New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 2, 1928, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 READING HEARING OPENS IN STUFFY STATE HOUSE ROOM Committee Starts Investigation| of Alairs of Massachusetts | Attorney General Today WILL PRY INTO DEAL WITH DECIMO CLUB Purpose of Inquiry Is To “Investi- gate All Matters Which May Tend To Show Misconduct or Mal-ad- ministration—Official Represent- ed by Six Attorneys—Inquiry Has No Parallel in a Century. Boston, April 2 (UP)—Investiga- tion into the administration of Arthur K. Reading as attorney-gen- cral of Massachusetts—with his im- peachment as a possible opened here today. A special committee of the hous: of representatives met “to investi- #ate all matters which may tend to how misconduct or maladministra- tion” by Reading. A rather dark and stuffy hearing chamber at the state house, which ;cccommodated a scant 80 spectators addition to more than a score of | wspapermen, was the scene of the inquiry—an investigation which has hiad no parallel in Massachusetts in more than a century. Has Six Lawyers Reading, who will be defended by six attorneys, entered the hearing rooom about 10 minutes before pro- ccedings got under way. He sat in silenee, with his lawyers, a worried lock on his face. Representative George F. James | Norwood, chairman of the com- iuittee, opened the hearing with a formal statement of the manner in v'hich the committee planned to conduct the inquiry. He emphasized the fact that “the ommittee is not to be considered as trial gourt, exercising or attempt- ing to exercise judicial functions.” Reading’s alleged acceptance of $25,000 fee from the Decimo which operated in 3 ahortly before it em- 1loyed torney general as “le- gl adviser,” was the principal mat- tor $0 be comsidered by the com- niittee, His alleged relations with the L. A. W. Acceptance corporation, and tie disappearance of the sé-called caitle fraud papers from his office, #lso were to be subjected to in- quiry. result— Reads Transcript Major Thomas J. Hammond of Northampton, counsel for the com- mittee, opened by presenting al! transcript of the statements made by reading before the rules com- mil(ee at the hearing, on February in connection with Represent- ative Roland D. Sawyer's petition for an investigation of Reading's conduct in office. A photostatic copy of the articles of incorporation of the L. A. W. Acceptance corporation of Worces- ter also was presented by Ham- mond. One of Reading's attorneys objected to its admission on the ground that the articles of incor- poration comprised extraneous matter, but Chairman James over- ruled him. Hammond also presented coples (Continued on Page Eleven)‘ . N. LEVIN STRICKEN WITH HEART DISEASE Vice President of Grain and Coal Company Dies Suddenly Szmucl N, Levin, 61 years old, vice-president of the Stanley Svea Grain and Coal Co., died of heart disease at 4 o'clock this morning a few hours after he had suffered a heart attack at his home, 94 Glen street, Although he had been ill from heart disease during the past year, he conducted his business during that time. Last night he appeared to be in good health and was en- joying the evening with his brother who had come from Waterbury to visit him. During the evening he read a letter to his brother which he had just received from his 95- year-old mother in Germany. He visited with one of his daughters during the evening and then retired for the night. At about 11 o'clock he called his wife and asked her to summons & doctor. Dr. David P. Waskowitz stayed with him until his death. Mr. Levin was born in Germany, March 15, 1866, and came to this country about 42 years ago and set- | tied in Waterbury. His first venture there was in the grocery business, but later he engaged in the cloth- ing and shoe business. He also took , part in real estate ventures, About mine vears ago he retired from all business in Waterbury and | came to this city. He was a real estate man- here until about two years ago when, in company - with Samuel W. Menus and Jacob Birn- baum, he purchased the Stanley | Svea Gain and Coal Co. Mr. Menus, (Continued on Page 11), Attends Funeral to Avoid Trafi‘lc _Omcer . April 2 W\lthough it is el that he joined a funeral procession to escape the cye of a state trooper when he swung out of a line of traffic on Daniels hill, George E. Gillette of Hartford, will appear in district court here, April 12 to answer to a charge of u traffic violation. State Trooper Robert Jon when his view wés obstructed, but that when he saw him he fell into line with a funeral proc: even went to the cemeter: attended the burial. But Trooper Jones kept on the trail of his man and arrested him after the funeral services. FRANCE MIGHT BE ABLE T PAY DEBT Considering Plan of Using German Bonds HOPE 10 REALIZE CASH)' Plan Held Up As Permission of Ger- many To Put Bonds on Market Must Be Obtained Before Action Can Be Taken. Paris, April 2 (®P—Intimation that the Poincare government is serious- iy considering whereby railroad bonds turned over guarantee a proposed plan industriai by Germa and as of puyment of the Dawes plan annuity might, be commercial- ized so that France and other cred- itors of Germany may realize cash on them has been given by Premier Poi re, Speaking at Carcassone yesterday the premier said that with proper d for 'nch security and hts to reparations France would willingly accept, when the time comes, arrangements which by mark- eting of the bonds will permit our recent allies, Germany and us to settle qur debts more rapidly.” Plan Delayed The plan, which has been under consideration for the last three years, has been delayed by various difficulties, the first of which was obtain uan understunding with ¢ many by which her permi would be obtained to make bonds negotiable on the market, The railroad and industrial obli- gatlions under the Dawes plan are now in the form of two pieces of paper whereby German railroads and industrics are pledged for the payment of reparations. Those bonds draw five per cent interest. When it was first proposed to com- merelalize them money was so high that they could not have been mark eted without a considerable conces- sion in price. Now that money is cagier, the French government re- gards the prospect as better. Mean- while the Thoiry conference between Foreign Minister Stresemann Germany as well the Loc treaties paved the way for many’s consent. Tqual Four Billion The bonds represent 16,000,000 000 gold marks roughly). posed possible that marketed but it wa ible to place a considerable port: the | open as all could be thought feqs- n on the market providing France and | the other allied powers were willing to accept a sacrifice on the market price to make up for the low inter- | est rates. The question of evacuation of the Rhineland and some other con- | cessions to Germany on application of the treaty of Versailles were in- volved in the negotiations with Germany. These are thought no longer to present difficulties. Pre- mier Poincarc’s allusions to dehts in this connection are taken in Paris as meaning that part of the proceeds of the hond sales al least would be applied to reducing war debts. Asks Support Appealing for support for the gov- crnment’s efforts to restort the franc, Premier Poincaro said he regarded (Continued on Page 11.) ACOSTA TO APPEAR IN NAUGATUCK TOMORROW Transatlantic Aviator Will Answer Charge of Reckless Flying Over Connecticut City. April 2 (UP) — A Acosta ‘Waterbury, transatlantic aviator—Bert of Naugatuck—is scheduled to ap- | pear in the court of common pleas | here Tuesday to appeal a five-day iafl sentence imposed by his home | town for alleged reckless flying. The charges are the outgrowth of a spectacular escapade last sum- mer when Acosta escaped from Hadley field, N. Y., with his mono- plane under the noses of sheriifs who had attached it. Flying to Connecticut, Acosta aroused friends and former neighbors by hair raising stunts over Naugatuck. The program was climaxed, it was charged, with an attempt to fly un- jder a bridge across the Naugatuck " river. Arraigned in borough court on the complaint of Harris Whitte- more, jr., of the Colonial Air Trans- port, Acosta pleaded guilty in the understanding he would be lightly fined. He was sentenced to jail. Acosta has not visited the state since he spent a night in Nauga- tuck jall awaiting bail, ($4,000,000,000 | It had never been sup- the | e e ol & o | gy ‘uuo) ‘projyy “ydaq 34 1 %5 IR0123uu0 \IN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1928 —SIXTEEN PAGES ! COX'S SECOND SN (GOING TO AID OF BROTHER, IN COURT Taken From Train When He Tnsisted on Riding Without His Pullman Fare \ | |JUDGHENT SUSPENDED | IN POLICE COURT TODAY Tells Court He Will Never Again Ride On New Haven Railroad As | Are Its Ofticials “Positively Too Insulting” 1s Student at Harvard University — Continues | Journey. New London, April 2 (®—En route | from Boston to New York to aid his rother, James M. Cox, Jr., nld(-nt; of the | son former Ohio governor, lana democratic presidential candi- [date, who iy under arrest there | charged with assault, leaving the | seene of an accident and driving an | automobils while under the influ- [ ence John W. Cox was taken from a railroad train at the {Union station here and locked late yesterday. ment s Suspended was found guilty in police this morning, but Judge §. | Victor Prince suspended judgment l | and allowed the young man to leave | | tor Pelham, where he said an anxious mother awaited him. Young Cox, who is a student at | Harvard, according to the testimony | of Conductor Forester H. Clemens, insisted on riding in the club car of the Merchant's limited, but had only his coach ticket, and no money with which to pay his Pullman fare, | 1 he was ordered into a coach it was alleged that he became ve with the result that he was ted by Railroad Policeman An- { derson upon the arrival of the train here. He said this morning that his | {cell cot very uncomfortable and | | announced to the court that ha | would never ride on the New Haven road again, because its officials are “positively too insultin, RUSH T0 PAY TAXES - SWANPS COLLECTOR Auxiliary Office Opened| in Corridor of City Hall of liguor, np | | Jud | He court A new record for personal tax col- lcetions was made in the month of | March when $34,702 was taken in {through $2 pavments. Collector >rnadotte Loomis estimates there e not more than 3,000 delinquents who will be required to pay an extra $1 after the close of business today. Scveral thousand men and wgmen squared their personal tax account with the collector Saturday, bringing {to a close a week in which an raverage of 700 paid daily. Because |of the rush of business Saturday it | was necessary to establish an aux- |iliary office In the corridor outside | {the office of Mr. Loomis. 'NEW YORK POLICE ARE KEEPING TABS ON EDEL Demand His Arrest As Fugitive If He is Freed on Bonds in St. Paul { St. Paul, Minn,, April 2 (®—New York city police today asked that F. W. Edel, held here for postal fraud i be arrested as a fugitive from jus- tice in connection with the indict- ment against him, in event he fur- nishes §25,000 bail fixed for the postal charges, With this request came a copy of the murder indictment and warrant for Edel, sought for the slaying of Emmeline Harrington, an actress, last December. Edel was arrested last week at Hopkins, Minn., on charges of rais- ing postal money orders. | R. F. Kieb, commissioner of the New York state department of cor- |rection at Albany, also wrote the St. Paul police asking for Edel's ar- rest as a parole violator. Edel admits he knew Mrs. Har- rington but denies implication in her murder. Remus Temporarily Is Kept From Freedom Lima, Ohio, April 2 UP—A motion for a new hearing on the applica- tion of George Remus for a writ of habeas corpus freeing him from the Lima state hospital for the crim- inal insane was overruled today by the third district court of appeals. Remus was granted the writ Friday and the new hearing was sought by state attorneys. Application for release on bond |was filed by defense counsel im- | mediately after the court overru'ed the motion. The court is to hear | arguments late today on the ques- | |tion of whether the former bootleg leader and wife slayer should be freed on ball pending the continua- tion of the state's efforts to keep him in the hospital, | with | early 'People Inside and Qutside of Chicago Demand to Know the Reason for All the Shooting ANOTHER SERIES OF QUAKES ROCK General Inability Throughout World to Understand | Conditions Which Could Prompt or Promote, Encourage or Condone the Use of Bombs and Bullets In an Election Campaign. Chicago, April 2 P—Wha''s all the shootin’ for? Outside Chicago, and inside, too, there {8 a general inability to com- prehend conditions which could prompt or promote, encourage or condone the use of bombs and bul- lets in an election campaign, Ther is evinced an anxious curiosity in !the American mind as to why Chi- cago should punctuate lead and dynamite. What (the query from across the shooting for? The home of a Unitcd ator 1s bombed A pineapple” is tossed at a court judge, candidate for attorney Fifty-cight shotgun slugs are pumped into the political Moscs of 75,000 persons. y agents shoot down & court A federal grand jury i an alderman. . . Families o ticians are harassed by anonymous its politics comes o T s) s ates sen- “powder phon violenee 1 death circuit | state's | Wi Cam pa They a s1 v slogans Larmiess enough “An First, Ane “Draft Cool- “Down King George, “World Count and the in- 100 Thos rticular ¥ 1he two republi will stund don of a statewide W give uch 1 icu v vith ire” idee,” ¥ 100 od Roads.” paign catchlines in serve lack ves to fact ll;‘m at prima from tomorrow. Stripped of pevsiftag: oratory, the real Both sides say it. The Deneen re- publice those who are aligned with United States Senator Charl S Deneen, challenge what they re- deplorable ~luuuu denuded of issue is crime, v ward as crime (Continued on Page Two) Sleeping Sickness Serain Rushed by Air From West Here too Late | to Save Life of Arch St. Woman'" Murs. Emily S. Stevens Dies While Antidote Is Being"l“ and the injur Brought East From Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn., by Airman—Victim Is Ill Nine Days. Despite the fact that a invented serum was hurried by air mail from Mayo Clinic, at Roches- ter, Minn,, to this city where Mrs. Emily §. Stevens of Arch street was dying from sleeping sick- ness, it arrived too late and Mrs. Stevens died at the New Britain General hospital late Saturday night. Dr. George H. Dalton, who was her attending physician, sent for the serum immediately after he found she was suffering from slecping sickness, He expressed the opinion today that if the medicine had ar- rived earlier, her life might have een saved. First signs of the illness was noted about three weeks ago Stevens complained of pains about the eyes. newly- 745 UP AND DOWN TACTICS ’MAN BURNED TO DEATH | when Mrs. ! She suffcred from the ts of sleeping sickness for about days previous to hor death. She was a native of this eity and was 56 years old. She wa the daughter of William and Selina (Pine) Stevens. Her only frater- nal connection of the Eastern star. member of the tional church, Mrs, Stevens was the Clayton §. Stevens. by a daughter, M Gladys M. Stevens, an art teacher in the Lin- colu school* and two sons, Harold Stevens of this city and Frederick tevens of Holyoke, Mass. Funcral services were held this afternoon at 2 o'clock in the chapel of the South Congregational church. Rev. Dr. George W. C. Hill, officiated. Burial was brook, She South was Congrega- widow of FEATURE DAY'S IJEALS[ IN AUTO ACCIDENT | | Wall Street in Convulsions —Radio Hits New High, | | Then Falls Back : | New York, April 2 (#® — Convul- sive price movements, reflecting the struggle for control between oppos- ing speculative groups, character- 1zed today's stock market. Radio, after opening $8 a share lower at $178, rallled to a new high record at $196.50 and then quickly slipped below $190. Nearly two score issues | were marked up $1 to nearly $9 a| share in the first few hours of trading. A wave of seclling orders' swept through the market in the afternoon when the ca money rate was marked up to 5 1 per cent, the highest of the year. Trading fafled to keep pace with the 4,000,000 share sessions last week, although total sales for the day undoubtedly will cross the 3,- 000,000 share mark for the 17th con- sccutive full session. Marking up of the eall money rate, coincident with the calling of about $15,000,000 in loans, was at-| tributed to the heavy demand for | funds in connection with quarterly | settlements. Radio fell from $196.50 to $188 within 15 minutes. General Motors, | which had rallied from $184 to $187.75 quickly slipped back $185.25, and American International |arrested ! death. city. indicated the car had swerved from | | breaking it. to line G. Mason, Two Others Thought Fa- tally Injured When Flames Envelop Car White Plains, N. Y., April 2 (® —One man was burned to death, two others were probably fatally burned and another slightly burned today when their closed automobile broke ! a temporary gas main at the side of the road, the gas catching fire and trapping them in their car. The man killed was James Brady, 87 Elmsford, no clues. | 100 | them- | condi- ! as with the Order ‘ a She is survived | pastor, | in Center- | restaurant proprietor. | {Terror of Population Increased After Shocks Felt Saturday Causing Heavy Loss of Life ‘PEOPLE FLEE T0 HILLS Appearances of Geysers in Gulf o Smyrna Add to Woes of Thou-a ng in i 1y Scantily Clad But Won't Go Into Homes for Clothing Fearving They May ! i | Constantinople, Apri other series of |« ar jstruck the historic city of Smyrna !this morning, ir of tha populatiol recovering rrom which caus: c the terrov arely Sat- b was b earthauake d cavy loss > first slight t S feltat © led by {which turned to hills again, The appearanc Gulf of Smyrna phenomena which nurked the ceding quake and spread |among the people who ar lin the tields on the | Latest reports placed the. dead shock & boldest who had re- r houses fieeing to the ot ¥ | buildings have been » is estimated hou demol- | ished by the authoritics to prevent l:mmh- r castatrophe. The population ! of Smyrna roamed the strects, many ‘ of the people were in seant attire all | fearing to re-enter their demolished homes in scarch of clothing, Official said 11 Smyrna and ten were demolis and that 19 | houses, two mosques, 86 shops, four { schools, five factorics, two maotion picture theat one hospital and a clock tower were damaged 16 Honses Destroyed. At Karshiquaya, 16 houscs were destroyed and 100 damaged There were several victims at Tor- bali where e y house was in ruin A thousand homeless peasants { crouched amid the d | ing to Moslem ecustom, they buried their dead immediately. Then, they turned their faces toward Mecea and | prayed to Allah, waiting with Oriental resignation for what might befall them, as intermittent tremors continued. veral villages ¢ destroyed. Five habitable and four were badly dam- aged. In one of these villages, 150 houses were razed and forty persons | injured. In another, eight persons were killed and 16 injured. Ten Killed. Ten persons were killed at Bain- All unsteady S Werd is. around Torbali were unin- (Continued on Page 11) TUMBLES FROM HORSE Today’s Falls Bring His Total Up to Twenty- George McCoskey, 28, of Elmsford | and Edward Caverly, 35, of White , Plains were taken to White Plains hospital suffering from burns which it was believed would cause their John McConnell, 20, an em- at the county hospital at Eas slightly burned. 'nt happened on the Plains road just outside this Police said that the evidence White the road and struck the gas main, ‘When the gas caught fire it apparently enveloped the auteniobile. i Drunken Woman Driver Fined in Hamden Court Hamden, April 2 P—Mrs. Caro- | 24, of New Yor! ay morning, ‘Thur was Allied Chemical, Montgomery Ward ‘flm"] $100 and costs today for oper- and Sears Roebuck sold down $2 to | $3 a share below Saturday's quotations. Among the many ating a motor vehicle while under | fina) | the infiuence of liquor. Her convic tion marked the first time one of her issues which had | %X had heen found guilty of such a pushed into new high ground in the | charge. carly up-swing were St. Paul com- mon and preferred, Great Norther preferred, Gulf Oil, American I(e,[ Best & Co., Park & Tilford. Gillette | Safety Razor, American Safety Ra- | zor, Curtiss Aeroplans and Wright | Aeronautical, the last name &mlrmgI $8.50 to $101.50. Opposing speculative forces started thelr bitter struggle for control of ,the pri movement at the very opening. As a consequence, | early price movements showed ! marked irregularity. | The first sale of Radio, Wwhich| has ghared the lcadership of recent | markets with General Motors, was a block of 10,000 shares at $178, a decline of $8 below Saturday's final quotation, but it snapped back to $186 before the end of the first hour. General Motors quickly slip- ped back $3 a share to $184 but rebounded to $185.50 on the ap- pearance of buying support. Du-| Pont dropped $4 a share and early —_— (Continued on Page Eleven), | today, | Yale Senior’s Condition Critical in Hartford Hartford, April 2 ®—Clinton M. Bidwell, of Pasadena, California, Yale senior, is reported in a critical condition at the Hartford hospital having received a fractured skull when the ecar which he was driving swerved from the road on t ew Haven turnpike early Sun- day morning and smashed into a concrete culvert. Alexander C. Brown, also a senjor, of Ardmore, Pa., escaped without injury. The car was almost completely wrecked, Bidwell will be held for the acci- dent, according to the state police, ! | | THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Fair tonight; Tuesday in- creasing cloudiness; warmer. *| Hawthorn, Durham, Eng., April 2 (PI—While competing in the Welsh challenge cup race . the Prince of Wi s thrown twice, the sccond time his horse, Miss Muf- fet, was apparently badly hurt, be- ing unable to rise Miss Muffet, a favorite has carried the prince | steeplechases, fell at the nd the prince remounted {ceeded. On the next to {fence the ho in. | The princ thrown three times last § while competing in two s at Bromsgrove. He gave up the first race when he was thrown twice at the fourth but remounted after being |thrown in the second race and fin- ished fourth, The prince apparently hurt and quickly got to his |it was some time before Miss M regained her wind and got up, W |then remounted and rode b the paddock- So far as records now prince has had a total of cluding togay’s two. and including 1924 shows 12, one, 1926 two and one in whick tractured his collarbone - three, in one of whi his left wrist. Thus far has been thrown cight times The race was over a three mile | steplechase course, and as usual the prince held the lead to the first fence, when hetook a fall, which en- able two other competitors to head him, The prince remounted and made up the ground. and when the two mare who in many first fence and pro- the B show the 26 falls in- e list up to 1925 | Wales appeared to have safe. But Miss Muffet again threw the royal jockey, at the same time knocking herself out temporarily. In the meantime the two other riders remounted and finished the course, Colonel T. Rose Prince taking first place and P. 8. Akroyd, sccond. Wales waited until Miss Muffett had recovered sufficiently, then rode her Dack to the paddock. CITY OF SHYRNA zht shocks | Accord- | PRINCE HAS TWO MORE t the ! lagt leaders fell at the last fence but one, | the race | A Week Ending March 31st .. verage Daily Circulation For 15,052 PRICE THREE CENTS RORABACK, CONN. DICTATOR MOCRATS DECIDE T0 ENDORSE SEVEN Gouncil Candidates Included | CANDIDATES IN SECOND McGrath and Heslin Named For Councilmen—Paonessa and Man- zan Speak at i Noonday Rally nt‘ Landers, Frary & Clark Gate. William Whitman, " re Huber and Roger | iblican nominees for | in the first ward, and! G. O. P. candidate | alderman in the 1 received the en- |dorsement of the democrats and will appear on both tickets at the city «lection April 10, The democratic party, as had been cxpected, has also voted to endorse |City Clerk Alfred L. Thompson, Tax | !Collector Bernadotte Loomis, Comp- | troller H. L. Curtis and Treasurer | Curtis L. Sheldon. The action, taken | t meeting yesterday, assures | those mentioned of election. Democratic Candidates fn Second Although the second ward alder- | manic candidate was endorsed, ft| | was decided to contest for the two | vositions as councilmen. Matthew | McGrath of 40 Maple street, a| [plumbing and heating contractor | land former member of the police force and Thomas Heslin, & mason contractor, of 146 Cherry street, have been selected as the democratic candidates for the council | sceond ward, Paonessa in Sixth Ward The rally committee of the demo- | cratic party has arranged for a sixth | ward gathering tomorrow night at! the auditorium of the Nathan Hale ' Junior High school on Tremont | [strect. This rally will mark ex- Mayor A. M. Paonessa's first ap- | pearance in the democratic strong- | | hold in this campalgn. The sixth s the district in which Paonessa made | | his first bid for public office and he | | represented the ward as councllman councilm Walter R. recliction alk for as < nd ward, have in the | | or aldcrman for more than 10 years. In addition to the speaking pro- | gram, which will include Council- | ;man Sablotsky and Attorney Thomas I°. McDonough there will be an hour’s entertainment. i President C. J. Curtin of the New | | Britain Democratic club today call- | ¢d a meteing, to be held tomorrow | [night at 7:30 o'clock at head- ‘ quarters. | Paoncssa and Mangan Speak Judge William F. Mangan and |former Mayor Paonessa were the {speakers at the first noonday rally, 1addressing a group of Landers, Frary | | & Clark employes this noon. | Judee Mangan compared the re- {publican tactics in the present cam- | paign to a side show with an act of crdemain as the big feature. rey're telling you that Bartlett is | a fine fellow and asking you to for- | |#et what is behind him,” he said. | “In other words, they're trying to| make that big, white elephant of re- | publicanism disappear. Why doesn't | (he come out with something he has done? Why doesn’t he point to one constructive act inaugurated by him? Our candidate, Mr. Paonessa, has pointed to what he has done and is |telling you what he will do. But | you know if you elect the republican ticket, yowll have the same crowd in office that you're suffering under now Says Republicans Gave Jobs Ex-Mayor Paonessa attributed his | At two years ago to the fact that refused to promise jobs and there- | lost votes, and he charged that h iy (Continued on Page Eleven) WILKINS 10 FLY ToP OF WORLD APRIL 5TH | Will Jump Frem Point Barrow to | | . | | | Island of Spitzbergen Flying Over North Poole San Francisco, Cal, April 2 UP— The San Francisco Examiner says | short wave radio station has re- ceived a message from Capt. George Vilkins, Arctic explorer at Point | Alaska, announcing his in. | tention to hop off there April §, in n effort to fly to Spitzbergen. The message, received late last night added that Wilkins and his pi- 'lot, Carl B. Eiclson, were well de- | spite the very cold weather at Point | Barrow. Government radio operators have cxpericnced much trouble In com- municating with the Wilkins® ex- pedition since they were established at Point Barrow. Recent informa- tion was to the effect that Wilkins and Eielson expected to attempt the light over “the top of the world” about April 15. Anthracite Prices Are Given Annual Reduction New York, April 2 (M—Reduc- tion in the price of anthracite vary- ing from 50 cents to $1 a ton by the lcading companies effective for April shipment was announced today by the Lehigh Valley Coal Bales Com- | pany of New York. The reductions follow: Egg and Chestnut coal 50 cents a ton. 165 cents, and pea $1.00, iarrow, | republican | mitteeman from | republicans of his state favored re- i tions | by the 1a majority of 1l ,the party rules. ‘cussed the Blm‘ N REPUBLICANS RANKS, IS STILL COOLIDGE BOOSTER At St. Louis, En Route to Kanm City to Se- ynote Speaker, AS GROUND \D TREMBLES ‘Four Gity Officials and Three| He Declares President Will Be Drafted Gleason, National Secre- tary, Echoes Nutmeg- ger's Opinion — Thinks Both Parties Want Him Returned. April 2 (- 51 Ohio dele Columbus, O.. Possibility of th gate candidates pledged to Sena- ank B. Willis as firet choice for president, now turn- ing to President Coolidge, was indicated at Willis' he today, though it was mitted that what the the delegates themselves wall be in the matter of selecting a new first choice is uncertain. Louis, Mo., April 2 Members of a sub-committes St. (UP) of the committee en to select a chairman and Keynoter for the national conventlon, express- ed a varicty of prefercnces president in a brief stop hers, Roraback’s Statement J. Henry Roraback, national com- Connecticut, safd national route to Kansas City temporary for nomination of President Coolldge, {that Connecticut delegates to °the | national convention would vote for him, and expressed the bellef Cool- ,idge would be nominated. “T believe he will be drafted,” Roraback said, “and if he is, he can- not refuse to run.” Willlam Butler, Masachusetts, chairman of the national committec, declined to express a preference, Charles D. Hillex, New York, vice- chairman of the national committee, said that {f Charles Evans Hughes had not eliminated himsel? from the race he would be the choice of New York's 90 declegates. Hughes has refused also to be the keynoter, Echoes Conn. Stand Lafayette Gleason, New York, sec- retary of the national eonvention, echoed Roraback's stand for Cool- idge, and sald the “business ele- ment” wanted the president renom- inated. By the business element, he said he meant “both democrats and republicans.” Ohio Sentiment Columbus, 0., April 2 (®—Tndica- that delegate candidates pledged to Senator Willis choice for president, now will melect either Vice President Charles G. | Dawes or former Governor Frank 0. Lowden, of Illinois, to carry their banner in the fight with Secretary Herbert Hoover for mastery {n Ohio. strengthened foda Though the question of selecting a first choice to take the place of their fallen luader will be deelded delegate candidates them- selves in Delawirc. Tucsday after- noon, immediately following the funeral services for Senator Willis, the comment about the Willis hea quarters today centered chiefly on Dawes and Lowdcn, with Dawes probably the favorite, inasmuch as delegates alreads (Continued on I HOFEMAN AND | MANfiAN AT 00DS OVER RULING East Street Man Aspired to Run for School Board John A. Hoffman treet today {ssued charging that Lawrence P. Mangan, secretary of the democratic town committee, refused to accept his petition of candidacy for the school beard in spite of the fact that it was filed within the time limit fixed by Hoffman said he called at democratic headquarters an hour before the tine limit and tendered his petition, and that Man- £an asked him to withdraw and run for the board of relief in which case, he claims, Mangan expressed willing- ness to accept the paper. Hoffman declares he refused to yun for the board of relief and his petition for the school board was rejected. Secretary Mangan's only when informed of the declaration was: “Mr. Hoffman did not file a peti- tion of candidacy for the school com- mittee with the chairman of the democratic town committee. He dis- matter with me, and I called his attention to the fact that there was a vacancy for the board of relief, but that there already were two candidates for the school eom- mittee. It was not within my power to accept his petition of candidacy, since to do so would be to wiolate the rules of the town committee. Nflher than that I know nething of 's aspirations for public reply Toffman