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) News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 POLICE HUNTING FOR GUNMAN | WHO SENT BULLET INTO DOTY BEHIND ELM STREET BUILDING Patrolman Shot Down| While in Pursuit of Suspicious Character Suspected of Bootleg- ging. Gamely Empties Pistol | at Man Crouched on Ground Despite Painful | Wound in Back. While Officer David Doty lies | though not dangerously New Britain General seriously, wounded, at hospital, a gunman who is thought 1o be about 18 years of age is being sought by the police for the shoot- | ing which occurred shortly after 9 o'clock last night in the darkness of the yard behind the building known as Quilty's Block at 241-245 Elm street. Despite a vigilant search of the city by policemen in uniform and in plain clothes, starting a few minutes after the shooting and con- | tinuing throughout the night, the | gurman has succeeded in evading | the clutches of the law. Today, the | entire force of the detective bureau | was concentrating on the hunt, but Brings About Peace AR N HENRY NCARAGUAN WAR VIRTUALLY ENDED Moncada Acts to Disarm When! L. STIMSON | | | word went out that the desired cap- | fure is apparently as distant as it | was at midnight when efforts of the | police to break the alibi of one sus- pect who was apprehended, had | failed. | Officer Doty had never seen the | gunman vntil last night, he told | Chief Hart and other members of | the department at the hospital. He | i3 confident, however, of his ability | to recognize him should he see him | azain. He belicves him to be be- | tween 18 and 22 years of age, hav ing a smooth face, and of medium height and slight build. He was| wearing light colored clothes, which | appeared to be soiled. 1 Believed to Have Liquor ‘ In the opinion of the police, the | gunman was carrying liquor, and | may have been the proprieor or an | emulove of a “blind - -tiger of | which it 13 reported there are sev- eral in the vicinity of Elm, East Main, Stanley, and Franklin streets. Officer Doty has been active in liquor cases since being assigned to the East Main strcet beat the first of the year. Last month, he was| transterred to the adjoining beat and has turned in information rela- tive to alleged liquor law violations in the vicinity. Dr. George W. Dunn performed an operation for removal of the bul- lot this forenoon. He located it in the back, to the left of the spine. It entered the back on the right side 4 struck the spine, which de- flected it, Dr. Dunn said. He report- | ed that the operation was success- | ful but the officer is not out of dan- | ger because there s always the pos- | sibility of complications. In h opinion his condition is serious, but | not eritcal The position of the officer's body as he reached for his revolver ac- | counts for the manner in which the | bullet struck him. He was crouch- ing, with his right hand In his hol- . thus having his body twisted tn such a way that his back was cx- | posed to the fire of the gunman. Otherwise he would have been | strick in the chest or stomach with probable fatal effect. | Runs When Questioned Officer Doty had put in a duty call and was standing in front of the Cuilty building when the gunman | came along Elm street. Suspecting | that he was carrying something un- der his coat, which was bulging toticeably, the officer called to him | but the ycung man did not respond. Walking towards him the oflicer asked him what he had under his coat and in reply the young man pulled out a pair of black gloves. | This did not satisfy the officer, who 1sked him what else he was hiding, and in an instant the young man turned and ran towards the alley- | way. The officer grabbed at him but Was not close enough to seize him. through the alleyw » officer in pursuit, the gun- ped 1o the top of a small shed and then jumped to the ground, where he found himself frapped by a fence. Officer Dot who was 1 feet behind him, mounted the shed and was about to jump to the ground when he saw a spurt of fire and heard the singing | of a bullet as it whizzed by, close | to his head. Squatting to offer as | small a target as possible, he reach- «d into his holster and pulling out lis revolver, he was about to open fire when a sccond spurt of fire was followed by a stinging, burning | sensation in the back and he realiz- ed he was shot, ! Emptics Revolver at Gunman | With rare courage and grit he emptied his revolver towards the ot from which the bullets aimed at him had come, but apparently | the gunman lad taken advantage of the darkness to make his way out | of the range of the bullets, for no trace of him could bé found despite @ scarch of the yards and streets | throughout the neighborhood. | g his way down off the shed, r Doty went to the police six- | 1 box which Is in front of the| Quilty building, and sent a tele. | phone mesfage to Lieutenant Sam- | ucl Bamforth at police headquarters | ng (Coutinued on Page 14) t |man is going to get a raise in pay| U. §. Threatens Action | AMNESTY DECREE ISSUED Stimson’s Peace Activities Appar- | win Take Charge To Insure Honest ently Successful—Marines Elections. Managua, Nic, May 6 (P—After many months of fighting between the liberal and conservative factions the civil war in Nicaragua appeared today to be at an end. While no definite peace settlement has yet been reached, General. Mon- cada, announced he was ready for his men to lay down arms. Relies on Stimson He sald his decislon was prompt- cd by the statement of Henry L. Stimson, personal representative of President Coolidge that it the liber- (Continued on Page 19) | SIKTY-TWO CHICAGO CROOKS ARE OUSTED Chief of Detectives Reads Riot Act in Positive Manner Chicago, May 6 (P—Three score and two known crooks, hoodlums, strong arm men and racketeers have been ordered to leave Chicago at once, and to stay away. Chief of Detectives William O’Con- nor read the riot act to the 62 pris- oners last night, calling them from their cells one by one and. employ- ing the argot the prisoners best un- derstood. ake it from me,” the chict said, “you fellows are in for an awful| cleaning. We have made up our minds that you can’t do business in Chicago—and that means you can't. “Just so there is no misunder- standing, I'll tell you how we're go- ing to proceed against you. We're going to throw you in jail every time we see you, and keep throwing you | in everlastingly. If we haven't got| thing on you we'll charge you | with vagrancy, and if we can’t make that stick we'll give you the run| around so that it will keep you poor | hiring lawyers and getting out on | writs of habeas corpus. “When anytbody is going to be| ‘taken for a ride’ from now on it will be the police who do the tak- ing. And we'd be glad If you were | to try to run away from a pinch | sometime, for if you do some police- for ridding this town of you for all time.” Some of the prisoners protested, but most of them told the chief they | cre “wise” to his meaning. Included among those arrested yves- terday as “Go-get-'em” Michael | Hughes, chief of police, drove ahead in his campaign to “rid Chicago of known criminals in 90 days,” was George Druggan, brother of *Ter- rible Te the playboy of the county jail. Druggan, Albert Long| and Albert Roso were arrested after | a revolver fight with police and were charged with vagrancy and | carrying concealed weapons. They were freed on bonds. Tilden andAHm'la—Both Win Matches in Germany Berlin, May 6 (®—Tig Bill Tilden and Francis T. Hunter, American | stars, took hoth their singles matches in straight sets today in the international law: , tennis tour- naments which opened at the Red and White club. Hunter defeated Dr. Heinz lLand- mann 6-2, 6-1, 9 while Tilden disposed of the veteran Otto Froltz- heim at 6-3, 6-2, 6-4. NEW BRITAIN, Stole for “Thrill” So Judge Gives Another One to Crooked Girls Chicago, May 6 (UP)—"Haye another” the judge told Betty Blair and Martha Liking who told him they stole two coats from a department store “for a thrill”, The thrill he gave them was 10 days in the house of correction. HNEELS IN PRAYER WHEN DEATH COMES Mrs. Anna Scripture Found Dead at Bedside Today FIRST SEEN BY GRANDSON Lenox Place Woman Was Known for Her Kindness and Good Work Among Sick and Lonely—Funeral Tomorrow Afternoon. Death claimed Mrs. Anna Buck- CONNECTICUT, CLOSING SESSION OF ASSEWBLY HAS ENCITING HOMENTS Two Ripper Bills Deleated | When House Bolts Averill's Leadership SENATE FOR MOVIE TAX PUT ON SEATING BASIS House, Must Concur— Survey of Work Done Shows That Majority of Measures Introduced | Were Thrown Into Waste Basket —Estimate is That Over $40,000, 000 Will be Spent Next Two Years Hartford, Conn., May 6 (UP)— ‘Bolling from the leadership of Rep. | Ernest L. Averill of Branford, the house of representatives today re- | However, Sleep Walker Tumbles 3 Stories, Lands on Mattress, Still Lives o Brooklyn, N. Y., April T (UP) —While walking in her sleep early today Miss Viola Vivra, 24, fell out of a third story window, landed on a mattress which some boys had left there the day befors and sprained a thumb. GRAY NOT SHAKEN INMURDER STORY Withstands 17 Hours of Rigid Gross Examination DEFENSE COMPLETES CASE Accused Man Admits Striking First Blow But Aided Him Husband. Insists Mrs. Snyder in Murder of Her Queens County Courthouse, New ley Scripture, 69 years old, of 15 |fused to support the republican Or-|yory Ay § (—Henry Judd Gray Lenox place, as she knelt in prayer in her bed room sometime last night or this morning. She was dis- covered by her grandchild, Alan Scripture, this morning at 7:30 when he came Into the bedroom tp learn what was keeping her from rising. When he found her in the kneel- ing position he stole from the room and told his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Otis M. Scripture, that his grand- mother was saying her prayer: he did not think he ought to d turb her. After an interval the fam- ily went to her bed room and found that she had dled. Death was caused by heart trouble, Mrs. Scripture’s life was given over to doing good for others and | was a loyal worker in the Sunshine society, She gained many friends by her kindness. During the 50 years she had made New Britain her home she was active in the |affairs of the Tirst Baptist church. Born in Hartford, the daughter of John M. Sweetland and Suzen Brown Sweetland on October 18, 1857, she came to this city when she was young. late about 40 years was manager of Soverelgn’s trading company on Main street. Mr. Scripture died sev- eral yvears ago. Surviving her are two sons, Otis Milton Scripture and Albert Ne ton Scripture; a sister, Mrs. Her- man Wells; a brother, William 8. Sweetland, all of this city. Funeral services will be held to- morrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the home on Lenox place. Rev. William Ross, tor of the First Baptist church, will officiate. Inter- ment will be in Fairview cemetery. MISSING MESSENGER IN NEW YORK HAS RETURNED Says He Was Kidnappad and Rob- bed of Securities Valued at $100,000. ew York, May € Berman, 38, messenger for Taylor Bates & Company, brokers, was brought to police headquarters to- day to cxplain his disappesrance yes- terday with $100,000 worth of ne- gotiable certificates belonging to his employers. Lierman appeared at the West- chester police station esrly today and told a story of being kidnapped by two bandits in the heart of the financial district at noon yesterday, robbed of the certificates nd thrown out of a car in a secluded spot in Westchester, bound and The bank messenger not mistreated by his captors, who even gave him coifee an cake. He told a long story of being com- pelled to lie down in the car being driven around town for several hours, taken to a room with but & window in it and held there for sev- eral hours and finally being driven to the outskirts of the city and leav- ing him in a woods. He said he struggled to free himself and finally about midnight. He made to the nearest road, hailed a taxi cab and directed the chauffeur to drive him to the ncarest police station, where he told nis story. Berman is married and lives with his wife and two children in the Bronx. He worked on a part time basis at 60 cents an hour. AUTOIST IS BLAMED Driver of Car Which Ran Into Truck In Madison, Killing Wom- | an, Is Held At Fault. New Haven, May 6—Howard T Dudley of Guilford, driver of a ma- chine which hit the rear end of a parked truck in the East River sec- tion of Madison on night of April causing death of Mrs. Benjamin Hendricks of this city, is held crim- inally responsible for the death by Coroner Eli Mix. Miss Margaret O'Keefe also of this city was seri- ously hurt. The coroner finds that Dudley was aware that the road in that sec- tion was under repairs, requiring careful driving! that just prior to collision he was driving at a high * rate of speed and that he was hand- | ling the car in a reckless manner. The collision was due, the coroner says to Dudley's lack of complete control of the car. The truck belonged to Christie's transfer company of Hartford, She married the | rank O. Scripture, who far | (UP)—Jules | ganization in two bills which would | “ripperize” the two communitles af- | tected. i Averill was decisively beaten on a bill merging city boards in Bridge- | port and on a second measure which | {would remove the seniority clause | regarding promotion in the Water- bury police department from a measure introduced earlier in the | session Miss Marjorle Cheney of Man-| chester started the revolt when she | protested against the passage of the ! Waterbury bill. “I'm not wet and I | don’t want to be a wet blanket,” she | said, “but I think it is a disgrace to | {the state of Connecticut to pass| legislation that affects all localities | in a spirit of frivolity.” | The Waterbury bill praviously had | been brought up and Speaker Hill had asked for a vote when no one | in the house knew what the matter | was about. Great opposition immedi- ately was registered to the measure. More Opposition. Representative Joseph St. Louis | |said_the bill should not pass. He| | further stated it was a direct at- | tempt on the part of the legislature | |to dictate the internal affairs of the | city of Wgterbury. In this he was supported by many members of the | house. ‘ Averill protested against the in- | | definite postponement of the bill, and | after the chair had recognized its | postponemens, he called for a rising | vote. He was defeated 135 to 78. Speaker Hill when asking those | who favored the passage of the bill | |to arise, said, “You're beaten before {you start.” | Averill's reason for 1sking for a | standing vote was “I waut to see | whether this house, overwhelming republican, will support the wishes | of a republican senator from Water- | bury or whether you will vote other- | wise. | “I want to see you get Up on your | feet and vote against ths republican machine.” Fun Commences. | Immediately following Averill's de- | feat, scenes of wild frivolity com- I menced. Paper balls wers thrown in all directions, stamping of feet and | banging on desks was the order of the moment. A brass baid entered the house and started playing, “Hail, | Hail, The Gang's All here.” Its mem- | bers were dressed in old clothes, Boft caps pulled down over their ears and | | with hay sticking from ttelr trou- | | sers. . Speaker Hill turned the chalr over to Representative Hoyt of New Ha- ven. | The Movie Bill State Capitol, Hartford, May 6 (@ —While the band played and the members of the house were enjoy- | ing old time songs, in celebration of (Continued un Page 27) completed his ordeal upon the wit- ness stand in the court where he is on trial for his life today and the defense rested. Seventecn hours after he volun- tarily assumed the witness chair, all the attorneys had done with him and court recessed for lunch. Throughout the questioning Gray had stoutly maintained his story that he had struck the first blow but that the murder of Albert Sny- der could never have been accom- plished but for the aid of Mrs. Ruth Snyder. Court was delaved opening this afternoon by the crowd that fought for entrance. When a semblance of order was restored, Justice Scudder took the bench and Mrs. Elizabeth Bixier, of Easton, Penn., was called to the stand. She sald she had known Gray for fourteen years. She was a sharp featured, middle-aged woman with a red rose at her shoulder. She interrupted the questions put her by William Millard for Gray to ask: “Why am I brought here?"” The judge told her to answer the questions and Millard asked: “What is Gray's reputation for veracity? “A, number one,” she replied and | was excused. Arthur E. Bedell, Asbury Park, N. J., then testified he had known ay well since 1910, He said Gray's “general reputation among is fellow men,” was good. Sarah M. Graham of Newark, N. J., was the next witness. She had known Gray since he was @ix months old. She sald his reputation was ex- cellent. John Bejamin, of New York, & corset salesman associate of Gray's avowed that defendant’s reputs | tton was very good. Story Not Shaken of Gray by Gra; Cross-cxamination |counsel for Mrs. Snyder, was con- | shaking his | cluded today without story in substance. He was dry-cyed and throughout, although he wept free- v during examination by his lawyer. District Attorney Newcombe im- mediately began cross-examination (Continued on Page 22) Nungesser and His Plane Leave for Starting Point Le Bourget, France, May 6 (A— Captain Charles Nungesser and Cap- tain Francis Coli left Villacoublay for the flying field here this after- noon. All is in readiness here to receive and pro on their plane, the “White Bird, for their at- tempted flight to New York. Patient, Il With Pneumoni: Chicago, May 6 (P—Firemen fought pncumonia today in another effort of science to keep 1n.:gmg; lungs functioning after hope through | accepted medical methods had all| but been abandoned. { Harry Thompson, 52 years old, | who has been scriously ill with | pneumonia since Tuesday, is being | ikupt alive, according to Dr. John J. | I Hessert, his physician, by the ad- | ministration ~ of oxygen. Pulmotor |Sauad No. 6 of the Chicago fire de- |partment has been working in re- !lll)':l for more than 50 hours. | Dr. Hessert said Thompson would | {have died Tuesday but for the ac- |tion of the firemen. Now he is hope- | ful that life may be prolonged until the lungs heal sufficiently to take up their work again, in which case le said Thompson would recover. | On the hour and the half hour |the firemen place an inhalator over { Thompson's face. For 10 minutes he inhales pure oxygen. Then for 20 minutes he is allowed to breathe naturally, Dr. Hessert said one of Thomp- son's lungs is so congcsted that without artificial aid he could not | get enough air to sustain life. * THER New Britain and vicinity: Generally falr tonight and Saturday; somewhat cooler tonight. i * —_— Hours in New Scientific Battle Against Death EREMEN, WITH PULMOTOR, FIGHTING TO KEEP CHICAGO MAN FROM DYING a, Sustained More Than 50 “MORE AIR” IS PLEA OIT— | LONG PARALYZED YOUTH And Friends of Walter Boothe Con- tinue Their Pumping For Artificial Respiration. Roanoke, Va., May 6 (UP)— was the plea today of Walter L. Boothe, 18 year old farm boy who has lain 15 days in a hos- pital here with collapsed lungs. *“More air"—and friends who have pumped his arms continuously forc- ing breath into his body, increased the tempo of their monotonous mo- tion. Doctors who have twice vainly tried operations to restore Walter's breathing powers, shook their heads at the development. They hesitated to say it presaged an early end for sturdy-hearted youth who lies paralyzed from neck to but they did say the lad has been growing weaker for the last three days. Meanwhile, almost paradoxically in view of his diminishing strength, Walter's appetite seemed to increase. new concentrated food decreascd accordingly. calm | waist, | HERALD FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1927. THIRTY-TWO PAGES Town of Rayville En- tirely Disappears and | Boats Are Rushed to| Rescue People From Treetops and Roofs of Houses. Many Tenant Farmers in Devastated Regions Now Facing Death by Starva- tion, Reports State. New Orleans, La., May 6 (#—The muddy torrents of the Mississippl still raced uncurbed over northern Louisiana lowlands today after hav- ing overrun more than five million acres of farm and swamp lands on their mad rush for the Gulf of Mex- ico. The spread over 11 Louisiana par- ishes continued. Rayville had disappeared and an urgent appeal was made for boats to remove residents from tree tops and the roofs of houscs. Tallulah and Newington were being invaded. Delta Point stood on the fringe of the tawny sheet, Dozens of smaller villages already had disappeared. More than three hundred square miles had been covercd by the Mississippi and its tributaries in Louisiana as the gian stream gath- ered its forces after their rampage over six other states. Arkansas Hit Hardest. Kentucky had suffered least and Arkansas most. In Kentucky, 39,300 jacres were submerged south of | Wickliffe. Four hundred and sixty-| six thousand acres were inundated in | Tennessee and 190,000 more in southeast Missouri, while backwater | in the St. Francis and Whiteriver | basing claimed 890,000 oiher acres. Other hundreds of thousands acres | in Mississipi had disappeared, but | this water now was slopping back into the main stream to be poured | again through broken levees into | Louisiana. Tributary overflows wrought most | damage in Arkansas and Missouri. The Black river claimed 195,000 acres in Missouri and 478,000 in Arkansas. The Cache rives in Arkan- sas scored another 672,000 acres, the St. Francis reached over 735,000 acres and the White River below | Batesville covered 640,000 acres. In | Missouri, the St. Francis was satis- | fied with 123,000 acres. As the river | continued its rampage venting its fury upon the parishes along its {banks with the waters from the Ar- i kansas breaks slowly ebbing over the lowlands to join those from more ‘cent crevasses in the M ippl |levees, they pushed over new terri- tory to meet the backwazers from the Red and Black rivers. Camps Are Isolated. Red Cross concentration camps of supply and the expanding muddy pool threatened Rescued persons became again and gradually thy were re- moved from Delhi to Monroe, Seven- teen thousand refugees had been as- sembled at Delhi from the flooded arca betwcen Macon Ridge, Sicily Island and Oak Ridge. The town of St. Joseph was slowly disappearing. Motor boats and expensive limousines in the cratic old river town. In the inland towns, difficulty was experienced in removing tenan farmers, since the waters werl spreading so slowly it was hard for boats to navigate. Many farmers were threatened with star- vation, plantation owne:s said, be- cause they were reluctaat to leave their homes, and had no food. Vidalia, seat of Concordia parish, after three wecks of batiling with rising waters of the Mississlppi, wa forced to about face and meet t lassault of backwaters wh climbing up the protection levees at the rate of 10 inches a duy. MAXIM IS DYING Passing of Noted Inventor Is Mo- mentarily Expected, Bulletins To- day State, | Lake t.opatcong, N. J Death of Hudson Mz old inventor, stricken with \and uleers of the stomach, is cxpect- {ed momentarily, it was said today by a close friend. He has been in a ,coma for the last eleven hours, Hudson Maxim gained fame for his invention of the automobile tor- ipedo and his discoveries in experi- ments with high explosives. Two of I his coveries, which, it is said, |have revolutionized modern warfare, {were the fisst smokeless powder {made in America and ‘“Maximite”, the first high explosive bursting charge ever successfully employed in armor-piercing projectiles. Born at Orneville, Maine, February he 1 ~cived practically no as a boy. He completed his academic studies at Kent's Hill | Maine, at the age of 25, gradu:ting | with @ wide knowledge of chemistry, | year engineering and natural sciences. Mr. Maxim was married in 1896 |He ate more by way of mouth, and |to Miss Lillian Durban, daughter of Louis Kristopik, Boleslaw Kragiel, J. injections were |[Rev. W. Durban, of London, Eng- |Janicki, W. Dzaniw, Peter J. land. were being cut off from their sources | | . . . & to envelop fl\enL"Al’thles of Association refugees | h skiffs replaced | aristo- | tenant, anemia | Missing Aviator CAPT. SAINT ROMAN OGEAN FLIER MISSING, SEARCH IS TAKEN UP Saint Roman Has Not Yet Reached Brazil — Re- ported Off Coast 1 Dakar, West Africa, —Some anxiety felt for the safety of the French aviator Captain Saint Roman who left St. Louis, Senegal, at 6:30 o'clock yesterday morning | for an aftempted trans-Atlantic | flight to Pernambuco, Brazil. Vessels in the South Atlantic have been asked to scarch for the plane. May 6.—P) The distance from St. Louis to Pernambuco is about 1,875 miles | and would be covered in a plane of the type used by Captain Saint Roman in from 18 to 20 hours, de- pending on the headwinds encount- ered and the degree of variation | from the course. | Paris, May 6.—#—One of the! organizers of Captain Saint Roman’s | flight to South American was ad- vised this afternoon that the avia- tors flew over the island of Fernan- do do Noronha, 200 miles off the (Continued on Page 10) INCORPORATE CHURCH INSACRED HEART ZONE Filed by Group Oppos- ing Fr. Bojnowski Legal ociaticn of the Holy e been filed at the offi ccretary of state and the town lclerk’s office, by Attorney L. J. | Golon on behalf of a group of resi- | dents of the northwestern section of he city who have complained to Rt. | Rev. John J. Nilan, bishop of Hart- | | ford diocese, against conditions 1| {the Sacred Heart church. b { Their application for sanction to la movement begun for the purpose | | of raising funds and building a new |church has been before Bishop Nilan for several months, but has| not been acted upon. | | Two mectings have been held. The first was presided over by B. A. | Grysbowski, former alderman of the | fifth ward, and the second, presided | {over by Walenty Doborowolski was | in the form of protest against the | failure of the committce appointed | at first meeting to present a re- port. Doborowolskl's name is the st to appear on the list of 52 sul\_i papers organizing the As-; Trinity, Inc., of the hers, The articles of association declare the purpose to be: “For the promo- tion, establishment and building of a chi g members of the| | Burasiewisi islaw Symolon, Anton Ulinsk dem Mile Tgnasi Samora, Paul Lahienic, insky, | Anna Mia: ki, Anna Piorkowskl, Boleslaw Kragiel, Kazimera Podhaj- {ski, Zofla Jiedzinski, Leon Grynie- \wicz, Ralzic Wasclewska, Szimon | Kalintoski, Feliz Saturnin | Ramon, J. Niewierczynski, Josef |Chedzienski. Leon Chozanowsky, [Genowefa Szymanowska. Macie] |Cochon, Jan Pacyna, Sylwester Rosz- |ko, Jan Szymszko, John Labienic, Josef Nashilly, Francizek Zakrewski, | Walenty Piorkowskl, Karal Dem-| |bowskl, John Harwylik, aciej |Kaminski, Anna Zapatka, Albin |Szumski, Thomas Otulak, Adeline |Juchniewicz, Zofija Juchniewicz, Rogala, § clix Grochowski, Jacob Zapatka K Jachowicz Pajew ski, and Blasej Bojik. ' Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending April 30th ... 14,158 PRICE THREE CENTS 323,837 PERSONS MADE DESTITUTE BY FLOODS GIVEN RED CROSS AID: - SPREAD OF WATER IS CONTINUING 95,000 Immuned From Typhoid and 35,000 From Smallpox While 20,000 Are Given Quinine in Drive on Malaria. iSixty Refugee Concentra« tion Camps Have Been Located in Six States Affected by Deluge. Memphis, Tenn, May 6 (P— Raging torrents of the unprecedents ed Mississippl Valley flood today, after more than three weeks’ rame page, had placed 323,837 persons, & record number for disasters, under care of the American Red Cross. The list swelled hourly as addi« tional flood waters poured from broken dikes in Louisiana and ofl ficials would make no attempt to predict the final total. The new mark, announced by Henry M. Baker, national director of disaster relief, does not include complete counts from the inundated sections of Louisiana. Continual movement of refugeces there in ad- dition to the emergency situation which has prevented field workers from making their reports, may de- lay the complete check several days, 60 Concentration Camps. Of. the 323,837 persons, 173,568 are refugees in sixty concentration camps in seven states. The others are persons receiving food or other supplies in their flooded homes, in upper floors of town buildings and in other places where they have elected to remain rather than go to the refugece centers, Mississippi led the list with 160, 941, many of whom are Le ians taken to Vickshurg or Natchez, Arkansas, with a slight influx of Missourians, was second with 114« 373, Last reports from field workers in Louisiana gave a total of 3 persons under Red Cross care there with the expectation that it would g0 between 35,000 and 40,000, Four upper vall states not so severely visited by the floods had: Missouri, 11,281; Illinois, 6,600; Tennessee, 4,322 and Kentucky, 3,« 032, In the latter commonwealth were many refugees from Missouri, Thousands Vaccinated. Reports to the Red Cross showed that 95,000 persons have been jme muned from typhoid and 35,000 from smalipox. Ninety-nine traine ed Red Cross disaster workers were stationed in the filed as were 40 Red Cross physicians and 78 nurses of the organization. Twenty-seven airplanes and sea- planes and 826 power boats flying the Red Cross flag, were in the flood waters. Thirty wireless sta- tions were operating as mediums of communication between flooded points and headquarters. 20,000 Given Quinine. Twenty thousands persons have been given quinine in a drive against malaria, many cases of which have been reported. Malaria, however, is not unusual in many sections of the valley. Mr. Baker declared that the re lief quota of ten million dollars set v the Red Cross must be consida ered the minimum and not a maxis mum figure. He pointed out that with the flood crest bearing down on the Louisiana levees, there ale ready were fifteen relief headquart. ers in that state. No other states has so many. Nearly 8 Million Washington, May 6 (UP) — The ster fund reach- ed $7,518,008 today. Word came from Henry M. Baker, relief director, now caring for nearly one-third of a million refe ugees in the flood zone of the south, The $10,000,000 minimum goal set in President ¢ ige's second relief appeal will be distinctly a minimum, Baker indicated. Son Surprised to Find Father Married Again Norwalk, May 6 (A—Daniel Mor- an, 45, arrested on a minor charge a week ago and who was taken ill in his ceil, died at Norwalk hos- pital today from heart dise: A son came here from Matawan, N. J., to claim the body but when in- formed the widow was in the hose pital he refused to take the body saying that his mother was living in New Jersey and he wanted her unaware that his father had mar- ried again. He had thought his father was in Bridgeport. Moran apparently had married her a year ago and his wife by that ceremony has been in the hospital since February 8. 'SPENSION NOT LIFTED w York, May 6 (#)—The New York State Athletic commission res fused today to lift the suspension of Paulino Uzcudun, who was set down last weck for faflure to go through with a match against Ed Keely in Boston April 18. Uscudun tentatively had been matched to fight Jack Dempsey in Dempeey's scheduled comeback at the Yankes Stadium, July 9.