New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 30, 1929, Page 4

" OUTLAYS IS Shor Loue Ashley Gang Survivor Dies With Boots Ou West Palm Beach, Fla., Jan. 30 UP — When Haywood Register fell ‘mortally wounded yesterday under a leaden hail from an ambuscade of officers, Sheriff “Bob” Baker finish- ed s job he undertook four years ago when he set out to exterminate the notorious Ashley gang. Register died with his boots on in best approved outlaw fashion, with his guns bhzing deflance at the officers who attempted to return him 1o the state pententiary and a life sentence for murder. The last member of the gang of desperadoes, who from their hidden retreats deep in the swamps of the Fverglades preyed for years on the villages along the Florida east coast, escaped last December 5 from the state penitentiary at Raiford, where he had been serving concurrent life sentences for murder and an addi- tional 18 years' term for highway robbery, Yesterday he walked into an am- bush, arranged with the aid of a friend of Register who the law last Saturday held up and relieved of £2,000, The friend pleaded for the return of his money, and Register agreed on the condition that he be furnished transportation to West End, in the Bahama Isiands. The victim gonferred with §her- iff Baker, and yesterday when he went to keep his rendezvous with Register near a canal at Boynton, 17 miles south of here, he was fol- lowed by Baker and his deputies. Baker, hidden behind a bush, call- ed on Register to “throw up your hands.” Instead, Reglster whirled, a blaz- ing pistol in each hand. He emp- tied three pistols at the five officers and was attempting to draw a knife when four bullets from the posse’s pistols took effect. The Ashley gang terrorized the lower cast coast for many years, committing highway robberies and holding up banks, until four years ago, when Sherift Baker and his deputies surprised the outlaws at Sebastian bridge near here. In the gun battle that ensued four of the gang were killed and several cap- tured. Register, who assumed leadership on the death of John Ashley, Han- ford Mobley, Ray Lynn and Shorty Middleton, was captured later, con- victed of murder znd robbery and rentenced to the state prison for life. Bob Ashley, another member of the gang, was killed some time later | in a pistol ducl with Miami officers and Ed and Frank Ashley went to| sea and disappeared. Joe Tracy, an- other of the outlaws, is serving a life sentence at Raiford. Laura Upthegrove, reputed sweet- heart of various members of the gang, committed suicide three ycars ago by drinking poison. DOGTOR N STORM, BEATEN BY STORK Detp Snow in Wisconsin Delays Heroic Physician Milwaukee, Jan. 30 (M—The con- versational bromide, *“We aren’t hav- ing the winters we used to have” has been frozen stiff and buried un- der tons of snow in the Wisconsin and Michigan northland. Today, as word began shivering forth from entire communities that have been winterbound for days and weeks, some idea of the scason’s severity was realized. Kewaunee, Wis, was one of the places where the oldest residents were ready to admit that never be- fore, in their memory, had there been such a winter. No Kewauneean was hetter able to attest the severity of the weather than Dr. W. M. Wochos. At dawn, with the temperature far below zero, Dr. Wochos recelved a telephone call from the Kugene Beaurain hote, nine miles away. The physician set forth in his ski-equipped motor car, only to abandon it after three miles of tedi- ous travel, bucking the heavy drifts. He started ahead on foot, flounder- | ing slowly through the snow. Finally he came to a farm house and phoned Beaurain instructions on how to welcome the stork should the bird arrive before he did. A snowplow was put to work to cut a path through the drifts; but even the plow was able to advance only three miles, after five hour. Dr. Wochos, bundled in woolens and carrying his instrument case in many-mittencd hands, pressed ahead on foot, fighting bitter cold and snow | that was waist-high in places. After several hours he stumbled exhausted and nearly frozen into the Beaurain home, The stork had beaten him and Mrs. Beaurain and a baby girl were doing as well as though the doctor had been there on time. Death as well a# birth has written | its story in the snows. At the Trail's | ¥nd club house near Steuben, Mich.. | William Herron, the caretaker, died | despite a five mile journey on snow- shoes by Dr. A. R. Tucker of Manis- | tique. | As though death itself were not tragedy enough, further hardships and dangers presented themselves to | Herron's widow and her son. Wrap- | ping Herron's body in blankets, the | woman and her boy placed it on & toboggan and started with it across the windswept drifts to the nearest undertaker’s. Night overtook them as, flounder- ing through the deep snow, they staggered slowly ahead, dragging the toboggan and its cargo of death. They became hopelessly lost. Alittle white dog was their salva- tion. The animal, cf the three liv- ing beings moving across the deso- | late northland, was the only one who | appeared to know a way out. Spent, | worn and cxhausted by the exertion of tmcking the snow 1 dragging | the o 1. these ‘hree arrived at midnight at a settler's shack, Rested and given aid, Mre. Her. | ron and her zon reached Manistique | HUGE STANDING ARMY Calonel Tells Women Nation Relies On Voluateers In Time of National Peril. Washington, Jan. 20 UP—Colonel C. B. Robbins, assistant secretary of war, told the women's patriotic con- ference on naticnal defense today that mobilization plans of the Unit- ed States army call for 4,075,321 officers and men for six field armies. He also told the conference that its support could be of great benefit in carrying out the work of national defense. “There are ai the present time infantry divisions and six cavalry di- visions in the organized reserve,” he said, “and the reserve corps, under present mobilization plan, is based on six fieJd armies which calls for a total of 141,229 reserve officers. “The latest estimates show the number to be mobilized to fill the six field armies to be as follows: . “Enlisted men, 3,828,878, Offi- cers, ragular army, 27,103; national guard, 22,447; organized reserve, 141.229; replacements, 55,663." Colonel Robbins said the United States never had, nor is it likely to have a large standing army, placing its reliance upon the willingness of a sufficient number of its citizens to enter the military service in time of emergency. Detalling the growth and purpose of the national guard, the officers reserve corps, the reserve officers’ training corps, and the citizens’ mili- tary training camps, Colonel Rob- bins said these civilian components of the army would become the great reliance of the nation in a future emergency. “The fact that so many thousands of our youth are willing to volun- tarily take the military training that they may fit themselves for the grim business of war,” he said, “is one of the fincst indications that we can have that the heart of the country is sound, that loyalty and patriotism are not mere words, and that the continuous efforts of the pacifists and internationalists to destroy our national defense are without avail.” CHURCHMEN FLOCK T0 27 PITTSBURGH CONFERENCE Methodist-Preshyterian Merger Pro- posal Discussed by Heads of Both Sccts, Pittsburgh, Jan. 30 (M — Over- tures of the Methodist Episcopal church of America looking toward a merger with the Presbyterian church in the United Statcs of America, drew leaders of both de- nominations to Pittsburgh today. Bishop Herbert Welsh, Pitts- burgh, headed representatives of the Methodist Episcopal church. The Presbyterian church was represent- ed by members of the general as- sembly's department of church co- operation and union. of which Dr. J. Rows Stevenson, Princeton, N. J., is chairman. The Pittsburgh conference was decided upon following reccipt at the Presbyterian general assembly at Tulsa, Okla., last May, by Bishop Edwin H. Hughes, of a definite re- quest by lcaders of the Methodist Episcopal church for such a merger. Presbyterian leaders from New York, Chicago, Columbus, Detroit, Los Angeles, 8t. Paul, Baltimore, Nashville and Marshall, Mo., are on the committes representing the church’s general assembly. Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge, Philadel- phin, stated clerk of the Presby- terlan general assembly, also was expected to attend. Bishop I". D. Leete, Omaha, was among Methodist Episcopal church officials who arrived yesterday. Negro Identified as Woman’s Attacker Council Bluffs, Ia., Jan. 30 P— Mrs.: Harold Stribling yesterday identified Jak: Bird, Negro ax man suspect, in district court here, us the man who attacked her and her husband with a hatchet in their home November 20. Bird is on trial, charged with at. tempting to murder Mr. Stribling. The identification *came during Mrs. Btribling’s testimony as the first witness for the state, An attempt by defense Attorney A. V. Shotwell to shake the “.it- nesses identification of Bird failed. CHILDREN SAVED Pepperell, Mass., Jan. 30 (@ — Feveral score chilaren were led to safety late yesterday when fire broke out in the flooring of the Groton street grade school. Firemen found timbers burning in the basement at a point where pipes from a recently installed boiler enter the flooring of the rooms ahove. The blaze was cxtinguished only after considerable damage was done and it is unlikely that school sessions will be resumcd until extensive repairs are made. NLWAYS KEEPS IT ON HAND | Lydia E. Pinkham's Vi o and i e S5 o Pittsburgh, Pa.—“T was just com Ppletely run-down. I had tired, heavy, sluggish feelings and T could mot eat. T was losing in weight. I read 80 much about Lydie E. ham’s Vegetsble Compound and what a good med- icine it started takii I have taken eight bottles of Lydis E. Pink- ham's Vegetable Compound and about the same in tablet form. Th medicine & woman should have in the house all the time ing every day and I eat. T am willing to answer any let- tera a<kinz about, the Vegetabls Com pound.” - Mix, Eria Riciaros, 21 Chautauqua St,, N. S, Pittsburgh, Pas jdragger Willlam H. Killigrew NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WE SIFELY N TOW |British Preighter Silver Maple Out of Dillculties - Boston, Jan. 30 PM—The disabled British freighter Silver Maple was safely in tow today, according to ra- dio dispatches, after she had drifted helplessly in heavy seas for 250 miles since last Saturday. United States coast guard cutters Tampa and Mojave reached the crippled vessel yesterday after a 900 mile dash from New England waters, and they planned to tow.her to Ber- muda, 480 miles away. Meanwhile hope was revived for the missing trawler Seiner and her crew of 20 when U. 8. destroyers Shaw, Davis, and Wilkes acted on a report that a trawler rescm- "I Lling the Seiner was seen last Sun- Gay 12 miles southwest of Nantucket shoals. The destroyers, assigned to search for the Seiner were informed of the report by coast guard head- quarters here. A pilot named Hanson of the tank steamer Cities Service Empire, told the coast guard here that he had sighted a trawler apparently drift- ing or at anchor. She displayed no distress signals, he said, and he had not heard at the time that the Sein- er was missing. The clue was re- garded here as a slender one, but it was the first of any kind since search started several days ago for the missing wler, more than a week overdue at its home port, Groton, Conn. » Safety Assured The safety of the Silwer Maple, on the other hand, seemed assured today. Ther: was no indication that she was damaged beyond & disabled rudder. The Mojave, first to reach the freighter yesterday, parted the first tow line thrown aboard in the heavy scas but last night the Tampa reported that the British ship was held fast by & hawser she shot aboard after the Moji ‘s line broke. Help was on the way today to the Norwegian freighter Terne, caught in the ice oft Iriar's Head, Nova Scotia, for the past nine days, The government steamer Sydney was dis- dispatched yesterday from Halifax after Captain Bjorset of the Terne wirelessed that his ship's water supply was running low although he had food for ten more days. Another ship made good its es- cape from the winter perils of the Atlantic when the New Bedford . towed into port here by the trawler Kingfisher after she had drifted helplessly for eight hours last Sun- day 165 miles southeast of Highland light., A 60-mile an hour gale first swept her nets into her propeller and then twice parted the tow line which held her to the Kingfisher. About Cascara It is unfortunate that many people judge the thoroughness of a laxa- e by its violence. The salts that rush through the system may not even penetrate the film of poisonous matter that has coated the colon, A long list of drugs will “Joosen the bowels” but what is the best way to CLEANSE them? The world's best laxative is one that Mother Nature makes in her own laboratory. It is the bark of a trce, called CABCARA. The In- dians used to chew this bark—and reach old age without a sick day. It is the best thing there is today, for any system; best for the blood. Tho most beneficial in its action on the bowels, of anything yet . disclosed. r many reaspni First of all, there is no HABIT CASCARETS | Dentistry Without Pain A Trial Will X-RAY SERVICE CONGRESS GETS REPORT ON PRICE MAINTENANCE Commissioncr 'Finds Comsuming Public is Opposed to Prevail- ing Trade Practice ‘Washington, Jan. 330 UM—A" pre- liminary report of the federal trade commission’s investigation into the economic phases of resale prices maintenance has been submitted to congress. The commission in its efforts to weigh the advantages and disadvan- ges of resale price maintenance, & system under which the manufac- turers of certain well known pro- ducts forbid retail merchants to sell the product below a specified price, has made an intensive study of pub- lic opinion on the question. ‘In & letter accompanying the report, the commission said a large majority of the consuming public was opposed to the practice, while the manufac- turers and distributors, except for department and chain stores, were strongly in favor of it. The commission pointed out that iegislation was now pending before congress which would “give the manufacturers the right by contract, to fix the resale price of their iden- tified products, which under existing law i8 held illeegal as a restraint of trade." Turban Comes Back As Afghan Headgear Jerusalem, Jan. 30 (M—In Asia’ raging conflict over what the stylish young man will wear, derby hats and store clothes or turbans and the tribal robes of his fathers, the west- ern world has lost another battle. King Amanullah lost his Afghan throne over the pants and purdah issuc, and now the Persian govern- ment has had to surrender on the subject of clothes to revolting tribes in Arabistan. Forcible measures by the govern- ment, including a punitive expedition under General Faradshallah Khan, having proved unsuccessful, Shah Reza Khan, is attempting a scttlec- ment by peaceful means. As a gesture of peace, he hascan- celled the order making the wearing of European hats compulsory, and has contented himself with a dec- laration that his subjects may wear either hats or turbans. This concession applics to govern- ment officials and to all in receipt of any kind of emoluments from the state. Besides this conciliatory measure, the government has found it expedient to make more radical concessions. The rebel tribes have been exempted from taxes and from surrendering their arms, and some of their chiefs have been assigned state pensions. Nevertheless, some tribes are reported continuing hos- thities. A Doctor Talks formed from cascara. The bowes are not weakened, but strengthened by its occasional use. The occasions when one needs this ald grow less and less. Its influence is long-felt. { You don’t find yourself worss bound- up the day following. You do find the bowels more inclined to move of their own .volition. The candy Cas- caret that every drugstore always Ihu in stock is the ideal form of cascara, Dr. William F. Keith Convince You THE DOMINANT IDEA At reduced rates. 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