New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 18, 1927, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 COMPULSORY AUTO INSURANGE ASKED N PROPOSED BILL ate Legislature Also Gets One| for Revision of Bridgeport “Ripper” Measure MOTION PICTURE TAX REPEAL LIKEWISE ASKED samford Judgeship Fights Crops !fpi Early in Session—Iieutenant Gov- | ernor Brainard is Executive at Present as Governor is in Soulh—l Several County Mectings Held this | Afternoon. Hartford, Conn, Jan. 18 (UP)— Connecticut motorists would be re- quired to show financial responsi- Lility of $10,000 for loss of life and $1,000 for property damage before obtaining their motor vehicle regis- tration, under a bill introduced today | in the legislature by Senator Joseph H. Lawlor, democrat, Waterbury. A law went into effect January 1 is year providing that automobile ivers must show such responsibili- | ty only in the case of accident. The law proposed by Lawlor is similar to the one that went into effect in | Massachusetts this year in the face | of oppositian of insurance com- vanie The insurance companies claim | that such a bill gives the haphazard | driver a feeling of security that re- | sults In a greater number of acci- | dents, but Senator Lawlor, in discus- | sing his bill with the United Press | said that such a possibility would be | discounted by the protection given the widows and children of automo- bile victims. Movic Tax Repeal Repeal of the Connecticut tax on motion picture films was provided for | in a bill introduced in the house by Represcntative Fitzgerald, causing considerable surprise because of | Governor Trumbull's inaugural mes sage urging the tax be raised. The present tax, approved by the 1925 legi axcs all films $10 a reel. It precipitated a bitter fight| when proposed and some producers threatened a boycott of their films in this state. In his inaugural ad- dr this year the governor d the! cost of collection of the tax absorbed | the revenue derived from it and sug- gested an increase be madc { The Fitzgerald measure was re- ferred to the committec on judiciary Many Bills Reccived ate Capitol, Hartford, Jan. 1§ Members of the 1927 legislature received many of the bills which they will act upon during the next few months. I'nder suspension of the rules, both bodies passed a resolution ap- pointing William P. Bailey of Bethel a state auditor for four vears. Two acts pa d last year which had considerable aftermath were brought up in the house today. One was placed before the legislature by Representative Fitzgerald of Win- chester who introduced a bill calling for the repeal of the motion pic- ture tax. The other was the Brid, port ipper” bill. Mr. Steiber, of Bridgeport, introducing a bill which would make the ‘“ripper hoara” | membership twelve, with the m'\\or‘ as ex-officio. Stamford Judge Fight i The Stamford judgeskip fight pop- ped out in the senate with the intro- | duction of a resolution by Senator |° M. H. Kenealy, 27th district, calling | ¢ for the appointment of George M. | ene, judge of the Stamford ci court. Last week Senator Kenealy | presented resolution calling (or‘ the appointment of Deputy Judg James E. Brickerhoft as judge. The | (Continued on Prge 18, 1 E. F. HALL PRESIDING AT SESSION OF SENATE | day that | bers of the second team to | Burritt !school team playing with {of the { with thi | whether the Scul wwo)) “PIOJUIEH 163q APV NEW BE=, London Widower Weds Daughter He and His Wife Adopted in 1896 et London, Jan. 18 UP—The Rev. Reginald John Campbell, rector of Holy Trinity church, Brighton, since 1924 and for 12 years min- ister of the City Temple, London, gave his parishioners and many friends a surprise when yesterday he married Ethel Getrude Smith, his adopted daughter. Miss Smith who is 38 vears of age, was adopted by Mr. Campell and his first wife at the age of 7 She is a lifelong friend of Rev. Mr. Campbell's daughter, Mrs. Lecouteur, and was a devoted companion of his late wife. After Mrs. Campbell's death, Miss Smith devoted herseit to her foster-father, who is 60 years of age and frequently ill. She acted as his secretary, and he often re- forred to her as “my right hand man,"” The Rev. R. J. Campbell is well known in the United States, hav- ing lectured in New York and other large citie = SLADE WEARIED BY ATHLETIGS AT 1. 5. NEW BRITAIN, DENY ARGHBISHOP IS REBEL LEADER \War Dept. However, Insists Church Prelate Is Actively in Charge of Revolution \ACCUSED CLERGYMAN WAS AT EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS | Most Reverend Orozco Y Jiminez Was One of First To Protest Against Recent Religious Laws— 14 Rebels Reported Killed In Sunday Battle—More Than 100 Killed in Tepatitlan District. Mexico City, Jan. 18 (P—Catho- [1ic priests in the capital refuse to | credit the report that Archbishop | Francisco | Guadalajara has taken to the field Too Much Time Spent on Sports, | Principal Declares Orozco Y Jiminez as head of a Catholic rebellion of They admit the possibility the archbishop has gone to some ranch where he is surrounded by a | sroup of armed men for protection JEas INTEREST IS TOP HEAVY Suspicion of Playing With Outside Teams and General Investigation ‘Will Be Conducted Today. In commenting on his latest step in barring three more members of the New Britain High school ba: | ketball squad from further games, Principal Louis P. Slade declared to- although he did not wi: to be a heretic he believed there | Members of Basketball Squad Under | | Bishop of Chiapas. altogether too much time spent on | athleties by both the teachers pupjls of the school. Principal Slade called five mem- his of- fice yesterday afternoon and ques- tioned them on the truth of the re- port that they were playing with outside teams. Three of the men, Alden Hewett, a member of the Trinity Methodist church team, and Ernst Klopp and Arnold Reckert., members of St. Matthew's team of the church league admitted playing while James Scully, center, and \nder Zaleski, guard on the ior Reserves which scored its h straight victory, against Hart- ford second team last Saturday, denied they were pl )ln;: on the A. C. team after December 10. Albert Havlick, forward on the regular team, is already barred from participation in games under headmaster’s rules. The latter two were questioned when reports came from Meriden that they were on the Burritt team when members of the Meriden High a Meri- den amateur team came to this city to play a preliminary game to the National Guard Saturday night con- test. The Meriden players terc barred from their squad for the rest season hecanse of pl team and they ques . who play ter on the team, was ths high school | player and the Zaleski who playe guard was one of the | brothers who are members of school squad. Al nder Zaleskl, who was the city’s marble champion for two con- secutive years and went to Atlantic City to compete against champions throughout the country as the Herald's guest, is now a strong member of the high school team. ‘When he and Scully were questioned two Zaleski the | they said it was their brothers who were playing on that date. Scully claimed it was his brother, Roger, now a Fordham student, and Za- leski claimed it was his brother, Zddie Zaleskl, Mr. Slade sald today that he in- ( nds to.clear up the whole matter at a meeting of the squad this aft- crnoon. He will pass forms among | the boys who will be asked if th. | were members or played with any New Britain Man in Chair Wielding Upper House | avel | al to the Herald.) 1 Senator Fd- | ew Britain presid- | man of the state senate| t today's session of the upper| jrouse in the absence of President| °ro Tem. Walcott of Norfolk. As it| happened, Senator Hall was called ipon due to the fact that Senator| Kenealy of Stamford was to explain | he Stamford judgeship affair. Representative Claude W. Stevens' | il to have George G. Griswold, amed judge of the Berlin town| ourt with Ernest W. Mildrum as| \is deputy, was tabled for printing| h the calendar, Senator Hall as chairman of the ppropriations committee offered a Il to have an appropriation of 8,000 made to the state firemen's und. It was ‘tabled for the calen- Max Wilde, formerly of New Brit- in and Berlin, was given a contract o print the legislative directory, by he committee on manual and rolls t a meeting immediately after the rislative fon. He was nomin- ted by Representative Fred O. ackiiffe, Representative William H. as elected clerk of the committee n incorporations at a meeting fol- wing today's session. Judd | this would be | would act as a outside team since December 10. He did not state, however, that the conclusion but “basis for an in- vestigation.” | COUNT TAKES OUT PAPERS. New York, Jan. 18 (®—Count Ludwig Calm Hoogstraeten, husband of the former Milicent Rogers, de- clared his intention to become an American citizen today and got first | papers at the office of the natural- | ization bureau of the United States district court. and | | to be the two s | from a mountain district. | charged with s was the case in 1917, when he also charged with rebellion. This is the third time that the archbishop, who is sixty years old, has been reported as heading a re- bellious movement. The first w in June, 1911, when he was the I Imparcial at that time published a story to the cffect that he was in- citing the Indians to revolt. Opposed New Laws He was the only archbishop open- ly to oppose the new Mexican con- stitution in 1917, and General Dieg- ucz, governor of Jalisco, ordered all he churches there closed because 0zco Y Jiminez issued a pastoral letter opposing the then recently fis- | sued constitution, archbishop had chdiocese after and he issued returned to two ¥y of his pastoral He was rebellion, his arres was ordered and the pursuit started. He successtully evaded Although he was accompanied by two hundred men he never e ¥ le to the pursuing troop: The inhabitants of various towns gave him shelter. Had Narrow F Once he narrowly ture, sleeping under th the colonel ape caped same of the pursuing force. His men, mixed with the townspeople, were ready to snatch lim from the soldiers if he was dis- | covered. was able to return to Guada- when an agreement was reached between General Dieguez| and Manuel Alvarado, a church dig- nitary who accepted the constitu- tion and agreed to become respon- sible for the wealth within the Guardalajara cathedral. (The con- stitution provided that church property should revert to the state). Meanwhile Canon Antonlo Par- edes, vicor general of Mexico City, interceding with President Carran- za, brought an end to the activity against the archbishop. Accused By War Dept. Insisting that the uprisin Mexico are part of a “Catholic re- hellion,” the has been informed Orozco y Jiminez, bishop of cap- roof that Fr Catholic Guadalajara, under emblem, “Long Live Christ King,” is personaily lutionary army in Jalisco. Headquarters the the the sate of of the Catholic church in Mexico City, which ha re| iy denied that the church instigating the risings, has no mation of the report t the hop is leading rebellious conf archb forces. Situation Ts The situation in Jalisco appears to be serious, for the war department has ordere federal reinforcements to procced to that state. At last ac- counts the federal forces had killed more than 100 rebels in the vicinity of Tepatitlan, following upon a sim- ilar engagement in which the mili- authorities announced that the s had suffered one hundred cas- ualties. While Serious, Jalisco and Durango secem is most widespread, other scctions, like Puebla and Tlaxcala are witness- ing combat between revolutionists and government forces. Official circles are optimistic over the final outcome of the rebellion. | This feeling is increased by the latest | victorles of the federals in the (Continued on Page states 18) ' WORCESTER MAN, PITYING “UNDER DOG” AIDS HIM; HE'S BANDIT AND ESCAPES | Goes to Rescue of Stranger Who Apparently is Bemg‘ Beaten By Two Other Men in Street Fight Worcester, Mass,, Jan. 18 (UP)An undertaker who undertook to settle what appeared to be a street fight | gu inadvertently helped a bandit to es- | 1 cape here tod John M. Travis and Meedham, employes of England Power Compar into an automobile started for payroll. i “uddenly, bandit who had con- ccaled himself in the rear of the shoved a revolver against Needham, driver of the car, Howard the New , climbed this noon and Milford with a $1500 ar | man, Noting that the gun was antique and rusty, Travis grabbed The bandit dazed him with g w on the head. Meedham and Travis struggled with the robber as the car was stopped. The battle continued even all three men had rolled street. "Then along came Mortician Oscar Borg. Convinced that Travis and | Mecdham were beating an innocent the undertaker pulled them from the bandit who escaped empty- handed. after into the of | The newspaper | capture. | i war department says it | ncisco | arch- | leading a revo- | tes where the revolt | for the | | That at r. If one of the men implicated in the theft of the car was struck, the police believe him to be only slight- ly companions !last mov. |abandonment of the car on Diamon street, Plainville, about 8:30 last night. At 5:15 p. m. has been found, the| yesterday, Lieuten- ant Samuel Bamforth was notified by the Meriden police that the car had been sighted in the Silver City and was headed towards this cit Sunday night about 11 o'clock the car was seen at the Wagner gaso- line pumps at Burritt street and O; 1500\1 avenue, and an examination | moved and several gallons of gaso- line taken from the reservoir, Traffic Officer Delbert Veley saw |time after Lieutenant Bamforth re- ceived the Meriden police m |but the driver ignored his signal to | stop, and continued on his way. About 7:30 o'clock, upernumerary Officer James M. McCue. driving cast on West Main str turn west into West Main Washington street, and he gave chase first going north on Washington street and west on Lake, south on Cedar and west on West Main. He came out on West Main street a short distance behind the car, which had gone straight out West Main after turning in from Washington street, Believes Shot Took Effect As the car turned towards the Lib- erty gasoline station a short distance west of Sherman court, Officer Me- Cue stopped his own car and leaping out, fired twice. He then fired an- other shot, which struck the front window as the car took on speed and firing another shot he heard a man cry out as though in pain. headed east on West Main street as Officer McCue fired again and this time the shot was returned by some- one in the car. It missed Officer MeCue and he returned to hig.car and again gave chase but lost his quarry in traffic. | About ten minutes later, Otls Hopkins sighted the Officer car on |2 red, as no trace of him or hls‘ ]nnm], Officer Tang showed that the locks had been re- cer Sulliv |was still on, the dri speed of his car, pulling to the left | IN HERALD CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1927. —TWENTY PAGES. Average Daily Circulation For Week Endmg Jan, 15th 14,280 PRICE THREE CENTS MEXIGAN PRIESTS 'Blood Stain on Stolen Auto | Leads Police to Think Shot 1 Fired at Fugitives Hit Mark REPORTED PLANNED |Bullets Whiz After Thieves in Three Sections of City —Car Found Abandoned Later in Plainville st one of the shots fired jdeering a Connecticut Light & Power by local policemen at a stolen au-‘La. truck, he gave chase and fired | tomobile on the streets of this city | |last night took effect is indicated by |gua the discovery of a blood stain on the | William J. Sullivan were at the cor- ! wmndln of one of the doors of the |ner of North street and eral times. and Supernumerary Officer Hartford r sped past. They xt car that came ong and chased the stolen car to neis street. As the trolley car stopped to discharge passengers, the enue when the c jumped into the 1 ent on record being (hp.r‘(.\r in which the officers were riding |drew up to within 40 feet of it and v fired twice, Dashes to Left of Trolley Apparently realizing that the chase er increased the |of the trolley and almost stri H\LY an automobi .n the opposite direction. Officer | 1guay commandeered another |and continued the chase, while Off n followed as far as the Paragon Inn on West Hartford road, where he alighted and telephoned to | Licutenant Bamfo-th. that |the car on Franklin Square a short | sage, ‘10 saw the car | from | in the rear window lert | The driver turned around and | failed to find the bullet, ! opened the but Officer Tanguay continued | chase through West Hartford * track of the other car. Dolan Secks Finger Prints This forenoon, Captain Kelly notified by Officer Hogan of Plain- ville that a woman had notified him that a car was on Diamond street. Detective Sergeant McCue, Sergeant fara, Supcrnumerary Officer Mc- Cue and Officer Dolan went to Plain- ville and brought the car to the municipal garage. Officer Dolan, finger print ¢ went to work at once and may be able to obtain prints to aid the polico in running down the thieves. The police found one bullet hole of the car. It may mark the flight of the bullet fired at Supernumerary Officer Me- Cue or it may be the mark of one of the police shots. A hole in the padding near the roof over the front at indicates that the shot that madg the hole in the rear window was'fired from outside. The poli 1d believe it may have bounded back and fallen out of the car when a door was On the body of the car, just below the glass in the front door on the left side is the mark of another bullet, one of those fire v icer MecCue, The glass in this door was (Continued on Page 18) Ofticer Alfred Tan- | | the stolen car's speed was slack- which was coming | pert in the department | GIRL ALONE IN AUTO ~ NEW BRITAIN TRUST GETS HOLDUP THRILL VOTES CAPITAL RAISE | Sees Men, Some Armed Stockholders Approve In- jing With Riot Guns, Creep Up to Seize Her How would you like to be a nice voung lady from Hartford? Of course you would, unless nature decreed that you can never I nice young lady from anywhere. But how would you like to be a nice young lady from Hartford, out for a de with a nice young man? That vould be O, K., too, wouldn't it, but wait until you read the rest of it. How would you like to be a nice young lady from Hartford, out for a ride with a nice young man, and haye the car become stuck in the snow, and find yourself all alonc { while he went up the road to get help? Not so bad, you say. No? Well, then, how would you like to ! be a nice young lady from Hartford, out for a ride with a nice young man, and have the car become stuck in the snow, and find yourself all alone while he went up the road to get help, and suddenly sce several men, two of them armed with riot guns, stealing towards your car, and surrounding it? Ah, ha, not so good, ch? You'd er: you say? Th actly what a nice young lady from Hartford did last night on a side road just beyond Ibelle’s corner when Sergeant O'Mara and Super- numerary Officer James McCue, | cach carrying a loaded riot gun and | reinforced by other officers, came sitting. She pulled the window shades at sight of them, and slam- med the door, but they called to her nd told her their identity. They were searching for automobile (hieves and were not overlooking anything. As she gave way to tears, | nice young lady from Hartford or anywhere else shonld do under the circumstances, her escort returned to the car and the police explained matters to him, after which the nic lady recovered her compo- President Greets Woman On Her 102nd Birthday Washington, Jan. 18 () — Presi- dent Coolidge expects Secretary Kel- logg to continue his efforts for a so- | ution for the Tacna-Arica problem, by use of his good offices between Chile and Peru, unless study of the | new Peruvian note reveals that | every hope of success has been ex- | hausted. | New Britain and vicinity: l Cloudy, probably rain or snow tonight and ~ Wednesday; somewhat warmer tonight. | * | e 1‘ THE WEATHER 1 | | * ! | collected from | pan It is h|~ New Britain Tru upon a closed car in which she was |held crease to $700,000— Three New Trustees An increase from §600,000 to $700,000 in the capital stocq of the t Co., pproved cting of the stock- today, at which all trustees were re-clected and William H. Hart, Harold W. Hatch and Maxwell S. Porter were added to the board. The stock increase will be brought jout by issuance of 1,000 new shares at §175 a share. The pri of subscribing for the new stock belongs to the shareholders in pro- portion to their present stock own- crship, payment for the new shars to be made before 2 p. m., on Fe| ruary 1: The board of trustees as now con- stituted is: W ‘am B. Attwood, A. W, ¢ v, Willia' 1 T. Hatch liam H. Cadwell, Geo i ¥. G 1' eorge P. I. Porter, Isaac D. Smith, James F ker, Norman P. A Hawley, F. G. “bberts, C H. Bald- win, H. H. Pease, E. H. Cooper, Philip B. Stanley, Charles B. Par- sons, Clarence F. Bennett, I arle, ¥red W. Macomber, . Reynal, Noah . ncas, Harry H. Howard, Louis W. Young, Art Way, William C. Hungerfo liam L. Hart, Harold W. Hateh and Maxwell §. Porte: A mecting of the directors \u\l be xt Monday to elect office at th Tolde annual me Cooper, C. Cooley, B. INSURANGE GOLLEGTOR HELD AS EMBEZZLER as a | Lawrence Uhryn Said to Have Taken More Than $100 From the Metropolitan. Lawrence Uhryn, aged resident of the Belvide under arrest in Boston, the charge of embe ficer Thomas J. Feeney will return | with him this evening, having left | this morning on receipt of a tele~ gram that Uhryn was being held at the Mattapan station, Uhryn will t bout 40, a section, is Mass,, on | arraigned in police court tomorrow morning. Officer Fecney has had in hand the investigation of the report that Uhryn an agent in the employ of the Metropolitan Insurance Co., had left New Britain after having appropriat- | cd to his own use a sum of monc 1id to be between $100 and $200, clients of the com- alleged that he gave irregular receipts for the money Uhryn is well known locally. He | was connccted with a local church as an instructor and has been an in- | terpreter in police court at various times, v | Mexico. CANDIDATE IN 28 Presidential Boom to Be Started | _ | Tomorrow, Is Tndication in I New York MISSOURIAN DECLARES | SELF ON FOREIGN ISSUE | Democrat Says He Does Not Pro- pose to Interfere With Efforts of President in Mexico and Nicaragua | TUntil or Unless It Becomes Mani- | fest That He Is Dangerous Course. | hington, Jan. 18 UP—The Reed presidential boom |Will be launched tomorrow in New York, according to indications here today. Friends of the fighting Missouri democratic senator were gathering | in Washington, apparently to er courage his candidacy, as the sen- | ator himself completed work on & speech to be given in New York to- morrow which is expecrea to lay the groundwork for the Reed platform for 1928. Although Reed has disclaimed any intention of seeking tha nomination, the specch on the subject, ‘“cur- rent topics,” which wil be made be- fore the National Boot and Shoe Manufacturers Convention in New York city is confidently expected to provide his supporters with cam- paign mterial. TImportant Engagement | The speaking engagement is | derstood to have heen made at the instance of Reed's friends and it will assume considerable importance ages also are exp ed from | and President Cool- s me vernor Smith idge. Reed’s friends in Missourl long talked of advancing his candi- dacy. Some southern democrats, who helieve Reed can be used to d feat Smith, are understood to 1 npatl Reed is a wet pro- testant. Samuel Tordyee. ¢ Missourl democratic , arrived in Wash and is understood to ha with Reed. Ed City, is expceted soon | Fordyce. They have been ir supporting Reed. |1t is understood another N democratic le it C. on of the late C nded to come her and Villmoure, but wa |from doing so by the son in Towa. tie. rman of the state ton yesterday ve conferred to join ssour! Clark e wi Reed's Present Pols Washington, Jan. 18 (A)- what he .ermed in and articles on th tion, Senator Reed, demo- souri, declared today in the t he did not propose to in- |speeches terfere with the efforts of President | Coolidge to protect the interests of | the United States “until or unless it | becomes manifest he ngerous course.'” "I do not want to {hand,” Senator Reed crowds in the galleri ward to catch his every expression. “I do not believe we are in any danger of war with Mexico unless it is stirred up t s or intemperate newspapers.” Senator Reed spoke after there had been a fiery exchange between Senators Bruce, democrat, Maryland, and Heflin, democrat, Alabama, who renewed his attack on the Knights of | Columb. reiterated that they were s to involve this country in war with Mexico. Senator Reed joined Marylander in asserting that no liv- atholic had talked to him to that the United States stir up ous dispute or to foment war At the out t he decl as reared in the Presbyter is pursuing a his as weaken red, dec articles in the with the neestors signed that creed the he cove- said, (Continued on Page 17) Pursuing a | e} TRAGIC CAREER OF have | Un\mg developed ‘l'Ul..\\H:.l“On‘ | might interven, commit- | Villmoure, Kansas | | S | day, s prevented | illness of his | leaned for- intemperate specch- | REEDFOR PARTY'S 'COOLIDGE AGAIN DEFENDS NICARAGUA-MEXICO PLANS; CONGRESS RENEWS DRIVES — Deaf, Dumb, Can’t Read Or Write But Appears For Marriage License Northampton, Mass, Jan. 18 (UP)—Court and clerical au- thorities here are wondering how they can legally marry Rose Boileau, 26, of Easthampton and Louis Lamantogne, 19, also of sthampton. Miss Boileau is deaf and dumb, cannot read or write, and knows o sign language. The clerk of the court has re- fuscd to marry her on the ground that the ceremony would not b legal. CHARLOTTE ENDING \Widow of Emperor Maximilian| of Mexico I1l With Pneumonia SANITY ~ NEVER DECIDED nce Breakdown When Husband's| Mexican Empire Failed She Has Been Virtually a Royal Recluse— Was Romantic Youth, Brussels, Jan. 18 rlotte, 86 year old widow Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, was |in a dying condition at 11 o’clock this morning, the influenza from which she suffered for several days into pneumonia. physiclans after a nnounced that death at any moment. Charlotte has hardly touched food for last five s and her de- (P —Empre The attending cline is manifesting itselt more and | rapidly. about her, bul is unable more thost King nt ce Albert, informed that hi 1 not live throughout the hurried to her bedside, At three o'clock this afternoon, | | Charlotte was unconsclous and her | breathing was so faint as hardly observable. King Albert and other members he family were in the sick room. Her Tragle Life. Charlotte, widow of the ill-fated | Austrian Archduke Maximilian who | ought Mexico, has led and tragic life. A Belgian Princess—the daughter of Leopold T and thus an aunt of the present sovereign—she was n ried to Maximilian when only teen, in the full bloom of girlish to establish an empire in a most romantic It was purely a love match. Ma milian built the exquisite palace of Miramir, near T and there for idyllic life. She Made Decision, Louis Napoleon III of France decided to step into the im broglio in Mexico, which was in state of constant political eruption. In 1863 a committee of Mexican nobles went to Miramir and asked a time they Then | Maximilian to become their emper- He hesitate to have mad Tim, They entered Vera Cruz harbor in 1864 or a ¥ nch cruiser, and were well received. Dut, although they had French troops and French offic Iped straighten out finan- il affairs for a time, the liberal element of the natives under Jnarez remained unreconciled to their re and Charlotte is the decision for kes Action. United States emerged om its Civil War troubles, made a | rous re-statement of the (Continued on Page 14) Monroe : Ford Says Fmanclers Want War - With Mexico So They Can Grab Off Riches Which They Desire/.: Idea is Ridiculous, He Adds, and Asserts Public Would| Not Stand For It—Excess of Installment Buung Curse of American Business, is His Opinion On|a Conditions in United States. ement and Of- | | Boston, Jan. 18 (AA—The Boston | ‘uu ald today quotes Henry Ford as | | saying that talk of war with Mexico | is due to the fact that “some finan- | cier wants something in Mexico” but | that the idea is “ridiculous.” | Interviewed at his Wayside Inn in | Sudbury, the Herald says, Mr. Ford | | try | “They are talking war hecause some financier wants something in | They will never get it be- | | cause the public is too intelligent | and well posted to stand for it. They | want to fight for the same reason | that we fought in Cuba, to give the | | financiers control—in this case, con- trol of Mexico. “I don't think they will be able to pull the wool over the president's eyes. They won't catch him asleep. | | egotistical, o ‘hen they think they have him | e find that they haven't. It's ridiculous anyway. Anything | can be handled without war. “I know very well, and I'm not that the Ford Mctor Company could go into Mexico and develop the resources of that coun- without causing any hard feel- ings among the Mexicans. The thing to do is to give them industry.” With regard to business condition Mr. Ford is quoted as saying that ide from the “excess of installment buying” everything ‘“looks fairly hopeful. “In_other word, the country has a headache and it's got to fast for a while until it's stomach is back in order. Installment buylng is the headache,” to bl,’ , for his bride, | lived an President Asserts U, S. Simply Wants to Pro- tect American Proper- ties in Both Countries and Quotes Precedent. Policy Be “Demonetized” and Berger 1 |Connally Demands Foreign Charges Country Simply Protects Moneyed Interests. [|[Senate Starts Move {|| To Arbitrate Issue 1 In Mexican Crisis Washington, Jan. 18 (P—A concerted move toward arbitra- tion of the oil dispute with Me! was made today in the senat A resolution favoring such an | adjustment was introduced by | tor Robinson of Arkansas, the democratic floor leader, who sald it had the backing of Chairman Borah of the foreign relations committee and Sena- tor Swanson of Virginia, the committee’s ranking democrat. The proposal was submitted er the Mexican-Nicaraguan gle had been debated in both | senate and house, and after the White House had restated the | president’s attitude toward both Mexico and Nicaragua. In Mex- ico the president feels that the whole question is whether American holdings are to be confiscated, and in Nicaragua he believes the American gov- ernment has acted strictly in accord Wwith the Monroe Doc- Washington, | senate Jan. 13 (P)—While and house were renewing des [ bate today on the Mexican-Nicaragu= |an imbroglio, the White House took occasion again to outline the atti- |tude of the administration toward Mexico's new land and ofl regula- tions. It was explained that President | Coolidge regards the controversy be- \l“ een the United States and Mexico over oil and land laws as boiled down to the single question: Just One Question Shall the property of American citizens in Mexico be confiscated, or taken without being paid for? Mr. Coolidge feels that every atep {taken by his direction in regard to the new Mexican laws has been taken with that in mind, and for the | purpose of preventing confiscation Views on Nicaragua So far as Nicaragua is concerned, the president feels that the doctrine pecific place in connection th the administration’s policy. In view of the fact that other powers do not send forces into Central or South American countries to protect their own nationals and their interests, it it their custom to notify the United States when they regard their na- tionals as in jeopardy in order that Washington government may determine, in the light of the iroe doctrine, what action it cares to take. Two Nations Complained In the case of Nicaragua, two (Continued on Page 18) ‘SCALDS ARE FATAL T0 THREE YEAR OLD CHILD ll)ies at Hospital After 1‘ Four Day. Fight 1 for Life irics suffered by three-year-old \~>: ene Tousant who pulled a kettle | o boiling water onto herself from t tove before her mother could ve her, proved fatal and the child died at 9 o'clock this morning at the New Britain General hospital. he accident occurred last Friday ernoon. The child was taken to | the huspital immediately. She was ione of the 12 children of Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Tousant of 35 Lafayette [ street, | Dr. John Purney, deputy medical | examiner, viewed the remains and | Bave M. J. Kenney Co. permission to | prepare the body for burial. The funcral will take place tomorrow | afternoon at 3 o'clock at the home. Interment will be in St. Mary's ceme- tery. NEW LAWYERS SWORN IN. Hartford, Jan. 18 (®)—Thirty-two of the 83 young men who last week were advised that they had success- fully passed the state bar examina- tions were admitted to the practice of law in the superior court here this morning. The only absentee was Ed~ ward J. A. Sigle of New Haven. The oath was administered by Clerk Lucius P. Fuller.