New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 10, 1928, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 REGISTRARS REPORT 4,623 HAVE APPLIED TO BE MADE VOTERS FOR Sixth Ward Leads With 946; First Ward Second With 893, and Fifth Ward Third With 853 Candidates. Registrars Thomas J. Smith and William J. Ziegler today completed | « compilation of the applications of | prospective voters, and found the names of 4,623 for listing, t. ber exceeding by several thousand | the estimates made by these officials | and directors of the drive for both | parties. The time limit for Aling applica- tions came to an end at 5 o'clock vesterday afternoon. Until long after | midnight the registrars were in their | office preparing the lists for the printers. The work was resumed loday with a staff of four typists as- sisting. Extra Examination Dates First Belectman Darius Benjamin | 1pon learning of the large number | >f applicants, today announced that | n addition to the sessions scheduled for October 13 and 20, special ses- sions will be held October 16 and 18. On these four days, the regis- rars, town clerk and selectmen will neet from 9 a. m. to 8 p. M. to ex- imine and admit electors. Democratic circles today received | the report of the registrars with | satisfaction, when it was found that | he greatest number of applications had been filed from the sixth ward. This district is considered the back- bone of democratic strength, and it | i the belief of democratic leaders | that a great majority of the 246 sixth warders who are eligible for admission as voters will be aligned | with their party. The first ward, in | vecent years the strong republican | district, ‘the strength having shifted gradually from the third to the first, comes second in the list with 893 names. 853 Fifth Ward Applicants { The nfth ward, regarded as the I only uncertain ward in New Britain has third place, with 853. In the| spring election this ward gave Mayor Paonessa and the democratic ticket | a substantial plurality but in na- tional elections it has been almost | always in the republican column i The third ward, a republican dis- | [ trict, has 769 applicants: the second | has 632; and the fourth ward, the smallest in the (‘H) has 530, ‘TABY’ ASKED TO SELL THEIR NEW BUILDING Directors Engaged in Fix-| ing Price for Prospec- tive Buyer Sale of the new fraternal home of the Y. M. T. A. & B. Society on Main street, and removal of the organiza- tion to other quarters within a short time is a possibility, though the name of the prospoctive purchaser and the purposes to which the build- ing will be devoted, if purchased, could not be learned today. The soclety, through its directors, has been asked to fix a price at which they will sell, and they are now working on a figure which, in their judgement, will be satisfactory to the society as a whole. Definite action will be taken within two weeks, it is expected. The society, popularly known as the “Tabs” has been #n existence for nearly 50 yea It was formed with a corner room in the old town school on Myrtle street, as its meet- ing place, grew in size influence and finance until it was in a position to | erect a home on Lafayette street, and about two years ago built the home on Main street, opposite St. Mary's church. The financial burden | has proved too much to carry, making it necessary either to work out methods of increasing the in- come or disposing of the building. The structure has several stores, meeting Malls, club-rooms and an auditorium seating about 2,000, Deer Are Menace to Automobile Drivers Winsted, Oct. 10 (P—A enace that is becoming prevalent to au- tomobile drivers was encountered last night by Fred Haap, who was considerably surpriscd and bhe- wildered when a 200 pound deer from out of the woods at Rogers corner in Pleasant valley ran i front. of his machine and became entangled so that he had to be lilled. One of the animal’s legs was broken and the deputy game warddn was summoned to put itto death. The strange accident caused Haap's fend. er to he smashed and also broke the ‘headlights. ‘a--hoo: board a hearing on the pro- i sistence that the mayor was not to | cool head and friendly feeling. I am {mayor has not asked me to refuse |school |tec had worked out a plan for the HICKMAN SAYS HE | my | case has virtually barred the way to -~ NEW BRITAIN HERALD ELECTION DAY KING GETS BACKING OF N.B. . 5, ASSN. Parents Yote to Ask for Hearing onSchoolMdm«n NAYOR TARGET OF SHAFTS Chairman Hall of Finance Boasd De- | fends Pacnessa—Day Expects Son | ‘0 Attend Class in Coal Bin NQ!I‘; Year. | After two hours discussion, en- livened at times by criticism on both sides, the, Parents and Teachers as- sociation of the Senior High achool last night voted to petition Chair- man Edward F. Hall of the board of NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1928. —TWENTY PAGES KEY THIEF STICKS BAYONET iN TABLE Woman covery on Retarning Home GROOK. RIFLES HER HOUSE| No Threatcning Note to Complete Melodramatic Sectting However— Key Workers Still Active About City, Police Complaints Show. When Mrs. Joseph Annunziata of 443 West Main street arrived at her {lome about & 'clock yesterday |cncr imade the first Ze \afternoon, she was sucprised to find a padlock pulled off the front dJoor, but when she entered snc was almost overco bayonet stuck into a tabl: and stand- ing uprifht as though it had been thrust with great force. A lock had been pulled off a trunk and the con tents strewn about the fivor, a check up revealing that the following arti- cles had been taken: Oge dime sav- |ings bank containing approximately $4; $11 in cash: two gold bracelets; 1 pair of goll earrings: gold band ring; 3 gold rings with stones; two $5 gold picces; 1 gold necklace. band finance and taxation to give the | posed Senior High school addition. | The fact that Chairman Hall. a | member of the associatfon, was pre ent and was unmoved by the argu- ments advanced Wy the advecates of | the addition. made widespread the impression that he will not alter his stand and will refuse to give a hear- ing until the mayor's survey com. | mittee completes its work. Hall Defends Paonessa Criticism of Mayor Paoncssa con- | tinued in spite of Senator Hall's in- blame. Shortly after the nieeting was called one of the parents asked why no hearing was called. Mr. Hall re- plied: “This is not the time for hasty action; it is the time for a fully responsible for this del The to call this meeting. 1 am holding it up until I am sure that the sale of the school bonds will not be hurt be. cause the records show that the move is not favored by the common, council and mayor.” v At one time during the meeting fter School Committeeman William H. Day had denounced the mayor and the general city government for their lack of cooperation with the school board, Martin J. Kelly de- clared the meeting was not a true representation of the parents of children in the high school and that approximately 125 members pf the | association were present. The enroll- | ment of the school was over 1,200 and those present were representa tive of a certain faction, he claimed. He hit at the speakers who criti- cized the mayor and Senator Hall for being destructive. He favored putting the matter before the public and having a vote taken within the next four weeks. Woman Answers Kelly Tmmediately one of the women gained the floor and declared. every parent had received a notice of the | meeting and only those who were interested were present. Whereupon the entire gathering applauded. Mectings of the Senior High Parents and Teachers asso- ciation are never very largely at- tended, but a, record crowd was | present when President John Black | called the meeting to order. He explained that the school commit- construction of an addition to the| high school which was economical, (Continued on Page Four) IS ‘GUILTY SINNER" Thanks Supreme Court for | Letting Him Prepare for Death San Quentin Prison, Cal, Oct. 10 UP-—1n a signed statement addressed to the Agssociated Press, William Edward Hickman, sentenced to death for the slaying of lifttle Mar- ian Parker, today confessed he was a “guilty sinner” and thanked the state supreme court for giving him time to prepare for death. He denied to Warden James B. Holohan that he tried to commit suicide in his cell as had been ru- wored. “l have made up my mind to take medicine,” he said, “and 1 am not going that way Tho youth is sentenced hanged Friday. October 19. Refus- al of the United States supreme court 1o consider an appeal in his to be further legal maneuvers by the de- fense and Governor C. Young has announced he will not intervene. Hickman's statement follows: “l wnow very well that I have been a most guilty sinner. Never- theless, I have confessed my sins and I am now trying to do what is right. 1 am very sorry for having offended God and man. [ deserve punishment and ask no personal favors. 1 am thankful that the supreme court has given me time to prepare for death. | Please ask the people in the name of God to pray for us condemned men here at 8an Quentin prison. Al glory be to our Father in Heaven and on earth, good will toward men. “WILLIAM EDWARD HICKMAN.” Number 45041." Hickman has become a convert [timo !in a tenement bloc |onet |picion and in an emergency Still Another Break A short time before Offiger John | M. Liebler had been detailed to in- vestigate the Annunziata house |break, Detective Sergeant George C. | Ellinger had gone o the home of Lazara David, 154 Washington street, |where hs found that a key worker had gained entrance through the front door, taking $60 in cash: two |gold watches; 1 wedding ring. and |dtamond rings. At the Annunziata {home, Officer Liebler learned that the tenement was vacant from 1:4 o'clock in the afternoon until the Mrs. Annunziata while ut the David home, which is . Sergeant El- linger learned that a family living across the hallway had been at home throfghout tho afternoon, listening to the world's series game on the radio. The only noise any- one heard about the place, 8o far as the police learned. was a door clos- ing about 2 o'clock. The Bayonect Mystery The connection between the bay- and the numerous house breaks that have occurred in Britain during the past several weeks could not be explained by the police, but one theory is that the weapon was stuck in the table for the effcet it would have on the per- son finding It. No noto to complete the melodramatic effect was found. |On Talcott street recent ment was ransacked and Sergeant Stadler found a rifie in one of the rooms, learning later that Archibald Sharpe had furnishings stored there and the rifle was his. It is prob- able, the police sald today, that the key workers removed the bayonet from the rifle and have been carry- ing it about since that time. they are desperate enough to use the bayonet to protect themselves in the event of being surprised in the ‘act | of committing burglary is also being considered, although, it was pointed out, mort, or a revolver, could be carried With less danger of attracting sus- would be equally as effective as the bayo- net, if not more so. Not Yet Seen The luck of the key workers con- tinues to be marveled at by the po- lice and the victims. Nobody saw them en Washington street yester- day, wvet Sergeant Ellinger obliged to practically pick his way iuto the house on account of the presence of a large police dog which Dblocked his entrance. It was re- marked by policemen that they sel- dom are successful in their efforts to visit a neighborhood seen by every housewife #treet, vet the burglars on have been operating in broad daylight in ap- | proximately 30 instances and no- body has scen them. Last week Sergeant Ellinger was knocking on (Contiriued on Page Four) TRUMBULL 10 TELL WEST OF CONNECTICUT Governor Will Broadcast 3,000 Word Specch Over Station WMAQ November 17 Hartford, Oct. 10 UP—Governor John H. Trumbull, accompanied by Mrs. Trumbull, Miss Florence Trumbull, and several members of his staff. will stop off in Chicago on the way to the annual governor's conference at New Orleans long enough for the governor to “sell Connecticut” to the west through the medium of the radio. The governor's speech, which will be more than 3.000 words in length, will be bromdcast by station WMAQ at 8:25 castern standard time on the night of November 17. and the Chi- cago Daily News. which owns and operates the station, will issue a special rotogravure section contain- | ing many photographs of Connecti- cut in commemoration of the event. Borah Makes Wholesale Prediction of Election Washington, Oct. 10.—P—8ena- tor Borah called upon President Coolidge today at the White House and predicted that Herbert Hoover would carry Michigan, Kentucky. Miswouri, Oklahoma, Nebraska, North and South Dakota and Minne- | sota in the November elections. The senator said that his analysis of feeling in these states was bdsed on the observations which he derived trom his recent apeech making tour. The trend in all of them. he said. 1o the Roman Catholic church since he was placed in prison, was definitely for the republican nominees. kes Starting Dis- with fright at sight of a | o returned, | New | That | a smaller weapon of the same | was | without being | the | First Sack of Zeppelin Mail STATE OFFICIALS Maple Hill Man INVI][VH] IN DEAL Recovered by |Waldemar Massman Re- calls Finding Bag in Treetop — Dropped by Eckener 17 Years Ago. The coming flight of Dr. Hugo Eckencr irom Germany to the Unit- | ed States in the giant dirigible “Graf Zeppelin” holds especial interest for Waldemar Massman of Johnson | street, Maple Hill, for it was almost exactly 17 years ago that Dr. Eck- Zeppelin flight upon which mail was carried and it was Mr. Massman who made this cpochal despatch a success by res- cuing the letter pouch when it was | | dropped into a tall trec in front of | his house near Leipzig, Germany On November 20, 1911, Dr. Eck- cner, then a chief engincer, took off from Berlin for Baden in the Zep- pelin “Schwaben,” and, for the first time in history, he carried a small |sack of mail aboard a dirigible. Mr. Massman and his wife, working in the vard before their house in Leip- | zig that day, they naturally watched | | with great interest as the Zeppelin | soared above their native city | Suddenly Mr. Massman saw some- | thing dropped from the airship and | | come. hurtling downward until it ame 1o rest in the top of a tree in | his yard, fully 60 feet from the | ground. Massman climbed up and | rescued this object. 1t proved to be a parchment sack, to which were |attached several streamers 16 feet long and in the German imperial colors of red, whited and black. In- side the sack were 36 lefters and 22 postcards addressed to people in all the countries of Europe—Germany. Urance, Norway, Fngland, Russia, | Switzerland and other lands—and a notice from Dr. Eckener to the | finder of the pouch. Three marks (75 cents) were also enclosed to pay | the finder for his trouble and there | was a quantity of sand in the bot- tom to ensure a quick drop to the ground. The notice fram Chief Engineer Eckener asked that the discoverer of the sack carry the letters to a post | office and deposit them there. Massman went first to the off the “Leipsiger Neueste Nachri the second largest uewspaper in | Germany, and showed his find to the | editor, who wanted to keep it. Massman refused to betray his trust and gave the newspaper only the de- tails of his day's experience, which he was rewarded with a fur- | ther 20 marks (35). Then Mr. Massman wrote his own name and address on all the lefters | and cards and mailed them. Many of the addressees wrote back to hini, | thanking him for forwarding the riissives &nd congratulating him upon his finding. Mr. Massman agd come to this country Mr. Massman taking a position at the Greenhouses of I. H. Bollerer in Maple Hill. Last year hoth Mr. and Mrs. Massman won honors in the | night school classes here. GILLIS THINKS WET WASH 1S JUGRATIVE |“Bossy” May Start Laun- dry Business in New- buryport on Release | his wife have | fairly recently, Salem, Mass., Oct. 10 (UP)- Assignment of “Bossy” Gillis to the laundry of Salem jail has given the | red-hcaded Newburyport mayor an idea and Jail officials a problem The idea occurred to his honor | almost as soon as he had taken h place among the grey-clad, ps spiring hard-laborers of the washing department, | “Bossy,” always with a keen eve | for moneymaking possibilities, quick- | ly decided that at the expiration of | his two-month sentence—only 54 days hence—he would add a wet wash to his numerous filling station Pholdings in his home city. “I've been looking over the jail lanndry,” he explained. “There must be money in laundries and it doesn't | scem to be a hard thing to start one. I gucss I'll start a wet wash in Newburyport when 1 get out.” The problem, which arose at about | the fime “‘Bossy” got his idea, nas still troubling jail officials toda Deputy Sherift Edward P. Carlin said that until the mayoral prisoner was assigned to it, the laundry wa the most unpopular department of the jail. ow, all the prisoners scem anx- |ious to wash clothes.” sald Carlin, | “and it's all we can do to keep them out of the laundry.” In the Napolconic manner which transformed “Ros: from a small- town mayor info a national figur the incarcerated execnifive has be come, over-night. a dominating force in the jail laundry. Convicted pickpockets, burglars and beotleggers, also assigned to the laundry, appeared highly honor- | ed by the opportunity to take or- ders from the famous petrol-peddler, and it was reliably reported that “Bossy” had been dubbed by fel- (Continued on Fage 15.) THE WEATHER New Britaim and vicimity: Fair and continued cool to- night: Thursday increasing cloudiness and slowly rising temperature. | to three for |as the hour of departure neared | the party were Harold 1 {Jeremiah De (Ceccoa, B, | Mount * [tives, Trumbull and Pallotti Men-| | tioned in Walkins Financing ‘srocx JUGGLING DETALLS [], S, DEFENSE IS - NOT T0 LET DOWN! Sec. Davis Tells Legion Treaty Won't Affect It \PRAISES KELLOGG PACT below the market price Witness Testifies Governor and Sec- retary of State Obtained For ll& | a Share When Market Price Was $25 or $26. Hartford, showing th Oct. 10 (I —Testimony | John H of State Francis t Gov. S bull and § A. Pallotti were allowed to purchase stock of the National Associated In- vestors, etary re Ine., —_— and sold at a by profit was introduced Declares it is J. Verner Anderson, former rep- | West Hartford, in at the opening day of the embezzle- Watkins, | here to- promis “Preliminary Treat- ment for an Age-Old Ca resentative from the says Our Army Smallest of the state legislature, DEMAR MASSMAN second of Roger W. superior court BYRD IS STARTING FOR ANTARCTIC TODAY Boards Vessel at San Diego and Now Awaits Floodtide | ment trial San Oct. 10 P — A administration Antonio. Tex that the contemplate broker, in day foes weaken- not any Anderson, former office R. W. Watkins & Co., of the N. A. L, resumed the this morning and testified Watkins, charged with embezzlement Lof §141.000, gave him 100 shares of the for sale to Gov. Trumbull | ind a similar amount for Mr. Pallot- | i | The witness said Watkins told him | would be advantageous to have | these state officials on the list of | tock holders. Gov. Trumbull paid for shares at $15 a share, Ander manager for of the regentiy signed Kellogg tres stand that | ties was given the A here today by Dwight 1. Davis in which he praised the purpose and the statesmanship of the documents. Won't Jeopardize Tiberty “As secretary of war,” he said, 1 know the great valuc of the support which has been give American Legion to our national defense. T sirous of peace, vou have realized that we | pardize our heritage of lil ing our search for a panaces Therefore, you will know that your efforts hate | been misdirected. The government loes not intend that there would be werican Legion etary of War an address in stock " n the San Dedro, Calif, Oct. 10 & Commander Richard 12 1 and nis Little group of followers prepared ared | jared, giving his personal ch today to LId good-bye to the Unite St » g though the market for the stock at States as thew final gesture betore | 2 GE aan b on 3ot ahne embarking on a long vosage winen oy U SIE SRR 8 N g | will take them into voiuntary exile|o. gaz. Anderson said. Secretar m the sntarclic regions {rom Onc . pyiiotti also was permitted 1o buy at - %15 a share and he, too, later sold | no weakening of the national de- g his mark | 44 g9 or Anderson testified. | fense as a result of these treaties.” in the aretic by fling over the north | Louls Bouet Testifics | Treliminary Treatmer polar arva. and wio spanned the | [ouig A. Bouet of New Britain tes- | The treati Davis described as Atlantic by airplans i one of the [fified that $150.000 of Power & vy preliminary treatment for an most thriliing of transatlantic HIgWtS | 1iznt Utilities (‘o. stock carried on age-old cancer.” He pointed out that will meet at the nether jghe National Associated Investors | whereas the ruler was ence com- end of (he earth by essaying to books was never treated as any | mander-in-chief of his people. the 100 ne his must not jeo iy dur- for 10 not war. wish The explo ho Teft s adventure Co. Pa ; tions. We are removed only 10 years from the greatest war in histo | Bven though world opinion mow | may appear to exercise a prepon- derant influence for peace, We | should not rely entirely upon its | force. but rather procced along va- {tional lines toward a practical realization of our aims for peace. The first step has been the renun- clation of aggressions.” The United States, Davis ! mated, now maintains a larmy per capita than any onc other nations, the average ratio be- |ing four fighters per thousand to one per thousand for the United States, Balchen, pilot Dean (. Demas, esti- waller of 51 e pronl “fill in the Llank spaces on the | sgset hec it was offset by the | jer now is commander-in-chief of map” of that region entry “when, as, and if issued.” !the army alone and that people now Aboard the staunch w A Alr. Boust denied he had said the lare enlightened and do not go to Larsen, Byrd and his cager compan- A I never had more than $8.000 | war as blindly as they once did ions were ready to start at flood tide [ i) cash. It was the policy of Wat-| [y the main man has striven to |today for Dundedin, New Zealand, Kins, he stated, not to have much!|je peacefully and peaceably with | Where_ their drive into the south | cash in the concern. | his neighbors” Davis said volar zone begins. . On the fic| Bouet's connection with the con- | sommercial and national aims, how- ocean they will follow three other |cern started when he tried to inter- [avar ryn counter to those of an- ¥ s of the Byrd expedition, the Watkins i renting branch office | othor nation, disagreement naturally mes Clark Ross, the Eleanor |space in the Commercial Trust Co.|y. o grisen. In bygone days such a Bolling and the City of New York building in New Britain. Bouet sald | (i otion was followed by a war of already well on their way to distant | he had heen interested in investment | /o woion itness Rome and W Zealand trusts and had read up on them as- | ,rthage. Today we exhaust every All four of the ships carry great | siduously. possible means to adjust differ- stores of supplies, including air- Paid $75 a Week | st planes which Byrd will employ m’ Watkins perceived this in conver- | “ugoir preservation is the first law his long exploration of the so-called |sation with him and subsequently | st frozen area on rth. | offered the New Britain man an op- hty-two men will aid the daring | portunity to assist in forming an in- plans of the commande | vestment trust. He paid him $75 a Eager though they were to be off | we on their voyage, none of the party | Testifying as to some of the bus- | expressed anything but quiet elation s of the N. A. 1. Bouet said the In | securities obtained were generally | June, Bernt |in sheet form, signed in blank, Smith, airpla ready for delivery to a stock brok- | A. 1% Rubiern |er. He told of 1,000 shares of Radio | airplane me- | sold in a week for the profit of N.| chanics; Magtin Rohne, sailmaker; [A. I but he said the N. A. 1. did not Richard J. Brophy, Lusiness man- |receive the ager of the expedition. Ralph Shropshiren, hydrographer; Captain rgeant Benjamin Rother, me- | Charles Lofgren, personnel | nd William Vanderveer, pho- | tographer. | Value Jost “The value of this step (the peace treaties) will be lost,” Davis said, “if conceive to be a | Painter Gets Judgment for =’ " ne WETHERSFIELD WOMAY |~ Mol Pietwrs for | TAKES HER OWN LIFE ENGINEER KILLED IN Miss Alice Phelp S fdpmulbautamentass Sl SN 0“TAR|0 TR”N WRECK his morning by Judge Henry I Roche in city court for J. M. Kava-| —_— nangh of New York city against Harry Kevorkian, for $350 damages. augh testified that in 1926 he the defendant entered into an :cment whereby he to paint church pictures for him, that| St. Stephen and The Resurrec- tion. When the paintings were com- :ted he sent them to the defen- dant by express, and when later he came to collect, Kevorkian refused to stating that the trustees of the church for which the paintings were uted on Tremont strect found them unsatisfactory. The plaintiff further testificd that | he told the defendant that his con- tract called for work to be done for | vd through. The passenger train vorkian and not for the church.|was going from Detroit to Buffalo which he explained to the defendant |and most of the passengers were several times, each time being re-|their berths when the fused the remunération for hu‘owmr\'l services. The paintings. he stated, finally sent back to his office New York, but he did not aceept them. The contract signed by the | plaintiff and the defendant respec- | tively was introduced as evidenc Joseph G. Woods represented the plaintift (Continued on Page 15.) we it (Continued on Page 15.) Advertising Soli- citor, Shoots v, Herself at | Several Passengers Injured When Wabash uts' Home Kuva L and agre two of Limited Hits Hartford, Uet. 10 (- Phelps, 30, an adve tor and daugnicr of Mr. and Mis (& r A, Phelps of Wethersticld Killed by a bullet from her own tol in her home shortly befor: ten o'clock last night, Dr. B, G. Fox, medical Wetherstield decla ing was a suicide, maintains it was : ident Shortly after ending a card game h her parents and an aunt, about O last night, Miss Phelps went to room, apparently in a cheerful of mind, Mr. Phelps said. The family heard a shot coming from her bedroom upstairs and th girl was found lying fully dressed on floor with a bullet in her tem- ~Miss Al rtising solic- Freight on ¥ Line 10 P vas kill- Ont., Oct engineer, Niagara Falls, {John McGregor, led and several passengers injurcd early today in a collision hefween 4 Wabash railroad limited passeng- er train and a freight near Stev ville, eighteen miles from here injured were taken to Buffalo. The freight train was on a 1g, but it is undersiood that th rear ¢nd did not elear the mam line and 1he passenger train plough- examincy shoot- Phelps but Mr. 5 pay. sid her frame [N Fox satd his i Polltlcll Spelkers Will Again Be on Air Tonight New York, Oct. 10 UP—Political | speakers on the radio tonight in- slude: Democratic Senator Carter Glass of Virginia at 10:30 p. m. from Washington ‘mer WEAF and nctwork of 38 sta- finding of sui is based upon the position of the body and the naturc of the wound. In his opinion Miss Phelps| held the muzzle of the calibre pistol to her temple and fired the shot, her body talling on the fioor with the revolver dropping beside her. He could offer no explanation of the canse of the asserted suicide Aiss Phelps was gradnatsd from Holyoke college in 1920, | in ‘DR CLARENCE BARBOUR ov NEW HEAD OF BROWN U.' xiner 2 poration counsel, BT WEAF. | - Shader Executed for . |Comes From Rochester Theological| RePublican: Murder of Warden Klein ! | Senator George H. Moses of New Joliet, ML, Oct. 10 P Charles | | Hampshire at §:30 p. m. from Shuder: Whe' Pecil it the Will Plainfield. N. J., over WOR and 20 County jail today. the fourth to hang sm‘nona_ of the Columbia chain. for the slaying of Deputy Warden | fortimer B. Lesher at 7:30 p. m Peter Klein during =« Joliet peni- from Pittsburgh over KDKA. tentiary egcape in Mav, 1926, The president of Rochester Theological| ~HOOver Minute Men™ heginning | trap dropped at 5:50 4 seminaty, today was elected presi- |3t 5 P- m.. will broadcast five min- He was pronounced dent of Brown University, to succeed | | ute talks on “The Principles of Her- | ntes later. |Dr. William H. P. next |bert Hoover” from 200 stations James Price and Bernard June. throughout the country. This pro-| who participated in the Dr. Faunce submitted his resigna- [ §ram will be continued nightiy. which Klein was shot, are still fugi- {tion. having reached the retirement| (All times given are Eastern age of 70 years. Standard.) at Scminary to Succeed Dr. W. H. P Faunce Retired. Frovidence, R. 1., Oct Rev. Clarence Augustus Rsrbour\ 10 P m a 24 min- Faunce Roa escape in | Declares When | of nature; it is the first law of na- | of a permanent | Hilly, assistant cor- | 6 p. m. over| Average Daily Circulation Fer Week Fldln( Oct. 6th 14,933 PRICE THREE CENTS PRESIDENT COOLIDGE SAYS RELIGION NECESSARY THAT GOVERNMENT MAY CONTINUE Executive Addresses Convention of Episco- pal Church in Wash- ington Assembled in, Open Air Theater on Mountain Top. Loosening of Convictions Will Destroy Protection of Life and Liberty—130 Bishops Hear Speech. Spiritual Oct (P Address- Washington, 10 E tion of the the general conve }copil church here today, Presis Coolidge proclaimed religion to be ssary for the continuation of American government and the maintenance of those liberties and privileges which are characteristic of American life, Ep den Religion Nccessary can not s the chiet W en,” mind oursel vxecutive said, that our right to be free, the sup- port of our principles of justi our obligations to cach other in our domestic affairs, and our duty to humanity abroad, the confidence in ciach other necessary to support our al and economic relations and finally the fabric of our government itself, all rest on religion. “If the bonds of our religious convictions become loosened, the guaranties which have been erected tor the protection of life and libers ty and all the vast body of rights that lie between are gone.' Notes Real Advancement The present convention and other similar orgunizations were taken by Mr. Coolidge as evidence that “the major forces of the world are ac- tively and energetically engaged in | promoting the spiritual edvance- {ment” of humanity. “When” he continued, “we re- member further that this movement is steadily advancing through the years. x x x we roalize that it pro- vides a complete and devastating answer to the indifference, the cynic |and the pessimist. We cannot doubt that the world is growing better.” | Much Work Remains his conviction should mot blind the country to “the enormous work that yet remains to be performed and the long distance that must still be traveled before the goal of hu- man perfection is reached, the | president added. “There are al- most whole continents x x x still to be reached and large masses of people everywhere still to be given the advantages of modern civiliza- tion.” ves too Warns Audience Mr. Coolidge warned his audience that Awcrica’s influence in spread- ing its faith abroad will be largely (Continued on Page 15) STRIKE AFFECTS N Y. PERISHABLE G0ODS 9,000 Express (‘ol‘npany Employes Quit Work for Mysterious Reason N annour i in 1 3 Oct York, 10 (P-—An un- 1 strike of the employes of American Railway Express Co., > Greater New York area today up bhundreds of carloads of f1uit, fish, vegetables and other perishables at terminals of the company. The company estimated the number of strikers at 9,000, The strike by members of the Rrotherhood of Railway and Express Clerks employed by the company, also involved loaders and drivers. It began just before midnight with the cun newhat shrouded in mys- tery, Sy i nteen hundred express trucks and vagons stood idle in their gar- ages and company officials otified consignees to call for perishables with their own frucks. Company officials said the strike did not the sanction of the American Federation of Labor. Union claims were that between and thousand employes had their piaces on trucks, weigh- ink wachmes and desks and assert- “d the strike would be extended throughout the country | No oftiial union statement on the reason for the strike could be ob- tafned but one delegate explained . | that the principal grievance was failure of ‘the company to recognize the “seniority rule” whereby in slack seasons the most recent em- ploye wouid be the tirst to be laid off. Union pickels were on duty | throughout the night at the various railroad yards and express company |terminals. As drivers brought out | their trucks for the day's work they were approached by the pickets and |in cases where they were won over | the trucks were driven back to the * stables. Extra police were on duty at the yards and the company's stables, but 10 trouble was reparted. have l