New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 28, 1925, Page 1

Ne\ys of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 ASSESSORS WILL TURN DOWN PLAN TO BGOST VALUATIONS IN BUSINESS ZONE OF CITY Advsory Committees SYRIAN CRISIS 1S * THREATENING NOW Report Not To Be Accepted In Entlrety Becuse of Radial Freach General Kl o 1500 Increases. Hore Troos BRITISH PRESS AROUSED Values in Outlying Sec- tions Where Develop-| ments Have Been Under l Reports of Casualtics Range From Way to Be Marked Up! "'t This Year. 25. 000—General Sarrail’s Handling of Situation At Damas- | | eus i eritictzed. A { Parls, Oc 3 28 (M—The Syrian in the center of the “\mmll(m 1 assumed such a seri- city on which boosts were expected 1""’ aspect ”‘“‘» President Doumer- uu and M. Painleve, in their con- this year will probably be jacked up oo fio8 B EEE e peon only a fraction of the amount re- ,,“\.' bl Sl hale ihe dime oot ported to be incontemplation, ¢ |consideration of the ministerial | members of the board of SS0I'S oniatt tha rereat foel recommendations of the 1and |events in Damascus and its vicinity. valuation committee are too high| i is the information imparted and must this year, for the mq.\,} Shaamitorrioinl Hi i Agae time, bo ignored in many instances. | 1t iq reported that General Sarrail The board of assessors IS in MO, ne French high commissioner has| way requived to accept the commit-|, ckad that s recommendations. The €om-troopg he ¢'s powers are only advisory liye gap and, while a great majority of ils indings have been approved by the gsessors, a recent revision has re- sulted in several recommendations which the hoard does not feel dis- posed to accept, it was announced today. Property Estimates of hoosts running to 12 per cent caused many owners of realty in the center to evidence great concern. Their fears were allayed by the statement from the office of the board of assessors that, although the committee’s recommendations might so result, these suggestions are subject to modification by the | assessors. This 1s particularly true of the West Main street estimate Tn almost every instance in which central realty is concerned the only advance will be the normal increase «hich occurs yearly. This tax in- crease is invariably contemplated in | the preparation of real estale own- r's budgets. Tncrease In Outlying District Real estate a erisis to discus: 15,000 more Irench | nt to Syria to reinforce son. Sarrail Criticized London, Oct, 28 (A—The | press, aroused by accounts tensive casualties 1 the of last weel’ inurrection cus, is strongly critical General Sarrail, the commissioner in Syria, Among | other things, his reported attempt to overawe the rebels by parading the corpses of exceuted brigunds on | camel back through the streets of the city Is sharply condemned. The arrival of consular reports 18 awaited to clear up the confusion | of the estimates of the casualitics, | { which range from 1,000 to 25,000, | the latter figure coming from Aral | sources, British | of ex-| supression | in Damas- today of I'rench high | Americans There None of the news reports indi- cates that any foreigners were killed. The British and Irish mis- {slons and other residents of these fationalities prohably do not ex- ceed 30, but it {s understood that ‘blnagyy 'ms ) |Captain Diehl said, ilight to starboard when he entered {ordered “wu e no N, CONN LETTEETTN ECTICUT, WEDNE ESDAY, OCTOBER 28, CAPT. DIEHL TELLS (Sparks of War Again Ignited As Greeks and Bulgars Both Offend OF INCIDENT AS SHIP RAMED SUB Saw White Light Ahead--Or- dered Helmsman to Alter | Course to Allow Room —— OTHERS TESTIFY RED LIGHTS SHOWED SUDDENLY Lvidence Submitted by Officers And | Men of City of Rome Indicates That Running Lights of S-51 Were | Not Secn Until Just Before Fatal | Crash, Although White Light Was | | Visible Yor Long Time Before. i 3oston, Oct. 28 (A—Captain John | Diehl of Everett, Mass, master of the steamer City of Rome today ed to the naval board of in- quiry his story of the collision which ik the submarine 8-51 with the | loss of 33 lives off Block Island on the night of Sept, Coming from his lighted cabin, he saw a white | the pilot house, The third officer, in reply to a question, told him he thought “it was a tow going west.” As his eyes became accustomed to the darkness he saw the light be- coming brighter. He used his glasses in an effort to see the craft. He or- ! dered the helmsman to ng to] starboard “to give her room to get by. Acied Quickly Suddenly, he said, a red ashed, he ordered her aport bbed the engine room telegraph and whistle together. His nd | slipped from the whistle, But a mo- ment later several short blasts were Shortly afterward the erash occurred. Phe engines, he said, we reversed about secon( before the collision. Captain Diehl read from the log | the entries concerning the scarch for survivors, after the collision at o 10:24, until the three survivors were brought to the ship at 11:20, and | until the City of Rome finally con- tinued on its way at 11:45, Rookies on Watch 1 lght | and | 30 The greatest percentage of in- erease will come in the outlving dis- tricts where there are new devel- opments and land formerly assessed 28 acreage 13 now on the hooks as e v 1n'zl'mcr« "'l;o ebcont as agahwt n possihle yond the report that there y.,n,u‘ e ;’p: cent in the center. been a general exodus of the Chr Although several months will pnss"m"_ lnh«nhv'nnzs._ & hefore a budget for the city govern- i gestion that further |>|mn;]<~ has ment nust be prepared there is al- [occurred, but there are omniou Tady great interest in possible tax- |hints by persons wriiving at Cairo | rates. At a meeting of the park ] board and a special committee ap- (Con'lnued on Page 12) RS T oy coope pRECTION | OF FACTORY BUILDING man &. H. Judd remarked Monday eventng that taxes will not be lower s [ next year and may be higher. The golf ccurse committee, of which Mr. Fafnir Co. Will Try to drop { Judd is the chairman, has appoint- 2 | Have Ruling Set [ there are more Americans, as their | missions are larger, and several Ttalians, Details Are Meagre | Very little is known as to | as There is no su ed a sub-committee to consult with experts on greens and determine the best local site avallable and the possible costs. With the likelthood of no and a possible slight increase in the mill rate, the possibility of the golt course and of an avlation field be- {ng taken care of this year appears anything but bright, according to rumors from circles well informed in municipal finance. Hall Speaks on Taxation. “We must protect the small land- owner and for that reason, the tax ro's of this city must be kept as low as possible,” said Senator Ed- ward F. Hall, chalrman of the board of finance and taxation, at a meet- ing of the Exchange club at the Burritt hotel last evening. Scnator Hall stated that there is entirely too much financing for the future and the quicker the country gets back on the old basis of looking out for l present, the better conditions Il be for everyone. Scnator Hall announced his sub- ject as “Clty Finances.” He describ- ed in detail how the city budget is made up and the problems which | the board meets in fitting the ex- penditures of the city to its income. mall Landowner Backbone of U. 8 “The small landowner is the b; bone of our country,” sald Mr. Hall “and he finds it difficult to meet all his obligations. One of the board’s duties is to protect this land- r and to keep the burden from yout having an spoke of the “financing of the ture,”. where a man Aside i On order of the building depart- | ment, work was stopped today on a | factory building being ecrected for the Fafnir Bearing Co. on Orange .street, after the department had found it to be five feet over the building line. The situation is one that ma costly results since it is po: the city to order removal of | part which extends over the line, which work would entail an expendi- ture of about $2 To stave off this possibility, President R. R. r ant Treasurer A. G. Way of the |nir Co. called at the office of the | building insrector tpday and after going over the matter with Inspec- tors . J. Hennessy and A. N. Ruth- erford, gave notice of an appeal to the board of adjustment. Their appeal, the first to be taken | lin the form of » request for “special xceptions,” as provided in the zon- {ing law, asks the board of adju ment to exercise the power given in section 13, which allows the board to permit, among other things, “a varfation from any required setback building linm"a cases e t topography w A otherwise nece wasteful or impra | | | | mr; that 0,000, Vice- { | | | utomobile than he | fu- | cares more | about having ao automobile than he tate excessively tieable construction.” An effort is bheing made today to have this appeal heard at tonight's al meetin the docket for *h is already crowded. Should “There have been numerous com- the hoard find it impossible to reach | plaints that we don’t furnish enough the Fafnir case, an order for a s money for the repair of streets” ' of progress served this afternoon on said Cha n Hall. “Well, in that the Fafnir Co. the building superin- respee just like a person. | tendent and the Boston offices of | You ki many people W { the Aberthaw Construction Co. will things, but they can't rain the contractor from going due to the fact that her on the job. money to buy them building is of steel and con- they can seeure them in tim Three storics have bheen com- are lots things we'd like to do, pleted and it was planned to build we can't carry out those pre six at a cost of $120,600 because we must make the tax rate; Fafnir Bearing Co. b so low that the ge man can | ready built and in proc meet it. ing. oxtend 55 Chairman, Ha str tunate that there cannot rates, one for the man who wants all the improvements in the world for his section and the other for the small landowner, who is content in | having things kept in repair, so long as he is able to meet the tax rate. Would Like to Avoid Bonds. The interest on bonds and pay- having a home of his rted that the quick- ¢r the country gets back to old times, the better off it will be. does about own, and he wh are W, There but ects lings al- ss of build- on Orange | avers said it is unfor- t be n distance of and’ building lin but after that point a five foot building line & on record. This leaves £2.1 feet of the new building over the line Jhe manufacturing concern has | secured legal advice that it is with | In the power of the board of adjust- | ment to allow the building to be ‘cumpletvd as at present. two tax | For street same he (Continued on Fourth Page) | survivors _ {er's bows without any light and ri !nsl\ml what was meant by twhen he felt that there w; {1t | said | ning | lifehoats and went below | ship When ed Captain Diehl had ascer- the condition of the three after they had been brought in by the lifeboat, he dues- tioned one of them. He said he asked what was the matter with his sel in trying to cross the steam- ceived the reply e was asleep “supposed to be iteh.” Captain Diehl sald that when he | “rookies” |he was told “young student officers learning how to run a submarine He said he radioed the Savannah | {line after the rescue, at 12:10, m\dl the base at New London, when he | lcarned where the submarine came from, at 12:45 a. m. Captain Diehl said he believed he had observed all of the laws of the road; that he only left the scene no fur- ther hope of rescue, and that he | would have staved longer if he felt could have done any good. He | denied a quotation to the effect that | “he didn't give a damn for the ship. | but was sorry for the hoy “I felt sorry.for the hoys” he “The boat would very easily | Ibe replaced.” 1 Suddenly ¥Flashes Red | The sudden flashing of the red light aboard the submarine S-51 just before she was sunk In a colli- “He didn't know and that there was | three rookies on | | . | sion with the steamer City of Rome indicated to Lookout Willlam Adamson that the submarine had | changed her course or had been | “fixing her lights.”” Adamson admit- ted that hecould not sce the outline of the undersca boat until after the sh. | twenty minutes previous he had seen a white light. He indicated | with models that he‘felt the sub- | marine suddenly swung to the right before the crash. | A student officer was on the con- | towet at the time of the acci- Adamson was informed by two men picked up, he told the A | ¥ dent, of the board Carl Haneon, quartermaster of the City of Rome, was acting as| heimsman on the watch when the | collision occurred. He had left the | wheel temporarily, having turned it over to Third Mat: Dryer at the| time, he testified. ¥elt the Tmpact He described two long and several | <hort whistle blasts and told of run- ning to the pilot house and feeling the impact of the collislon. As he | came he eaw what appeared to be | a white mast light and a red light | lower down. He thought the sub- marine “circling in” on the star- board, He was toldato call all hands, then went to the lifeboat and helped lower it. He helped prepare other | to see if the ship was safe. He thought that there was little possibility of there being any other survivors after the had cruised around the spot for an hour and a half. Lights Flash on. Three of the ship's officers and two of the ship's engincers yester- | day told of the collision. It was said in the testimony yesterday that one white light was visible to the City of Rome some twenty minutes be- fore the crash. that just before the | collision a red light flashed out, and t whistles were sounded and en- nes ordered reversed before the | h. | | (Continued on Page Five) {garfan territory in agreement | | the | western | tors) By Firing On Opposing Soldiers| Each Blames Other For New Outbreak That Threatens To Interfere With Pacifying Efforts of League TURKEY IS STRONGLY INTERVENTIO of Nations IN FAVOR OF TO END AGGRESSIO} ———— By The Assoclated Press. New elements along the frontfer of Greece and Bulgaria threaten to interfere with the pacifying efforts t the League of Nations, Each side blames the other for the fresh outbreak. Sofla offfcially | states that Greeks opened fire on & Bulgarian frontier post early this morning, while Athens says Greeks | | near Ramna, in Greek territory were attacked. A report from Saloniki, Greece, erts that the Greeks were at- tacked while wtihdrawing from Bul- with the order of the league councll, and that as a result of this incident it is belleved the evacuation must have ceased, Meanwkhile hoth nations, league council in Par prior to receipt of the reported outbr representafives of appa regar appearing hefore the | | council that its orders would be car- ried out, Turks Favor Intervention xtracts from articles in the | Turkish press are published here to show that there is sentiment in Turkey favoring intervention to “protect Bulgaria from Greck ag- aression.” The Macedonian union of cultural societies has forwarded a protest to the League of Nations against the Greeks' continued occupation of the Bulgarian soil, Greeks Fail To Withdraw 28 (P—Despite the warnings of the League of Natiofis council Greek troops at daybreak ontinued to occupy Bulgarian ter- T and there were no signs that they intended to withdraw, tulgarian officluls, in making this announcement said thet a fumber of villages were bombarded during the carly morning hours, One Armed Veteran Rescues Four Imprisoned In Danbury, Oct 12 (P—Information was reccived here today from Tilly Foster, New York, 12 miles west of this city of the rescue there yester- day of four New Haven people whose automobile had plunged from the state highway into the New York city reservoir at that point. The occupants of the car, Mr. roll, and an aunt vas not chef of the Car- imprisoned in th h was of the sport curtins closed and learned, and roll famil car, whic with side i vehicle sank In the water until only BLANKET OF SNOW 15 ENVELOPING MID WEST: Temperatures I Dropping Also Forerunner Early Cold Wave of 28 (A — Under a the mid-west and Chicago, Oct, blanket of snow, Rocky Mountain region today faced prospect of continued tempe with a cold southern Missourt, diana. he white cov which broke records in Milwaukeo and endanger- ed the unharvested sugar beet crop in Colorado, was nearly ten inches hick in Helena, Montana, and a half foot or more in many scctions of Towa. Accompanying th dropping tempe reaching two degrees above at Havre, Montana, the coldest spot in the country terday, and hovering around the freezing mark in the corn belt re- gion. Kansas expected from 15 to 20 degrecs above zero today and Omaha looked for 20 degrees, The low temperatures in north- eastern Colorado caused business men and school children to turn out in adiing farmers’ .l'mrls to save the beet crop, valued at $500,000, Some reaction \\\Il set in tomor- row, it was forecast, in the northern Rocky Mountain regon and north western plains area, moving east- ward to the western Great Lake re- low ure a wave in Tilinois and In- snowfall were zohad relief from the fi flakes today but fresh northwe winds and dropping mercury pre- served the iaches of snow that fell last night. ing Winnipeg, Man., Oc 1as taken a firm grip on mid- Canada, with freezing temperatures reported throughout the prairie provinces, and heavy falls of snow at a number of places. Calgary was the coldest point on the prairies today with an ex low temperature of two below zero (P—Win- | and a maximum temperature of 8 above. At Medicine Hat the ther- mometers registered zero but later climbed to 12 above, Weather experts were predic! that the cold will continue and that an early and severe winter is in the offing. | Yale N News Warns Against Sneculation in Tickets New Haven, Oct. 28 (®—A warn- ng against epeculation in Yale foothall tickets was issued by the Yale News to: . Tt said that if one's tickets are found in the hands of one of these vultures (specu the privilege of application “becomes a pleasant dream.” In the advertising columns of the News a check offered for two tickets for the game, REFUGEES REACH CAIRO Cairo, Egypt, O 8 (P —Three hundred and fifty refugees have ar rived at Alexandria from Damusc whee a native revolutic pressed by the Frer week with consider: the refu ay that authorities are doing to prevent departures from Syria. was sur- early last loss of life the French h erly | Army- | their utmost | Auto Under Water two inche the above the s Ralph Destin, of Brewster, N, Y., a one armed veteran of the World War, witnessed the accident and throwing off his coat, plunged into the water and succeeded in opening the curtine of the car. He carried Mrs. Carroll to the shore first and returned three times to rescue the others, The members of the party taken to a n v dwelling. v returned to New Haven last top remained ience except for the shock, nervous 'SEEHING CRINE CLUE INBROKER'S CONDUCT Lawyer Asked to Report Tliegal Acts Keogh by Attorney Harry Ginsburg, counse) tor a great number of New Britain creditors of John P. Keogh, defunct rtock broker whose offices were clos- «d following his suspension from the Consolidated Stock Iixchange last month, has been asked to forward ceiver Ashbel Gulliver, any evidence he may crime or crimes in Keogh' T h maintained National Bank building. He had a large clientele in th.s city, many ot whom have reported claims against |the broker and these with other Connecticut clalms were filed in York. | Attorneys for the receiver placed the before ter, orney g al at New York nd they report some evidence ol :nd larceny by the conversion of customers securities, The bankruptcy action, an invol- business. ew e « Keyes Win- a en. st { untary petition, s now in the courts | and the investigatio: in which loca investors have bheen asked to assist may result in criminal procesdings. FRED JEAN VISITS CITY; TALKS OF POLO REVIVAL/ possess indicating | an office in the | 1925, -—TWEN’IY I‘OUR PAGES SUMMERALL, MISS BENNETT LOSES, | VERDICT WILL STAND, Judge Declines to Set Aside $37,500 Judgment by | Jury Mineola, tice Faber N. Y, Oct. 28 (A--Jus: in the Mincola supr court today d 1 a motion by counsel for Wilda Bennett, an act ress, to set aside a judgment of $37,- | 500 found against h a jury| which heard the sult of Mrs. Kath- erine M. Frey agalnst the actress for $100,000 damages for alienation of the affections of her husband, | Charles C, Frey. After the hearing today, Mrs. Frey told mewspaper reporters that she | intended to divorce her band. Miss Bennett's attorney that | the judgment returned last Monday be set aside and a new trial granted, on the grounds that > verdiet was against the weight evidence, After stating that he understood Miss Bennett had sold her home | 2\[ Great Neck, Long Island, and that | she was trying to sell other property there, counsel for Mrs. Frey that he would file the judgment on Monday. Fallon denied that the act- ress had sold her home, and stated | that his client's salary was 12,500 a week. | Under the laws of tie state of | New York, if the verdict is upheld this salary can be garnishecd to sat- isfy the judgment or the defendant may be Imprisoned until judg- ment is s by h id | the | | an automobile las | promisea, Average Daily Circulation For o 12,395 THREE CENTS BOWLEY, SLADES OUT PRICE ATCOLONEL MITCHELL'SREQUEST AS OFFICIALS AT HIS MILITARY TRIAL UNWED MOTHER KILLS MAN WHO SCORNS HER Phila. Girl of 17 Slays Her 33 Year Old Betrayer Former Was President of Court Martial Board — Second Ad- judged Prejudiced — Third Peremptorily Challenged. Philadelphia, Oct. 28 (#) — Plead- | ing that she did not mean to Kill nybody but herself, Helen Schutlz, 7, today was held without ball to wait the,action of the coroner for | shooting Fdward Ligter, Jr., 33, in ntght Holding her seven months' o baby, Gloria, In her arms, the girl | told the police how she came to kill | Lister while pleadin= with him to keep his promises to marry her. Eister, an electrigian, was divorced rom his wife yesterday. Miss h ; Schultz, a hosiery knitter, met him DObRER I S Coloint st night to make another plea to|WViliam Mitchell began his detenso him. The young mother told the &t his court martial here today by police that he laughed at her and driving from the bench thr said that he would rather serve ten bers of the court years in prison than marry her. |dent, Major The girl gave the police a long Summerall, story of her pleadings with Lister.| General Summerall withdrew. on He had promised to marry her, she his own motion after he had been Congressman Reid, Ac- cused Officer’s Civil Lawyer, Opens Defense, Denying Violation of Articles of War. Washington, mem- + including its presi- General Charles P, {said, but her dream was shattered charged with prejudice against the the night before the day fixed for defendant and Brig. General A the wedding when he told her he Bowl already was a marrled man, He leagues on the court after a defense however, to wed her charge had been lodged against him when he was divorced. Lister was on similar grounds, sted on a charge brought hy the| Both challenges were based on counsel and the case was to Ufterances of fthe two generals have come up today, rainst the separate afr department The girl mother told the police favored by Colonel Mitchell and in she sat in Lister's car for nearly SUPPOTt of which he used language . Jy ey was disqualified by his col- | BAD RUTO WRECK NEAR GOODWIN PARK, HARTFORD | south and a north bound automobi | just beyond Goodwin Pa | | Margaret Zigzagging Car Crashes Other Machine—One Man May Have Skull Fracture | Oct. 28 (A-—Ernest F. of the West Hartford & the Hartford hos- ibly froctured sku a head-on collision | midnight last night driving Hartford, Fiesche, 21, Riding club pital with a pos as the result of shortly hefore of the automobile he was Robert fleld read. Aning of 18 West- West Hartford, aud Miss Kelly, and Miss Olive Silva, both nurses at the state sana- torlum, who were in the machine | with Flesche, were also taken to the Hartford hospital, euffering mn\ur‘ injuries. According to the report the dazed | young people were able to give, an | automobile bound for Hartford was coming towards them, zigzagging | from one side of the road to the | other, and crashed head-on into’| thelr car. The two young women had been | in Hartford taking a swimming Ie son, and after that had stopped at | a restaurant for supper. They v heing driven back to the sanatorium | at the time of the accident The car coming toward nmfm—.x‘ was owned and driven by William J. | Moodie of 39 Buckingham street, who was not hurt. Both cars “orm badly damaged. Following a ques- | tioning of Moodie, it will be deter- | mined whether or not he will be ced under arrest, it said. DIES A HEROINE L Warcham, Mass., Woman Discovers Fire, Arouses Family But She Herself is Suffocated. But New Britain Will Not Be Rep- ! resented Because There Are No Accommodations Fred Jean, ayer in the in town quaintances. greatest roller polo of the world, renewing ac- But there was one ac quaintance he missed. He Inquired for “Billy” Hanna and was grief stricken when told the sports pro- moter was dead. Jean says there is ing toller polo this winter in New England. But New Britain cannot have a team because there Is no ink here. Citles where it is be- lieved the sport will by the fans include Waterbury, Haven, . Hartford, Holyoke, ster and Meriden. Jean has not changed much fin \ppearan He has been spend- ing the summer at the shore and is tanned and rug He says he v get back into the game If it is played in this section. was New Wor- N TO SUICIDE N. Y., Oct. 28 (®—John Kenney, formerly a well known nurseryman ended his life today by hanging himself from a beam in his arage. Police expressed the beliet that he became mentally unbalanced as a reeult of business worries, DRIVE Geneva, THE WEATHER —_— Hartford, Oct. 28.—Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Light rain, possibly changing to snow tonight. Thursday gencrally fair, colder tonight an: tomorrow K | her | awoke her granddaughter, Wareham, Mass,, Oct. 28(P—Mrs. Fannie Green, 80, was suffocated in tenement early today, She dis- the building on fire and Mrs. El- | who in turn aroused her | | covered roy Maxim, husband Maxim, finding the jumped from stairway a | twenty feet to the groun der and rescued his wife and fe | of his children. Firemen found Mrs talk of reviv- | be supported | Green lying dead her room and beside her great granddaughter, Maxim, 7 from the smoke. » bed in her the unconscious Tt ild was re- atarted in nlcan! g rently from s w torch been left burninb last which had | nignt. | llam H BLIND GIRL LOVE THIEF And Chicago Wife Action so Brings Divorce that Husband May Marry Other Woman in Case. Chicago, O« in the role of love t wife intent on freeing her o marry the blind girl. and arful children as corroborating witnesses, marked the divorce heag Ing of Mrs. Anna Hunt, againet Wil- Hunt, wealthy automobile and radio dealer. Mrs. Hunt, bet spells of faint- ng and weeping, said that her hus- and had become infatuated with a | ind girl, who he had decided ne 1 his and had 1 her to ain a divorce. She charged cruel- ty and two children, 13 and § years old. corroborated the charges. The court indicated that the decree would be granted. . 28 (P—A blind eirl fef, a hyste two care, ask ot | fired into Lister's body. | Miss Schultz had not regained her e | be [ on that evening will horse which has beea kept in pound. three hours Taat nisnt appeating ¢, |Which led to/his court mertials@hin him to keep his promise and glve |Sharse of violating good discipline. nw child a name, When he laughed Have Verbal Clash t her dhe girl said she opened her| A Sharp verbal = clash e L It an ay. |Ceneral Summerall and Represen- |tomatic pistol, bought several days 'tiVe Frank R. Reld, of Iilinois, [0 o end hor lire. Hor fingy counsel for Colonel Mitehell preced- moved to the trigger, and before she ed humzr}urulls‘ request that the had released it four bullets \n'erv}‘(:‘:]';:m';fiusc Bim trom: furth@neth In support of his challenge, id read statements made by Ge eral Summerall before the presi- ‘!””11" the girl wandeved away in the gent's air board, and coupled with ark and turned up at police sta-'{hem extracts from the report. of tion, whe=e she fell to the floor and Colonel Mitchell after he i w{ between A motorist who heard the shots ' p, Mr. | rushed Lister to a hospital. Mean- ! en revived told her story. She the air defenses of the Hawa collapsed and was placed in care of partment, at that fim a matron, When she was R commandeg by General Summer: ummerall Indignant “I have learned for the first e General Summerall said, “of (the enmity Colonel Mitchell has to- ward me. The report he made is untrue, unfair and ignorant. This is not the place to prove the effi- Iclency of the air service of the Hawailan department. I caunot sit as a member of this court, I beg the court to excuse me from fur- ther attendance.”" The court granted the after a short consultation, fGeneral Summerall's retirement placed Major General Robert L. |Howze, commanding officer of the {fifth corps area at Columbus, O., in {the president’s chalr, Slades Also Excused A peremptory challenge then was the first highway to |made by Mr. Reid against Major of New Britain |General Fred W. Slades, superin- ng private contrac- |tendent of the military academy at completed Saturday and | West Point, N. Y., this form of chal- be formally |lenge permitted of no argument and opened with a band concert and [General Slades was excused. | block dance on the new pavement, Only one peremptory Is permitted Mayor A. M. Paonessa is sponsor- |under the practice of courdmartial, ing the events and has today select-{but any number may be challenged ¢d a committee to work out details|for cause, as were Generals Sum- the affair, which is the first of its {merall and Bowley. It is not re- Kind staged by the city. Francls|quired that the defendant state the Clynes is chairman, assisted by Jo-|reasons for a peremptory challenge. seph W. Roche, Bernard G. Krano-| Vacancies caused by the chal- and James J. Butler, lenges are not filled in army courts c expense of the concert &and|the remaining members retaining > will be paid by contributions, |full authority to act. With the chal- much of which has been raised |lenges disposed of, therefore the among the city fathers and employes|court was sworn, with its original of the municipal government. There imembership of 13 reduced to 10, be no charge for dancing. Mitchell's Report airman Clynes is also handling| Colonel Mitchell's Hawailan re- nances an m»l\m: contribu- | port, which was read to the court he block dance wil a part of the challenge against General Summerall, was dated De- cember 3, 19 and declared the air forces of the islands were badly organized and that General Sum- merall had shown an ignorance of the principles involved. In an appended statement by Colonel Mitchell, also read in court, the colonel said the report had in- dicated t General Summerall “knew practically nothing about aviation”™ A copy of the report, Mitchell said, had been anded by him to General Summer- 1 The case in behalf of Colonel Mitchell was opened by Mr, Reid with reading of the statements the air cer made in San Antonio, Texas, September 5 and 9, charging “crim- inal neglect,” “incompetence” and “a most treasonable™ administration of the air service. It is upon this language that Colonel Mitchell fis being tried on charges of “conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline.” These statements, Mr. Reld de- clared, did not constitute a violation of any article of war. Both on Feet With Colonel Mitchell standing |before the bench, Lieutenant Colonel - e |Joseph I McMullen, assistant trial Ancient Legal Formality |judge advocate, then read the specis At New Haven Sign Poqt fications against him. General Howze interrupted Cols New Haven, Oct. 28 (P—An an-|onel McMullen to say that he and cient legal formality will be carried 'the accused might be seated. out at the town sign post on the| *If the court has no objection* central green at 9 p. m.. November Colonel McMullen sald, *“I would 12, when a horse will be sold at pub- |prefer to stand. I have no objection’ lic auction. This horse had been to the accused taking his seat.” impounded after being picked up as [ Colonel Mitchell looked around, a wanderer in the streets. No one |smiling. has yet claimed it. The old law| “If the trial officer standa™ by requires public sale at the town post sald, “I'll stand.” o obtain return for the keep of a arralgned today, composure. Relatives brought the baby to her and sought to calm her, COVCERT AND DANGING (ON NEW LAID STREET [City to Celebrate Success [ First Concrete Venture request Myt pav: rs, Will b 1 by t RAIDS IN SEYMOUR Five Men Arrested When Local and State Police Swoop Down Upon Their Resorts. Seyvmour, Oct. ive men rested here in a raid on al- or law violators last night State and Seymour police acting on its fssued by Assistant Prose- orge Owen, joined e and confiscated three st of moonshine whiskey and » quantity of mash. arrested are: gmund Wrovloksl, and Joseph Stigick, pro- prietors of a lunch room at 17 Main John Kuokas, Joseph Kaz- lowskl and Thomas Balloon, all resi- dents of Mountain Road. The stills were found in the homes of the lat- | ter three it Is said. All were re- leased under bonds of $500 and will arraigned in town court mext Monday. Colonel street; (cu-macu—nmm"i‘