New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 17, 1926, Page 1

1 N\ N FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1870 = 3 SR L 3 BRITAIN HERALD Average Daily Circulation F Week Ending 12’958 July 10th Lamart s mumfloa NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1926. —SIXTEEN PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS CAILLAUX SENSES EXTREME CRISIS Begs Deputies to Reconsider and Extend His Powers SITUATION CANNOT WAIT|| p (Wants Right to Deal With Financial Muddle At Once, Despite First Vote Against Giving Govt. Un- limited Powers. Paris, July 17 P—Spurred by the sver plunging franc and with the full support of Premier Briand, min- ister of Finance Caillaux will appeal to the chamber as a whole today to sverse yesterday's decision of its flnance committee against giving him extended powers to deal with the financial situation. M. Caillaux regards the situation being so critical that he wants an immediate decision, even if the chamber has to sit Sunday. He feels the question cannot rest undecided until Tuesday, which is the day which it originally was that the measure Playing Politics The tendency of politics again to predominate over the financial prob- lem, as so often has been the case before, has strengthened the govern- ment’s determination, and it has de- cided to press for ratification of both the British and American debt set- tlements before parliament recesses for the sumn Caillaus no stabilization of the franc until the war debts have been led. His statement to the finance he expected a letter d States government which would remove most of the ob- jections to the agreement seems to be a case of the wish bein to the thought but shows treme importance that he to ratification as one of t stone of his financial e Secretar Jelio that, in effect, cancelled the o ons of Fran: vances during the ¥ Washington yesterday, the Caillaux 1d too late to receive pographical prominen: without com- the ex attaches corner- in Par nt a han t newspapers, more t in the however, remarks in his figures, does the $400,000,- for war s lon, account not { 000 ov ocks, adc tes to as all her obli- had been total- igures would be d yet the Caillanx-Church ent would be still slightly between tions were talled t1 gation led, the correc i1l agreer better than that concluded [Mr. Mellon and M, Berenger, French ambassador to the United 1tes who handled the debt negotiations Mr. Mellon's declaration w in linswer to critics who contended th Great Dr had gi France nient debt settlemen granted by the He ain erms United re not i hurchill agreem nt- v being treated ~.;m\.\\, and fore do not appear in the total Anglo-French settlement erything was included in nder the American s was recalled. Refuse to listend Power i nee of ench chamber commit the refused to grant government full powers yester- ¢ by a vots of 14 to 13. Mean- while the franc fell to new depth t was quoted at 42.49 to the dollar | the pound sterling when the Bou closed, but later | frallied to 41.53 to the dollar and 202 to the pound. Members of the left groups were | responsible for defeat the sowers bill in the chamber’s finance omr The socialis iled fo| follow the example of their col- cagues in Belgium, who joined with | he conservatives and liberals in | voting dictatorial powers to the | in There wa sosition of and 206.3 to s slight change in the | the Belgian franc yes- It was quoted when the | rket closed nt 43.40 to 211 to the pound | 3ru; he dollar and bterling. The ¥ will in- tall betting agenc > tracks n city and country centers, retain- ng five per cent of all amounts vagered, as one of its measures to he federal revenue and re- al equilibrium. “hicago Highwayman Dies | From Policeman’s Bullet July 17 (P—A youth 3ernard Carmichael of was shat andf a policen u" nd a v\mu'\‘ University of C} pad robbed two hi- > st lent Several hours later t 1 ted D. C. Harrison, forme Battle C Michigan, He con- | ssed Lie was the slain youth’s com- anion, t reported. He told the | fficers that the “revolver” used in he holdup was made of g He aid the two had met three days ego | nd had ¢ d {o use the toy to ulv\ hin money and go south. Among the eflects of the han were found a dischar, he Ohio state reforma —_— | MANEUVERS AT NIANTIC Hartford, July 17 (¥ — Flying h uvyrs will be held at Niantic ext Wednesday when Governor’ ohn H. Trumbull is on the training eld for inspection of the National d units in camp there. Lieuts A. Dixon, Earl W. Fleet and arry W. Generous of the 118th' bservation squadron have been liven permission to participate. dead | from arl on | intended | uld be debated. | maintains there can | o real restoration of French fi- | full | | set forth, { owner of | May, | tion. |in the city court Squ - [turnable |torney | Jacob | tol, | has brougnt suit ' Romantic Couples, Wedded at Sea, Get Jolt When Legality of Such Marriage Service is Questioned Shipping Board Rules No Federal Statute Em- powers Captains to Tie Nuptial Knots and Un- less State of Ship’s Registry Does Status of Ceremony Is Dubious. Junkman Pays 25 Cents For Rags Hiding $1,200 Police Recm er Money Springfield, \hes July 17 (P — With only an old blue mattress for a clue, Police Lieutenants George W. Bicknell ana b. 3 Fenton succeeded yesterday after- noon in tracing down an itinerant Junkman who had bought a bag of rags containing $1,200 in cash for 25 cents. Mrs. Peter Audain, preparing for a trip to the British West In- dies, started housecleaning yes- terday morning and gathered up all the old rags and junk about the house and called in a junk man. _After much haggling he offered her 25 cents for the lot and took it away. When her husband came home vesterday afternoon and went to the place he had hidden his life || captains to conduct savings, he immedfately went into | | monies hysterics, for the money was i gone. He had not told his wife T} about hiding the money and she || vessels a ma e had innocently thrown it in w by any one of them would have no the jun more validity “than if it had been | thorized FOR SHORT SENTENCE - in which Judge C n, July 17 (® — The validity of scores of marriage ce | monies ormed in the romantic tting of an ocean liner's bridge by | masters of American merchant ves- sels was in question today as the result of an opinfon by the legal department of the shipping board tha no federal such ce: smbshell for Romance performed among those au- to preside at such cere- opinion, handed down auncey G. Parker, general grew out of a request from 1ad re- from a fore as to the validity Accused such arriage de; America Senids Thanks iRl oo = o e t() \llil‘z 1]\(]\1 been ma ed at sea aboard a | shipping board vessel by the cap- ey tain. The name of the couple, the _|ship and the country making S | inquiry not made public. . Hartley Weds Man Mid- | The opinion recalled that v J G. f an oce ! 5. with the capta ceremonie Promincnt sen- the “marrying skippers have been Captain Herbert Har of the Leviathan and C: George Tried of the President Roosevelt, the r especls A | after his heroic rescue of the e st completed: a year's term in a founder Bri fre irfield county jail and he felt he A tlenbs o B nsh d been punished in this way. . Gantatn Nelson pleaded guilty testt 5 mony was offered that in June, o T00E, " hsl oy ed merchandise ”_;"‘“’ 1lued at $26 at the Dickinson Dru o Co. store, and rugs valued at $35 e 1t B. C. Porter Sons store, chargin them to Joseph P. Sessions of Br tol, who, it was learned later, had not authorized the purchases. Bm- ployes of both concerns ide: | Nelson in court. Detective Sergeant testified that Nelson was arrested in | New Haven and the authorities in that eity located books purchased at the Dickinson Drug Co. in Middle- | town, Nelson had sent them | by parcel post. The rugs were re- | covered. | lists ship masters counsel, ceived an in government uiry Fraud, § *“Tell the judge I thank him' | the message sent by Ernest N {aged 40, of 125 Court street, to Judge B. W dletown, | through Prosecuting Attorne Woods, morning, tenced to charge of alse pretenses. sented by coun to the court was th were many sought the er for the n perform- after police court Nelson havir jail for 30 da on obtaining goods under He was not repre- el and his only state- th b been nione 1y ight er, cartooni aumont, and to Be New York h ve \r) Definite (aniou lge Parker expressed no view ified | #S to the validity of marriages ready performed but, in view great uncertainty as to w laws may provide, the hoard the Emergency Fleet cor- on to notify all officers of essels that they were w ers under American perform marri , to Nora jamin city W. P. McCue hout le pow to —Mara : federa AW moni The legal | board has n | vey department of de no attempt te@sur- e statutes on the matter. hipping board circles except that masters of privately own merchant ¢ t will be noti | promptly by their owners of board's action, although no | have been taken, so f: be learned, to seck | fon from the department of justice | pr to call the situation to the tention of the commer df‘xvr[- | ment or any other governmental agency. There was nothing to indi- te that the board expected to go | beyond the fnstructions issued to| jSPAN'fiH SOCIETY 1S - SUED FOR $8!]l] REN | Landlord .-\ Claims Ma- | licious Damage to His Property Suit for $800 has been brou; Morris Jackson panol, a Spanish organization, al- | of fact that such ing that four months rent amunt- | had been issued. ing to $300 remains 1 on a| i ot o o S5t St Y SPENDS OVER MILLION | IN FIRST QUARTER OF YEAR reet, also that when tl Withdrawals the suite were vaca by the defendant oni June 1, 1 they were found \n‘ have becen maliciously and wilfully damaged. The defendant took a three years' | lease on the suite from Hil ris, from September 1, 19 and later Jackson became | the building. Rent for June, July and has not August h been paid, ac to the allega- from Appropriations Amount to $1,065,054, Icaving Balance of $2,449,159. More spent by of the more | by the terly than a million dollars was city in the first quarter ar. Of this amount, f was paid out school commit , the quar- liam M. Greenstein eport of Comptroll which is returnable | Curtis the third Monday| Amounts paid out of all ace | total $1,065,054.25, leaving balances amounting to $2,449,4 comptroller reports. New fund withdrawals were ind from the district sums Attorney W iesued the writ, in July ebastiano Lomba torney J. G. Woods, has bro action for $100 agai ciote and Peter leging t the defendants’ truck | struck the cellar structure of a building at 196 Bu t street on July 19, 1925, causing a n. The damage amounted to ccording to the ailegation. The writ is re- in city court the third Monday in July, O'Dell's Garage, d LeWitt, rdo, through At- lcl.llml: |Govt. Dismisses Action Against Swift & Co. | hington, July 17 (®—The fed de edings against Swift Chicago and the company, out of their p!lnl stock nf | | wi ral tr its pre con through s brought suit $75 against Robert Stone, The writ is returnable in the city court. Ralph Hedenberg, through J. G. Woods, has broug nd Philadelphia. The action for $200 and double or treble [complaint w \xer! on charges that ldamages in accordance with Section |the transaction was designed to les 1573 of the general statut ainst |Sen competition in the sale of leath- {er between the Swift company of chwab, the allegation being | that Walter Sandersan, employe of |England, Walton and company. the defendant, caused a collision on g . a bridge on Compounce road, Bris-| RICH OIL WELL Rt ot 1105 it JLBK A8 1928, ampico, Mexico, July 17 (9 — | which the plaintif :mmnmh|1u‘w‘~' oil men declare to be ihe | Ataagsd: greatest well in the northern petro- ket leum district has been struck in the panes Tampasoa field, north of the fa- through Attorney mous Panuco oil region. The well, which was brought in at a depth of 1,607 feet has produced 15,000 bar- rels. It is the property of the Eng- lish Ofl company, a subsidiary of the Attorney for any Leather gre the c National Boston, which cquisition of half gland, Walton Al in Auto Service station, Cyril F. Gaffney, for $500 against A. M. Winkle. The case is return- able the third Monday in July in hows. | the were taken. | : ; | commission has dismissed and | statute empowers | e board notified masters of its| the vessel s documented | the | tain | al- | of the | state | di- | Syy the | the zainst the C ,,‘m, |its own officers and the publicat tion | instructions | | | lustration. er H. L. | be | % (Continued on Page 12) Mexico-Panuco Oil corporation. | Litehield in Frieuds Invited to Girl's Wedding Now Invited to Funeral et Chicago, July 17 of friends of Miss F 27, who a few da invitations to h wedding on Sept. 1, today ved invita tions to attend her funeral. She was stricken with a heart attack and when told that she could not live, made out a list of all tho: to whom she sent wedding invi- tations, asking that each be in- vited to her funeral. She died yesterday. S TONG KILLINGS MUST (ZP)—Scores ther Dore, ago received |Otherwise Jail Faces All | Members in Frisco’s Chinatown San Francisco, July 17 (P)—Not is being served today on Chinese highbinder” tongs 1n the west that re tong slayings will be toler- nd that if any occur every nember of warlike societies will The warnings were led off by Ser- ant John J. Manion, in charge of n Francisco's Chinatown police detail. He recently wres from tong leaders that there would | be no more killings in San Francis- co. Some months ago two Killings rred but the Chinese were con- | s enough to do the killing on | 1t was explained hangover” Killin hed business required score. or unfin to | even the Lately the tong have [ been renewed in Seattie, Portland, a mento and Santa Barbara with ome murmurings here. Manion said today that the Chin- there i3 no hope of sc present between the d Bing I\' & tongs until g Kongs as are that many Hop tongs. The situatipn d in accordan of justice. tronbles sist the sing | ese in | tling Ho are Killed, ARE BEING PROTECTE Govt. Acts After | Hearing of Threats in Sacco-Vanzetti Case Geneva nd, July 17 (P— | The Swiss police have taken | ures for the protection of the Amer- | ican legation in Berne and the con- | sulates throughout the country ow- ing to the receipt ot several threat- ening letters by the The letters are conr > of Sacco and Vanzetti who have ged a long-drawn fight for their { lives in Massachusetts, after convic- tion for murder. TRAFFIC EVOLUTION of witzerl me tian. cted with the Models of Development and Vehicles Since 1776 is to Be Peature of Sesqui-centennial. Hartford, July 17 (®) — Traffic | problems and evolution and highways will each be illustrated at the Sesqui-centennial exposition in Philadelphia, the exhibits to cover the period since the Declara- tion of Independence was signed. The display will be in with table area for clay model The highway transporta- tion changes will be shown from a one-hol y on a mud road 1776, a horse frightened by sight of a motor car, average two types of a latest road of cement. growth of traffic problems, a chart will be used and below #t will he first registration certificate of Judge James P. Woodruff 19 The first reg tration marker heavy leather bearing nic numbers will be shown, The walls of the booth adorned with pictures of car on the In showing of plated will cars { maps. POSTAL DEPT. STRIKE Shangha July () — Postal | service in Shanghai has been para- Iyzed by a st 200 employ The strike is attributed to i actlvities and high rice prices. HIGH TIDES [} July 18 (Standard Time) | New Haven: 4.07 a.um. 4.36 p.m. | New London: 3.01a.m. 3.38 pm, | * THE WEATH Hartford, July 17—Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Increasing cloudiness, prob- ably followed by local thun- der showers late tonight or Sunday; warmer tonight; cooler Sunday afternocn and night Winsted Policeman is Guarding Mrs. Hemming From Any Possible Annoyance Durmg Court Action| CEASE, POLICE STATE - d promises | of vehicles | booth | il- | * |Hemming has been living at ot | be and | . |of the committee in charge of Pol-| with laxity GALLS OLD PALTO - GONFESY SLATIN {Syracuse Man Admits Killing Wile—Claims Sell Delense {PRAYS FOR FORGIVENNESS| Detective ‘Highland Lake’s Summel" ‘ Colony Turns Out En‘ Attend Hear ing of Four Detectives Who Tried Woman Friend of Murderer's Boy- hood Days Listens To Confession and Alds In Unearthing Body of 1‘ rom *tim, Syrac " Masse to | o would 17 (P—DMrs divorcee, who pre- Cabin” o Louis science which not A no her of this city, | Winst Conn,, mming. July arion He ed Detective cotta boyhood d; {empted 3 murder of his nnett, a pal of former close and confessed to the contractor nr} ife after immer colony at |y¢ guard | ly in a friendly| official pre- ectrical . quarrel in the cellar of home, But his co th the | seribed was under or \fession not end tter of he best in a box how had the at- to herself for the up early and came urt k iven to | detective od a mile east of {body in her and had it car: along the lake, less than Branch. given rave was with M d it bors were ried to 2 lonely of Onondag: Long ays For T'c ikeshift ctives la wooden hox as disinterred. the ai in reh pot for the co of its | found liceman On Guard. Hem ing told by her Coroner Samuel A. Her. not needed as a | wrd to the quiet- y lively v for d police chief sent in orm to give and to see the place little body Kneeli coffin 1220 o of crime and ess for a “murder tly committed in er in the even ken from his cell tion to his home Mrs ning bel ttor m that she was ear: prayed which I I witness look lay o his er. no or 1 abot the abser ighbors. Louis 8. Griffing, who d to his mother but engaged ment to oust Mrs. Hemming and her Burton Strait, 1 me into Winsted and had a bar him to court as > barber w: ast gentle rub, 1 not been sub- expect 1o be, hand to hear He was in Springfi time the, 1 the cottags win t into the place, his mother, Mrs. ie Griffing, being commander of e attacking forces. Griffing his bride, Mrs, Le Di } pro there for in re-enact- 3 the d led the | G Describes Killing The man said that he was tapping in llar, when Mrs. in her hand ap- : atened to cut him if he didn" 1king about h He claimed abbed a that lay on a box nearby and struck her e lurched forward with the ife blow red e in her head, but of suf- for to knoc her to the The crime, he said, 1T ¢ morning. T ernoon h the home-made fin t ported by truck to the ated spot by the lake CANTON AUTHORITIES Sot barrel the ¢ o, with ed an give not to be on he descr s a ficient floor. aft- cof- 1s0- who v kinson, of which he is using moon. n To Prosccute. Hadlc court tem it was mac Herman would prose | 1 four de tive ead Wesley W he court pros cutor, the latter st. M. |Herman had drawn up a complaint | charging the men with breaking and enteri daytime, 1 to| rging | at Mr, No Clue to Publ 5 A sassin—Rewards of 812,000 Are Offered nmer visitors were among including B. Robert ng editor of ihlican-Ame lake about tt re making an on cottage Mr 17 (P—No ar carly today as ation into the Mellett, v New they had 0., July en mac Cant rests had r result of th sination ¢ Don ¥ isher of the Canton Da authorities declared nite clues. d by offc for the capture and the sla . detectives nts wer Hig vitn, tevenson, | Waterbury ho arrived me the men laught on th. | Hem Among others called were arn and William Doyle ace, Mrs. J. V nd 1 Mr. Johnston, of Brooklyn, Wo young sons of William of Hartford, Mrs., George Fournier, | " Mrs. I G. Bouvee, of Winsted, and George Green of Waterbur The hearing was in |county superior court room a {town court room v too sm | Spectators were outside long before was time for court to open. With Griffing’s guards removed, the boards taken down from the win- dows, the water supply again prov- ing adequate to meet her req ments and living conditions at cottage more agreeable, Mrs. Hem- ming is making plans to remain at e cabin for some time to come. Convinced that she cannot be oust- ed until action is taken by the su- | perior court, she hopes to stay at cottage until September at least. he superior court does not meet until then. In the meantime, she and her who is her companion at the cot- | tage, are spending more time with their pets of which there are a score or more on the proper Mrs. cot- .ake 1ves which B g S h 2,000 in re conv and expected to add to the inquiry today. Al services for the editor - who was shot shortly after vesterday morning, it is 3, because of his frequent at- tacks on the vice lords of Canton, will be held at noon tomorrow. will be private, n, his body will apolis, where it mother, rs of § George & tion m Hogan, service at ir conclu: sent to Indian awaited by his garet Melle tary utility is Roads the It ition, an newspaperms Lowell Mellett, ther ived during the ashington, w Te Washington s-Howard le papers. | 7 state ith federal, thorities in the hunt wpolis public author former brother, from connected and the of news- with Ser Ne its place today city the assas- took cou d for Governor tor, C. m ( son, Donal E “alumbus ye y'S person: sson, W sterday investigation, He } governor's of in ed of | tage for nt weeks but most of | Progress in the case Governor Dona- |the time has been passed indoors, |1 id that state offers every i Sy wcility fo Prosecutor Me- | Clintock of Stark county. i INSULT IS PROVED In nhis relenties i rime in Canton, fo is life. Mellett confe | Polish Paper Guilty of Using Word| governor here for more | | hour July 7. “Przefarmaczyli” in Libel Suit —| " 44 ¢ 07y | Chigf of 1 —*“Prze- | courts quarter|ten News and has decided unkind | was brought becat thing to call & person. As a re | printzd when L |the jury twhich heard the libel suit|civil commissi-n cl in law enforcement s later reinstated. y to aid rred than forces is “ho ad of th Apology is Accepted. Philadelphia, July 17 (@) farmaczyli,” the court of suit session is ar rvic Lengel w [ e, S |Kiaw and Erlanger Have | Patched Up Differences | New York, July 17 (® — A. L. rlanger announced y that the business differences between him and his former partner, Marc dictionaries in that tongue to prove| Klaw, have been adjusted and that it. Lukomski contended it meant|the involved litigation which fol- |only “to fail at a human endeavor.” | lowed the dissolution of their the- The term was used in a recent edi-|atrical partnership in 1919 has torial criticizing the committee's ac-| been ended. tions concerning the exposition. For 80 years Klaw and Erlanger Judge Edwin O. Lewis finally set-| were in the theatrical business and tled the matter by having the de-|for a time nearly 700 theaters were fendant apologize and warned him|under their control. The partner- to study his own language before|ship was disrupted in 1919 when using it against others. This agreed | Erlanger discharged Klaw’s son, to, the court decided no further pun-' Joseph, In the absence of his ishment was called fov. 4 father, sh exhibits at the Sesqui-centennis {against B. J. Lukomski, corre: | pondent for the “New World,” Polish paper published in New York, de- | cided the writer had been guilty of a | criminal offense, ttorneys for the committee de- red the term in Polish meant| or “squander” and produced terd 5 be si- | 51, a music | hammer was com- | COMPLETELY BAFFLED be | 1 Mar- | t and his brother, John, | and | au- | in- | order- | is to L(AI)‘ - | grade WISCONSIN STORM LEAVES TRAIL OF DEATH BEHIND AS IT SWEEPS FARMLANDS FOREST FIRES SWEEP Winds Reach Tornado VIRGIN TINBER LANDS| Velocity — Three Known Killed, Many |Flames ~ Spreading, Un-| Injured, And Town checked, Over Pacific | of 300 [s Virtually Northwest Destmyed | | July 17 (P—TFires| troyed thousands of Wash., have d Disturbance Follows Day of Record Breaking Heat Vith Well Above Century Mark. s of Pacific northwest forests in ast week and taken 12 lives to. continued to sw in eep virgin stand Washington, | Average the of timber | Montana and Jdaho. Most blazes in western W {ton and British Columbia were re- | ported under control. The United States army has been | | called upon to combat blazes in the| Kiniksu national forest, In eastern| Washington, it was reported from g, 1o Spol Prediction was made by e ch Summer jofticlals at Missolula, Montana, that|t2¢ iron range of Minnesota, swept fourth of the Kanisku forest,(90 miles bef n Chisholm, Minne- | which covers 657,500 acres, would be |sota, and Ashland, Wisconsin, late d if rain did not come soon. In ¥ Pend Orellle forest, near Bry-| oo > CAusing at least three laho, branch houses were en- |1°4th8 injury to probably two score d and Sandpoint, Idaho, sald its Persons and conslderable damage to water supply was threatened by ap- ’L\rm and town property. eastern ing- | Ashland, Wis, July 17 storm, ) — A starting on proaching flames, Heat Recor nashed rds Sm Soldiers from Missoula are fighting The disturbance foll 3:1 ld ¢ ance followed a day o fires in the Blackfeet national forest| . 4 |0t Montana, near Glacier National|SXtreme heat throughout the north- vest, in which mercury records of Park where one blaze has covered | ore than 6,000 acres of timber, |20 Years Were shattered. Four ad- nroughout Tdaho, Montana and |0itional deaths were attributed to tern Washington, the c1tuauon; he heat, with the average temper- | was declared steadily becoming|*t4re Well above the century mark. The storm, which crossed the tip of Lake Superior a few miles east of Duluth, Minnesota, was accom- panied by hail and rain, and reach- the proportions of a tornado near Ashland and Ashland Junction. Three Are Killed h had broken out within a| Much of the countryside west and only 103 continued and those |SOUth of Ashland was damaged, and en kept from spreading msl:(hrw‘ p::rso-nw were killed in this vi- |cinity. Eve! building in Upson, a village of tt hundred, 1t miles south of here, s reported blown down or damaged and 25 inhabitants were believed injured. The invaded territory suffered vily from all of hail, The ellets rained upon Chishelm 5 minutes, and destroyed so much glass that one hardware con- n ordered three and one-half tons | worse. Western British Columbia fires were extinguished or controlled with eption—A blaze which defled | idred fighters near Stillwater, | Nelson, in eastern British | mbia, advised that of 267 fires weel | had A slackening of wind relleved a| al situation on Dooley moun- r Baker, Oregon. Condi- | Mitchell point on the Co- a river highway of that ate| said to be improved. Serious gave in the Willlanette Val- the Umpqua national forest ern part of the state and the Ochoo mational fores. where | 25 fires were started by hghtning. to repair the damage, Roads Are Cluttered sections of railroad were damaged, | making ne ry re-routing of the | hampered and farm houses were EHELSEA RUM [;ASES mowed down, as the storm advanced ; Ashland was not in direct | |path of the tornado, but experienced Disagree on Two Othels : lead, all of whom lived on farms and Remaining Six are: | Roads were covered with debris, FIVE CONVIGTED IN |trains, wire communication was southwestward, a terrific fall of hail. The known | | | Are Freed | Mabel Johnson, 18. Julia Johnson, 20. Albert Anderson, 12, Several who were injured, some |hit by objects driven with cannon- hall velocity by the wind, are In hos- |pitals at Ashland. Among them are Mr. and Mrs. Otto Johnson, parenta of the two Johnson girls killed, and Mrs. Elmer Johnson, who lived on another farm. The storm first struck in the vicin- ity of Ashland on the farm of Ben |Anderson. Uprooting trees, levelling fences and tangling wires, it rushed to the southwest. Boston, July 16 (®—The jury in the Chelsea rum conspiracy shortly before 11 this morning found five of the 13 defendants guilty of con- spiracy to violate the national pro- | hibition law, disagreed on two oth- | ers, and found the remaining six | not guilty. | The jury, which received the case at 3:30 yesterday afternoon, |into court at 10:15 this morning for more instructions, their first ap- | Boeraton, " 22 GHINGLE AND BOB CAUSE © i ot comm | NEW PROBLEM IN ARMY They ask scene of the commis- came {a man at t sion of an overt act and knowledge | of it without active participation | Hflfw Aty o i | Quartermaster General Seeking Suits The judge, in answer, read a pa sage which declared that mere pas- sive knowledge was not enough to nstitute conspiracy, and the ge which faces the 13 defend- and that there must be some | able Type of Hat For Female Nurses Washington, July 17 (®—The ingle” and the “bob” form the | basis of the latest problem which on. ‘um’romi the. arnfy general staff. jury then retired again. They | g5 many army nurses have cut ready taken more than the 18 ‘nwir hair short that the surgeom hours used by the jury In the first and the quartermaster eneral are which finally reported a dis- | looking around for a new style hat agreement. {for them which will be both becom- Thos Police Tn- |ing and serviceable. | spector Thomas Quigley of Chelsea. | The present regulation sailor is to [brother of the mavor. Police Ser- | be abandoned because it cannot be Edward W. Tshester, Edward |anchored securely to bobbed tresses, Frank Goldman and Neddo |and a modified overseas cap has been suggested as a substitute. Demand by the nurses for a new design of headgear brought to mind an order {ssued in 1776 to the West Point garrison, which read: “As the head dress of a soldier is one of the first and necessary orna- |ments, the captaln commands the | non-commissioned ofticers and pri- | vates of the first class to have their air cued behind not to exceed seven : inches long and close to the head. water district, died| “The non-commissioned officers at Woodland camp, Bel- [and privates of the second regiment was 69 vears old. His [to have their hair tied behind in a son, Walter H. J. of |bob cut close to the head, the hair . J., were with him. of the whole to be cut on the top {of the head short and brushed back.” ants, cct act case convicted were [aant h‘mn, disagreed with Mayor | " Quigley and Harry Mur | Verdicts of not guilty were | retu :rr‘w! for Sergeant Walter A. Ar- den, Patrolman FEdward Forbes, | | Tohn McGreevey, Eli Weinstein, Wil- liam Wall, William Geller. H. VANWINKLE DIES 17 P—Wal- sident of the He | wife and a News | Hennessy Will Remain In Office Until H Term Is at an End Edward J. Hennessy who has two weeks more to serve in the building department, and who Is entitled to two week's vacation, will not leave the office today but will continze as Inspector until his resignation become ef- fective, then receive the vaca- tion allowance, it was explain- ed this morning. This will pro- vide two inspectors until A. N, Rutherford, now Hennessy's deputy, assumes charge of the department. Threatens to Destroy Harvard ' Buildings Boston, July 17 (#—The Harvard medical school buildings on South Huntington avenue were under po- lice guard through the night, it be- came known today, following the receipt of a note threatening to bomb the unit “the same as New Jersey.” The note was recelved by the building superintendent yesterday, he declined to make public its full con- tents. The police dismissed the mis. sive as the work of a fanatic, but maintained a guard as a precaution- ary measure. o