New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 8, 1927, Page 1

FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1870 53 CHILDREN BETWEEN 14-16 WORKING IN FACTORIES HERE, MANUFACTURERS' ASSN. SAYS: Secty. Brown Takes Censusin Order to Re- fute ‘Child Labor’ Charge By Minister. Declares Statement That Conditions New Britain Are Bad Is Not Based on Proven Facts. in today by the In a statement issued Arthur L, Brown, secretary of Manufacturers’ association of Hart- | ford county, he contradicts the in- ference made by Rev. William H. Alderson, published in last evening's Herald in reference to the employ- ment of children between 14 and 16 years of age so far as their employ- ment in the local factories is con- cern| follows: “In your issue of January 7, 1927, a_statement was published alleged | t®have been made by Rev. William M. Alderson, before the Men's Bible cifss at the Y. M. C. A. Thursday evening in which he tates that the employment of children between 14 and 16 years of zge is larger in pro- portion in New Britain than any other New England cities. Mr. Brown's statement is as | w00 ‘PIOIBH ?;dau "JAPY ‘A luqr] Qms imnuouuo NEW BRITAIN, CONNEC 0.F. PARKER NAMED ON POLICE BOARD Weld Appoints Businessman fo| Succeed P. J. Pajewski BOARD T0 SELECT HEAD :: mAIN SMASHES TRU[;K | Rodman W. Chamberlain Probable | BUT DRIVER I5 UNHURT Luck Again With Mani Who Missed Death in Fall | Solection For Chairmanship Al- though Not Specifically Designat- ed By Mayor. Orville E. Parker, president of the baking firm of Parker-Buckey Co. was appointed to the police board by Mayor Weld today. Parker, who isa republican, has not been active in politics, his only | other political «office being that of treasurer of the third ward republi- | can club. He has been active in | Rotary circles, and is a director of | ‘the local branch. He is vice presi- | | dent of the New England Bakers' as George Huck of 332 Chestnut street miraculously escaped death at the Elm Hill crossing yesterday atternoon about 2 o'clock when the truck which he was driving skidded | into the path of an oncoming train. The front part of the truck was de- |stroved but Huck escaped Without| o iation, and a governor of the Na- | [ 1 | tional Bakers' asso®iation. Huck was driving east and had| ") hough Parker will fill the of- stopped at the crossing for a north-| e, 161t vacant bysthe retirement or, bound train. Another truck Jjust| peer J. Pajewski, who was chair- jahead of his failed to g0 on imme-| man, it is likely that Commissioner | |diately after the train went by, 50| Roqman W. Chamberlain will suc- | Huck swung around the other €ar| goeq to the chairmanship, it was re- and as he was coming onto thel porteq about city hall today. tracks he saw a south-bound express| Cpamberlain has not expressed | a short distance away. When he ap- | any desire to have the office, but plied his brakes, the truck skidded| il take it if it is offered to him |into the path of the train and the| Mayor Weld will not designate h | motor and front section of the truck| choice to head the’ board, but will | were demolished. allow his commissioners to mak This is the second time within & |their own sclection, he said toda |year that Huck nearly met an un-|Since the retirement of Pajewski, | |timely death. Several months ago|Chamberlain has been acting chair- | while he was employed by a painting | man. | {firm on a Whiting street building| The choice will lic between Cham- | {the staging on which he was stand- | berlain and Parker since they are | |ing gave way and he was thrown | the republican members. violently to the ground, a distance LIGHTER BUT FASTER |show opening this afternoon. # BRITAIN HERALD TICUT, SATURDAY, JANUARY § 1927. —SIXTEE N PAGES CHINESE NOBSARE | "HENACE TO WHITES 'Europeans Rlong Tangtze Valley El Paso, Tex., Jan. 8 (/P)vSHmu-l s i N B e Threatened B s wnoumonta at nie nors| \GREEMENTS AT HANKOW hcrc H. G. Clunn, personal secre-| tary to Fall, said today that no im-| mediate orisis is feared and that the British Advised That Chinese patient has rallied. | Dr. H. T. Safford, Mr. Fall's physi-| clan issued a bulletin which sai Ir, I"all has shown a degree of weakness, which could not have been predicted from the compara- tively mild course of pneumonia. The blood pressure has improved somewhat in response » stimula- tion, but it is appagent that con- valescence will be very protracted.” FALL RALLIES AFTER TEMPORARY RELAPSE Stimulants Used To Increase mood Pressure of Former Secrctary of the Interlor | crease the blood pressure of rcrmcr Secr ’lry of the Xn!erior Alhmt 8. will Withdraw Troops From English Concesslon In Favor of Specially Selected Pelice. London, Jan. § (#—The menace jof Chinese mobs, inflamed by anti- foreign agitators, continues to hang over the white residents of the cities along the lower Yangtze valle The rioting which has centered |world attention on Hankow for the 1; week, now has spread to Kiu- |kiang, down the river, where cond {tions are cribed as “absolutely |¢ intolerable. Chinese soldier ‘ll’?fll{h\l«' to th |which control CARS ARE LATEST 0UT| Popular Models Will Be| Long, Low Closed Ma- chines Close to Ground s, presumably be- Cantonese faction the region, are out | {of hand, Shanghai dispatches say, {and are engaging in looting, which |the authorities are unable to hal The British concession there, like | |that at Hankovw, is said to have been cvacuated of women and children, | e the refugees being placed on gun- boats for 3hang 400 Americans There The foreigners in Kiukiang nor- mally number about 100, but recent- were 400 Americans and | ishers at iXuling, 20 miles in- | Kuling is seached by usual means of communication only through Kiu'kiang. Sixty Ame women and chil- dren are reported to have been re- moved from Hankow. The Canton- | ese foreign minister, Eugene Chen, in conference vith the American | residents and the only two British- rs left in the city, reiterated | New York, Jan. 8 (A—Automobil- sts who san afford a new machine lin 1927 will take to the roads in long, |low closed cars, set well down to the | {ground and equipped with compact, powerful motors that can reel off the miles at almost any desired speed. | This was the indication in | the latest models on display at the 27th annual national automobile Three hundred models of 45 makes of ma- seen Mother of Athlete Injured in cipal. George M. “New Dritain being almost wholly [of about 40 feet. With two fellow manufacturing center the inference |Workmen he was taken to the New would naturally be that our local ain General hospital, where it factories were hiring an excessive | Was found his ankle had beeén| number of children and inasmuch as | broken. One of the other men died : this report seems to have been and {38 a result of the injury he sus-| 'IRE HOSE 1S USED 10 COOL RELIGIOUS FRENZY | is being broadcasted by the \'vrw'. we consider it our duty to refute t statement so far as our manufactur- ers are concerncd. “The writer this morning took & census of the children employed in the member concerns and with one small factory missing, a concern whose tory payroll averages | about 50 hands, it was found that otal pumber of children between i3 0f 14 and 16 is 53 of which mfoved in the factories and | he offices of these concerns. | substantiate our findings the of each concern as reported | promi v Corp. Mfg, Co. Mfg. C 3 Iron Works hite lewmn leged 10 be working in our factories a majorily of ther are acknowleds ed to be charit, cases and in a few instances sonie of the boy workers are entered as apprentices which in itselt has an educational value. “These children are not used on . mechanical devices nor would the law allow them to work on certain lines of machinery and it is also il- legal to employ them over eight | hours per day. “If New Britaln shows an exces- sive number of children employed, it certainly is not due to the manu- facturers and considering the repu- tation which our city has as a man- ufacturing center, any man making such a statement, whether he be minister of layman, should at least explain that those upon whom industrial life of are not responsible for the employ- ment of child labor. “Trusting you will give this state- ment the same prominence as was the one which called out this reply. Cours very truly, “ARTHUR L. BROWN, “Secretary Manufacturers' Associa- tion of Hartford County Mr. Brown said that there are ap- proximately 19,000 hands employed in New Britain factories. Ansonia Woman Sentenced | To Serve Term in Jail Ansonia, Conn., Jan. 8 M Nellie Alcorises was given 30 days | in in jail by Judge R. L. Munger the city court today on charges of violating the prohibition laws. The woman who has been arrested be- fore under the name of Lbukokich for a like offense pleaded guilty to waking liquor. The police Wooster street last week a still in operation and als restaurant on liberty where accused v id to have dispensed the stuff she made. Thomas Brasill on with the wrged there show he had sold liguor in the prae conducted by the woman. W..H. SlvxitlleeTv Haven Oyster Dealer, Dies Haven, Jan. 8 (@ — Wil- ith, - for many years with the oyster at its height on olde Unlon icague club. wldow is the only survivor. raided her and found ed arrested in con- nec me case was dis New, tam 1. identified en ¢ lay He w of the years old and members of s'“YELLO‘fi JOURNAL” FOE | the | the city depends, | home on | the | ng no evidence to | | industry | 1a . died here | | tained when the staging broke. {Mexican Crowds at Shrine of Guad- | | mlupe Dispersed by Streams of Water. | DIES IN GRAND RAPIDS| stexico city, un. 5 t—sireams| | |from fire hoses were required to | | 3 break up excited crowds which | |Edmund W. Booth, Prominent Eai- | "0 U0 WL T o of | yester- | | Guadalupe near the capital, |day after a small boy had reported | la vision of the Virgin of Guadalupe. “The Virgin has come back to carth again! I've just seen her!” the lad shouted to his mother as he rushed into their home. Within a short time a crowd esti- Imated at 10,000 had gathered, block- ing the streéts about the boy’'s home and striving to see the tree on which he said the Virgin's image had been | visible. There were numerous slight in- juries, and the police, unable to make an impression on the crowd. |called the firemen, who turned their {hoses on the milling thousands. finally dispersing them. Investigator: failed to find the image of the Vir- gin on the tree. Guadalupe is the site of the shrine 'of the Virgin erected to commem- orate a vision which tradition says appeared to an Indian peon in 152 GOULD ANSWERS GHARGES Canadian i tor of Grand Raplds Press, | Was Clean News Advocate. Grand Rapids; Micn., Jan. § (P— —Edmund W. Booth, editor and! general manager of the Grana Rapids Press and a member of a ent family of newspaper died here this morning. He {had been ill one week. Mr. Booth 3 ars old. | Mr. Booth entered Butterworth {hospital here last Sunday for ob- servation. A recurrence of a seri- jous intestinal disorder developed shortly afterward and he failed to |rally. His death came as a shock to Michigan journalists and news- paper workers generally. Although he was deep in social service work und travell | widely in its promotion and in sat fying an interest in art, Mr. Booth's greatest interest was journalism. An eloquent orator, he was an ardent champion of “clean news'” in the columns of his newspaper, | and rarely missed an opportunity to |condemn what he called “yellow journalism.” | Mr. Booth took over editorial management of the Grand Rapids | Press in 1006, after more than a jdecade in Y. M. C. A. work. With | {the exception of a brief absence | | from duty on account of the illness | which ultimately caused his death, and some time spent in European travel, he was active until the day | he_entered the. hospital Mr. Booth is survived by widow and four children. interested d Accuses Two Former Premiers With Corrupt—Hearing Continucd. Washington, 8 (P—The ate elections sub. mmittee inve gating bribery charges against Sen- ator Gould, republican, Maine, wan ed to meet ' again today after having heard a lengthy defense plea from the senator himself in which he charged two Canadian premiers, Lolding office 15 s ago, With being politically 1pt Mr. Gould told the committee yes y that his New York associates. without his consent, paid the much- | discussed $100,000 to the campaign fund of the comservative party of ew Brunswick, Canada, while he | was engaged in buildiog a railroad | ‘in that province. Being Politically an. his FIR Co. No. 6 of the fire dcp'n(.n*n‘ was called at 9:30 this morning to a slight fire in a piece of canvas at | |the new school at the corner of | Vance street and Shuttle Meadow avenue. The blaze spread to a few pieces of lumber and the firemen |made short work of it, returning to | quarters at 9:48 o'clock. ¥ Rhode —lsland Farmer, bespite 72 Years, Kills His Younger Rival After Fight With His Bare Fi:ts George Keene of Limerock Confesses to Police, Telling of Alleged Attack and How He Battered Down Op- ponent, Leaving Him Dying By Roadside. R. I, Jan. § (®—|of her w: George IL T 72 year old farm-! milk hous | er of Limerock, R. L, confessed last| there and almost | I night after a six hour grilling that! abreast of started to come | ast Monday night he had fatally in-|at me and said ‘not tonight mistes | jured Charles “Gunboat” Smith,|and swung at.me. roving farmhand, with his bare! “He Janded on my chin—a glanc- hands and had left him dying in &ing blow. Of course I dropped lonely country path in Geoorgeville. rything and went to defend my- Smith died in a hospital Tues, landed, (oné . on “my fores| Keene last night was charged with! ity e i when 5s ree murder in the ninth dis-| came again I took him back of the trict court at Harrisville, pleaded! naok and down he went. I expect | not guilty, waived examination and 1 brok 1 do not know. was held without bail for the grand| ey I caught him by the collar| Jury | and thrashed his head up and down Charles P. Sis-|as many times as he slugged me on son, who, with state policemen, had | the forchead when we had the oth-| mined Keene until nine o'clock | er run in. When we had this other ued a statement con-frun in, which was several years ago, | s confession, which| he struck me in the forchead 13 “Last Monday night 1| times and last Monday night T took | e of papers and started | him by the collar. to give them to ard slammed him down in the road fiéy nan 1 pay her up for the uso/ 13 times, Then 1 went home.” Providencs to the| . h stood as I him got he \ 1 § Attorney General ‘(Ql.mg that automobile express serv- |chines, built for good {of gravity in th {bedn {the show are closed typ Igreen |though |sters. |detachable top is featured by larger and raised him up| | \cmnvs are constructed almost with- out exception along those lines. The show, an annual event which |fills the hotels with visitors from all | ‘h:lrbl of the world, also contains 65 models of 21 makes of trucks, indi- ntention of maintaining order, but | pparently the Americans doubted his power to do so and decided to |remove the women and children to | places of safet: Reports Are Discounted Reports. that the B; i conces- !sion In Hankow had been returned to British control e apparently fully discounted in view of thege dis- |patches and of othe ving that on now is ned by a ittee of five, chosen from the members of the local Kuompktang. |the party supporting the Canfonese ® passenger cars, long 'government. The British consul gen- \ manufacturers, has loral, Horhert Goffe, ramains, gagrd, applicd this year beeabssd Ehvmge Ariepat A news- i the increasing use of the closeg L Bonden The open, or touring car is almost {papers refldet amazement on tha pait a thing of the past, the exhibits re- ‘ot the Brifishers in Peking and in | vealed. Some firms it f d, wiil | sh#itighai that mo attempt has been adopt the policy in a few years of fmade to assért British authority in making the touring car only on or- |the face of {he niobs at Hankow. | der. Three fourths of the models at Fear is expressed that there may he {similar outhreaks at Shanghai, where the native pap printing tri- umphant accounts of the Hankow s, ice during the year will be carried mostly in lighter and faster ma- roads that now connect the principal clties. Few radical departures from 1926 | models are noted, the lowered center recognized by In general, the makers have con- fined themselves to the conservative single color and combinations of not more than two tones. Among the | duo-tones, the cream and green and and black predominates, al- some’ models have come forth in screaming and contrasting colors of greens, blues and reds. Almost without exception, ho the outer metals of copper, and aluminum have been left “en natural” and richly burnished.sa reaction to earlier practice when automobiles glowed with trappings of brass and copper. The 1927 machine is richly equip- ped inside with electric cigar light- ers, vanity and writing cases and odd pockets for gloves and maga- nes. The fmportant changes In the 1927 models are found mostly under | the hood. the dealers said. They | consist of devices for filtering the | oil and gasoline and for cleaning the | air before they are allowed to enter the motor. Quieter valve operation has been achieved through the most sclentific design of cams: driving shafts have six and seven bearings instead of the usual three or four and are much heavier than usual 4 ¢ . Other parts of the motor such as| When night came n Ch D . however, have given way | CeT Warned the British that the mob to lighter metals of aluminum and | ¥as out of control and that the fir- alloy. of a single shot would The motors as a rule run more sacre. Upon his suggestion smoothly and many devices hav nd in the face of the menacing sit- heen added for reducing vibration. lon the British forces were with- he rumble seat promises to be | drawn and the Chinese trgops tool wikrh meEte, Tt f nted to | control of the concession and t oupes almost as much as in road- | have since continued in The two passenger coupe | on. with comfortable upholstery and a | tehes from the city flled ate at 10 o'clock this morning many situation was still tense. aphic eyewitness account of | carly this week lead- | to the withdrawal of the British naval forces from Hankow is given by the Shanghai. correspondent of‘ |the Westminster Gozette. After processions through -the na- tive part of the city. he savs, a gre crowd appeared before the harbed wire harricade protecting the Brit- ish concession which was guarded by a British naval landing party. Guards Stoned. fanned to , the mob be and it raw the latter to defens The mob then 1 a flanking movement nie shore of the rive sh reinforcements we ed up and a hand-to-hand str ensued. The rioters using stone and sticks. The marines are declar- ed to have refrained from employ- ing their rifles or bayonets, relying insted wupon clubs and s, and there was no otir ve British and Chinese were injured. 1y to wit it said manufacturers. | the Wheelbases range from 100 to 140 5 inches and improvements in Saotatty oE MR N oy \\1 bur yes- more expensive models | ordered A¢ liams | are built around the longer wheel- | commander in chief of Hn vican | base. However, manufacturers as- | Asiatic fleet, to procecd from Man sert, the tendency toward a small, [ to Shanghai-to “ol ort casily handled machine with short | conditions.”” The r wheel base and simplified mechan- | Vi 1s the admiral lmx'\ with hm“ ism is gaining although comparative- [ Would be governed by ly few are on display at the exhibi- | of the situation, the sec tion. hi Hankow Jan. § (® The was advi s morning titat the athoritics have all Chinese kets from the Dirit which will be police British police, 1 from the former ian man concess are forcign | trained Chin | The British police also are natives | under British supervision. It is expected that British will return to their offic | time today from the barracks where they werd concentrated for safety. Mobs Take Control. Shanghai, S (A—A dispatch | from Jap: . sources at Kiukiang | and received here today said efforts | of Chinese troops to order | there had been unsuccessful after | coolie mobs had n down the| marriers to the n section and | that the British concession was in | danger. | | | Report London, foreign Hankow nese ¢ Agrecment. Retired New York Broker | Dies at Age of 83 Years| New Yo Jan. 8 (P —Clarence S. Day, 83, retired railroad director and stock brok died yesterday at his Rome here. | At one time he served as a gov- | ernor of the New York stock ex-| change. Most of his work was con-} fined to the development and t financing of railroads. He leaves his' widow, vinia Stockwell Day and four sons, one of whom, George Parmly Day, is treas- urer of Yale unive ty and ¢ ects | *. TH™ WEATHER ftlix oy erve New Britain and \vicinity Fair and not quite <o cold to- | night. Sunday, increasing | cloudiness with rising temper- ature, brok for | L. | | | | | pg * (Continued on Page 14) [ heater in the | were {been sent up by Willard, | been sent up by nticipate | world. Game Here Seeks Financial Aid From High School Authorities’ Poultney, Vt., Woman Inquires About Benefit Dance | Arranged For Her Son (Special to the Pouliney, Vt., Jan. § — Intin ing that there is benefit money in possession of some one in New Britain, Conn., which should have been sent to her son, H whose leg was injured while playing with the Troy Conference academy foot- 1l team agairst the New Britain High school cleven in New Britain, Mrs. John D. Williams, of this piace is planning on ma a direct ap- peal to the New Britain school prin- Herald.) pro up wit Clippings have been ain Herald ily the bel H school running | a off ce f e hoy. Ac- to elippings now in the pos session of Hugh, the dance was con- empate nothi s ben heard ab In her reports, 1s to Hygh, who is still broken leg. hich were aken from t we the Will that the laid | upposed to New Brit- ms fam- v Britain | second letter, she said ti lvmt\ it w o b accordin * the deed ain student an” lisve t" -t kick ms it would reak the 1 nd his brot their way through accident has heen a p to their ambitions family. The bill from 1 in N itain was one family with much | to | vas he has sent two letters to Coach ‘assidy of the New Brit- requesting him to ttlement but she has not y satisfaction. Since the mily is depending on the support of the boy's father, Williams feels that she should get severe hand much consideration from the d to the w Britain school as she did from |the ho 1o ich conducted awhich minstrel show recently and gave the |difficulty. m working Mrs. ‘school and this T THREE TOTS NEAR DEATH FROM LEAKY GAS HEATER Street (’hlldlen Ammal Health Spa Is Started in England Ingland. Jan. § () 3 started here health spa. It memorial of its and to man’s dumb rificed in the war. ate acquired by the people’s dispensary for sick animals of the poor is being de- velopéd into a large sanatorfum 2 | Carlton ‘ Discovered in Cellar b, Older Brother as Fumes% Make Them Dizzy. animal will be the kind in friend An s o little sons of Mr. and Mrs. | H. C 251 Carlton | narrowly asphyxi; ; | bin of t tion while play escaped ng near a l¢ g their home this morning, the timely a al of ceilar of , pigeons and canarie representing the prinei mal and bird life which met death in seryice. No domest i rd, however, will be atment. old London traff horses will spend their “rainy days in meadows surrounding » hospital buildings and there {il be plenty of runs for eafs and dogs picked up from the city gutters. SOCIAL WORKERS SEEK GLD BURRITT SCHOBL ar their older brother as they were be- | coming dizzy undoubtedly precluding triple fatality. A short time after they had been revived, the young- sters felt little effect ofytheir expe- | rience. ¢ ‘Shortly after s o’clock, Harvy-and oward’ «twins, aged 6, and Geo 5, went into the cellar to pldy, | Y Willard, ed 8%, remained | th his mother, who was using a heater, The omatic type, was children | o 8 nine. which is of the aut giving off fumes but the unaware of the danger untll| rd happened to go down cellar ted the strong odor of ga (G v," little Harry | Willard, using excellent judgr —_— told him to g0 upstairs to his mother \ Wil Tyy to Take Over at once. | Stumbling into the kitchen, Harry | I;“il’jillg fOl' Head_ quart collapsed at his mother’s feet, and a | | P AR | | | Willa and d d few seconds later, Howard, having | recled into his broth- | Mrs. Corbin, | d happ: lost no the twin to the he went to work over orge, who had also | Willard, made his with weakening footsteps, on his brother: Detective § arge of s notified the house er's prostrate sensing what time in carr: porch, and them, litt That there ritt the being he ity of ding a community chest ne known today it was learned that the matter has been br 1 to several of the| trustees of the United Community corporation. Nothing definite has | Leen done beea the matter | been under consideration for two days, but W. Pelton, retiring president of the corpora- tion, stated today that the sugge tion appeals to him, at least to the extent that he proposes to with the school offici tain just what 2 P! v to!| The oint; the United Community could in its overhead exper oy 1 of its activities hou ions intended to |unde o roof. One suggestion over possibility of a rccur- [that the rent now paid to owners | ce of the incident. of buildings renting to the differ- | Willard goes the cre ent be paid to the| the fatality, for ha for the use of gone into the cellar and other suggestion Iy when Harry told him he the building be coming di the thres boys might > cost of its' upkeep | have d. The noise of the wash- g0 into the ing machine would hive drowned their cries, had they Leen to an effort to attract ¢ out W rgeant W. P. police head- by telephone | or was wanted, and ficers H. C. Lyon, P. Hayes and Dan in the patrol. On their the children had recovered their senses and were in be parently the worse for expericn s not n use the Tha New notified ar heater, workmen I vet McCue, quarters, that th he dets ap- their hiliti out none Lve for > not it ent ed quick- was be- r of lonated and the munity It is catc f the ntimental value Day Nursery ‘GAVE DWELLERS, NEW hoiatioft RELIGIOUS Srf’T FOUND in th TLocated com- | their n out also by there since advo- is the | Junior | Amer- heir make moi'\\"l' o and the as well as the am, all had uilding. The schoo! forms a public pla belief that the building city in such a way ed only for educ purposes is be 1 1so A Russians In Unde el v the ng e with is favorable ill bring the matter up | ting of the trustees, and possible action. » fact that he will 3 en the next funds is held, Mr. | ing resigned th he still remains s board. James S. vice presiden I s elected president | Mr. Peltons’ unexpired term. was no vice dent elected. aster 1. . Erwin was named general of the next com- drive. board of trustees Chamber of Commer W. L. Hatch, E. W. Leon A. Sprague, §. M. D | W. C. Hungerford, E. J. Porter, W. Young and Stanley Hart; con- stituent memb: Holmes, V 5. Attwood, Mrs. B i) Smith, Mr . H. Scott, A. F. Cor- Jackson and Edward M contributing members, ames 8, North, J. F. Lamb, Mau- rice Stanley, Mrs. A. J. Sloper, Dr.| Homes Greet Census Takers onferen With Show of Fear s Viatka, Soviet hitherto “subterrancan who are in b caverns at main under- officials re- emselves these people and r the a member the ag round until death, po They grected with fear, looking zn of the con portending the riy i | Posty divector munity The lows | bers, the census takers on their ng of the end Chri of Weather outlook for the ginning Monday ldle Atlantic s a possibility of rain in middle Atlantic and rain or snow in north Atlantic states Monday, then generally fair until latter part when snow or rain is probable. Tempera- ture near or slightly above normal most of week. y w Cloudy 5 Harry C. Pratt; bin, (Continued on Page Twelve) | living | “The b | these vears. | ter of { his | adopted four y | beth Withnall. that | ) | man |ot |the compensati | held | ma | ne | e concern | which Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending Dec. 31st ... 13,933 PRICE THREE CENTS*#, : CHAMBERMAID TO WED 01D BANKER 16 Year Old Frank W. Savin Propoges and Is Accepted STOCK EXCHANGE VETERAN Woman Whom New Yorker is to He Marry is 43 Proposing, Said He Wanted Some One to Take Care of Him—To Be Fourth $ (P—Plans for retired banker econd oldest New York ge to marry a chame e disclosed tod; his fourth brid member ock For Anna he has chosen leis, daughter of a and fo 1 bis T sion in Port Chester. Obtain License, he_couple obtained a marriage se on Thursday, and plans were le for a ceremony tods great living room at W as Savin's chateau like Is called. When applying for avin interrupted ation of her o > doesn’t work s 43, had her r maids whilé hand enjoyed a st alone, the mber armer 14 years a room man- m 1 M. house | the lic with the ot prospective hu nptuous T World s 1e Boss” Proposed. She told of how “the boss" posed to her. ‘It sec pro- like a dream,” she said. called me in his study You know, I've been s looking after him all He told me he was get- and needed somebody to m. lone,” he told me, and then he 1 he'd been watching me and wa d me to marry him. Well, it came rather suddenly but I ace cepte Mr. s third wife, Sarah Mon- roe Treadwell, had been his house- keeper before their'marringe. His t wife was Arriba Wheat, daugh. a New Haven; Conn., physi- 2m- West of the in vice and ays phin : y nig more or Ic ting old look aft “I'm all Jr. f ] er, a with §1 in h fortune He became ha in 1 3 After marriage to this third wife Mr. Savin adopted his forty-five year old broth in-law, Charles Edy Monroe and referred to him as his “‘only child” He having disinherited other two children. He later ar old Murial Eliza- The first Mrs. Savin obtained a divorce. The second and third died, ptain, will but in stocks a member cut him oft he soon and bonds of the stock COMPENSATION LAW 1§ DISCUSSED BY LABOR Federation Secretary Out- lines Stand on Pro- posed Changes zeport, i Conn., Jan. 8.—Z%= lubor's attitude towards al to be made in the gen= mbly by the Manuface ociation of Connecticut, hat changes be made in" the workmen's com on law, was outlined by J n, secretary of the deration of abor The of the propos s made on and was in the form recommendations by \ committee of the ization with C. B. Whittlesey tford as chairman. Various conferences have been between feder represent- and fhembe com- nd it is u es of the in acturers’ s they 21 of chan December text 2 W atives mittc v pl there ion. But was no divergc of opin= of the on many nges the ate ov- opposition ts own claims statement declaration present I Dardship vote ed Decemb: cretary Labor to the Egan is in manu- tion of a reply ment. Jan that reports show that of the country made lollars profit in th Conneeticut manufacturers objecting sent corap tion law too much.” s are chiefly ing about & 8§ which per- which is due to the the na factur: for stat id the manufacture rly six 6, “yet roup of to our pr 1se it is costir manufactu od brin chan in 5 tains to any diseas 1ses peculiar to the occupation is mot of contaglous,’ comy municable or mental nature, billion we find I in section (Continued on Page Thirteen) \