New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 7, 1927, Page 1

" WATERBURY CHURCH SINGER | f ,kézed to have committed an assault ESTABLISHED 1870 KILLED EARLY CAR CRASHES Victim is John H. O’Rourke, 37, Soloist at Church of the Im- maculate Conception— Driver is Being Held. New Haven Also Has Fa- tality When Machine Skids—Young Woman Dead—One Man May Die. © Waterbury, *May 7—John H. O'Rourke, 87, soloist at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, was iMay Start For New York Tomorrow fatally injured early today when the automobile in which he was riding with several companions crashed into a stone wall in thig city. The operator of the car, Maurice F. Noonan, a member of the local fire department and the other occu- pants“f the car were held pending} investigation. Earlier in the night they had been warned by an officer against driving without lights. O'Rourke died on the operating ta- bLle at a hospital where he had| been taken in the police patrol. New Haven Tragedy New Haven, May 7 (®—The con- dition of the two men who were in- jured last night in an automobile accident which killed Miss Margaret E. Sullivan of Hamden was improv- ed today, according to reports from the New Haven hospital where they were taken. Neither is in a critical condition. Coroner Elt Mix was conducting an investigation today to determine whether Harry R. Averill of 'West Haven or Reginald C. Miller of Branford, ‘the two injured, was the driver of the automobile. Miller is understood to have borrowed 'the car from Mrs. Willizgn 8. Hinchey of Branford. Tar a time cast nizht ¢ was thought that her husbast had. been driving the car and hif{ “idfupear- od after the big sedan erishiel ‘nto an iron pole and cemeént abutme- on the curve of the easterly ap- proach to the new Tomlinson ave- nue bridge. Hinchey was one of those called to the coroner’s office this morning for questioning. : Car Was Speeding The speedometer of the automo- bile which was demolished had loclied at 47 miles an hour, police who inspected the wreck sald. Marks on the pavement showed that the car had approached the curve at a high speed. The driver, apparently observing that he could not make the curve had pulled on the emerg- ency brake which was found set, causing the heavy machine to carom at high speed across the pavement and into the pole and abutment, the latter preventing the car from drop- ping over an embankment. A passing motorist discovered the injured men and Miss Sullivan. He placed them in his car and started for a hospital. On the way in he stopped a policeman and informed him of the accident. The policeman went with the driver to the New Haven hospitat where it was found | that the woman was dead. AGE SAVES STOREKEEPER FROM SENTENCE 70 JAIL Vogli Fined.$100 for Having Liquor in East Main Street Smoke Shop Louis Vogli, aged 51, of 1015 Stan- ley street, who was arrested Wed- nesday noon for violation of the li- quor law in his store, 284 East Main street, by Detective Sergeants Mc- Cue and Ellinger, pleaded nolo con- tendere before Judge Hungerford in police court this morning, and a fine of $100 was imposed on recom- mendation of Attorney Alfred Le Witt, defense counsel, who pointed out that Vogli is advancing in years and has never been arrested for any offense prior to this time. In all probability, the court will have no further dealings with him, the at- torney said. Sergeant Ellinger testified that the store is known as the Universal Smoke Shop and the policeman on the beat reported that liquor was sold there. A warrant was obtained and a small amount of liquor was seized in a bottle on top of a box of soda. In reply to Attorney Le Witt, Sergeant Ellinger said the store was fairly well stocked with smokers’ supplies. A molle was entered by Prosecut- ing Attorney Woods in the assault cases of John Juchniewicz, aged 21, and his brother, Zigmund, aged 25, ot 160 Washington street, and Jo- scph Dionne, aged 24, of 182 High street. The young men were al- 9 few days ago but the complainant &d not appear to testify. Judge W. 7. Mangan appeared for the young men. The continued case of Antonio Zicnofski, aged 50 of 32 Gold street, tharged with assault and breach ofl e peace, was continued until July 8. | NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1927. —EIGHTEEN PAGES TODAY WHEN AGAINST POLE OCEAN FLIER s PROBABLY L0ST Saint Roman Now Ower 30 Hours Late in Brazil NUNGESSER READY T0 60 If Weather Permits — Beliet Is That Saint Roman May Have Landed On Some Lonely Island, Rio De Janeiro, May 7 (UP)— Only slim hopes were held out to- day for the safety of Capt. Saint Roman, French aviator, and two companions, on a trans-Atlantic flight who were more than 30 hours! over due at Pernambuco. The flyers left Africa for Pernam- buco Thursday morning and kept in constant wireless communication with ships and shore stations until late in the day, when their half-hour | reports guddenly stopped coming in. They were due at Pernambuco at midnight Friday. The Club Bandeirantes Brasil to- doy suggested that the Brazilian aviator Debarros set out by plane in search of the missing Saint Roman. It would be a “brave and patriotic action” as a manifestation of soli- darity between Krance and Brazil, the club said in a message to De Barros. Two possibilities for the safety of the trio were held out. It was pos- sible they had landed at some inac- cessible place on the Brazilian sea coast, or that they had been res- cued by some small ship unequipped with wireless. But it was pointed out that the first possibility was reasonable only i the flyers had lost their bearings, for they did not pass the Island of Fernando. De Noronha, off the Bra- zilian coast which is in a direct line from Africa to Pernambuco. The second theory also was only a hope, for along the line of flight of the aviators, almost all ships carry wire- less. The aviators took their chance with death when they embarked on the flight in a plane not equipped with pontoons, and unable to remain long afloat if it was forced into the water. The French government, which had sponsored the flight, withdrew from all connection with it when the pontoons were removed at Casablanca, Morocco, after sev- eral attempts proved the engines could not lift the plane weighted both with pontoons and an over-load of gasoline. Saint Roman sacrificed his pontoons rather than risk failure of the flight because of exhausted fuel. All previous flights from Af- rica to South America have ended on the Island of Fernando De No-| ronha instead of on the mainland because the plane’s gasoline was ex- hausted. With Saint Roman in the plane| were Pilot Mouneyeres and Mechan- fc Petit. Hope Not Given Up Parls, May 7 (UP)—French avia- tion circles refused to give up hope today for Capt. Saint Roman and two companions, missing somewhere in the south Atlantic. Shortage of fuel probably forced the aviators, en reute from Africa to (Continued on Page 12) PLAN FOR EXTENSION OF EAST MAIN STREET Sketch of Project Will Be Offered Public Works Board A tentative sketch of a proposed extension of East Main street to Washington street, has been prepar- ed and will be submitted to the city engineering department for consid- eration by Ernest W. Christ, acting in behalf of the City National Bank, of which he is a director. The banking house is located near the point at which the street ex- tension would be effected. The pro- | posed route contemplates removal of a portion of the Hanna block and development of an alley for highway purposes., The street would extend through property of the Russell & rwin division of the American liard“'are corporation and would in- tersect with Washington street at a point opposite the main offices of that company. Such an extension as this, it is pointed out. would relieve traffic congestion in the center by inviting traffic between East Main street and the western section of the city through the new route, DIRIGIBLE MAKING VLIGHT. Washington, May 7 (UP)—The navy dirigible Los Angel 3 appeared | igiven up. cver the center of Washington at 8 a. m. E. 8. T. today, flying north- ward after circling ovar the Po- tomae. The navy department report- ed shortly afterward that no com- munication was being had with the big craft. The J.os Angeles left its hangar at Lakehurst, N. J., early this morning for the cruis ' Death Wins Victory Over Boothe As Artificial Respiration Fails Friends Had Kept Young Virginian Alive For 378 Hours After He Had Ceased to Breathe Normally —Chicago Case Also Ends Fatally. Roanoke, Va., May 7 (P—Walter Boothe, farmer lad who had been kept alive more than two weeks by artificlal respiration, died early to- | day. The youth had been kept alive by the work of his friends, raising and lowering his arms to force air into lungs which collapsed April 21 when he was about to undergo an opera- tion for a dislocated vertebra. He suffered three distinct sinking spells during his long and medically strange illness but each time he ral- lied and with surprising cheerfulness and courage again looked forward to the end. Death came at six o'clock this morning, 378 hours after he first céased to breathe normally. Several days ago Boothe was placed upon an operating table un- der gredt difficulties and an attempt was made to adjust the vertebra which seemed to have given the trouble. ¥ Thereafter a slight improvement was noted but the rally was only | temporary and by yesterday after- | noon all hope for his recovery was As death stalked before him, the 18 year old lad smiled and encour- dged his companions who, with heroic fidelity, had stood tirelessly by his bedside as human pulmotors, and now and then he spoke to his fam- ily of the mysteries of the life after death which he felt were fast draw- ing their curtains about him. Boothe's death marks the second | time within recent months that arti- | ficial respiration has maintained life | for a protracted period. Tn March, | Albert Frick of Chicago finally died | after having been kept alive for 108 | hours by the same method employed | on Boothe. | The Virginia lad’s illness reverts | to May, 1926, when he was injured | in an automobile accident. Although | seriously ill for a while, he returned to work, but in August, a combina- | \ i | tlon was his only hope. tion of incidents caused his body to become paralyzed. An examination at a hospital sev- eral months later disclosed that he et one time or another had suffer- ed a combination fractured and dis- located vertebra near the base of the skul and physiclans said an opera- Not until six weeks after the examination was an operation attempted and then, Just after surgeoms had commenced their work, his lungs suddenly col- lapsed. N A hurried call was sent out for friends to adminmister artificial res- piration ‘by raising and lowering his arms, and through the long and weary days that ensued, the spark of life was maintained in this man- ner. Although the youth's worn body, racked with pain contribut- ing illnesses, steadily lost vigor. Through it all, Boothe fought off the inevitable calmly and fearlessly, but when the final sinking spell set in yesterday strength had so far ebbed that further efforts seemed useless but friends in their desire to stick to their post until the end, kept life present until this morning. Chicago, May 7 (P)—The second failure here in recent weeks of arti- ficial respiration to save a life after sustaining it over a period of sever- al days came last night in the death of Harry O. Thompson, 52, after he had been kept alive 66 hours by pulmotor treatment. Several weeks ago Albert Frick, suffering from Landry's disease, died after friends, working in relays, had kept him alive nearly 100 hours by maintaining his respiration through | plessure on his chest. Thompson, i1l with pneumonia, would have died Tuesday his physi- cian sald had not firemen using a pulmotor administered oxygen at half hour intervals. Dr. John J. Hessert sald that death was due as | much to the strain on the heart caused by the oxygen administration as to the conditions of the lungs. CAUSE OF EXPLOSION NOT YET DETERMINED Seven Killed, 18 In;iured, Some Possibly. Fatally, in New York New York, May 7 (® — Efforts were being made today to discover | the cause of the explosion that | wrecked the Yellow Taxicab com- | pany’s two-story concrete building | in East 23d street yesterday, kill- | ing seven persons and injuring 18. Carroll Sinnott, vice president of the company, who was absent from the building at the time of the blast, said a large emergency gas heater had been located in the ruined portion of the structure, but doubted whether this causcd the explosion. He said there were no cxplosives stored in the building. The shock was so terrific that hundreds of persons rushed from shaking nearby houses and stores. Blocks of concrete and timbers were torn from the walls and doors | by the crash and at least 25 men and women in the eastern half of | the building were plunged through the wreckage of the first floor into the basement, Seven persons, two girl stenog- | raphers and five men, were crushed to death or drowned in the base- ment which had filled with water from a main that burst under the | weight of the debris. All employes of the company had been accounted for last night but possibility of the presence of strangers in the building at the time caused a continuance of search for bodies. The dead are Elizabeth Lovinger, 20; Florence Cavanagh, 19; Frank Zurhmelin, 26, and William E. Kelleher, 32, lawyers; Robert O'Rourke, 20, filing clerk: Charles J. Quinlan, 65, chief claim clerk, and Charles Mallet, 21, clerk. The condition of several of the injured was said to be serious. The building was in a tenement district near the East river. It housed a garage and the legal and employment offices of the company. The fact that the accident occurred when a number of employes were | out to lunch was said to have pre- vented an even greater death toll. Three investigations to determine the cause of the explosion and place responsibility were under way by the building department, the fire marshal and the police depart- ment, Tax Collectors Arrested For Their Forcible Work Darby, Pa., May 7 (#—George Fei | and Harry Shein, deputy tax collec- | tors, were held in $500 hail each on charges of forcible entry +nd assault und battery after & 1. agistrate’s hearing last night. The deputies were arrested on warrants sworn out by Howard Lane, whose home they had visited | to collect §8.10 personal taxes for 1925-26 from his wife. . No women have been srrested for failure to pay the perronal tax, despite numerous threats by the au- thorities that they wouli be sent to jodl unless they paid. RUTLAND, VT. VIRE. Rutland, Vt., May 7 (#-—Damage | estimated at more than 310,000 was | cauded by a fire which destroyed | the power house of th» Colonial Marble company at West Rutlnnd; #*. iast niglit, EDISON EXPERIMENTS WITH RUBBER PLANTS Says America Would Be in Bad Way in Case_ of War : West Orange, N. J,, May 7 (#— Thomas A. Edison has “struck it rich” by turning from science to nature. Returning from a two and a half months stay devoted most of his time to ex- perimenting with- rubber plants with a view toward discovering a practical substitute for rubber, the inventor had hardly been in his laboratory an hour today when he turned to several bulky volumes on the plant. “It is quite an enormous change from a physic laboratory to a vine," he said, “I've been working in ics so long, that I want to re- e myself by taking up am entire- ferent thing—and I've struck it rich.” He sald that his nine acre plan- tation of Fort Myers, was “all loaded up with plant: Mr. Edison denied he had “any- thing interesting” to tell about ks experiments. He was only “collec- ting and preparing for a very exten- sive expriment in Florida and other southern states.” He did not belleve that a substi- tute for rubber would be adaptable for the automobile tire. “It is very necessary that the United States have a supply of rub- ber,” he said. “If there were war we¢ would be in a bad way. Horses are nearly gone. We have good transportation in the railroads, but without rubber tires we would have a breakdown in transportation on the battlefields.” HELP FOR SUFFERERS Brooklyn School Children Going Without Luncheon To Help Flood Funds—Boston Raises $189.419. New York, May 7 (®—Two hun- dred girls and boys of the New York Preparatory school, Brooklyn, voted yesterday to go without lunch- eon Monday and contribute money thus saved to relief of Mississippi river flood sufferers. The Red Cross reliet fund reached $1,283,280 for New York area today with further contributions of $44,168. Boston, May 7 (UP)—Boston has raised $189,419 of its quota of $300,- 000 for Mississippl flood relief. Plainfield Goes Month Without Any Court Cases Plainfield, May 7.—The 8,000 in- habitants of the town of Plainfield | believe they establisfied a record when they went through the month of April without causing the calling of a single case in the town court for any reason or the assessment of & single fee against the town by any of the nine constables or other police officers pald by feet for arrests. * THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Fair tonight and Sunday; not much change in temperature. | | ! * in Florida where he | ithe Atchafalaya. SIX WEEKS’ TINE T0 DRAIN LANDS Hoover, in Pleading for Funds, Explains Position of Flood Sulterers GREST OF DELUGE NOW IS PASSING VICKSBURG { From There to the Gulf Is 400 Miles and People In That Area Are Fighting Hard to Keep Back the | Surging Waters — Finance Com-i panies Organizing to Aid In Re- habilitation Work. New Orleans, La, May 7 (®— With 830,000 persons north of the Red and Old rivers already either driven from their homes or com- pelled to seek refuge on upper floors jor tops of dwellings, the beginning of the end of the greatest flood .in ithe history of the Mississippl valley |was felt below the mouths of those rivers today. Climbing gauges as the muddy jcurrent ebbed relentlessly toward le- |vee tops brought renewed efforts | from thousands of levee workers, who have been laboring three weeks i to rear the embankments to a suffi- | ient height to withstand the pre-| |dicted crest. The gauge at New Orleans remain- ed stationary, but between the Cres- | cent city and the mouth of the Red | river consistent rises were shown, in- | dicating that’the waters which have been running free over the low- lands were returning to the main stream, The water was rising rapidly at the head of the Atchafalaya basin | and engineers directed the activities of workmen to the levee line along that stretch. The dikes along the | south bank of Bayou Des Glaises | and along the south side of Old river | will be seriously threatened as the inland sea, freed by crevasses in the | main stream above, moves upon | them to pass down the Mississippi. | Four Different Sources Four different sources were send- ing torrents into this basin. Red river, from the west, was assaulting | |the protecting embankments with the greatest flood in its history, the Lcrest of which was approaching Alexandria. The Quachita from the north attacked with another volume of water. Overland, pools ‘were coming from the Arkansas river with still others streaming from the crevasses in the Mississippi. Engineers believed that this water would meet in the basin at the head of the Atchafalaya and if the levee line withstood the assault, it would return to the main stream, except such of it as does not move down huge Hoover's Estimates Ten thousand, nine hundred square miles of territory already have been flooded, driving 180,000 persons from heir homes and 150,000 more to re- uge in upper floors, Secretary Hoov- (Contin on Page Sixteen) COMMENDABLE WORK BY RELIEF FORCES Flood Victims Being Effi- ciently Cared for, Writer Finds New York, May 6—Harris Dick- son, widely known magazine writer, has just completed a tour through the flood-swept regions of the low- er Mississippi Valley. The thing that struck him most in that region of desolation was the remarkable relief work done by Secretary of Commerce Hoover and his corps of assistants. In the following article, written for the United Press, he tells what the relief workers are do- ing and what lies ahead. Dickson is a southerner, well acquainted with the district of which he writes. (BY HARRIS DICKSON) (Written for The United Press.) Vicksburg, Miss,, May 7—(United Press) —The intense human tragedy of the flood is shifting southward. The prodigious menace flows on and one, repeating again and again the destruction, the terror and the death. Like a ruthless and resistless army, Father Mississippl surges down our valley with every force at his command. On eithér side stand the great earthen dykes which now scem 80 puny a defense. These levees swarm with men; white men, black men; fighting, | fighting, fighting, raising their en- trenchments hour by hour as the river rises against them. Here and there along the line of march, despite the utmost that hu- man courage can acomplish, Father Mississippl’s vandal tide bursts through, overwhelming the lands, drowning the people and their stock. Today the flood crest is passing | ! Vicksburg. Behind that crest there lies a mass of wreckage, carcasscs of cattle, houses and fences afloat. Ahead of the current there runs a creeping fear. Hundreds of Loulsiana families know tonight that tomorrow they will have no roof to shelter them. Thousands of people are bidding mute farewell to their four-footed (Continued on Page 12) {tion at the Park PRICE THREE CENTS MEMPHIS, TENN., ROCKED BY QUAKE novuosrwiree| AND OTHER PLACES WITHIN RADIUS OF 100 MILES ALSO FEEL TREMORS RAILROAD REJECTS PROTEGTION PLEAS Crossing Guards at All Hours Would Cost $19,772 GATE SMASHERS RAPPED| Barriers Broken 31 Times in Five Months—Common Council Com- mittee Approves FElindnation of Grade Crossover at Allen Street. The movement of freight and pas- senger trains over the unprotected | grade crossings in this city from 11 p. m. to b a. m. is so slight that the payroll expenditure of $19,772 per year to provide 24-hour protection would be entirely unwarranted, James H. Greer, chief trainmaster of the N. Y, N. H. and H. R. R. Co, told the common council railroad committee last night, when the res- olution presented at the council meeting last month was up for dis- cussion. Of the grade crossings in this city, five are protected day and night. Some of the others have part time gate protection and cthers have lights and signals, Mr. Sreer said. Thirty-one railroad gutes have been broken in this city during the past five months, he said, exclusive | of three within the past week or 80, which is not a good record but rath- er is an indication that stme of the motorists who drive over the cross- | ings are not reasonably carcful. A large number of gate smashing in- cidents have occurred in broad day- | light, Mr. Greer said, which raises | the question as to what could be ex- | pected if there were gates in opera- tion at all crossings day and night. Brakemen to Wave Lanterns To provide 24 hour gate protec- street crossing | would add $1,000 to the payroll cost, | Mr. Greer said. He agreed that it | would be well for the railroad com- pany to consider an arrangement | whereby brakemen on switchers | would take up a position in the center of the grade crossings, with lighted lanterns in their hands, dur- ing the time the trains were moving over unprotected crossings at night. | The railroad committee agreed to have Mr. Greer and Trainmaster W. | H. Casey bring this matter to the | attention of the recently nnpolmedi superintendent of the Waterbury di- vision and a report is expected at a later date. Mr. Casey referred to the recent accident at the Park street crossing when Howard Hartman of Fairview street narrowly escaped death in a collision between his automobile and .a switching train. According to the train crew, Hartford was | wholly to blame for the accident, as the brakeman on top of the leading car shouted a warning when he saw the automobile round the corner from Bigelow street into Park street, yvet the automobile continued on at | a rate of speed said to have been | 40 miles an hour, according to the brakeman. The switcher stopped within 13 feet, Mr. Casey said. Had there been gates in operation, they would certainly have been smashed, Mr. Casey said, and had there been a flagman on the crossing he might have been killed. Crossing Tenders Abused. Mr. Casey emphasized that the railroad company is in favor of co- operating with the city government and the public at large, but in re- turn the company feels it has the right to expect fair play. Time after time he has heard gate tunders, in- cluding women, called vile names| and grossly insulted by pedestrians | and motorists, simply because they | were doing their duty hy keeping | the gates lowered until it was safe | to raise them. | Mr. Greer mentioned the incident | at the Elm street crossing a few days ago, when Thomas Murtha of East Main street smashed the south | gates and continued over the tracks | and smashed the gates sn the north& side. Although the cost ot replacing | gates runs from $18 up, the railroad | company seldom collects from thos: | responsible for the dam.age, Mr. | Greer said. Councilman F. 8. Cadwell said he favors some sort of protection & grade crossings such as Park and | Whiting streets, .. where switchers | move at night when the gatemen are | off duty, but he considercd it unrea- | sonable to expect the railroad com- | pany to go to the expense of pro- | viding all night protection by means | of gates in view of the rccord of | broken gates quoted by Mr. Greer. | Councilman Cadwell said he had no idea that gates were broken so fre- quently in this city, and he consid- ered it a serious situation. Allen Street Crossing Elimination The plan to eliminate the grade crossing on Allen street, which has been under consideration for the past three years by the traffic bu- reau of the Chamber of Commerce, was approved by the railroad com- mittee and will be supported when it comes before the council at the meeting May 18. Chairman Walter L. Bell of the committee of the Chamber of Com- merce having charge of the matter explained that the board of public works and city engineer have look- ed over the ground, and the road- |the gunman's More Than 8 Billion Cigarettes Taxed in Country During March Washington, May 7 (UP)— More than 8,000,000,000 cigar- ettes—70 for each man, wom- an and child in the United States—were taxed in this coun- try during March. In making public this figure today the treasury sald cigar- ette consumption was growing so fast that the hundred bil- lion mark was looked for this year. YALE VARSITY WILL BE CLOSELY PUSHED Afternoon’s Boat Races at | Derby Will Be Strenu- ous Contests Derby, Conn, May 7 (P —After four years of supremacy in the rowing world unmarked by a single defeat, Yale's varsity crew goes in- to the waters of the Housatonic river here this afternoon agajnst two strong eights, capable of push- ing the Blue to the limit, the opin- lon of observers. lowers have full confidence in their they concede the threat of Columbia and Pennsylvania. The Elis have somewhat the ad- vantage in experience, six of their men being veterans of last year's undefeated team while two others were on the 1926 junior varsity. Columbia has a varsity crew which preserves intact the championship 1926 freshman eight, while the Penn crew, defeated last weck by Navy and rated the weakest outfit of the three, contains few of the men who last year forced the Blue into a desperate spurt to win, Preceding the varsity wontews"the Jjunior eights representing the three crew, institutions will take to- the water | at 5 o'clock, (D. 8. T.) and half an hour later the three yearling crews will go over the course. The varsity race is scheduled for € o'clock. Since Ed Leader came to Yale in the sring of 1923 from the Uni- versity 6f Washington, the Blue has enjoyed four years of unbroken suc- cess, including the winning of the Olympics of 1924: This record, and the observance of Derby Day, has brought together a gathering which is expected to reach 25,000 by the time the big race opens. The for- tunate will occupy seats on the ob- servation train which will follow each race down the river. Yale will row the middle course with Columbia on the east side of the river. The Housatonic takes | two wide curves in opposite direc- tion on the two-mile course, mak- ing the three positions about equiv- alent except for the slight protec- tion which Pennsylvania will enjoy in the last three quarters of a mile from the high, sloping west bank. ‘BELIEVE DOTY GUNMAN SOUGHT OTHER VICTIM Police Suspect Patrolman’ Interference Upset His Plans That the youthful gunman who shot Officer David Doty in the rear of the Quilty building on EIm street, near East Main street, about 9 o'clock Thursday evening had |been lying in wait for someone else | and feared arrest while carrying a revolver, is one of the theories on which the police were working to- day in the hunt which has thus far proven fruitless. Although the offi- cer, in his account of the shooting that almost resultéd in the loss of his life, stated that the gunman apparently had a bundle benecath his coat, no trace of anything that might have been dropped in his ¢ | flight could be found in the vicinity of the scene of the shooting, and the only information the have relative to the route taken by the youth after the shooting isthat given by some boys who reported that a young man, driving an au- tomobile and showing signs of ex- citement, inquired of them a short distance from EIm or not they knew the policeman’s condition. If this report is true, it seems apparent that the reason for ability to disappear from the vicinity of his act so soon was that he had a car in readi- ness nearby. i The possibility that the gunman is a criminal wanted in another city is also considered by the authori- ties. Ofticer Doty without being stopped, ‘While Yale fol- | police street, whether He may have expected to pass \Early Reports From | Districts Affected By Earth’s Convulsions Report No Damage— Anxious People Seek News. . |With Exception of Ripley, one of Towns Affected Are in Zone of Missis- | sippi Floods. , Memphis, Tenn., May 7 (P—A slight earth tremor was felt in Mem- phis shortly betore $ o'clock this | morning. Shocks also were report- led from a half dozen other towns {and cities in southeastern Missouri, | Tennessee and Arkansas. | Two distinct tremors were felt in | some towns, but no reports of dam- age were received up until 3:36 |o'clock. Towns in which shocks | were felt were: ston, Mo.; Jones. |boro, and Blytheville, Ark., Paris, | Union City, Dyersburg, Ripley, Cova ington and Memphis, Tenn. Many Phone Inquiries Police headquarters and the Com- {mercial Appeal office were besieged with telephone calls from anxious citizens. Points south of the city had not been communicated with. It was estimated that the shocks were felt over a radius of a hun- dred miles. None of the cities which meager reports named as having been shaken were inundated in the pres- ent Mississippi valley flood with the exception of Ripley. Carruthersville, Mo., May 7 (P— A slight earthquake was felt her¢ & 2:20 this waorsiag: -No damile Was reported. B * —_— Poplar Bluff, Mo, May 7 (#—Two severe earthquake tremors shook Poplar BIUff and the immediate dis~ {trict at 2:35 o'clock this morning. | Many people were awakened by the tremors. No severe damage re. sulted. FATE OF MRS. SNYDER Evidence All in and Case Will Go to Jury Some- time Monday New York, May 7 (P—The lives of Mrs. Ruth Snyder and her corset | salesman paramour, Henry Judd Gray, will be placed in the hands of a jury Monday afternoon. Testimony was concluded yester- day at the closing session of the trial's third week, and adjournment was taken until Monday morning at 10 o’clock. Gray during the closing hours of his cross-examination by Dana Wal- lace, of counsel for Mrs: Snyder, con= tinued to be suave and gracious, Asked by Wallace what he had hoped to gain by the murder of Al- hert Snyder, the husband of his former mistress, Gray calmly re: plied: “That is what I would know.” At another time when Wallace asked him whether he had made a certain reply because “it involved you, but you didn't when it involved Mrs. Snyder,” Gray replied, *“No, sir, I'm involved already.” Mrs. Snyder through the minute review of events preceding the mur- der and on the murder night, ap- | peared bored and gazed disinterest- |1y about the court room. Cnly when the testimony would involve intimate details of her life with Gray would she bow her head and fondle her black gloves. Mrs. Snyder, contrary to expecta- tions, did not take the sland in re- direct examination. Counsel for the widow had announced nrior to the opening of court yesterday that she | would be called to refute statements made by Gray. No reason was an- nounced for the change in plans. Six character witnesses who testi- fied as to the truth and veracity of Gray followed the little corset sales- man to the stand. Fifteea minutes of rebuttal followed and testimony in the case was complete. Gray, with tears in nis eyes, but his head erect, reeled Lack to his cell under guard. Behind him, pale but haughty, stoically marched the woman whose “magnetiz influence™ le said caused him to murder her husband. y The first summation will be by | counsel for Gray and will be delive like to and when the officer called to him {ered by William MiNard, his assoe he may have suspected that he ciate, Samuel Miller, having: made' would be searched and found in pos- the opening address. Edgar F. Ha- session of the revolver. Rather | zelton opened for Mrs. Sn; yder, 58 than submit, he took the chance of ‘Wallace will present the summation escape and when he found his path of her case as soon as Millard i8 blocked by the fence, he decided to|done. Then District Attorney m shoot it out, and won. K (Continued on_Pm 12). (Continue on Page 13) ard Newcombe will sum-up for (Continued on Pags 18) AND GRAY KNOWN SOON -