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News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 FLAYS PREJUDICE | AS ALIEN TO HAN Masons, K. of C,, K. K. K. Pic- tured Promoting Negro Uplilt GIDDINGS CHAPTER 1S 73| Judge Pollard Sketches Millennium At Anniversary Banquet of Royal Arch Masons When Religions and| Races Unite In Brotherhood. The ideal time will come when the Masons, the Knights of Colum- bus and the Ku Klux Klan hold a testival in a Jewish synagogue to raise money to build Baptist! churches for Negroes, according to Judge John G. Pollard, former alv] torney-general of Virginia, who spoke last evening at the 75th an- niversary of Giddings chapter, Roy-| al Arch Masons. | Judge Pollard, who was president | of the Trowel and Trestle UDflrd; club in France during the war, i3/ prominent as a :lasonic lecturer throughout the country. He spoke| last night on “The Spirit ot Mason- He is one the staff of the col-| of William and Mary at Wil- liamsburg, Va. “Prue Masonry recognizes the; fatherhood of God and the brother- hood of man. How can we recog-| nize the brotherhood of man in its true mecaning if we fail to assume the fatherhood of God?” he asked. “Ihe spirit of Masonry implies a decent regard for the opinions of others, charity in our judgment of others; courtesy to others and serv- ice to others. S “In my younger days I entertain- ed great prejudices. I thought men were bad because they did not agree with me. When 1 came to know them better my prejudice faded away. “] am a Gentile to the manner born, but the more I see of my Jew- ish friends the more completely I los my prejudice for the race. “] am a Protestant, but the more 1 see of my Catholic frends the more I respect and :.dmire them. “] am a democrat—an old Vir- ginia democrat—but the more 1 see of my republican friends the more 1 am convinced of the fact that they are not bad men, just good men gone Wrong. “] am praying for the day when the Masons and the Knights of Co- Jumbus and the Ku Klux Klan will meet to hold a festival in a Jewish synagogue to raise money to build| Baptist churches for Negroes. That will be the ideal time. “God in his wisdom has never| made a man so wise he can see every side of a question. On every subject the world's greatest men disagree. “None of us are wholly righ none of us are wholly wrong, none; of us are wholly bad, none of us are| wholly good. The spirit of Masonry | tcaches that we must be charitable in our opinions of others. “How cruel to condemn & man| because his sins are not the same| sins as ours. Ty lege . . (Continued on Page 17) TARBOT’ SPENDS LIFE IN QUEST FOR MOTHER Believes She Needs Him and Awaits His Return “Pye got my mother to find and| all promises of luxuries will not make me quit until I succeed. I know my mother isn’t rich. She is poor and she's old. Furthermore, I know that we'll be together only a few weeks after I do find her, be- cause she's just hanging on until hor son comes back to her.” Sosaid écry Tarbot,” America's living nknown Soldier,” who is in New Britain in the hope that some one| of his old “buddies” will recognize him and greet him, tearing away the curtain which separates his| past existence from his life during the past three years. “Jerry” when interviewed today by a representative of tho Herald, stated that he has been ‘‘recogniz- ed” many times by women who have thought him to be their son. Some of them have been wealthy and some of them have sought legal ac- tion to cause him to acknowledge them, but he said that he knows none of them has had any claim upon him. “I haven't found my mother yet,” he said. His story Is interesting and, at the same time, pathetic. Suffering from amnesia as the result of shell shock during the World War, this man who calls himself “Jerry Tarbot” due to the fact that he has no rec-| ollection of any other name, is trav-| elling about the United States hop- ing that somewhere someone will Te him, i Tarbot is an interesting talker| snd he i3 well versed in many sub-| jects, particularly farming. He has| a natural aptitude for agriculture and he is of the opinion that ho is a member of a family of farmers and that, losing his artificlal ability at other work, he has ceverted to type. He is ond of tne outdoors and likes to walk through the woods. He also has a great fond- nes: for animals. particularly dogs. Many people have bcen of the opinion that they !aew him and many of them have called him by name, but he is sure that none of | these people has been right in their| conjectures. He has come in contact (Continucd on Page 14) Enize |from Brooklyn last NEW BRITAIN HERALD Made By U. S. Court NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1926.—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. Federal Grand Jury Regards Dry Law As Breeder of Crime, Urges Modification By Next Congress Personnel—95 Per Cent of Cases Handled Were Liquor Violations. New York, Dec. 10.—The stead act is a brecder of ‘“ruthless and dangerous criminals” and should be repealed, in the opinion of a fed- eral grand jury as expressed a iresolution adopted 19 to ¢ after con- |sideration of liquor cases. The November grand jury adopted the resolution wupon its dissolution December 6, but it was not published until today. Copies were sent to senators from New York, federal judges and public prosecutors. Of- ficials here said they believed it to be the first expression of its kind ever made by a grand jury. The coples were signed by L. W. Flaun- lacher, foreman of the jury who sald that 95 per cent of the cases handled during November were pro- hibitlon cases. The grand jurors ae- cordingly consldered themselves in a position fo express an opinion on the law. He said: “The resolution says ‘We as mem- bers of the grand jury of the sec- ond district of New York sitting for the November term, having had Vol- ;during this perlod ample opportun- | ity to observe, by reason of personal [testimony any evidence presented {to us, the baneful effects of the Vol- | stead act, under the workings of | which has evidently been developed la very ruthless and dangerous set| ‘of criminals, have reached a full | {realization, and it is our opinion (only four dissenting) that this law in its present form cannot be en- forced. We therefore submit that such modification of this law as will bring it within the bounds of reason and possible enforcement is neces- sary for the general good of the nation and recommend and urge that at the next regular season of |congress that body recognize the re- :sult of the vote of several referenda had November 2 as indicative of the opposition of a large part of the population of the United States to- |ward this law as it now stands and 50 modify it that it may become safe, sane and workable.” Most of the men on the grand jury were retired manufacturers or of- | ficials of companies. DORENY TELLS OF OTHER ADVANCES Mentions Additional Loan of [November Panel in New York Adopts Resolutions 19 $5,000 to Former Secretary to 4—This is First Expression of Its Kind Ever HE ALSO HELPED MEXICO 10il Man Tells of $10,000,000 Loan to Obregon Govt.—Stoutly Main- tains Innocence of Conspiracy— Says He Withheld Facts Before. Wilbur Called Today Washington, Dec. 10 (P-—Sec- retary Wilbur of the navy de- partment was called to the wit- ness stand today in the Fall- | Doheny oil trial. He was summoned by the de- fense, which sought to show | that a “war scare” hovered over the Pacific when Edward L. | Doheny contracted to build a fuel storage base at Pearl Har- bor, Hawall. | Wiibur took office long after the Pearl Harbor negotiations were completed but he now fe custodian of the *war scare” records sought by the defense. Secretary Wilbur refused to disclose to the jury what secret information of a “war scare” in | the Pacific may have come to I the navy before it approved the Pearl Harbor. GOOK IS SENTENCED T0 TERM IN PRISON Two and a Half to 10 Years —His Children Think Him on Vacation New York, Dec. 10 (A — Hobart W. Cook of Noroton Manor, Conn., ‘was sentenced today to state prison for not less than two years and six months and not more than 10 years. Cook, a former freight cash- |ter of the Munson Steamship lines, had pleaded guilty to stealing $67,- 000 from his employers. Before imposing sentence Judge Rosalsky announced that he had received letters requesting leniency for Cook fram the prisoner's wifa and Frank C. Munson, president of the steamship company. Mr. Munson wrote that investi- gation revealed a pitiful story and that he hoped the court would take it into account. Prohibition officers reported that Cook was born on an Indian agency t,|in North Dakota, his father being | a missionary among the Indians. The missionary died when Cook was two years old. He married be- fore he was out of school and three children were born. Debts piled up and three years ago he began to steal. He explain- ed the extra money to his wife by saying that oil had been found on some Indian land he owned. The wife wrote the judge: must pay the penalty, but do not make the sentence too long. His children think he is away on a va- cation.” With good behavior Cook will be released at the end of his minimum sentence. To Insure his good con- duct after that the judge sentenced him on only one of the two indict- ments to which he pleaded. On the other, sentence was suspended which will necessitate Cook's porting to a prohibition officer every week for 10 years after his release. BROOKLYN WIDOW HELD, SUSPECTED OF ARSON Arrosted at Silver Beach, Milford, Early This Morning—Bonds Put at $5.000. Milford, Dec. 10 (P—DMary Conlin, a widow of Brooklyn, N. Y., and & former summer resident at Silver Beach, is being held without bail on a charge of idleness here while Mil- ford police investigate a fire which damaged a cottage on the water front this morning. It was one of geveral mysterlous fires which have occurred along the beach during the past two years. The woman, who was arrested at 3 o'clock this morning at the rail- road station, admits she came here night, stating that she came to see a real estate agent. An examination showed that her overshoes contalned beach sand and they fitted tracks in the light snow which Officer James Maher, Jr., followed for two miles from the scene of the fire to the raliroad. The fire this morning at the cot- tage of Sam Silver, a Bridgeport merchant, was discovered by a trol- ley crew. Firemen saved the build- ing by the use of chemical. They found at a corner of the porch some | burned papers and oilad soaked rags. Bonds were fixed at $5,000 for a hearing in the Milford town court Monday. TEMPLE PERMIT ISSUED Building Department Acts on Appli- cation for Russell Street Struc- ture Which will Cost $125,000. A building permit was issued to- day to the Masonic Temple Corpor- atfon for the crcction of its lodge rooms on Russell street. The pro- posed building is of brick construc- tion, 62x95, and will be bullt for ap- proximately $125,000, “He | SHOW GIRL WINS BIG AWARD FROM RICH MAN Jury Gives $50,000 Ver- dict in Favor of Anne Caldwell Pittshurgh, Dec - 10 (A—Miss Anne Caldwell, New York show girl, | was awarded $50,000 by a federal |court jury today in her $500,000 | breach of promise suit agalnst John :W< Hubbard, wealthy Pittsburgh ishovel manufacturer. The award { was made in a sealed verdict agreed jupon during the night and returned {to Judge W. H. §. Thomson at the | opening of court. | Miss Caldwell's { upon allegations tha | posed marrfage to her in Atlantic Clty in 1922 and repudiated the en- sagement two years later after her return from a venture in motion ple- tire work in Californfa. She also | charged seduction, | Hubbard denied there was any en- | gagement or mention of marriage in his relations with Miss Caldwell. He {testified they came to a ‘parting of |the ways” just before the actress went west when she told him thaw Norman Bel Geddes, theatrical pro- ‘duccr and scenic designer, had promised her parts in movie pro- | ductions. Both Miss Caldwell and Geddes testified they were on the | same train on the trip to the coast. Miss Caldwell testified that fol- [lowing their engagement Hubbard sult was based tinduced her to leave her jeb in an| | Atiantic City modiste shop and go to | New York where she took a course | in a dramatic school to educate her- self to beconte Hubbard's wife, Hub- bard paying the bills. Hubbard told | the jury he was “very fond” of Miss |caldwell and he ‘“supposed” he | “loved” her. Ho also said he gave her money and presents but insist- ed there was no engagement to wed | Trial of the case occupled more | than a week, it was given to the jury yesterday efternoon and an agree- ment reached early today after nearly 12 hours of delibertion. The jury in its verdict making the award found “there was evidence |of & marriage contract between Miss Caldwell and Mr. Hubbard.” Neither principals in the suit was in court when the verdict was opened, Attorney Rody P. Marshall, chief counsel for the shovel manu- |facturer, in commenting on the ver- |dict, said: “Personally, T would im- | mediately take steps to appeal for a |new trial, but before any further ac- (Continued on Page 36) LOTS NOT REGORDED, REFUSES T0 PAY TAX Meriden Man Says This City’s Maps Are Incorrect E. H. Higginson of Meriden is the | owner of 18 building lots in the eity | of New Britain, which do not appear {on the city maps and on which he declines to pay taxes until they are properly entered, an operation which may require a survey of the entire city at an enormous cost. | As far as is known this is the only instance of its kind. Few are aware | of the situation, which realtors say is likely to serfously affect the authenticlty of the city records un- less speedily rectirled. Higginson claims to have a quit- claim deed for the , parcel of land. | When he consulted the city map to check up on his holdings he was | surprised to find the entire town had been plotted out and credited |to varlous property owners, but | nowhere does his name or his pro- perty appear. When taxbills were sent to those whose names were on the books he received his, but he | has declined to pay because he does not appear on the maps, he says, t Hubbard pro- | ] Washington, Dee. 10 () — Under | |a penctrating cross-examination to- i‘day by government coun L. Doheny stoutly maintained | dental that his ofl transactions with [the government were tainted with {gullt, but surprised the court with | several new disclosurcs of his re- lations with Albert B. Fall. Among other things he said that his now famous loan of $100,000 to Fall had been followed least one advance of $5.000 to Iall and that Fall also had advised him in connection with an advance of $10,000,000 to the Mexican govern- |ment while General Obregon was | president. | Defense counsel cut off further !questioning about advances to Fall, with an objection that later was | sustzined by the court. Fall is a |co-defendant with Doheny in the al under a charge of criminal | conspiracy. i Didn’t Tell Everything | The witness also conceded that {he had not told the senate oil com- | mittee “everything” when he ap- | peared there in 1924, but he main- {talned that he had answered | “truthfully” all the specific ques- |tions asked. The cross-examination required |two hours and a half. Throughout 11t was a qulet, direct exchange of |suave question and soft reply be- tween the witness and Owen J. | Roberts for the government. Do- {heny appeared in the witness stand after a restless night, with an in- fcted arm in a sling, and Roberts dropped from the start the grim and merciless method of attack |which has characterized his e 'amination of other government witnesses. | Doheny could not recall the ex- lact time of his 10,000,000 loan to the Obregon government in Mexico, but he indicated it was at the mo- ment the De La Huerta revolution was threatening Obregon's su- premacy at Mexico City. The w! |ness said the $10,000,000 advance |was in the form of the prepayment of taxes on Mexican properties 'held by the Doheny interests, and that It “saved the situation | Obregon. | On re-direct examniation the ofl | magnate read a statement he sub- !mitted to the Los Angeles court two years ago when he re- Ifused to testify, in response to a | government summons, in the civil Isuit which nullified the pan-Amer- ican’s Elk Hills leases. His refusal to testify, he sald, was on the 'ground that his testimony there might prejudice the trial now in progress. \HART GIVES GUN PERMITS 10 DRIVERS OF BUSSES Taxd Drivers to Carry | | | | win Allow | Arms If Employers File Applications Drivers of busses for some time have been carrying firearms with- out permits from the chief of po- lice, it became known today when |Theodore Wagner, local jitneur, called on Chief Hart relative to per- | mits. Mr. Wagner carrics a revolver |and Charles Goudreault, one of his ldrivers on the North Burritt street line, had one under his seat when he was held up last Sunday after- noon. Chief Hart told Mr. Wagner he | would issue permits, as he belleves the drivers should protect them- selves. Relative to the request of chruffeurs of taxicahs that they be allowed to carry firearms, Chief Hart sald he will issue permits it thelr employcrs make request and desig. nate those from whom the perm are wanted, wr THE WEATHER [ ! I | | marttora, Dee. 10—TForecast for New Britain and vicinity: Rain or snow tonight; Satur- day cloudy, slowly rising temperature | FORMER HARTFORD COP IS FINED, ALSO JAILED { James Madigan Gets 30 Days and $300 For Violation of Liquoe Laws, | Hartford, Conn, Dec. 10 (P— | Tames Madigan, a former Hartford | supernumerary policeman was sent- | tenced to jail for thirty days and fined $300 for violating the liquor | laws, this morning in police court. | An adaitional fine of $25 was im- | posed for abusing an ofticer. Madi- | gan was arraigncd with Harry Has- jsell and David Adler, the trio being ! arrested November 30 in a raid by i local, county and federal prohibition officers. Hassell was fined $100 and SERIOUS RIOT AT BRIDGEWATER SHOP { Dozen Injured, Several Serious- | Iy in Mass. Strike Fight :SPEGIAL (0P ARRESTED Strikers Also Are Arrested On As- sault Charges and Dozen Others Are Held For Making Dis- turbance, Adler was fiven thirty days in jail | and finea $300. | The state's chief witness against the men was William Robinson, a East Bridgewater, Mass., Dec. 10 (A—More than a dozen persons were by at! for | retired banker who testified that he had purchased liquor from the store. SCHOOL TEACHERS’ - RAISE APPROVED Salary Committee Recommend Increase in Pay for This City BOARD WILL ACT TODA S Elementary and Plea Instructors in Scnior High Schools Galn Brought to Authortles Attentlon el Edward | his | Year Ago by Teachers' Council. After year's of the salary question of the New Britain hool the salary a study teachers, ee of the school board will olution at the board ing for increases. in the maximum pay of teachers of the elementary and senior high schools. Aceor port, t schools ng to provisions of the re- hers in the will be granted a mihimum increase from $050 to $1,000 and a maximum increase $1900. The junior high schools will main the same with the minimum salary being placed at $1700 and ximum salary $2500 and a sximum and minimum salary of both the men and women. B instructors in the senior high school the committee felt that it was necessary to increase the wages of the male instructors more than any of the others. The committee felt that the need for more teachers to take care of the boys would necessi tate an increase in the men’s salary so that the committee could retain their services. Men instructors who formerly re- ceived a maximum salary of $2,600 | will be cl $3,000., remain zible to a yearly ealary of The minimum salary will the same, $1,800. The women teachers will be the same, $1,400, | The salary committce, which is composed of the teachers and fi- !nance committees combined, worked with a committee of the teachers’ councll on the matter for some time. The salary committee con- iats of Chairman P. F. King, Sec- y Henry T. Burr, Supt. H. Holmes of the teachers’ committee, rman George W. Traut, Young and Josecph M. Halloran of the finance committee, HEROIC TRACHER MAY GET COST O COAT FROM CITY Members of Government Would Re- federal | imburse Miss Eichstaedt Who Tried to Save Boy's Life. Members of the common council, including some who on the claims cowumittee, are in favor of re- imbursing Miss Malvina Eichstaedt loss of her coat through ler heroism in attempting to save the life of Leo Dialek of 42 Farming. | ton avenue, who was fatally burned on Oct. 15 Miss Eichstaedt, who is physical instructor at the Washington street school, wrapped her coat about the boy, who was a mass of flames. Her coat was burned in places and | was so generally scorched that it was rendered usel yet she did not make a claim ag: the eity and does not intend to do so. Her fingers were slightly burned in her effort. It was reported today that the clalms committee will recommend that the brave teacher be reimburs- ed for the coat. She is the daughter of ex-Councilman A. F. Eichstaedt. NWICH HOU Greenwich, Conn., Dec. 10.—(Pr— A two story house owned by Joseph Perna at Ship Hill road, was de- stroyed by fire last night, the lo being estimated at $5,500. The Perna family was not at home when the blaze was discovered. elementary | from $1850 to | Te- se of the need for more men | injured, several 6f them serfously, in a riot before the gates of the Oil Colony Foundry company today. | More than 40 striking iron workers, a group of a dozen employes of the foundry company and three special ofticers cmployed during the iifticulty, were mixed up in the af- {falr which occurred as the employes were entering the plant to begin {work. Seven Policemen Battle |special officers succeeded in quelling Ithe disorders after about an hour. Immediately afterward a commit- | local Tron Moulders' | tee from the |union sent a committce to Brockton land obtained a warrant for the ar- rest of Speefal Officer Charles E. Blakeney, employed by the company |charging him with assaulting Charlcs |Fuller, a striker who was severely linjured. . Later representatives of the company obtained three war rants charging strikers with assault and 12 others charging disturbance | Fuller suffered severe head |wounds that required geveral stitehes. Willlam Harrls, president of the Iron Moulders' local, also was |infured about the head. Charles Cram, one of the workers, wa: [heaten about the head and received a broken nose. Tabio Petrucel, an employe, had a broken nose and » wound. Various others of those who en zaged in the melee were injured by stones, sticks, clubs and flying fists | Storles Comflict Conflicting stories were the strikers and the employes. was established, however, that two |score strikers, whose rumber in- cluded practically all of tha work- ers employed at the foundry unti) two months ago, were near the gates this morning. A warning wa workers that a ress. While the speclal claimed the trouble was started by the strikers, the workers alleged |that Officer Klalkeney leaped from the gateway and felled President Harris with his club, knocking him unconsclous. When the men first ceased work about two months ago, it could noe be ascertained whether it was a strike or a lockout. Nearly all of the half-hundred men employed had just organized a unlon when the plant was closed. Company and union Issued no statements to clarify thelr positlons but later, it was lcarned that the workers were granted strike benefits by the moulders’ international. About a week ago guards were en- gaged by the company and workers were notified that they had until December 20 to return to work The total force at work in the plant up to today numbered about 20. Counsel for the company expected to ask for an injunction in superior court this afternoon to restrain the unfon from interfering with the workers. ‘Mother Braves Wall of Fire to Save Children told by 1t i shouted to the North Adams, Mass, Dec. 10 (8| —The story of a mother braving a veritable wall of flames to rescue Iher two small sick children was |learncd here early today. After labor | | Chief of Police Russell and six rilke was In prog- | officers | Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending l 4’1 49 Dec. 4th .... PRICE THREE CENTS OVER 259 MILLION ASKED BY INTERIOR DEPT., MOST OF IT BEING FOR PENSIONS — RABBI HADAS HITS AT 'Bil Calling for $259,- MODERN ORGY OF SE 336.000 Reported to S House Today—Four- World “Steeped in 1t”, He rifths of it For War Says in “Idol Worship” | Veterans' Address Funds Recommended for Reclamation Work on Western Projects $11,- 681,000, an Increase of $4,062,000. | “It 1s casy to be religlous by quoting texts from the Bible, but much more difficult to follow in our own lives teachings out of that book,” declared Rabbi Gershon Hadas before the Men's Bible class |at the Y. M. C. A. last evening, where he spoke on “Idol Worship in Mod- ern Life.” Referring to the religious question- naire now being published by the | Herald, Rabbi Hadas gave it as his opinion that the Bible was inspired, but he did not concur in the view that it was by any means the only inspired literature. He condemned, as a form of idol worship, the prac- tice in some circles of making the Dible such a holy book that it must be handled and treated in a very special way. He emphasized the fact Washington, Dee. 10 P—Carrying a fotal of $259,386,000, of which more than four-fifths is for Civil and Spanish war pensions, the bill ap- propriating funds for the interfor department for the fiscal year be- {ginning July 1 was reported today to the house. The bill's total, including $222,- 708,000 for pension bureau, repre- sented an increase of $32,063,000 over the current appropriations, but i decrease of $1,151,000 below the budget estimate. The appropria- ns committee {n reporting the measure said most of the advance was made necessary by pension in- creases authorized by congress last winter, raieing the bureau's total 328,787,000 in the present biil. Reclamation Work For reclamation work on western projects, $11,681,000 was provided, 10 increase of $4,0G2,000 over funds now available. Of this, $450,000 was allotted for the Baker project fn Oregon. The committee, in rec- 'mmending the expenditures, asked ~ongress to “assume responsibility” or starting the project, adding: “This project, several times mmended for construction by the icpartment of finterior and five times approved by congress through Approprintions, is not held feasible by the present seeretary of the in. terlor, who declines to proceed with its construction except under an ap- propriation in form relleving him from the necessity of fnding the profect feasibi | “The committes recommends |mew appropriation stripped of all conditions and under which con- gress assumes the responsibility for rec- RABBI GERSHON HADAS, at it was more fmporfant to follow the teachings of the Bible than to malke a fetish out of the idea of a holy book. “Do we, toddy, worship any sort of idols?” asked the speaker, in be- ginning his address. “Formerly some kinds of idol worship included in-| fanticide—children ~ were sacrificed | on the altars to some god. We no longer offer human sacrifice in that manner, but there is room for re- flection in the fact that a million children under 15 years of age are at work in the mills and factories of this country. The world did not hes- itate to offer the lives of ten million men as a sacrifice to Mars, the war god. “Our whole social up in the worship a (Continued on Page 33.) NEARLY 12 MILLION ifflR DRY ENFORGEMENT A House However, Strikes ite 1s boun = ot Mammon.| Out $500,000 for “Under i (Continued on Page 24) Cover” Agents LONG FIGHT FOR LIFE ' Dec. 10 (P—House mustered only twelve votes to- | day in their attack on the $11,900,- 000 appropriation for the prohibi- tion unit carried in the treasury- pos Washington, | wets - OF LINEWAN FAILURE (5 e, . ok | they succeeded in eliminating a.sec- AL y tion of the measure under which Baest Dies in Spite of Ijicom ©. Andrews, dry ehicr, S iy | would have been authorized to spend | Resuscitation Crews’ | 55,000 nest vear for under cover | Efforts | agents without detailed accounting. | One hundred and forty members “ | voted for the expenditure of the | nearly twelve million dollars, but on the contention of Representative La Guardia, republican, New York, | Etforts on the part of fellow em- ployes of the Connecticut Light and Power BURNED | Co. to keep burning the spark of life In the body of Anton Baest of 26 Henry street failed and at 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, six hours after he had received 13- | 800 volts of electricity from a high | tension wire on Etanley strcet he| was declared dead by Medical Ex aminer John Purney. carrying her children to safety, Mrs. William A. Davis, who lives on the outskirts of the town, was forced to stand by and watch her home burn when a careless motorist ran over a line of hose and cut it with heavy chains. The autolst made his cscape and the fire gained great heady while another line of hose was being laid. to resuscitate him immediately after | he was taken from the wire on which he was ssupended after re-| ceiving the shock and continued | without pausing until they were told | by the medical examiner that their | efforts were in vain. Working in| turn, life saying measures were call- | ed upon by the employes who are drilled in the proper methods in this kind of an emergency. Baest and a helper, Hazen Duns- | moor had gone to Stanley and Ellis | strects to repair a cable. Not know- | ing that one of the two cables had not been cut off he cut Into the| “live” wire and was hanging from | the wire when Earl Pierson, who had received a call at the office and broke all traffic rules in a desperate | effort to get to the scene of the mis- | hap. | Dr. Purney and Dr. M. J. Kinsella | | with John Hannon and District Su- Miss M;rray's Condition At Hospital Unchanged Reports from St. Raphael's hos- pital, New Haven. state that the con- dition of Miss Adele Murray of Ber- lin, a school teacher of this city, re- mains unchanged. Miss Murra relatives were called to her bed-side terday when physici ng her announced that her condi- tion was critical. WANT CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY Washington, Dec. 10 (P—A holi day for postal employes on Christ- mas day has been asked by Rep- resentative Boylan, democrat, New York, who introduced a resolution to suspend mall delivery that day ! and keep at work only those em- BOY HIT BY AUTO, RUN AND PLAY, sustained | Alleging that njuries | when he was run down by their automobile in front of the Colonial | Gasoline Station in Plainville on Oc- tober 3, are of such seriousncss as to render him unable to jump, and play as he could prior to |accldent, Leonard Radelifte Pleinville, through his father, How- ard Radeliffe, has brought suit for $5,000 against Mary Wojtila and her son, Joseph Wojtila, Jr, of New 1 [ployes needed to protect the mail. | perintendent B. H. McElhone work-| |ed over the man until some of the| UNABLE TO JUMP, &7 mninis e BR]NGS $5,000 SUIT 4:30 o'clock resuscitation measures 1wm~ taken by teams of employes | working in turn. Some of the employes who assist- ed were Earl Pierson, Lester Moor- croft, William McCarthy, Stephen Sinski, Edward Hagstrom, Edward | Ryan, George Harger, Joseph Adams, Hazen Dunsmoor, George Harkins, Ray Terwilliger, Walter | Britain. Joseph Wojtila was driving his mother's car and had no license when the car ran down the boy, Who as In the exerclse of due care as he ked across the street, according to the allegation. Attorney Cyril F. | Lowell, C. L. Palmer, Frank Schmidt, Gaffney fssued the writ, which was Harold Marsh, Samuel Foss and served by Constable Frank Clynes, | Martin White. and ls returnable in the superfor| Baest had followed his trade for court. Real estate of the defend- ants was attached, | (Continued on Page Thirty-thres), i ’ His follow workers began to try |y that the undercover section was con- trary to existing law which prohibits advances unless under restrictions, the secret work clause went out by a ruling from Representative Snell republican, Neav York, a dry, who was presiding. The move to withhold the entire |enforcement fund was made by Rep- esentative Gallivan, sachusetts, a wet. Chairman Madden of the appro- priations committee in charge of the bill, termed the proposal “unworthy of the gentleman from Massachu- setts.” “I voted agalnst prohibition,” Madden said, “but we have the law now. I consider it would be a vio- lation of my constitutional oath of office to fail to provide funds to en- force it.” Representative La Guardia, open- ed the debate with the remark that the New Yorkers could not “drink the referendum.” He advised the wets to “show up” enforcement conditions and then use constitutional means if they wished to change the law. He chid- ed others of the New York delega- tion who yesterday recited results of the recent referendum in that state as proof that prohibition is unpopular. La Guardia, who is a wet, advis- ed his colleagues to ‘“speak as statesmen on this question,” assert- ing they were inconsistent in _con- tending the law unenforceable while attempting to withhold funds for enforcement. Drys in congress, he said, were sincere In their bellet that prohibi- tior. is enforceable, and the “thing for wets to do is to get the facts into their districts.” Representative Schafer, republi- can, Wisconsin, defended the No- vember modification referendum in his state as a real expression of the people against prohibition. Of & half million votes cast, he sald, three-ffths were for modification, ! democrat,