New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 18, 1929, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 FIVE KILLED N PENN. . R. CRASH Two Passengers and One Freight T G g DEAD MEMBERS OF CREW Telcacoped Freight Cars Pile Outo Adjoining Track, Wrecking Sec- ond Passeager Tdain After Fivst Crash Had Occurred. Aberdeen, Mr., Jan. 18 M—Deaths from the collision yesterday of two passenger trains and a freight train near here mounted to five today, Leon Sweeting of Philadelphia, en- gineer of the north-bound passenger train, dying at Havre-de-Grace hos- pital, Sweeting, who recently re- covered from influenza was badly scalded in the accident and physi- clans at the hospital had feared his weakened condition because of the illness, would prévent his recovery, Four Others Die Four others of the train crews were killed in the double crash, the cause of which had not been defl- nitely determined. Hundfeds of passengers were shaken up, but all were able to proceed on relief trains to their destinations. K. A. Klein, brakeman, and V. W. Stewart, flagman, riding In the ca- boose of the freight train, which had Jjust pulled onto the main track from a siding were killed when the north Lbound passenger train struck the rear of the slower freight. Telescoped freight cars toppled on the adjoining track and a heavy south bound train carrying sleeping cars and coaches for connection at ‘Washington with other railroads to the south, plowed into the wreckage. Engineer A. C, Terhune and Fireman T. J. Kavanaugh of that train were killed in the second crash, and it was hours before wrecking crews wera able to get Terhune's body from under his locomotive. Go Over Bank The first four sleeping cars of the expross toppled onto an embank- ment beside the track, but the pas- sengers escaped serious injury, train conductors said. The only patient in a hospital today was John Lee, fire- man of the north bound train who was treated at Havre-de-Grace for shock. The accident tore up more than 150 yands of the main line and it (S%nw on Page 18) SENIORS DISCIPLINE JUNIORS AT NORMAL Found Guilty of Insubordi- nation, Liberties Are Restricted Enforcement of disciplinary rules on juniors by seniors has been voted at the State Normal school on the ground that juniors have been in- subordinate and have not pald due regard to the caste standing of the seniors. They were brought to trial be- fore & jury and judge of seniors yesterday. To the amazement of the juniors as they aquirmed on the anxious bench, they not only were charged with insubordination but to all their high crimes and misde- meanors was added that of break- ing the speed laws of the classes by beating the seniors into the lunch room. The shocked judges decided 10 be lenlent and deprived the wicked junlors of some of their i Bankruptcy Referee Re- It has been resolved upon verdict 3 850 of the seniors, accepted under pro- fuses to Allow Sl, test by the juniors, that from now Bid to Stand until the end of the year the juniors shali be deprived of the privileges of the promenade, regardless of who might be their guests. They also must submit to the edicts of their clders, the senfors, by remaining of? the court {n the rear of the building. | Howard B. Wakelee suffering their humiliation lence, In addition to these penalties, the in si- bowy. Bankruptcy Referee Sol Be Juniors are to be taught thelr places | man this afternoon NEW BRITAIN HERAL Extra! Genuine Horse Falls on Main Street “Memorl of another day were aroused shortly after 8 o'clock this morning, when & horse hitched to a light wagon, slipped and fell on the Main street railroad crossing.Children who were passing were alarmed at the sight, many of them probably never having seen a horse down in harness, but sev- eral men hastened to the scene and within a few minutes they had the animal free of the shafts and with one mighty ef- fort he got to his feet unin- Jured. Chief W. J. Noble of the fire department directed the disen- tangling of the harness and held the animal's head during the process. Others who assisted were Officer Thomas C. Dolan, Harry A. Witkin, and John Higgins of the Leonard Build- ing. The only semblance of & rallroad train in alght was a switching croasing. WATER BOY RULER OF AFGHANS NOW Prociimed Eair by Batire B pire England Hears KNG 1§ EVACUATED Second Monarch Within Week to Quit His Job—Is Taken to India in Britsh Airplane Under Pro- tection, Peshawar, India, Jan. 18 (P— Advices from Kabul, capital of Af- ghanistan, state that Habibullah Khan, victorious rebel leader known as Bacha Saksao, or the water boy, has been acclalmed the new Emir by the entire province of Kabul. He is understood to have 16,000 men under him, fully equipped and 1s said to be maintaining excellent order. Contrary to XKarachl dispatches saying that King Amanullah, who abdicated last week was preparing to attempt recovery of his throne, the reports recelved here state that he has ordered the governor of Kandahar to lower the royal stand- ard which was hoisted there Tues- day on the ground that he no longer is king. To Meet Khan Messages from Jalalabad say that the Shinwarl and other tribes have sent representatives to Kabul to meet Habibullah Khan. The Bhin- warl tribe was in revolt against Amanullah but recently a truce had been patched up, Sirdar All Hamed, former governor of Kabul, who re- cently was in control at Jalalabad also was reported to have gone to the capital. Goes in Plane New Delhl, India, Jan, 18 (P— Inayatullah, king of Afghanistan for a few days, and members of his household have been evacuvatea from Kabul by British air force air- planes. The party reached Pesha- war en route to Kandahar, where Inayatullah’s predecessor and broth- er, the former King Amanullah is. The evacuation was effected by arrangement with the new Emir Habibullah Kh: known in rebe: circles as Bacha Bakao (water boy.) BERMAN DISAPPROVES HUDSON LUNCH SALE Fixtures and furnishings of the Hudson Lunch, insolvent, found anything but an anxious market to- day when United States Auctioneer found it im- possible to get bids higher than $1,850, the offer of Hyman Du- refused to ap- and must henceforth publicly recog- | prove the sale. nize the fact that they are inferior to the senlors. The doorway through |the gathering of several which the senfors enter to peruse their studies during the day will not swing either inward or outward to the incorrigible juniors. Only the open sesame of the all important senior will open the forbidden doors. In further token of the complete submisaion of the junfors, each one must wear around her neck or pinned on her coat or in some place, probably designated by the judges, a red ribbon. They will be knoyn The auctioneer stated frankly to hundred that he was positive the the prospective bidders (Continued on Page 18) funiars'ana s wi be warkes on| KING GEORGE STILL social outcasts henceforth. Following the trial the culprits were compensated by a musical program including several songs by Miss Harriet Foley, senior, with Miss Ethel Prior, music supervisor, at the piano. Oklahoma Governor Faces Impeachment charges of impcachment against MAINTAINS PROGRESS Comment on Condition of Monarch Is that He Is Improving Steadily but Slowly. London, 18 M — It Jan. ‘was stated authoritatively this morning Oklahomh City, Jan. 18 M—Ten |timt the satisfactory progress re- ported yesterday in King George's Goverror Henry 8. Johnston were |condition had been maintained. reported to the Oklahoma house of Comment on the king’s condition representatives today by its investi- | in authoritative quarters was to the gating committee. Charging the gov- | effect that he is improving gradual- erntr was interfering with the pro- gress of the investigation the com y, but surely. His slow progress has rontinued over a coneiderable pe- mittce asked his immediate suspen- [riod without interruption and it is sion from office. The governor was hoped that the time of convalescence generally | may be within sight although a good rged by the committee with vio- | deal of ground must be covered be- iation of ke constitution and laws |fore that stage can be reached. 07 the state of Oklahoma; wilful negloet of duty; incompetency; cor- ! mal manner for invalids tion n of e and the offenses in- \ving moral turpitude. The king is taking food in a nor- suffering great weakness and satisfaction is felt that he now is obtaining proper | by the explosion. IFOCH FOUND T0 BE engine east of the ‘ “I am satisfied with NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1929, —THIRTY-TWO PAGES STRONGER TODAY Doctors Are Actually Talkative Alter Visiting Patient HEART REPORTED BETTER Ofticlal Balletin Reads “There Is a Slight Improvement In the Condi- tion of the Heart and Kidneys.” Paris, Jan. 18 M—Marshal Ferdi- nand Foch was so much better to- day that his doctors were actually talkative when they left his bedside after a consultation of two hours, “His heart is better and stronger,” sald Professor Laubry. the improve- ment in the condition of the kid- ," said Dr. Heitz-Boyer. “And you may say for me that I found tLe marshal's general condi- tion somewhat better this morning,” chimed in Foch's regular physician, Dr. Davenicres, The Bulletin ‘Together they issued the following: “There is a slight improvement in the condition of the heart and kid- neys.” A new heart stimulant which was given the marshal this morning had highly satisfactory results, said Dr. Davenleres after a short call at the marshal's bedside. “The effects of the new treatment have been excellent,” he sald. *“The marshal ate lunch with a fine appe- tite and we were able to tell him of th great interest everyone has been taking 1n his iliness, apparently as much in America as in France. When Madame La Marechale told her husband how many names had been signed in the register at his gate during the last few days and who some of those signatories were, Foch threw his hands up as though to say, “people are too good to me. ne (Continued on Page 18) THREE G 0. P. LEADERS TOHANDLE NEW YORK Republican Authority Fi- nally Placed After Con- ference With Hoover ‘Washington, Jan. 18 (#—Placing of republican political authority in New York state during the next leaders was announced today by H. Edmond Machold, state committee chairman, after he and Willlam H. Hill and Odgen L. Mills, under sec- retary of the treasury, had a break- fast conference with President- elect Hoover. ¢ . Besides Mr. Machold and Mr. Hill the third member of the group will be Charles D. Hilles, national com- mitteeman, who conferred with Mr. | Hoover earlier in the week. Mr. Machold is to represent the group in most negotiations with the new president. He said that the three would agree upon recommendations for appointments for 'federal office before nates were submitted to Mr. Hoover for his consideration. Mr. Hill was head of the indepen- dent Hoover-for-President organiza- tion in New York state ,and the agreement on the handling of pa- tronage was regarded as somewhat a victory for him. Mr. Machold be- came state chairman in the last campaign after the death of George Morris. - Under-secretary Mills said the pur- pose of the Hoover conferences with (Continued On Page 29.) SIX SERIOUSLY HURT Store, Theater, Grocery and Restaurant De- stroyed by Bomb Detroit, Jan. 18 (M—Six persons men, which included less than five | were injured seriously and a fur- bidders, referee would not approve the sale | ter, a grocery and a restaurant were and that the time spent at the auc- | destroyed by an explosion at Gra- tion was wasted. The inventory pre- | tiot and Harper avenues shortly he- sented to showed chattels and food valued at | damage was estimated at $150,000. more than $9,000, an Attorney David | No one was killed. nourishment. | niture store, a motion picture thea- fore 1 o'clock this morning. The Police believed the blast was plan- ned as reprisal for the fatal shoot- ing of an Italian marcher in a Co- lumbus Day parade here last Octo- ber. | Two of the injured are under po- {lice guard in a hospital for question- ing and a third man found hiding in |the vicinity is held for investiga- ton. Detectives investigating the blast sald it was caused by gasoline. Two drums of gasoline were found in the alley behind the furniture store. The scriously injured are: Jose Zangaro, 36, and Philip Cusmano, 25, held as police prisoners in a hos- pital; Mrs. Harriet Umiverdross, 38, Mrs. Elsie Miller, 32; Harry Corden, %8, and Frank Young, 52. Zangaro and Cusmano were pinned under the wreckage. The third man held is Giralamo Pecararo, 32, who was found hiding niture store. Relatives said he left | with his family ‘or Chicago yester- day after having received several threatening letters. Besides tiie buildings destroyed, several other places including a branch bank, a bakery, a laundry and a dry goods store were damaged (right) who is attenrpting to oust STEWART WILL NOT FORECAST OUTCOME Says He Has Backing in Rocke- Teller Fight YOTE COMES MARCH 1 Standard Oil Chairman Declares that Board of Directors Are “Strongly in Favor of Me” in Fight With John D. New York, Jan. 18 (P—Colonel Robert W. Stewart, arriving in New York this morning, said that his main business here was in conneec- tion with internal affairs of the Stan- dard Ofl Co. of Indiana of which he is chairman and that his visit had “no connection whatever with the Rockefeller fight to removed him from the leadership. Company Affgirs Ask if he was here to get proxles, Colonel Stewart replied: “Absolutely not. I am not here in this proxy matter at all. I am here on affairs of the company which I do not care to make public. I shall only be in New York until four years in the hands of three |Saturday and I do not want to dis- cuss the fight with Mr. Rockefeller, Jr. “I do not care to indulge in any of this band wagon talk. The proxies will 'be voted on on March 7 and | those alone will settle the fight. Proxies change daily and no one can tell in advance how the vote will go.” Won't Forecast Asked whether he expected a close contest, Colonel Stewart sald: | “No one can forecast that at this | (Continued on Page 14) FOUND UNGONSCIOUS | IN GAS FILLED ROOM. Andrew J. Smith, 39 Law- lor Street, in Critical Condition Col. W. R. Stewart, chairman of the Standard Oil Company of Indlana, has flung down the gauntlet of battle before John D. Rockefeller, Jr., at the recent senate investigations in the Teapot Dome case. BATTLES ROCKEFELLER MILLIONS P ADFIPHIAN IN the officlal because of his testimony CAITOL 1 HOME 10 G0¥. ROGERS s Acting Head With Tromball ' in Florida ANOTHER ONE MONDAY Lieutenant Governor Will Go to New York Leaving Senator Wil- cox, President of Seuate, in Ex- ecutive Saddle, State Capitol, Hartford, Jan. 18 UP-—To Lieut. Governor Ernest E. Rogers the state capitol is “home.” It is a home where he had an infancy—in state affairs of course, when he rose to the position of im- portant member of the family and where he s just now in absence of the real head, Governor Trumbull, now in the south, he iz the acting head. Already, though he has oc- cupled the position next to that of the chief executive for only a few days, he twice has had the oppor- |tunity to act in the capacities of | both licutenant and acting governor. | He pointed out yesterday, after presiding over the senate which is the licutenant governor's job, and {had signed minor executive papers which {s the governor's job, that last Saturday he attended the meeting of the Yale Fellows in New Haven as ev-officio member. ‘Wilcox Goes In Sunday night, the acting governor will step out of all of his state Jjobs—for only 24 hours—and Sena- tor Roy C. Wilcox, president pro- tempore of the senate, will be acting governor. Senator Wilcox will have (Continued on Page 18) LAWYERS HAVE $4,000 BUT GLIENT VANISHES Seek Man Awarded Dam- ages for Injuries in Auto Crash Overcome by {lluminating gas | while sleeping at his home, 39 Law- 'ida is Edward Wetmore of this city, |lor street, Andrew J. Smith, 39, was a client of Nair & Nair, while a removed to New Britain General | hospital in a critical condition | shortly after 6 o'clock this morning. $20,000 following an automobile ac- | Whether he fell against the gas jet | cident, in his bedroom and accidentally |hands of his attorneys. turned it on or made an attempt on | !his life was not known today, the police finding conditions to sub- stantiate both theories. Smith has for {a number of years been employed as |driver for a lumber concern and is well known. He Is unmarried. Mrs. Daniel Gorman, Smith's sls- | ter, smelled gas in the house about 5:30 o'clock and traced it to Smith's ro m which is directly off the Kitch- en. She was uncble to open the door and her husband was forced to break it to gain entrance. He found | that a chair had been propped under |the Kknob on the inside in such & being opened. The gas was pouring from the open jet on the wall and Smith was unconscious. Lieut. Matthias Rival was notified aad detailed Sergeant T. J. Fee- iney and Officers J. H. McCabe and |T. C. Dolan. They gave Smith black |coffee and administered spirits of |ammonia before taking him to the | hospital. His sister told them she at suicide as Smith was working steadily and had not complained of tion of dissatisfaction with life. The police learned t at Smith was under the influence of liquor when he reached home last night and his sister and her husband heard him singing in his room about mid- Inight. That he stagzered and acci- | dentally struck the gas jet is possi- ble, the police say. The house is electrically wired and the gas is not ord‘arily used fcr il'uminating pur- in the vicinity. poses, Mrs. Gorman said. first to greet the ambassador as he Scarch is being made for John = |stepped from the car. He told Mr. Garrisi, 45, proprictor of the fur-| 4 » Herrick how happy the minister, all . THE WEATHER New DBritain and vicinity: warmer tonight; colder Sat- urday afternoon and night, | manuer as to prevent the door from | knew of no reason for an attempt | anything or given any other indica- | |sce him restored to health and back lin Paris. Rain tonight and Saturday; | Somewhere on the route to Flor- check in excess of $4,000, as a set- tlement in a suit he instituted for remains uncashed in the Wetmore sued Gordon Brothers and Biaglo Petrunti. The accldent |took place on April 20, 1927, at the |corner of Hart and Griswold ‘streets. Petrunti was the owner of the au- tomobile and Wetmore a foreman of the Superior Auto Co. They were |testing a car for engine trouble. At the intersection of Hart and Gris- |wold streets, their car was struck {by one of Gordon Brothers trucks, | driven by Harry M. Gordon. Petrunti was badly injured and spent some time in the New Britain |General hospital. Wetmore recetved a fractured hip and was in the hon. pital for about six weeks. | Petrunti brought suit against Gor- don Brothers and received a judg- ment of $1,300 against the Travelers Insurance Co.. insurers of ths local | concern. Arguments are being pre- |sented in superior court in support ;of a motion to sct aside the verdiet. { Maxwell and Brosmith, attoraeya for the Travelers Insurance Co.. yes- terday agreed on a settlement in the IWetmore case. ‘Wetmore, it is understood, 1eft for Tlorida last Friday and his present whereabouts is unknow: ' Ambassador Herrick ! | Returns to France | Paris, Jan. 18.—Ambassador Ht-r-! | rick returned to Parls this morning. The station platform was crowded ' with members of the American col- | ony and French friends when the | train pulled in. Beco de Fouquierez, representing |Forcizn Minister Briand, was the | his colleagues in the government {and all the French people were to. The ambassador w>nt direct from | the station to the United States em- bassy. He sald he wanted to call # |the day. 2t Marshal Foch's residence during | February meeting. Others on (RAZE KILS COP Socially Prominent Man Falls (Critically Wounded in Battle CHAUFFEUR ALSO IS HURT W. Griftin Gribble Resists Attempts of Authorities to Remove Him to Sanitarium by Barricading Self in Home, Philadelphia, Jan. 18 (A—Firing point blank at a police officer who broke through the barricaded bed- room door of his home in the Chest- nut Hill section, W. Griffen Gribbel, 46, soclally prominent, early today shot and killed John W. Blackburn, police inspector, wounded Black- burn's chauffeur and himself fell eritically wounded under the fire of other police officers. Mrs. Gribbel and her six children cowered behind a locked door in a room on the lower floor where they had retreated when Gribbel had con- fronted them brandishing the re- volver. Police aaid they believed Gribbel had become crazed when in- formed by & physician that his con- dition necessitated his removal to & sanatorium. Gribbel is the son of John Gribbel, retired manufacturer, who at one time was president of the Union League and vice president of the Public Ledger company, ! Summoned to Home Oscar Miller, policeman, was sum- moned to the Gribbel home by a resident of Chestnut Hill, who sald that Gribbel, his neighbor, had bar- ricade himself in a bedroom and was shouting deflance at any per- son to “come and get him.” Miller called for help and Blackburn, with his chauffeur, Joseph Lawrence, and several other policemen responded. Beeing them arrive, Gribbel, ac- cording to police, leaned from his upstairs bedroom, and dared the of- ficers to come after him. Blackburn called back, “We're coming right (Continued On Page 29.) BAGSHAW OUSTED AS WASHINGTON GOACH But His Pay Goes on With $25,000 for Three Years Beattle, Jan. 18 UP—Enoch Brad- shaw, head football coach at the University of Washington for the last elght years, was ousted today by the student board of control which voted to relieve Bagshaw of his duties and assign him to other work until his contract which has three years to run, expires. ‘The finality of the decision was questioned by members of the facul- ty athletic committee, which hires coaches. Bagshaw's contract calls for the payment of approximately $25,000 in the next three years. Under the ac- tion taken he will receive the money. Charges leveled at the little coach were that he was unpopular, lacked drawing power at the gate, that he failed to draw football material from high schools and that he would have to be removed at some time. FUNERAL OF JUDGE ROCHE Judge Gafiney Names Delegation of County Bar Association to Attend Obsequies Tomorrow, Jtdge Bernard 1. Gaffney, presi- dent of the Hartford County Bar as- sociation, has named a committee to tepresent that organization at the tuneral of Judge Henry P. Roche to- morrow, The committee includes Judge T. J. Molloy, Frank Rohr- mayer and Edward J. Daly of Hart- ford and Judge William J. Malone of Bristol. Rev. J. Warren Roche, brother of Judge Roche, will celebrate a solemn high mass of requiem at the funeral at St. Joseph's church tomorrow morning at s o'clock. Members of the local bar will be present at the funeral. Burial will be in §t. Mary's cemetery. Court of Honor Project Alderman William H. Judd will probably be chairman of the com- mon council committee named by Mayor Paoncssa to consider whether the temporary arch and court honor at the entrance of Walnut Hill park should be taken down, or should be put in a condition of re- pair. He fs the first named of the five who were seclected today to make a study of the question and report back to the common council at its the committee are: Alderman John F. Maerz, Councilmen Donald L. Bart- lett, William W. Greene and Clar- ence H. Maxon, Sub Tests to Go & On in the Spring Bridgeport, Jan. 18 (®—The Unit- ed States government will carry on its submerging tests with the sub- marine Defender in the spring a new agreement having been reached, it was definitely announced here today. Captain Sloan Dangnhower, work- ing with 8imon Lakéd, who returned from Washington after a conference with naval chiefs declared this morning that several difficulties had been froned out and that the tests would be resumed as soon as the ob- servation fleet returned from fts southern cruise. Committee Appointed | C&MMlS‘:"‘NER Week Ending’ Jan, 12th .., 15.105 PRICE THREE CENTS HAINES DIES 525 1S SERVED WITH ;wuUNCTION BY GEN. BOOTH NAMED AS EXPERT i J. Pierpont Morgan, international banker, has been named as a mem- ber of the American delegation to the coming Paris war reparations conference. MORGAN NAMED T0 AID REPARATIONS International Banker and Owen D. Young American Experts PERKINS IS AN ALTERNATE Selections Made By Commission With British Ambassador Advis- ing Secretary of State Kellogg— Both Men Are Expected to Acoept Washington, Jan. 18 P—J. P. |Morgan, head of the powerful bank- Ing house of J. P. Morgan and com- pany, and Owen D. Young, former agent general for reparations pay- ments and chairman of the General THOMAS NELSON PERKINS, Electric company, have been named to attend the conference on German reparations in Paris. Thomas Nel- son Perkins, Boston lawyer and for- mer citizen member of the repara- (Continued on Page 29.) HUSBAND AND WIFE BURNED TO DEATH |Daughter Escapes From | Blazing Home by Leap- ing From Porch Roselle, N. J., Jan. 18 (®—Mr. and Mrs. Horace R. Benedict lost their lives in a fire which destroyed their home early today. 'a porch, while Miss Agnes H. Hume, sister of Mrs. Benedict, made her | way to safety through a rear wi dow. A nurse was rescued umcon- scious from the Kitchen. Mr. Benedict, who was a member of Benedict Brothers, jewelers, at {168 Fulton strect, New York, was |a former member of the board of |education and long prominent he borough. Mrs. Denedict was a |leader in church and other affairs. Boys Burned Philadelphia, Jan. 18 (UP)—Two boys were burned beyond identifica- tion and two others died in a hos- pital from injuries reccived wihen a | shack, which they had been usi g for |a clubhouse, burned early todw, in |a fire that destroyed the Scott- Powell dairy in West Philadelphia. One of the dead boys was identi- |fied as Martin Lawless, 14. Another was believed to be J. M~Cormack. | Firemen were unaware of the |tragedy until they made a final in- spection of the ruins of the burnt plant just before leaving. Two of the boys were discovered badiy | (Continued on Page 24.) J Miss Helen Benedict, a daughter, | of | escaped by leaping from the roof of |f. I —— Drops Dead During Emotional Speech With Council in Ses- sion Trying to Elect Successor to Deposed Leader. Court Granfs Bramwell’s Request and Refuses to Allow Selection of New Head Until After a Hearing on Monday. Sunbury-on-Thames, Eng., Jan. 18 (UP—Commissioner William Haines, vice president of the high council of the Salvation Army, in session here, dropped dead last night. At the conclusion of an emotional speech before the council which was then considering the elettion of & successor to Gen. Bramwell Booth, deposed leader, Commissioner Haines ¢rumpled and fell dead. International Secretary Commissioner Haines was national secretary for Europe. His home was in Lopdon. He was elect- ed vice president of the council on its first meeting January 8, An injunction granted in London restraining the high council of the Salvation Army from electing a suc- cessor to Bramwell Booth, was serve ed on the council shortly before § o'clock this afternoon. The injunc- tion operates until after a hearing by the court which has been set for next Monday morning. Death Occurs Catherine and Mary Booth, daugh- ters of the general, were present when the injunction, which came as & great surprise, was served, Iin- mediately afterward the death of Commissioner Haines occured. Fearful that the council, which Is an the point of electing a successor to Bramwell Booth, would rush through the election before the writ of injunction could be served, the complainants employed the unusual method of service by telephoning the court's order from Loncon, Relayed By Wire ‘The writ thus relayed by wire, was quickly served as the councillors were assembling to expedite election of the new army chief. A warning of Bramwell Booth's move had been received here and the council excit- edly attempted to gather a quorum inter- (Continued On Page 29.) POLICE AMBUSH DRIVER WITH CARGO OF BOOZE Jump Out From Hiding Place and Surprise Fedorczyk Caught driving an automobile in which were a five gallon can of al- leged alcohol, one bottle of alleged whiskey and another of wine, Wil- liam Fedorczyk, 32, of 465 North | Burritt street, was arrested shortly after 7 o'clock last night by Officers L. E. Harper and J. M. Liebler on the charge of transporting liquor by means of a motor vehicle. He is sald to have driven into a yard at 50 Lorraine street and Officer Har- per jumped from a hiding place in tha entrance to the cellar and got into the sedan, his intention being to stay aboard in the event that Fe. dorezyk tried to escape by fast driv. |ing. Officer Liebler, who was also hiding on the premises, was pre- | pared to prevent an cscape afoot, but |Fedorczyk submitted to arrest and |18 aid to have told the officers the load was for a woman who intend- ed to sell it on the premises. Attorney Harry M. Ginsburg ap- | peared for Fedorczyk in police court |today and entered a plea of mot guilty, requesting a continuarce un- tl Tuesday, which was grantvd. Fe- |dorezyk, who is an automobil: man, was arrested twice in the past years on liquor law violation {charges, but was convicted only lonce. At that time he was operat- |ing in a store on Broad street and Sergeants O'Mara and Flynn caught |him after a long vizil | The case of Joseph Pavano, 349 Clinton strect, charged with vi- | otation of the rules of the road, was continued until Monda ] Doctor'?él?t,ve? Indicted for Murder Providence, R. I, Jan, 18 (®— Frank Weeden, who last Friday night shot and killed Dr. Ransom H. Sartwell, superintendent of the state hospital for mental diseases, was indicted for murder today by the grand jury in special seasion. Weeden was immediately taken to plead before Judge Charles A. Walsh. He pleaded not guilty, saying that although he shot Dr. Bartwell, “it was in self defense.” ‘Weeden who had a record of 16 escapes from the state hospital, shot twice at Dr. Sartwell with a double barreled shotgun through a window of the doctor's cottage. The doctor ‘was writing a telegram at the time. He died almost instantly, b & B