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. TELEVISION STILL . ININFANT STAGE . flyeollul’mlmhm: Jor First Time Bat Soes Ouly Distortion OICTURES OF LONDON ARE SHOWN IN HARTSDALE, N. Y. Radio Tekes Light from Person's Face, Oarries It Over Water as Sound ard Then Television Re- By WILLIAM W. CHAPLIN Amsociated Press Staff Writer Hartsdale, N. Y., Feb. 9 UP—The eye of man, aided by science, at last has been able to peer Wcross the Atlantic, although what it has | been able to see thus far has been but a distorted vision of the reality. Transatlantic television has been taken out of the inventors’ star thamber and demonstrated for just Wwhat it is, the youngest child ot bcience, weak like any child but Miso potentially of great strength. Crude, but Definite In the televisor of John L. Baird, British inventor, have been shown the Images of a man and & woman sitting fully 3,000 miles away. The Images were crude, but they wero there. bave been under way, with the transmitting apparatus in London and the receiving machine, a box of the slze of a steamer trunk, in the home of R, M. Hart, a short wave radio operator in this West- thester county village just outside New York. Only Partial Buccess Success achleved was only partial, but it was enough to convince the | Inventor and his associates that the Yime had come to take the newest Wonder of sclence out into tne light for inspection. Last night transatlantic television Wwas demonstrated with newspaper- men at both ends of operation and they were invited to tell just what (Continued -1 Page Twenty) N. G. CURTIS ESTATE APPRAISED AT $18,791 Plainville Trust Co. Files Inventory in Probate Court An estate appraised at $18,971.65 was left by the late Newton G. Cur- tis, according to a document filed to- day in probate court by the execu- tor, the Plainville Trust Co. The estate consists of the follow- ing holdings: Land and buildings at 21 Hamilton street ..... 10 shares, McLellan Stores Co., ptd., at 107 1 share, United L. A. W Corp., common, shares United L Corp., ptd. ..... 25 shares, Hartford L. A. W. Acceptance Corp., pfd. 25 shares, W. common, at 118 .... shares, W. T. Grant Realty Corp., pfd., at 103 ....covceens .. $50 2nd Liberty Loan bond $150 3rd Liberty Loan bond $100 4th Liberty Loan bond Accrued interest, Liberty Loan bonds Deposit, Be bank . Deposit, New Britain Na- tional bank Cash o Balary, P. & F. Corbin Co. Commutation book, N. Y., N.H. & H. R. R. Co. . $10,500.00 10 1,030.00 151.02 3.95 in Savings 591.50 23.18 35.00 150.00 .27 900.75 1538.54 106.00 Household furniture, bric- Articles of Chinese origin (mentloned in will) 37.00 Stock appraised as being of no value Included 75 shares in the Elec- tric Razor Corp. of America and 70 shares of O. B. Herlth Mfg. Co., Inc., Hartford. WOMAN, 86, GIVES LIFE IN ATTEMPTED RESCUE Danbury Resident Fatally Overcome by Smoke—Children She Sought Were Safe. Danbury, Feb. 9 UP—Mrs. Margar- ot Kouhoupt, nged 86 years, gave her lite this forenoon in an attempt , to rescue the two small children of Frank Bigham, 51 Liberty avenue, where shé was employed as house- keeper, and who she belleved were trapped in a burning room. When firemen entered the house they found the woman on a settee with her head buried in a pillow. She was carried down 'a ladder to the yard where she expired while firemen attempted to resuscitate her. The children had probably escaped tfrom the house. The damage result- ing from the fire is estimated at §2,- 000. 540.50 1,010.\'UK 50.00 | | 108.94 | . Hit by Truck; Nearly Hit By Bullet; Result, Arrest Ossining, N. Y., Feb. 9 (UP)— It's bad enough for a milkman to run into you with his truck, but when he turns and laughs at your misfortune it is justifiable £ause for shooting, James B. Field believes. That, at any rate, is' what || Field is charged with doing. He was accused of third degree’ as- sault, on the complaint of Em- met Tierney, milk truck driver, who told police that a bullet fired by Field, after Field had been hit by the truck, narrowly missed him. FRENGHMEN FETED N CAPITAL O {Costes and Lebrix Plan Francisco Flight Soon MERT THE PRESIRNT |funch Planned With Coolidge To- i | | morrow—French Aviators Have Flown 25,000 On Trip and 62,000 in This Plane. Washington, Feb. 9 (®—Lieuten- ants Costes and Lebrix, France's famous airmen, were presented to President Coolidge at the White House today by Paul Claudel, the French ambassador. The visi | | | | | | the unknown soldier at Arlington. Chat With Coolidge | office, the aviators, after a few min- utes' chat with the president, were accompanied by Mr. Coolidge to the | south lawn, where photographs werc | taken. | Crowds watched the Frenchmen enter and leave the White House. | Atter about a half hour's visit, they were hurried by automobile to a | luncheon given by the assistant sec- retaries of aviation of the war, navy and commerce departments. The Guests Guests at the luncheon included Ambassador Claude, Secretaries Wil- bur, Davis, of war, and Hoover, Major-General Fechet, chief of the army air corps; Brig.-Gen. Foulols, assistant chief; Major-General Pat- irick, retired, former head of the service. ‘";.:a:‘rAamlrnl Moffett, Assistant Secretaries of State Olds and Castl Senator Reed of Pennsy'vania; Rep- resentative Parker of New York: | Lieut. Lester J. Maitland, one of the |army transpacific fllers; Porter |Adams of the National Aeronautic assocliation; Henry Berliner, inven- |tor and Major Georges Thenault, of | the French embassy. The airmen will be entertained | |tonight at a private dinner in the | home of M. Knobel, second secretary of the embassy and later tend the- Empire ball to be given by | Ambassador and Madame Claudel Ts Enthusiastic Lieutenant Lebrix is particularly enthusiastic about the reception given him by American aviators. “They have met us miles away |trom each city we have visited in this country,” he said, “and have a | companied us for a while as we left each city.” Going West Lebrix announced today that he |and his flying companion would leave for New York early Saturda and that they would make a trans- continental flight to San Francisco, stopping at several large cities | route before returning to France by | steamer. | He added that stops probably would | be made, en route to San Francisco, Lake City. The fliers expect to leave here Sat- urday morning for New York. After their return to France, possibly by east to west flight across the north Atlantic. Visit Plane Lebrix and Cosies had scarcely breakfasted today when they | whisked away by French embassy {officials to face the round of enter- {tainment that will continue in their |honor until their departure for Mitchel field, New York, early Sat- urday. Accompanied by Major Thenault, |air attgche of the embassy, Costes took tifne, however, for a hurried visit to the Plane, Nungesser-Coli, which he found in good condition. {1t had needed no attention, and | Costes scoffed at the suggestion that |it might had suffered any - damage | | | TAX CASE SETTLED | Government's Claim of $1,000,000 Against Charlie Chaplin Compro- mised Satisfactory to Both. | Washington, Feb. 9 (UP) — The government's claim against Charles Chaplin, famous film comedian, for (Continued on Page Eight) been settled out of court. The internal revenue bureau |the movie star and government at- torneys had compromised the sides. Internal Revenue Blair has approved the was stated. Chaplin became entangled with the government's tax collection officials last year, just as he was having diffi- culties with his wife, Lita Gray Chaphin. his bank account to assure payment of the back taxes. Officials said the compromise settlement was negotiated in San Francisco. They refused to divulge detalls. mmissioner tlement, it KT BRITAIN HERAL NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1928 —TWENTY PAGES FATE OF HICKMAN ~ RESTS WITH JURY 'Eight Women and Four en to + Decide as to His Sanity il’flls IS to Insane Asylum. Court Room, Los Angeles, Feb, 9 NUP)—Asa Keyes, fiery district at- torney of Los Angeles county, today SOLE QUESTION: | S Deposed { In an open letter to Chairman Reginald J. Towers of the board of public works, Thomas F. Kearney, deposed street superintendent, call- |ed today on the chairman to an- {ewer & series of inquiries based on | statements made to the board, and | for a second time requested that he be given a public hearing. His statement follows:— “Much as I deplore a controversy, demanded the life of William Ed- |1 feel obliged under the circum- ward Hickman in payment for the | stances to enter into one, as I have murder of Marion Parker. | been deprived the ocourtesy of a | Justice for the killing of the littla | public hearing, to which I feel T am | school girl can be done only by send- | entitled. For that reason I will tnkei ing the slayer to the gallows, Keyes | this opportunity to ask you a few told the superior court jury hearing | pertinent questions. | Hickman's trial. | “Through the press, I learn that Keyes attacked the insanity plea | YOU have accused me of being in- | built up by the defense. Ho said the | ficlent. Just what do you consider | state had proved “beyond the shad- i"’ be inefficiency? Is it because I |ow of a doubt,” that Hickman s | ¥2# ordered by you to haul good |sane and can be given the death ‘wstreet material from South Main t. same purpose, as has been done in previous years. Is that what you consider efficiency? “You have been quoted as saying 1 falled to bring in reports. What reports do you refer to? Is it because 1 failed to report the time on J. Willle Mills truck when it was haul- ing wood blocks from the city yard to your brick yard? Is it because I failed to report that Mr. Battey was frequently not on the job and the men were working without a fore- man? tions. I assume you mean the time I | attended the Road Builders’ conven- “You also refer to prolonged vaca- | e Chairmnumbfic Werr;.:nrd Gtk A Replying to Inefficiency Charge Kearney Asks Towers Pointed Questions Regarding Alleged Methods Employed in Administering Departmen Justics Siddons Exoperaizs Man Rocased in Sinclair Mistrial OTHER CHARGES STAND |Case Agatust Baltimore Manager of | Bums Agency Stands—Clark’s | mmmmunmi Purely Accidental Washington, Feb. § UPM—S8heldon |Clark, the wealthy Chicago ofl man | and sportsman, was freed today of | ’crlmlnll contempt charges entered | against him when the Fall-8inclair case ended in a mistrial. Clark, vice president of the Sin- | |clair Refining company, was fn-| cluded in the proceedings instituted | tion at Cleveland, and gained mueh |ngainst Harry F. Sinclair, Willlam | valuable knowledge—at my own ex- |J, Burns and four others because | pense, Do you realize that most of lhe received reports of the detec- the citles pay the expenses of their |tives whe shadowed the Fall-Sin- superintendents under these con- |clair jury. Henry Mason Day hired ditions, and in fact the City of New the detectives on instructions from Britain pays for the conventions at- ginclatr. Clark was mentioned less | fol- | lowed a pligrimage to the tomb of | Received in the executive’s private | now have the | street to your gasoline station | against my wishes? This material | would have been very valuable for |use on the outlying streets which | were very much in need of it. Is it )beclule the tires |from a car in the city storeyards | without my knowledge? Or was it | because I was obliged to keep a! truck owned by J. Willle Mills of | South Main street working in order to hold my position? “Perhaps 1 was lax in these and other similar matters by not making a report, but you ean readily see that had 1 reported, it might have put one in a very embarrassing posi- | tion. Do you not recall that at the same time that I was ordered to keep Mills’ truck at work, the city | | had a team in the sewer department knew full well the enormity’| “Pich €0uld have been used for the | were removed | tended by the chief of police, the chiet of the fire department, the city engineer, the superintendent of | schools, the superintendent of health and others? “Much as I dislike the publicity that comes with this action, I fecl obliged to protest against the attack on my reputation as a road builder and a street superintendent. In the past 20 years I have worked super- | | vising road construction for the fed- cral government and the state gov- ernment, and for some of the lead- ing contractors of the state. For my references you have but to inquire of the state highway commissioner, his deputy, or any other of my em- ployers, “While I do not politics, as a staunch republican ¥ (Continued on Page 18.) LOVE AFFAIR ENDS " INDEATH OF TWO will at- | ip&*nalt)’. The prosecutor urged the jury not | to be swaved in its deliberations by sentimental appeals made through reference to the circumatances of | Hickman's early childhood. Keyes' | address brought tinal arguments in the case to a close. He took excep- | tions at the outset of his speech to implications that he had been unfair to Hickman in his conduct of the case, “I have been fair to this defend- ant although 1 'oathe the ground he walks on,” Keyes shouted, pacing the floor within a few &teps of where Hickman sat. “I never have | thought, nor do I slightest reason to belicve that that | man was insane when he committed |the dual crime of kidnaping and murder. of his act and the grave conse- quences to him if he were caught. | “That is shown by the craft with | which he moved during the time the child was a prisoner and after he had returned her body and collected the ransom money.” Keyes declar>d it would be a | travesty on justice to send Hickman to an insane asylum from which ft | would be possible for Nim to be | released after a year by proving that his sanity had returned. | Amo m mmdphi‘ “Nothing short of his own life | can be sufficient payment for the — terrible crime he committed,” Keyes jvontinued, “His case must be « |[{JRDER ~ AND SUICIDE warning that criminals cannot es- | |cape the penmalty of their acts g | through the door of an insanity | Girl's Parents Enraged Whea In- plea.” ! Keyes called attention to the test | formed of Her Beath—Wamed by Dr. A. L. Skoog, Kansas City, | defense alienist, and branded it as | “asinine.” ' Richard Cantillon, ‘defense lawyer, | PP urged the jury to return a verdict Bryn Mawr, Pa., Feb. 9 UP—An apparent murder and suiclde of the youthful principals in a love affair was discovered early today in the (Continued on Page 17) STABS DAUGHTER TO and girl huddled together in a coupe Boy and Girl Found Shot in Her Not To Go With Louis | finding of the bodies of a young man | CHANGES 16 THAT LINDY WILL GRASH 40,000 Miles SUFRERED NO ACGIDENT Air Statistics Prove Odds One-to- Four That the Youthful Flier Will Escape Alive if He 15 Forced Down, | New York, Fib. 9 (UP)—The chances were roughly one-to-slx that Cot. Charles A. Lindbergh | crash before be completed his good- will tour of Latin America. For days and weeks, while the 26- | year-old flier hopped from capital to wish to inject | Has Flown Spirit of St. Louis would | at Detroit, Chicago, Omaha and Salt | way of the Pacific by steamer, Le- | brix said plans might be laid for an ' DEATH; KILLS SELF Waterbury Man Murders Child With 7 Inch Bread Knife—Cuts His Throat en | Waterbury, Feb. 9 (®—Gabriel luchinsky, 45. of 34 Ward street, this city, stabbed his own daughter, Nellie, 17, to death with a bread knife in their home here this after- noon. He then drew the seven inch blade across his own throat and perished within a few moments, The bodies were discovered by Mrs. Vera Belevitz, a cousin of the automobile in Havertord township, | capital in the Central American re- near here. publics, flying over unfamiliar and | The girl, Bella Alexander, 17, was | Sometimes unexplored territory, mil- | not dead when police came upon !lions of persons back home watched | the coupe, but died several hours la- | his steady progress with anxiety. Iter in the Bryn Mawr hospital Over 40,000 Miles | without gaining consciousness. Death | was due to a bullet wound of the of the cockpit at Havana complet- | head and another of the abdomen. ing his 8,235-mile tour, he had flown { Her 21-year-old sweetheart, Louis | a total of mor: than 40,000 miles in | Bhapiro, is believed to have died in- | the Spirit of St. Louis without the |stantly trom a bullet which pierced | slightest accident. | his temple. Figures obtained by the United | Were Sweethearts Press today from statistics of the | The pair had been sweethecarts for | air 'information division of the de- i three years, police learned, and were | partment of commerce revealed that to huve been married in two weeks. | Lindbergh stood only a six-to-one | For some unknown reason, the girl | chance of finishing the tour without { postponed the wedding recently and | wrecking his famous plane and pos- {her parents advanced the theory |sibly injuring or Kkilling himself. | that Shapiro shot the girl and then But when Lindbergh climbed out | The figures revealed further that : girl who said that Gabriel was en- | himself when she refused to accede raged because his daughter had [to his requests for an immediate {if by chanee the fller had crashed, | the odds would have been one-to- were | more than $1,000,000 back taxes has | of | {the treasury announced today that (amount involved, satisfactory to both | The government uttuch(‘di steadily refused to live with him as man and wife. Mrs. Delevitz told Dr. A. A. Crane, medical examiner that Nellie had many times repulsed the advances of her father, and planned to leave Lis roof forever today. Luchinsky, nine years widower, became en- raged at the girl and stabbed her in the breast with the bread knife, utterwards slashing her throat, at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon. Mrs. Belevitz fled the tenement, but re- turned a few minutes later to find that Luchinsky 1n addition to slay- ing his daughter had turned the lothal instrument on himself. HAS WIFE LIVING HERE AND ANOTHER IN POLAND Alex Melzejewskd, Alleged Swindler, May Face Charge of Bigamy 9 Bridgeport, Feb. 9 (M—Charges of bigamy may follow the arraign ment of Alex Meizejewski, 34, on charges of obtaining money under admitted having a wife and two children in New Britain and a simi- lar domestic circle in Poland, police said. He was arrested in Schenec- tady and returned here to face Pazygoda, who claims - that Alex swindled him out of $3,050 when he sold him a “money raising ma- chine.” guaranteed to turn out bills of any denomination on Obtober 19 last. Police say that Alex went from Bridgeport to New Haven and thence to Schenectady taking with |him for a companion, Mrs. Stanley Ciucha of Rockville. Alex, however, {denied that he was accompanied by Mrs. Clucha. | ceremony. four that he never would have es- Rented Car caped alive. Shapiro rented the coupe last| | night in Philadelphia, the polm,-“ learned, and went to the Graphic Sketch club to await Miss Alexander, | cover, | who had gone there. A note found| But on the other hand, Lind- | on Shapiro’s clothing signed “B. A.” | bergh would have had more than a showed the meeting in front of the | one-to-three chance of emerging |club was pre-arranged. From there | from the crash unscathed. |they are believed to have proceed- If something had gone wrong with ed to the lonely spot where the car | his plane, in two cases out of three | was found. it would have been trouble with the | Several policemen, patrolling the motor. Weaknesses in a plane's | deserted road on which the coupe |structure, which result in the crump- {was parked, became suspicious this | ling of a Wing or the snapping of a | morning and decided to investigate. | control wire or brace, are only half They found the dome light of the | as frequent as stalled engines. |car burning and the two forms Hold For Any Pilot slumped together on the seat. Those computations hold not only Rushed To' Hospital for Lindbergh but for any experi- | The girl was rushed to the hospi- | enced, licensed pilot who has flown |tal and an immediate operation per- |4 plane more than 40,000 miles with- ormed in a vain attempt to save out a mishap. {her life. She died without being| Surveys by the commerce depart- lable to make a statement. {ment in the last year show that | Returning to the parked car. the | there is one fatality in the ranks of police found a .25 calibre revolver |licensed pilots for each 1,026,363 with four unexploded cartridges still | miles of flving. But only one crash {in the chamber, on the floor of the | in four is fatal to the pilot. | auto. Otu of 165 crashes in one period Relatives covered by the government surveys, Relatives of the girl, when in-|42 pilots were killed, 13 were seri- one-to-three chance of escaping with injuries from which he could re- {and told police they had repeatcdly | jurics and 62 escaped inju | opposed her receiving the attentions| The causes of the 163 of young Shapiro. She was the were, in 23 cases, weaknesses in the youngest of four children and was | planes’ structure; in 41 casgs it was a member of the senior class at the | motor trouble, and in the remaining v entirely. accidents | Shapiro was an electriclan. They | amon, |both lived in South Philadelphia. South Indicates It W Oppose Smith on Religion Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 9 (UP)- | | With two dissenting votes the South- | jern Methodist Educational Associa- | tion adopted a resolution in conven- | tion here today opposing the presi- dential candidacy of Gov. Alfred E. | ' Smith of New York. g the pilots, unsafe landin, fields and unknown factors. | # 1 | THE WEATHER | ‘ew Britain and vicinit Unsettied tomight, probably rain or smow; Friday cloudy; ! somewhat lower temperature, | | ] { * L] He wonid have stood less than a ‘lhln a dozen times in the testimony |startled the world by flying across | |during the contempt hearing. | Justice Siddons sald he was con- | |vinced the evidence against Clark | | was not such that he could find him | ! guilty and send him to jail or fine him. Other Charge Stands Justice Siddons refused to enter- |tain at this time a motion for the [-dismissal of the charges against C. L. Vietsch, Baltimore manager for the Burns Detective agency. Vietsch brought $1,500 here to pay the de- tectives who shadowed the oil jury. Charles A. Douglas, counsel for W. J. Burns, then introduced the prison record of William J. McMul- |1in, the government's star witness. McMullin testified he prepared false reports and a false affidavit about an oil juror at direction of Burns officials. There was nothing, the court said to indicate Clark's comnection with the case other than ‘‘casual and ac- cidental.” Clark came to Washing- ton during the oil trial as a char- acter witness for Sinclair. The justice characterized Clark's answer to the government's charges as a ‘“clear cut and unevasive meet- ing” of the allegations and absolved | the Chicagoan entirely of any wrong | intent in his connection with the | shadowing. | | An effort to hold up the far reach- | | lng decision of Siddons that DhMo'-s |ing has a tendency to obstruet jus- tice was made by Daniel Thew | | Wright, counsel for Henry Mason | Day. | In view of the admitted shadow- |ing the lawyer felt that the decision viirtually closed the door to any de- | fense by Sinclair and Day, his asso- | |ciate, to the charges of criminal | | contempt. | A motion by Wright to hold up | the decision relating to the court's interpretation of “indirect tendency” | in connection with the obstruction of | justice in the case was overruled. | The justice said in regard to his | ruling yvesterday that “too much | | stress is being laid on the questions the court put on observations the {court made in disposing of the mat- | ter.” In answer to a request by Wright that the court had not ruled | shadowing was contempt he keep his “mind opca” on the question. “My mind is going to remain open jon every question,” Justice Siddons | replied. COULD NOT KEEP HER - GIRL CHUN'S SECRET So Hartford School Miss’s Elopement Plans Are Frustrated Hartford, Feb. 9 P—If a school- mate of Rebecca Rosenfleld, 17, a Junior at the Weaver High school, in whom she had confided her elope- ment plans, had beeri able to keep the secret, Rebecca today might have been Mrs. Alfred Marengo fn- stead of a crestfallen school girl re- stored to her parents by the police of Worcaster, Mass. Rebecea ran away from school and home on Tuesday, leaving dis- tracted parents and grandparents who live together in a tenement at 171 Wooster street. They did not know that any such person as Alfre Marengo existed end they had no idea where the girli went. But yes- terday Rebecca's school chum told Mrs. Rosenfield that Rebecca had gone to Worcester to marry Alfred Marengo. Mr, and Mrs. Rosenfield left for Worcester at once and with |the aid of the police of that city {located their daughter with Alfred | at the home of the latter's parents. She was arrested early this morn- ing as a runaway and turned over |to her parents who were expected {home this afternoon with their false pretences hero today. Alex has | (ormed of her death, were enraged ously injured, 38 suffered minor in. | ‘tughter. Rebecea met Alfred fn a restau- |rdnt here where he had been em- ployed and she had fallen in love with him. When found at the home |of his parents, the young couple charges brought by .a cousin, John | William Penn High school for girls. ones the blame was distributed | Were figuring how to avoid the age w for marriage licenses. When Rebecea left for high school on Tuesday morning she said she | la | would be home late because she was | going to a party after school. STARTS PRISON TERM | Atianta, Gs., Feb. 9 (UP)—Carl | Wiedemann, wealthy Kentucky | junun.ry here today to begin serving |8 two year term for violation ef the nationa! prohibitien law. Feb. dth ... 14,947 JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER JR. SENATORIAL GLORIOUS WELCONE GIVEN LINDBERGH \Flier Interrupts Gube's Enter- tainment to Inspect Plane 465 HOURS IN THE AR Despite That, Owner Thinks It Is in Perfect Condition — Reaches Ha- vana Nine Minutes Ahead of Pre- arranged Schedule, Havana, Feb. 9 (# — A smiling young man, who ten months ago the Atlantic today was enshrined in the heart of Cuba. His face reddened by his flights | under tropical sun to 14 other coun- tries included in his present tour, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh landed | at the last port of his good will tour |9 minutes ahead of scheduled time, i yvesterday afternoon. | Lands in Historic Field | The silver winged Spirit of St. Louis had covered slightly less than 800 mtles since it hopped off at 6:35 | a. m, from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. |1t landed at Columbia field, site of the original encampment of Ameri- |can forces in Cuba during the Span- ish-American war, at 3:51 p. m. | Cavalrymen and infantry with |drawn sabres and bayonets quickly formed around the plane to guard it |from the eager rush of those who {surged forward to acclaim the Lone Eagle. Not only Cubans were in that welcoming throng, but also many representatives of the 21 American nations gathered here in the Pan- American conference. T Plane Today the mechanical half of “we” had 465 hours of flying behind it. But, said Lindbergh, it is not a museum relic yet, referring to his plan eventually to place it in the Smithsonian institution in Washing- ton. Sometime during today’s round of entertainments in his honor, the |fiyer intended to alip away to the Ifleld and plane. For his hop to 8t. Louis, his (Continued on Page 17) STRICKEN SPEECHLESS, DIES S0ON AFTERWARD E. T. Prange of 49 Linden Street Passes Away Suddenly 1 Stricken speechless after he had complained a moment before of thoroughly inspect his | CONTENPT CHARGE! ~ SUBPOENAED TO APPEAR IN INVESTIGATION Accepts Wire From His Presence But Says That “Invitation Would Have Proven Equally Effective.” Millionaire Head of Stan- dard Says He Knows Nothing About Conti- nental Bonds Other Than What Has Been Pub- lished. Washington, Feb. 9 #—John D, | Rockefeller, Jr., chairman of the board of trustees of the Rockefels ler foundation, has been summoned to appeat Saturday béfore the senate eapot Dome committee. Accepts Wired Subpoena Service of a telegraphic subpoena was accepted in New York city to- day by Mr. Rockefeller, who is to | be asked to relate all the informa- {tion concerning the transactions of the Continental Trading company of Canada given to him by Robert W. Stewart, chairman of the board of the Standard Oil company of In- diana, who refused to reveal whethe? he knew of aamy one who received Liberty Bonds from the Continental. In addition to Mr. Rockefeller the committee also has issued subpoenas tor & number of clerks employed in the New York branch of the Dom: inion bank of Canada in which were kept the accounts of the Continental and its president, H. 8. Osler, Jr., of Toronto. Some of these clerks are expected to be here Saturday. | Chairman Nye said photostatie | copies of the ledger sheets of the Bomjaion brapol ‘bewR Pyt e tained | culiar notation on the margins, pre. | sumably made by those who emtered the accounts. Expresses Regret In correspondence with Senator | Walsh of Montana, prosecutor of the | oil inquiry, Mr. Rockefeller had ex- pressed regret that Stewart refused {to answer alt questions of the com- mittee regarding the bonds, some of which the government claims figured in the lease of Teapot Dome to Harry F. Sinclair. Mr. Rockefeller's statement was contained in a telegram he sent to- day to United Btates Benator Thom- as J. Walsh at Washington. His Statement The tclegram read as follows: “I have seen Colonel Stewart and {have told him in person wbat 1 | have said to him in my letter of |January 24, of which you have & |copy, namely, that in my judgment | pains in his head, Emil Theodore |the public interest demands that | Prange, 26 years old, of 49 Linden |the fullest possible light be thrown | street was hurried to the New Brit- [upon the matter now under fnvesti- 8in General hospital this morning, |Sation by the senate committee. |arrived there at 9:50 o'clock, and | died 15 minutes later. Dr. John | | Purney, deputy medical examiner, | | viewed the remains and was unable | (Continued on Page Eight) to @etermine what caused the death. | | An autopsy is being performed this | afternoon. He is the father of a | 1S AGTIVE GANDIDATE been enjoying | | Mr. Prange has good health and this morning roge | at 7 o'clock to build the fire in the | sportsman, entered the federal peni- | kitchen stove. While he was at work | he felt pains in his head. A mo- ment later he lost the use of his speech and when Dr. John J. Towar- czyk arrived he found Mr. Prange lin a coma. He was a veteran of the navy, hav- ing served for a period of three vears following the close of the war. He was born in this city, S8eptember 123, 1902 and was educated in S8t Matthew's parochial school and a | public school. He was a painter by trade. Besides his son Richard Emil who ! was born at his home Sunday noon | he leaves his wife. | Funeral arrangements, | of B. C. Porter Sons are incomplete. | YETERAN OF WORLD WAR IS DEAD IN BROOKLYN | Arthur E. Anderson of 531 Stanley Street Was in 302nd Tank Corps Battalion. Arthur E. Anderson, 30 years old, of 551 Stanley street, a veteran of many battles in the World War, died jat Brooklyn Naval hospital at 8:30 o'clock last night of infantile | paralysis following "an {liness of more than four months. He enlisted in the 302nd tank corps battalion and saw six months jof service. He was born in this city | January 8, 1898. His surviving relatives include his wite, Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson; two | children, Evelyn and Betty Jane An- derson: his mother, Mrs. Josephine Anderso two sisters, Mrs. Burt Chamberlain and Miss Ella Ander- son and two brothers, Norman of Shreveport, Fla., and Arvid Ander- son of this city. Funeral arrangements, in charge of M. J. Kenney Co. are incom- ‘:‘:I: pending the arrival of the in charge | Indianan Makes Formal Announcement—Names Campaign Manager “ Washington, Feb. $(¥—Senator ! James E. Watson of Indiana has. de- |cided to become an active candidate \for the republican presidential nom- ination. | The decision was made known in {the announcement of the appeint- ment of M. Burt Thurman, of In- dianapolis, as Watson's campaign | manager. | ‘While Mr. Thurman is to begin active work immediately, formal an- |nounce¢ment of the senator's candi- dacy will not be made until next week when he plans to issue a state- ment outlining his views on the { chiet issues of the day. Watson is the third republican | senator to throw his hat into the | presidential ring. The others are {Curtis of Kansas and Willis of Ohio. | Simultaneously with the publica- tion of Senator Watson's decision to |become a candidate, the Indiana del- |esation in the house met and en- dorsed his candidacy. Will R. Wood, |chairman of the republican con- |gressional campaign committee, pre- sided. “The republican members of the | Indiana delegation in congress heart- ily endorse the candidacy of Senator James E. Watson for the republican nomination for president, the resolu- tion said. “In adopting these resolutions, the Indiana republican delegation fn congress cordially invites the sup- {port of republicans throughout the Union, calling attention to the bril- liant and usqful public services of {Mr. Watson covering a period of 33 vears, during which long peried he ° |has undeviatingly supported repub-