New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 19, 1928, Page 1

BOARDOF FININCE APPRIVES S5000 FOR 1. . ADDTION Yoiss 6 to 8 to Recommend " Appropriation, and Rejets Mayor's Ploa lor Delay SCHOOL BOARD IS VICTOR IN LONG DRAWN OUT FIGHT Pacnessa Foresces Tax Rate of 81 Mills If Appropriations Are Made For Flamentary Schools As Well, and Directs Stream of Oriticism Against Policles of Board of Edu- catioR. With six members voting favor- ably and three in opposition, the board of finance and tazation last night recommended to the common councll that $640,000 be placed at the disposal of the board of educa- tion for the construction of a senior high school addition. Mayor Paonessa's plea for delay “in the interests of property owners burdened to the breaking point,” his stinging criticism of the school com. mittee for alleged blunders, and & slashing attack on Supt. Stanley H. Holmes, whom he termed a ‘“‘perfect liar,” failed to swerve the finance commissioners. Former Mayor George A. Quigley who was asked what conditions have been found in the survey his com- mittes is conducting, answered as sn individual rather than a com mittee member and shid thers is not the crying need for immediate accommodations at the senior hig! school which is claimed by the school committee. He went a step further and declared that the Mon- roe school, abandoned as useless more than a year ago, is & very good school which could be reconditioned and put in, service for $15,000, President Patrick F. King of the school committee open!:d t):s discus- sion. He called attention in & gen- cral way to t:t' need for additional classrooms and then’ turned the megting_over to George LeWitt to di “the structural phase of the building. Le' Cross-examined After Mr. LeWitt had concluded & detafled story of the bullding, he was asked why an auditorium of 3,000 seating capacity was included, and he answered that there could be tithe saving in building a smaller auditorium since it is chiefly & ques- tion of open space. A request for & specific figure brought from LeWitt an estimate of $40,000 saving if the auditorium was eliminated. Finance Commissioner F. W. Ma- comber asked if it was not true that 2 buflding at $350,000 was agreed upon, and if it was not a fact that a local architect had submitted & satistactory plan for & figure lower than that of the favored architect. Mr. LeWitt claimed, by way of reply, that the bullding now in con- templation is different from the one in mind when the $350,000 figure was fixed. . The school committeeman was asked by Francis C. Kelly if local architects had been given the same opportunity to ise their sketches that was given the western architect and Mr. LeWitt said each was given two hearings. One of the local architects had & plan that could not STANDIRD CONTROL O TRAFFC BEING URGED Engineering Council Meet- ing Discusses Street Congestions Pittsburgh, Oct. 19 (M—Standard traffic control in American cities was recommended today at the meeting of the administrative board of the American’ engineering coun- cil. Eighty-three recommendations for attaining a standard system were contained in a report of the committee on street traffic signs, signals and markings. The committee, headed by W. B. Powell, of Buffalo, N Y., announced ¢hat its report was the result of a survey conducted in 35 states and more than 100 cities having a total population of more than 33,000,000. The report said that cities were endangeging traffic control by em- ploying wrong practices, adding that “it is clearly obvious that some cities are making two fundamental errors in installing street traflic signs, signals, and markings.” One error being committed, the report said, i» the placing of traffic control devices without adequate study of conditions which their use s intended to improve, or of the evil effects produced at some inter- sections resulting from the attempt to correct undesirable conditionc at ome particular interseétion. Empioy- ing traffic control devices at Llaces and times not justifined by the con- diitons was pointed out as the sec- ond error. “If these tendencies continue,” the report said, “the inevitable result will be a public recognition of the errors and a consequent meglect or unfriendliness toward street traffic signs, signals and markings. This neglect will lead to the ultimate de- feat of useful and effective methods ¢ traffic control.” NEW BRITAIN HERAL will . Wires B e om Milton, Mass, Milton, Mass., Oct. 19 (UP)— Unauthorised erection of a “Will Rogers - for - president” banner across an East Milton street caused Selectman Kenneth D. Johnson to wire a protest to the cowboy comedian. Replying, Rogers wired: “I hear that some nuts have conducted a house-to-house can- vass for me in Milton and they painted on the canvas something about voting the anti-bunk ticket. Wa'l, I don't know whether the people that did this was trylng to expreas their opin- fon of bunk as inflicted on Massachusetts by visiting candi- dates or whether they have fallen in love with my Harvard accent, but I certainly appreciate their interest in my quiet and dignified campaign and I hope the board of selectmen will prosecute the hoodlums to the full extent of the law providing a law can be found to fit.” WATKINS MAY HAVE HAD HALF MILLION Receiver Thioks He Took This Much When He Flod WONDERS WHERE IT WENT Official Admits That Fugitive Speat Large Amounts in Flight—Traces Methods By Which He Probably Obtained These Funds Hartford, Oct. 19 UP—Roger W. ‘Watkins, imprisoned broker, is be- lleved to have had a net amount of $500,000 In amsets of the National Amociated Investors, Inc., when he fled from the city in April, Harcld C. Balley, bankers' reeciver, declar- od today. Mr. Balley, who is associate trus- tee officer of the Hartford National Bank and Trust Company, fixed the sum as what he belleved Watkins had left after taking back stock from diagruntied investors and aftér trading in the market on his own account, Although no effort iy be- ing made to investigate Watkins' trading experience, Mr. Bailey as- serted, thers is nothing on the stock ledger of the N, A. I to indicate that when the crash came the brok- or had much stoek left over. Coun- sel for Watkins had maintained some time ago that five thousand shares of N. A. L had been 'urned back to Watkins shortly before he took flight, but Mr. Balley said to- day he can find no such amount of shares listed on the ledger. “I think Watkins was able to sell most of the shares he bought back,” the receiver continued. *“He kcpt the market going up to the very last, “We are very much interested in learning what Watkins did with that $500,000,” Mr. Bailey sald. *It t» probable he spent much of this money in his long flight acroas the country. We hear he used airplanes and other expensive methods in his flight.” COOLIDGE'S TEACHER TALKS HERE TONIGHT Republicans to Have Rally in Central School : Hall The Hoover club will sponsor a republican rally with Ernest C. Car- penter of New Haven, former Mayor C. Btevens of Hartford, and Ernest W. Christ, senatorial nominee, as the speakers at Central Junior High school tonight. Mr, Carpenter, executive secretary of Americanization work in New Haven, was President Coolidge's teacher when the president attended a little white frame schoolhouse in Plymouth, Vt. Candidate Christ is making his first public appearance as a candidate for the senate. Be- tween speeches tonight, the Hoover chorus, composed of local young women, ‘will sing. Next Tuesday in the same audi- torium the republicans will hold a rally with Judge Samuel Hoyt of New Haven, a member of the last legislature, and Assistant Attorney General Ernest L. Averill of Bran- ford, as the speakers. « Harry C. Durant of Guilford, spoke last night at Hoover head- quarters. He predicted a republican sweep of this state by a majority of between 30,000 and 40,000, ° He criticized the administration of Gov- ernor Smith in New York state and lauded the present republican ad- ministration in Connecticut. Smith and Curtis Both To Be on Radio Tonight Democratic— Governor 8mith from Chicago at 9 p. m, over WEAF and coast to coast red network of National Broadcasting Co. " John W. Davis and Babe Ruth at 10:30 p. m. over WJZ and coast to coast blue network of National Broadcasting Co. Republican— Benator Charles Curtis, vice presi- dential ‘nominee, from Trenton, N. J., at 3:30 p. m., over WOR and Columbfa network. Hoover minute men from 174 stations in the United States start- ing at § p. m. (Times given are eastern). NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1928.—THIRTY-SIX PAGES TWO DEAD BODIES |Virginia Battlefields Become FOUND IN AN AUTO Murder and Suicide Theory in Dy el 'WOMAN STABBED, MAN SHOT Margaret Mofitt, 36, Stabbed to Death and Frederick Bowater Killed by Shotgun—Latier Had Beca in Wallingford Sanitarium. Danbury, Oct. 19 UP—The bodies of Miss Margaret Mofitt of Wilten, 30 years old, dead from @ stad wound in her chest, and Frederick Bowater, 41, of Bridgeport, were found on a country road in Ridge- bury district, about six miles from here, this morning. The man had died from a shotgun wound which had torn out the outer part of the lett side of his head. The state po- lice believe that the man killed the woman and then shot himaself. Identification of the man was first determined by letters found on his person and by the motor vehicle operator’'s license, imued to him last July, when he gave his addrems as Gaylord Farm, Wallingford. |é - Tried to Defend Self The state police, acting on the basis that the woman was stabbed to death by Bowater, have com- menced a search for the weapom with which she was killed. Stab wounds about the hands Indicate that she tried to defend hersest. Her body was found on the rear seat of the Ford car covered with a brown coat. Bowater's body hung out over the door of the car. Lewis Barrett of Ridgefield, an employe of the Southern New Eng- land Telephone company, coming into Danbury, discovered the car and bodies at 7 o'clock, and notified the state police at Ridgefield. Left at 10 P. M, Identification of Miss MoMtt was established after Miss Alice S8mith, ot Wilton, in whose family she was employed as a maid, informed the state polige that the maid was miss- ing, having left home last night about 10 o'clock fn. company with 4 man who bad called at the house. The description of the maid was siven at 7 o'clock. Two Nours later ‘when the state palice were sxamin- ing the body at undertaking rooms in Ridgefield it was seen that her description eoincided with that of (Continued on Page $8) POLIGEMEN INJURED A3 AUTO HITS STORE Wall of Building Mov Inch by Force of Crash At the intersection of Park and Btanley atreet at 4:55 this morning, an automobile owned and driven by Patrolman -James Bullivan and an- other car owned and driven by Jo- seph Babula of 238 Broad street, collided, Sullivan's car being forced over the curbstone and sidewalk and coming to a stop with a crash when it struck a bullding in which Louis Horwits conducts a store, on the east side of Stanley street, while Babula's car smashed against a pole on the west side of Stanley street. The impact of Sullivan's car against the building was of such force that it broke a radiator on the inside of the store and moved the wall more than an inch. The pole which atop- ped Babula's car was moved fully three inches at the base. Patroiman Sullivan was not in- jured, but Supernumerary Officer Stephen Coffey and Patrolman Ernest P. Bloomquist, who were in the car, were severely shaken up and the former sustained a painful cut on the index finger of the right hand, necessitating four stitches, while Patrolman Bloomquist sus- tained a cut on the head. They were treated at New Britain General hoss pital, after which they were able to 80 home. Officer Coffey lives at 48 Cottage Place and Patrolman Bloomquist and Patrolman " Sullivan. live in the Iatter's house, €3 Brooklawn street. Bergeant P. A. McAvay, on duty at headquarters, received a tele- phone call notifying him of the ac- cident, the crash of the car against the pole and the bullding having aroysed the neighborhood. The re- port was heard more than a block away. Patrolman Charles Weare, taking charge of the investigation, learned that Babula was driving east on Park street and Sullivan was driving north on Stanley street. The former claimed to have been going at the rate of 15 to 17 miles an hour, and accused Patrolman Sulll- van of driving fast. Babula admit- ted that he gave no warning as he approached the intersection, but Patrolman Sullivan claimed that he sounded his horn. As to speed, Patrolman Sullivan said he was not going faster than 20 miles an hour. He said Babula'’s car struck his car in the left rear, throwing it to the side of the street. Babula told Patrolman Weare he swung to the left in an attempt to avoid the collision but sideswiped the Bullivan car. Both cars were badly damaged. Chief W. C. Hart said today that he had taken no action in the mat- ter, despite rumors that suspensions of the officers involved had been made. He said they went off duty at 4 o'clock and he understood that they were taking & ride befere geo- ing to bed. W0ODS INITIATES Another Gmt National Park pyDf 0CK CAPAIGN In the mew , Va., National Battlefields Dll'k, where Fredericksburg, President Coolidge (inset) spoke today at the dedication, is the historic ‘battlefield of Saless Church (above). spot where Gen. T. J. (Stonewall) Battle of Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, Va., Oct. 19 UP— President Coolidge set in motion forces to preserve one of §pmerica's greatest Valhallas of war dead with his address in Fred- ericksburg. He was the principal speaker at ceremonies breaking ground for the National Battlefields Memorial, PARDONED ON DAY HE STARTED TERM Shumaker Given Freedom by Minos Gorenor MAY PORCE ISSUE STATE A Has No Right to Pardon Man Con- wvicted of Comtompt Oourt, Indianapolis, Oct. 19 UP—Gover- nor Ed Jackson today issued a par- don for Dr. E. 8. Bhumaker, su- perintendent of the Indiana Anti- of Supreme Saloon league, who this morning was | tuken to the state penal farm to be- gin serving a 60 days sentence for contempt of the Indiana supreme court, Convicted Two Years Ago ‘The head of the dry league in In- diana was found guilty nearly two years ago of contempt of the supreme court for statements contained in the annual report of the league. The réport criticized the decisions of members of the court in certain liquor cases. Shumaker sought for more than two years to escape serving the sentence, but yesterday abandoned his fight against the sentence The pardon was issued before Dr. (Continued on Page 31) FORD TRACTOR PLANT 10 BE K0 Definite Announcement Made That Principal Factory Is To Be Located tn Ireland " Detroit, Oct. 19 UM—The princi- pal seat of the mandfacture of Fordson tractors by the Ford Mc- tor company will be transferred from Fordson, Mich., to the com- pany’s plant at Cork, Ireland, by next January 1 it was learned to- day. While no official statement was given out it was sald at the offices of the company today that tractor production was not to be perma- nently abandoned in the United States, although no tractors now are being produced here. Officials said they did not know when a new plant would be equip- ped and production resumed in this country, but indicated that the company is working on plans for a new model tractor. Manufacture of the tractor year ago te allow more space for the manufacture of the new model Ford car. The principal reason for the transfer, as explained by officials, is that increased demands for trac- tors in Europe has made increased production overseas aavisable. Approximately 80 per cent of the tractor making machinery and equipment is being removed to Cork in Ford vessels, the first of which left several days ago. The enlarg- ed Cork plant s to be operated on & basis of two S-hour shifts a day, turning out appreximately 300 trac- ters dally, today formally | ABROAD at| Fordson was discontinued about a | The monument below marks the Jackson was fatally wounded in the which will include the Civil War battle fields of the Wilderness, 8pottsylvania and Chancellorsville, where one-third as many men fell as were lost by American forces in the world war. ‘The physical surroundings and (Continued on Page 16) CO0LIDGE VISITS HISTORIC FIELDS Delivérs Addvess at National Battlefields Memorial AT FREDERICKSBURG, VA. Little Southern City Gaily Decorated to Receive Chief Magistrato— Speech Will Be Upon Actual Battlegrounds, Fredericksburg, Va., Oct. 19.—UP —This little city of northern Vir- | ginla, scene of the most desperate fighting in the sixties was gay with colors toduy as visitors flocked from many sections to’ hear President Coolidge deliver an address com- memorating the beginning of con- struction on the national battlefields memorial here. Flags and bunting floated from the buildings along the | streets and from wires strung across the thoroughfare. 3 ‘Two miles out and overlooking the Rappahannock river and the Heights from which the federal troops ad- | was made ready for the reception of the president. Seats were arranged lin a vast semicircle about the rear portico, ‘with standing room for thousands on the broad greensward extending almost to the river. ‘When Jdackson Fell Within the area encompassed by ‘[ the park were fought the battles of Chancellorsville, where “Stonewall” Jackson fell, the Wilderness, Spott- sylvania and Fredericksburg, includ- ing Salem Church. Washington, Oct. 19.—(#—Dedi- | cation today of the Fredericksburg |and Spotsylvania county battlefields memorial park, in memory of the | hundred and thirteen thousand lives | that were lost there in the Civil war, | called President Coolidge into Vir- ginla. He will return to the White House | tonight after delivering the princt- pal address of the dedicating cere- (Continued on Page“33) {Zeppelin Brings Mail | To New Britain Folks Between 40 and 50 New Britain people have received letters or post- | cards from friends in Germany | which were among the 67,000 pieces | of mail carried over the Atlantic on | board the Graf Zeppelin. Each card or letter bears a Ger- {man air mail stamp in a brownish | tint with a picture of a Zeppelin on | its face. The cancelled stamps are | said to be in considerable demand by collectors. The post office is prepared to re- | ceive mail for the return voyage of | the airship. Cards will be accepted for 60 cents plus the regular five cent postage rate, while lettdrs will cost §1 plus the regular five cent rate. These missives should be marked “Via Zeppelin.” * THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Unsettied and slightly cooler tonight; Saturday partly cloudy and cooler. Brings Proceedings Against Three Property Owners ALL ON LAFAYETTE STREET Stores At 107, 109 and 123 Target R Advt, Dept.. al Hartford, Conn, Prosecuting Attorney J. G. Woods announced this afternoon that preparations are being made to in- stitute padlock proceedings in the city court against the owners of property at 122 Lafayette street and 107 Lafayette street, numerous con- victions for violation of the liquor law having been obtained against proprietors of stores in both build- ings. Sergeant P. J. O'Mara was as- signed today to the work of pre- paring a list of the convictions against the store at 122 Lafayette street, and it is expected that the formal complaint will be served shortly. The action against the owner of the property at 107 Lafay- ette street will be prepared immedi- ately thereafter. The last conviction at 122 Lafay- ette street was obtained against William 8konieczny of Lyman street, while Andrew and Concetta Maietta, husband and wife, have been con- victed of violating the liquor law at 107 Lafayette street a number of times. The most recent case of Con- cetta Malictta, wife of Andrew, is scheduled for trial in police court next week. A writ seeking a padlock on the “8moke Shop” at 109 Lafayette street in property owned by Rosie Kozon was served today by Con- stable Winkle. The writ, an 11-page complaint contains 29 paragraphs and is one of the longest to be filed in the local court. This action is of a civil nature arising under the constitution and laws of the United States, and is the final step of a series of arrests and convictions against the operators of the store for conducting a public nuisance and the maintenance of intoxicating beverages for the pur- pose of sale, The writ, served today, states that ‘“THe complainant is Informed and verily believes and therefore aleges on information and belief that the sald premises are used now and have been for sometime since the national prohibition act has gone into effect, by various parties and operated by them for the announced and pre- tended purpose of a store or smoke shop, and that sald announced and pretended use is & sham and subter- fuge to conceal the real purpose and plans of the parties concerned, and to conceal the actual use of the building and the illegal business Connecticut St (Continued on Page 31) vanced, the Mansfield Hall estate, | 3,202 NEW ELECTORS (G0 ON VOTING LISTS 1,421 Still to Be Made at Last Session Tomorrow. Eligible to appear before the board of sclectmen tomorrow for ad- mission as electors are 1,421 resi- dents whose applications are fn the hands of the registrars, a total of 3,202 new voters having been given the oath in the three sessions held thus far. When the session opened last Saturday, there were 4,623 names on the “to be made” list. The registrars and selectmen will open their session at "9 o'clock to- morrow morning and will continue until 8 o'clock in the evening. Both | political parties are planning a last day drive to add all possible strength to their voting lists, and it is the expectation of that the day will be a busy one in city hall. Those who came before the se- lectmen yesterday and were admit- ted have been classified as follows: First ward, 42 men, 101 women, 143 total; second ward, 29 men, 63 wom- en, 93 total; third ward, 60 men, 72 women, 132 total; fourth ward, 36 men, 65 women, 101 total; fifth ward, 50 men, 77 women, 127 total; sixth ward, 67 men, 124 women, 191 total. Grand totals, 284 men, 505 women, a total of 756. The first ward, having §95 appli- cants, added 207, 250 and 143 vo. ters in the three of 600, and now has 393 eligible to be admitted. In the second ward 450 of the 632 applicants have taken the oath, 152 yet to come before the select- men. The results of the three days are: 175, 173, 182. The 769 total in the third ward has been reduced by 567, leaving 202 names still on the list. In this ward, 194 were admitted Saturday, 241, on Tuesday, and 132 yesterday. The fourth ward lists have been increased by 379 voters, leaving 151 yet to be made out of the 530 total. The results of the three sessions were 141 137 and 101. The fifth ward new voters includ- ed 219 at the first session, 190 at the second gsession and 121 yesterday, for a total of 536, leaving 317 of the original list of 853 yet to be admit- ted. The sixth ward with the largest number of applicants, 946, has led all districts for the three days, hav- Ing 22¢ Baturday, 263 Tuesday and 191 yesterday, for a total of 680, ate Lib{ the officials | sessions, for a total | WILLIAM EDWARD HICKMAN, PERSON WHD MOVES HAS VOTING RIGHT {Attorney General Alling Rules on Perplexing Questions ON LIST IN OLD PLACE Sensc of Opinion Is That Individual Retains Voting Rights In Place of Former Residence for Following Six Months’ Time, Hartford, Oct. 19 (®—The attor- ney general’s office in the state cap- itol is receiving many requests for opinions relative to the voting qual- ifications of persons who have lately moved from one town in the state to another, F. C. Ogden, registrar of voters in the town of Wilton, has been noti- fied by Attorney General Benjamin W. Alling that a certain Mr. Warn- ke of that town is entitied to vote in Wilton even though he has pur- chased a home in Norwalk and com- mutes to work in Wilton. Substance of Ruling The substance of the attorney gen- eral’s ruling in most of the cases be- ing brought before him is that if a voter moves from one town in the state to another he keeps his voting residence in the first town for six months. Mary P. Lewis, town clerk of Can- ton, has been notifled by Mr. Alling that a woman who recently became 21, who had lived in Canton for ten years and who had recently married a Suffield man and moved to that town must be allowed to vote in Canton since her name is on the to be made list in that town. In the case of a woman 40 years old, a native of Canton, who mar- ried a Torrington man and lived with him in that town for some time before the couple separated, and she returned to Canton, the at- torney general has advised that the woman may vote in Canton. The substance of the ruling is that a woman is not forced to take her husband’s residence as her own {f she maintains a residence elsewhere. J. A, BAGSHAW DIES . OF HEART FAILURE Beaton & Cadwell Fore- man Stricken at Grand Street Home i An ucute heart attack suffered by James A. Bagshaw, 67 years old, of 139 Grand street, was the cause of | his death last night at 8:30 o'clock, |according to Dr. John Purney, dep- | uty medical examiner. Mr. Bagshaw was about the | house shortly after 7 o'clock when he suffered a heart attack in the | kitchen, but before he fell members jof his family assisted him to his bed. He was unconscious when Dr. |John Purney arrived and he did not regain consciousness. B. C. Porter Bons were given permission to pre- pare the remains for burial. Mr. Bagshaw had been working | {during the day and until supper |hour he had not complained of ill- |ness. Shortly after supper, however, he complained of the heart trouble. Mr. Bagshaw was well known in this city where he made his home |since childhood. He was born in |Union City January 8, 1871, and at |the age of seven he came to New | Britain with his parents. During the 50 years which followed he lived in New Britain and established him- {self in society and industry. Mr. Bagshaw was a veteran em- ploye of the Beaton & Cadwell Co., where he was foreman of the plat- (Continued on Page 33) KILLED BY TRAIN Boston, Oct. 19 (UP)—Miss Doro- thy Dexter, 20, of Malden, was kill- ed by a Boston and Maine passen- ger train at the Oak Grove station today. The young woman, a student at the Plerce Becretarial school, appar- ently slipped while attempting to board the train and was thrown be- neath the wheels. Her body was found shortly afterward by James E. Dooley, assistant station ageat. i A Daily Circulation For Week Oct. 13th ... 15,139 PRICE THREE CENTS PRISON GALLOWS FOR KILLING GRL Youth Who Bosstfully Called Himsell “The Fox” Shows Little Emotion at End SPENT LAST DAY MAKING DEATH CELL ATTRACTIVE Docorated Grim Walls With Flowers * Picked in Prison Yard—Eagerly | Reads Last Letter From Mother and Writes One Himself to An- other Condemned Slayer Before Fatal Hour Arrives. 8an Quentin, Cal, Oct. 19 M— William Edward Hickman was hanged here today for the murder of 12-year-old Marian Parker, Los Angeles school girl, whom he kid- naped last December. The trap v.as sprung at 10:10 a. m. The youth, who boastfully called himself “The Fox,” walked to the trap white but with little other out- ward appearaice of emotion, con- sistent to the last breath with the attitude displayed since he was ar- rested in Oregon. Up a flight of 13 steps he went preceded by Rev. Willlam Fleming, Roman Catholic priest, under whose spiritual guidance he turned from fatalism to Christianity in the shad- ow of the noose. His arms were strapped to his sides. On either side and behind him marched a guard. In a semi- circle were some 200 persons who saw him die, The priest chanted the litany of the dead from the Roman Catholie ritual as the dead march progreeied and Hicki made the responses: The doomed man's lips scarcely moved, but he followed without a noticeable break. Hickman walked to his death steady and straight as a ramrod, but his knees shook as he stood on ‘he trap an instant before it was sprung. Twenty-two seconds after he en- tered the gallows room the trap was resealed. Hickman was pronounced dead at 10:25 a. m, The doomed man's father, Thom- as Hickman, gave Warden James B. Holohan a signed order to deliver the body to p S8an Francisco under- taker, but the prison official de- clined to state where it would be sent. It was previously announced that the body would be taken to tae east for burial, but the name of the town was not announced. One of Hickman's last moments was the reading of a letter from his mother. Mrs. Eva M. Hickman, of Kansas City, delivered to him f.w minutes before he was led to the mllows. He wept. It was the first time guards hal seen tears in Lis (Continued on Page 35) HOPE IS PRAGTICALLY GONE FOR W’DONALD Only Possible Chance Is That He Has Landed on Some Lonely Island London, Oct. 19 (M—With every hour that pamsed today without news of Lieutenant Commander H. C. Macdonald, hope for the British airman’s safety grew fainter until by mid-afternoon it had almost reached the vanishing point. The chief ground for what hope remained was that he might have conquered the Atlantic with his Gypsy Moth De Havilland and may have landed at some isolated spot on the Irish or Scotch coast, but no word was received of him although coast guards maintained a close lookout. Apparently the only other chance was that he might have been picked up by some small ocean craft une jable to report the fact by wirelesa. {In this connection the case of |Harry Hawker was cited, it being recalled that it was seven days jafter the beginning of his flight be- |fore it was learned that he had been | rescued by a Danish steamer. No one cherished these hopes more strongly than Mra. Macdon- ald, the flier's wife, who was still doing her best to keep up courage, although worn by the long vigil of nearly 48 hours which she has maintained broken by but a few brief intervals of fitful sleep. The liners Paris and Muenchen, arriving today, reported good | weather at sea and excellent visi- bility, but no sighting of the plane was reported by any vessel since the message sent to the Associated Press by the Dutch steamer Har- denberg. which caught a glimpse of Macdonald’s plane at 7:30 p. m., eastern standard time, 700 miles east of Newfoundland about 7 1-2 hours after the takeoff. Another message reporting the possible sighting of Macdonald was received from the steamship Mi- rach, but this was a full hour be- fore the sighting by the Hardem-' berg. The message from the Mirach mid that Jights had besn seen at & great distance “most predably $e- . sembling explosion.” The pesle tion was far to the west of thes (Continved oa Page V).