New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 17, 1928, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press NEW BRITAIN HERALD Avey Daily Circulation For Week Fnding July l“h Se 14,637 ESTABLISHED 1870 TEXAS DEMOCRATS FACE REAL SPLIT | IN WAR ON SMITH Party Members Anfagonistic to New York Governor Urged to Support Hoover REPUBLICAN NOMINEE 1 STARTING ON TONIGHT Leaves Summer White House Today to Attend Reception At Duluth— | . .His Resignation Will Be Accepted By Coolidge Just 'As Soon As Pos- sible—Isaac Walton Leaguers Call | On Candidate, July 17 (P—V. A. Collins of Dallas, former state sena- tor, presiding at a rally of anti- Smith democrats here today, urged | every democrat in Texas to vote for Herber Hoover for president and re- pudiate the “powers of iniquity.” | Mr. Collins declared that Bl man who would strike down the eighteenth amendment also would strike down section 3. article 6, of the constitution, pertaining to relig- | ious freedom.” Dallas, Texas. The chairman, who is an ardent dry. predicted that Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York, the demo- cratic presidential nomince, would carry only a few counties in Texas. | He promised Herbert Hoover a 10,- 000 majority in Dallas county 1 don’t know if there still is a Ku Klux Klan organization in xas" said Mr. Collins, “but if they are op- | posed to Al Smith T wish there were | ten million of them in the state.”” | The speaker reiterated that the | organization meeting was interested only in the forming of a state wide campaign to bring about the defeat of the democratic nominee. Dr. J. W. Hunt, president of Mec- Murray college at Abilene, pro- nounced the invocation when the lconvention convened, “We face a national cris ha sz2id. “We pray for deliverance from the hands of the spoil in this, our | hour of moral suicide. Hooyer Linds Visit Superior, Wis., July 17 (P—Con- cluding his two day visit with Pres- dent Coolidge, Herbert Hoover left he summer white house at Cedar cland lodge today for a reception | pt Duluth before resuming his jour- ey tonight to his old home in Cal- ifornia where he is to be notified of his nomination as the republican residential condidate. There was no official information 5 to the matters which formed the ubject of conversations between the chief executive and the nominee, but | t was announced that Mr. Hoover" | esignation as commerce sccretary | vould not be accepted until after he | ad reached the [Pacific coast and | fisposed of some matters there re- ating to his department. As soon as (hese have been | traightened out, the president \ull‘ | | ccept the resignation, leaving Mr. oover free to devote his.entire time o the conduct of his campaign vhich will be formally launched on (Continued on Page 17) HREE ELDERLY WOMEN DIE IN' GRADE CRASH illed When Train De-' molishes Their Auto | ear Keene, N, H. | | Keene, N. H., lderly women, out for a pleasure ide, were Killed instantly today at railroad crossing about 10 miles | om this city, when their automo- ile was struck by a passenger train om Boston to Nashua he vie- ms were Mrs. Etta I3, Pearson, 60, nd Mrs. Ellen E. Darker, 74, both f Keene, and Miss Mary L. McCillis, 4. of Haverhill, Mass. The automobile was squarely on e tracks at the crossing between | hesham and Harrisville, when the pcomotive struck it and tossed it 0 feet down an embankment. Two the women were removed from | e wreckage by passengers and the ody of the third was found on the ilroad tracks Mrs. Pearson, hose hushand. Charles, owned the r, was driving it at the time. Miss McCillis, a cousin of Mrs. earson, was visiting her and the ree had set out for a drive from eene. SEES OWN SON KILLED Faterbury July 17 (P—Three Mother Looks On -As Little Son Darts Across Street and Is Run Down By Auto. Waterbury, July 17 (®—While his lother looked on, 6 year old Rob- 't Simpson, son of Mr. and Mrs. larry Simpson of 77 South Leonard reet, ran into the path of an auto- obile driven by Willjiam Bannon of 6 Willow street this morning and ceived injuries from which he died St. Mary's hospital a short time ter. Mr. Bannon reported the case to e police and Coroner Monzani who investigating. | Edward Rider | they BANDITS MAKE MISTAKE, TRY T0 HOLD UP POLICE Bluccoats Use Machine Gun and Kill | One, Wound Another— six Escape. Indianapolis, Ind., July 17.—(P— One man was killed and another seriously wounded early today when police turned a machine gun on two automobile loads of alleged holdup men on the national Indianapolis. ~ Six capture. The dead man was believed to be Edward Rider, about 23, address un- known, Officers could not l¢ identity of the wounded bandit The fight occurred when the men n the two cars blocked the road men e aped to hold up persons in an approach- | victims ing car. When the selected caped by dr nterurban tra ing recklessly over an road east of | rn the ! ck the men started to NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, LEASH ON SCHOOLS " FOR CITY CHARTER :Mayor to Propose Change to Gontrol Expenditures MAY SEVER RELATIONS | Possibility of Forcing Educators to | Set up Autonomy and Levying Own Tax Considered, Paonessa Tells Members of Council. Mayor Paonessa.told members of the common council at a conference in his office last night that he in- tends to sponsor a change in the city charter which the council will hold up the car in which the po- by licemen were riding. Almost im- |hive control over school committee mediately they recognized their cxpenditures or require the cemsoli- mistake and opened fire dated school district to levy its own Machine guns manipulated by tax and handle ifs finances indepen- Lieutenant Fred Drinkut and Patrol- man Frank Hineman, were turned loose and the man belicved to he fell back mortally wounded. PROHIBITION CANNOT BE MADE EFFECTIVE This Is Opinion Passed on to Democratic Chairman Clergyman’s The latter would remove necessity of dent of the council. heme, he explained, !from the council the making an appropriation. the dis- |bursement of which is out of its control. Hall of the finance hoard turned the council's attention to school expenses and the proposed one-fifth of one mill tax to sccure funds for schcol repairs. He ex- ined that it will be impossible to irry through the repair program on |the prosent appropriation since it | was cut about $20,000 by the finance board and the common council. In expressed opinion it is good !economy to malke the repairs this |vear instead of subjecting the huild- 1 Chairman | |ings to the clements for another ey |year 5 = 3 | Alderman Walter R. Falk asked Boston, July 17 (P —Represe v\_&‘\-v“( the expense of repair had been tive Roland D. Saw of Ware, lanticipated and Chairman Hall an- candidate for the democratic nomi- |swered that it had been reported in nation for governor, in a letter {o |1°1il When the budget was being made up. John J. Raskob, chairman of the | “orhe (rouble with the school democratic national committee, to-iboard is that it is continually run- day expressed opinion that “abso- |NINg Wild on expen We don't lute prohibition of. all intoxichting S0t their Pills yet we must take the beverages was impossible Representative San ver's was in reply request to dele cratic national convention for expression of their views on prohibition question. “In 1908 Representative yer wrote, dustrial gate city of Haverhill, Mass.. became convinced that absolute pro- hever- hibition of ages, wa all intoxicating as we ftried it under no license, impossible. “I sought support of our minis- law from the legislature to reduce to a minimum the alcoholic content of beverages popularly sold and to govern- mental control the sale of spirituous terial association, seeking a low strictly regulate under heverages, 1 views, entirely pos amendment.” have not changed ble under the idea that the same law prohibition and the the open saloon.” 'HYSTERIOUS HONSTER IS REPORTED BY GIRLS | “Ogopogo” Reappearance In Okanagan Lake In Canada. Vernofl, B. €., July letter to Chairman Raskob's to the demo- an the Say- “while a past the fn- | ety "1 the new buildings my | And this plan of procedure is | 18th | that | would apply in 30 states which were under state 18 which had Said To Have Made Its | Poses, he said, 17 (P—A re- ,port by a patrol of girl guides that | AW @ mysterious monster dis- blame for what they spend, and we don’t know what the money is going |for. They keep us in the dark. then send in for a bhig sum,” Councilman Samuel Sablotskl declared in open- ing criticism of the committee, Shortage of $48.987 Retuining to discussion of school expenses, Chairman Hall advised |there is a shortage of $45,957.04 in account, including the cost of completing work on the Israel Putnam school and paying |outstanding bills on the Benjamin | Franklin school. To meet these costs the finance hoard will propose that {a bond issue of $50,000 be combin- ed with the issue which wefl pay for |a Senior High school building when a type of building is agreed upon. Councilman William F. Huber of the first ward, expressing a convic- tion that school costs are entirely too great, asked what steps have |been taken to curb future excesses lin expenditures. Representative Sawyer said Future Overdrafts Banned |in his opinion failure of the Vol-| Senator Hall explained that scpa- stead act “results from the insane 'ate funds will be set up hereafter !for each job and that no overdrafts of these funds will be permitted ex- cept by approval of the finance |l\n.:r:1 and the common council. He explained that the city actually |made a profit on the Putnam school fire yet the funds were diverted to lother uses: and there are none to ‘.empl»ln the job. Money not spe- cifically appropriated has been used Ito purchase sites and for other pur- and the result has been that money was not available to complete the jobs which were in {view at the time bonds were lssued. Alderman J. Gustave Johnson in- quired whether it would he possible to avoid the extra tax and include |the repair costs in the nest bond porting itself in Okanagan Lake has 'iSsue. but Senator Hall answered led a few persons to believe in a ;that repairs moneys cannot be ob- |reappearance of the “ogopogo” but |tained through bond issue under the @ great many more to conclude that {the girl guides ought to have a new ity from the depths of the lake s to see something that isn't there n open question. he girls of the {with Miss L. Price, girl guide nurse, were spending the day on the shore of Otter Bay, the water being calm as that glassy surface through which appeared, in the King Arthur's death, Robbin or | whether it merely causcs sun baked | school addition, patrol | as legend of the mysterious jarm clad in white samite. | state statutes. “It a perfect joke. this business of instructor in zoology, or keep out | juggling school finances.” the alder- of the sun on hot days, or both. |man commented. The ogopogo has been reported | Councilman Sablotsky crticized |before, always in the hottest weath- | the school committee for engaging er; but whether it is the sun that |the Warren H. Holines-Powers Co,. causes the monster to rise to visibil- | Lansing, Mich., architects to prepare i plans for the proposed senior High declaring in favor | of local architects. Senator Hall an- swered that his move had beon made in the interests of economy, i pointing out that under local archi- i tects, the school hoard had not heen .able to build within their estimates with one possible exception and that the western firm had hrought school ‘r‘n&(s down. Suddenly a “long creature” ahout ; s 45 feet long. the girls estimated, | (Continued on Page Eight) rushed across the waters of the bay S with an undulating motion that MERRY.GO.ROUND TRAGEDY made “quite a noise.” An accurate | description of obtained. the animal was not SAT DOWN ON TRACKS Only Prompt Action on Part of En- gineer Prevents Death of Man at Meriden Station. Meriden, July tion on the part Waite of the Boston express saved 17 (A —Quick ac- the life of Oscar Spencer, 50, of Quinlan avenue, this morning at 11:43 o'clock when he stopped his train within a car’s length of where the man sat on the depot platform with his feet stretched tracks. The engineer noticed the train whistle repeatedly, to a sudden halt sengers on the t the abrupt stop. Spencer gave as reason for his ac- tion that “he wished to sit down.” of Engineer Percy across the the man | while coming into the city at about 30 miles an hour and though he blew | the man refused to move and it was ne- cessary for the engineer to apply the | emergency brakes, bringing the train Some of the pas- in were jarred by Operator Killed at Toronto Park and Women and Children Are Shock- ed by Electricity. Toronto, Ont., July 17 (P—Several women and children riding a merry- go-round in Viaduct park were severely shocked and the operator of | the apparatus was killed last night when electric wires supplying the {motive current were short-circuited. The operator, Benjamin Helges. |had his hand on the control lever |when something went wrong with |the apparatus and he received the {tull force of the current. ! The entire revolving platform was |charged with electricity, of the women constables attempted to board the moving machine. They were hurled back on their first attempt but on the second try they managed to get aboard and help the passengers safe- ly to the ground. The merry-go- round ran on for several minutes before the current was finally shut off and the body of Helges removed. None of the women or children |was seriously injured. In the council at event its water bond an increase man Edw of finance and night in an plained. ed out with the charge a 25¢ rate is now {man Donald I.. as Opening the will be spent b, |its water plant, ‘|nd its schoolx. that a private investment City of New Britain works plant would he required Bartlett, on the rate. said it is lower than any other city of which he knows. City to Spend $5.000,000 meeting,. Mayor Pa- oncssa advised that about $5,000,000 | the city within a |short period in the development of | its sewerage system | y Increased Water Rates Predicted If City Issues Expansion Bonds; Charges Now Thought Too Low Chairman Hall of Finance Board Declares Immediate Consideration of Higher Levy Must Be Taken If | Council Approves Borrow to Improve Quality of Water. that meeting of $1.225, er rates, Hall of th: taxation rate instead of a Council- in effect, com He urged members to give more time to their | the common | official duties so tomorrow | night acts favorably on a proposed issue, mediate thought must be given to!|gress and by creating advisory com- in w rd K. informed imembers of the council who met last | informal session at office of Mayor Paonessa. To pay interest on the investment | made and to build up a sinking fund | his r‘"(‘fimmrnlalmn Hn| bills of |h“| Herald he would not to retire the additional honds would |school committe take much more than the under present rentals, Mayor TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1928 —TWENTY PAGES. | | ng $1,225,000 that they may quaint themselves with projects and be in a position to vote intelligently. By such meetings as was in pro- ac- 000 im- | Chair- | mittees of the common council the e board | mayor believes, he said. much criti- cism can be avoided. Members of the council who have a working knowledge of the water plan are in a position to defend the water board he pointed out. and he also told of | thy subject to the income | common council's sanction it was ex-| With reference to the water pro- | Paonessa agreed Rram the mayor recited the story of | with Senator Hall. The mayor point- | his investigation into eral '\rwf corporation | of filters and of his change of view- | made by the Point with reference to rapid and | in a water- Slow sand filters. A statement in | to direct contradiction to the claims | 10c | made by Witliam 1. retired from the chairmanship of the water hoard was made by the nrayor when he declared he is con- vinced the rapid filter can be con- |structed at lower cost than the slow filter. Paonessa Compliments Watson Hatch before he | menting | The mayor complimented Chair- man James J. Watson, Hatch's suc- sor. for bringing about an agree- ment on maximum fees for engineer- (Continued on Page 1%) council | stitute a fact that local the one which Comptroller He system would under the plan. comptroller pry cashed by the ments, moderniz today It is state library Yor sever been made on criticism force with cash register Inciuded recommendation: Victim Bridgeport, He is in a methods at Town Clerk Alfred L. and Lucius B. Barbour, state exam- iner of public records, v making a methods employed here. expected that recommendations for will be made after Mr. Barbour files | his report with the directors of the 1 years directed plosion in the rim-fire of the Remington Arms Co. today resulted in serious injuries to Ray- of Walnut Beach, Milford. Colvill's left foot was blown off and he was injured critical Bridgeport hospital. Officials of the company declarcd | that the intense heat of the probably caused the powder which shocking | Colvill was handling, the passengers. Hearing the screams|Colvill came here from Newburgh, and children two|N. Y. mond Colvill, 21, MAYOR ORDERS CURTIS | TOISSUE PAY CHECKS Overrides Objections and | Installs System in Two Departments Disregarding the objections voiced by Comptroller Hanford L. Mayor Paonecssa has issued instruc- tions to the water department and | to the board of public works to in- | system checks as soon as the macii. oy for | the change can be set up, This change in the system of pa; ment was advocated by the mayor in | his annual message to the common council last May. He pointed to the industrics and the larger corporations have found it to be the safest and best system and furnishes the most | adequate check on payrolls. Curtis objected the ground that it would greatly in- | crease the work of his office since he would be required to hand:e checks drawn on the city treasury. 0 sct up the claim that the be penses which are of pay! attended nt but on head The State of Connecticut has tak- en an interest in the move the Th is in study the part present and previous mayors to end | antedated methods which are claimed to be in reference phases of rccord keeping. The city | comptroller has stated that it is not | possible to make a thorough audit because of the lack of system, and a purchased at siderable cost several years ago has been little used, it is claimed. among at to the is ploye Loses Foot in Powder Blast | ¥ Not Recover. July 17 (P—An ex- department in condif to not encountered | cash payment Under existing conditions, the makes for cach department. active department and is then paid off. The eystem is expected to extend next into the police and fire depart- | This check 1s | extensive | improvements | efforts have expected a completely revised system of account keeping. BRIDGEPORT EXPLOSION Remington Arms Company Em- ATTACKED BY RATTLER, in Hospital Recovering From Fright Pottsville, Pa., July 1 (P—A youth whose grip was fatal to a rattlesnake entwined about his neck was in a hospital today apparently |suffering only from fright. He was not bitten. On a road between Mt, Curtis, ing by Pleasant |and Mfnersviiie, two men last night found Louis Karbosky, 23, uncon- crious. The tail of a three-foot snanc was around his neck. When the men tried to help him Karbosky regained partial consciousness and twista’” and groveled to defeat their purpose, keeping his hands back of his head gripping the snake. Then the men, Peter Mowery and John Hoptel, appealed to passing motorists and the youth was taken to a Minersville doctor. But even on ithe combined efforts of the doctor |and two men were futile. Dr. Leroy Purcell finally chloro- formed Kasbosky. as his muscles re- laxed the men stood by ready to |capture the rattlesnake. The snake, €X- | however, was dead. Kasbosky w: removed to a Pottsville hospital where an examination disclosed he had not been bitten. He was held for observation. From the youth’s incoherent mut- tering, the story was gathered that he had been walking through some bushes by the roadside when he felt something against his neck. Reach-. ing his hands back, he found the snake, and, the doctor says, he fell to the road unconscious from frigh'. STABBING SUSPECT 1 all by e cheek of the ment to office of ompson, the cf of the Man Wounded By Prisoner Whom He Had Caught Trying to Steal His Auto. New Haven, than three hours after the stabbing of Robert Anderson of Shelton by an auto-thief late last night, Isadorc Arrich, of 10 Scranton street was arrested on an Idle charge in of the certain for Deputy Coroner Lewis L. Field. Anderson’s injury is painful but not critical and he is being treated at New Haven hospital. Anderson was visiting a friend in Dow street last night seated near a window, saw a man climb into his car and try to start it. He ran out, grappled with the man, and succeeded in' getting a grip on his collar. lead him down George street, hoping to meet a policeman to whom he could turn his prisoner over. Near Factory street another man | joined them and demanded of An- | derson that he release his prisoner. | Upon his refusing to de so, the new- comer handed the would-be auto thief a knife and he promptly stab- bed Anderson in the abdomen and then broke away. Policeman James Dinnan found Anderson a few mo- ments later and took him to the hospital. A short time later, the police were advised that a man had been seen to jump into an automobile and hurry off not far from where the stabbing occurred. The registration of the car showed it to be owned by Arrich and he was taken into cus- con- ternally. tion at day explode. tody. He has a police record but s 4 | denies having any conmection with ! the Anderson case. THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: i Gencerally fair and continued HIGH TIDE — JULY 18 warmcr tonight and Wednes- i day. \ New Haven 13:58 p.m. | | N. London 11:97 a.m.,11 #*. * | & * |ALCORN EXPLAINS MOVE CHOKES IT TO DEATH| Pennsylvania Youth Now . CAUGHT IN NEW HAVEN, July 17 P—Less | | connection with the crime and held | and while | He then started (o; Cg 'DRUNKEN DRIVER JAI FOR MERIDEN ACCIDENT TRIAL OF GARDINER DUE IN SEPTEMBER Placed on Calendar But May Not Be Pressed Then Ruins Car, Has Property. Is Not Covercd By Insurance. il o the July 1 Lloyd str Herald) Stephen Tolei- t, New Haven costs and sen- in jail in the this morning an automobile : of liquor Meriden, Kis of 117 was fined $150 and tenced 1o 10 days Meriden jolice court on charges of drivin while under the in less driving. Toleikis 18 arrested ning at 0 | Colony roud a ring to Hart's Suit, ‘yl ".:'m another first | Mans cgod | Zieger's car L e, 15 badly Prosccuting Attorney Says It Is His u and rec Policy Not to Further Civil Ac- ym‘ Sat eve o'clock r his car had sm: ,~h< owned and oper- Ldward J. Zieger of 64 wenue, New Britain, | was overturned. Mrs. bruised about the Md @ two-year-old son of the w ruiscd abe the head. Simmions of 404 Euast street, | # paseenzor in the New Britain auto- mobile, was uninjured. The New Britain party was on way to Atlautic City, N. J. and Shamokin, Pa.. for a vacation Tolcikis was a the accident by Polic the Meriden police departm was allowed out on bail of § carried no ineurance on his owns no property. The Zieger | movile total loss. MAURETANIA CREATES tions Through His Ofice, Refoer- for the publication, on the libel case of Henry k. | & former Farmer-Labor can- didate for mayor in this city, Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn Commenting 1 time, today for criminal Gardirer, State’s F told depart from he has maintained, of the use of his office to cases brought A the it ctice the p preventing further courts. “The Gardiner case ried at the pre: in the civil will not be 'nt term of super 1or court,” Mr. Alcorn stated in re- ply to a query as to the status of the most sensational case that has de veloped in New Britain in several years. "It has been continued until the next term of superior court in September.” Will it be tried in September “Well, continued wuntil September. I will «ay, however, that the reason for the | continuance is the policy of my office not to permit the furtherance of civil | actions tHrough my office.” | “Do you mean, then, that the case | will not he tried in the criminal court until the civil action is dispos- ed of?” he was asked. and 0. He and ito- Covers 6)2 Mlles in 24 Hours, Averaging More Than 26 Knots | I woul say exact]; hat,” he I would not say exactly that | Aboard S S, Maurctania, via radio answered. to the Associated Press, July 17 oP) The civil action reforred to by Mr. shmai e f Alcorn is the $25,000 suit brought |4 ¥ "“””\'mn'” SRR Chist Willlam . Hart against |29 Th 0% tho voynge trom Cher- | iardiner and Peter J. Pajewski fol- T Y | lowing publication in . 1rigsencrt | (D¢ Mauretania in the 24 hours | i ending at noon today. She covered newspaper, of alleged libelous mat- | { ter relative o alleged botolegging [ /o2 M!S, averaging more than 26 activities by the chief and several .m"j previous record was also held members of the police department. | T Privious revord. i saant Severall dava tterivatds’ onnisen| 5 (SSCEHISANR S 00 svas 0T was arrested on a warrant sworn | Lo ¥ 1o n H‘.. o out by Assistant Prosecuting Attor- | "4 Of Capt. Rostron. Mer present new W. M. Greensten and after a \m'l’;""""',"\" o8 ‘,,‘”‘_‘ Mabell, night in & police cell, was arraigned | 1 Bre-War days, when the route | before Judge M. D. Baxe in polico| ot RN OMDES Hpck o lew | [-count. lsinglé day's runioe asasiis s | N:"‘:\‘:’;“Eo“"’r‘“: Lr“:‘: ‘;:’ ”"":e (""'u'"'c stands as the world record but it was made in a different month and | with a more favorable temperature |of the water, conditions which make for considerable difference in sp term of superior court and spent a few weeks in Hartford county jail fn ! default of honds. A few weeks ago, word was sent to Attorney §. Gerard | Cy. - ; i Y Capt. McNe cac Casale, who was retained by the de. | 3Pt McNeil expeets to reach ed by |quarantine by 4 p. m. Thursda fense after Gardiner was in jail, | {00 WY 4 o m. Thursday that the latter would be put to plea |yjpuo 0"} Tiaravie vonditions con- in superior court and a date set for % Bt pect as the } | behind the record for this stage of | | the vovage ai noon. ! ship w only four miles his trial, but at the eleventh hour, (Continued on Page 17) ST \ 'LONGS FOR GAY GARB, DEDICKTION cowhirrggs |- DUE FOR THRESHING 0UT GIRL FORGES EHEIJI(S[ Maid, 16, Uses Name o[ | Employer to Obtain | Funds May Express Disapproval of | Assignments at Mocting of General Group Tonight. | The appointment of sub-commit- | |lees for the World War memorial dgdication will come before the full [ committee at a special meeting to- | night at § o'clock in the common | council chamber, and it is likely that | | criticism expressed during the past | week will be repeated Unable to withstand the tempia- tion presented by pretty dresses and other nice articles of clothing, a 16 year old girl admitted to the police a Mayor Paoncssa has made it that she forged the mame of the|lnown to the nominating committec woman in whose home she has been | that he does not regard the sclec. cmployed, to three checks, for $10, | (jons made as being sufficiently gen- and $8, spending the money to | eral to include all groups and insurc atisfy her longing for the things!coopcration. The nominating com- she could not have on her meagre mittee has been adamant and has income, i 0 declined fo shift chairmanships. To- Yesterday, when she was taken | pigni's meeting was called especial. into custody by Sergeant P. X1y for the purpose of hearlng and O'Mara, she was wearing a dress ac(ing on the report. purchased with part of the money | s R raised through forgery. In one in- | stance it was only necessary to forge | (GILLETT MAKES DENIAL | an cndorsement, but in the other ! S | two, she made out the entire check, | she said. Brands as “Canard” Reported Criti- The girl will be in police court chambers tomorrow, §i was said to- | Clsm of Mrs. Smith in Talk on day, on account of her youth. She| ] is said 10 have been very frank in | TS Hoover. her admissions to Scryeant O'Mara | Now York, July 17 () The New and Miss Ruth Bristoll, juvenile pro- | youi Times fodny publishes a 1ot bation oficer. She told them she .7y cacrick H. Gillett, xena- | always gave her mother all the . (o te; derivise el money she earned, and the clothes | iiying cortip 1 i _\ she wanted were beyond her means. |\ on Ars. Herbort Hoover and . y R Mrs. Alfred mith, New York Still Swelters e only foundation for In Grip of Heat Wave canard” nhe siid, “is thiss 1 wi New York, July 17 (UP) — The heat that has blanketed the cast for | the past week continued today with little promise of relief. Yesterday tents srature York ascended i degrees and report e siderab talking to a small group of women | land told them that as they were | | doubtless intercsted in the lady who | was likely to be mistress of the | White House, T would tell them a maximum of 84 |3boUt Mrs. Hoover, who 1 knew two prostrations were |V(T¥ Well. but I could say nothing Humidity lowered con- |AboUt Mrs. Smith, for 1 had never | in the afternoon, howev ven seen her. T “The reference to Mrs. Smith was entirely acciden and casnal: there Tomb\? Flll’:e(d_‘,lbbs p as (l;“ . |was absolutely nothing of dcroga- NIg ul in Russia tion or criticism or comparison ut- Leningrad, July 17 (UP)—Nightly |tered or implied or intended.” bacchanalians among the tombs of Smolensk cemetery in an outlying | part of Leningrad were revealed in | in New {Lee, Ma_ss., Epldemi-c Has | Taken Another Victim | Several of the more elaborate of |bringing the total number of deaths | the sepulchres had been furnished |due to the septic sore throat epidem- to represent night clubs and lere\ll‘ here up to 31. Authorities said well stocked with wines and vodka. |Mrs, Conway had not been attended by a doctor. No new cases were re- ported within the past 24 hours. The epidemic is attributed to im- pure milk. BRIDGEPORT BANKRUPTCY Bridgeport, July 17 (® — Ben Zimmerman, Stamford clothier, to- day filed papers in a voluntary pe- tition in bankruptcy in which he places his asscts at $5,400 and his liabilities at $7,995.49, all of which are unsecured and claimed by 38 creditors. A first meeting of credi- tors will be held on July 31. 40 BATHERS DROWNED Mannheim, Germany, July 17 | (UP)—Forty bathers in the Rhine |between Karlsruhe and Bingen were drowned today while seeking relief from the heat wave. \(I t. Dept,, jhe had no | ro: Lice ‘or the steamship company, | amination. a report by police that “several dozens” womcn had been arrested in | Lee, Mass., July 17 (P—Mrs. a raid on the graveyard. Catherine Conway, 50, died today | PRICE THREE CENTS Onnect|, Illl‘ Lib "AIMED . TRIP MISMANAGED, SURVIVOR ASSERTS artford, Copn, Prof. Behouneks Story ol Swedish Scientist Differs From That of Nobile MEANWHILE RUSSIANS PREPARE T0 60 AHEAD Breaker Maligin Replaces Kras- is Being Rushed to sin Which Port for Refucling—Survivor Says Wreck of Italin Was Due Solely to Attempt to Imvestigate South- cast of Pole Moscaw, ly 17 (A—The news- paper lzves today published an interview with Professor F. Be- hounck, a survivor of the ill-fated Italia, in which he quoted Dr. Finn Malmeren as saying the dirigible had been mismanaged. The statement that they left Malmgren behind alone in a grave of ice has been attributed to Malm- gren’s companions in an attempt to reach land. His fate has caused 4 of the Nobile expedition. a Czechoslavakian nicteorologist was one of the group hurled on the ice by the crash and rescucd by the Russian ice breaker Differs With Nobile cral Nobile sent a statement tockholm last week saying that misunderstandings with Malmgren and that relations of whole parts were at all times frank and hearty. he dispatch to Izvestia from its correspondent aboard the Krassin quoted Behounck as saying of the expedition: “Throughout he had heen overe worked and had little sleep, “Shortly before the crash, 1 went fo awak 'n Pontremoli (Italian scien- tist,” still missing) who was sleepini but met Dr. Finn Malmgren, who scemed worried. He told me the tirship had been mismanaged. Details of Crash "Returning to my seat 1 noticed 1 meter was indicating a rapld des. nt. Ceccioni (motor chief) instant- Iy threw out the last ballast of 170 kilos of metal. We immediately » 400 meters. Then we rapidly n to descend again. About fifteen minutes after the nitial crash and after the dirigible had carricd off the Allesandri group (of gix men) we saw smoke but did not hear an explosion, which indi- cates the possibility that the group s alive. “Our desire to investigate the area southeast of the pole wrecked the irigible as we purposely drifted with a storm to enable the making o( this investigation. “We remained over the pole at & I\Ngh( of 150 meters for two hourl. | Scientific results of the expedition were satisfactory. I carried on sciene tific investigations after the fall.” Outline of Plans After passing through the heavy seas, the Maligin will procced the southeastern shores of Dr. the be along (Continued on Page Eight) COASTWISE STEAMER HELD IN QUARANTINE Tliness on Belfast Causes Investigation at Boston Harbor Boston, July 17 (A—The steamer Belfast of the Eastern Steamship Lines was detained at quarantine on her arrival here today from Bangor, Me., and DPenohscot river ports be- ause of sickness on board. The nature of the illness which was re- ported to have afflicted a member of the crew was not announced pending further investigation by health authorities. The c: was reported by Captain Rawley of the Belfast to Cap- gene E. O'Connell, president by wire- {less, and at the latter's request United States public health officials boarded the steamer when she ar- rived at quarantine to make an ex- As a coastwise veasel plyving between New England ports, the Belfast is not required to stop {at quarantine for the inspection siven vessels from foreign ports. Dr. Alvin Sweeny of the public health service ordered the RBelfast held at quarantine for further ob- servation and it was announced that tain | passengers and members of the | crew must submit to vaccination. The steamer carries a crew of 119 and approximately 100 passengers were aboard. Health department officials were | informed that a room steward on the steamer left the ship recently | after becoming ill. It was reported | that he was now under observation. Smallpox is euspected officials of the public health service sald later they had not com- pleted their dlagnosis of the case, but that the steamer would be per- mitted to leave quarantine this afier non and make her regular salling from here tonight. As & Pprecau- tionary measure all food and water aboard the steamer was condemmed nd a new supply was te be taben on before the Belfast salled. |