New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 31, 1929, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 SHOKE OVERGONES HOTHER AND CHLD IN BURNING HOME Damage Amomnting to $4,300 Cansod by Flames in Three- Family Hoase on Lyons St. DELAY IN SENDING ALARM GIVES FIRE LONG START Mrs. Stephem Straker and Three Year Oid Son Found Affected by Fumes and Assisted to Safety— Neighbors Take Ohildren from Danger—Ioco on Ledder Rungs Hampers Firemen, Delay in sending in an alarm multiplied losses in & noonday fire in a three tenement frame building at Lyons and Monroe streets today and almost resulted seriously for Mrs. Stephen Straker and her three year old son, both of\whom wero affected by volumes of smoke ‘which came pouring into their apartment on the third floor. Constable John 8. Recor sighted the smoke as he was driving down Arch street in his automobile. As- suming that the alarm had been sent in, he drove leisurely through Monroe street, where he maw a group of men, women and children standing across the street gazing up at the burning gable in'the rear of the third floor. When he learned the fire department had not been called he crashed the glass in a nearby box and sent in the alarm which brought Companies 1, 2 and 6, and Ladder Truck No. 2, while Chief W. J. Noble came from his home on Harrison street. Discovered Affected by Smoke ; Meanwhile neighbors went through the building assisting tenants in taking children out of the house, and when they reached the third floor they found Mrs. Straker nearly overcome by smoke. The little boy was also in the room plainly show- ing the effects of the suffocating (Continued on Page 14) BIGGER NEW BRITAIN PROJECT POSTPONED Annexation of Maple Hill and Elm Hill Shelved (Special to the Herald) Hartford, Jan, 81—The bill to annex Maple Hill and Elm Hill as a part of the city of New Britain, will not come before the legislature this year, Senator Ernest W, Christ of New Britain said today. Elmer W, Pape of Newington, a former representative, was at the state capitol for several hours today conferring with regard to the “Greater Hartford” bill which came to the general assembly yesterday. and which contemplates annexation to the city of Hartford, of the towns of Newington, West Hartford, Bloomficld and East Hartford, This bill proposes a referendum in which the residents of the towns af- fected will have an opportunity to say whether they are in favor of the scheme by which they woulg 1dse their rural identity, Former Representative Pape for several years sponsored a move- ment to have Maple Hill and Elm Hill included in the territorial lim- its of the city of New Britain, At present Newington ieceives its wa- ter, electricity and gas from the city of New Britain, and also has limited fire protection, Senator Robert J. 8mith of Man- chester, chairman of the committee on cities and boroughs, before whose committee the “Greater Hartford" bill must come for hearing, said to- day he sees considerable merit in the (Continued on Page 14) CITIZENSHIP CLASS ANNOYED BY DELAY Failure of Court to Sit Here Chafes 300 Candidates More than 300 prospective Ameri- can citizens have been waiting im- patiently for more than a half year for @ preliminary hearing before Commissioner of Naturalization Thomas M. Spellman. Usually there are two hearings during a year, but the second hear- ing in 1928 which was to have been held last fall, did not materialize and no definite date has been set for it. It is said that Commissioner Spellman has been busy in other parts of the state and, that a recent illness prevented him from attend- ing to his duties. In the mean'ime, many of the applicants have made inquiries as to the cause of the de- lay. Some have been planning %o %o abroad in the spring, relying on the promptness of the hearings, which in the past were held regu- larly. So far no specific time has been set for the hearings, and it is doubt- ful whether the applicants will be leard before spring. NEW BRITAIN H Ad&nu«R, Dept., "fll‘llord_p(;,mn. NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1929.—EIGHTEEN PAGES TEN POLICEMEN TAKE WOMAN “JAY WALKER" — Long Island Girl Creates Excitement As First Victim of Broadway Traftic Law. New York, Jan. 31 P—It took ten Ppolicemen to nab the first woman ar- rested for jay walking on Broadway. ‘The red traffic light and the hand of the law were against her when Ella E. Colson, tripped across Times Square last night. Patrolman Doatka admonished ber. She tripped anyway. The pa- trolman had to run a block to catch Ler. Ho eacorted her in one door of a taxicab and she promptly left by the other unassisted. Sharp raps on the pavement with & nightstick brought nine other po- licemen and the Broadway crowd. Another chase and capture. At the station the young woman addressed her captors, with empha- sis. ‘The desk sergeant was wondering today where 2908 Thirtieth street, Long Island, might be. 8he gave that address and was released. INJUNCTION ALTS TRANSFER N STOGH New Britain Woman Accuses Brokerage House of Fraud SAYS SHE WAS DECEIVED Mrs. Nellie 8. Battey of Linooln Claims W. A. Nash & Co. of Bos- ton Made Misleading Representp- tions About Monroe Shares. Judge Newell 8 Jennings in su- perior court yesterday afternoon signed a temporary injunction re- straining W. A. Nash & Co, of Boston, Mass., investment brokers, and the Hurtferd-Connecticut Trust company from transferring 101 rhares of the capital stock of Colt's Patent Fire Arms Mfg. Co., of Hart- ford, and issued an order for a hear- ing on Feb, 13, vt 9:30 in the fore- noon to show cause why the tem- porary injunction should not be made permanent. The application for the injunctior was made by Attorney Cyril ¥, Gaff- ney, counsel for Mrs. Nellie 8. Bat- (Continued on Page 14) FAILS TO PAY BROTHER FOR YOYAGE TO U. 5. Immigrant Sued for Money Loaned for His Expenses. A year or so ago Anthony Gorski came in this city from Poland on & passport purchased by his brother, Wincenty, on the condition that as soon as he secured employment he would pay off the debt incurred. After his arrival, he was kept and clothed by his kin for some time be- fore securing work in one of the local factories. A job was finally obtained for him and he moved to other quarters, Today his brother, Wincenty, brought suit for $750 for cost of passage from Poland and for board while he was living with him, claim- ing that Anthony failed to pay any part of the debt and did not live up to his promise. The papers were prepared by Attorney B. J. Mon- kiewicz and served by Deputy Sherift Matthew Papciak. The writ is returnable in city court. GHURGHES WILL TAKE FOUR YEARS TO MERGE Methodists and Presbyteri- ans Hope to Consolidate Forces by 1932 Pittsburgh, Jan., 31, P—Definite agreement that the Presbyterian and Methodist Episcopal churches should consolidate was reached here yester- day at a conference of clerical and lay representatives of the two denominations. The meeting passed a resolution recognizing the organic unity of the two churches and appointed two joint committees to consider ques- tions of policy, doctrind administra- tive work and property interests of the two organizations. The commit- tees will study questions assigned to them and make full reports to the joint merger committee. Representatives of each denom- ination expressed great satisfaction over the results of their delibera tions It was pointed out however, that final consummation of the merger can not occur before 1932, since whatever action taken by the joint merger committee would have to be approved by the Methodist General conference which does not meet until that year. The consolidation would unite 4,000,000 Methodists and 2,000,000 Presbyterlans. HAGEN SEEKS DIVORCE Los Angeles, Jan 31 UP—Walter Hagen, noted golf professional and British open champion, filed sult for divorce in superior court here to- ' day, alleging that his wife, had de- serted him. Doty of the French Foreign Legion | ATE D e e oW e IN LOST GIRL HUNT Airplanes Join Search for Miss- ing Terre Hante Child SLAIN, POLICE BELIEVE “New Customer” of Newsgirl Sought As Tossible Kidnapper — Mine Shafts, Crock Beds and Ditches Combed By Seachers For Body. Terre Haute, Ind., Jan. 31 (UP)— The search for Edith May Dierdorf, 10, West Terre Haute newsgirl, be- lieved to have been kidrapped and murdered, drew 1,000 citizens to the countryside south of here today. Two airplanes flew over the towns of Sullivan, Carlisle, and Paxton, while police and citizens continued a systematic search of abandoned mine shafts, creek banks and ditches. Detectives examined the banks ot Busseron Creek near the deep watcr hole under the U. 8. highway No. 41 bridge where Edith May's blood- stained paper sack was found. Girl Belicved Dead Police held little hope that the girl would be found alive. Edith May, one of nine children ot Frederick W. Dierdorf, West Terrc Haute mail carrier, disappearcd Sunday noon as she was returning trom Sunday school. After attending the Lutheran church at 9 a. m,, the girl and two sisters boarded a street car to take them to their home. As the car neared the business section of Terre Haute, Edith May scparated from her sisters, saying she had to get u paper from the newsstand for a “new customer.” Merrill Wenzel, 28, who owned the newsastand, said he gave the girl an extra paper and saw her walk down the street. She next appeared at a grocery owned by Clarence Brothers, bought a package of chewing gum and rode away in an automobile with a man who had waited outside the grocery. Brothers identified pictures of the missing girl and said rhe told him she had a “new customer.” Sunday night, Hiram Smith, coal company official, notified police that one of his employes hai seen an au- tomobile step on the Dixie highway near Busseron Creek and had seen the driver throw something from the machine. Bloody Bag Is Found Beveral hours later, Edith May's news bag was found beside a deep water hole under the Busseron Creek bridge. The bag contzined threc (Continued on Page 14) BOSTON AND MAINE SALE RUMOR DENIED Beatty Says Canadian Pa- cific Does Not Plan to Buy It Montreal, Que., Jan, 31 UP—E. W. Beatty, chairman and president of the Canadian Pacific railway today denled the report his company was moving towards the purchase of Boston and Maine lines for the pur- pose of reaching port on the United States Atlantic coast. He said: “The Canadian Pacific has not even considered the possibility of the acquisition of the Boston and Maine raflway or a terminus at Ports- mouth, N. H. The bill referring to the sale or lease of those lines re- cently introduced into the New Hampshire legislature, was not inl- tiated or supported by this company in any way. The plan is one spon- sored oy local interests there who apparently sce in it a possibility of advancing the economic develop- ment of New Hampshire and the port of Portsmouth.” TWO DEAD, SIX HURT IN BLAZE ON LINER Chinese Sailors Flee to Shore From Burning President Johnson Jersey City, N. J., Jan. 81 (UP)— Fire which started early today in the midship berth deck of the Dollar liner President Johnson burned two men to death and injured six others as the vessel lay at Pler 9, awaiting it departure for Cuba on the first leg of an around-the-world cruise. The bodies of the dead were so badly charred police said identifica- tion would be difficult. Five of the injured were S8an Francisco seamen, Willlam Gonzales, John Tiler, John Laszt, Leslie Jordan and John Len- ahan. The sixth was a Jersey City fireman, Peter Mahoney, who re- fused to stay at the City hospital and returned to duty. All suffered second degree burns except Lenahan, who leaped overboard and suffered from submersion and bruises. Police and customs guards round- ed up 103 Chinese members of the crew who fled to shore. After more than three hours, firemen, respond- ing to a second alarm, succeeded in extinguishing the flames and the Chinese were returned to the boat. Thae fire was the third mishap to Dollar line boats within a short time. Two weeks ago the Dollar liner President Garfield went aground in the little Bahama Shoals and 83 passengers were taken off. A few days before that the President Hayes struck a Coral reef near the mouth of the Panama Canal. Bennett J. Doty, adventurer whose service in the French Foreign Le- gion brought him both a Croix de Guerre and a death sentence and made him a center of international complications, will speak at “he Elks' club next Wednesday eveming under the auspices of- the Common- wealth club. His subject will be J. boTY “My Life With the Foreign Legion.” Mr. Doty's life story is the chron- icle of a series of hazardous adven- tures, During the world war he served in the American army and fought at 8t. Mihiel, in the Argonne and at other places. Thren he return- (Continued on Page 12) 52,030% BUDGET FOR WATER BOARD Program of New Work Laid Out it $2,833,48 OPERATING COST $205,850° Board Fixes Price of Rights and Construction at $1,710,000 and Construction of Purification Sys- tem st $979,348—Estimated Tn- come is $317,411. Approval of a program of new work to cost $2,832,248, and of operating expenses amounting to $205,850, is asked in the 1929-1930 budget which has been forwarded by the board of water commission- ers to the board of finance and taxation. The water department pays its operating costs and sets up a sink- Ing fund out of its own ecarnings, making no appropriation necessary and the costs are not reflected in the annual tax rate, fixed by the board of finance, whose only func- tion is to approve, amend or reject the suggestions of the commission. ‘The operating costs are to be slight- 1y in excess of those for the curreat year. For water rights, dams, reservoirs, etc., aqueducts, it is asked (Continued on Page 16) Youth Picks Jail Lock With Match' Greenfield, Mass., Jan. 31 (P)—The mystery of 17 year old Wellesley Eno’s escape from the Orange lock- up yesterday was solved today when the youth was taken into custody at West Orange. He told the police he had used a safety match to pick the lock on his cell. It was a simple operation, he said. Eno had been held here for viola- tion of his parole from a school for boys at Westboro. He was locked in a cell for the night, but the next morning was gone and there were no signs of how he escaped. Here- after the police are going to search prisoners for matches. LYING FLAPPER SETS AIR RECORD Elinor Smith Establishes New Women's Endurance Mark ALOFT OVER 18 HOURS Seventeen Year Old Aviatrix Betters Bobby Trout's Achievement By One Hour, Five Minutes, 48 Sep-. onds—Red Nose Only Casualty. Roosevelt Field, N. Y., Jaa. 31 (M—Miss Viola Gentry, for- mer holder of the women's solo endurance flight record, cracked up her new Swallow plane in dreaded “Fonck's Gully” today, but escaped without injury to herself in a test hop prepara- tory to making another try for the record. . Mitchel Field, N. Y., Jan. 31 UP— Elinor Smith, 17-year-old “flying flapper,” today established an en- durance flying record for women of 13 hours, 16 minutes and 45 sec- onds. 8he broke by 1 hour, 5 minutes {and 45 seconds, the record establish- ed January 1 by Miss Bobby Trout of California. Taking o In an open cockpit plane at 2:17:10 yesterday afternoon Miss Smith spent the lonely hours cruising over the Long Island {lying field, varying her routine but once by a trip over Lower Manhattan She landed at 3:33:556 this morning. Warmly clad in a heavy flying sult and with her face protected by a chamois mask she apparently suf- fered no ill eftect from the biting winds. A red nose was the only sign of the battle she had fought with the elements. Lifted From Plane 8he had to be lifted from her plane by field attendants. Her legs iwcre stiff from having been forced to remain seated in the one position |80 long. One of the first persons to | reach her side was her father, Tom . Smith, also a pilot, who greeted her | with u kiss. She then went to the field opera- (Continued on Page Two) Hoover Will Not Reveal Cabinet Selections Until Office Officially On March 4th| After He Takes Opposition to Some Appointees Expected In Senate, Especially If Mellon Is Retained—President-Elect In Floppy Hat, Stri ves to Land Sailfish From Yacht at Sea. Long Key, Fla, Jan. 31 (®— President-elect Hoover intemds to withhold announcements of his cav- inet appointments until after his in- auguration on March 4. His selection of those who are to make up his officlal family may be presented to the senate in a special session which will be convened im- mediately after the inauguration ceremony. While Mr. Hoover is keeping his own counsel as to his advisers, some of his selections are expected to meet with opposition. Suggestions that he will continuc Andrew W. Mellon as secretary of the treasury have produced threats of a fight in the senate, Mr. Hoover was ready this morn- ing to start on his second angling expedition for sailfish and other hig game fish In thé waters off Long Key. The result of his first day's battle will not be known until late ‘thll afternoon when the yacht Saunterer is due to return to her anchorage, Out After Sailfish Long Key, Fla, Jan. 31 (UP)— President-elect Hoover, wearing old (Continued on Page 14) THE WEATHER New Rritain and vicinity: SKATING SCHEDULE Skating at all parks. Names of Honor Puplls An- pounced by Principal Slade RECOGNITION GIVEN 17| Joseph J. Kulesik and Ludwig Stah! | Average Better Than 85 Per Cent foe Three Years—Boys Outnumber Girls in Class, According to announcement made today by Principal Louis P. Slade of the senior high school diplomas will be awarded to 128 members of the achool mid-year graduating class at exercises in the Central junior high school auditorium tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. The honor students were also announced. For the first time in the memory of many of the older graduates, the boys outnumber the girls. There are 72 boys and 56 girls. The officers are Milton Young, president; Elizabeth Curtin, vice president; Helena Burke, secretary; and Everett Mitchell, treasurer. Honor Students ‘Two puplls were awarded general honors for having an average of 85 per cent in thelr studies during their three years at achool, They are Jo- seph K. Kulesik and Paul Ludwig 8tahl. Those who were awarded special honors were as follows: Bookkeeping—Melvin Orcutt Hall. English—Paul Ludwig Stahl. German—Dora Bell. History—Dora Bell, Ginsburg. Machine Trades—S8tanley E. Pon- and Anna da. Mathematics—T.ouls Chester, Val- etine Cichowski and Paul Ludwig Stahl. Science—Paul Ludwig Stahl Bewing—Alice Warren Beh and Annamary Newton. 5 Printing—Joseph A. Kulesik. Shop mathematics—Nobel Ragnar Benson and Joseph A, Kulesik. The exercises at graduation will be as follows: ocessional “Festival Grand March” .... eesevses.. R, Gruenwald, Op. 458 Senlor High Bchool Orchestra Invocation Reverend Doctor George W. C. Hill Music a. “Liebesfreud” ........ Krelsler b. March ““General Umberto (Continued on Page Two) BILLS HANDED T0 ASSEMBLY TODAY Only One Day Left for Presentation of Pro- posed Measures Btate Capitol, Hartford, Jan. 31 (® —With but one day left before both houses are closed to introductions of legislation, the general assembly swung into its business today with what veterans described as fewer bills, comparatively, than ever be- fore appeared the day preceding closing day. Benator Hall, New Haven, offered two blank bills preparing for uni- form business corporation and uni- form public utilities acts. Four democratic senate measures provided for commissions to study the state’s financial condition, and tax collections and agricultural and cattle raising conditions and to pro- vide an employment insurance &ys- tem. Mr. Tobin, Waterbury house mi- | nority leader, offered a bill directing state police department to investi- gate radio interference, and pro- viding fines of $25 to $100, 30 days in jail, or both, for sausing such in- terference. The governor coudld be directed under a house biil, to bring the U. 8. | 8. “Hartford” from the Charleston, 8. C. navy yard to New London navy base. State world war service medals | would be awarded under another | house measure appropriating $10,- 000 for the purpose. Teachers were interested in a| house bill prohibiting discrimination | dgainst women in school systems. Fathers and mothers would have | equal clalm to a minor child's wages, if a house bill was enacted. A civil rights bill prohibiting race discrimination in extension of civil liberties appeared in the senate. A senate bill would fine stake- holder in horse, dog, auto or air- plane races from $25 to $100. An- other senate bill would impose fines from $50 to $100 or one year's im- prisonment for setting up any kind | True Friend of Youth PRINCIPAL L. P. SLADE DESIRE, CHANGES IN'LABOR LAWS State Federation Asks Assembly to Alter Compensation Act WANT MORE INDEMNITY Request Incrcase From $31 to $38 ‘Weekly and From 308 to 350 Weeks for Payment of Compensa- tion, State Capitol, Hartford, Jan. 31 UP — The legislative program of the Connecticut State Federation of Labor was offered in part in the gen- eral assembly today. It consisted of various changes in the workmen's compensation act, in the child and woman labor acts and in the tene- ment act. On the first named sub- ject the bill which came in behalf of employers was offered on Tues- day. This gave the federation offi- cers an idea of what employers would ask and the federation's plan now follows: One change desired by labor is the elimination of words ‘casual em- ployes or by outworkers” (section 5340) in the present law so that it will apply to employers having “regularly less than three em- ployes.” Many Changes ‘This proposed change would re- quire changes in other portions of the law so that instead of “five” em- ployes it would read “three.” An- other change would be to cut down from four to three wgeks the period before which compensation for in- capacity would begin. The number of weeks of payment of compensa- (Continued on Page 14) HATCH RESIGNS POST IN SERVICE BUREAU Frank H. Alford Appoint- ed to Chairmanship Today William L. Hatch, chairman of the municipal home service bureau for the past eight years has forwarded his resignation to Mayor Paonessa, and Frank H. Alford has been ap- pointed in his stead. Mr. Hatch's letter of resignation explains that he is soon to take a long vacation and will be out of the city for several months. For this reason he asked to be excused. In a letter of acceptance to Mr. Hatch, t! > mayor has thanked him for his work in the bureau and expresses a wish for a pleasant voyage. Mr. Alford now becomes the only member of the city government holding two commission chairman- ships, since he is already heading the city hall commission. WOMAN HURT BY FALL T0 GET $500 FROM CITY Compromise Reached in Suit By Mrs. Angela Berti, Who Sought $1,500. The action of Mrs. Angela Berti of 59 Beaver street against the city of New DBritain, resulting from a fall on a sidewalk on Beaver street, of lottery; still another imposing $100 to $500 fine or 6 months im- prisonment for policy playing. 1‘ Another labor bill in the sonalc‘ reduces the interest on ‘“small | loans” from 42 to 30 per cent a| | year. A state racing commissioner with a salary of $7,000 yearly would be |appointed under a house bill which also provides that a $3,000 daily li- cense fee be obtained for 90 days racing. The general assembly voted com- pensation, to be fixed later, to the widow of Representatave Robert 8 Waugh, democrat, of Morris, vho died last week. Senator Bergin, minority leader fn the senate, and Mr. Tobin, as minority leader in the house, supported the measure and it was passed in both bodies under suspension of the rules. John H. Lancaster of Litchfield about 30 feet south of North Main street on Feb. 10, 1928, was settled in superior court today without trial. Corporation Counsel J. H. Kirkham will present a resolution at the next meeting of the common council to pay $500, the action having been for $1500, Mrs. Berti was given a hearing by the claims committee on April 26, 1928, and testified that the slippery condition of the walk caused her to fall and break her left arm between the elbow and shoulder. Attorney | 8. Gerard Casale represented her. Johnson Predicts Early War in Pacific Washington, Jan. 31 (P—Adop- tion of a naval construction program Aas & measure of national safety was urged in the senate today by Senator Johnson, republican, California, who was given another four-year .erm as Litchfield county commissioner; Ar (colunue;_a; Page 16) said that it would be “only a brief period as time goes until the worid dama will be played upon the Paci- fic ocean.” PRICE THREE CENTS BULLET S LONE CLUE IN JACKSON HORDER INQUIRY Police Try to Trace Gun From Which Fatal .38 Calibre Slug Was Fired MYSTERY ELEMENT IN SHOOTING IS DEEPER Dogs Lay Quietly in Kennel and Kitchen While Master Was 5ho$ Down—Unruffied Parrot Found Before Body of Victim Was Cold —Coroner Bill Plans to Open Ine quest Shortly. Willimantic, Jan. 31 P — As autopsy on the body of County De- tective Willlam E. Jackson, slain by a person unknown in the kitchen of his home Tuesday night, having established the fact that a .38 calis ber bullet penetrated his brain, ofe ficers under Detective E. J. Hickey, of Hartford county, today settled down to the task of trying to trace the weapon used and the man whe held it, Many rumors spread from mouth to mouth last night but to these Mry Hickey gave no attention, saying that later on when there is some< thing definite to say he would not hesitate in saying it. One report had officers going to Worcester on & trail of a man from that place but this was disposed of as a story which naturally arose because of Jackson's connection with the “ice box" bandits’ trial, and reported threats at the time that someone would “get him”; another report was that whoever killed Jackson must have been familiar with the detectlve’s movements and hig habits. Two Main Theories The inquiry was going ahead on two theories, one that a person whe was seeking vengeance had lurked about the house and made entrance after seeing Mrs. Jackson leave to drive down town to get her daugh- ter, and that someone had driven up quickly to the place, gone inte the house because the kitcheh door was unlocked, shot Jackson and then left immediately, the slaying having taken only a minute or twe of the visitor's time. This latter theory is more strong- ly held as neighbors have said they did not hear barking of the Jack- son dogs. One dog was in its kennel In the yard, and the other was iy- ing quietly in the kitchen when Mra. Jackson returned with her daughter, Juanita, and found the body on the floor, A parrot in its cage on the table showed no signs of excitement which might have been aroused had Jackson and his visitor engaged ia argument or a tussle. Victim Had No Gun Police also hold an opinion that if a gangster had come to the house to have shot Jackson he more likely, (Continued on Page 183) FOCH HAS RELAPSE, ' GOES BAGK TO BED Marshal's Doctors Insisf Upon Resumption of “Complete Rest” Paris, Jan. 31 UP—Marshal Fere dinand Foch, who had been recove ering rapidly from: his recent iliness, has had a setback and must resume complete rest. An official communique was lssued this afternoon by four physiclans who have been attending him. Ig read: “A slight pulmonary congestion contracted during convalescence obliges the sick man to resume complete rest. (Signed) “DAVENIERES, “DE GENNES, “HEITZ-BOYER, “JULES RENAULT.” Dr. Davenleres, in attending the | marshal who has been recuperating |from a heart attack and kidney come | plications, discovered the pulmonary congestion. The condition was not regarded as serious, but it was le. cided the marshal should take come plete repose again and should give |up for the present his daily periods of sitting up, | After discovering the congestion { during his regular morning visit, Dr, Davenieres called in the three othep | physicians who agreed with him |that while the sctback was not nec- essarily alarming, it required every | care, It had been expected that the marshal, for the first time since his ‘lllneu. would receive visitors tomore row, but in view of the new come plication, the visit. wiil be postpon- ed until further notice. Shanties of Quake Victims Threatened Athens, Greece, Jan. 31 UP—Vice Uims of last year's earthquake in the historic city of Corinth, who hava: been living in shanties and tents ever since, nearly lost their make~ shift homes last night when fire swept through huge stores of wood supplies. A high wind fanned the flamea and for a time it was feared the' refugees’ shelters would be ocome sumed, but the fire was cheched morning after causing damage.