New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 12, 1928, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTAHLASHED 1870 HOOVER CROSSING ANDES HOUNTAINS On Special Train Ba Ronte to hrgeutine GES TP 10000 * FRET President-Elect Given Opportunity of Studying One of World's Great- est Engineering Feats—Leaves "Chile With Friendly Farewell. Los Andes, Chile, Dec. 12 (P — President-Elect Hoover today was crossing the Andes mountains on & special train en route from Santiago to Buenos Alres. He traveled over the highest transcontinental railroad route in either of the Americas car- rying his mission of friendship and understanding across one of the mightiest barriers known to man. From Los Andes to its téerminal at Mendoza the total length of the Trans-Andean railway is approxi- mately 154 miles. Its highest point is 10,613 feet above sea level and it provided Mr. Hoover with the opportunity of studying one of the greatest engineering feats in the world, Completes Travels Mr. Hoover in crossing the Andes completed his travels to the only important region in the world that NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, Peace Monumesnt NINE POLICEMEN |Attempts to Collect Bill of $50, Tells Police Bullet Greeted Him When He Stops Debtor on Street Joseph Sagon Complains He Was Shot In Fingers By WOUNDED BY NEGRD Cicago Offoers Bttl With Crased Youth in Buricde FINALLY ROUT HIM 00T Tear Bombs, Machine Gans, Shot- Guns, and Pistols Used by Force of 300 to Overcome Lunatio— Riddled With Bullets. Chicago, Dec. 12 (P—A 16-year- old negro today shot and wounded nine policemen, among them Deg- uty Commissioner Martiy E. Mullen, | before more than 200 policemen and firemen, using shotguns, pistol: tear bombs and machine guns, suc- ceeded in breaking into a building | where he had barricaded himself, and killing him. Lives Two Hours The crazed youth, Ernest White- hurst, staged one of the most pro- |tracted barricades in the history of the police department, with police- men firing on the building in which he made his stand, from adjacent buildings, telephone poles and even from ladders. When finally cowed, Whitehurst had 15 bullet wounds in his body. He lived two hours despite his injuries. Three sisters, one a year old baby, and two brothers of the negro, were in the house with him throughout the siege. in an inside room Michael Kucharczyk of New Haven When He Asked Him For Money Due — Authorities Seek Trace of Alleged Gunman. + Calling at police headquarters about 7:30 last night, Jcseph Sagon, who lives in Room 30, second floor, at 422 Main street, related to Ser- geant P. A. McAvay a story of a shooting on Lafayette street in which he was wounded in the left hand, and today an investigation was under way with the possibility of an arrest. Bagon sald he was walking west on Lafayette street about 6:45 o'clock and saw a truck driven by Michael Kucharczyk of New Haven oing In the opposite direction at a slow rate of speed. He recognized the driver, having worked with him in New Haven, and also having seen him about New Britain a number of times of late. Thinking it a good time to try to collect $50 which . Kucharczyk has owed hiin for eleven months, he called to him and the truck stopped, about in front of 265 ; Lafayette street. “How about that $50?" 8agon sa‘d he asked Kucharczyk and failing to obtain a satisfactory answer, he threatened to put him out of bust ness unless he paid without fur- ther delay, whereupon Kucharczyk whipped out & revolver and shot lhlm, the bullet injuring the index and middle finger of the left hand. started away, he ran after it, trying to catch the registration number but was unable to do so on account of the exhaust from the engine. Acccrding to Bagon, Kucharczyk |is & bootlegger and that was the | “business” he referred to in his threat. He described the gunman as bLeing 6 ft. 9 inches in height, with red hair, and about 42 years of age |He has two scars on his face, and | was accompanied by another man. Sergeant McAvay and Officer | Kiely worked on the case last night but found no trace of the truck. Sagon said the firing of the shot {made no report, so thap nobody on ,the street was aware of it. The po- ilice believe the pistol was equipped with a silencer, Sagon, who Is about 40 years of age and employed at the New Brit- ain Machine Co., went to his room after the shooting and washed his i wounds, which were at the tips of the fingers. He said he looked for a policeman but could not find one. the night force not having gene out when the shooting occurred, and he {also tried to locate a physician, with- out avall. He did up his fingers in |a handkerchief and after visithg INNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1928 —~TWENTY PAGES BOY ONLONG HIKE FINDS HELP HERE Lad on Walking Trip From Wa- terbury fo Cambridge GETS FOOD AND (. falvatore La France, 11, Everything Except Keys to City When Motorist Brings Him to Of- fice of Mayct Paonessa. An 11-year old boy who started to walk from Waterbury to Cambridge, Mass., believing the two citics to be three miles apart, found himself in the office of Mayor Paonessa today with city officlals making inquirics as to how he could be transported te the Bay State. Found On Waterbury He gave his name as S I'rance and his address as street, Cambridge. Portions of his story were somewhat inconsistent with others, but the gist of his tale was that he left Cambridge Satur- day to visit relatives named Pecola in Mill Plain, just outside the town limits of Waterbury, and that he started after breakfast to walk home. He was picked up on the Waterbury mountain by Leo M Rhode, a salesman for Landers, Frary & Clark. After hearing his story, Mr. Rhode concluded it was | .wise to turn him over to city offi- cials for questioning. Mr. KRhode, a natlve of Cambridge questioned a youo; | Given Princess Geor Mary. daughter of King and wif2 of Viscount Las- Average' Daily Circulation For Week Ending Dec. 8th ... 15,245 PRICE THREE CENTS DOCTORS OPERATE ON KING REMOVING PURULENT FLUID \SE OF RIGHT LUNG Announcement Made in Bulletin Which States That Further Drain- age Will Be Necessary ~Five Doctors Attend His Majesty. celles, at the bedside of her father | Slight Improvement Noted in Condition Early To- day Is Maintained — Fever of Ruler Subsides —Patient Displays Won- derful Strength, London, Dec. 12.—A—King George underwent an operation to- 1 day for the removal by puncture of purulent fluid around the base ot he never had visited before. By huddling i Stunned by the Suddenness of the at- |the police station he went to the of- The train was carried over the Itack, Sagon sald he did not know flce of Dr. John J. Tokarczyk, who Salvatore as to the location of streets ‘Christ in the Andes" which was in that city and found him to be crected by Chile and Argentine on who lics dangerously ill at Bucking- ham Palace. his right lung. Some of the purulent fluid was they were ablc to escape most of the effects of the tear bombs thrown mountain by a rack system. On the Chilean side the line has been elec- trified, the energy being obtained from large water power plants near Santiago. Coming to the summit of the mountain the road runs through a tunnel nearly two miles long and the train in passing through this tunnel crossed the border between Argentina and Chile. Bids Farewell Mr. Hoover bade farewell to Chile after exchanging hearty cxpressions of friendship between the United states and Chile with his host President Ibanes. At a luncheon which was the climax of the Chilean welcome, President Ibanez said that the national spirit of the United States had given to the world in- calculable benefits and an even greater hope for future spiritual and material advancement between the peoples of both continents. Mr. Hoover in replylng said that in both countries there was a com- mon history of bullding in a new rodla, a new form of government tounded upon a new conception of human rights. He assérted, “our vconomlic interests are reciprocal and our progress in prosperity and comfort can only be mhtual.” Wants Friendship In addressing newspaper men who are accompanying Mr, Hoover the Chilean president said “You must not forget that this country desires solld friendship with the United States.” FRUSTRATE PLOT T0 BOMB HOOVER'S TRAIN Argentine Authorities Ar- rest Two Men and Con- tinue Search for Others Buenos Aires, Dec. 12.—UP—A plot to bomb Herbert Hoover's speclal train has been frustrated. With two men under arrest, police today were continuing their search for any anti-American agitators who might be involved. Fifteen hundred guards will be employed on special duty to insure the safety of the United Btates pres- ident-elect when Qe arrives tomor- row and during his visit. Prsident Irigoyen in a statement on the plot satd police iIn searching a house in Estomba street found four hand grenades, two cylindrical bombs, one square bomb, dynamite, revolvers, automatic pistols and yuantities of ammunition, They also found 150 ten-peso notes. All of these have been placed in the hands of the judicial authorities. The police announced that a room in the raided house contained a de- tailed map of the rallway system. The map apparently had been used by the plotters to plan their attack. Police believe they intended to place the bombs on the tracks just before the arrival of the Hoover apecial train, which is due late tomorrow afternoon. It was thought that the bombs were to have been deposited some where near the outskirts of the city. Police in raiding the house ar- rested a youth who sald he was Carlos Gutierez, aged 18. The authorities said, however, the real name of the youth was Alejandro Romano and that he was 21 bft posed as younger in hope of obtain- ng leniency under the minors’ law. They described him as a student of ‘hemistry and they believed that he manufactured the bombs, Later a second man was arrested aear the house. He gave thé name »f Jaime Oliver, but police said he (Continued on Page 9.) Pope Receives Father Meagher of New York Rome, Dec. 12 UP—The Pope to- day received in audience the Very Rev. Father Raymond Meagher of New York city, provincial of the Dominican order of the United “'tates. The Pontiff imparted an zpostolic benediction on that *“order of preachers” in America.” the mountain border of the two countries to perpetuate peace and good-will between the two South American countries. Mr. Hoover is understood to be anxious to visit the statue which is off the main line of the trans-Andean railroad, BOLIVIA TO GONE 10 GONFERENGES Reconsiders Decision Not to Attend Pan-American Meetings TAKES KELLOGG'S ADYICE Washington, Déc. 13 UP—The Bolivian minister advised Becretary ,Kellogg today that his country would icontinue to participate in the Pan- American conference on arbitration and conciliation now in sessiop here. Change Attitude Minister De Medina calied at the department upon receipt of word from his government that it had re- considered theattitude it expressed in yesterday's note to Secretary Kellogg in which it declared that it could not participate in the confer- ence until Paraguay apologized for the attack upon a Bolivian fort, The change in the Bolivian atti- tude had been urged by the Ameri- can government which advised that it continue to participate with other American republics to promote peace of this hemisphere. Becretary Kel- logg discussed the matter personally with the Bolivian minister yesterday after Bolivia's withdrawal from the conference and later in the day the secretary of state Instructed the American minister in Lapaz to urge strongly upon that government the imadvisability of its withdrawal. No Sessions Today Bolivia will resume its participa- tion tomorrow, no sessions of the conference being held today. (Continued on Page 17.) CHILD BADLY BURNED IN GHURCH ST. HOME ‘Mother Enters Room to Find Baby’s Clothes in Flames Robert McCarthy, who will be two years of age next February, sustain- ed serfous burns at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James T. Mc- Carthy of 365 Church street, about 10 o'clock this morning, and this afternoon his condition was said to be critical at New Britain Generai hospital, The child was playing on the kitchen floor at .his home, while his seven months old sister was in her carriage nearby, their mother hav- ing stepped out for a few minutes. When she returned she found Rob- ert in a bedroom before a mirror, his clothes aflame and he scream- ing in terror and pain. Apparently he had pulled his chair over to the gas stove and clambered up, with the result that the flame under a pan caught his flannel rompers. In a few seconds he was a mass of flames and not knowing what else to do, he had run into the bedroom. Mrs. McCarthy did all in her power to extinguish the flames and her hands were painfully burned. She pulled the clothes off the little boy and Dr. Benoit was summoned. He took him to the hospital, where it was found that his entire body was burned. He was in great pain, the upper part of the body being most severely affected. Mr. and Mrs. McCarthy were at a loss to understand how the gas flame reached the child’s rompers, as the pan appeared to completely cover it. through the shattered windows. | When the siege was over and-they came out of hiding, ail were nearly white from the plaster chipped from {the ceiling of the room by police bullets. Policeman Falls Policeman Edward J. Fontaine was slightly wounded when the ne- gro blazed away into the ranks of the first police squad to attempt to rush the building. BSergeant Joseph Flynn, squad commander, fell with a shotgun wound an hour later. Policeman Mike Langdon was wounded while he was dragging Flynn out of the negro’s range of fire. Both men were taken to a hospital, the extent of their inftries undetermined. Use Riot Guns Scores of police and firemen, using riot guns, revolvers, streams of water and tear bombs, still mought to capture the negro at dawn, after four hours of effort. Smashed Window The negro had smashed a store window and when a police squad pursued he ran into the Townsend street building. A call for rescrves was made, and Officer Fontaine fell under the negro's fire as the relief squad attempted to rush the build- ing. Firemen and a half dozen police squads finally were called out as the barricaded man continued to meet each attack with gunfire. Policemen perched on telephone poles com- manded a view of the rear, second story window from which the shots were being fired. Machine Guns Used building and streams of water were used in an effort to flood the negro out. Late-arriving police squads brought machine guns, which were the negro was firing. COOLIDGE ADCRESSES AVIATION _HEETING iDeclares World Is Looking Forward to Interocean- ic Air Travel ‘Washington, Dec. 12 (UP)—The worid is looking forward to the day when extensive and reasonably sate intercontinental and interoceanic air transportation will cement more firmly the bonds of international brotherhood, President Coolidge said in an address of welcome here to- day before the international civil aeronautics conference. Fifty nations were represented at the conference, whose attention, the president pointed out, was to be di- rected to “the development of aero- nautics as an ald to the peaceful pursuits of transportation, of com- merce, and df trade.” “What the future holds out even the imagination may be inadequat to grasp,” Mr. Coolidge said. “W. may be sure, however, that the per- fection and extension of air trans- port throughout the world will be of the utmost significance to civili- zatlon. (Continued on Page Three) SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA T0 PLAY CARNEGIE Which Conquered Notre Dame to Battle in Los Aungeles, Dec. 14. Los Angeles, Calif.,, Dec. 12 (UP) —The University of Southern Cali- fornia and Carnegie Tech, both con- querors of M tre Dame this season, will meet here Dec. 14 for the last game of the 1928 football schedule of the Trojans. The announcement was made by Arnold Eddy, assistant general man- ager of Southerh California, follow- ing receipt of a telegram from Gen- eral Manager Gwynn Wilson, who is in Chicago, * Teams Tear bombs were tossed into the: turned upon the window from which | what to make of it but as the truck APPROVE CONTRACT FOR 1. S, ADDITION Hayes Construction Go. Selected From New Bidders Today COST WILL BE $405,000 City Joscs $10,130 By Delay in Accepting Original Bid of Geno- vese & Rich of Stamford—Hayes Co. Reduces Price $44,900. The contract for the construction of the addition to the Benior High school on Bassett street will be lawarded to the Hayes Construction {Co. of this city at a bid of $405,- 000, if the recommendations of the school accommodations committee to the school board at the latter's meeting Friday, are approved. The New Britain firm's bid was !the lowest of three opened this noor by the school accommodations com- mittee. The other two were M. A. Connors Co. of Hartford whose bid was $435,000 and Genovese & Rich of Btamford, who bid §409,338. The difference between the bids of the Hayes Co. and that of the Stamford concern was $4,338. City Loses $10,120 8ix months ago Genovese & Rich received the contract when it under- tid the Hayes Construction Co., and M. A. Connors Co. Its base bid at that time was $394,880, but when it was glven an opportunity to renew the bid last week, it refused. The difference between the bid of Geno- vese & Rich six months ago and that of Hayes Construction today is $10,- 120 which the city will lose because .cf its failure to take advantage of the first bid. When Hayes Construction Co. was given u second opportunity to bid on the high school addition following the refusal of the Stamford firm to accept the contract under its origin al bid, it cut $44,906 from its for mer bid. (Continued on Page Three) DAZED YOUTH THOUSHT T0 BE COLLEGIAN ' Asks For Job On Ohio Newspaper— Believed to Be Missing Syracuse Student. Syracuse, N. Y. Dec. 12 (P—A young man In a dazed condition, answering the description of Ken- dall Bradley Hassard, Syracuse uni- iversity junfor, whose home is in Al- any and who has been missing since December 4, is being examined in Columbus, Ohio, where he sought a J0b on the Columbus Dispatch. The - youth was wearing a hat with the initials “K. B. H.” in the crown. Not remembering his name he took that of K. B. Hall. Questioned by Raymond Hoyt, city editor of the Dispatch, “Hall” said he was out of money and need- ed work. He recalled the name of Colonel Wallace McNamara, com- manding officer of the 98th divisicn, | officers’ reserve corps at Syracuse. The names of two Albany news- papers seemed to be famillar to him. He sald he bégan to come to him- self on a train going into Pittsburgh. From there he wandered to West Virginia and then to Columbus, Ohio, = where his money gave out Friday. Hassard was last seen at the Delta Kappa Epsilon house, of which fra- ternity he is a member, on Monday night, December 3. He is a student in the college of business administra- tion, Byfacuse university, and was assistant manager of the 1928 foot- ball team. The youth’s mother, Mrs. Beulah J. Hassard Sica, was notified at her Albany home and is leaving with her husband for Columbus today. dressed the wounds. DAYIIGHT HOLDUP YIELDS $104300 Yonkers hachine Tnoted by Robbers on Main Street ESCAPE TN AUTONOBILE Collection Car of First National Bank Carrying Payroll of Alexan- der Sthith & Sens’ Carpet Com- pany, Fired on and Captured. Yonkers, N. Y., Dec. 12 P—In & . daylight holdup in the heart of this city's business section seven or eight | robbers opened fire this morning on | the collection car of the First Na- tional bank and escaped with & $100,000 payroll after wounding one of the bank guards. Partially Armored The collection. wagon, a partially armored automobpe, was transport- {ing the payroll from the post office to the bank for later delivery to the Alexander S8mith & Sons’' Carpet Company, one of the largest organi- zations of its kind in the world. Two bank guards and a city policeman i were riding in the car, At the intersection of Buena Vista {avenue and Hudsen street in the jcenter of the city, a group of men in another car opened fire on the col- lection wagon, shooting directly through the windshield. Adolph {Kanster, one of the bank guards, | wad shot through the arm. Are Subdued | The other guards and policeman | were subdued bv the robbers who escaped with the payroll toward New York city, switching on the |way from their originajgautomobile | with a Jersey license, which they de- |serted, to another car. The amount of the payroll was announced by Police Chief Quirk, {who made immediate report to state ipolice and New York city police, asking them for assistance in appre- hending the robbers. Comes by Mail The Smith payroll comes by mall to Yonkers from the Federal Re- serve district in New York city and is then taken first to the First Na- tional bank in the collection wagon. This custom was apparently known to the robbers, who evidently exe- cuted the holdup in accordance with a carefully laid prearranged plan. The men on the collection wagon were not certain how many robbers (Continued on Page Nine) PAY FOR GIRL'S DEATH Owners of Property Where Child Had Fatal Tall Setfle $5,000 Suit Before it is Tried. The suit for $5000 damages | brought by the parents of Virginia Margosian, three year old girl who | was killed in a fall from a veranda |at 103 Grove strcet, has been settled !out of court by a cash payment to the plaintiff by Adam Dukiewicz, et als., the defendants. The Margosians fully acquainted. His Capital 35 Cents His trip to Waterbury was made i with the consent of his parents who gave himn 36 cents for traveling ex- !penses, he sald. Generous automo- bilists made it possible for him to complete the distance by nightfall, 1 he told questioners. Mr. Rhode sup- plied the wherewithal for a meal which included “a lemon squeezed in watcr, oatmeal, fruit and every- {thing,” Salvatore replied to a ques tion as to the condition of his ap- petite, The police department was noti- fled of the boy's presence and while the investigation went on, Btreet Su- perintendent Eugene Faselle brought the youthful wanderer to his home for a dipner, clean wearing apparel | and a substitute for the tennis shoes the boy was wearing at.the time. CONTRACTORS WOULD LICENSE BUILDERS Council to Be Asked to Authorize City Examination WEST IS WITNESS Senate Considering Con- firmation to Cabinet Post of Coolidge Nominee ‘Washington, Dec. 12 ®—Roy O. West, sccretary of the interior, sat silently on the witness stand today while testimony he had given two years ago was read to the senators who are considering whether his coufirmation to the cabinet post shall be recgmmended. The sccretary, who received his appointment while congress was in recess, was asked no questions. His former testimony, given to the cam- paign funds committee headed by Senator Reed, democrat, Missouri, told of his investments in the S8am- uel Insull utility interests and of his campalign activitics. The reading clerk read for two hours, reciting testimony by the cabinet officer that he had solicited a $10,000 contribu- tion from Insull which was to be used for “local purposes only” in the 1926 campaign. ‘West saild that he, his wife ana his mother had invested in the In- sull interests and that he had con- sulted Insull about those invest- A recommendation that building contractors be required to submit to an examination and be licensed and a request that the staff of city inspectors be increased by at least one man, will be made in a com- | munication which a committee of the New Britain Master Bullders association pas been instructed to forward to the building commission for consideration at its meeting to- morrow night. i On the committee are the fol- lowing contractors: Eugene Dyson, i 1srael Wexler, Ciarence J. Callahan, A. P. Leavitt and Bernard Stein. Mr. Dyson is a member of the commission, and Messrs. Wexler and Leavitt are former chairmen. | These proposals were agreed upon at a meeting of the association last {night and they had the unanimous backing of those present. Last night's uction brings to a {head a movement which has been on ' foot for several months. It is the belief of the contractors that the public is entitled to the fullest pro- {tection and that the absence of li- censes makes it possible for builders lacking knowledge to victimize the public. They also make the claim that some of the building collapses in this city would have been avoided had their plan been put in eftect years ago. With reference to inspection, ithey are convinced the present scheme has been outgrown. It is im- possible, they agree, for two inspec- tors, one of whom is soon to have the additional duties of heating supervision, to cover the entire city i properly. Fecs having been doubled two years ago, they now claim the | right to prompt and complete in- { spection service. {would be. To make the change. it HOUSE IS RANSACKED | WITH PAMILY AT HOME o, b, necessa During the discussion it was 7 .| brought out that it was only natural Prowler. Boidly Works Whille: Wi~ 1, 5 group of men to' lsagtee oc- kins Are in Another Part of Domictle. casionally and more 50 when their director did not outrank tNem. Com- While Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Witkin and family of 44 Tremont (Continued on Page Three) MOVES TO PROMOTE DETECTIVE SERGEANT Police Board Takes Action on Bannan’s Proposal A rccommendation by Chairman M. W. Bannan of the board of polic commissioners to create the position of licutcnant of detectives was dis- cusscd at the monthly meeting of the hoard of police commissioners last night but no action was taken. Chairman Bannan said the present system of having a scrgeant in charge of the detective bureau, with cther sergeants under his orders, | does not make for the greatest effi- {ciency and he felt that Sergeant W. P. McCue should have the rank of lieutenant. Commissioner Tomikowski re- imarked that it was his understand- ing that Sergeant McCue was in pos- session of all the authority necessary {0 dircct the activities of the bureau and he questioned the probability of increased efficiency through estab- ing the proposcd position. Com- missioner Parker said he was inclin- ed to favor it, but he wondered what missioner Tomikowski pointed out that he always understood that Ser- geant McCue was in charge of the detective bureau and he was of the BEFORE COMMITTEE | mi i the attitude of the common council | were represented by Attorneys Ed- street were in the kitchen of their ward A. Mag and Andrew 8. Ahar. home early last evening, a prowler jonian, and the defendants’ by At. galned entrance and ransacked the torney Augustine Lonergan. china closet and a dresser, strewing The case centered about alleged articles of clothing about the room. i defects in the construction of a rail- A blouse coat containing a leather {ing at the home of the Margosians, Wallet and a fountain pen was tak- {through which the child crawled en but later, Officer Michael Brophy ywhile unobserved. She fell a dis- found the coat in the yard of the itance of 50 feet, dying several days O'Brien property adjoining the |after the accident. house where the Witkins live. Ser- " geant McAvay and Officer Brophy port of the affair was received by Lieutenant Bamforth. Beveral wceks ago, the police in- vestigated more than 30 cases of & similar nature and it is possible, they belleve, that last evening’s burglary may mark the activitg of the | THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Fair tonight; Thursday un- settled; somewhat warmer, # | conducted the investigation after re- | resumption of the opinion that nothing would be gain- ed by creating the licutenancy. No action was taken. There was also a discussion of the advisubility of a compulsory retire- ment age, Chairman Bannan point- ing out that men in the department would be prepared for retirement if they knew from the outset that a definite age would end their services, whereas the present arrangement does not permit of sufficient advance notice to them and ‘consequently there is the danger of bringing them up short by a vote to retire them. | He thought an age limit of 65 years worth considering and he believed it advisable to handle it through an or- dinance rather than by charter change. The matter will be consid- ered further. removed and further drainage will be necessary. Bulletin Issued Announcement of the operation was made in a bulletin fimed 3:20 P. m. and signed by five of the six physicians who have been attending his majesty. This bulletin read as follows: The slight improvement in the king's condition noted this morning is maintained. Some purulent fluid around the base of the right lung has been removed by puncture this morning and further drainage will be necessary. (Bigned) “Hewett, “Whitby “Buzzard, “Rolleston, “Dawson.” Buckingham Palace officials wer: reluctant to comment on the after- uoon byllctin, which was the first issued at that time of day. But the fact that the doctors had stated that the slight improvement noted in the morning announcement had been maintained, was taken as a good sign. On the other hand there was a bit of foreboding because the physie clans had found that further drain- age of the lung region would have to be undertaken in the near future. The operation, technically known as a minor one, was performed this morning and the secret was so well kept that it was not until mid-after- noon when the second bulletin of the day was issued at an unusual hour that the fact became known. Even to many in the palace ftself, the (Continued on Page 17.) NOBLE SEEKS RAIS IN PAY OF FIREMEN Extension of Vacation Period to 14 Days Also Wanted Chief W. J. Noble paved tho way for salary increase petitions by mem- ers ot his department when he de a blanket request of the fire board for salary increases at last t's meeting. He expressed a be- lief that a comparison of salaries paid here and clsewhere will show i the local department to be receiving less than the average. Last night's meeting being the onc at which requests for pay raises are required to be presented, the chief advised none have been placed in his Lands, but that he wished to give the men an opportunity of availing themsalves of their annual oppor- tunity and he therefore entercd the blanket request. The chief also made written appli- cation for an increase from 7 to 14 days in the vacation period. This is in line with conditions in most other cities, he said. vacation sug- gestion and the request for salary in- crease were both laid over to a spe- clal meeting which will be called for { Friday night, at which time consid- ary to amend the | cration will be given the creating of {a permanent ant mechanie. Hoseman John Blair has been acting | assistant for several months and rmembers of the board are pleased with the way the department has | Progressed. On motion of Commissioner Beck- with, it was voted to send a letter to Chief Noble congratulating him and his department upon its efficien- cy as indicated in the recent inspec- tion. Board members complimented the chief on the appearance of the men, houses and machines. The secretary was also instructed to send a letter of condolence to the family of John Fay, fireman, who died a few hours before the meeting. The following substitutes were ap- pointed: Francis J. Keogh, 21, 109 North street; Augustine R. McDonough, 22. 64 Church street; Frank C. Glabau, #1, 218 Rozbury road. Applications for appointments to the force were received from Ray- mond N. Patterson, 31, 30 South High stredt; James T. McNell, 23, of 458 Main street; Raymond E. Rile, 24, 285 Arch street. They were- placed on file.