New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 11, 1927, Page 1

ews of the World y Associated Press 4 43 ‘p. 10J33%H 9 00a PV BRITAIN HERALD Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending 14’554 Feb. 5th .... uuo) ESTABLISHED 1870 Armaqr] WS I PSPVRLL BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1927. THIRTY-TWO PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS CONVICTED RUM SHIP MEN T AT SCADAL MUST START PRISON TERM | HLIANGBOAKD AT, ONCE, JUDGE DECLARES s Commissioner fo Warner —_— Here’s Hen That Is Generous, Giving a Rebate With an Egg s tisfield, Me., Feb. 11 (UP)— Hens apparently have become so ashamed of the high price of eggs that they have decided to give rebates. 21 MEN CHANGED IN - HIRE DEPT. SHIFT broke an egg laid by one of her IOPy Made by NOble | hens, she found two cents in it. }} e \THREE CAPTAINS MOVED Rescinds Stay Until May, Which He Granted Yesterday—| Says They Sought to prpiition Agent Morse Posts| Influence Him g0 Bundin ew Havn sosions o v Througll Friend. alleged improper practices in con- Eker Case Becomes More! be placed in the hands of Chairman | MISSING DRY JAN T AWAING EoRt Leavitt Because of Nature of Tes- | timony Given Him. 2- comrn e 1 e (YT, FAILS TO LINK Information claimed to be of a Judgc in Daugherty Case (#—The government ¥ Three Licutenants and 15 Privates Affected by Program Made “in Interest of Efficiency”’—Butler in KING IN CONSPIRACY Charge of New Statlon. Three captains, three lieutenants and 15 privates are affected by the most thorough shake-up in the his- | tory of fire department, Chief liam J. Noble announced today. effective re made in the interest chief said. “I over the assignments very ave given them con- Limits Questions of Prosecutor k, Feb. 11 | et with fail- Federal Court, New ¥ i | Refors Questioners to His Lawyer, A. P. Leavitt :;z ]lru I(n)i\;d. and M. ist ! | cr Weld, probably today. Sensatfonal JurISt? Counciln‘\l:\n W. Spauiding Warner of the third ward, who instituted an investigation into the practices of the examining committee and un- covered some interesting as Predicts Appeal Will Be; Made to President Coo-! Benjamin Slade—Trial of All In- dicted Men Scheduled to Come Up | February 23. informa- | |ure today in the Daugherty-Miller | | case when it tried to introduce evi- | genes to show that John T. King, national com- de- nd thought.” s who are included are 7oods of No. 5 company, ed to No. 3 compan Edward J. W who is swi Michael \ one-time republican 1t NEWS DISPATCHES FROM MARITIME COUNTRIES INDICATE PRESIDENT’S SUGGESTIONS ARE WELL RECEIVED \England and Japan Re- ported as Agreeable to Discussion of Naval Arms Limitation But Uncertain as to Extent Edison Tries to Explain Views on the Human Soul’s Immortality |Believes in a “Supreme In- Mayor May Halt Work . 4 . . | Being Done by Official telligence” and Thinks| 1, His Own Department When Man Dies Billions | of Organized Entities Desert Body, Go Into Space and Are Immortal. Members of city commissions o do business with the de- partments over which they are in charge, may have this source of revenue cut off, a statement by Mayor Weld today indicated. It has been brought to the attention of the mayor that re- pair work is in progress in city \France and Italy Withhold | Decision But Are Not Expected to Refuse to Parley Should Other Na- New Haven, Feb, 11 (P—John A. Morse, head of the federal prohi tion agents of this district who has | been absent in parts unknown since his indictment by a tederal grand ljury in Hartford on Tuesday after- | {noon charged with complicity in & | huge liquor conspiracy, walked into the oftice of the clerk of the U. S. New York, Feb. 11 (P—Judge|district court here this noon. With, Meekins, who presided at the Eker him was John W. Rogers, former rum trial which resulted in the | mayor of Middletown and Benjamin tence to Atlanta penitentiary of the |Slade, a New Haven lawyer, his mayor and chief of police of Edge- | counsel. [ vater, N. J., today rescinded his ac-| Morsc’s surrender had been ex- | fion of yesterday in staying until | pected by those who knew him. May 10 the sentences of De Witt | Puts Up $5,000 Bond i Turner and Clifiord and Cecil| Appearing before Charles E Kinder. | Pickett, clerk of the court, Morse an Turner and the Kinders, Chica-|nounced himself ready to put up a goans and owners of the rum run-|personal bond of $5,000 for which ner Eker, who pleaded guilty and | papers were drawn. The accused turned government witnesses, Were|appeared quite untroubled by the in ordered immediately committed 10| gictment. the Tombs. Cecil Kinder And Turner! ssred where he had been during are under sentences of 18 months to|tha days since the filing of the in- Atlanta and Clifford Kinder to Six | gictment and why he had not ap- months in the county jail. peared sooner, he smiled and re- Calls For Marshal. inrEe Judge Meekins reduced the Sen-| wp g auavn tence of Turner to a year and a day| g t5 just where “away” might be, in Atlanta, but did not change thelzroise had nothing to say, continu- Gl ing to smile. | “Where is the marshal?” he in- Reters to Dawyer | quired, looking about him. As to what the next step in his! A deputy marshal stepped plans would be Morse, with still e more smiles, remarked: “You had i The balliof it | better ask Mr. Slade about all that.| and they are turned over to YOUI|y, oo ie anvining to say, he will| custody,” said Judge Meekins, ad- |, %000 AN this procedure | dressing the deputy. “They are £0 be | Ty 5o 0 ‘e, you know.” | taken to the Tombs, there to be con- | & (PCE ToE 10 The YO0 K ieted | d until they can with con\emen!‘“_” R two B e Anth S spee amoved to the places of [With his two brol mbony ey pegd b xstoved 5 Carl, has not yet put in his appear- prisonment designated. ance to post a bond. He has been | v " protested As-|ance to p . [ Bt Lv"‘r.,,';o"‘);m:; ftorney | In New York, where, on Wednesday, | e . 'wour nomor _granted | charses against him in connection D centence yesterday until|With an accident by his truck were May 10.” quashed and his license returned. | G A A :te;ns L the clerk's office | e Adler st m | Judge Meckins said that repres Joset Adler, the other indicted tatives of the informers had gone toman who has not yet appeared, is Washington and tried to retain one|still on the danger list at the New his best friends, for a fee, to in-| Haven hospital, as a result of his tercede for them. | gas poisoning. e is in the custody “I don't know how they knew that|of Benjamin his counsel. Mr. this gentleman was my friend,” he|Slade said “Mr. Adler certainly had said. “It all shows how far the ram- |a narrow escape. If it had not been ifications of this ring go. Why, a|for his daughter who happened to high official came to me ¥ iopon the garage door and find him and pleaded for them, talked to me|there, overcome by the car fumes onally in their behalf, and I|he would not be alive now."” o since learned that at the time| The case against the 11 he had from them in his|dicted will come up in the U. S. ot.” | district court here on February 2% Opposes Clemency. | The court opens officially on the our purpose is to appeal to the | 22nd but because that is a holi sident,” Judge Meekins continued. | businces will be adjourned until the These men should be serving their|next day. sentences while the appeals are be-| ing made and they will be unless they die raturally or are murdered before they get to prison. I shall strongly represent to the president| that in my opinion no clemency | should be extended. Now Mr. Stich-| man, I don't want to hear another| word about this case from anybody e at any time. My mind is m up | and my consclence is clear. 1t you‘ReSm“Slhle for 6,240 Dui- | want to fall about the matter any! jne Year—393 Blamed | more go before another judge. These | | men are going to jall unless the | on Drunkenness marshal refuses to do his duty, and | 1t e does I'll find a way to stir him | lidge. NSISTS HE WILL OPPOSE ALL PLEAS for- men s ended | Friend. responded ade, men in- a fee NATTENTION CAUSES MOST MOTOR GRASHES Hartford, Feb. 11 (A—The great e jest cause of motor vehicle accidents | |in 1926 was inattention of operators Y()llt.h Out Of HOSpndl_" , | Nizures compiled by the motor vehicle | Rice Hearing TOMOITOW | 4cpirtment indicate. Of the 17 5| Lotiis Domijan, 17-year-old GTOVe acoldents for which operators we t youth who was shot by Wil-Thlamed, 6,240 were listed as due to| m J. Rice, armorer at the state this cause. armory on Arch street, a few wecks ilure of operators ta grant right ago, was discharged from New Brit- v to other drivers in iin General hospital tod who was a d after the shooting on the charge of ault with a dan- gerous weapon, will be tr lice court tomorrow morni will be represented by H M. Ginsburg. Prosecuting Attorney J. G. Wood. caid this afternoon that the ¢ has not been ch ed though he is giving consideration to ituting plain assault for the more serious charge. attempts to beat trains, t thi Wife Kills Wildcat That [number came rrom ariving too siow Was Clawing Her Husband '1¥ for conditions ;‘.\\mlm‘,: was | h Ialls, Ore,, Feb, 11 (UP) i : s S ; e less backing for ¢ inexperience | L. Little wos saved from b for 429 and operating on the wrong | 4 to death by a large wildcat side of the road for 1,009, Follow n his wife plunged a buteher jne venicles too closely was respon- fe into the animal’s throat. The R e gun had failed to fire, and t sprang on the man, knock- | him down. | dents, the compilation indicat Of the acci blamed upon oper- | ors, 393 were laid to intoxicatio to speeding, 126 to cuttir to passing nding trolleys, 18 | assing on curves, 19 passing on | passing on the wrong side | vehicles, S cutting corners, 18] | passing at intersection roper | parking, 20 cranking c 105 failing to set brakes, 6 i confused. While two accidents resu Attorney 40 the - - ing PONZI MUST N. | Houston, Texas, b, p—1| SUICIDE Charles Ponzi, held in the Harris IFeb. 11 (UP)* county jail and wanted in Massa- ot live with- 1setts to answer to arges of be- ewis Gonthier, | i a “common and notorious thief," L. lifted to his lips a cup. will t returned to TRoston next containing poison. He died at the week, according to present indica- | hosy tions. 1o, i Por STS GIRL; COMM Arthur, Tex | the board and, after the resignation | tions in ar, | o of No. 3 company, t to the new No. 7 house Captain Fred who goes to from Connecticut, might mitteceman stroyed records that linked him in an alleged conspiracy. United States Atto: called John Durkin King's pri ccretary for six years, and sought bring out through him testimony adduced at the first trial which howed that a book containing papers relating to the transfer of 000,000 of assets of the American Metal Company _disappeared from | King's home in Bridgeport after a | congressional investigation of the transfer had peen started. Repeated objections from defense counsel halted this trend of testi- mony when they were sustained by | Judge Knox. Through Durkin, the government, | got into the record exhibits to| which defense offered vigorous ob- ections. A Waldorf-Astori tion in the past month, was sought out by several electricians yesterday | and the reports were laid before him. He was requested to present these new facts in,conjunction with the report of his investigation com- mittee. Because of the nature of the testimony brought before him, he has decided to submit it directly to Leavitt and Weld, for such action as those officials can consider meet and proper. Councilman Warner declined to- day to divulge the nature of the re- port. Other than to say it involve a member of the building commi sion and the electrical examining | committee he would furnish no in- formation. During his office hours today, layor Weld had reccived no inti- mation of a report of alleged un- proper practice on the part of any of his appointees. His mail today have ; on Smith of No. company stree The Hartnett of t Ladder Co. 1l . pzancki, who wa. s City Service Lieutenant 3 promoted the ranks company 2 who w ing from e oft k, is assign- at the me is assigned to utenant George M also promoted this w ed to No. 7 house. Char en in th same in Ranks ranks whose as- | sign ) anged are: Lester Barnes from No. 4 to No. 1; 1l nier from No. 2 truck tte from No 5 to No. 3; Pac from 6 to No. 3; / chest from 2 ladder to . William Coffey from No. 3 to No. 5; hevd from No. 1 pumper ; William w from No. 2 imper to No. 7; Peter Nuss, 5 to No. Jacob Heck from No. 1 aerial er company to No. 7 Thomas Roper from No. 3 pumper WFIEAN SEES CORNER IN F00D OF NATION are o brought him a | Lepsian ter from J. B. Allee, suggesting | that changes be made in the per- sonnel of the building commission. He did not suggest who should be dropped. Allee is the man who at- tended Monday night's meeting of overnment got admitted check drawn by J The check was made o and the money was draw himself. By 'his, Buckner axplained, the governjent hoped the jury would {infer thar the $25.000 was given to | mith as his share of a $30.0 ra ard Merton, metal magnate, had given X Durkin also gave testim the deposit of $195,000 of erty bonds Merton gave King, hut this was covered hy an attorncy’s stipulation. and the government attempt to show that it was not in- ded in King’s income tax r ithough King consid 1 it a |itimate payment, was obstructed | defense objecti sustained | Judge Knox. The court ruled that | ‘T)nrfi n had not learned of tt ter until a date subsequent to time of the alleged conspiracy. of Electrical Inspector C. J. Curtin had been accepted rose and saic “City Hall has the best shows in town.” SUGGEST DISMISSAL OF TWO EXAMINERS Probers Favor Elimination of Contractors From Committee Connecticut Senator At- tacks Farm Relief Bill Today ns by | committee ap- | giving and | examinations | the common the tI The investigating pointed to probe th marking of electrical will recommend to council that two of aminers be displaced 1 as well as theoretical tests be | :n hereafter and that expe in the trade be considered in giving credits. i The report, made public today for | the first time, calls attention to the | ct that three licenses were given | without examination. e questions were not props d that the marking indicated by the erasures show changed to the amount of credit that sho lowed. The report follows: “The special committee appo to inve RLDRAAL 10 BE ADDED T0 DENATURED ALCOHOL This Liquid, With a “Terrible” Taste, farm aliz MeNary-Haugen s a proposal to of foodstuf Lean of Co rejection in a speech States senate. monopoly 3 To Be Tested Out Effcctive S e s : sound her prineiple April 1. thaL ha Pittshurgh, Fe (UP) — The of the bootlegger in 1 alcohol drinkable harder and harder. department sued an order, effective April 1 t mula for denaturing changed to include *four (by volume) of approved (wood alcohol) and 75 known as aldehol is get- Haugen bill, which s to protect the farmer: ncial loss by es producers 1d | has tha a igate the giving and mark- ing of examinations for licens: the electrical trade begs leave to re- port that the subject was thorol probed, with the result that the lowing findings were made: “1—The questions in the exar tions were not expressed with cient clarity and were found to capable of being answered correctly in more than on way. “2—The examining committee in- quired the names of the applicants instead of using a system of num- bers on the pa (this latter method being employed subsequent- ly) 3—Markings of the papers in the first examination were not made with care, as fully 90 per cent of the | papers show erasurcs and changes in | _ the credits given. nsose were ons for ting and estak equalization fund to op surpluses, was up ration in the enate to- \aving been adopted to a vote. MeLean ma n nal consids v, a rule g it to Senator ities of two parts, but ald ent. The introduction of the basis of t1 hopes for sucee Aldehol is * nd smell, Dr. head of the de engineering at Carne Technology, and 1 compound, sa ve T rinking liquor containing ldehol may he suf boiled” to be immune it is likely to make him d il as soon as it passes the After sev years' work, ts produced xidation The chief virtue of al ames, is that effort to take aleohol, part. 1 some means , it is believed « d after April 1 value except user of it, for purposes drinking declared t i : bill became a law, it would raise ices of foodstuffs at once, and a surplus would result as are of only by the low oducer cutting his . 1 cost producer going out of s of the be i errible” i Joscph H. nent of taken chen Institute or of though of raising bill,” it were “This bill is a price McLean said obody would wan the bill tells us 1 the bill propo; a buyer's market to a market. He tells us that ly of wheat today exc 1. He Iy wants to ch \tor to its James the given in three ithout examinations. ifteen per cent of the que the examinations are not ed speciieally in the nati ctricians coda. The committee makes the follow- ing recommendations relative to fu- ture examinations for clectricians licenses a1 at the examining commit- tee consist of the clectrical inspec- tor and two othe versed in the clectrical trade but not engaged in | contractin, | That examinations for licenses ¢ three st of written questions the n the iline wers to which are contain | correet postur National Electrical code: py son told s to show the knowle City clu he applicants as regard u. - of tools and equipment credit be given for the p cce of the applic in the “The committee rther mends that this report be nd that the city clerk be is instructed to forward of same to the building cow the ethyl cor A n devis: answ 5 remov re, the natio to the N ¥ premises. By logic could drown his > felt so inclined, or mora sibility, He would hold the woman's head r water of min- and a t MORT ¥ 'eb. 11 (UP) WOME Boston, Vo 3 ar muc the couy outside one h resul Dr. ing Phil memb, cor ) here. oxygen on s of h d alone lady's removal. The raising bill its only now told {he behest the other, the t this urd. MOTHER O 1 N. H., G. Kal old, has er eighth | seven neither be ible for claim th tra recom- t t purpose. that c i of his po- ow resusci- rom the pub- mer must have a and this m ot 1 paid for with federal asury. n't want any more in small amounts at 6 per They want to take 250 mil- dollars out of the federal witli ith by twin among tate him with The market, bought from the farmers KULL IS FRACTURED. Torrington, I 11 (P—Arthur | | Kauffman, aged 23, suffered a frac- re of the skull today when he was caught under a falling tree while working on a lumber job at Corn- | wall: Hollow. He was brought to the Charlotte Hungerford where his condition was this afternoon as critical. lic purse pro THE WEATHER loans tr The loans cent lions of Britain and vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight; Sat- urday increasing cloudiness and warmer. New hospital, reported | | i | | | | | | | | | (Continued on Page 20) nsferred lieu- | el this | who was | zed the bill economic prin- © said. mother-in- | hout | | ® | The ‘West Orange, N. J.,, Feb. 11 (#— facts A small percentage of all the ! known nature favors {m- morality, A wizard of Menlo Park, about Thomas Edison, - the aid today on | his eightieth birtnday, in reply to { questior he had changed his views regarding immor- | on whether ! tality. | “The word God has no meaning | | to me,” he said, “but I believe there 2d- | |1s a supreme intelligence pervading | | the universe, and at times I belicve | that when a man dies, the swarms | of billions of highly organized en-| tities which live in the cells, desert iihe body, go out into space and keep | on and enter another and last cycle |ana are immortal.” | *“I have not changed my views on | | immortality,” he added. Wearing a freshly-cleaned blue- worsted suit, with a red rose on his | coat, the wizard accompanied by hi old friend Henry Ford, who worke {for him in East Orange years ago, | |drove up to the Edison plant and | laboratory, shortly before 10 a. m., | | made in 1922, this car “Gustave Adolphus” iin | ihonor of the Swedish crown prince. When r. TFord arrived in Orange last night he was conveyed |to the Edison home in Llewellyn | Park in one of the high priced auto- | mobiles made by his company. Mr. | Ford wore a natty dark suit and a | purple and pink tie. | “They need a manager | want to do different things,” shouted Ford to the wizard, when photo- graphers scrambled here and there | |attempting to pose the celebrities in {a dozen different positions. Submits to Questions Then the party with newspaper | |and magazine writers entered the| they all ing to which Mr. Edison had an- nounced he would submit. Mr. E son took off his old black overcoat, glanced for a moment at his new dark brown shoes and began writing answers with an old lead pencil, the firm hand, aracteristic of | many telegraph operators. Mr. Edison said there were m: men on the horizon capable of solv- ing problems as great as those which he had met and that he thought man would go throu this industrial civilization to a higher one —the age o “Fine are ver: art nting and music, nt to mankind,” he man soul is the same as intelligence. Man Not the Unit “Man is not the unit of life. I have stated that many times, but' no one understands. Man s as dead as granite. The unit of life con- | (Continued on Page Nine.) SEFKS $2,500 DAMAGE FOR GRUSHED FINGER Man Who Was Given “Lift” in Auto Sues Host a crus r is set $ that amount b v Alpert, local candy whol sal hko | through Attorney Louis H. Katz of | | Hartfo Tt mber or a trolley street at morning. in ntife Ked at ion for 1ght 6, . We o'clock car ahout 11 he defen 1 his auto to ride, in him plaintiff the ca | But t fore he 1 *'ne on Main | in th came | asked the other wor e pl was ntly look! pl slamme | ot S, | on | right | injuring the membe The plaintiff stated that |tree from contributory ne and that the finger was cru lacerated, ing hin { pain of mind and body | forth that h {disabled and that to be “sick, sore and The superior Tuesday of March. Constable Fred Winkle served the papers. he w ligen, b he still continues disabled." | Prisoner TOM |41 one of Mr. Ford's low priced cars hundred dollars at least, over a per- |lod of about three years, were ad- { Last summer Mr. Edison named tteq by Robert Leslie Donahue, West following his arrest about 6 o'clock |requested a {stein ordered the plea changed to|that the project jafter Donahue He sets | covered by the report. Despite the | doubled under section 35, 1 sick and |large number of deaths in England, writ is returnable in the | court, Hartford, the first|Japan, and lall in the office of one of the boards, the work being done by a member of the same commis- jon. Mayor Weld remarked that the charter and ordinances 0 not seem to specifically cover this practice, but he does not regard it as ethical for commis- sioners to do business directly with thelr departments except- ing In case of competitive bids, a practice approved by the charter. tions Agree. Washington, Feb. 11 (A — Presi- dent Coolidge's proposal for further limitation of naval armament ap- pears to have found the maritime powers in a receptive mood. First impressions as reflected in news dispatches from abroad indi- cate that the president’s plan to dis- cuss the question next month at | Geneva probably will be accepted, but that specific methods of limita- [tlon will have to be left for deter- | mination by the conference itself. | England and Japan Responsible officials of both the | British and Japanese governments {are quoted as agreeable to a discus- IS BROUGHT T0 END Caught Here Admits Issuing Many Bad Checks sion of the subject broached by the president, but not certain that his i’umzefllon for extension of the 5-5-3 ratio to all classes of warcraft can be accepted in advance. France and Italy France and HMaly, the other two nations to whom the proposal was Check forgeries involving several jaddressed, are reserving decision, but |they are not expected here to refuse to discuss limitations should the other powers agree to such a discus- sion. The immediately favorable re- action in London and Tokvo appar- ently did not surprise officlals here, although they still professed to be without advices. It is the wusual | thing to send out informal diplomatic feelers whenever a government con- templates such a step as that an- | nounced yesterday by Mr. Coolidge, and to be more or less certain how the ground lies before there is any formal negotiation. ‘Whether this was done in the present case, the state department will not say. Diplomats Knew Plan There seems no doubt, however, was undertaken | with the full cognizance of the through | ranking American diplomats abroad. aged 26, of State street, Waterbury, last evening by Officer Thomas J. eeney, and in police court this morning he pleaded guilty to one count of forgery. Assistant Prose- cuting Attorney W. M. Greenstein continuance until to- morrow morning to allow time for | further investigation, and Judge| Hungerford granted it, fixing bonds | at $1500 on Mr. Greenstein's recom- | mendation. Donahue was not repre- sented by counsel, and Mr. Green- one of not guil The arrest came about laboratory building for the question- the alertness of Louls Moss of 52 In addition to Hugh S. Gibson, who Monros street, manager of the Ask.|heads the American delegation to in Clothing Co., 325 Main street, to | Geneva, Ambassador Haughton re- whom Donahue tendered a check for CéNtly has been in this country on $63 in payment for a $40 suit. Be.|l¢ave from his post in London, and ing a stranger, Donahue showed Mr, | ¢onferred frequently with Washing- Moss a letter purporting to bear the | ton officials. signature of L. J. Drager, district| AS a more definite indication of ales manager of the Syracuse Wash. | f0Telgn opinion is awaited, the sit- ing Machine Co., in which Mr. Dra- |Uatlon in Washington remains ger thanked him for settling a claim | duiescent. Most of the leaders in against him growing out of an auto- congress approve the president's mobile accident in which Donahue Proposal, although their discussions vas injured. The tone of the letter |3 colored by some expressions of indicated that Drager was paying | 90ubt whether anything tangible Donahue’s claim in installments, but | ¥1ll come out of the negotlations at left the store, Mr. | Geneva. Moss, being suspicious, had his book- keeper telephone to Mr. Drager and (Continued on Page 30) word came back directly not to honor the checks and not to believe the letter, as they were forged. m[;flNVl[;TE" RUM MEN Drager Donahue s wanted in | ng for Donahue and when he several places for working the rorgodg check game. i Mr. Moss hastened out of his store hted him near the railroad cross-| Fifty in Wi : i ing he called Officer Feeney and told Fifty in Worcester Notified him the fon. Onticer Feeney| They Owe Govt. $2,384.89 after Donahue and arrested him. < T Although taken by surprise, Dona-| for Back Taxes hue submitted to arrest and at po-i lice headquarters he admitted that he left Waterbury a few days ago | when he learned the authorities were | secking him for a $5 forgery. He| registered at a local hotel and the ext day cashed a worthless check at the New Britain Trust Co. /and went up and down Main street| re sig Worcester, Mass., Feb, 11.—(P— Fifty individuals who have been cons victed of doing an fliegal liquor bus- iness in Worcester have received during the past few days letters from : H. B. Swearingen, attorney attach- ck being drawn on the City ed to the office of Prohibition Ad- and Trust Co., of Hartford. | ministrator George A. Parker, in- to Donahue and bearing the | forming them that each owes the siznature of Mr. Drager, by United States government $2,384.89, om Donahue was formerly em-| Asa result of the receipt of these letters there is a grand rush to |lawyers' offices. The letters are all alike and the penalty assessed is the |same in each case. Only the month | of the vear in which they were raid- this ¢ Bank paya forged W the her into matter, (Continued on Page cases as fol- !lows: (addresses and date omitted) | the indebtedness being itemized: | “By reason of the ilieg: OF LIFE IN ENGLAND 818 Deaths During Flrst Week of | Worcester, on or about (date) you | incurred lability for the following | internal revaue taxes and penalties | and demand is hereby made for the | payment thereof witzerland, Feb. 11—P)| “Statement of liabi $18 deaths from in-| “Tax under section in the larger cities of Eng-|vised statutes) as re ing the first week of Ieb- [er, for 11 months, er 1 more than 400 in Bul-|1927, doubled under s a bulletin issued by the | tional prohibition act, $45.85. health section of the league of na-| “Penalty of 25 per cent under sec- tions. |tion 3176 R. 8. for failure to make The serious spread of the disease |return to occupational tax, $5.78. in Bulgaria is further indicated by| “Tax under section 701, revenue T'ebruary In Larger Cities Alone, 244 R. S, (Re- liquor deal were luenz hed and | the fact that a total of 100,000 cases [act of 1926, as retail liquor dealer, intense | w re reported during the period | for 11 months ending June 30, 1927, national prohibition act $500. “Total liability, $2,384.89. “If this liability is not settied within 15 days from the date here- of, the account is to be certified to the United States attorney for collec tion by suit.” the epidemic in London is decreas- ing. A marked increase is reported in slight increases in Czechoslovakia, Portugal and East- ern Hungary.