New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 4, 1928, Page 1

I ‘s L) ’ ‘ his widow. News of the Weorld By Associated Press ESTARLISHED 1870 * SHITH AND FULLER | * DELIVER MESSAGES T0 LEGISLATURES Former Makes Significant State-| ment, Telling New Yorkers It Is His “Bast” MASS. EXECUTIVE TAKES UP CHANGE IN APPEALS Proposcd Legal Alterations Result of | Sacco-Vansetd Case — Empire State Executive's Message Deals Largely With Constitutional | Amendments Which He Would | Submit To Popular Referendum Albany, N. Y, Jan, ¢ M—Gover- nor Alfred E. 8mith, in his “eighth and last annual message” to the leg- | islature, today recommended that future federal constitutional amend- ments be submitted to a popular referendum in this state before they are acted upon by the legislature. | The suggestion was made in & chap- ter devoted to the eighteenth amend- ment and law enforcement, in which | he said it was the state’s sacred dufy | to sustain the amendment and the ! Volstead law. | Refers To “Last” Message The governor's reference to his “last” message attracted the atten- tion of the politically inclined in/ view of his potential candidacy for the democratic presidential nomina- tion next June. He is now rounding out his fourth term as governor. He did not elaborate on his terso announcement that it was his final message, nor did he depart from purely state affairs in his 33,000 word document, Prohibition Question In his discussion of the prohibi-! tion question, the governor said: “In | 1919, the legislature rushed the rati fication of the 18th amendment and in 1326 the party responsible for this, coming back to its senses, sub- mitted the question of modification of the sustaining act. Only to have! it carried by a popular majority of 1,164,588, This referred to the vote on a state. referendum proposing a mem- orial to congress to modify the Vol- stead act by permitting the several 3.) CLIENTS WHO LOST BY INAB'S ADVICE REPAID Will of Famous California Lawyer Establishes Prec- edent and Heritage =L San Frantisco, Jan. 4—T profession today found in the will | of the late Gavin McNab, noted | Californla lawyer, a precedent and a herits He left money to reim- burse clients who lost by his adv The will, filed in the probate cour hitTe yesterday disposes of an estate | valued at between $600,000 and | $5800,000 earned in fees since McNab | left his place as a youthful clerk in the famous Occidental hotel here | and decided to study law. | Of this amount $40.000 was re- turned to two clients who paid Mc- Nab for advice as to investments upon which they lost. | To Mrs. A. M. ElKkins of Palo Alto the attorney willed $35,000 “to cover the results of certain investments I made for her and certain advice 1| gave her which did not turn out well.” | Joscph P. Fennell of San Fran- cisco was given $5,000 in the will to | cover losses incurred as the result | of an invéstment made by Fennell on | advice given by McNab, “The investment did not turn out as well as expected. This will com- pensate him.” McNob wrote his will, which was in his own handwriting and un- | witnesacd. In addition to $35,000 he left to Miss Lucy Dunn, his secretary for many years, McNab left her $20,000 “for certain charities not to be dis- closed” and added that his secretary was not to be interrogated in any way - ns to the use made of the $20.000. Half of the estate McNab left to Numerous generous be- quests to charlties and friends also featured the will. | HEARI'S ON SALARIES | (Continued on Pa e legal | Pctitions and Reccmmendations to be Considered at Mcetings of Com- mon Ccuncil Committee this Week Cor Iman C. H. Maxon of the : council committee on sal- called meeings on Thurs- d Friday evenings this week. Hearings on petitions and recom- mendations for salary increases for city officials and employes will be given, and a third mecting will be held next week to prepare the com- mittee’s report to the council. The committee on licenses will meet with thg committee on ordi- nances next Monday evening at the common council chamber, to act on the pelition of the promoters of amateur boxinz exhibitions for & re- | duction in the license fee. “Lregry 'ms,tw NEW BRITAIN, Reads Eighth Message | RESIDENT ASKING Four Daughters of One Wed Four [HFARSTS EXPERTS AUTHORIATION 0 Sons of Otber, Then Parent e B o v B g s ABSOLUTELY PALS GOV. AL SMITH, LINDBERGH FAVORS GOVT SUPERVISION: Famous Flier's Views Trans- mitted to Congress Today SEES AIR DEVELOPMENT Statement Sees Early lmpmwmflu‘ in Planes—Thinks Federal Control Would Be Great mercial Aviation. Washington, Jan. 4 (A—Federal supervision of American commercial aviatiort as 2 means to developing it was advocated by Charles A. Lind- bergh to the house appropriations committee, it was revealed today with the report of a bill to provide commerce department funds. The young flier, now making his way among the Central American | republics, testified at the capitol on behalf of the aeronautics branch of | the department just prior to his Help to Coni {hop-off for Mexieo. Glowing Future Ahcad Lindbergh pictured air navigation as on the threshold of a glowing | future and urged congress to legis- late in its interest. He recommended widespread airways, “not only with |a view to the condition that exista | but also with a view toward the de- velopment that we are bound te have both in navigation and in de- velopment of aircraft.” “I do not think that our aircraft today are nearly as efficient as they will be a few years from now,” he | said, Weather No Obstacle “I believe also that we will be |able to fly and land in practically every kind of weather conditions | |when radio instruments, radio bea- | cons and other means of .combating weather conditions have been fully developed. We will eventually be able to combat fog. At the present time we can fly through it indefinite- |1y, with the aid of radio beacons. We can not land bindly. We will have to develop some method, elther by radio or some othcr means, by ! which we can obtain our exact cle- vation and position over the fleld.” Uniform laws and regulations for fliers and flying are very fmportant, Lindbergh told the committee. “At present the practice seems to be for the student who has Just |learned to fly, and who is without sufficient experience to engage in (Continued on Page Ten) HICKMAN'S FATHER NOW ANXIOUS T0 DEFEND Thinks Son is Inzane and Is Willing to Testify—Mother Also to Ald El Pago, Tex., Jan. 4 (UP)—Wil- liam T. Hickman, father of William Edward Hickman, today offered to testify at his son's trial in an effort to save the youth from the gallows. “I think my son is insane and 1 vill go to Los Angcles to testify if necessary,” he said. 3 When his son was arrcsted and confessed to kidnanping and mur- dering Maricn Parker, the elder Hickman declarcd the youth should 50 to the gallows for the crime. “I don’t want to sce him hanged now,” the father said today. To support his contention sanity, of in- his mother of the youth., “I was a light slecper,” he said, “and often used to wake up to see her standing over my bed. constant fear. first wife, | “I spent considerable money hav- ing her treated. Finally 1 agreed upon advice of physicians to send iicr to an asylum at Little Rock.” Los Angeles, Jan. 4 (UP)—Mrs. “iva Hickman, mother of Willlam I2dward Hickman, will come to the uld of her 19 year old son when he faces trial Nere Jan 5. the United Press learned today. With the mother o5 Key witness, Defense Attorney Jerome Walsh hoped to establish evidence in the youth’s “environmont, history and mental condition.” upon which to base the plea of not guilty |y reason of insanity, he said. Hickman told of experiences ' 'in Arkansas with 1 lived In background, ! "—o‘lum-. START §-4 INlllIIRY Wants congm t0 Approve Special Committee, Three of Whom Would Be Givilians 'NAYY DEPARTMENT PROBE GETS UNDER WAY TODAY Doard Visits Destroyer Paulding Where Men Take Positions Held at Time of Tragedy—Investigators Also Inspect §-8, Sistor-Ship of the Il-Fated Sub Which Sank Off Provincetown. ‘Washington, Jan. 4 UP—President Coolidge today in a special message asked congress to authorize him to appoint a commission of five, three to be civillians, to inquire into the sinking of th¢ submarine 8-4. Chairman Hale of the senate naval | commitee immediately introduced a |leloluuon for this purpose and it was referred to his committee. A | similar measure was prepared by Chairman Butler on the house naval | committee. Line of Inquiry. | The committee would act along | the lines of that headed by Dwight | W. Morrow which investigated the status of the nation’s aviation after the row precipitated by Brig. Gen. | William Mitche?, B8everal invesiiga.ions by congress i have been proposed and the navy it- | self already is at work in an effort to fix the blame for the disaster | which has become one of the livest | issues of the present session of | congress. The special committee might bring into one hearing all of the collateral issues involved in the submarine ' | controversy such as safety precml- tions and other naval methods which have been criticised since the S-4 was lost. Letter From Wilbur, In asking for authority to appoint ‘the commission of experts the pres! ! tary Wilbur embodying the griginal | proposal for such an inquiry which wauld go also into the development of safety devices for submarines, ' 8enator Hale told the senate that fhe whole country had been "inex- pressibly shocked” over the sinking of the 8-4 and the lingering deaths of the six men entombed in the for- ward torpedo room. “That every possible measure was taken by the navy department to rescue these men the navy believes | to be the case,” Senator Hale sald, “I myself belleve it to be the case land so doubtiess do many tors | here present, but it is nc ugh i that such is our belle! 1 not enough that a naval court of i yuiry, |the usual court to make investiga- | tion in cases of this kind, shall sit jand report its findings. i *“The people of this country are | stirred up over this tragedy of the sea as I have never known them to |be over any other disaster in mnaval history With the exception of the blowing up of the battleshipe Maine in the harbor of Havana in 1898, “The fair nam= of the navy de- the navy shall be delivered by a | commission that all men must know to be impartial.” The president's communication sald that he was transmitting a let- ter from the secretary of the navy recommending that a commission be created to conduct the inquiry. The secretary’s letter, however, was not read and immediately after the house convened, Chairman But- ‘lor presented a resolution proposing creation of the commission, At the same time, Representative McClintie, democrat, Oklahoma, a member of the house naval commit- tee, introduced a bill which would direct Becretary Wilbur to transfer the submarine base at New London, Conn., to southern waters. I"is bill would stipulate that the submarine maneuver grounds should be isolated from the lanes of ship travel and marked with buoys.” Navy Begins Probe Boston, Jan. 4 UP—A tragedy of ‘he sea was reenacted today when “he navy opened its inquiry at the Boston navy yard into the sinking of the submarine 8-4 with all on hoard off Provincetown last month. As one of its first official acts the board of Inquiry presided over by ear Admiral Richard H. Jackson visited the submarine 8-8, sister ship | (Continued on Page Ten) IVOKIiiG PADLOCK LAW Stamford Judge Wants Authorities To Oficlally Close Rockiand Hotel There. Stamford, Jan. 4 P—After fining nk Pultrack, 40, of 195 Ludlow reet, $100 and costs on each count Jof selling and keeping fiquor with intent to sell Judge Justus J. Fen- nel. in the city court today directed Prosecuting Attorney Abraham Wof. ey, to start injunction proceedings “gainst the Rockland hotel with a | view to padlocking it Pultrack, who conducts a restau- rant in the hotel was arrested on De- | cember 24, when a small quantity of liquor was found in the restaurant. It was disclosed that there have been five convictions against aif- ferent persons after raids on the place. ! dent transmitted a letter from Becre- | mands that the verdict for or against | CONNECTICUT, WED DAY, JANUARY 4, 1928. -SIX1EEN PAGES In Nebraska Marital Mixup. Allignee, Nebraska., Jan. 4 (UP) Bionomists were furnished material for their studies when Charles W. Sisley, 70, marricd Sarah E. Col rick, 59, after four sons of the for- mer had married four daughters ot | Mrsy Colerick. By the marriage of their respec- |tive parents, the children of the {feur Colegick familles are now | 'nsphew- and nleces of their own| mtoher and father, and their grand- | parents are likewise their grand- uncle and grandaunt. The father-in-law of Mrs, Cole- Irick's daughters became their step- | father. Their husbands’ mother-in- law is now their stepmother. The four married couples are now brother and sister as well as hus- |band and wife. You figure out the rest! \MODERN FLAPPER IS | SEVERELY CONDEMNED | | 'Medical Expert Declares| Her Life Habits Serious- ly Threaten Health | Battle Creek, Mich, Jan. ¢ P—| {Modern dress, “the insie desire” | ifor a boyish appearance and “too| much night life,” were held today ' 1by Dr, 8. Adolphus Knopf of New 1York as causes for “the alarming increase in the morbidity and mor- | ‘mlity of tuberculosis among younx | women." Speaking before the third Race Betterment conference, Dr. Knopt. a major in the medical officers re serve corps of the army, indicted ithe modern flapper for what she did, what she wore, what she ate| and what she drank. “The filmy modern dress of thin imaterial, sleeveless waist and short {skirt, low shoes and silk stockingn | jworn in the coldest weather,” con- | stitute the first cause of disease| ,among young women, in Dr. l\nop(H ,opinion. Becond, he placed “the in- sane desire for a boyish .ppeamm‘ icausing Intentional undernourish- | ,ment, fear that in spite of a xood‘ |appetite & good meal will produce | ioverweight and ignorance of the| \fact that 10 to 14 pounds | Welght between the ages of 15 and same number | weight.” Referring to his indictment of “teo~much night Jife,” Dr. Knopt | explained it generally resulted in {“insufficlent sleep and generally too of pounds liquer.” | He recommended periodic exami- |nations to discover incipient tuber- iculosis and improvement in ,housing conditions where young |women live and work. | Dr. Anthony Carlson, chairman of |the department of physiology, Un versity of Chicago, discussed the subject of what kind of race is de- sired, “Have we decided that we want a | race on the model of an Einstein, a Mussolini, a Napoleon or a Jac Dempsey?” he asked. Dr. Carlson found little in the present human strain, taking it in the large, to warrant perpetuation. ' He deplored the artificial prepara- tion of food, the increasing use ot medicines, drugs and poison, which he sald, will affect the germ plasm {and the future of the race. UNCONFIRMED REPORT TELLS OF SEA TRAGEDY Russian Ship Rcported to Have Gone Down With 250 in Black Sca, Berlin, Jan. 4 (UP)—The Russlan stcamer Ogoza, carrying 250 per- _fons, went down in the Black Se | dispatches from Constanza said to- day. An unconfirmed dispatch sald all 2board had been drowned, including 50 rtudents. The dispatchce said the Ogoza sorank a leak in a heavy storm off | Novorosiek while en route betwecn there and Ni“olovevsk. The ship sank before the passengers could | reach the boats. | Other steamers arrived only after | the disaster. A dispatch to the Vossische Zei- tung from Bucharest also said the Ogoza had foundered. The United Press had no dircct jconfirmation of sinking, of the Ogoza. London, Jan. 4 (UP)—The Italian |tanker Clituano with a crew of 35 |broke in two on a reef near Con- istanza in the Black Se dispateh to the Daily Mail from Bucharest {said today. | The Clituano lost her direction in |a snowstorm and piled up on the reef, which was only 600 yards oft shore, Most of the crew was saved by the heroism of Navone Ralvadore, one of |the sailors, who lost his life after jswimming to the reef with a rope. !The crew climbed down the rope to the reef and then swam ashore, but three, Including Salvador, were frozen to death. i - i THE WEATHER * ? New Beitain and vicmity: Fair and not quite so cold to- rising temper- * over- l {many cigarettes and too much bad | the | | | Washington, To Quit_Govt. Post HANFORD MACNIDER. WNIDER 1§ RETIRING AT WAR DEPARTMENT, Hands Resignation to Pres. | Coolidge—Robbins of Ohio, Named 26 are far less dangcrous than the | under- Washington, Jan. 4 (#—Hanford | MacNider, assistant secretary of war | resigned today and President Cool- |idge nowminated another lowan to i succeed him—Charles Burton Rob- bins, of Cedar Rapids, Jowa, | In his letter of resignation to | President Coolidge, Mr. MacNider, a former national commander of the American Leglon, sald the response lof American industry to the de- | { mands made upon his office reflect- ‘ed “the confidence of the nation in | your administration of its affalrs.” He did not say why he was re- | signing, but the president, in a reply, said: “Your resignation as | secretary of war has been received and is hereby accepted to take ef- feet Jan. 12, 1928, You indicated !after you took office that you would wish after a reasonable period to re- | iturn to your private business and 1 know that you have made a great deal of sacrifice to stay on longer than you had expected. express to you my appreciation of the efficient scrvice you have render- ed, especially in securing the co- cperation of American industry in ;the work of national defense.” Mr. Robbins, the new appointee, is a lawyer and business man. He served with distinetion in the Philip- pines and the World War, and like MacNider, who is from Mason City. Towa, is intercsted in Legion af- fairs, baving been made commander of the lowa department in 1923, He is president of the Cedar Rapids Life Insurance Company and a director of the Cedar Rapids Na- tional bank. In a statement issued later, Mr. MacNider d that after a few weeks' vacation he and Mrs., Mac- Nider would return to Towa “to bring up our gons in their own home town,” and to “pick up a business which of necossity has been badly neglected during the last two years.” FARMEIGTON BJS LINE HAY START TOMORROY Koute Via Corbin Avenuc and Shut- | tle Meadow Avenue Approved By O Following a trip about the eity yesterday by Engincer Wadhams of the public utilitics commission, Mr. Stuart of the w Engiand Trans- portation Co., City Engineer J. D. Williams, Chairman K. W. Cham- Lerlain of the nissioners, and Traffic Sergeant J. J. King, the public utilities commis- sion today notitied Chicf Hart that of six routes considered, one was se- lected for the New England Trans- portation Co. buses, as foilows: En- | tering New Britain at Corbin avenue | and West Main street, over Corbin ' avenue, Shuttle _Meadow avenue, Arch street, RocKwell avenue, Bas- sett st . Franklin Square, Elm street, Church street to the railroad passenger station, leaving the sta- tion through Church and Elm streets, to Stanley street to Hartford. ' The service will commence over this route this week, probably to- morrow, according to the plans of the compan: NATIONAL BANK CALL Jan. 4 (P—The comptroller of the currency today issued a call for the condition of ! | ! national banks at he close of busi- ness on Saturday, December 31, Marry DECLARE PAPERS assietant | 1 wish to board of police com- | New York Pnblxsher Whose Al leged Exposures Rellected on Senators, Satisfied WILLING T0 ABIDE BY DECISION, HE DECLARES |Tells His Editors to Make No Fur- ther Effort to Prove Authenticity of Documents Purporting to| Name Borah, Wheeler, Swanson | and La Follette in Gigantic Mex- ican Slush Fund. Washington, Jan. 4 U — Hand- |writing experts employed by Wil- ‘liam Randolph Hearst at the re- quest of the special senate commit- |tee investigating the Mexican docu- | ments published in his newspapers have pronounced the documents as jpurious.” The report of the experts was made today to the senate investigat- ing committee by Willlam A. De- | ford, counsel for Mr. Hearst. | Coincident with the presentation of the report, other witnesses, in- jcluding former Ambassador James |R. Sheffield, gave testimony ques- itioning the authenticity of the docu- ments obtained for the Hearst | newspapers by Miguel Avila. Expert’s Opinion One of the handwriting experta. Elbridge W. Stein, of New York city, reported that: “All the disputed signatures of P. | Elias Calles (president of Mexico) | are, in my opinion, unquestionably not genuine. “Three disputed singatures of L. Montes De Oca (minister of fi- nance) are, in my opinion, unques- tionably not genuine. “There is some evidence that 39 of the disputed documents were written by the same typewriter operator. “There are changes in the t)pc» | writer ribbon writing the document on the same machine not (‘onuwlont with the preparation of lett |the regular course of bullneu {There are documents_on which two typewriters were used in preparing ; |them, which likewise fs inconsistent ' with the ordinary preparation of | document: Shefcld’s Denial | Flat denial that the American | embassy in Mexico City had ever ‘purchnned any Mexican documents, | “spurious or otherwise,” waa made | iby Sheffield. The ambassador was called as a | Iresult of recent testimony before | ithe committee that the embassy was reported to have been a “gen. jerous purchaser” of such docu- [ments. Miguel Avila, who procured {the documents for the Hcarst pub- {lications, was described in‘this tes- | {timony as a peddler of such ma {tertal, | Mr. Sheflield said he had given | |orders that no money or thing of value was to be given for any docu- ments. He said that last May, John |Page, a Hearst man, who had Avila procure the alleged Mexican documents, came to him with some papers. “I expressed great surprise upon seeing them,” Sheflield said, adding that he told Page he did not be lieve the loose ledger sheet purport- ing to come from the ledger of the Mexican finance department genuine because he did not believe that any United Siates senators | would accept money from Mexico or any other government, as the documents purported to how | David E. Smiley, general manager of the North American Newspaper Alliance and form-r editor in chief of the Philadelphia Pu Ledger told the committee that John Page at one time as a sy writer for the’ Public Ledger in City had ed th Ledger what purported to be a copy of a |tetter from Scpator La Fo'lette, re- lpummn Wisconsin, to DPresident | was Mexico ublic "“hf’re dld you get that Sfenator Johnson wai sitting in the b T got that letter |ne paperman,” Page r ) 'What was lotter?” . who rom, from a Mexican plicd. FIRE | mm; o Community House Destroyed by Flames Early This Morning—Loss Is About $25,000. | | Kent, Jan. 4-—The Kent com- munity house was destroyed by fire of undetermined origin here this morning. Dam: e was estimated at 1$25,000. The loss was partially cov- ered by insurance approximating $18,000. The blaze was discovered at 7 o'clock and within two hours the | bullding was a emoking ruin. | The structure was a single story !frame building about 100 teet long and 60 feet wide. It was built two years ago on the property of the First Congregational church and stood about 50 feet from | the church. It had been used more or less several times as an auditorium and motion picture benefit of local residents. A picture was shown there last night #nd it was thought that the fire might 'luve originated from the hot air, ' wood-burning heater in the hall. jant Plain, G., and Grady W. W2 ot Point, La. RITAIN INIERALD Shin in [icarazua Dead on the fleld of honor are ithese three Devil Dogs who were among the marines’ casualties during the fighting at Quilali with the fol- lowers of General Sandino, Nicar- aguan bandit. Top to bottom: Pri- vates George E. Goldsmith, of Deer Estler Crosson, of Plea ‘BIISSY’ GILLIS AT WORK IN EARNEST Newburypon’s Mayor Ralls Op| Sleeves and lleglns Duties {POLICE, FIREMEN WARNED Fire Dcpt. Members Wamed to Climb Onto Water Wagon—Econ- omy and Square Deal to Al Plodged in Inaugural Message., Newburyport, Mass, Jan. ¢ (UP) —"Bossy” Gillis, one time sailor, rolled up his sleeves today and went to work in earnest as the mswr of Newburyport. There were firemen to be “fired” and policemen to be suspended or expelled, and, all in all, the new execut ed a busy day. Already, the citizens of this ultra- conservative city had heard his in- augural address. In fact they had heard it twice for good measure, be cause *‘Bos: delivered it with hi, inimitable varfations both inside and outside city hall auditorium, Delivers Message Twice Mayor Gillis mounted the flower- Ledecked stage of the auditorium last n'ght only to explain: Folks, 1 hope you'll excuse me, but there's a big bunch of your fel- 'ns waiting outside in the cold and I'm going to give 'em the stuff first.” e went outdoors and faced » shivering multitude that had le to crowd into the pack- re were touches of Mus- Bill” Thompson in h which “Bossy” delivered the next 45 minutes, n Edward (:O\e one of whom “Boscy™ has prom- * within "4 hours, held s the mayor stood in I a sircet lamp and prepared manu- during the excited “Bossy™ from his pre is outdoor : the spcech, wandered far ared address and told :dience “straight from what he thought about ed with acknowledg- o scriousness of the oath hat binds councimen and mayor I thiul and honest service. a mere form- ed “Bossy,” scanning ript beneath the street for the fuifillment of its re. ments is a sacred duty. Our meansure of success in meeting our responsibilities will depend upon our fidelity to our oath: light, qui quare promised a square deal : pleaded for teamwork; advo- cated a program of strict economy; and wandered into the field of phil- osophy to describe the high motives of his administration. Then he gave his opinions on the ,various municipal departments. The educational situation w tion needed ciple.” The health department “has been “strict business prin- (Continued on Page Ten) son, | PRICE THREE CENTS BLUEJACKETS WILL ALSO BE USED IN FURSUIT OF REBELS Navy Dept. Annomnces Several Handreds Proceeding to Nic- aragoan War Zone AMERICAN AVIATORS IN SEVERAL BOMBING RAIDS | Nicaraguan Liberal Declares Several | Hundred American Marines Have | Beem Killd Within Past Few | Months But That United States Authorities Are Keeping Facts Quiet. ! Washington, Jan. 4 ®—As plans went forward with dispatch today tor rushing 1,000 additional marinen to Nicaragua to reinforce the 1,400 !now on the grounds, the navy de- i partment announced that over 200 more marines and several hundred { bluejackets were on the scene or | proceeding to the troubled country ‘!o be used if the need arose. The cruiser Rochester, flagship of Rear Admiral David F. Seliers, commanding the American fleet in Central American waters, and the Tulsa, are on the way from Balbea, Canal Zone, to Corinto with rein. forcements. The Denver is already at Puerto Cabezas, former seat of the | Bacasa liberal government, with 14 officers, 280 bluejackets. and 58 marines. The Rochester carries 43 officers, {500 bluejackets and 98 marines. In addition she is carrying 52 marines from the Galveston, which is re- | maining at Balboa. The Tulsa carries 11 officers, enlisted men, and 26 marines. No further reports were available at the navy department today as te the status of the situation in north. western Nicaragua, where the mae rines and Nicaraguan guardsmen are endeavoring to rout the rebels head- ed by General Bandino, No Comment Made Except to say that the casualities suffered by American forces in Nic. aragua have been made public by the navy department as they occur- red, Socretary Wilbur refused to comment today on the statement of Pedro Zepeda In Mexico City that neveral hundred marines had been killed in the last six months. Zepeda's figures do not agree with official navy records, which show that since last May approximately 20 deaths have been suffered by the American forces. To Sail Jannary 9 The navy department ordered all ships to proceed to ports of embar- kation today, while marine forces were ordered to make ready to sail | by January 9. In addition to the ships already in Central American waters, the mine sweeper Oglala, formerly the S8haw- mut, has been ordered to Hamptom Roads, Va., where she will embark about 425 marines and 20 officers. | The light cruisers Trenton, Mil- {waukee and Raleigh will sail from 154 (Continued on Page 14) GONN. RIVER STEAMER INPRISONED BY IGE ‘Stuck Fast Off Lyme— Tugs Fail to Break Channel Open Hartford, Jan. 4 (® — The river steamer “Hartford” of the Hartford- ! New York Transportation company's line became imprisaned in an fce jam last night at Brockway's, near Lyme, about 8:30 and at noon to- day had not been freed, although two tugs of the company have been battering the piled ice for 16 hours. Navigation of the company has been uspended for the season because of the blockade thrown up by the swift current at this point and the expected impassability of the Con- necticut for the remainder of the winter. ‘ The steamer left Hartford about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon to Join the “Middletown” in New York {Where the two steamers were to be docked for the winter. The company has been operating this eecason since February 27, 1927. “SHEIKS” G0 T0 JAIL {New Havevn Court Is Scvere On Two Young Men Who Molested Young Women on Street. New Haven, Dec. 4 UP—Acceding to the request of Assistant City At- torney Danlel E. Pouzzner that the court help rid the city of “shetks who prowl about the streets malest- ing and even assaulting young wes- en who repel their advances.” Judge 8tanley Dunn imposed a three months’ jall sentence upon William M. Harris, 23, of 235 Davenport ave- nue and a two months’ sentedce upon Barney Marshak, 23, ef 887 Central avenue on charges of assault and breach of the peace. Harris and Marshak were taken into custody last week following a complaint by two New Haves Nou- pital nurses. "