New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 4, 1928, Page 1

o News of the World By Associated Press YR7 T o) ‘p.lopl‘!ll rda@ IAPY 8T AVIS FLEIARERIL LA ) ESTABLISHED 1870 HEAYY CASUALTIES INANTL-JAPANESE TROUBLE IN CHINA Tokyo Govt. Orders Four War- ships Rushed to Zone of Strile SITUATION RIVALS THAT AT NANKING A YEAR AGO 40 Japanesc Soldiers Killed and More Than 100 Chinese—Civillans Reporied Massacred By Looting Nationalists — Foreigners Other Than Japs Not Believed Molested Thus Far—Fighting Resumed. By the Associated Press Anti-foreign outbreaks at Tsinan- Fu, Shantung province, which may have surpassed in seriousness those at Nanking more than a year ago, have resulted in heavy casualties among Chinese and Japanese troops, dispatches from China and Japan indicated today. Death Toll Is Heavy. Tokyo dispatches say that as many as forty of their soldiers have been killed in fighting there, while Chinese dispatches to Shanghal give the Chinese dead from Japanese machine gun fire at 100 with a large number of wounded. In Tokyo the situation is regarded a8 most serious and four warships have been dispatched to Tsingtao, the coast terminus of the railroad to Tsinan. Other warships have been ment to Yangtse ports and other South China ports where Japanese nationals live to protect them there in the event the Tsinan trouble has repercussions elsewhere, Detalls Are Lacking. The trouble at Tsinan is said to have started following leaser anti- Japanese outbrezks when Japanese troops attempted to disarm the Chinese. Scanty dispatches which filtered from the city did not indi- cite whether the Japanese troops, 1ot known to number over 2,000 at Tsiman, have taken an organized stand " axinet 20,000 nationalist 1rodps said to have invested the city, or have just encountered small or- ganized bands. That this latter may be the real case is indicated in con- tinued reports that the nationalist troops are out of control of their generaliasimo, Chiang Kai-8hek, and have been gulilty of extensive looting and other depredations in the city, which they took from the northern- ers only early this week. There have been no reports of demonatrations at Tsinan-Fu against foreigners other than Japanese since the death of the missionary, Dr. Sey- mour, April 16, The situation at Tsinan held the Chinese news spotlight with the northern forces apparently attempt- ing to form a new line of defense north of Shantung province and well futo Chili province. Fighting Resumed. Tokyo, May 4 UP—Official dis- patches from Tainan today said Chinese nationalist forces re-opened their attack at 2 a. m., today when (Continued on Page 10) 68 T0 SEEN LIBERTY FROM PARDONS BOARD Cianflone and Ruggerio Cases Scheduled for Monday Hearing Hartford, May ¢ (UP)—Sixty- eight men on whom the world has already turned its back will' seek “another chance” when the atate board of pardons meets at Wethers- fleld state prison Monday. Each of the petitioners will have the opportunity to tell why he thinks he should be freed to a board which had the right to commute a sentence or free outright. The state’s attor- ney, Hugh M. Alcorn, will argue for or against the prisoners. Of the group who now seek free- dom, 49 have been refused in pre- vious years. Innumerable reasons have been given by the petitioners. Applica- tions submitted to Vine R. Parme- lee, clerk of the board of pardons, ask for mercy, justice or “fair play.” Some say thdy have had sufficient punishment. Perhaps the most important case to be argued is that of *“Cowboy"” Joseph Cianflone and Michael Rug-|Beth's Orange street establishment giero, sentenced in 1922 for the sec- |at New Haven. ond degree murder of Enio Renal- dino, New Britain bootlegger, Farmington in 1920. will be represented by William H. Lewls, widely-known Boston negro |visement the cases of Willlam J. 8. Alcorn will oppose | Davis of criminal lawyer. the release. Since sentence was imposed, Dom- | Normand Davis, New York actress, inick Craponese, star state witness |and of George Lasall who charges has signed an affidavit in which he | his wife, Audrey Fairbrother Lasalle, swears his testimony which convict- ed the men was pegjured. Chaponese claims he was forced to testify against his two friends. At the trial he testified he drove the automobile in which the two convicted men rode to kill Renaldino and that he witnessed the killing. . Among the 49 who have previous- ly made vain appeals are Gabriel Berker and George A. Finn of Nor- wich, both sentenced on charges of (Continued on Page 25) at |the decree after a five-minute hear- The prisoners | ing. NEW HAVEN MAN KILLED BY COLONIAL EXPRESS | Frank J. Reilly Meets Instant Death On Tracks At Saybrook This Morning 8aybrook, May 4 (A—Frank J. Rei signal maintenance department of the New Haven Railway system, was instantly killed today when he wa struck by the Colonial Express nea here. Rellly who was working a short distance west of Saybrook failed to note the approaching express, Wash- ington bound, and was hurled a con- slderable distance. He was dead when picked up. BROKER AND WAR VET WYSTERIOUSLY KILLED C. R. Winant of New York Dies After Apparently Being Beaten York, May 4 (®—Cornclius |R. Winant, stock broker and broth- er of former Governor John G. Wi- nant of New Hampshire, dicd last night at the Princeton club under circumstances which caused a po- lice investigation today. Dazed and bleeding from the nose and with scratches on his face, Wi nant entered the club at 8 o'clock and dled two hours later. Dr. Charles Norris, chicf medical examiner, ordercd an autopsy when he noted a bruised nose and pos- sible fracture of the skull. When ‘Winant entered the club two members assisted him to his room. He was visited there by his brother and two friends. They call- ed Dr. 8 B. Ross, who left ufter medicine and Shortly giving him some Detectives sald Winant had been absent from his room at the Hotel Weston for scveral days and had been drinking heavily. They started an Inspection of several speakeasies on the theory that he had been attacked. Winant, who was 31 years old, and & member of the class of 1918, Princeton, was one of the first men to join the American field ambu- lance corps, an organization of col- lege men which served with the allied armies driving their own am- bulances in the early days of the war. He enlisted in 1915. He served with Bection 8 on the western front and was gassed. Winant was one of a group of elght men in his unit to be cited for gallant action in plcking up wounded around Mona- stir under heavy shelling in M 1917. He also received the croix de guerre, After America’s entry in the war he became a captain in the United States army engineers. He was cap- tured by the Germans early in 1918, later escaping from a prison camp at Giessen and making his way on foot and without food for two days into Holland. He was unmarried and was a member of the stock brokerage firm of Kelly, Drayton and Corvisse. He Is survived by his parent and Mrs. Frederick A. Wi brother, the former governor, and two other brothers, Frederick A., jr., of Portsmouth, N. H. and Clin- ton D. Winant of New York. Mr. t, his Incident to a broken nose suffered in an assault or a fall, Assistant Medical Examiner Gonzales an- nounced after an autopsy today. ed after an analysis of Winant's | brain that Winant was drunk at the Dr. Gonzales to have been about | three hours hefore he died. The autopsy showed that the| bridge of Winant's nose had been broken and that he otherwise was injured about the face and body. HAD THO HOMES AND LIVED DOUBLE LIFE ! Who Maintained Menage in New Haven Too. Bridgeport, May 4.—(UP)—Mrs. | Margaret McBeth's description of her husband’s secret menage at New | Haven, gained her a divorce today from Clement McBeth of Bridgeport and New Haven. Mrs. McBeth introduced testimony that her husband had two homes, with her and with a 19-year-old New Haven girl who had born him a daughter. | Miss Margaret Jacksonville of New | Haven was named as mistress of Mc- Judge Alfred C. Baldwin granted Judge Baldwin took wuuder ad- Bridgeport who secks | separation from Mrs. Loretta May' a waltreas, lived with him only 10 days. Davis in his plea, said his wife‘l refused to leave the stage,and be- come a house-wife. She frequently left him for the company of theatri- cal friends, he said. QUAKE IN COLORADO Creede, Col., May 4 (UP)—An earth shock was felt here for the , 24, of 48 Wilson street, New ! Haven, son of Alderman James W. ! Reilly of that city, employed in the / known | Winant died from loss of ¥lood | City Toxicologist Gettler announc- | time he was injured, estimated by | | received $7,500 for writing a book Bridgeport Woman Freed from Man , on Boulder Dam. RITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1928 THIRTY-TWO PAGES T, G, HART HEAD§ FLYING COMPANY Air Transportation Corpoution Has Passenger Plane FOUR LOCAL OFFICERS | Instruction in Aviation Will Also be Pllot Employed by | Given by Group of Young Men Who Have Incorporated For $50,000. ! Four local men are officers of the {H. & H. Transportation Co. which has been incorporated for $50,000, 0 of which is paid in, to con- duct an air transportation and pas- enger service, and to instruct in aviation. Theodore 8. Hart is president of | the group, Stanley Hart is vice- president, M. G. Steele is secretary THEODORE C. HART Congressmen Who Appear on Duty | Under Influence of Drink Areto Be Publicly Announced by Press| i Washington Daily News Announces Intention of Show- ing Up Co-Called Dry Members Who Undertake to i Discuss Affairs of State While Intoxicated. 1 Washington, May 4.—(UP)—The | Washington Daily News announced editorially today tiat it proposes | henceforth “to publish as news the appearance on duty of any so-called | dry member of the house or senate in an obviously intoxicated condi- tion.” The decision was made to “put an end to such hypocrisy,” the News sald. | “The spectacle of a senator or s representative, under the infiuencé of of liquor, undertaking publicly to discuss affairs of state, is always dis- gusting,” the editorial said. “When such a senator or representative is re “gentlemen, ling their appeti that “on the whole, probably, there arc as many or more tectotalers uong the dry-voting members as | among the wet-voting member though “this is a question that has| never been decided.” | | The News says it does not intend “snoop," and explains: But when a firc-eating prohibi- t wanders aimlessly about the | ¢ chamber during the discussion important business and finally in- | upts to ask the presiding officer, ! Whass bizness before House?” or when a similar exponent of the Vol- stead act has to hang hard to the ! capable of control- | " And it adds one who consistently votes for prohi- cdge of his desk, where his legs bition, the hypocrisy and rank abuse weive unsteadily under him, as he of speclal privilege makes the attempts to make a speech, or when spectacle intolerable.” champion of the 15th amendment | The newspaper admits that con- relaps:s from maudlin inattention ! gressmen have as much right to the into snoring slecp in the midst of a | “synthetic pleasure” of drinking as anyone else. It says the “great majority” of members of both houses | senate session, the News will under- | take to make his condition clear to its readers, BRITSH WARSH 1S OP FLASHES LIGHT SINKING AFTER GRASH ~ ON ALCOHOL N AUTO | { | | Bacchus Previously Had Discovers Horde When He Rammed and Sunk Greek f Investigates Dark | Steamer in Channel ; Car | | | and V. C. Hart is treasurer. James | Chamberlain is one of the subscrib- | of Hartford. With the exception of | Messrs. Steele and Creedon, all are residents of this city. It is the plan of the corporation arry on its business at Brainard ng field in Hartford, and offices htave been established at 50 State | street. The company owns one three | passenger Challenger plane and it is | | planned to add other equipment | from time to time. It is not the | plan of the officers to do the actual {flying themselves, having engaged |an cxpert pilo’ for this purpose. The president of the new corpor- ation is the son of Mr. and Mrs, Maxwell Hart. He is a former mem. ber of the Yale varsity football | i squad. DENIAL IS MADE THAT LENROOT WAS BRIBED Letter Introduced At Inquiry Says He Was Not Pald For Op- posing Walsh Measure Washington, May 4 (UP)—A let- ter denying that former Senator Irvin L. Lenroot of Wisconsin re- ceived $20,000 from utilitles inter- csts for fighting the Walsh utilities | investigation resolution was entered on the record today In the federal trade commission’s utilities Inquiry. Payment of $20,000 to Lenroot Wwas reported in testimony recently given by Ira L. Grimshaw of the | joint committee of National Utilities | associations. Grimshaw sald Len- root was engaged as counsel to op- pose the Walsh resolution which called for a senate investigation of the power Industry. In the letter, Elisha Hanson, Len- root’s law partner, said the joint committee engaged the firm of Len- ! root, Hanson, Smith & Lovett, and did not deal with Lenroot individu- ally. He sald that checks, though | made out to Lenroot personally, were turned by him into the firm's account. The commission admitted into evidence a letter from Richard Washburn Child, former ambassa- dor to Italy, who was shown in the joint committee's records to have | to 1l; Child explained that he had re- | ceived the money an attorney in payment for writing a brief on Boulder Dam. As the brief was the | work of several persons, Child said, he did not sign it. He emphatical- 1y affirmed his opposition to govern- ment ownership projects, Big Parade of School Children in New Haven New Haven, May 4 (—More than 10,000 pupils of parochial and publiec | schools were in the line of march today for the biggest parade of chil- dren New Haven has ever witnessed. ers, as is also Judge A. W. Creedon | nel, {DRUNKEN DRIVER HAD BPlymou!h, Eng., May 4 ( — The | Had the lights on an automobile | ritish warship Bacchus, Which | qyiven by Joseph Fazzina, aged 24 sank the Grock steamer loannis . B B T Fafallos off the Isle of Wight, is| ¢ 68 Franklin strcct, been burning reported to be sinking in the chan- 1St night as he drove through Hart- | ford avenue, Fazzina would probably | The Bacchus has been abandoned | not have run into difficulty with the | by her crew and the survivors she picked up trom the Gresk £hio: law, but when Officer John M. Lich. {ler stopped him to question him dis- | about the condition of the light, he Iso asked lim for his operator's London, May 4 (A—Lloyd's patches from Saint Catherine's Point, Isle of Wight, state that the | i which Fazzina fumbled for, | Greek steamer Ioannis Fafalios was ' and the officer, flushing his light into | sunk by the British warship Bac. |the rcar part of the car, saw nine chua at noon today. [ five-gallon cans of alleged alcohol. The ship, which was of 1,998 tons He boarded the car and ordered net register, had a crew of 22 which | Fazzina te drive to the police head- is reported to have been picked up quarters, where he preferred the by the Bacchus. Earlier wireless charge of transporting alcohol in ex- | dispatches from the Bacchus said |cess of five gallons by means of a | that the men were in the water. The | motor vehicle, without a permit 1 inking occurred about 100 miles| In police court today, Judge W. F. | south and west of the Isle of Wight. | Mangan, representing 12zina, en- All ships in the vicinity have been tered a plea of not guilty and ob- asked to keep watch for survivors, ained a continuance until next Monday in $700 bonds. 'FAILURE TO WORK DUE T0 MISUNDERSTANDING Supt. Doyle of Charity Department Explains Confusion London, May 4 (A—The British warship Bacchus sank an unknown ship about a hundred miles south and west of the Isle of Wight at noon today, according to a radio re- ceived at B8t. Catherine's Point, Lioyd's dispatches say. The dispatch from the ship said: “"Have sunk un- | known ship. Men in water. Am | standing by, plcking up. | | CARGO OF EXPLOSIVES New York Truckman Under Arrest | and Held in Bonds of Thousand Dollars, New York, May ¢ (/—1John Eng- | lish of the Bronx was held in $1,-| 000 bail today charged with driving | a truck of dynamite while drunk. English was arrestéd when a truck of the Ditmar Powder Works of Rochester, N. Y., which he was driving collided with another truck. | The arresting officer sald English was hardly able to stand and hear- | ing was set for May 11. A misunderstanding rather than a | | refusal to work resulted in 14 who | ;are on the charity list failing to re- | ceive city employment yesterday, | Supt. John L. Doyle of the depart- ! ment of public welfare reported to Mayor Paoncssa today following -an investigation. The municipal employment bu- reau took the names of 16 men from the charity list and placed them in labor gangs to begin work | yesterday morning. The men s they were notified to report Thurs- day, but did not understand that it was for the purpose of going to work, their expectation heing that they would then be told on what day they would be given emplo ment. All claim to have called aval Construction | Plans Are Criticized | Washington, May 4 (UP)—Con- struction of naval veasels in govern- ment naval yards was criticized as | extravagant today when Rear Ad- miral Charles F. Hughes, chief of | naval operations, appeared before the house naval affairs committee to ask additional appropriations for reconditioning the battleships Okla- | homa and Nevada and the subma- | rine V-4, | “The government has never built a ship within the amount congress has authorized,” said Representative | Vinson, Ga., ranking democrat in the committee. Hughes asked $650,000 more for | at the burean at some hour during the day, but they found filled. Supt. Dovle lost no time in making a check-up after learning that the men were not present to receive i | ! structions. Had it been found there | tvere refusals to work. the names of | the men would have been taken from the charity lists. The first installments of the sew- erage extension prozram to be worked out in conjunction with the movement to furnish employment to men out of work. will be started Monday when operations will begin on Burritt street and on McClintock | their plac | | | The loyalty parade came as the climax of Boys' and Girls’ Week. Mayor John B. Tower and & num- ber of the most prominent men of the city occupied the reviewing stand erected on the green which was dec- orated in honor of the school children. President Sends Message Of Sympathy to Widow Washington, May 4 (UP)—Presi- ing message of condolence to Mrs. ! Edgar B. Piper. of Portland, Ore.. whose editor husband died yester- day: “l am grieved to hear of the passing of your husband whose jour- nalistic abilities and friendship are valued highly. His death will be a distinct loss to the George Washing- tenth consecutive day today. The tremor occurred shortly after 3 a. m. and lasted enly a few seconds ton bi-centennial commission on which he had been gerving so ef- fectively. Mrs. Coolidge joins me i | sympathy in your sorrow.” I dent Coolidge today sent the follow- yesterday at the opening session of |t i Great Council of New Jegscy. | completing reconditioning of the | road. | three veasels. Congress alrealy has Two lahor gangs will be sent out, appropriated $13,150,000 for the|one in charge of Foreman Frank C. battleships and $6,300,000 for the ! Riley and the other under Foreman submarine. Thomas J. Devines The workers will Vinson and other members of the | be recruited from the group of un- employed whose applications are on | file at the labor hureau heing con- committee suggested that the ap- propriation need not be requested until the beginning of next con- | ducted by James Desmond for the gress, { board of public work | _— | Cud | HOME FOR RED MEN | i R—— | Wildwood, N. J., May (,—(P»—:She ff Cron bam ‘S Plans for a national home for aged and needy members of the improved | order of Red Men as well as help for | their needy children were launched | Formally Tinder Arvest | Philadelphia, May 4 (UP)— | Sheriff Thomas Cunningham was ar- ed today by U. & marshals and ken hefore Federal Judge Dickin- son for hearing on a warrant seeking his removal to Washington, s | Cunningham was indieted In Washington on evidence that he re- fused to tell the nate investigating committee where he obtained the New Britain and vicinity: | | $50.000 he contributed to the 1926 Unsettled tonight and Satur- | | campaign funds of Senator-elect day; probably local thunder Willlam 8. Vare. or the 77th Great Sun Council of the | s ——p | THE WEATHER r | | Saturday afternoon It Cunningham losses in the hear- might; rising temperature ing, Golder will appeal the case im- tonight. | | mediately to the circuit court of ap- -# | peals, | | l | * ! i) fifor s worked clerks and bookkeepers | executive or legislative offices in the struggled to keef - xontive orllegl At e 1 P pace with the tre. | Investigation Interrupted By Elec- Adopt Resoutions Callng for| i v Be Resumes Strict Enforcement Planks | : . Spaulding Warner of the coun- SOUTHERNER GIVES VIEWS i Curimiis o fomms s | called 2 meeting to be held in Room 1, City Hall, at § o'clock. The committee held two hearings Investigation into the activities of e board of public works will be reopened Monday night, Chairman W. Declares in Open Convention that if | Certain. Man—D’resumably Smith call of the chair. The city election —is Solid South | intervened and as a result there is Nominated the Will be Only a Mcmory. | of six members still on the commis- sion. It is the expectation of the | committee that the probe will be | completed Monday. . Mo, May 4 (P—A hat the national conven- of each of the political parties write into their platforms a plank | dates “to the strict enforcement of | the « enth amendment and the | national prohibition law,” was con- | AN"THER Blfi SPURT tained in a resolution adopted today | 1t the quadrennial general confer- ence of the Methodist Episcopal | church, is /i igh Resolution Tntroduced ARlses With Market to ngh { The risolution, intreduced by Er- | nest S Cherring executive sec- | reiary of the Anti-Saloon League of Share America, provided for the appoint- | ment by the board of bishops of five ! of it: own members as a rnn\mihl New York, May 3 (®—A sensa- tee to present the resolution to the | yjonal buying movement in General | plitform committee of cach party. \otors common stock, which quickly | “The church,” the resolution said, | qvanced $6.50 a share to a high will mot Do lulled jnto silence DY | pecorg at $203, started a wild bullish evasive answers or vague promises | jUiionrution today on the New from the major political parties. IYork stock exchange. Scores of C, Seleema prosi 1 3 = H S LA Dl other issues advanced §1 to $5 ey Ty share. Retention of the four per cent rediscount rate by the New York federal reserve bank, allaying ars of an lmmediate credit strin- ncy, stimulated the buying move- ment, So great was the volume of trad- ling that the ticker quickly fell be- “lnnd the market. General Motors opened with a block of 11,000 shares at the split price of $198—198.50 ind then bounded upward to $203. | American Can opened with a block of 20,000 shares at $89 and the first sale of Richfield Oil of California was $10,000 shares at $45.50. An dele burst clared “If a certain man know, and whom I need not men- tion, is nominated for president, the solid south will be only a m iory It emphatically will not support any presidential candidate who will not support prohibition. “The Methodi:t and the Mecthodist south, may not be clesiastically but they certainly will unite in the defense of the Ameri- | can nstitution an® the flag.” Adoption of the resolution was b unanimons vote. It called for strict enforcement, not only of the prohi- bition laws, but also of “all other | provisions of the constitution laws of the nation.” Type of Men Wanted The political conventions will he sked to “nominate for president and vice-president only men whose ates 1o their feet of enthusiasm in an out- when de- { who you all iscopal church | copal church > to unite ec- | opening transaction of 10,300 shares {of Chrysler at § was followed by another klock of 10,000 shares at the me price. | New high prices for the year, or and longer, were registered by American clephone at $195, International | "Telephone at $170, Rock Island com- mon at $117.87 1-2, Columbla Gas at $111.623%, Missouri Pacific common at $60, Southern California Edison records and attitud will guaran- 'at $53.25, North American Co. at tee the proper administration and and Howe Sound at $57.25. enforcement of the prohibiUm\J Buying orders poured onto the statutes,” floor from all sections of the coun- “The church cannot be lullc try. Leading commission houses, silence and inactivity by e with wires to the west and south, promises, indecisive declarations or | Were swamped with business. Over- uncertain candidates either | mendous volume of trading, and [1ooked forward to the suspension of business tomorrow when they hoped | said. Regardless of time and effort re. quired, we are determined in every proper way to continue aggressively and unfalteringly to prosecute righteous warfare for the complete extermination of the outlawed bev- crage liquor traffic.” work. 1In many brokerage houses, the task of moving into new quar- ters over the week-end complicated the routine work of the office. Telephone and telegraph lineman | have been working all night for the last two Weeks in the financial dis- trict in a desperate effort to connect ‘lvlophon stock, curb, commodity and news tickers 8o that no house TWO GRANTED DECREES OF DIVORCE BY JUDGE Anua I Bleneld. Bireod kom Hue | Sunie b iilig oaveniant Brohaking as trading progressed with the pub- | lic utilities assuming a more promi- | nent part in the advance. Columbia Gas run up $4.50 a shore to & new high at $114.50 and American Tele- phone, International Telephone, North American company and a few others extended their early gains to $3 a share or more. Curtiss Acroplane soared $7 a share to n | new high at $103.25. General Mo- tors held within a $1 or so of band and Catherine Madran Also Is Divorced. Hartford, May 4 (A—Anna H. Slepski of New Britain, mother of cight children, was granted a divorce on grounds of desertion from John Slepskl today in superior court. Wel- fare workers told Judge Dickenson they had found a man who is willing to marry Mrs. Slepski. Two wives of Frank Crowley ap- its peared in court and Judge Dicken- high level with buying stimulated son annulled the marriage of Crow- by unofficial predictions of & sub. ley to Catherine Madran in New Brit- | stantial extra cash dividend on ain, November 27, 1923. Loulse | May 10, ificd that she was married to Crow- ley in her home town just a wee before the New Britain marriage was | DECISION RESERVED | Public Utilities Commission Makes Casperak of Farmingdale, L. L, test- | | | performed. a divorce, Geo. Tucker, New Haven | Yo Finding on New Haven Ranl- G. A. R. Veteran, Elected | road's Request. New Haven, May 4 (P'—George | Hartford, May 4 (#—Declston was Almon Tucker of New Haven was rsorved today by the public utili. clected department commander 8t 110 commission at a hearing on the the final session of the te G. A.'jctition of the New York, New Ha- 1. encampment here today. He SUC- | von & Hartford Railroad company, ceeds Cl rles M. Shailer of Devon. 'y, purchase $350,000 in stock of the Other officers named were: James | provigence Produce ‘Warehouse Co. Haggerty of Willimantic, $enioT of Providence. R. I. % vice-commander; Frank A. Cargill| o company has been formed by T R SR !the railroad and the produce deal. mander. Other officers wil e | o > city, . S iisa barsic ne Hioas Griuiatanss rs of the city, who were recently ordered to discontinue using the streets for display of their wares. | They money from the stock will be |used to release mortgages on the site of the proposed building, in or- | sion. The Women's Relief Corps which is also holding its annual conven- tion in conncction with the G. A. . encampment will name officers this afternoon. lmvrnL The railroad will lease the | building to the merchants. There | was no opposition to the plan, which was explained by Eugene Phillips, jcounsel for the road in Rhode Monroe | ygjang, $5,000 in Cash and Brother of Henry Rayno Is Dead in Ticonderoga Henry Rayno of 382 stréet today received word of the sudden death of his brother, Fred, at Ticonderoga, N. Y. Details of the death were not included in the Securities Stolen message. Henry Rayno is represen- z : 5 Boston, May 4 (UP)—Five thou- tative in this territory of the West- | . nq dollars in cash and negotiable ern Paint and Varnish Co. g . {checks was stolen from an automo- Life Boat With Two bile of the Liberty Trust company today, according to the two drivers Bodies Is Picked Up Halifax, N. 8, May 4 (UP)A life- of the car. Leo F. Egan and Daniel J. Kelley, beat in which were bodies of two nmien tied to scats was picked up on | the bank employes ,told police that the fishing banks by the Nova Sco- Average Daily Circulation Fov Week Elfluly ] April 28th .. and then adjourned subject to the | der that a building loan may be se- | 14,908 PRICE THREE CENTS. NE ANGLES CONE INTO KNAPP ASE ATTODAYS TRIAL ' Prosecution Seeks to Show That { Her “Good Repntation” in Fi- nancial Things Was False {row bt one- ot the ot vonra | DPARTMENT STORE WAS | PRESSING FOR PAYMENT | Evidence Presented Today Tends to Bear Out State’s Contention That Former New York State Secretary Diverted State's Funds to Own Use to Meet Her Obligationt and Pay Her Private Bills. Figure of 3203 Per | Court House, Albany, N. Y., May | 4 P—Two new angles in the case against Mrs. Florence E. 8. Knapp, former secretary of state, appeared during the forenoon session of the special term of supreme court hers where she i3 being tried for grand larceny in connection with the 4i- verslon to her own use of a stat: 75.08. Attacks Reputation One was an attack by prosccution upon ker “good reputation” af dt- scribed by a representative of the C. H. Edwards & Son department store of 8yracuse, where Mrs. Knapp pur- chased furniture and other wares paid for partially by the proceeds of the check in question. It was brought out for the first time that her transactions with the store in cluded the oftering of a $300 check in the latter pact of 1925 which had been returned protested from the bank for “Insufficient funds.” Back In Payments The other new angle was the fact that the Edwards store had been urging her late in 1925 and early in 1926 to make payments on her arge accounts there. This was es- tablished by the introduction of two letters to her from the store. The prosecution has already indicated this as one of the motives behind her diversion of census funds. Just before luncheon adjourn- Iment, Mark Stern, who was deputy | secretary of state, under Mrs. Knapp, |gave direct testimony to the effect that Mrs. Knapp had endorsed checks for her relatives. This was shortly after Secretary of State Rob- ert Moses, Mrs. Knapp's successor, had testified at length concerning ef- | eensus pay check for $2 | forts to locate “missing records” of 1] the secretary’s office relating to the 1925 census and with the declara- tion that Mrs. Knapp had finally said she had burned them. Mr. Stern testified he had occa- sionally been given checks for Mra. to be able to catch up with their | Knapp's relatives by her to cash or turn into bank drafts. In response to questioning he said he had noticed the endorsements and that, some of them at least were in Mrs. Knapp's handwriting. Night Session Likely When the trial was resumed to- day, counsel was informed of the possibility of a night session tonight and probably another session all day tomorrow. Justice Stephens Callag- han, presiding over the special term of supreme court, indicated his de- sire to expedite the case as much as possible. The grand jury which returned the indictment on which Mrs. Knapp is being tried and 11 others against her, held a perfunctory session this morning. They met and adjourned almost immediately. Store Clerk Testifies The first witness of the day was Patrick J. Sullivan, general manager of the E. W. Edwards and Son, de- partment store of Syracuse, where Mrs, Knapp bought furniture which she 1is alleged to have paid for with proceeds for a check for $2,875.06 in favor of her stepdaughter, Clara Blanche Knapp, which Mrs. Knapp is charged with forging. Sullivan testified as to accounts of Mrs. Knapp with the store. On Janu- ary 25, 1925, shortly after Mrs, Knapp becamie sccretary of state, she owed the store about Sullivan sald, which was increased later, In February, 1926, Sullivan testi- fled, his store received a bank draft for $2,875.06, the amount of the check Mrs. Knapp is alleged to have diverted to her own muses without authority, and credited Mrs. Knapp's accounts with a total of 00, Another check was pr identified as received by the store. This was for $333.52, dated Decem- ber 1, 1926, drawn to C. H. Smith, (Mrs. Knapp's brother). George Z. Medalie, chief prosecuting attorns asked the presiding justice to com- pare writing of the endorsement with that of Mrs. Knapp. Sullivan testified that the amount of the check was credited to Mrs, Knapp's accounts. Sullivan, on cross examination, testified that he had known Mrs, Knapp a long time and considered to have an excellent reputation. fou sce, we trusted her,” said Sullivan. ‘Then Mr. Medalic again took the witness and brought out that the Edwards store had received a check for $300 from Mrs. Knapp which had been returned from the bank for “insufficient funds.” He then procecded to question the statement f the witness as to defendant's “good reputation” on this basis. Testifies. Bookkeeper Miss Ellen C. Hopkins, bookkeep- while in Back Bay they went into a garage on business and returning tia fishing schooner Ruth Adams, discovered their loss. Another bag The men are supposed to have been |containing $3,000 was not touched. of the crew of the Dutch steamer | Bank officials believe that the bag Collesto ,wrecked near Scatterie, C. may have been mislald as no one . was scen around the ear. er for the Edwards store. gave tes- timony as to the receipt of checks and bank drafts under copsideration (Coatinued en Poge 29).