New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 24, 1927, Page 1

) News of the World By Associatefl Press ESTABLISHED 1870 ALLEGED AGENTS OF STATE POLICE ROUGHLY HANDLED BY YOUNG MEN IN ANSONIA Two suspected “Under Cover” Men Rescued Frcm More Severe| Beating Only By Timely Arrival of Police. Had Been Loitering About Town, Getting Informa- tion as to Where Liquor Could Be Purchased. Ansonia, Feb. 24 (P—Two alleged ate police spotters were beaten up | hortly after midnight this morning | by a party of young men, said to have numbered halt*a dozen or more, The two alleged under cover men were pulled from a Ford ma- chine in and only the arrival of the Ansonia police saved them from a severe ting. From information secured this morning it appears that the two alleged spotters were pretty rough- | ly handled by the crowd which cut the wires on the Ford. Police Are Called City Sheriff Petro who was return- ing from a drill of the National Guard appeared on the scene and fir- ing his revolver, brought the police | to the scene. The crowd fled. The fwo under cover agents were taken to New Haven by the Ansonia po- lice. One of the men who were said to carry no badge Ansonia two wecks ago and register- cd at a hotel under the name of Ray Miles. He is said to have made the acquaintance of a number of voung men, attended dances and vis- ited places where liquor is not al- ways refused patrons. Tuesday nigh he was joined by another man who said he belonged in Torrington. Acting For State Police The police hecame suspicious of | Miles who did not appear to have uny employment. He did not have vither an automobile or a driver's li- cense when Interviewed by the police vesterday, but is said to have satis- fied the local authorities that he wa acting for the state police. It had n rumored for scveral days that | Miles was a spotter and young men laid for him near his| hotel last night to beat him up which they were traveling | or weapons, came to | BRITISH WARSHIP OFF FOR CORINTO {U. §. Advised of England’s Action in Nicaragua ‘\EXPLANATION SATISFIES| No Violation of Monroe Doctrine | as Forces Will Not Be Landed | | Under Any Condition—Like Vera ‘i Cruz Action. Washington, Feb, 24 (P — The | British ambassador formally noti- | filed the state department today |that the British warship Colombo | |would arrive at Corinto, Nicaragua, | *ebruary 26 for the,“moral effect” its presence might have but that | |under no circumstances would | | British naval forces be landed. The embassy communication | {crossed a memorandum sent from |the state department to the em- bassy assuring the British govern- | ment that American naval forces in Nicaragua would extend all | proper protection and assistance to | Hrll\sh and other foreign nationals | in that country. | Explanation Satisfies | At the state department it was said that the explanation of the sending of a British warship to |Nicaragua appeared satisfactory. | Reference was made to the fact |that British and other foreign war crait were sent to Vera Cruz in {1914 at the time of American naval occupation of that city. | Wnhile officials declined to dis- cuss the relation of the Monroe | doctrine to the sending of a Brit- lish warship to {clearly indicated that the move- | ment was not regarded as in vio- |1ation of that doctrine or as estab- | |lishing a precedent As Place of Refuge London, Feb. 24 (A—The British government has decided to send a |cruiser to Nicaragua as a “place of refuge” for British subjects endan- gered by the civil warfare goingon | | there, it was officially stated today. \ Dispatch of the cruiser, it is un- derstood, does not indicate a de several mrtuxc in the fundamental British | (Continued on Page 16) - Dr. Moriarty Fined $200 for ¢ [ Practicing Without License Takes Appeal and Is Ar- rested for Meriden Police —Friends Crowd About Him in Court Room. (Speclal to the Herald) Hartford, Feb. 24—Convicted of violating the state law by practicing medicine without a license, Dr. Henry Edward Morlarty, aged 43, of Grand Rapids, Mich, who was arrested at the Burritt hotel, Britain, early in the morning of February 17 by state policemen, was fined $200 and costs by Jud Gieorge H. Day in police court this morning, and a short time after his e was disposed of, he was rear- rested by State and Webber on a warrant issued by Acting Prosecuting Attorney W. I Davis of Meriden, the charge being the same as that on which he was convicted by Judge Day. Dr. Mo arty took an appeal to the superior | court from Judge Day's finding, in bonds of $300, and went to Meriden | with State Policeman White under an arrangement whereby he will be | put to plea in that city next Wed- uesday. In the meantime he is at liberty in $1,000 Honds furnished by his brother, who, it is sald, is a tobacco grower in this state, and Andrew J. Johnson of Ericson & Johnson of New Britain, The $300 tond for the appeal was posted by Joiin A. Ericson of the Rogers Sa: and Door Co., of New Britain. Large Crowd in Court. The court room was when Dr. Moriarty's case was call- b eral men and women from New Jritain who demonstrated their faith in the cancer crowding about him to shake his and and assure him of their con- idence in his Innocence of the charge on which he was arrested. some were former patients who ¢laim to have been cured by his reatment and others are relatives vof former patients. Among them was a Hartford resident of promi- nence In public affairs who volun- teered to post a cash hond for Dr. Moriarty's appeal as a token of appreciation for the cure he said had been accomplished in his case. Dr. Moriarty was represented by Attorneys Thomas McDonough of w Britain and Joseph B. of Hartford. Prescutor I, J. presented the state's case summing up asked for a on the ground that the law does not permit the practice of medicine with- U and in (Continued on Page 16) Policemen White | crowded | and among the spectators were | speclalist by | conviction |G | WO NEN HAKE GRAB FOR | Police Enter New Haven Poker Game New Haven, Feb. 24 (P—Disagree- | {ments during a game of stud poker last night preceded a scuffle in which Manuel Montari, 44, was | wounded in the left arm by a bullet | " {which was Intended for another | player. James Thatcher and John Montari reached for & pot of money, each claiming It. Thatcher is said to have drawn a knife and stabbed at Mon- | tari’s hand, but the latter was too quick and the blade went into the ills. | Montari at the same time drew a 'gun and fired at Thatcher. Five | men were in court today and their cases were continued. {Bobby Jones Finally Makes a Hole in One | Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 24 (P—Bobbs | | Jones, open golf champion of Great | | Britain and the United States and for the past 10 years regarded as one of the greatest players in the | world, has just made his first “hole in one.” i He did this yesterday afternoon | while playing with his original in- structor, Stewart Maiden, over his home course, the East Lake Coun- {try club of Atlanta. Bobby was | | practicing for the southern open | tournment to be held on the course March 23-26. The eleventh hole, a neat and well trapped green for an iron shot, was the scene of the champion’s induc- | tion into the “Dodo Club.” It takes | a shot of about 170 yards, and Bobby | used a half swing with a number four iron, the ball hopping twice and then trickling straight into the hole. TAX HEARING ENDED | Washington, Feb. 24 (P)—Hearings | were concluded by the board of tax | appeals today in the procecding mi | collect $30,000,000 in back taxes!| {from Senator Couzens of Michigan | and other former minority —stock- holders of the Iord Motor company. | TO DEATH Pa., Feb. 24 (UP)—Rose . and her brother, Albert, burned to death in their o at Trevose, west of here, when | {the Garvin bungalow was destroyed | by fire of unknown origin today, ' o0 “14p Aoy !'Impauuog caragua it was | Other Draws Gun and Fires, Then | | Commander Francesco | who landed at Port BRITAIN HERAL NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1927. —TWENTY PAGES. FORCES REPORTER 10 HEAR DETAILS Asbury Park Newspaper Man Held in Room With Pistol SLAYER THEN TELLS STORY Edward Rieker Who Yesterday Kill- ed Wife and Sheriff Shoots Him- self After Giving His Version to Press, Asbury Park, N. Y., Feb, 24 (UP) —Edward Rieker, 25, who killed his wife and a deputy sheriff in his home at South Langhorne, Pa., last night, shot himself in a hotel here today. He sent three bullets into his chest from which he is expected to die. A few minutes before he shot him- self, Rieker sent for a reporter from the local newspaper and told how he had killed his wife. The South Langhorne shooting oc- |curred when Deputy Sheriff Abram ‘K\llp tried to serve Ricker with the | papers in a divorce suit. “I killed her because I loved her and because I loved my baby,” he told the reporter, John Osbourne. | woman relative made all the trouble. She broke up our home and made life a hell for me.” Reporter Answers Call Osbourne, at his newspaper office, received a call asking him to come to the hotel. He found Rieker in his shirtsleeves, sitting on a smoking a cigaret. Rieker showed Osbourne a copy of a newspaper telling of the South | Langhorne shooting. “Do you know who did that?” he asked. “It was you, bourne. was it?” asked Os- Forced to Listen Ricker nodded and drew a revolver from his pocket. He shoved the bed {over against th reported, pinning {him to the wall, and began to talk | excitedly. “I was going to jump into the ocean and drown mysclt,” he said, | “but I decided to tell some one about Osbourne escaped from behind the bed and started for the door to call for help. “You're not leaving this room until |I'm through,” Rieker shouted. Hears Three Shots | Osbourne leaped for the door, {however, and gained the corridor. '\VMIG he was running for the hotel {office, he heard three shots and |turned back. | Ho met George Frattlin, hotel car- pen 1 | | " the carpenter shouted. Finds Prostrate Body Oshourne re-entered the room and |found Rieker on the floor betiveen |the two beds. A red stain sr)rcuding over his shirt front. (Continued on Page Four) MEXIGAN-NICARAGUAN POT, ONE WIELDS KN[FE‘Bolah and Colleague Told | by Administration to Start at Home Washington, Feb. Borah and his colleagues on foreign relations committee the were {told plainly by the administration | today that if they want to investi-| gate the American policy towards Mexico and Nicaragua, they should begin at home. As a result, action again was post- poned on Mr. Borah’s' proposal for | a committee tour of the two south- ern republics this summer, and some committee members indicated that they would redouble their ef- forts to kill the project entirely. The committee’s meeting syn- chronized with senate adoption of another resolution asking informa- Mexico, and with a lurm*l notifica- | | tion to the state departnrent by the | British ambassador that a British warship had been ordered to Nica- raguan waters. In announcing the British move, the ambassador declared the vessel being sent for the “moral e [tion of landing British troops Central American soil. Department officials regarded the explanation as satisfactory, and saw In it no viola- | tion of the Monroe Doctrine. The Mexican resolution adopted by the senate was offered by Sena- tor Norris, republican, Nebraska, and went through without debate. It asked Sccretary Kellogg specifically about the holdings of the Mellon in- terests, Edward L. Doheny Harry I, Sinclair in Mexican oil and whether those three groups had ac- quiesced in the new restrictions im- posed by President Calle: PERROTTI TESTIFIES AGAIN New Haven,Feb. 24 (B—Anthony Perrotti, bootlegger, who is serving a sentence in state prison was brought here today and appeared before the federal grand jury which, is inquring into alleged diversion of a million dollar's worth of denatured alcohol from industrial to beverage purposes. Perrotti gave testimony before the previous grand jury whose indictments were quashed vesterday. Pernambuco, Brazil, Fel de Pinedo Natal, Brazil from the island of Fernando Noron- ha, this morning hopped off for Pernambuco this afternoon, N radiator, | r, running from Rieker's room. | “The man in 165 just killed him- was | VISIT NOT APPRI]VEI]V 24 (M—Senator | tion about American oil holdings in | feet” and that there was no inten-!| on! and | More Than 3,500 Tons Of Hair Sheared Off Heads of U. S. Women el Chicago, Feb. 34 (P—More than 3,500 tons of hair have been sheared or shingled from the heads of American women dur- ing the bob era, it is estimated by M. Eugene Suter, permanent wave specialist of London and Paris. There are 14,000,000 bobbed heads in the United States today, || he said in a trade address, and || about half that number spend $15,000,000 a year for having their locks waved. SMALL TOWN PROBLEM IS BIG ONE IN CONN. Time Coming When State| Must Take Charge, Blodgett Believes | i State Capitol, Hartford, Feb. 24, | (P —The possibility that future ses- | | sions of the general assembly might | have to devise ways for handling the | |affairs ‘'of small Connecticut com- | munities that are gradually dying out was forecast by Tax Commis- ! sloner Willlam H. Blodgett in an| address before the Farmers' asso- | ciation of the legislature at the state | capitol today. \ Commissioner Blodgett discussed | various problems in connection with the collection of taxes and said that | while there are communities where | the collector is lax because he is “kind hearted” or anxious to hold | | his job, there are a few places where | the collector does not want the job, ] considers it a “labor of love” and | knows he will be unpopular. “In such communities, where the | young folks have left the town and | the few people that remain scat- | tered on the far are none too\ prosperous, it is dificult to get citi- | zens to taks public officc and it | would seem that town gmemment‘ (Continued on Page 16) i \\\'asl\al that there was FANILY ARGUNENT ENDS IN SUIcIDE Husband Drinks Poison Alter He and Wile Refire AWAKES T0 FIND HIM DEAD of 39 Lawlor| Lite, } Ignatz Washal, 34, Street, Takes Own His Four Children Fatherless Be- | cause of Domestic Disagreement. | After an argument with his wife | early last evening, Ignatz Washal, 34 years old, of 39 Lawlor strect, | committed suicide by drinking poi- son shortly after he and Mrs. Wash- t al retired at 9:15 o'clock. The first | suspicion of any trouble was notic- | ed by his wife who called in the| police at 11:20 o'clock When she| awoke. It was found that he had ken sodium cyanide. Dr. John Purney, assistant medi- | {cal examiner, viewed the remains, pronounced death due to suicide, and turned the body over to Under- | taker Stanley Borawski who will| prepare it for burial. The police department received a | call at 11:20 o’'clock from Mrs. “something wrong” with her husband. Sergeant Michael J. Flynn was delegated to | investigate. Upon his arrival at the Lawlor street home he found Wash al lying in bed within reach of a glass of poison. An investigation disclosed the fact that husband and wite argued during the early part of the evening and that the poison | must have been taken between 9:15 | and 10:30 o'clock while Mrs. Wash- al was asleep. Washal worked at Beaton & Cadwell's and the police believed that he must have had ac- | cess to a poisonous substance used at the factory. | He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Agnes Washal; four children rang- ing in age from 6 to 12 years, and his mother. Funeral services will be held to- morrow morning at 9 o'cloc home. Interment will be in Heart cemeteéry. Oppose Him and Washington, Feb. 24 (UP)—Po- | litical friends of President Coolidg | desire him to run for another| | term; independent republicans are | strong against it; and democrats— | whose opinions about republican ! |affairs have never been faverable— | believe no president can be elected |for *a third term.” |, These convictions were divulged - today in a United Press poll of all; lfirtlom in both parties in the | | United States senate, i Indications were that the LaFol- lette resolution expressing the sense of the senate against “third terms” might be adopted if it {could be brought to a vote in the |short remaining time before ad- | journment. Two similar resolutions have ! Survey Shows Diverging Opinion On Coolidge As Nominee in 1928 i Political Friends Want Him, Independent Republicans Democrats Doubt “Third Term” Possible in the Journal and made the order| been buried in the house, but sen te republicans might permit the | LaFollette resolution to be brought | to a vote in the belief that it will have no effect upon Mr. Coolidge's candidacy. They do not look npon another term for Mr. Coolidge as “third term” and believe the reso- | lution would not apply to him, | they told the United Press. Here is the way administration republicans feel about it: Willls, Ohio — “The tree which has good apples on it is the one | where all the clubs are found. If| the administration was weak and | unpopular, you would hear no talk | bout a ‘third’ term. Mr. Coolidge | fill be renominated and reelected | (Continued on Page Four) {ENGINEERS’ NERVES ARE ! FRAYED BY AUTOISTS Veteran Locomotive Pilot Condemns Race-Made Motorists on Highways. | Champaign, I, Feb. 24 (P— Careless automobile drivers are de- | stroying the nerve of locomotive en- gineers, H. W. Howard, Champaign, an enginer for 40 years, today told those attending the highway short course of the University of Illino The sensation of sitting in a | and watching a locomotive plow into ! an automobile load of people is a terrifying experience, he declared. ‘Sunday is the engineer's day of dread. Many of our engineers lay off Sundays, fearful of these horrib | grade crossing accidents. There Js ways the possibility of a bad wreck of the train itself with more than | a chance that the engineer, as well |as the passengers, will meet with sudden death. If the automobile | zoes under the locomotive a derail- | ment is almost cortain. In 1026 | | twen even derailments occurred, | killing 59 enginemen and injuring 138 passengers.” Yellow Butterfly Visits Berlin Resident’s Home‘ Berlin, instead of Winsted, came forth with the first phe- nomena of spring when a yel- | low butterfly flitted into Ken- | sington center yesterday bearing the glad tidings that King Winter's reign was waning. The insect, large and seem- | ingly healthy, fluttered into the window of a third story apart- ment owned by Charles Ander- son. Verification of the unusu- ally early appearance was made ¢ several persons including stmaster Sidney M. Cowles of the Kensington post office. New Britain and vicinity: Mostly fair tonight and Fri- day; not much change in t | temperature. | *| ¥ | I THER | | { | Milford Man, |lau, 35, {found lifeless on the floor of one o | breakfast. Palau was president of the District Republican club and was re- | clected Monday night after a con ASKS POLICE T0 AID SEARCH FOR HUSBAND Albany Avenue Woman Has Not Seen Him Since He Went to Work Monday—Fears Foul Play, Mrs. Josephine Kopec of 130 Al- bany avenue notifled the police de- partment today that her husband, Michael Kopee, has been missing fears he h: since Monday and she 16t with foul play. Kopec, so far as the police know, is industrious and of good reputa- tion. He is employed nights at the Stanley Works. He went to work Monday carrying $70 in his pocket, and has not been seen or heard of since. Kopec is 25 years old, is 5 feet sev- | en inches tall and weighs about 150 pounds. He has a dark complexion and wore a black overcoat with a Hudson seal collar, over his working clgthes. KILLED BY GAS FUMES Preparing House for New Tenant, Overcome — Wife Finds Lifeless Body. Milford, «Feb. 24 (A—Charles Pa an insu vi nce agent, his vacant cottages at Myrtle Beach | today by his wife. She moved the | |body to the door in belief that life | | might e xist, but a physician who was called said her husband had been| dead two hours. He had been over- | come by illuminati.g g Palau, who lived across the street, | rose about 6 o'clock and went to the |cottage to prepare it for a tenant. | He had apparently turned on the gas | % |and was repairing a leaky pipe when | tive he was overcome. His hours later, went to call wife two| him for | Chird | test. The medical examiner gave a verdict of accidental death, Ithis year, ‘:hv work for § while {being Leon Lieg: jand Louis Qu Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending Feb. lsth 14,525 PRICE THREE CENTS STEAMER GOES DOWN IN BALTIMORE BAY BUT ALL ON BOARD ARE SAVED; OIL TANKER BURNS IN N. Y. HARBOR == SUNDAY AFTERNOON| MOVIES APPROVED port n Proposed Law EGLEGTIGS LOSE AGAIN Senate Concurs in Réecting Vi &lIdnL ing Measures — Hot Fight Now Looms Up Over Highway Develop- ment, " State Capitol, Hartford, Feb. 24 (P ne Wheeler bill which would al- w motion picture houses in the te to open at 2 o'clock on Sunday afternoons with the consent of municipal or town authorities was favorably reported in the senate to- day. The theaters would be able to remain open until 10:30 p. m. Movies are now allowed on Sunday from 7 to 10 p. m. only. Eclectics Lose Again The senate concurred with house in rejecting the group of bills \\!'xch would validate the certificates f the eclectic doctors who lost their | 6 following the “diploma mill” exposures three years ago. In explaining the u ports of the judic Senator Shaw of Redding, chairman of the committee id that the ef- forts of the eclectics to get the le lature to “go behind the courts" to the general assembly. d. All of t. ative action this session have been or are now in court secking redre Fizht On Over Roads The “battie” in the house over un- favorable reports of the committee | on roads, bridges and rivers on-two (projects for state aid of “bac roads” went over until next Wednes- day, when House Leader Averill an- | nounced he would welcome an op- portunity to study the matter. H moved the unfavorable reports, to- "»'hnr with a substitute measure of lirt road proponents be printed (Continued on Page 11) GARBAGE BIDS LOWER ~ THAN CITY ESTIMATE : Saving of $5,000 on propriation Proved Possible Ap- Collection garbage at a cost several thousand dollars less than health board's estimate is p bids opened at a meeting of the commissioners this afternoon convineced. No action was taken public hearing at of which collectors will be given an opportunity to out- | 1 ine their plans for and ing contracts. The b will also consider a novel sugges offered by Arthur H. willing to assume 8,000 collection and Harris who is collection at the ay using one wrge truck and an auxiliary car and cmploying cight men. The truck is a new type carrying a convever. is the owner of the snow 3 employed this ked success. Dr. Gertrude J. K at this afternoon's meeting, 1 led by Commissioners Dunne, D. W. O'Connell and m McBriart Bids were callec months' contract, the hoard proced- ing with the idea in view a municipal incinerator will be a reality at the expiration of that per- iod. or garbage collection an item of $,000 has been appropriate v has leen divided into t icts. If contracts are with the highest bidder in stance the total cost will be for the full year, provided th months’ figure holds good for second half, while the low bic under the same conditions, would do 00 for on a six- each in- E for Man- s In the first district, yone offers to collect Albin Swanson asks e bids of $6,000 each were offer- ed in the second district, the bidders er Nyquist Notarincola. Sw 3 nd Roncillo Swanson, one of ors, offers to do it for the third district, Liegey o make a $6,000 bid and Swen Swanson has gubmitted an offer of § Several of the proposers it is ex- | pected, will be eliminated by reason m‘ the fact that they Ave not suit- ces to dump garbage. s did not sut a competi- 1, but sent a statemepnt out- lining his plan, which follows: “I take the liberty of submitting | for your consideration a contingent | proposal for the collection of bage. I propose to furnish a five-ton truck cquipped with an Atia patent (Continued on Page 18) the avorable re- | committee, | 10[ validate the licenses was an old story | The matter | is one for the courts to consider, he | 18 who sought leg- | pending a | tell of their facilities | n | yquist | MORE TROOPS FOR SHANGHA DEFENSE |Legislature Gets Favorable Re- Thonsand Native Soldiers Are Rushed Into War Zone STRIKE IS NOW HALTED| Scores of Workers Return and Exe- are Called Jobs—Reports of Looting Trickle cutloners oft Thelr | Into City. | Shanghai, Feb. 24— (A — One thousand Shantung troops arrived here tonight from Nanking. Their final destination is believed to be Sungkiang, where the Cantonese are expected to attack next in their drive on Shanghal. ; These are the first northern troops to arrive in the Peking regime’s program for assisting Mar- ‘:l al Sun Chuang-Fang in defense of the city. Locally foreign = authoritles were taking every precaution for defense of the international settlement and the ranks of foreign defenders quartered in the settiement and | | aboard ships in the river were being steadily augmented. Tension relaxed in the French settlement. All available foreign forces, how- ever, were held in readiness in thf" French section. Truce In Strike A truce was declared in the con- flict hetween the nationalist labor in Shanghai and the tottering regime of Marshal Sun Chuan-Fang to- night. Simultaneous proclamations sent scores of thousands of workers back | to their jobs and called off the exe- | cutioners General LI Pao-Chang, Shanghai defense commissioner, who {beheaded 100 or more agitators 1" ring the five days’ walkout which 51 ‘ involved more than 100,000 Chinese. The strike began to peter out at lonce. Strikers thronged back to ! their work, partly because of lack of funds and partly bécause of the at- mosphere of terrorism which has hung over the i city and even trated the foreign ettlements o the strike started. 30 Are Kidnapped Although nothing official was ob- able to verify the report it was arned that General Li's agents penetrated the French concession | wl kldnlwv d at least 30 members Kuomintang (Cantonese r'lh ) dL\( ators who were holding a meeting there this evening. A few | kidnapings also were reported from | the international settlements but this |likewise could not be confirmed. Those kidnaped were taken to | General Li's headquarters and their ‘1’1'4: is unknown. | | | pes sin | [4 [ 1¢ | |T 100 Are Executed One of the procl-mations, issued by General Li, in which he revoked rd-rs for the execution of strike s now being held, admits the shootings and beheadings carried out ‘WV his decree during the last five | days have totalled 100, half of which were in public. Foreign officials he- lieve at Jeast 100 more were exccuted in the n ry enclosures of de- | fense authorit The General Labor Union issued the other proclamation in which its officials announced they had “taken steps with a view to ending the rike for the time being.” The la- borites pointed out, however, that the present action was only a tri and t expected to strike again when the time is ripe. This was taken to mean that they would act when the military situation be- comes more definitcly favorable to- ward the nationalists, | Looting Reported Meanw disquieting reports reached here from Sunchkiang, 2§ miles south of Shanghai, where the broken army of Marshal Sun has taken a position for a last stand | gainst the approaching Cantonese. | The reports said Marshal Sun's fore- | es were looting the rice and Ql“\‘ ops there and that many of the| soldicrs had been executed by their | own leaders in an effort to maintain discipline ang face the southern ad- vance. | I'roops of General Chang Tsung- | ang, tung leader who yester- day took over Nanking, the provin- cial capital, preparatory to sending to Sungkiang to reinforce al Sun's broken war machine, were pouring across the Yangtze| river from Nanking, occuping Chin- | kiang, Changchow and other points as they moved southward toward the | | enemy. | Marshal Sun, who was reported In Nanking, has sent his family to Tientsin. If the disintegration of Marshal un's forces around Sungkiang con- | tinues, the situation may become & race between the Shantung and na- | ionalist forces for the possession of | Shanghai. | | ro SMITH FOR SMITH ‘ Hartford, Feb. 24 (A — Winchell Smith the playwright, has accepted by cable from Paris, the presidency lof the “Alfred E. Smith for Presi- dent club™ of the fifth senatorial district. Mr. _mith’s home is in| FFarmington. | o SSUE Washington, Feb. 24 () — The Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad was authorized today by the inter- tate commerce commission to issue 2,276 shares of new common stock. ! jury. | habits. 103 Rescued From For- mer While at Least Two Are Known Dead in Latter Disaster and More Bodies May Be Found. Captain and Mate at Cam- den Swim 50 Feet Through Oil Blazing on Water to Reach Shore Safely as Boat Is De- stroyed. TWO OTHER WRECKS OFF PACIFIC COAST Baltimore, Feb. 24 (#—The Bay steamer City of Richmond was re- turning to Baltimore today with the passengers and crew, 103 persons in all, of the steamer City of Annapolis which the City of Richmond ram- | med and sank in a dense fog in | Chesapeake Bay about 2 a. m., & mile off Smith’s Point, Va. ‘Wireless messages to the Chesa- peake Steamship Company, owner of both vessels, stated that none of the rescued suffered dangerous in- The City of Richmond, with ler bows stove in, passed Cove Point, Md., at 6:30 a. m., and was expected at Baltimore about noon. There were 53 passengers, men women and children, aboard the Annapolis, about half of whom were said to be from Baltimore. The City of Annapolise sailed from West Point, Va.. last evening; the City of Richmond was bound from Balti- more with about 50 passengers aboard. Captain Charles O. Brooks of the { bay steamer City of Baltimore tele« | phoned from Old Point to the mari- | time exchange here this forenoon that his ship arrived off Smith's Point just as the last survivor w being taken off the sinking vessel. He said: - “It was very foggy, one of those dripping, thick kind that shuts out everything. I can easily see how a collision might have occurred. When I saw there was nothing to do I kept on down the bay.” The City of Annapolls lies in about sixty feet of water with her smokestacks protruding above the surface. No Yoss of Life. ‘Washington, Feb. 24 (#—A mes. (Continued from Page 18) JUDGE'S DAUGHTER IS MISSING IN NEW YORK 'Police Search for 15 Yr, Old Kasia Mahoney, Gone Since Monday New York, Feb, 24 (A—Alarm was broadcast today by the miss- ing persons bureau of the police | department for Kasia Mahoney, 13 old daughter of Supreme Court Justice Jeremiah T. Ma- honey, who was last seen on her way to school Monday. Every effort was made to keep the disappearance a police secret, but ft leaked out when reporters noticed that the girl's address was the same as Justice Mahoney's and the jurist confirmed it finally after refusing for hours to make any statement. ven after acknowledging that it was his daughter whose descrip- tion had been sent to police throughout the country the justice dc(‘]ln((! to give any details of the s disappearance. Police were likewi: uncommunicative. Records of the missing persons bureau listed the girl as being five feet, four inches high, 119 pounds, blue eyes, blond bobbed hair and light complexion. When last seen she was wearing brown coat, hat, year | dress and shoes, Police Commissioner McLaughlin went to the corut where Justica Mahoney was sitting and court was adjourned while they went into conference. Back at police head- quarters McLaughlin issued a statement in which he said the |girl had never had any love affairs and that her hobbies were ath- letics and reading. “She is most studious,” the statement read, “and somewhat advanced intellectually. She is a linquist of ability and posscsses linguist in writing. Her health is most excellent as are her personal She has great confidence in her ability to make a career. Her parents have every confidence in her ability to take care of herself, They are most anxious for her to return and are confident she will communicate with them in & very short time,”