New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 19, 1928, Page 1

ke ers an. * plained, referring to today's demo- . sald, referring to Robinson. “I won- \ords as the senate has heard in * his senate apeech making against the . Thres of them, Bleass of South Car- " senate chambers, where proceedings " wholesale democratic absences, Confidence HEFLIN SAYS TODAY'S HEFLIN, REBUKED BY DEMOGRATS IN . SERITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1928 —TWENTY-FOUR PAGES - SENATE, ANNOUNCES HE WILL GO ON WITH ATT Robinson, Challenged by Alabaman,is Given Vote of Confi- dence in Party Con- ference This Morning Southerner’s Attack on Catholic Church Severe- ly Criticized — Minority Leader . to Continue Mexican Forgery Probe. . Washington, Jan. 19. (®—In overwhelming strength, the demo- cratic party in the senate rallied to- day behind its fioor leader, Senator IRobinson of Arkansas, whose cap- taincy had been challenged after h.e rebuked Senator Heflin for Heflin's repeated attacks on the Catholic church and Governor Bmith. By formal resolution, adopted in party conference with but one dis- senting vote, the democratic senators declared their confidence in their chief, Hefiin Not Silenced Heflin himself, who issued the challenge to Robinson's leadership " vegterday in as bitter a passage at many years, did not attend the con- ference. He said afterward that the resolution adopted was no rebuke to him, and that he had “just begun’ New York governor and his co-re- ligioniats, One Negative Votee The one negative vote was cast by Trammel of Florida, who sald he did not regard yesterday's tilt be- tween Robinson and Heflin as a mat. " ter for party action, In all, & dozen of the ferty-six democratic senators were absent from the conference. olina, Dill.of. Washington and Necly of West Virginia, sat nearby in the were temporarily halted by the Is Voted The conference resolution did not mention Heflin by name, but it did take direct issue with him on one feature of his attack on Robinson. Heflin had demanded Robinson’s re- moval from the Mexican slush fund committee, and the democratic con- rerence voted its confidence in the leader's work on that committee.| The text of the resolution follows: “Resolved, that this conference of democratic members of the senate xpresses its confidence in the lead- crship of Senator Robinson and in Lis service on the special committee named to investigate the alleged se- (Continued on Page 18) | ACTION IS WHITEWASH Also Resumes Attack on Smith and Catholic Church Washington, Jan. 19 () — Unde- terred by the action of the senate in voting confidence in the leader- ship of Senator Robinson of Arkan- sas, ‘Senator Heflin of Alabama gained the senate floor today and renewed his attack on Robinson. Heflin said that on last Tuesday fenator Robinson told him there might ‘be & conference today on the merchant marine. “I thought that was going to be taken up,” he ex- cratic conference. “I was merely expressing my own opinion yesterday about Senator Itobinson. I thought his conduct was strange, unwarranted, Inexcusa- | ble and inexpressible.” “I“didn’t expect the conference, however, to remove him,” Heflin der how many senators knew he was going to bring up the question of his leadership today. “Everyone outside of here had told me that they thought Senator Robinson’s attack on me was out- rageous and uncalled for and 1, agreed with them. “This question was taken up in my absence. A sort of whitewash resolution was prepared. Senator Robinson, who called the party conferenee, was not in the chamber when Heflin took the floor to explain his conception of the (Continued on Page 21) Attempt to Establish Flight Record Fails San Francisco, Jan. 19 UP—Cap- tain Charles Kingsford-Smith, Brit- ish aviator, and Lieut. George R. Pond, U. & N. today failed in their attempt to break the world’s endur- ance record when their monoplane, Spirit of California, was forced to retnrn a little later. her, throwing her onto ACKS ON GOVERNOR SMITH SAME PARTY BUT SENATOR HEFLIN BITTER ENEMIES SENATOR ROBINSON MORE CASES FOUND OF DREAD DISEASE Middlesex County Contiues to| Fight Smallpox MANY WOMEN QUARANTINED East Hampton and Colchester East- Star Members Affected By Health Department Ruling—State | Prison Warden Bans Gifts, Middletown, Jan, 19 (®—One| smallpox case in Middlesex county | | | | | & maa in East Hampton. This man was vaccinated some days ago and the erruption \hich has uppeared on {him was today declared by health officers to be smallpox. The case is expected to be a ver mild one. The patient, it appeared, had been in contact with others who have come down with the disease. | The nuinber of cases in the county is about one hundred. | Three ncw cases in Middletown | were reported last night but no new one overnight which was regarded {as a good sign. More than 20,000 persons h, I i il li of a here have been vaccinated. Game Cancelled A basketball game between Wes- leyan and Williams on the card for tomorrow night was cancelled today | as a precautionary step. This makes the second game to be called off on account of smallpox condi- | tions here. Connecticut Aggies {have played with day night. 15 to ™ Wyesleyan LUkl Bven” and iwent dnto dhie Potter | mas holid: team was la Lodge Members Quarantined East Hampton, Jan. 19 Uh—-&:on-i tacts with persons who had them- " aclves been in contact with other | smallpox victims has led to quaran- | 4! tining of 50 members of Bellville | ! chapter No. 46 order of the Eastern Star, by crder of Dr. Frederick T. Fitz, health officer. The Eastern Star members at- tended an installation ceremony at | Wooster chapter just before small- | th (Continued on Page Two) WOMAN'S STORY OF ATTACK o L tr w i wi ment That Salesman Threw | Mrs. Andrews Around Houwse | o, |¢ion of money. He had undertaken | veral ambitious building projects | cre in recent months, according to | dvices from that city. | umerous bottles of poisonons | The sensational attack on Mrs. | George Andrews of 556 Wilcox strect ¢ about 1:30 yesterday afternoon is '! believed by the police to be un- *° founded in fact, it was said today, | although the scratches on her fac and neck and the disarranged condi- | tion of her hair and clothing could | not be explained. Sergeant P. A. | McAvay and Officor James H. Mc- | Cabe were unable to find anyone in | the neighborhood who had seen the | alleged assailant, and they were that he was hiding in the attic, ana | her report a little later to Captam‘ Kelly that the man was under the | dining room table. The police bc-" lieve the woman was suffering from hallucinations. About 6:30 last evening Lieuten- [an report from Mrs, Andrew husband m. a bureau drawer. When the police ' ©d were investigating the reported as- 19 salut and robbery yesterday found that the house had been ran- sacked and the contents of bureau drawers scattered about. According to Mrs. Andrews, she refused to make a purchase from a man representing himself as a | hosiery salesman, and he left only | He attacked j the | da nd fighting his way through (he |¢he down at 10:16 a. m, Pacific time, when their gasoline supply was ex- hausted. tenement. families in the house, Mrs, Andrews was alone at the time. Although there are three | me i Worry over inability developed over night, that being of!forlullc which once was Jum younger son extremely ill. The clder son was attempting | medicine and we this statement, NOT BELIEVED BY POLICE - of the month, bringing ant Bamforth received a telephone ,off from Selfridge ficld at 10:42 a. flight to terday when they passed over Wash- ington. a day bed |upply of fur planned the trip as “a few days' va- cation, FATHER POISONS WIFE AND 2 SONS Cleveland Man Gives “Cough Medicine” to Family DRINKS POTION AND DIES! Police Believe Worry Over l"m-nflm\ Caused Former Millionaire to Commit Murder—Faced Indict ment in Steubenville. Cleveland, 0., Jan. 19 (UP)— recoup a rated at to more than $1,000,000, today was be- | that the girl has been seen have [lieved responsible for the death j¢|COME from moi han a score of cit- |James Potter and three members of | is family, The four died carly today in an lodging house in the suclid avenue district. Death was tributed to poisoning. Thr scs, cach contalning a small mount of white fluid, were found 1 the house. Besides Potter those dead are Mra. | Potter, a member of a pioncer fam- v of thig district; anl two sons, 16, and Robort, 14. Police be- cve Potter gave the three members | f his family a mixture of poison | nd cough syrup and then drank | some of tLe poison himself. An au- | topsy was to be performed today. | Mother Screams for Help First alarm of the tragedy was iven when Mrs, Potter ran into the | 11 of their newly acquired lodging | ouse and scrcamed for help. | Miss BEniily Reigler a nurse, re-| partment to find Potter and his to aid vhen he suddenly became ill. Within a few minut, all 1l fed, ard shortly thereafter Mrs. | otter died. 1 Suddenly before Mrs. Potter died, e nurse told police, she gasped, | ddy has given us some cough | re all iIL" elaborating them ree | She died before on; In Financial Trouble | Potter recently had been in finan- | al difticultics. e had been a con- | actor gt Steubenville, Ohio, and | as reputed to be a millionaire. | Then his finances failed him and | came to Cleveland about the first his family a large ith him. He took over Authorities Unable to Confirm State- | louse in one of the better residen- tial sections of the city and started select lodging house. | last week he was indicted fn | eubenville on charges of conver- | |drugs found in the family medicine | binet led to t lief that Potter | | | (Continued on Page Seven) AVIATORS FORCED DOWN puzzled by Mrs. Andrews’ insistence | Attempted Non-Stop Flight from De. | tate was left to the children of his |irgs handed down today Ly Coroner troit to Havana Ends Paris | Tsland, South Carolina. 19 (P —Austin F. | Detroit, Jan. | Bement, ' Detroit advertising man, | f5ed to come to this country after (held to blame for the gecident which d Leonard . Flo, pilot, who took | 'sterday in an attempted non- | that two watches were missing from $top flight to Havana, Cuba, land- ¢ompaned them with only $10, with at 4: and 8. 10 C m. teday at Paris .. after having lost their they Way in the fog, according to a mes- asked for more money, it was testi- | sage received here. i The fliers plan to resume cksonville, Fla., later to- nt said in a message to Bel ¥y, his mother. The two men became lost after 1ding to their course until late yes- They carried a sufficient to keep the plane in > air for 24 hours. Both men are "mbers of a Detroit flying club and their torney Hungerford was of the belief that a person arriving in this coun- ance of $25 a month dating back to {the time of the husband's death. {was cla others that the widow is In poor cir- cumstances and that she has been having difficulty in supporting her- self. SI0O00REWARDIS ARTFORD MAN' POSTEDBYFATHER | IF IS LD 4§ OF SWITH STUDENT, SHOOTING ITNESS Willing to Pay This Amount for|$10,000 Bonds in Mrs. Guil- Return of Missing Danghter, | loyle's Case—Says Husband -, Mlive Admitted Suicide Attempt CLUES RUN DOWN BUT RESULT. IN NOTHING Ifinmln.’fl(!'. Mass, Gives Tip But Supposed Missing Student Does Disappearing Act — Another Re- port Semds Police at Troy in Search for Persons Though Pos- sibly to be Young Student Woman, Northampton, Mass., Jan. 19 (P— St. John 8mith, New York broker, today announced that he would pay $10,000 reward for the return of his daughter, Frances t. John Smith, 18 | year old Smith college student, alive. The girl has been missing from the |college since Jan. 13. When he |learned of her disappearance Mr. |Smith offered a $1,000 reward for IN SERIOUS CONDITION Mrs. Claro Gaudet and Capital City Lose Sight of Eye—Said to Have Been Very Intimate With Woman —Husband Defends Wife's Repu- tation. Hartford, Jan. 19 (P)—Detectives assigned to investigate the shooting of Mrs. Clare H. Gaudet of New this city, in the Guilfoyle apartment following a dinner party last night, were confronted today with the problem of picking from the state- ments of the interested parties and any information leading to fer re- ::::2’:‘:;‘:‘_'":‘,2':“"}‘e°""":“’;“'"m:: covery. : which would also ndicate which one Mother's Appeal AL the vme e PPCA gmitn, |OF the Party actually did the shoot- ing. One of the chief developments in the case today was the holding of Mrs. Harold Guilfoyle in ~ $10,000 honds as a material witness after she had told police that her husband confessed trying to take his own life. Other developments were a state- ment made by Gaudet, that he knew Dr. Guilfoyle to be “queer” but did not think that he would have shot Mrs. Gaudet and himself; Mrs. Gau- det's apparent inability to account for her being shot; and the state- ment of police that Mrs. Gaudet had been a frequent visitor to the Guil- foyle apartment and had been caught in an embrace at.least once by Mrs. Guilfoyle. Mrs. Gaudet's mother and sister, residents of Hartford, and her hus- band, Maximin J. Gaudet of New Haven, remained with her at the hospital during the night and today. She was able to speak with them from time to time and the family sald today that several times she Yasked the question: “Who could have dbbg §t? Reports Sulcide Statement Late this morning Mrs. Guilfoyle mother of the missing girl, made public a letter which she requested the press to broadcast in the hope that it might be seen by the girl, if she is still living. “Frances, my darling.” the letter read, “‘please come to father and me or send word to us at the Hotel | Northampton or if it is nearer at No. 120, We long for the happiness of having you back and we need you and miss you so. Dearest love, Mother."” Mrs, Smith, who has been in poor | health for many years, has been prostrated by her daughter's disap- pearance and has been under a physician’s care since the couple ame to this city last Saturday to direct the search, No definite clues have yet been un- covered by State Detective Joseph Daley and two New York private de- [tectives who have been devoting all | of their time to the case. Reporta 1es within a radius of 300 mfies. Detective Daley said today that nothing had occurred to change his first opinion that the girl committed |t0ld the detectives that soon after suicide by drowning in the Connecti- | the shooting and while he was stil cut river, which flows through thiis{in the hallway, the doctor told her city. Sinco the girl vanished, he|that he had shot himself. has had men patrolling the stream searching for her body. was taken to police court for ar- Many New Clues raignment, | Investigators working on the case | Blhe(;vaa hnlhd ‘m‘ £10,000 b:nd! for | had a long list of new “clews” before [+ CON :mmh caring rfind then, ac. them but seemingly none promised | *OMpanied by two police detectiv 10 lead to an unraveling of the mys- | She Was taken to the hospital tery which has been unpenetrated ;{’J‘g"“' her since the 19 year old girl walked out 3 £ of her room in Dewey Hall last Fri-| Db Guiifovle Is under police guard day. @ 3 e . i Shooting ‘¥ vs Dinner The latest lead to be exploded had | - Shootin . ; H ttnked the names of Hugo Bezdck, ;m:m‘r ";fi'::'Guiz',‘;;;d k‘na"f“:":f""l"g Jr.. son o the famous Penn State | ith I8 the Guitfovie apartment football coach, with the girl. i her five year old daughter, Patricia, Bezdek l6 himself missing from land Mr. ‘and Mrs. Algernon A. Way Dartmouth college where he fafled to | 78S, ot B Blrs Afgernon £, Way rerame his studies after the Christ-| 30 08 W Gaudet had spent e ays but his family 18 un- | goinon with Mrs. Guilfoyle and derstood to entertain no especial was invited to stay for dinner. concern. His place of seclusion 18| ™0 Teiq 0 FEF 0% LN ool d to be known to them although |, o i SRS Ol (R0 Bolite unrevealed to the public despite the |, onuy yne tragedy that followed. | fact that Dartmouth college author- | gyt & r O nner Mra. Gau. det helped her clear the table and do |the dishes. | At 8:25 the guests departed. Dr. | |and Mrs. Guilfoyle planning to take | | Mrs. Gaudet and her daughter to the | {home of her mother, Mrs. Mary | |Cavanaugh of 16 Owen street. | Mrs. Gaudet's Words “Daddy, Daddy, what have Idone ALLOWANCE IN COURT - St G t d $2 M thly o ‘whlch Mrs. Gaudet cried to her | ranted $25 Mon ver }hunband this morning when he was permitted by hospital attendants to Protest of Husband’s Brother to | husband with this | !the detective bureau and | presence of Chairman R. W. Cham- I berlain of the board of police com- (Continued on Page Two) WIDOW INITALY GETS see his wife for a few minutes. | | Afterwards Mr. Gaudet expressed every confidence in his wife and de- clared that she came to Hartford solely to be present at a court case Granting & claim of a wWidow ‘and to see his mother. who s ill. inst the cstate of her husband for | His wife, he said, had no inten. support, Judge Bernard F. Gafiney 'tions whatever of attending any in the probate court today gave an|party at the Guilfoylo apartment | llowance of $25 a month from | ebruary 16 to date in favor of Ma- ria I’Avanzo fo Italy, wife of Sabato Pignatelli of this city, who died last | ye (Continued on Page 18.) EXONERATE LOCAL MAN | Coroner Herman at Winsted Frees | Joscph Olaski of New Dritain for Automobile Accident Death. 'he claimant resides in Ttaly and she gave power of attorney to Mrs. Mary Anthony of New Britain, who brought the claim. The widow" claim was opposed by Gennaro Pig- natelli, brother of the testator, who acted as executor of the .will. By the will of Pignatelli his entire cs-| Winsted, Jan, 19 (®--In two find- { | brother. Samuel A. Herman, Joseph Olaski The executor, through his attor-)of New Britain is exonerated in the ney, Angela M. Lacava, sought to|death of Albert Pomta in New Hart- | prove abandonment on the part of (ford on November 6, and and James | the wife, claiming that she had re- | P. Harding of Mt. Vernon, N. Y., §s | steamship tickets had been sent to her. It was brought out that while he had sent the tickets, he had ac- caused the deaths of himself and his =on, Joseph B. Harding. * In the latter case the coroner | finds that Harding was driving his car at a reckless and dangerous rate of speed when it turned over. Olaski was proceeding in a careful manner and was not guilty of neg- ligence in the death of Pomta, the coroner finds. which the wife would have had to defray all incidental expenses. She fied, but she did not receive it. At- try from a foreign land must jave before he fs able to get past Ate immigration authorities. Judge Gaffney granted an allow- * e - THE WEATHER 1t med by Mrs. Anthony and i New Britatn and vicinit Physiclan Both Shot—Latter Will | Haven and Dr. Harold Guilfoyle of | As soon as she had sald this she | ! missioners, |Brother of OHIO AND TWISTER CUTS WIDE SWATH THROUEH ENTUCKY, LEAVING RUIN AND DAMAGE OF $300,000 IN WAKE POLICE STRIP MASK womaw ez, wouwnen, | FROM HIGHWAYMAN | Boek, Relormatory Fugitive SECOND ARREST IS MADE, |Edward Barnikow Positively Identi. i | Hold Up Meriden Gas Station. Developments came thick and fas JJast night and today, in the case o John Dawles, alias Michael Kaplan, took his pistol from him. police announced that The loca they 20 Lyman street. Holyoke, Mass., also that he escaped from the state July 26, 1926, Bronislaw Karasiewicz, aged 2 541 Hudson street, Hartford, |cal police station by |kow of Meriden as * the authorities today leslaw Bogdanski of this city ton street, which was taken tol on March 25, 19 ' wicz stoutly maintains his innocence. Insists He Was Home Detective Sergeant Charles Keefe of the Hartford police partment | ning at his home. He has been mar- ried about one year and he insisted throughout a that he was at home with his wife the night of the Meriden incident. He was confronted by Barnikow in in Chief W. C. Hart, and Sergeant P. A. McAvay and Officer {G. W. Hellberg, Barnikow identified him. The instant Karasiewicz entered the room, Rarnikow exclaimed: “That’s the fellow. 1'd know him anywhere.” Karaslewicz declared that he had never seen Barnikow before. “Don’t you remember get- ting the gasoline and asking for the wire to fix your dash light?” Barni- kow persisted. “T don't know what you're talking about. You're foolish (Continued on Page Two) DISAPPOINTED IN LOVE MAN COMMITS SUICIDE ew Britain Woman Takes Life in Hartford Today Hartford, Jan. 19 (P—Thought to be brooding over a love affair in which he was involved, Bamuel Mon- tano, 33, shot himself through the head about 10:30 this morning in {his apartment bedroom at 31 Char- ter Oak Place. He died at a hospi- tal thid afternoon. Montano has lived at this address with his brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.: Angelo Montano, hav- ing moved to this city from 31 Hayes street, New Beitain, about a month | ago. Montano pressed a Colt automatic against his right ear. the bullet passing through his head and out through the left temple. The police were notified and the shooting was investigated by Detective Sergeant John F. Madigan. Among his effects were found an- other heavy calibre revolver and a rifle. According to the janitor of the apartment, Montano was greatly concerned yesterday over a teles phone call to New Britain and wait- ed around all day until the call final- Iy came in. He has a sister in New Britain at 31 Hayes street, his former address. Inquiry at the former home of Samuel Montano at 31 Hayes street this afternoon drew information that none of the suicide's relatives lieved there at present. It was stated that when he left w Britain he owed the sum of $120 for rent. A further lead that Montano had rela- tives living on Washington street proved fruitless, and no further lo- cal clues which might account fer his action could he traced. (Discover “Kaplan” s John fies Prisoner's Iriend, Bronislaw Karasiewicz, as Man Who Helped | confessed automobile thief and high- wayman who held up Officer Eugene Kieffer last Saturday morning and have Positive Information that the young |gunman’s correct name is John Bo- | {#ek and that he enlisted in the Unit- | | ed States navy uader the name of his | brother-in-law, Michael Kaplan of | reformatory at Concord, Mass., on , of for- merly of 355 Broad street, this city, | was identified last night at the lo- {panion in the hold-up at a gasoline filing station in Meriden two weeks ago, and efforts were being made by to connect |Karasiewicz and “Kaplan” with the |theft of an automobile owned by Bo- on March 19, 1927, and the theft of an automoblile registered in the name of Mrs. Effie G. Kimball of 61 Lexing- from Russell street and recovered in Brise but Karasie- 3. de- and Detective Sergeant George C. Ellinger and Officer Wil- liam 8. Strolls of the local depart- {ment arrested Karasiewicz last eve- lengthy questioning the Mother Receives Book Son Was Reading to Her On the Night He Died Among the prized possessions of Mrs, Percy C. Washburn of 32 Cedar street is a book presented to her by Miss Greta Brown, li- brarian at the New Britain Insti- tute. The book, “Ivanhoe,” by Sir Walter Scott, is the story the late Harold Washburn read to his mother just before he died on January 10. Harold, who was a senior stu- dent at New Britain high school, had been reading the book to his mother for several hours earlier in the evening and up to the time he retired for the night. A short time later he was seized with a heart attack and died fn his mother's arms. The book, which he had bor- rowed from the library, and a drawing he completed on his last day, will be preserved by his parents, On the fly leaf of the book, which had been returned to the library and now has been pre- sented to the mother, is the fol- low fnscription: “Given to Mrs. Percy C. Wash- burn by the New Britain Institute library in memory of her son, Harold Washburn.” PRIMACY OF POPE IS BAR TO UNITY Report on Long Rwatel “Ma- lines Conversations” Made Today ENGLISH CHURCH ~ SCHISM |Report of Famous Church Conven- tion Belleved Likely Either New Split or Rejection of Modernized Prayer Book. London, Jan. the pope was indicated to be the bar to unity of the Catholic and Angli- can churches in the long awaited re- port on the famous “Malines Con- versations” made public today. The Ireport revealed action taken between {1921 and 1925 by Roman Catholic d Anglican delegates under the { presidency of the late Cardinal Mer- cier. The publication of the text fol lows closely upon the rejection by the house of commons of the revised book of common prayer and the re cent encyclical of the pope on church union. Objectors to prayer book change sald they were in direction of Rome, chiefly as conccrning the sacrament. The pope said a union | { | \ | | | | t f | < | to Cause {return of the dissenting to the orig- inal church of Rome. Fears were expressed that instead of bringing about any forms of peace, between the two factions of the Church of England, the publica- (Continued on Page Three) REINSTATES SCHWEITZER Hritain & New dent from Blame in Preparation of College Magazine Pl jrepor Special to the Herald) Worcester, Mass., Jan. 19.—Medi- ation has definitely settled the ob- scene literature controversy at Clark university and the danger of a student sirike has been averted. | Frank Colapinto Phelan formerly of New Britain, Conn., author of the one act play which led to the suspen- sion of himecif and a colloge editor, is definitely out of the college on suspension, rancis Schweitzer of New ain and Bertrand Levesque of New Bedford, also cditors, were permit- ted to return to the college today as | a result of the mediation negotia- | tions conducted by Prof. Samuel J. | Brandenberg, who acted as repre- sentative of the student body Phelan was not backed by the stu- dent body in their action which re- lated only to Schweitzer and Levesque. In its final resolution ad- | dressed to President Atwood the etu- dent body freely admitted that the | article submitted by Phelan was obscens but the students held that | Schweitzer and Levesque had noth- ing to do with it. RBrit- MRS. HOTELLING VERY ILL Owosso, Mich., an. 19 (UP) =g Mrs. Adolph Hotelling, wife of the | slayer of Dorothy Schneider of Mount Morris, lapsed into a state of coma today and her condition was { pronounced “very serious” by the at- |tending physician, Dr. W. 8. Wein- | kauf of Corunna EIGHT PIRATI XECUTED Honk Kong, Jan. 19 (UP)—A { Pakki dispatch reported today that troops had captured 15 pirates and shot eight of them. Unrest was reported at Hankow where street barriers have been erected by sol- diers. 19 (P—Primacy of | | expressed fear |would be found beneath the ruins, of Christians should only come by a| CLARK U. BARS PHELAN. Fxonerated | | documents were notaried by PRICE THREE CENTS {Characterized As “Se- vere Squall” Storm Blows Down Build- ings in Cincinnati and Nearby Towns. ] ;One Known Dead and Many Injured as the Small Cyclone Performs Freaks; Others Believed Trapped in Ruins. Cincinnati, 0., Jan. 19 (UP)—A windstorm of cyclonic proportions |skipped 1n a crazy course ever a 200-mile section of southwestern Ohio and northern Kentucky teday, tearing down buildings and burying | their occupants in the ruins. Communication was disrupted | Reports coming in slowly showed at least 20 persons were injured and !several were feared dead. ‘ Damage $300,000 | A hundred towns and villages lay lin the zig-zag course of the twister. | Shortly before noon, reports showed | that Cincinnati, Louisville, Hamilton, | Middletown, Washington Court |House, Fern Creek, Newtown and | probably other places had been hit, | Damage from the storm was esti- |mated at approximately $300,000, | The figure included $100,000 in Cin- vinnati, $90,000 in Hamilton and 00 near Louisville. The greatest damage seemed to have been done in Cincinnati, More than 20 persons had been taken to hospitals here and it was feared several might be in the ruins of the many houses wrecked. Path |3 | | The first place reported struck was Washington Court House, about 165 miles northeast of here, The storm, a terrific wind, sweeping | close to the ground, veered westward [to Middletown, $2 miles north of here. 1t next was reported in Ham- ilton, 12 miles farther south, Then it skipped 20 miles south. {ward to Cincinnati, passed through the Cumminsville district of the city, (and went on into Kentucky, where it was reported in Fern Creek, 12 miles way, before it hit Louisville, nearly 100 miles south of here, Nearly 20 men and women and a few children had been received at the general hospital in Cincinnat! at 11 a. m, A cold rain preceded the wind. Unverified reports sald several persons had been Killed in Cincin- nati. Approximately twenyt buildings, | some of them two and three-stories high, were razed and city officials that meveral dead The storm was a freak of @ strange winter. Unseasonably warm weather has prevailed through Ohio and down into Kentucky since Dec. 15. Electrical Disturbance Brilliant displays of lightning and crashing claps of thunder, mingled with the roar of the wind as people ran for safety. The storm was not confined to Cincinnati. It razed several build- ings at Hamilton, Ohio, and was re- ported to have struck Middletown. Communication was disrupted and there was no way to verify the re- ports. Damage in the vicinity of Louis- ville was estimated at $25,000. The |village of Kern Creek, 12 miles frem here, was hard hit, but no one was killed. Twenty frame houses were razed, telephone reports from the stricken town said. The rear compartment of the Bal- timore & Ohio station was blowa out. No one was in the bullding. lesman Killed The storm also struck near New- town, Ohio, blowing down smel cks and shattering windows. Fire Chief Chris Binder telephoned Cin- cinnati officials that no one was in- jured or Killed. A cobbler, pinned beneath a pile of debris in his shop, was rescued by relief workers. He was not ser- jously injured. Richard Kruger, 26, Dayton, Ohio, salesman, was killed at Washington Courthouse, Ohio when the wind swept a quantity of brick from the top of a building. He was sitting in his automobile when the bricks (Continued on Page Two) 'LAND GIVEN BY STANLEY BECOMES CITY PROPERTY Deeds and Leases Signed By Mayor Wekd and Filed With Public Rocords The Alix W. Stanley estate in Stanley Quarter today became the property of the City of New Britain, subject to a lease giving Me, and Mra. A. W. Stanley life wee and | tenaney and several other minor op- tions. The deeds and leases Were signed by Mayor Weld in bebalf of the City of New Britain, and the John H. Kirkham. Cegles of z papers will be delivesnd P B Stanley, representative of v