New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 22, 1929, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 CHICAGD KILLERS HOTOR AR FOUND Arrests Follow Discovery of Dis- mantled Auto in “Little Sicily” CLOSE TO SCENE OF CRIME Palice Predict Perpetrators of Mor- an Gang Massacre Will Speedily Be Known — Liquor Cleanup Alarms Gangsters. Chicago, Feb. 22 (UP)—A mysterious telephone call, to “Scarface Al" Capone in Flor- 1da, was placed at the Congress hotel here on St. Valentine's Day within 20 minutes after sev- en “Bugs" Moran gangsters were murdered by machine gun- ners in a Northside garage, fed- eral authorities said they learne ed today. It was learned at the federal building that authorities have sent for the records of the tele- phone company in an attempt to learn who placed the call, Ca- pone was said to be waiting for the call in his home on Palm Island. PRICE THREE CENTS . CHINESE WARFARE STARTS AT GHEFD0 First Battle Opoas and Wounded B s By IDEPENSES _ STRENGTHENED dapan is Accused of Vomenting Shantung Revolt But Charge is Hody Demied—Yu-Hslang Massce Big Force, Chefoo, China, Feb, 22 UP— Fighting between former north- ern soldiers under command of Marshal Chang Tsung-Chang, and loyal nationalist troops in Shantung reached a climax to- day in a clash between 7,000 nationalists and a force of re- volters estimated to number 26,000, The battle took place about ten miles west of Chefoo and is stated to have resuited in & na- tionalist victory. The revolters lost 200 dead and the national- {sts 100. Three hundred prison- crs were captured as well as thousands of rifles and 15 ma- chine guns. COUNCIL APPROVES 28 MILL TAX LEVY (Clothing Allowance lor Police | Deloated After Extended Debate FINANCE BOARD UPHEAD propriation List, Recommends Adoption of Original Schedulo— Mack Suddenly Becomes Orator. After Alderman J. Gustave John- son had been defeated in his attempt to bring about a one mill reduction, and an 11th hour effort by Alder. man John F. Maerz to provide a clothing allowance for the police force had failed. the common coun- | cil last night accepted the 28-mills budget. The vote stood 14 for adoption and eight opposed. Voting ‘yes" were Aldermen D. L. Nair, Frank Zapat- ka, and John F. Maerz and Council- men H. 8. Hanes, Clarence H. Maxon, D. L. Bartlett, W. 8. Warner, C. W. Parker, George A Molander, Harry T. Wilson, Samuel Sablotsky, Frank | L. Conlon, Willlam D. Boyle and Willlam W. Greene. Voting “no” were Aldermen W. H. Judd and J. G. Johnson and Coun- cilmen Roger W. Whitman, John E. Holmberg, John Mack, Adam Zieg- ler, John A. Larson and Hollis J.‘ NICHOLAS LONGWORTH LONGWORTH DEFENDS PARTY GOVERNMENT Speaker Also Predicts Hoover Will Measure Up to Washington “DAPPER DON" COLLINS DAPPER DON' HELD | 45 STOCK SWINDLER Wild Scene in Court When Collins’ Lawyer Is Put Under Arrest Photo shows ficet of army trucks on King street, Northampton, Mass., after journey from Washington bringing goods of President and Mrs, Coolidge from t he White House, which ceases to be their home on HOOVER PICKS FOUR CONVIGTS PIRSUED CABINET MEMBERS THRDUGH 4 STATES Stimson, Mellon, Wilber and Possas Elnded by Flosing West Adams Said to Have Accepted Virginia Jail Fugitives OMLY OFE “HOLDOVER"| IKIDNAP THREE MOTORISTS| Committee Discusses Budget | | The evening session, an adjourned | Treasury Secretary Alone Remains Flight of Quartet of Desperadoes meeting, followed a gathering of the of Collidge Advisers—Postmaster Roads 1 No 10 senlor members of the council to whom had been delegated the task of | General and Attorney General Way Through Snowbound Roads Portfolios Still in Doubt, Towsrd Tonncusce, | Five Cent Piece Taken From Boy’s Esophagus Stdney Goldberg, aged three and one-half years, child of Mr. and Mrs, Jacob Goldberg of 74 Monroe street, swallowed a five cent piece yesterday merning at 11 o'clock and spent the re- mainder of the day in distress. When he became violently i1l in the ening, he told his father what he had done, As quickly as possible he was re- moved to Hartford hospital where an X.ray picture was taken. The X-ray disclosed the coin lodged in his esophagus, halt-way to the stomach. Dr. Willlam Dwyer removed the nickle and gave it to Sidney for a souvenir. The boy has prom- ised mot to put any more coins in his mouth, Chicago, Feb. 23 M—The killers’ car used in last week's gang mas- sacre has been found, police sald today, in a garage not three miles from the scene of the muitiple mur- der. Efforts to destroy it led to the iscovery, for an acktylene torch used to cut through the steel frame lignited the garage. Firemen, find- fing the machine, called police, and police, after a careful survey fin- cluding the photographing of finger prints inside the garage and on parts | Shanghai, TFeb. 22 (M—The in. . iitxal battle of the military cam. Philadelphia, Feb. 22 UP—Speak- paign by which rebellious elements ing today at the Washington birth- day exercises of the University of Pennsylvania, Nicholas Longworth, speaker of the house of representa- tives, predicted that the administra- tion of Herbert Hoover would bear “worthy comparison, with that ef the first president. “Nearly 200 years after the birth of Washington,” said Mr. Longworth “there comes for the first time an- other engineer to succeed him in the presidency, one whose professional 1hope fo wrest the prize province of New York, Feb. 32 UP—Dapper |ShanlMing from nationalist China be- Don Collins, international confidence |gan this morning. man, was committed to the Tombs | Fifteen mllifl west of Chefoo, ime ; o |portant northeastern Shantung city, to awalt extradition o New Jersey (PITTS BOTChos troops !ouc:: with today at the conclusion of @ 8L0rmY |forces recruited from the revolting court scens in which the judge or- garrison at Lungkow and other dered the prisoner’s lawyer thrown |points. in the detention pen and the lawyer | Guufire could plainly be heard tm sent & policeman sprawling across |Chefoo and before noon wounded the courtroom floor. began arriving in the city. The resul§ Collins, who was erraigned as search through the budget for pos- kel Ll Ll Arthur Tourbillon which he suid was sible reductions. Meanwhile aggressive f the car, believed themselves near olution of the worst gang outrage career bears worthy comparisen with that of Washington, and, if I may Alderman Johnson opened discus- sion at the committee meeting by ‘Washington, Feb. 22, .. -(UP) Middlesboro, Ky., Feb. 22 (UP) his real name, was arrested yester- measureg were being taken to strengthen dee President-elect Hoover celebrated the birthday of the first president of the United States by devoting a large part of the day to considera- tion of the unsolved problems which still confront him, chiefly selection | of his cabinet, not yet fully made up, Due day at the request of Paterson, N J., police who had a eomplaint that Colins had defrauded Thomas Web- Ler of Egg Harbor, N. J., of $30,000 in a worthlesy stock traunsaction. Magistrate Bushel, in Tombs court, sald he could net admit Col- lins to bail because of previous con- victions, and Isaiah Leebove, the prisonter's lawyer, raised his volce in loud protest: “Will you be quiet |fenses of the city. Additional erme and troops were arriving. Ninety thousand bags of flour were gome mandeered in Chefoo for rations for the defenders. Rebels are Relnforced The battle brings to @ head & movement begun two weeks age when 3,000 soldiers of northern orie sin revolted at the garrisen et Lunkow. The revolt spparently be permitted a prediction, it is that his administration of the greatest and most influenttal government po- sition in the world, the presidency of the United States, will bear horthy comparison with that of the |~ Couneliman Conlon favored & poll e, {d hie was & fie | ©F those present to determine it & o S e Darty govern. | MAOTity was aatisfied with the ment in America, without which | DUdEet a8 proposed by the board of finance. He explained that it such such a ‘‘representative democratic . ol o ot N e was the case the time spent in dis. —Pursued acroms the states of Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky, four fugitives who escaped from the county jsil at Charleston, W. Va., Wednesday, sped toward the Ten- Destes state ling foday . as posges sought in vain te catch mem.fl | The latest exploit of the flecing gs Out of Drifts |men, was the Ppping of Everett A |Conley, an. Olfve Hill, Ky.. taxicab After Winter's Worst |cheafteur, who waa thrown from his n Chicago's history. Early today Deputy Police Com- nissioner John Stege said: “There s good reason to believe the Moran jourders will be cleared up within few hours.” Arrests Quickly Follow Arrests followed quickly after po- fce established to their own satis- action the identity of the automo- ile. Half a dozen arrests had been assuring his colleagues all depart- ments of the city government could be given more money than they re- ceived last year under a 27 mill rate, a reduction of one mill. STORN'S DEATH TOLL SET AT EVEN DUZEN, ] another recently, there are some a8t Di few places indefinite. The United | Press learns, however, that the fol. | the magie- ade by midnight, and shortly be- ore dawn a squad went out on a ecret mission which Lieut. Willlam usack, squad leader, said would jolve the slayings. Police Commissloner Russell's jweeping command for a scarch of Il garages or other buildings fronte g on alleys probably prompted the urried effort to destroy the motor- ar. The commissioner’s order was irected primarily at mopping up he city's liquor supply, much of fhich is believed to be stored in arages or other alley buildings, It pparently created alarm in an en- rely unexpected quarter—among e klllers themselves, Parts of Car Burned The machine was a 1528 model puring car of the type used by hobile squads of the police depart- (Continued on Page 19.) ALE GETS MILLIONS FOR NEW DORMITORY terling Provides Big Sum for Undergraduate Living Quarters New Haven, Feb. 22.—(#)—Presi- bt James Rowland Angell of Yale iversity today told alumni gather- at the annual observance of umni' university day, that a gift approximately $2,000,000 has en promised by the trustees of the tate of John W. Sterling, ‘64, to pild a new undergraduate dormi- ry. The building will be erected on e block front now occupied by the 4 gymnasium. In making the announcement esident Angell declared that the iversity felt it could rely on funds ually as much from sources to be nounced later, for the erection of new gymnasium and swimming ol. [While speaking of the plans for w living quarters for students, esident Angell remarked that for cerul years, especially during the t two, the university officers have fen extended attention to the prob- of adequate using for students, “The continental university as a e leaves its student to fend for mselves,” the Yale president said. xford and Cambridge quarter as ny of their students as they can, bugh far from all. Our Yale prac- has represented a combination these two procedures. “The college originally intended to se its undergraduates and in the 1y generations was occasionally e substantially to do so. In the utific school it has never been sible to achieve this result and h a few exceptions we have con- pd our graduates and professional dents to the care of the New ven lodging houses. Most Pressing Need 'Our pressing and immediate con- In is with the undergraduate prob- h in the scientific school and the nmon freshinun year, although we e long been deeply interested in roving the social conditions ich. owing to their large numbers, front many of the college group. 'Except for the students in the (Continued on Page Nine) and appropriate | Believes In Two Parties “So far as the congress of the United States is concerned,” Long- worth added, “I believe in the 1weo party system of government. 1 be- lieve that there always should be in congress a party having sufficient votes to pass legislation as commis- sloned by the American people, and as a corollary 1 believe that there should be a strong cohesive minority party prepared to criticise the ac- tions of the majority, that the people may fully understand wherein the majority party has lived or failed to live up to its trust. “I insist, too, that these two na- tional parties should be united within each other on fundamentals of economic policy, and mnot on ephemeral questions due ‘to tem- porary public hysteria, and above all, not upon questions of geography, race or religion. Such political di- vision as these, I believe to be the bane of Europe and of most of the world today and the reason for the inefficlency and lack of stability of | most of their governments.” Longworth Gets Degree { ‘The speaker declared that Wash- | ington frequently vonced his opposi- tion to factionalism and that he was a stern opponent of political divis- ions dependent upon sectionalism or racial or religious hatred. He said the deeds of the first president were unsurpassed, ‘“‘unsurpassable and | beyond compare.” | Speaker Longworth was four distinguished men to receive honorary degrees from Pennsyl- vania during the exercises. In pre- senting the speaker for the degree of doctor of laws, Provost Josia H. Penniman said the university in | 1783 had conferred a similar degree on George Washington. Others who received honorary de- grees were William A. Redding, widely-known patent attorney, doc. tor of laws; Dr. Herbert E. Ives, in- | ventor, doctor of science, and J. Vaughan Merrick, 3d, head master of 8t. George's school, Newport, R. L iaster of arts. CHENISTRY STUDENTS | OFFERED RICH PRIZE| Johns Hopkins Will Spon- | sor Unprecedented Edu- | cational Experiment one of | Baltimore, Md., Feb. 22 (®—One of the richest prizes ever offered to American undergraduates was laid before young students of chemistry throughout the country today by President Frank J. Goodnow of Johns Hopkins university. He announced the acceptance of gifts providing for an unprecedent- ed experiment in education, design- ed to train young chemists of ex- ceptional talents to carry the fires of their enthusiasm and learning to succeeding generations of students and workers in this dominant and rapidly expanding fleld of science. The program, including establish- ment of a new chair of chemical education and a number of state fellowships amounting to $1,000 a year for the students cLosen to take the special course, will be put in to operation next fall on an experi- mental basis. 1t is expegted to help fill the need for inspiring teachers, and if successful will be made per- manent with endowments pledged (Continued on Page 16.) cussion would be wasted. Ald erman Maerz sald he would vote for the budget but wished a re- arrangement of the make estimates to possible a clothing allowance for the police force. Chairman E. F. Hall did not re. gard it proper to give the police a clothing allowance and not do the same for the firemen, He remarked that the firemen’s clothing is exposed to greater wear than the police, cit- ing the Schupack bullding fire of the (nnernoon. He also pointed out that a policeman’s uniform is replaced by the city if it is torn in duty. The alderman agreed the firemen should have a clothes allowance but regarded favorable action on his sug- gestion as being a step by which the firemen can next year, Johnson’s Program Alderman Johnson recommended cuts as follows: Eliminate perma. (Continued on Page 22) JOHN AND FLORENCE SILENT ON WEDDING Mrs. Trumbull Has Not Heard of Wedding Plans (Special to tho Herald) Plainville, Feb, 22.—Mrs. John H. Trumbull qented any knowledge to- day of definite plans that the mar- riage of her daughter, Florence, and John Coolidge, son of the president, would be held in the governor's executive mansion in Plalnville. A New York paper today quoted | John Coolidge as saying that the marriage would be ville. when Mre. Trumbull, in conversation with held In Plain- He said that he did not know | the wedding would take place. a telephone Herald reporter, stated that she had not heard the couple say anything about the place of the wedding and expect consideration | & New Britain | lowing four men have been selected folios: son, New York. Secretary of \Treasury—Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh. Secretary of Interior—Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, president of Leland Stanford universfty, Secretary of Nayy—Charles Francis Adams, Boston, lawyer, of- ficer in numerous corporations and | treasurer of Harvard university. Hoover finds the problems, which be considered today while the gov~ ernment he soon will take over was at rest, far more complex than | those which faced George Washing- | ton in those early days when pro- hibition among other things, was not an issue and it took days to find cut who was in the president's cabinet, | postmaster general now lies between | two men who took prominent parts Brown of Toledo, Hoover Ohio pri- mary campaign manager, and James W. Good, of Chicago, a director in the Hoover pre-convention campaign and western Good arrived in Washington recently and has conferred twice with the president-elect. | Two other men are regarded al- | most certainties for the cabinet, but the positions they will ill are in- definite. They are Henry M. Rob- inson, Los Angeles banker, close | friend of Hoover and member of the | Dawes reparations commission, who | conferred at length with the presi- | dent-elect yesterday and last night; (Continued on Page 19.) Movie Stars in Trouble Regarding Income Tax Los Angeles, Feb, 22 (P—Half a dozen federal tax officials, headed by Oliver R. Pagin, indictment ex- pert, have arrived from Washington to institute proceedings to recover | several million dollars in income | taxes in Hollywood and Los Angeles. A number of motion picture stars and business men are included in the investigation, United States At- torney 8. W.'McNabb. said, follow- if they had decided on Plainville |ID§ a conference with the officials they had not told her. HOT IRON SETS FIRE | IN HOME OF MINISTER | { Neighbors Arouse Rev. Harvey O.| Olney and Family Who Had An street, blaze Kitches The Retired for Night. | electric flatiron set fire to| dresses in the home of Rev. Harvey O. Olney, pastor Church of Christ, of the People's at 140 Monroe late last night, and a lively was making headway in the n when neighbors discovered it and aroused the Olneys. A call was sent o'clock and the fire was quickly ex- tinguished by use of chemicals, with comparatively slight damage, all of which is covered by insurance. [ to Co. No. 6 at 11:42 Olneys retired about 10 o'clock and were unaware of the fire | until they were notified by neigh- bors, one of whom smelled smoke and another of whom saw the blaze from his home across the street. | Whether the iron was left near the| dresses while whether it has not been disconnected it was yet warm, or when its use was ended could not be learned today. from Washington. News Service New York, Feb. 22 (®—The burn- ing out of a cable in a street man- hole delayed for several hours today the feeding of news from the New York bureau of the Assoclated Press to hundreds of newspapers in the eastern and central states, The cable runs from Associated avenue, near Grand Central termi- nal, to the Western Union building in Walker street, more than two miles downtown, where the 350 wires of the cable are directed throughout the nation. Melting snow presumably flooded terminal and 23rd street, Western Union officials said. causing a grounding or short circuit of the cable. The short circuit occurred shortly after 4 o'clock and although Wes Union workmen were put to work immediately, it was hours before the service was par- tially restored. Automatic printer service, a sort of telegraphic type- definitely wnd have #tcepted por!»l Becretary of state—Henry L. Stim- An inquiry discloses his choice for | |in the Hoover campaign, Walter F.| campaign manager. | Press headquarters at 383 Madison | a manhole between Grand Central| several | New York, Feb. 23 P—The east- sern portion of the country today Jw“ floundering out of the worst| | Snow storm of a tardy winter sea~ {son. The storm, sweeping in on a {northeast wind, spread a thick cov-| ering of snow from Maine to the urolinas and westward to the Mis- |sissippi valley. [ The deaths of 12 persoms, injury |to several others and numerous mi- |nor accidents were attributed to the |snow and cold. Shipping was hamp- ered and railroad achedules disrupt- jed. In some sections drifting snow |blocked highways. Only strenuous |efforts by augmented maintenance |8angs, kept roads open in other portions. A fall of seven inches brought out {the maximum snow fighting force in {New York where offictals estimated 22,000 men were clearing lines of |heavy traffic with the aid et a huge fieet of plows, scrapers, brushes and trucks, Shipping is Delayed The liner Leviathan and other | vessels were delayed being held out- side the harbor until the curtaln of snow had lifted. | Rapid transit lines and railroads entering the city experienced some jdelay, but there was no Interrup. tion of traffic. Upstate New York was burled un- der the heaviest fall of the year. | Maine, from the coast inland also {had its most severe snow atorm of [the season, with snow reaching a |depth of 14 inches in places. Tem- peratures fell as low as 12 degrees | below zero. | The storm penctrated the south | below the border states with a fall |of 17 inches at Nashville, Tenn., iand heavy falls in Virginia, Ken- tucky and the western Carolina, Black Hills Memorial i Approved by Senate ‘Washington, Feb, 22 P~—The 1to make a government project out of the proposed memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakta to Wash- ington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roose- velt, was approved today by the senate. Blown Qut Manhole Cable Halts to Eastern Papers writer, was the only facility affected and the news organization was ablc to maintain the relay of some news over Morse wires, Circuits going to the west with terminals in Chicago, Kansas City, Louisville and other large citles, to New Engiand, New Jersey, York, Pennsylvania and Delaware and a large group of evening papers in New ¥ork city were affected. _— THE WEATHER ' | | New Britaim and viciatty: | Partly cloudy tomight and ' tomorrow. * * | SKATING SCHEDULE | Skating at all parks. | New | | |Gaines of Waterbury, |cab mou\r here after driving the men tromi d | “Cenleg Mpent to the pallce statton |and said | y men had stolen his cab. and were apeeding toward the Ten- nesses lne. " OB Savs and Guns {* The prisoners escaped after slug- sing Elvin Whittington, a guard: {and stealing his keys. Saws and automatice had been smuggled into {the jail to them. | Yrom the fail the fugitives went |to ‘West Charieston, where they 1 | (Continued on Page 23) LYNAN A, MILLS, 87, ' EXPIRES IN FLORIDA Former Lieutenant Gover- nor Was Father of | Herbert L. Mills Lyman A. Mills, Connecticut's old- est former lleutenant governor and a descendant of two of the state’s | oldest familles, died at his winter 'home in Florida yesterday, accord- ing to word received by his son, Herbert L. Mills of 30 Curtis street, a hardware merchant of this city. | He was 87 years old. { Mr. Mills was born in Mtddlefleld, February 25, 1841, the son of Rev. Charles A. Mills and Elizabeth Coe Lyman. He was educated in Middle- |fleld and attended Durham academy and a private achool fin North Bridgewater, Mass. Later he was associated with the |Lyman Gunsight Co., and at one time was president of the American Wringer Co. plant in Middlefield. He {took a keen interest in farming and was successful in rafsing fine cattle. {He then became associated with financial interests in Middletown and was elected a trustee of the Middle- town Savings bank. one of the old- est institutions of its kind in this state, Mr. .Mills became interested in | politics in 1890 and 1892. He be- {came the republican candidate for a | place in the general assembly in| { .j (Continued on Page 28) CHURCHES TO WAR ON | . GAMBLING IN STATE {Federation Wil Carry Cru- | } sade Against All Forms | to Legislature Hartford, Feb. 22 (P—An inten- !sive drive against gambling in the | state is to be carried into the legls- {lature by the Connecticut Federa. {tion of Churches, according to an |announcement recently sent out from the Hartford headquarters of |the organization. | Not only “effective voicing of op- | position to the bill which has been Iintroduced in the general assembly to legalize race track gambling,” but |an organized effort to secure more istringent laws against lotteriea, policy playing, slot machines and {sambling houses 13 to be under. | | trate demanded. “I have a right to be heard!” Lee- hove shouted. “Take him out,” said the magis- | trate. | Court Orders Asrest | “Arrest him,” said the magistrate, and a court officer and a policeman dragged the lawyer struggling to the detention pen. Just as he was| being pushed in, Y.eebove succeeded | in tripping the polieeman, Joseph Maher, who fell to the floor. | Coilins, who had watched the en- | counter calmly, was then committed for 30 days, or until such time with- in that period as exteadition papers might arrive from the governor of (Continued on Page 16.) | EDEL TRIAL TAKES THREE-DAY RECESS Prosecutor Charges Ac- cused Killed Stock Ac- ; tress With Hammer | | | New York, Feb. (CP) — A} three-day recess in the murder trial of Frederick W. Edel, accused of killing Mrs. Emeline Harrington, stock actreass, December 23, 1927, began today after completion of the Jury yesterday, the opening state- ments of lawyers and the hearing of two witnesses. Dr. Charles Norris, medical exam. iner, teatified Mrs. Harrington's body bore 13 lacerations and abrasions, ten of which were on the forehead and temples and he believed they had been caused by blows. In his opening statement to the jury As- sistant District Attorney Edward E. McDonald had said he would prove Edel killed the woman with a ham- mer he carried in a bag when he | went to the apartment in answer to | an employment advertisement. Mrs. Pauline Willlamson, of | Binghamton, N. Y., who rented an | apartment to Mrs. Harrington, dentified & fur coat and jewelry wFich Edel is charged with having | glven a woman in Springfleld, Mass. | Defense attorneys said they would | prove that Edel had never been in | Mrs. Harrington's apartment and | that his indictment was due to po- | lice bungling the investigation. | SETTLEMENT FOR $3.650 | IN SUIT FOR BOY'S DEATH| Estate of Robert W. Goodrich,| Fatally Injured by Truck, Sued for $10,000. Settlement for $2,650 has been made in the $10,000 action brought by Charles W. Goodrich, Sr., admin- istrator of the estate of Robert W. Goodrich, against William F. Quinn of Bassett street, in superior court, without a trial. Casale & Casale of this city represented the plaintiff and Woodhouse & Cornwall of Hartford represented the defendant. Ribert W. Goodrich was 13 years of age when he died on October 6, 1928, of Injurles sustained when he was run down at West Main street and Corbin avenue on October 2. by a truck owned by the defendant and 2y |taken, according to Rev. David P. president of (the federation. driven by William J. Birmingham. The boy was riding a bieycle at th'l time of the accident. |spread and the rebel forces were augmented. Injection of two of the mest mot- able figures in China complicated the situation and gave it a much more serious aspect than was at st apparent. One of these was Geo: Feng Yu-Hslang, known Y Christian general,” who 18 reporicy massing $0,000 troops on the wosic. Shantung frontier. Gets Into It The other figure was Chuuk Tsung-Chang, former war lord of Shantung, who though defeated, Law uever been captured by the Nation- alists. He had escaped to Liactung, Japaneso territory, but is said to have left Dairen Liactung Wednes- day and landed later on the Shane tung coast. Chinese newspaper in Shantuag say the movement is being fostered by Japan, whose troops guard the rallways and important points in the' province. The charges are indignante ly denied by Japaness newspapersy Late dispatches from Chefoo said §§ was presumed the battle heralded' the arrival of Chang Tsung-Changy who is now at the head of §,000 meng remnants of his former troope. The firing seemed to indicate he was attacking the Nationalists dee fense line in the vicinity of Fushe anhsien. DESCRIBES ANGUISH DURING TUBE BLAZE New Britain Man Home After Terrifying Experience “It was hell, nothing but helly | with us in there like rats in & trag waiting to die” sald Alexander Lichtenberg of 42 Rockwell avenue today regarding his terrifying ex- perience Tuesday night when @ Hudson tube train in New York city took fire. “All 1 could think of was my family, my mother and father, my wife and two kids, and how those poor devils felt as they awaite ed death in the submarine S-4 om the bottom of the sea.” Suffering from nervous reaction following the dreadful experience, Mr. Lichtenberg, who returned liome last night, said that although he had been made unconscious from phyxiation in the subway train =pd was placed on the critical list -1t Bellevue hospital where he = taken after his rescue by New Y firemen, he hoped to suffer no : manent {ll effects. “A friend, Alexander Rudui, i who is also & bond salesman, :nd 1 boarded the train at the 33d street station shortly after § o'clock. We tube following its scheduled course,” he related. “We stopped at the Christopher street station, which is the last stop before the train starts under the. river, and had gone about 1,000 when I began to smoke as if rubber and burning. I spoke te'a told him that there was where. He told me that any fire, but then the He opened his door %0, & wall of i Efli : g Lz Hi