New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 19, 1925, Page 1

"ESTABLISHED 1870 News of the World By Associated Press o pug “'a u"g g ““" gy CONNECTICUT, e TN 05 NEW BRITAIN HERALD MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1925. —SIXTEEN PAGES Average Daily Week Ending Oct. 17th ... Circulation Fu] PRICE THREE CENTS MELLON ASKS LOWER TAXES ‘,PREBEI]ENT SETIN BEFORE HOUSE COMMITTEE ((RVI DEATH CLAIN ATHEARING IN WASHINGTON sy, o vt Surtaxes Might be 20 THO HOLDUPS STAGED | ' $400 b Wi L 'HUSBAND KILLED ON TRACK 37 Without }: 4 ONNEW YURK STREETS Fought Com- Treasury He Says lnuurnnro Company Jewelry Firm Messenger Relieved of &rips Hold- MAKES SUGGESTIONS | ing Valuable Gems | ™ "r0- FOR MANY CHANGES — | A | ot four children, has been upheld | New York, Oct. 19 M—Two bold | py the supreme court of the State | daylight holdups today offset the|of Connecticut in her claim for hope of the police that their round- sompensation of approximatc ‘Shuu. for the death of her hus- 000,000 was recommended to con- | UP Of & dozen members of & bAndit| puny Dominie, Kiled several months gress today by Secretary Mellon. | gang would materlally improve the | ago by a “New Haven" locomotive A I\‘Vlltthoutl at}telmpl}:l!s to lay down | New York crime situation. while on his way to work. elinite schedules, R t T oL o 3 donnis scheaul Suflefi:fl f-::tez::] t};r‘ 8ix heavl A men raded the | l|(h)n effects of this decision, : | which comes In the form of an af- cent, in place of the present 87 por Litomobllo fn which a satesman ' i TS B U SR B U cen,t would not cripple the treasury. (OF Larger & Sons, jewelers of 14 .\ Fo ool e B oner Leo This would reduce the maximum Malden Lane, was carrying four| y* Xooion “ure far reaching. The tax, surtax and normal, levied on the Sult cases of gems said to be valued | o SOW% EE 100 MEAEIE S0 of $200,000, In the eight of scores of [ S8 W8 Watched wilh inierest by largest income to 25 per cent. It s D S e L e enar i | manutaciuring concorne ainco The meotetary aiso advocated | This Holdup occurred at satn|ic Mill make them leble/for ato R el R AR A o e | stroet and Broadway, At about the | 1 nton railroad property involving Repeal of the estate tax, same time In west 162nd streot a | 1€/ emploves while on thelr way alrplane to Cherbourg and board- | '© °F from work. Repeal of the gift tax. . Reduction of automobile taxes by [ bers who took $150 from the safe LEND O DT ;nd cash registers, ! Announcement that repeal of the levies on trucks, tires of track walking pensation Allowance Courts But Commissioner Noonan s Upheld—Effect on Factories, widowed mother ‘Washington, Oct. 19 —A tx re- duction of $250,000,600 to $300,- rm the practice and accessories. Repeal of a number of miscella- tinued is expected to come from neous taxes, such as that on works [iR"vE T“ BE PLANTEI] | several of the larger manufacturing of art brought from abroad. concerns this week, although some | Repeal of the publicity section of e teome tax 1w e vae on | IN MEMORY OF L. GANS tickets to theaters and other places Stanley Works, has been coping suc- of amusement and various other ——e | cessfully with this problem for proposals for amendment of the e = everal months, having posted Present law, including any extension Z10Nists Are to Establish | warning signs ana stationed potice- fi% apooai. Colony at Cost of in the jurisdiction of the board of men at several points to check up The secretary's recommendations, 1 on occasions, Other manufacture have issued a warning that what- based on the conclusions of treasury $100,000 officials that a surplus of $290,000,- ever methods are found necessary to | curb the practice will be employed, 000 is in prospect this year in fed- e , nd this is n to mean that work- eral revenues, was submitted to the | Glowing tribute was accorded the | ynen found crossing tracks will be house ways and means committee | memory of the late Louis Gans of | summarily dismissed, at the opening of its hearings on | (hls city, pioneer worker in the in-| tax reform. ere Zioni | o O reference in His atato. | [CFeStS Of Zlonism In Conneeticut, at ment to an “inequality in taxation” produced by the earned income e emption allowed in the present law, but he added that if the 20 per cent maximum surtax is accepted the in- equality fostered by the clause giv- of the factories claim to have the situation pretty well in hand. T. L. Weed, employment manager for the The Corvi case involved a point Connecticut courts. Stiles lmd been acoustomed to the annual session of the Connecti- | ¢ T A Trierl Atk Jn-m"l'.“_”f:\i“[i Lt Saturday and Sunday In the Hebrew | avel 1o school auditorium, Waterbury, when | home on South strect by a route it was voted that a memorial grove | Which necessitated his crossing the e e iEronTiiinores balb 1$101000 | of treeaibe fplanten In¥iis onor) 1ot NOWGHIENE N Te L ORE (EaSlte Tt e, e B e i) s 3 (oo N Do b (opvit iy patodhs| WA CIY LT RV ) ST AR FC S Tunea colony to be established soon, Dr, | W8 struck and kille et eaoury Hae atary also i ralt SOV iun (oPRUIEYcityspastin: o115 BN AU ral CORCOmEAX Hewed his advocasy, of oonatitu. | 40Ut OF the atate organieation, pre.| A Th° edtate tiondl amendment abolishing tax ex- |8ided throughout the sessions. Gerardil empt securitics. He observed, ho One of the first motions before | ever, that the amount of outstand- |the Eathering was the proposal that | ing tax exempt securities now is sa | 3100000 be expended for the pur- large—he estimated them at 14 bil- |chase of & plot of land in Connce- e et the Eovernment | tiout, 1o be turned over to the na- e ki ~omy. the |tional organization which will fi- e g ald by those | Bance the erection of dwellings and Corvl, an Fights Claim through Attorney K. up the claim that (Continued on Page Ten) RESTAURANT MANAGER. e e o, hoa. |other things necessitated the H T Y PAT & e will dq the |aTTiYal of Tefugees from castern Europe. ork, the secretary added. The gift ta It is planned that a Connecticut the Geerotary a8 one of & “great |COIOnY made up exclusively of J Juany artificlal restraints and ine- | !SR refusees from eastern Burope s o T the taxing law,” He | Will thus be founded and in the very i Pt atdss Bk fhE IS tax | heart of the new district will flourish | would entirely disappear” it the 20 |30me day the Guns' memorlal. When | R S incon it was announced that collections | L had heen going on for some time | [ previous to the annual meeting x was characterized by Bl'idgeporl Man Negro Despite Wounds —Latter Is Held Mr. Mellos ha 0 ittec nd | 2 = Bt I,“I:r"“',oml v | That $16,000 had already been 1 Bridgeport, Oct. 19 (A — Julius o @ purchase of the land. the | Franchl, night manager of the Na- S5 (h6 Bl or Wulorobiia fases |- ntd 'he putthas oL the jand, ghalf T b . : I motion was enthusiastically ecarried, | tional restau has a fighting jtute a burden on taxpayers. |0t ! ) b REh o | There were 250 delegates from all | chance for recovery from a gunshot vernment s contributing 7 v : 90060000 & rcup fowerd wead, |over the etare presont af the meety| WoUnd aliked to have becn lanlcicd 90,000, yoa : 30 ing, New Britain sending 20 under by Leon Mitchell, Negro, In a dis- building and the automobile taxes, | &) 0 00" e 1 There | pute as the restaurant early Sun luding those of trucks, tire and | aoEren gL R N ORE S it i | T, | was one sesslon Sature da annually | y morning. ay night e YElLhs which opened at § o'clock and Sin- el According to information secured about $125,000,000. | 1 ! i O might he tak. | 4aY the delezates were fn the audi- | from witnesscs, Mitchell _entered ho 00,000 SR i s orfum all da fal service | the restaurant shortly after 5 o'cloc! e R i ot el A memorial servi 1e restaurant shortly after 5 o'clock | for Mr. Gans was eonducted by Rab- in the morning and ordered a ham ’M Leon Spitz of New Haven Sunday the government is contrib- and egg sand ft oing wing the $00,000,000 a year to the |y 10" 8 :nrl a8 andwlch. ¢ A :r, being i i T hutnnies ) erved he complained of the food Tt they certainly ought to pay |, 1ocal men elected to offices during and scrvice. Francht is reported to H “_ ik hoaiinnd z 7 |the sessions were 1. I. Rachlin, w have told him that if he didn’t like was elected a member of the execu- | it he tive committee and Dr. Dunn, chair- man of the state committee for the | national fund. | could get out said to have broy This remark is t the reply from He warned that it was not well to tthe recelpts beyond “reasonable” | R , since the w living partia S o i of fthe investments made gh the war finance corpora- repayienis of loans to rail- and sale of surplus was sup- needs. he sald, (Continued on Page Ten) Doubt Clouds Sudden Death of Mrs. Craig Biddle In West “As these sources give out,” he continued, “we will have 1o pay our current expenses out of revenue Mr, ©Mellon sought to defend t} the subject of her death. Her per- Foul Play Theory Unten- treasury's debt refirement pa ley onal physician, Dr. Joseph Cip which has heen attacked by some o | issued a statement last night to the democrats in the ground that it the able — Alcoholism May |crcer ne wond “stake my profes- iobt were rotired less rapidly, great- Sl I sio reputation that an analysis s could be made in taxes. Alld]) siS IS | win disciose no t of poison other Whil taking the people as a than the possibility of liquor.’ whole, it is when the Ordered. Bruises found on the body Satur- var debt is paid,” he sald, “still, a which first aroused suspicion of tween the different classes In' T foul play, are helieved by the in- ople, the investing class holding ¥ vestigators to have been caused by e bonds and the producing class, ::‘f Angeles, Oct, 19 \()-—Doubt AT ae Tillite fiom her ibed from whom a larger part of our tax- {1072V 8 DL I LT s S e T e T | cs are collected, inequality exists. | here . Craig Biddle, | Tn a formal statement tonight Dr. wealthy Philadelphia E. Cipes explained society wom We should not tax too heavily t < connection but police and district attorney's in- producers to pay the security ho with the case and his theor .| T e e ihat we | vestigators admitted small evidence Y1 the case and his theory of L T o sought a balance hetween debt remained on which to build any Biddle's death as follows. ” theory Invelving foul play, “T have been attending Mrs. Bid- reduction and t reduction. Discussing the suggestion for a A‘Hvr a I‘*‘"S\—\mc‘"“‘\:x examination girfl(ni.‘.fi\; nl‘l;,,‘."(;“L,.,flhi‘,,‘, N 20 per cent, Mr. Mellon | ¥esterday, Dr. A. agner,*coun ¥EL miuts ko ¢ Esirrenl s e akain e e Sy ?h'”’;'( SR tion of business every time the sur- |peared to have been due to alco- ‘ml)l 'f“ my mnlm she die a.‘u&.‘ tax rates had been reduced, In those [holism. There were no anatomical ural ¢ } I m.x‘:vnk my p((\ : instances, he £aid, there had been an |indications of poison having been SOF I reputation that an analysie o evident increase in tax sources and administered or taken in al dos- e “"“mfll\ will dmw‘os'- Ff',”“f," the fncreased income “has made up |age, he ad thot emical «‘E poison o her than the possibility A great part v" no | of the loss in |analysis of stoma vital organs ©f liquor. evenue from the higher incom might reval importa nt data on that “T had occasion to ’,m Mrs, Bid “In 1022,” the secretary continued, |subject. dle some powders containing a trace ‘with the maximum normal and, Such a chemical analysis has been Of OPINM That is the only time my Uortaxes of 73 per cent, the total [ordered and until the results are Prescriptions for Ry aer contined lcome collections, ‘personal and |known, probably not for several & drug or anything that in the orporate, were $1,501,000,000. In|days, the investigation of Mrs. Bid tinicet degree could be classed as undér the act, with maximum |dle's death will remain open. Should poisonous or harmful, for the most urtax and normgl taxes of 58 per |the chemist's report reveal no trace PATt her medicines were mild .nt, the collections were $1,825,-|of poison. Dr. Wagr said the cathartics and mixtures for external 100,000. In 1924, with the cause of death would be officially ion nt credit, but before the effect of |entered In the records holism. | 1 throughout according to professional ethic tient and to shield was announced at attorney's office, no in be necessary » reduction of surtaxes could be|In that case, it /dected in taxable income, the col- |the ons were $1,806,000,000. In quest will attending my pa- eking so far as possibie r family any un istrict from , the first year influenced by the Mrs. Biddle's husband, the na- pleasant notorlety. T would act the |tionally known sporisman, Craig (Continued on Page .13) | Biddle, has maintained sllence on (Continued on Page 10) Through | must be discon-‘ *|One Killed by of law not previously determined by | Reynolds | employment from his | Evicts * Highbrow Criminals Enjoyed Shakespeare And Mathematics | FR MISSINfi MAN {Rabhit’s Foot Also Included in Furnishings of Robbers’ | Flat—Two More of Gang Are Taken in New York All But One of Burnt Sf@fimfi” New York, October 19, —Intellec- six companions who were arrested in tual criminals who read Shakes-|Rothenberg's richly furnished west peare, studied higher mathematics, |side apurtent last night, used silencers on their pistols and | Hiram Percy Maxim, inventor of depended on a rabbit's foot for luck [the silencer for rifles, has expressed have been revealed with the capture |his opinion that it woud be impos- | SOME RURT SERIOUSLY Waterbury Man Tells Story of De- {5t twelve ‘of thirtean membera of tie|laiblel to! make an efsctlys iellencer | Y pellagsory Roray “Cowboy" Tessler gang. !for as short a weapon as a plstol struction of Comanche — Humor The last pair of a dofen under But Arthur Leslie, or Rothermel, one |arrest for 2§ hollups were taken |last night in their luxurious east side apartment, within a block of oné*of New York's most fashionable | sections. Editions of Shakespeare, of the Tessler gang under arrest, has | and Pathos When told the police he shot thirteen times | t a motoreycle officer, firing ten times with a mufled weapon. The r thought he had been shot at Saved Landed in Ilorida, Jac sonviile, Tla., 19 (P Clyde line officials today were Boswell's Life of Johnson and [only three tim ing every effort toward finding some treatise on higher mathen s were | Tessler, who has attended Colum- | = ‘N_- “‘,I‘ < ,-"‘l ‘“‘" ng o ,found on the libraray table. Ropes bia university, is charged with hav- am J awler, n- for tying their vietims we under a ing shot and killed Abraham Pefka, hed. A rabbit's foot was on the floor, |furrier, last July, using a qmmr.v‘;”" person missing in the near A similar library was found in the which muftled the shot, but not | disaster Wwhich "“"“"*‘ In the de Iironx apartment of * Cowboy' "l snough to keep them from being |Struction by fire sot the steamship he oft lier, their leade heard outside of Pefka's fur loft. Mayport Saturday [ A woman member of the gang, | The inventor of the gang's plstol Helen Hamilton, was the armorer. |silencer is still at large, supposedly rly reports which eaid ten per- She kept pistols in zood condition, lin Connecticut. sons wera missing were ascribed to iing them when nee s delegated to her could conceal weapons than a man | Police 1. This task becau more One member of the gang was a jeweler, whose duty was to remount easily [stolen gems. Anotper member was charged with selling stolen goods. | Two chauffeurs had the task of pilot- the confusion in taking the passen- gers and members of the crew off the burning ship. In the confusion, several persons were thrown into! the water, and on being r some were placed aboard the Company Oil tanker Reaper and others on the pilot Meta of which had gone to the rescue. On reaching Mayport, the sengers quickly scattered, some go- ing into private homes at the littla seaport and others going to hospi- tals and hotels in Jacksonville. All day yesterday, officials were busy checking their list with the result that now only the fate of Lawler remains to be settled, Advices from Mayport say that a close watch is being kept on the beach for his body. | Ten Injured Arkansas Townsmen Pray| Ten persons were injured, some Y | ot them scriously, their injurics hav- for Rain to Stop—Three |ins been reccived mostly when a |1ife boat was crushed between the Deaths Result | burning vessel and the Reaper while a heavy sea was rolling. Others were hurt when another life boat spilled them Into the sea when one end was lowered too rapidly. Prepare to Investigate fw she ay that members of “Cow- | bo gang have been indentified |ing other members through New |as having participated in 28 recent | Yo complicated :raffic. \I:M'l\l}-s Walter Aldrich, one of the gang, Another gang of seven men under shot in a police raid on the gang arrest s regarded as responsible for |last week, is dying at a hospital. He various other holdups. This gang {owned the rabbit's foot found in the | consists of Herman Rothenberg and iraided apartment. ‘ i FLANES AND AUTOS SNOW AND COLD SWEEP ' TAKE TOLL IN LIVES WEST; COMING EAST Drop— Trains Get Five—Ma- chines Account for 17 (—Octobe: as a month of indolent and placid autumn beauty gone by the boards this year, In- Ct go, Oct. 19 19 (P—Airplane .1\—\ ok reputation unday's sunshine lity, Au- Chicago, Oct. cidents ired thrice® in vs reports, with one fu ¢ 7 lives While the scarch for Lawler goes jiles took a toll of 17 lives in AL tomobiIU toniciaiioll o et Bl stead of an intermezzo has come the Ner loRICiAIgBot iHle Gompany. lin the middle west. Iive persons | Jit’ € 4 has come the | on, other officials of the compan; i1 {G0NGY CPAIYS Ana riol tl In)| AiacoraRnugno ieEHOLR ihe SRIIRAR o relpreparing iror fnvestigation la score were injurcd in various | driving snow and n and L'“l‘dl“ilh the hope of determining the | mishaps | weather into a shivering mlddle|gpgiy of the fire which endangered [\ fnjurien received in &, 200-foot| N0 fE1 W Death even has lurk- | ¢he passenge The ut-| | ed in the swirling snow flake har- N 3 r erly uscless steel hull of the ship [drop trom an aivplanc at Barron | (& & BT SN0 A terly uscless st {lake, Michigan, were fatal to ST I S bleniciyintergidays, has been beached on a bank of St { Dagmar Stedman, GtiCopeniny | aowiezing ,(.;'f‘;w ures gen- | jonn's river, where it will be visit- ) o, Denmark, She hnd boen giving | CFlly were sprinkled through the|a py ‘United States steamboat in-| i DB | aive and mountain states last{c e g ibitions and it was believed that | T e eeetstere | SPoctors and officials of the com- | ner belt slipped, making it impossi- | e \'\\0_1‘\‘ S rean| DAY ents will ques- |ble for her to open her parachute. | - Ij e T e, district agent of | cvin Goodwin, formerly man-| () na - s the ( Steamship eompany , among other low marks. ) puston .club of the nd Ca o8 of the Co- ol thspHoustens 5 | While 1ising temperatures were pre- | * L Z s league, and recently ®old 10} g0y S today over most of the [Manche. {the Cincinnati Nationals, was s r|-\ ik MaZeid appare "fw San Origin a Mystery ien a plane he was L 881 g5 far the o e frerints {ously hurt when a plane | progressing eastward, with lower| 5o far th Wi e 0 ‘N]mm,, fell 200 feet at mys ery. Mr. White declared no nerciry marks in prospect in the n;l] Hou iy 11” daigel ke aitag kil Tuesdes combustibles were carried in _her 1\ plaie v ol tenl Y Taen to the storles of enow, | carso, which consisted of lumber, S anids Neaaal oaane al stores and general merchan- a cessation of rainfall|dise, The blaze started in cotton pickers to harvest| | 1014 number 2 and ignited the naval A bright, clear and dry |stores there, which is believed to be ¢ apparent answer after | responsible for a quick spreading of Kennett, prayers for ‘\m, ither of its two passeng | sas injured | | Collision of an automobile with an |interurban car wa 1l to five in- cluding former § their cro day bro presentafive | Georae. M, Lone, at Lansing, Mich.; | Weeks of steady rain, weeks ago | (‘w'nvm\: to proportions which e . SINE " | the same community 4 for rain{could not ba controlled ward Gerwoll, his wifeand daugh- |\ o'yop)c an tntense arought. | 8. 0. 8. cans from the Comanche s ,",‘.:‘,\f. b nilar accidont | rhren deaths rosulted from win-|brought quickly response from the near Peoria, 1L, two at Chic ana | ter's first general vielt to the north- | Redper and the Meta, both of which & s eacti at Tivingston, Mont. and | Westitwo men being killed at Red|did yeomen work in rescuing the Neenah, Wi [ W M and one at Minncapo- | passengers and crew and bringing wo men were killed by trains at | 1S by trains ¢ they were blind- | them to land Red W Minn,, and one 6t Minng. |64 by snow. IFroni one to four inches r the place where the co- wpolls, when their vislon was obse | in various Wisconsin and Min-|manche was abandoned, nine empty 1 by snow: a boy and a girl met yta communities; Des Molnes re. e boats, two from the Reaper and oo rant mectdontal dcalhl on! rails | ported a shower, and severe flurries{seven {rom the Comanche, were rond tracks at Wood River, 111, and | Whipped by sharp winds brought a | round today as w 1 man's shoes . Chicago youlh dropped dead while | Wintry reminder to Omaha, land some women's clothi marooned at the .wm.\ ak when the auto- | Nine men, it of Pike's I True the Ia to the traditions t man to leave the | playing football. the sea Automobile fat (lities for the burnin veek in ten middle western st mobile 1way was closed to tral- | ship was her skipper, Captain E. & numbered 114, as follows: Ohfo 27, | fic by Svere rescued by |Curry, who suftered s jured Tlinois 24, Michigan Indiana 15, | @ special cog t tinel f’fl Those Injured Missouri and Wdisconsin 8 each, | the Rockies™ eX-| An official list of the injured fur- was 4, I 3, Minnesota and |ccpt to a mountain | nished by the Ciyde Line officials, climbers. Oklahoma follows = | cCaptain OF Fascist Expulsions * IFTH WARD COUNGILNAN 77, Florence, 1 T Adolph Fra extraordi strained left Hamburg, Ger- ger, left shou cklan, Hamburg, Ger- ary commi nt clashes h » Masons, h | President of Y. M. T. A. & B. su»l _ Continued on ing the T cisti and T 'rhymn) Were | - bend- | forward | SEARCH [][]NTINIJFS SUPREME COURT AGAIN | FINDS VOLSTEAD DRY LAW IN QUARRY ACCDENT, New Britain Man Jumps as Others Drop 10 Feet Harold C, Alice this Rossberg, Rossberg of 52 city, was one of Vine street, a party of throp, Mass,, contractor, who 1s thelyyle students who were involved |anl, a thrilling accldent at a stone quar- ry near Middletown yesterday when | |a- wooden- platform collapsed and precipitated the majority of them |t0- the- bottem- of- the pit 40 feet below. Rossberg and three other ale men felt the | way and managed to spring to safe- |ty > their less fortunate friends | disappeared into the quarcy. They veceived a sovere shock to their | nerves but asststed in helping the other members of the party out of their predicament. Rossberg, who is a sophomore at Yale telephone to | his mother this morning and advised | her that he was uninjured. | An Assoclated Press account of Ithe accident, sent out from New Haven today, follo: ifteen men were in New Haven nd Middletown hospitals or the | ale university Infirmary today as the result of the collapse of a, plat- form erected over a stone quarry near Middletown yesterday, 16 mem- bers of the geology department of | the university falling 40 feet into a | pit. Only one escaped without In- | |time of the crash escaped by jump- | ing to safety and one student, Ray mond W. Lapham, was rescued by a human chain of three fellow stu- dents who pulfed him to safety after he had hung suspended for several minutes from a projecting pipe at the mouth of the pit, WIDOWED MOTHER PLEADS | IN COURT FOR ONLY SON s Cle- | Mrs. Della Vandervoort Seel meney for Son who Killed Father and Wounded Mother Allison, Towa, Oct. 10 (P—Mrs. Della Vandervoort, & widowed mother, went into distriet court to- day to aid in presentation of testi- mony designed to lighten the sen-| tence to be passed on her only son, arren, who confessed to the ving of his father, the Rev. Vandervoort, and the wounding of the mother, at Parkersburg, several months ago. The boy last week pleaded gullty to the first degree murder, The hearing opening today decided the degree of guilt. The pro- ccutor indicated several day ago that the death sentence would not be sought. The mother Las sold her house- hold goods and pledged the money reeeived, along with the insurance collected after the death of the hus- to the defense of the boy. She wintained since shogregained thgt the lad was not legally sible and that he probs his parents while walking in hi the tragedy since his confession in which he told of liscord in the home fand indicated along with refusal by his father to boylsh whims. Jail officlals the boy has never epressed \l “\ L DE \n D. Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 19 (A— Daniel M. Hall, , who served as commander-in-chief of the National Grand Army of the Republic in h of F. B, today of he Bell, of New York, rt dise died NNOUNC- | gjety Will be Nominated at od the expul rom the Florent TFascist organiz containing 19 names tion of a Caucus Wodnesday Night {1on: boing) that or P. Murphy of Beaver| 11 follow president of the Y, M. T. A.| Dr. Balbo's {amatical- | & B. soclety and an ex-service man, | | v ratified by wte of thel b selection of fifth ward demo- | |aralst b is also crats for the office of councilman to by the ne apers which succeed Attorney Elias Ringrose, A = that the expelled members, | Who has resigned Principal in Insurance | dividually unimportant, ¥ hy will be nominated a d ed ascendancy over the lc caucus Wednesday Fraud Case Back in 7:50 o'clock in ¢ ted by the common coun- | regular session which s It is likely that he wi to receive the oath of and begin his dutics at once. | within the party asures Kentucky—Wife Is Anx- ious to Repay. ‘Xilla Putnam Victim ; Of Hnldup I(N:\ Qh 000 o West P (P—Tive h prese (‘it\ to Assist Poor [ In Securing m DBeac Awayme e fraud a Kentucky Fuel |invori: od m\:.:\\ of Mrs Wa§s and means of providing coal | mine nine Was proceed utnam, well kr tablishment of a central |ing tod 1 pments in X er com ¢ agency to safeguard | tucky, Florida New: Jersey. 6,000 in sh have mot the means to| Willlam H. Turner, whose rela- ales be the topics for dis- |tives collected $55.000 insurance on Mys. Putnam told police they had |cussion Saturday morning at the of- | represe that it S yped to repair a minor accid f Mayor A. M. Paonecssa, when | Kkilled in the explc was back in heir automobile when the ban coal dealers will be asked to ¥ e, Ky g returned vol- appro: 1, first to meet with Mayor A. M, Paonessa, | untarily from G y to New York | stance, and then to rob s E. F. Hall, City Purchasing and b stody by Ken- writer told pe (hieves'Agent Donald L. Bartlett, Repre- | tucky Ha%1E aptateavor from her a s L sentative E. W, Christ, Finance Com- |t} jer of two men by the e alued at $1 nd misstoner A. N. Abbe and Mr. Shep- McCarry, near Pikevill case, papers worth $4 rd of the purchasing department of | The hody of one of the n ! and her cou 1 re, Frary & Clark's seen id - - | Mrs. F.F ter, * GEN. HEATH DEAD h was paid, Ohio. Oct 19 M omas T. Heath, 91 THE WEATHER | —o g surviving brigadier | ca al G Showers this afternoon and generals of the Civil war, died yes- | post Held for the probably fonight: Tuc-day terday at his home at Lockland, Ken authoritles, she said that fair, colder tonight and Ohio I for sl 'she twas willing to make restitution: Tuesday | [1antry in the battle of Waynesboro, that she * she believed that one of the mine victims was her brot Mrs. Willlam H home she bought In Trenton, N. J., after her husband fled to Germany was planning a trip to Kentuc with her five children after comple- tlon of proceedin ance company has started to recover 70 paid her. But ehe was un- tain how she could get to Ken- Her $7,000 house, her auto- mobile and her cash in bank, some $13,000, have been attached. “I will scrub floors to give the insurance people back the money 1 said. “1 didn't need it. 1 would rather have had my husband.” Turner told the Kentuck au- thorities that he received $10,000 of the insurance money from Mrs, Far- ley and that he sent it to his wife. His son Theodore gave the authori- ties a letter to him from Mrs, Far | ley dated October 8 and saying’ “Don't talk whatever you do.” On the way home Turner shown the grave in which he was supposed to have been burled. At Pikeville Sheriff Johnson arranged a mecting between Turner and Joe Jack, his brother-in-law, who is in jail there as one of the conspirators, being specifically accused of setting | off the explosion. They had a few words about @ Hungarian killed in the explosion, which an insur- spent,” she ner's quesions. son of Mrs, | platform give | jury, Others on the platform at the | { | | ruinea. bl i lexercise of its police powers | however, t Is 10 {joined the state officers from _en- T0 BE CONSTIT UTIONAL Passengers Apcounted for RflSSflERfi UNINJURED Formal Opinion Given in Druggan Case— Other Opinions Are Made Public {WOMEN'S WAGE LAW IS NOT FAVORED | Washington, Oct. 19 (#—The con- onality of the Volstead act | 2gain was upheld and its provisions discussed in detall today by the supreme court, i A formal opinion in the Druggan case from Chicago, in which an ap- peal by the defendant recently was ;dmy ed, was made the occasion | for the court's redefinition of its sup- | port of the valldity of the dry law. The main ground for the Druggan petition, the opinion said, was that the enforcement act was unconsti- tutional because it was enacted be- fore the eighteenth amendment b: | came effective, “It is not correct that the amend- I'ment did not exist until its prohibi- tion went into effect” the court held. The moment the amendment ;\\ as ratified it became effective as a s | | “We have no doubt of the author- | ity on congress to pass the law, In- ‘dfed it would be going far to say that while the fate of the amend. m(‘nt uncertain, congress could | not have passed a law in atd of it, | conditioned upon the ratification Hal(!ng place, shorter answer to the whole matter, s that the grant of power | to congress is a present grant and ‘vh1L no reason has becn suggested | why the constitution may not give | congress a present power to enact s intended to carry gut constitu- tion provisions for the future when the time comes for them to take ef- fect.’ Minimum Wage Law ington, Oct. 19 (A—The Ari- | zona minimum wage law for women | was held to be unconstitutional to- day by the supreme court, | The court's position was set forth | by It action in affirming the decis- |lon of the lower courts on the issue. | The attack upon the law was made A. Sardell, owner of two stores at ogales, who employed four women clerks and contended that if com- pelled to pay them each a minimum of $16 a week, as reguired by the state statutes his business would be Replying, the state held that he was not required to employ women and Insisted that the law was a valld The |¥federal district com™t of Arizona held, at it avas invalid and en- | foreing 1t. Lacks Jurisdiction Washington, Oct. 19 (#—The su- preme court today dismissed for want of jurisdiction the attack upon the California syndicalism law, by Charlotte Anita Whitney, Mrs. Whitney was convicted of violating the CaMfornia Syndicalismn jousness after the double shoot- | |that " the law Warren has avoided discussion of this prompted his act, | assuming the office upon the war | law when she participated in the or- nization of the communist lahor party in that state. She contended | as applied to her (tivities was invalid, insisting that the California communist labor party |was organized under a resolution }\\'h\(‘h had been adopted as a sub- stitute for the one she had reported, and that her influence had been ex- |ercised to keep its principles, within the law The state pointed out that while Yier original resolution had been de- |fcated, that she continued to affili- ate with the organization which had rod its appro of the I. W. W, d was charged with being an out. growth ' of the Moscow communist movement. BANDIT IN UNIFORM MINE ACCIDENT “VICTIM” ©AIDS N HOLDUPS SEES HIS OWN TOMBST ONE | One of Brooklyn Gang At- “ tired as Policeman— Man Badly Wounded Turner, in the| New York, Oct five robb 19 (A—A band of , ona of them wearing a policeman’s uniform, committed a series of holdups in Brooklyn early today, while in Manhattan two gun- men shot and probably fatally wounded the owner of a lower Side restaurant in which there were {18 patrons, including five women. The boldest robbery by the Brook- {lyn band was the holdup of Mr. {and Mrs. Samuel Goldman and their {chaufteur as their car was passing {along eastern Parkway. After they 'had erowded the Goldman automo. bile to the curh, the five robbers took $5.000 in jewelry and $230 in |cash from their victims. The loot included jewelry worn by - Mre. oldman. Within a short time after this robbery, police all over Brooklyn were searching for the band as & re- |sult of several other holdups in {rapid succession. | The East Side restaurant owner, “]h‘hafl Gurney, was shot by twe men who had entcred the place, ‘summc;dvv as patrons. The shont. ing took place in the kitchen, after which the gunmen escaped by keep« had had done no wrong ms | then Jack refused to answer Tur-ing the patrons at bay with thele pistols.