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ESTABLISHED 1870 WPV VEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1927. —.TWENTY PAGES. “'ENEMY’ FORCES LANDED BUT - |ARE DRIVEN BACK BY BLUE { ¥ ' DEFENSE IN WAR MANEUVERS|” Army-Navy Activities Along New England Coast Broadens To- day Into “Battle” In- ' volving All Units. Black Invaders Theoreti- cally Succeed in Putting 20,000 Men Ashore But These Are Later Annihi- lated, Officers Rule. New England Safe Newport, R. L, May 19 (®— The joint army and navy man- euvers ended at 12:25, eastern standard time today, when the DEATHS TOTAL 48 IN SCHOOL BLAST 37 Children and Six Aduls Victims of Lunatic KILLED OWN WIFE T00 Police Find Her Charred Remains in | Ruins of Home and Think She Was First Victim—May Have Had Accomplice. Bath, Mich., May 19 (P—with 37 lof its children who yesterday | romped through its streets, and six |adults lying still In death, this lit- [tie village of some 300 persons was Jjust beginning today to comprehend Man is Drank Afeer Taking More |BERTAUD DROPPED | Than Ounce and Half of Alcohol | AS CHAMBERLIN'S r Three Ounces of Fifty Water Intoxicating if Enough Is Drunk, Says Report to Medical Men Washington, May 19 (UP) Water, drunk in sufficient quan- titles, is intoxicating, according to Dr. A. M. Snell and Dr. L. G. Rountres, of Rochester, N. Y., attending the conference of the association for the study of in- ternal secretions. Five or six gallons taken every day will eventually pro- duce a ‘jag” similar to that brought on by indulging in too much liquor, it was said. The doctors pointed out the case of a man with an obsession for drinking water, who de- veloped a case of drunkenness with some of the manifestations of epilepsy. ‘Washington, May 19 (UP)—Wags have said a man is drunk when he lies on the floor and has to hold on, Per Cent Whiskey Accom- plishes Same Effect, Doctors Are Told but a sclentific answer was given to- day to thousands of doctors at the American Medical Association con- !vention by Dr. Emil Bogen, Clncin- natl, as the result of investigating more than 300 cases in past year. Pointing out that some men can drink more than others, Dr. Bogen concluded that, generally, real in- toxication sets in after drinking more than an ounce and a half of absolute alcohol, or about three |ounces of fitty per cent whiskey. Results vary from lack of control |to absolute coma. Dr. Bogen de |clared the commonly accepted signs ot drunkenness do not always hold. |” Tn making the intoxication tests in [the Cincinnatl _traffic _court, Dr. | Bogen worked on the generally ac- | cepted theory that the alcoholic con- |tent of the blood is an index of the | state of intoxication. Dr. Bogen declared the popular attitude toward drunkenness has |ranged “from the rigid prohibition enjoined upon his faithful moslems by Mohammed to ecstatic apothcosis Omar Khayyam. FLIGHT GOMPANION | Lévine Says Definitely Navigator Is Dismissed—Succassor Already Chosen {SEARCH FOR NUNGESSER CONTINUED OFF TRELAND British Destroyer Running Down Clue Even Though It Is Believed to be Hoax—Two More French Airmen Now Arc Planning New ] Moscow. New York, May 19 () — Lloyd Bertaud definitely will not make the | Paris flight in the Bellanca mono- |plane with Clarence Chamberlin, of intoxication by the Inspired SOt |, 14 pig guccessor §s already select- | mitten ied, Charles A. Levine, head of the | ;company backing the flight, told the | Associated Press this afternoon. | Denies Bertaud’s Version followed Levine's announcement | York Hop—Another Starts F‘"r PEORIA AND INDIANAPOLIS SUFFER " DEATHS AND DISASTER FROM STORM WHICH HITS PARTS OF TWO STATES File Resolution With Com-; mon Council and Will Be Given Hearing by Com-| mittee. | Twelve ministers representing a majority of the Protestant de-| nominations of the city, have filed a protest against Sunday afternoon | movies and will be given a public | | hearing before the ordinance com- of the common council| shortly. | | Under a recently enacted statute | | cities may authorize Sunday after- Inoon shows after July 1. At last| Clergymen Protest Against Moyi_es_ On Sunday Afternoon Highspots in Message From Weld to Council Delivered Last Night EXcerpts from Mayor Weld's message to the common council last night follow: “Whenever & department turns back a part of its appropriation, it is a proof of efficient management.” “Every expenditure made should be with the thought that only by keeping our taxes as low as pos- sible, commensurate with our needs, may we encourage and help the home owner.” “There {8 need for improvement Northend Five Believed Killed in Former City While at “Least 45 Persons Are Injured in Latter Place. Financial Loss Will Run Into Many Millions of Dollars—Six Inches of Rain Falls in Few Hours’ Time. Peoria, 11, May 19.—(®—Five persons may have lo-t/their Uves, one of them, Walter Mueller, son of ‘WARRANT [SSUED FOR Inight's meeting of the common |and enlargement of the blue forces won a sweeping vic- the mayor of Peoria, when he and tory in defeating the blacks who sought to invade New York and southern New England. Newport, R. L, May 19 (A—A black invading force landed this morning, but has been hurled back, divided and now occupies a hopeless position, Major General Preston Browfi, commander of the blue forces, announced today. Without support from its own flect, outnum- bered in infantry and subjected to the fire of railway and other artil- lery, the landing force of 20,000 men might be annihilated, he believed. No Official Report The umpires have as yet made no report on the success of the invasion but General Brown outlined his con- ception of the situation after four Lours of bitter theoretical fighting. Under covering fire from the black fleet, transports last night had slip- ped around Vineyard light into Buz- zard’s Bay and landed 20,000 men along the beaches. A landing unit at Point Judith in Narragansett Bay was repelled. The bombardment of the previous day pleted the efticiency of the shore forts in that sector. All Units Involved The joint war of the army and navy, which for the first day had heen entirely naval, with a brief en- zagement of air forces over the blue headquarters at Fort Adam, New- port, was now broadened to incl: every type of force. 5 The black fleet, its guns helples because of their flat trajectory which would have wrought havoc among their own land forces cqual to that among the blues, had they fired, stood by off shore. The 26th and 43rd divisions of the blues, moving by trucks and marching, were flung against the ad- vancing line of the blacks. went into action at about 6:30 this morning. Behind them the 14 inch mobile artillery units began the counter attack on the black force: which had for support only mountain artillery and fanks, Fort Adams' 12 inch mortars and artillery at Paradlse point drove to sea again three of the transports which had landed black infantry. Heavy “Casualtics” Theoretically, the blue and black land forces met in a terrific combat | clocks in the wrecked wing stopped | Was made direct to U. S. Attorney | in which losses ‘“must have been cnormous,” according to General Brown. Carried back by the weight of superior forces supported by much stronger artillery, the advance of the blacks was checked. Then they were forced back toward the sea. Relentlessly driving against the invaders the blue forced the enemy had greatly de-! They | | the tull horror of the maniacal dyna- | miting yesterday of its consolldated | school., Forty-three others were ser- iously injured; no one knows the |number of minor injuries. 1 Included in the dead is Andrew | | Kehoe, revenge maddened farmer, | | treasurer of the township school | | board, who mined the school with | dynamite and gunpowder and blew | bimself into eternity after watching | the blast tear the north g of the | school to pieces and hurl the bodies | |of its littic pupils through windows | |and walls. i Killed Wife First, | | Mrs. Andrew Kehoe, wife of the | 'n;aninf‘. was the first victim of his tury, it was established today. Parts {of her body were found in the ashes {of one of the outbuildings on the | | Kchos farm. Her skull was crushed, |leading to the belict Kehoe killed {her before casting her dody into the | | building to be burned. [ The discovery was made by Roy! Cole, a deputy sheriff. i Fate Saved Town | Only a stroke of fate prevented destruction of the entire village. | Investigation showed that Kehoe, | | angered because of a school fhx lev: | ied against him and nursing his op- | position to the erection of the build- | ing three years ago, had carefully | mined the basement, installing an | claborate system of electrical wiring | connected with a time clock. His plans called for destruction of the | | entire structure, with its more than | 260 pupils and teachers. One of the | wires he so carefully inttalled be- | | came short circuited and the elec- | tric impulse failed to complete " its | course. It was this failure that pre- | vented the killing of more than 150 | | more pupils in another part of the building. Three Explosions | | There were three explosions. The | first occurred early yesterday morn- | ing at Kehoe's home, about a mile | | west of the village, destroying the house, barn and parently wel timing device. The second blast was that in the hool building. It came at 9:43 a. | {m., only a few minutes after classe: {had becn assembled. The time ha: | been fixed definitely because all the lat that minute. The third blast ! | came in Kehoe's automobile in front | of the school about 30 minutes later. | Kehoe was sitting in the car, Emor: E. Huyck, superintendent of schools, was talking with him, one foot on | | the running board. Glenn O. Smith, | | village postmaster, and Nelson Me- | | Farran, an aged man, were standing { former cashiér | again to split on cither side of the West|qon the sidewalk a few feet away. branch of the Westport river. The blacks clung tenaciously to the narrow strip of territory which they had occupied almost without opposi- tion in the early morning hours. En- {renchments were hastily thrown up to meet the artillery fire which was voured upon them. 18 Mile Battlefront The blues, having flung two di- visions directly into the combat, moved two others into a close re- serve. The 97th was moved to Taunton, a few miles to the north while the 76th, which had been held on the west side of Narragansett Bay, was en route to Providence to the west of the battleground. The battle raged over an 18 mile front. General Brown declared, as the success of the bluc arms was re- ported, that tha maneuver had con- vinced him that this area of the third sub-coastal sector was impreg- nable if a sufficient supply of mobile troops were available, Yesterday's developments in the annual army-navy joint maneuvers caige With all the relentless swift- ness of a real war. “Casualties were as heavy and combat was waged far into the night and over a wide area. “Blues” Suffer Losses Outstanding damage to the Blue forces, which are attempting to prevent the sack of the metropolis by way of an overland thrust, saw the loss of the flagship Concord and destroyers Lawrence and Sturtevant. All three shipy had inflicted heavy damage on the Black fleet before the Concord was sent to the bottom by the dreadnaught Pennsylvania. Langley Not Sunk An unconfirmed report which gave temporary cheer to the Blue headquarters here was dashed when it was authgritatively reported to the official umpires plare carrier Tangley was safe. Farlier advices were that the Black fleet auxillary had fallen prey to (Continued on Page Bixteen) that the air-; uddenly a terrific blast came from | the machine. The bodies of Kehoc | |and Huyck were blown to bits. Mc- | | Farran ~ was killed ou:right and Smith 8o badly injured that he died | in a hospital soon afterward. Kehoe's car was torn to pieces. | |The rear wheels and differential | were hurled across the road. | Part of the framework was wrap- | ped about a telephone pole 15 rods {down the road and on thz other side | |of the street. | Two Versions. There are two versions of the ex- plosion in Kehoe's car. One was that | he fired a rifie into a load of powder lin the tonneau. The other that he {sct off the blast by touching a but- \ton in an electric circuit while sit- |ting in the car. No one actually saw | | the explosion. Besides Kehoe, Huyck, Smith and McFarran, the other adult killed was | Hazel Wetherbee, a teacher. A state investigation was under | way today to determine whether Kehoe was alone in the crime, and lso the source of the large quan- y of explosive. Accordingly to Charles Lane, state fire marshal, the electrical wiring leading to the dynamite and powder charges planted in the school build- ing was so ingeniously done that he was not sure it could have been in- stalled by one person. Fnough un- exploded dynamite and powder was found to fill a small truck, and Lane expresses doubt that Kchoe could have gonme into the schoolhouse, night after night, with small quan- tities of the explosive, as would have been necessary, had he been alone. Was Clverly Concealed. An hour before the blost Kehoe, with Bert fetiuff, the village black- smith, and member of the school board, inspected the building and re- ported everything all right Dynamite had been cleverly conceal>d in floors. Frank Smith, janitor of the bullding, (Continued on Page 8.) TORRINGTON BANKER Embezzlement ~ Charged Against Joyce, Former Cashier Torrington, Conn., May 19 (P—A warrant charging F. Early Joyce, of the Torrington National bank with embezzlement, has been issued from the office of United States Attorncy John Buck- ley, in Hartford. Joyce is ill In a sanitarium in New York state, and it was stated With authority that the warrant will not be served until Joyce is able to leave the institution. The warrant was issued on the basis of a report filed earlier in the week by federal examiners of the bank, with Mr. Buckley charging that there were irregularities in the accounts of the bank. Yesterday President F. M. Travis of the bank said he had had no definite information as to the “ir- regularities.” Today Mr. Travis was out. of town. It is understood that the federal warrant names a specific sum as presenting the alleged irregulari- ties but the figures were not made public by Mr. Buckley. The bank, President Travis said yesterday, was fully protected in cvery way in event of losses due to any acts of Joyce who resigned as cashicr a few days ago after service in the bank for fifteen years. In ad- dition, F. H..Joyce, father of the former cashier, is said to have stated that ht was willing to make good any shortage which might have beew disclosed in the accounts of his son. The examination of the bank, ac- | cording to President Travis was un- dertaken as a matter of course be- cause of the resignation of the cashier who had been in ill health, The federal examiners also came— Messrs. Williams and Parker of Boston—and the report of the latter John Buckley. President Travis vesterday said that upon being informed of the character of the report given to Mr. Buckley, the bank called in private auditors to go over the accounts It was understood that the books were ih a somewhat involved condition owing to the methods used by Joyce. It was further understood that Joyce was under bonds. Joyce resigned as treasurer of Trinity Episcopal parish a few days go when he leit for a sanitarium, d his resignation was accepted Tuesday night. His accounts were reported to be correct. No information as to the “irregu- larities” have been given out either. ACCUSED BY BROTHER Meriden Woman Arrested on Charges of Embezzlement Broaght by Younger Member of Family. Meriden, Conn., May 19 (P— Mrs. Mae Brenner of 134 Lewls avenue, was arrested today on a charge of embezzlement preferred by her brother, Abner Gustafson. It is claimed that Mrs. Brenner as guardian and agent of the youth had certain money belonging to him in her possession. He has now be- come of age and an accounting ask- ed for by Judge of Probate George A. Clark was not filed by the guard- ian. The case has been continued for ten days, during which time an | accounting has been promised by Mrs. Brenner. RESPIRATION FAILS Another Patient, Kept Alive by Artificial Means for 32 Hours, Finally Dics. Birmingham, Ala., May 19 (D— After being kept alive for 32 hours by artificial réspiration, Mrs. T. H. Fallow, 31, died today She became ill Tuesday night with | what physiclans diagnosed as a fluid | clot on the brain which paralyzed nerves controlling respiration. Eight men alternately worked over her, depressing her chest in rhythm, forcing air into her lungs. PRINCETON STUDENTS | Fifteen Reported Violating Drinking and Automo- bile Rules Newark, N. J., May 18 (P—The Newark Evenings ws today says that it has learned of the suspen: sion of 15 students at Princeton uni versity for violation of college rules 'against drinking and driving auto mobiles without permission fro®i college authorities. | have taken place last which was given over the house parties of the upper clasg clubs. Rules wers made that there should be no drinking on the premises of any club, and according to the New the four suspensions for drinking were the outcome of violation ef the rule at one ciub. Most of those reported suspended for driving automobiles were sopho- mores and the suspensions were for one week, Dean Christian Gauss, of the col- {lese of liberal arts stated that acts of discipline were never made publie. It was learned from other sources that there had been a number of suspensions but that there had been no expnisions as was the case after the house party week end in other years. (GARAGE AND FOUR CARS DESTROYED BY BLAZE | |Damage Estimated $2,000 in Fire on Mitchell Street at A garage and four automobiles were destroyed by fire last night at 19 Mitchell street, the total dam- ¢ being estimated at $2000. The e department was called by an alarm from Box 337 at 11:35 o'clock and found the building a mass of flames. Because of the start the fire had gained, the fight was a losin . The recall was sounded at 12:2 The Infractions were reported to | week end, | tardily on an almost night long con- ‘ferq’flce at the end of which Bertaud “R“ERE“ SUSPENBEI] had said that all difficulties had beeft ironed out and that he would 0 On the flight as navigator as or- |iginally planned. Levine made no statement at the {time but when reports gained cir- |culation that the situation was not |quite as Bertaud believed it to be, |Levine was asked to state definitel (what the results of the conference i were, | “Bertaud is not going,” Levine re- plied. “That is definite. His suc- icessor has been selected but his dentity will not be revealed until he plane is ready to hop oft.” Preparations went forward today to enable all three waiting plan: to take off for France just as soon as weather permits, l Fliers Make Tests During the morning the giant | Fokker America in which Byrd, Noville and Acosta will fly for Pari !was trundled from i sent hurtling into the air. Because |ot adverse winds, however, the final " {laad test of 14,500 pounds was not mede, the flight being merely a |spéed and instrument trial. After “15 minutes in the air the America (was returning to its hangar and it (was announced no more flights {would be made this morning. | Both the Columbia and Lind- | bergh’s spirit of St. Louis remained lin their hangars, Lindbergh being lready to leave as soon as Chamberlin and Bertaud resting after their almost night-long confer- c¢nce which ended with announc: ment that all differences between | fliers and backers had been ironed out. Gusty winds drove a drizzling rain across the aviation flelds during the morning, but weather reports indi- { cated that gradual clearing was tak- g place along the “great circle” | route to France, which it now seems will be followed by all the filers. It {was hoped that by tomorrow all { would be ready for the hop off, but | announcement of christening cere- | monies for the America on Satur- | day indicated that the hope of a get- |away before that time was dim, at least in the opinion of Commander Byrd. 1 Hunting Nungesser. | Plymouth, May | Search of the I | approach to the English channel hy | the destroyer Sea Wolf for possible | traces of wreckage from the missing | French trans-Atlantic plane White | | Bird was ordered today hy the com- £ | mander of the Plymouth naval sta- jcouncil a resolution was presented |school, and the probable necessity {askilg adoption of an ordinance to | of converting the Roosevelt school, its hangar and | the | weather man gives the signal and | 19 (P— | and the | o0 41 tion. The Sea Wolf is stationed at The building is owned by Joseph | : ! Ranaldi, who also owned one of the | (Contined on Pege 18) cars. The other cars were owned by | - Q1D ancini - ot 244~ cumon | PREDICTS BIG SURPLUS street, Edmund Canzone of 10 MitcheH street, and Daniel Kelly of | |75 Spring street. The cause of the fire has not been determined, but | | conelderation is being given to the | i theory that electric wiring may | | started it. Predicts There Will Be Half Bil- lion Dollars in Treasury. Washington, May 19 (#—Predic- | Senator Simmons of North Carolina | HIKER SCALDS JUDGE Danbury Court, Saying She Has Right to Take Long Trip. Danbury, Conn., May 19 (P— | Sybil R. Means, who says she is a hiker and has walked nearly four thousand miles, faced Judge S. A. Davis in the city court here today on the charge of vagrancy. Al- though she admitted that her funds re rather low the woman denied the charge. “This is a free country and a woman can go hiking without Leing answerable to you,” she told the court. Judge Davis agreed with her, although advising her that it is not safe for a woman to go walking about the country, and or- deted her discharged. The woman was taken into cus- tody late yesterday afternoon when she was found walking on | Sugar Hollow road, a paper bag for a hat, her thread bare coat pieced | | | together with picces of twigs and {her shoes and stockings worn through. She is resting at Salvation Army headquarters, where she has | received a complete outfit of cloth- | ing. KILLED IN NEW PLANE Moline. TIL, May 19 (P— Ketner, Moline aviator, was killed | near the Moline airport today when |a plane which he built crashed to 'the ground. | Arrested as Vagrant, She Upbraids | the | oyd tion that a tax surplus of $500.000,- 000 would be in the treasury by the time congress meets in December was made today by Senator Sim- | mons, of 1democrat on the senate finance com- I mittee, | senator Simmons charged the ad- ministration with collecting hun- | dreds of millions of dollars from the ipeople last year and using it for | paying off liberty bonds when the | holders of the bonds were not as {ing payment. He said he presumed |“the administration leaders would allow the surplus to be ‘returned to |the people in order that the admin- tration may have campaign capital in the presidential election cam- palgn of 1928.” TIGHT IS POSTPONED New York, M round heavywcight elimination hout scheduled tonight at the Yankee stadium between Jimmy Maloney and Jack Sharkey, has been postpon- ed until tomorrow night, Promoter Tex kard announced tod: Rain that started this morning was {still falling when the announcement of the postponement was made at 11 o'clock. | THE WEATHER * | \ | New Britain and vicinity: Showers this afternoon and tonight; Friday mostly fair. North Carolina, ranking | {legalize these shows, and immedi- | ately - protests were read from the | change club and the minister. It | ! was voted to give the clergymen an | opportunity to voice their objec- |tions in greater detail at the meeting | {which will be called by Alderman | David L. Nair, chairman. | Those whose names appear on the | i protests arc: Rev. Dr. Abel Ahlquist, Rev. William H. Alderson, Rev. | | Warren M. Blodgett, Rev. Samuel | | Sutcliffe, Rev. T. A. Greene, Rev. | William Ross, Rev. ¥rederick W. | Schaefer, Rev. Dr. J. E. Klingberg, Rev. Axel 1. Peterson, Rev. G. H.| | Schneck, Rev. Frederic I. Fay, | Rev. Raymond N. Gilman and En sign Carl Frederickson of the Sal- vation Army. Explains Resolution | Accompanying the resolution was | the following statement over lhc; signature of Rev. T. A. Greene of the | First Congregational church: | “The enclosed resolution signed by’ | the majority of the Protestant clergy ! of the city of New Britain, and to | be read at the meeting of the com- | mon council this evening, May 1§th. “We are authoritatively informed |that certain motion picture house |owners in this city are petitioning | | the common council at this time, re- | { questing the adoption of an ordi- nance to permit the showing of ! moving pictures on Sundays begin- ning at 2 p. m. standard time hence- | forth in accordance with the recent- | |1y passed local option law of the ate legislature. “We presume that this matter will not he acted upon by the mayor and council without due consideration | and possibly a public hearing, in | which case the ministers who have | signed the enclosed resolution jwould desire to be informed and be present. “We are confident that that which | | we have to present will receive the | | conscientious and serious considera- | | tion hoth of yourself and of the full membership of the common council of this cit e, also, that it is very important and should be given such {a public hearing before final action | is taken by the governing body of | this city.” | Text of Resolution { The resolution follows: | “To the mayor and common coun- cil of the City of New Britain: *“We, the undersigned, clergy of | the city of New Britain, respectfully submit the following resolution rela- tive to the showing of moving pic- | tures on Sumday afternoon as per- | mitted under the law of the state, | Senate Bill No. 467, Fill No. 100, 1927, “Whereas, a petition has been pre- |sented to the common council re- questing the adoption of an ordi- ance to permit the showing of mov- ing pictures on Sundays beginning lat 2 p. m. (standard time) and “Whereas we helicve such action would be in time detrimental to {the well being of the city, and i “Whereas, we object to the fur- ther encroachment upon the use of | Sunday as a time for operating com- mercial amusements for profit. “And whereas, we believes that seven nights and six afternoons each weck are amply sufficient for the moving picture amusements of the city and for the making of a legiti- {mate profit on the money invested ! therein, “Be it resolved that we, the un- dersigned clergy of the city of New Dritain, hereby request the common | council not to adopt any ordinance | permitting Sunday aftcrnoon moving | pictures under the local option law recently passed by the state legisla- | | ture.” NEW RIVER FORMED [ Is Tearing its Way Through Fertile { Farm Lands of the Famous Evangeline Country. New Orleans, May 19 (P—A new river, which army engineers esti- mated to be carrying much of the flood waters strcaming through the Bayou Des Glaises crevasses from the Tensas basin, was tearing its way through the fertile farm lands of the Evengeline country today, ariving thousands from their homes. More than 7,000 already had been forced to flee from villages and towns in the path the river was cutting to the sea to take up tem- porary refuge in concentration camps, which is now an elementary school, into a Junior High school, which will make it necessary to build an additional elementary school.” “Although the police commission has found it advisable to appoint a discipline committee the fact that it has been necessary to bring very few officers before them proves that the morale and discipline of our police department has risen to a much higher standard.” “I sincerely hope that the money | for an incinerator can be appropri- | ated next year.” “I feel that a better storage rate could be obtained from privately owned garages and a lower repair charge secured the same way.” “Cars must be brought in for re- pairs when ordered by the garage commission and drivers of city cars must adhere more closely to the n‘gulu.ugnl of.the nllg’l garage,” “The project for a proposed park in the northwestern section of the city has not been forgotten and it is still my hope that work may be started on it, if not this year, at least by next year.” “I hope that at some future time some plan may be provided so that we may have community use of the school gymnasiums.” “These memorlals (Spanish and World War) when completed, will be monuments to the men who gave their lives for their country, they will honor the families of those men and their comrades, a gift to posterity proving the honor and the love we have for those who fell.” “Existing pocket streets should be condemned and taken over as public highwa It is my opinion that the policy of not allowing the laying out of further streets of this character should be even more firmly established. “Tt is again urged that modern construction machinery be secured, 4hat an experienced sewer de- gner study and lay out intercept- ing sewers to take the load from the present trunks.” “Piper Brook and Cherry street storm water outfalls should be ex- tended at an earty date.” | “Steps should be taken as soon as possible to separate the engineering and other works (of the public works department) in order that the person in charge of each should be | in_charge from the start.” “We are approaching the time when there will be danger of con- ! tamination, and we must either chlorinate or filter our water to protect our citizens and assure them water free from pollution.” “I belleve that the work (water service extension) is of sufficient importance to warrant the employ- ment of a full-time engineer during the period of the proposed new construction.” “If the above program (Whigville and Forestville developments) is followed out it will increase our present water supply 33 per cent or .000,000 gallons a day, and in all probability we can defer the raising of Shuttle Meadow dam for quite a few years.” “A board of aldermen, composed of 14 members, two from each ward and two aldermen at large, each to he paid at least $200 per year, would in my opinion expedite transaction of the city business and greatly in- crease the value of the board to the citizens and the municipality as a whole.” (The complete text of Mayor Weld's message is printed on page 10 of this issue.) Priest and Girl Reported Buried Alive in Mexico Nogales, Ariz.,, May 19 (P—A de- layed report to the Nogales Herald a companion were caught in a wall of water described as about 13 feet high, in floods and rainstorms in Peoria and vicinity late yesterday, A score or more were reported wn- accounted for. Three hundred and fifty a homeless and damage is estimated at a million and a halt dollars. Train service in and out of Peoria ‘was demoralized today due to wash- out, and other utilities services still were crippled. :} Young Mueller, a mine superin tendent, and Lester Jones, wers walking on the Toledo, Peoria and Western rallway tracks ~ when caught in the flood waters of Le Marsh creek. Jones and others de- scribed it as a wall of water 13 feet high which swept them into the torrent. Jones escaped and said he did not see Mueller again. Indianapolis Damage Indianapolis, May 19 P—At least 45 persons injured, property damage PYITS 00,000 bea tween 208% % and seve eral ethes: ‘were wrecked, a dozen larger buifldings unroofed and badly crippled telephone and telegraph communication was the result of heavy wind and rain (Continued on Page 16) DAM BURSTS, SEVERAL DROWNED IN WYOMING 8 Known Dead, Others Missing When Natural Lake Is Released + Idaho Falls, Idaho, May 19 (P— Nature has restored the topography of the upper Gros Ventre river val- ley to a semblance of its original appearance at a cost of at least cight lives, it was revealed today as flood waters released by a “slide” dam continued to menace several communities. The *slide dam,” created when Sheep mountain shifted several feet in June, 1925, to send an ava- lanche of rocks, dirt and trees across the Gros Ventre river, cpl- lapsed yesterday to send a wall of water down the valley. The lake natural dam held 100,000 acre feet of water, Kelly, little northwestern Wy- oming community where about 75 persons lived, was inundated vir- tually without warning. As the town is located only four miles belov, the dam, several persons wera drowned before they could reach the nearby hills. Although the death list stood at eight, others were unaccounted for, Continuing its race valley, the flood struck Wilson, miles below Kelly, within two hours. Ranchers declared the tor- rent retained its crest of nearly 20 feet. The river soon was nearly a mile and a half wide, but no lives were lost at Wilson as residents had been warned to flee. As the water rushed into the Snake river at its junction withthe Gros Ventre near Wilson, warnings were issued to farmers for more than 100 miles along the twisting valley. As the torrent passed into Idaho it maintained a head of nearly ten feet and caused officials of the Oregon Shore line here to send out crews in an effort tq save bridges. Telephone communication to tha upper Snake river valley was crip- pled and only meagre reports were available as to the damage to sev- eral villages, Only a church and a store were reported undamaged at Kelly. The Sheep mountain slide follow- €d a series of earthquakes that caused considerable damagee in northern Wyoming and Montana, The slide and avalanche created dam nearly a half mile across and approximately 300 feet in height. This formed a lake about seven miles long, a mile in width and 250 feet in depth at some points sparsely settled created by the approximately today says that bandits attacked a |State engineers who inspected the train in the Mexican state ot Jalis- dam declared they believed it unm- co, May 16, burying alive a priest |safe due to trees and rocks mixed and a young girl from Tepeo. With the earth. down the °