New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 19, 1929, Page 18

1 Al SUPRENE INSUPRENE COURT Prosscalors Move lor mfll tion of il Naa's Coaviction Washington, Feb. 19 M—Owen J. Roberts and Atlee Pomerene, special government prosecutors in the pro- tracted litigation growing out of the leasing of the Teapot Dome naval oil reserves to Harry F. Sinclair, moved today to obtain the supreme court's affirmation of the oil man's conviction for refusal to answer questions asked bfm by a senate, committee. - The entire record of Sinclair's quizzing by the public lands com- | mittee and his refusal to answer on | the advice of counsel was before the highest court. The question involved, in the| opinion of defense counsel, is wheth- | er Sinclair was within his rights in| refusing to divulge information on| the theory that the questions asked | were not within the scope of the| committee in performing its legiti- mate functions. | This line of defense, emphasized by Martin Littleton, was expected to be relied upon also by George P. Hoover, who will close Sinclair's ap- peal, Pomerene and Roberts had an hour and 20 minutes to urge that| GASE [ FRANKLIN Sca00L, oPENDKG Dr. A. B. Meredith to, Speak This Evening at Function—Diarer to Be Scrved at Walnut Hill . Plans are complete for the offi- cial opening of the Franklin school which will take place tonight. Dr. Alb -t Meredith, state commissioner of education, will be present and will give the principal address. A talk will also be given by Supt. Stanley H, Holmes of the New Brit- ain school department. The Franklin school is the most recent of the puildings constructed by the school department. It is on Clinton strect and was constructed according to plans of Warren Holmes-Powers Co., of Lansing, Michigan. The contractor was M. A. Connor of Hartford. Previous to the opening cere- monies members of the school hoard, Dr. Meredith and his a: tant, and Miss Adele Bassett, principal of the Franklin school, will attend a din- ner at the Walnut Hill school. The dinner is being held so that the new members of the school board will have an opportunity of _becoming acquainted with the state education Gepartment officials. EXPERTS HIT SNAG ON REPARATIONS Sinclair's sentence of three months and a $500 fine be sustained. | PREDICTS ALTERATION OF BANKRUPTCY LAWS (Continued from First Page) ‘ notice, the business is often ruined | and in the end the court finds the alleged bankrupt did not commit an | act of bankrup | The judicial department of | United States has started an inves-| tigation of the bankruptey laws and | it is the belief that before the inves- | tigation is complte, all of the states will be obliged to modify their re- apective bankruptcy statutes to a great extent. i The present bankruptey laws are lax, the judge stated, especially in | involuntary procecdings and the courts are endeavouring to be as; strict as possible to offset any dam- age which may result. the | 000 NMERICANS WORKING IN RUSSIA Live tn Small Town—Must Have $500 Capital and Surrender United States Passports Riga, Latvis, Feb. l!» (#—Con- | sular officials in Riga estimate \hat“ 30,000 former residents of the United States are living in Sn\lu(,/ Russia. | Every month more enter and otpers come out, While many of those who remain bombard the | American consulate, across the| frontier in Riga, with letters plead- ing for papers that would permit them to return to -America. i Most of the thousands who have gone into Russia since the revolu- tion, looking for a worker's carthly paradise, are living in small towns, communes and villages. One never| sees them in Moscow and Lenin- | grad or even hears of them. ‘ They are brought to Riga by steamship companies in large par-| ties and sent into Russia from here. | Each immigrant is obliged on enter- | ing & red commune to have a mini-| mum capital of $500 and to sur- render his American passport be- | fore entering the new world that, Lenin created. | To replace their passports they are’ given travel documents and go | to the frontier as “Soviet Russian | persons.” Those who handle this| traftic estimate the average capital | taken to Russia by these immi-| grants from America is $1,500 per | With a number of disfiguring scars. | head, part of which is invested in the communal enterprise to which they are allocated. Extra! Mayor Walker Arrives Ahead of Time Miami, Kla., Feb. 19 (M—Muyo"} James J. Walker of New York city| was on a fishing trip somewhere wi | the Gulf of Mexico today aboard the yacht *“Harmony” after outwitting an unofficial welcome committo. here last night by arriving ahead of schedule, | The New York chicf executive was | quoted as saying on his departure | that he was going to remain aboard the Harmony, which is owned by William F. Todd of w York, until he regained his health. He is said to have been suffering from an at- tack of influenza. He is accompa- nied by Esmond O’'Brien, a Phila- delphia friend. Mrs. Walker arrived here this morning, aboard the steamer Iroquois from Cuba and wa cxpected to join her husband later. | | | | ARRESTED FOR BURGLARY (Special to the llerald) Rristol, Feb. 19—Adolph r- vecki, 31 William strest, and Henry Boyer, 523 North Main sirect, both 16 years of age, were arrested this| iternoon by the local police charged with breaking and ng. Accord- ing to the police the youths admitted forcing an entrance to the John Jennings school on Burlin nue last c-end and st in cash from the princip Loyer is a student at the High school, taking a vocational course. They will be presented in police court tomorrow morning. street | against | J. P. Bruzas of 146 Jubilec has brought suit for $800 Katerine Eanulunos and Stanley | Lanulunos of 16 Henry strect, also known as Stanley and Catherine Jenclunas, alleging non payment for services rendered and materials fur- nished in renovations fo a house. Attorney Thomas J counsel for thw plainift stable F. F. (lence sopue pers. Cabelus is and Con d the pa They are sure Classified Ads, ! there so early | | to pull—He ralrll (Continued from ¥irst Page) ing the principal reparations credi- tor. = France Not Satisfied The inference drawn from the in- crease in membership of the sub- committee is that France was not satisfied with the report made by Dr. Schacht and Sir Joseph Stamp. The work of the experts thus has reached a dead point which will be | ed only when it has been de cided whether the reparation: debtor, or repa make the first step toward promise. French Press Restless The French press is restless at the turn the conference has taken. The conference, it appeared to Paris newspapers, has seen nine suc- cessive meetings, while announce- ment as to what has happened be- hind the sealed doors relate only to routine matters and generalitics. And, more vexing than all, to a somewhat one-sided exposition of German position. “Let us get down ness,” says Le Temps, generally recognized as the scmi-official ex ponent of the I'rench vlewpoint. "he proliminary explanation must be over now after a weck's sitting, or they never will be,” says the Journal des Debats. A policy of more liberal announce- ments as to the nature of the se- cret proceedings might ¢ much of the public fecling, which is that negotiations haveprogressed beyond the merc preliminary stages and com- te real bhusi- that the public is entitled to know | the trend. Divorc; Is Sequel To Trolley Accident Bridgeport, Ieb. 19 (P—As an ftermatch of the Shelton trolley car disaster on February 1921, Mrs. Ruth E. Wilkinson of Shelton was today granted a divorce by Judge Carl Foster from her husband William A. Wilkins of Hartford. Mrs. Wilkins charged that when she left the hospital where she hod been confined for more than two years as the result of burns received in the trolley car accident her hus- band agreed to make a home for hor if she was returned to him in the same condition as befere the acci- dent. She also charged desertion. The Shelton disaster occurred when two cars collided on Shelton trestle on Washington’s birthday in 1821, A can of gasolinc being car- ried by a passenger exploded after the collision, causing dcath to nine persons and injuring a Mumber of persons. Mrs. Wilkins was among the more seriously injured and was obliged to stay in the hospital over two years, finally heing discharg:d Violets Bloom in Bay State Garden Kingston, Mass.. Feb. 19 (P— Spring was paying an carly the south shore today. Violets were in blogm in the old-fashioncd gar- den of Miss AMary L. Trow of this town. The garden is perhaps as old as Miss Trow's house, erccted more than two centuries ago. but there is no record of blossoms appearing past. PROMINENT CANDIDATES FOR PLACES IN THE HOOVER CABINET WILLIAM M_OARDING Agrecullure Co, ations creditors, will | visit to | # in the years in the! 44 JuLius NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1929. Derby In Idaho Ready for Annual Fepeomer Ten thousand persons are expected to flock to Ash- ton, Ida., February 22 to |witness the 1929 Ameri- can Dog Derby, a classic of the snows. Above is Ted Kent, last year's winner and again a strong con-’ who has raised a team from puppyhood for this year's event. part of anyone %o criticise the li- bra Mr. Quigley's statement opcning the discussion today was as follows: “The members of the Lions club are not mollycoddles, muck rakers or meddlers. We are just a decent, clean, American civic. organizatlon, who like clean things, and we have nothing but contempt and loathing for the publication of the filthy mag- azines exposed for public sale in the On a call for & vote the amend- |, yogands, and we endorse the ac- {ment was lost and the following | ion o Mayor Paonossa in ridding chedule was adopted for 1929: |our city of these rotten publica- tions.” STORES T0 STAY OPEN | ON SATURDAY NIGHTS (Continued from First Page) | | Sablotsky said some stores have been | ceping open two nights a weck. | | | Monday, dnesday. | Mr, Quigley added: *I have little Thursday and Friday evenings, close | 1o say about the library, There is B enings, close 9|4 gifterence between hooks and mag- |p.m. Kvenings before observed | incs, We can safely leave the se- | o close § p. m. December 19.|1.ctjon ‘of hooks in the library fo 20, 21 and 23, close § p. M. De-lyp yyhite and his corps of efficieat 4 (Chiristmas eve), close 7| o o Endorsement The motion of endorsement to | Mayor Paonessa was put to a vole of the club, with an obvious | vision of opinion. There was | ruling from the chair. L. AV. Vogel | then pres ted a motion that a vote of apology e sent the library, He said as a member of the Lions club he had met considerable ridicule be- last week’s meeting. He cmber 2 7 Summer Schedule Effective July 10 through August 25, Wednesdays, close 12 noon. | Otherwise same as regular sched- | ule. Holiday Schedule New Year's, Washington's birth- | day, Memorial day, July 4, Labor day, Thanksgiving day and Christ- | mas, close all day. Good Iriday, | close 12 noon. | cause of i Secretary Ralph H. Benson Now . Dritain) | Mbrary s plained how the small claims court | known throughout New England or I ManERE AB Al merlants: lits unusually large and carefully Councilman Sablotsky asked the | chosen selection of books. and that chamber to take some official recog- | he felt & grave injustice had been nition of the conditions of roads|done. He offered a motion that an leading Mto the city with a view 1o | apology be sent to the library. asking the common council to make| Ired C. Teich said the library necessary repairs. imatter was a_personal matter with one individual, sagree on Disagre y David 1. Nair don't agree with Ha Han- Mr. Quigley expressed d LIONS CLUB FAILS - nt added: saying: 1o let Ha Hancock be the goa Mr. Hane made a brief explana- tion in which he said his remarks to certain hooks, + dircited {which he felt were placed on the s he has obtained at the B | 7N CR N8 S WOTE T 15 y. Mr. Hancock has subsequent. | SCIVeS Without BOmg raie by L Iy stated that he meant on attack |COMmmittee, and that he had no in o i # tention to criticise the libravy. *1 on the library or its officials, but | (1""0 or ienitioieg simply meant that certain books are |y /o Qe said, He SubBEatently u..(-flb:}' ("‘;‘:L"‘:r': 2o ZT:»:?; OM¥: stated to a Herald representative i 3 ithat he holds the library official ".\'h}j":r‘3::::;")"]:{. .‘f:ml,‘a., '“of":'}“: in the greatest respect and that he ¢ atirg his 3 would no library ofic and the explanation 1.,,“1,1."1‘.‘ has been accepted by them in a| No one friendly and perfectly satisfactory Ispirit. he said. Subsequent stat ments by Mr. Quigley indicat>d that there is no tendency on the | (Continued from First Page) | ion. present knew, sary to inform the felt it that or ne club ity last week sent a leiter of apology to library officials. ender, and his team of huskies. At the right is Miss Lydia Hutchinson, plucky Yukon trail blazer, who will race jn the Ashton event before leaving for the Antarctic to take ! charge of Commander Byrd’s dog teams. no | » | can be both a Ch the the | Mr. Hancock on his own responsinil- The matter is|There are some a million light years girl driver, At the left is Scotty Allan, considered closed by library officlals and Mr, Hancock, and the Herald Las been informed by Miss Greta Brown, hbrarian, that there has been no change in the friendly re- lations existing between Mr. Han- cock and the library. The discussion showing a tendency to encroach onithe time of the speaker, it was finally voted to place both motions on the table until next week. b Astronomer {s Speaker The speaker today was Dr. Ar- thur B. Carpenter, astronomer. Dr. Carpenter began his address by tell- ing of the belicfs of the ancients go- ing back to the second century be- fore Christ. He told of the belief of | the ancients that the earth was flat, |and from that point traced the var- |ious developments and discoveries of science to the prosent time. He called attention to the fact that every known mechanical law to- day was discovered by astronomers from celestial mechanics. Proofs that the Bible actually was | written in ancient times, he said, is |found in the fact that scientifically |it represents the beliefs of people of | that period. He said the Bible was| |not a scientific authority, but that spiritually and morally its influence can never be overthrown. “The physical body you carry |around with you came from Mother | rth. The earth once was part of | the sun. The sun is only a gaseous | star which shows that man once was |only a lot of heated gas. | “The fact that man is a spiritual | | being as well as a physical being, and that spiritually he has unraveled many of the~mysteries of the uni- verse makes him almost a god.” The speaker stated that when Charles Darwin made his discover- |ies it was a distinet shock to the church. “Now we know that a man stian and an evo- king out,” he add-| lutionist. Its' w cd. Statistics on Light | The speaker attempted to give | some idea of the distance in the uni- | verse. Calling attention to the fact that light travels 186,000 iles a second, he said, “Figure how many miles in two or three hundred thou- | sand years.” On a clear dark night, | ou sce little patehes of light. That! > 10,000 or 300,000 light years | away and consists of 50 million suns miillions of light ycars apart, each {one six times as bright as the sun. | Our galaxy is an island in the uni- verse 200,000 or 300,000 light years | across, and 20.000 light years thick. ANDREW W. MELLON Trecasury WALTER F. BROWN ' fostmastor Gemeral HENRY L STIMSON Secrelary of State e . CURTIS D WILBUR Navy BARNES mmesce s<e ® WILLIAM J. DONOVAN Altorney Genoral | dert | have turned to the piano. Miss Yolanda Kusakabe is the first | | musician of the cast ever to achieve {first time and wilk within a few A lot of people have 20th acientific conceptions of the u! pre-Copernicus esnception of God :kl arms and head apd legs. God is a gpirit. You cannot think af God in the universe, you must think as scientists do, of the universe in God.” N HOOVER RETURNS WITH GOAT BF TAN Presideat-Bloct Reaches Wask- ington Alter Florida Trip Washington, Feb. 19 (M—Back from his month’s vacation in Flor- ida, President-elect Hoover reached ‘Washington today at 1:30 p. m. The president-elect, ‘accompanied by Mrs. Hoover, was met at the Union station by Hubert Work, chairman of the republican pational committee, and by George Akerson, his private secretary. Only very few persons were admitted to the sta- tion platform, but a crowd of about 200 had gathered in the station to welcome him. Mr. Hoover was ap- plauded as he passed through the station, Bronzed by the southern sun, Mr. and Mrs. Hoover posed for an in- stant for cameramen afd movie op- erators before entering their auto- mobile and proceeding to their 8§ street home. Counferences Arranged This cfternoon he made arrange- ments for conferences with those whose counsel he will seek in find- ing the solution to the questions of | more immediate moment. These consultations will be carried on probably right up to the eve of in- auguration. In order that his ad- ministration may be launched with smoothly functioning machinery, it is expected that he will consult with a number of those who are to be in his cabinet on questions of larger policy and on matters which will be pending with the change of admin- istrations. Thes: and the other conferences which he plans will be held at his 8 street home as he intends to remain in comparative seclusion there until inauguratjon day. They will be car- ried on hoth day and night. While the president-elect himself has had no comment to make on published reports that he will visit Havana soon after his inauguration, spme of his advisers declare he will remain in Washington practically continuously until after the end of the special session of congress. They point to a number of mat. ters which will engross his attentiol before the special session such as conferences with farm leaders n agricultural relief legislation pre- paratory to the formulation of his recommendations to the new con- gress on this subject. 2 Prohibition is Problem tury Another problem which isn't at all [ casy of solution is that of selccting the members of the commission which is to investigate prohibition and to make such recommendations as it may deem necessary to mini- mize present abuses in the enforce- ment of the Volstead act. _ _Prohibition has become a subject Of such sharp controversy in the country that Mr. Hoover probably will be unable to carry out his own wish to name men who have an| open mind on the question as lhere} are few outstanding men who have not made public declaration on one side or the other. Even the selection of a single in- dividual as umpire between prom. inent wets and drys who might be named is regarded by many as a dif- ficult matter as naturally the man chosen for this position would havc | to be one commanding the confi- dence of both sides to the contro- versy as well as of the people gen- crally. While Mr. Hoover has his fnau- | gural address well advanced, it is far from finish2d. He is revising it, section by section, and may not completed until around Senate Gets Report On Salt Creek Leases Washington, Feb, 19 P—A senate | investigation of the leases on the | Salt Creek ofl fields in Wyoming was forccast today as the public lands committee began considera- tion of a report by its investigator, Themas Sterling. The report on Sterling’s five months' investigation was withheld pending completion of its consideration by the committee, but members predicted it would lead to further inquiry by the s-nate. Investigation of the Salt Creek leases was ordered by the senate a vear ago after charges of fraud had | been made. Meanwhile, the inquiry has been fn the hands of Sterling who was named by the committee to make a preliminary survey. = His report was | read to the committe today. Woman First Japanese To Win Musical Fame San Trancisco, Feb. 19 (A—The fingers of oriental women, famed for fashioning delicate pot- tery and embrbdidering silken things, wide recognition on ,the concert stage. She is now in America for the weeks, leave for Rome. Miss Kusa- kabe began the study of music at the age of five, and at 13 was graduated from the Royal Academy of Saint; Cecilia, Rome. | Contrary to the old tradition that eyery great artist has spent long hours in praetice, Miss Kusakabe reveals .that in adolescence she gave only an hour and a half daily to study. CANADA (P—While iting the Canadian section ' of British industries fair today (he Prince of Wales said that he in- tended to endeavor to visit Canada again in the mear future. WALES TO ¥ London, Keb. 19 ik the ,' e NEA Columbus Bureau Rabbl Lee J. Levinger of Colum- bus, O., is. the new national chap- lain of the American Legion, chosen to succeed Rabbi Herman Beck of Pottsville, Pa.,’who resigned. Rabbi Levinger served overseas as chap- lain with the 27th division. He was graduated from the University of Chicago in 1909 Masons Remembered In Birdsey’s Will Meriden, Feb. 19 (M—Under the terms of a will Masonic bodies, pa- triotic organizations and churches are the beneficiaries of the estate of Eli C. Birdsey who died here on February five. The Birdsey colonial homestead kere will become the property of the Connecticut Society Sons of the American Revolution, subject to the life use of the testator's widow. Bequests of $8,300 are made to Masonic organizations. Meriden churches receive a total of $11,000. Ruth Hart Chapter, D. A. R, of Meriden is willed $2,000, the Y. M. C. A. $1,000 and the Meriden Boys’ club $1,000. Mr. Birdsey was grand recorder emeritus of Masonic bcdies of the statc at the time of his death. Stamford Y. W. C. A. Gets $200,000 Gift Stamford, Feb: 19 (@—A gift of $200,000 from a donor whose name is withheld was announced today by the local branch of the Y. W. C. A. In making known the gift, the board of directors states that the moncy will be used for the erection of a new building to house the activitles ot the organization. on Face. itching started. The pimples were sample. Seap e, Oi it 80c. b d :Qlcnmfil.d TE E ARE Fred Larson, Dudley T. 22 Main Street " DEBATE IS HEARD Propestis Are Moo for wd . Aot Romol o Doy ,Washington, Feb. 13 (M—Resum- ing consideration of the musieal and of the sundry schedule in connec- tion with its tariff revision hear- ings, the house ways and means | committee today heard proposals for and against removal of the 40 per cent duty on carillona. Bix representatives of college and church institutions yesterday asked that carilions be placed on the free list as an encouragement to ad- vancement of music and culture in communities where religious'and educational bodies are situated. They contended carillons were not pro- duced in this country. Opposing removal of the duty, 8. 8. 8eery, of the McShane Bell Foundry Company, of Baltimore, de- clared Amecrican manufacturers could make carillons If givea the op- portunity. He described those who appeared for trée carillons, including repre- sentatives of the Park Avenus Bap: tist church of New York, and the University of Chicago, as an “ore ganized band of mighty poor Ameri- cans” interested in creating a carile lon monopely abroad. Going from carillons to pipe or- gans, the committee heard a plea from Alfred L. Smith, New York, representing the music industries Chamber of Commerce, for & special classification for these instruments with a duty of 45 per ocent if based on complete cost, including erec. tion, or 70 per cent if the foreign factory value is used as at present. Pipe Organs Imported He said pipe organs are imported in parts and set up here, the ercc- tion cost approximating 10 per cent, and that the present ¢0 per cent duty is inadequate. G, L. Catlin of the Skinner Organ company, with two plants in Massa- chusetts, endorsed the 8mith pro- posal, and complained of Canadian competition, He said ore importer could not complete an order in Can- fada, where wages are 60 per cent of the domestic, because the pro- ducer was booked ahead 18 months. “If wee were booked that far ahead,” he said, “we wouldn’t be down here before the committee." Catlin sald the way the duty is now applied it amounts only to ELMER AUTO about 60 per_ cent of the rate of ° protection intended. Lost Sleep With Terrible Itching Cuticura Healed. “My face started to break out in small pimples and then a terridle and very sore and sone very came to a head. Iscratched my face a lot and it looked 80 bad I never cared to go out, I lost plenty of sleep. “I was told to try Cuticura Soap and Ointment so I sent for a free . I bought more and now I am healed.” (Signed) Noon, 163 State St., New Bedford, Mass., Aug. 11, 1928. 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