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News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 HICKMAN FLEEING FROM COUNTRY T0 | CANADA, BELIEVED Identified Slayer of Lmle; Parker Girl Recognized as He Purchases Gloves CHILD CUT TO PIECES WHILE ALIVE, IS FEAR Accused Kidnaper and Killer Slips Through Police Net as Several Youths Resembling Him Are Ar< Choked Doctors rested—Victim Neither nor Given Anacsthetics, Agree. the Associated Willlam Idward Hickman, ac- cused kidnapet and killer of little Varian Parker in Los Angeles, s iunted in Seattle after one of the 0 bills which the girl's father the abductor was passed in @ Seattle haberdashery by a man ved to be the one wanted. Los Angeles police are resting for the first time in four days as chiet of Detectives Hermans Cline an- nounces helief that Seattle officers | 1 “the search | Press ve liave real trail and that is near the end Several mid-western cities re- ported that arrest of a man gen- illy answering Hickman's de- «cription, but interest centers in Scattle search. Physiclan Gets Threat In Kansas C Hickman former home, the residence of Dr. Herbert I. Mantz, whose automobile, stolen months the 150, mutilated father, is gu ats were made against wsician's children, Mantz was to identify Hickman's pho- as the man who held him » and took the ¢ Charles 1 as body of Marian to Ties ol de- appeal from Kan- City asking Hickman to com- rinicate with him and relleve the 1 of the hunted, n's distract- mother there, “9 ted WA ANyeon investigation in los An Is that Marian nor 0 anacs- believed, The act which she was lled en determined but re- she may have v mutilation while ession of her senses, its show I3 of in Rents Tacoma Auto Tacoma, Wash., Dec. 22 () A uan believed to he William Edward e MRS, LINDBERGH NEARS HER GOAL IN MEXICO, Hero Son Ready to Fly to Greet Her as She Nears City Mexico City, Dee. 22 (P —The Mex- jean Teiephone Company notified th mbassy foday that Mrs. L. Lindbergh landed at ampico about 11 o'clock this morn- £ from Brownsville. Mhe mess A that she prob- #bly would leave; Tampico about 1:30 ». m. for Mexico City to join her son there for Christmas, he distance from Tampico co City 18 about 200 miles. he embassy also received o mes- 8¢ from the American consulate at ‘fampico telling of the landing there f Mrs. Lindbergh and stating that, o would take off for Mexico City | ufter lunch. Colonel Lindbergh's mother, who | is spceding by air to Mexico City to spend Christmas with her son, s likely to encounter ' unpleasant weather part of the way at least from Tampico. Mrs. Lindbergh Ve to this afternoon. The “worst” weather the city has known since th merican airman came prevailed carly this morning. The skies were heavily overcast, was cold and ray ing mist and fog, with a low hang- limitirg the vision in the strects to objects a quarters mile distant. Toward ten o'clock, however, the sun began to dissipato the mists, Lright rays shining over the city as the clouds thinned, the prospects | bring that the early morning obscur- | ity would be cleared by noon. Present indi l‘ rgh will take off Tuesday, De- | “mber 27, for Guatemala City, prob- #bly at an carly hour, in fhe ex- prctation of reaching his destination hefore dark. Lindbergh will not outline his plan AID TO CREDIT w York, Dec. 22 (#-—Extension of $25,000,000 credit to the Banca DrItalia, in connection with the sta- b ion of the Itallan lira, an an- nounced from Rome, was announced liere today by J. P. Morgan & com- pany. Similar credits of 5,000,000 rounds sterling by Morgan, Grenfall & Company, Baring Drothers & Company Ltd., Hambros Bank Ltd., and N, M. Rothschild & Son, of : | was used in delivering | ded after anony- | wad suffered | full | is | cxpected to arrive at the capital late | | Tt lulold umbrella of a passenger Shich | had be | was described as the cause of a fire | | which started in and finally destroy- | i got out of the ous when the bl | broke out and they watched firemen | try to save it but without success. ions are that Lind- | | ford Lodge, two miles from the c 1 ter, and p | at avout { the bus LAY Vi ‘wuo) ‘paoyjary; “3daqy - \rv CaRIqry 9epg 30 0 N Santa Claus Asserts Bridgeport Is Good Field for Dan Cupid Bridgeport, Dec. 22 (P—Said Frank Wills, arrested yesterday as he was playing the part of Santa Claus in a store here, on the charge of breach of the peace because he had advertised for a housekeeper: “Cupid can find 1| plenty of work in Bridgeport among elderly matrons and some not so old,” today, as he explain- ed that 82 women had answered his ad. His case in court was continu- ed until December 29 and his o et ot 00 GIANT, SAFETY PIN HID GOUNCIL DISCARRS NEW DEPUTY CHIEF. Splcy Debate Features Re ection’ pointca can Opener ana story 0[ F][’E Dep ; Oihcer Dealing With Movements of Plan- iLIE CHARGED T0 BOARD i suspicior th Em- intercst be resembles “Phantom § to be questior that city, this Williams tried to to Detective zeant Paul | This led the officer to ques to take {a vagrant. Some blances to the ed by girls who w wounded in Bridgeport lengthy questioning of the (6aid he was no ‘“jack the when asked if he knew a about the stabbings there, the pol { say. To most questions Williams wa ve. He had been living yroom in a barn at the rear of the { Harrison block in Atlantic strect, Find Strange Implements Chief John B. Drennan sent offi- | cors to scarch the place. In a trunk were found ahout 104 clippings from newspapers having to do with at- tacks upon girls at various places, none at Bridgeport however, large safety pin such as used on horse blankets and a 1wo pointed {can opener were also found in the rtment of articles. The can opener was held as { exhibit as one girl stabbed had two | wounds close together. One point of the opener was a trifle longer than | the other. A newspaper elipping BRIDGEPORT HOLDS STAMFORD MAN AS Edwml Williams ~ Arrested | When He Tries to Sell Over- coat to Detective Man Said to Have Made Home in ing of Attacks on Two- | ets Among His Effects, | Dee. 22.—(P)— arrested last wing & man in whom mford, n of Py Al many ways he ription of th " of that city, wa by officers from iPlan To City n ause ployes On Salary List Goes To Committee — Boom Started To g Raise Firemen's Pay 50 Cents a Day. During the heated discussion | which preceded action by the com- mon council in refusing the fire {hoard permission to appoint a third |deputy chief, Councilman Samuel | Sablotsky last night sprang a sen- {sation by publicly charging mem- {bers of the fire hoard with having {lied to the ordinance committee in ian effort to put their proposition |across, Chairman €. J. Dehm of the fire board who was present in the gal~ {lery provided for officials immedi- ately signalled to Alderman William H. Judd that he wished to address |the council in refutation and he was permitted to do so. The chairman | repeated his claim that the commis- |sioners had presented the facts fair- | |1y and adhered strictly to the truth. Fire Board Vote Not Unanimous | Counciiman Donald L. Bartlett, | who had previously moved adoption | lof an ordinance which would create he position of third chicf, adv {the chairman that he was in error | n stating to the ordinance commit- e th.t the proposcd appointments given a unanimous vote. Tt |with the movament of the plncis wag later brought out that Commis. 1t has been said that att: sioner John Mikalauskas, onc of the | Bridgeport. ware mostly made four members of the hoard, was not | full phase of the moorn. |in favor. Williams is about This flurry, which was but ona inches tall, etockily of the geveral featuring last nlght's | chock bones and session came shortly atter Coun eves. Girls who saw th man Bartlett’s motion to approve | given such a the appointment. Bartlett made 1t | deseribed o plain that he was not favoring ap- | gvercoat pointment of Master Mechanic Id- | the detective, ward G. Burke or any other individ- | Other information ual, but that he felt it is a move | 1o do with Willlame: personal habits {for efficiency to have a deputy chief [1dded to by entries from & diary in charge-of apparatus. Continuing | which he had kept. This diary how. he : ever threw no light on the Bridge. “Tt is the business of the fire board | port stabbings. Williams 1s sald to {to say who shall be appointed. T have admitted ing been in feel we have a large enough invest- | Bridgeport at various times and told |ment in apparatus to warrant this|why he was there, |move, but I am not in favor 1f Further questioning w imeans that we are also to have a ‘Brl(lgvpml officers, pregni <% (GAS METER SLEUTHS STRIPPED OF FOWER wttacked and led n. m He s ed wer on th five feet six built, high plerc stabbe description and be green texture h as Williams oftered to have obtained had left to | missioners that the vote to recom- | | mend this office was unanimous. was not. One member of the hoard | jdidn’t vote in favor and I think the 1 common council should know nmj |now. However, it is not golng to ‘r“nnge my view.,"” To cover the polnt mentioned ll\ Councilman Bartlett, Alderman Da- | vid L. Nair moved an amendment to | the ordinances which would elimin. | Mnn the position of master mechanio | In the event that a third deputy |chief be namea. Maerz Leads Opposition Alderman John F. Maerz of the | sixth ward led off for the opposition | President David Daly of the B with a plea that the fire board be |Stone Valley Gas and Electrie refused power to make a chist out|Dany today revoked his order, of a mechanic. Answering the ar-|sued last week, dirceting meter ¢ \gum(rnv that authority must be v ‘n‘adfri and other employes to re- 'ed in the meghanical department he \ port the existence stills and other ridiculed the claim pointing to the |apparatus that may-indicated viola- — tion of the prohibition lay (Continued on Page 11) } When the order wa i BUS LOST IN FLAMES Head Revokes His “Dry” Order Pawtucket, R. L, Dec, ) ck- s direc- tlon *of the United States attorney.” Since th | Murdock, United St | torney for Rhode Island, directing any such order. Mr. D today issucd the follow- has denied 23 Passengers Escapo in Milford | —Cellulold Umbrella Cause company and to the public of the of Fire, ’ communitles it serves, comprising ! approximately 100,000 peopla: am delighted to know that we were mistaken {n thinking that the dis- trict attorne suing the order to our employes. We have no wish to svp on our custom- o 1t certainly is not in our in- Milford, Conn., Dec. 22 (P—A cey n in contact with a heater ed a bus of the Victorla Coach line | on its trip from New York to Boston | I'terest to do so d we do not be- carly today. Twenty-five passengers | jieve that it is In the infercst of the o { public e order Is revoked hut revoe: onr employes as authorizing any | relaxation of vigilance in respect to illegal use of gas furnished by the companics." The bus burned in front of Mil engers placed the tim 45 2. m. They said that the umbrella had | been on the heater from the tim, left New York. Without warning there was a flash of flames. Chemlical extinguishers carried were used by the passengers and then ! word was sent into town for g fire | marines and American-officercd con- company. A chemical engine re- | stabulary the libe suponded and used gallons of fluid. | cral Sandino and his supporters in The bus was valued gt $15,000 and the late revolt against the govern- had been driven 1,800 miles by ment will be made within the next George D. Camobell, 19 Church | f . under present plans. strect, Dorchester, Mass A a4 bombing attack by ma- While the bus burned three othoers | rine airplanes, in which the ost of the same line appeared and, took | type of acrial hombs will be used, passengers aboard for their destina- |is to precede an infantry attack on Tarines to Mnen Final t Dee. (UP)—A final drive by United Tondon, also were confirmed. tions. | Sandino's stronghold at Chipote. STABBER SUSPECT WITH “ASSAULI" NOTES Barn—Newspaper Clippings Tell- | geport police might have an | Hayes, | tion him | to, in af an had to do | s in | {Pawtucket (.as Company | com- " district | !ing statement to the employes of the | insisted upon our is- ! this | tion must not be construed by | Drive Aoainst Rehele BRITAIN HERALD EW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 192%.—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES | He Acts as Host at Christmas Ceremony ‘Washington, Dec. 22 (UP)— Vica President Dawes gave his annual Christmas dinner to sen- ate employes at the Capitol today. Between roast turkey and cran- bery sauce the scnate pages stag- ed burlesque skits chiding their host for various public activities. A new set of senate rules was presented which would give Dawes the power to run the sen- ate as he desired A small re- plica of the White House was presented to the vice president as a reminder of the movement to make him a presidential eandi- } SECRETARY PROMISES CORONER BELIEVES KILLING JUSTIFIED Mozzone, Who Used Gun in | Bethany Shooliug, May Go Free | WOMAN GIVES TESTIMONY’ ‘lndi(mlxmn Are That Fatal Fight Resulted From Feud and Slayer Fired Shot n Lffort to Save His | | Own Lite, | New Haven, Tustifiable hon: in the killing of Michael Andriaccio by Merandro | Mozzone, also known as Alexander Nicolo, at Stoffe Inn, in Bethan: rly vesterday, is the first impres- ion Coroner Mix had in reviewing Ithe testimony taken at the inquest | bheld in Naugatuck yesterday, it was cd this afternoon, Were Out to Kill Him The coroner who is still reading and weighing the evidence, has not ached a final opinfon but he has found ground for opinion that two men went to the inn to kill Mozzone | ind that the latter killed Andriaceto | in belief that his life was in danger. | The coroncr took up the inquiry here today after he had heard an- other case but he did not deem it necessary to have Mozzone brought | down from jail. Unless additional evidence turns | the inquest will be closed this rnoon and Mozzone mar he re- ased unless he is wanted hy Wa- | | terbury police, | Other Man Is Known Tt is upderstood that police thenamé Sf'the man who was with Andrinccio on the inn statrway and who fled when Mozzone fired killed Andriaccio. 1t 1s understood that the tragedy at the inn is linked up with the mur- der of John Costanzo, Waterbury hootlegger and white slaver, fn ! O two years ago, and was the direct result of fight between fac- tions of a white slave, drug and hooze ring operating with head- | quarters in Waterbury | Woman Tells Story The latest development fn th shoating of Andriaccio came today | when May Dirtlet, 22, who claims to | e housckeeper at the fun, declared | that Leo Laurito. 35, Conn cide Dec. 22 (B— ve, of 31 Grand |street, Waterbury, had been in the machine from which gangsters at- tempted DI Nicola's life in Water. | bury Monday morning. | “I had my nose stuck out the | | window of my flat in South Leonard | strect and the shooting happened | right in front of my eyes” the girl is quoted as saying. “Di Nicola w | | seated, In the ear which was parked | in front of 1y hous Tt al | roadster and two shots, T think. fired | from an automatic, struck the ma chine,” 1] The shots fired from the moving | { machine at Di Nocola missed him by | linches, one lodging in the uphalstery | m back of him and the other finding | s mark in the left side of the car| near the hinges to the door. Arrested fn Waterbury Laurito was arres last with Frank Jisustor, 32, of 25 tinued on Page Two) | POLICE SEEK MANAGER OF STORE ON MAIN T. Cormier, Economy Chain Employe, and Receipts Missing Ty ) night | Ab- (Con | L. Cormier, aged 28 of | Bristol, manag: store at 437 Main | ing, it was is friends and loss to ! to report for busi- home were notified today was last in this city Monday, when he closed the Istore and took the da receipt {with the exception of $28, which he left for change for the following |day. Whether he intended to leave {town or was waylaid on his way | to Bristol i not known. About 1 o'clock Monday afternoon Cormier reported to the police that his car was missing from the rear of the store, but a short time later ihe reported that he had located it. | He was driving the car when he | left sw Britain at the close of | | business, i | " Cormier is 28 years of age, five {feet, mine inches in height, and | {weighs about 140 pounds. He has {brown curly hair, according to the |description given the police, who |were making an effort this afternoon 'to trace him | reet Eeonomy this city, arned today, {relatives a for his failn |ness or at | The pol {that Cormier lof the Toct, is G cous seen WILBUR DEFENDS (Weather Rather Than Equip- | controvers | fecls every { precaution in the i tigate them. Know | o s upp]lml by and [ h [to U i built to | suhmarine S-4, | world i {or not.” submarine, | products of the imagination [ that, A W D. 13 verage Daily Circulation For eek F'|:(mg 14 581 2¢. 17th PRICE THREE CENTS il SIX IMPRISONED SAILORS OF 4 SALORS STORMS MAY CAUSE FU FEAR THEY'D DIE - GRIPPED SUB GREW RIGID INVESTIGATION e yoves Public Letter Sallor5 Naval Chief Says He Doesn't Min Hushand Wrote BELIEVED CRART 100 owg Mrs. Snizek Still Hopes Her Hushand | ment Defeated Rescue, He Declares ' = {Steppler Just Relieved From Duty \hmnd S-1 Among the rescue Provinceto er, 19 year old “goh” who was a m ill-fated subn eallor on t 1, is Raymo tempts ar 1 the navy member of v months ail- 1 Critlcism, But Declares That Most Modern Machinery Has Been rs came V-4, teppler ncoln Mobilized and That Every Safety Precaation Has Been Utilized— Best Men in World on Scene. Will Be Yound Alive in Sunken Air Forees, (Copyright 1927 by United Press.) Washington, Dee. 22 (UP)- wering criticisms directed at th tn lepartment, Secretary of Navy | Wilbur declared today he feels con fident that naval officials in charge I veloped all safety appliances for shubmarines, practical and con sistent with th ary uses of this type of vessel. ‘I do not mi Bridgeport, Dee, Id go down an in gripped the e that craft bottom oft Pro letter written to Mrs. Ly “rank { ped ppear to indicate. | ° public the letter “what Don fathir was public | ¢ Snizek m of dowr (Proy incetown Said to De tor.| plore Delay in Trying to Save Sailors So the criticism of the department,” he said fn an ex clusive interview with the Uni Press setting forth his views on th arising from sinking of S-4. He added, however, that he ing has been done that could be done, Specific Charges Omitted. Wilbur said he could not discuss specific charges of alleged wrote Mr. to his Goering sterday. husband had eded many could not he done 22 (A wetivity of the Cotuit, ri Mass, cism of e gt en incetown “on every | gressman Charles L. Mr. Gifford said toda hy don't they do sometfing?™ is the cry heard everywhere in Provincetown, Mr. Gifford said. I vent to Provincetown because of the terrific criticism that came to me. I knew the prople there would teli me how they feel. While T dis like v too much, I found their justitied. was lost g to Dec, 1 % Mrs the of t S-4 dis- of offi in nd salvage at- truth to the n Prov- | v Con- | , Cotuit, written | aster, jols on | charge of for lack | tempts to “In one letter | newspapern on the Sophic. They are zoing down and will bhout is too old | of work to be it matte:s had not been determined and would wait upon the report ot the board of inquiry. If it develops there has been negligence or failure to take necessary precautions, tha department will take proper 4 he said, and if 1l opens the way to fur ¥ ap- | pliances, naval men, working con- |ReVET had men tinually along these lines, will inves. | (1At i Tis othe to write me | g they all felt was going to happ: self, T don there is done on it." Letter Was Strange One | “T pacticula t part | of the letter,” k a lot nything like 'rs and he 1 Just 1o cism obviously something | “When 1 Frank, him believe was afraid. You | sce he had been on the b long time, close 10 nine Frank ited to take up and 1 submarine, but T told him not to becau he would go up ko ay and some down dead; but T wizh I had let him now. If-he was kill- 1 at least his body would be on carth.” Mrs. Snizek has.not given up hope of sceing her hushand alive. She sald she still belicved he would ba Charges which have arisen sinee » those of failur: arnings for ves from the night, new, s m mornin why wouldn 3 : those paper boys the truth? Phey wouldn't tel oD away arca and failure to the area properly. There have (been suggestions for safety llegedly haye been used sue- by other nations, nox the United “People gen do not submarin iner nd the problems which 5 Wilbur said. “We've tried precautions co military purpose t and the training of the men. 5 in the department are investizating these ma all the and have been for years. Not Built For Rescues ps are not bu ued. They are buiit military purposss. If the S-4 not bheen s9 sev injured, would have come up. No vessel i operate after it has heen ! Provincetown harbor, miles a DISGUSSING NAKE-UP e ompletely waterlogged or wrecked.” WAGNER PROTESTS CHANGE | 0FG.0.P. GITY SLATE, IN PUBLIG BUS STATIONS 158 whers tha. ship. went down 1n | Bartlett, chosen for submarine tests becau 3 Senator; Weld Represen- of the shallowness of the water—as he puts it, graphicaily, “where it 7 5 tative, Reported Ticket yes itrol : also They g E boys Liad 1o resort to speculating in many cases. The rope iched to the submarine never should have be- come detached or broken, causing vesterday’s delay. They could have worked all day yesterday. They could have worked the day “The navy is goir there wasn't buo don’t hear | raise the submarine think the | pven at it. Why didn't the are uot The accident never would have weak to the posed to have Leen over the wrine at all times hadn't deviees aliz in this -fore. to say enough to b they they t th “Just bocause of submari v too try : the men are happened at all if time oy way, at Owner Would Be Inconvenienced by is not far from the bottom to th Side Strect Stops. ! top.” Theodore Wagner, |bus i today lodged formal iprotest against the movement to cp buses off Main street, claimin such an order would not only duce th of the ope but inconvenienc en be required strects to get th He poin representing d out that this precau- tion wa taken as it has been demonstrated in the past that if 1 submarines get down too far there is a danger of their cracking. A Dutch submarine which went down 100 deep off Hawaii began to crack in the seams, he explained. Tt s ceeded in getting up without tra consequenc As for A city ticket headed Ly Council- n Donald L. Bartlett as mayor: andidate and a legislative ticket | with Representative Willjan id al noniines vor Weld rese t T to | patrons to go to n A of the selec- is also would who would t side s one tions for re Ative ssed among republic leaders and is claimed to have strong hack- | ing. Rumors of such ard for several days u ay elicited the party spokesmen h ed the sentiment of 1 ters with the decl ticket will be put he if there is sufficient as it will be approved. The Bartlett hoom on in a quict way As third ward ported prospective n spokesniat tion on a n Wag Burritt North Les the efforts fo raise the . who « Wilbur sail every- possible is being done. have the best men there,” he said. “We the best divers. We have the modern equipment. “We started In on this resc mobilizing everything of any whatever, whether it was that it would be effective a ticket reen thing ™ utomobil “We h buses each we 108 1 have most ir continuing the public wrance convenis the customad a und to be centrally lo- KILLS AGED WOMAN Sl to which S stations oy o job | valiue thought Weather Js Blamed. co! Wilbur's associates have stressed that weather—not material, had feated rescue attempts hitherto. Wilbur's office has been with suggestions many acconmpa They include the wildes of the Ins: er, Hunted By Police. Shoots Another Person Be- sored by the G vear aud he h corded strong supp Alderma {electad to the fore Capturcd, Ma Dee. 22 () year old ins inded last 1 Brunswick Raymond Pet cripie, who and drawings. “This shows the publc interest,” !nf the secretary gaid. “They want to help. We realize and we are doing everythin can. i mother sdward I, captured today the head o er he had Killed Mrs. M. 12 which the ti 1 v 1alder S n her h ¢ at T said e ¢ wounde Stamford Priest Is 50 Years Clergyman Today I Stamford, Conn., Dec. 22 (R — Rev. James C. O'Bricn, pastor of St. John's Roman Catholic church here, celebrated his golden jubilec as a priest of the Catholic chury today by singing a solemn high ju- bilee mass at 9 o'clock this morn- ing. A number of clergymen from the Hartford diocese were present. Father O'Brien, who was born on Christmas day, 1852, and will bt 75 years old Sunday, was ordainel ardinal Gibbons on December | 1877, in Baltimore, He came to | Stamford as pastor on September 21, 1900, with which he cad t gun o be a when a of volunt fired ire in 1 s for th omination as chairman of the republi committee places | through the doors of him in ategic position to | i, obt in Mayor Weld is said to be desirous | gin river from {of retiring from city office next| with three bullet {spring and is willing to run for the | domen, any of whic legislature, party leaders claim. The | hjm on the danger list in Bru entire proposed ticket is said to have | hospital, where he was taken, been framed in o consultation with| Bofore 1 s overcome, the mayor, | had Killed Mrs. White, Fedford’s sis m— and housckeeper, as she er work in the kitchen pantry and his position s upper room on Tedford \ home. He unds in the would have put Toy n his by & TO CALL WATSON. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. | Scnator James E. Watson will be; called before the Marion county | grand jury as a witness fn its inv !tigation of charges of corruption ml ] {Indiana politics and government, if | he returns to Indiana next week, it | announcement | by the blaze of shot She was alone at the me. * DEFICIF ‘Washington, dent Coolidg: i is ficiency appropriation bill car | | several days ago said that the sena- | slightly more than $200,000,000 for | | tor intended to come to Indianapolls | various government activities, | | next week for conferences with In- | cluding funds to initlate the five leaders. {year public buildings program ' THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: understood. An Generally fair tonight and Friday; not much change in temperature, el diana politica ~i BLAME ON THE NAVY, ~Oprn all day | ;[ hope for the that | t they didu't | of Line Declares Passengers | wick he ood at | pre- | 2 (P— | paring dinner. Her skull was crushed | from his gun. “ | nremises but in- | ARE DEAD, CFFICER DIRECTING RESCUE THINKS: RTHER DELAY ‘Trapped Men’s Lives Have Ebbed Away, Admiral Believes as Time-Limit on Oxygen Supply Passes and Silence Balks At- tempts to Communi- cate With Sunken Craft. Salvage Operations Should Go on Whether Living Men or Corpses Are in Submarine, Naval Com- mandant Believes—Fate of S-4 Up to Officials in Washington. Dec. 22 (BP— ar Admiral ¥Frank H. Brumby, in Ze of salvage operations at the sunken S-4, admitted ot |11 o'clock today that there was ne longer hope thai life existed om board the submarine. “I have not the slightest doubt that there is no life on the S-4," Ade {miral Brumby said. The admiral said to announce would be Frovincetown, Mass., ubmarine he was unable when rescue operations suspended. Up to Navy Dept. | “That is up to the navy depart= ment in Washington,” he said. “We have been keeping Washington in- formed and action on suspension of operations must come from there.” | Al the officers directing salyage | work herc agreed with the admiral that there was no longer room for six men imprisoned in torpedo room of the submarine, Admiral Brumby's statement was made 115 hours after the §-4 was sent to the bottom in collision with the coast guard destroyer Paulding last Saturday. Thirteen hours had passed since air lines were attached to the listening tube of the S-4 and air forced into the torpedo room. ! No Signals Returned Since rescue operations were re- | sumed yesterday after being held up the tender sup- | sub- | been in | (Contin PARENTS OF SIX ADMIT 'TRANSPORTING LIQUOR IWill Spend Christmas at i Home by Court’s | on l‘:uzv Tive) Arrangement | Sebastiano Glove, aged 34, and his |wite, Mrs. Ida Giove, of 50 Lar ctte strect, pleaded guilty to the charge of transporting liquor by means of a motor vehicle in police court tod Assistant Prosecuting ireenstein recommended ove be fined $200 and costa ntenced to jail for 60 days, that Mrs. Giove be fined $200 | and costs and given a suspended iail sentence of 60 days. Judge | Roche accepted the recommendation, | remarking that ordinarily he be- | lieves cases of transporting lquor should he disposed of by superior ;rmlv( but 2 long as the state wae satisfied with the penalty recoma d he should accept it. torney Thomas 1. McDonough there was no defense to be of« e asked that a bond be %0 that the couple have Chris with thelr six children. lge Roche set the at £1.000 fn Giove's case and Mrs. Giove's case, . J. O'Mara and M. made the arrests on Lafay strect about $:25 last night. watchin for the couple ving had mformation that engaged in transporting alleged liquor, of which 30 gallons, was in five- nd nd said red but or an appeu wers n cans. $80 ts O'Mara at four gallon voster afternoon, and Flynn raided Myrtle street and of alleged alco- coloring liquid. = < of alleged whis- made variety and aces af liquor In awrested John Can- zod and his wife, Mr: we Canearz, aged 43, on twe ach of violation of the liquor were reprosentsd by F. N, Hungerford, who en- plea of not guilty in each his request for a continu- anea until Saturday was granted. According to the sergeants, lquor | is sold in the restaurant on the | ground floor and is kent in the tene- nt. Cancarz is said to have de. 1 that there was liquor on the when the sergeants { threatened to open the trunk, he {opened it for them by using a screw drlver as he sald he had no key. | Saveral checks lssued to employes o2 ®| a local factory and which had been | cashed, were found in the house. Key | bottl a trunk. the home s confaining They 48, connts ¢ of Ao Thay

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