New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 16, 1928, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press EDDIE FOY FOUND * DEAD IN KANSAS o = Famous Comedian, and Patber of “Seven Little Foys” Yeteran | of American Stage WAS MAKING FAREWELL TOUR WHEN STRICKEN Hoart Disease Causes Death of | Vaudeville's Premier Actor—Died | | | “in Harmess” as He Sald He ‘Would—Started Carcer at Age of 15 Years in Chicago — Death Shock to Friends. Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 16 (P— Eddie Foy, the actor, died at the Hotel Baltimore here today. Mr. Foy played at the Orpheum | theater here last night and appeared | in good health, Fred Spear, manager | of the theater, said. On Farewell Tour | The veteran comedian was making what had been billed as his farewell tour of stages on which he had act- ed for more than half a century. After last night's performance he | scomplained of no illness, the man- ager of the theater said. Mr. Foy's real name was Edwin Fitzgerald. He was 73 years om Heart disease was assigned a: cause of death by Dr, Herbe hill. The actor's wife awakened him at 7:30 a. m. and found him ill. She summoned the physician. Mr. F\ died at 8:45 a. m. Dr. Tuthill is the Hotel Baltimore | physician. | “The Fallen Star,” was the vehi- | cle of the veteran's last appearance | on the boards. In the playlet Mr. | Foy took the part of a stage door- man, who was once a star on Broad; way. Comes oy | | ing that It gave him an opportunity T liceiediito prove its cass against Gave recall to present day theater goers ernor Ed Jackson but EDDIE FOY. STATE FALLS DOWN IN JACKSON TRIAL Judge Hardly Thinks Charges Have Been Proved | HEARS DISMISSAL PLEA | | Reserves Decision Until This After- noon After Having Listened to Accusations Against Indiana Gov- ernor, 16 (A—Declar- he believed the state had Indianapolis, Feb. some of his own triumphs of the |decision until this afternoon, Judge past. Realized End Was Near That the actor realized his fare- | well tour might not run its full | course was indicated to Thoms, general manager of Lakewood Golf and Country club, a | close friend, who visited M backstage Tuesday night. Mr. Thoms sajd he found Mr. Foy | Charles | conspir: | Charles M. McCabe in criminal court | under advisement a de- | fense motion for a directed verdict of | Jackson is charged with | to commit a felony in at- | the | tempt to bribe. today took | not guilty, The state rested its case at Foy wo\-locx\ this mornin Defense Makes Motion Shortly after the state had closed } seated on a:tpunk, almost too uenkm- cane defense attorneys presented to go on the stage for his act, and |5 motion & that the actor remarked then>he |3 did not believe he would be able to | | gui finish the season. king Judge Charles M. abe to direct a verdict of not on the ground that the prose- | ;L\xlxol\ had failed to produce suffi- Dr. Tuthill said he learned from |cient evidence to prove the governor Mras. Foy that her hushand had heen | subjected %o heart attacks for the last six months. The death, “He died in the work he lov Mrs. Foy said. Hal Munis, the actor's manager also declared that it was Mr. Foy's 0., wish to end his career while tively engaged in stage work. ac- “He died as he wanted to: not in | yesterday, an actors’ home,” said Munnis. | Besides his widow Mr, Foy is sur- | vived by seven children. Six of the younger Foys were scheduled play at a theater in Fort Madison, Iowa, today. The actor was married fdur times. Mr. Foy recently completed his physician ' for gave angina pectoris as the cause of | offic " | ert |attorn guilty. arry McGlenn, an investigator Marion coun‘y prosccutor’s was the state's only witness He Lyons, a Richmond, Ind., nd former financial agent for the Ku Klux Klan, in a Dayton, hospital last ay. Lyons was [to have been a state witness. The prosecution, in testimony introduced sought to show that Lyorfs was a partic nt in a conversation in which Jackson took part when an alleged plan to attempt to bribe for- tulh to | mer Gov. Warren T. McCray in 1923 was formulated. Real Mystery Man James E. McDonald, so much talk- ed about and so little secen, has memoirs, published under the title proved the real mystery man of the (Continued on Pngo 8) PUBLIC WORKS INl)lllRY APPROYED BY COUNCIL Two 1Investigations, Spon-| sored by Both Parties, Launched Two Investigations of pragtices of | the department of public works, one sponsored by the democratic mem- bers of the common council and the second by republicans, were given the unanimous approval of the council last night. Councilman Samuel Sablotsky of the sixth ward, sponsored an inquiry to determine the truth or falsity of «charges made against Chairman R. | E. Towers of the board while Coun- cllmah William G. Gibney of the first ward championed a survey of «street conditions and the city's methods of repair studied. The Sablotsky resolutton called at- tention to the fact that no one in public office has taken it upon him- l | | self to challenge the statement that | Purney, medical examiner, the abuses exist in the department of |of the boy could public works and he set up the (-Ialmjeuved if the parents were within a | trial. It was to gain McDonald'’s ap- ointment as Marion country prose- (Continued on Page 15.) 'TOPPLING CHIFFONIER KILLS § YEAR OLD BOY Strangled Between Bureau and Foot of Bed at His Home Strangled when a large chiffonfer upon which he was climbing toppled | over and caught his neck between it | L.and the top rail of a bed, five year old Arthur John Kallberg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kallberg 218 Belden street, was Killed last night at 6 o'clock at his home. His mother left the home to do an errand just as the factory whistles were blowing, feeling that | her husband would rcturn from work while she was gone. Although Mr. Kallberg returned shortly after 16 o'clock, the mishap had already | occurred. According to Dr. John not have been that the city’s name will suffer unless | few fect of him when the accident the charges are proved those responsible punished. Opening his explanation of resolution, the councllman remark- ed: false or | occurred. the | dres: The body |dangling between the ’r by the father. was bed found and | filled tonight—I don’t know whether | step to reach the top. they came up to hear about the gar- - bage contracts, or it they were in- { children. Arthur was the oldest He told of three his mother he terested in knowing what is going to | | would take care of his two younger be done about the beard of public ‘works. . “Bome time ago an article appear- | when Mr: ed in one of the local papers eriti- | cizing the action of the board mask on the man who gave out the | story, and that ended it. He held ! his job. foreman of the of Chamber public works. 8Bome one put a gas tered alm I refer to James Sposato, | later. tors, old Helen and Irene Dorothy, three years Ruth, one year old, Kallberg was away. @ pupil at the V. B. atn school where he en- | t three months ago. He He was five and he entered He school two days | was 1o attend a movie city storeyards. |show with his father last night, an Every member here remembers the event he looked forward to with an- charges he had made. ago the street superintendent was | dismissed. He made public state- (Continued on Page 16.) | home. | cemetery, Two weeks ticipation all day. The row funeral will be held tomor- morning " o'clock at the Burial will be in St. Mary's withholding | 9:11 | told of having seen Rob- | of | life | He had pull- | ed out a drawer near the bottom of | “I see the spectators’ gallery 18 the chiffonicr which he used as a | rs old on November 24 | NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16 1928 —EIGHTEEN PAGES . FLOOD CONTROL, AT 4T3 MILLION COST, IS REPORTED TODAY Bill as Pmud to House of ' Representatives Places En- ire Burden on Federal Govt, 'REPRESENTS MORE THAN THREE MONTHS OF STUDY Measure Itself Goes Beyond l‘loodz Prevention in Mississippl Valley | and Contemplates Control in ()fll-1 er Districts, Including the New | Fngland River Valleys as Well— | Power Progress Also Viewed. | ‘Washington, Feb. 16.—#)—Plac- | ing an appropriation of $473,000,000, | |a flood control bill was prescnted to the house today by its flood control | committee, Three Months if Study Washington, ~ Feb. ; 16.—UP)— [More than threa months of inten- {sive study by the house flood con- |trol committee is represcnted in the | | bifl providing a comprehensive pro- ject for prevention of disastrous | |floods in the Mississippl valley to {be paid for entirely by the federal | | go\'Lrnmem he measure, goes beyond flood prmcnuon in the Mississippi valley | and contemplates flood | Mississippt tributaries and other streams as far removed as Alaska, New England and South Carolina. It also paves the way for electric Lpower development through re: ser- | | voirs constructed primarily for | flood control. Provisions of Bill The measure provid president. 2. Administration by a newly cre- ated commission of seven, the Mississippi Valley flood control com- mission, to supplant the present Mississippi river commission. 3, Payment of flood control works | by, the federal government, without 1 contributions, dn placing dircction of the project iR, - sion under, the 3 o mfi.‘%fim 1s 18M6Wing the pnh(‘y used In construction of the Panama Canal, with which this project has been comparcd. The commission would be ap- pointed by the president, with senate confirmation required. Four of its members must he engineers, and the president is also point army engincers to a The present Mississippi river com- mission will cease to exist after the new commission is organized. $400,000,000 Is Needed An appropriation of approximately $400,000,000 will be asked of con- gress to carry out the flood control works, consisting of levees, spill- ways, floodways and rescrvoirs. fede meet the expense. This appropria- tion compares with $296,400,000 (Continued on Page Jight) PRESIDENT DECLINES INVITATION BY CITY. 'Regrets l-[e Cannot | tend War Memorial Dedication New Britain are contained in a let- ter to Mayor Weld from President ' | Coolidge, through his secretary, in which the president commends the city on its war memorial and ex- | presses regret that he will be unable |to take part in the dedicatory ex- ercise Mayor Weld wrote the President several days ago informing him that the memorial is nearing completion |and is to be.dedicated June %. The ply received today reads: My Dear Mayor Weld, “The President was very glad to learn that the city of New Britain lon June 9th would dedicate a me- morial to those of its citizens who rved in the World g wi le ences of such patriotism are most ctive in showing to those who | come after the devotion to country of those who have goné before. “He appreciates very much the invitation to take pgrt in the dedi- | cation services, but regrets very much that it will be impossible for | him to do so. “Sincers EVERETT SANDERS, “Secretary to the President.” Grandmother Ordered to Support Grandchildren New Haven, Feb. 16 P—Mrs. Al- {mira Wright must contribute $15 { weekly to the support of her four | grandchildren according to an order | issued today by Judge John Richard | Booth in civil superior court. The order is based on a little known law which provides that grandparents must provide for the support of grandchildren when their parents are unable to do so. 1 Heaton Wright, father of the chil- | |dren is a fugitive from justice on a non-support charge and is also de- fo nt in a divoree action bhrought by Mrs. Ruth E. Wright of Milford. | 1. Direction of the project by the | f. al bond issue is authorized to | Words of praise for the city of | Murder Gonfession to Evangelist Is Legal Wentworth, N. C., Feb, 16 (UP)—A confession of murder allegedly made to an Evangelist is admissible as evidence under the laws of North Carolina, Judge Cameron McRae ruled today in the cage of Mrs. Alma Petty Gat- lin, charged with the axe murder of her father, Smith T. Petty. Attorneys for the accused wo- man based their objections to the confession—which she denied having made—upon the constitu- tional right of religious liberty. They contended such a confession was inviolable under the state law. The Rev. Thomas F. Pardue, Evangelist whose story to au- thorities brought about the de- fendant's arrest, testified Mrs. Gatlin came to him after a reviv- al and said, "I am guilty of mur- asked her no more but ehe wanted to tell more,” he continu- ed asked her if she had killed a grown person, and she replicd: 1 killed my father'.” Pardue was recalled to the witness stand by the state after the court’s decision, to resume his account of events leading up to her arrest. EX-MINE LEADER ing the entire burden and cost upon | the federal government and carry- | 13 SHOT T0 DEATH, {Frank Agatti Slain in Office in Wilkesharre, Penn. SLAYER NAMED T0 POLICE | control on |Witness Says Deposed Union Head | | Killed by Bullets Tired from Coat Pocket by Sam Bonito, La- bor Officer. Wilkes Barre, Pa., I'rank Agatti, deposed president of a Pittston union mine local, |shot ana fatally wounded today in 'the headquarters of District No. 1, United Mine Workers, on the 12th floor of the Bank building was Miners’ |here. District Organizer Anthony Fig- lock told police that Agatti's slayer | was Sam Bonito, present head of the No, 6 local of the Pennsylvania 1igstifanyat Pittston, Fires from Pocket Agatti recelved the contents of a revolver which, according to Fig- lock, Bonita fired from the pocket of his overcoat. Agatti was hurried to Mer minutes later. According to Tiglock, Agatti came to the headquarters to discuss 4 new working agreement with the | company in the mine. Yesterday a sub-committee of the union con- | ferred with company officials and | reported afterward that an agree- | ment had been reached. Agatti was making a report to iglock and August Lippi, interna- | tional board member, when Bonito and two other men burst through | the door and in a twinkling, it is alleged that Bonito fired. Rush from Room Agatti fell to the floor and hard- before Figlock or Lippi realized | what had occurred the 1y the 12 flights of stairs, John 'both members of the d tive staff, strict exccu- were s and his companions rushed {the stairw | Immediately the union officials started after them and summoned a policeman who hurried in pur- suit. Local Union No. 6 has been in constant turmoil for the last year with bickerings over control of the union. Agatti was deposed as pres- ident several months ago. Three weeks ago Thomas was shot and killed as he 1o hi in Pittston. No arrests were Lillis murder. The room where the shooting occurred presented a blood-spattered ppearance when police arrived. Agatti Jay on the floor. steel bullets from the gun used in the Killing shattered = furniture in the place. 'a glass partition and entered an ad- joining office where several girl clerks were at work. Two other bullets broke the only window in the office. The rattle of bullets created ex- citement in more than a nearby offices. This aided the gun- men in escaping. They ran from the suite to the clevator that happene to be at the 12th floor. After get- ting on the car the three men de- scended to the ninth floor where they had the woman operator let hem out. Cop Gives Chase Darting through a corridor the trio reached an annex being adde to the Miners' Bank building. Thei they interrupted a workman and (Continued on Page down Lillis made Eight) THE WEATHER New Britatn and vicinity: Unscttied tonight and Friday; probably rain tonight: not much change in temperature, et Teb. 16 B — | v hospital where he died 20 | trio fled | (I\rough the door and started down | nding in the | At- lobby of the building when Fonito | for the | | Simpson Rose, who introduced him- | Severar | One biillet passed through | score of | COUNGL BALKS AT 212 ML BUDGET ‘Gommittee Meets This Afterooon to Scrutinize Appropriations DISAPPROVES TAX RATE, | Criticism of School Expenses Street Department Factors in jection of Report From Board of | Finance and Taxation, A committee of the common coun- ‘('l| will meet this afternoon to at- | 26% mill tax, a movement which will |necessitate a special meeting of the | board of finance and taxation to- {night, followed by a session of the | |common council. May Decide on 26 Mills | After a day of study, members of |the common council committee ap- pointed to attempt a reduction of the tax rate were prepared to go to |a meeting at the office of Mayor | | Weld this afternoon with suggestions {which, in their opinion, will make it possible to cut the rate from 26% | mills to 26 mills, an increase of 1-2 mill over the current tax. p The_school department, board of public’ works, and the miscellan- u.ous and incidental accounts of all ‘oepartmcnu are (xpectod to bear the {brunt of the “pruning.” It will be I necessary to cut approximately $57,- 000 from the estimates to reduce the figure to 26 mills. The drive against a 26% mill tax |was opened at last night's council meeting by Alderman Frank Zapat- | {ka of the sixth ward after Alderman | William H. Judd of the third had moved adoption of the estimates as | approved b¢ the finance board., The |fifth ward representative amended that the budget go back to the board {of finance und taxation for further |cuts, meanwhile urging that some- thing be done to prevent the placing |of an additional burden on home |owners by excessive taxes. Alderman J. Gustav Johnson of the fourth ward entered into the idiscussion by proposing an amend- ment to the amendment that a com- mittee of five council members be appointed as a special pruning com- mittee to undertake the task of re- duction. | “What does the alderman from the fourth want to do? He comes {in here with this idea like a thun- {derbolt qut of the sky. Is he trying {to be the council's angel?” inquired Councilman Samuel Sablotsky. Alderman Johnson defended his position in favor of lower taxes, Hall Wants to Be Shown Chairman Edward F. Hall of the {finance board was given the floor |and he assured the council members have would be done., Already, requests |been cut which, if allowed, require a 33-mill tax, he said. Reopening of the Monroe school | was suggested by Alderman Zapat- | ka as a method b) which school ex- penscs might be' held down. “The wrhool board might have a little pity | soon after their disappearance on a | on the taxpayers,” mused the alder- man as he resumed his seat. Chairman Hall reminded him that land conditions at that site are not (r‘onllnuvd on Page 15.) REV. A, SIMPSON ROSE. GETS 60 DAYS IN JAIL | Pseudo Minister Guilty of | Issuing Worthless Check Kmetz and Frank S8hifka, | | [ egew Augustus Simpson Rose, patron saint of prisoners, self-styled minister and alleged uplifter of un- | fortunate and downtrodden ex-con- | victs, once the leader of thousands, | cording to himself, told Judg. han A. Schatz | police court this morning that he | Although doubtful that two youths | returned | home after a union meeting | doesn't beli the world. |60 days | It was a far cry ve he has a friend in! He was sent to jail for for sclf to New Britain five years ago this spring as the Rev. A. Simpson | Rose, from the day he faced nearly | 1,000 representative New Britain | men in what at its peak was one of | the world’s largest non-denomina- tional Bible classes to that of & prisoncr in the dock, who admitted that he had signed his name to a check for $100 and he defrauded a woman hotel proprietor. his clerical garb. | missing. In place of the vest and! hen he stood in Trinity Methodist church and pleaded for the much bused citizens of penal Institutions, | [ne wore this morning a negligee | sk t, covered with a yellow sweater. T have not a living relative,” sai | Rose, alias H. H. Horton, to Judge Schatz Tose was charged with having ob- tained money under false pretenses e i Ea . |in B z Py L SR e ihoard during a test fiight, died to- by sclling memberships tn a fake employment agency he conducted in Hartford. A list of memberships, ynot unlike a sucker list, containing | the names of 21 victims from whom he had accepted fees ranging from 25 cents to $3 depending entirely upon the financlal resources of his | clients, showed activities extending tempt further reduction of the city | |budget in an effort to bring about a | his board Is anxious to cut taxes, but | would like to be shown where it can | Gone was | The frock wan} i ) Pacific Steamer President Cleveland Speeding for . Honolulu — 16 Deaths Already — Scourge Has Reached Cabin Passengers. | | | T. H., Feb, 16—(UP)— | The steamship President Cleveland was reported rushing to this port |today after an epidemic of pneu- {monta and smallpox—which already . {has caused 16 deaths — had broken | | out on board. Honoluluy, ‘The most of the deaths, radio ad- | vices sald, have been among the | steerage passengers but the epidemic ‘already has reached cabin passen- | gers. More than 500 passengers ar most of them were said to be ex- cited by the spread of the discase. The steamer made its last stop at the port of Yokohama. Dr. George Belden, ships surgeon, | has worked four days and four nights without rest in an attempt to prevent a spread of the disease, The disease, the dispatches said, was first noted on a steward. It spread rapidly among the etcerage | aboard the President Cleveland and | Average Daily Circulation For reuin - 14,968 Feb, llth PRICE THREE CENTS Liner, with Pneumonia and Smallpox MACMILLAN ERECTS Epidemic on Board, Racing for Port, ‘PALACE' INNORTH LABRADOR WILDS Expedition Conducts Scientific Research Work in Electrically Lighted House; Has Movies and Radio \HOME IS RENDEZYOUS OF NEIGHBORING ESQUIMAUX were | | passengers, Filipinos. | Port physicians already had estab- | |lished emergency health stations to | receive the stricken members of the passenger list of the steamer. They | ! expected the passengers to be trans- ferred to the port immediately upon arrival of the vessel, most of whom San Francisco, Feb. 16 Unusual cold weather ausing suffering among Filipino steerage passengers on the liner | President Cleveland, has resulted in| 116 deaths from pneumonia on the | (UP)— in Japan, hip, a mecssage received from the | ship today said. The tropics-bred Filipinos went on !deck while the ship was in port en route to Honolulu and contracted colds, the message said, Fifteen Filipinos aboard the ship | still were suffering from pneumonia, lit added. | | MISSING DEPUTIES' | BODIES ARE FOUND \Discovered, Face Upward, in Woods Near Danville, I, TWO SOSPECTS ARE HELD | | Discovery of Bodies Today Clears Up Fate of Two Officers Who Disap- | peared Feb, 7—Men Held May Not Be Ones Wanted. Danville,, Tll.,, Feb. of the two missing deputies Lafayette, Ind., were found this morning in a woods at Foster, a lit- tle village between Danville and Cov. ington. They were lying face-upward with arms carefully atraightened at their sides. 16 (®)—Bodies of had not ben determined, due to the fact the coroner and sheriff directs ed the discovercr to permit no one to touch or see the bodies until they disappeared while taking two con- victs to prison, were John P. Grove and Wallace McClure, They disappeared Feb, 7, Ends Long Search, The discovery terminafd more the territory between Lafayette, Ind., and Chicago by hundreds of state and city police. The two convicts, John Burns and Samuel Baxter, be- lieved by police to have been respon- |sible for the disappearance of the Iofllcera, are still at large. The automobile in which the | deputies had started out from Lafay- |ette with the prisoners was found | deserted street at Decatur, 1. The | only indication that a conflict might | | have taken place was a hole in the | Windshield of the car, Which police !sald was caused by a bullet. ; Bodies of the two officers were discovered on the farm of Charles |Abdu| near here. Abdill, in com. pany with two other men, stumbled ross the bodles, covered with ‘hfia\) automobile robe. | tully” dressed. In Remote Place. The farm is remote from any tele- |phone and further news was unob- | tainable, Police belicved the robe to be the {same one which a hack driver told {them he had seen flung across “two They were !bundles” in the rear of a speeding | automobile on the morning of Feb. | 7. The informant, Kcrman Kyle, {who lived near Lafayette, later iden- tiffed pictures of the two convicts, | He said one of them was driving the machine. Identity s Doubtful. St. Clairsville, Ohio., Feb. 16 (P— held here are John Burns and Sam- uel Baxter, who escaped from | deputy sheriffs while being taken to Augustus | an Indiana reformatory, Sheriff Har- | said today they would not \u-‘ desty, | released until their identity is def- !initely established. | The sheriffs denled reports that the pair were identificd, as the two (Conunucd on mge 15. MRS. VANCE'S $2,000 GIFT ACCEPTED BY GOUNCIL | ) | | to be Given to City Treasurer | Tomorrow The common council {cepted a gift of (ground in memory of Robert J. [Vance, & check covering that lamount will be tendered to City row when Mayor W council’'s resolution. he gift was made by Mrs. Robert J. Vanc widow of the former mayor and co | gressman in whose honor the Vance |school is named. The plavground is to be placed in the rear of the school building. A resgolution to accept signs | the gift, | How they came to their deaths | arrived. Namen. of the deputics, who | al Wanted for Murder | | | than a week of intensive scarch of ; | 1 John Burns (top) and Samuel Baxter, wanted for the alleged mur- der of Deputy Sheriffts Grove and McClure of Lafayette, Ind. A na- tion-wide hunt has been instituted for these two men and two suspects now are being held at §t. Clairsville, Ohio. THREE MEN KILLED | Tumbles Into Excavation for 8th Avenue Library in New York New York, Feb. 16 (#) — Three workmen were killed today in a col- lapse of a building on 8th avenue, |near d street. , The building, an unoccupied four |story brownstone house, collapsed into the excavation for the new Eighth avenue subway which was being dug beneath {t. Twenty men were at work in the excavation when |the house fell but first checkups in- killed., The house collapsed with a ter- sending clouds of dust .')ho\l' the tops of sur-| rounding houses. All traiffc was alted and burry calls were sent in for ambulances and police reserves. The first building to collapse was a four story house used as a tool- house by the subway workers. Be- fore the dust from the first crash had settled the houses on each side | |of the first one slid forward into | the excavation. Both of the latter collar which buttoned in the back, Check For Playground Fquipment VUildings were being razed in con- nection with the subway work. Pilot of Airplane in Florida Crash Dead Miami, Fla., Feb. 16 M»—Ray W. ackson, 38, of Miami, injured late yesterday when a seaplane of the ‘uba-America Air Line, Inc., crashed yne Bay with 19 persons | having ac- 000 for a play- The plane was wrecked but other passengers and crew escaped | serious injury. FATALLY INJURED Bridgeport, Feb. 16 UM — Don Burt, . i8 in 8t. Vincent's hospi- |tal with little chamce of recovery through Hartford, New Britain and | with the city's appreciation, was xn,‘frum injuries received when he was acent cities. Makes Restitution to Client To tliese persons, according to De- | tective Rergeant Hallisey of Hartford police, he has made (Continued on Page Eight) the com- troduced at last night's meeting of | {the common council by Alderman Frank Zapatka of the fifth ward. The fund will be turned over to the municipal recreation nn-‘l equipment for the grounds will "be ordered at once. struck by an automobile shortly lafter midnight last night. The driver of the car was Hugo |Wurm of this city. Burt's skull was he reccived probable | juries. AS BUILDING FALLS| dicated that only three had been | Noted Explorer Tells of Work Being Done in Anthropology—Finds Ruins of Many Old Esquimo Vil lages and of So-Called Tunit Race — Belleve Norsemen, Latter Were The Associated Press has in- terviewed by radio Commander Donald B. MacMillan, head of the Greenland expedition of the Field Museum, Chicago, now wintering at Bowdoin Harbor, Field Bay, Northern Labrador. Questions put to Commander MacMillan concerning the expe- ditlon’s scientific work during the winter months, and the ex- plorer's answers, framed in the following dispatch, were trans. mitted between Station WNP on the Bowdoin, the expedition's ship, and Station 1-XV, experi- mental station of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at South Dartmouth, Mass. A wave length of 20 meters was used. ‘The operator with the Mac- Millan party is CliffordE. Himoe of Glendale, Calif., a technology student on leave of absence. C, G. Macintosh, a research stu. dent, handled the Massachusetts end of the communication. By COM. DONALD B. MacMILLAN Bowdoin Harbor, Field Bay, |Northern Labrador, Feb 16 (By Radio to The Associated Preas through Massachusetts Institute of Technology). The Rawson-MacMillan Field Mu- seum expedition established wintep quarters and a permanent scientifie station at Bowdoin Harbor, Field Bay, North Labrador, for the pur- pose of studying the etcorology, cology, botany, zoology and onthrés !poxogy of this reglon which is un. known sclentifically. Though the \Wln(er months are unfavorable for obvious reason for studying many of the ahove subjects, we have made considerable progress and ardid bringing in results which will % great interest to scientists ag h Our greatest work thus fai {been done In anthropology. Dr. can Btrong of the Field Muse Chicago, is now living with the Mus- cople Indians, the first scientist te enjoy this privilege. There is & small but very interesting band living in the interior of Northern Labrador between our station and the George river. Little has ever been written concerning their life, and this little largely inaccurate. Two families are |now in camp here at our station give |ing us an unusual opportunity for | observation. Comfortable Building Our home, a fine large, comforte able building with electric lights, radio and motion pictures is the mecca for all Eskimos. A few days ago we entertained 36 over Sunday. Hardly a day passcs “\NDERSON' S ELECTED 70 SCHOOL CONMITTEE Mayor Weld Discovers Error in Council Resolution Through a clerical crror, the com- mon council last night by unanie mous vote clected “Aaron Andere son” a member of the school come mittee, members of the council evi dently being under the impressiom {they were elccting Aaron Danielson, | the nominee of & republican caucus. The printed resolution signed by | Alderman William H. Judd and read to the council by Town Clerk Alfred {L. Thompson had the fncorrect |name, but the error was not detected until this morning when the docu- jment came before Mayor Weld for | his signature. Since it is necessary for the mayor to sign his name te make the election binding, “Ander- son” is not a member of the commit- tee by virtue of last night's action, At tonight's adjourned meeting, | Mayor Weld will report the condi- |tion and the minutes will be cor- rected, after which Danielson may | quality for office. There is but one Aaron Anderson in the city directory. He is a jani- tor, employed at 31 Howard street. 60 Story Office Building Is Planned for New York | New York, Feb. 16 M—Plans for | the erection of a sixty story office | building towcring 700 feet in helght - on Lexington avenue between Forty Second and Forty-Third streeta, have been announced. The building will tie in height for second place honors with the Metropolitan Life Bullding. The Woolworth tower is 792 feet high. The land on which the building s commission fractured, his right leg broken and ‘to be situated is valued at $4,000,000 internal !ll—[ and the estimated cost of the build- ing is $12,000,000.