New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 3, 1929, Page 3

MAINE'S LEADER TALKS ON POWER Advocates Pay-as-You-Uso Sys- tom for State Augusta, Me., Jan. 3 P — Gov- ernor Willlam Tudor Gardiner in his inaugural address today recom. mended the substitution of & “pay- as-you-use” for the present ‘“pay- @a-you-go” policy in highway con-! struction and the “divorcing” of the subject of water power from poli- tics. ‘The new governor, 'referring to ‘water power, called upon the mem- bers of the 84th legislature to “still the voices that are raised in at- tempts to subvert economic affairs to political ends.” Maine now has the so-called “Fernald act,” passed in 1913, which prohibits the exportation of hydro-electric power, Frequent ef- forts have been made to repeal or amend the act but they have failed either in one of the houses of the legislature or through veto by the! governor. Grange Snn'ey Although there is no certfainty that the matter will be brought up at this session, a fact-finding com- mittee of the Maine development commission with the ald of a com- mittee from the state Grange, 1h at work on a survey of the subject. The report will be placed before the lawmakers about the middle of the session, some time in February. | “We want development, protec- tion of present ‘and future rights, fair treatment of the public and public utilities alike,” the governor declared, in asking the legislators to consider the question “with fresh minds, unprejudiced, without at- mosphere of distrust or the inter- jection of personalities.” “It would be well to remove as far as possible the danger of po- litical interference with this great ‘business,” he said, in speaking of the state . highway department. ‘The administration must be entrusted to a few responsaible men.” Te recommended that the selec- tion of highway commissioners fol- low the “traditions of judicial ap- pointriients—traditions which prompt. the selection of those of unques- tioned integrity, of proved ability, of vislon, of courage and of firm- ness to withstand any pressure of the moment in the execution of right.” “I belleve that a conservative bond issue would afford the cheap- est means of providing necemary improved road service,” he sald, ad- | vocating a “pay-as-you-use” in- stead of a ‘pay-as-you-go” policy. Education The governor declared that “edu- cationi. opportunity for our boys and girls is a vital question, asked that the positiun of the uni. versity of Maine in the state’s edu- eational system be definitely recog- nized and established, and called for the addition of its financial pro- gram as a part of “our education budget.” Asserting that “demands for funds are increasing at a rate which is proportionately greater than the increase of our normal revenues,” the governor urged that “serious attention” be given to coordination of charitable, correctional and re- liet work in the .lnterut of eff- ciency and economy.” “The success of agriculture in the state is highly important for ge eral prosperity,” he sald in urging that “all possible help,” consistent with *“our resources,” be given the farmers. - He suggested the possibility of consolidation of state activities, | mentioning specifically the banking and insurance departments. He advocated ‘“the conservative utilization of, as well as conserva- tion” of natural resources and de- clared it was time “to take definite steps for an anti-pollution pro- gram.” He expressed opposition to any increase in appropriations for ad- vertising and developing the state. “Economy must begin some- where,” Gov. Gardiner said in rec- emmending that the private contin- gent fund for the governor and council be reduced from $15,000 to $10,000 and that it be made sub- Ject to audit. Urges Commission He urged a non-partisan commis- sion to handle fish and game af- fairs in a “non-political way.” “Honest enforcement of existing laws is of even greater importance than the passage of new laws, he #aid in concluding his address. “The first function of a govern- ment should be to sce that its own agencies are proper and efficient— to the end, not of much govern- ment, but of good government.” GOY. FULLER PARDONS WOMAN IN FOR LIFE Is One of Last Official Acts of Outgoing Executive of Maseachusetts. Boston, Jan. 3 UP—Mrs. Rose Spogard of Lynn, who in 1913 was sentenced by the Essex superior court, to life imprisonment at the 8Bherborn reformatory for women for shooting her husband, was a free woman today by virtue of a pardon from Governor Alvan T. Fuller, ‘The pardon was one of the last official acts of the outgoing execnu- tive. Announcement that it had been granted on the recommenda- tion of the state board of parole and with the advice and consent of the governor's council late yesterday. It took the form of a commuta- tion of sentences from life to 20 years imprisonment, thus making | possible the immediate release of the woman on parole. At her trial Mrs. Spogard alleged that she killed her husband in sclf defense but a jury found her gulity of murder in the second degree. A was made | ‘ Prosecuting Attorney J. G. Woods, {81800 to $2000 in the salary of | Judge. {#aid Berlin as Adminfstratrix on the No Hint of Committee’s Attitude On Petitions for City Pay Raises Members' Noncommittal After First Hearing When Kirkham, Woods, Greenstein and Others Appear. No indication whatever of their ‘attitude towards the annual petitions for salary increases for city officials | |and employes was given by mem- | bers of the salary committee of the | common coyncil last night, when the | first hearings were held, adjourn- ment being taken until Friday im !mediate at the conclusions of the ' hearings. All members were present, and the following were heard: | Corporation Counsel J. H. Kirkham, i Arthur W. Bacon, clerk of the board of compensation and assessment; As- ‘ sistant Prosecuting Attorney W. M. Greenstein, Registrars of Voters J. Smith and Willlam Ziegler, bedl er of Weights and Measures Carl A. | Carlson, Chairman Thomas Linder | of the board of assesse 5, Commis- sioner M. M. Meskill and Superin. tendegt J. L. Doyle of the public weMare department, Chairman J. J. | Watson of the board of water com- missioners. Speak For Kirkham’s Increase Attorney Donald Gaffney and At- torney M. H. Camp spoke in favor of an increase in salary of the corporation counsel from $4,000 to $5,000, and Judge Kirkham, who has held the office for several years, told of the scope of the dutles, | which are important and on the in crease. He also wants an arrange- ment made whereby he may expend | $1,000 per year for telephone, cleri- cal assistance, books, office supplies | and other expenses which the city does not pay for. Prosecuting Attorney Woods based his claim for a salary increase from | $3,000 to $4,500 on the increasing duties of the office and their im- | portance. He said upwards of 35 000 eriminal cases including 25 mur- der cases have been presented in police court since he has been pros: |cuting attorney and assistant pros: cuting attorney. Clerk Bacon of the board of com- pensation and assessment, seeking | an increase from $1,300 to $1,500, |explained his dutles and Corporation |Counse] Kirkham told the commit- tee that Mr. Bacon is a capable offi- cial in an important position. Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Greenstein was heard on his petition for an Increase from $1,000 to $I.- 500 per year. He explained the du- ties of the office and said he was m‘ police court 100 of the 312 coult‘ days last year. Registrars of Voters Smith M\d‘ | » and |Ziegler stressed the great increuse | i (U0 in the number of voters during Lhe Ipast tew years, in support of their| ipetition for an increase of ten per cent. Each is paid $2,310 per year and 1o addition each recelves 700 for making the personal tax enroll- ment. Carlson Says Salary is Low Sealer of Weights and Measures year is the loweat in the state for| the office. He said that gasoline stations added greatly to his duties, and he also is obliged to spend co: siderable time weighing the coal purchased by the city departments.| He said he believed his position was worth more salary but he would not | expect an increase unless others were also favored. He asked for| a salary of $2200, Chairman Linder of the board of |assessors was heard relatives to the 'recommendation of the hoard |Iml‘ the salary of the first clerk, Miss Lena Kranowitz, be increased from | $1350 to $1600. He stressed the economical operation of the office, the exacting duties of the positions in the department and the length of service of the first clerk. Superintendent Doyle of the pub- lic welfare department spoke in fa- vor of the recommended increase from $1300 to $1500 in the salary of the clerk in the office, also the rec- ‘ommendation for an increase from investigator. Commissioner M spoke for an increase in salary of Ruperintendent Doyle from $2500 to| $2800. | Chairman Watson of the board of | water commissioners recommended | an increase in salary of Miss Caro- Iyn 8 Humphrey, stenographer, from $1200 to $1300 per year and an increase from $15 to $18 per week in salary of Mias SBophic Czoch, assistant stenographer. Elaborate Arrangements For Grange Installation Burritt Grange will hold a regula meeting Saturday evening at Jr. O. U. A. M. hall at 7:30 o'clock. Offi- cers will be installed by Robert W. Andrews, assisted by an installing | tear of elght who will be in spe- | cially designed costumes for the oc- casion. The installation will be open to the public and will be followed hy a musical and literary program and dancing. There will be suimhlc, decorations fn the hall. Former Grangers and friends of Grangers are particularly invited to be pres- ent. Registered in error as “Alice” fn- stead of “Ellis” 43 years ago, a Leeds. England, business man has Jnlt discoveyed that officlally he is & “woman.” e LIMITATION OF CLAIMS At a Court of Prol Britain, within and for the District of ‘Berlin In the County of Hartford and State of Connectfjut, on the 2nd day of | January, A. D. 1929, | Bernard F. Gaffney, Esq On motlon of Alma Baldwin o te holden at New | Present, fate of Newton W. Baldwin, late of Ber lin. within said district deceamed This Court doth decree that ix months be allowed and limited for tho | creditors of said estate to exhibit their fiaime ngainet the same to the Adm stratrix and directs that public notice Do given of this order by mdvertising in & newspaper published in said New Rrit- | ain. and having a circulation in said distrigt, and by posting a copy ther on the public sign pom in mald Town of Berlin, nearest the place whero the de- ceamed Iast dwelt. nephew has promised to see that she is properly cared for. | sioner Whalen ! declared Carlson said his salary of $1300 per|, NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1929. WHALEN JOINS IN RAIDS OF POLICE New York Commissioner Foows Force Around on Tour New York, Jan. 3 (P—Police Commissioner Grover Whalen sent | his reorganized police force into a series of sweeping raids on spe: casies last night and then made personal inspection of the res achieved. Sweeping cights to Gre (in groups of t} 50 speakea resting pro and seizing cn | ts from wich Vil raided more than | and r wurants, ar- | ctors and employes re stocks of liquor. The raids followed presentation | to Commissioner Whalen of a list|? of places wh representatives of | an afternoon ne wspaper said they | had purchased liquor. The newspa per said an analysis of 504 sampl of liquor purchased showed 55 con- tained troces of wood alcohol. Al the liouor 1 by the police wi v chemist for analysis ur at Once Washington | e, police | o » raids were the most extensive | ind oc- | city police in ye almost simultaneously mid-town Manhattan, the Bron Harlem, Washington Heights av Greenwich Village. As the first prisoners and seized liquor arrived at the precinct stations, Commis- start in | inspection. Accomparied by his chlef inspec- tor, John O'Birien, and surrounded by members of his “strong arm’ squad, the commissioner attracted considerable attention as he walked through the mid-town district. He expressed satisfaction with the outcome of the a talk to the m S creasing rewards In one place in Greenwich Villag the police not enly seized the liquor but wrecked the interior of the place, ashi niture, mirro and glassware after ordering trons to the street Meanwhile the members revived “strong arr d, o “gunmen” squad as it now is known, were org zing for intensive ton he men were orde rid H\f‘ city of gunmen, strect corner loafers and pool room abitues and to use their fists free ly in carrying out the orders Two of the squads, cach of which consists af ten men, w to duty in Manhattan in the other four boroughs, ing with them will be thirty patrol- men who will cone : their ac- subway hall \ : prompt and in- s of the ved sq “mashers. Scored By Hylan present police activity by former Mayor Hylan to be an endravor by “the new Tammany” to “put their pre- election house in order now the last year of the present admir istration, so that they will be ahl C another w Tammany' . mayoralty The was may- ndi- | ¢ Iy advice tfo the present day city authorities,” he said, “is to get the Rothstein murderer. Wholesale arrests, groomins ple for mayor- alty timber, will not hood-wink the public.” VISIONS COISTING TRIP 10 Ti POLE Caplain Back After Eleven Months in Arctic (A—A four year scientific coasting expedition round the north pole tod visioned by Captain Tobert . lett, home only a da eleven months in the Arc Captain Bartlett, who has spent thirty yéars in the frozen north, re- turned with his schooner Morrissey from the Berin 1 with the Stoll- MecCracken expeditic The ship which Captain Bartlett visioned for the vear trip would be withstand magnetie, other scientisis-mariners id he would like to sho: slow-moving glacier-like pack ice the Arctic basin, entering where above Berin raights. He thought the drift wonld carry the ship westward causing it to emerge somewhere north of Spitzbergen he ship would carry a complefe laboratory, e said, and also an air- connoitering. fow ice pressure and non- with no more than seven into the some- would cost $330,000, btorms Ol’f J apan Tokyo, Japan, the Japan se of Niigata werl have killed 56 E hundred houses were destroyed. The railway department in Tokyo received information that at least 20 villages were inundated by high seas yesterday. Jan. 3 (P—storms coast southwest reported today, to persons. Several on Niigata is on a sandy strip of land at the mouth of the Shinano river. There are canals in the center of the strects fo assists traffic. grown throughout the there are oil wells i Certified from Record, BERNARD F. GAFFNEY, Judge. | ht's raids and in | promised that | gangsters, | John | within | aved-in-the-wool | almost saucer-shaped to | hoard. He | He estimated that such a voyage Kill 56 Persons | 'WANTS DEATH CAR DRIVERS BARRED {Massachusetts Governor Makes Plea for New Law Boston, Jan. 3 (A —Problems created by the automobile, including the need for greater safety on high- ' ‘ways and the necessity for an ade- quate appropriation to allow the state insurance department to com- | pile its own data on which to base compulsory liability rates, were dis- cussed at length in the {naugural address of Governor Frank G. Allen before the two branches of the LM chusetts legislature here today. | Outstanding in the recommenda- tions of the incoming executive was a plea for the enactment of legisla- tion disbarring permanantly from the obtaining of a license to operate a motor vehicle any driver involved in | a fatal accident. He also urged that any driver mmvolved in a serious ac- cident in which he was at fault {should have his license revoked for | !a definite and substantial length of | | time. 1 | Urges Inspectio As another move toward greater highway safety, he recommended that periodic inspection of automo- | foty devices be required by ute and that examination for li- E more drastic in character Iwith an added provision that suc- | cossful applicants at a first test be | required to take another examina- tion to ascertain if they were still lin a fit condition to drive safely. | Governor Allen declared | bite | censes e that 1 his tour of |abolition of railroad grade crossings | {on the main routes of railroads and ' | Lighways which, he said, had been |at o standstill for 15 years, ought to | " [be encouraged and pushed. ! Pointing out that at the close of |the last fiscal year the |court had on its docket 61.822 civil cases due largely to pending motor chicle litigation, the governor rec- ommended that the recently formu- lated plan for the reli>f of the courts | by the judicial council, be made ef- | !fective. “Few claims for legislative action at the present session are more urgent,” he declared. i Compulsory Insurance Discussing the fixing of rates un- fder the comnulsory automobile whility law, which have been the ject of widespread diesatisfaction recently, Gov. Allen declared that > legislature had not provided the nce commissioner with suf- nt funds to enable him to obtain [the data and statistical knowledge necessary for him to meet the re- quircments of the statutes. p to the present,” he said, “the commissioner has had to depend upon information furnished him by |* The mo- | [the insurance companies. tor vehicle owners can never be con- vinced that rates based upon data furnished by the insurance com- ies are just, reasonable, and non- | diccriminatory. They are justiticd 1n their opition that in this im- portant companics both foreign and domes- {manner the law the commonwealth "stic companies.” ving the high cost of murici- government in Massachusetts, now requires | the govennor proposed that the funec- | tions of the present division of nc- | counts, in the department of cor- porations and tions, be extanded to include advice to local officials on all business questions. This could be done, ¥ way with loeal self government. Cost Increases He pointed out that in the years 1916 to 1926, the last 10-vear period for which complete figures were ailable, the cost of muni~ipal gov- | crnment in this state had tncreased per cent. The governor recommended a con- tinuation of the present poliey of private ownershin and publis control for the Roston Elevated Railway for a definite term, of public control, road could be renlaced with securi- tics bearing a lower rate of interast. Reminding the legislaturs that Pos- | ton was a pioneer in subway con- struction, he urged a program for the liberal extension of rapid transit lines with a portion of the carryirg costs to be borne by others thaa the car riders. | enforcing the laws |an increased superior | matter the records of all | tic, should be examined in the same | to examine its | he said, without interfering in | With the extension | the stock of the | T He stressed the need for the solu- tion of the two other transportation problem-—the constructin of the | East Bston vehicular tunnel and that of transportation needs in Bos- ton, Chelsea and Revere. Conserve Other recommendations included greater conservation of forest re- sources, advancement of the com- pulsory school age to 15 years; the creation of a commission on indus- trial and agricultural develpment to 'conduct research into the industrial and agricultural situation in the state and to coordinate activities of voluntary organlzations; passage of legislation forbidding injunctive re- lief in labor disputes unless both parties have had an opportunity to 'be heard, and the organization on a more efficlent basis of the work of regulating the sale of securities. | The governor urged better and in- creased facilities for persons afflict- | ed with tuberculosis and cancer and | the passage of legislation “to pre- | 'vent, it possible, a recurrence of the | milk borne epidemigs of last year, to | |the end that the yubhc may bene- | |fit by the increased consumption of | a safe product and that the milk | producers may lkewise benefit from | consumption and a | the part of | growing confidence on the public in the milk supply.” A survey of the state to determine how many crippled children need the training available at the Canton I hospital, a revision and coordination of child welfare laws and additional provision for care of the mentally defective were other matters placed | before the legislature for its consid- eration. His treatment of other public wel- {fare matters included expression of [the o, that the almshouse | might soon become a thing of the |past. “It should be possible to aid | |these people in private homes, pre. ferably their own, thus avoiding the necessity and the stigma of remov- ing them to an almshouse,” he de- clared in discussing the condition of | the poor. | b Serve Public In opening his inaugural, Gov. Allen advised members of the legls- | lature against mistaking the “loud voice of the minority” for the opin- fon of the majority. “To ignore pub- | lic sentiment is inexecusable, re. |sardless of how lofty the motive. Mistaking the sentiments of a few | for public opinion is a danger | against which we cannot too strongly entrench ourselves. “Skillful propagandists have often promoted pet measures under t gulse of public opinion. Every legis- | lative session reveals attempts in this | direction. Occasionally they succeed. | Such practices are an imposition on | our public men, and a fraud on the | people, It is our first duty accurately | to determine the true state of pub- lic opinion, and our next duty to re. spond to it in an appropriate man- | ner. Legislation which cannot muster | p\lhll(‘ support represents wasted | | | | i | | | News- | paper El Continental yesterday re- {ported the surrender to the federal rovernment yesterday of Benjamin Mendoza, a rebel chieftain who was lactive for some months in the state of Morelos. Twenty of Mendoza's | | officers surrendered with him. READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS Don’t Let Flu Get a Focthsld: Check at Start Fight Germs With Vapors and Avoid Dosing. 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