New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 17, 1928, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press e W BRITAIN HERALD ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1928 —TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS- SEN. REED SAYS WIDWEST SEARCHED "Hxtford Gil, With Memary Gone, GAPITAL UITY BOY _ = ) ) - BEEN FRIGHTENED | Scores Interstats Commerce Body lor Reversal of Decision DECLARES IT 10 BE “H03T ARBITRARY" CASE 'Tells Senate That Commission is In- timidated by Iufluemce From Pennsylvania That Goes Clear Through to White House—Attack Comes on Eve of Stumping Tour o U 8 Washington, Feb. 17 W"—lnfi‘mi- dation of the state commerce coin-, mission 1n the lake cargo coal rate | case by a political influence eman- | ating from Pennsylvania and run- | ning into the White House itself was charged today in the senate by Sena- tor ‘Reed, democrat, Missour!, Asserting that the commission had | reversed itself in this case so as to favor the coal operators of Pennsyl- vania over those in West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia, Senator Reed declared it had ren- dered a decision “not only revol tionary and unjust,” but “probably | the most arbitrary yet handed down | by a federal board of tribunal.” | Going On Tour. Speaking on the eve of his depar- ture on & stumping tour which is to take him acroms the continent, the | Missour{ democrat said it was “hard | to escape the conclusion that the | Police Scour Gountry for Depu- ties' Youthfal Slayers | MANY SUSPECTS ARE FREED Boys Held in St. Clairesville, Ohio, Fall to be Ideatified as Killers of Indiana Sherifts a Week Ago. Lafayette, Ind., Feb, 17 (UP)— Two youthful convicts, often de- scribed as “just kids,” today were sought throughout the midwest after the finding of bodies of two guards who ed to accompany them to the State Reform school at Pendle- ton. The guards — Wallace McClure and John P, Greve—had been struck over the head and their bodies hid- den, underneath a motor robe, on & farm near Covington, Ind. Boys Gone The youths, Samuel Baxter and John Burns, have not been seen since shortly after they were taken from the jail here to start short seh- tences for larceny at Pendleton. " A vigilant search, which started when the two guards and their pris- oners failed to appear at the re. formatory, was redoubled today es- pecially in Illinois and India Posses searched known districts of Baxter and Burns while alarms were sent nationwide to arrest the two. The two prisoners were seen Danville, 111, shortly after in they | started from Lafayette on February | 7. The motor car in which the quar- tet was riding later was found near Decatur, I1L, its windshield shatter- ed with bullets. In Automobile Burns and Baxer were found | interstate commerce commission re- | guilty in court here of larceny and versed {tself because it sat under the | were sentenced to short terms in the | shadow of the suspects sword of |State Reform school. On February Pennsylvaria,” wielded by Senator |7 they were handcuffed together and Reed, of that state, who, the Mis- placed in the rear seat of a motor sourian said, “possessed the advant- | car to be taken to the reform school. | age of long experience and intimate | The transfer of the prisoners was association with the secretary of the | ontrusted to McClure and Grove, two treasury.,” | deputy sheriffs who never before Recalling that only two years ago | the commission had refused the pe- | tition of the Pennsylvania coal operators for a. higher differential in had transferred prisoners. Both had been employed as police but had not been deputies long. Although McClue and Grove were | i | . of Some Hit and Run Auto Driver ] Miss Sara J. Hutchinson Remembers Nothing i’revions to Her Being Found Unconscious on Washington Street in Capital City on January 30, Hartford, Feb. 17 P—An unlllul’l experience that has deprived Miss Sara J, Hutchinson, 22, a stenogra- | pher at the Phoenix Insurance com- pany, of her memory since January 50 is being investigated by the police who are inclined to believe that she is the victim of a hit and run driver. | Found in Street Miss Hutchingon, daughter of Mr. and.Mrs. John J. Hutchinson of 74 Catherine street, was found lying un- conscious on Washington street at $:30 on the evening of January 30. She had concussion of the brain, and back and hip injuries which necessi- tated her removal to the hospital. She is unable to recall what hap- pened to her, nor can she remember anything of her life previous to the accident, She cannot fully recognize her parents and is aware of their iden- tity only because she has been told who they are. Miss Hutchinson had visited the [ | office of Dr. Thomas F. O'Brien at | 619 Park street, with her mother | only 15 minutes before she was| brought back there by her parents, | |the victim of an experience which ! i Detective Sergeant John D. Me- | Sweegan is trying to explain. | Parted With Mother | After the doctor had treated her | mother, the girl and her mother parted, Mrs. Hutchinson going home and Sara toward the home of a girl friend on Vernon street. When she |reached a point street, between Allen Place and Lin- coln street, something still unex- | plained happened to her for she was | found lying unconscious on the |street, She was taken to Dr.! ;O'Brien'u oftice by her parents and ' | then removed to the Hartford hos- | pital. Later she was transferred to | st Francis' hospital where she is | recovering physically but with no! !improvement in her mental condl-“ | tion. The accident was not reported to the police until February 9. PUBLIC UTILITIES . INQUIRY AT ONCE (Federal Trade Commission to Garry Oat Provisions of Order ‘COAL FREIGHT RATES NEXT | cnator Sackett Wants Investigation —Lobby Probe Also is Demanded —Wheeler Probably Will Head Strike Committee. Washington, Feb. 17 (®—The fed- cral trade commission decided today to proceed immediately to carry out the provisions of the Walsh resolu- rates on coal to the lake ports and | well armed, it was considered almost ;uon calling for an investigation of the nerthwest, the Missouri senator ’an unnecemssry precaution as neither |public utility power corporations, said then it was that the “political | Burns nor Baxster had ever shown | - hattalien' ‘wam-ealled: -jwto mction, real oriminal tendencies. They had | with the Pennsylvania Reed boldly fbeen mischlevous youths and ,had | declaring that Pennsylvania shouls have the agpresentation on the com- | mission conditions of which vania operators complained. “Having lost ' the case upon ""i‘ merits in the court,” he eaid, “It | was now determingd to change the personnel of the court.” | The Missourian reminded the sen- | ate that his Pennsylvania cousin had oposed the nomination of Thomas | F. Woodlock, of New York, to the | commission until he had had assur- | aice from the White House tha: Pennsylvania would be considered | in the next appointment, | “Time ran on,” the speaker. con- tinued, ‘but it did not run very long | until the articles of the treaty or | peace between the senator from Pennsylvan’a and the president were put into force. . i “The term of Commissioner Cox, | one of the commissioners who had | concurred in the majority of opinton (against the Pennsylvania opera- tora) was about to expire. { Good Commissioner. | “He had been a good commiesion- | er. 8o far as T know, neither his | ability nor fidelity had ever been questioned . | “But Pennsylvania had to be tak- ¢n eare of.” The Missourian then told of tne appointment of Cyrus E. Woods, of | Pennsylvania, to succeed Cox and of the rejection of his renomination by the senate, bhecause he 'had been connected with the Pennsylvania | coal industry, both as Attorney and stockholder. { “Under the cirmustances. it would not have been wise to have just them and there appointed another man ltke Wood,” Reed continuea. “so Mr. Brainerd was appointed to fill the meat made vacant by Cox. | And be it said to Brainerd's credit, | he did not undertake to participate | in the decision on rehearing. | “But, nevertheless, the removal o1 Cox had removed one of the ob- stacles to the reversal of the case. “The term of Commissioner Esch about to expire. s emoluments and honors were, of course, dependent upon reap-! pointment. } “He must have known of the threat of Senator Reed that)Penn- | sylvania proposed to be represented. “He had doubtless observed that the senator from Pennsylvania had climbed to the very apex-of political power and influence. | Cox Removed. | “J doubt not that the commission- | er often | viewed with disconsolate | eyes Cox's scalp already suspended | from the pole of the Reed tepee. He ! naturally desired to avoid-a similar fate. | “*Cox had been removed. And upon rehearing, although'the case had been fully tried in the first in- | stance and there had been mo change in conditions, Esch and Atchison charged their votes and rendered a decision fixing the dif- ferential at the point demanded by | the Pennsylvania interests.” i . 4 $350,000 FIRE LOSS Providence, R. 1, Feb 17 (P—A $250,000 fire partially <destroyed the | Rhode Island Processing Co. mill at Coventry Center early today. The blage was said to have started Vromi spontaneous gombustion of waste Firemen from Providence and near- by communities responded. sotten into trouble over thefts, When the motor car falled to ap- lated farming section—a search was started for the quartet. It was feared Burns and Baxter had overpowered i the two deputles, taken command of |or clsewhere, which ma the car, and kidnaped their officers. 5 in Danville Later the youths were reported in Danville, JIl, but no one saw the two deputies. car was found. For a time a posse of 1,000 men covered the district between here and Pendleton and even extended into Illinois in an ef- fort to locate either the deputies or their prisoners. Numerous youths rested and found to be not the con- victs. Only a few days ago two young men were arrested at St. Clairesville, O., as suspects but the identification was found untrue. Bodies of the deputies were found vesterday by Charles Abaill and an | autopsy showed wounds on the heads of the two men. There was no indication they had been shot. AMERICAN HARDWARE PROFITS $2,510,381 Dividends of $2,480,000 Paid in 1927—Surplus Is $3,040,487 Net profits of the American Hardware Corp. for the year 1927 are estimated 'at $2,510,581.38, ac- cording to the financial statement issued today in connection with the call for the annual meeting of stockholders on February 29 at = p. m. These figures were arrived at by subtracting $368,826.36 for de- preciation from the profits after re- serve pdjustment, which amounted to $2,879,207.74. The surplus January 1, 1927, was $3,010,105.82 Dividends of $2,480,000 were paid. The surplus on January 1, 1925 was $3,040.487.20. 3 The corporation's statement of, assets follows: 26th annual and liabilities Aserts January 1, 1927 Caslt w538 Bills and Accounts Receivable Real Estate, Tools, Fixtures, Machinery Materials and Merchandis ash dn Bills and Acooun Real Estate, T Machinery erials and Me: Linbilities, January ‘1 Capital Stock . In Treasury Bills and _Accounts Payable Dividend Payable January 1 Surplus Viabilities, January 1 Capital Stock & A In Treasury Bils and _Accoums Payable Dividend Payable January 1 Surplus 8till later the motor | have been ar- | on! The commission adopted a resolu- tion 'In which it was made clear {‘lhnt the inquiry will be carried on i “in strict and full compliance” with hich would correet the |pear at Pendleton—which is abput the terms of the Walsh resolution the Pennsyl- 70 miles away through a well-popu- and that in making the investigation |the commission would rely on all powers “legally available to fit, whether contained in its organic art | v conduce to a diligent and complete perform- |ance of the ends and purposes sct forth.” Washington, Feb. 17 (UP)—A | resolution calling for investigation | of coal freight rates fixed by the in- ! terstate commerce commission was introduced in the senate today by | Senator Sackett, republican, Ken- | tucky. Sackett’s resolution calls particu- |lar attention to the commission’s lake cargo freight rate decision as a | | subject for investigation, and pro-| | poses that the inquiry he conducted by the senate interstate commerce committee, A similar proposal by Senator | Reed, republican, Pennsylvania, in- {troduced as an amendment to the Johnson resolution for investigation | ot conditions in the bituminous coal | fields, was defeated yesterday. Lobby Probe Waunted The scnate independent group, defeated in efforts to obtain a sena- torial investigation of the so-called |power combine, has hcld a confer- ‘cnce to draw a resolution for an investigation of the lobby which ft believes killed the Walsh resolution the United Press learned today. Senator Walsh of Montana sai! the power lobby was the biggest he ever had seen in his years of ex- perience in Washington. Members of the group said today they expect a resolution for the in- vestigation_to be introduced next tweek., Tt" would direct a special senate committee to ascertain the amount of money and influence (Continued on Page 24) BOY FALLS INTO POOL; SAVED FROM DROWNING Lad Five Years “Old Drops Into Water in Vacant Lot While Crossing Plank, Wilham Coogan, 5, son of Mr.and Coogan of 134 Dwight | | Mrs. R T |street, was saved jdrowning yesterday about 2:45 o'clock, from possible afternoon at when Arthur man employed by the board of pub- | The child, with several {Roxbury road and Brighton street |and, according-to the story told by his playmatés, . William was croms. {ing a plank which had been laid over a part of the small pond. He lost his footing and fell in. For- tunately Sorel happened to be passing the spot at the time. He {heard the child's cries for help and {he waded into the water and res- cued him. William was taken to the home of Mrs. George Kinkade of Brighton stregt, with whom he was visiting. He appeared to suffer no ill effects from his experience. others. ITALIANS TO HAVE - INDUSTRIAL BANK }Apply o State for Permission to Start Business (OFIGE IN BOOTH BLOG on Washington |* HE STABBED GIRLS Lorenzo Desmarais Tells Hart- lord Police of Knile Attacks | on Three Young Women POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED | BY ONE OF THE YIGTIIS; Arrested on New Britain Avenue | Thursdey Night After Two Wom- | en Screamed on Seeing Him Ap- proach—Admits That Be Has Re- | sided in Bridgeport Where Others | Were Stabbed. Hartford, Feb. 17 ® — Lorenzo | Desmarals, 17 years old, suspected of being the “Phantom Stabber” | whose knife blade thrusts in the | breasts of women have terrorized | persons in this and other cities of the state during the past several | months, today confessed to the local | police that he is the man who stabbed Miss Bertha Talmadge of | 11 Benton street, Mrs, Eleanor Ol- | on of 6 Grandview terrace and Miss Mabel Bowyer of 65 Flatbush | ‘avenue in this city. There have been | i |about 25 cases of similar stabbing gispatch from Ypkohama says the | in Bridgeport during a period of 33 months, Miss Talmadge was attacked near | | Wethersfield avenue and Benton {or more than 150 miles south of | Difficulties street, December 21; Mra. Olson on |Henry street, January 3, and Miss | killed. i Bowyer on New Britain avenue, | January 24. ADOPTED BY COUNCIL AFTER DISPUTE, BECAUSE OF CUTS IN APPROPRIATIONS SHPPERANDI3 e, OF CREW ILLED| 255 Morgan, an Erie railroad auditor, playing bridge in the club car of AN 1| @ Detroit-to-Washington train 1 * ] 1ast night, held thirteen spades oll Tmnl‘ Blo‘s Ul] m SIEKS‘ and didn’t know what to bid. OF dapanese Const. | — The bridge speclal immediately :| was thrown into a furore and 21 PERsoNs ARE RESGUED\ peace settled down only after | Morgan, ignoring the advice of | Of These, Several Are Badly Injur-, Those who plaved with Morgan were E. R. Woodson, secretary of the Railway Accounting Offi- cers’ Association, who opened the Maxwell, of Baltimore, who call- ed two hearts. Morgan had the last bid and all the spades in the deck. ed—Vessel Left San Pedro, Cali- | fornia, On January 19 Bound For | Twenty other bridge fans on the same car dropped their cards and tried to tell him. his envious but unwelcome guests, bid four spades and cleaned the board. S {| bid with one heart; A. T. Martin, Tokyo, Feb. 17 UP—The captain || gouthern Railway freight official, and thirteen members of the crew || who bid two diamonds, and T. H. of the oil tanker Chuky were killed ' when the vessel exploded at sea last | Wednesday. i A trawler arrived here today and landed 21 survivors of the disaster, | several of whom were injured. The | IR L g NOT SUE SHALL dro, California to Japan. Lloyds Has Dispatch London, Feb. 17 (M—A Lloyds'| BANK NnTEs TILL qug | tanker Chuky was blown up and sank at the approximate position of 33 north longitude, 140 east latitude | Have Cropped | Out at Bureau of En- Fifteen of the crew were Twenty-one other members of the crew were saved by fishermen Tokye, Sorel of 38 Beavgr street, a fore- | lic works, rescued him from a pool | _|of water in a lot near Roxbury road. | had, been playing in the vicinity of | s | Makes Comparison {Paid in Caplalisation. of 8108000 | . conromion tollowed identin- Assured—Hearing Expected to Be cations by Hartford people who had Iscen the stabber, Held Soon—Other Banks in City | Lined up with seven young men 2 3 ‘of similar physical appearance in Reporied. Approving Move, Ithe detective bureau at Application was made today to the headquarters today, Desmarais was {state banking commissioner by a [Pointed out by Miss Talmadge as |group of Italian business and pro- (the man who attacked her several | fessional men in this city for per- Wecks ago. Desmarais, who was {mission to start a new industrial captured late last night, lamong the Italian people. It will iwhose {dentity was not disclosed, be known as The Citizens’ Industrial | but who is sald to have taken part 1bank, The application tontains a list of {of the | man !1 incorporators which includes a !stabbing. banker, a newspaper publisher, 8| All the young mey in the group lawyer, several contractors, an un- were instructed to don their hats |dertaker, a provision merchant, a and turn up their coat collars be- | dentist, and a physician. !fore the witnesses were led into the 1t Is expected the state bank com- yoom to make their identifications | missioner will grant a hearing soon | Knife Found Nearby |and the new hank will be under way | \yith the finding of & sharp- the first of April. The corpora- |j,iadeq, |by the | long-handled knife within tion will start with a paid in Capital- |5 feet of the §pot where the youth ization of $100,000. | be : - gan his dash {0 escape arrest last Tt Is understood the movement has i,y ' oy 00, 0 TEHPE BITETE 90T {the approval of the established | banks in the clty. ' The incorporators | \SDter today around the suspect. are Afttorney Gerard Casale, Dr. "'mm", Frank Santoro, head of the Henry F. Diana, Girolamo P. Tran- |f¢¢elive bureau received word chida, Antonio DiMauro, Angelo To- | (rom Detective Bergeants John F. \nasse, Joseph Gaeta, Etfisio Anscr. Madigan and Patrick J. Sheren that !mo, James A. Spinetta, Nicola Lar- 'N® Weapon had been found at 10 ala, Harry Battiston!, Dr. Vincent F. |0'clock this morning. The accused el |was arraigned before Judge Nathan 1t is planned to establish banking |4 Schatz in police court today. headquarters at 259 Main street, on | Prosecuting Attorney Joseph B. thé second floor of the Booth block. |Grifiin informed the court that R A while the charge against Desmarais BRI“GEPmT L“VER IS was breach of the peace, the com- plaint read against him was of a technical nature and that it was Ibelieved by the authorities that he Has Two Men Arrested, Charging They Have Defrauded Him following a' recent !is the stabber who has terrorized {women in Bridgeport and Hartford ,during the past year or more. | Case Continued He requested a continuance to {February 23 in order to give th police an opportunity to prosecute their investigation. Judge Schatz fixed the bail at $2,000. The pris- oner is small and of slender build and has the ‘pasty face and long nose” referred to in nearly all the Bridgeport, Feb. 17 UP— Michael ] ireported descriptions of the stabber. .nd Sarah Makazzion are under ar- rest here s & result of Peter Ha- - goutian's love affalr. Hagautian, Women Give Tip Swner of a confeetionery store, met | The confessed stabber was captur- o Mise Avalay Baidition here iy ¢4 by Sergeant Willlam J. Noonan 1926 and fell deeply in love with her, |3 f°W minutes after 10 o'clock last He b e e oo WHARRE IniglE ot New: Belliin® ayenus)and Zlon strect. The search bezan about and it was agreed that they chould | 21" ¢ 3 Sl d that they 9 o'clock with an augmented force Miks Haltition, fiomever. cl); dt(}-](:tct:‘vm:vand n:trnlmon assigned Ui ection when a report was e b edinson teceived at headquarters from Po- S DU kel liceman Swedberg that the suspect Whils waillog’ for hov. 5 o0t Iy bocy weph By two wornen, Bhrs back, Hagoutian has received several 'Goorve § “Luhin and Miss Mabells, letters through the Makaszions in | Gajhreat, who were standing on the which his sweetheart has suggested | frony porch of their home in Mount- that a diamond ring, a fur coat, and rorq street. He walked toward furnishings for their house would \them from the street. The women be in order. Hagoutlan claims 10 lgcreamed and the youth fled, have given the Makazzions cash Of | gergeant Noonan. riding in a po- approximately $13.000 to make jice car. saw the suspect near the these little purchases before he be- |corner of Hillside and Sherbrooke came suspicious and, wondering Why |ayvenues. The youth ran as the ser- the girl did not write him direct, |geant approached but he was cap- took his suspicions to the police. | tured after a chase. The police eay that the Makaz-, He was returned to Mountford zions, working with a confederate street and identified by the two wo- in Washington got all the money. imen. Until his confession this noon, Hagoutian intended for his sweet- he stoutly maintained that he had heart and that the letters which |zone to Hillside avenue to “meet a they received and read to him were |fellow” but he was unable to sup- written by the confederate. port this story. | Desmarais 8 a lather by occupa- M“fit vaide “‘.y to tion and for the past two months or Get Oranges for Liquor iso had been living in a rooming Washington, Feb. 17 house on Frout street. He came (UP)—In | here from Bridgeport. Before mak- urging dredging of Charlotte harbor, ing his home in Bridgeport he lived Florida, Dep. Drane, dem., Florida, |in Holyoke, and before going to told the rivegs and harbors commit- tee today that people in the United Btates are drinking so many cock- | tails that additional harbor facilities | left for { saying that (Continued on Page 25) ———at are needed to get out the, Flor!dzi I ‘grnpv{rult and oranges. THE WEATHER —_— i ‘ GOT $20,000 | La Grange, Ga.. Feb. 17 (UP)- |Using acetylene torches, burglars | |broke into the post office safe here | | 'carly today and escaped with $20,- | ! 1000 in cash. New Britain and vicinity: Unnettled, probably rain to- | night and Saturday; colder | tonight. | % !in-one of the unsuccessful pursuits ;and landed today at Misaka, Japan. Left on January 19 San Pedro, Cal., Feb. 17 (#—The oil tanker Chuky left here January |19 for Tsurumi, Japan. At that |time she was listed as being operat- |of New York. She In registered un- |der the ownership of the Sheridan ! Steamship company of London. | The Chuky wus a vesscl of 7335 | here. 4 T Tokio. Feb. 17 (UP)—The cap- graving, Causing Delay ! | Washington, Feb. 17 (UP)—The treasury definitely decided today to | Mechanical difficultics at the bu- | reau of engraving and printing and protests from banks and business {bank, doing business principally |picked from a group by a citizen | The size of the erew is not known 'jntengeq to use in distributing the | | new notes caused the delay. | Treasury autherities originally delay issuing smaller bank notes un- | police | ed by the Chile Steamship company | til after January 1, 1929, |Points Out Only 10 | Members, One-Third of dovernment, Voted | for its Passage. EFinance Board Stands by Original Recommenda- tion, Learning That Cuts Were Arbitrary. Mayor Weld declared today that | Lie is considering vetoing the resolu- I tion passed last night by the come mon council establishing the tax rate at 26 mills based on approprias- | tions which a council committee ad- {mitted has been arbitrarily slashed at a conference in the afternoon. [ The tax ratc was adopted only after |lengthy discussion, Before the reso- {lution can become effective it must | bear the mayor's signature. | “Only 17 members of the common { council were present at the meeting fand only 10 voted for it.” Mayor | Weld said in explanation of his | present intention to use his power of veto. “These 10 represent just one- {third of the council membership, jone-third of the city gofernment, | Many voted for it without knowing what they were voting for. Some voted for the lower tax rate because the spring elections are coming on.” | Mayor Weld added that he hesi- l(:\lt‘l to veto the resolution only be- | cause it would delay the levying of !the tax and the appropriation ef | funds for departments. Mayor Weld will take no action cither way today, but by tomerrow |when he has given the matter fur- !ther study he will make his deci- |sion. Mayor Weld indicated he weyld |call a special meeting of the coun- was also | Kr06s tons, built in Glasgow in 1922, imen on methods the government ;cil within 24 hours after hig veto, £ he decides to take this action. today as to whether legally if he- council’'s action, _the | Questioned {he would be acting ivetoed the {taln and thirteon rnembers of the !planned to iasue on Oct. 1, 1928 one- mayor said he belleved that |crew of the British tanker Chuky {were killed when the ship's cargo of 70,000 cans of petroleum explod- ed, a telephone message from No- |jima, in China province, said today. Fishermen, hastening to the res- cue, saved twenty-one officers and men from the ill-fated ship. LEVIATHAN GROUNDED ' BUT IS NOT DAMAGED Giant Liner Goes Ashore | Near Southampton | Early Today Southampton, Eni Feb, 17 (M— The United States liner Leviathan | went ashore near Calshot at the head of Southampton water, on her ar- rival here today, but aided by four tugs she moved faster and it ap- peared that she would be able to proceed to her dock. New York, Feb. 17 (®--Harold A. Cunningham, wartime navigating fficer of the Leviathan and recently ppointed commodore of the United States Lines fleet, was making his first trip as captain of the liner when it went ashore Southampton today. Captain Cunningham succeeded Captain Herbert Hartiey, whose resignation became effective when the Leviathan last docked here. Among the prominent names on the passenger list for the present trip were those of Eamon de Valera, Irish republican leader, Ogdon H. flammond, United States ambassador to Epain, and his family, and Frank 'A. Vanderlip, financier. | The liner left here with about 1,- 000 passengers, but §0 per cent of them had left the ship at Cherbourg. Officials of the United States lines pointed out.that when the ship went ashore it must have been in the hands of a channel pilot to whom Captain Cunningham would have turned over control for the crossing trom Cherbourg. The Leviathan is the largest, though not the longest, passenger ship in the world. It has a gross tonnage of 59,957 and a length of 907 feet, eight fect shorter than the Malegtk. ‘J ury Is Discharged | After Disagreement Ottawa, T, Feb. 17 ®—The jury which for four days deliberated th fate of Harry Hill, charged with wlllin' his mother, was discharged |today” after it reported a disagree- | {ment. | Twice before the jurors had ported they were unable upon a verdict, but e sent back by Judge Davis for fur- ther deliberation. They had been jout approximately 70 hours. The jury received the case Tuesday after- noon at two o'clock. The final vote of the jury was 9 to 3 for conviction, with a peniten- |tiary sentence of 14 years, the mini- mum, it was revealed after the jury had been discharged. For the first 24 hours after the jury retired the vote was seven to re- | five for conviction with a sentence 'of life imprisonment. great | near ch time were | | dollar bills of the new size, about cone-third smaller than the present bills. { Some business men and banks | contended it was impracticable to | have different sized notes in cirula- tion at one time. The treasury then decided to delay circulation of one dollar bills until |all the new money, running in de- | nomination from $1 to $10,000 was | ready for diatribution. ‘This brought protests from federal Reserve Bank that changing all out- |standing bank notes at one time would be too great a task. It was pointed out that $1 bills constitute {53 per cent of all paper money and that changing the one dollar notes | first and the larger denominations {1ater would lighten the task of fe {eral banks. The treasury has now decided that | no new currency would be issued for one year or more, and that should all denominations be issued at one time it would delay distribu- | tion at least until October 1929. ' INJURED IN TAKE-OFF OF PLANE ON SKIS Plane Wrecked and Lieut. H. L. | Prindle Seriously Hurt Attempt- | ing to Leave Rough Snow. Levering, Mich., Feb, 17 Lieutenant Hoyt L. Prindle, 23, Santa Maria, Calif, crashed today when he attempted to take off in an army pursuit plane equipped with skis from a rough snow-cov- ered ficld near here. He was se- riously injured. Prindle was a pilot of the First Pursuit corps. United States service, engaged in a good will tour 'of northern Michigan's snow coun- try. The 12 planes had been twice delayed by a winter storm and were (rr)— 23, of attempting to get back on schedule |’ iwhen the crash occurred. was wrecked. Prindle received several broken ribs, numerous cuts and probably internal injuries. Lieutenant Joseph G. Hopkins, another pilot. of the squadron, obtained an automobile \and started a 20-mile trip with the injured officer through snow-block- ed roads toward Petoskey, the nearest hospital town. Other planes of the squadron flew on to Traverse City, headed by Major Thomas G. |Lanphier, flight commandant. Captain C mpbeTS—peeda At Better Than 193 Miles Daytona Beach, Fla., Feb. 17 (P |—Captain Malcolm Campbell of England, driving his Bluebird Spe- cial, was timed unofficially at 193.- 02949 miles an hour in a prelimin- ary test today in preparation for an jattempt to break the automobile speed record of 203.7 miles an hour. He announced that he expects to His planc morrow. INDICTED FOR FRAUD New York, Feb. 17 UW—Percy Jay | Fuller, formerly engaged in business under the name of Morgan Harwood & Co., Investment brokers, was in- dicted today by the federal grand jury for using the mails to defraua. air | {essay the record breaking run to- | wea |acting within the city ordinanges, ‘but added that he would ask Cor- poration €ounsel John H. Kirkham for a ruling it he should decide to juse veto power. Mayor Warns of Special Tax Agalnst the advice of Mayor Weld, the warning by Finance Board |Chairman E. F. Hall that their a {tion would be almost certain to lead {10 a special tax, and the unanimous vote of the board of finance and taxation in opposition, the council jreduced the tax rate from 26 1.2 imills to 26 mills after cutting the estimates in nearly 40 instances. A special committee of five mem- ‘bcrs of the common council had been in session for one hour in the afternocn and during that period {hacked off $59.676, more than $2.- 500 in excess of what was necessary, {to bring about one half mill eut. Members of the board of finance and taxation met in the evening and, after hearing Councilman Don- ald L. Bartlett explain where the cuts had been nrade, inquired 1whether hearings were given de- partment chairman or if the redue. tions were made arbitrarily, When he replicd that the latter was true, the commissioners voted to “stand by their guns,” and again recom- mended the 26 1-2 mills tax, As the finance board sat in the spectators’ gallery, the council on recommendation of Alderman Wal. ter L. Falk, voted 10 to 8 in favor of the cut. Appropriations Affected The reductions affected in appro- priations previously approved by the finance hoard wer School department: Printing, $35u; supplies. $2,900; text books, $2,000; Tepairs, $4,500; insurance, 86,000, which was found to be an excess due 'to a mistake in the figuring when this appropriation was requested; miscellaneous, $1,200. 3 Public works: automobiles, $1.000; cleaning streets, $2,000; engineering aud office supplies, $2,000; general puir of streets, $3,000; macadam repair, $2,000; oiling of streets, $2 |800; permanent pavement repaing 1$1,200; salaries, $816; semi-perman- |ent pavement repairs, $1,200; store- house and yard, $1,000; new tools, £2,000; grading. $1,500; new macad- 'am. $2,000; stone traveled ways. §5,0 400; permanept pavement, $2,000. Tolice department: gasoline and 10il, $100; automobile repairs, $120; incidensals, $250; garage rental, $120; new traffic signals (cut en- |tirely.) $1,650; new cable (cut en- {tirely) $800; police equipment, $500; |new automobile for detectives, (eut entirely) $600. Health department: Office and la- bratory, $180; printing. $70; finci- dentals, $100; maintenance of auto- | mobiles, $300. | Fire department: Incidentals, fuel, £100; fire alarm system, repairs to buildings, $200; for remodeling No. 4 fire station, $2.900. In the special appropriations fund, the item for street improvement was cut from $20.000 to $18,000. In the |category qf general government tnci- !dentals, $4,000 was cut from the to- [tal of $40,000. Cuts Unanimously Recommended | The reductions voted were rec- {ommended for the most part hy Councilman Bartlett, but in every linstance were made by unantmeus {vote of the committee which had a8 lits members. besides Bartiott Al |derman J. Gustav Johnsom. Alder- I (Continued on Page 16)