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2 Newl of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 GRAY TELLS OF PLOTTING MRS. SNYDER DID IN WILD SCHEME T0 Also Relates How She Made Violent Love to " Him While She Went With Him on 10 Days Auto Tour. Admits That at Her Re- quest He Obtained In- formation About Lethal Poisons—Hartford Man Is Mentioned. Queens County Courthouse, New York, May 4 P—Henry Judd Gray got information about lethal poisons for Mrs. Ruth Snyder, he testified today, but when she suggested his active participation in the murder of her husband he refused. i Under direct examination in his own defense he said she asked him to shoot Snyder after her attempts with poison he had told her about, and with gas had failed and he told her “You will have to see this through alone.” At noon recess he had but gotten under way with his actual recital of events preceding the crime although he had already been on the stand five hours. Gray Tells of Plot. Gray learned of his sweetheart’s intention to Kkill her husband more than a year before Snyder was act- ually killed, he has testified at the murder trial of himself and Mrs. Snyder. Taking the stand in his own de- fense yesterday, Gray alto told of trying to “break off” his reclationship with Mrs. Snyder seven months be- fore the killing, but of being told “I I3 MILLION PERSONS REPRESENTED IN PLEA Governor Fuller Receives More Petitions for Sacco-Vanzetti Boston, May 4 (UP)—A voice purported to represent 18,000,000 organized workers in 24 countries was raised today in behalf of Nicola Sacco aand Bartolomeo Vanzetti, in- ternationally-known radicals now facing the electric chair here for murder. Among the Sacco-Vanzetti com- munications reaching Governor Fuller today was on¢ from the in- ternational federation of trade union, It read: “In the name of 13 million or- ganized workers, from 24 countries, affillated with us, we add our voice to world protest against execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. Five years imprisonment with constant fear of coming death sentence is punish- ment sufficient to atone for almost any crime. It is martyrdom for in- nocent persons. In the name of Jjustice, therefore, as well as in the name of that humanity of which your country is so proud, we here- by send in our solemn protest against the execution of these two innocent men.” ‘What is expected to prove the most amazing human document ever penned in this state by men in the face of death probably will be pre- sented Governor Fuller today as the next move in the six-year fight to save Sacco and Vanzetti from the clectric chair. In their cells at Dedham jail, the two internationally known radicals, fighting for a common cause, have collaborated in the painstaking task of preparing with their own hands this personal appeal “for justice.” They will not ask to be pardoped, for they say they have committed no crime. The personal appeal was to have reached the governor yesterday but was delayed because of certain changes which the doomed men wished to make in it. Last night, (Continued on Page Thirteen) PRIEST INJURES KNEECAP IN FALL DOWN STAIRS Rev. Thomas F. Lawlor of St. Mary’s Church Painfully Hurt While Visiting Parishioner. Rev. Thomas F. Lawlor, assistant pastor at St. Mary's church, sprained his knceeap this morning when he fell down a flight of stairs while making a pastoral visit. He had been visiting at the home of Peter Mec- Crann, 57 Lincoln street, and was leaving when his knee gave way un- der him, precipitating him down the stairs. Dr. David P. Waskowitz was summoned and had Father Lawlor removed to New Britain General hospital in the ambulance. At first it was feared that his; kneecap had been fractured, but the lospital an- nounced this afternoon that the in- jury. was a sprain, TTiLreaqr] RIS IR0 KILL HUSBAND | | | Mrs. Snyder’'s mother, Mrs. Jo. sephine Brown, and Lorraine Sn; der, accused woman's daughter, | leaving court room after testifying | in trial yesterday. MRS. SNYDER SCORED FOR CALLING CHILD Washingtdn Policewoman Calls It Inexcusable Maneuver Washington, May 4 (UP)—Plac- ing Lorraine Snyder, nine year old | | daughter of Mrs. Ruth Snyder, on the stand in the Snyder-Gray mur- der trial was denounced teday as “inexcusable” by Mrs. Mina Van Winkle, head of the capital’s police- woman force and president of the | International Association of Police- women, Mrs. Van Winkle, expert student of crime in its practicai aspects, |said this incident illustrates the | ‘“disgraceful state” of justice in the United States today. “It was one of those inexcusable maneuvers of counsel for the de- fense who do such things as a last resort to influence their cases,” she | sand in an interview with the United Press. The policewoman chief, who said Mrs. Snyder “is not fit for society,” and should be confined for life, criti- cized the mother severely not only for allowing her child to testify but also for permitting her daughter in the environment of her affair with | | Judd ‘Gray. Mrs. Van Winkle said men and women should receive equal punish- ment, and advocated woman juries in such cases as the Snyder-Gray trial. (Continue on Page 13) Bronze Markers for Connecticut Dead State Capitol, Hartford, May 4, (M—A bill appropriating dag ISPV QUARTER MLLID PERSONS HOMELESS IN FLODDED Z0NE Racing Mississippi Rips Its Way Throngh New Breaks, Inan- dating More Rich Property LOOKS LIKE BIG LAKE 100 MILES IN LENGTH Airplanes Drop Warning Messages For People in Exposed Locations —Weather Bureau Warns of More Rains—Rescue Boats Taking Off Marooned People—Lower Levees Still Holding. New Orleans, La., May 4 (P— Devastation of northeastern Louisi- ana over a stretch of approximately four thousand square miles rapidly was becoming complete today as the madly racing Mississippi tore through its banks at two additional planes between Vicksburg and Nat- chez, New Army of Refugees A new army of refugees was sent on the march, increasing the home- less in the great flood to around 250,000 and rich cotton, sugar cane, immeasurably to the total of property loss. Murky flood waters now cover nearly fifteen thousand square miles of Louisiana, Arkansas and Missis- sippi and the picture of desolation presented is appalling. For hun- dreds of miles in Arkansas and Louisiana along the Mississippi there are only scattered places not under ‘water. Floods Are Everywhere From Arkansas City almost down to Vicksburg, a stretch of more than 100 miles as the crow flies, staggering There the Mississippl flows through a great lake out of which faint lines of its levees may be seen. These levees have been the salva- tion of thousands who sought refuge there before the flood water until rescue craft could be sent to move them so ‘safer ground. Indian mounds and natural promontories have been the means of protecting other hundreds when the racing wa- ters engulfed their homes. Roaring through four breaks in the Louisiana levees developed during the past 16 hours, the Mississippl {flood waters were cutting wide chan- |nels in Madison and Tensas parish- es and rushing to meet backwaters from overflows on the Black and Quachita rivers as well as from breaks in the main levee around Glasscocke. The rescue machine set up by for- mer Governor John M. Parker, civil- ian flood dictator under Secretary Hoover, was moving swiftly to care for the refugees and to move out the hundreds who had clung ten- aclously to their homes in the face of warnings given by- telephone and |dropped by airplanes flying over the threatened territory. Below the mouth of the Red river, with the approach of the crest of the flood which already has crumbled levees to the north, apprehension is felt for the safety of the embank- ments southward towards New Or- leans. ‘Warnings Issued Again today the weather bureau here emphasized that every precau- tion should be taken along this $1,000 for bronze plates which will be placed on the graves of Connecticut dead in France during the American Legion convention in Paris next fall, is to be raised in the military af- fairs committee this afternoon. The bill, suggested by Repre- sentative R. B." Delacour of Stamford, a member of the committee, has the approval of Governor Trumbull and Senator | Edward F. Hall of New Brit- ain, chairman of the appropri- | ation committee to which it will | be referred after being reported | in by the military affairs com- mittee. . The bill will provide for a commission of three to | carry out its intent, | previously forecast. stretch against the record stages It added that the crevasse waters from the Tensas {basin were beginning to return to the old -river, into which the Red empties, showing a rise in the gauge of two tenths of a foot at Angola and Baton Rouge. At Donaldsonville, farther to the south the river was stationary while at New Orleans a similar condition existed with the Carroliton gauge {here showing 20.4 feet, a slight re- cession caused py the.artificial tre- vasse created at'Caernavan, 15 miles to the south. The Ouachita continued to rise at Monroe and the Red at Alexandria, while the Atchafalata at Melville, La., went up two tenths of a foot to 44.6 feet. Out They Are' Always Believed Her Son New York, May 4 (UP)—Four- teen years ago, Mrs. Minnie Chaizel, separated from her husband, gave up the struggle of trying to care for her two babies. Family Is Scparated. Keeping little Mollie, who was less than a year old, she sent three- | year-old Oscar to live with a family who agreed to keep him for $2 a week. She kept up payments for a while visiting Oscar at intervals and | bringing his baby sister with her. Then one day they told her Oscar was dead and showed her an un- marked grave in a cemetery. Today, society was confronted by | an unusual problem in Oscar and Mollie. They met, fell in love and” were married. Marriage Is Disclosed. Brother and sister were discover- ‘ed last night in a furnished room in the Bronx, Oscar is now 17 and 'Young Couple, Just Married, Find Brother and Sister Parents Had Separated 14 Years Ago and Mother Had Was Dead—“It Was Not Our Fault; We Loved Each Other,” Boy Argues. Mollie 15. They were arrested. Both rebelled against the enforc- ed separation. It doesn’'t matter, him,” the girl sobbed. “It was not our fault; we loved each other,” the boy argued, fight- ing the social code that makes the two victims of circumstances out- laws. Authorities. were puzzled by the case, but Mollie was held by the Jjuvenile authorities while Oscar was brought to court for arraignment on a statutory charge. A Dramatic Tale. The story, revealed by the arrest of the two was more human and dramatic than anything the fertile mind of a movie scenario writer ever conceived. The family who had taken Oscar in fell in love with the boy and decided to makeé him their own son. I still love (Contlnued on Page 13) trucking, hardwood and ofl and gas | lands were claimed, adding almost | flood or backwaters are everywhere. | | {man's farm who saw the body first, the levees still were holding, but|mes that h W. C. T. U. Eliminates “Drunkenness” From Iis Official Vocabulary Boston, May 4 (UP)— “Drunkenness” has been elimi- nated from the vocabulary of the W. C. T. U. At the New ‘Eng- land conference of that or- ganization here it was decided that in the future.a person under the influence of liquor should be considered as “suffer- ing from alcoholic poisoning.” MURDERED HAN 1S NOT IDENTIRIED Body of Halian Is Found in Niddlefield EVIDENCE OF STRUGGLE Police Think Possible Victim Was Waiter and May Have comei From Vicinity of Bridgeport— | Pictures Taken Today. Middletown, May 4 (P—An au- topsy on the body of a man found in Middiefield yesterday was held this morning by Medical Exam- iner John E. Loveland to determine it possible, the exact cause of death. Superficially the death was regarded as a homicide, the man's head hav- ing been crushed in by a blunt in- strument. The effort made prior to the au- topsy to clear up the identity of the man yielded nothing. The man's| general appearance was that of an| Italian. There were enough frag- ments of personal effects in and about the clothing to lead to iden- tification shortly if the place from which the man came can be deter- mined. There was a portion of a ticket to a place called Broad View | Villa, and it secemingly had cost $5. The Easter card, unaddressed, hlllI bearing a message in Italian, also promised to yield results. The mes- sage, as translated, was: “Dear Uncle. Recelved many Kkisses, and wish you a happy Easter with your family. From your nephews, Littizio and Frank.” - 1 Pictures Are Taken. | The coroner had a photographer make a picture of the man's face for use in case circulars have to be sent out. Besides the Broad View Villa ticket there was a portion of a cir- cular bearing the name of Society Mt. Carmel of Bridgeport. Coroner Smith inclined to bellef that the man came from in or around Bridgeport. He may have been a waiter as the black coat he wore was a short one much like those worn by waiters in larger res- taurants or hotels. It was not a tux- edo one but a modified style of a coat. The autopsy indicated that the man had been in some gort of des- perate struggle. One eye was badly blackened. There was no sign of de- composition so death had not taken place over two days ago, in the opinion of the medical examiner. Henry Peterson, the foreman at Ly- | says that he thought the man in &, stupor and went over to try and arouse him. As he leaned over to do this he noticed the man was dead. Supt. Robt. T. Hurley of the state police did not come here this morn- ing but was understood to be mak- ing inquirics In several sections| where there are residents of Italian | birth, including one such in the out- sk.h'(s of Wallingford CROSSED IN LOVE, BOY OF 19 KILLS HTMSELF Newark Youngster Comimits Suicide | -After Affair With 13 Year old Girl Newark, N. J., May 4 (P—His love affairs with a 13 year old sehoolmate halted by her parents, Joseph Tolino, 15 year old Grammar school pupils shot himself to death. in his home here. Police sald the boy had been pay- | ing attention to Josephine de Fruia, | and that the girl's mother had ordered them to cease the courtship. The story of the youthful romance was told by Joseph in two farewell notes written in Italian. One, ad- dressed to his ‘father and another to the father of his sweetheart, were | found in the Tolino home when the boy's body was discovered yesterday by his sister Gilda, 15. 5 “I write this letter to you as T} am about to shoot myself,” the mes- | sage to the girl's father said. “I am | killing myself because your wife, does not let me go with your daugh- ter.” The message to his father read.| “I am Killing myself because Jo- sephine’s mother is against our friendship. Good bye. I am sorry 1 am causing you this trouble, but| 1 do love Josephine and her mother | is to blame for this act.” | The boy shot himself while other | members’ of the family were away. | Doors were found locked and shades had been drawn. The lad's sister was torced to enter the house through a | window. A .38 calibre revolver was clutched in the boy's hand. The boy's father, William Tolino, is em- plo in New York. His mother is | in Ttaly. 1 THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Showers tonight; Thursday 'that no member of FINANGE CONTROL VOTED GIVEN T0 ONE COMMISSION Much Dispted Neasire Passl by Seate Wihout Audike Dissent | OBJECTIONS ARE YOICED DURING DEBATE ON BILL Mrs. Cook Opposed Hasty Passage, Declaring Called for Could Not Be Found—Gover- “Super-Man” nor Has Attached Signature to Numerous Bills Acted Upon by Legislature. State Capitol, Hartford, May 4 (® —The house today concurred with the senate in passing the bill creat- ing a board of control and finance and abolishing the present boards of control and finance and the com- mission on state institutions. The bill was adopted without audible dissent and was immediately trans- mitted to the engrossing clerk. Mrs. Cook Objects Mrs, Cook of New Haven objected to the haste with which the measure was being put through and the lack of qualification set forth in the bill for the “super-man” commissioner. ‘While the bill might be the best possible measure, she said, two months, rather than two days, were needed for adequate consideration. She offered an amendment strik- ing out all after the enacting clause and providing for a commission of five senators, one from each con- gressional district, elght representa- tives, one from each county, the board of finance and the governor to consider the financlal organiza- iton of the state and study the pro- posal to establish a board of con- trol, to report to the 1929 session. Mr. Peasley objected to the amendment on a point of order that it did not amend but destroyed the bill. Mrs. Cook maintained the same procedure was followed on the dirt road bill and Mr. Peasley re- plied that no point of order had been ralsed then. Leader Averill said he was responsible for house procedure and he hoped discussion of the a "endment would be per- mitted. * Mr. Peasley withdrew his point of order. The speaker ruled the amendment could be considered. Averill Not Worried House Leader Averill said he did not belleve the state was on the way to perdition, and still felt, as he did during the last campaign, that there is no other state like this one. The power under the bill was vested In the commission, not the commissioner. He declared that two years from now the state must decide between keeping within its budget and issu- ing bonds, and the bill would result in data on the condition of the state. He could see no good result of a commission of seventeen spend- ing two years declding 'whether a board was needed to investigate the situation. He opposed the amend- ment. Mr. Clark of Haddam, and Mr. Peasley of Cheshire, also opposed the amendment. Mr. Sisson of Hebron, opposing any change in the present laws, de- seribed the bill “as a child born at a chamber of commerce meeting, clothed in the gorgeous raiment of superfluous verbosity” and changed by committees so its own father could not recognize it. Urges Fair Trial Mr. Weatherhead of Windham, opposing the amendment, urged that a falr trial be given the bill. Minor- ity Leader Citron declared he could not oppose any measure that would enable the governor to save $3,000,- 000 a year and stop waste and ex- travagance “about which the minory ity has been hollering for years."” He said the bill was open to at- tack, being faulty in many respects. The new commission could clean house so well, he declared, that the politicians would *kick” so all the recommendations against them would be discarded. The amendment was lost by a great majority. Mr. Southwick of Cornwall favored the bill because the governor desired it. An amendment offered by Miss Cheney of Manchester to provide the proposed board should have official connec- tion with a state-aided institution was lost. Mr. Wood of New Canaan, as a trustee of the state college, said the college had no fear of a financial investigation and favored the bill. The bill was adopted, the debate having lasted an hour. Pollution Bill Passed The bill prohibiting the disposal of garbage or refuse in any waters in the state or within fifty feet of highwater mark was passed by the senate today after an amendment striking the followilg from the bill was adopted: “No person or corporation deposit any other refuse or material on any land within a dis- tance of 50 feet of the high water mark of any such waters without a permit from the state water com- missioner.” This part was opposed by several senators who have manufacturing connections. The senate also adopted bills au- shall waste thorizing the Grace hospital society ! and the General hospital society of Connecticut to unite or merge; pro- viding that Bridgeport firemen or pe~ gencrally fair; not much change fn temperature. licemen retired because of permanent (Continued on Page 12) NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1927. —SIXTEEN PAGES HALL GETS $9,800 STATE APPOINTMENT AS HEAD OF NEW CONTROL COMMISSION; & WILL BE DICTATOR OF CONN. FINANCES Boy Beaten With Brutal Father Is Sent To Jail Child of 13 Horribly “This case is on a par with wite ibeating, probably worse,” Judge W. | |C. Hungerford declared in police | court today as he sentenced James | {Lombardi, aged 43, of 50 Lorraine street, to jail for 90 days on the | charge of assaulting his 13 year old | |son, Charles Lombardi. 1In reply to! |Judge Hungerford's inquiry, Miss | Ruth Bristoll, woman probation of- | ficer, sald provision can be made for | | Charles and his younger sister until | {such time as accommodations in a; i foster home in Boston can be ob-; tained. After Miss Bristoll had testified | that the boy complained of having | {been severely beaten and insuffi- | ciently fed, Charles took the wit- | ness stand and accused his father of | having used a length of rubber hose | {as a club with which to beat him. He also punched him about the face, | | raising a lump near his eye, the boy | |sald. On Easter Sunday, his father put him out of the house, and on | several occasions he was afraid to | go home because of th2 beatings he | received. He asked his stepmother | |for bread several times before she gave him a small crust, and she | threatened to complain to his father | about his persistency 1In his quest | after food. | Asked by Prosecuting Attorney Woods about the beatings, the boy sald his father never used an iron {chain to strike him slthough hei threatened to do 8o once. How- | |ever, he had seen his sister beaten | with the chain by the father. In| reply to Mr. Woods, the boy said he | attends school and behaves, and so | lfar as he knew his father had no cause for beating him. | Probation Officer Connolly testi- | fied that Lombardi's wife divorced | him a few years ago and the chil-| dren were in a home in Boston, Abused—Tossed Small Crust of Bread By Stepmother When He Asked for Food Hose and Club; Mass. Later, Lombardl married and took the children into his new home. Investigation was made prior to the transfer of the children from the Boston institution. Mr. Connol- ly said. It is believed the children’s mother 1is living in Springfield, al- though Charles, when asked by Mr. Woods, said he did not know where she lives. It developed during the hearing that welfare authorities in Massa- chusetts learned through letters written by Charles to acquaintances, that he was not happy with his father and stepmother, and Miss M. Beale, executive secretary of the New Britain Welfare Association, received a request to investigate home conditions. She turned the matter over to Miss Bristoll and before the latter had found time to investigate, the boy made the com- plaint of the treatment his father had given him. According to the boy and Mr. Connolly, there were blue welts on his body, caused by blows with the hose as he was in bed with only a shirt on. Detective Scrgeant W. P. McCue testified that he and Sergeant P. A. McAvay arrested Lombardi last evening at his home. The sergeant said Lombardi told him he was working at the age of nine years and he saw no reason why a boy of his son's age should not support himself. Lombardi, through an interpreter, admitted he had struck the boy with the hose and his fists. He denfed that his wife is afraid of him, al- though Miss Bristoll had told Judge Hungerford that Mrs. Lombardl and neighbors feared to be mentioned in connection with the case. He sald the boy refused to do chores about the house and he chastised him. PAIGE-DETROIT MOTOR CONTROL TO BE S0LD Graham Brothers Plan to| Put Eight Million Into Business New York, May 4 (P—A control- ling interest in the Paige-Detroit | Motor Car Cb. was obtained today by Graham Brothers, subject to the | approval of the Paige-Detroit stock- holders. o The plan will invelve increasing| the capital stock from 1,000,000 | shares to 1,500,000 shares and the issuance of $4,000,000 7 per cent cumulative voting convertible second preferred stock. Graham Bros. will acquire at this time all of the com- mon stock now owned by the Jewett | interests, but no stock offering to the public is contemplated at this time. : i Graham Bros. will immediately take over the management of the business. They plan to put $4,000,- 000 into the business now and an| additional $4,000,000 later for addi- tions and improvements as needed for the development of the property. | Conn. Sending Typhoid Vaccine to Flood Zone | Hartford, May 4 (# — Two Con- recticut health experts equipped | | with 63,000 doses of typhoid para-| |typhold vaccine, have been dis- | patched to the flooded regions of | {the Mississippl valley in response ito an appeal for aid from Senior Surgeon General McMullen of the United States health service. They are Dr. Howard A. Lanpher of flu-\ state department of health nndl Prof. Ira V. Hiscock of the Yale| school of public health. HARTFORD GIVES FREELY Hartford, May 4 (@—Hartford's [total for relief of Mississippt flood | | sufferers stood at $41,944 today. The | city's revised quota is $50,000. | Fast street and persons wishing to |g0 from one of these highways to EAST END CROSSOVER MAY BE ELIMINATED Common Council Soon to Act on Recommended Safety Measure To remedy grade crossing condi- tions at East and Allen streets, a recommendation will be made to the common council to close Allen street at the foot of the hill where Clay- ton road intersects, and place new signalling devices at the junction of East street and Clayton road, a few hundred feet north of the crossing which it is proposed to abandon. These suggestions will come from Walter L. Bell, traffic manager of the North & Judd Mfg. Co., and chairman of a special committee of the Chamber of Commerce, and Councilman G. Gibney who has been assoclated with Chairman Bell in the work. Messrs. Bell and Gibney con- ferred today with representatives of the New Haven road, and it was agreed that the plan as outlined is practical The suggested change will elim- inate use of the railroad crossover leading directly from Alien street to the other will be required to pro- ceed to the crossover farther to the north. Three Wheels Filched From Stolen Automobile An automobile which was re- ported stolen in Hartford last night was recovered with three wheels jnissing, on the dirt road near Smith's coal yard on East street this forenoon. Officer A. C. Walinczus received informa- tion of the finding of the car and reported it to Captain Kelly. The car was abandoned appar- ently a short time after it was stolen, by someone who was in need of wheels and tires. The Hartford police were notified. Murphy, Made Home Here Mrs. Aldena Marie Fanion Whit- | (ney, 27 year old New Haven di-| | vorces who will become the smhf wife of J. Theodore Murphy, 55 year | {old vaudgville performer in Boston, | Mass,, next Sunday, according to news reports from the Hub, is a former resident of New Britain, it {was learned today. She made her home with her parents in this city ! prior to her marriage to Jesse Whit- | \ney, who at that time was also & after the marriage the couple lived here, later going to New Haven. Last year Mrs. Whitney obtained Actor’s Choice for Sixth Bride Is Former Resident of This City| ' Mrs. Whitney, to Be Married Sunday to J. Theodore Before Obtaming Divorce a divorce and alimony of $20 per week, and according to a statemegt credited to Murphy in Boston, he met her two weeks ago and suc- cessfully carried out his practice of simply announcing he was to marry and then setting the date. His five wives are deceased, and Mrs. Whit- ney, according to the news reports, said she did not entertain any super- stitions on this score. Mrs. Whtiney was reported to be the mother of eight children, but it {local resident, and for some time|was learned today that this number is five more than were actually born to her. She and Whitney were mar- ried about 10 years ago. New Britain Senator to Be Chairman of Body Created By Assembly at Big Salary. Tells Herald He Will Prohe ably Resignas L.F. & C, i Secretary But Not From Local Finance Board. Hartford, May 4 (UP)—genator Edward F. Hall of New Britain wag today appointed chairman of the new state finance and control. come mission which succeeds the state board of control and the state board of finance wiped out yesterday by, the legislature. The appointment was made by Governor John Hy Trumbull this afternoon. The posiu tion will pay $9,800 per annum. Mry Hall will virtually be financial dice | tator of the state and his office will be one of the most important in the Connecticut government. Heads Local Finance Board Senator Hall, as chairman of the hoard of finance and taxation, has directed the financial polictes of New Britain for several years, and as chairman of the appropriations com- mittee of the general assembly he has been the outstanding figure in state finances during the past two 8sessions. In addition to his state and munt clpal duties, he fs secretary of Landers, Frary & Clark's. Senator Hall first entered state politics in 1917 when he became s member of the house of representa~ tives. He was appointed to the ap propriations committee and the committee on finance, being elected to the clerkship of the latter board, In 1919 he returned to the house‘ and was selected as clerk of the committee on appropriations, His election to the senate came in 1921 and he received the signal honop that year of heading the senate com. mittee on appropriations. In 1928 he retired from legislative service, but was returned to the senate in the session of 1925, At the conclu- sion of that session he announced his retirement from state politics and last fall lent his efforts toward fur- thering the candidacy of Judge B. W. Alling for senator. When Judge Alling received the nomination for attorney general, Senator Hall was induced to run again in spite of his desire to retire, First Appointed By Paonessa He became president of the board of finance and taxation January 12, 1923, upon appointment by Angels M. Paonessa, then mayor. He suce ceeded Frederick 8. Chamberlain Wwho had been chairman since the board was instituted in 1907. He 18 conceded to be the best informea man on cjty finances in the active service today and ex-Mayor Paoe nessa and Mayor Weld attribute many thousands of dollars in savings to his alertness, and the absence of defliciency appropriations in recent years is also credited in a large measure to him. As chairman of the charter res vision committee for the past foust i years, Senator Hall has framed many, | of the most important changes in the city’s basic laws which have been brought about in recent years, Senator Hall has frequently beed urged to accept the republican nome lrna::ondfol;imayor, but he has steade astly declined to candidate, P May Resign From Landers Senator Hall told the Herald core respondent at the state capitol thig afternoon that he probably would resign as secretary of Landers, Frary & Clark although he has not had an opportunity to take up the subject with the board of directors, Mr. Hall also said that he ‘would not resign immediately from the New Britain board of finance but Wwill wait until he sces how matters shape up. enator Hall is a native of Berlin. As a youth he commfil:': daily to attend New Britain High school from which he graduated. He came to New Britain to live about 30 vears ago and obtained his first employment in Landers, Frary & Clark. His advancement was rapid and for several years he has been secretary of the concern. He is a charter members of the Kenilworth club, an Elk and a Mason. Senator Hall is married, his wife being the former Miss Pansy Davis, a native of this city. They live at 28 Parkmore street. Man Gives Cow to Aid Miss. Flood Sufferers Fitchburg, Mass, May 4 (P — Eager to make a donation to the Red Cross flood reliet fund, Cyrus | Baton, a farmer in Ashby today re- | quested Fitchburg chapter to accept the gift,of a year old cow. It was accepted.and will be sold at publie auction Saturday afternoon at the Eaton farm. FIVE KILLED BY GAS Council Bluffs, Ia., May 4 (UP)~= Fiye persons were found asph; by 5as in the home of Leo All prominent banker and meal mm man here tnh‘y‘ Ak ; The dead: Mr. and Mrs. Leo. Lo, bertl, their two ch Eldon, 3, and their