tee and a representative of the cor- | poration moulded the zoning act to a point where it was ready for public inspection several months ago. At this point the commission announced its work at an end and the data was turned over to the ordinance committee of the common council. Under the supervision of this com- mittee public forums were held, nights being alloited to every dis trict until all had an opportunity to be heard. Objections were noted and, insofar as the committee and thelr expert felt it practical, they were embodied fn the new law. Last week a formal hearing was held In the commen eouncil cham- ber and the maps and ordinance were again turned back to the (Continued on Page Three) connell | | succeeded last night in accomplish- for adoption, modifl- | map | Sutczde Vzctzm in lowa Is Not Dutch Anderson, U. S. Sleuth Says Washington, Sept. 15 (AP)—One of the post inspectors sent to Dubuque, Towa, to determine whether a body found there was that of George “Dutch” Anderson, wanted for mur- der at Muncie, Ind., has reported that he is satisfied the dead man is not Gerald Chapman's companion, The finger prints, tattoo marks, vaccination or missing teeth do not compare with those of the missing bandit, the post | office department was informed. When the body was first found last Saturday information | was sent broadcast to the effect that the man was undoubtedly ! the long sought Anderson. Dispatches stated that all marks of identification corresponded accurately with those of Anderson. Today's message from the postal inspector however, indicates | that the authorities were on a false clue, | | Stuhldreher To Receive $4,500 lf He Plays With New Brltam\ RECLAMATION DELAY BLAMED ON CONGRESS | Notrp Dame’s Star Quar- terback to Get Highest Salary Ever Paid Athlete in This City. |President Coolidge Ex-| | . Harry Stuhldreher, director gen- | onerates Interior i cral of Notre Dame's famous "Four | p | Horsemen,” and now coach at Villa | Depdrlment | Nova, will p quarterback for the | All-New Britain football team this| - ] ! | Washi Se ; —Con- ! hiiwas bellevedltodas, ; ashington, pt. 15 (P—Con | It was announced by the manage- |57¢S% and not the interior depart- | ment that the famous Hoosler pilot, | ment, 18 to blame in the opinion of |and Walter Camp's choice for All- | America honors, had named his! price for the season, and that this | President Coolidge, because relief | {some reclantation projects in the | price will be met. fstrem i _-\“‘Hhhlf’vh"’r’ aced ‘;h“l local | *gecretary Work, whose admini- | promotors that he would slgn UD|yratjon has been attacked in some | for the entire season for $4,500. | auarters, is held by the president | to be merely carrying out the law |as he sces fit. After recelving the great quarter-| back’'s terms, the management of | { the club sald that he would be sign- | mhus far, it was said today at the ed up if New Britaln football fans \hjte House, no protest aimed at were wlling to contribute $2,600 of | the interior secretary has been re this sum, the club itselt posting the |ccived by the president. The latter remaining $2,000. |holds that if congress, at its last Tt was decided to ask 25 local fol- |session, had passed a bill favored by Jowers of the team to underwrite |the administration for relief of set- this sum at $100 each, and thus far |(lers there would now be no ground things have progressed satlsfactori-|for complaint. Ty. | The government's reclamation Harry Stuhldreher was chosen on | project is clearly defined by law, in {virtually every All-America team |President Coolidge's view, and while {last year, after *the great Notre |there is no desire on the part of | Dame team had run roughehod over [the administration to change this | the cream of American football ar- |policy as @ general proposition, it rays, including West Point, Prince- |has been the government's conten- ton, Georgia Tech, Stamford and a [tion, that relief should be afforded | inumber of crack “Big Ten” outfits. [to some localitibs. He was spoken of by leading foot-| The administration’s plan fs for mn critics as the greatest quarter- | work in the west (o go on as needed yack of all time and the Notre [but an effort will be made to deter- lmme backfield, made up of Stuhl- ‘mmn before New York s initiated on dreher, Elmer Layvden, Don Miller |a large scale whether it will be a and Jim Crowley, was sald to be the | Paving proposition and whether set- finest collection of ball-carrlers in [tlers can be secured. - the history of the game. | During the Jast few years as Presi- GEORGE M_ PARSONS, 83‘ |a noticeable dm‘rr"u(: in the demand I RETIRED MERCHANT, DIES | | | | |for irrigated land, due in large measure to prices for farm products but he expects that as conditions improve there will be a sufficient | number of settlers in prospect for | 3 : the government to spced up its Retired Stationer Was Well Known | [0 W R pss Wi Published reports from Bolse, | | m Business World Here Few |4 ).ho, recently have sald that a | | Years Ago number of western senators, dissatis- | {fied with reclamation policies would | Grorge M. Parsons, 83, one of urge the president to remove Secre- | New Britain's oldest retired mer-|tary Work. Senator Borah has an ivhnnm. died this morning at the |engagement with the president at {which the general policy of the fn- | | home of his daughter, Mrs. Charles Swaln of 66 Vine street. Mr. Par- [terior department is expected to pro- | {sons was well known mmong the |vide a subject for discussion but the | | business men of New RBritain, hav-|senator has declined to discuss these {Ing conducted a stationery store at freports. {varions places in the downtown section, including the present site y | years ago. | | He was born at Warehouse Point, | R July 10, 1842, and came to New Tm. Has Supplanted The Home- Rritaln 56 years ago. He was a 9 SIS member of St. Mark's Episcopal j Made Varicty In Sixty Ped Cent of | church where he has been an usher | for 56 years and a vestryman for | |35 vears. He was also a charter | Buffalo, N. Y, 15 (M—Bak- member of St. EImo lodge, Knights ers bread has supplanted the home- | of Pythias. Besldes his wife, he |[made variety in 60 per cent of the | {leaves one daughter, Mrs. Swain. [homes of the United States, Lewis | The funeral will be held Thure- |F. Bolser of Minneapolis ident | day afternoon at 3 o'clock at St.|of the American Bakers' association, Mark's church, Rev. Samuel Sut- [told the assembled delegates to that cliffe officlating. Burfal will be in |organization’s convention today. | Fairview eemetery, | When the association was formed | The American Homes. Sept FORMER SOUTHERN FOR CONFEDERATES DIES IN GOTHAM Twice Carried Dispatches Through Union Lines—Was Commended By Jefferson Davis For Bravery New York, Sept. 15 (P-—A dare- devil confederate spy when a lov ly girl in her 'teens, Miss Virginia B. Moon, 81, died here, friendless alone in her dark Greenwich Village apartment. Her death was brought to light vesterday by W. B. Baer, an elderly artist friend of hers who read a death notice describing her as a vet- eran actress. His investigation re- vealed that Miss Moon was found dead last Friday by body was cremated Sunday and friends will send the ashes to her home in Memphis, Tenn. Miss Sawyers sald she knew the woman who was known to half the southland as “Miss Ginger,” only as no fear of death, smoked innumerable cigar- cites and boasted of the fourteen bona fide proposals she had spurned | when a southern belle and confed- erate spy. Baer produced a sheaf of from Miss Moon to him dating back to 1902. She told of carrying mor- phine and dispatches through the Lalon lines and twigs wheedied der and | Miss Martha | | Sawyers,a Texas stained glass design- | er, who lived on the first floor. The | letters | 2§ years ago, he said, there were 112,000 bakeries employing 55,000 | persons. Today there are 18,572 | |bakeries employing 127,498 persons | land there s $417,000,000 invested | in the industry | Twenty-eight years ago 80 per |cent of the bread consumed was |home baked and now research has | shown only 40 per cent i home | | made BEAUTY AND SPY I"(‘alleon. Tallnr F|lc= | captors into releasing her with mere- ly a warning. She wrote that she was | FErnest Passero today flled a pe-| first arrested in Cincinnati in 1863 | tition in bankruptey placing his 1~ by C. Kemper, one time General |2bilities at $3.107.39, and his assets Grant's chiet of staff. The letter is|at $2.139. Passeroand Corrado Co replete with the names of federal of- | fort! have been fn rthe tailor busi ficers who ylelded to her charms and | Ness on Chureh street for five i6 ler e | months under the trade name of | “She died as much a rebel as| Carlson, Tallor.” Attorney 8. Ger-| ever,” sald Oliver Jones, husband of | rd Casale is counsle for the bank- Miss Moon's niece, who was Virginia | TUP. Warner, an actress. He showed let- | o ters from Jefferson Davis commend- JAY WALKER FINED Moon the “Ginger Glrl” for| Torrington. Sept. 15 UP—James ordinary herolsm in behalf of lfert, & pedestrian, was fined §2 St with costs in city court today for Until six years ago Miss Monn""““fi to ohey the Mgnaliof a traf- lived n Memphis. Then she was in|fic officer. He had the distinction | the movies in Hollywood in char- | Of being the first pedestrian ever ar- | acter parts. She came to New York |raigned In the local court on such | | to live a year ago. ia charge. | - 4| OPPOSE MILITARY TRAININ ) | | _ Cheyenne, Wro.. Sept. 15 UP——The | THE WEATHER Wyoming Methodist Episcopal con- 11 —0— i terence last night went on record as | Hartford, Sept. 15.—Forecast | | opposing the citizens' military train- for New Britain and vicinity: | |ing camps. compulsory military Showers tonight and Wed- | |training at the University of Wy- | | nesday oming and military tralning In high | l schools. Abolition of national detense *. - | day also was advocated, has not been afforded settigrs on | & | of the | for Mrs, | vear-old son, Bankruptcy Petition 5'\" |although Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending Sept. 12th 12,045 AIRCRAFT INVESTIGATORS WILL HAVE FREE HAND IN CONDUCTING THEIR PROBE ALCORN PRINE NOVER IN MAJEWSKI ARREST Meriden Man Held $3,000 in Manslaughter Case in Walter Majowski of 80 Court of, NMeriden, was held under 000 bonds on a technical charge | of breach of the peace when he was vraigned before Judge Benjamin Alling in police court this morn- witness In tha > of Charles Sapko, who will be igned at the session of superior urt opening this afternoon in Hartford on a charge of man- [ slaughter tn connection with the | death of Alexander Laskazewski on August 7. The charge of breach of the peace was continued until to- morrow morning to glve State's At- torney Hugh M. Alcorn an oppor- tunity to decide on what action to take in the man's case. TBonds were furnished for Majewskl and he was released Laskazewsk! died Britain General fractured skull lice to have been recelved when he was assaulted and knocked into the street by Sapko. The affalr occurred on Tyman street and at the time of Sapko's arrest, Majewskl was also taken into custody as evidence the police obtained at the time tended to implicate him {n the assault, After all the evidence avallable at that time was Investigated, Prose- citor Joseph G. Woods nolled the technical charge of breach of the peace that had been lodged against ewskl and he was released. wski was taken into custody yesterday afternoon when he came to the city from Meriden, where he is now making his home. W, ing as a material | ea ar the New from a at hospital McCue and State's Attorney Al- corn, during which the possibility of lssuing a bench warrant involv- ing him with Sapko was discussed. Definite action was expected when the court convened this afternoon. (CHAPMAN DEFENDANT INLAWSUIT BY GOVT, His Case Heads Docket in Federal Court— $1,200,- 000 Loot Sought New Haven, Sept. 15 (P—Gerald Chapman, bandit, now in state pris- on under reprieve from a death sen- tence for murder of New Britain po- lice officer, will be a defendaut in U. S, district court next week in a suit government against him. The government seek to recover damages for the reversion of bonds valued at $1,200,000 stolen by Chap- man and confederates in a mail rob- bery In New York two years ago. The court docket completed today places the Chapman case at the head of the list. John A. Danaher, assistant district attorney, today said that while the government was not certain that Chapman possesses any money the suit will be tried out for purpose of obtaining a judgment in case the de- fendant should have any “hidden estate.” Some weeks ago Federal Judge E. S. Thomas found in Chapman's favor In a sult to recover $4,500 which postal officers had taken from him at the time of arrest and which sum Chapman had assigned to his coun- sel in the murder case, Judge Griehl of New York, HOTHER, SON MISSING Jersey Hunt In New Woman and Child Who Disap- peared Last Sunday Evening. State Police Upper Montvale, N. J., Sept. 15 (P) -Reinforced by state police and representatives of the Bergen coun- ty prosecutor’s office, Montvale resi- dents today resumed their search Vista Stewart and her 5- who disappeared from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Clark early Sunday evening. The reason for Mrs. Stewart's supposed flight was still a myster. State Trooper Charles Schwartz sald he had woman had been missing for a short time two months ago and that when discovered in the woods of Chestnut Ridge she asserted she | would not be found the next time [she disappeared. Money found in the woman's room, together with the boy’'s sa ing bank, indicated the flight was not premeditated. [“Rosie Pirates” Robbing National Test Gardens Portland, Ore,, Sept. 15 P — ‘Rosie Pirates™ who are alleged to have ralded the national test gar- {dens In Portland, have caused the city council to consider legal steps by the city to recover plants reported stolen, The rose reported stolen was the Cascadia,” which was sent to the Portland test gardens by Captain G. C. Thomas of Philadelphla, for try ing out. The rose won the gold medal for 19823, of the American Rose society. alleged by the po- | The ac- ' {tion was the result of a conference | between Detective Sergeant Willlam | p. P. learned the | Coolidge Announces He Will Not Interfere In Matter of Witnesses Called or Procedure. All Nine Have Not Yet Ac- cepted Appointment and Strong Opposition Is Voiced to Selection of Howard Coffin, Sept. 15 (P—Presi- |dent Coolidge will give his mireraft lln\r'!flg'\(lng board 4 free hand as to the witnesses to be summonded and the course of procedure to be followed. | Acceptances have not yet been re- celved from all of the nine men asked to serve, but the President i |confident that all of them will ac- cept, Approves Open Sessions | Mr. Coolldge feels that the board {must decide for f{tself whether i's arings are to be open to the pub- Washington, \Me, but sees no argument against open sessions unless perhaps at Isome time in the invetigation the Loard should consider confidential plans for the national defense, The policy to be pursued in this course, he thinks, can be best de- clded after the board has convened and organized, Object to Coflin | Criticism of the appointment ot the presidential aircraft inquiry board of Howard E. Coffin of Detroit |was voised in a letter to President | Coolidge made public today by the Amerf Society for Promotion of | Aviation. The letter was signed by Thomas L. Hill, president of the society, lafter congratulating the president Iupon the naming of the special | board, asserted that in Mr. Hill's {opinion the “presence of one mem- ber, Mr. Howard F. Coffin, will { breed mistrust in the iinds of the {public, and, to a great oxtent, de- |teat the purpose for - which the |board was created.” Mr. Hill declared the Hughes alr- {craft investigation of. 1918-19 had | “forced the resignation” on Mr. Cof. |fin from the afrcraft board, of which |he was chairman, and “caused the ment of men assoclated with | "The American Legion,” continued {the letter, “afier conducting a thor- | ough investigation, published in its |weekly serious charges against Mr. | Coffin’s administration, in which it |named Mr. Coffin and Colonel- Deeds as being responsible for the alrcraft fiasco during the wa Colonel Edward A. Deeds was as- sistant to Major General Squicr, then chief signal officer of the army, un- der whose jurisdiction aireraft pre- duction fell before it was turned over to civilian hands. Mr. Coffin s president of the Na- tional Alr Transport, Inc.. and last week lald before the president a plan for private operation of the afr mall service. DEATH OF JOHN . PRICE Former High school Athletie Star Succumbs to Attack of Pneu« monfa at Home on Pearl Court. John TF. Price, 44, died this morning at his home, 15 Pearl Court. He had been {1l with pneu- monia since last Friday. Mr. Price was a native of New RBritaln and a graduate of New Britain High | school In the year 1901, While at high school he was one of the school's most prominent athletes, starring on the foothall teams of 1899 and 1900. He had for some time been a foreman in the employ of the Royal Typewriter Co. of Hartford, and was a member of New Britain lodge of Elks. He s survived by his wife, two children, Mary and Frances, his father and one sister, Anna Price. The funeral will be held Thursday morning at &30 o'clock at the home and in St. Joseph's church at 9. Burfal will be iIn St. Mary's cemetery. Jr. Achievempnt Hall to Be Dedicated on Monday Springfield, Mass, Sept. 15 () — The formal dedication of the $100,. 000 Junior Achievement hall at the ern States exposition grounds {will take place next Monday, when |the buflding, the gift of Morace A. {Moses, will be turned over to the Eastern States league to be devoted to the training of Junlor Achleve. ment club leaders. Henry D, Sharps of Providence, R. Vice-president of the league, will preside and the |governors of several northern statex are expected to be in attendance. Armed Robbers Hold Up Fairfield Storekeeper Falrfield, Conn., Sept. 15 (M—Two masked men entered the Fairffeld Chocolate Shop shortly before mid- night last night, pointed revolvers at Henry Cravatas, the proprietor and robbed him of $70 in cash., Cravatas immediately notified the state po- lice and they searched the town throughout the night but were un< able to find any trace of the robe bers. Cravatas' store is in the heart of the business section and adjol & theatre which had just dismissed its audience. *