New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 6, 1928, Page 1

- [(==2%] NEW BRITAIN HERALD ESTABLISHED 1870 TWO DESERTERS FROM U.S. | CAMP SAID T0 BE TRANNG SANDINO'S MEN FOR BATTLE American Marines Reported Showing Enemy How to Shoot Their Fellowmen Un- der Threat of Death. Navy Department Uncer- tain Whether to Believe Story — Fact That Nic- araguans Know Military Tactics Supports Rumor. Washington, Jan. 6 P—Two de- serters from the United States marines, captured by the rebel Gen- cral 8andino as they sought to escape from the Nicaraguan war zone, are believed by somg marine officers in Nicaragua to have turned their mili- tary training to account by helping in the instruction of the rebel troops. An official report relayed from the front to marine corps headquarters here, said it was believed that the two men agreed to teach Sandino’s soldiers how to shoot under a threat that they them: es would go be- tore a rebel firing squad if they re- fused. No Definite Proof Marine intelligence officers sald today they had no proof beyond the report which had come to them from tie marine officers in Nicaragua, The report that two deserters from the United States marines have helped to train General Sandino’s rebel troops in Nicaragua reached the navy department through official channels, but high officials are un- certain whether to belleve it. Major Geperal Iejeune, the marine corps commandant, sald to- day that in the absence of positive proof one way or the other, he was not inclined to belleve that any member of the against his former comrades in arms. Rebels Well Trained In other official quarters it was| pointed out, however, that the sur- | face indications give some circum- stantlal support to the story. San- ¢ino's recent telling attacks on the American forces have been carried out with unexpected efficiency, and in & manner to suggest that he has great familiarity with marine corps nethods, That thers have been defections from the ranks of the marines is shown by officlal reports, although the exact number missing has not been disclosed. The report about the two supposed deserters came to the navy depart- ment through Managua, where it had been recelved from the battle front. It did not detall how the in- formation originally was obtained, although it did give some circum- stantial detalls, indicating that the 1iwo marines had been captured by Sandino as they sought to escape from Nicaragua and impressed into service as rebel instructors on pain | or execution. General Lejeunc said the whole story might easily have 'originated from the fact that two marines were rescued from Sandino’s men last August after having been in the lands of the rebels for several weeks., Ready For Battle Managua, Nicaragua, Jan. 6 UP— Lafest reports from Quilali by re- turning airplane patrols, state that American marines who captured that stronghold last week are in ®ood condition and are consolid their position against the forces of Augustino Sandino. Planes with bombs and machine guns are being sent daily into the stato of Nuevas Scgovia, where the | fighting is taking place, with instruc- | tions to combat the rebels whenever | seen, The marine airplane patrols re- port that no signs of S8andino’s men could be found in the state. They sald, however, that. this was no in- dication that the rebel leader was not in the immediate vicinity as the topography of the scction made it | very easy for the rebels to hide h'li the mountains and the forests. | All the reinforcements sent to Quilall have reached their objectives and the men are well supplied with | re (Continued On Page Twenty Five) REMUS DENIED WRIT | corps had turned |*® /time he was made general BEGK DEFENDS HIS SEAT N CONGRESS, Representative Maintains Re's| Resideat of Philadelphia ADMITS YOTING IN JERSEY Opposition To Giving Pennsylvania Member Osth On Grounds He Is Not a Resident of State He Repre- seats. Washington, Jan. ¢ (UP)—Ap- pearing before a house elections committee, Rep. James M. Bev:k.l rep., Pa, today defended his right | to a seat in the house, which has been challenged on the ground that he is not a resident of Philadelphia. After hearing Beck and Rep. Garrett, Tenn., democratic floor leader who brought the charges, the committee will decide whether to institute an investigation. The former solicitor general of the United States, who is attorney for | Senator Vare of Pennsylvania in his | contest for a senate seat, told the committee he now maintains an apartment in Philadelphla, his na-| tive eity, which is occupied from time | to time by himself and family and that he has been identified for many years with the life and activity of the city. Garret Oath Garret, charged in the house when he opposed giving Beck the oath of office that the Pennsylvania member only recently acquired the Philadel- phia residence and that he did not live there. “My chief purpose In renting my | Philadelphia apartment,” Beck sald, “was not to obtain a seat in con- greas but to reldentify myself with @y native oity and commonwealth citizen, “This apartment my family and Y have occupled from time to time and one member almost continuously. Excluding the summer months, T am in Philadelphia nearly every| week." The people of Philadelphia, he | said, recognised his life-long identi- fication with the city in the over- whelming majority they gave him in the election. He cited 18 clubs and organizations of Phlladelphia with which he is identified, Admits Voting in Jerscy Beck pointed out that he had vot- ed in New Jersey, where he has a summer home, from 1920 to 1924, | but that he now is trying to sell that residence, in which he has spent very little time recently. He stopped voting in New Jagsgy in 1924, he said, In order to resume his Philadelphia citizenship, Public service of various kinds hus kept him from returning to Phila- delphia to live, he explained. Thousands of public officlals in | ‘Washington, he said, live here most | of the year but retain their ecitizen- ship in their home states, If denied his seat, he sald, he would feel no resentment, recogniz- ing “that the question is not free from difficulty” and that Garrett, in | bringing the contest, “was actuated | by no partisan motive.” | Washington, Jan. 6 P — George Washington and Benjamin Franklin | were rallied today to the defense of | Representative James M. Beck, re- ' publican, in a statement he filed with | a house elections committee denying | charges brought by democrats that | he was not a resident of Pennsyl- vania at the time of his recent elec- tion to congress. 1 He sald that Washington from the of the| Father of Sailor Who Died in S-4 Praises the Navy Lowell, Mass., Jan. 6 (—Navy rescuers who sought to save the crew imprisoned in the submarine 8-4 off Provincetown did every- thing possible, but they were handicapped by lack of up-to-date apparatus, Willlam Fennell, father of John J. Fennell, ma- chinist's mate who lost his life when the vessel sank, declared last night. “I have every reason to praise the efforts of the rescue work- ers” Mr. Fennell, who visited Provincetown shortly after the accident occ.rred, said. “Admiral Brumby extended me every cour- tesy. But I do think that at least some of the men ngght have been saved if there had been more up to date equipment avail- able."” NANCHESTER MAN IN NEW STATE PISTIO FAKES, EXPERTS CALL *42¢ Bemond Johnson HEARST? GODE WRIT§ ~ Attormey General Navy Investigators Report Evidence of Fraud in Mexican Documents Hartford, Jan, 6 M—Judge Ray: day was appointed the first assistant |attorney general of the state of | Connecticut, the appointment hav- !ing been made by Attorney General Benjamin W, Aling in accordance | with an act passed at the session of ihe_legislature, Y At present Judge Jchmson is coun- el for the state department of Washington, Jan. 6 (#—Code messages in thé Mexican documents published in Heasst newspapers were ! described as “fakes” today by United | onoies and institutions, States navy experts who testified | Judge Johnson has been a repre- before & speclal senate investigating | sentative of the state legislature committee, ‘rom Manchester for three terms and Commander \t the past session served on the A. D. Struble, charge of the code and signal sc: udiciary committee of the general sembly. His appointment as as- of the navy, pronounced the code messages and their apparent transla- | fistant to the attorney general falls tions as “mere nonsense.” under section 2, chapter 132, of the A ten-day investigation was made | Public acts of 1027, into the seven published mcssages| The appointment, in effect, I8 a and translations, Commander Struble | transfer of the legal phases of the explained, and cvery means known | Work in the department of agencies to the navy failed to “break” the |l0 the attorney general's oftice and so-called code. ; He cited numerous reasons why, in the navy's opinion, the codes were | “faked.” Arthur Bliss Jane, chief of the department and former first secre~ tary of the American embassy in Mexico, told the documents, offered to get some Mexi- can documents for the American embassy. Thesc were refused, Lanc | said. He branded as a “lMe” the story that he had offered to sell informa- tion about Amesican affairs, Frank V. McLaughlin, of the 8ol Petroleum Cowpany in Mexico, had said Avila came to him with an | offer to sell information passing be- tween Ambassador Shefficld ard Secretary Kellogg and that Avila had said Mr. Lane was available. “That is just a plain lie,” Mr. Lane said as the committcemen laughed. For 200 pesos, Mr. Lane said that Avila offered to get an oviginal «f a letter purporting to have been sent Revolutionary army to the end of 0 the governors of Mexican states. 1s second presidential term, a per- | The proposal was declined by Lane, iod of 16 years, was “very rarely at | who added that the American em- | is another step toward the final cen- | | tralization of all legal proceedings |by the state In Judge Alling's of- | fice., | The appointment of Mr. Johnson | Mexican affairs division of the state | brings to the attorney general's de- ‘partment a third member of the i house judiclary committee, Judge committes that | Aling was chairman of this com- Miguel Avila, producer of the Hearst |Mittee in 1925, Deputy Attorney |General Ernest L. Averlll was a | member in 1927 with Judge Johnson. | Chapter 132 of the public acts of 1927 authorizes the attorney general {10 appoint the deputy attorney gen- |eral and “such other assistants as he shall deem it necessary, subject to the approval of the board of con- trol.” The salary of the new first as- sistant attorney general will be fixed by the state board of finance and control. Judge Alling was floor {lcader of the house and Mr. Averill leld the same position in 1927, | Judge Johnson has been represent- {ing Manchester in the house of rep- | resentatives for three sessions, and i« judge of the town court of Man- chester, his term expiring on first Monday in July, 1928. He is a graduate of the Sonth the CHAIN STORE NAGNATE . GETS DEATH THREAT jChurles Saunders Menaced | by the “Three Ghost : Men" Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 6 UP—A let- | 2 . ter threatening disaster to “you and | g, mond A, Johnson of Manchester to. | Everything Humanly Pos- |your family” unless he left $5,500 in "old $100 bills at a spot under a rail- jroad trestle tonight, was received today by Clarence S8aunders, chain grocery store maguate. It was isigned “The Three Ghost Men.” “This is the only notice that we shall give you,’’ reads the which warned! Bau$ders rot to no- tity the polieb’ as “w¢ ‘den‘'t intend |to take any foolishness.” ‘The letter, written on & type- i writer, concluded with these words, written in capital letters: “Don’t fail! If you do, it will be mitted.” | Saunders met the chatlenge with | {an announcement that he would not | pay. the money, but would pay a re- |ward of $1,000 for the arrest of the Ietter writers, | He has three children, Amy Clair, 15; Lee, 21, and Clay, 18, BEFORE COURT OF ERRORS | Misposition of Income From Residue of $2,000,000 Estatc Awaits i Judicial Interpretation |court of errors today heard argu- |ments in the casc of Alix W. Stan- ley and others, executors, against Alix W. Stanley and others, which was brought to the supreme vourt on reservation from Superior Court +Judge Newell Jennings. | The advice of the suprcme court | |is asked with reference to distribu- | tion of funds in connection with the 182,000,000 estate of Katherine Stan- {lay, late of New Britain. Miss Stan- ley, in her will, made provision for {the children of her brother. Some of them died before Miss Stanley, |and left wills of their own, and some died after Miss Stanley did. One of the principal points raised in the su- | preme court is the disposition of the letter, the most brutal crime ever o= KATHERINE STANLEY'S WILL Hartford, Jan, 6 UW—The supreme | '-,.:'hlq, UT, FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1928.—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. | " PLANISREQURED lsael Putoam Pupils Wil At- —Photo by Johnson & Peterson Two Aged Sisters Frozen to Death In Suburban Home Philadelphia, Jan. 6 (®—Two aged sisters, one a widow, the other u spinster, were found froz- en to death {n their home at Ard- more, a suburb, last night. They were Mra. Hannah Ma- honey, 85, and Miss Mary Anne Gibson, 83. Physicians said they had been dead for several days. The two women had lived to- gether here since the death of Mre. Mahoney’s hueband, several years ago and were belicved to have been well off financially, Their home, however, had no modern conveniences. The only means of heating the house was a small cook stove in the kitchen and police expressed the belief they had collapsed from the cold before building the fire Sunday morning. 'COMMANDER DETAILS §4 RESCUE ATTEMPTS sible Done to Save Boys, He Declares i. Boston, Jan, 6 (P--Lieut, Com- | mander Edward $%lisbers, salvage (expert, who returned to active duty with the navy afier retirement iff order to assist in sslvaging the sunk- ‘en submarine B-4, appearcd as a witness today before the naval court jof inquiry investigating the Prov- incetown submarine disaster. Commander Leslie Judge advocate, explained to court that he had planned to pre- sent the story of the disaster in se- |auence, taking up next the facts of | the collision, but that Commander | Ellsberg desired to be heard at this (time because of pressure of per- | sonal business. | Is Chief Commander Ellsberg gave his oc- jcupation as chief engineer of the Tidewater Oil company, New York. {He sald that since December 18 he (had been a lleutenant commander |for deck duty in the volunteer naval reserve. He had previously been in the naval service 12% years after |graduation from the naval academy {in 1914, but had resigned. He said he had had considerable experience in connection with submarines, and was salvage officer in the raising of the 8-51 off Block Island in 1926. | In reply to questions the witness |saild he had received the distinguish- (ed service medal for the §-51 sal- | vage work on ‘recommendation of his superior officers. | Navy's Own Problem Commander Ellsberg said salvage | with submarines were peculiar to the !navy. No commercial salvage com- |pany in the world was acquainted | with the problem of raising sub- | marines sunk at sea or had equip- | ment adapted to the salvaging of |submarines outside of harbor waters. Bratton, | the | PRICE THREE CENTS L0SS OF $60,000 BY FIRE AT ISRAEL PUTNAN SCHOOL; DEFECTIVE WIRING BLAMED tend Washington School r :REPAIRS BEGIN AT ONGEé School Department Estimates Dam- | | age at $15,000, for Which City i Holds Full Insurance Coverage— | Meceting Held Today. | The Isracl Putnam school will be {restored to service in about six {weeks, Supt. Stanley H. Holmes be- | lieves, and in the meantime the 320 | {pupils will be accommodated at the ‘Washington school. i { Details in the arrangements of |Putnam mschool children fn the Washington school were announced by Supt. Holmes. Children who have been housed in four portable build- jings at the Washington school | since the early part of the present | {school year, due to overcrowding, | will be transferred to the main| |plant where four rooms of children | will be put under a part time ar-: rangement. Pupils from the Isracl Putnam {school will be housed In the four | | portable buildings also on a part- {time plan. Supt. Holmes announced { that the kindergarten puplls would |not be affected by the change since they are small and would find it a ardship to travel the long distance {to school for | day. | Eight Classcs Accommodated i Eight classcs will be accommo- dated dally. As only four class rooms are available, the eight teachers will double on each class, one teacher conducting the class and the other teacher tutoring the | backward pupils. The sixth grade ipupils, the highest in the school, will be given the benefit of a fun day of work s0 as to prepare them for their entrance to junior high ! jachool. These arrangements will go | into effect next Monday morning, there being no sessions of school for the Israel Putnam children to- | day, | A program of instructions will be posted on the property in front of the school to inform the pupils about two hours lr Three Bring tire Personnel of Fire Department to Check Flames in Os- good Avenue Struc- ture Which Burns for Poor Water Pressure Ne- cessitates Use of High Pressure Reservoir — Lieut. Souney and Hose- man Pac Near Death When Roof Suddenly Falls. Damage estimated by Fire Chief Noble at $60,000 was caused by fire which swept through the Israel Putnam school on Osgood avenus lust night. Thrills for spectators fol- lowed ecach other rapidly during the two hours the firemen were putting the flames under control. Beveral members of the department had narrow escapes when the roof ‘fell, The first alarm was sounded at approximately 8 o'clock and was followed by two others within 10 minutes. It was not until after 10 o'clock that the fire was under oon- trol and not until midnight that Chief’ Noble ordered all companies but one to return to their stations. The ruins were still amoldering this morning, #ccording to fire and school de- partment officials the fire started in the attic, although previous theorles pointed to an explosion in the fur- nace room. The outbreak occurred first in the center of the ng. suppoued- 1y in a store room in.the attic. The accumblated gases in {he ~ attie poured through the vent in the roef until, mixed with air to the combus- tion. point, ignited far above the building, {lluminating the vicinity for a distance, Three Alarms Sounded Seven of the nine fire companies, including engine companies 1, 3, 8. 4 and 7 and two ladder trucks, were |of what procedure they are to fol- called to the scene by the thres low when they go to school Mon-|alarms, while Engine Company Ne. day. {5 from East and Rhodes street The morning classes will befrom | moved from its gwn station fato 8:30 until 11:30 and the afternoon ! headquarters on Commercial street classes will be from 1 until 4|to cover the husiness section of the jand rescue operations in connection | o'clock. 8chool department officlals are in- clined to regard the fire department estimate of $60,000 as low, and they have placed the probable damage at $75.000, all of which will be re-| covered. The bullding is covered by | insurance up to 80 per cent of its | value, which is $120.000, exclusive {of furnishings. | Repairs at Once | A few feet of the wall near the! roof will be removed because fits| i exposure to heat and the strain fm- | | posed on it by the falling roof are; | believed to have weakened it. The| roof will then be restored. and in |the meantime interior repairs will | be undertaken. ! Examination of the premises today | | cisclosed that the floors fn all but | | (Continued On Page Twenty Five) | ixFLaTED BUOY FoUND | St. John's, N. T, Jan. 6 (P—The minister of customs has been in- [formed that an inflated buoy, by {lieved to have been dropped from an |airplane, has been picked up by the ! There was no reason why they ishould have, he said, because th | steamer Prospero at Distolet Bay, on i the north coast, and is being brouzht , |archives today, for all posterity to Mount Vernon, but no one would ever question that he was an in- habitant of Virginia.” added, was in Paris for 10 years and | his citizenship of Pennsylvania was not questioned. | Born In Pennsylvania Beck, a former solicitor general of | (Continued on Page 25) | bassy once obtained thc release of Avila from jail. Manchester high school in 1914 and | % Tiiston abidacaity An MY, ing handled by Alix W. Stanley and | of Bos . 917, !the New Britain Trust Co., a8 execu- Franklin, he | The department official zaid that John Page, Hearst reporter, fre- quently came with Avila to the em- bassy in conn-ction with documents. “Who mads these Chairman Recd asked. (Continued On Page Twenty Five) Washington, Jan. navy department L placed in fts read, the agonizing annals of six 'NAVY TO PRESERVE FOREVER STORY DYING SAILORS IN S-4 TAPPED OUT (UP)—The with ice-cold water and recking with | poisonous carbon dioxide, grew less intelligible toward the close. Three documents?” | ‘llar\'ar;l‘ Saves Cash On Mummies’ Fare Cambridge, Mass.. Jan. 6 (UP)— | By booking mummics as “old bones” Harvard university has saved several thousand dollars in steamship fares. | "When Willlam G. Morse, Har- [vard purchasing agent, negotiated with the War Steamship line for the transportation of 100 Yucatan In- djan mummics, he learned that the |fare for the mummies would be 00 {cach if they shipped as “persons.” So Morse recorded the mummies shipping papers as “old and was granted a reduced amship company. {in the | bones™ Bootleg King, Acquitted of Wife ,rave dead. They comprise “The Log of the Murder, Refuscd Habeas Corpus— o g4\ tho memsages that the six |men fatally trapped in the wrecked sub’s leaking torpedo room tapped out, with steel hammer against the submersible’s sides, 50 that those working for their rescue might Must Go to Asylum Now. Cincinnati, Jan. 6 (P—George Remus, the former Chicago lawyer who became the “king of bootleg- | gérs,” was denled a writ of habeas hurry, corpus today and his hope of evading | The messages were picked up by punishment for the murder of his |the salvage ship Falcon and the sub. wife turned to an appeal from th-:‘} probate court order which found him insane and dirccted commit- | ment o the state hospital for the criminal insane at Lima. The decision was handed down by Judge Charles 8. Bell of the court of common pleas. He granted Charles H. Elston. counsel for Re- | mug, time to perfect an appeal to | the eourt of appeals, which prevent- «d immediate removal of Remus to marine 8-8, toiling overhead against storms and inadequate equipment in a vain effort to get air to the suffo- cating, half-drowned torpedo men. For nearly 75 hours the entombed managed to answer the taps from “Is thefv hope?" Sometimes report- ing “The air is very bad,” and at other times pleading “Please hurry and “8end down two oxygen bottles.” The messages from the chamber the TAma institution. i of death, lightless, foodless, filling the rescue ships, sometimes asking | {taps from inside showed the &ix had | Fate by the ste: 2 Ireceived a message that relatives| ~The mummics were consigned to were praying for their leader, Licut, | (he University Museum. Newell Graham Fitch. Then far more distinct tappings were heard. | At last the hammerings on the | | hull's interior became random and indistinct. Then there were none. In the log two cpisodes stand out, as showing how fate against efforts at succor. At 6:43 p. m.. Sunday, Dec. 15, |about 27 hours after the submarine sank. the Falcon messaged “Com- | eiatives, but probably will bo in partment salvage air line 18 being | Arlington cemetery, with military hooked up now.” Then the Falcon | honors, on Monda {pumped for hours to replenish in| Commander Jon: parents |this way the mcager air supply in | expected to arrive Sunday from Hen- the -4 torpedo room. But no sign messy, Okla, came from the six men that they| The navy department said that were breathing better, their taps | the body of Aaron Hodge, the third | merely maying: “Will you raise us|removed from the 8-4, would be sent {800n? The water is coming in slowly. | from Boston to Ran Francisco for | burial in the Presidio Military ceme- tery. {Sailors’ Bodies Rest In Arlington Vaults | Washington, Jan. 6 (UP)—The | bodics of Commander Roy K. Jones and Liett. Joseph McGinley, who conspired | jicq on the submarine -4, arrived !from Boston today and were placed in a recciving vault at Arlington, Va The funeral awaited word from | (Continued On Page Twenty &ix) are | (tors, and as trustces under certain | ! paragraphs of the will. CONTRACTORS BANKRUPT dohnson & Casperson, Bullders, Have Liabilitics of $7,800, Accord- ing to Schedule Tiked in Court, | The firm of Johnson & Casperson, icarpenters and builders, and the Ipartners, John A. Johnson and Carl A, Casperson. filed voluntary peti- tions in bankruptey today in the !United States district court at New |Haven. The firm's liabilities were given at approximately the personal liabilitics were set at the same amount. Value of the as- sets has not been determined. The assets consist of parcels of land, on some of which there are houses either in the course of con- struction or tenanted: three auto- mobiles. lumber, brick, and out- standing accounts. fome of the parcels of land are encumibered with mortgages. Nair & Nair is the law |firm representing the bankrupts. | * THE WEATHER 1 New Britain and vicinity: || Mostly cloudy tonight and | | Saturday; slowly rising tem- perature, { * | | | | | d income from the estate, which is be- | SINKINgs of submarines are so rare here for examination. ] |that it would not pay the companies | to maintain the necessary cquipment. Navy divers, Commandecr Ellsberg | said, were better fitted than civillan divers for submarine salvage work i because of their knowledge of the vessels. The witness said that div- ing was almost enti a naval de- vclopment, and that navy divers or- | —_— (Continued on Page 24) FOR LONGER VACATION Boston, Jan. 6.—(P—Longer va- | cations for public school children in ! Massachusetts are proposed in a bill i filed with the clerk of the house to- day by Rep. Harry A. Albro of Falmouth. Under provisions of the | vill schools would not reopen after | | the summer vacation before October 1 'RUTH SNYDER | New York, Jan. 8 (UP)—Counsel (for Mrs. Ruth Snyder today paved the way for a last minute petition in $7.800 and supreme court for a stay of execu- | !tion designed to stay the scheduled ectrocution of the murderess nest Thursday night. The unexpected move came in a stipulation arranged by Edgar F. Hazelton, her chief counsel, with an |attorney for the Prudential Insur- ance company which is secking can- cellation of policies aggregating | $95,000 on the life of Alfred Snyder, | who was slain by his wife and her |lover, Judd Gray. | Hazelton has applied for a jury trial of the Prudential's suit. The !stipulation, filed quietly with the |supreme court clerk, adfourns argu- {ment on the application for a jury | {until January 13. | And although Mrs. Snyder and {Gray are condemned to die during |the week of January 9 the accepted date is the night of January 12. Hazelton now is prepared to go SCHEDULED TO APPEAR "IN COURT AFTER DAY SET FOR DEATH | before Supreme Court Justice Levy {and ack a stay of execution on the ground that if a jury trial is granted city in case of emergency. Although the flames had gained considerable force when the firemen arrived, the blaze presented addi- tional difficulties because of the lo- cation of the building at ene of the highest points in the city. Two pumpers were taxed to their masi- mum capacity. Even this was not sufficient until Superintendent James Towers of the water department turned on the city high pressure supply. So extensively did the fire travel that it was impossible to get inside the structure and firemen were eom- pelled to turn streams of water through the windows and over the walls onto the roof from the acheol yard. After the collapse of the roof. firemen from tops of ladders poured streams of water into the flames in an attempt to flood the blasing | woodwork. The collapse of the roof, permitting a greater vent to the simouldering fires, increased the draught and the flames rapidly eov- ered the entire structure until greups of firemen were fighting at several different points, on what seemed at times to he separate fires. Firemen Have Narrow Faecape Several firemen narrowly escaped injury when the roof fell in. Fire- (Continued on Page 28.) NEW YORK NAYY YARD USELESS, SAYS MAGRUDER Depost Commander Continues Testi- mony Before the Special Com- mittee Appointed By House Washington, Jan. 6 P—Rear Ad- miral Thomas P. Magruder, deposed commander of the Philadelphia dia- in the Prudential's suit Mrs. Snyder | trict, told the house naval commit will be a material witness. | tee today that the New York m: Hazditon | vop s \uTepire oo vard should be shut down as it was {into court and enter the plea that| o no military value and constituted the ends of justice would be defeat- 5y 0014 1o commercial shipping. ed if Mrs. Snyder were killed by the | © o o T T ation ef his state before she has had a chance | . 4 > 5 ; | published charges of waste in naval to give evidence that wltimately | P el BOFERE 00 T eatifed would benefit her young daughter, | TdminItration, the 4 ripm . that the Roston and Philadelphia Lorraine, who has been named bens ficlary of the policies. |navy yards could take ever the e ! duties of the yard at New York and cfiect a saving to the governmment. Only at certain times of the day, he added. can ships enter and leave the New York yard. ; Magruder reiterated that the Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and edge and with the intention of profit. | the Charleston, & C., yards, alse !ing by his death. Mrs. 8nyder has |should be abolished. but uader ques- denied these charges. | tioning by Representative Miller, ve- Since questions of fact and not of | publican, Washington, he sald he law are thus involved Hazelton pre- | could not give specific figures as to sented the application for & jury |the saving by aband: 4 “"- Attorneys searching through ‘muuty records, however, have been able to find only one precedent l’or’ {a supreme court stay of execution. The insurance company contends that Mrs. Snyder took out the poli- cles without her husband's knowl- | | trial. two yards and the New °