New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 12, 1927, Page 2

2 MURDERESS MAY | PLEAD INSANITY Husband's Slayer Expected to Blame “Small Town” | Palnesvyille, 0., The story of to adfust hersel ‘ rural community probably w told in municipal court today effort to reduce the first degree der charge against Mrs. Velma We who has the by or of rancis J. Poulson, counsel, is expected o life of the little r Perry (population 20 severely with 1i the girl's former ho mind became tempor ed. He also is expect the girl and her h over this d against coun gument she band the f: mer, He will porary insanity the first degrec duced to mansiau The state will was premeditate st degree m Iy unt vester nad rest more remorseful since her arr ‘When Mrs. girl's mother, about the funcral of Van Woert 1y told Ve Sheriff Edward puzzled by his priso “A s quirers. met. 8 fight start- ed when she wanted to go to & bridge party in Cleveland and ! didn't want her to go. How ever Killed @ big fellow like that ir a fight is a mystery to me.’ And psychologists 100 st West as a \ge womar said she had a “split ¥ Indications were ) _called on to explain t ccentrici- Vs the Ars. ) {Those Who Obtain Divorces and Marry Again Are Scored by Rev. Walter J. Lyddy at St. Mary's, NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1927. SOHE CATHOLIGS REBUKED HONG HONG, SCENE OF ‘RED’ MADNESS | directed by Russians.” A direct wireless message from Canton today said the city had fallen prey te looting and sporadic fires had been Li Chun-Tak, former commissioner of public | safety, was believed to be the com- munist leader. The message stated thers was heavy small arms ta & sormon o “starrimony ot WOTKERS Disarm Polic and Take vsr, fhers, ves nen et e ay d Catho- nounc again t their lves are no power TORMS MAY HALT LINDBERGHYS HoOP Hero Completes Plan for Trans- nl (ontinental Jaunt Mexico nged his ho- han City ergh exel rters for the Field as a base, ol t, if attempted or two, would run flier has re- for his uld itions the nest k or + definite date except to say that it w weather con Tindbergh will | by collecting Major his plans her and other data from turnwell, comman and other army fliers. art of today, however the amphiblan to Assistant S er at take aloft belonging new e re- Gontrol of Gity Kong, Dee. 12 (Ph—Advices al Chang Fak- ain of his troops. workers took control of ths 1 railroad service to up. Telegraph reports stated China had heen ymship a ¢ Kong s were cut General k of lestroyed ictator of Canton, who was re- contly de d by the Nanking sts as a traitor and suppor- some tior ter of communists, suspected newly recruited troops of being sup- porters of General LA Chai-Sum, the > stator. He ordere armed and dishanded. tempt to disar d to fight astern suburh. Scamen’s union thereupon in- stituted ch tied up steamer and service to Hong arrival at Hong Kong was th Sajon was nd had vd fleeing from Can- 2 only Chinese steam- nned by Rritish sailors sengers aboa disorderly elements in Can- ton took advantage of the confu- sion to start fires and for indiscrim- inate looting. A proclamation from Canton an- nounced that the combined workers peasants forces had taken over control. The red corps of workers. numbering 5,000, occupled all the nti-revolutionary government of- se fncluded the Koumin- quarters, the department ad milltary affatre, tele- phone and telegraph offices and railroad stations. Armed peasants and workingmen wearing red brassards swarmed the Canton. Al shops were of finance strects of closed. Ot 20,00 r advices stated that communists took advantage of the \hgence of troops sent to the West river to mest a threatened invasion the troops | v pr 0 Chineso | 0 | ambassador here, movements on a large scale, The sald that the troubles were pure of a revolutionary character. Other advices way of Hong Kong said that the revolution troops in seizing con- trol of the eity were aided by the fact that the majority of the forces in Canton sided with the peasant- labor factions. This was done while e were troops from Kwi province, SNAG HALTS PROBE OFHEARST CHARGES - Galles’ HalBrotber May Refuse to Testily, Is Belief ston, Dee. 12 (-~ facts in Its investig that President Mexico, sought to pay $1,200,000 our American scnators, the special committee has unearthed a require diplo- mnel- tion of of 10 matic gettlemen The problem in the subpocna issued for Arturo M. Mexican consul general in York. half- president, tral { million dolls committ other nd alleged to be the in the handiing fund. figure demanding their testimony before the commit- tee have been f for William ndolph Hearst, publisher of the newspapers printing the 5 nst Calles, and Victor Watson nanaging editor of the New Yor ¢ Mirror. Wafson was served w York vesterday but there Similar subpoenas ! was no confirmation of service upon | | the other two. N | The | Elias is questioned by the Mexican Manuel C. Tellez, who maintains that under int a- tional law consular officers are { mune from subpor from Canton by | of the Mexican | committec’s right te sumnon ‘ DENVER SOPRAND WIS RADIO CROWN iYoung Baritone From Quaker [ City Best Male Singer { New York, Dec. 12 (UP) — A young soprano from still younger baritone from Phila- delphia were crowned king and {queen of amateur singers last night in the f s of the nationwide {water Kent Foundation. | Agnes Davis, 24, of Denver, Colo., |ana Wilbur Evans, 22, of Philadel- phia, Pa, were chosen by & jury of prominent musicians as the win- s of the final audition held in studios of the National Broad- isting company and broadcast over a metwork which stretched from the Atlantlc to the Pacific. More than 50,000 ambitious young singers have participated in the local, state and district audi- tions held under the auspices of the I'hiladelphia radio manufacturer, Atwater Kent, since elimination cont ten youngsters—a boy and a girl from each of five districts—to face the microphone last night The award of $5,000 in cash and 4 two-year scholarship tn a promi- nent American conservatory was iwarded Miss Davis unanimously ¢ the jury, which included Louise omer, Refnald Werrenrath, W. Ii. v, Viadimir Rosing, Yeatman flith, George Fergusson, Key and T. Tertius Noble. signing an identical first prize i | | | | The .| for the male singer was a bit more | difficult, but Evans had a shade jover Ted A. Roy, the “singing blacksmith” from Corvallis, Ore. Miss Davis was the first of last night’s contestants to sing. De: the traditional have for being the first to open a | program, the young Denver soprano {sang, “Pace, Pace, Mio Dio,” an from Verdi’s opera, “Forza Del tino,” in such a manner as to the entire company of {judges that she was to be ranged umber One.” Her selection inner was unanimous. ans, who 18 just a couple or Iyears out of West Philadelphia High echool, chose a French song, |"Le Cor" (“The Horn") by Flegier, | convince Denver and a | September. | but | Pierre | as | The: Pacific coast con ts fin- | ished second. They were Emilla Daprato, an Italian-born soprano {from South San Francisco, and Ted | Roy, & student at Oregon Agricul- | tural college, who has helped his| father at the blacksmith's forge during vacations for the past 11 years. Miss Daprato sang an aria | from Verdi’s “Ernani,” and Roy sang “The Hilla of Home," by Fox. |Each was awarded $2,000 and a ‘ye-fn scholarship. | The standing of the other con- testants was as follows: Third, $1,000 each and scholar- {ships, Marie Btonarzyk, Chicago, and Ben P. Deloache, jr., Asheville, N. ; fourth, 8500 each, Marle | Healy, Manchester, N. 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