New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 19, 1927, Page 1

| [mam] NEW BRITAIN HERALD - o) proP™H ESTABLISHED 1870 :Areaerl HARTFORD MAN ARISES AT 3 O'CLOCK, SHOOTS AT HIS WIFE, THEN KILLS HIMSELF : ‘\‘:03 BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1927.—EIGHTEEN PAGES 382 Convicted of Violating Afz_to_Laws Here in Past Year nng W APY - HUNT FOR BURIED GOLD YIELDS §5,000 Villagers in Frenzied Search SHERIFF POSTS WARNINGS Where Wisconsin Hermits Lived | 986 Accidents in 1926 Re- " ported to Motor Vehicle | Commissioner—432 Li- censes Suspended. Gus Pandajis, 45, of Babcock St. Wounds Woman Before Send- ing Bullets Crashing Into Own Body—She Will Recover. Had Been in Poor Health —Helpmeet Once Said She Wanted to Die if Husband Did and He Took Her at Her Word. Hartford, Feb. 19 (F—Mrs. Deb- orah Pandajis, of 24 Babcock street was tired when she went to bed at 11 o'clock last night. She and her husband Gus, former proprietor of an Asylum street restaurant had | spent the evening packing a trunk | preparatory to their trip to ‘Water- town today FAMOUS TUNNEL IS NOW AGTUAL FACT Granite Heart of James Peak Finally Pierced BG ENGINEERING FEAT President Preases Gold Key at Wash- ington Which sefs off Blast Far | Away on the Continental Divide. | Denver, Colo., Feb, 19.—() — A tunnel more than six miles in length | today pierced the granite heart of James Peak on the continental divide to prove the most difficult of many | engineering theories advanced by the late David H. Moffatt, ploneer w ern rairoad builder. Death of Third of Four Brothers| .., toung of Connecticut cam Results In Pinding Money—Sur- |through the year 1926 without any | motor vehicle accidents belng report- in “England. ed as having occurred within their limits. They ars Hartland, Sher- | man and Warren. From three towns, ; 5 Eastford, Scotland and Voluntown, Palmyra, Wis, Feb. 19 (P— ;0. reports of one accident in each. Buried gold, the hidden treasure of| These facts are shown by a classi- the hermit “Blackmore brothers has|fication by towns of the 24,326 acci- lured villagers and farmers of this|dents-to the m“’é}“‘" "eh‘“ehd 5 % 5 ; |partment during the year, whic; vielnity to a frenzied search of the |, ification, showing the population, Blackmore shack. thousand | registration totals, number of acci- dollars has been found. | dents reported and convictions, sus- Searchers have clawed up the|Pensions and complaints for motor swampy ground about the shanty, |Vehicle offenses, appears in the Feb- and ripped the building floors, brok. |FUary bulletin of the motor vehicle en beams and smashed the walls in | department. QURRE Of Bie Borrd | Facttord, with 8,311 sccidents, ted Sheriff Albert Austin of ‘Jefferson e state fast yeak In this respect as county is placing signs forbidding | LTI I i T : ven, with 2,524 and Bridgeport, with treasure hunting on the property,| 1 v i b A stronl ,331. Although New Haven took and stationing guards there, and ad-| 0oy flace In teh number of acci- ditional guards have been ordered | 2 by Earl Garbutt, president of the vivor, Now Living Wil Get Findings. Five Dream Becomes Reality Moffatt's dream became a reality last night when President Coolidge | pressed a gold key at Washington to | t off the blast that tore out an| eight foot rock barrier between the | east and west bores of the ploneer | shaft which runs parallel to the! | main tunnel. | But at about 3 o'clock this morn- ing she awakened to find her hus-; tand bending over the trunk they had so carefuly packed a few hours before. | “What are you doing, Gus?” ¢ ; Says “Nothing,” Shoots. | “Nothing,” replied the husband as| he thrust his arm deeper into the | trunk, drew a revolver which he had | kept packed in its depths for several | years and aiming at her as she lay | in the bed, pulled the trigger. The room was dark and the flash and roar of the weapon was the first in- timation Mrs. Pandajis had that she | was the target of her husband's shots. She screamed and at the same | time felt sharp pain as a bullet ripped through her scalp. Again the gun flashed and again she felt a bullet plow through her scalp. By this time her sister, Mrs. William P. Rogers with whom she and her husband had been visiting, burst into the room. Finally Shoots Himself. Pwice more the revolver roared and the husband crumpled to the oor, shot through the head and chest. With himself as target his aim was better and he died at .ML 30 this morning. Sinai hospital at 7:3 Mrs. Pandajis is in the hospital alp wounds | suffering from two and is expected to live. An account of the shooting was given to the police early this morn- by Mrs. Pandajis and when 4 for some explanation as to hor husband had committed | o and attempted to kill her, said that for a number of year: he had been in poor health and ha on one or more occasions threatened to end his own li She said -that Jo these threats her reply had been, “it you die, 1 want to go too. * Wanted to Plea _ 1t 1s her surmise that in his sui- | roment her hushand recalled » words and attempted to grant ; her wish. Mrs. Pandajis told !h" polics she had never had an unkind | word from her husband and could sive no other explanation for act., They were married in Bridge- Novembe 190 Mrs. Pandajis is 37 years of age and r husl 45 He was vorn in Greece and both of them had lived with Mr. and Mrs. Rogers here since last Christmas. Pandajis 1so ran a restaurant in New Haven time morning Polic n Darby turned over a 32 Smith and W on revolver with which Pandaiis is supposed to hav done the shooting to Detective Ser- ant Rovert T. Sutherland who is investigating the case. Dr. William L mer and Dr. Ja- | cob Schaefer attended Mr. and Mrs Pand at the Mt. Si hospital. FUNERAL FOR DOG Rescued From P wh sui she port in at one This Josepr calibre | Owners of “Ring Cave Only to Dic of Pneumonia, Making Preparations. Woodruft, S. C., Feb. 19 (&) i te memorial exercises are being nned by the Kelly brothers, Van | Harvey, over the hody of Ring, red fox hound that was rescued carly Thursday. Ring was taken out alive but he succumbed to an attack of pneu- wonia yesterday. The body to an undertaking es embalmed and has lain i while hundreds viewed it. exe within the next s will be held at the mouth n into which Ring chased | Killed it and later was brou ment, sta Funeral w d the ¢ v red fox, vapped Wwh 1S uncs ises »ne with the body | are urging | case. The | ring it to be ¢ iin. Neighbo that it be buried in ¢h Kelly brothers, favor cf some museum. will be | | Washington Woman Dying After Attack and Robbery | Washington, Feb, 19 (B — With | kull fractured, Mrs. Daisy Well- | 5 year old telephone operator, | s found In a dying condition late | ht on the grounds in front apitol had cut across 1 ene route from her place ot em- | ployment to her home nearby, when | she w attacked and robbed. She! told the police that a negro of light complexion was her assailant. the capitol s {125 | first sixty mi work w | representatives of the two state Although much work remains be- | fore the main tunnel be opened to | trains next summer, completion of | the small bore was regarded by | engineers as significant because it re- | vealed the various strata through | which the main tunnel must be| constructed. | Shortens Route Moffatt’s plan was conceived al- most half a century ago when he found such a project would shorten the route between Denver and Salt Lake City nearly 173 miles. He also found it would eliminate thirty miles of four per cent grade and reduce the incline across the mountains to an average of two per cent. Blocked in his efforts to inter other railroad build Mot liquidated a personal fortune of sev- eral million dollars to push his pro- ject to completion. He secured en- gineers and ordered them to map a route on a straight line through the | miles of mountains and valleys | into the rich mining country of west- ern Colorado and eastern Utah. It the mountains get in the wa go through them, not around ordered. Died Planning Project | His funds proved inadequate, how- | ever, and after exlens he died before the s s pro- ject was assured. Following a serie or reorganizations of orig! fatt railroad, a line was constructed | to the top of the divide, at an a titude of 11,600 feet. " short tunnels were necessary in the it he | His funds were exhausted, how- ever before the tunnel was started and it was not until 1923, several years after his death, that actual s started. The eas | opens at an altitud while the western entr: fect above sea level. The bore is 2,- 300 feet below the crest of James | Governor W. H. Adams, of Colo- | rado, and Mayor C. Clarence Neslen of Salt Lake City, represented the two states at the cercmony. As| President Coolidge released the 200 | pound charge of dynamite and work- men rushed to clear the bore, Gov- | ernor Adams and | clasped hands to offic success of the project. After a message of congra had been read from the pre he the tunnel short addre commission s¢ broadcast 'BULLDING SPEED BOAT 0 D0 125 MILES AN HOUR. Strassburg Auto Manufacturer Pre- dicts Wonderful Things From His Development. Strassburg, Feb. 19 (UP)— to New York in 48 hours declared Ettore I automobile ma 1 nous !who plans to do just that near future With his staff of ing him, Buggatti is what he calls the fastest speed boat afloat — a boat capable of devel- oping a speed of 125 miles an hour for a trip to New York. “Why, it won't be long” he add- | ed, “before we'll be gble to st in a speed boat at Concorde bridge, | Place De La Conco one | morning, stop oft Havre | ‘Hello' to friends and then| whizz past the Statue Liberty | two days later.” | Buggatti's speed boat, which | he hopes to T the trans-Atlan tic trip, is 110 th, It 15| cguipped with ecight motors, pro- | pelling elght turbi nd will| carry 10 passengers, i The first boat is under construc- | engineers afd. | now building ar sunny to say |tion at Molsheim. When completed, | style in London, displacing the au- | it will be taken to the Rhine for| t#Mals, If they are successful, t craft will be brought to Paris via | the canals. | o SLAIN IN OWN DOORWAY New York, Feb. 19 (P—When John Butera, a shoe maker, answer- | ed a knock at the door of his apart- ment in Ninth avenue tode an \n:l-i dentified man fired three shots into his body from a revolver, causing in- 1 stant death Neighbors who heard | e firing saw the assailant running away. hirty-eight | | th second place, it is first in popula- bank of Palmyra, who was appoint- | Lok With Hartford second and ed administrator of the property by Bridgeport third. i oo D In New Britain, with 9,647 auto- the only surviving Blackmore broth-/ p opjleq registered, there were 986 er, who has just left for England. $2.500 Is Found A valuation of $98,462.35 has been piaced on the estate of the late An T. Byrne of Lincoln street by the appraisers, Patrick F. McDonough and T. F inventory court, Th itemized list of holdings is: |accidents and 352 convictions in the {courts. Drivers totalling 432 had A week ago Mr. Garbutt found ' gyt jice $2500 In federal gold notes, ssue of [\N°IT !loenses suspended. 1863. Later Robert M. Clery ap- a loose floor board and found under | t picces of pipe, sealed with solder, cach filled with gold coins, totalling $588. Later discoveries mads the| y Before the Civil War the Black-| more family came here from Eng-|y 2 4 land. When that war was declared, INVestments in Industrial the parents returned, but the four 3 Concerns Chief Factor doing day labor, they kept aloof | s 2 from villagers. Two brothers died | in Holdings 14 years ago. Albert, a third, died | three months ago aged 88, and| money is to be sent to him in Eng- land. SMASHES OWN CAR TO taday in probate praiser for the estate, stumbled over ANN BYRNE’S ESTATE total over $5,000. sons stayed, trapping, farming and | Charles over 80, alone survives. The ' First, mortgage oo 13,000.00 250 shares, Amer. Hard- ware Corp. stock .. 40 shares, Scaville Mfz. C par {40 shares, Scovil @b., 25 par ... 25 shares, United Steel, preferred i 75 shares, Landers, Frary sndtCple T e Bridgeport, Feb. 19 (P—An auto- |32 shares, Stanley Works, common an res, Co |20 t trying to escape!” pyre Arms Co. ..... North & Judd .00 Bridgeporter, Pursuing in Taxi, Runs Into Other Motor Car Mig. States mobile chase ea alleged auto thi today with S Patent capture by the owner of the stolen |15 shares, pursuing him in a| Mg Co. ............ |13 shares, Unlon Mg. Co. ended when the s Sl {125 shares, New Britain icab against his| Gas Light Co. ..... own machine bringing the latter to House and land on Lin- the alleged| coln street . ; Automobile, 1925 model |Land at Ocean Beach the theft| park, New London of the automobile is,John O'Leary, Cash, New Britain Trust Bridgeport avenue, M Co. rd, a salesman, The owner of the Cash is Charlés Wright of Bridgeport. | bank Wright had left his coupe stand-|Cash, Savings ing near the railr station and| New Britain was some little distance away from |Cash, Burritt it when he saw a man step into the | Savings bank r and drive away. Wright jumped | Cash, Commercial into a taxicab and set out in pur-| o BBt sut, Cleary was held for the su.|Cash, New Briialn Na- perior court in $1,000 bonds charged | tional bank ... with automovile thett, | s SR : TRAPPED BY TRAFRI Ligr| > TTAL HIBL0D who was taxicab, owner of he car drove the \ stop and capturing f. The man charged with o Mutual - Pire Which Ravages Building in New Britain Man Arrested in Wor- Wallingford Does Damage to I’uur‘ coster, Mass, Was Without Driv-| sicpcs, er's License or Auto Registration. liingford, Feb did dam $100,000, to four stores in story building on Quinnipfa. owned by Harry Goldman. flames started In the basement from n undetermined cause. The failure of the fire alarm sys- »d some delay in getting scene as they were to the wron rived at the Gold ned considerab! swept through the four h an almost total loss tents of the stores. deamage to the t The sto vy 9 —(P— Fire stimated at the one Herald) 8¢ Feb. 19.—Leav- operator’s license and registration behind him, com bined with unfamiliarity with Wo cester's new traffic light signal sy , cost a night in a police head- rters for Harry Netupsky, | 50 years old, of 70 Attwood street, | New Britain, 1 lay. ¢ Netupsky dr t a red signal ht on Front strect and was promptly haited by a traffic officer |y who asked to sec w Dritain nan's license and registration. Harry had neither, and he was locked up. A message to his home in New Brit- ain brought act however, and by court time yesterday morning, a speclal delivery letter had brought both license and registration. The Bal Shoe Company store wo charges against him w ] The total fire loss for Wallingford in central district cou for la; ar was $36 HORSES AGAIN POPULAR Iligh Tax on Motors in London fis | The to the The placed out w J. pain the Paris M owned by 1 \ Nowin furnitu puper and Taunting_Des;-rlfl: Is Arrested in Hartford Hartford, Feb. 1% (UP)—W. Francis TPowers, the Deserter” whose case received wide attention In Boston recently, was ar- rested here today and held without S., po- for him Bringing Back the Lowly Equine | in Favor. L on, Feb. putting the low who hold a warr charging. embezzlement | Powers’ arrest was brought about {on a non-support claim made by his One firm now has sixty more | Wife Who came here upon informa- horses than before the war, and is|tion furnished by her brother, still displacing mechanical vehicles | Thomas Quigley of Cambridge. with horses whenever there is an = opportunity. A good ‘vanne now can be bought for £40 and will do comfortably anything up to 150 miles per week. A single horse can be kept nowadays for £l to 25 shillings 1 week, and in a big stable this can be reduced to 15 shillings. With care, a horse doing ordinary work would last for 15 years. They have been found more economical. into | tomobile. THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Snow probably tonight and Sunday; not much change in temperature, * [ | | | 1% * nk Lee, accerding to an | . $ 6,000.00 “Taunting | Al B e eV 1 g e o P A S B 1 R i S 7 Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending 1 4) 5 5 5 SUZANNE DEPARTS " WITH HER MILLION Feb. 12th ... PRICE THREE CENTS SHANGHAI VOLUNTEER GORPS DONS UNIFORMS PREPARATORY TO FIGHT, IF NECESSARY, T0 DEFEND RIGHTS . i0[ Gourse It's French Francs But Quite & Fortune (SHE LIKES THIS COUNTRY Noted Net Star Feels Crushed By I | Tall Buildings of New \'ork—; Willing to Meet Helen Wills At Febl 19 (Up)—k has been London, boat in | Any Time, She Declares. | upper waters of the Yangtze river New York, Feb, 19 (A-<“Well I've Exclaimed Suzanne the ! |a private telegram to an Americ firm at Shanghai reported ccording to the Shang] got my million.” Lenglen facetiously when on eve of her departure today for rance, after a four-month tour Spondent of the Daily New: {which took her from Maine to Texas, -Another dispatch reported and from Oregon to Florida. The!Seizure of a British steamer in | Associated Press asked her what|Yangtze. |she thought of America. General Sun Chuan-Fang, leader Then assuming as serious mien as|Of the northern forces operating in possible for “Saucy Suzanne,” she Chekiang province, has suf S | reverses all al the front, e of treaty 140 Still British Gunb;at rls Reported in Fight in Upper Waters of Yangtze Another Dispatch Tells of Seizure of English Steamer. Chinese in Same River—General Sun Defeated All Along Line | 1west of Ningpo, which | surrendered to the nation- | in ing tow; | disorder, W ges in| i ationals at Sh | rehensive of the d nghat rabble | troops as of the| tonese, the| spondent said. | Wl of the flig the to ment of Sun’s forc front assist the re te- for York, Feb. 19 McPherson, New Semple Los evangelist, toured the n | “This is the greatest country in!Cording to th Ehelgec e B i e e fall of Wenchow, a rich | perity, efficiency, sobricty and poli | “I had been warned to look INIGHT CLUBS [;AH.EI] stralghtforwardness, gentlemen and “What do I think of American {10 her before answering. | New York Cabaret and of the numerous countries I have| |tally—well 1 did not come in such Angel {the world,” adding as an aside, “in |$PORdent of the Dally Express S e liable reports today annou considered a fortune in France. Yporl of 80,000 population, The *“many respects” are pros- Iness, so Suzanne says. booze and bunk. For boors and| {bores. I have found ice water and | ']'RAP I]fl“RS "I‘[] HELL interesting people,” Likes Amcrican Men | e, men?” Mademoiselle Lenglen has o MIS. McPherson Visits habit of repeating all questions put | | “Physically I have seen no finer| Q! 25 Iniha lotiyias Suimnbod oty | Appears Shocked | visited. They are ta trim, slim | !and uniformly good-looking. Men- intimate contact with any of them to ight clubs of Jjudge. Yes, they seem a bit timid." | New York last night and found their “Yet reports have come abroadipatrons “dancing over the trapdoors that you had been deluged with (g phell” {marriage proposals,” was the retort. | 'Mrs, McPherson, who arrived in Suzanne’s eyes twinkled, her face New York yesterday to open a three- it up. As she sald with real| sy evangelistic campaign, made her | Suzanne spirit: “Please mail that!nignt lite tour atter her first revival lone to the mast. I did not receive gervice, \@ single marriage propbsal during “Look at these eyes hy stay here. I know It would'sho spied a young woman in ¢ sound better if you could headline it: ina smoky o ‘Suzanne refused 15 offers of mar- rlage,’ but it would not be true. Let's Marry Suzanne “You boys have been marrying me off for the past five years. I sup- {pose when you are short of copy. {You just say, ‘let’s marry Lenglen, Had I been married as m times as reported, I should have a whole regiment of husband Of American women Su they were a type | dressed well but more exp |than Frenchwomen. *I think York women, although different, look |as well as Parisiennes but it costs | them more mones | “Hospitality” w |nant virtue of Amer “Everywhere we went, north, |, south, east, w we were recei i magnificlently. No one appeared to | be able to do enough for u: “What impressed you most swing around these United State: | “The height of the buildir | pecially in New York. It makes one feel so puny: It's simply crushiug. The sky line of New York 3 changed tremendously since last visit here in 1921. To a French- | - woman accustomed to seveh-story 2l ‘ buildings in Paris, these enormous |y T 0 constructions along Fifth avenue and | | \oi8 3 CTHERN Broadway are really appal e Likes the Telephone ok “One of the marvels of America | is the telephone, anne vol : ered t takes less time to p Chicago from New York tk Asnieres from Paris.’—Asnieres is a 1burb of Paris a s the Seine. Tt7 is the Hoboken of Paris in distance and other relativity, and is treated s such by the so-called who write sketches for vandeville stage: “One of the she said, as e of arets of Green- 2y are hard, hope- Here you see always t reaping, them sowing. have concerned with the said to her escorting p: Girls had been dancing th Bottom” around her table of them had openly flirted with two members of her escorting party. At- tired fn a fur coat and a broad satin | the evangelist escaped she was about to : a man en she esi ed to her card her in ed her they to and {n predomi- | vanEs hward to the ubs of Broadway. sed with life as your |, rons and c! “it only I red gir copious ght re- were to for a the T explained WILL ROGERS' ADVICE Advises Southerners to Let Election Go By Default — Prohibition a mprov M nglen con E even to my understand a Commodity In South, He Says. mother who word of it ved my at se last ni crats to go by to con negro stories i Al Smith he told the I weeks in Montgon would elect him Prohibition is south, he id, ing | “We're not going EOME send us back to light to €€ prtor drinking corn SIAL ' English since you saw me last Pourvitle. The Intervi should like to to judge. versation y in French, Glad to Go Home “That's one on me,” Suzanne ad- mitted in serene Wel ch America, 1 am ome. I need a rest t apa. Our little villa at Nice rext month or so." “Then?" you think I've French | (Rather irrelevantly). surely you have. You epeak better than Didi Viasto.” Davenport, | (Lenglen's former partner in the | doubles and since Suzanne's retire- {ment from the simon-pure, first| |ranking woman tennis player of| {France. V]asto reads Emerson flu-| |ently and understands him). “But | what are your plans?" high school student, met almost “I am sorry I missed Didi's wed- | instant death when she threw her- |ding. (Miss Viasto was married self in the path of a freight locome- | Thursday the 17th). “I bet she|tive last night after having been {looked swee reprimanded by her grandparents. Will Tour Europe | She had made threats to end her It was finally brought out that |life on other occasions, the cor- Mille. Lenglen will tour Europe with |oner learned, and was known the exception of France, where the |have discussed the suicide of George W. Cannon, 17, one of her classmates, last Sunday. A an opportun- xclusive as m s 1 STUDENTAA'SUIGIDE h Towa, High School Girl 1e Death of 15 Jumps to in Tront of Train Feb. 19 15 years old Davenport, Ta B— Blanche Gabathuler (Continued on Page 13) (P—Aimee was t to! | Judge Is Sympathetic But | Visitor Is Sent | to Jail n jail and a fine of $100 | ¥ given by Judge Wil- Hungerford in police court in the Crosby, aged 32 iam C ! case of Thomas J.| of Brookline, Mass., | today who was found guilty of operating a | car while under the influence of | liquor. In pronouncing Hungerford man had hi. sentenc lared the aocused sympathy, but he could the established y of the court {n the matter of | ia not deviate from ken drivers, h liam F. Crosby. The Ma stopped by P: maker and Main street to Mangin chusetts driver rolman Cy dward J. February 17, when he | proceed against one- "he officers drew from | sion that he had been | nd when he alighted from | e car at their order he staggered. | was . Judge Mangan called | on to the fact that Sergeant| Rival had some question in his mind 15 to whether the driver was under | fluence when he first saw In referring to Rival, Man- me, “Lieut. Rival" | en he moved to correct him- | Prosecutor Woods said: *“We | hope he will be lieutenant.” Pardo Mancarello, arrested mplaint of several little girls, ed examination and his case went | over to superior court in bonds of | 1 case of Walter| with non-suppor: 1 to March 31. | will face charges nf‘ » Monday morning. his at- | MRS. CHAPLIN AGAIN IN TIRADE AGAINST HUSBAND Than Let Him Take Chil- I, dren to England. v Hills, Calif., Feb. od lif man." 19 (UP) was with an ently luxuriously given against sinc 1 the com fires of the L4 stry fiickered in babyhood Mrs aplin v never Chey are Americ brought and ta up in| ools manners, y revive 1 will go| babk to them if I am compelled to | work again for a living, before T| will_part with the babies. | Charlie wanted to go to E: land to settle down. He said ica no pl e to live and oon he had made a large enough fortune he planned to leave | the country. “But,” went on, “those are things personal to Mr. Chaplin and | they better be left unsaid at this| time. ] My future and my DBables are! all that concern me now.” but Amer- | wa she ling One American and One British Naval Officer Badly Beaten By Coolies at Port of Ichang. Situation Grows More Grave—General Strike Protests Arrival of Ad- ditional British Soldiers, Sh 19 @ — (}"' mobilization’ of Shanghai volunteer corps, body sed of residents tion: settlemen Wwas ordered this ev s aration for eventualities the |strike of Chinese workmen, which | continued (COURT STANDS FIRM. | ONDRUNKEN DRIVING, 2 to grow worse as na- -::xxalxs- sympathizers celsbrated the victory of e Ci C S0 Hitgohe ‘} the Cantonese at The order means that all mem- bers, totalling more than 1,800 men, must don their uniforms and be ready to respond at a moment’s notice, An attempt to continue tramway service in the international settle- ment resulted in the stoning of several cars by strikers and for- £lgn passengers were endangered. Service finally was entirely stopped, Steike Is Spreading As the strike continued to spread, some leaders declared it was only a projected two-day cessation of work to celebr: the nationalist capture of Hangchow, but indica- tions are growing that this is the long expected “boring from with- esigned to cause the complete 1l of Marshal Sun Chuan- g the city's defender. The Cantonese method of “bor- from within” by the use of propaganda has done much towar alding them in sweeping over half of China within the last year or so, Shortage of Water Water works employes in tha French concessions struck caustng a r shortags in some dist: Employes in the electric plant the international settlement ened to join. The Canadian Pacific liner press of Russia sailed today cts, of threats Eme for | Vancouver without her mail. British troops were kept to their billets to prevent armed clashes. The Seamen's Union joined the 40,000 or more strikers who went out earlier in the day. Post office strike pickets, armed with clubs, lined the entrances to the general post office and attempt- ed to prevent indoor workers from entering the building. The postal | commisioner, who is an Englishman, ordered the post office closed until Monday to prevent further trouble after a few foreigners who had ree ceived mail had the letters snatche ed out of their hands. Later the police di med the pickets and x}lac(’d a guard around the post of« fice. Factory Closes Down Four hundred mill strikers enter= ed the British cigarette company in the international settlement and ate tempted to intimidate thousands of employes into joining the strike. Tha company decided to close down to prevent trouble, Three of the biggest Chinese de- partment stores in the international settlement, employing thousands, also decided to close. Marshal Sun's local defense come mittee asked permission the fore eign authorities to run armored mo= tor cars through the international settlement if necessary to put down trouble in the Chinese section of the city. Another Battle Impends Another prospective battle is fa > offing with Marshal Sun gathe ering together a broken army of ome 40,000 men to make a last nd at Sunkiang, 28 miles south of . The Cantonese from whom an Kk is expected, were said to -000 or more troops on their ern front American Beaten 3y » be British Brit- ostile dem- was in pro- John F. Luten, & physician, came ore from the American soat El Cano, res sponding hospital call Tha coolies beat the d Anxiety 1Is Felt b. 19 (P—\While most reports all is quiet in the city o the imminence ot the approach of the Cantonese aftee their victory at Hangchow, again has awakened anxiety in some quare ters over the Chinese situation. Stdries of unrest among the Lieutenant coo (Continued on Page 135.) g