New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 17, 1929, Page 20

"~ DRUNKS ARRESTED i SHOWNG INCREASE Figares Indicats More Crime on {0th Prohibition Birthday Philadelphia, Jan. 17 UP—Figures given out teday without comment by the statistical bureau of the depart- ment of public safety at the begin- ning of the 10th year of prohibition, | showed Increases in the number of arrests or intoxication and for var-| jous crimes during the nine-year period just ended, compared W’(h‘ the years preceding the enactment of the 18th amendment. Some of the flgures were: Arrests for drunkenness in 1919, the year before prohibition, 23,740; in 1928, 30,395. Arrests for all crimes during the nine years under prohibition, 1,173, | 344 compared with 840,659 during| the nine years preceding 1920. | Arrests for criminal offenses lnf 1919 numbered 75,618, compared | with 186,126 arrests on criminal| charges in 1928. | The first year of prohibition in| Philadelphia witnessed a decrease in ! the number of arrests for drunken- | | ness, dropping from 23,740 in 1919 to 20,443 in 1920, [ In 1921 the number of arrests in-| creased more than 7,000 and in 1922 | the total increased to 44,746, | The number of arrests for all| crimes. in 1919 and 1920 showed | similar differences, In the pre-pro- | Tibition year the total was 75,618 | and in the year following 94,037. | FOCHREPORTEDAS ‘STRONG AS DAK' Doctor Believes He Will Recover| With Rest ‘ | Paris, Jan. 17 (P—That eventual- | Iy through careful convalescence Marshal Foch will be restored to health s the opinion of Dr. Daven- | tieres, who for the past ten years has | attended the man who was the gen- | cralissimo of the allled armies in the | SEN. CURTIS LEASES YICE PRESIDENTIAL SUITE 'Will Occupy Rooms at Mayflower Hotel After His Inauguration, March 4 Washington, Jan. 17 (P—Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas has leased the vice presidential suite at the Mayflower hotel as his home after | ;:::::u:uunon as vice president on ot the Now Mecxice lagieiature was 3 A |ordered to come here today from The suite, consisting of ten rooms |, ;.. e to open investigation into facing on Connecticut avenue, 18 the | iy geath Jast Sunday of Helen As- largest in this fashionable down- |y o™ <" or Portales, nmate of the town hotel and has been completely | Now Mexico Girls' Welfare home, a refurnished and redecorated for the | .orrectional institution. Jagaming viso, president, The girl's death, a coroner's jury The senator's sister, Mrs. Edward | rounq vesterday, was caused by “the E. Gann, and her husband will make | jack of water and an injection of their home with the vice president | ¢wilight sleep administered by Dr. and Mrs. Gann will be hostess at|Evelyn Frisble and Miss Bertha all soclal functions given by M. |%ips" respectively physician and su- Curtls, who is a widower. perintendent at the home. T0 PROBE DEATH IN NEW NEXICD Join Commitios of Logisiatore Starts Investigation Today Albuquerque, N. M., Jan. 17 (P— A joint committee from both houses At present, it is understood that | Mr. Rockefeller is ossured of proxies for 35 to 40 per cent of the outstand- ing 9,231,540 shares of $25 par value stock, held in estates, trust funds World War. Le Journal today quotes | and banks as well as by foundations, the physician, who characterized | A run-up of Standard Oil of In-| Marshal Foch as “Yet alert and |diana on the curb market gave rise | ung in body and in mind” and as |to rumors in Wall street that Mr. 'strong as an oak” as saying with | Rockefeller had cabled orders from regard to the great soldier: “The marsha} is strong as an oak. His pulse is good, believe me, and little by little his strength is coming back. No doubt it will be long, but careful convalescence will restore to us a man yet alert and young in hody and in mind. “Certainly the heart is still weak. In the morning the Lurriedly summoned me back again coon after the first visit Dr. Heitz- oyer and I paid to our illustrious patient. T immediately gave him a Yiypodermic of camphorated oil and the hearty resumed its normal rhythm, “It 1s probable that we shall con- tinue these injections for some time vet. But there is nothing alarming about them. Andre Called “We also called in Dr. Andre of Nancy, a great specialist who dur- | investigating the Ing the war constantly attended the marshal and accompanied him on his visit to the United States. We already have had one consultation with him. We will have another| soon. Professor Laubry, who is suf- | fering from a slight attack of grip, will soon be able to come to the marshal's aid. Immediately afte wards I hope we can publish & re- | p,romount_ Famous assuring bulletin.” The marshal retains all his energy. It is with the voice of a command- | pigp¢ by 4 spectacular blaze of un- ing officer, each word marked by a brief gesture of his right arm, that he answers my anxious questions,|josen firemen saying: “°I am all right, quite all right.’ ' “Really to see his manly look, his | iro time today. c..pression hardly changed by his nurse having | noticed that the pulse was irregular | i 'ALL ITALY SNOWCAPPED Naples to ‘buy at the market.” This was denied at the Rockefeller of- | fices. 0Oil stock experts pointed out that the daily turnover of Standard Oil of Indiana in the market could have no bearing on the battle between Mr. | Rockefeller and the administration {of the company for control as it | amounts torless than one per cent. While Mr. Rockefeller will have | the large blocks of stocks held by | such intere the Harkness, Flag- |ler and Rogers estates and of other | Standard Oil compantes in which he is the dominaut figure, Col. Stewart |18 expccted to rally the stock held | | by employes and the 38,000 small | stockholders of the company. The controversy began when Mr. Rockefeller requested Col. Stewart to resign as chairman of the board of the Indiana company after Col. Stewart had refused to answer ques- | tions before the senate committee | Teapot Dome oil | scandal, Smouldering Ruins Left ; i Of New “Talkie” Stage Hollywood, Cal, Jan. 17 (P—A mass of smouldering ruins was all |that remained today of the new | |sound proof “talkie” stage of the | Players Lasky | studios, built at a reported cost of | $1,500,000. It was destroyed last determined origin. | Five men were injured and a | were overcome by | smoke while fighting the fire. The stage was to have been uscd for the Scores of motion picture folk, in- While the apartment is furnished | It was brought out at the inquest by the hotel company, the senator |(hat the drug was administered.last Cleveland Park home of the Ganns, ' objecting to solitary confinement and —— injection was under Dr. Frisbie's di- | and said he personally would accom- with & view to filing criminal charges remy— The six girls escaped last Wednes- tanding petroleum authorities John | Celis and given nothing to eat that v had ‘medi- 0il Company of Indiana. ver, beoause shey el it had modl testified at the inquest that use of per cent of the voting proxics some | twilight sleep was dangerous and administered to a person suffering from lack of water. ting on thin ice in this kind of & case.” and Mr. and Mrs. Gann already have | gaturday night to Miss Askew and started transferring to it a number | five other girls “to keep them quiet” where the senator has .lived forbread and water diet, which punish- vears and which 18 to be leased |ment was imposed for their escape rection. Governor R. . Dillon ordered the {pany the committee here today to | inquire into conditions at the home. At the same time District Attorney Por—er— Eugene Lujon said he was studying gh against the principals in Miss As- kew's death. New York Jan. 17—(P—The |02y and were captured and returncd Herald Teipune says today that ac. | Friday. Miss Askew's companions | day, but that on Saturday & slice of D. Rockefeller, Jr. has won his fight | 33 Batiros to onst Col, Rehart W, Stewart from | read and some water was permiticd cine in it. Miss Lips testified the It 1s quite likely, the paper says, | water contained saltpeter. that Mr. Rockefeller would an- time befors. the meeting of the |had been virtually abandoned by the stockholders, March 7. | medical world for that reason. He The physiclan also said that a reading of the Harrison anti-narcotic One of Miss Askew's companions testified that she would have object- of personal belongings from the'\hen they created a disturbance in while he is vice president. from the home. Miss Lips said the \legislative investigation yesterday ovidence brought out at the inquest Oust Stewart B b ording to ono of New York's out. | Lestificd they were placed in solitary $he ‘ualcmenstin of | the Srongauy | s,y hey retisel dhe mater, hox: Dr. N. K. Wilder, Albuquerque, nounce that he had more than 51 sald it might easily cause death if act would reveal that one was “get- ed to injection of the drug but for the fact “there were two deputy sheriffs there.” Heart disease was reported as the cause of the girl's death by the in- stitution’s officials, but her father, dissatisfied with the explanation, ask- cd an investigation. The girl. was reported to have been in normal health during her absence from the home. AFTER UNUSUAL STORM Pope Looks Out of Window From Vatican to Sce Sights Which Stir Youthful Memories. Rome, Jan. 17 (#—The unusual apectacle of all Italy from the Alps and the Apennines to Naples and Sicily covered with snow was af- forded this morning to the popréi- tion and a vanguard of winter tour- ists. A terrific gale which hit Genoa and nearby resorts on the Itallan Riviera last night reached Rome carly this morning. It caused a colossal clatter of banging shutters and falling chimney pots and brought -snow fin its wake, When Pope Plus ‘opened the win- dow of his apartment on the top floor of the Vatican he could see the Alban and Sabine hills sur- rounding Rome snowcapped like his own beloved Alps over which he tramped as a young seminarian in | the north of Italy. The Pontiff remarked to one of his intimatés that the unusual sight GOYERNOR NNOT ACGEPT ANY PAY Salary Totaling $56,000 Refused By Former Ohie¢ Excoutive of Hassachuattts. Boston, Jan, 17. UM—The Boston Herald in a copyrighted story says today that during his eight years of service to .the commonwealth, four years as lieutenant governor = and Fuller declined to accept salary to- taling $66,000. - The salary checks issued by the state to Mr. Fuller have been ‘re- tained by him as souvenirs of his service to the state. Further indication of Mr. Fuller's himself or his family was seen in an act performed in 1926, his first year as governor, and revealed for the first time in the Herald story. At that time, Mr.. Fuller sent check for $1,640 to the state treas urer with the explanation that it represented the gross profits derived by a member of his family who owned stocks in an automobile com- pany which sold a group of cars to, the commonwealth. He wrote at that | time that he did not want any mem- ber of his family to profit by trans- actions with the commonwéalth. The $1,640 was placed in the state conscience funds for that year with- cut any public announcement of its origin, Mr. Fuller is rated as being worth at least several million dollars. He is the owner of the Boston agency of an automobile company and in re- cent years he has niade extensive | purchases of costly works of art. four years as governor, - Alvan T.,,...,04 1o drive an automoblle dur- |may be made by mafl. The renewal lfee 1s $3.00, and payment by mail STATE MAY HAVE " 385000 DRIVERS (One in Every Four Persons Ex- pectod to-Get Licenses . Harttord, Jan. 17—About every fourth person in Conmecticut will be ing 1939 if the normal rate of in. crease of new ~drivers continucs through the year, state motor vehi- cle department officials estimate. Approximately 350,000 application blanks for license renewals were refusal to recelve compensation for sent out yesterday to drivers who held licenses during 1928. Before the end of the year Jhe total is expected to reach 385,000, or a little less than one-fourth the estimated popu- lation of the state. Operators’ certificates now in force will expire on February 28, and a new license will be required on March 1. Persons who held li- censes during the past year will not be re-examined and applications should be by check, money order or express ‘order, payable to:the commiasioner of motor vehicles. All mail applications must be made to main office at the capitol, Hartford. Applicants at branch offices will be required to show a 1928 license properly endorsed, when a renewal is desired, as all records of license certificates are on file at the Hart- ford office. The branch offices. where personal application may be made, are at 323 State atreet, Says Pact Will Change History of the World London, Jan. 17 UM—Commenting on ratificatinn of the Kellogg pact, the Times said today the “achleve-; ment associated with Kellogg’s name may be regarded as registering and promising a definite change in the course of the world’s history.” Regarding the interpretations, the paper said, “It would be anything but reinforcement of security if the new dispensation appeared to chal-' lenge such an institution as the Monroe doctrine or any arrangement similarly vital to a signatory state.” The Daily Telegraph said, *The limits ‘of the obligations for the United States under the pact, fn- cluding the Monroe doctrine, are beyond question prudently drawn.” $60,000 Appropriation For Connecticut River By GEORGE H. MANNING Bridgeport; 111 Goffe street, New Haven; 578 Bank street, New Lon- don; 27 Benedict street, Waterbury, and 32 Atlantic street, Stamford. The form of application is the same as that of last year. Prospec- tive drivers are required to answer the usual questions. These include the name and address of the appli- cant, physical description, driving record, and a question concerning familiarity with the laws of the state and the rules of the road. Formal notification is to be given applicants under 18 years of age of the state law which makes it illegal for them to drive a motor vehicle upon the highways unless the own- er of the vehicle, whether it be the minor or some other person, has THE RIGHT WAY (Washington Correspondent, N. B. Herald) Washington, D. C., Jan, 17 —The annual war department supply bill, carrylng an appropriation of $60,- 000 for maintenance of Connecticut river channels below Hartford, pass- ed the house of representatives, The sum allowed is the same as that tentatively allocated by Major General Edgar Jadwin, chjef of army cngincers, from the $50,000,000 lump sum appropriation the bill carries for rivers and harbors work. Of the total $15,000, will be used for dredging river bars, $36,000 for dredging the outer bar, $3,000 for re- pairs to permanent works and $6,000 for administration, inspection and contingencles. ditures. On § 80 You Pay ... On $100 You Pay .. On $140 You Pay .. On $160 You P2y . On $200 You Pey .. (Ilullevln?.‘ 1 n;:lght - {lh;) w;l'd‘“""; | cluding Clara Bow, who was to have | _‘;:: ::t l;’::’v:e :':""1: :‘;us:;;";‘or ’starl(»d production there today as | @ 3 ve - |star of the ne 1k e. | et that tho marshal 1a 78, that s | a0 7% (i (L SOE R B0 Ty marvelous constitution has suffered ¢4 oot huilding, which also provid- | from the unprecedented efforts hel.q 4 thrilling sight for thousands of make him homesick. He stood for | a long time admiring the view. | Farther to the south both Mounts | Vesuviug and Etna were snowcap- ped. i _On $300 You Pay .. time hefore it is due and pay has made in the past fourteen years and that it is materially impossible to treat him as regularly as the con- diton of his kidneys requires. Needs Attention “His numerous absorhing official dutles literally snatch him from the hands of doctors who cannot give him frequent attention, which, ho cver, he cannot do without. Jt was just sach rarity of attention which started the sudden and very violent | cardlac crisls which _alone con strained the marshal # keep on his back. “He is impafient at Leing in his bed in his severe room real sol- dier's bedroom, very sparsely fur- nished. On the walls are, besides photographs of his family, one of | Gen. Weygand, whom he considers 28 a son, as well as one of the armistice car bearing the signatures of all those who initialed the instr ment of victory. bed, like a guardian angel watching over him, s a large silken pancl on vhich are embroidered the flags of nations allied during the war it i5 s grandiose. “Really too many calls made on the marshal’s str carrfed on through the war and he also carried on through the after- war. Not only did he take an active part In elaboration of the military lauses of the treaty but also ched over their strict applica- tion. Many Requests “Then there is not a Sunday, n holiday when he is not asked to pre- bide at the unveiling o war monument, which fol- towed by a banquet. “The it is true, i aly most sober. He contents him- ®elf by just touching the dishes served him 1 never Arinks. “It is to that moders n he is in- debted for prescr © marvelous eonstitution which 11 enable him once more fo triumph over the enemy which stealthily implanted elf within his breat.” ' . At the nead of the | Don’t forget to take home | homebound Hollywood residents, Kabul Situation Is Continuing Obscure New Delhi, India, Jan. 17 (#—The | situation at Kabul, Afghanistan, con- | ti obscure. As far as is known, rebels under Fachai Sakao control the city and the surrounding area. Fighting has ceased for the present. Latest arrivals at Chemen from Afghanistan report that Amanullah, fter abdicating as king, arrived at | Kandahar on Tuesday and hoisted | the King's standard over the royal | residence, 4 B WHEN IN HARTFORD. 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