New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 16, 1926, Page 1

u « . News of the World ESTABLISHED 1870 TENYXT By Associated Press o) “PIORITH “ATRIqr] AMS 0T "ydag APy BRITAIN HERAL Average Daily . Week Ending g Aug. 14th ... NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1926. —SIXTEEN PAGES WOMAN'S STORY INVOLVING SUSPECTS IN HALL-MILLS MURDER PARTLY SUPPORTED EXPECT VALENTINO WILL RECOVER NOW serts She was On Fa- sqheip of Hories Operated on tal Night | Tor Ulegr and Appendicitis Lawyers. Frequently Clash | WAS CRITICALLY ILL Carpender Maintains Poise But “Willie” Stev- | ens Seems Visibly Nerv- Surprise Witneg;; Testi- fies to Seeing Mrs. Gibson Where She As- Stricken Suddenly Yesterday—Pola Negri, His Sapposed Fiancee, Greatly Distressed When Advised ous During Hearings. o B Smdition, e, ing New York, Auz. i8 (®—Rudolph | Valentino, *“sheik” of, the movies, who underwent a serious operation at Polyclinic hospital last night, was reported on.the road to recovery today. Many Floral Bouquets, Valentino spent a |night and “is doing nicely at this ime,” was the report of phy: issued at 10 a. m. Bouquets of flowers of every de- Somerville, N. J., Aug. 16 (P — Corroboration of pag of the testi- mony of Mrs. Jane Gibson, woman pig raiser, was given today at the hearing for Henry Carpender and Willie Stevens, charged with the | murders of Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, Mrs. Gibson testified Friday that | she w in De Russdy's lane near | e Phillips farm. saw two men | and a woman and heard shots| i) by messenger boys and others fired. ~She identified Stevens and | qyring’ tne ‘forenoon and placed in Carpender as the men. The Wom- |pi¢ room. Telegrams from theatrical an, she sald, wAs Mrs. Frances |ronc screen stars in Hollywood, di- Stevens Hall, also chapged With the | reotors, producers and persons well murders. Mrs. Hall isfat liberty on | known in the financial and social $15,000 bail. ent with “best wishes The ’ corroboration came from F ¥ recovery. Henry F. Ehrling, millwright. He Hospital physicians were cautious testified he was in De Russey’s in their statements last night, be- lane the night of September 14, |cause of the serious nature of the 1922, and saw Mrs. Gibson on her | operation — removal of a gastric mule, | ulcer and his appendix — but to- Was Shielding Girl day they said definitely that he ihrling saw no one beside MTrS. | was out of danger. Gibson, he alleged, and claimed | The screen star became suddenly that he had kept silent four years | i1l +yesterday in his apartment at to shicld a girl who was with him.| He gaid he heard no shots fired. This witness, his cap held by ner- | scription were (Continued on Page Four.) double comfortable | cians | carried to the hos- | JUDGE ROGERS OF U. 5. COURT PASSES New Haven Jurist Dies at Sum- mer Home in Trenton, N. J. FORMERLY DEAN AT YALE Veteran Lawyer And For Ten ¥ears Years Head of Yale Law School Was 72 Years of Age—Was Recognized Ability. Trenton, N. J., Avg. 16 (P— Judge Henry Wade Rogers, of the United States circult court of ap- peals, famous authority of interna- tifnal law and legal jurisprudence, |and widely known educator, died early today at his summer home on |the Pennington road. He was 72 | years old. Judge Rogers, who made his home in Pennington seasonally since his marriage to Miss Emma F. Winner, of that placepin 1876, stood in the forefront of the country's lawyer: | The funeral arrangements have | not been completed. Interment will be at Nyack, N. Y. Judge Rogers was born at Hol- |land Patent, N. Y., in 1853. After being graduated from the Univer- sity of Michigan, he took his le degree at Northwestern Universit of which he later became president. He also held the post of dean of the Yale Law school. | He was a member of the Bar as- | sociations of several states, and served on many committees on legal policy. He was chairman of the | world’s congress on jurisprudence |and law reform at the world's fair in Chicago in 1893. He was later general chairman of the Saratoga conference on the foreign policy of the United States in 1898. He was the author of many legal works, including “introduction to | constructional history as seen in and “Illinois cita- Prominent Fraternity Member New Haven, Aug. 16 (®—Henry Wade Rogers was dean of Yale law |school for ten years and during his (Continued on Page Four) vous hands, a scar across his face, gave as his excuse for never testi- | ing before that “there with me.” He fixed the time he saw | Mrs. Gibson, on her mule, as be- tween § and 9 o'clock. He was Iriving a car, he said. He refused to reveal the name of the girl with | as a’ girl | or three h Asked point-blank what he was doing with his young lady com, Court Room Laughs A roar of laughter from the | crowd brought from Judge Cleary | admonition that his Cc\)rl would be closed to sgectators if such a demonstration recurred. Under xami witness becaine confused. he met Mrs. Gibson b ween 8 un\l‘ 9 oclock and that he stayed in | the Jane for two or three hours, | but he heard no shots. When Cerpender and arose, Ehrling said he seen at night, nor see Hall. Taxi Driver Testifies s Alpaugh, a taxi driver testified he saw a Dodge parked in Easton avenue, * D Russey’s lane, while he wad driving & He saw two or thre rsons slide down a bank toward the Dodge. He didn't know whether they were men er women. Timothy N. Pfs & member of defense council, and Senator Simp- son clashed, each calling “silly the questions asked by the other. Judge Cleary leaned over the bench to tell them “Both your questions are silly.” The Woman in Gray William, Phillips, night watch- man at the New Jersey- college for women, told his four-year-old story of seeing “a woman in gray” enter the Hall residence about 2 o'clock the night of the murder. He is under $2,500 bail as a ma- terial witne He was not per- mitted to answer a question about detectives employed by Mrs, ‘Hall thréatening him if he told of see- ing this woman enter. Husband on Stand Ansonia Woman Killed on New Haven Highway by Racing Autoist the Aug. today seeking Haven negro, driver of the automobile yesterday afternoon killed Mary McDonnell of Ansonia, w JHaven highway, near Maple The machine was proceeding at a furious pace and after striking the woman, hesi- tated and then increased its speed, it is claimed. Thes woman's neck was broken and the flesh practi- cally torn off one leg. She was dead when reachedy by spectator: Four occupants of the death car, all negroes, were arrested, being taken by the Ansonia police. The car, found abandoned in a brook a the end of Chapel street, is regis tered under the name of William Boown, of ‘New Haven, who was not in the machine at the time of the accident. It is alleged that Jones, who is now being sought, was the driver. It is said that Jones, after uqgitting the autemo- bile, struck off through the woods, heading toward New Haven. One occupant of the machine, a woman, who had been sitting with the driver, was under the influence of liguor when arrested, it is claimed. | The four who were apprehended were arraigned «in city court this James Mills, husband® ef theymorning, charged with intoxication slain chorister, took the stan@ to and breach of the peace. All were tell again the story of his where- | remanded to jail in lMeu of $2,500 abouts on the night of the murder. | bail apiece. Trying of their cases He chewed gum and nodeed affirma- | awaits the apprehension: of the tively or negatively in reply to the | missing Jones, and the forthcom- special prosecutor's questions. In|ing inquest by Deputy Coroner a treble voice, uncertain and in- | Field. distinet, he told of seeing his wife | Those leaving for her tryst with the rec- | names tor and death, | Louise Thompson, of 43 Hill street; As she woflt out at 7:30 that | Margaret Howell, 207 Washington evening he asked, “Where are you |avenue and Howard Warfield, all of going | New Haven. Follow me and find out,’” he | quoted her. | His story, published time and L again in the newspapers, was | In Berlin Is Identified nefther dramatic nor touching. He | Hartford, Aug. 16 P—The truck told it as if repetition had dulled |which was seized in Berlin Friday the edge of tragedy, Chewing gum |morning, loaded with 200 cases of and staring at Senator Simpson |peer, is owned by Blake and Zele of and Attorney Pfeiffer as they |Torrington, the state police said to- bickered and shouted epithets at |day. The case of Augustus Zele, who each’ other. was driving the truck,-will come up Charlotte Mills, his | tonight in the Berlin court. chatted with newspaper investiga- . tors who published “exclusive stories” of her testimony, and listened, her face twisted into a wry _ expression, to the words of | Bridgeport, Aug. 16 (P—Speeches her father. of United States Senator Hiram Lawyers in Squabble Bingham and others who will ad- The morning session ended with |dress the dinner of the republican the special prosecutor and the de- |party at Pleasure Beach next Satur- fense attorneys wrangling over |day, will be broadcast through local whether Mills should be permitted |station WCWS. Announcement was to tell about an alleged visit of \made today by Town Chairman Al- fred W. Burdyeck. 2,500 are ex- pected to attend the dinner, Derby, Conn Derby William alleged which Mrs. police are Stevens | Jones, New had not them t did he Mr: in custody = gave their as Alice Stephens and Owner of Truck Seized daughter, Bridgeport to Broadcast Republican Speechmaking (Continued on Page 12) 16 @ —| Half Hundred Indians Aiding Police Hunt T@_ Bandits |Redskins Start With En- thusiasm bers Loot Mail Cars in Wyoming. - Lander, Wyo.,' Aug. 16 (P —Fifty Shoshone and Arapahoe Indian braves, traditional friends of the white men, have been enlisted in the man hunt for train robbers, who carly Saturday looted a score of registered mail pouches on the mail car of a Union Pacific train between Rawlingd and Wamsutter, Wyo. At the reqyest of authorities, who have spread a network of posses over southwestern Wyoming for the bandits, the red men last night joined with a posse of twenty Wyo- ming national guardsmen, sheriffs and cowboys, to trek into the fast- sses of the Wind river range and Washakie national forest, where the two men are believed to have fled. The Indians were eager to be on the trail once more, and like their white hrothers with whom fought half a century ago, to avenge the massacre of Custer's command, have (ki Head for . ckson's Hole It is now be.'eved that the band- its' ultimate goal is the Jackson Hole country, a wild, sparsely popu d !section where a decade ago Wyo- ming outlaws and cattle rustlers made llaw in the rugged Teton mountain |ranges. The newly organized {companied by ten pack horse posses ac- placed under the leadership of Col- onel Tim McCoy, former adjutant general of Wyoming. | " At the Indian reservation Colonel {McCoy is regarded bygthe native in habit nts as & “Great White Father” and las beer given the title of |“White Eagle.” The posse expécts to reach Sweet- water, on the fringes of the Red desert this morning. The aboringes were engaged in filming a western movie thriller when the call for the posse came and they abandoned |Klelg lights and grease paint for war paint, serviceable moccasins and | weapons. Alliance Not New For the Shoshones and Arapahoes to ally themselves with white men s nothing rew. Under Chief Wash- |akie, who ruled the Shoshoned, the tribe extended the pipe of peace to the earliest white settlers and after |the Custer maasacre. Washakie of- |terea the services of his braves to |track down and punish the Sioux and Crow who slew the command. When the next word from the In- dian-Caucasian posse might reach the outside world is problematical, since, after leaving Sweetwater on the edge of the desert, communica- |tion will become Impossible except by couriers. Alr mail pilots also have - been asked to scan the country along their routes In the hope they may sight the bandits. Postal authori- (Continued on Page 18) i of and Receive Orders “Shoot to Kill”| | With High' Glee—Rob- they | received otders to “shoot to | thelr last stand against the | with | |enough provisions for a week, was | INSPECTOR STRIKES AT LAW VIOLATORS (Wil Not Allow Some New Buildings to Be Used /0 1NVOKE Z0NE ORDINANCE Certificates Will Be Refused On Several Structures Now Complet- ed or Nearing Completion, Build- | ing Department Head Warns. | Although the building department | will not begin issuing certificates of | |occupancy until September 1, sev- |"°" P® resumed, the eral structures now either completed | C0., having decided to |or nearly so are markeg for idle- {poles and overhead ness because they do not comply | witl the city laws, Inspector Arthur |N. Rutherford declared today. Under the code now in effect, no building can be occupied until a certificate of occupancy has been is- sued from the office of ¢he inspec- tor. This procedure insureg a final {inspection after all work has been | done and is an added safeguard against violations of the code, the depaftment_explains, | | Rutherfofd, who has been acting |inspector for the past two weeks of- |ficially takes over his duties today the ‘resignaton of E. J. Hennessy, who has been on a two week |cation, becoming effective at close of business Saturday. The new inspector has already in- | augurated a policy of close applica- tion of the city ordinances and in the past week rejected 35 applica- tions for permits on the ground that the praposed structures did not con- form to the code or zoning law or the proper papers were not filed |&ith the application. Much of the complaint registered against the building department, which resulted in that bureau being in the lime- light of publicity for the past few vears was grounded on alleged lax- | ity in enforcing the laws. Mayor Weld recently issued an order that |the law must be lived up to and In- | |spector Rutherford has made this his cardinal policy, he announces. | Much of the illegal work is of a |® : 2 minor nature and mtay, with more L or less alteraticn, be changed to |Street job will neccs meet the inspector’s approval, m,‘ Busses \Force EErolle |though some of the work is funda-| The Arch street tro ! mentally incorrect and will require |one of the oldest in tk extensive changes. Occupancy of a |the advent of bus tr building which has not met the in-|Kkeen competition was$ |spector’s ‘approval and for which and the Connecticut Co. |he has nof given a certificate is a|effort to have this nfod |violation of the zoning law and may | portation on Arch street ruled |be the basis of prosecution. | Failing in this attempt, the FIRE BUG SUSPECTED threatened removal of its line rden District of WIRES AND POLES OFF ARCH STREET { Connecticut Co. to Remove Bar- rier to Widening Project CURBS WILL BE SET BACK Improvement In Thoroughfare To Become Possible By Traction Company’s Action—Ralls Will Not Be Disturbed Because of Cost Troll, service on Arch street will Connecticut remove its wires in res- | by City Engineer Jos&ph D. Wil- 1 v The city engineer received a 1 ter today from President J. K. Pu tford of the trolley compan him of the decision to rip out e last vestiges of what was ered at one time one of the ing short routes in the cit rvice, W. J. Bryan has advised E Work will be commenced r i Wednesday of this week 1 an cffort will be made to heve ob completed by September 1 Makes Wider Street Possible The ted in the move Ipoint of" tr: wuse ite ¢ ding in the Arch street, E points out. The Arch street Improvement association, which ha ponsored th to W ti e a nt. ion ms of the beg rinates way of ineer Wil- ry of 1 program to advanced a point where e s expected in municipal the poles now marking tqwald their g Maps are aration and agreed to waive ag resulting from a step in course of prep rty owners have all claim to dam- the seizure 0w prope h s to Quit line was city. Wit on, an com then After ja perlod of several weck | tion was made to the public commission for pe iscontinue the line and the re was granted. work of the grooves besi with paving places. City Engineer Williams does not for removal of the rails. do mot interfere with the expenditures Barn in Home Newington Sct Afire While Own- bk past > the rails ers Sleep Short Distance Away. matgrial at many A fire which started about 10:30 o'clock last night destroyed a barn owned by Mike Kislowskl in the \Home Garden section of Newington. Although Mr. and Mrs. Kislowski t were asleep in a house only 75 feet which would be necessary could.be away, neither knew that there was for without objection on the a fire until the arrival of the chemi- | part of the traveling pulfic, he said. cal engine of the volunteer fire de- The Arch strect line was the first partment arpused them. However, 'voute installed by the Connecticut the fire had already much | company to be abandoned HUBBY SELLS FURNITURE werecarefully watched. Loss was es- Stuart Rodman plan to as! Since travel h s be ade kH i timate at about $1,000 which was largely covered by insurance. Some poutlry and a cow were saved. It is thought that the fire have becn of incendiary origin Abouf a year ago, Mr. Kislowski, in preparation for the building of the se in which he now lives, had | stored about $1,000 worth of lumber in the barn. It mysteriously caught fire but the blaze was extinguished withou™ loss. The fire, starting at that time, at- tracted hundreds of people, some from New Britain andl vicinity. may Mrs, Returns (o Find Household Goods and Husband Gone, been that is written while “the but accor Mrs. Stuart It has often men celebrate in the countr complaint of of 431 West Main street band took advanta of nce on vacation, by household effects to a $25. She re she told Off and found and her hust wife an her hu her ab- selling the ond hand arned after r William the house and no- Bodies “Entombed in 1880 to Be Removed dc2ler for two wee Stellarton, N. §. Aug. 16 (P— 'y 0K [ Atter nearly a half century, the | ;o WEFAY Toord pit, which had remained her- | ©FAReC 0Nt metically sealed since dn explosion | VITT @00 in 1880 entombed 40 coal miners, | "%, SIS INE, T has begun to give up its dead. A 3 shatt Bas beén driven into the old | O% her husband for: their workings and men, braving the - % e T AT New Haven Republicans es, have entered the foul! interior and ered “the bones of threo 2 L s Rt e | Are Once More in Trouble New Haven, Aug. 16—Close of of the miners. 4 | Little was left of the dead except | : the larger bones, but the boots and |registration for republican caucuses | 1eather belts of the victims are said |and verification of the lists by the !to be perfectly preserved and in as |Tegistrars of voters for duplications good condition as if they had been has given rise to another controver- in the mine only a few d A sy here the leader of a faction which |few shreds of tattered clothing [oPposes Col. I, Ullman and his | clung to some of the bornes. organization claiming the totals of JC e [the registrar “are absurd.” The . . |registréirs said toda total list {Marlin Fire Arms Co. registrirs said today the total st . 3, s 6,077 while the ctional leader Organize in Elm City |said the total could not be much 3 in |over 4,000. The lattér claims 2 ford, Aug. 16 P—The Marlin |OVer 4, Fifimfmns Cogo{ New Haven has Of the names registered leaving on | organized on a capital of $300,000. 1,129 for the regular city organizs The subscribers to the stock are |tion but the latter claims 4,103. | former Representative Frank Ken-| The caucuses on the h here are | na, 2,990 shares, and Edward J. cxpected to be about as lively as any ;Br'ann;m and Thomas W ill, five (the republicans have held for years. shares each. Mr. Kenna is president _— |and treasurer and Mr. Brennan sce- | Warrant for Springfield s g * Girl Has Been Issued . 4| Stamford, Conn., Aug. 16. (P—Po- i1 || lice revealed today that they have | AIGH TIDE a warrant for the arrest of [l Aug. 17 (Standara Time) | Smith, 23, of Springfield, || New Faven 4.28an.4.49 p.m. || New London 3.11a.m.3.44 p.m. children depends living. , for of the American Tank company here on August 7. They have been % | conducting a quiet search for the young woman but have failed to | Tocate her. Miss Smith, an office assistant had been working for the company two weeks prior to that date. She was sent to the bank for the week- |1y payroll and is alleged to have taken the money from the envelope into which she stutfed papers. The substitution was discovered when | | the envelope was opened the * | office, *. l o P NN L THF WEATHER Hartford, Aug. 16.—Forecast for New Britain -nd vicinity: Probably showers tonight and Tuesday; somewhat warmer Tuesday in ponse to a request made some tire | ot- | local | ineer Wil- In the street repair | the alleged theft of a $200 payroll | The Nex | Commerce tion o lin ¢ only one of left on tI organizatic week and tord tod en by the bo: ratified today v with the services of L. Gould. | At a meeting | question of r last g the other amber Hunger- s werc policies in effect a € s taken up. Judge B. F. ford a arles W. Haw e with absence power Ju threw the shoulders of The Tungerford from the city responsibility onto the Mr. Hawkins. Although during the of e Hung story from le: wn for sever Mr. Gould's equested, as as from the to keep out, it made city the absence ford, ng been liam T sistant A made by orge H. Dyson Mr. Gould's resigna sec; statement President ¢ that was | Chamber of Commerce Clean-Up Completed Today by Directors, Single Girl Employee Retained [ I‘S(enographcr in Charge At Headquarters in Sweep Approved At Meeting of Board t would ¥ mee of acted upon at a ting the tors today. board today, according to a ment issued by Judge Hunger- oted to term ery Mr. Gould.” board made a clean sweep réorganization plans re to announcements addition to Messrs rist, Paul local newspa come Charlotte and man, slated to be- secretary; Miss telephone opera- iladys Larson have ass| nization, leaving Miss Gladys sole charge. Mr. Christ, ad planned to resign, effec- ptember 1, concluded his connections with the .chamber this morning. All others, it is under- stood, have severed connections Lucas and Christ were re- quested to turn in their keys thig morning prior to the directors’ meeting. The reason for the wholesale 1-sweep” ars said to be a re- chment of expenses and it is said have been under consideration for a long time, Judge Hungerford that he wanted stated today it understood that (Continued on Page 13) :Coffin, NSupposed to Contz;in Body of Lord Kitchener, Is Found Empty moniously Opens Case But Find No Corpse, Thus Adding to Mystery Reported | Found in Norway and | Shipped Home. — Remains London, Aug. 16 (& home office today clally that a packi delivered at Waterloo Station and alleged to contain the body of the late Lord Kitchener, “was found to contain an empty coffir | After the packing ley and the Brown went where they e British offi- recently an invest se, Chief Co. Detectiy to the hom held a lengthy officials and on able of the Wens. office confer- with legal ad- otland Yard from the where it w , to officers removed Waterloo road s delivered last iary. The case by Frank 5 wspaperman who announ itly that he had found what he believed be th, body of Lord Kitchener on the coast of Norway. Power notifled and said that the next step was up o the government, which hitherto 1 discredited Power's story of the nding of the body and the clearing p of the tragic mystery o the cruiser Hampshire during World War. Burglars Reported A fresh sensation connected the case developed ear! ing when police tion, a mor s shippe itish n to Premier Baldwin | | with his morn- who were guarding casket were noned to search the ghbo 1 for suspected burglars. Neighboring residents of the mortuary reported they had seen two men le the 1s about the establist n exhaustive search however, to reveal any in- truders. The coffin w ing under the Inglesby Oddie Sir .Bernard Spils- bur governn t pathologist, was present. High Scotland Yard officials official photographers also were | present, | The greatest |the proceedin | was concerned, only |the curlosity of the which surrounded |from an early hour. After the examination of the casket had been concluded, Coroner Oddie declined to make any state- ment to newspapermen for the pres- opened th direction morn of Coroner secrecy surrounded far as the public rving to whet large crowds the mortuary Official Statement Scotland Yard officials immediate- ly sought to get in touch with Power. The statement issued by the home office this morning said: “The packing case, alleged to con- taln a coffin and human remains, which on Saturday night was remov- |ed by the police from an undertak- er's on Waterloo “oad to Lambeth |Coroner's court, was this morning |opened in the presence of Coroner |Tngleby Oddie,” and Sir Bernard Spilsbury. The packing case was found to contain an empty coffin. The, coffin was new and obviously had not contained human remains.” Superintendenta sink- | . FOR CANTON CLEANUP Federal Warrant Today for Man Suspected in Mellett Murder Case | Cleveland, 0., Aug. United States government prepared today to strike at. Canton's under- world and its liquor activities. _The figst federal attack on the Canton liquor situation was to come in the form of a warraut which was to be issued during the day, accord- ing to United States District Attor- ney A. E. Bernsteen. The warrant, Bernsteen declared, will name a man, whose name he would not reveal, who ‘knows as much as anybody about the murder of Don R. Mellett, Canton pub- lisher.” He intimated that the arrest of this man would be instrumental in aring up the killing of the pub- lisher and also that the man named in the warrant was one of the lead- ers of the underworld of Canton, Announcement of the first step in the governmental probe of the Can- ton liquor activities came shortly after Bernsteen entered into a con- ference with his chief assistant, Miles E. Evans; H. C. Pontius, attor- ney for the Canton Daily News, an- other Canton man and one from Youngstown, Bernsteen questioned Joseph F. Metzger of Canton re- garding a statement ‘made by Ben Clarke, Bertillon officer at Canton, in which Clarke declared he gave to Metzger revolver found across th the Detective the street slaying. declaring he never had seen the re- volver and knew nothing of it. Buffalo Mayor_Shocked At What He Saw in Paris Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 16 (P — Mayor Frank X. Schwab, today de- clared that if he were mayor of Paris for 24 hours he would turn that city upside down in an address at the tenth annual convention of the fraternal order or police “When I was in Paris I made an inspection of the city with a mem- ber of the Paris police force,” he said, “and I was amazed at what I saw.” He said that decent women did not seem to be safe on the streets alone, [ The mayor said that the reason for what he thought were bad con- | ditiong in Paris was that the police | there were not respected as are American police. He said that | European police depended harsh methods while American po- lice used kindness. from LONG TIME EN ROUTE Springfield, Mass, Aug. 16 (P— A postcard malled by a friend in Ellenburg center, N. Y., on Aug. 10, 1909, has just been received by Mrs. Clara Coopee Marion of Oliver street, East Hamptoa. Mrs. Marion had to pay the increase in the post- age of one cent before she could re- ceive the card. eir connections with the | ¢ 16 (P—The | scene of the | Metzger denled the charge, | upon | 150 MEXICANS, COMMANDED BY MEN FORMERLY ARMY OFFICERS, CAUGHT AS THEY PLAN REVOLT AT BORDER American Secret Serv- | ice Agents Also Seize t Armored Truck and ' Big Supply of Rifles, ' Machine Guns and | munition ‘Expedition Assembled in | Imperial Valley, Three i Miles From Line, Prep« [ to Rebellion | Against Calles, i | | | aratory a former | | I San Diego, Cal., Aug. 16 (P—Ape vroximately 150 men, mobilized fon i Mexican revolution, under the and of General Eurique Es= a, former Mexican secretary of war, were in prisons here today and a large quantity of arms and ame | munition seized, by American aus thorities. Caught Near Border | Agents of the United States ded partment of justice aided by cltyy county and other federal officers, captured what was to have been an armed party of invading insurs | rectors, three miles from the Mexie can border. | Information gathered by governe | ment agents led them to the ape | pointed rendezvous at Dulzura, in | the Imperial vailey, where General | Estrada and his staff were concen= | trating their forces preparatory to a descent upon the towns just be- low the border. An armored truck, two I-ton truck loads of rifles, machine guns, and ammunition, other trucks for the transportation of men and sup- plies, and about 150 Mexicans made up the material and personnél of the | captured expeditional while govern- | ment agents also captured docu= | mentary eviden d complete sets |of plans for the fnsurrection. | Leaders Cappured The most important capture was made yesterday, khen General Es- trada and his staff, including Earle C. Parker, San iDego hardware and |arms dealer, were captured and | brought into the city, from Dulzura, while the munitions trucks were captured near La Mesa. The captured arms inchuded 400 | Springfield rifles, two machine guns and 155,000 rounds of ammunition and a miscellaneous assortment of small arms. Later a truck, protect= ed with armor plate half an inch thick and weighing nearly six tons, was captured near Dulzura, when (Continued on Page 11) PLANE CRASH VICTIM BRINGS $10,000 SUIT |Bristol Woman Attaches C. of C. and Colonial Air Lines, Inc. o Hartford, Conn., Aug. 16 (A—The | Bristol Chamber of Commerce and the Colonial Air Lines, Incorporated, are made defendsnts in an action brought by Margaret Ziesemann of Bristol, who seeks damages of $10, 000 for injuries she reccived in an accident at Bristol on August 185, 19 during an aviation meet in that city. Attachments were made against each defendant in the amount of §10,000. George E. Beers |of Guilford is counsel for the plain= |tiff, the case being made returnabls to the superior court for Hartford |county on the first Tuesday in Sepe | tember. The complaint alleges that the |{two defendants gave an exhibition |ot airplanes at Chippens Hill in |Bristol on August 15, 1925, and jointly invited the public to attend. |One of the events was the fiying of |a Sikorski biplane aerial transport, which at the time of the aeccident carried 14 persons. The plane ran along the ground without rising un- til it reached the margin of the fleld when, rising slightl it crashed against a fence, breaking a portion of it, a piece striking the plaintiff on the head. 140 Hour Week and Pay | Raise Given, Strike Ends Stamford, Conn., Aug. 16, (P— Seventy women employes of the | United Cloak Manufacturing com- | pany, who with the employes of three other factories here have been | on strike for several weeks, have | been granted a forty hour week |and a varying pay increase, it was announced today with the settles |ment of differences between the | company and the International | Ladies Garment Workers' uniom | Workers at the other factorles are still on strike. FALL TO HIS DEATH Springfleld, Mass., Aug. 16 (P’ Missing & step on his way upstairs - in the house in which he was b 59 years ago, Edward W. Barry Westfleld suffered injuries last in a fall that resulted a few utes later in his death, X