New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 23, 1928, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 C Decision Given Today States That Indiana *0il Man Must Give His Testimony to- Teapot Dome Committee. Chairman of Standard Board Almost Gets Un- der Jurisdiction of Sen- ate But Thwarts Body by Filing an Appeal. Washington, Feb. 23 (® — For a! moment today the senate got its hands on Robert W. Stewart, chair- man of the board of the Standard il company of Indiapa, but he quickly slipped into the arms of the courts which once before had taken | him from the congressional grasp. ‘Writ Refused A writ of habeas corpus, which the oil man obtained after the sen- ate had arrested him for refusing to answer questions of the Teapot, Dome committee, was dismissed by Justice Bailey in the District of| Columbia supreme court, and for a moment the waiting senate ser- geant-at-arms really had custody of the reluctant witness. But it was only a theoretical con- trol, for Stewart's attorneys im- wediately noted an appeal and placed a bond of $5,000 for him, and now he has 40 days in which to perfect the appeal and the record | in the case for the court of appeals. | The court held the grounds on which the oil man refused to testify | um the question of the liberty honds | of the Continental Trading Company “were frivolous and without legal ! is, he writ of habeas corpus will | discharged and the petitionce | remanded to the custory of the ru- | spondents,” he said. Goes to High Court The court's action and the ap- peal mean that Stewart now cannot | taken before the senate until | after the supreme court decides the issue, 1f the court of appeals deci- sion is against the oil man he will appeal fo the highest tribunal. This may mean a year or longer before | the flnal decision. Leviewing the plea of Stewart, who specifically declined to reply to | questions as to whether he had | discussed the Continental Trading company's Liberty Bonds with Harry F. Sinclair, Justice Bailey held that the senate resolution au thorizing the Teapot Dome inquiry | | CURTIS DENIES CLAM CITY 1S OVERCHARGED Explodes Story Discounts Are Added to Subse- quent Bills | Discounts taken for cash pa ments of bills against the city are not being added to subsequent bills and no attempt to do €0 has been discovered in many years, Comptrol- ler Hanford L. Curtis has informed Mayor Weld in a letter answering the mayor's inquiry bascd on state- ments attributed to Alderman J. | Gustay Johneon. The comptroller today suppl mented his written statement to say he does not recall having told Alder- man Johnson the practice of dis- counting bills for cash ie not proper or good business. The mayor's letter follows: 1 Mr. Hanford L. Curtis, Comptroller, vings Bank, ew Britain, Conn. “Diear Mr. Curtis: | “Last pight in my office, the | alderman from the fourth ward ' made the remark that you had told him that the practice of discounting bills by the city was not proper nor 8004 business. If this is true, I should like to inquire just what your premises are for such a statement. “He also made the remark that you had told him that you had no- ticed when certain bills were dis- counted one month, that the di count allowed on this bill was added to the next month’s bill. It would em to me that thie is rather a serious state of affairs and, if true, 1 cannot see why you countenanced any euch procedure from your of- fice.” Comptroller Curtis replied as fol- lows: In answer to your letter of the | 17th, with reference to cash dis- counts of city bills, T will state that | the matter which you refer to is an- | clent history at the present time. | Nothing of this kind has occurred during vour administration. T will state further, howe: | that such cascs have comte to my ot tention in the past and suffice to say that T ha through.” l OURT REFUSES TO GRANT STEWART FREEDOM; DENIES A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS CHICAGO TRIBUNE |exercised its resources in a search | {the NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, TH SAYS BONDS WORTH ' $730,000 HANDED MISSING WITNESS {Lawyer of H. M. Blackmer As- serts Latter Got Continental ¢ Trading Co. Profits in 1926 Loses Life Trying to Reach Dying Wife Fitchburg, Mass., Feb. 23 (UP) —In a vain effort to get to the bedside of his sick wife 60 miles away, Anthony Romano, 38 of Fitchburg, lost his life. Himself confined to a bed with INVESTIGATION GOES OX oo, o s e || ABOUT TBAPOT LEAS miles away, where his wife, who | was suffering from grippe, had | |Teapot Dome Committce Has s‘ow‘ developed pneumonia. Romano, who runs a local garage, set out by automobile. As he was about to be shown into his wife's room at the hospital he collapsed and died. Physicians said he had con- tracted pneumonia en route, Today his body was brought back to Fitchburg. His wife was sald also to be dying. $1,932,000 of $3,080,000 Profits Went to—Black. mor's Bonds Still Intact in Vault of | Discovered Where . | Equitable Trust Company in New York, Washington, Feb, 23 (P—H. M. | Blackmer, missing witness in the Fall-Sinclair Ol company case, re ceived $760,000 of profits in the Con- tinental Trading company deal, the Teapot Dome committes was told to- day by his attorney, Karl C. Schuy- {ler of Denver. Schuyler said the former chairman of the board of the Midwest Refining company gave him this information lin Montreal in July, 1926, when i Blackmer asked the attorney to act \ for him. Schuyler testified that Blackmvr’ ,nad informed him “wnequivocally" | {that he had no knowledge that any mmds of the Continental had been ed to influence the lease of the o :apot Dome naval oil reserve or for | any unlawful purpoes. “I believed him then and T have | had no cause to change my mind |since,” Schuyler declared, | | Didn’t Volunteer | Blackmer told him, Schuyler said, Scarching Chicago's Black Belt for [that he had not volunteered as a | ; : | witness in the Teapot Dome civil | Attacker of Woman, :C;\se at Cheyenne in 1925 because if | 23 (P—The Chicago | e appeared his private affairs uouml | have been gone into. After conferring with Blackmer at | nas | | Montreal for three days, Schuyler got its man. |said he was made trustee for Black- For six months the newspaper has | Mer's bonds, placing them in a safe- ty deposit box in the Equitable Trust company in New York. for the man who employed Tribune!| «Thoge bonds are in that hox |want ad columns to lure Miss Ruth [now,” he said. “They are int: Simpson, a nurse, to a Winnetka su- | The total §763,000. I hand you the burban home where she was at. |$eTial nuribers. Your committee can! tacked. Thousands of dollars have |!N3PCCt them at any time.” Leen spent, the paper said today, in | Schuyler disclosed that Blackmer | chase had apprenended possible litigation | Crowe, arrested yesterday, in Kan- | over the bonds by both the Midwest Refining company and its parent | HAS GOT ITS MAN Negm Armted Used Want| Golumps to Lure Woman 'PAPER SPENT THOUSANDS Assigned Rvporn-r to Case who| Wore Out Two Automobiles in Chicago, Feb. Tribune, tachi through the arrest of Mal- | Crowe, negro ex-convict, sas Uity, Kas., waived extradition Klan in Norwalk = |the Norwalk Unit No. 4 of the Klan |yesterday demanded immediate ac- | gations. | paper, read as follows: | Missing Are Not Necessarily Burned, v 2o o) Va,‘:?";:':g Chief and Mayor Keller . Up City or It Will Do So {Publishes Open Letter in Newspaper, Addressed to Prosecuting Attorney Richard H. Ireland—Denials That Vice Conditions Exist are Made by City Authorities Following the Ultimatum. N8y s e Clean Itself Norwalk, Conn., Feb. 23 (UP)—!to fur Intense excitement reigned here to- day over the ultimatum of the Ku }\lut Klan to the Norwalk police to |clean up alleged vice conditions hpre‘ or “the klan would take it up- jon itself to clean it up.” In an open letter to Richard H. and, city prosecuting attorney, n in law enforcement comuonly stated that this city polluted to the core with viee 0 ription, e ey : czging whiskey and gin, which Gotl many sections of the Ir. of prostitution, after being simply move down the street w roods, reopen for business and |tion in ridding Norwalk of alleged call accord if some » conditions. Mayor Keller and Police Chief William Pennington have both made vigorous denial of the Klan's alle- upon you to your ret i sonable time, we true conditions for action, ism."” intend 1o ca to ‘higher en in the fact of cri The letter was signed Unit No. 4, Knights of the Klan, ALLING DENOUNCES MASS. RIVER GRAB The letter, sent to a local news- “An open letter to the prosecuting attorney of the city of Norwalk: “We wonder why you have ceased THREE DEAD WHEN HOTEL BURNS DOWN North Carofina Is Hostelry De- stroyed by Fire THIRTY UNAGCOUNTED FOR Ku Klux Against Diversion of Rivers EXPLAINS T0 ROTARIANS |Other Streams Could Be Stopped at Manager Says—Latter Saved Reg- State Border if Decision is Un- | | ister From Going Up In snmkv‘ With Hotel. Shelby, N. C., Feb. favorable to Connccticut, He Says in Address Here. 23 (®@—Three| If the state of Mas: husetts wins persons are dead and three others|the battle for a permit to divert the! are in a hospital as a 'result of a|waters of the Ware and Swift rivers fire which destroyed the Central|from the valley of the Connecticut hotel here early today. The dead |river to the metropolitan and injured list may mount, as 30 |Boston, it may mean that Ma; of the 65 registercd guests have not|chusetts will have the right to stop been accounted for. .l(, the state line every stream flowing The Dead |into Connecticut, according to A The known dead are J. R. Hender- | torney General Benjamin W. Alling. | son and H. H. Carmichael, of Char-| Judge Alling, who spoke at the lotte, N. C., and Henry Kerr, 55-|meeting of the Rotary club today, vear-old clerk who died from burns |made his first public address on this |received while awakening guests. |Subje He explained that since I The injured: A. B. Stagg, sales-|took over the office of attorney gen- |eral he steadfastly refrained from th very little Aiffi- | Norwalk | Atoroey Generel Decares district of FEBRUARY 23, 1928 —EIGHTEEN PAGES MARGARET BROWN'S ¢ SLATER CONFESSES INUNSIGNED NOTE Man Who Inhumanly Burned Governess Writes Anonymous- Iy to Jersey Police CLAIMS HE POURED GAS ON HER AND LIGHTED IT | Returned Bonds Valued at $2,500— | | Vermont to Issue a r 7 Warrant For Convict Montpelier, Vt, Feb. 23 (P— William H. Dyer, state commis- sioner of public welfare, said this afternoon that a warrant would be i ed by the governor to bring Stephen Hoppe, escaped prisoner from the state prison at Windsor, back to Vermont, and that the warrant would be lodged with the authorities at Hartford, Tells How He Made Love to Her || conn. Ioppe was sentenced from Rutland county court to serve 14 vears in state prison after his conviction of burglary in the fall . Hoppe was shot by H. Drugg at the time of the burglary in Proctorsville, the bul- “t shattering one knee bone. SCORES FREE ADS - IN NEWSPAPERS Associated Press Superinteadeat Says They Are Criminal HAVE TWOFOLD PURPOSE McKernon Claims They and When She Repulsed Him Beat Her Insensible and Set Her Afire—Left Her in Road and | “Drove Around.” Somerville, N. T, 23 (UP)— | The man who murdered Miss Mar- | garet Brown by fire confessed today !in an anonymous letter to the police He inclosed $2,500 of the securi- | ties he had stolen from his victim | and told in short, dramatic sentences lm\\ he had m.uh love to her in an utomohile New Jersey road, e e S i pulsed him, and then committed one of the strangest murders in castern criminal histor: Poured Gas On Her. | “I took gasoline from my car and poured it over her, lighting it and | then drove away,” he wrote, | His victim was discovered by motorists still alive on the Bernards- ville-Morristown road Monday night, | the flames flickering over her body. | o died early the next morning in a Morristown hospital. Any idea that the letter might be the work of a crank was dispelled by the presence the securities. two $1,000 bonds and a $500 gold ecortificate—and the knowledge the writer had of the vietim's identity. The letter was postmarked in | Newark on Tuesday, and at that time, no one but the murderer or an accomplice could have known that Miss Brown who was bur Brown was not identified early Wednesday morning. when a deseription of her clothes gave the first clu Drove The writer said murder he “drove around” and then threw the “rest of the stuff” | society.” into the river. Apparently he meant | “The most vicious, politically dan- the remainder of the $9.000 in cash |gerous and soclally destructive bust and securities Miss Brown was be- ness that modern methods have de- Defraud | Publisher and Take Advantage of | Falth He Has Built Up Among His Readel New York, Feb. 23 (P—Edward | McKernon, superintendent of the astern division of the Associated P’ress, today told the state and local lic sociation, health, of the State Charities as- that “the practice of sys- | tematically palming off on news- | paper readers of advertising matter in the guisc of news is a fraud on the publishers and & crime against Around that the committecs on tuberculosis and pub- | Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending Feb. 18th . ., 15,025 PRICE THREE CENTS GUN ACCIDENTALLY FIRED, - BULLET KILLING BRISTOL SUPERINTENDENT OF MAILS Glutave Lnndalll, 38, Fatally Shot as Weap- on Drops From Hol- ster of Fellow Em- ploye. Supervising Transfer Bank Money When Emery Davis Jumps From Platform, Revolver Striking Ground. of (Special to the Merald) Brluml Feb. 23.—Gustave T. Lun- , 38, superintendent of mails at y!he Tocal post office, was accidentally shot to death shortly afte* 9 o'clock | this morning. Lundahl, with Emory | Davis, a fellow clerk were both arm- ed and preparing to accompany & consignment of federal reserve cur- jrency to the Bristol National bank, Lundah! was standing near the driver's eeat of the mail truck when Davis jumped down from the load- ing platform in the rear of the post |office to the pavement about four teet below. In making the jump, the | belt containing Davis' holster ‘and | revolver became loosened and drop- |ped to the ground. The weapon {struck on the trigger, exploding the carmdge and the bullet taking an | upward course through the top of |the holster near the muzzle end |struck Lundahl, plercing his heart. He dropped to the pavement and w: | dead before either Davis or Gus | Telke, the driver of the truck, could reach him. The weapon was a .45 calibre Colt's revolver. - Dr. A. 8. Brackett, medical examiner, whose office 18 across from the post office, {was called and pronounced death |due to accidental causes. He gave his permission for the removal of the body to the undertaking rooms {ot James J. Dunn. In Postal Service Since 1910 Lundahl was born in Udden, { Mollthorp, 8weden on March 15, 1890. As @ hoy he came to this |country with his parents, attended !and was startod home. The Tribune said that the $1,000 reward it had | offered and the $600 additional offer- ed by the city of Winnetka would { January organization, the Standard Oil com- | pany of Indlana. Schuyler testified that on last |’ 24, he wrote to Blackmer man, Charlotte, both legs broken ln jump from third floor window; {man named Epps, Charlotte, in;!lr(-d in jumping from upper floor; Miss veloped is the business of stealing|the local schools and for a year was space in the news columns of the [employed at the plant of J. H. Ses. daily press,” he said in an address |sions & Son. He later worked as put- {before the committues at the Hotel |tern and storage clerk at the Ses. |any public speeches except in his (Continuea an Page 11) i {to the ¢ | said, |abouts came from a supposed friend (a police circular in Chicago. Crowe was employed. !lured Miss Simpson there. | third story window, |only recently from injuries that re- i sulted. | terially reducing the administration’s | cided to authorize the construction | sels are | advising him that the scnate was to| {reopen its investigation and advis- | ing Blackmer that he should make a | Statement for Schuyler. | Authorizes Statement | “You are authorized to make a | statement for me,” Blackmer cabled be paid to Sergeants William Roe and Walter Storms of the Chicago detective bureau who were active in | the pursuit ot Crowe. One Reporter Full Time Full eredit for the capture was given to the Chicago and Kansas city police by Moses Lamson, the Tribune | from Paris last Monday. reporter who for the past five, “This action, it seems months has devoted his entire time 4 to the case. In assigning Lamson (Continued on pue 11.) ase, the ncwspaper sald, “it | was decided that an example should | i be made and a precedent establish- | | ed-in the fraudulent use of Tribune columns.” “Lamson wrote 700 long hand let- {Charged With Knocking | Page Boy Senseless in Berlin Cafe to me”| ters, sent out 3,800 circulars to po- lice chiefs of the country, and wore out two automobiles, using one 2,- §00 miles in trips around the Chi- ago black belt alone.” He spent more than $5,000, the newspaper | before getting his man. | Information as to Crowe's where- | of the negro's who had been shown The | information was given Sergeants | Roe and Storms, who worked several weeks before finding Crowe employ- ed in the home of a Kansas City at- torney. icafe. 'The vouthful husband of The crime for which Crowe i8|princoss V: ctoria Schaumberg- wanted was committed in the home | pinn o™ ol charged with having of M. B. Austin, Winnetka, where 100 s page boy senseless. The “d"‘ ad | subkoft was taken to the polica Lollow- | sty tion in a taxicab but was releused . she jumped {rom & ,ptor pis pame and address had | and recovered lyoop recorded. The page said Sub- | Koff desired to talk in private with | Anolhq.r guest at the cafe in the TR alcove where the page boy was sta- PROGRAM KILLED | tioned and ordered him to go away. The page said he replied that he must remain on duty. There upon House Naval Committee Declines to Subkoff is alleged to have knocked | him down and kicked him, | of 18| The page was taken to a hospital | Where examination revealed numer- Crubsers and One Alrcraft Carvier. | "o, co ) markes of brutal treat. | 23 P—Ma- ‘ment. The page also compiained of | linternal pains. Subkof's wife, when the couple arrived in Berlin several days ago, denied all charges that her 27-year- | old hushand had been leading a riotous life since their marriage. She declarcd they were looking for a cosy little nest in Berlin. Berlin, Feb, 23 (P—Alexander | Subkoff, brother-in-law of the for- | mer German emperor, was arrested | early this morning at the Casanova ing the attac Authorize Construction Washington, Feb. new warships construction program, the house naval committee today de- of 15 cruisers and one aircraft car rier as against the 71 war vessels re- quested by Secretary Wilbur, The committee’'s action was scribed by Chairman Butler “practically unanimous.” The cost of the commiittee's pro- | gram was estimated at $274,000,000 | us against $740,000,000 proposed by ried last Nov. 19, has been marked the administration. Both of thesc by several episodes to disturb its figures are eXclusive of aircraft and |serenity. | increased personnel for the ships. | Young Subkoff, who is a Russian The committee also provided a |refugee and was once a sailor and | definite completion date for the 16 "pl'm’mslonal dancer, was injured ships. The first of the proposed ves- [only three weeks after his marriage | to be laid down within in a motorcycle accident. Subkoff three years from passage of the act fell from the machine while trying | and all are to be completed within | to make a curve and went to a hos- six years, | pital for several days. Last month he went to a hydro- | Pathic institute at Ahrweiler for cold water treatment after a series of es Feb. 23 (UP)—The Zenith Alba- capades and erratic adventures in « plane which failed on two Bonn. vious attempts to break the world | The former Kaiser was vigorously endurance flight record, took off gn | opposed to the marriage of Nis sis- its third try at 7:13 a. m. today. |ter to the young Russian, but was The crew consisted of Alvin K. unable to prevent the wedding erson. (‘harles F. Rocheville and | which was hoycotted by all of the Jack Reed, "tormer German ruling houses. de- us | | 'The married life of the 63 ! Princess Victoria and her old husband, to whom she T\kl- S OFF \l-ll\ Tmperial County Airport, Calif., . Thirty guests have not been located at his job even when the flames were | {leaping along the hallways and final- (cut when she broke a window to get |stightly ''made Emma Frick. hands cut and burned Spurgeon Hewitt, assistant man- ager of the hotel, saved the register in which 65 guests were entered. but it was said that this did not nec- essarily mean they had been Kill as it was impossible to make a com- plete check. The fire started In the linen room just before daybreak. Henry Kerr, the aged clerk, ran from room to room on the upper floors of the building awakening guests. He kept | Iy staggered to the street to be tak-| en to a hospital where he died. Tried To Fight Fire Miss Frick, who had a room in| the hotel, sought to fight the fire with an extinguisher placed In a hallway. Her hands were badly to the extinguisher and she was| burned. The hotel occuples the upper floors of the block. In the building| are located the First National bank; the Cleveland Drug company land Building and Loan Association: the T. V. Wray Mercantile company: the Stevenson Drug company and | the “lub, a club for men ATTORNEY GEN. B, W. ALLING homie town. Several weeks ago he came here intending to speak to one {or the other clubs, but his deputy it at the time and he made the The attorney g which showed the Connecticut water {the public in Conn inderstand the real the proposal to take Ware river to the triet. This proposal, t ms xp Koy TRY T0 GET AWAY Bridgeport Men Are Captured When ! ssue involved water from the tropolitan dis- he sud, is only They Try to Escape While on Way e been ta on the question water ply for the) metropolitan Now it has apparently exhausted the available supply. What Are “Flood Wal In ral court M: an act to the flood wate the Ware v in excess of 85 million gallons 1 and divert them to the metro- district. “You can call any- thing flood waters i you fi mean average tlow the said the speaker. Judge Alling said he engincers went to the mill own- along the Ware river isked them how little water they could along with ¢ were told: about million gallons. “This means i lof William Jackson, driver of the |thty tike all that that they bus and a former sherift and tola |Rot only take all the flood waters him to chase the pair while he stood | Pt that they will be dipping into EATR Goan bo nbios natural flow of the stre he Gibson and Jessup were caught when they attempted to clamber over | a fence in Goodsell strect and wers | unable to do so while attuched to | cach other by the handcuffs. z Arraigned in court later on the | burglary and auto theft charge with i additional one of attempting to | escape, tacked on, Gibson pleaded | guilty and was remanded to ail | pending the disposition of the case. aker said, setts has gathering to Superior Court ‘Irial. of sup Bridgeport, Feb., (P—Vincent iibson, 25. and Walter Jessup alias Chesna, 19, both of this city were captured toduy a few minutes atter | they had attempted to e > from the custody of Sheriff Simeon Pease who was taking them with other priseners to the superior court where they were to stand trial on ch of burglary and theft of an automobile, The two made 1 politan their break for of treedom while the sheriff was di- recting other prisoners into the bus that was to take them to the court n and Jessup slipped Lehind bim and handeufted togeth: a bolt for freedom Sherif | Pease pressed a gun into the hand: derstood the m »ove the said The said, another a sed ‘v\ the general court p em to take from the Swift all over 20 million gallons 2 He said this 20 million gal- lons was figured by taking the aver- (Continued on Page 13) TR THE, WEATHER EX-GOVERNOR DEAD Brussels, Feb. 23 (UD)-—Former Governor Fucha of the Congo died | today, aged TO-—leas than a week | after the celebration of the 4uth an niversary of his first departure fo the Congo. New Britain an@l Rain tonight riday district. | —— toosevelt Purpose Twofold “The purpose is twofold. To de- fraud the publishers of the revenue !that he is entitled to receive from ; his advantage of the faith that he has built up among his readers to the! end that they may be unconsciously intluenced to the benefit of the pub- licity thief. Honest publicity is a blessing. | Dishonest publicity is a menace and | 1 would like to see every publicity crook in the penitentiary. There is | an irony about this too, that ought to be brought home to all who em- se skilled in stealing spac wspapers are bunked occa- sionally, but where they are bunked . the employer is bunked a times, No Sympathy no sympathy for the re- stolen goods ,and it any s he is buying ‘influence’ vith press, 1 hope he will pny il for his share in the futile con- | . But the whole rotten busi- 1oss ought to be publicly condemned ind the p tical publicity hound | n advertising columns | belongs,™ k on Publicity” sure 'LAGK OF LIGHTS LANDS 35 DRIVERS IN COURT vJudge Roche Says He Ma) i Begin Assessing Costs ] sts pleaded not e of driving cars fined Thirty-five moto guilty to the cha with defective lights and were $2 without co by Judge H. P. Roche in poli court today. Two others did not appear, one Bridge- port man being represented by a !friend who offered to plead guilty and pay a fi but Judge Roche and Prosecuting Attorney Woods in- formed him that the lator must appear in per day morning. The other all {lator who did not apprar is Britain resident who c polics headquarters and told Captain Kelly he did not know that he was to ha been in court ut N3 10, 5 notified to rv ling for trial. i Everett Herrs Russwin roac to plead not take the wity that he had preted it vinced him of his headli | | | doze “T have on emphasized that to open the col- paper is to creal way oy > ne ither the butor has a moral right to invade L a selfish pur- f you have a selfish to serve, apply to the busi- ness office for advertising rates. 1f you brlicve you have news and the uewspapers fail to recognize it, the Educate the edi- William O'Day worked on the made t} il th burning moral for you is wish the editor to under- sympathize with your carn to understand and ap- | his. If you become a news : reporters will koon know t and chase you. A real news source i¥ to them like an oasis in the des- EADIE GETS MEDAL Navy Diver Decorated on was wit e informed w not in statute v finding with costs, : ni his of gu I ties of not urt will ply bec terday and he felt the the violators court was some self but now thut n given it is Famous vashington, Feb. cssional medal conferred by President Coolidge to- upon Thomas Eadie, chief gun- | ner's mate of the navy, for heroic services during the attempted res- cue of the 23 A — The but not Roche whether t will be required | costs for drivers of | chines should they der the light s | replied that he conditions surrou Al well are examin working ordc hits a bump a the inquirer the lights m tion,” Judge Itoc guess 'l have in with the cops.” commented the truck omner and Judge Ro Joined in the laughter, sted un- ze Roche sided by rdividu- lights be in truck lights go out?” ite e honor was conferred on the south lawn of the White House in the presence of Secretary Wilbur, Rear Admiral Charles F. Hughes, chief of naval operations and other high navy officials. A group Eadie’s relatives was present. The citation upon which the cross was awarded was read by Secretary cases, n the Vs cond ied. “wWell, 1 during rescue work by extraordinary bereism outside of his line of duty. advertising pages, and to take | | ‘How to Obtain News- } editor nor the con- Lawn of White House For Herole | Resue Outside of his Line of Duty. | of honor was | crew of the submarine | of | Wilbur and pointed out that Eadie | had saved the life of a fellow diver | | stons Foundry Co., from which point ! he entered the local post office as a .(‘lfirk on May 1, 1910. He was ap- | pointed superintendent of mails on May 1, 1918, Employes of the post office were |shaken by the fatality and a pall of gloom was cast over the workroom ‘whfire Lundabl had labored so long. Assistant Postmaster John E. Rob- |erts, who came in closer contact with the dead man than any other iemploye, was scriously depressed. Mr. Lundahl was twice married, the second time to Miss Hulda ‘Pvtemon of Brooklyn, N. Y., who |survives, with his mother, Mrs, | Christine Lundahl of 163 Goodwin street, and two sisters. He had only recently completed a new home at 4§ Wooding street. ‘SLEUTH WINS PROFIT FROM SLOT MAGHINE {Owner .\rrested in Police War on Gambling Devices C.H part announc against slot muchines, of which there is said be & number in small stores in various parts of the city. | The first coution fn a long time will rted in police court tomorrow when Frank Gentile, pro- prietor of a store corner of South Main and Ellis sirects. will he arraigned, a tachine ving been (taken from him after Sergeant T. J. Feeney had scen it played and had played it suc the five cent pleces he nserted bringing a profi, according to his report. At police headquarters, Detective rgeant McCue played it and r ceived four five cent pieces for on: Chief Hart said the are on the alert for gambling m ines and the store proprietors having them twill be prosecuted The machine (taken from the Gentile store is & gambling device, the chief said the person playing it reccives money or nothing. TO BE lll\“i]ll n Rome, Fob, (U —Precious {15th century m ics, e of which are made of the first gold Christopher Columbus brought from |Amerlca, are 1o be restored at the pope's personal expense, it was an- |mounced toda The mosa in the bLasillem of the Church of Sania Maria Mag- glore. They are cracked badlly, and a section of them in falliug because of sagging mortar. police de- tuday a drive P Ve COMPLETES CABINET Beigrade, Feb. 25 (UP)—Premice Vukitchevitch has completed his new cabinct. 1Ilija Shumenkovitch fta | substituting for Foreign Minster | Marinkovitch, who is L.