New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 5, 1927, Page 13

4 L FINANCE BOARD HEARINGS CLOSE Pablic Works, Park and Health Dests. Explain Needs The finance board completed its series of hearings last evening when representatives of the board of public works, the park board and the health department ap- peared before the body with their requests. The bhoard of public works re- quirements were explainéd by City Engineer Joseph D. Willlams and Reginald Towers, chairman of the board. Mr. Williams itemized the approptiations asked for and went over the grotind covered by ench. He asked for $40,000 for the gen- cral repalr of streets, $30,000 for macadam repair and resurfacing, 512,000 for street oiling, $18,000 for permanent paving repair, and 317,500 fof semi-permanent Te- pair. He also asked $30,600 for grad- ing work, including portions of Hunter road, Boulevard, Carmofy street, Linwood street, Rhodes street, Myrtle #treef, Stanley street, Iast street, Buell street, Osgood avenue, Newington avenue, Stecle street, Rentchler street; $95,100 was asked for macadam work on Lilac street, Kelsey street, Chap- man street, Cleveland street, Ly- man street, Rentchler street, Win- throp strest, Smith street, Crown street, Monroe street, Beatty street and West street. Engineer Williams expressed the need for $13,300 for concrete gut- ter work and new bridges asked $5,800. He also emphasized the need of $60,500 for street lighting service. The sum of $27,835 was asked for sewer maintenance. He also asked $181,300 for new paving work to be done on South Main street, Ash street, Chestnut street, Corbin place, South Main street, Washington street, Myrtle street, North street, Lafayette street and West Main street. The street improvement appro- priation asked amounted to $44,- 167, City Engineer Williams asked for $600 for the replacing of & work car. Chairman Edward F. Hall asked him if the car being used rattled. The city engineer stated that is nearly rattled apart. “Rattle it around for the rest of the year,” said Chairman Hall, dis- missing the request. The question of street monument- ing was discarded by the finance board, the chairman declining. to wasdte time discussing it. You're wasting money going over the same engineering work every year when the .appropriation of $500 would cover it for all time,” replied the city engineer. “hairman Towers spoke briefly on it the need for a street sweeper, stat- | ing that while trucks eould be hired, | Th is no sweeper was available. amount asked for this machine Dr. Gertrude J. Kinsella and Richard W. Pullen of the health de- partment, appeared to plead their request of an Eppropriation of $96,- 130, $15,000 for garbage disposal collection and of $24, needs of the isolation hospital were explained by the representafives. Last year's budget allowed $51,930 to the health department. Garbage disposal difficuities sere discussed by the finance board and the health department reptesentatives. Willlam F. Brooks, chairman, and Ralph B. Wainright, superintend- ent, were in attendance with their recommendations for the appropri- ation for the park board. The board is planning many improvements for the coming vear which were ex- plained by Mr. Brooks, who recom- mended an appropriation of $101.- 546 against the amount of $57,000 allowed {he depariment last year. A new bandstand at Walnut Hill park to replace the present struéture was explained by Mr. Braoks and an en- trance to the k from Grand street was also stated by the chair- man of the hoard to be desirable. Other improvements including a fence around the G. A. R. triangle at Willow Brook park were explain- ed to the finance board. The maintenance item amounts to $10,147 and $20,410 is asked for new work on the parks. The new work will include heating equip- ment for the men's fleld house at Willow Brook, the construction of a bowling green, installation of a lighting system and the completion of grading about the memorial now under construction. Two tennis courts are planned for Walnut Hill park and the athletic fleld is about to be graded, Mr. Brooks explained. Other improve: ments for the amaller parks wer also explained. Prince of Wales Will Come to Canada in Aug. London, IFeb. 5 (A—The Prince of Wales will sall for Canada about August 1 unless unforeseen circum- stances prevent his depfrture, it was authoritatively stated today. At the saine time the report that King George and Queen Mary might o to Canada fer the celebration of the Canadian confederation, was met with a statement that their majesties will be unable to go to Canada this The prince, who will attend the jubilee celebratien and spend some- time on his ranch in Alberta, also hopes again to visit the United Btates. Continue Rice Case; Boy Still in Hospital | Lucian Domijan, the boy who was shot by Willlam J. Rice, at the state armory last Friday night, unable to leave New Britain Gen- eral hospltal for at least another week, 1old Judge Alling in police court this morning, and the case of Rice, charged with assault with a danger- ous weapon; was contitied until next Baturday morhing. Attorney Harry M, Ginsburg ap- pearcd for Ricé, Domijan's condi- tion is encouraging, the bullet have Dr.! will be| Prosecuting Attorney Woods | By the Assoclated Press. New York—An increase is likely in the number of peaches in Georgia. Mrs. Browning is contemplating a visit to Savannah. | London—Modest John McCor- ‘ward Johnson, a Canadian who sings |in the Metropolitan Opera, New York. “And in addition,” remarked { John of Edward, “He has a perfect | ! tigure, which so few tenors possess.” Trying to reduce, John is shunning bread, butter and potatoes, even in 1 TIreland. New York—"The same to you” is in effect Edward Johnson's comment “‘Although startled by its kind flat- tery, I must say that his expression is exactly my feeling for Johnson comes from Guelph, Ont. ertson, formerly in congress, after béng almost in poverty for some time, thinks her friends must have been praying for her. A hig gas we!ll has been brought in amid the ashes of her home and affluence is near. Cheyenne, Wyo.—Thousands of wild horses which are cating grass that would otherwise feed cattle and sheep are to be rounded up and dis- legislature has passed a bill to that effect. ‘Washington—Justice James Smith of the district supreme court in divoree cases. Wives able to work will be disappointed when seeking alimony in his court. s Columbia, S. C. — Negro barbers would be forbidden to bob hair for white girls under a bill passed by the state senate and sent to the house, Not one of three aged 13 or 14 had wholesome looking face when observed by Mrs. Blanche Bates Creel, curious because daughter wanted to make up like other puplls. Their lips were daubed with carmine and they had so much rouge they looked like clowns. M Creel complained to the school board. The answer was that parents | were to blame. San Franci dozen schoolgirl: |a clean Huron, 8. D.— Sheriff Lydia A. John.” | Muskogee, Okla.—Miss Alice Rob- | posed of if nobody wants them. The | | her NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1927. |FLASHES OF LIFE: JUDGE PLANS TO STOP “GOLD-DIGGING” DIVORCE SUlTS! Larsen likes the thrill of hunting moonshiners. In her first day of ralds she captured three stills and also got her man. New York—Tests made by psy chologists of Columbia university | mack! He says the best all-around show that mother is the greatest | diculous legends of machinations of q.pe operatic tenor in the world is Ed- moral force in influencing children, | Soviet agents.” Friends come second. School Sunday school have little effect. and Cincinnati—Jeff Davis, the Hoboes,” is going to | now aiter crossing the U. | times and altogether travelling some | 800,000 miles by freight and shanks' | mare. Lonely, he's decided to spend | the rest of his days home with the Mrs, “King of ttle down S. A. 92 on praise by John McCormack, viz.: | | New York—Dr. John Roach Stra- | ton would run for president on a fundamentalist platform if he could | view “the miracle of a reputable | New York newspaper” promising to support him. New Haven -— Two raids by fed- {eral and city officers net 60 gallons of denatured alcohol from perfume | manufactory and small still, liquors | nd mash from residence of | Yucancer, who is arrested. Paul | New Haven rested at Gree! gaming cha — TFifteen -American in raid. men ar- club on Hartford — Commissioner of mo- tor vehicles directed by Attorney General Benjamin W. Alling to issue operators’ licenses to Lorenzo Cor- tez of Wallingford and James J. Niebour of Meriden. is going to discourage “gold-digging” | Merlden — Loss from Friday's fire in Standard Grain & Coal company building set at $40,000. Hartford — World-wide search starts for Luclenne Helen Nolan, year old heiress to $180,000 estate. Hartford — Leaders in many lines join in formation of “voluntary com- |mittee for Hartford and vicinity” of soclation against the eighteenth amendment. Wethersfield — Members of legis lative appropriations committee in- |spect state prison, acquire informa- !tion, and Iunch with Warden Henry K. W. Scott. | Hartford — Three armed vouths Ihold up John Vuja and sen in their meat market and rifle cash register of $200. FIGHTING STILL * BEING GONTINUED ‘Portuguese Revolt Is Not En- {irely Crushed | Lishon, Portugal, Feb. 5 (P)—Seri- ous fighting between government troops and revolutio: s is under way at Oporto, principal city of inorthern Portugal, where a revolt | ties, dispatche: London, Feb. 5 (P—TFighting was going on in Oporto, Portugal, in the i carly hours of this morning, indicat- ing that the revolutionary movement | which broke out in a garrison there | Thursday s not as inconsequential as {at first indicated. | “Revolutionary headquarters,” | cording to lale, though menger patches reaching London, was | rounded by troops loyal to Pres Carmona. The government forces | were described as trying to arrest the | members of the revolutionary com- | mittee. One report from Vigo, Spai | ceived by the Daily Mail, which is | not confirmed from any other source, | s that the revolt has spread over all of northern Portugal, with every garrison involved except those at | Braga and Vianna. | A general strike, with the possibil- ity of railway communications being |interrupted, is reported to be under | way throughout the southern and | southeastern part of the country, but { whether the two disturbances are in |any way connected has not been | learned, | The government of President mona, which came into power | spring after a military coup, at first | minimized the present movement, | saying the disaffcetion was confined {to the Oporto Gariison. There | were even unofficlal reports that the ‘rt volutionaries had surrendered, but fhese were followed by an official announcement that they were still holding out. | _'The movement is aimed directly at | President Carmona and his govern- ment, for a communication had heen | receved recently from a eommittes of “the rebellious minority troops” in which the resignation of the gov- [ernment and restoration of the con- |stitutional regime were demanded. | Immediately the start of the movement hecame known Thursday, | President Carmona, who also Is min- ister of war, procecded to the Oporto fegion to organize the government |troops. 8o far as appears from the | meager and conflicting reports com- ing out of Portugal, he is still there. Riot in_Bellasthter Dispute Over Chinese Belfast, Ieh. 5 (—What werc | consldered improper references to {the British policy towards China, started a riot at a women’s soclnl- | 18t meeting in Ulster hall here last night. The trouble hegan when a woman in the gallery objccted to the romarks of a speaker and wav- cd a Unfon Jack. An attempt was made to eject the flag waver and the distur] nee extended to the main floor, where some persons started to sing “Rule Britannia,” | “The auditorium goon was secthing | ‘\V\!h excitement and the fifty red-| | badged stewards were helpless until | the artjval of a large police force, | ! Bventually the anti-soclalisis wer: induced to leave the hall. They aged a meeting outside, re- fBOSTON SLUGGER AGAIN i | prehend Mysterious Assailant of Women. Boston, Feb. 5 (UP)—¥Following & new and even more daring appear- ance the strange slugger who ha terrorized greater Boston women since the murder of Miss Maybelle Matheson, police today their effor(s (o captur The latest victim was Mrs. An appeal for an increase of | yroke out in the Garrison Thursday. | garet S. Kelley, who was attacked in and | mhore have been numerous casual- |her Roslindale home. 00 for the : been at- Shapiro, Mr Alice Queene; Mrs. Louis yons and Mrs. Other wom 1l of Roxbu Klenn, Mr Delia Doyl The “slugger” appeared soen after | near her s Mathe: ain | West Rox ARMY DEFENDING n wa vy home. CITY OF SHANGA! (Continued from Pa ven) awnit further instructions there. was understood the warships would held in readiness for immediate sailing to Shanghai in the event of an emergen London, I tas no int h. 5 (P—Great Britain ntion, for the present at 1 of retreating from its decision to land an adequate force of {roops at to defend British na- ase of outbreaks against his was Indicated after lengthy deliberations by the cabinet minis- They were summoned yesters primarily to discuss fownalities conneeted with the re-opening of partiament next week after the holi- ay rec But the all-important Chinese problem came up early in the sessions and it continued to Le the chief topic although so far as can be learned no definite decision was reached. As though to emphasize the gov- crnment’s determination to be pre- pared for eventualities at Shanghal, ters, the forcign office denied that a pro- | posal had been de to Eugene Chen, the Cantonese forcign minis ter, to divert to Hongkong the transports now converging on § hai. Such an offer was reported to liave been sent to Chen in answer to his stand that he would uign no agreement unless the British with- darew their Shanghai defense force. Another Phase, Another phase of the su gotiations between Chen Br presentative at Hankow, Cwen O'Malley, is brought out by the confention of the Cantonese for- cign minister that Great Dritain is cusging with other Chinese au- thorities moditications in the status | of Dr I concessions, s treating with those who do not represent nationalist China. In this connce- tion, the British government has ex- *d the view t there is a readiness both by north and south China to enter into ntgotiations on the basis of the British offer, but cne side is jealous of the other. Micrael Borodin, styled adviser to the Cantoness government, again charged with instigating the decisions of Chen—this time by Lieutenant Colonel Amery, British secrefary for tha colonies. In speech at DBirmingham last night, dealing with the suspension of the Hankow negotiations, the secre is 8| MAKES HIS APFEARANGE; redoubled | 1t| ang | Grodin.” Not Soviet Envoy. While Borodin is a Russian, the Soviet authorities have pointed out | | that he has no official connection | | with the Soviet government. | | A lengthy statement has been i | sued at Moscow by Maxim Litvin- off, assistant commisar of foreign l protesting against efforts by quarters in England to make s capegoat” in the | Chinese affair “on the basis of ri- | Jacob B 'WGY SIGNALS HEARD DOWN IN AUSTRALIA —_— 37.79 Meter Broadcast Wave Found to Have Carried Over 11,400 Miles, Schen Radio N. Y., Feb. 5 P— broadcast by the { tric company on a wave length of 9 meters were heard | nd copied with 100 per cent ac- | curacy by an Australian listener, 11,- | 400 miles away, hut were inaudible | 200 miles from this city, according | to a yeport made public today by en- | gineérs of o 4 ies of tests on voice and | | Because Soviet Russia thizes with the great Ii movement in China, Litvi it does not neccssarily follow th it has prompted the Canton govern- ment to strain its relations with | Great Dritain, or that it would stand | in the way of a peaceful settlement | | of the problem, | gnals on wave lengths| Peking, Feb., 5.—(P—Reports re- | ©! , 16, 109 and 140 meters, | ceived here from Chengtu, Szechwan | tN¢ e€ngincers in charge have de- province, vesterday said 96 Ameri- | ek st | cans had been evacuated from that Is comprising wave lengths state and 120 remained. n those »nf the 66.3 to 75; mong thé last to leave were | annel nlllvnoz give eco- Bishop G. R. Grose, of,the Metho- | REvioeiAimpip within 100 dist Episcopal church, and Dr.|Mil f tholtransmitier, Joseph Beech, president of Chengtu | .3 to 75 meter channel, the | university, a Methodist institution. | § meter channel, and the | Dr. Beech’s family accompanied him. 50 meter channel are ca- sle of rendering economical serv-| |ice at points within 100 miles of the ! transmitter. | South Chinese nationalists to seize| Ior daylight communication ati the Hanyeping Iron mine, near |distance not greater than 90 miles| Hankow, where Japanese have in- [from the transmitter, the 135 to 1501 vested approximately $22,000,000, | meter channel will give better serv- have caused fear here that Japan is | ice than the §5.7 to 105 meter chan-| s0 an object of the anti-forcign |nel. Similarly, 8307 meter channel | gentiment “now rampang In the | Will give better service than that| Yangtze river valley. which can be obtained under the mpa tive shorter ti meter Japanese Warned Tokio, Feb. 5.—(UP)— Threats of me conditions using the 66.3 to 75 | meter channel. | | | The foregoing conditions are Te- | ¥ l | versea when distance between 90 and * THAN BAKING JoB §S0 Declares Man Who Changed From Latter Position In this 3 meter channel will rvice during daylight to 105 or 133 to 150 200 miles are considered. case the give bette than the $5.7 meter channel. 66 TRIES T0 KILL Teaching business su a lot! | it s reaon Fitchburg War Veteran Then Rttempts Suicide Dr. | Thompson, dean of the school of | | commerce of i University of | 1llinots,, quit being a baker and turn- | ed college professor, he frankly told fellow alumni at the annual Iilini, | club banquet here night. ! | Dean Thompson began his bus- | iness life as a baker at 18, He mixed dough and burned fingers on | oven doors for 12 years hefore he { %ot tired of it and quit. | “I quit being a baker and became a college professor for the simple reason 1 was tied of hard e Fitchburg, Mass., Feb. 6 (UP)— After, it is alleged, he had attempted to kill his wife and four children with gas, Edward F. Murphy, World War veteran, was arrested here to- day. Later, police reported he tried to commit suicide by hanging in his po- lice ceil. [ According to the authorities, Mur- | phy, who had been drinking, opened four ga ts in the kitchen of his home because his wife had scolded him for becoming intoxicated. Mrs. Murphy was awakened by the odor of gas and found her husband | in semi-co. ious condition on a | kitchen couch he notified police | nd Murphy w rested. The moth- and children were not seriousl. iffected by the gas fume: | FRENGH GATHOLIGS | INR 1 MAY SPLIT “Grusaders” Favor Establish-| ment of New Diocese | { ucation 1s a means to an end— an end of the phy toil which is | rewarded by poor pay, he said, ap- | praising the economic value of high- er education. | The technique of earning a liv {in business or a profession o be learned, however, in the colle sroom, he added, declaring that the resources of the individual arc important as mental eultivation. | “The thing I try to impress on cach stud out in the world,” he no school can teach technique but can provide only fundamentals, The young man who wins di. in ny field after leaving coile himself and not dep room instruction | means of succe LINER IN TROUBL President Harding Which Last Year {1y er to R. I, Feb. b (P— Franco-American Right Rev. Wil- hop of the dioecs vhich includes s brought into | rday with the publica- of a pastoral letter by the bishop in which he charged a “small number” co-Americans with obstruct nulation of | fund tholic high schools and “oth : yishy Providence, en | Figured in Great Rescue Disabled | | ftion New — The United S nt Hard- ing, which ¥ sd in & of the most thrilling s in the als of th . today was in seri- trouble self, Her oil exhausted,| fight with heavy slowed down to I liner was moving wri < st nts, even | “The publication of the that the leader of zent faction, Elphege Diag- | nault of Woonsocket, appealed 1o apostol gate at Washin for fmmunity from excommunic tion in the event that he should bring suit against churches which have f ished money their general funds for the of Catholic high schools, im- munity was refused him. Notwithstanding this refusal anc the bishop's letter, Mr. Daignault at his Woansoc home tonight, announced his Intention to enter suit in the civil courts of the state rext week for recovery of the money nd for an order preventing other nco-American churches from contributing money similarly. “We have offered up prayers and says the hisho letter, irit to enlighten the minds and strengthen the will of these vietims of dessen- n, and at the same time to per- 1de them to abandon a road which ad 1o the loss of mem- \ip in the church.” : Mr. Daignault is tha organizer of days of tho G0th congress. “ranco-American group known as Some arc dictated by an ex- Whob HuDTGE pedlency, some by politics and still| 1o be a division of the dioc {others by an ove ening desire ch-spéaking parishes of a large majority of sen und remove the nec for an extra |speaking bishop and the subordina- |session of the TOth congress, tion of English language Instruction | One of the strangest of them all to Irench language lvstruction in |is the combination of the ¢ hial schools. The group is a ind the banker legislators wh actor - in the cities of the MeNary-Haugen and the Me- | Woonsocket and Central Talls and Fadden br banking bills would | the town of Manville. be put with the S — ‘cloture becomes noee Another combination which democrats vainly the fur Ve regulars buried to head off cffort to declare legislation at 4 continuous her peed than half, the lowly toward Hali- | fax and will be s over due reach- | ing here. A leak in a main fuél tank {into wihch salt water sceped, was given as the cause of her distre | The President Harding left | Queenstown on January 28 and was due to arrive her ul | of proceeding ai ] {however, its owners announced, the |liner will head for Halifax, replen- 1igh there its fuel tanks 1 continue to New York. The liner played the | prineipal role in the rescue of the crew of the Italian freighter Tgnazio I'lovio last year Other trans liner over due bec mid-Atlantic storms. Amon gthem were the Conte Biancamano, the Bremen and the Hindenburg., They will arrive from oneto three days | from erection This Atlantic Congress Sees Several Unusual Alliances Now | Washington, 5 (A — Uniqua | ances in the senate appear to be the order during the closing may be irisdiction of a French R OUTLOOK outiodk for the week seeking ished and th swer was when the temporarily hatchet in their reduction sion, The lincup carlier in the something of republican old the question of president against fmme struction of three more feruisers and number { demo among them middle period vy half; clow Atlantic insu of sno part and tompera normal with a about midde of ns during will marked the v for this tax aver: cold ek, spell Lill furnishe 1 with the splitting on prorting the naval 0 on the we 0 a WHAT TO WEAR Patis, IFeb, 5 (UP)—>\usic | and not the old-time imp. tired nobles now dictate w l-dressed man will wear. Oscar Mouvet, propristor of nne of Mont- martres smartest catarets, for one, nost 1000, will be sought throughout the | ance |and the child was left in the care | the country With the understanding {he was to glve her an opportunity | Thomas D. Lavelle of Boston. Young and—Skene Announcef | Stamford judge was made easy to- ! Mr. Fisher, however, later from the | 'Man and Wife Arrested | give French | “kissing bandit,” WORLD-WIDE HUNT FOR LITTLE CHILD Girl, Heiress to $180,000, Is Being Sought Hartford, Conn., Feb. 5 (UP)— A little girl, dauhgter of a wartime marriage, who has inherited $180,- world, according to plans being made here today by attorneys. She-is eight year old Lucienne Helen Nolan, who was last heard from at the bedside of her dying father in Bwitzerland. Her father was Harry E. Nolan of this city, whose estate, consisling of insur- stock, was left him by his father and was to be given the child on her father's death. Nolan died December 15, 1925, of Marie Ritchardy, a Swiss wom- an., It was learned, however, that she had been taken away from her. According to Lucienne’s mother, | who was divorced from Nolan shortly after the war, the child is with relatives in either Germany, England, California or New York city, The little girl's mother married William Bond after her divorce and settled in Quincy, Mass. S8he last saw her daughter in 1923 when her former soldier-husband was leaving fo: abroad in an attempt to regain his health. He died in the Swiss Alps from tuberculosis. ‘The mother was given custody of the child but Nolan brought her to to see America. Lawyers aiding Mrs. Bond in her arch for her daughter are FEd- ard J. Myers of Hartford and for-| mer Assistant District Attorney s WILL SPEAK TO TRAFFIC MEN Carl Mitchell, division frelght agent of the New York, New Ha-| ven and Hartford railroad, will ad- dress the New Britain Trafic bu- reau Tuesday evening at the Bur- ritt hotel. Mr. Mitchell's subject | will be the new hump at Hartford. | STAMFORD JUDGE FIGHT 1S ENDEY Their Withdrawal | Stamford, Feb. 5 (M—The general | assembly’s task of appointing a| day by the withdrawal of Judge Samuel Young and George M. Skene from the race. In communlcations to Senator Malthew H. Kenealy, Judge Young and Mr. Skene authorize him to withdraw their names which we presented to the legislature a we or g0 ago. The withdrawal of Judge Young| and Mr. Skene leaves the way clear for the appointment of Deputy Judge James E. Brinckerhoft as dge and Justus J. Fennel as dep- | uty judge. | Judge Young has been associated with the Stamford city court for 30 | years. He was tho center of a fight | for the appointment last session of the legistature, His name this ses- | sion was brought in the house, by request, by Representative Fisher. floor, denled that he had introduced | the resolution, saying that he had | given it to Daniel F. B. Hickey, | house clerk, with the statement that | he would not offer it to the assem- bly as he had becn requested. His name appears in the journal as the one who brought in the gesolution. After “Still” Is Seized Antonio Dygas and his wife, of §8 John street, were arrested about! 11:30 this forenoon on tlie charge of violation of the liquor law, by Offi cers Stadler, Cosgrove and Harper, A “still” and a small quantity of al- leged liquor was secized, and oc- cording to the police, evidence of a sale of liquor was obtained. Dygas was taken to the police sta- tion and placed under bond. His wife promised to report later. Both have been arrested before for liquor law violations. GIRL STRUCK BY AUTO Mildred Wallace, aged 7, was slightly Injured by an automobile driven by Miss Sara A. Keevers of the Visiting Nurse Association, about : :45 yesterday afternoon, while crossing Broad street, near Grove. Miss Keevers took the child home and had her injuries attended, after | which she reported the accldent to | the police. N. Y. BANKER DICS | New York, Feh, 5 (P—J. Louls| Schacfer, 59, president of the Grace | Nationab bank, of New York, died suddenly this morning in a public garage where he had gone to get his automobile MANY JOBLESS IN FRANCE Paris, Feb. 5 (UP)—France, fac- | ing a steadily increasing army of | jobless, was getting ready to ask foreign nationals to stay home to inemployed a chance. But even with its 56,000 unemployed workers, Premier Poincare thought | Trance was better off than most countries, PARIS “KISSI BANDIT” Paris, Feb. & (UP)—Paris has enriched its criminal annals with a | whose motto seems and runs ther day.” The | | Kissed him as he lay | to be ‘“she who kis vay, lives to rob ano emoiselle crowned a Pari- | ique dealer with a_sliver candlestick, stunned, plundered his till and es- | caped, | JOINS LAW F Springfield, Mase,, Feb. Inouncements were recelved here to- day that Jay R. Benton, for the last four ars attorney general of | 19 YEAR OLD COLLEGE GIRL HELD A§ ROBBER South Dakota Young Woman Found Inside Bank at Vermillion, 8. D, Early Today. Vermillion, 8. D., Feb. 5§ (UP)— Miss Marian Meyers, 19-year-old co- ed at the University of South Da- kota, was arrested today when she | was unable to explain her presence in the First National bank before it had opened its doors. Dennis Sullivan, night watchman at the bank, found the girl hiding near the vaults. He sald she was concealing an electric drill when he came upon her, but that the cord was too short to rcach the nearest | electric light plug. An open window at the rear of the bank i3 believed to be the ¢x- planation of the girl's presence. She was taken into custody by coun- ty authorities and subjected to a severe cross-examination. ANOTHER SWIMMER MAKING ATTEMPT Meyer Starts O for Catalina Island Los Angeles, Feb. 5 (P—Reports reaching here early today sald that Peter Meyer, 28 year old Cincinnati distance swimmer, was attempting to swim the 20 odd mile Catalina channel. Meyer is said to have started from the lsthmus on Santa Catalina Jsland at midnight. Meyer was reported to be follow- ing the course set by George Young when the Toronto youth crossed the passage last month in fifteen hours and forty-five minutes to win the Wrigley marathon swim and $25,- 000. It was also reported that Miss Martha Stacer, Portland, Oregon, swimmer, who in the recent mara- thon event remained in the water nearly 19 hours, plans to start a segond attempt this afternoon, also from the fsland. Postpones Catalina Swim Long Beach, Cal,, Feb. § (P-—Mrs, Myrtle Huddleston, formerly of Mat- toon, Ill, who was to have started from Santa Catalina Island last mid- night on her third attempt to swim the channel, early today announced she had postponed her attempt until tonight. Friends of Mrs. Huddleston sald she would follow her original plan of starting from the island some time between 9 and 12 o'clock to- night. On each of two previous attempts Mrs. Huddleston, mother of a 12 ear old boy and no- a resident of this city, swam between 13 and 14 miles. One of these was in the re cent prize contest conducted b William Wrigley, Jr. | Awarded $17,000 for Loss of Wife’s Love Alfred, Me,, Feb. 5 (F—A §17,500 verdict for Ralph R. Littlefield, York Village electrical contractor, was awarded in court here today in his §50,000 alienation of affections suit against Cato Philbrick, caretaker of an exclusive York Harbor summer club. Littlefield charged Philbrick with alienating the affections of his wife, Mrs, Ethel Littlefield. The case caused a gensation in this section of Maine when it was heard at the September term of th York county supreme court. Philbrick is now in Florida. SHOW GIRL GETS DIVORCE A divorce was granted in superior court yesterday to Helen Swenterly Houlihan of 22 Newell Place, terbury, a show girl, from Philip Houlihan of this city, on a charge of desertion, Mrs. Houlihan stated 't and Houlihan were married in Hartford on March 31, 1921, :nd that she never lived with him. A child born of the marriage, i in Waterbury. Mrs. Houlihan's two sisters, Edith and Evelyn, also show girls, testi- fied in the case. Houlihan pays $5 she a week for the support of the child, | a boy. Dennis P. O'Connor repre- sented the petitioner. just what the proportions in Wa- i PARK CITY POLICE " AGAIN CENSURED §Clergyman RM Charges of Laxity | DBridgeport, Feb. 5.—Rev. Charles | W. Simpson, superintendent of the Bridgeport Christian Union, reiter- |ated last night, at a banquet of the | W. C. T. U, his charges made Janu- inry 16, the seventh anniversary of !the cighteenth amendment, that police officials in this city are lax in enforcing the liquor law. | Mr. Simpson created a stir last | month when he said that Superin- tendent of Police Patrick Flanagan | was handicapped by the police board and that law inforcement is con- trolled by former saloonkeepers and | men who were seldom sober, The | police board immediately replied, !through Chairman Samuel Dawe, |that unless Mr. Simpson supported | his charges with definite proof or | withdrew them, he would be sub- i poenaed before the board and pht |in jail if he refused to testity. | Since that time the police board | has held a meeting but it did not | extend an invitation for Mr. Simp- | son to appear. | When Mr. Simpson arose to speak at the banquet last night, he was ap- | plauded until he finally raised his | hand for silence. He sald that he had in his possession sworn affi- | davits that liquor can be bought in | the business district of the elty and that “the authorities know about it jand if they don’t know about it they're not on their job. If we have policemen who won't serve us let us PLAN NENORIAL 10 HOTHERH0OD ‘Building at Capital to Be Out. growth of New Movement ! New York, Feb. 5 (P—A world welfare conference to be held ia | Washington in May was announced (here today by Mrs. C. C. Calhoun, who is president ot the Woman's | Universal alllance, sponsor for the | conference. f | “The meeting plans for the con- |sideration of united welfare work {both in this and other nations,” Mr& |Calhoun said. “The United Statem |for example, today the world’s rich- est and most powerful nation, is far down among the clvilized nations in |scientific measures for women in hild birth and pre-natal care of the child. Iducation and home econ- omics will be discussed and legisla- tion affecting women and children. ‘U. S.'and Germany Reach | Reparations Agreement ‘Washington, Feb. 5 (#—The Unit- cd States and Germany have agreed |that the 2 1-4 per cent share of the United States in German reparation |payments will be made available in |dollars in the United States through an exchange of commercial obliga- tions. German payments to cover what it |cost the United States to maintain |its army on the Rhine after the ar- {mistice are not included, direct pay= Iments amountfhg to about $13,000 {000 a year being made on that ae. count. | German firms will deposit monthly iwilh the federal reserve banks of |New York under the conversion plan, {certain sums in dollars arising from |thelr dealings in the United Btates. These deposits will correspond to the credit accruing to the United States {in marks in Germany. | The German firgs, in turn, will e reimbursed in marks. MORE PEONAGE CHARGES New Orleans, Feb, 6.—(P—Indiet- | ments charging two more men with | peonage were returned here yesters | day by the federal grand jury. | The men are Joe C. Anders and | Lonnie Brumfield. It was charged {last August they forcibly arrested & | negro, Mose Williams, and held him {in servitude as a laborer on Anders’ rm near Liberty, Amite county, | Mississippl. Brumfield was reported |to have died since. New Britain Herald CIRCULATION Wherever advertisers are congregated, and are talk- ing shop, the matter of circulation of the daily newspaper in their territory is the main topic of conversation. Well it might be, for the advertiser wants to know how many people will read his ad in order that he might estimate his turn over in stock will be. The New Britain Herald has a circulation of over 14,000 and the circulation department is willing to prove this fact. The number of Heralds sold daily is rapidly ap- proaching the 15,000 goal which is a testimonial to its standing in the community. The Herald is doing every- thing possible to increase reader interest by printing the news of the city, state, United States, and the world, and the rapid increase in circulation is a testimonial to the fact that this endeavor is appreciated. The New Britain Herald is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, a national group of trained news- paper circulation auditors whose business in life is to check up on circulations of newspaper that belong to this organization, Advertisers all over the country ask firs if the paper they are thinking of placing an advertisement in is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, for* they know that there can be no equivocation by an A.B.C. newspaper. In short, they and in the case of the New know what they are Britain Herald, they -4 appeared recently 1 rown formal evening wear and 20w ull the boys | are wearing ‘em. Massachusetts, has become a mem- | [ber of the law firm of Sherburne, | | Powers and Needham of Boston. |\ ing been located, and his résovery! is anticipated. ting over 14,000 printed and distributed daily. declared: “The voice we heard w READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS the voice of Clen, but behind it was the so-called radics hind the exccutive. s, standing