New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 1, 1928, Page 1

ESTABLISHED 1870 . SITH CASE NOW FOND WORTHESS Boston Paper Had Uncovered Story Indicating Sbe Had Se- | cared Employment There AGENCIES VISITED BUT N0 NEWS IS OBTAINED Officiale At Smith College Insist | Girl Was At Her Classes | On Day Which She Was Reported ‘To Have Sought Employment At Various Hub City Employment | Burcaus. Northampton, Mass., Feb. 1 (P— Frances 8t. John Smilh, mbfllng: Smith college student could not have | applied for work at a Boston em- ployment agency on November 28 1ast, college officials said today, be- ! cause the girl attended every one of | her classes on that day. Such at- tendance, the college authorities sald, would have made it an impos- sibility for the missing girl to be in | Boston during the agency’s l-uuinen!{ hours. | Was At Her Classes | College records showed that she | also attended all of her classes on | November 29 and that the 1ast time she was in Boston was on December | 3, when she accompanied her inti- | ate college friend, Joy Kimball, | home to Milton for the week-end.| On that day Miss 8mith arrived in| Doston at 3:30 p. m. and went di-| rectly to the Kimball home, No Definite Lead | The state police engaged In the mearch for the girl were still without | a definite lead today and the only actlon contemplated was the confer- ence between President William Al- | lan Neflaon of 8mith college and Dr. | Lydlard H. Norton, Boston biologi- cal paychologist, who ‘has been re- tained by the SBmith girl's family to study her probable mental condition at the time of her disappearance on January 13, No Pusitive Information | Boston, Feb. 1 MM—Inquiry at two employment agencies in this city to- day falled to develop any positive information regarding & girl said to have borne a close resemblance to Frances 8t. John 8mith, missing Smith college freshman, who was re- parted to have sought work there on November 28 last and to have been given a position two weeks ago. | Information concerning this girl | was given to the Boston advertiser by Miss Lucy J. Gurnee of the Dor- chester district, who said she had accompanied her to one of the agen- cles. Mins Gurnee said the girl told ler that she was attending school ond wished to run away. Vague Recollection 2! At the first agency reported to| Lave been visited it was said today | that there was a vague recollection | Youthful Slayer and Wilby Save Life of Master West Julian, Ia., Feb. 1 (UP) —Two dogs flagged a train near here and saved the life of their unconscious master. G. F. Clark, farmer, fell un- conscious as he started across a railroad track. His two dogs, Treve and Freckles, were with him. Treve sat down at the side of his master and began to bark. Freckles ran up the track toward an approaching train. The fireman, George Craft, saw him coming, and looking ahead saw Treve tugging at a man's body. The engineer stopped the train. As the engine slowed, Freckles ran alongside barking and when it stopped he lay down in front of it. Clark was put on the train and brought here, with the dogs as escort. His condition was not serious, physicians said. HICKMAN'S MOTHER T0 TESTIFY TODAY Plans fo Sacrifice Hersell to Save Son From Gallows SECOND TRIAL POSTPONE Hunt, His Pal in Their Alleged Killing of Druggist, Get Continuance to February 15, of the depositions expected to be introduced at the trial of William Edward Hickman—who has con- fessed to the kidnapping and viclous murder of Marion Parker —was given by D. L. Parker Kansas city grocer, who discharg- ed Hickman because he was 0o “tender hearted Parker said that Hickman re. fused to work for him if he had to chop the hcads off chickens, The grocer said he had to han. dle all such tasks for the youth and finally discharged him be- cauge he did not have time to do this for Hickman, Court Room, Los Angeles, Feb. 1 (UP)—William Edward Hickman appearing in one court to obtain a postponement of trial for slaying of a druggist, and then going to an- other to hear more depositions read to support his insanity defense in the slaying of Marion Parker.. Mother to Testify Mrs. Eva Hickman, his mother, was expected to be called to the stand before the session ended to sacrifice herself for her son by giv- ing evidence designed to indicate that Fdward sufiered from heredi- tary insanity. Hickman and Welby Hunt, his confessed bandit companion, ap- peared before Judge Carlos Hardy —disqualified at request of the de- | fense from hearing the Parker case —and asked continuance until Feb- ruary 15 of their trial for the slay- NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1928 —SIXTEEN PAGES % LATEST CLUE IN o poss s ;) SPENT S400.000 [Warieaier moniess. ) PINGHOT ASSERTS GOV. SMITH ADVISES ATTY. GENERAL T0 TAKE UP CRIMINAL PROSECUTION BUT DEAL GAVE FIRN 3 MILION ‘Sen. Walsh Brings Out Startling Financial Deals of Defunct Gontinental Trading Co. GOYT. CLAIMS PART OF . PROFITS WENT 70 FALL | \Today’s Testimony Shows That Sin- clair Crude Oil Purchasing Com- pany Bought Contract Which Net- ted Them Handsome Fortune— Officials Arc Vague as o Who Made Such a Ckver Deal, which the Sinclair Crude Oil chasing company bought from the Continental Trading company for | |$400,000 a contract which saved it 1$3,000,000 was disclosed today be- | |fore the senate committee investi- | gating the disposal of the profits of the hastily formed and now dead | Continental concern. 25 Cents a Berrel Gain The Continental, whose guarantors included Harry F. Sinclair and Ro- bert W. Stewart, chairman of the [board of the Standard Oil compan lot Indiana, had contracted to sell ofl to the Sinclair company for $1.73 $1.50. Pur- 1ir Crude, who was placed under severe fire by Senator Walsh, democrat, Montana, the com- mittce prosccutor, finally testified to tho $400,000 contract, but told the committee in answer to a ques tion as to its origin that “he Inot make it Part of the proiits of the Contin- tental company, the government claims, found their way to Albert B. fter he leased Teapot Dome to . Sinclair, Questions Carlson “When you signed the contract with the Continental Trading com- pany, what did you know about its ‘finnm‘l.xl affai; ' the Montana sen- ator asked Carlson. | “Nothing” ¢ “1f I should walk into your office and you to si 50 million dol- lar contract with a Montana com- \nelehrsh’d his twentieth birthday by |pany, would you do it without inves- | tigation C 0t Was Guaranteed | “You will find from the contract that it wgs guaranteed by our prin- | clpal directors.” 1 “Who are they?" “Mr. Sinclair and Mr. Stewart,” (Robert W. wart, chairman of the !board of the Standard Oil company, | Indiana.) | “Now we have some kind of & reasonable explanation,” Walsh ob- | served. W you ever heard of the Con- tipent ding company before? Didn't Know of Contract “What did you know about the ntract made of May 1923, by | Sinclair Crude and the and Gas ucquired the © 2 {which the i Prairie Oil of such & girl but no one could re- 11!!( of Ivy Thoms in a drug store (ontinental Trading company?” call anything definite about her, The proprietor and employes of the sec- ond agency could not recall the girl | and sald their records showed no | placement of a girl recently in u; position of the kind which Miss Gur- nee sald she had been seeking. | | Hickman obtained Miss Gurnee originally told her or his trial, story to a friend, an advertiser pho- | widow Detectives Loarn Detalls tographer. He advised her to com- municate with state detectives. A conference was arranged with Cap- | un Miss Gurnee said that on Novem- | tain Bligh of the xte detectives and. with Detectives okes and Ferrarl. Der 38 while she was in the shop of 2 woman friend in the Back Bay, Smith, appeared as an applicant for = position which the proprietor of the shop had advertised. The girl did not possess the requisite experience and she was rejected. As she left the shop, Miss Gurnee, who had over- heard the conversation, joined her. Girl Tclls Story | The girl told her, Miss Gurnee says, that she was attending school, (Continued on Page 12.) $108,000 BUTLDING PERMITS | GRANTED IN ONE HOOR | i Tutnam School, Bronsom Hotel and | American Hardware Specifi- | cations Filed Inspector Arthur N. Rutherford had before him for consideration | today applications for building per- | mits in the amount of $108,000, all of which were filed in the first hour. | John E. Downes, supervisor of | school buildings made application | for a permit to reconstruct the Is- | rael Putnam school which was de- | stroyed by fire. Plans were prepar- ed by Max Unkelbach and the work will be done by the city of New Britein, Mr. Downes supervising with John Kunz as foreman. The | work will cost $50,000. ! Richard H. Erwin took a permit to remodel the Bronson hotel build- ing which became his property when | he exercised the option he has held | for the past month. The work will | cont $456,000. George Zunmer is the architect. A permit to erect a storage build- ing at Lake and High streets, was taken by Willlam H. Allen, con- tractor, for the American Hardware Corperation. The building will be‘ 138x60 and will cost $13,000. | despond holdup. Judge postponement. Widow Shouts Protest The druggist's widow cried out in rotest against the efforts of Attor- Hardy granted the P ney Waish to save Hickman from | the gallows. As the youthful attorney was about to leave the court room where a postponcient the glain druggist's turned upon Walsh and shouted: “Oh, how I hate you!" ‘Walsh, taken back, turned away. “I am sorry, madame,” he mum- ed and hurried to the door. When the Parker trial was sumed after the appe: re- rance before |Judge Hardy, Walsh resumed the the girl, who she Is certain was Miss | Witness stand and rcad more depo- J isitions from former associates of Hickman, | He expected to finish the deposi- tlons in time to call Mrs. Hickman, and possibly other witnesses, before court adfourned tonight. Objections Are Filed Even though the jury hearing the Parker case should find Hickman insane, the state would have another opportunity to seck the death penal- | ty in the druggist murder case. As Walsh read the depositions to- day, Judge J. J. Trabucco over ruled frequent objections by the de- fense to portions of the cross ex- amination in the depositions. An assistant to Asa Keyes, district torney, had accompunicd Wa when he took the depositions Arkansas and Missouri. Teacher's Deposition The deposition of J. L. Laughlin, vice-principal of Central High h in |school, Kansas City, was resumed at the point where it was stopped by adjournment of court late yesterday. Laughlin _ said he understood Hickman had at one time made ap- | plication to enter a girl's school, and | considered the incident usual, It was brought out in the deposi- tions read of cross examination that Hickman had many time told Laughlin he planned to go to Park college, a denominational school, as soon as he saved enough moncy. Depositions remaining 10 be read include those - of James Parker, very un- Kansas City grocer and Charles Ed- | former chief of and his wife, nd his wite wards, K police of were inti- y acquainted with Hickman. Heard Father Condemmed : Hickman heard his d as a wan of loose his mother described as a ot creature whose mental tendencies at times turned towards matel has morals; (Continued on Page 12) “I knew nothing of it until it was presented to us for purchas “At that time what amount of the 3 million barrels of oil had been 2" 71,711 barrel testimony barrcls of that con- showed oil was (Continued on Page 10) Straightened, May Die Chicago, Feb. 1 (UP)—Miss Sadie Holland of Detroit, who recently undarwent an operation to have her bow legs straightened, today was said to be in a serious condition after gangrene had set in necessitating amputation of both of her legs. Joseph 1. Holland, the girl's brother, said the original opera- tion had been performed by a plastic surgeon and that after gangrene had developed Dr. Wil liam Van Doren, a surgeon, was called fn. The amputations were perform- ed by Dr. Paul Magnuson who had been called into conference by Dr. Van Doren. The girl's brother said she had gone to the plastic surgeon to have a burn treated and that the | | surgeon had suggested he could straighten her legs by eplitting the big bone in each log with an electric saw, PATROL MINE DISTRICTS Wholesale Eviction of Miners' ¥ ilies t United Mine Workers of America $730,000 BLAZE RAGES Are Prepared to Submit Proofs of nerous Assaults Upon Peace- able Miners, Washington, ¥Feb. 1 (®—Charges wealth of Pennsylvania “is being now, and has been for a year, em- ployed to break the present bitumi- nous strike” made by Git- ford Pinchot, former governor of Pennsylvania. Pinchot's statement was contained in a letter to Senator Johnson, re- publican, California, who is asking the scnate to investigate conditions {in the bituminous flelds of Pennsyl- \vana and West Virginia. v Gunmen Hired unmen and acters,” Mr. Pinchot wrote, | “have reappeared in the strike re- gions bearing the commission of the | state and excre. Two Five-Story Buildings Comprising Entire City Block Are Destroyed were Burlington, Ve, Feb, 1 (—Loss estimated at $750,000 was caused to- | day by a fire which destroyed two [ five story brick buildings compris- ing an entire city block in the center of the business section of the city. Threo persons were injured by & falling wall. The fire started on the third floor of the Y. M. €. A. building and quickly spread to the connecting structure. The adjoining police sta- tion and city hall were saved. janilronaolig e 4 |saults upon men, them being taken down ladders especially commissioned to keep the R ey, > °T™ | peace and enforce the law Thoso infured by tho faling wall P*1cpy g thora bt becn “whole- Thomas Bessctte and an unidentified | the former governor attributed *a |large percentage of them” to the Tn addition to the Y. M. €. A.|Liticiurh Coul company, which, ho auarters, which included the state (gaiq, is *controlled by the Mellons.” offices of the organization, the two Proof Is Avallable buildings hous=d the MacAuliffe Pa- | per Company, Bafley’s Music Room Burling Clothing store, Wright's Clothes shop, FPalace Iirber shop, Vermont Oil Heating (Corporation |davits and by the testimony of wit- #nd the offices of the Prudential Life | nesses, of the commission of numer- Insurance Company, Connecticut lous assaults upon peaceable striking General Lifa Insurance Company. [coal miners, and of the injury of and Dr. Manson. men, women and children from such Y le Freshml'r‘-“ned 3100 i,u"u:l:‘::):u ris of central and west- For Ringing Fire Alerm lern Pennsylvania which depend on |the soft coal industry are in & very New Haven, Feb, 1 (UP) — For |serious condition. The prosperity of sounding a false alarm which called |many of them is ruined, and the suf- out three companies, Trving McKee, | fering of the miners is reflected in 18, of Westport, Yale freshman, was |widespread hardships throughout fined $100 and costs In.city court the whole communitics.” here today. | — In imposing sentence, the judge Johnson Makes Charges cxpressed regret that the law did not | Washington, Feb. 1 (®—Charges provide a jail term for such an of- [that a conspiracy hetween railroad fense, companics and coal operators was - behind the suspension of activities Struck by Auto in Town in the bituminous coal fields were Of Milford, Victim Dies | made in the senate today by Senator Miltord, Feb. 1 (P—James Wells, | Johnson, republican, California. 28, dishwasher at the Seven Gables Inn, died in the Milford hospital to- | an automobile last ‘AS FI‘AMES MZE “nUsE |the United Mine Workers of Ameri- ca are prepared to supply proof, in from injuries received when he was struck by night. Wells was struck after he had left a bus, police said. Sherman A. Wiley, 17, of Strat- ford, driver of the machine which hit Wells, was held in $1,000 bonds | pending the result of the coroner’s inquest which was held today. 6 Lose Lives in Maine Parishioners Give Fr. Bojnowski | - 82,000 Purse on His Anniversary 'NEXICAN PRIESTS SAID 0 HAYE DIED FIGHTING Pastor of Sacred Heart Church Guest of Honor at Banquet Attended by More Than 400. rs dimmed the eyes of more than 400 men and women last nigh* in the Sacred Heart school hall when | during a celebration in honor of the 33rd anniversary of Kev. Lucyan | Bojnowski’s ordination, a seven year | old boy presented the beloved pastor with a gift in bchalf of the Polish Orphanzge, and with childlike sim-| plicity and sincerity thanked the priest for the shelter and care given | him and his collcagues. The speech was but one of the many and the gift had less intrinsic | | worth than any of the others given | the pastor during the evening. But, s the boy, in a speech that finally broke into a sob and ended with tears flowing from his eyes, although his voice was still strong, told of his |own and other typical cases of fath- ess and motherless children, pick- ed up and given every comfort of | life in the orphanage, the gathering succumbgd to its emotions and wept [ The boy s F. Borowska | Miss Blumstein, 1so from the orphanage, spoke along similar lines, | Gift of Cash Pres | Alex Bentz and & Kowalls [tees of the church, spoke of the | progress made by the congregation {under the leadership of Father Boj- | nowski and Mr. Bentz the priest with a purse from the parishioners, Paul Nurczyk introduced |toastmaster, Leon Tomikowski, |seven course dinneri preceded | a the A the | (Continucd on Pige 14.) # Presque Isle, Maine, Feb. 1 (®— Three children aged 2, 3 and 6 years lost their livets at Eagle Lake, near the Canadian border, last night, when the home of Joseph King was burned ThevKing family, consisting of ten daughters, besides the parents, occu- pled a one and a half story house. Mre. King was alone with four of the chiliren when the fire broke out the other six girls being out and the husband and father being at his work in the woods on lumbering operations, Mrs. King had the chidlren met such an untimely death, in their beds and had gone upstairs to retire tor the night, leaving a 12 year old daughter downstairs. Sud- denly she was surprised to sce flames engulfing tke interior of the little home. She tried to save the children, but failed to do so and only saved her- self from a similar fate by jumping out of the upper window, but not until she had sevecely burned one wounde : | hand. She was badly bruised and IFather Frparza’s body, the dis- | shaken up. patch said, was given by the author- | The girl whom she had left in the itics to the people of Cotija at their | living room of the house managed request, to escape from the building unharm- to explode and sctting fire to the house. She was, however, unable to Political Circles, Victim of | 45 Reported Killed in Three-Hour Battle Between Rebels and | Foderals. Mexico City, Feb, 1 (UP)—Forty- five Catholic rebels were killed in a three-hour battle with federal sol- a Guadalajara dis- | ¥ Crescencio diers near Cotij: patch said tods Father Esparza, a ! priest said to be co-lcader of the | killed. TLuis ' other reported to have been rebels, was reported Guizar Morfin, the leader, was said —— ed. Tt was thought ehe had play- WRTERBURY “AN DIES ed with & gasoline stove, causing it explain what happencd, she was 50 illiam F. Moher, Well Known #n | badly frightened by the experience. - HAS SLEPT FOUR DAYS Portland. Ore. Feb. 1 (UP)- Frank J. West, railroad office clerk. Watcrbury, Feb. 1 (®—William ¥. | cntered his fourth day of unbroken Molicr, democratic floor leader of the |slecp today. West fell asleep local board of aldcrmen, and who |Saturday and physicians have for a number of years served Water- unable to awaken him. bury in the offices of city clerk and | assistant city clerk, died carly this | g— morning in Si. wel's hospital | in New Haven, of pncumoni & Moher in addition to being actively | engaged in politics here for the p: quarter of a century has also becn active fraternally. He is a past grand knight of the ! ghts of Columbus and for the past ten years has served as scere- tary of the loeal Acric of Dag Pncumonia, been | WEATHER | TH New Britain and vicinity: Unsettled, probably snow wi slowly rising tempera- ture tonight; Thursday partly cloudy and shighuly colder, * i families, | the form of approximately 200 affi- | STATE 15 TRYING | T0 BREAK STRIKE wswmarmnoe) - AGAINST FORMER STATE SECRETARY ity Is Being Employed to Put | Do Biumins Wltowt -~ {ELLOGG AGAINST connew sk e o | RUSS BOND SALES Reported — Declares That | that the authority of the common- ! Says U. S. Bankers Will Go- perate to Thwart Moscow Plan CONGRESS ACTIVE TODAY Hartford Cops Will Not Be Allowed to Chew While on Duty Hartford, Feb. 1 UP—Police Chief Garrett J. Farrell has issued an order barring the chewing of tobacco by Hartford policemen while on duty. L(‘alls Water Rates Low Walsh Resolution Aplinntd—llmu::! to Oppose Jones Bills—Committet Reports on Muscle Shoals—Nica- ragua Probe Tostponed. Washington, Feb, 1 (P—Secretary Kellogg announced today the Ameri- | can government did not view with | tavor the sal> of Russian Sovict gov- ernment bonds in the United States and that ho was confident American bankers would co-operate with the government to that end. The secre- tary said the Americans banks con- cerned in the proposed bond is had been so notificd hy the | department. other bad | ing its power as coal | with and numerous as- | inquiry women and chil- | interstate businoss, | | “I am informed,” he said, "lh:zl‘p {against the n l last | | Walsh's Resolution, | The Walsh resolution for an inves- | tigation of public utility power cor- | porations was approved by the sen- ate interstate commerce committee an amendment confining the y to companies engaged in The resolution was mmnimoush‘! reported out by the committee after | a motion to refer the investigation | to the federal trade commission was lost by a tie vote of nine to nine. It was also modified to provide that the inquiry into holding com- | panies should be made of only those | holding corporations having the | stock of two or more public utility | orporations op:rating in different states, Jomes Bill Opposition | Material opposition is expected to | elop in the house to the Jones | shipping bill in the form which it | passed the senate. | Even before a formal report of the senate's action had been receiv- ed, it was apparent today that a number of republican house leaders | proposed to, wage a vigorous battle re which is design- ed to expand the American mer- chant marine and maintain it under government control. | Included in this house group fs Representative Tilson, of Connecti- | cut, the majority floor leader, who said that he is opposed to the bill unless material modification is made. He objectcd to the provision that unanimous consent of the shipping board would be neceseary to sell any of the government's ships and doubted the wisdom of the recon- ditioning for service of a number of decommissioned ship. Muscle Shoals Washington, Feb. 1.—(UP)—The senate agriculture committee report- d favorably today the Norris reso- lution for government operation of the Muscle Shoals power project in Youngsters Aged 2, 3, and | Alabama. The committee also added a provi- slon limiting investigation of Ctilitles Corporations' campaign ex- penditurcs to those for the election of the president, vice-president and members of congress. Senator Wheeler, Dem., Mont., said a minority report would be pre- sonted. Nicaraguan Policy The senate foreign relations com- mittee deferred action on pending proposals for a senate investigation of U. 8. policy in Nicaragua. Chairman Borah said the commit- tee was awaiting action by the Nicaraguan congress on a moasure recognizing the power of United States to maintain its marines there The committee red co plaints of American citizens regard- th con who | Ing alleged violations of their pro- perty rights in Cuba. Borah was authorized to consult the secrctary of state about it. Third Term Bill Tomorrow Senator Lalollett: notice on the senate t prevent a third term for president will be called up tomorrow. 20 Children in Bus Are Overcome by Gas Fumes Decatur, Ind., Feb. 1 (UP) — Twenty Mary's township school children were overcome today when a heater in a school hack in which they were riding developed a leak and sent pois fumes through the enclosed v John Thatche driver of the bus, said he was not aware that any- thing was wrong until he stopped at the school at Bobo, six miles east of here, Several children were unconscious, but physicians helicved all would re- cover, served vicle Hooverwonilr‘ai 'Ba”..lot, John T. Adams Predicts Washington, Feb, 1 (#--Secretary Hoover will be nominated by publican convention in Kansas City on the first ballot. Johin Adams, former chairman the republican national comunitiee, after a call upon Pre OF PNEUMONIA St. Loui eb. 1 (P--Edward Mal- linckrodt, 83, chairman of the board of the Mallinckrodt Chemical Works died today of pneumonia, | 1t his resolution to s W. L. HATCH HATCH CONTRADIUTS BOARD OF FINANGE Declares His Policy of Increasing Rates Is Sound New Britain people are not paying cnough for their water, according to W. L. Hatch, chairman of the board of water commissioners, who spoke at the Kiwanis club luncheon He said there are between 1200 and 1300 property owners who are paying as low as $5 a year for water. “Five dollars,” he said, “will not pay the pro rata rate for over- head and meter maintenance, and th, who do not pay more than this are getting their water for nothing.” He opened his address by explain- ing that water was the most import- ant element taken into the body and that people can more easily do with- out food. He explained how the board of health analyzes samples of New Brit- ain drinking water every day to help guard against possible contamina- tion Mr. Hatch went into considerable | detail explaining the need for the proposed extension of the New Brit- ain water system, which will cost between two and three million dol- lars, including a filtering pant, the construction of which will cover a period of 10 to 15 years, He told how the board by a ser- ics of investigations, located pensive leaks in the water system recently, and said there are many places in the city which do not p adequately for the water they use. rt, was as follows: aid by domestic con- | sumers in this city is much lower than in most cities of the country; s than one half the average, and several thousand consumers actually pay much less than they did 20 ¥ : before metens were in- stalled and when the rate was based oft the fixtures and number of per- sons in the house. believes that the system of charges should be revised and made more cquitable. We believe that the wll consumer should pay a charge onable as compared with the of service, although the amount ter used by these thousands of irate consumers is relatively a small part of the total cutput. Pipes, services, and meters also have to be maintained for them, and they should bear a fair proportion of the total cost of supporting the system and overhead expenses. This in- cludes interest on meters, meter reading, operating expenses, includ- ing repairs, office expenses and costs of billing and ¢ 1ons. It should also include the average amount of ater lost per service or failing to be recorded by meters. The ecasiest simplest, and by all means the fair- ay of handling =il of this part of the cost is to distribute it on the services as service charges. As be- tween the large meters and the smail meters, it should be distributed somewhat in proportion to the car- rying capacity of the meters, 8o that the large meters will carry a pro- portionately larger amount. ce charge 18 a charge for the privilege of having a service d does not include the use of any It is a device for separat- »me of the expenses of main- ning the individual service which has nothing to do &ith the delive of water. and of charging them to (ch customer us a separate item in his bill. This amount is collected regardless of whether any water is vsed or not. If water is used, it is charged for. (Continued on Page 13) The water board | PRICE THREE CENTS 'New York Executive Declares He Takes | This Action With | “Great Reluctance” i But Can See No Other | Way. inor Officials, Cited With Mrs. Knapp, Not Likely to Face Charges—Gover- nor Disagrees With Parts of Report. M Albany, N. Y., Feb. 1 (®—Crinie inal prosecution of Mrs. Florence E, & Knapp, former secretary of stale of New York, for acts growing out 'of her administration of the 1925 state census. was recommended to District Attorney Charles J. Herrick (of Albany today hy Governor Alfred E. 8mith, Acts On Recommendations The governor's decision was bascd upon facts presented to him in the !report of Randall J. Le Boeuf, who, as a Moreland act commissioner ap- pointed by the executive, recently conducted an investigation into the (administration of the enumeration, {Specific charges were made upon which Commissioner Le Boeuf ree {commended that the only woman who ever held state-wide office in |New York state he prosecuted for grand larceny, forgery. the making of false audits and certifications and the illegal removal of state records. Acts With Reluctance “I do that with great reluctance.’ {Governor Smith stated in making |known his decision, “because I can {see no way to treat otherwise seri- |ous charges against an executive |officer at the head of a’state des | partmen | Commissioner 1e Bouef's recome | mendation that criminal actions gise | be brought against Dr. Walter Laid« |law, whose charges against Mrs, ! Knapp's administration of the cen- |sus precipitated the inquiry; Mark | 8tern, her first deputy secretary of | state and still serving in the same jcapacity; Anna A. Little, auditor in | the secretary of state’s office; and {Julia M. Ryan, chief clerk of t | state civil service commission. His Views on Others ‘With respect to their cases, he de- clared: | "On the other hand, I believe that {no purpose would be served if the minor employes, Mark Stern and |Anna Little, who acted under orders !and d1d what they were told by the {head of their department, were tak- |en before the grand jury. Although {the facts are somewhat different in | her case, T have come to the same | conclusion as to Julia Ryan.” Laillaw's Connections Dr. Laidlaw's name was not men- {tioned in the governor's statement. It had been recommended by Com- { missioner Le Boeuf that he be pros- ecuted for failure to rezister as a |legislative agent as required by |gislative law, in that his activities “were generally those of a lobbyist.” | Governor Smith declared himself in sharp disagrecment with his ap- | pointee on the questions of an al ed “breakdown of the civil service |commission,” and recommendation ithat the state cens continued. Uphelds Govecnment Service “I do mot helieve that there |a breakdown of civil serv |mission,” he declarcd. and as proof he attached to his formal statement an opinion by Attorney General Ot- tinger and a communication from |the members of the commission at- tepding to support this view. “As to the current administrative work of the civil service commis- |sion,” continued the governor. “I believe that the clerical and other work could be improved and that additional and somewhat higher paid personnel are required. Appropriation fn Lump am therefore recommending to the legislature that the appro- priation for this department be made in a lump sum. the total (Continued on Page 10.) BERGER ELECTED HEAD " OF MALLEABLE IRON C0. Naugatuck Man to Dircct Plants i ! Various Cities, Including New Britain. ex- | be S | Naugatuck, Feb. 1 (UP)—Charles {L. Berger of Naugatuck was elected ipresident of the Eastern Malleable {Iron company. operating plants in | Naugatuck, Bridgeport, New Britain 1.:md other cities, at a meeting of the stockholders here today. Other officers were chosen as fol- Chairman of the board, How- ard B. Tuttle, vice-presidents, E. Mannweller and John E. Walker; |secretary-treasurer, George B. Wool- |son: and assistant treasurer, Law- irence E. Jones. Five new directors were chosen, as follo Nelson 8. Spemcer, New |York: E. L. Whittemere, Clevelatd, Ohio; Charles E. r, Bestons and Donald 8. Tuttle and Awstin b |Adams, both of Naugatuck. !