New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 20, 1928, Page 1

., ) o "News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 T ———— e IRISH FREE STATE HEAD ARRIVES IN NEW YORK ON MISSION 3,000 Policemen Line Course of March of Wiliam T. Cosgrave From Battery Park to City Hall. Slight Disorder Occurs When Officers Eject Pla- card Carriers Bearing Taunts and Insults to Ireland’s Executive. New York, Jan. 20 (M —President Willlam T. Cosgrave of the Irish Pree State arrived in America today on an expressed visit of good will. Three thousand police were mar- shalled along the ltne of march from the Battery to city hall prepared to handle an unfriendly demongtration which did not materialize. Mayor Walker waited to greet the visitor in the name of “'Our 6,000,000 peo- ple, a lurge proportion of them from your own Emerald Isle.” Shortly before President Cosgrave landed from the city tug Macon, however, three men and a woman marched into the park bearing giant placards which they had great diffi- culty holding up in the gusty wind. The placards read: “Who is crughing Ireland with debt and es — Cosgrave,” “Who murdered Irish patriots—Cosgrave,” “Who hates republics—Cosgrave,” and “Who is the real head of Cosgrave's Irish Free State—King George the | Fifth.” Police descended on the four and (lemanded their passes. The placard- bearers said they had no passes but were members of the De Valera party and wished to voice their pro- tst, They were ushered from the park, on thelr way passing a wom- an holding high above her head unfon jack. The only other sign of oppoaition to the visitor during the moments preceding his landing was the distri- bution of pamphlets at subway en- frances by a group of women who suild they were supporters of the Irish republic. The pamphlets de- nounced Cosgrave. The women were not molested. Thanks America Aboard the Macon, Mr. Cosgrave wis led nlong the path followed by « host of other celebrities and inte the cabin of the vessel where two- score interviewers awaited him, He opened the interview. 'his 18 the first time,” he said, “that the head of my country has ome to see your country. This is & visit of goodwill and admiration for vour great country and te thank you | 1l that vou have done and for vour sympathy and for the oppor- tnit Jle coming to your free country. ‘Well, how is old Ireland?” was asked. “When I loft her, she was very he replied. “She s not ing still; she is going forward.” Building Factories “In the last five vears,” he said, “we have built a hundred new fac- tories in Ireland. The unemploy- ment situation is improving, and Ireland is more peaceful than at any time in her history “I am a man of peace.” Cosgrave replied to a question whether he en- joyed better the present reign of peace or the old days of fighting. He declined to discuss the relative positions of himself and Eamon de Valera in Irish politics. Once the two were allies, but a rift made them political opponents. “lI am here as a representative of all the people of our atate,” he said. ‘It is an accident that Dr. de Valera and I happen to be in America at the same time." Wanted to End Interview About the relations between Ire- land and England, he said, he “could write an article.” “Whether Ircland will ever be a complete re- public,” he said, “is a matter for the (Continued on Page 23) 3% NATIONALITIES ARE REPRESENTED IN SCHOOL Of 1468 Pupils in New Haven Build- ing, But 363 Are Classed As Americans New Haven, Jan. 20 UP—The Augusta Lewis Troup Junior High school In this city is called the “school of all nations” by Superin- tendent Frank H. Beede in a report | issued today. Mr. Beede reports that there are 32 nationalities represented in the school. Of the 1,466 pupils in at- tendance, only 363 are classed as Americans. The others are Greeks, Ttalians, Hungarians, Armenians, Poles, Rus- sianx, Bouth Americans, West In- dians, Australians and Canadia: A report compiled for the school board of the racial lincage of pupils | in the city schools shows that two- | thirds have forcign born parents. ans 'KIDNAPING CHARGE | Stadent Nurse Will Be Buried FACED BY ENPLOVE OFLYNN PUBLISHER Frederick W. Enwright Asserts F. R. Dutton and Two Other OF GOOD WILL CORBETT ANXIOUS ; TOAIDINSEARCH| e Tt T {LATTER ISSUES DENIAL; Father of Other Missing Smith oy ) 1 810,000 BAIL Gdlqo 6irl Offers Hdp | Newspaper Owner Delares He Was sm “o-fiA—GE—ls FoUND} Taken by Dutton to Shack in Mass. Commissioner of Public safety | at Northampton to Take omcm] Charge of Search for Miss Swmith; Now Gone a Weck. Lynn, Mass,, issing Smith col. | Kidnaped and threatened with 8t, John Emith, mising Smith col-| oo qay in an attempt to lege freshman, was received today ! He Promised Men $1,000 in Cash in Boston—Claims He Was Told of $25,000 Murder Plot. Jan. 20.—{#—The by State Detective Joseph V. Daley |in the district court today. Frederick from James H. Corbett of Utica, N. | R. Dutton, who has been employed Y., father of Miss Alice Corbett, hant Where He Was Freed When | | extort money from him had a sequel | you have afforded our peo- ! be ! in & similar’ manner on November 18, 1925, Similarity of Cases Mr. Corbett called attention to the strange circumstance that Miss Smith and Miss Corbett both di |appeared on Friday, the 13th, and reminded the searchers that the $1,000 reward he offered at the on deposit in Northampton. ‘I have been following the reports in the newspapers regarding the dis- appearance of Frances St. John Smith and the untiring efforts her parents arc making in trying to lo- cate her,” Mr. Corbett wrotc. “It seems 80 very strange that this should occur on Friday, the 15th, |80 similar to the disappearance of |my daughter. |“I know that you are doing |everything in your power to aid in the search. There does not seem to be much of anything that I can say or do to help Mr. Smith but if there Itl I certainly want you to convey 1to him my sincere sympathy and lansist 1f there is anything T can do. Also Offers $1,000 | “I still have $1,000 deposited in |the Hampshire County Trust com- prany in Northampton in charge of Mr. Willls (Gordon L. Willis, the president). T would glad to have this mentioned in the newspapers as my wife and I can never give (Continued on Page 23.) MISSING SHITH GiRL " BELIVED SEEN HERE ‘Gas Station Employe Fur- | nishes Clue Which Proves False and- | | Lieutenant Matthias Rival at po- {lice headquarters this morning was Inotified by an employe at Rackliffe's filling station at Main and Stanley streets that an automobile n which there were two young men and a young woman had stopped, and after purchasing a supply of |gasoline, the driver inquired for di- {rections to Waterbury, which _were {given. The young woman bore a resemblance 1o Frances St. John |8mith, aged 1%, who is missing from Smith College, according to the mes- sage. Lieutenant Rival learned that the car was registered in the name of (Erwin M. Jennings & Co., of 27-47 Harrison street, Bridgeport, and he communicated with the Bridgeport authorities. Later, Captain Kelly {learned that the occupants of the |car were well known in Waterbury |and there was no connection be- jtween the missing student and the young woman in question. . YOUNG BEZDEK LOCATED Mother Asserts He's With Her ‘and is Going to Penn State College. Hanover, N. H., Jan. 20—(P— | Hugo Bezdek. Jr, Dartmouth col- {lege student who has been missing, was with his mother in New York this morning, and the two planned to leave at once for State College, Pa., where the boy's father is foot- ball coach at Pennsylvania State college. This information was tele- phoned here by E. K. Hall, head of the football rules committee, and friend of the Betdek family. Mr. Hall telephoned to the office Dartmouth shortly after 10 a. and talked with the president's secretary. He said that Mrs. Bezdek had just telephoned him from a hotel in New York that her son was with her znd that they were going to start for State college in a few min- utes. He did not give the name of the hotel. Young Rezdek made a visit 1o | | Hanover and to White River Junc The tabulation gives 33.251 children and of these 23,208 have foreign | Lorn parents and 537 were them-! selven born outside this country. In | round numbers about 10,000 chil-| Aren have American born parents. | oo i 7 tion, Vt., a few miles away but did not call on any of his friends. He was believed here to have taken a train from White River Junction for New York early last evening. esterday, who disappeared from the college | time his daughter was lost is tiil | {tell him I shall be only too glad to ! in New \'ofk‘ of President Ernest M. Hopkins of | .’ for some time as chauffeur for En- wright, pleaded not guilty to charges of assault with attempt to kill, blackmail and kidnaping. | Judge Reeve continued the case | until January 31. He held Dutton in $10,000 bonds on the assault charge nd fixed nominal | other charges. Meanwhile police are investigating > sensational story told by t newspaperman of a plot againstghis ife and the safety of his wife and | daughter, Three ‘others beside Dutton ave sought, including a former Enwright employe who with the others is al- | leged to have forced the publisher at | gunpoint to agree to a tempora | truce in consideration of an imme- | diate payment of $1,000. s Not Divulged The name of the former employe, « columnist on a now defunct paper formerly published by Enwright at oston, was not revealed by polic 1The two others were known only as | “Cannonball” and “Snake.” | Enwright sald the men told him | they had been hired for $25,000 to arder him, k in Nahant some miles out of Lynn. Enwright told the police that just before leaving home yesterday | morning for his Boston office, he noticed an expensive coupe draw up near the house. A few minutes later ! Dutton, who has been in his employ ! {hree vears, reported and they sturt- ed for Boston. Kidnaped on Road The chauffeur failed to take the usual route, going instead by a road leading to Nahant. On their way, the coupe crowded the Enwright car to the curb and the former employe jumped on the running board a then took a seat beside the publish- er. He drew a revolver and poked it | against Enwright's ribs and said to the chauffeur, “go to the place we agreed upon.” Dutton, Enwright de- wred, sped at 70 miles over the road to Nahant finally drawing up at a deserted shack There “Cannonball” and “Snake” were waiting and there were ropes and a gag inside of the place Murder reat nwright asserted the | former emplo; id. “You owe me plenty of mon and I'm going to | it all back. We are going to get $25,000 for knocking vou off. After | we kill you we're going to weight vour body and drop it in the Chey'll never find you “Then we're going to grah vouP daugh for ran- son.” Eleanor Enwrizht is 19 years old The publisher persnaded the men to desist and to accept $1,000 which el &e! he promised to obfain in Boston at | the office of the Boston Sunday Telegram He said the former employe weakened but Dutton was with ditficulty persuaded to let him zo. “Let's bump him off anywa said the chauffeur, bLut the man prevailed. Return to Boston All five returned to Boston. Kkept the revolver at Enwright's heart and although he attempted to tract the attention of several traf- fic policemen while pasesing through Chelsea they failed to notice him. At the Boston office of the news- | paper, Enwright prevailed upon the | former employe to accept the money { by general delivery mail Afraid to Leave | Shortly after he emerged to find the other three gone and the chauf- | teur alone in the car. They drove [ back here to the office of the Lynn Telegram where Enwright dismissed | Dutton and called the home of Deputy Superintendent of Police ! Callahan d to leave the buliding. Calahan di- rected him to meet him at his home and Enwright called a taxi-cab, drove to his own home, where he | 101d the story to his wife and daugh- ter. Both accompanied him to Cal- lahan's where, in the presence of two police inspectors, he repeated his statements Chauffeur Makes Denial Dutton was arrested and empliati- cally denfed that anything unusual ‘lwll happened. He said the former columnist had previously threaten- ed Enwright but denied they had met him that day. ws. After a check on the chauffeur's | story of his whercabouts in the in- terval between which he drove En- | wright to Boston and the time he asserted to take him home, police announced there were portant discrepancies bonds on the | ; Rt e The meeting occurred at a lonel |,y 011 type, but the ashing gale] an hour | other | One | He told Callahan he fear- | several fm- In Garb Death Kept From Her ‘Unifo'm and Cap, Like Those Presented to Classmates, | to Be Worn by Miss Clough at Burial. Miss Alice Clough, 25 years old, of | Willimantic, a student nurse st New Britain General hospital died of peritonitis last night at 11 o'clock following & week's iliness. Miss Clough came te the hospital on Beptember 15 and became a member of the probation class at the institution. Her sister, Martha, was also a member of the class. She had been home on a visit and returned on January §. When she lreyor!ed to the hospital, she was suffering from an attack of grip and sore throat. At first her illness ap- peared to be an ordinary cold, but despite expert medical attention she | became desperately sick and a sep- tic sore throat developed. Peritonitis of the abdomen resuited and she underwent an operation in an at- |tempt to save her life. Her parents. Rere with her untll & few minutes their home in Willimantic thinking she would recover. before her death when they left for Last Monday night her class re- ceived caps signifying that they had passed the probation test and had | {qualified as student nurses. When | |student nurses pass examinations they receive the cap and change their uniform trom blue to pink. | Because Miss Clough was sick Mon- | day night she was not able to re- ! ceive the honor formally. Hospital |authorities will send the cap and uniform to her parents and she will {be clad in them when she is buried. The body was sent by B. C. Porter | Sons to Willlmantic where J. C. Lin- | coln, undertaker, took charge. Miss |Maude E. Traver, directress of | furses at the hodpital, will interview | | her parents in Willimantic tomorrow. & | There is a possibility that if the | | funeral is held Sunday, members of ' | her class will attend in a body. \ | Burviving her are her parents, Mr. | and Mrs. Burton Clough of 58 Le- | banon street, Willimantic; her sister, Martha; and a brother Leonard of Hartford. | NOTED GROUP REFUSE . TOFLY DURING STORM Landis, Mary Garden and Commander of Leviathan Prefer Terra Firma Chicago, Jun. 20 (®—A former indge who fined the Standard Oil }Company $29,000,000 without bat- ting an e sh, the commander of giunt ocean liner who crossed the Atlantic many hundreds of times, and an opera singer who haa braved the criticisms of royalty over the tootlights, didn't care to hazard a T0-mile-an-hour gale in a de luxe tuonoplane last night. a tormer Federal Judge K. M. Lan- Uis and present commissioner of or- | ganized baseball; lopera star, Capt. Herbert Hartley, | commander of the 8. 8. Leviathan, land Mre. Hartley, together with cight prominent Chicagoans, plan- | ned to fly over Chicago in the mono- plane, a 12-pussenger Ford-Stout ged their minds, ighter planes, carrying mail for the National Air Transport company, continued thelr achedule with a few delays, however, despite the wind which was the most severe of the | winter, ILLINOIS GOVERNOR WILL IGNORE: SENATE Small Refuses to Recognize Action Declaring Smith’s Seat Vacant | cm Jan. 20 (M —Governor ‘1 Len in a formal statement today said he would refuse to rec- cenize the action of the United States senate which yesterday barred Frank Smith, senator-elect of Illinots, from its floor. “On behalf of Iilinois” said Gov- crnor Small’s statement, “I cannot and will not recognize the action of the United States senate in declar- " ing that a vacancy exists." “To do so,” said his statement, ‘would be to bargain away the con- stitutional right of the people of a sovereign state” and would recognize the power of *“an unauthorized body” to disfranchise an entire state. The attempt to keep Mr. from a seat in the senate, Governor Small declared was fraught with the most serious consequences to conatitutional government witnessed in the United States since the, Civil { war and “recognition of such powers of the senate would sweep away the last vestige of self government in the | country.” NANY SORE ARMS | Vaccination Affecting Middletown l School Attendance—Three New Smallpox Cascs. | Middletown, Jan. 20—Vaccination is playing much hob with the |routine of daily life here as the |flurry over presence of more than |one hundred cases of smallpox in | the county. | Twenty per cent of the students in {the high school are at home with sore arms, |tion set for mext week have been postpenad. In grade schools from to 30 per cent of the pupils are at home, and the percentage of | workers in Industry who are out is | quite high. ince yesterday noon three ses of smallpox have been report- new |ed. one of these in Portland which | [now has six casc | pois B | % =0 THE WEATHER | New Britain and vicinity: ' Generally fair tonight and Saturday: much colder 1o- night; colder Saturday. 1 | 1% * The distinguished party, including | Mary Garden, | Smith ' and mid-year examina- | /COLD WAVE SWEEPING ON FROM MIDDLE WEST ‘Chicuo and Buffalo Feel | Chilling Blasts—Lower Temperatures Likely Chicago, Jan. 20 (P —Whistling cold has come, almost without warn- ing. to the north and middle west. The roaring winds whipped Min- low zero last night and then spread south. TIrom 30 degrees above zero at 7 p. m. in Chicago, the temper- ature reading fell 20 degrecs in two hours. It was the wind, however, rather | than the precipitate mercury drop that did the most damage. Trees | and signboards were blown down here and windows were broken. | Several bulldings were unroofed. | tation services was caused in some | soctions of the city. Car service in |15 suburbs wus tied up for several | hours. Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 20 UP)—After two weeks of abnormally high temperatures, the mercury took an overnight drop in the Buffalo dis- trict and at 10 o'clock today stood | lat 19 degrees, having fallen from a |record high of 45 at noon yesterday. The weather bureau predicted & turther drop with the temperature 1going below eight degrees tonight. Gales accompanied the falling temperatures, reaching a maximum of 62 miles an hour last night. To- day the velocity of the wind was | miles an hour but was expected to | decrease. A light snow was fall- ing. | Considerable property damage re- sulted from the high wind | Throughout the city windows were ! shattered and signs torn down. Along the Lake Erle front the gale was particularly severe. (8t Paul, Minn, Jan. 20 (P—One eath resulted today from the W over the central northwest late ves- |terday, sending temperatures below !zero over night. | Miss Cora Pleten, 20, died at Fer- {gus Falls, Minn., from injuries suf |fered yesterday when the | wrecked the false front | building there. | The mercury dropped as much as 50 degrees within a few hours in {some places. | Temperature reports today wers {from 18 below zero at Prince Albert lin Canada and 16 below in Interna- 'tional Falls, Minn., on up the scale to slightly above zero. Y. Jan. 2 ways throughout the section were 'DOG MAROONED ON ICE ATTRACTING ATTENTION | Detroit Police Making Every Effort To Rescue Collie Floating Mile Of Shore Detroit, Jan. 20 (UP)—The plight of a halt-frozen white collie, mu- rooned on a cake of ice a mile from shore in Lake St. Clair, roused De- troit today to extensive rescue oper- ations. Sharp winds lashed the helpless dog. Labored wagging of its tail ban- ished fears that the collie had per- ished during a blizzard last night and hundreds of persons lined the lake shores and watched police res- cue efforts, despite bitterly cold weather. The dog had been afloat since ves- terday morning. It was seen by a truck driver who reported to Ser- geant George Wallace of the Grosse Pointe Park police. Binoculars were brought out ana {a boat was launched. After plough- ing through the spongy ice, the po- |lice ®ere forced by high waves to {return to shore. Larger hoats set 'out. Icebergs and rough valked them. Chief Richard Holme, of the guns, mounted on the lused to end its suffering shore, nesota and Dakota temperatures be- | ndstorm that spread a cold wave | wind | of a new NAVY OFFICER SAYS PALDING 0 BLANE FIR $-4 ACCIDENT Declares Testimony of Coast Guardsmen on Destroyer of | Biased and Prejudiced Nature REPRESENTS RELATIVES OF SUBMARINE'S CREW Lieut. Commander Thomas J. Do Tells Court of Inquiry Collision Occurred When §-4 Falled To Sec | Destroyer Whase Men Admit They Saw Submersible Arising—Pauld- | ing Was Going 18 Knots an Hour. | Boston, Jan. 20 UP—Responsibility for the collision which resulted in the sinking of the submarine 8-4 was placed upon the coast guard destroy- | er Paulding by Lieutenant Com- mander Thomas J. Doyle, represent- | ing the relatives of the 40 victims, in | his closing address before the naval | board of inquiry teday. | Biased Opinions | ! He said that the story of the col- | lision had come mainly from the of- | | ficers and crew of the Paulding, who {were interested to such an extent that they were biased. The only de- | duction possible from their testi- {mony, he added, was that the sub- | marine had not seen the Pau.ding | |and had come to the surface with- | out seeing her until too late to aver |a collision. | Captain Gracle and Surfmas Sim- | mons of the Wood End coast gusrd |station, Doyle said, were the only | disinterested witnesses of the colli- | |sion and they had told a story at! |variance with that of the men {aboard the Paulding. The Paulding, DEATH OF MRS. GAUDET | \Says Chance Alooe Made Him SAME THING WITH CROOES |Chicago, in an interview in toda; e g & P i oy PRICE THREE CENTS CAUSES MURDER WARRANT | FOR HARTFORD VETERINARY DARROW BELIEVES |Pr. Guioyé i Being FATE GOVERNS ALL Guarded in Hospital — Will Face Court Upon Recovery From Bullet Wound iPolice Admittedly Baffled by Double Shooting Wed- Great Criminal Lawyer | Famous Chicago Attorney, in Prince- ton Interview, Expresses His Be- | | nesday—Say Only Doc- lief that Man's Lite 1s Predes-| tor or Wife Is Under tined. i | Suspicion. Princeton, N. J., Jan. 20 (UP)—| Fate alone guided Clarence Darrow | to the heights he has reached as a ! criminal lawyer, and fate alone guides criminals along paths of lawlessness against their wills, he believes, The ve Hartford, Jan. 20 UM—With the death of Mra Maximin J. Gesudet of New Haven shortly after 8§ o'clock this morning, the issuing of a warrant charging Dr. Harold Guilfoyle, veterinary, with her mur- der and the detention of his wife as a material witness, the double shooting in the hallway of the apartment house at 631 Maple ave« nue Wednesday night, nevertheless, | remained a mystery today because of the refusal of either the doctor destined and that there is a certain or Mrs. Guilfoyle to give informa« fate which governs each of us|tion to the police. E'l{;t{uzk‘oul!"‘:u‘: l:w’;: D:\rrolw sald. | tpe warrant for Dr. Guilteyle's . of this Matement, Every step T have 3OSt Was lswucd by Proseutee i Franz J. Carlson but it will net be made can be attributed to some outside power. served until the doctor is ready te “I entered law because I hap- | leave the Hartford hospital. pened to live across the street from | In the meantime he is under !guard at the hospital where he & an criminal lawyer of issue of the Princetonian, univer- sity newspaper, said that fate is an ovcrpowering force against which | mortal man s helpless and that the | criminal can no more evade crime than Darrow could have evaded his | career. Belleves in Fate “I believe that man's life Is pre- e said the testimony showed, was making 18 knots an hour foHowing | lalong the line of buoys when her | |commanding officer ordered change of course to the left five de- ! ‘xrnps, bringing her closer to the Disruption of lighting and transpor- | buoy that marked the outer end of |J¢¢4 I Would probably have been | the measured mile. | | Gracie's Testimony ! Gracie, watching from the coust | guara station, suw the ship change ito tho left and a short time Jater | isaw her begin to swing to the right. | | Doyle said the officer of the deck on | Ithe Paulding had been ordered to| | wiIng off nearer to the white buoy. | | That buoy, Doyle asserted, *was | {10 doubt in his mind, and when he |saw the white feather caused by the submarine's periscope “he no doubt | mistook it for the white buo: “What probably happened on the | 8-4 was this,”" Doyle continued. “She was on a cowrse probably north of west when she saw the Paulding change her course ot the left and | head in for Provincetown. At this | |time the submarine was well clear, | | probably 500 yards on the starboard bow of the Paulding. | | “The periscope which was facing | dead ahead was probably trained on |the Paulding at that time. However, | because of the proximity of the oth- | er ship they decided to plane to the {Money Was Allotted for « tinsmith who was & notary. It was from him that I got my desire slowly recovering from a bullet to be a law 1 left Ashtabula, wound in the right side of the head. Ohio, because a certain man's wife | The bullet penetrated the optis happened to refuse to sign the deed nerve and dislocated his eyeball and to the house that I was trying to | he will probably lose the sight ef buy. If that woman had signed the one eye. Lieut. Andrew J. Williams of the Some Ability is Necded | detective bureau said today the pe- “Though a certain amount of abil- lice have been unable to obtain am. . ity was necessary to succeed, it was |explanation of the shooting despite mere chance that led to my rec- |thorough questioning of both Doe- ognition and subsequent success as [tor Guilfoyle and Mrs. Guilfoyle. a lawyer. Having no intention ot |Both maintain absolute silence on entering criminal law, only the plea | the details of the shooting and both of a friend of mine who was in | deny having fired any of the four trouble started me on a career |shots. One of the shots entered Mrs. Gaudet's left shoulder from behind another pemetrated the doctor's right temple, and the other two were imbedded in the wall, Hope that Mrs. Gaudet might clear up the mystery was entertain- od yesterday, Lieut. Williams said, when Prosecutor Carison, Ceunty Detective Edward J. Hickey, Detee- |tive Sergeant Charles J. Keefe and Detective Joseph Quinn went to the Hartford hospital to obtain & state- ment from the dying woman. | Mrs. Way’s Testimony Although she was able to say something, the lieutenant declared, in Ashtabula to this day. | UNEXPENDED $750,000 INWATER DEPARTMENT (Continued on Page Expansion of City System surface. That was good submarine practice and on the side of safety. “About the same time and before |the S-4 could reach the murface the 'officer of the deck on the Pauld- ing saw the periscope and ordered ‘Right rudder.’ On the §-4 the an to pull in the periscope. Nine conds later the crash came. feantime on the submarine the collision alarm had been sounded. and most of the doors were closed before the collision. Otherwise the torpedo room door never would have been closed. Everything was done by the submarine’s crew that could be done."” | Washington, Jan. 20 (®—The con- sy between democrats and re- Saranac Lake, & on the naval committee as The snow for which the lumber men ther the administration of | have been hoping descended upon ' congress is to investigate the §-4 !the Adirondacks last night. High- | disaster was taken to the floor of the senate today with Chairman Hale leading the fight for an inquiry by a presidential commission. Senators Swanson of Virginia and | Walsh of Massachusetts, democrats, will conduct the ontest to amend |the resolution so that the comm !sion would deal only with the gu tion of safety devices and means of preventing such disasters in the fu- | (ture with a senate naval sub-com- | mittee inquiring into the disaster Litsert. | In calling up the resolution which already has been approved by stantly in Mrs. Way's vision just {the house, Senator Hals suggested ~Vife With Razor. prior fo, and after the shots -u!en an amendment by which the €om-| prigeonore, Jan 20 () —- Hepry |fired 1S a statement contained fn mission would be composed of four | 4y SO CER N, | Mrs. Way's story, it was learned. [civiltan experts, including a Jud&®. |14 cyicine company and a member After Mr. Way had left the building }and one retired naval officer instead |o¢ 41o Briggeport fire department | With Mrs. Gaudet's daughter, the |of three civilian members and two I retired naval officers. | The Maine senator disclosed that | Secretary Wilbur contemplated the | appointment of these civilian mem- | | ers of the commission: John F. ! Stevens, of New York, president of |the American fociety of Civil En- |gineers; W. R. Whitney, of Schenec- tady, an official of the General| | Electric Company, an1 Thomas A. | | Scott, & salvage expert. | Launching the attack on the reso- {lution, Renator Swanson declared | Bectetary Witbur haa already lected the membership of this |called presidential commission.™ “Instead of the president select- Ing the men,” he declared, “we now | {see a cunning scheme whereby Mr. | s0- waters [ Wilbur would select the judges of somc fime during the | try himselt.” | The Virginia senator said he had | |Grosse Pointe Park police ®aid &t |no criticism to make of the experts |Word to the ol works and his body noon that every effort will be made | proposed by the secrctary. but that |Was found in the tank. From its po- to effect a rescue, before long ranze |the country is entitled to an investi- |sition it is believed he was trying to are | gation by some’cone not named by [reach a gauge when he fell over thel the secretary of the navy. be- | ll\rldm‘purl Man, 11l Since December | The family thought the motive for se- | | her statem:nt has not been of ma- terial assistance in explaining the actual shooting. The police are placing emphasie on the testimony of Mrs. Algernon Way of 1926 Broad strest, who | with her husband, was a guest et the Guilfoyle apartment on the eve- ning of the shooting. She was the only person in the group who is able to throw light en the movements of Mrs. Guilfeyle iter shots were heard in the hall- Nearly $740,000 made available |for water department uses during| [this fiscal year will be returned to, the city, unexpended. on March 81, | but a request will be made that it be | reappropriated for use next year. The fund includes $600,000 for a filtration system and money with which to buy land for development of the water service. The work of preparing maps and plans has taken s0 much time that it was not pos- sible to begin physical operations i, this vear a ¥ The NGtk i e e shooting occurred after Mr. necessary to ask additional funds next vear has not bheen determined since it will be ne » first to obtain the en- gincering department’s report. A mecting of the water board will be held Monday night for discussion of the budget. Consideration will be given a proposed increase in wa- ter rentals at that time. Memhers of the water board are in favor of submitting such a recommendation despite the expressed opposition of [Chairman Bdward ¥. Hall the {board of finance and taxation to any | | boost at this time. Way and Mrs. Gaudet's five-year-old daughter, Patricia Mary, had left the building followed by Mrs. Gau« det and Dr. Guilfeyle, with Mre. Guilfoyle and Mrs. Way remaining behind to turn out the lights and lock the door. Mrs. Guilfoyle had told the police she and her husband were to take Mrs. Gaudet and daughter to the home of Mrs. Mary Cavanaugh of 16 Owen street, the mother of Mrs. Gaudet. More Detalls Additional details brought to light this afternoon in connection with the strange shooting served only to heighten the element of mystery in the case, which the police in charge of the investigation admit fs puz- Statements by Mr. and Mrs. reveal some information that the police view as important. That Mrs. Guilfoyle was not eon- FIREMAN COMMITS SUICIDE With Rheumatism, Takes His Own doctor and Mrs. Gaudet descended the stairway leading to the front | door. Mrs. Guilfoyle and Mrs. Way remained upstairs to put out lights in various rooms. Mrs. Guilfoyle had | remarked that she would leave the front hall light burning. There was one more light to be put out in the bedroom. Mrs. Way walked toward the bedroom. Her land had just reached out to press : the button when she heard the shots .. which she believed at the time was an automobile backfiring. When she returned to the head of the stairs Mrs. Guilfoyle was standing between her husband and since August, 1915, committed sui- | cide today in his home, by slashing his throat with a razor He had been in 1l health from rheumatism and had laid off from duty sinca December. his act was found in his poor physi- cal condition. Albus leaves a widow, two broth- ers and three sisters, Fall River Man Is 3 Drowned in Oil Tank Fall River, Mass, Jan. 20 (P | Kenneth 8 Carter, 26, of this ¢ | was drowned in a tank of oil at the Mrs. Gaudet. New England Oil Refinery plant| Mrs. Way could not be certain, night. His | whether the weapon was in M <* family worried when he failed to ap- | Guilfoyle's hand and hurried dows . pear after working last night sent |the stairs, # “Oh, God. Harold's shet!,” M. |May heard Mra. Guilfoyle say. The revolver was then lying on the Seer. (Continued on Page 25) shallow protecting wall