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|4 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN HERALD [==1is ) NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1928.—EIGHTEEN PAGES M WELD SIGNS 26 MILL BUDGET, SR PUTS ONUS ON CITY COUNCIL Responsllnllty for Cn'rymg on Work with Reduced Ap- | OF JACK FROST AS | SNOW STORM RAGES Forr 1o Soun Inches Have' Fallen in Chicago and Tralfic “Tienps Have Resulted | COLD WAYE IS MOYING IN EASTERLY DIRECTION| Woather Bureau Experts Predict | That Tonight and Tomorrow Will | See Drop in Temperatures Along Adantic Scaboard—Snow and Rain Today is General in Eastern Sections. Chicago, Feb. 18 (P—Mid-west reports of an early spring, harbin- gered by robina and budding lilacs, were smothered today beneath a six inch blanket of snow. Two deaths and numerous injuries | were attributed to the storm which swept over Chicago yesterday, fol- lowing several weeks of spring-like weather. In Waukegan, a suburb, Masesie Lrown, 12, was killed by an auto- mobile while playing in the snow with two other girls, who were{‘ severely injured. The driver of the car said he did not see them until | too late because of the snow. | Fred Mann, owner of the Rainbo Gardens, cabaret, was scriously in- ured when a taxicab in which he was a passenger, collided with an- | other automobile. | Clowdy and Colder, | Weather bureau forecasts were udy and colder with a possible minimum temperature of § to 10 above zero. Air mail service was at a virtual standstill, only one plane arriving here and but tawo leaving. Ordinarily there are 18 daily each way. Fliers Forced Down. A party of five Chicago golfcrs, | who took off in an airplane during | the storm to play golf with friends | in Valparaiso, Fla., were forced | down at Evansville, Ind,, by forma tion of fce on the wings about an hour later. They planned to resume the flight as soon as wcather condi- | tiong permit, The city, the park boards and the | transportatfon lines, put thousands of men at work to keep the high- | ways and tracks open. | Taxicab companies reported the higgest rush since New Yeare. Milwaukee had a snowfall of thres inches and reported the tem- pérature at 10 degrees above zero at 2 a. m. today. At Bt. Paul it was 7 above and clear at the same hour. Mid-West Hard Hit. Chicago, Feb, 18 (UP)—Sharp drops in temperature, after a blind- ing snow storm, crippled traffic and brought suffering to Chicago and the mid-west today. One man was killed and two othera injured in a train wreck, at- tributed indirectly to the blinding snow storm. Between four and seven fnches of | snow were on the streets of Chicago and the downfall continued this morning. Cold weather was predict- el to continue through today but there was promise of relief for Sunday. : (Contmuul on Page Two) EARTHQUAKE EXPERT | MAKES PREDICTIONS Prof. Bendandi Warns of | Dicturbances, Probably | Sunday Night [ Faenza, Italy, Feb, 18 (UP)—A | series of earthquakes tomorrow night in Alaska, Mexico, Jugoslavia | and Italy, to be followed by “new ' terrific disturbances” in Africa and the 1r East on February 26 and 27 were forecast today by Prof. Bendandl, noted seismic expert. A statement issued by Prof. Ben- dandl, whose successful forecasts of | carthquakes have made him world | famous, said: “A series of powerful earthquakes | again is imminent in various zones | of the globe. “These telloric crises will begin Sunday night with violent quakes in Alaska, followed by minor reper- | cussions in Mexican provinces and | also in southern Jugoslavia. | “These earthquakes will syn- chronize with slight registrations in Italy. “This resumption of seismic ac- tivity will be followed by a brief | period of calmness. “Then. at the end of the month— namely, on the 26th and increasingly on the 27th—new terrific disturb- ances will be registered in Africa and the Far East. i “(Signed), i “RAFFAELE BENDANDL" SNIPER STILL ACTIVE J., Feb. 18 (UP)—Ef- capture the “phantom of Camden were redoubled | today after the mysterious raider | had made his 34th attack. The latest attack tpok place at the home of Leon Boscove where a window was shattered. A short time before the sniper fired through a window of the | | Dudley public hool, terrifying | class, {and Dr. William R [ed it wrecked the rich | like O'Banion, f | suggested that stiff penalties impos- scveral score children in a first grade i £3 iations Put Squarely Up to Legislative Branch of Government——E\tn Tax Can Be Levied if Necessary, is Attitude of Executive. Mayor Weld today signed the 26- | wills’ budget, mehnwhile issuing a statement putting up to the mem- | bers of the common epuricil the re- sponsibility for carrying the city through the year on the reduced ap- propriations. | “I expressed myself freely at the | council meeting the other night, and I feel the common council must now | | do what it has promised—keep down to an amount within | allowed. It is expenditures the appropriations something in the nature of an ex- periment, and if we find it is not possible to carry through we can lay | an extra tax." The mayor's announcement made following a with Chairman Edward I°. Halt of the board of finance and taxation. Senator Hall declared before going into the conference he would be in- was clined to recommend that the mayor | (Continued on Page 14) CHICAGO BOMBERS AGAIN ARE ACTIVE Two Buildings in Separate Parts | of City Are Damaged N0 PERSON IS INURED Owned Undertaking Establishment by City Judge Partly Blown up as | is Garage Known as Gangster Hangout. Chicago, Feb. —{(A—Dynamite bombs, silent for three weeks, ripped their way through two buildings in 18 | eeparate parts of the city last night. The home and undertaking estab- lishment of Municipal Judge John A. Sbarbaro on North Wells strect was bombed almost at the same time that a blast tore away a portion of the Century Garage on West Harr son street—a place frowned upon by | police and federal agents as a hungs(er hangout. Another Defiance Coming less than a month after bomb attacks against the homes of City Comptroller Charles Fitzmorris id, both of whom are close allies of Mayor' Thompson, the bombing of Judge Sbarbaro's home and business place was looked | upon by police as another deflance of the administration for its war up- on organized crinie. The Century Garage bombing puzzled police, although they were agreed the motive undoubtedly was | rooted in gang rivalry. It was in front of this garage last Tuesd that Teadore (Nigger) Goldbergh, Known as a strong-arm man for a vice and gambling syndicate, was | shot down and fatally wounded. No One s Hurt was hurt although Judge and Mrs. No one at cither place, Sbarbaro, occupying the third floor of the Wells street building, were thrown from bed by the force of the explo- sion. Windows two blocks away werc shattered. The homb had been placed near | the front entrance. When it explod ‘furnished funeral chapel which takes up much of the first floor. It was from this chapel several years ago that the gun-guarded casket of Dion O'Banion, florist-gangster, was tak- en in one of the costlicst, strangest rals Chicago ever had seen. The same chapel served for the funeral | of Vincent (Shemer) Drucei \A‘lm.i I before the bullets | of gang vengeance. | Damage 15 $10,000 Judge Sbarbaro, who estimated his bomb damage at $10,000 was un- able to offer a motive. He doubted that politics had any conncction. He fune ed recently in his court in an effort to break up nbling may have | heen responsible. Police learned that baro received an phone his life, Threats also had heen made to | Frank Lauer, owner of the Century | Garage. Lauer said that he had re- ceived a telephone call in which the | voice at the other end of the wire | had said: Threat Made Good Judge Sbar- anonymoua tele- threat Wednesday against “It ‘Nigger' Goldberg dics, your joint will be blown up.” Goldberg dled early yesterday. The warning was relayed to police who stationed four officers at the garage. The policemen were on duty near the front of the building when the explosion knocked over the rear wall, demolished one scction and damaged surrounding places. One patrolman was knocked down by the | force of the explosion, but uninjur- | ed. HEAVY SNOWFALL Boston, Feh. 17 (UP)—New Eng- land today experienced its heaviest snowfall of the winter. | Three inches of snew covered the ¢round in Boston at 9:30 a. m. and | other mections reported a greater | depth. | The weather bureau predicted | that the snow would continue | throughout the day and that Bos- | iton’s total fall would be at least six inches. Mild temperatures provafled in | imost parts of the six states. E— % THE WEATHER 1 | i New Britain and vicinity: Cloudy and slightly colder to- night, preced rain Sunday colder. CHOOSE ARGHITECT FOR H.5. Al][]lTIl]N; Lansing, Mich., Firm Gets Con- tract to Draw Plans . DECISION NOT - UNANIMOU i Several Local Architects in Compe- tition But Are Outvoted—Cost of | Complete Building Expected to be | Approximately $500,000, The Warren Co. of Lansing, Mich., was selected to prepare plans for an addition to the Senior High school at a meet- ing of the school accommodations committee yesterday The Michigan concern in competi- tion with several architect: and the d was made only afte bate, and was not unanimous. The proposed building is to be placed between the two school build- ings, the academic and vocational, which now stands within a short dis 8. afternoon. local v lengthy de- tance of each other on Bassett street. Equipped, it is expected to |cost nearly 3500,000. Favorable a tion by the school committee by the board of finance and taxation must be taken before work may proceed. The cost of construction of building under the Michigan archi- tect's plan was equalled by one of the local architects, it was learned today. A special meeting of the hoard has been called by President P, I. King for next Tuesday after- noon at which the school accom- modations committee will make its recommendation, Unusual Accommodations According to plans of the Holme: Powers Co., the proposcd building | | will two gymnasiums, one for boys and one for girls cach of which will have 4,000 fect of floor pace. The building will also have a cafeterin which will accommodats 000 pupils and an auditorium \\lmh will seat 2,000, A library adequate to take care nr the enrollment of the entire scheol will be constructed in the new build There will be 20 class rooms available, including room: constructed in the academic build ing space which the-anditorium and gymnasium now oceupy. All the offices which are the vocational and academic ings will be housed in the new ing, according to the plans. W in build- build- Public Audito The audiforium will rescmble @ (Continued on Pige 13) long conference EIGHT ARE MISSING AFTER FERRYBOAT CRASH IN FRISCO Officials of Key System Translt Gompany Unable to Aocount for Several Persons BOAT SINKS, NOSE DOWN, | IN WATERS OF THE BAY| | | i | \ | i 1"[: Wave Strikes Ferry Causing ! Craft to Tilt—Frenzied Passel ncers! i Rush Forward, Causing Vessel 1o Go Down By the Bows—Many Heroic Rescues Are Reported By ‘Witnesses, San Francisco, Feb, 18 (#—Con- fronted with reports indicating that | | cight of 20 or more persons swept | |into San Francisco Bay last night | from the ferryboat Peralta were | | missing, officials of the Key Route | Transit System, which operates the | vessel, today announced they could Gerard Does Not Want “Dawn” Shown Here || New York, Feb. 18 UP—The proposed showing in the United States of the British moving pic- ture “Dawn,” depicting the life and death of the war nurse Edith Cavell, cxecuted by the Germans in Belgium, has brought indica- tions of renewed trouble for the film in this country. Announce- ment has been made by Arch Selwyn that he haa bought the American rights to the picture. The Berlin foreign office made a protest against the showing of the picture in England and James W. Gerard, former ambassador to Germany, threatens court ac- tion if an attempt is made to show it here, Mr. Gerard said he would do everything in his power to pre- vent its presentation, “applying if necessary to the courts for an injunction on the ground that such exhibitions would be con- trary to public poliey.” ' FRIDAY UNLUCKY DAY AT SEA FOR FIVE BIG BOATS Death Toll of Maritime Disasters | been too liberal in appropriating fed- |~ 15 NO SYMPATHY ‘BETWEEN COOLIDGE President and Congress Don't | Agre on Appropriations, Flood | Control and Farm Reliel 'EXECUTIVE FEELS THAT | LOWER TAXES IMPERILED | |Tax Bill Lies Dormant in Senate Awalting Revenue Returns of March 15th—Coolidge Doesn't Want Govern: nt to Bear All | i Where it Has Been Tucked Away | | ¥lood Expense. ‘Washington, Feb. dcnl Coolidge is out 18.—P—Presi- of eympathy | with the course congress is pursuing {in respect to appropriations, farm re- {llef and flood control. and he be- lieves the chances for tax re now are critically endangercd He feels that the two hous uction s have eral funds and that s a consequence tax reduction is correspondingly re- AND LAVNARERS PRICE THREE CENTS LOWMAN WARNS OF NEW FIGHT T0 BE WAGED ON VIOLATORS OF LIQUOR LAW POLICE DOUBTFUL % Ascya Mey Heek Either With or With- MAN WAS SUIIIIDE out Search Warrants- By o160 Yur O New Yorr Courtesy Alone is De- Hod Fur Bulltsn gy | ™@20ded of Men. Declares Organized Rum DOCTORS ARE SKEPTONL e e o Robert ploying Young Women as Booze Smugglers on Livingston Ireland l'o\md Dead in New York Hotel But Some Incline to View that He Y 2 Could Not Have Shot Himself. Commission Basis. New York, Feb. 18 (P—Robert = Livingston Ireland, 60 year old| capitalist and partner of the late Mark Hanna, was found shot to death in his apartment at the Hotel mour last night. Dr. Charles sa, assistant medical examiner, said it was a case of suicide. Mrs. Washington, Feb. 18 (M—While belicving that in the future prohi- bition agents will make their rald iunder the prohibition law, armed with the necessary search warrants, | Assistant Secretary Lowman hag Holmes-Powers | sion to make the award ! the | However, Seams Confined . to-Fifteen Men 21 SAVED AFTER 26 HOURS furnish no definite information as to | | possible casualtics or as to the cause | of the accident. 1 List of Missing d list of persons believed was compiled by the police | follows: . Collins of Oakland. Hugh Findlay, Trade Journal edi- tor of Berkele: Ty Leads Kean of Oakland. { W, Sivua of Oaklana: %L(\Ia(llul- Hard Luck Causes No | e Langrer of Oakland. Walter Foley of Oakland. | Damage—10 Rescued From Brit- An unidentified negro woman. | Formal State William ¥, the company the follow! midnight: “According to the best accounts | | we have of the accident twenty per- | sons were swept overboard and thir- teen have heen rescued. We have nothing further to say at.this time | hecause that is all we know. We do not know definitely what caused ent, | . Sure, assistant to | vice president, issued | & statement shortly after | Rigging Until Saved Near Holland — St Another Craft Finally Makes Glasgow After Being Towed the Associuted Pross, ‘The death toll from an unlucky Friday at sea in which five ships fig- scemed today .to have i confined to 15 men. After 26 hours on the open sea ured been ADRIFT IN OPEN DORIES ish Tanker — 38 Others Cljnx to reduction would be worse than none Ireland, who discovered her hus- band’s body on the bed on her re- turn from a shopping tour, told the police he had been in il health for the last year and had been despond- ent for some time. Four hullet wounds were found in the body, two near the heart and two flesh wounds near his side. A 322 calibre revolver lay on a chif- fonier within two feet of his right hand. Kour of the seven chambers contained discharged cartridges. Reconstructs Tragedy Acting Inspector Ross said Ircland |apparently had been standing before the chiffonier mirror. when he shot himself as there were blood stains jon the mirror and on a photograph of Mrs. Ireland that stood on the | | chiffonier. Detectives, howe uing their investigation as a result ! mote. He has noted that in addition [to the $65,000,000 increase in the proposed tax curtailment voted by |the house, congress has added $8,- ,000 to the army appropriation in | 9 of what he thought neces- sary, and has doubled the shipping board appropriation, Lies Dormant The tax bill now is lying dormant in the scnate, where leaders have tucked it away to await additional revenue information with the March |15 returne. There have been admin- utmum: warnings that too great | |at ail. and only recently Represcnta | tive Garner, of Texas, ranking demo- |erat on the louse ways and means | | committee, predicted that there | ! would be no reduction this year. The flood control bill given to the house by its flood committec does not meet the president’s desires be- cause it provides that the govern- ment bear the entire expense of pro- zling circumstances. Police Puzzled They said they were unable to tecting the Mississippl valley. MT. | ynderstand how a man of Mr. Ire. Coolidge clings to his belicf that |land's age could stand under the communities concerned should pay a {shock of four bullets fired into his part, and he is considering desig tion of a special committee to de- termine just how much those cit could contribute toward the cost, body from a distance of only a few inches. Mrs. Ireland said that when she last saw her husband at 1:30 in the atternoon he appeared cheerful. it r, were contin- ! of what they said were several puz- | !pointzd out that arrests under the lold internal be {made without warrants. | Must Be Courteous A new drive soon is to be against liquor law revenue act may made violators, and se long as the revenue act is on the !statute books, Lowman says, his agents may use their own discretion lin adepting the law most applicabie to each individual case. He added that all agents have been warned, |however, to treat courteously per- sons they encounter in making the raids. | Mr. Lowman pointed out that re- icent raids in Chicago on some 390 establishments, resulting in the | padlocking of some of them, were conducted under the old revenue act, as was the raid on the Helen, ! Morgun clubs in New York. In that raid the agents secized the club's fixtures, and Mr. Lowman declared {such seizures are within the law, (the courts being called upon to de- {termine whether the property all be sold or returned to the de- | fendants. Women Are Caiploged the accident. We are still investi- |in Jifebouts, 21 members of the crew 2 ; of the American tank steamer Chuky all-steel boat, almost a city | were landed on the Japanese coast block in length, equipped with all | by fishermen. Their captain and the modern safety appliances'and | 14 comrades perished when the capable of carrving 4,000 persens, | tunker blew up. was fheaded for Oakland with & | The liner Leviathan, entering | heavy soad of East Bay commuters during the rush hcur last night when | the accident occurred. Home-wara bound after a day's work, a large number of the passengers had gatn- ered in the forward section, anxious | to be the first ashore and hoard in- | Southampton, stuck on a sandbank and docked, apparently undamaged, four hours late. The grounded near Liverpool. The cap- tain and crew of 40 were rescued British tank steamer Varand , congress cannot obtain that informa- tion itself. ‘Wants Work to Start Meantime, he thinks initial appro- priations should be made so that the | Washington, Feb. 18 (UP)—Or- igarized rum trusts now are employ- ing some young women as liquor smugglers and bootleg distributors, it was learned at the treasury to- {Dr. John H. Keating, his personat | physician said Mr. Ireland had been on the road to recovery and had iplanned to leave with Mrs. Ireland for Honolulu in a few days on an but the ship remained a fire hazard. | ‘vrr\nh‘xl\ trains waiting at the Oak- | Thirty-cight men on the British land mole. freighter Shonga clung to the fore Boat Suddenly Lurches. part of the wrecked vessel neat The Poi sed Coat Island, | Ymuiden, Holland, awaiting rescuc. | After a series of mishaps in which three men were injured the Dritish tanker Lucigen made Glasgow in tow. about the half way point across th t normal epeed. Ahout half between Goat Tsland and her uation, the hoat lurched and many of those on the lower forwara | swept over the side before anyone knew what was wrong. W ter surged over the deck. Panic ensued. Women sereamed and pr men nbled for life | rvers, Those in the water 1 for help. For an instant it | sppeared to the passengers that the | big ferrs was going down. Then in | i instant she righted herscif, ann pped Lifehoats were i Thrilling Tale of Sea | ‘eb. 18 (P—After a ha & In lifeboats over spread with blazing oil, 21 mem s of the crew of the American tank steamer Chuky were safe in Yokohama today. The ship exploded Wednesday about a hundred miles southeast of | Cape Noshima, while en route from ' San Tero, Cal, to Yokohama. The ceptain and 14 others were cither 13) t (Continued on Page 13) deck were x nched from the | (Continued on Pags work can be begun, but he believes |extended trip. day. the area to be controlled should in- | Is Not Satisfied | Amsistant Secretary of Treasury clude only that affected by last “I am not at all sure he took his |Lowman sald & number of young i spring's flood. The present house OWn life,” said Dr. Keating adding |women, some hardly out of their | bill, he feels, is too ambitious. that he knew of no reason why Mr. |'teens, had heen captured recently | The farm relief bill recently ap- |Ireland should commit suicide. when they attempted to smuggle {proved by the senate agriculture | Dr. Cassasa and Dr. Louls A"““'vm-kc; into the United States from committee, with its equalization fee, ) | canada. (Continued on Page 13) COURT LENIENT WITH draws from the president the tion that prompted him to |1ast year the McNary-Haugen lnll In his veto message hv selected the | fee as the most objectionable feature. ‘Hfl' has heard of the Yoakum m | ‘rfllzf plan now under discussion here and has learned from the | | agriculture department that while |the proposal has some merit it in- cludes other features regarded ae | | not feasihl |Admits She Peered Into Future for Broad Street Woman | IS 18TH PNEUMONIA VICTIM | Honolulu, T. H., Feb. 18 (I'P) | Amado Toma, Philipino, died in nw\ Queens hospital to make the 1Sth _pneumonia death among the pa On account ‘of her age, Victoria |sengers of the Dollar liner, Presi- (ooper, aged 19, of Cooper Farm, |dent Cleveland. Kingston, N. Y., had payment of a | fine of $25 and costs suspended by H. I Roche in police court THIS WEEK'S AFFAIRS ! Judge She was found guilty of vio- ¢ act concerning nd Judge Roche warned her B “=—"RTOL FLOODED AS RES0LT OF DOWNPOUR Z MAYOT WELD INUITES PRESIDENT COOLIDGE TG DEDICATION GE OTD WAR MEMOR I AL O TUNE A —— y 7NEW BT o BE ™ SABLOTSKY'S GoaT/ e "qAIL IS oWE CAWG SOME FiinG ougn YES, (7 THIRGS HAVE REVERSED T STUETION = MAlLS LatoeD SOUTH CONG.CHURCH SE (ECK rozc‘loc fomrzzu v'S ENSION AN TREUED ASSOLII EFFICEQT SERVICE AT FiRes must not persist in her or she will be dealt with cverely. He pointed out that she ould be fined from $25 to $100 or imprisoned for six months, or poth. under the statute. The young woman, who said she is married and came to visit her | mother at 39 East Main street four months ago, was arrested by Detec- Sergeant Ellinger and Sergeant shortly after 3 o'clock ternoon at the home Irew Madrak, corner tive of and Broad streets. The police | Grove Ihad reccived women information that two reading palms in the | neighborhood and it was thought ight be the pair gha fleeced Manuel Gomes of 33 Lilac street out of $538.25 a few days ago. The sergeants located Mrs. Coop- er and her 12 year old sister in the Madrak tenement. At police head- 1..u..m-rez the rgeants satisfied nection dent, but on the strength of the |stories of Mrs. Madrak and her daughter, Katherine, the | was preferred. The 12 year old girl 1$ TRUE / TAE DEAR of her age. | Sergeant Feeney testified that Miss Madrak was told by the for- tune teller that she would be mar. |ricd and be a mother, also that a {friend of the family from afar would imake a visit shortly. Miss Madrak 'stified that she was present when {her mother had her palm read and the fortune teller proceeded to pre- |dict pleasant occurrences for the | witness although the latter had not given her permission to do so. Mrs. [Madrak paid 25 cents In Miss Mad. | rak’s presence, | Mrs. Cooper pleaded mot guilty {hut on the witness stand she admit- |ted that she accepted money for predicting the future. She and her | sister go from house to house selling |vaskets and when the opportunity presents itselt they read palms, she eaid, TINES TO The'Boy FRIEND' NBTUAY STERHERSOS OF LIVCEW STREET. Win's ChAMPIONSP gE ity i vhca GIRL FORTUNE TELLER fortune | themselves that they had no con- | with the Lilac atreet inci- | charge | | was not brought into court hecause | ! He said that these women work jon a straight commission basis. |bringing automobile loads of Pum lacross the border. Their appearanc: |is pleasing, and they hope to avoid {close inspection by their winning |ways, it was N Lowman pointed out that th. government now has 455 borde |patrol officers, cquipped With nearly 300 automobiles and motor boatx and suggested that the new type liquor runner fares no better than male colleagues, | Also it was learned that while officials belleve there ape at least 10 men bootleggers to every woman many young girls ure lured into the illicit business by huge profits, Au- thorities sail big liquor vendors em- {ploy voung girls to make city dr- {liveries as they are less apt to be suspected by polic SOUTH CHUREH '8S ~ MAY NOT BE GREAT Insurance May Cover Damage Except Total on Organ | That the South Congrogationa: | church may not lose a large amount of money as a result of the fire last | Sunday morning, was intimated to- !day by one of the church officiais |who pointed out, Wowever, that ne idoflmln figures have been received from the appraisers or the insurance | adjusters and that no one knows yet |just what the loss actually will be, If the church is required to re- place the old organ at its full value, It faces a loss of about $40,000. | That the organ was worth approxi- mately $75.000 seems to be the uni- | versal opinion of experts, although it is felt by church officials that an acceptable instrument can be pro- {cured for half that price. The Herald was informed by Mr. Lewis, of Lewis & Hitchcock, who recently overhauled the organ, that it could not he replaced for $75,000. Carl L. Bloom of New Huaven, organ- |ist and choir leader, said it was worth $80,000. Professor i'er Ole- son. who is claimed to be the city's leading organist, stated that °t {would requirs 80,000 to replace 1. Ernest M. Rkinner of the Rkinner Organ Co., who built the original or- |®an, told the church officials prac- tically the same thing. Frederick J. Bliss of Bliss & Cols, | appraisers, said today he was not |vet prepared to estimate the loms. It is felt that if an organ s pur- chased for $30,000 or $35,000, thers is a strong probability of the imswr- < ance covering the total less.

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