New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 26, 1928, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 FIRENEN DIE A TRUCK OVERTURNS Pitisburgh Apparatas Plunges Down Embenkment, Killing Two EIGAT OTHERS INJURED Five Serlously Hurt On Way (o Blase At Carnegie Refining Company When Heavy Fog Obscures Vision of Driver. Pittsburgh, Dec. 26. UP—Two vol- unteer firemen were killed and eight others injured, five seriously, when thelr apparatus plunged down an cmbankment today while speeding to the fire in a. plant of the Carnegle Refining Company at Heldelberg. Loss The blaze, which started early yesterday, was atill raging with the fighters battling for control. The loss was placed at $500,000. The dead firemen were Adolph Sonnett, 30, and Joseph De Petro, 45. The apparatus, a combination pumper and hose cart, leaped from the roadway on a curve and somer- saulted down into the gully below. The fire truck was wrecked. A heavy fog obscured the driver's visian. Hurt At Soeme One fireman was seriously hurt at the scene, where more than 150 vol- unteer fire fighters apent the greater part of Christmas trying to control the conflagration which for a time threntened to sweep over the 20 acre plant and destroy neighboring homes. The fire started in the filter plant and was thought to have been checked, but a hidden smoldering spark last night touched a stray spray of gasoline, causing the flames to break out anew. Flames leaped from all parts of the bullding housing the distilling and refining departments, threaten- ing five tanks each containing 5,000 barrels of wax oll and eight tanks each of 1,000 barrels of kerosene, Explosions Occur A series of explosions rocked the district, imperiling the lives of fire- men and hundreds of residents who congregated on the hill sides ta watch the fire. The plant is situar- ed on the site of the old Etna Chemical Works, where a serlous explosion occurred during the World War. Company officlals were unable to determine in the absence of an in. vestigation, what caused the fire. ATTENPTS SUICIBE, LEAPS FROM PATROL Joseph Lipski, Crazed by Drink, Makes Attack on Father Crazed by liquor, Joseph Lipskl, 25, of 113 Miller street, would have killed his father but for the inter- ference of a male friend of Jeann: Lipski, sister of Joseph, and anoth- er man, according to the young woman’s testimony in police court today when Lipski was arraigned before Judge Roche on charges of drunkenness, breach of the peace and assault. On the way to the po- lice station in the patrol about 8 o'clock last night, he made an at- tempt to commit suicide by leaping out on Farmington avenue, accord- ing to Officer Louis E. Harper, who was obliged to use force to subdue him. Lipski had a plaster on his forehead covering an injury he re- ceived in the scuffle in the patrol. Miss Lipeki and her father told Judge Roche they did not want the brother and son in their home again. They had given him numer- ous chances but their patience is at an end. Judgé Roche 'mposed a suspended jail sentence of 30 days and ordered Lipski to pay the costs of the court, with the understand- ing that if he goes home again and is arrested, he will go to jall. He place him in care of the probation officer. Anti-Noise Bill Put Through by Deaf Man Hawana, Dec, 26 (M—It remained for a deaf alderman of Havana to put through a ecity anti-noise bill designed to decrease the great amount of noise in Havana msome- times declared the worst in the world. The deaf alderman is Juan Bor. rell. In an address before the coun- cil today, Borrell strongly com. plained of the constant street racket and what he termed the “eternal noise marathon.” It was not until the measure was adopted that some one recalled that Borrell is so deaf that he does not even hear the nightly 9 o'clock can- non fire at Old Cabanas fortress. 22 Passengers. Get Badly Shaken U New Haven, Dec. 26 M—Twenty- © passcngers who were preparing fo leave a New York-Springfield irain at the railroad station here last night, were slightly injured when the engine collided with another lo- comotive which had stalled on a frack near the station. The passengers who suffered bruis- s were standing in the aisles of var- fous coackes on the train at the time of the collision and were thrown to the floor. The stalled locomotive was derail- «d by the crash. ‘That serious injuries did not result from the crash is due to the fact 1hat the passenger train had slowed down to about eight miles an hour snd was brought to a quick stop ~following the eollision. NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1928 —EIGHTEEN PAGES EDUCATOR DIES DAVIS BANCROFT JOHNSON, IDAVID B. JOHNSON DIES IN ROCK HILL Was President of Win- throp College for Women Rock Hill 8. C. Dec. UP— Dr. D. B. Johnson, 72, Southern Educator and president of Winthrop College for women here, died early today after a lengthy iliness, In devoting his lite to the field of education, David Bancroft Johnson not only followed in the footsteps of his father, but duplicated one of the latter's outstanding achievements— the founding of a college for women, The father, whose name the son was president of the LaGrange (Tenn.) female college. The son centered his educational activities in South Carolina, where the difficulty of obtaining competent teachers im- pelled him to found Winthrop col- lege. An accident in which Dr. Johnson suffered the loss of his left arm when eight years ago, played an important part in shaping his career. Playing “hookey” from school, he received permission from United States troops, then active near his home in the Civil war, to board an army train. The compunction to return to his class growing as he rode, he at- tempted to jump from the tratn, His Arm was so badly crushed that am. putation was necessary, Realizing that his physical handi- cap would hamper him in later life, he took a renewed interest in his studies. He was graduated from the University of Tennessee In 1877 as valedictorian of his class, winner of the gold medal for excellence in student activities and senior captain of his battalion. Entering immediately upon edu- cational work, he scrved as tutor in Tennessce schools and was for two years an assistant professor at the (Continued on Page 16) {CGMMISSIONER DORAN RAPS PLAN OF MILLS Says Diversion of Alcohol Has Already Been Ac- complished Washington, Dec. 26 (#—The pro- hibition enforcement plan put for- ward by Chester P. Mills of New York to win the Durant $25,000 prize is not worth nearly that much in the opinion of Prohibition Com- | missioner Doran. The commissioner said today that Mills' proposal does not deal with present-day problems and that sup- trial alcohol, treated in the Milis plan, had been accomplished a year and a half ago. The same feature was described by F. Scott McBride, general super- intendent of the Anti-Saloon league, as only a detail of the whole prob- lem, but nevertheless important cnough to warrant close attention. :He added, however, that the gov- ernment was succeeding in decreas- ing the diversion of industrial alco- hol to bootleg channels. McRride {agreed with Mills' statement that | prohibition enforcement “should be taken out of politics.” “I am very much disappointed, Commissioner Doran said. “The conditions Mills deals with are non- existent and passed out of the pro- hibition problem a year and a half !ago. All the things he suggests have been routine practice with the bureau. T had hoped that many helpful suggestions would be re- ceived by the Durant committee and am disappainted. Mills does not deal with present conditions at all.” Commissioner Doran said in a statement some time ago that his | forces had virtually atopped the di- | version of industrial alcohol and added today that since Mills left the under civil service and the appoint- ments no longer have complexion. Assistant Recretary Towman in charge of prohibition en- forcement. said the Mills paper was well considered. i “One point however should be em- | phasized farther.” he said. “and that | is that the local peace officers must | look after police court matters, such | as speakeasies and mnnlawful retail rales. The setup for law enforce- ment contemvloted this. Such a | contest as that arranged by Mr. Durant will be helpful and will arouse public opinion to the portance of better enforcement.” Noted Southern Educator | bore, established and until his death | pression of the diversion of indus- | prohibition service it has been placed | a political | IFARM RELIEF GETS - INPETUS IN HOUSE Leaders Trying to Avoid Post- ponemeat of Neasure WANT IMMEDIATE ACTION Will Take at Loast Six Months For Board to Get Organized and | Working—Belleve Delay Would 1‘ Hinder Measure, | Washington, Dec. 26 UP—Efforts being made in the senate for enact. {ment of farm relief legislation ot |this session received impetus today on the house side where republican leaders said they would attempt to win over to this plan the farm group members who have been urging postponement until the Hoover ad- ministration takes hold. Speaker Longworth expressed the bellef that a bill acceptable to the Harm leaders could be passed at this | | i i ]leuhm and that all that is needed is |an agreement among the furm group. |He held that house farm leaders were mistaken in contending that relief legislation should await the incoming administration and be worked out in connection with - |tariff reviston, “It would take at least six months for the administrative board to or- ganize and get working,” he said, adding that delay beyond this mes- sion would make the legislation in- applicable to the 1929 crop. Tilson Favors Bill Representative Tilson, of Connec- {ticut, the majority floor leader, also |tavors passage of a farm measure at |this session. He wants an extra ses- son, if one is to be called, begin- ning in April, while the speaker be. lieves the fall would be preferable, for any tariff readjustment. It was understood today that Pres- ident Eect Hoover, who has prom- ised an extra mession to consider farm relief, if this question is not disposed of at the short session, would be acquainted by house lead- ers with the opposing ideas in con- gress as well as plans underway for tariff re@fijustment hearings, either before just after he reaches this country from his Latin American tour next month. No Revision As for tariff, 8peaker Longworth (Continued on Page 16) AIR NAIL PILOTS SHATTER RECORDS Attain Speed of 210 Miles an Hour to Establish Marks | Kansas City Dee. 26— Two na- |tional air transport pilots roared {through the darkness in their new | Curtis Falcon planes last night to a Inew speed record for the north- |bound trip over the Chicago-Dallas | Air Mair route, attaining part of the way a speed of three and a halt miles |2 minute, | The 997 miles to Chicago was {flown in six hours and 42 minutes |an average speed of almost 150 miles |an hour, the company announced | Aided by a tail wind and increasing {his. speed as he came northward. George B. Grogan flew the 547 miles Ifrom Dalas in four hours and five minutes, The 173 miles from Wichita to Kansas City was made in one hour flat. | Edmund Matchua continued the !trip to Chicago and set up a new re- |cord for that leg when he flew the 450 miles in two hours and 37 min- utes, at times attaining a speed of 210 miles an hour. \TRADE SCHOOL BOY FALLS FROM ROOF OF BUILDING Charles Roy, 20, Injured in Acci- dent At New Home of Dr. Frank Zwick | Charles Roy. aged 20 years, of Collinaville, a student carpenter at the State Trade school in this city, I in the New Britain General hos- |pital following an accident at the {new home of Dr. Frank Zwick at |the corner of Lincoln street and Shuttle Meadow avenue this morn- ing. The house is being erected by trade school labor and Roy was a member of the class doing the work there. He was working on the roof when he missed his footing, siipped {and tumbled to the ground. | {and at first it was thought that he | was seriously injured. A prelimin- ary examination at the hospital upon his arrival there failed to determine his exact condition but it is thougnt |to be not serious. Killed in Auto Crash in Palmer Palmer, Mans. Dec. 26 B — {8amuel Kramer of Perth Amboy, N. J.. was instantly killed and four other persons were injured seriously as the result of a head-on collision of automobiles on the Boston Post road near the Palmer-Wilbraham town line late this morning. Mrs. iElsle Kramer, 30, wife of the dead man. is the most seriously injured of the four and s In Wing Me. morial hospital here with a frac- im- {tured skull from which she s not expected to recover. He suffered an injury to his head | 1,280 Christmas Dinners Given to Needy Families in the City —Photo by Collomb SALVATION ARMY DINNERS Ninety-one baskets, containing enough for a Christmas mas party at I. O. O. F. hall dinner for seven persons, making evening. Adjutant Carl Fredrickson 637 Christmas dinners, were sent has purchased 850 toys, 100 dolls and out Monday to needy families by the bushels of candy, nuts, fruit and i8alvation Army. Plans are being made to entertain hundreds of chil- THRONG AT FUNERAL OF HAROLD R. JONES Last Rites Held Today for, Deceased News- paperman this (Continued on Page Four) FRED 0. THOMSON DIES IN HOLLYWOOD Noted Western Movie Act- or Distinguished Self as Athlete Hundreds of lifelong friends, as- Los Angeles, Dec. 26 (M—Fred C. soclates in the newspaper world, Thomson, screen actor featured in relatives, and fraternal associates western roles, died here shortly be- |gathered at the chapel of the South fore midnight last night. He failed |Congregational church this after- to rally from an operation for gall {noon at 3:30 o'clock to pay a last stones, performed three weecks ago. | Thomson who began his screen tribute to Harold R. Jones, 50n ©f carcor as an athlete “double” and Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Jones of stunt man took a turn for the worse 562 Main stre life, age having morning following an iliness of sev. D104 transfusions. His flines had managing editor of the New Britain | An ordained pastor in Fvada " paper many of whom had seen him tered motion pictures because he and earnestness and there was not 8 a¢'rrom the pulpit. His first western guard of honor while the casket jgg1 in Pasadena, Calif. He dis. {in the chapel when Rev. Dr. George |ater at Princeton, where he took e Every heart in the chapel went ‘BECKY THATCHER' |the loss of their only child. More | 1‘ Five Herald men and a life-long Fonter, telegraph editor; James J. Character in “Tom Saw- [in the newspaper profession since {school in the class of 1911; George jchurch editor who had been asso- ) aury Frager, 91, Mark Twain's bo | years ago. |and “Tom Sawyer,” died last night {The masonic ritual was conducted at| @i G man IDETUNE E | when he was a barefooted boy who Mrs. Frazer was the daughter of F. C. Guest, 41. of the Coral Gables|Of this city. | from while directing traffic. | Hanuckyy | Minn., when a telegram announcing | nibal Trust company, is her only sur- was formally charged with man- Pope Celehrates {liceman’s death. |cclebrated a_ Christmas | extended over a greater part of & leral wecks. Mr. Jones, was assistant 5 ST Herald. and chaplain of the 145th field ar- jFise from a place as “cub” reporter fo)¢ pe could deliver as great a mes. 'dry eye among them as they st00d | relcase was filmed In 1923, passed through. I tinguished himself as an athlete at | W. C. Hill, pastor, read the funeral post-graduate work for the ministry 'out to his grandmother, mother and Ithan 70 of his fellow associates at | ~ DIES IN HANNIBAL pal were the pall bearers. They were | | Butler, city hall reporter; Joseph W. ” [ yer” and “Huckleberry Ithey were graduated from high | {L. Lawson, master mechanic of the | ‘clated with Mr. Jones since the 1ooq swoctheart and the “Becky | 8ervices were conducted by Rev. at the home of a son, Judge L. E. |the grave by Centennial lodge, A. ¥. | ooy ool B 0 8 Burial was In Fairview cemetery. | ot 1® 00 o Tt ot Mother Drops Dead | Eliah and Sophia Hawkins, who police department was run into and . CAlity nearly all her Word came today that his moth.|W- Trazer. died many years ago. his death was read to her. | viving child. slaughter and driving while intoxi- | Christmas Mass . mass in his own private chapel at i . who died Sunday Yesterday morning after several il | Min fellow employes at the news- g, " oncon often said he had en- {loved him for his loyalty, courtesy, gge through clean, wholesome films, at the entrance of the chapel a8 8| Thomgon was born February 26, | Unrestrained emotion was shown ccidental college, Los Angeles, and | servic in 1912 and 1913. father who are broken-hearted over ithe Herald were present. Irving E. Ellis, his triend; Cedric W. | Roche who_was associated with him | Finn” Succumbs at 91 |plant; and Ernest R. Dechant.| jannibal, Mo., Dec. 26 UP—Mrs. former came to New Britain eight [poconeis™ of wilvekieberry Finne 'Dr. Hill at the home at 3 o'cdlock. [0 [& A M. of which Mr. Joncs was a frod, O (N3] Persons Who atended |Traffic Cop Killed; Mtrs ¥ Miami, Fla, Dec, 26 (PhSergeant | ¥¢T¢ among the carliest residents killed by a motorist last night|ome here at an early er had dropped dead at Wadena, |Judge Frazer. president of the Han- B. C. Dove, 23, of Coral Gables {ERaTan b eetition el tranicios) BT W AR L ¥ |the Vatican- in the presence of his THE WEATHER relatives and a few intimate friends. It also was revealed today that tomorrow he will celebrate a mass in the same chapel before a small congregation of about 50 persons and after that will begin his recep- tion of members of the diplomatic # | corps accredited to the Holy See. New Britain and vicinity: Falr tonight; Thursday in- creasing cloudincss with ris- fug temperature. | | 1 | | each basket|dren from these families at a Christ. | tillery, 40th division, in the World | 8he lived in this lo- | COOLIDGES REACH BRUNSWICK, GA. Lave Tmmedia.’, Tsland With H. %" T0 SPEND BFIEF VACATi. |Receive Hoarty Welcome From Town Though Many Miss Arrival of Train Which Had Been Stated Incorvectly—Tang in Air, Brunswick, Ga., Dec. 26 (A)—Pres- ident and Mrs. Coolidge arrived in Brunswick at 9 o’clock this morning and left immediately for Sapelo Island for their mid-winter vacation as guests of Howard E. Coffin, Painter in Party Accompanying the presidential party was Frank O. Salisbury, an English portrait painter, Mr. Caol- idge's military and naval aides, Colo- nel Osmun Latrobe and Captain Wil- son Brown; his personal physician, |James F. Coupal, and a corps of newspaper correspondents and photographers. A citizens committee extended a welcome to the president as he |stepped from the train. Mrs. Cool- |idge, leading hdr little red Chow on |a leash, was presented with a | bouquet, Cheer Lustily Beveral hundred persons, massed about the station, cheered lustily as the President and Mrs. emerged from the train and posed for photographers. There was a sharp tang in the air as the chief exccutive arrived for his shooting on Mrs. Coffin's preserves |on Sapelo Island and Mrs. Coolidge |was wrapped n a heavy fur coat. during their Christmas stay here, Many Miss Train A local report said the presidential train was not due until shortly be- fore noon, and several thousand per- sons who expected to witness the ar- rival of Mr. Coolidge were disap- pointed because of the early hour at which the train pulled into the station. Brunswick strects today were be- decked 1in flags in honor of Mr. Cool- idge's visit. Vari-colored lights and tinselled Christmas trees along the boulevards leading from Brunswick to the Sea Island Yacht club where the president went aboard the Zapala, Mr. Coffin's private yacht, for Bapef® Island, lent an added holi- day atmosphere, Christmas night passed quietly on the Coolldge train. The President and Mrs. Coolidge spent the time in reading and conversation and In showering attentions upon “Tiny Tim®” the flufty, reddish brown Chow dog. a favorite among the White | House pets. | “Tiny Tim,” accompanied his mas- ter and mistress into the dining car last night and was much in evidence throughout the meal. Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge delighted in glving htn tid-bits from the presidential table, and once Mr. Coolidge made the PUDPy sit up in the alsle and “beg” for his food. A few sharp barks and the president relented while the dog happily snatched at the morsel tossed at him. The dinner menu gave Mr. Cool- (Continued on Page 16) ARREST OF DRUNKS Moderation League Says Prohibition Fails to Pro- mote Temperance by the moderation league, mads {public today, says that police rec- |ords in 388 cities show that arrests |for Intoxication rose from 235,612 in 11920 to 557,369 in 1927, | The fourth annual report of the |league, which has for its announced |aim “the restoration of temperance” |declares that the figures have |brought the organization to the |conclusion that “the Volstead act | has failed utterly to do what it was |intended to do, namely, promote temperance and sobriety.” Tables of total arrests by years in |the 388 cities as compiled in the re- port indicate a decline in arrests for drunkenness beginning in 1914, |when the figure stood at 530,367, to 235612 In 1920, the year national i prohibition went into effect. An ex- iception in the decline is noted in 1916 with 559.364 arrests for drunk- enness, which league report as the result of the |pre-war prosperity boom. Beginning with 1921 the table shows rapid annual increases in the number of arrests from 319,528 to 1557.369. The report declares that a Coolidge | Mr and Mrs. Coolidge will reside | at Mr. Coffin’s home on Sapelo Island | AT PREWAR LEVEL SHIP AGROUND OFF * COLUMBIA RIYER MOUTH Florence Luckenbach Breaking Up As 50-Mile Gale Lashes Sea Astoria, Ore,, Dec. 26 UP—The ‘mer Florence Luckenbach went .nd on Clatsop Spit at the “ath of the Columbia river in a orm this morning. Two tugs were jsent to her assistance. Seas were |breaking over the vessel. Attempts | will be made to pull her off at high tide. f The steamer was outbound for New Orleans, Houston and Mobile when she got out of the channel in rough weather and went aground at 5:20 a. m. A 50 mile gale lashed the seas over the vessel and interfered with the work of two tugs. HOOVER TO CONFER WITH G. 0. P. HEADS Change in Plans Made to Allow Meetings With Leaders Steamer ‘Washington, Dec. 26 (#) —Recent changes in Herbert Hoover's plans | to bring him direct to Washington in concluding his Latin-American tour are accounted for by his friends here as due to the president-elect's desire to give his personal consideration to numerous developments of pecullar interest to his incoming administra- tion. The original Hoover plan to return to Washington by way of New York | was changed in favor of a first stop at a Florida resort. The newest pro- gram, however, will put Mr. Hoover in Washington during the second week in January, to be available for conferences with congreasional Jead- ers who are treading softly on many far-reaching subjects until they have learned the Hoover views. The next president will face also on his return many rumors that already have built up and torn down any number of complete cabinets. Cabinet selections, always a prime source of speculations until the pres- ident-elect announces his choice, have run on at length since Mr. Hoover sailed for South America. (No definite word has come from Hoover or those closest to him and among his friends here it Is expected that the incoming president will make public his cabinet selections in his own good time. Leaders in Congressional Hill ap- pear to be more perturbed over prospective legislation than over the cabinet posts. Their immediate con- cern centers about farm rellef, tar- iff revision, the Kellogg treaty to re- {nounce war as an instrument of na- |tional policy, and the bill to author- [ize fifteen more cruisers. At least {two of those subjects, farm relief and the tariff, are wrapped up in _speculation as to the if and when lof a special session. | The campaign promise of Mr. Hoover to order a special session ‘o care for the farmers” needs it suit- able legislation is not enacted before March 4, is the only concrete thing |the party leaders have to work with. Opinion among those leaders now |is divided not only as to the time a special session should be held. but also on whether it should make |farm relief or tariff revision its ma- jor consideration. The people of Washington llke. [wise have a peculiar interest in the immediate return of Mr. Hoover. |Local committees have for some {time been preparing elaborate plans i!or the March 4 inaugural celebra- i”o" and they feel they have pro- |gressed to the point where definite |word as to the wishes of the presi- | dent-clect is needed. Mr. Hoover has been represented | |as wanting as simple an inaugura- tion as possible and the Washington W York, Dec. 26 (P—A survey merchants and townspeople want to | |know how far they can go with |crowd-drawing attractions without overstepping the proprieties. REY. DR. ARRI, AHTATIST PRESENTED WITH $500 Pastor of First Lutheran Church | Receives Gift From Mem- | bers of Flock Rev. Dr. Abel A. Ahlquist, pastor of the First Lutheran church was presented with a Christmas gift of $500 by members of his congrega- tion yesterday. Special Christmas music was furnished by the choir under the direction of Prof. Per | Olsson. is explained in the; Takes Life in Police | Cell in Hartord Hartford, Dec. 26 (®) — Duras | Cheney, 60, a painter, committed suf- cide in his cell at police headquar- marked increase in drinking by mi- | ters here this morning by strangling |bulletin issued this morning Her husband, Dr. Jamos | midnight | nors has been noted throughout the | himself with a handkerchief which period. | he tied to a chain attached to a steel The increase in arrests for fntoxi- cot. Cheney was arrested last night | cation in New York, the report says. |on charges of drunkenness and has been at a slower rate than in|breach of the peace following a dis- other centers from which figures turbance in a Sisson avenue home, were drawn. Birmingham, Ala., and | Where he had formerly been a board- {Atlanta, Ga., hoth show increases of | er. He was a widower. 500 per cent for the period. | e, fiuree, the roport goce o, | Wait or One Train; Pl sd] Killed by Another which were dry before national pro- hibition than in the so-called wct‘. Katonah, N. Y., Dec. 26 (#—Oscar |states. Police reports from 268 cit- [ Adams, 20, and John J. Toohig, 28, fes where liquor was =old legally both of Croton Falls, were killed iprior to 1920 gave 424.295 arrests in jearly today when their automobile 11914 as against 423,042 in 1927, | was struck by an empty Christmas In 120 cities in states that hai|special on a New York Central dry laws before the passage of the crossing here. eighteenth amendment the leagne| The men had waited while a sayn the figures show an increase |freight train passed and thinking the from 106,072 in 1914 to 134,327 in |crossing clear, drove into the path PRICE THREE CENTS NINE JUDGES MAY SETTLE ARGUNENT Pan-American Conference Wants Bolivia-Paraguay Row Probed T0 MEET IN WASHINGTON Each of Disputing Countrics Will Appoint Two and the Arbitration Conference Wil Apoint Five Judges—Sit Six Months, Washington Dec. 26 (#— The creation of a panel of nine judges to determine causes and responsie bilities for the Paraguayan-Bolivian dispute is proposed in the text for & protocol of conciliation adopted by, the Pan-American arbitration cone ferences special committee on the controversy and submitted to the two governments for their npprovn’.l. Of the nine judges, each of the two disputing countries would ap« point two and the arbitration cone ference here would appoint five. The panel would hold its firs€ meeting in Washington for organe ization purposes. Six Months The conciliation commission would be alowed six months to complete |its work with a possible extensiom |of six months more if necessary. It would study the controversy and suggest means of amicable solu« tion. Should this conciliation fafl, the commission would be charged with isuing a report stating the facts as found through its investigation and fixing responsiblty for the events which led to the rupture of dip- lomatic relations. Duties Limited ‘The duties of the commission would be limited exclusively to ihe events which gave rise to and follow- ed the armed clash at Fort Van- guardia between Bolivian and Para. guayan troops on December 6. It would not deal with the larger probe lem of the general boundary rela- tions between Bolivia and Paraguay (Continued on Page 15) FEEL CONFIDENT KING WILL GET WELL Path to Health Will Be Long But Recovery Seems Assured London, Dec. 206.—(@—It was stated in authoritative circles this motning that there was a slight im- provement in King George's condi- tion, He was continuing to make the very slow progress which had been reported by his doctors during past days. Confidence grew today that King George's recovery was assured, al- though the path to health might be |1ong and strewn with difficulties. The latest information on the king's condition was reassuring. The fact that only one bulletin was now being issued daily was held to be & £0od sign, in that it implied that his {liness was taking a normal course. The king was announced to have spent a restful Christmas day. All the members of the royal family. ex- cept two sisters of the king. Queen Maud of Norway and Princess Louise, celebrated Christmas at Buckingham palace. Queen Mary and her children paid brief visits to the sickroom and saw the king during the day. | The satistaction felt by the royal family and in official quarters over |the King's condition was shared in |many thousands of British homes iwhen the Christmas bulletin was broadcast. No newspapers were published on | Christmas day nor were |lished today, Boxing day. wh |legal holiday when Christmas hoxes |are given to letter carricrs, errand |boys and the like. Word of the I king's condition was conveyed to the public therefore by the radio and {bulletine posted in the windows of | post offices. | The members of the royal family |attended divine services in the imorning. They all lunched together | except the Prince of Wales, who left |the palace to make an appeal by !radio on behalf of unemployed min- ers. In the evening the queen, her four {sons. her daughter and the Duchess |of York has a dinner party at the palace at which the only other guest |was Sir Stanley Hewett, the physi- {clan who has been in close attend- ance on the king since his illnces de- veloped. | Archbishop Lang Continues to Improve | TLondon, Dec. 26.—P—A medical aid that the condition of the Most Rev. Dr. Osmo Gordon Lang. Archbishop of Canterbury continued to improve. The primate has been suffering from an internal inflammation and it was stated that pain was now occuring only rarely. ¥ Five Lose Lives as Ice Breaks With Auto Bathurst, N. B, Dec. 26 ®—Five persons lost their lives today when their automobile broke through the ice as they were crossing from Lit- tie Lam, Que., to Shippegan, main- land. The dead are:—Joseph N. Noel, his wife. Mrs. Joseph Noel; Andrew Du . father of Mrs. Noel; Thomas Jones and Joseph Chiasson, all of Little Lam, Que. Chiasson was 13 years old. The 1927, of the other train. others all bad large families.