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

- ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1928, —EIGHTEEN PAGES [msom] NEW BRITAIN H \ ERALD PRICE THREE CENTS " CREW OF SOUTHERN CROSS | SAFE IN HONOLULU READY | FOR SECOND Negotiate 2,400 Miles from Oakland, Calif., and Now Face 3,144 Mile Aerial Journey to Songewlut. Suva Though They May Shorten This Possibility Is That Phl_w Will Be Changed Where- by They Will Go to Opolu, at British Samoa p FARMERS GATHER HOP OF TRIP 101 ARE INDICTED BY CHIGAGO JURY Most Sweeping Action in Pro-| Gonvention for Reliel It is Predicted,” Chicago, J ae 2 (®—One of t ment in Illinois was returned by the T0 PROTEST VETO Make Plans to Rush Republican FAYOR FRANK LOWDLN Supporters of Watson of Indiana and Curtis of Kansas Also in Meeting —Will Sweep Convention Off Feet Liquor Cases Thrown Out of Court as Alcorn’s ‘Agents’ are Missing; 12 Violation Warrants are Nol Witnesses Who Reported Obtaining Evidence in City Fail to Appear for Second Time — Arrests Said to Have Been Based on Stories Told hy Bootlegger Who “Squealed.” The scnsational drive against al- leged viol quested by State's Attorney Hugh M. WORLD WAR SHAFT fuu= ) s D g {0 A o range for Dedication MEETING MONDAY NIGHT | Sl New Organization Will Work With SLAYING MYSTERY ors of the liquor law in|Alcorn to make an announcement to| Memorlal Committee Under Whose this city, which was instituted by the | this court, Within 24 hotre one of ! Office of Ntate's Attorney Hugh M. |the most important witnesses in| Direction Monument i Being Alcorn on information given' 1o these cases was in communication| s Body of Atracti ¥ County Detective Edward J. Hickey | with the office of fhe state's attorney | Frocted: oy o tractive Woman h *|today’s mecting, which was arrang- g most_comprehensive indictments in | 57Ul VO NS STIEH ILLI“NS IN IiRAFT |S’I'EA”NE MANS LUVE the history of prohibition cnforce-1ioii" “cipporter of the presidentiat | irman, LT June @ (PI—The Accompanying the notices of ap- |, ;. : body of & young woman found In 1 | pointment which were reccived in ¥ Joung d.ina today’s mail, is the following letter: | EPavel Pit yesterday with 10 bullet Milton, Mass., Which Has Better Land- Frank O. Towden of NO CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE IN DEATH OF MAN ON STREET BY TIN FROM THEATER ROOF MILTON, MASS,, HAS |Prosecutor Woods Fite With Mayor Paones- sa Finding on Fatal- | E ity When Section of | Ventilator Struck John Bernardo During Heavy Gale on April 19. |“Cause of Disaster Cannot L e farmer |by Reuben Fenn, alleged bootlegger, | and promiscd tp be hers this ST ; : : aee | Chicago, June 2 (P—The farmer I lege: gger, P 0 be here this morn- | Mayor Paonessa today announced F d G l P mbmon E]][orceme]][ protest movement, erystallized by the [and which y d in 12 arrests, de- | ng, but ho'ls now In parts unknown. |, 8 9T h0eY B i ound 1n Gravel Pit {presidential veto ‘ot the MeNary. | veloped into a complete failure when | T will not ask for any eantinuanecs | ® ; f a £ cit S——— | Hauzen farm reliet bill, gathered ifs | Prosecuting Attorney J. G. Woods {in these cases This witness is a| %NS Who will work in cooperation M {leaders here today to plan its assault | nolled th ses in police court to- | corroborating witness and it is Im- | with the Worldl War memorial com- ls POSI’HYELY IDENTIFIED PROMINENT MEN CITED‘JHIM’ 12 upon the republican nations | day. Y | possible to proceed without his testi- | mittee in dedication of the monu. |22 somvention at Tansas City. " | “Tho vagents” emplosed by the | mons. S ot asi for & contin- | ment av Wainut Hin park in g e ey The announced objectives of thy [statc’s attorne oo ) uance, but will nolle each and every | fal). 3 g Govt. Charges That 119 Stlls Were | 100 imont wore two: . the novxdv-';““l‘“'|""('; G R T e Sl The committee will mect Monday | ¥ 1™ WaS Mars Mahan of Boston p ination by the republicans of a mid- | faile PLEAEDT: Msmesiviy | 2 Under Arres| night at § o'clock at the common| and Police Are Hunting For Man Found Opeeating Within TAMIS | 1. westerner; and, second, a repube tor e giEond Sy o ”};up::i:.g‘y .\'o‘hv’vc mm\mslmnnrnnd in Po- | council chamber. 1t is expeeted that g AT S lican party pledge to malke the tarift |cuting attorncy mady the owing | lice cireles in New Britain in a long | 3 <on will continue as| Known to Have Threatened Her o Miae o0 Ui De e e [statement to Judze M, D, Saxe, who e —Other Disclosures Made, | Chairmen of the general coprts was on the bench: I have been re- (Continued on Page 15) Mayor Paoncssa Leing the honorary [ WIth Tevolver Recently, |tee in 14 states had Leen called for fod 1 a = ) candidacy of wounds in the back and side was ederal grand jury yesterday L llinois he movement embraces “Dear Sir: identificd today as thi S ear Sir: de d at of Mary : 3 named 101 persons of Melross Park |y o t Tiowden, and-Fena % o i 5 . supporters of Lowden, and Senators R T O e e B bty et ing Field a suburb, and charged the opera- | \Watson, Indiana, and Curtis, Kansas. i g s '0' e ”‘ ”' “U"“ “"' Mahan of South Boston. Tdentifica- (& ‘::"p:z”:d'" ;d,'l‘cool:qol rlnLI' .\,!1 ylill’kr ]\H}ml" Gov, A m McMullen of obraska | in b ot ‘O“””““” of “0"‘ \\.L.\’I I“V!‘dlrhhh\‘l by her father s its . ar ran as 0 fwho has been a leader in urging em - PR - \ | etitzens in whose hands will he the |40d two brothers, ¢ Honolulu, June 2 P—Encouraged [as five million dollars phatic measures for carrving e | 99,000,000 to $7,000,000 In-| New Jersey Woman Tosea] faieih hes b nts RiL RS Gie A S T ey by a successful 2,409 mile flight Among those indicted were Gus H. farmer protest before the republican . < ~ v . ducti prbiviey i 3 v protes o % A icting a program in conjunct carc 57 A along the treacherous ~Pacific air|Bohlander, village prosident; An-| convontion, said his plan of a farm-| VOIVed in Street Clean- | Verdict of $90,000 to S e e iy s 2 “”I A ““"';”“’h““ ":"";"" lane from Oakland, Cal, the crew |thony I trustec: and Joe | op a0 movinE op the conyertion = 9 Al | War Memorial at Walnut Hill pueic. |1 PaVe been with her yesterday of the huge tri-motor monoplanc | Montana, described as loader of U | ity has hrought him honsands of ing Dept. Scandal Husband’s First Mate | “The first meeting of (his wom: |0 Who was said to have visited 0 Southern Cross today turned with |combine, 5 |1etters promising support ana parti- | mittee will be held Monday, June 4, | her housc Sunday and threatened s . confidence to preparations for the Government's Charge {vipation. : L - lizs o jat 8 o'clock in the Common Council | her with a revolver. second und longest hop in the 7,788 | The government churged that 119 | Circus Tops New York, Juno 2—(P—A story| Elizabeth, N, J, June 2 il b ity o T fam hopetul | Bosore th U,‘l.‘(‘ 65 OF The > mile flight to Australia. stills were found eperating in the| Three cireus main fops, he said, |Of graft in sw York strect | Alivnation of the affections of Joln | FH you will find it possible fo ore s TGS OE Athe yDung After covering the distance from |community of 10,000 persons. In!have been arranged for, and will be |cleaning department with vhu‘;‘j'\'.h“{r“""" "‘q""“‘}“‘( o b R oraaianahat voil vl oa prese “”]\\um:;n‘ “"""", < lh," befy pelioe Oakland with some fuel in reserve |on« year, investigators said, the al-|yaised in Kansas City next week 10 | amount involved estimated between | oo ASbeStos Manutacturing Com- | | Thp S00 0 meeting, as we desipe | 140 Pelicved that it might have on their landing at Wheeler Field [lvged ring used 11,000,006 pounds of |y ccommodate (1 S ) 5 pcy, il oost e b catnerinn | £ - = SN EN ePLl as “tion of | V2N that of Mrs. May Ross. They 2 E ele. e ! R ) ¢ odite the er ¢ 5,000,000 and 0,001 va I o Scl 2 wife, | (1 Suggestions and co-operatic T i ; 4 Liere, Captain Charles Kingsford- [SUEAr in the manufacture of aliohol. | prurking sitcs have oo peosiier, | 35000000 and SR DR ROl N Stcont it o S v e | s belintonRihie irsport ot Smith and his three companions | All the stills seizcd were found tolhy added, both in Kansas City, Mo., |7°¢0rd today in the trial of two|$50.000 under a verdict found in make this day one long to be re- | . oPK ('Donnell of a New York | face e i y |have been of uniform make, a fact | < . 7R < suspended officials of the depart- | favor of his first wife, - Sk R e firm whose business cards were faced the problem of planning to fly [} . tland Kansas City, Kas. The first £ Mr Katherine | Membered, and one worthy of the ound in the victim’s pocket. O'D 3,144 miles to Suva or to the Isle |interpreted as indicating one sing While the Chicago mecting was |Me0t e Lt e RSV A ey R 2o Eio Mo UILE poket (B, . = % 4 i lied o e The estimate was made by William | Scharwath, had sued the second | R ell said that the young woman's 2 of Opolu, at British Samoa, about (Source supplicd them, |attracting many of the leadgrs in |, " Vot a il harwath, who the wealthy | Whieh are memorialized in this | geseription tallicd with that of Mrs. 4 2.500 miles from Hawali. They point- | Village officers were charged with [1he protest movement, the corn |J- LOugheed, suspended fors ha e g Y | monument. o g ed out that they had enough gaso- |NAVINg conspired with leaders of the |0 fuderation st Des Moines, In @ Withess for the state in sl C b shanntactimel Sanaricn) “Respectfull Sl 5 3 syne e, : the » use of | E ¥ y: ot Charles A. McGee and William J. days after his divorce, for b % by e police were informed by rela- line to fly threc hours when they |*¥ndicate, allowing them the use of lingicatea through its ehairman, | e e S A. M. PAONE tives of the young woman that she reached here 27 hou and 28 min. o0 unlimited supply of city water Willi Histh, ‘of <ol Mo 11'.‘-\\4]1[. his superiors, in the ]uuu\‘ i, 000, Mayor.” 4 " d hed here 2 ars £ N L e s i P olumbia, M., | G HET | seharwath testifiea that e bad | Mayor. had exchanged cards with Mrs. utes after leaving the mainland. | 20 ©001 o e e et ‘11““ SOEREHAIE S Wwoull Migovito | efie it o R R theifino sffection lath to be Alienate@and | o e Cha loa Ross recently and that this ex- ' They let Onkland with 1,200 gal- [/ he syndicate, it was charg- [1o won If the republicans failed | goparimont for 30 yoars, sald that in | acoused his first wife of neglecting| . GeorEe M. e lalniad the Zgot that the cards were lons of gasoline and could carry |!1O08 Of the syndicate, it was charg- | fy farmer demands both a | | 8mith, William . Brooks, Joseph ' foung in 1 o ST h o SR RRARE S it time b citye ovaten| o atishy fennex emandinotnias | ghadt HELC e 2EAER B L ALk o GiRectesio e KiEE W and leaving the | o, S LR ound in her pocket. 1,500 eullona, supply was crippled °7 777 [to platform and candidate, |the easy money himself and that in | dishes for him to wash £ Aslrcws Gepge L. Iombell, Shot While Fleeing Nexy fiop Dangerons N e quitted [ .jif we cannot get what we araf 16 ofithe Uast 13 yeams . (s hadl| Whes ithe first. i Scharwath Avert 1t Corbin, Donald L. Bart-| Her position indicatsd she had g e st Mopile etagnisl by e e O ) acquitted of a | CMtled 0 at Kansas City. we feel [acually witnessed the theft of $700,- | denicd the dish washing charge on i o o ball, | Bomardbeen shot while attempting to_fle j 0aions fs e most werllpub of this |y 0os o0, i tn 70 RS 208 L buis o it ina. e el sbmb nd | 0090, reons oL city through payroll | rebuttal, Scharwath rose up in court | oo FNEy, D. O, Selander, AL S jer killers, although there wer Journcy and the facilities for land- | (%" ;"m"_ eeime Bt bodviuard |B°W hope at the democratic ma- |nadding, lana stiouted | Porter. John F. Callahan, Bdward | powder hurns on her skin and ing at Opolu were recommended by | r 1% JUORY 10 BOICe 08 & DOISENATE | 4ig00) " convention at Houston Although he said his “conscience | “I've washed enough dishes to be | o JOmSON, W. W. Grocne, F E.clothing showing that at least nev- he Dattiely consul here s el bebelgsrr miio svas Hialh b ostis hiveoe] MLECH! 8000/ *A3riess (16 mominee fat | oyar bt e dirty dol- 2 member of the dishwashers' || ronoallh Dr. Henry R Lasch, Wil-fcral of the .32 caliber bullets had ; ter than those at Suva, the Apsll 10 primary slooiions, . | MRS Clly is gocoptabls to the lar® b fegiified dhat 1o fai Fortltaon ‘r‘»‘"{‘» -Alu;ll:un ‘\r‘xamle. E 1\!3}‘: cen fired at close range and prob- However, the authorities at Suva | Joderal raids and arrests . whion |fATmers, the convention will mark {sonally collectcd about §100.000 in | The second Mrs. Scharwath, who [ (O00Ft Andrews, David 1 Wir_ |4y from an automatic pistol. fvere going ahead with preparations | ro,uiteq in yestorday's indictments| ! breaking up of the republican |graft sincs 1915, | prior to her marriage had been el John Maerz, Wil- | e only marks of identification to vecelvo the Bauthera Oress. Be- |yune mage lust Fobruary, Attention | PET(Y The $50-a-week foreman | trcasurer of the Asbestos company, ”(:;,l;'('yvQ‘n;\v’l:l‘”\‘:"lfll:‘lt‘lml on the victim’s person were five bus. poria received from there sald the |of the authorities had been called to| GOV McMullen, who plans to [told of “flashing o soll" of $20.000 | dented At had aees anything 19| qooree Molander, Johm A. Tarsor, | ¢ €ards which read: “0'Donnell muniolpal eouneit hed endersd 8 | congttions by somse citicens who siid| —_— |uround the = garage, of losing me |attract the affections of Scharwath, | quarFe JO1ART JOhn J. TAT#OL ana Bates, 280 West 97th atreet, number of trees chopped away 10 |they had been aroused by what the: (Continued on Page 15) much as $60,000 in one days betting | She asserted she had been *forced Adam Zissler, (doin B Holmbaw |0 Lomky provide sutficlent elearing for 8 lgesoribed 58 the ida open manme: —_— S at the Belmont Park race trick, and | into a loveless marriage by the gos- | wyiio HC8IC John ¥ Molmberk. | 4 woman whose home is about landing as well as a take-off for the [in which the alleged ring operated. of throwing 6,000 in small bills into | sip of the former Mrs. G man, William F. Huher, Frank A, |, 100 rom the ~pit told police distance of 1,795 mile e D for the fun of it.” |she said, “but for the talk carrica | SOCANG Aiberl Anderson, | Wil | her house she had heard four ex- Checking Up Plane police at Melrose park and shortly | He said “everybody in the Bronx™ on by his first wife and her friends.” | liam D. Boyle, G . Maxon, | Plosions, which she thought was the Captain Kingsford-Smith planned |atterward announced that he had |1allan Premicr's Name Withdrawn |knew him as a big gambler and that | T first Mrs, Scharwath e0n- | geio " A Gooper, James P. Mur. | ACKATe o an automebile, and to spend most of his time today at|“cleaned up the town.” He resigned | 1o bo sometimes wigered as pich as|tended she and her husband had | AEY TR ORI Jhmes B MU about the same time, loud tones as Wheeler fleld in making a thorough |anq it was shortly afterward that the | T CF “embership In National Press | $1000 on one ol of the dice i | jeed happily for years until 1022] Lo loean wacors Tadislaus i of men wranling check of the Southern Cross. If the | federal raids wero o, Rl Ay Wasninging £ames in the gitage with other em- | when her husband became friendly | (T [ T WHson, | Bd-| qhe (racks of a diamond thread craft is found alrworthy it will be | o T Aliatani, | § | ploy: with Mrs. Catherine Brooke. They | pei oo ieliion & 10 Soper, | Plloon tire on the ground and a p flown fo he island of Kauai, one of | | Washington, June 2 —The name | Although he gave the court no |were divorced last year and she ro. corge Spear, Alber Abbe, Pant |LPOTL Ul @ Toston taxicag ~lad the nearby Hawailan group and ’BE”EVE ITAHA HIT {of Benito Mussolini, premier of Italy | definite proof, he said he believed | ceived $20,000 in cagh. $4,000 a yRarln AR Geoledloine P been seen nearby a short time be- from the Barking Sands runway | proposed two wecks ago for non- |the graft went “clear downtown,” by |alimony and some real estate, McDonough, John €. Loomis, Dari. | [°F¢ the hody was discovered start- there, the second hop will take resident membership in the Natio; which he meant to gh officials in | u Ben ln“'" Mi la-l‘\\' n““”““‘ ed police on ;A». arch which, so far, . place. Press club was withdrawn last night {the city government. He named | g * 159 n‘,‘fil‘m“”\'m‘wm‘ e 'h;'\_' however, has failed of development. Prior to the inspection Captain |y the board of governors following | Alfred ~ A. Taylor, strect cleaning | | h‘fl“ B AL Police here wei> at loss to as- Kingsford-Smith said the Southern protest hy members, commissioner as a possible recipient | | THE WEATHER L {‘; T Dua T. Tatler, . | %N & possible motive for the crime, Cross had shown such air worthiness | The prote was signed by 25 lof some o the graft. Mr. Taylor later | | ol J' “:(')""'- Jon A ;l.» "\ | xeept the general theory that the that he could say definitely that the | 5 i Qhip | members of the elub who objected to | vehemently denied the charges, and | | New Britain and vicinits: | Falotti William I Lanse 1 frant, | oman had been killed to silence take-oft from Barking Sands would | Alpine Troops Think Ship |Mussoiint being a member because |gaid he could show that he was a erally faie tonight and | | poletds Wi I Lange, I Frank- 1y o 0w lodge of some crime, be made soon—not later than next " o |of his treatment of the press in Italy | your man, dependent on his salary | | Sunday; possibly showers to- | M. D. Saxe, J. H. Passerin, H —_— Monday, unless poor fiying weather | Crashed in Mountains of |ana 1 auso it was' contended (1o |utone, and wnkbis to meet many of | | mghs M. D. gaxe, J. H. Pa | H. prevents, by-laws had been Violated in notify- |y finaneial obligations bacause of | | ! Contitnsitn The Southcrn Cross rested toda Rugged Island |ing Mussolini of his selcetion, recent illnesse Bl family $o %! (Continued on Page 8.) y | recent illnesses in mily, with the tri-motored Bird of Para- i dise, the plane in which Lieutenants ESTABI.IQH NEW MARK Maitland and Hagenberger made| Kings Bay, Spitzbergen, June | U their epochal flight from the main- |(P—Firm in the belief that the | land in 25 hours and 50 minutes. | Italia crashed among the mountains b n ) With plans under way to carry|and glaciers of Northern Spitz. y lg . - A Spitz- | . . . . . i 1500 gallons of gasoline, C. T. P. |bergen, Italian Alpinc troops today Have Been Flying Over Ulm, co-pilot, said that the landing proposed at the island of Opolu would be made only in event that (Continued on Page Three) “MIGHT AS WELL DIE” MAN were eager to start for the north on | skis in the hope of finding the crew | of the airship, dead or alive, Members of the base crew ha their belief on the known wind di- rection on the morning of Ma | when the last radio message w | ceived from the Italin. ed that the airship T hey estimat- shed between Wood Bay and Wijde Fjord in the X MAYOTL geo A QUIGLEY o TR O €S\DE! LONS CLUB—— Rome, June aviators, Majors Fel Prete, surpassed the for su 54 1-2 Hours—Break Stinson’s Record (UP)—The Italian rrarin and Del world’'s record tained flight today. Herbert C, SAYS, AND PASSES AWAY Blakeslee Has Fatal Heart Attack After Anticl. pating Death neighborhood of Hinlopen Strait. Hinlopen Strait separates the island of west Spitzbergen from northeast land and this vicinity has been sug- gested by experts as « likely place to seek the Italia, It was calculated that the catastrophe occurrcd not further At midday they had been in the {air more than an hour longer than George Haldeman and Eddie Stin- son, who set a mew record of 53 hours, 36 minutes and 41 seconds March 30 in Florida. ~ The two Italian pilots hoped to “Well, I might as well die tonight (&8 any other time,” was the state- north than between 79 and 80 de- remain in the air several hours grees and not further cast than the longer and the steady roar of their ' ter Sons, for burial. | ment of Herbert C. Blakeslee, 59 years old, of 346 Park street, mo- ments before he dropped to the floor of his bathroom and passed away at 10:30 o'clock last night. It was the opinion of Dr. John Purney, deputy medical examiner, that heart disease which had been troubling him for several years was the cause of his death. According to information received by Dr. Pur- ney, Blakeslee, who was employed as night man in a lunch cart on Arch street, suffered two heart at-| tacks while he was on duty. He re- ¢overed from the first, but when he Suffered the second he was taken to his home. Upon his arrival home he seemed to have partly recovered when the fatal stroke came. Dr. Mattels was | with him when he died. B. C. Por- undertakers, were given permission to prepare the remains' 18th meridian. fI the airship crashed into one of the numerous mountain peaks in the prevailing fog, a belicf which per- sists, it was thought that there was scant possibility of the crew being found alive. Commandant Romagna in com- mand of the Citta Di Milano, was not enthusiastic over the desire of the troops to seek the Ttalia on skis. tain Sora of the Alpinists, how- ever, was cager to lead his men in the hazardous undertaking. The men themselves realized that the route was morc dangerous than usual because the spring sunehine has begun to melt the snow on the Flaciers and open up deep cracks. They hoped, however, to be order- ed to proceed northward early next week. The expedition would consist of seven or eight Alpinists, led by a guide from Kings Bay. It would take enough food to last three or four weeks and have a dog team, guns, % He is survived by his wife, his| ther, Lewis Blakeslee and three axes and medical supplie ters, Mrs. Edward Krann of this| It was supposed that the party, y, Mrs. G. B. Mitchell of Water- | ordered out, would start overland ry and Mrs. Joseph Fanon of |the same time that the Citta Di inville. Milano, the sealer Hobby, and the _He was a member of Myrtle lodge, |ice breaker Braganza go north by K. of P., of Meriden, sea. Lieutenant Luctzow-Holm, who The funeral will be held Monday 'is aboard the Hobby, will make the afternoon from his home at 2 o'clock | first search for the Itaia by air with and burial will be in Fairview ceme- ry. (Continued on Page 3.) SIRED 1o SOME. T DEPARTMEATS, airplane indi » be impossible. Shortly before th Stinson-Haldeman re “All well, didly and have Motor Just before noon covered 7,500 Kilomet Later it was lear: thus completing a 3 Starts With Galveston, Texas, Three Lucyan Bornowsk *POINTS Wil PriDY". day in the third The girls were chos 2 in cities through the GAEATRST Mexico, Cuba, Canad: [ nEMOIAL DAY P‘““y will be selected Miss Monday from Universe Tuesday af scorc beautiful two continents were entered here to- ated that would not ey broke the cord Ferrarina radioed to officials on the ground: working splen- gasoline suffigient for several hours more.” the plane had ters. ned that the fliers expected to land at 2 p. m., hour flight. Texas Beauty Pageant Sixty Girls Junez P — girls from international pageant of pulchritude. sen in contests United States, a and seven European countries, and from them Universe. Plans for the four day pageant called for a sports dress parade to- day along the Galveston sea wall, a | bathing suit promenade the selection of Miss United States among can girls, and the crowning of Mise tomorrow, the Ameri- ter a competi- tion that will include Miss United States and the ten foreign beauties. Be Ascribed to Criminal Negligence of Any One or More Persons”, He Declares, After Review- | ing Investigation Car- | ried Out by Police. Prosccuting Attorney Joscph G. Woods today filed with Mayor Paon- essa a copy of his finding on the death of John Bernardo on April 20 which was caused by a section of tin or sheet metal blowing oif the roof of the Strand theater and strike ng him as he w walking on Chest. nut street. “The cause of the disas- ter cannot be ascribed to the crim. | inal negligence of any one or more wrsons,” Mr, Woods says. His finding is as follows: | “Hon. A. M. Paonessa, “Mayor of the City of New Britain, “New Britain, Coun, Jear Siri— “We were visited by a terrific gale of wind from the northwest, which began ahout 9:00 o'clock on ,the night of April 19th, 1928, and con- | tinued unabated with terrific fore lunHl the early hours of April 20th, 1928, “Lieutenant Bamforth of the local police department detailed Sergeant Thomas J. Feeney, to the vicinity of Walnut and Main streets to inves tigate the partial destruction of ven- tilation, which had been construct- {ed on the roof of the Strand theater building, on Main street. Sergeant Feeney accompanied by Officers Hellberg and Harper, proceeded to the scene of the occurrence. After investigating they found one Johg Bernardo, aged twenty-two years, whose address was 103 Arch street, New Britain, Connecticut, badly in- Jured in the alleyway, hetween the said Strand theater and the Connec- ticut company premises. “Mr. Bernardo was rushed to the New Britain General hospital, im- mediately after the occurrence, Mr, Bernardo and Mr. Philip Burkarth, of New Britain, had been standing near Walnut and Main strecte before the accident, and had Been attract- €d by the ringing of the alarm bell of the Strand theater, which indicat- (Continued on Page 15) Girls’ Colleges Are More Irreligious Than Men’s New York, June 2 (A—American girls' colleges are more irreligious than men’s in the opinion of the Rev. C. Leslie Glenn, secretary of college work of the department of education of the Protestant Episco- pal church. In his report to the national coun- cil of that communion at a meeting yesterday he said that in both kind of schools there is an “alarming” spread of anti-Christian teaching and beliefs among both facultics and students. *“The tone in them (girls’ schools) is more agnostic,” he said, “and more critical or legious institutions than it is in the men's colleges. He sald that in some cases the anti-religious feeling took the form of mild persecution and quoted an instance in which he said a profes- sor threatened with failure in his course any girl who “cut” his class to attend a good Friday three-hour service, Bones 2,000 Years Old Found in Nogales, Ariz. Nogales, Ariz, June 2 (A —An- cient earthen pars, containing the bones of a pre-historic race, recent- Iy excavated by men working on the | city streets. were declared today to be more than 00 years old by Dean Byron Cumming of the Uni- versity of Arizona, who made an in- specion of the relics. Many of the jars are inscribed with curious designs and crude drawings of snakes, centipedes and birds. Dean Cumming attributed the findings to the pihouse people, a long headed race, predecessors of the later race known as the Pueblo people who built Casa Grande. Excepting the cliff dwelers relics which were discovered near Flag- | staff, these jars were sald to be the | oldest relics yet unearthed in Arie zona. HELEN WILLS WINS Auteuil, France, June 2 (P — Helen Wills advanced to the semis final round of the international hard court championships today by | defeating Rollin Couqueque, Dutch champion, in straight sets. Miss Wills won with ease By scgres of -3, 6-0,