New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 13, 1928, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 COLLEGE UPHEAVAL CAUSED WHEN FACULTY BANS PLAY WRITTEN FOR SCHOOL BOOK New Britain Man With- draws From Clark University at Worces- ter, Mass., as Protest. Student Body, Upholding Dramatic and Literary Lights, Insist President Reinstate Four Students. (Special to the Herald) Worcester, Mass., Jan. 13 — Four students have left Clark university as a result of a whirlwind and ener- getic investigation by the president over an article which was to have gone to press in the college maga- zine this week, and which was branded by university officials as obscene, One of the students who has left is Francis Schweitzer of New Brit- ain, Conn., a senior and literary edi- | ,tor of the monthly. The college office announced that he had with- drawn from the institution. One other student has withdrawn from the university and two others have been suspended. Bertrand Le- vesque of New Bedford also depart- ed and Theodore Rothman of New York, editor in chief, with KFrank (Colapinto) Phelan of Worcester, formerly of New Britain, author of the article to which the faculty su- pervisors objected, are under sus- pension, President Wallace W. Atwood stated that Phelan had written a one-act play for the issue due next week and that when he saw it in proof he at once suspended Phelan and Rothman. ‘The article deals with the con- versation of three colloge students on science, religion and women, cording to Dr. Atwood. Schweitzer and Levesque were re- quested to resign from the staff of the maflazine but both stated that they preferred to leave the college. Students Demand Explanation Worcester, Mass., Jan. 13 (A—The atudent body of Clark university in a meeting this noon adopted a reso- lution requesting Dr. Wallace W. At- wood, president of the university, to appear before the student body Mon- day and state his reasons for sus- pending four students who were members of the editorial board of the Clark Monthly, a magazine, be- cause of a onc-act play written for the magazine which the university declared to be ot an obscene nature. The student body, at its meeting today, expressed its confidence in the editorial board and asked uni- versity officlals to reinstate fmme- diately, without loss of credit, those members who have been suspended. The students also asked that the ac- RITAIN HERALD NS InAeRN) 'NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 192% THIRTY-TWO PAGES SUB PERISCOPE 1S | TESTED T0 LEARN VISBLITY RANGE Officer Asserts 1t Should Dis- close Vessel at 5,000 Yards Distance i | ROGERS LAMPOONS DENOCRATS TALKS i .1 0T 50 ASY HOWRVER, bty 10 DETECY SUBNERSBLE Destroyer First Saw Sub It Was Impossible to Avold Crash—De- 'Humorist Ridicules Senate, Opening With Prayer and Closing With ductions Are Made As Result of Actual Experiments Conducted Investigation—Andy Jackson Mk-‘ ed a Little Nip, He Thinks, Oft Provincetown, . Boston, Jan. 18 M—Even on an Washington, Jan. 13 P—WIll| 5 oreuq day and in & choppy sea Rogers was a speaker at last night's | (o ;oriscope of a submarine could Democratic Jackson Day dinner but pick up a vessel 5,000 yards dis- there were 8o many other speakers | un( | jcyt, William Wakefleld, com- ahead of him that he had to wait until 1 o'clock this morning to do mander of the 8-6, sister ship of the his stuff. He paid them off, how- | | | ever, | | | ill-fated §-4, testified today before the naval court of inquiry investigat- with s fist “quip.” “We | 8 the 8-4 dkisasler. ’ | Lieut, Wakefield, who acted as an ought to be home now, but It we 80 | ;, o vc on board this vessel when to anything given by the democrats |1, 8.4 tragedy was reenacted for we never get home. the court off Provincetown yester- “I don't know when the demo- |day, said he sighted the destroyer cratic party started,” he said, “but 1;‘:“12:!*;“‘ Gt I::::;n::te:!lt RAED from all I've heard tonight it started | .4 ywoodend at the Em“nc: to several hundred years before Jack- | provincetown harbor. The Mono- son, for all they have dug up here | ghan, following the course of the tonight couldn’t have happened since | destroyer Paulding, which rammed his time. and sank the 8-4¢ while the latter Privileges For All was making standardization trials “I have one thing to offer: That's |suMnerged over a measured mile equal opportunities for none and |course on December 17, special privileges for all.” | The officer sald that despite the ©1 that line had been cut out |fact that weather conditions were we'd have beza home hours ago." (pag on the day of the collision he Turning to Claud G. Bowers, the |pelieved the periscope would have keynote speaker, Rogers said: |revealed the destroyer at the same "It was yesterday when you mzde | gistance. the speech, but I congratulate ycu, | Crash Unavoldable I've forgotten what you said, but it | when the Paulding sighted the was darned good. When you got up periscopes of the §-4 only 200 feet |and covered the thing you just about . wou"on her port bow on Decem ruined these other guys. These |pon "7 ™0 " 0onigion could not have | other speakers could have washed |been averted, naval officers tso | up then and gone home. b z i Bl - Talks On Respect. Under perfect conditions of sea hey talk about my lack of re- | oy oen B T O oAbl spect for men in high offices, Say | (g SN OTCCR m’ i boy, not in my wildest moments did | oo 08 (G C OGN B ® "*’;l' { I cver eall a republican the names | 100R€S OF the &6, wh (‘;m“““‘}‘s". you did.” . 2 AD0o DL 8 Reminding his audience that Wil- n":“e"r _:"";"“"" 'F‘"" actual periscopes. | liam Jennings Bryan once stampeded © seen witil the maked eye at | a convention, Rogers sald, “This lit- | i (Continued on Page 30) tle guy might do liKewise, “Of course ! he hasn’t got the physical attributes | of Bryan,” Rogers added, “but then, | looking into the White House, that is not so important.” | Jibes For Congrese, ‘ SCHOOLS COST $41,503 OVER APPROPRIATION nforeseen Bills Cause | of Deficit, Department Turning his gun on the senate, Rogers said: “It opens with a | prayer and closes with an investiga- | | tion, “They investigate how much czh | paid to get in and if one paid more | jthan they did, they throw him out. | | daughter, 1 Mrs. Snyder and Former Lover " Put to Death in Electric Chair; She Dies Ex Man Walks Calmly to His Doom — Had Expressed a| Kindly Feeling for His Paramour and Hoped Error of His Ways Would Serv. Ossining, N. Y., Jan. 13 (P)—Mrs. {Ruth Snyder and Henry Judd Gray ;however, Gray for all last night paid their debt to the state for the killing March 20 of her husband, Albert Snyder. The two former lovers were exe- cuted in the Bing Sing death house | shortly after 11 p. m. They went | to their deaths unfaltering, with prayers on their lips. Mrs. 8nyder was pronounced dead at 11:09 o'clock and at 11:15 it was announced that Gray's life had been wiped out, too. Mrs, Snyder Bears Up Suggestions freely made that Mrs. Snyder would collapse at the end were not borne out. She walked to | the death-dealing chair and seated | herself in it with little direction | from two matrons accompanying her. They held her arms but were guiding her more than lending sup- | port. i Gray Gazes at Witnesses Gray was the defendant of the Long Island City trial who walked | with elastic tread to and from the | BIRTHDAY LETTERS WRITTEN BY GRAY Danghter to Get One Yearly Until She Is 21 FUNERAL THIS AFTERNOON Mrs. Snyder Also Left Letter For | | | Daughter—Brains of Both Slayers Found Normal—Insutance Law- sult Comes Up Soon. Ossining, N. Y., Jan. 18 (P)-—Jane Gray, 9 year old daughter of Henry Judd Gray will receive a letter from her father on her birthday each year until she is 21 years old. Just prior to lLis execution at Sing Sing prison last night, Gruy turned r a packet of letters to his attor- . Bamuel Miller, with instructions tarti one be delivered to his daugh- ter each year. The letters werc written by Gray at the prison. Mrs. Ruth Snyder also left a let- ter to be mailed to her 9 year old Lorraine, and one for her mother, Mrs. Josephine Brown Neither Gray nor Mrs. Snyder had seen their daughters since their ad- mission to Sing Sing prison. Brains Were Normal Autopsies on the bodies of Mrs. Snyder and Gray disclosed that the brains of both were normal, prison officials announced today. i The autopsies were performed by Dr. James Kerney, assistant prison | surgeon, and were witnessed by four | visiting physicians, | |cution chamber with slightly drag- | were wide open they were apparent- editorial board of tNe Clark Month- | The house never minds how much a | Iy be retained as at present, Officers | member paid to get in because it | of the student body were delegated | figures it he did pay he's a simp.” to wait upon President Atwood. Andy Liked a “Nip.” : Frank Phelan of Worcester, &| Will said he didn't know much | member of the sophomore class and | ahout Andy Jackson but from what | 4 contributing editor of the Clark | he'd read he liked “a nip now and | Explains Unexpected ecircumstances which | could not, members of the school board say, be anticipated when the | — | Funeral Plans | East Orange, N. J., Jan. 13 (P— Less than a half mile from the home | in which he had lived as a respected | |citizen, the body of Henry Judd | Gray, electrocuted last nfght at Sing | Sing, lay today in an undertaker's pressing Penitence e as Warning to Others. 200,000 MISSING | | court room each day. In court, his almost janty w ., always stepped in and out of the room with eyes averted. At his exccution, the former corset salesman looked directly into the faces of the awed witnesses, num- bering almost two score. Woman Seems Dazed Mrs. Snyder walked into the exe- - ASWELL AS AGENT 'New Haven Police Searching lor R L S Diaz | ging step and although her eves | ly unsecing and it was evident that — | for her the crowded room did not | T oo e orea s e PROBABLY GONE SOUTH. slhipped into the electric chalr. i Both the man and the woman died with prayers on their lips. Just be- | fore the black mask, the last detail of the final arrangements, was placed over her face, Mrs. Snyder cried: Mrs. Snyder’s Prayer “Forgive them, father, for they | know not what they do." Eight New Haven Persons, Includ- ing Two Elderly Women, Among Alleged Victims—Others Reported in Hartford. | New Haveh, Jan. 13.—(P—Police | here today joined with officers in other cities in search for R. L. 8 Diaz, of Forest Lawn avenue, Stam- | tord, who is wanted on charges of | embezzling a considerable sum of money or equivalent in securitics, said to be about $200,000. | The city attorney’s office disclosed | that eight New Haven persons, two of them elderly women, had entrust- ed funds to Diaz's keeping and now | he is missing. Warrants are Issued The police here say warrants have i been issued or asked for in Water- ! bury, Hartford and Stamford for | Diaz. He is thought to have gone | south. | | Diaz had desk room in the office ‘of an attorney in the Chamber of | Commerce building. He is said to ! have been the representative of a New York brokerage concern of un- questioned standing and that his al- | leged Wrong use of moneys entrust- ed to him was in individual transac- tions, | Pourzer Starts Probe Complaints made against Diaz were investigated by Assistant City | Attorney D. Pouzzner and he | was also told that Waterbury police | had asked that search be made here | for the man. | Samuel E. Halstead of Washing- | ton, Conn., made the first complaint, apparently, he saying that early in November he gave Diaz money with which to by (ank stocks, He waited three wecks for deliv- 'ry of the stock and saw Diaz who | promised, he said, to make good. Other complaints began to come in and the sums represented in these | of misused money ran into big | ligures, | (Continued on Page 26) | i 1ad Gone South A month ago two detectives here | called upon Mrs. Diaz in Stamford | to ask about her husband and she | said he was in the south. | It was found that the brokerage | house had - forwarded stocks and | | bonds to Diaz in fulfillment of or- | ders but that delivery to the buyers | had not been made. Also, there were | some balances he had not settled | with the New York houee. The police learned that one Sam- ford woman had given Diaz $40,000 | for which she got no return. His FRED ZEHRER FRED ZEHRER AWARDED BURNS TROPHY ATH. . First Presentation to Feb- have extended month period. through a nine Average Daily Circulation Feor | Woeek Eading Jam. Tth ... 14,816 PRICE THREE CENTS GRAND LIST TOTAL IS $114,768,798, INCREASE OF $3,083,745 FOR YEAR; GAIN IS LESS THAN NORMAL FOR CITY — Revenue Based on Current Tax Rate Would Amount to Only $78, 635, Less Than Jump in School Board Requirements Alone—Exempt Properties Keep. Total Down—Beloin Has Highest Individual Assessment With American Hardware Corp. Leading Industrial Plants. RECAPITULATION Dwelling Houses ceaes T arns, Sheds, Iee and Store Houses, Private Garages, ete, suee -4 House Lots and Building Lots .16, Stores, Shops. ote. . Mills, Machiner; Lands (Acres) Horses Neat Cattle Sheep, ete. . ments . Merchandise PREETE Cables, Wires, ete. . All taxable property not pre ously mentioned .. Ten per cent additional . Deductions on account of war ., MIDDLETOWN KEEPS CLOSE QUARANTINE Police Ordered fo Arrest Any Persons Violating Order NO NEW CASES REPORTED Thousands Being Vaccinated, Cases Listed — Pest House Opens Tomorrow, Middletown, Jan. 13 (P—For the first time since .an epidemic of small- vox in mild form broke out here, no new cases were reported today, al- though several suspects are being investigated. The total number of ses in Middlesex county is report- ed at more than 70, with 37 of them In- | cluding Mayor — More Than 70 | ,275 5081/3 $36,955, 608 AT8 721 69 686.83 273 245 1,022,800 1150 ,887 $114,758,798 689,665 $114,099,133 A grand list of $114,786.798, which {is $3,083,745 more than that of last | year, was made public today by Chairman Thomas Linder of the board of assessors. Computed on the current rate, the increase in tax revenue made pPos- sible by the larger grand list is $78,- 635.50, which will be found to ne less than the increase in the budget of the school department alone, it is expected. Increase Less Than Normal The increase is somewhat = lews than normal, Several elementy hate | entered into this condition, including {the new statute which exempts all | church parsonage properties to their full value, instead of up to $5,000, which was formerly the law; & marked reduction in the market price of used automobiies; and the purchase by the school committee of school sites, which although an almost inconsiderable element, had {some bearing. While there was (several million dollars’ worth of | building during the year, much of it was exempt, such as the memo- rials and school buildings. Beloin Pays On $431,350 Fred Beloin leads the list of in- dividual taxpayers, his assessment activities which are under scrutiny i here, To assist the enforcement of strict quarantine, Mayor Frederick J. Bkl” efield today ordered the police to rest anyone violating the emer- ‘ncy regulations. The mayor him- self was vaccinated last night, (Continued on Page 24) CHAMBERLIN STILL IS ruary Graduate Is | Monthly, was suspended indefinite- | the | school department asked for an ap- | Jy from the university by President| #No wonder he was sound on prin- | Propriation last year have made it | establishment. 1,000 Are Vaccinated | | | i | Atwood as the result of writing the | ciples,” the comedian added play which the university authorities | «I've got no mcssage cven if we | declared obscene. stay here a week, but all you other Theodore Rothman, of New York, | guys had one. You said it's a big | editor-in-chief, was suspended from | poment and you went about com- | the university until Monday, Frank | paring notes. Now Jim Reed, 1s to | schweitzer of New Britain, and Ber- | come yet and we all want to hear| s m Levesque of New Bedford,|pim “Well, he took his speech to | tra members of the editorial staff, With- | tha Anti-Raloon League and asked | drew from the university after refus-{-om how it was.” | Ing to comply With President At-| Tocq jotned as heartily as the| 100d’s request that they resign from | oihars in the laughter. the monthly editorial board. Roth- } man withdrew from the editorial | 1 KARTFORD PEOPLE Inquiries at the Schweitzer home at 27 Vance street today disclosed the fact that members of the stu-! dent's family were in complete ig- | norance of the affair. It was said there that he was, as far as llw‘ family knew, in Worcester at the university and none knew anything about the altercation between Schweitzer ad the university presi- dent. Bchweitzer was home for the Christmas holidays and at that time All Are Overcome by Dead- | ly Coal Gas Fumes in | Rooming House he spoke of being appointed the editor of a newly proposed college paper. Phelan, whose correct name is Colapinto, formerly lived in Bristol and New Britain, and attended New Britain High school a few years ago. He was engaged in newspaper work in New Britain, Hartford and New York before going to Worces- ter. To Punish Herself She Cuts Off End of Tongue Seattle, Wash.,, Jan, 13 (®—To punish herself for some sin, Mrs. Emy Tochi, 25, Japanese maid, cut about an inch off her tongue last night. In a hospital here today physicians expressed doubt whether she ever would be able to speak again. What the offense the wom- an believed she had committed was not known, but Japanese here said their countrymen frequently pun- ish themselves in similar manner. NDICTED FOR MURDER 8t. Clairsvilfe, Ohio, Jan. 13 P— Fifteen year old Andy Dyken was indicted on a first degree murder charge today by the county grand jury en evidence that the youth kill- ed his mother. He Is accused of slaying his mother after she repri- manded him for not attending school. | Hartford, Jan. 13.—(P—Eieven | persons, all occupants of a rooming | rowly escaped death | night when a closed draft in a hot alr furnace blew out, permitting deadly coal gas fumes to escape into every room in the house. Six of the victims were taken to the Hartford hospital, where it was said they would recover, although had they remained much longer in the house it would probably have killed them, The othes were treated by & neighborhood physician and had re- covered by noon. Mre. Peter Litalia arose at 4:45 a. {m. to prepare breakfast and had taken only a few steps when she | dropped ungonscious, overcome by {the fumek. This aroused her hus. and, proprietor of the rooming housc, who after carrying her back to her room, was overcome. He regained consclousncss and crawled upstairs to find every occu- punt_ cither unconscious or eemi- conscious. Hg then summoned the police. | COOLIDGE AND PARTY OFF Washington, Jan. 13 (®—Presi- dent Coolidge and his party left hey |early this afternoon for Key West, where he will board a battleship for the journey to Cuba for the open- ing of the P#a-American conference. | house at 257 Lawrence etreet, nar- | during the | ;| rooms, $900; impossible for the department to | stay within its appropriation and the finance eommittee reports that the appropriation will be exceeded | by approximately $41,503.21. Bhortages are expected in six of | the 13 items as follows: Teaching, $4,821.85; tuition, $1,007.90; jani- tors' salaries $1,677.43; llbrary and apparatus, $619.0 furniture and equipment, $3,877.02: repairs, $30,- 000; total shortages, $41,503.21. Balances are expected in the fol- lowing items: Open air school sup- | plies, $1,000; medical inspections, | ete., $1,872,91; vacation schools, | $151; attendance bureau, $705; cen- $5,100, total, $9,5634.10. In explanation mittee reports that circumstances made it necessary that the teachers' committee employ six additional teachers to t-ke care of the unex- pected influx of pupils from the Sacred Heart school. The shortage of tuition is due to the fact that the department has to estimate the attendance a year in advance, and the estimate was too | small. Janitors’ salaries shortage was caused because of extra service in | the Lincoln school due to incapacity of its janitor; to the retirement of | Mr, Lampr~n; to the need for a jani- 'tor at the Old Burritt school which was reopened in September, 1927; |and to six extra portable buildings, |four at the Washington school and ,two at the Northend school. The need for equipping additional | rooms was the cause of an overdraft jin the item on furniture and equip- ment. The furniture was digtributed |as follows: Central Junior High {school, $2,250; Smalley school, two old Burritt school, High school, $600; 1$400; Senior | total, $4,150. { The following repair items called 1for expenditures not provided for in estimates or appropriation for 1927- 1928 and account to some extent for Ithe deficit: Moving and erecting portable, $6.- 200; equipping additional rooms at Central Jr. High, $4,500; equipping |old Burritt for shops, $5,000; cquip- ]pinx rooms at Bartlett, $260; equip- ping rooms at Smalley, $2.125: ! !»quipmng rooms, etc.. at Senior High, $5,500: changes at Nathan | Hale, $2,000; parapet at Ellhu Bur- ritt, $1,200: Walnut Hill—driveway and vita glass, $1,400; salary—super- (Continued on Page 27.) the finance com- | ‘The body was brought to this town this morning, and will be buried this afternoon in Rosedale cemetery, Orange, beside that of his father, Only a few members of the family | will attend the services for Gray this | afternoon. Among them will be his mother, Mrs. Margaret Gray; his | sister, Mrs. Harold Logan and her husband. ‘Whether Gray's wife planned to attend could not be learn- e New York, Jan. 13 (P)—The hody | of Ruth Sryder was brought today | from Sing Sing prison and placed in a recciving vault at Woodlawn ceme- tery. Law New York, raine Snyder, it Up Soon | Jan. 13 (UP)—Lor- | the young girl who ifirst was made fatherless and now motherless, probably will know | ! within a few wecks whether she is' to be an heiress to $95,000 represent- ‘lng the insurance on Albert Snyder's Nlife. | After the electrocution of Mrs. Ruth Snyder last night lawyers an- [est award the Senior High school | 'a new system which provides that Made Today Fred Zehrer, son of Mrs, and Mrs. 'HICKMAN SAID T0 BE Augusta Zehrer of 61 Trinity street, PRACTIG[NG INSANITYL Burns Memorial Emblem, the high- | Prosecutor Declares Youth is Act- ing Queerly in Ccll, Preparing For Trial. can give one of its athletes, under the award be made in February and | June. | Previously the emblem was award- | ed once a year and both mid-year | and June graduates competed for the honor. Never in the history of the award has a mid-year pupil been | given the emblem, but this year it ! Los Augeles, Jan, 13 (UP)— Rehearsals of what the district at- torney’s office cailed ‘insanity scenes’ to guide his conduct in court were staged by William Edward Hickman in his cell today. ‘The young slayer of Marion the | parker practiced wild gesturing con- frecly predicted that if ird was to be made in June | tortiong of the face and body, and first | P > attributed Zehrer would have been the (iothar (Aot tnar miien mid-year graduate to be a “William | ¢, ar §00 M TR, T SRR F. Burns Memorial Man.” It was o A treras. chicf of detcctives, reported. | made at an assembly of upper class | gey Sl O CORENE TR men this morning at the school. | _ e R0, RAv BEE The award is Bven 10 o sraduate | TOUth and found him sane wero | who has won the NB monogram inr‘ff','“l"v“i"dl H;]"‘""“” Wi Seaallng three sports and was awarded the | €2V o act the part of an insans white sweater for winning the three /an when he faced a jury Jate this honors in one year. He must main. | MONth for the murder of Marion. that Hickman would |opposing the treatment. (tional cases will be cared for in the ' SOARING OVER GOTHAM At the public clinic in the city; hall yesterday afternoon more than | 1,000 persons were vaccinated. An-| other is being held this afternoon. Practically all of the school chil- dren have been treated and only 30 have been excluded from attending classes, seven of whom are reported to come from the homes of those But Complains of Broken Gas Lines and Poison- ous Food The pest house will be opened to ! TRo¢ elt Field, N. Y., Jan. 13, — receive patients tomorrow and addi- e v (M—Gasoline and oil lvaks, trouble with flying instruments, and sickn from bad food were reported in note dropped to the ground today by Clarence D. Chamberlin, transatlan- tic fller, who yesterday began an ene durance flight with Roger Q. Wil liams, Chamberlin, emergency wing of the alms house. Reasons Expressed | Belfef that a lack of compulsory vaccination was responsible for | Middlesex county's smallpox epi- | demic was expressed here today by Dr. Howard A. Lanther, state epi- demiologist. A total of 74 cases already have! been reported, and he belleved that the peak had not yet been reached. 3 es these recorded cases, there | many suspected cases, he said. | Known cases were divided as fol- lows: Middletown, 47; Cromwell, 15; Zast Hampton, 8; Portland, 3; and Chester, 1, | said nothing about abandoning the flight, but asked about weather reports, indicating that he planned to keep flying. He requested A. R. Martine, back- er of the flight to ascertain |if weather bureau officials advised a flight to Washington in search of better flying weatRer. Martine learned from Dr. James H. Kimball. (Continued on Page 26.) (Continued on Page 10.) Baby, Revived From “Death” by | Pulmotor Has Chance to Live, Chicago Child Further Strengthened by Two Blood Transfusions in Drama of Life. Chicago, Jan. 13 P—Baby George | death. Smith, born New Year's Day, pro-| Last Saturday, the infant who| nounced dead Wednesday noon, and | weighed nine and one-half pounds at | then revived by oxygen and later |birth, underwent a minor operation | strengthened by two blood transfus- [but failed to improve, | ions, today was given a “long chance | About noon Wednesday, he appar- | for recovery” by attending physi- |ently had ceased breathing, and a| clans, |frantic call to the fire department | Steady improvement in the child's | brought men to the house with reg- condition was noted after midnight, when' his breathing was deeper and his cries became louder and more frequent. Fecding with a medicine | dropper continued regularly and the infant appearcd to be improving un- der the nourishmient. Mrs. Mary Smith, the mother, who submitted twice to blood transfu- sions, and & squad of gremen, who | have administered oxygen unceasing- Iy since Wednesday, were the other | principals in the drama of lite and % (Continued on Page Kix) ! THE WEATHER | New Britain and vichity: Unsettled tonight; Saturday partly clondy and somewhat colder, | | | i , ‘ | { {1 — | Possibility seek a change of venue developed today. “AUNT LIBBY” NEARS 100 Well Known Hebron Woman Will | Observe Birthday Sunday—Reads Without Her Glasses. Hebron, Jan. 13—Mrs. Elizabeth | Lord, known to every one in town as Aunt Libby will observe on Sunday | the 100th anniversa of her birth at the home M. Hough. Mre, Lord is the old retired | school teacher in the st She ™ a descendant of revolutionary sol- diers and of some of the rlie settlers of Hartford and Windsor. Her nearest relative is Alfred Hutch- | inson of Gilead, her brother, who s} 87 years old. i Mrs. Lord is sprightly, reads| without glasses and in full use of | her faculties, FATAL AUTO ACCIDENT New Haven, Jan. 13 (®—Leonard | Schmidt, 69, was struck by a truck | driven by Nuthan Stone of Boston in Orange avenue, Allingtown, to- | day and died at a hospital here. | Coromer Mix began an inquiry im- | | mediately. “There is little doubt that a lack of compulsory vaccination is respon- sible for the smallpox epidemic,” Dr. Lanther told the United Press. “For the past 10 or 12 years, vac- ation has not been enforced here, and this has made possible a wide (Continued On Page 8ix) Undergoes Operation For Appendicitis With Broken Ankle and Wrist Stricken with an acute attack of appendicitis as he was re- covering from a fractured ankle and wrist and suffered in a fall from a building on which he was working, John L. Schenck, 21 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Schenck, was hur- ried to St Francis' hosfital Wednesday and was opefated upon a few minutes later. Schenck was working on a roof in New Haven for the Kelly Roofing Co. when he lost his balance. He stood tottering on the edge of the roof, gather- ed his strength and jumped to another roof 10 yards below, where he broke his ankle and wrist and strained his back. Had he fallen to the pavement he would bave been killed, it is belicved. | weather bureau meteorologist, tha! { unsettied weather conditions were | reported at the capitol and this in- formation was r d by mega- phone to the fliers. Martine said that for the present, {the two fliers would remain over Long Island. Referring to their plight as “Our tale of woe,” Chamberlin wrote that he and Williams had “a lot of fun last night when we had our first gas leak in the cockpit.” He had dis- covered a “big leak in left wing tank,” at 3 a. m.. he said. Whether jthe leak repaired was not stat- ed. The coffee they had carried along with them in thermos bottles “was the most terriblc I ever tasted.” {Chamberlin wrote, and it had made both fliers sick. Most of their sand- wiches had gotten eoaked with ethyl gasoline, which is poisonous. They had plenty of water left. Despite the oll and gasoline leaks, which, as far as observers on Ithe ground could state, were con- | tinuing, Chamberlin indicated his determination to continue the flight for a world endurance record. “See you in 30 or 3 houra,” he ‘wrote, The message stated that the eil leak had continued from the start of the flight and that the fuselage (Continued on Page Thirty)