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News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 POUSH SOGIETIES | INCOURT DISPUTE OVER USE OF NAME Kuights of Boleslaus the Great Tnvolved in Injunction Pro- From Service on Jury Mineola, N. Y., Feb. 6 (M— J. P. Morgan, head of the in- terpational banking firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., called for grand jury service in Nassau county today, was excused by County Judge Smith until the May term. Mr. Morgan's secretary reported that urgent business would re- quire the financier's absence from the country all of February but that he was willing to serve at some later term. Judge Bmith said he had made no exception in Mr. P BRITAIN NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1928.—SIXTEEN PAGES STRIKE LOOMS ON NATIONAL HORIZON 300,000 Persons [nvolved i Pennsylvania Coal Controversy INVESTIGATION IS PLANNED of Official—Public | Ralph Battey, for the past year employed by the board of public |works as an inspector and a fore- Battey Is Appointed To Act As Street Dept. Superintendent Engineer Williams Takes Responsibility for Dismissal Works Board Did Not Act, Is Report. Kearney was approached last ‘Tuesday and asked for his resigna- tion by Philip A. Merian, assistant to City Engineer Willlams who is SENATE CONHITTEE LEARNS BUTLITTLE | Makes Futile Elort to Get Teapot ' Dome Information "EXAMINES THO WITNESSES otedings Filed Today $5,000 DAMAGE CLAIN BY ORIGINAL MEMBERS | Plaintift Alleges Defendant Has ln-l Morgan's cass but that he frequently grants excuses from service for business reasons. Mr. Morgan, owner of an estate at Glen Cove, was drawn for jury service last summer but was in Europe and excused. Mr. Morgan then said that he regarded jury service as 2 responsibiliity and privilege of which any ,citizen should be proud”. Both Houses of Congress Will be Asked to Look Into the Situation Called “Deplorable” by LaGuar- dia. .United Press Staff Correspondent. Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb, 6 (L4P)—The |strike of soft coal miners in Penn- | man, today took up the duties of |street superintendent on & tempo- |rary basis, filling in on the position {left vacant by the dismissal of Thomas F. Kearney. It was forecast-in city hall that | Battey will receive a permanent ap- | pointment to the post at a future | meeting of the board. Kearney's connections with the | epartment ended Saturday night as slated to be Willlams' successor. lfl-ehim Clark and H. L. Phillips | Kearney declined to resign without Grilled by Senators Walsh and having the reasons stated why he | should quit. He continued to work | pratton Yield Nothing of Substan- tial Value. through the week and when the | hour came Saturday for his retire- | ment, he relterated his declaration | that he would not quit, calling on| Washington, Feb. 6 #P—Two ad- | the board to prefer charges if there |ditional witnesses were examined to- are any and asking that he be given | 5. 1y the senate Teapot Dome com- an opportunity to present a defense | i terfered with Former’s Bank Ac- count and Business Interests as Having Used Name to OCollect Funds—Hearing in Superior Court to Be Held February 13, Civil court action arising out of a division in the Knights of Boles- laus the Great was brought today by one of the two groups to restrain the other from using the corpora- tion's name and handling its ac- counts. The break in the organization came {n December, 1926, coincident | with the movement to establish a | new Polish church in New Britain and it is understood the dividing line in the seciety has paralled the | line of the parish division, Stanley J. Traceski of this city and Josiah H. Peck of Hartford are attorneys for the plaintiff. A writ | has been served on Felix Bezruczyk, | Jan Wotjusik, Witold Karwoski and | Stanislaw Myszka, officers of the de- fendant group, summoning them to appear in superior court February 13 at 10 a. m. to show cause why a temporary injunction should not be issued against them. The defendant is referred to in the writ as “an unincorporated so- ciety calling itself The Knights of loleslaus the Great,” and the plain- tiff is characterized, “The Knights | of Boleslaus the Great, Incorpor- ated.” The plaintiff is set up as a cor- poration without capital stock or- ganized under the laws of the state of Connecticut and located in thc city of New Britain. The society was formed for benmevolent and so- cial objectives, in August, 1917, Allegations in Writ Further allegations in the writ assert: *'On or about the month of Decem- ber, 1926, certain persons then members of the plaintift corpora- {afternoon DOORS SHUT TODAY IN3 MIAMI BANKS Southern, Citizens and Allapat- tah Institutions Bar Public RUN ON FIRST NATIONAL Withdrawal of Deposits In/fiullhetll Results in Comptrolier Amos Clos- ing Others to Stop Rush to Get Money. Miami, Fla, Feb. 6 (® — Seven million dollars in cash will be sent to the First Nationnal bank by the Federal Reserve bank branch {n Jacksonville by airplane and train to pay all depositors who wish to with- draw their funds, officials of the Miam! institution announced following & run on the bank growing out of the closing of three other local financial institu. tions this morning. Miam!, Fla., Feb. 6 UP—Threa Miami banks falled to open for bugi- ness today. They were the Southern Bank and Trust Company, the Citizens Bank, and the Bank of Allapattah. Comptroller in Charge. | The Southern Bank and Trust Company requested Comptroller vending strengthening of finances, this | Amos to assume charge of its affairs ! |sylvania and Ohio was engaging na- |far as City Engineer Joseph D. Wil- | |tional attention today. {Uams is concerned, and this condi- ! tion will remain unchanged unless { For months the strike was looked | ithe engineer's superior overrules |upon as a matter of local labor un- | {him, he declared today. |rest which, like S0 many industrial | The decision to retire the super- | | disputes before it, soon would end |intendent of streets was not n;nchod | with victory for neither employer |4t @ meeting of the commissioners, nor employe. one of their number said today. En- | 300,000 Involved | gineer Williams while not accepting | But upwards of 300,000 persons [the entire responsibility for the have been involved directly since | movement to oust Kearney, said: {the strike began last April and there |, " The change was made with my |has been some bloodshed. Political glong on the payroll for the past lleaders have come here within the year: becauso 1 thought he might past few days to survey the situation. (1o o¢ some asistamce to me in my | |As @ result both houses of CONETess work, hut it didn't turn out that | |soon will be asked to consider im- |way. Furthermore, we do not ex- | if one is needed. T'rless this is done he will require the board to “fire” him, he said. ‘Today he was not on the Jjob, neither was his name on the payroll. At the office of the public works board in city hall it was statéd no further advice as to Kearney's status had been received, and as far as the clerical and pay force is con- cerned he is considered to be a for- mer employe. His first day on the job today proved eventful for Battey. He was driving a public works department automobile on South Main street when the machine struck Joseph The boy is at New Britain General hospital for treatment for lacerations about the face and a possible frac- ture of the skull. of representatives morning. Officlals of the Pittsburgh Coal |company and the pittsburgh Ter- | minal Coal corporation, largest soft {coal producers, announced that the output of fuel was normal for this | {time of year. In fact, they added, | they have been compelled to lay off | ‘Wheeler Comments | i | linterstate commerce | | | "“The hillsides of Pennsylvania are | | Representative F. H. LaGuardia of | Ready to Hop on Wednesday | e T {men and cut down shifts because| 460 Gallons of Gas Will Carry Ship | ithe supply exceeded the market de- | { terme, explaining that there is no || Lt FI B e of Charlea lmedla!oly an investigation such as'pect to have much permanent pav- |was proposed recently by Scnalor ing done next year and that, of | | made a brief inspection of the coal | |field and then returned to Washing- | LEVINE’S flJ[iHT | the most fertile breeding grounds | — | New York, another visitor, promise he would report his observations of | [TRIP 1§ MYSTERIOUS { | Airmen Inclined to Doubt Ownmer's | 4,000 Miles, | mand. | Company officials have declined to| Roosevelt Field, N. Y., Feb 6 (®— | dispute to settle, P e e 4 To Investigate Riots A. Leving taking off un his mystery JOHNSON GIVES UP Veteran Patrolman Asks Board to Put Him on Reserve GOT HIS BADGE IN 1808 Popular Officer Forced by Sickness to Step Out of Uniform He Has ‘Worn for 30 Years in Service of New Britain. One of the best known membera of the police department, Officer Charies Johnson, has made applica- tion for transfer from active duty to the Veterans' Reserve Korce, Baratto, aged 7, of 44 Mill street. | DUTY WITH POLIGE ! mittee in a futlle effort to throw | |1ght on the famous Continental oil | deal which Senator Walsh, of Mon- |tana, described as fraught with su: {picion at every turn. | Wickershaw Appointed i | Having appointed George W.| | Wickershaw, former attorney gen- | {eral, to represent it in the court| tangle growing out of the refusal of | Robert W. Stewart, of the Standard | {Oil company of Indiana, to answer | questions on the subject, the com- | mittee sought without success in a ! short session too obtain evidence as to the disposition of the huge profits | of the concern. It is charged that Al- bert 8. Fall received $233,000 in Lib- erty bonds through the Continental | Trading company after he leased Teapot Dome to Harry F. Sinclair. Witnesses Testify Sheldon Clark, of Chicago, vice | president of the Sinclair Refining |company, and H. L. Phillips, of Tulsa, OKla., president of the Sin- clair Crude Oil Purchasing com- pany, were today's witnesses. The questioning was concerned mainly | with the deal whereby the crude company, owned jointly by the Stan- dard of Indlana and the Sinclair in- terests, bought oll from the Conti- nental at $7.756 a barrel almost si- nultaneously with the latter com- pany’s purchase of it at $1.50. Neither could give the committee any great amount of detailed infor- mation. Finally, Senator Walsh, of Mon- tana, the committee prosecutor, brought the session to a close with one of the questions which Stewart refused to answer, even in the face of a contempt charge. “What, if anything, do you know | about the disposition of thé bonds of | the Continental Tradipg company? he asked, | beace White Plaina, N. (UP)—Vincent J. McCarthy, 33, gave his litfe in the White Plains hospital today as & sac- rifice to his closest companion, a small dog. ! Employed as a carpenter by a construction company, McCarthy lived with other workmen in the company’s dormitory. He de- lighted in the company of his dog and spent long hours when the day's work was over taking him out for walks. Last night three men kicked it and threw stones at ft; Mc- Carthy remonstrated angrily. A fight followed. When it ended McCarthy was lying in the street, three knife wounds in his body. They proved fatal today. Joseph Raneri, 36, a brick- layer, of White Plains, was held on a homicide charge in coa- nection with the stabbing. PACT WITH FRANGE ENDORSED TODAY Franco-American Arbitrati Treaty %nfl Claudel FRIENDSHIP IS STRONGER Document Commemorates 150 Years of Pcace Between Two Nations— First Treaty Signed By Frankliu | in 1778. ‘Washington, Feb, €6 (UP)—A century and a half of uninterrupted hctween France and the United States was commemorated today when French Ambassador Claudel and Under-Secretary of State Robert E. Olds signed a Franco- American treaty of arbitration at the state department. 130th Anniversary. On February 6, 1778, Benjamin Franklin, Silas Deane and Arthur Lee on behalf of the 13 United States of North America signed a treaty of zmity and commerce with France. It was the first treaty entered into by the young republic of the new world. From that moment, France openly | assisted the 13 states in their war gainst Great Britain. Money, of |Hiram W. Johnson of California. |course, is Kearney's strong point.” Senator Burton K. Wheeler, of |Montana, a member of the Benate} committee, | | jton with the following comment: l | for Bolshevism I have ever seen.” | . ’ </ Golumbia Still at Roosevelt Fiekd | “deplorable conditions” to the house | Statement Havana Objective—Say | meot miners' representatives on any | s cross wind on the runaway today Governor John 8, Tisher has or- tion separated themselves from the | osits caused vlaintiff corporation and formed a |prci® I failure, Mr. Amos ordered the other insti- tutions not to open in the beliet | that they were not in financial poei- tion to withstand large withdrawals which might result from excitement | incident to the closing of the South- of its circulation predicting by letters (Continued on Page 13.) WEST MAIN STREET Tn- | following heavy withdrawal of de- | |dered an fnvestigation into rioting at |the mining camps of Bruceton and Broughton. The public school at Broughton was closed after an ap- | peal was made to the governor for | protection. Such facts, and others, were {learned by Scnator Wheeler, whose | visit was unnanounced. He spent a day interviewing striking miners, |flight for Havana or points south. his passenger, nor Wilmer Stultz, | his pilot, came to the field when they |learned of the adverse conditions. | Levine announced that he would de- |cide at 10 o'clock tonight, when he | ireccives a report from the weather {burcau, whether he will take off to- | Neither he nor Miss Mabel Boll, | SITE FOR SYNAGOGUE Properties at Park Place Corner Will Be Purchased |ern Bank and Trust Company. | der normal conditions they could coperate, ha adding that there | bad been no sign of a run at either | place. In announcing that the Southern | Bank and Trust company had sus- !pended business but would reopen | March 15, and that the state comp- | troller had taken charge at the re- morrow. | He also said that since he had al- !ready announced that Havana was to be tho destination no other an- | nouncement was necessary. But ajrmen still point to the 460 |gallons of gasoline loaded in the | [plane's tanks Saturday-——Enough | | non-union miners, coal and fron po- |lice, deputy sheriffs, borough offi- |cials and business men. [ Then he announced he would ask | the senate Interstate commerce com- | mittce to suspend other business and take up the Johnson resolution, Following Facts Seen A non-partisan onlooker finds “Havana" with a rising inflection at | The purchase of the Horace Eddy ' quest of its officials, President J. E. property at 240 West Main etreet | Lummus said in a public statement and the Irving 1. Rachlin property |that “large demands for cash dur- at 250 West Main street was voted ing the last few days had been Ly the general building committee of caused by anonymous letters writ- the Congregation Brethren Sons of |ten to depositors and advising them Israel at a meeting last night, The ' to quictly ‘get your money out of price will be about $35,000 and the — property will be the site of the pro- (Continued on Page 13) MANSLAUGHTER COUNT The properties will be purchased | in accordance with the options sub- | mitted by the site committee which | consisted of A. J. Leventhal, David | 1. Nalr and Bernard Stein. The se- lection of the site mentioned will | glve the congregation a corner lot | on the south side of West Main | such facts as these: | The unions say lon strike. Coston E. Warne, lant professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh, estimates the number at nearer 000, | rest of those directly affected |the families of the miners. { The mnion figure for the Pitts |burgh district is 45,000 striker | Prof. Warne places it at nearer 3 1000, | For the past few months on the |strength of decisions handed down 'by the courts of Pennsylvania, the |coal companies have evicted the | tamilies of striking miners from company-owned homes. The United |Mine Workers of America have erected temporary barracks to housc 100,000 men are st~ | the end, It is 1,400 miles by air to the Cuban capital and 460 gallons of gas is enough to carry the Colum- ria 4,000 miles or more. | 'There have been published reports | |that Levine intends to go to Havana | yand then keep right on going toward Chiet W. C. Hart announced today, and it is cxpected that the board of police commissioners will grant the request at the monthly meeting tomorrow night. Officer Johnson has been in poor health for more than a year, and several days &go he was given an assignment at headquar. ters becuse of his inabllity to con- tinue as & theater policeman. was on the new detail only a few days when he was obliged to quit last week, and in the opinion of pbysicians it would be unwise for him to attempt to do active duty again. Officer Johnson, who is known to thousands of New Britain residents 'fuel for a trip to Europe—and say !as “Charley,” was born in 8weden, and over South America until thie | S8 | gasoline gives out in an effort to set {a new long distapce flying record. |Clarence D. Chamberlin and Levine {hold the present record, set on their flight to Germany in the same plane last summer. Mr. Levine' weight to these reports. Last summer !he said nothing about casting him- | !self for the role of the first transat- | |lantic passenger, climbing into the | street at its intersection with Park | place, the Christian Science church | beimg located on the opposite cor- ner. The new Masonic Temple s located across the strect, at Russell and West Main streets. The members of the committec gathered at the home of Rabbi Ger- shon Hadas where the meeting was held. Plans for financing the build- ing were discussed but no definite action was taken, 1t being declded to postpone the matter until a later date, It is expected that the-properties will be taken over on or before Sep- | ‘tember 1, 1928. Building operations will be started soon afterward. Sev- eral other properties were suggested as possible sites, but those chosen were deemed the most desirable. The lots selected adjoin each other. It s estimated that the entire project wil cost about $250,000, AT 10, SHE'LL YOTE 10 DEFEAT GOYERNOR SMITH Strong Held Under $1,000 Bond for Stanulonis’ | plane at the last momént and flying | [to Germany without even a hat. | 10.- | Wilmer Stultz, engaged as pilot of | the strikers' families. Prof. Warne estimates that previous acts gave | § “I know nothing about them,” { Phillips, who was on the stand, re- plied. | which the new republic was in dess | perate necd, flowed In a continuous !stream from the treasury of Louis Stewart Up Tomorrow | XVI to assist General George Wash- He | Stewart will be given & hearing to- {morrow on the writ ot habeas cor- pus by which he was enatched from the custody af the senate. Mean- while. it ! expected grand jury ac- tion will be sought against him dur- ing the week by the office of the dis- trict attorney. | Chatrman Nye, of the oil commit- | tee, announced today that a sub- !ington and his men. | Advances Friendship. The treaty signed today advances the historical friendship to what is interpreted as a firmer footing In | that it provides for arbitration in the vent of a dispute between the two countries, Exceptel from arbitration are dis- putes involving third parti Btate poena had been served on G. 8. Ta- | jepartment officials refused to com- ber, Jr., former president of the 8in- |ment on published reports that clair Crude company, and that Taber | prench obligations under the League would be here AR of Nations also are exempted. Sheldon Clarke, of Chicago, Vice | Iy the preamble of today's treaty, president of the Sinclair Refining \ yrance and the United States depre- company, the first witness, told the | ¢, resort to war. The long friend- committeo that he knew nothing of | siy between the two countries & the Continental company or the dis- [ cited as placing war between them | position of its bonds, h 000 persons now are living in these | temporary barracks, the number in- ! creasing daily as additional con- struction is completed. “I was amazed by the conditions existing in the coal camps,” Scnator | Wheeler said. “It is inconceivable 1o me that helpless women and chil- dren should be evicted from their homes in the dead of winter when there apparently is no need for the houses wilch they have occupied Re-Open School, Pittshurgh, Feb. 6 (®—The Broughton school was re-opened to- day in that mining town under the eye of two state troopers and a deputy sheriff. The school was closed last week when bullets, alleged to have been fired by non-union min- «rs, struck the building while pupils were inside. Death | William Strong, aged 30, of Church street, is under arrest on th {charge of manslaughter in connec: |tion with the death of John Stanu- | ionis, aged 52, of 102 Broad street, | which occurred at New Britain Gen- | | eral hospital yesterday, several hours | | after an automobtle, believed to have | been driven by Strong, struck Stanu- lonis as he was crossing from the! |south to the north side of Broad | | street about 5:55 Saturday evening. | In police court today, Strong's casc | | was continued until next Monday in |$1,000 bonds. Judge W. F. Man-| | gan appeared for him. |~ Strong told the police he did not | | know his car struck anyone. He was | | having a party Saturday night at his| Teachers were escorted |home, and shortly before ¢ o'clock | bullding by the state police, the pu- | e drove to 76 Booth street to pick | pils gatherad in the school yard as | up guests. He returned to his home | sual, and at 9 o'clock, entercd the | by way of Orange, Grove and La- |etructure. Plans of Sheriff Robert | fayette streets but 8o far as he knew H. Braun, of Allegheny county, to {he had no accident, and he was sur- | guard the achool house with a ma- to the | {the Columbia, explained the extra {fuel as a reserve supply in case they ‘arrived at Havana after dark and !had to cruise above the fleld all inight. Meanwhile the plane, a spe- |cial cabin built in for Miss Boll, re- | mains in her hangar at Curtiss ficld, |ready for a takeoff at any time, It the Columbia should make a (flight to Havana this week the Cu- (ban capital would be host to two transatlantic flyers at the same time, \Col. Charles A. Lindbergh is sched- (uled to arrive at Havana Wednes- | day, completing his tour of Central and South America. CLOTHING ALLOWANCE FOR POLICE REJECTED | Purchase of Three New Motorcycles | Also Reported to Have Been Cut From Budget. That there will be no appropria- Hospital Employe Also Opposed To | ;riseq when he was arrested on the chine gun failed to materialize. The |tion for a clothing allowance for of- Wet Platforms—Is Native charge of evading responsibility. | troopers were fully armed and when | ficers and members of the police de- | | | CHARLES JOHNSON January 1, 1864. He was appointed a supernumerary policeman Decem- |ber 13, 1898, and was promoted te | !the regular force April 27, 1903. |For a number of years he was a night patrolman and saw service in all sections of the city and on vari- ous cases, the while he saw the passing of many well known resi- | dents, and witnessed great changes |in the physical makeup of the city. The late Joseph R. Johnson was chief of police when Officer John- son became a supernumerary, and William J. Rawlings was chief when he was promoted to the regu- {lar force. Only Officers G. W. Hell- iberg, M. J. Cosgrave, Lanpher and Charles McCarthy of |the regular force have been in the |department longer than Officer Johnson. | When “Charley” joined the super- Clarence | of This City yesterday. Micezylaw Filipck of 226 Grove Mrs. Della Holbrook at the age of |street told the police he was on the | 76 years plans to cast her first presi- | north side of Broad strect and heard | dential ballot next fall to help elect | g noise, causing him to turn, and he the mominee of the republican par- |eaw a touring car going west on | ty, she declared today when she filed | road strect. while a man was pros- an application to be made a voter. 'trate in the road, apparently having ' cold wave was felt In all parts of the | Mra. Holbrook was one of the early been hit. Filipek gave the police morning callers at the office of Reg- |the registration number of Strong's | istrars W. J. Ziegler and T. J. Smith. | car. After filling out her application sh= | went on record as opposed to AS [gtreet said he heard someone shout Smith and any “wet” candidale for as a car drove away, president. She is employed at the Cebula of 220 Clinton New Britain General hospital and is | a native of this city. (Continued on Page Fourteen) they said it was decided the weapen would not be needed. Maine Suffers When Cold Wave Brinas Zero Weather Portland, Maine, Feb. 6 (P —The state today, Limestonegin northern Maine unofficially rv'ngrting 25 de- | Erees below zero, and northern Ken- | department may not be allowed, but | | Zigmund Plascznski of 175 Gold | nebunkport in western Maine, eight there is a probability that an appro- below. The official temperature in and Frank | this city was three above zero, while | the detective bureau to be used in| | street, who at Grecnville it “vas minus 12 and at | investigations. Eastport minus 4. from the north, The wind was which was changed to manslaughter | questioned about the machine gun partment in the budget for the fiscal \numerary force, it was customary | year commencing April 1, was re- |for the assignment to the Lyceum | ported about City Hall today. The |Theater to be considered the step- | board of police commissioncrs re- | ping stone to promotion to the reg- {quested $3.900, based on an estimate | of $50 per man, but the pruning | committee of the board of finance | and taxation is expected to reject it. | Tt was also reported about City | Hall today that the appropriation | for threc motorcycles for the police (Continued on Page 14) WEATHER New Britaln and Vicinity: Falr and not so cold tomight; Tucsday increasing cloudiness and warmer; probably fol- lowed by rala. { | priation will be recommended for J It s expected that| | about $600 will be allowed for this | ‘item, | H——— “Is your company the owner of any of the bonds in question?” | asked Senator Walsh. “I could not tell you off-hand,’ Clarke said, ‘but I think not.” Phillips Called H. L. Phillips, of Tulsa, Okla., | president of the Sinclair Crude Oil | Purchasing company, was next alled. Asked about the whereabouts | of G. S. Taber, Jr., president of the | | Sinclalr company at the time that | company bought one-half of 33,333,- | 338 barrels of oil from the Continen- tal company. Phillips said he is now in Pittsburgh. The oil was bought for $1.50 a barrel, on the guarantee | of Harry 8inclalr and Stewart, and | was immediately resold to Stewart | and Sinclair companies for $1.75. Phillips could not recall whetfler the board had before it the supple- mental contract by which the com- panies purchasing the oil from the | Continental—the Sinclair crude and |the Prairie Ofl and Gas company guaranteed to the late A. E. Hum. | phreys that the Continental would | | fulfill its agreement to purchase and pay for the 33,333,333 barre oil. “I Don’t Know" | “Well, let us get to something you may know something about,” the | committee prosecutor suggested, as | he asked about the purchase by the | Sinclair Crude and the Prairie Oil |of the Continental contract in 1923 | for $400,000 when it still had a | potential value of $5,000,000, | The witness said that before the | ipurchase he had a conference in | | New York city with H. & Osler, of | Toronto, president of the Continen- tal company, who obtained the con- |sent of the Prairie Gas company, | to the agreement. “How was the $400,000 price ar- | | rived at?” Walsh asked. i “I do not knew," Phillips replied, | agreeing, however, that it was “an extraordinary transaction.” Describing the mecting of the di- rectors of the Sinclair Crude Oil, at which the contract with the Conti- |nental was approved, Phillips sald that both Stewart and Sinclair were present. Stewart reprecented the | 8tandard Oil of Indiana, which owns {one-half of the Sinclair Crude stock, and Sinclair represented the Sin- | clair Consolidated, which owns the other half. tor of the Sinclair Crude, ratified the | | Continental contract with little or | no investigation, | Knows Nothing | “What, if anything, do you know | | (Continued on Page 10.) }' is territory. Waterbury, where he was industrial vond contemplation. The treaty is one of two, recently the subject of negotiation between Washington and Paris. The other was the proposed anti-war treaty suggested by Foreign Minister Briand, accepted with amendments by Secretary of State Kellogg and-subsequently found im- practical because Briand and Kel. logg could not agree upon the scope of the instrument. May Include Others. Briand forasaw a renunciation of war as between France and the United States. Kellogg suggested the treaty should be cxtended to in- clude Great Britain, Italy, Germany and Japan. Briand countered, pro- (Continued on Page 10) TWO PROMOTED BY LIGHT AND POWER CO. ' "% L. V. Clark Made Assistant | Manager, E. A. Stigberg Engineer L. V. Clark of Waterbury today took over the position made vacant by the transfer of John P. Hannon as assistant manager of the New Britain district of the Connecticut Light and Power C under B. H. McElhone. E. A. Btigberg of this city became district engineer at the same time. Mr. Clark is not a mewcomer in Coming here from power engineer he is a familiar figure in the power plants of local factories and has a wide acquaint- ance throughout the city. Mr. Clark is a native of Boston and received his early technical training in the Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology. He graduated from that institution in 1915 after an electrical engineering course and for two years was electrical engincer in the power department for the Fiske Rubber Co. He left the Fisk Company in 1917 to enter the government service dur- ing the war and served 18 months in aviation service. He is a licensed pilot but has not done any flying recently. From 1919 to 1922 he was an en- gineer with Lockwood, Greene & Co., (Continued on Page 14) PRICE THREE CENTS' 'WATERBURY MAN 1S ' INGOMUNICADO BY CORONER’S ORDERS Lot N. Lowod Fanitee i, Head Hld i Cll Wil P s Bg v 8 BURNED T0 DEATH FOLLOWING EXPLOSION | Police Making | Cxhaustive Inquiiy Into Cause of Baldwin sStreet Blaze Yesterday—New Haven Records Identify One of Doad as samuel Wise Formerly of York. New Waterbury, Conn, Feb, 6 (P— | Louis N. Leopold, president of the | Waterbury Furniture Company and i Teported owner of the three story {brick block at 342-348 Baldwin | street, that burned yesterday morn- |ing causing three deaths and loss | conscrvatively estimated at $33,500, | was being held incommunicado at | Waterbury police headquarters this | morning under orders of Coroner | John T. Monzani. Invon Under Way. Meanwhile police and fire officials jcarried on the most sweeping inves- | tigation that has even been conduct- ed here, unearthing more and more evidence that, in the coroner's opin- | fon will be most damaging if used in any subscquent criminal proceeding. As the investigation swept o ward it became evident that some definite conclusion would probably be reached before the afternoon had far advanced. Coroner Manzani this morning announced that there. would probably he some definite action this iafternoon and Mr. Leopold's lawyers, ibarred from seeing their client by the coroner's orders, stated that they had received the coroner’s assurance that definite action with regard te |the prisoner would be taken this | atternoon. | Insurance . l An insurance office in this city | this morning etated that it had writ. !ten a policy for $7,600 on the build- |ings to Mr. Leopold during the past week, in addition a $3,000 policy had been {ssued in December on the stock. Thoy further stated that an- other local insurance office had fs- sued & policy fer $11,000 on the bullding previously. Assessors this morning stattd that |the land and bullding at 340-348 Baldwin street was valued at $5,- 850 and that at 344-348 at $6,650, a total valuation of $12,500. Mr. Leopold before being taken to police headquartcrs last night had (Contlnued on Page 13) | | | 'BURNS PLAQUE LOS FROM HIGH SCHOOL Authorities Search Build- ing But Find No Tra | Discovery wus made during the past week-end that the plaque which bears the namecs of winners of the annual William F. Burns Memorial Award, 1s missing from its place at Senior High school and the opinion has been expres: that it was stol- en. When Principal Louis P. Slade was questioncd about the plaque he |admitted that he did not know defi- |nitely where it was and he made a |tour of the academic butlding of the school in search of it. Among the places visited was the former li- brary of the schocl where the clerk had her office, the reception room {where the Burns Trophy case and |the school cups are kept and the of- ! fices of Physical directors George | M. Cassidy and leonel Depot. i Principal Slade and Mr. Cassidy pressed the opinion the plague was lin the jew store. of Porter & |Dyson where the engraving of the inames has been done annually fol- lowing the announcement of the winner. According to a representa- tive of the company the last name |engraved was that of Henry T. Bray 1in 1926. Since then there were two winners whose names were not add- ed. | Physical Director Cassidy ex- | pressed anxiety following his unsuc- |cessful search for the plaque. He {sald if it cannot be found he will take steps to have it replaced im- mediately. The missing plaque is a slab of wood two feet by one foot with & series of small tablets in circular ar- rangement. At the top is a gold tab- let on which is the name of Willlam F. Burns, considered the greatest athlete in the school's history. A group of silver tablets follows | with the names of athletes who won ithe annual awards. Fight names were already inscribed. | Kellogg Arrives for Short | Visit in Canadian Cities Ottawa, Ont., Feb. 6(»—Frank B. Kellogg, American secretary of state ard Mrs. Kellogg, arrived here today Phillips testified that he, as direc- |j'rance as a first lleutcnant in the | for a four day visit. They were met by Eric C. Melville, secretary to the govcrnor general: Premier Macken- zle King and a delegation of mem- bers of the senate and diplomatie corps. They drove immediately to the residence of Willlam Phillips, the American minister to Canada.