New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 4, 1926, Page 11

’ BOOTLEGGING BAND 2 SOUGHT IN MURDER Kentucky Minister and Ghoir' Singer Stain Morgantown, Ky., Aug. 4. (P— Members of an alleged bootlegging gang are being pounded up for qfjestioning in cofnection with the sational double murder Mond: night of the Rev. evangelist, and Mrs. Jerome John son, a choir singer, during the pro. gress of revival services, As the strains of “When the Roll is Called Up Yonder, I'll be There,” floated through the little school house at Eary, 12 miles northwest of here with the tune being carried by more than 100 fathers, mothers and children of the neighborhood. three shots rang out in qui cession, and an itinerant re and his choir leader, standing next to him, fell dead, killed by the sane bullet. A third person was wounded. Late yesterday three youths, alleged to be members of a group ofymoonshiners who feared and hated the revivalist, the Rew¥ A. W. Moss, 82, because he had d nounced their activities, were jail- ed in Morgantown, after being run down by posses which had ecoured the nearby woods evet since the shooting. Two others of the band are being | hunted. Mr. Moss received a warning on Monday that he would be killed. He insisted on holding his _services, however, and was killed before the eyes of three deputies who had come to guard him. E. L. Taylor, one of the deputies, who attended the revival, said Mr. Moss had been holding services in Butler county for two months, mov- ing from place to place. His sub- jects mainly dealt with an attack on liguor offenders and law violators. He had been told several times to stop his activities. The school house faces a main country road surrounded by a grove of large trees. Worshippers began the meeting with a song service. Jt had hardly reached a crescendo when a man thrust his head into a rear window of the building and the shots were fired. The first bullet went through the evangelist's neck, Mr. Taylor pierced Mrs. Johnson's brain plunged into the wall Cliff Wilson, 21, was the first sus- pect to be captured. Rlood hounds trailed him to a niding place in a s oods mile from the school house. Later, Fred Wilson nother member of the allecged gan, was run down by officers as was Emmons Phelps, 16, The frio, Taylor said to be those wanted in connection with the killing. Cliff Wilson identified by Jo Deweese, 14 old girl who was at the services, one of the men who fired, 'Whether others fired or not is not known as yet, Taylor said Wilson denied knowledge of tk ooting. A disturbance was made the school house Sunday night cers said today but the men wwe orderd away and the services co tinued, said, and are known outsid. Regiméntfil?eumons to Feature G. A. R. Meeting De# Moines, Towa, Aug. 4 (P— Civil war veterans will have still an- other opportunity to recount the old stories of heroic deeds at the special reunions of numerous Union army units which will be a part of Sixtieth National Encampment the Republic, here, Sept. 19 to 24. Among groups that will hold re- unions are the Iron Brigade, Sur- vivors of Vicksburg, Survivors of Shiloh, National association of Civi war mu¥icians, Prisoners of r Burbridge's Brigede, Hornet's Nest Brigade, National ion of naval veterans, former volunteer officers of th Civil war, Second Towa infantr 1 Minois infant 20th Wisconsin infantry, 33rd Io infantry, 2§th Towa Towa inf: 17th Tnd and colored troops of assoc TRYING TO GF Lima, Peru, Aug. 4 (@ — is negotiating v American British bankers for a loan. government also is sounding mestle banking interests, Peru and The do- NO WOMAN CAN KEEP - HOUSE EFFICIENTLY Without Good Health MRS. FRANK DINDORE 813 PIERTE AVENUR, LANCASTER, OHIO Four Walls Can Make a House, but it takes a Wem- ,)An to Make a Home o be a succes&ful homemaker, a ‘woman must guard herhealth. When mother is not well, the home is up- set. Women everywhere are learn- ing through their ewn personal ex- periences, as these women did, the W. A, Moss, an | the | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1926 GENERAL NOBILE GETS BI6 WELCOME AT HOME Mussolini Personally Praises Italian Who Was on Polar Expedition. Rome, Aug. ¢ (P — General of the Air Umberto Nobile found last {might ut the end of his long trail |from Italy over the top of the world and back home again a wel- come which paid him back a thou- andfold for whatever anxieties and hardships he had endured during fhe long fiight of the dirigible Norge of the Amundsen-Ellsworth | north pole expedition. The captain of the first alrship to cross the morth pole arrived in Rome from Naples, accompanied by the other Italian members of the expedition. Nobile later stood on the balcony of the Chigi palace alongside | Premier Mussolini as a national hero and heard from the lips of the fascist prime minister words of | high praise for himself and his companions. The premier eaid some persons had vainly attempted to dim No- a bile's “incomparable glory,” but | that Nobile deserved triumphant honors “because you, an Italian, planned the ship; you, an Italtan, | with - other Italians, built it. and you, an Italian, with other Italians, wisely guided it to the end of the {it added that in the name of the fas. cist government and the Ttallan |th | prople he desired to give General | Nobile' and his flight companions |“an expression of admiration,” love |and gratitude of the nation. | General Nobile's reception, from the time of his arrival at the rafl- way station from Naples. until his presentation “to the people of Rome” from the palace balcony, was a triumphal one. The climax, as far as General Nobile himself was concerned, [came when he met his chiaf, Mus. Iso!i!\). however, and recelved from i him personal thanks for the suce icoss of the north pole enterprises | z el | {Man Without a Country Is at Last Set Free Hartford, Aug. 4 — Peter Kop- cenzski, after more than two vears 50 in the Hartford county jail waiting |adequate country which |American hands under most would not claim him, vesterday be- [able circumstance | deportation to a | came a free man, Thomas, Judge Edwin 8. who made a speefal trip of the case, decided that “the man without a country,” as Kopcenzski has been known, had been in jail “long enough.” Less than an hour of argungent by counsel, §. Polk Waskowitz, who gave his services for the man with | no fatherland, and Assistant United | States Attorney George H. Cohen, with voluntary testimony by James Harrington, a newspaperman, suf- ficed to cut the red tape which has cific offense for 24 months and 23 days. ex Tailor Shop Is Badly Damaged by Fire, Essex, Conn., Aug. ¢ (® — Fire | which originated in a tailor shop operated by James Graham in the ! Pond block at Essex square here | late last night caused damage es timated at about $8,000. The build PHILIPPINES CAN Firestong Optimistic Abont Enough waste {the Phllippines for rubber produc- | tion to needs of Coolidge Harvey §. Firestone, fr., Akron, 0., | who called | to discuss the rubl Mindanao and adjacent lands of the southern group excellently suitsd 3 rubber produc- tion and one- ‘would provide for all the needs of the United States. The situation has long interested Mr Coolidge. rubber production fields in the 1 | East | was prepared to embark upon ww | extensive { tion in the Philippines. extraordinary voyage.” The premier |stone said, the insula, 1Born'o. while the Americans control only ings in Sumatra. American consumption is 70 per cent of the whole world. he said, Brit put have meant an sessment on the American people of lident was told, 000 acres of Liberia and, with a force of men, are clearing the land and set- ting out trees, but it requires |vears for a young tree to the rubber milk, and, any extensive program must be accomplished progress planted to rubl |{from South Norwalk in the interest |world at present, Mr, Firestone said [while by 1936 it is estimated an ad- {ditional 1,600.000 acres will be ne- | Motorman Is Blamed | man Patrick Coffey is held responsi- ble two trolley cars at Main street and Central row on July 27 caused him to be held for no spe- |of the accident filed with th lie by | Wadhams. | by his investigation, Mr. Wadhams, | “pointing out street and probably never will, reach the point where the {all fon “the accident was caused by the failure of the motorman (Coffey) to properly observe the rule of the company regarding the movement through switches.” CASES OF INFANTILE P PARALYSIS ARE FOUND |State Department of Health Warns PRODUCE RUBBER Islands land is available in Parents of Danger at This me of ch yes take care of this country, was told yesterday all future | President by son of the | Hartford, Aug. 4 (P—Reports of turer, |infantile paralysis cases in Water- |2 offices |Dury, West Haven and Jewett City, | ell teaton: |all within the past ten days, have |lle iliattons prompted State department of health officials to remind parents that July, August, September, and October are Time of Year rubber manuf. the executive In fact, Mr. said. in islands of the Philippine there are 25,000,000 acres | oA i 1S | ihis disease. According to records of the de- partment, instances of the disease e been very scattered thus far this year. In January there were no cases, February had one, which proved fatal. March had two, April |,p one and there were no cases during | ,. May and June. The Waterbury case | . reported towards the end of | | July, the West Haven case Monday {and the Jewett City case yesterday. There is no ocassion for alarm as . however, Dr. Millard Knowlton director of the bureau of preventa- | tive diseases. said today, and the department looks for but an ordi- | nary toll from the disease during the ensuing three months. However, Dr. Knowlton is of the | &0 decided opinfon that it is best to [clu department has on on pollomyelitis eli; enth of that acreage Legislation Necessary Mr. Firestone recently completed business survey of the possilic and said today his comp:..., rubber-growing prograum co the way was cleared by legisla- | to The British at present, Mr. Fire- control per cemt of rubber production business, rough holdings in the Malay pen- Ceylon and British North | | des o, 2 or 3 per cent, through hold- [be wary, and the pamph Dr. telling of the symptoms, spread reatment and prevention of the dis- | in Instructing parents as | th to their dutie® when a cas has been | found Tt ac Yet, he added, the Only recently restrictions on out- additional cage, heside as- | Fas LANDERS WATCHMAN | RS CAT COMPANIONS| Pres have leased 1,000 rubber produc ya. 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Only one week of scheduled play remains, but there have been many games post- poned and the playing off if these 11 probably 6ecupy the nalance of e month CLERK AND The by decree, which was adopted the cabinet on the direction of also calls for the| mination of all' ceremonies of and expressing Alk manifes- to be “effectively useful d which, through the high char- ter of the organizers and the ailability of funds, give guaran- | officially approved intended.” Moreover efforts will be made to | ordinate all ceremonies in order | avold loss of energy and money greatest success. One of the forerunners of today's cree has been a far reaching re- ganization of various sporting as- notably the automobile the national pugilistic and the Italian football | t This reotganization is | to remove disturbing ele- | ub of Tt CASH MISSING Bridgeport Aug. 4 (M—A clerk on his way to a bank with deposits amounting to $150 disappeared yes- terday morning leaving no trace be- hind him. Police of this city and New York are now searching for | | him Arthur E proprictor of a | shop on State street clerk, E. Schaffer to the bank with | 150. The clerk had in the employ of the owner of the shop for de- |over a year and was a trusted em- close touch with the leaders of o fasclst party. The cabinet also increased its al- ady long list of measures to hieve economics in the govern Stone, sent a ars of increases in the lists of been employes. The cabinet also WORCESTER LIGHT | Gas Light Co., | the two companies. the stock of the Worcester Gar Light €o. 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