New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 22, 1925, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, OCTOBER GREEKS REPORTED IN} VADING |COUNTESS KAROLYI DENIED RIGHT BULGARIAN TERRITORY AND OUTBREAK OF Bulgar Border Troops, Ordered To “Offer Utmost Resistance” — Appeal To League| Expected. Five Sentries Killed as Grecian Artil- lery Bombards Village of Petrich, South of Sofia. By the Assoclated Press, The Greco-Bulgarfan situation | growing out of the border clash near | [Demirhissar on Monday has appar- wtly reached a erlsis with the re- ported invasion of Bulgarian terri- tory by Greek forces. The Bulgarian border troops are said to have been ordered to “offer w9 utmost resistance.” The Sofla government, according o Vlenna dispatches, has protested he alleged violatlon of her territory to the league of nations. League of- als, howevcr, say no protest has yeen received, emi-official Sofla dispatches state Greek artillery is shelling the village of Petrich, near the border, which is rowded with Macedonlan refugees. Bulgaria claims to have received | no response to her thrice repeated ficmands for an immediate inquiry ito the Demirhissar incident. Sofia semi-official News Agency | laims advance information of a jreek plane for an advance move- nent in the Petrich area was re- elved by the Bulgarian foreign of- fice soveral days ago. Official quarters in London pro- 288 not to be unduly apprehensive, pelieving the league of nations strong ough to prevent serious fighting | ntil the council can act, Invasion Takes Place Sofla, Bulgaria, Oct. 22 (P—It 1s pfticlally reported that Greek troops nave invaded Bulgarian territory, No declaration of war has heen ecelved from the Athens nent. Protest Reported Vienna, Oct, 22 (P—Sofia advices ay the Bulgarian government, as a ounter move to the Greek ultima- | um, has forwarded a protest note to | (Continued on Page Thres) ONE BOARD TO ACT ON/ TALCOTT ST. DISPUTE Will Hold Special Meeting | if Jaffe Asks for .ne A speclal sesslon of the board of djustment to hear the appeal of Palman Jaffe, who complalns‘of an | lleged zone law violation by his wbor, Mario Ciancl, appeared | ertain this morning when Corpora- | fon Counsel John H. Kirkham stood sat on his ruling that the building rommission cannot interfere work on the building. Jafte engaged counsel last Satur- lay when he learned Clanci plans o erect a six-apartment house without providing the e-yard re- quired by law. The partment, at the suggestion of the pttorney, ordered work on the build bug susnended, whereupon Cianci ngaged a lawyer. The building de- artment asked an opinfon of the ity's legal advisor and was instruct- | ed fo lift the suspension. Attorney William M. eounse! for Jaffe, claims the zone aw requires the automatic suspen- fon of work pending a hearing on lappeals, and when he was informed he order would not be reversed he ommunicated with members of the oard of adjustment. I'rom them he recelved assusnee of a special fmeet next Wednesc night hould he wish one. Injunction proceedings are bheing onsidered to halt work, but Attor- v. Greenstein intimated today he woyld ask for the special session ather than bring the case into the ourts Judge Kirkham's claim that ity not interfere with the pro- of the building, 1s answered hy complainant’s counsel hy sube nitting article E of Scction 13 of the oning owdinance, which reads: “Notice of appeal, given as pro- ded in subsection C of this section 1l automatically suspend the con- truction or use of property involved inless the building commission shall ertify to the hoard that hy reason bf facts stafed in such certificate uch suspension will cause imminent 11 to life or property, and also unless upon the receipt of such cer- ificute the board 11 direct onstruction or use as may be neces- gary to eliminate such peril.” The Cianci permit was given ror to passage of the zoning law udge Gforge W. Klett, his attorney, aims the case outside the pale of oning and the appeal is not proper- y taken because of the provisions f Section 2, paragraph D, which cads:— “The ‘provisions of this ordinance %all not require any change in the lans, construction or designated se of any building for which a (Continued on Page 16) Reported | govern- | with | building de- | Greenstein, | the | such | WAR IS CLOSE GAS FATAL TO MAN INEAST END HOME John |, Finn, 84, of 128 Dyight Street, Asphyxiated WIFE FINDS HIM DYING ¥ing on Floor of Bathroom With Fumes Flowing from Open Jet— Medical Examiner | Accldental, Says—Rule Shop Employe. Found about 5:40 o'clock this morning lying unconscious on the {floor of the bathroom of his home, ‘1”1 Dwight street, with gas flowing |from an opem, jet, John J. Finn, 64, a yard foreman at the Stanley Rule land Tevel factory, was pronounced |dead when Dr. Edward Curran ar- |rived at the home, about 6: |o'clock, Before the arrival of the | physician the police were there and | Policemen James McCabe and Wil- |liam J. McCarthy worked on the man with the police lungmotor, but |he falled to respond. Shortly before 6 o'clock Mrs. Finn awakened and discovercd the odor of gas in the house She left her {bed and awoke the other members of the family, none of whom had |been afrected by the fumes. Inves- |tigating the source of the odor, Mrs. |Finn went into the bathroom and found her husband outstretched on the floor, unconscious, and the gas |Jet open. As the man's body was warm and he seemed to be hreath- ing, the wife and other members of the family moved him into the bed- Iroom, where they attempted to re- store him by various methods When these failed, Miss Margaa- ret Fennessey, a step-daughter of {Finn, called the police and Dr. Cur- ran. The police responded with the the man was dead before thelr ar- riva.l Medical Examiner {Lyon was notified and he pro- nounced death due to accldental gas | polsoning. possibility that the man had | mitted suiclde. {her husband had been drinking last night and the police believe that while under the influence of (he turned on the gas without light- ing it. Finn was fully clothed when found. Finn was a resident of this city |for the past threce years, coming (here from Northampton, Ma He |1s survived by his wife and several {children and step-children., IFuneral |arrangements in charge of M. I. |Kenney have not been completed. NEW HAVEN ROUND-UP Being com- Gangs of Small Boys Are Taken to Headquarters In Juve- | nils Crime Wave. | New Haven, Oct. 22 (P—Alarmed [over the number of petty thefts and | burglaries that have been reported {from all sections of the city during the past two months, detectives and | police today began to round up gangs of small boys helieved to be | |responsible for what they character- ke as a juvenile crime wave . | Tourteen boys, between the age |of seven and 14 years, have been ar- Irested durlng the past four days on | delinquency charges. Seven young- |sters, all less than 12 years of age and thelr 13 year old leader, |arrested early yesterday following |complaint of Mrs. Joseph Kelly of 33 Howard avenue, that her houst {at 121 Rosette street had been ruin- ed by vandals. “It scems that they are scarcely able to walk before they are up to some sort of mischief,” was the com- ment of Captain James J. Deegan, |head of the detective bureau on the farrests. “Complaints are from all parts of the city conc ing the depredations of boy: ACGUSED TESTIFIES |James Gizzi, Waterbury, Tells His Version of Murder. Oct. 22 (A — James rged with the murder {of Anthony G still on [the stand in the superior court b today. He has a severe cold and had some difficulty in answering ques- tions between sneezes and coughs. |Some of the jurymen were also kept busy coughing and sneezing. Mrs. |Gaudiosi, widow of the man whom the state charges G murdered, |was drawn into Gizzi's testimor The accused said Mrs. Gaudiosi told bim her husband was on the war path over the property deal and that as he was carrying a revolver, he (Gizzi) had better watch his step. The jury was excused at this point and after a long argumeny, Judge Marvin excluded his tgafimony {on the ground that it was arsay. The state has rested. 7,000 SOLDIERS TAKEN Pekimg, Oct. 22 (A—Generals of the Chekiang which have wrested practically all of Kiangsu province from the troops of Mar- shal Chang Tso-Lin, the Manchur- an leader, claim that they captured 7,000 of Chagg's men near Nanking, where the Manchurian forces, treating northward, crossed Yangtze river, forces re the pulmotor, but Dr. Curran said that | Waterman | He did not consider the | Mrs. Finn said that | luor | were | On Trial For Life in | 1 24 "‘0 'N'BNH nus wnamo TO ENTER U. S. State Dept. Bases Ban on Law Barring Persons| of IXnown Revolutionary Views. ‘Washington, Oct. 22 (—Countess Karolyl, wife of Connl Michael Karolyl, former president of the Hungarian republic, has been de- nied permission to visit the United States on a lecture tour, The American consul gefieral in Parig refused to approve her pass- ports and the action has been ap- proved by the state department. The refusal was basé upon the law which bars persons of known revo- lutionary views. Presumably the Karolyl case would have come under the juris- diction of the immigration bureau on the arrival of the countess at an American port. Even if the passport visa had been granted in Paris, The labor department issued a statement in connection with the Saklatvala case, saying that he woul§ have been denfed admission at New York, be- cause of his revolutionary political actlvities, even if he had arrived with passports bearing the visa of an American consul. Count Karolyi was allowed to en- ter this country scveral months ago, after he had pledged himself to refrain from political activities. E forts were made at the time to have the state department formally an- nounce that he was free to talk as he wished, but these overtures came to nothing. If approving the consul general's action, the state department acted in line with the policy adopted when 8. 8 vala, communist member of | the British parllament, was refused admission as a delegate to the re- cent meeting of the interparliamen- tary union, In the Saklatvala case) a passport visa had been granted, but was cancelled by order of Secre- tary Kellogg, who maintained that | under the immigration law, the| communist could not be admitted The ruling in the case of Counte: Karolyl Is similar and represents & definite policy on the part of the ad- ministration. When the countess came to New York Jast November unsuccessful ef- forts were made to have her de- barred on the ground that her lec- ture tour was to be holshevist pro- 2nda. This time the purpose of r trip 1Is said to be to visit ends. She abandoned her lecture tour on her last visit because of illness and her husband came to the country lust January. His friends charged that to obtain permission to enter he was forced to pledge himself to refrain from poli- tical discussion. On returning to Europe he added to these charges by blaming Count Szechenyi, the Hungarian cnvoy at Washington. Karolyl was president of short-lived Hungarian republic. The countess intended to visit Mr. Ralph B. Strassburger of Pa. The Tribune un- nds that both Mr. Strassburger and Secretary Kellogg have made appointments with President Cool- fdge to discuss the matter. Mr. Strassburger s a candidate for the nate in Pennsylvania. 'CCUSE "PHONE OPERATOR the |Lack of Five Cent Picce Sald To Have Halted Emergency Call From Berlin | Officials of the local telephone | company will undoubtedly {investi- | ate the alleged refusal of one of the | operators to put through a call to tho fire department until the caller ropped a nickel in the pay station | today. The incident is sald to have | occurred when an attempt was made | to summons the iocal fire depart- nent for the blaze in the home of John Gerdis in Berlin this morning. Chief Willlam J. Noble said this afternoon that he had recelved com- plaints that the call was delaved for |about five minutes because of the refusal of the operator to make the connection. TV pa ty who discov- ered the hlaze and attempted m‘l make the call did not happen to have a nickel, and declaring that | the call was for a fire availed noth- ing, accordin; to the report to Chief Noble. As a result, there was a wild scurrying around to get a nickel and give the alarm to the fire depart- ment. As minutes are very valuable to the fire department in getting notice of fires, because of the great hea way a blaze can make in a short time, Chief Noble was Interested in the complaints and will probably take the matter up with telephone officials to protect the department and property owners against such delays in the future. }fartf ofi-l\ian fl on Charge of Little Girl Meriden, Oct. 22 (P—Robert Fagan, 21, of Hartford, was bound over in $2,000 by the local court today on a charge made by a 13 years old Hartford girl who claimed that on the night of October §, F: gan gave her and another girl an automoblle ride to Meriden and th He attacked her in a local hotel. | The girls were running away from | home to go to New York and they were picked up by the Bridgeport | police. Thelr story resulted in Fa- | gan's arrest in Hartford dnd he was | brought here, { ARREST CRAZY MAN | Hartford, Oct. 22 (® — Delphine Busso, who escaped a few months ago from the hospital for the insane t Middietown and described as a “dangerous man to be at large” was taken into custody at his home here | by police today, | | ford, about 40 years old, as the su {trict It isilencers from the | tinction O DELAYING FIRE ALARM ! {and a fourth, |between a gang of boys reporte |ed yesterday ON SPEAKING TOUR Sixth Body Taken From S-51 Wreckage — o New London, Oct, stxth body was recovered from the wreckage of the S-51 sunk off Block Island by the City of Rome, September 25, this morning and taken by the Pequot to the naval hospital at Newport for {dentifica- tion. The hody was found by divers under the turn of the hull leading to the conclusion the sallor was caught in the rigging and carrfed to the bottom when || the 1 sank. | 22 (M—The | ANOTHER HARTFORD MAN BEING SOUGHT Sol Applebaum Wanted in | Connection With Reis- for One Hartford, Oct. 22 (P—Hartford police today are secking Sol Apple- | baum of 382 Woodland street, Hart- | pected intermediary between Reis ing and Tessler's “cowboy” gang Reising is sald to have told Dis- | Attorney Murphy that Apple- | baum was the man wanted and that he last time he had seen him was on Friday, Neither Mr. Murphy, | Sergeant Oliver nor the state police of Connecticut would comment on the part Applebaum s suspected playing In the case, although M Murphy intimated that the police | were on his trail by saying he could | say nothing until Applebaum was arrested. | Mr. Murphy declared that he had | no definite information on plans of | the gang to commit burglaries in ! Hartford, but that Markule, whose “squealing” brought about the ar rest of the gang had told the polfce of the robbery in the Noble drug store in East Hartford. Hiram Perey Maxim, the Maxim Silencer Co., today said the report that Reising had obtained | 50 silencers from the Maxim plant | crated, He said | vesterday New York detectives and State Policeman Ired Hansen in- spected his books and took the rec- ords back to New York with them. Assistant District Altorney Murphy | of New York has stated that Rel ing admitted he bought only three Maxim piant has sald her employed by company of but A, president of Mrs. Relsing band had been Page-Lewls Arn opee Fall er general manager of the pany today denled her statement He sald he knew Relsing personal as an arms manufacturer but that he never worked for the Page- Lewis company and never was con- nected with it in any way, nos was | he ever connected with a factory in that town. hus the hic- F. Crowth- | com- factory, however, | makes the Reising pistol for the | Relsing Arms Manufacturing com- ny of New York, Mr. Crowther ad- witted. He spoke of Reising as for- mer presidgnt of the Reising Arms corporation, emphasizing between the tw the Relsing name Crowther s he knew about Relsing's charge been tricked out of §3 alties from the company he once was president. Mr. Crowther rted his com- pany was the only one now making the Reising pistol for the corpora- tion, and that if the name of Reis Arms Corporation appeared on the 1evolvers found in the possession of the “Cowboy” Tessler gang, they were not made by t} re-Tewis company, | The New York police say they have definitely ¢ fact that at least fou {were disposed of by Reising in the vicinity of his own home in Fast Hartford, Jewett car was sold by ph Cranick on Goodwi : a Ford of I still_another to Oscar A , Hartford, a Hudson, was sold to John R. Chooiglan of Park street, | Hartford. i 0 concerns Mr. | nothing | at he had | 5,00 in roy- | of which | vearing d blished the automobile treet, to a M enue, car, a h, was sold Nordstrom of Park strc (Continued on Page 15) | a | te that | I'TAIN HERALD 929 Ly 1925. RADID TELLS OF THRILLING OCEAN RESCUE BY LINER Skipper of President Harding Praises Valor of Shipwrecked Italian Sailors DRAMATIC SCENES ON COMANCHE ALSO TOLD Survivors of Florida Coast Disaster Have Words of Praise For Negroes and Censure For Male Passengers In Another Version of Burning of | Steamer Saturday Night. New York, Oct. . S. lines today, Captain Paul Grening of the liner President Hard- ing, described his rescue of the crew of the Italian freighter Ignacio Florio which foundered mid- ocean on October 19, “Arrived at disabled vessel, 11:45 in {a. m., 19th, after steaming 161 miles through tremendous sea: port said, “Wind of hurricane force t time. A survey of the sltuation med hopeless to effect the rescue of the helpless crew. Their ship rolling, half the deck under water, in trough of sea. With liberal use of ofl to windward, drifted close ahoard broadside and fired firet the re- s | projectile to run a line for empty !lifehoats fo be drawn aboard. Have Hard Time “Projectile broke from line from force of discharge, Second shot fell short. A boat then set adrift with long line, empty. Ship maneuvered in such a position that hoat drifted to disabled ship, That boat cap- sized."” A position was then taken to lee- ward, Capt. Grening said, and a shot was fired which put a line aboard | the wreck, but “seas dashing over| and ship rolling so heavily" it was impossible for the crew to get in the boat attached to the line. “Boat made two trips completely around ship, close alongside, prov- ing impossibility of taking crew off | by that means,” the report said. “Having done all possible under existing weather conditions, awalt- ing a lull in storm to resume opera- | tions, taking us. “Captain advised ship would float the night out and they could remain aboard.” At six a. m., the next day, President Harding resumed opera- tions. the wind and sea having for brief time subsided, Going close alongside, a boat manned by volun- rs succeeded in getting alongside and taking off entire crew of 28 men. Praise For Men “Conduct of men and officers on both ships beyond praise,” the@kes- cue ship's commander declared. “A boat crew volunteered during height of storm to make an attempt to reach stricken vessel. T consider- od it unwise in such a sea. operator stuck by post three and night, ing clements for ship was waged and days life on a stricken with perseveranc fortitude seldom equalled.” Stories of Comanche New York, Oct. 22 (A—Dramatic scenes ahoard the steamship Co- manche when fire broke out in its hold last Saturday night oft Florida were described by alxty-six members of the crew returning to this port on_the Cherokee. Women praying as they put on life belts, an orchestra of three musicians playing jazz to keep up men passengers “meddling with the officers’ work and playing cavaliers instead of men of help,” invasion of the board deck by men and women passengers before the lifeboats were ready — these were some of the episodes described by the returning crew members, The only passenger from the Co- manche arriving on the Cherokee, Miss Christine R. Roberts of field, N, J, eaid that she did not observe any cowardice on the part of Negro members of the crew, as other passengers have eharged. She (Continued on Page 15) Rlval Schools Engage in Flght Even Girls Take Part in Battle | Clubs and Fists Used in Gruelling Con- Stone test Between Washing- ton and St. Mary Wt the peace and security pact reached le nations are rejoicing over ¥ their representatives at Locarno, | the late world war is Being carried on a to Washington s at St s reach- afternoon shortly 1 o'clock when the Washingtonian made an assault on St. Mary's school ulsed with he body Switzerland, a war intense be students the Mary's school the boy school a sty crisis w yard a P losses by the male the parochial sc P ebe inet whic is named after the illustrous father of this country who was were w student haol w k R “first in | war, first In peace and first In the hearts of his countrymen,” have been making sorties upon the paro- chial school yard on Beaver street ind have been throwing stones and |sticks and shooting BB guns at the Loys and girls playing there. Several of the younger children lin the vard have been hit and put on the casualty list, but rather than turn in on the k list, the board tegy of the student body got sed the shock troops of e members of the eighth 4 se yesterday noon for the big surprise. Scouts posted along the known route taken by the 1ed on Page Two) THE WEATHER \ o Hartford, Oct. 23.—Forecast | for New Britain and vicinlty: | Rain or snow and somewhat | colder tonight. Friday gen- crally fair [ | — e 22 (®—Tn a radio ! ge received at the offices of the | Darkness by this time over- the | Radio | during which time fight- | Bloom- | . —FEIGHTEEN PAGES 1 Per Cent lncome Tax on First $3000 Mellon’s Latest Proposal b P;; l“mtpfl“ DARING ROBBERY I8 woana GENTER OF CHICAGO Cent on Next $4,000 and‘ Five Per Cent There-| Fien | Armed Bandits Take Valu- RELER able Packages From ! o Bank Messengers Washington, Oct, 22 (R—A new schedule of normal income rates was nted to the house ways and | means committee today by Secretary 20 Chicago, Oct. 22 M — In a dar- ing holdup in Chicago’s financial Mallon: | district early today, three Federal The proposal suggests a rate of Reserve Bank messengers were robe one per cent on the first $3,000 of | P Of an express package and two taxable income, two per cent on the | SMall sacks of reglstered mall by next $1,000; three per cent on the | {hTee men who escaped with others next $4,000, and five per cent there- | i1 W0 automobiles, after. | James B, ‘\chauxaL governor of Probably More Satisfactory | the bank, sald it was fmpossible to | This arrangement, the secretary | }¢NtIy the nature of the shipments | said in a letter to Chairman Green | t0 the bank or the extent of the loss, probably would be *“more satistac- | P°Nding checks. Under ordinary than the recently submittea | ClTcumstances, he said, money or treasury schedule suggesting one per | bond shipments were not dispatched cent on the first $3,000 of taxable in- | 10 the bank so as to be delivered at come, three per cent on the next ‘ the | institution after its closing §4,000, and five per cent thereafter. | hours. { Present normal rates are two per | The messengers, C. W. Nordell, cent on the first $4,000 of fncome, | Richard Flaska and Julian Glomb, four per cent on the next $4,000, and | Were returning to the bank with the six per cent on the remainder. pouches in a hand cart when they Mr. Mellon submitted the new fig- | were stopped two blocks from the ures not as a “definite” proposal, but | bank, which {s in the heart of the as an alternative plan to that laid | | La Salle street district, before the commit‘ce in writisg | Tnreatenind them with pistols Monday. 1t really is the thigd ten- [and a sawed-off shotgun, the rob- tative outline of rates the treasury has submitted, Mr. Mellon having | to rase thelr hands while they foss: suggested orally when he appeared befc e the commitice Monday that }amnmum'u and took the rate might be made one and one | package from Nordell, {half per cent on the first $4,000; | fhiree per cent hetween $4,000 nwl‘ $5,000, and five per cent for all over 1 $8.000. Mr. Mellon's letter reached committee just as it was begir its fourth day of hearings revision, with a long list of nesses on hand to submit views on the income and other taxes. Text of Letter The Jetter follows: l* express hey leaped back into the automobile and sped aw. ‘("r‘m'g" Kashohn, a taxicab driver, | half a block aw saw the robbery and notified the police. Hundreds of detectives, armed with riot guns, searched until dawn for the two | cars, The bank messengers sald thelr assailants appeared to be between and 30 years old and that the waiting automobiles contained prob- [ ably seven others. They attempted Uiy 8t ot before your [ to fdentify the robbers from photo- committee on October 19, I said: | graphs at the bureau of identifica- *“The treasury does not propose | tion. | any definite rate, but it presents to| Nordell told the police he follow- you the certainty that the tax r ¢d his usual custom In going alone | form can go to a 25 per cent maxi- | to the express office and then to the mum normal and surtax without | post office, where he was joined by | the slightest danger to our future | Falska and Glomb with the regls- revenues.” tered mail. “In order to insure the ura The robbers apparently were | of such a statement, it was neces- | aware of the practice and were walt- |sary for the government actuary to|ing in the parked automobiles at { worle out a schedule of normal and | Quincy and South Ta Salle streets, {surtax rates within this limit of 25| The messengers were armed and per cent, and upon these schedules| Nordell attempted to reach for his |to estimate the probable loss of | revolver. He was struck on the wrist | with the shotgun butt and warned revenue. Your committee request- ed that we file the set of rates upon | he would be shot if he repeated the attempt, the their various | which the estimates had been based. | “The actuary had used the ten-| tative schedules which ylelded sub- | antially the same revenue, The | | originally filed with you called | | for normal taxes of one per cent on ONE DEAD, ONE DYING, ind five per cent on the remainder. | Fatal Auto Accldent s Early he alternative echedule of the ac- | Occurs E: tuary is probably more sa /| and should have been t This | schedule of normal tz one | per cent on the first two | > per cent on the next $1 three Dn“ Gcenon Mom, per cent on the §4,000 and five per | 0 cent on the remainder. this alternative se one already filed will work out within such 1 v determine 1 Today on Worcester-Shrews- bury Highway Oct. 22 (B — man was killed and four other were injured, one of them 4prn\m~h fatally, two seriously, and one slightly early today when an | automobile coach fn which they were returning to Westboro after a visit to this. city grazed a tree struck a telephone pole, snapping it | 0, to substitute wedule for the first | Your Its own specific as the cc | comm the Ave W Oct, 17th ... | bers compelled the bank employes | ed the sacks into one of the walting | r‘{; Daily Circulation For nding 12,832 PRICE THREE CENTS | GILPATRIC MAY BE ASKED TO HELP AUDITORS IN STRAIGHTENING OUT MIXED STATE AND BANK FIGURES Painstaking Search Thus Far Fails to Re- veal Whereabouts of All' Money Involved In Machinations. Formal Demand Made on Putnam Bank Directors To Make Good $125,000 on Bad Loans Advanced. Hartford, Oct. 22 (A—The assist- ance of G. Harcld Gilpatric, former state treasurer and former cashier of the First National bank of Put- nam, may be sought in an effort to straighten out the tangled affairs of the bank and other funds which Le- came involved through Gilpatric's manipulations. Gilpatric’'s Ald Needed While the check-up of the bank's funds is still progressing and will be sometime before the final report is made, more rapld progress could be made if Gilpatric would aid in the investigation. Counsel for the va- rlous claimants against the state of Connecticut in the action now being considered for the return of bonds claimed wrongfully held in the state ireasury are considering means of obtaining information from Gilpat- ric which will serve as a short cut in the checkup. It 1s possible a committee consist- ing of counsel and an accountant will go to Atlanta, Ga., where Gil- patric is now serving a term of 15 years for embezzlement, and go over the entire situation with him, if "he is willing to aid in any way in the check-up. Thus far the only light obtalned by the bank and' oth- er creditors has been through a painstaking search ‘through a maize of tragsactions, which has taken months to reveal, Tracing Liberty Bonds The accountdhts afe endeavoring at this time to tm& the course of §530,000 in Liberty bonds alleged to have been taken fromr the state treasury in October,¢1920 and re- placed by other bonds In Febrvury, 1921, They are also endeavoring to ascertain where the funds were ob- tained, amounting to $145,000, which added to the $185,000 of which (hey now have {nformation, was used 1o purchase the replacement bonds, 1t it could be readily ascertained to what use Gilpatric put the original bonds when they were taken from the treasury, many other transace {tions which have not yet been disa |covered may be brought to light, The creditors are not informed, ‘of course, whether Gilpatric is com= petent to give the information they | seek. Possibility of Sult If the suit threatened against the State of Connecticut is brought for the recovery of money claimed to have been stolen to replace the state's bonds, the action will' une doubtedly be in the federal- court, as will also the action against the |directors of the First National bank it they fail to come to an agreement | with the receiver for the adjustment of the demands made on them to make good some of Gilpatric's shady bank enterpriseh, Attorney Eruest C. Morse of Put- nam, counsel for the Gilpatric fam- ily, said today that while Gilpatrie answered freely all the questions put to him, he undoubtedly did not see the legal necessity of supplying the information now desired. He maid the former state treasurer's meme ory is very good and he could un | oft close to the ground, and then .| turned turtle on the main highway | to Boeton in Shrewsbury, | The dead: Peter McGuiggan, 22, .| of Prince Edward Island, employed by a Westboro building contractor. Injured: Tamelis Damial, 35, Westboro, dying of multiple injuries in a hospital here, married and has rates are sible schedule solely to 11 within mentioned by me. The p sumed tha | of rates proposals, 10 assure definite trea am writing you no you that the tre made no ¢ in the en in ment q d above, asury has position tak- the |doubtedly give the desired informa. {tlon, and would probably do so it | requested. He suggested that per- haps a deposition could be taken as {1s customary in civil actions, and this might well be depe through his brother, Attorney Walter G. Gilpat- ric of New York, Directors Held Responsible and does not wish to be understood | tWo children. to be proposing definite rates of| Emery Knapp, or Worthing- o | ton, Mass, employed at the Beck- Surtaxes Unchanged | with Motor Co.. Westboro, on dan- 29, noted that| y sub- tes un- the mbers previou surtax ra whereas 1 the = Committe the letter mitted sche disturbed, treasury | ieclar submitted on Mond to b dicted upon repeal of the p treated at & P tuantiasn : 3 _|and abrasions, come, todav's | to be not seriou s RILLS HIS WIFE lay's con tions and bruises, Westboro, on danger list at hospital with contu- sions and lacerations. Louis Gamelin, 38, Westhoro, condition thought such a reg mitte ring began st by Representative Garner of Texas, manking demoeratic :“c’(“:i“\“ L "'1;""l‘:“’!"“_:‘f;“";1 New York Man, 63, Stabs Her to tives of the lowa tax clubs, who ap- peared to ask of the fed- eral inherit Garner did not ily ang o wh he referred, but said it had con tuted “veiled assaults™ on Chairman Green, who is himself in Towa, hints of legation that would take care of you hom Was mos rope ner. Representative Oldfield Arkansas, also charged session wa for repea tax. Mr. Death When She Has Him Arrest- ol For Disorderly Conduct, . g New York, Oct, 22 (P—Enraged because his wife had served him with a police court summons for disorderly conduct, Frank Frans- chino, 63 years old, stabbed her to | death with a bread knife today and then probably fatally wounded him- self with a steb over the heart. The woman's body was found in t the boller room in the basement of nesses were injecting poli | the house where they lived in East the discussions and demanded that|107th street. The door of the boll- Chairman Green prohibit any po. “or room had been locked. Franschi« itical k the arings. | no was found on the floor In his “Certainly no offense could be|apartment. ou, the they but it sald Mr. Gar- | democrat, ger list at a hospital with severe | hospital for lacerations | |tor the aggregate Demand has been made upon the |directors of the FirsL National bank of Putnam to pay $125,000 to Re- celver George M. Coffin to cover four bad loans made by G. Harold Gilpatric as cashier of the bank {wrecked by his defalrations. Acting under {nstructions from Comptroller of the Currency J. W. McIntosh at Washington, Receiver {Coftin has notified the directors that they were negligent in sanctioning these loans when prescnted by Gil- patric for their approval, as Inves- tigation would have shown that the borrowers lacked the finoncial standing to secure the notes. Seven directors and the estate of an eighth in addition to Gilpatric are held to be liable to the receiver of the bank of the loars They have been notified that suit will be instituted by the government |to recover the $125,000 unless set- tlement is made. Directors Involved. The directors involved are C. H. Brown, who was president of the bank; Silas M. Wheelock, R. H. Brady, Oscar Dugas, Johf O. Fox, Edward Muilan and L. E. Smith. Similar steps have been taken against the estate of the late John A. Dady, and the bankrupt estate of Gilpatric, both of whom were also members of the board of direc- tors. All of the directors are resi- dents of Putnam or immediate vi- cinity. taken at any remarks of a political| Police were told that the couple nature made returned Mr.| quarreled frequently because of Green. was greatly amused my- ! Franschino's refusal to work. Mrs, | Franschino was janitress of the apartment house and was firing the furnace when attacked, her x| (Continued on Page 1&) The bad loans for which the di- rectors are held responsible are as follows: $55,000 to the A. Vite Construcyy (Continutd on Page 16