New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 23, 1928, Page 14

Y NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1928 PLAN PRIZE FORUM |COOLIDGE VETOES ATCENTRALSCHOOL FARM RELIEF B Papils of Seventh and Eighth! Grades in Gontest Entertainment Feature Of Stanley Church Supper Following the public supper, an entertainment will be given at the Stanley Memorial church tomorrow evening beginning at § o'clock. An organ recital by Professor Per Ols- son, organist at the First Lutheran church, and a talk on *“Mission Trails of the Southwest" illustrated by stereopticon slides, by Rev. Theo- dore S. Dunn, director of religious education at the South church, will be the principal features of the en- tertainment. Edward L. Hedwall | will sing. The entertainment is open to the public without charge. | | back, chairman of the republicam ,¥: SEEKINE J”R“R ’m | Aininonizat cemmiiiee of Covnags | ticut, advising them of the result of a political survey he has made [;I]MHETE I]ANEI‘(”\ Massachusetts and Ncw Hamp- | shir | Smith wrote that he visited about S——— cities in those states and found Trial of Alleged Bandits Pro- ceeds Slowly | a strong sentiment for the renomina- | tion of President Coolidge. H« Bridgeport. May 23 (#—With one seat in the jury box remaining \ ported mild support of Secretary | cant, deputy sherjffs at noon today (Continued from First Page) Te- market.” The veto ended With an expres- sion of hope that tarm legislation ‘along the lines suggested in my last annual message, with which many of the provisions of this bill are in harmony, may be cnacted.” Mr. Coolidge wrote a 1 Hoover. If the president insists in clining to accept a renomination, he wrote, people to whom he spolke. favored Lowden or Vice-President Dawes, Smith reports sentiment for Governor Fuller of Massachusetts Announcement of the “Prize Forum” among the seventh and cighth grade pupils of the Centrai, Junior high school was made today. ! The contest is to distinguish the best specch on a self chosen subject. The points arc to be awarded on posture, delivery, plan of material, diction. and voice. The speakere are required to speak for at two minutes. Judges will William C. nch, principal of this school and Misses Coombs, Donahue, and Jacobs, English teachers. The list of | pupils selected and their home- as follows 4 *; Katharine Page Clifford McCarthy, TD; Wall Howe, 7C; Muawell Dortmann, Earnest Bacon, 7A; Lillian Zetter- wan, 7G; Loiso Schmatz, i¥; Doro- | thy Potter, TE: Herbert Owen, Exther Goo Agnes Cooper. B 1A Anna C G George Tra- 817 Iornest Sleath, SE; June D; Arthur Nadell, 8C; dred Bromberg, | SH; Irving 21l Blanchette, Blizabeth McGowen, SE; Doro- | Erickeon. sD; Madeline Wolin- Hedwig Rowinska, SB;i vd Hockmuth, SA | Principal French, is reported to yesting comiortably in the Hart- hospitil, after having his ton- | moved yesterday. The Civic | e sent him a bouquet of flowers | st c; d Carlson, Limels, N thy v, 5C e ord i today i guards and color bear- he marshal of the parade from this| chool to the Central k monu- | L met with the Boy Scouts who | to assist in the auditorium | part of the program this morning to | . All of the students in the norrow morning | 1o practice in the Boys' gym Ihe sectional presidents met this in room 109 for the regular | husiness meeting. The matters of | banking, traffic and the echool paper | up. President McEvoy | color crs, with Memorial day Ci i were taken WS, KNAPPBACK IN Bl_]flll Tl]I]AYi (Continued from First Fage) versary Dugan says. openly {rom the taxpayers.” Dugan objected Medalie did not would say | 1 take my statement from vour | position at the first trial,” answered | | | ®aying he | again, know what the prosecutor. { Judge Overrules The judge overruled the when Dugan demanded how the statement of the tor would be taken if the defense did not assume such a position. Then it will be a misstatement by Mr. Medalie,” replied the judge, and Medalie resumed The prosecutor when he called some of Knapp's relatives. “they will vou in the eye and he™ “But I want you to hear their| description of the work they did. | “In other words, yon can some- | times prove the truth by a liar.” objection to know that Mrs. | look | charged prosecu- | printed pamphict outlining his ob- jections to the bill and included with it another pamphlet of equal size giving the views of Attorney Genéral Sargent on the legal phases of the r | His Objections The objections of the president were summarized by his under these six headings “Iirst, it policy “Second. the tax characteristics of the equalization fee. Third, the widespread racy which it would set up. “Fourth, 1ts cncouragement to profitecring and wasteful distribu- tion by middlemen. “Fifth, its simulation of over pro- duction. Siath, its aid to our cultural competitors.” In addition, he declared “these topics hy no incans exhaust the iist of iallacious and, indecd. dangerous aspects of the bill, they afiord ample grounds for its cimphatic rejection.” “In conclusion.” Mr. Coolidge de- clared, “if the measure is enacted one would be led to wonder how long it would be i other lines would clamor similar ‘equalizing’ subsidies the public coffers. congress would be filled with emis- saries from every momentarily dis- tressed industry demanding relief of a burdensome surplus at the ex- pense of the treasury. Once we plunge into the futile sophistries of such a system of wholesale commer- c1al doles for sprcial groups of mid- dlemen and distributors at the ex- pense of farmers and other pro- ducers it is difficult to see what the end might be.” attempted price fixing bureau- forcign agri- for from “T have believed at all times that | the only sound basis for futther fed- eral government action in behalf of agriculture would be to encourage its adequate organization to assist in building up marketing agencies and facilities in the control of the farm- ers themselves. 1 want to see them undertake, under their own manage- ment, the marketing of their pro- ducts under such conditions as will enable them to bring about greater stability in prices and less waste in marketing, but entirely within un- alterabls economic laws. “Such a program supported by a strong protected tariff on farm pro- ducts, is the best method of effect- ing a permanent cure of existing agricultural llis. Such a program is in accordance with the tradition and the American idea of | reliance on the maintenance of pri- vate initiative and individual respon | sibility and the duty of the govern ment. is dischayged when it has pro- | vided conditions under which indi- | viduals can achieve success. “I am still hopeful that legislation along the lines suggested in my last annual message, with which many of the provisions of this bill are in harmony, may be enacted, but this | bill embodies substantially all of the ohjectionable features, which 1 said in that mesgage to the congress, | could not endorse.” The prasident rriticised the hoard which the bill smought to establish, saying that "'no hoard would be able 1o resist tha pressure of the politica Medahe nade a sharp thrust di- rectly at Mre. Knapp during his out line. §he had heen steadily watch- | ing him for some fime as he paced up and down before the jury box when he furned suddenly and look- g directly at her, said | Don't Like Theatricals 1 don’t like theatricals in a trial | They don't go well.” Tn opening the Aefense. John J Conway eaid Mre, Knapp is to an- wer only one charge—that of falee Jyv obtaining a check pavable to her step-daughter. Payments to other members of | Mrs. Knapp's family do not figure in this case, he said. and he asked the urors to hear that in mind | ATTAINS HIGH SPEED (Cont Page) 12 round open- penetrate the the I rockets linked up on an) rd and are con- Mriver's seat. T Jiseharged by nd from are the means a sheet behind the a terrific cloud of yark ot out shoots off Mok The o Flier Killed When His Machine Falls in Ohio 3 (Pe—Walter hmond, Tnd, Genjamin « today when a tail spin ht of 1.500 was their airplane and crashed ¢ The it hit the ated teet zround inable flaming o rescue SEPTLED OUr o) h of Antii counr Zivnowski vs. cduled to b conrt was it Hus inia 7 board “uperion ettled out of eo wife In a dispute fition. B I Monkiew ez was coun for the plaintift and S Gerard ( <ale for the defendant | go—Herald Clas wharever they Ads property it forces which could be mustered hehalf of every staple commodity to demand that the government should undertake the responsibility of at- tempting to legislate its prices above (hose fixed in the normal operations of the lan of supply and demand Styling the measure as “cruelly deceptive” in ita attempt to disguise as governmental price fixing legisia- tien, the president said the bill is much broadsr and more flagrant in ite scope” than all other political surplua control hills “The heights to which price lift- ing might ba promised are’ freed from tha limitation fixed in previous measures” he said. “The bill care- fully avoids any direct allusion fo such price fixing functions, but there can he no doubt about tia intentions and authorization to the federal farm board in this respect. “There is apparently no chang: in the import of the bill in the reso- lution to impose upon the farmer ind upon the consumers produce a regime of futile, delusive experiments with price fixing with indirect governmental buying and selling. and with a nation-wide ays- tem of regulatory policing, ihle espionage, and tax collcction on 1 vast scale. These provisions would disap- point the farmer by naively implying | that the law of supply and demand can thus be legislatively distor favor. Economic history is fill- d with the evidences of the ghastly futility of such attempts, Fiat prices match the folly of fiat money.” Two Different Remedies The McNary-Haugen bill as sent to the White House by congress has deseribed by its supporters as presenting two “distinet and entirely separable remedies™ for farm relicf The first of the proposals for the <tabilization and control of surplus agricultural crops would be means of low rates of interest, while the eec- ond, in the event the first should fail. would he used for the equaliza- tion fee machinery 21 Provisions of Bill. The bill has 21 sections with the following provision s heen Section 1—Sefs forth « declavation | of policy by congress in favor of the | derly marketing of agricultural commoditics and would provide au- ihority for the following: Control and disposition of crop surpluses; preservation of advantageous domes- tic markets; prevention of surplu from unduly depressing the prices obtained for a commodity and from | cxusing undue and excessive fluctua- tions in the market: minimizing of eculation and waste arketing a commodity: and furthering the or zanization of co.operative associs —Creates a federal farm Eection 2 -1 " Section ates 4 foderal farm in ! of farm | intoler- | d in | by loans to co-operatives af | Women of the Red Cross hurried to the scene and gave aid and succor to the injured and relief workers. They are shown here near the mouth of the mine, | that but | before producers | The lobbies of | cued three men and recovered who was among the rescued, is When elevators and stairs were déstroyed in the explosion at the Mather Collieries Co. mine at Mather, Pa., August Cornack (inset) slid down a water pipe to the hottom of the shaft, res- | three bodies. Cornelius Beatty, pictured with his wife and son, | Paul. American | | of the 12 federal 1and hank districts ! with the secretary of agriculture as lan ex-officio member. The president wonid sclect the hoard with senate approval. Nection 3--Defines general powers of hoard such chairman, estahlish offices in Wash- [ington and fix sals of its em- | ployes. It also directs the hoard to | keep advised as to the general sup- {ply and dsmand situation with {&pect to any agricultural commodity Section 4-—FProvides for the crea- tion of commaodity councils of seven | members for each agricultural com Tmodity. The members of the councils would be celected by the hoard from lists suhmitted by | rganizations and the governors of These councils wonld deter mine when the equahization fee achinery would he placed in oper ition on the commodity they respec- fively represented Section 5—Provides for loans by |the hoard to co-operatives er their subsidiary corporations to assist “in | controlling a seasonal or year's total [surplus produced in the T'mied States and either local or national in extent that is in excess of the re quirements for such commodity.” It also provides for loans for the purpose of providing co-operatives | with working capital and working | racitities. Section 6—Designed to discourage abnormal expansion providing that if the advice of the boatd as to |a program of planting or brecding of any agricultural commodity is dis rded by the producers, who, con- trary to the advice, Increase the planting or breeding abnormally the board may refuse advances for the purpose of surplus control Section T—tonfers the powers of investigation hoard to whether | plus of any commodity ox likely whether th threatens to depress the | {commodity helow the cost { duction and whether the the conmmodity apts it storage or future disposal Section S—Provides for the cr tion of clearing house and termi market associations to co-ordinate the activities of shippers in prevent- ing gluts upon the market, Sgetion S—FEmpos ers the board to | enter marketing ments and to the consent of ad- visory councils previously referred 110) to . place the cquahzation fee machinery in operation. The nego- tigtion of tir coments would he findin Ly the board as (o whether the pros surpln he 1 exc When by the board. would be con- co-operative as- for the storuge the co-opera- nd disposal d could a stabilization s in as vight fo selnct e re- farm states, by additional the a s ts or i surplus ice of of pro- nature of to safc upon determine to exist; into (subjoct irketing dependent npon pective of the domesti fhe findings are niad marketing agree | summated with the | sociations 1o provide of the commodity {tives and its purchase by the board. The by vance funds from ita | fund 1o would requirements ments by avi Co-operati carrying out 1he marketing agr Section 10— Provides the The foe ounts fund cqualization machin funds ohtained from I would e wivanced The | commodity marketed | thus compelling contribute thefr shar land losses inc din th of the <urplue The ho to ect im'n: i vy used to repay the 1t would b a cach the board, producers to of the costs Tieposition vould he from volv oo in by {board of 12 members. one from each jany marketing period in which the fee machinery would probahle sum costs and loss be used the needed to cover the that might result from its operation and also to esti- mate the amonnt of the fee to he collected from the commodity. The tee wonld he collected npon the transportation, processing or sale of the commodity at a time specified by the board Section 11 —Directs the hoard to establish a “stabilization fund” for each agriculfural commodity handled through the marketing agreements, the money to be advanced out of the revolving fund. The equalization fees collected wonld he deposited in the stabilization fund to make good any payments required under the marketing agremente, &0 that ad- vances from the revolving fund would be repard as the equalization fees came in. Profits from marketing agreements go info the stabilization fund for that commodity Section 12-—Authorizes enter into insurance With cooperatives Whose dechine surr he the The price the hoard would in a caoperative association would the average price for a basic ade of the commodity in the par- | fieular marget or exchange designat- ed by the board in the contract: provides two alternative methods of meeting cost of payments under in- through payment of premiums and the other stabilization ng period of | insurance surance agreemen one by drawing from the 1tund during the mark the commodity. Limits iRreements to 12 month periods. Section 1i—Provides thorization o priation to he fund. Section 14—Empowers the fede aeconnting office to examine hooks and accounts of the hoard Section 15—Permits the ment of president the ricultural data 16— 10 serve lection of a Section the legislation Section 17 «ppropriation for the adminis expenses of the incurred o July i, 1926 This would be initial appropriation toward the volving fund. Seetion S—Provides that I'portion of the act is held mvalid the remainder of the measure would not Le impaired. T vent possinle censtitutionality of fee provisions from use by the board visions. Rection 19 vision of wmend or modify the Volstead act Seetion 20—Makes it unlaw ful for iny person connected with the hoard a cooperative associstion act prior the the equal hindering of the loan the the act is intended ten years Seetion the iprisonment or hoth De: te surpins control act SHOWER FOR MISS ERICSON A bridge rower and miiscellancous show- iven in honor of 42 of Fdith West 1lartf of Corinne Erieson venne t the home fund of Fern street., last night. The in a color scheime of pink flowers. Prizes were won by Beatrice Mag- 1son, Lillian Rosenwall, @nd F 1 Nevo. Vocal selections were given Iy Miss Mary Woods of this city iss sill hecor fndolph Lund June 23 Ericson the ride Haven on of of hoard | contracts against | for the au- & £400,000,000 appro- known as a revolving the sign- government officials hy the hoard in col- Defines various terms Authorizes a £500.000 | rative re- if any is would be to pre- court action to fest the | ion pro- Declares that no pro- to or cy to impart confidential infor- ation under penalty of 210,000 fine the act as | Miss Lakeview | home was decorated ‘N0 WATERBURY PROBE AT PRESENT ANYWAY Sate Tax Commissioner Wants to Thing Carcfully Before Acting. Hartford, May 23 (A—There will |be no immediate investigation into I the condition of the finances of the “'H,\ of Waterbury by the state tax | department, State Tax Commissioner | | | | i Study | | William H. Blodgett said today. The | commissioner did not say that he would or would not make such an | investigation but declared his desire 1o “study the situation” hefore mak- ing up his mind to a definite course ;n( action. Last weck a mass meeting was called in Waterbury by former Senator Thomas J. McGrath and at that meeting it was voted that Com- missioner Blodgett be invited to come to Waterbury and make a thorough invesiigation into the con- |duct of the city's financial affairs. I'here has heen considerable agita- [tion in the city of late over an in- debtedness of large proportions. SERVICE" ORGANIZATIONS HIT IN A. L. A, BULLETIN | Five Said to Be Trading on Gulli- bility of Public in Con- necticut Five automobile service organiza- tions which are called “disreputable and wholly unreliable” and which it is said have heen ousted from other tates because of dishonest practices |are now operating in Connecticut, according to warnings heing broad- cast by the Automobhile Liabilily as- sociation among motorists of this state, These organizations, it it stated, employ high pressure salesmen who { will promise anything to obtain membership fees and their own com- missions. They change their names frequently. it is asserted, but in spite of such tricks they have heen indicted in numerous states and are now making Connecticnt their mecen hecause of the lack of restraining laws here, These organizations are making service they are supposed to offer, it is claimed. They say they will bring suit for members, but they do |not do so until the members pay the costs. They alzo claim they is. sue surety bonds.which are accept- ©d by the police in lieu of =ecurities, but such is not the case. They fur. ther allow members discounts as high as 50 per cent on purchages, but the goods hought are inferior, it is claimed by the A. L. A. which states some of the salesmen in the ‘wildeat" companies were formerly discharged from its own employ for dishonesty, Federal Express Figures In a Peculiar Accident New London, May 23 (#—John D. Lenox, of Wichita, Kansas, suffered painful, but not serious cuta to face and several other passengers sus- tained minor cuts and scratches from flying glass on the Federal E: of the New Haven railroad v this morning. As the train was passing the westhound state of Maine express at Clinton a relief {valve in the Westhound engine's inder brok~, causing steam to es- cape and to be directed in such a manner as to spend its force in shattering windows of the passing castbound frain. Lenox was treated liere and had two pieces glass re- moved from his face, He continued to Boston on a later train. MISS MARTINO SHOWERED A miscellancous shower was held last evening at the ome of Miss Francis Contaldi of Hartford | avenue in honor of Miss Louise Mar- |tino of 96 Cleveland street. About |30 Ruests were present and Miss | Martino received a number of pretty | gifts. Piano sclections were rendered by Miss Contaldi and Miss Celia Grohal |and vocal selections by Miss Amelia Angelo while luncheon was served. Miss Martino will become the bride of V. (Calanussi on June 11 CLAIM r Mrs. AGAINST CITY Julia Hoffman of this city has filed notice of intent to place a claim against the city as the re- sult of a fall on a defective side- ‘\vnlk at 42 Dewey street on the | afternoon of April 4 In her claim Mrs. Hoffman states that a portion of the sidewalk was | raiscd about two inches about the remaining portion and she tripped and fell on it and suffered injuries. Schwalsky & Schwalski are her attorneys and Depuly Sherift Matthew Papciak served the notice. KNIGHTS SUIT TO OPEN The suit of the Knights of Boles- va. the Knights {of Bolesiaus the Great will open in superior court at Hartford tomor- row. Judge Ells and counsel for the plaintiff and defendant conferred this afternoon and set fomorrow the time for beginning the hearini | false statements with regard te the | ! |l | | | | | | dancing. | the remainder of the evening spent | {in dancing. !the bride of Konstanty Dombkowski lon May 29 1 | i | | | The program by Professor Olsson is as follows: Prelude in C sharp minor- Benedictus ot Prelude and Fugue (The C Canulene P'astorale . Ave Maria ......... Toccata in D. Minor . Intermézzo Calme . i Familiar Melodie . | Te the Rising Sun Variations de Conc MISS FLIS GUEST AT SHOWER A miscellancous shower was ten- dered in honor of Miss Stella Flis at ! the home ! ¥orth Burritt street | About 30 gue |sented Miss Tlis with many useful sifts Miss Gladys Kozakievicz entertain- od the | were seeking talesmen from which |it is hoped to secure the 12th jurer | to hear te: alleged New York bandits Judge John Richards Booth criminal superior court. ““he four dn trial are John Rocco, | Joseph Giglio, alias Frezza: John Cerelli and Joseph Printo all of New York. They are charged with the | possession of explosives, carrying ‘hlll‘gl;u tools and rrying con- | cealed weapons. They were ar | ed early in the morning of April 1 in Stamford when ch of their automobile revealed four fully load- od automaticz, extra ammunition, large assortment of burglars' tools and a small quantity of dynamite. A. Flis of 215 All have pleaded not guilty. After last evening.|examination of talesmen, 11 ts attended and pre- | jurors were selected before in Rachmaninoff Reger athedral) Bach Guilmant Schubert | Rheinl Torjussen Bonnet E of Mrs. Smith Writes of Survey | Of Political Situation Henry A, Smith of 44 South High street, this city, has written to Goy. | Frank 0. Lowden of llinois, can- didate for the republican nomination | for president, and te J. Henry Rora- Charleston played and gathering with Games were Miss Flis will hecome imony in the trial of four | for the nomination for vice-president | and suggests the nomination of cx- Senator James W. Wadsworth Yorlk |8 of Ne |Check Forger Gets One | Year in County Jail | New Haven, May 23 (P—Harry Dickinson, 42, w sentenced to one year in jail on four counts of puass- ing forged checks when arraigned in city court toda Dickinson was illeged 10 have signed the name of former Mayor David E. Fitzgerald to one of the checks and the names of other prominent citizens to the others, Officer Captures Alleged Rum Runner Darien, May 23 (UP)—Charles W. Wechsler, alleged rum runner, _of New York, was captured by Motor- cyele Officer George Evans here to- when his car ran out of gaso- line. Evans reperted finding 114 quarts of whiskey and 12 quarts of gin in the rear of Wechsler's car. The man was held in default of §1.000 bonds for hearing Saturday. Miss Lydia du Pont, daughter of the Wilmington, Del., millionaire, Alex The Daches of Delawarc_; Beautiful Miss 0 vPont, Felix du Pont, took the role of the Duchess of Delaware in the Court of the Mediterranean, a pageant held at San Antonio, Tex., in connection with the recent observance of the anniversary of the Battle of San Jacinto. wear. Here is Miss du Pont in her Medici collar just like Queen Elizabeth used to DRRDON IS PARENTS/ 4 /—”} WILL OEUER 7Pt FOREVER TELLING- ¥ PE WORLD HOW WONDEREUL AND_ CuTE. 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