New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 2, 1926, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press Average Daily Circulation For nvser e 13,097 5 %’"**&mtrcm. - Marp, 00t RRITAIN HERALD NEW Bru.r ~ CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1926. —SIXTEEN PAGES AGTRESS HILLED, | American Girl Swimmer Nearing WITAESS MISSING CHUM ARRESTED ~ French Shore in Chamnel Effort [N Jf[] HYSTERY "' urshvs so Mystery Attached fo Patal S el | itk ‘ | Miss Clarabelle Barrett of New York Has Good Chance ' s, Ha]‘dil]g, Who Volumefll‘(}d‘ : Shooting in New Jersey of Being First of Her Sex to Accomplish | Jyfyygon, Disappers GIRLS ARE HYSTERICAL Feat—Englishman Also Trying Today. ESTABLISHED 1870 FIVE GIRLS MEET DEATH ON TRACKS Fatal Ending to Picnic Party Near Gastonia, N. C. FOUR OTHERS IN DELAWARE Telegraph Operator, Filing Mes- PRICE THREE CENTS MOTHERS AT FAULT, - NOT PROHIBITION CHARLES W. MORSE HAS STROKE OF APOPLEXY Aged Financier Unconscious All Day “|JEWELER 1§ ROBBED OF anbury Man Victimized in Bridge- | i This Is Lady Astor’s View on Wild Youth avd Dry Laws HERE FOR HER VACATION British Parliament Sunday But Is Improved port—Bandits Overlook $100 Today and Uncut Stones. Bath, Me,, Aug. 2 (A—Charles W. Morse was recovering today from what was described by his family as a slight shock sustained day at his summer home here; The aged inancier was stricken during the -por en tw robbed | Courey, Danbury real estate | ../SHE YAY BE ONLY FAKRR <3 Aug 2 (P—Wh men accosted and weler, they at ight here | ooked a wallet| several uncut| secreted in an it was, however, ith more tha jewelry valued at 00. riend, Ernest Ki d been together | y part of the evening. | o'clock they parted, Cou-; Boston, Aug. 2 () — Lady Astor. g a trolley car. He got ' : ot Yatn Screct and shavily st | 078 woman member of the Bridn wards was approached by a young| PAflament, an who ed for a mat i man came from be W v had take , one of th | his fingers in Courey's ne pair ran away. Half bli vietim tried to give chase of the pair. policeman was called and of the neighborhood proved fruitless ALL SEEMS PEAGEFUL INMEXICAN MUDDLE Churches Closed Bnt No Trouble Results—Plot Is Frustrated —At o'clock this e hours aft- er entering the water, Miss Cl |belle Barrett of New Yor | miles out, on a straight line between | w Dover and Calals, in her attempt to | cr conquer the Eng Channel. | | ~She had thus ncgotiated half the |a |distance in almost record time and Mount Holly, N J., Aug 2. (@ | W23 #till going strong. Weather con- | ditions were favorable, and her Ruiding it o Burlington county authorities t0day |chances of suceess s00d, | were searching for a motive, which {Should she succeed would be led to the killing of Pear! McSherry, tisoman tto: swim ithe chan- an actr o'clock is morning in o Unable to Give C herent Account of Authoritics Do Not Take Her Too e girl began stroke d more than g the end of nch accom- | > had rallied today and was Member Dis- much more comfortable, but confin- ed to his bed. His sister, Miss Jen- nie R. Morse, said it was a second | Two Dead Arc His Sisters. |shock. He had recovered conscious- \. C., Aug 2. (P—Five |ness. His son, Harry Morse, was Gastonta, ) ¥ girls were’ killed and one seriously |Summoned from his summer 1 |dence at Squirrel Island, but left to- injured late Sunday at a grade | Squirr crossing between Gastonia and Bes- |day for New York on business, semer city, when the small tru Mr. Morse came > July in which they were riding was |from his home in New York struck by a Southern Railway [Wife arrived the following W . day and died suddenly the next day passenger train, e The dead are: Bertha Wright, 16; |shortly before word had been re- ura Wright, 20; Inez |ceived that Mr Morse had been or- | her s v L and Willard Jenkins, sisters, and |dered to appear others to plead Annie Gertrude Oloniger. Ida Be: is in the hospital with '(‘h rging mail both legs broken and other injuries. |United ates § mship stock. | who All the girls we from Bessemer Later Feder: Judge E R. ‘UL{‘). Miss Oloniger was driving her |Homes postponed his appearance un- grocery delivery truck. sage of Fatality in North Caro- Tragedy to Police — Dead Victim Seriously—special Prosccutor May cusses Debts and Says - English Says - Englis] lina Breaks When He Ticks News Shot Following Violent Quarrel, Act Against Tho bly Hin- v P Resent Recent Attacks on U, s. Says Neighbors, e dering Casc by London Pre s ing the ea About 11 fine water irits seeme pr outcome here 10 His | arrived in the steamship Samaria this morn- !Ing with the announced intention of n the money; *BOWINE America to her four chil- bandits jab-|dren who accompanied her, Boston on forts of or and or- of Is Powerful Woman Miss Barrett, 6 tall, Queen is in the county jail |thorough swimmer, | 8itl ¢ , charged with firing the shot, | perfectly at home in the water d Dorine 0" 1 as a |full of coy s 3arrett wa terial wit also are |y i I mor 1id to be act New York, rented a month miles women vly bath from | to cross it. A erow rs gave the Ar astic send off is a s greased by Miss who came to follow t Brickett of London, American girl for To Show Children Around dictment She was met . : nurse in the sale of frau at the dock by channel. Charles Dana Gibson, her brother- warm and calm, g er excellent progress in 1 Miss McSherry, who e rehth Wais tavor ; killed in a tussle for | Dr George Brewster of a shotgun. Miss Queen and Miss 4150 made the attempt t O'Connor became hysterical and all |aniered the water at 11:00 a. efforts of the police to get an in- T wal e salle telligent acount of the shooting | R aliine RIthEPBliceatone: fatle Englishman Also Swimming Miss Barrett’s swim developed in to something of a race Brewster, a London physiclan, started m between Dover Margaret's. sent b was anticipate b 1 the Englist 1 1 unit Miss Barret is now 32 s old and holds a position as swimming in structress in the New James Mon- roc high school in the Bronx. Out of her earning as a teacher she has A a In-law, at whose summer home at was | Dark Harbor, Maine, spend three wee she intended to to t seriously. Jersey and Mrs. ction wi too Iy B she s i London is to | Itis til the first Monday in October un- | | He was less a physician to be named by the government should report that he is physically or mentally unable Istand the strain of pleading or tr as claimed by his family and phys cian. 9.7 PERSONS TO EACH HOUSE HERE ks. Lady Astor said guide her about Harvard university wng o ?’:zt!ar!cthparls of Boston before aking the boat this event Rockland, Me, An older sen: oo sald, was with Viscount Astor in California and would join them i later white t oldest son is now dolng military duty and could not leave England. Repeating that sh ties behind her fn Malne and Virginia, | spent | hood, 1 ! commen Sisters of Operator New York, Aug. 2. ®— C. T. Wright, telegraph operator on the long western {runk wire of the Assoclated Press “broke” for the first time in many a long trick last night ‘when the emotiontess Morse code ticked off the a truck wreck at Gastonia, N, C. “Five girls killed,” the item read another of the so-common holiday fatalities— a picnic party, family outing, a grade crossing and a specding express. “The dead are B ght, 16, her sister, Laura, the copy reads and then a break and the sign: “more,” as another point in- terrupted with what seemed to the control editor a more weighty item. Telegrapher Wright took the in- tervening item and then completed that from Gastonia. “They are my sisters,” he Earns Her Living York, A 2 (P seven y Bar ional swimming in- quire the ability on a quest to conquer nnel to of wi carr hout 10 P. M. The shooting occurred about o'clock. The shot was heard 1 Breven Clemensen, a neighbor, who found Sherry lying on floor of cottage with flowing from her chest. The other | .o W08 PAEREAR L0 women were standing close by, [Fri0 B O PR (0 Tl hannel crying. Clemensen_saw the gun Iy- [ 8ES SOCHE S e to on the floor. aers Survey Shows New Bl‘itain{‘ Clemensen placed the wounded ? | woman in his antomobile and drove | Listed With Crowded | here. accompanied by Miss M Communities Shooting 1o Ee 10 st | promy “larebelle become a prof ctress and who the blood Miss the 7 : [ 1t a —just yea had Teft pofi- seeking rest in where she had her honeymoon and chilg- Lady Astor did make a fev S on the war debts world peace, dehix s ana tha W = | Starts at 8 A. M. | Barrett started from | Mexico CI (Continued y, Aug. 2 (#) — An an- that Mizs on Page 13) | ement the Catholic Sherry's two cor ! wounded woman was | Clemensen arrived at a doc and the body was turned over to Coroner Ballon, of Mooretown. | The three women came to | | Brown's Mills July 5. and rented the ‘ WOMAN CONPAN most of the time since mother died . ‘ : icats tact | trooper and his brother , George. ———— I'm afraid TIl have to ask for re- and this is traced to| "°° ht hbors heard the wo- . N 1 fevi Q- et #o dhat I cai &9 thore. |the city's standing as a manutactur- ‘ e e o fo minotes Ormiston Feels Confident Believes That $3 hot wa She Will Not Let Mrs. | Plumbing Permits McPherson Suffer Authorized Ing center. ter the heard. | __ (Continued on Page '3) | L e g - ¢ iscopate is willing to enter upon 2 Criticlsm Suppressed 0N BULDING DEPARTHENT | & == ] mmtmant ] et | fiees ‘ Y | £ ment until the Mexican people are only been stirred up <b\'._ua1:m, e i : able to ecxpress themselves by (and had been quichiy sy PAPerS 4 i plebiscite of the religious contro- |contrary to the opinans’ e "0 28 v and the discovery of a plot [public ang n(atesnx]?xx“om = lo assassinate President Calles, | “Of course gebts were the outstanding features of |never make for good will, Mexico's first priestless Sunday. ~ |tor said, “and 8 Notwithstanding the great parade |they are war de of the regioilal confederation of la- \made u bor, which required two hours to |will pa; a given point, the day was as [the B ceful a one as the capital ever |It see has known. iha\e While th marchers {the a where President Calles, |land ded by his ministers, stood New Britain stands high in num- | | ber of persons per dwelling, a sur- Ivey of 42 with ex- cities of any king 'Lady As- particularly when bts, England has P her mind to pay and she ¥. It would be contrary to nglish nature to do otherwise ™S a pity that Engfand should been discriminated against fn terms of settlement but Eng- in lhle end will not lose by f, everal members of pg : & his handkerchief in answer 'With whom I discussed mup:;?nl:‘::' cheering, members of the |tacks on the American attitude se aithful were kneeling in prayer in Stated a fortnight 280 by the Daily various beseeching an Mail, expressed themselves ag lhor{l aFisar of the situation Oughly ashamed of such conde: brought about by the government |tion. 1tting into force its new religious | “Get on with what T think of fem- Diilatione: inism,” she exclaimed, when asked All the Catholle churches, with- |{OF comment on that movement iy out priests on the altars, were open |England or America , In discussing for prayer and meditation, except |the recent general strike in England 1 in accordanc : : the great cathedral and several of [She refused to discuss the part play. R \ ik i ¢ downtown places of worship, {°d by the women as apart from that s, which the parade made its |Of the men, way. The doors of these were closed Favor Enforcement Help e 0 In the fear that some untoward! The visit of General Andrews to c\rl;f: n:x;;l}:t o'cv:ur. gLonaon to obtain greater coopera- Dispatenen from {tion with England in the prevention public indicate of liquor smuggling fs not an issue » led Sunday everywhere. Al-|which bulks large in the Engll though there was tense fecling at (mind, she sald, “The coal cgri:lll overshadows all else but all right some places, no actual trouble de- veloped. Tho government had made iminded people favor assisting in al possible ways, the enforcement of | for | Four Die On Tracks Wilmington, Del, Aug. 2 (P— Four persons were killed yesterday when a Pennsylvania railroad train struck their automobile at a grade crossing near here. The dead are: Guerny Smith, Marjorie Smith, 19, his sister; J. Hill, 28; Anna Morris, 19, all New York city has th i » two women under arrest said | number of pi they lived in New York. Miss Me- | |average of 15.4. Springfield s father is said to live in has the lowest number, 4.1. In New da and a sister is believed to | | Britain an average of 5.7 persons in Des Moine {are found to each dwelling house. Cities with populations of be- | live | tween 70,000 and 100,000 report an T S GRISWOLD PROTESTS A SIS GANST SPORTS BAN Police said the car, driven b¥|gurvey of 189 cities in the United toil Ohio, | gher Flo passed the ¥ to advice ed David L. Nair that was not A (P—"Miss Ormisto: radio ope s made a trip through Californi h him may-yet disclose 1 identity to prevent ing to Mrs. Afmce S Los Angeles ey a deposition by Ormiston uployed at the Angelus Tem rs, McPherson, made public Ormiston's deposition exon Mrs. McPherson from any cof | tion with movements following |contractors 2 | her recent disappearance. Refusing (fee would & to ide anion other than the t , the radio operator {which was : that had su the common Yorl lence in I to man Nair notified t Kennet of the opinion that rtment that the or Bray, former head coach of ath harm shonid befall M at St. Stephen’s college, Annandale: | who is entirely innocen 9! on-Hudson, N. Y., Hurlbut Griswold | ter and yet utterly unal {of 75 IFrancis street, a student at the | herself, Miss X will m ollege, stated today that he has de | davit supporting mine ided to quit the institution and en The deposition ter another college this fall. Mr.|Edward H. S. M Griswold is one of more than 30 |said copies had 25; Aldertsan R. | of | MRS, JANE GIBSON tssued ord rs to its Guerny Smith, drove directly in front| States whose population is more of the passenger ttain after Walting|than 50,000, shows 6.4 persons per the crossing of a freight. | dwelling. ! Se——— Detrailed 1926 figures of Autoist Killed with population ranging | Lawrence, Mas., Aug. 2 (P—[100,000 and 70,000 follow Philip Wevlin of Shawsheen village, | I a garage manager, was killed earl ‘when his automobile crashed into a tree on the LO\\HU‘ road in Andover. Police said the| Wichita, Kas driver lost control of the car when a| Peoria, IIL. tire blew ‘out. Devlin's three com-|Allentown, panions, two of whom were women, | Hamtrame Mich escaped with minor injuries. | Little Rock, Ark Bayonne, N. J. ... Manchester, N. H. Harrisburg, Pa. St. Joscph, Mo. Rockforad, Tll « Ind. mna- M cities Local Student Will Not Return to St. Stephen’s in Fall out to over charg, | rs. | { rms of per with ay llings dw a rec past Savannah, Ga. aid < confi- i am May Be Fakir New i z w from state buil inance any iy ity herson at- > to defend an affi- | Pa tics all parts of the that tranquillity must countermand its Plumbing Inspector P. tertains id atter. He maintains partment cannot colle ause the plumbing cod more king to trip to Worcester Woman Killed | Rowley, Mass, Aug. 2 (A—Mrs. | Fedwa Smart, 66, of 35 Dartmouth | street, Worcester, was fatally in-| jured when struck by an automo- | 19, 18, 16,088 26 sclosed b Lwyer, sent by one to wected, tim n rtin, who been mail to District Attorney Asak K strong military preparations in ad- vance promptly to suppress disor- was never bile driven by Johm, ~O'Brien Portsmouth, N. H., on the Newbury- port turnpike here last night. She | died while being taken to the Ip- swich hospital. | O'Brien was held in $500 bail by | Newburyport police on a charge of | operating an automobile to endanger lives of others. He told police Mrs. | Swart had stepped from the road- | side in front of his machine. | MUST SERVE 17 YEARS | ven Filipinos Who Tortured And | Cut Off Ears of Political Opponent | Sentenced. Manila, Aug. 2 (® — The insular supreme court sustained today u; lower court decision sentencing | David Mutua, Pedro Zuait and five | other Filipinos to 17 years each in prison for having cut off the ears | of Popio Montengro, because he ex- | pressed himself as opposed to Man- uel Quezon, president .of the Phil- ippine senate. | The defendants kidnapped Monte- | negro, a teacher in a high school in | Tayabas province, carried him away | in an automobile, tied him to a tree, beat him with straps and finally cut off his ears. At the time Quezon declared the | accused should be punished and ex- | pressed sympathy for the teacher: 12 Yeir Old Girl 1 Youngest Bootlegger | A 12 year old girl, living in the | rear of a Main street hotel, is be- lieved by the police to be the young- est rum runner in the city, and pos- sibly in the state. According to t: timony by Officer Thomas J. Fee: ney in police court this morning, | durfing the trial of two men who were convicter for violation of the liquor law in a Grove street place, the girl had been used to carry bottles of aleged liquor. TWO FLIERS CREMATED Lynchburg, Va. Aug. 2 (P —John and Haywood Sprouse, 18 and 33 vears of age, both of Forest Depot, V. were cremated when' the air- plane in which they Were passengers crashed in flames near here yester- day. Edward Brocknbrought, the pilot, jumped as the plan meared the ground, escaping with minor inmjur- iea of | B { with the aid of gl . Loui Barre, Berkeley, Cal. ...... Terre Haute, Ind. ... Lansing, Mich. Sioux City, : Highland . M Binghamtorf, N. Y Huntington, W. Va. Portland, Me. Johnstown, P: Pasadena, QB 17,179 14,810 140 | Chattanoogm tfenn. Pawtucket, R. L . harleston, S. C. Passaic, N. J. Springfield, 11, Springfield, O. .... Troy, N. Y. aginaw, Mich. Fresno, Cal. * Z Wheeling, W. V. . Mobile, Ala. ... Hoboken, N. J. Winston-Salem, N, Racine, Wis. ..... New Britain, Conn. C rlotte, N. C. Altoona, Pa. Brockton, Mass. The number of dwellings is cs mated in accordance with the popu- lation increase in each city 1920 census. 15,189 14,172 Exhausted Dog, S\'\'imming, Ashore, May Be Survivor | Providence, R. I, Aug. 2 (P)— mongrel brindle bulldog, with a city of Hartford license tag No. 30,531 is held by the dog catcher of Cran- ston since it crawled from the w ters of Narragansett Bay in an ex- hausted condition last night. The dog could hardly draw itself onto the shore and this morning was still too exhausted to stand. Late yester- day afternon residents of the shore ses saw the dog off Pawtucket Point and watched its struggle toward shore. The pos- sibility of the animal being a sur- vivor of a boating accident was con- sidered. Hartford, Aug. 2.—License tag No. 30,631 was issued here for a dog belonging to E. F. Linke of 234 Collins street, who is now in Maine. VIOLENT 'QUAKE RECORDED Farenza, Italy., Aug. 2 (P—A violent earthquake, lasting three hours, the centfr estimated to be 9,000 kilometres (5,592 miles) away, was recorded on the seismograph at Prof. Raphael Bendandi’s observa- tory here today. 2 lapproval nce the | | students who have decided to with- | draw from St. Stephen’s as the re- -5 Isult of an action of the board of | s in abolishing intercolleglate is the college and dropping |Coach Bray. John V on of | Church street, Hartford, a play- on last year's football team, has so decided to leave. lthough the tru: s their reason foi | ollegiate contests that “it | sasure of economy,” stu- dents and others connected with the | institution see in the move an act of s the result of a “strike” in March of this year when 88 stu- fer ees of the abolish- col- | 4.6 | gents walked out and remained aw i | { {for three weeks in voicing their dis- | of certain disciplinary } | methods employed by President B. I. | The students were partially | ful in the strike inasmuch as | 16 disciplinary powers were remov- | d from the president by the trus- | tees and invested in the hands of a | 5 | committee of three faculty members. | In dropping Coach Bray, the trus-| {tees granted him a year's leave of | labsen The coach was known to | mpathized with the students | in the strike and acted as a spokes- | !man between the faculty, president nd students at the time the Etrik':i {was in progress. At that time the| majority of strikers asserted that | |should Coach Bray ever be dropped | they too would leave college and go | elsewhere. | Bray has been at St. Stephen's for [two years. Under his guidance as |coach the college last year enjoyed a | most prosperous season in football, basketball and lacrosse. In football it defeated Trinity, Colby, Norwich University and tied Williams; in bas- {ketball among others it defeated { Yale and Colgate and in lacrosse de- feated the combined Oxford-Cam- bridge teams from England. As a result of the trustees’ action games with Willlams, N. Y. U., Maine, agara, Middlebury in football are can celled; and games with Dartmouth, Union, Yale, Amherst anfl Syracuse in basketball are cancelled. Commenting upon the action Coach Bray said, “I feel more than sorry for the boys. They were doing splendidly and we were just work- ing up a true college spirit. This fall, with the new material I had in vlew, and with our present material we should have been able to turn out a team that would have won most of the games on ‘our schedule in football. I cannot but regret the action of the trustees, not onrly for (Continued on Page Four) | 14 for a three mon | position sald, May |s at Los Angeles. Ormiston said that u; George Mclntire, he 2 g the n rranged May ntal of bungalow at Carmel, owned and oc- cupied by a Mr. and Mrs. Benedict. He said he could not get posessio until the following Wednesday. He left San Francisco, the 19, in an auto- mobile accompanied by the young woman and arrived at Carmel about o'clock in the morning. Driv. ing into Salinas the next day he paid a fine for speeding, and havin read of the supposed drowing Ocean park of Mrs. McPherson, I telephoned to her mother, Mr Kennedy, to express sympathy and inquire whether the body had been found. His name having been mentioned in connection with the evangelist's disappearance, Ormisten and “Mis X" soon left Carmel, staying _the first day at San Luis Obispo, where they registered as Frank Gibson and wife. Just outside Santa Barbara they were s‘opped by a man who said he wasa reporter and had been informed that Ormiston and Mrs. McPherson were on their way Santa Barbara, The reporter said he knew Mrs. McPherson and he could gee “Miss X' 'was not sk After leaving Miss X” at a tination she requested, the deposition , Ormiston returned to Oakland where he stayed until June 5 “No doctor or nurse visited the Carmel bungalow during my occu- pancy,” Ormiston “Miss X’ went swimming daily and we attend- ed elther Carmel or Salinas movies almost nightly. ‘Miss X' resembles Mrs. McPher- son in that they have the same gen- eral build and brown hair The reported ‘goggles’ were in reality a pair of Krux horn-rimmed glasses which were purchased at Montere The two aprons found in the bun- galow were bought by me at Salinas. She otherwise was well equipped. “To the best of my knowledge, I opened all tin cans and the highly prized fingerprints are therefore probably mine.” Ormiston said he introduced “Miss X" to Mr. and Mrs. Benedict as MclIntyre and at that time there was a standing reward for the safe return of Mrs. McPherson, with pic- tures of her in all the papers She was also seen by a garage man at Salinas, the reporter and others, all of whom could not have been in- formed of the case or have failed to see her pictures. me | \dopted by th building a the council although d e 1 codes w Che passing of the b w voided special ordinanc some months ago providing f changing of buildi also mentioning the plu I partment today t der which it is worl ot and its action is ord I codr * NEARLY HALF MILLION the trical fe t was main d in the b at the ordinar is i awiul, inance, it declared, was passed May meeting of the commor il and passed with the buildi at the June meeting. de | suppor GOING INTO BUILDINGS | Amount of Permits Issued in July for New Work Runs Very High lea [ oo tir de * I | * * | contemplated Lve department in a report of July per- | mits made public today by to | Building Inspector Arthur | erford. July of last year and is one Of permits issued frome structures totaling $2 [seven for brick structures totaling $197,030 taling ments | only department in the city govern- | ment Admiral Thomas Gill, New Haven New London 5.4 am. 530 pm. | | Almost a half a million do building oper been reported by the bu atc DEpULy fprocac Ruth- ove of the | This is an increasc r ding months so far this year o 65 we for | | ags | the and 67 for alterations to- [ “*® $23,706. Ninety-six tene- | “0" were added at a cost of $957,- | ). The building department is the | 1,760; vi aph on | to C which elf supporting, fees collected for licenses. was a | scen [ warne | what lear { mor wauke ADMIRAL sittleton, N. E LL DIE! , Aug. 2 (@) i, 86, of Brookline, Mass., 1 at his summer home here. HIGH TIDES : Mrs, testimony out ‘(ho\lg | cha { band Aug. 3 (Standard Time) 7.22 am. 7.43 pm. * while ¥ | THE WEATHER Mrs Hartford, Aug. 2.—Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Showers tonight and Tues- day; slightly warmer tonight | [ | i * ove insf actio that on the ‘. , and th panion, ployed s |for the John ‘Mm\\ille. | general manager, said "she in new bran was qual the ionaire 1150 t Mrs, I uy ¢ wo Others in Charge rvil Now Elear 1y s p s tod new thcomin I testimony o won rnor Moore, Alexand; cutor 10 pu papers nator i crsey Simpson ar or for Moor Som es today Gov utor B to | county M Moore Start Action aid r cl of or t Mrs ctims, Hall ator § on his own tion previous 1 hindered Mbs, Hardir ke Howard from Milw Deteetive ni 1 b and that one d her “I'll get yo you saw here” It has 1 that Mrs. Harding also ould furnish additional it she would leave e at once to give it. Harding's statement of Mrs. Gibson, . Gibson said M d unty ph H men n of t ccoste £ you M and his was pr Mrs. Harding did oung womdn not tion seeing a woman. Her Story Differs Harding sald she-was (Continued on Fourth Page.) man- (P —1In- years mpson | e case | Of in add to prosecutic ¢ 1 t at the slaying, | t thot time in social service Manville company, at , but George Halllday, | was a|Liberty, has taken effect al b de ified, con- ange a truce with Ia loth- men, the liglous regulations and relf the ous persecutions” suspended. iap On its part,” says the issed evi- wrtial | Jane | han,” | BOvernment.” | give a The statement declares that some and high government officlals have their good offices to mediate. continues, despite its slight hopes for a suc- sful outcome of this offer, has but without we that ab- voice of the in-American diplomatists n the| The Episcopate,” it ap- and to! sincerely accepted it, City, | any success as yet. However, con- | are confident, and we Jesire and | President Calles may not be erset | solutely deaf to the people. “The present religious conflict ce ion Large flict will be settled. The alleged conspiracy 2 un- | to -\ headed by Miss Dolores Lemus, | young stenographer who has a posi- 1| tion in the city hall which overlooks crime she | the presidential palace. Miss Lemus ir the|and several other women and men re being detained by the police. One of the secret service opera- | tives asserts that he was present at | meetings held by the alleged con- once heard Tt ds better | for one man to die than to shed the me: 0 tell been sald test Mil- | spirators and that he | Senora Baquedano say bears | blood of many.” | Hall | held com- | fense of Religlous Liberty. men- its usual crowd of spectators; The expression of willingness to the govern- was made exclusively to the Assoclated Press by the Episcopate. : It was suggested that it should run for a reasonable lenkth of time to ve the people a chance to vote on state- | ment, “the Episcopate is willing to solution to the conflict that y save public liberties and at the me time not be unbecoming to the a needless duel, because as soon as government grants the people i of | religious liberty and the other rights npson might | to which they are entitled under the ; in | constitution of the country, the con- kill | President Calles is said to have been The police say that all those being in connection with the affair 1 with the murder of her hus- |are members of the League For De- In the capital the bull fight drew as (home Pudavinski boards J}rolllmlion as a step in the right direction. “I am certain that America will never go back. I believe it unfair to “mn a country by picking out the reactions of a few individuals, 1 question whether prohibition has had an evil effect on youth in this jcountry and I am certain that when situation growing out of the re- [the next generation comes along the ligious controversy. Meanwhile, the S Episcopate would have the new re- | “anti- | {auestion will be forgotten, Blames The Mothers “If young girls have been misbe- |having and grown too fond of cock- tails, I blame the mothers and not prohibition. I was one of eight in Virginla and I have six children myself. I can't imagine how any glrl could carry on as some are re- ported to do. Catch my daughter doing it. “The greater freedom which girls enjoy today is a moral uplift, not a moral decline There is less tosh than when I was a girl. The girl in sports and with greater compan- fonship with men has gained and not lost.” Lady Astor refused to take peace societles seriously. BAD LIQUOR SUSPECTED OF CAUSING ILLNESS Star Street Man At is New Britain General Hospital—Death Expected Unconscious and in a very critical conditlon, in the opinion of the hos- pital authorities, Samuel Pudavin- ski of 30 Star street, who was taken to the hospital last night ill of ex- cessive drinking of liquor thought to be poisonous ,is expected to die, it was said at the hospital this after- noon. The police learned that the man has no relatives in this country. He is thought to be about 40 years of age, there being no way of learning his exact age or obtaining other in- formation about him because of his condition. He was employed in a local factory. Last night, the man a at whose told the also was the case with the moving |police he feared the latter was seri- picture and other theaters. Restau- |ously ill as he could not be aroused em-|rants and cafes had their patrorage. The economic League Fer Defense of (Continued on Page Four.) normal |after having been in bed several hours. This afternoon the hospital boycott of the |authorities notified Captain Kelly at Religlous [police headquarters that t various |ski's condition is critical. Pudavin- He has not regained consclousness since be- ing admitted for treatment.