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| News of the World By Associated Press THOUSAND MILE STRETCH OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTXC, TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1928.—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES LA FOLLETTE ASKS THIRD TERM IDEA I | | ‘Buster’ Lou Gehrig Dines With Lions FAMILY SKELETON Famous Yankee Batsman Lunch Guest | RATTLED O AID HUGE APPROPRIATION BILL OF $339,000,000 FOR ARMY First Baseman, in Lime-i Jokes Like He Bats ? BE ABANDONED i o, i ime - YOUNG HICKWAN Will Press for Early Action on, Confines Self to Tellinz“ Mother Pictured as Tempomily? SEA TOWARDS VIRGIN ISLES | REPORTED TODAY IN HOUSE Hops From Venezuela Early This Moring on Hazardous Ocean Journey to Tiny U. S. Possessions in West Indies. Governor of St. Thomas Plans to Greet Aviator ! HONE S WREGKED 6 PERSONS DEAD Three Otbers Are Injured by’ Wost Newton Explosion | THING DINAMITE CAUSE' Police Find But Two Huge Stills | and Three Vats in Cellar But Do | With Salute of 21 Guns Not Believe They Were the Cause | His Bill Declaring Against T Ro-decfions‘ NEW YORK REPUBLICANS’ ACTION PROMPTS MOVE Tssues Formal Statement that Empire State G. O. P. Action saying is Conclusive Proof that Country is Badly in Need of Legislation ‘Which He Has Proposed—Political Move Hinted. When He Arrives Late| of te Bias. | Today. St. Lucia, West Indies, Jan. 31 (@ ~Lindbergh passed oft Port Castries at 12:55 p. m. heading north. (Port Castries is about fifty miles beyond St. Vincent.) Guadeloupe, Leeward Islands, Jan. 31 (UP)—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh passed overhead at 3:17 p. m., ap- proximately three-fifths of the way on his semi-circular route to Bt. Thomas, Virgin Island. Hopped Off At 6:16 A. M. Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 31 (P— Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, with St. Thomas, the Virgin Island, as his next stopping place, hopped off from Maracay at 6:16 &, m. He will fly 1,000 miles. It was 12:45 this morning before Lindbergh returned to Maracay, where the Spirit of St. Louls was| housed, after attending a ball given | in his honor last night by the min- istry of war. The fifer left the ball at 10:30, having spent an hour there. He apologized for his short stay at Car- acas. and also for his brief stay at the dance. 8t. Jan, Vincent, Windward Islands, 31 (M—Colonel Lindbergh's plane passed over hers, going morth | at 12:20 p. m. Vincent. is approximately 850 -: i3, Colonet Lind. ,hergh's destination on his flight from Venezuela, 285 Miles Away New York, Jan. 81 I'refich Cable company ¢ this afternoon from Basse Terre, Guadeloupe, that ’ UPM—The announced (‘olonel Charles A. Lindbergh passed | over that place at 2:30 p.-m. local time (1:30 p. m. time), (Basse Terre is about 285 miles in an air line from St. Thomas.) Eagerly Awalt Flier St. Thomas, Virgin 1sland, Jan. 31 » cagerly awaiting the arrival “'harles A. Lindbergh, today were busy giving the island a festive ap- pearance. Charlotte Amalie, chief town of the island, whose population s something over 8,000, was elabor. ately decorating with bunting, pen- nants, festons and arches. Not be- hind other welcoming countries which have given the American fifer all sorts of loving sobriquets, St. Thomas set up great signs bear- ing the slogans: “Welcome thou conqueror of distance! Viking of the alr! Perseverance,-thy name is Lind- bergh!” The -governor of the islands, which form one of the latest posses- sions of the United States, will wel- come the fiier at the landing fleld three miles west of the city. The question of a landing place had caused much concern to the author- ities who had two places' in' mind, one a section of pasture land to the cast of the city and the other to the west, consising of a golf course. The golf course finally was selected and the field has been smoothed out and . improved. The golf course field runs north and south and it will be necessary for a landing to be made from the south, that end being clear of ob- structions. Not long ago a large tri- motor commercial plane arrived from Porto Rico and retyrned with- out landing, asserting that the land- ing facilities were inadequate. While (Continued on Page 2§) “TABS” OLD HOME SOLD Building at Lafayctte and Beaver Streets Bought by J. R. Kaplan st Reported Price of $30,000. The building at Lafayette and Beaver streets occupled for many years by the Y. M. T. A. & B. 8o- clety was eold today by J. R. Kaplan u«t & price reported to be about $30,000. Mr. Kaplan is owner of real cstate on the opposite corner. The new owner is considering re- | modeling the building to bring it to {he street line with stores, convert- ing the upper portion of the build- ing into offices and apartments. It is possible that it may be usea temporarily as a clubhouse, A six-tenement house, a two-fam- ily dwelling and garages located at 53 Beaver street, were sold today by P. Kennedy to Giovannina Ar- cidocora, through the Quigley & Da- vis realty offices. The sale price was about $20,000. receipt of advices| | | $225,900. Newton, Mass,, Jan. 31 (UP)—The death toll resulting from the mys: terious explasion which wrecked a home and store in West Newton Iate yesterday was increased to six today when the body of an uniden- titied man was found in the ruins. The body was beileved that of Salvatore Lacava, 31, who had been missing aince the blast occurred. Others who lost their lives were: Mrs. Frank Gorgone, 32, sister o Lacava, 31, who had been missing aince the blast occurred. Others who lost their lives were: Mrs. Frank Gorgone, 32, siater o Lacava Grace Gorgone, 13. Helen Gorgone, ¢. Thomaa Gorgone, 40, of Waltham, brother-in-law of Mrs. Gorgone. Leonard D. Jackson, Newton health inspector. Three Injured. Three persons were injured, one seriously, by the blast. They were Mrs. Gorgone’s husband, Frank, 34, years old; his youngest child, 10 months; and Vincenzo Caterino, a grocer. Although it/ was believed all vic- tims_had been accounted for, police, firemen and volunteers continued search of the blackened and tangled debris, Meanwhile investigators sought to establish the cause of the terrific bullding, & two-story wood and ce- ment structure at 63-67 Lexington stroet, Weet Npwton. e Despltq the fact that two huge atills and thres vats were discovered in the ruins, State Chemist Walter L. Wedger, following a superficial cxamination, expressed the opinion that the stills were not responsible for the blast. He belleved dynamite caused the explosion. Thinks Dyhamite Responsible. Fire Chietf Clarence Randlett be- tigation was being made to deter- { mine whether the dynamite were explosion which demolighed the | lieved that either dynamite or {llum- tern standard | ;,0ng gas was responsible. Inves. | Washington, Jan. 31 (P—Be- | cause of the endorsement of Presi- | dent Coolidge for another term by the New York state republican |leaders last week, Senator La Fol- lette, republican, Wisconsin, an- nounced today he would press for | early action on his pending resolu- tion declaring against more than |two terms for a president. { Tssues Statement. Senator La Follette in a formal statement declared the action by the New York republicans “is conclusive proof that the movement to ‘draft | President Coolidge' and smash the third term tradition is gaining head- “Charles D. Hilles, vice-chairman | of the national republican commit- tee, and former chairman, i re- |sponsible for the action taken at |Albany on Saturday, he said. “He |has persistently advocated that the republican party should not take seriously the statement that ‘Presi- |dent Coolidge does not choosc to [1un.’ It is reliably reported that Mr. | Hilles and Sccretary of the Treasury {Mellon are working in close co- ! operation and that drive is on to ob- [tain uninstructed delegations - in | many states which will support the plan to draft the president. “In order that the representatives {of the peopls in the senate may 1!\“: an opportunity to express their |conviction with regard to the im- | portance of preserving the tradition {that no president shall succeed him- duced a resolution and shall press Jfor. its eafly considerationjand adop- tion by the senate.” MOTHER CROSSES SEA - FOR MARRIAGE OF SON |Overcomes Obstacles and Arrives Few Hours Be- fore Ceremony {part of a supply which had been | taken to that aection recently in connection with blasting operations. Police said they had been able to 4 delfberate borubing plot. Hear Blast for Miles. The blast, which was heard for miles, lifted the rcof the building, (Continued on Page Six) $2,899,833 INCREASE INBRISTOL PROPERTY | {Gross Grand List for City Announced as $52,652,984 (Special to the Herald) Bristol, Jan. 31.—Bristol’s grand list this year i1l total approximately 453,652,984, according to figures "Avlllnhle this morning in the office {of the board of assessors. This amount, which will be diminished 853 greater than last year's total. The New Departure Manufacturing company heads the list with a pro- perty assessment of $8,269,000. Other {lion dollars are as follows: The E. Ingrabam company, $1,837,000; the | Wallace Barnes company, $1.562.- 1300; and the Bristol Brass corpora- ition $1,500,000. Four concerns are |assessed in excess of one-half mil- illon dollirs as follows: Bristol and Plainville Electric company, $891,- {900: Beseions Clock company, $863 450; Bessions Foundry company $567,800; and American Silver com- {pany, $330,000. | John E. Condon is again this year | the largest indiivdual property own- er in the city with an assessment.of E. D, J. B. and W. K. Bessions, rank next with §$212,500; George J. Lacourse, $197,450; Fuller F. Barnes, $194,300; and Mrs. Net- {tie E. Rockwell, $185,200. Thirty-one concerns and {individ- uals are assessed for amounts rang- ing from $100,000 to $500,000. The increase in this year's grand list is brought about by the steadily growing value of real estate in the outlying sections of the city, many new residential tracts having been opened up during the past two years. Most of the Increased assesw- property centrally located. The list of property owners assess- ed for over §20.000 is as follows. (Continued on Page 26) somewhat by exemptions, is $2,899,- | jconcerns assessed for over one mil- | ments, however, have been made, on | | After encountering many diffi cul- |ties in securing a visa on ) as ‘—The . pcople of 8t. Thomas, | find no motive to indicate that the | port, Mrs. Pauline Juzwinski, G2, of of | disaster might have resulted from | Poland, arrived in this cit Just in time to be present at the wedding of her son, Vincent Jazwinski of Derby street, which took place v |terday when he took for his bri | Miss Rosalie Marzocha of 29 Hul- | bert street. Mrs. Jazwinski had trouble in | getting to this country, because she | was listed under the Russian quot | which was filled many months beforc | she filed application. It was through | Joseph Kloskowski of this city, who |after exchanginng many letters with | the state department, finally con- {vinced the authorities that Mrs, Jaz- | winski belonged to the Polish quota. |that she got her visa from the | American consul in Warsaw. Mrs. Jazwinski arrived in New York on the George Washington of {the United States lines, Sunday and |was met by two sons. The party | entrained for New Britain yesterday |morning arriving in New Britain | just a few hours before the wedding | ceremony at Sacred Heart church. ‘Rm', Lucyan Bojnow officiated. 12 CHILDREN POISONED | Grief-Stricken Australian Town At- | tends Funeral of Youngsters Tn- oculated With Virulent Serum. Bundaberg, Australia, Jan. .31 (UP) — Business was suspended here today while grief-stricken townspeople attended the funeral lof 12 children who dicd after having been inoculated with anti-diphtheria serum. Many women among the 1,000 | people at the cemetery collapsed and men wept.' While the father of two dead girls was at the cemetery, {the mother was unable to leave the | hospital where their two sons were i dangerously ill | A government medical officer, lafter post mortem examination, nd- vanced the theory that latent prop- |erties in the serum suddenly be- |came active and were turned into {virulent poison. The analyst to the local town council the buying of serum in bulk was to blame for the deaths, as each time a container was opened it became subject to in- fection. SO, FROM MRS, SOS Bridgeport. Jan.' 31 (®— An 8Os {was sent out here today by Mrs. Sos. In suit filed in superior court she asked a divorce from her husband, oseph Sos. They were married in 1912 and she claimed intolerable cruelty and that he deserted her in | November, 1924. aclt for a third term, I have intro- | Funny Stories. | $ “Buster” Lou Gelrig, star first | basemun of the New York Yankees | was the stellar attraction at lhe‘ meeting of the Lions club at the | Lurritt hot>l at noon teday. Gehrig | did not make an address but told | the members several funny stories | of incidents in southern training | camps, which provoked considerable amusement. The speaker of the occasion was A. B. McGinley, &ports editor of the | Hartford Times. Mr. McGinley de- lievered a typical after dinner speech | which was full of witand humorous | cedotes. ! The newspaperman opened his ad- | by stating that he would like to ses New Britain in the Eastern League next season. He paid a trib- ute to the Shuttie Mcadow Golf links 28 being one of the finest courses in the east, and sald sports were the main method whereby many Ameri- can_people keep in good physical condition. He said baseball is 50 old it was mentioned in the Bible and mention- cd references to “The ninetys ani nine” He toll of sports celebrities he has met. and sald of the two Jack Dempsey las a much more pleasing personaifty than Gene Tun- ney. Tu he said, Kept himselt 100 alocf, and nis literary pose is | ot pleasing. Speaking of Walter Hagen, former professional golf champion, he quot- | | “BUSTER"” LOU GEHRIG. ! ed Hagen as saying one time when ! warned of tough opponents, “None of them are tough unleas you think | they are, and I never think they | are” | Babe Ruth was referred to as a good natured boy who never grew | up. Ho said baseball is the only game which men can endure as daily diet. “When other sports have heen wiped off the roster, basebal will still endure,” he declared. foothall was the gam2 | He said | (Continued on Page 23) FOUNDIN BAHANAS 25 Rescue Vessels Scoured South Atlantic Coast Line IS UNDER OWN POWER Missing Since Last Saturday Sister Ship ofeS-3 Was Located Proceed- ing ta Cubs After Weatherlig Storm. Washington, Jan. 31 that another disaster like that of the submarine S-4 had overtaken the navy were dispelled today with the news that the S-3 was safe in Florida waters and proceeding to- ward Cuba Missing si day, the 8-3 found last night at 8 o'clock. posi » sundown last Satur- . sister of the 8-4, was Her irank H. Brumby, commanding the control force of which the submarine was a part, the message added that the §-3 was proceeding under her own power to Guantanamo, Cuba, destination but gave no other | When she disappeared last Satur- | day the S-3 and her convoy were 100 miles south of Cape Hatteras. | The submarine passed from sight of SUBMARINE $-315 MRS, GULFOYLEIS FINALLY RELEASED ?Gase Taken From Police to Su- perior Court Today, | Insane and Father as Par- tial to Other Women HEREDITARY INSANITY IS POINT BEING ARGUED Mrs. Hickman is Described as Hav- ing Been a Patient in Insanc Asylum and Other Members of Her Family Also Are Pictured as Queer—Pre-Natal Influence Being Woven Into Defense of Slayer, Court Room, Los Angeles, Jan. 31 (UP)—The trail of the Hickmans of the Ozarks was traced from back woods farming country into the |cities today in the trial of William Edward Hickman. The rugged language of hill land farmers, country doctors and gener- al storekeepers gave way to the more polished discourse of city merchants, | physicians and educators as their | | depositions were read in an effort to save the slayer of Marion Parker from the gallows. Through ‘depositions of persons ' who knew Hickman as a boy in | Arkansas and later as a high school | student in Kansas City, the defense | attempted to prove him insane. | Family Skelctons Rattle The recital pictured Mrs. Hick- man as a victim of temporary in- | DISAGREENENT O oM At CTYWAGERDSTER| o0t of i Salury Comnittse Report Nay Amount is Alotted b0 " BeDisputed by Gouncil | River and Harbor Pro- Deficit Said to Exist in ’ayment of 875 to Superimendent | F R = Ammunition Reserve Lising of Olty Employes Cause of | Lengthy Discussion. i Forty-nine city positions will be] transferred to the control of the common council so far as the pay- | ment of the {ncumbents is concern- | ed, if the council adopts the recom- mendations prepared by the salary committee at a meeting last night. | Inasmuch as the committee itself was far from unanimous in its deci- | sions, opposition may develop on the | floor of the council, it was said to- day. Kearney's Salary Questioned The committee voted, on motion of Counciiman Larson, to recom- mend to the council that the board | of public works be requested to sub- mit a report at the March meeting, | MEMBERS NOT IN HARMONY “But Not in Alarming Amount” Ordered Eliminated. Washington, Jan. 31. UP—Carry- ing a total of $399,000,000, including $50,433,000 for non-military .activi- tles, the annual army appropriation bill was reported to the house today, by its appropriations committee. Over Current Funds The amount represents an in. crease of $3,654,000 over eurrent {funds, but a decrease of $494,000 under the budget estimates. The committee sald that after & areful study into the foundation of published reports” it had found that a deficit existed in the natien's ammunition reserve, but not in an sanity and the clder Hickman s a |in explanation of the reasons for man of _man)""a.fla!lu wllht;‘mm??- ! paying Street Superintendent Kear- | Resuming his place on the Wit- jeyv $75 G e |ness stand, Jerome Walsh, chief de- |jio0 ,',‘“ e e jioee S onon tead on. “‘;’“f" d""" | committee knows, contains an item T i e Kansaa. '™ |of 82000 as the salary of the posi- ¢ B " ltion. It was Councilman Larson's ; M{;y;" ":.‘:z:":,",;'&'r““h:“':;u;’; contention that the position should [finish the reading of the Hickman PAY the amount fixed by the com- mon council and he could not re- i;‘:‘;‘"" history before the end of the ., tno council having voted a $75 X the trail wilt lead to |Weekly salary. Regardless whether alarming amount. It asked that §7.- 393,000 be used for procurement of | ammunition next year and sald the war department plans to pressnt & program for 1930 looking teo the gradual elimination of the existing deficit. Of the total non-military - aljot- ment, $50,000,000 was made. avail- able in a lump sum for the carry- ing ont of existing river and.harboe | projects. Continuance during the next fiscal l | (P—Tears | 21 in a message to the | navy departinent by Rear Admiral | the insane asylum at Little Rock, | Arkansas, where Mrs. Eva Hickman, the young slayer's mother, was con- fined for a time. Hereditary Insanity The defense assigns her mental | ailment to hereditary insanity, | traceable to her mother, Mrs. Beeky Buck. i The state will contend that other causes brought on the nervous dis- order. ‘Walsh resumed reading the depo- | iLEIWES ROOM, IN TEARS |Judge Dickenson Orders Wer Lib- | | erty—lawyer Explats Wite of Accused Vetcrinary Will Remain with Friends in Hartford, Hartford, Jan. 31 (P—Mrs. Ma- |tilda 8. Guilfoyle, who had been {held at the Hartford county Jall on | yyyony of Mre. Mary Forrester at the a technical charge of Prmh ot: the | 1oint where he was Interrupted by | peace and who was wanted by the ! aqiournment of court late yesterday. | state as a witness In the case M| Her testimony had to do with the | which her husband, Dr. Harold N. gyjcide attempt by Mrs. Hickman. | Guilfoyle, 18 charged with the mur- | The deposition of Spence Lane, & | der of Mrs. Maximin J. Gaudet of retired contractor, of Hartford, Ark., | New Haven, was released from cus- was next offered. It sald that Otto tody today. | Buck, Hickman's cousin, was “kind | Superior Court Action |of nutty” and at times was subject | The release was brought about |te fits. ! following a transfer of the court | Buck was insane and did not have ! fight to keep her in jall from the |the intelligence of a normal child, | police to the superior court, and |according to the depositions of Lane. | after a conference had been held| . Faints g Piohese | i | Eventually, v or not the incumbent is worth the iyear of an army of 118,750 men, ine salary he receives, the procedure ap- | o}, qin, 24§ men to be abeorhed peared irregular, Councilman Larson |y i9¥ 1508 T8 B 00 @ said, and he belicved the council |year gyiation program, alse wis pres members should have full informa- |yiged, tion. Councilman Gibney agreed with him. Chairman R. E. Towers of the board of public works and Acting City Engineer P. A. Merian an- swered questions concerning the of- fices in the department of public works, and Chairman W. L. Hatch of the hoard of water commissioners diq likewise for his department, five Atr Corps N ‘The apprepriation~ for “the oo corps amounted to-$34,050.60H-Mes |a contract suthorisation of’ $5,99¢» * 000. The committes said :that th total number of planes the. 3 increment of the five year will be more than met at | the year. % “There will be on h after which the committee went In- | possibly as many as l:l‘-“"l“w: to session and threshed out the bus- | order, 1,598 planes. as against " the iness before the meeting for more | program figure of 1,353 planes,’ than an hour. |report sald. “In types of planed bom- During the discussion, Council- | there will be a shortage of 27 man W. 8. Warner declared that the | bardment planes. movement to include engineers of Some Dissatistaction the water department and the pub- | wrhere is gome dipsatistaction lic works department on the salary |, the estimate because it is.net list was “nonsensical,” and charged |jpiongeq to permit the purchase of that the committee members were nore than 23 bombardment planes voting on matters they knew noth- lu;gbgc:m it contemplates ing wbout. He considered it poor |09 hecause It sontemplatey the'ues by Judge Edwin C. Dickinson, As- sistant State's Attorney R. L. Gid- con and Judge Samuel Rosenthal, ounsel for Mrs. Guilfoyle and her husband. Mr. Gideon made the following | His deposition said that Buck married “an old widow woman’s | daughter” and gave a depressing | plcture of the love affair of these | two. The testimony of Mrs. Marshall | Smith of Sugar Creek, Mo., & nurse, | her sister ships during a storm and Statement: “After a conference With |formerly employed at the insane until iast night no word was receiv- Judge Dickenson and attorneys for jasylum at Little Rock, Ark., |the state and the defense, it was|next read into the records. erncd over the |decided not to present an applica- | «d from her. While Jdeeply o was Mrs. Smith testified that Hick- ship's disappearance, the navy de- |tion for the retention of Mrs. Guil- {man’s mother was at one time un- tment declined to entertain grave | jears until the ship should be re- | ported overdue i | Cuba tomorrow night. Although | details are lacking. the message of the 8-3's safety appeared to bear | out the belief of officers here that | she had suffercd damage o her ra- | dio and although unable to report | “her position was trocceding couth | on her own conrse. Commanded by Lieut. P. W. War- | ren, of Springfield, TIL, the §-3 is | one of cight submarines which with | tender Camden and the airplanc | arrier Saratoga make up the con- | trol force. The force is en route to Cuba. for winter maneuvers. First word of the submersible's disappearance was announced at the navy department yesterday morn- | ing. The announcement added that the other ships of the convoy were making a search and shortly after- ward the navy ordered three cruis ers and a destroyer squadron from Cuban waters vo assist. them, The mes: from Brumby reach- ed the navy department communica- tions efiice at 1 o'cleck this morning. There was no explanation of the lapse of tims between the finding of the -3 at 8 o'clock and the re- ceipt of the message here. Two coincidences attach to the story of the §-3. Her commander, Lieut. Warren. once commanded the §-4, now lvinz on the sea bottom off Provincetown, Mase., while Ad- miral Brumby was in charge of the | 8-4 rescne operations until detached to assume command of the control force. i Tn view of the fact that the §-3 was making aporoximately $1 knots an hour, naval officlals here said that dispelled any theory of engine froubls 4 the craft and left the only plausible caplanation o, . er disappe as the disaving of | her radio cquipment. = T WEATHER New Bri and vicinity: Generally tonight; Wod- nesday unsettled and some- | what warmer; probably swow. | NI T foyle as a material witness.” Asked the meaning of the atate- leased. Leaves Court in Toars ‘The whole proceedings in the su- perior and police court required but about an hour this morning and when Mrs. Guilfoyle left the county building accompanied by Miss May Guilfoyle of Philadelphla, her sis- ter-in-law, she was weeping. Mrs. Guilfoyle reached the poliee station with County Detective Hickey shortly ‘'before 11 o'clock and waited in the court room but a few minutes before her case was called. Nolle 1s Entered She took the stand but before she was asked any questions, Prosecut- ing Attorney Barclay Robinson in- formed Judge Schatz that the mat- ‘er was then in the hands of the state authorities and the police court had no further interest in the matter. He recommended a. nolle be entered on the charge of breach of the peace, which was done. The scene then shifted to the su- perior court, Judge Dickenson hav- ing signed an order citing Mrs. Guilfoyle to appear and show cause why she should not be held as a nfaterial witness fn the case in which her husband is involved as principal. She was taken to the county building by Mr. Hickey and awaited her appearance in the court room, but before this was brought about the conference had been held and her release obtained. To Stay in Hartford Following the court conference, Judge Rosenthal announced that it was the plan of Mrs. Guilfoyle to remain in Hartford with friends. As for the state, Mr. Gideon had little comment to make on the turn cvents had taken except to say, |“The state is satisfied.” oyle Improved. Judge Roaenthal cxpected Dr. Guilfoyle would be able to leave the Hartford hospital in about a week. The patient has Leen in the hospital since January 18 His right eye was removed last | week. but the patient was said to be recovering rapidly and was rest- ing comfortably teday. =aid today he der her care in the asylum and that in her opinion, Mrs. Hickman was at her destination in ment, Mr. Gideon said, “She is re- | insane. | Dr. L. R. Brown, superintendent of the state asylum, at Little Rock, testified by deposition that Mrs. Hickman was committed to that in- stitution July 27, 1913. Was Sent to Asylum The defense established through |exhibits that Mrs. Hickman had | been committed to the asylum by a ' 1court order. Family Geneology | The geneology of Hickman's fam- ily was read into the report yester- day in an attempt to show that the | youth was insane. | Becky Buck, mother of Mrs, Eva | Hickman, and grandmother of Ed- |ward was & woman who “didn't | have a friend in the world," accord- ing to the deposition of Irvin Harris, a farmer acquainted with the Hick- man family for many years. “As to the mother of family physicians agreed was a very nervous woman and sub- normal mentally, while relatives and | acquaintances pictured a morose, melancholy woman. who had at times showed complete reversal of 1 mood, becoming hysterically happy. Mrs. Hickman was revealed as a | woman who might be found “dig- &ing” about the house making the |beds or with distorted emotions | standing over her husband's sleep- ing form, a butcher knife poised in her uplifted hand, according to the deposition of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Artie Smith, of Hardfort. ; Pre-Natal Influence Pre-natal influence was also brought forth as a factor in the | hereditary insanity plea. Mrs. Hick- !man, according to depositions, fell into fits of morbidity shortly before | William Edward’s birth and at one ltlme attempted suicide. | The fight to save the 19-year-old | youth ultimately may be settled in the supreme court of the United | States. it was indicated. | 8. 8 Hahn, noted criminal lawyer, | sald that the newly revised penal | code of California was unconstitu- {tional. This may lead to a final lnppcl, although no one would com- ! 0 | (Continued on Page 23) ‘The Fox,” | that she | business to transfer the positions, | ohservation planes provided for. The because the members of the boards '.ommittes believes it would be une employing the engineers were better | wise to proceed at a more repid qualified to fix compensation for the | rate in the procurem«it of bem- ;pouluom« than were t:ouncllh mem- | pardment planes in view of the fast !bers, who knew nothing whatever {about the duties and responsibilities ;’l"“‘,‘:"";d‘;:':: trpe s mow gmly, ot engineering forces. | *uWith respect to Gsing Liberty | Water Department Transfers | motors, the army still possesses ever { It was voted unanimously to rec-!2099, It costs around $700 te put jommend that the following em-(gne fn g plane as against as much | ployes of the water deputzflenl be | a5 87,000 for a more modern_type, transterred to the salary list: Sophie | of which two or more are bought i Zoch, stenographer. Margaret GOT- o, egch plane. No convincing res- {man, Bookkeeper: Donald MacKay, |yon has been advanced as to-why {mechanic: W. C. Owen, caretaker &t | tnis type of motors should met be Wolcott reservoir; Joseph Paradise ygeq [¥; and Walter Lawrence, caretakers at| T bill “proposes to apprepriste |reservoirs. Meter readers, meter g4 574000 in cash” towards Bew repairmen, laborers and engincers | congtruction at military posts, and will not be included, according to |als provides for coptracts invelving the action of the committee. !an additional $2,115,000, After it was voted to include the Cared F Comstruction | *This takes care of all censtrue- {tion work authorized to date.” -the * INNEW HAVEN BLAZE construction fund, authorisations (Continued on Page Seven) have been made for mew oconstrito- tion at military posts to cost $30,- 297,000, Of this sum $13,308,000 has been previously appropi pe The committee said that funds for rations contemplated placing the Flames Ravage Three State army on an equal basis with the A navy and marine corps. It queted | Street Buildings—Two | Major General Charies P. Sim- 2 merall, army chief of staff, as ssy- Firemen Hurt ing that the incrensc for subsistence |is the “finest contribution te the = | army since I have been in it.” New Haven, Jan. 31 P — Fire| Set Forth Needs which stubbornly resisted the efforts | The primary n2eds of the army of 16 fire companies for more than were set forth as continuation of |five hours swept through the Hor- the housing program. larger eut- {ton-Gallo-Cramer building on State |jays for maintenance and repair, street here this morning and dam- | carrying on the five-year air peee aged two adjoining buildings. The gram, dhecking further retrogreasion blaze, starting in the three Sory in the ammunition reserve, prooeed- {brick Fowler Printing company | ing with approved sca coast defense {building shortly before 2 o'clock | projects within and without the con- {this morning spread quickly to the | tincntal limits of th United Btates, {four story Cramer structure where|and continuing experimental and de- . |the greatest loss was ustained. | velopment work in a'l branches, The blaze was under control @t| The appropriation biil as present- 5:30 o'clock and after a tour of in- | ed to the house calls for an increase spection, Martin J. Fleming, fire from $290 to $528 in the amount al- |marshal estimated that losses lowed military attaches for enter- would exceed $200,000. tailnment purposes, 1cquested by The Cramer bullding is & whole- | Colonel Stanley H. Iord, assistant |sale warchouse for automobile and |chief of staff. who deciared that sueh 'radio supplies. {a move would immeasurably aid ta { Two firemen werc hurt and sev. the collection of smilitary informa- jeral narrowly escaped injury. Those tion which would be valuabie in injured were: Edward Donnelly, a!case of war. This money, he-ex- hoseman. At Grace hospital, suffer- | plained. would be used to promets |ing from a deep head laceration. |contracts with forign oEicers:se James McKeown .also a hose-|that facts comcerning the military man. At home with a contusion of power of other nations might *'Be the left ankle. learned “just as foreign officers oh- | Hoseman Donnelly was hurt|tain information cescerning eve |when struck by a hose nozzie while |army.” |McKeown received his ankle injury ‘when hit by a loose water line,