New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 30, 1929, Page 1

[mom] NEW BRITAIN HERALD ESTABLISHED 1870 NACO AWAITS ATTACK AS REBEL MAYQ INDIANS END THEIR HOLY WEEK TRUCE General Yucupicio’s Men Plan to Move on, Garrison Today When' Self-Imposed Armis- tice for Duration of Lent Expires. ' Camp Fires Gleam All Night in Hills Eighti * Miles East of City and| Federals Learn Topete’s! Insurgents Push On from Del Rio. March 30 @) — published a re- Douglas, Ariz., The Dispatch today port that the Muyo G gt Indian rebels Rawon attack the federal garrison | onora, shortly after noon report Yucupicio's refnsed during which noon. | under Yucupicio| would at Naco, today. ‘I ha e s fight cxpires at men to holy Naco, Mexico, P —Camp tires, pr by General Ramon dian robel soldiers Yrieta, cast of her Naco late last about cight miles Reports also reached the garrigon herc that General Topete's rebel troops had started | moving northward from Del Rio. The soldicrs of the federal garrison lere prepared to an at- tack. ] Sonora, March 30| lighted | Yucupicio's In- from Agua seen from apparently | sumably night way. federal | 1austo | withstan Gar Alert The loyal of about 1 son on Arrison liere, composed 0 troops, In- dians under neral Lucas Gonzalez. jalins been on th rt since the town was showered with handbills from a rebel airplane yesterday The ]mndl»!lls warning all citizens | )10 leave 0. were signed by Gen. 1 Topete, who for many days has threatening an attack The rebel aviator was driven off by two fed: plane Topete said to have about 3,800 troops and Tias been slowly advancing toward Nuco from the southwest. He was| known to have moved a detachment of troops to within 10 miles of Naco. Yeeping the wain column at Del Rio, about 30 miles from here. | The departure of Yucupicio's troops from Agua DPrieta, east of Naco, was announced late Thursday (Continued on Page 17) CAROL GIVES PLEDGE NOT T0 SEEK THRONE Rumanian Prince Promises Marie He Will Not Mo- lest Kingly Son mostly b March 30 (&) left France Rumania Mari Bucharest, —When Qtieen for Spain a few ago she took the pledge of her son—always af- if somctimes rather | sdless—that he would not embar- ass her with efforts to unseat his own son, Michacl, as king of Ru- mania. The queen informed the govern- ment from Spain that former Crown Prince Carol, with whom she spent two days in France, fully recognized his situation and the futility of any attempt to return to Rumania or to regain its throne. He promised his Ynother to let things in Bucharest remain as they are. The government let it be that the queen's meeting with son and the reconciliation had its approval. Marie’s principal object, | it was said, was to obtain a definite | promise by Carol to refrain from | the political and 1 affairs of Ruman | and | to attempt to persuade the prince known her (Continued on Puge 20.) Picnickers Put London Under Haze of Smoke London, March 30 (P—Lon- don emerged partially today from a smoke screen—which Leplaced to some extent its tra- ditiwnal haze of fog. The explanation was given that carefree holiday picnick- ers had set fires with discarded smouldering cigarctte butts on the grass lands and gorselands which were withered by the severe frost and completely dried ont with an unseasonable sun. London was completely ringed with heath fires which left thousands of blackened acres in the home counties, particularly on the Surrey com- mons, Local fire brigades were hard put to respond to all the calls and to prevent the fires reach- ing houses. Police warnings against carelessness in build- ing fires and discarding cigar- otte butts apparently had little effect, | | Jackson | Chestnut strect. | clowski, | out for the da | manner, ‘seats and interior of I Indian Commander ! GEN. BIL DISCREDITS JACKSONLETTER RAMON YUCUPICIO Goroner Says He Takes Litte Stock i in SlllClde Notes PLANNING T0 YISIT RICE Eleanor Hamna's Parents Sty She Knows of No Trouble in Jackson Family—Nobody Recalls Torn Dress. March 30 (®—Coron- er Arthur G. Bill of Danielson, told newspapermen night that he did not take much stock in the con- tents of the suicide notes of M William A. Jackson, wife of the slain county detective, Willimantic last He said he would 5o to the Brook- | Ivn jail and take the te enor A. Rice, held as Juckson's murdercd, as part of his inquest, ying: “It is only fair to give him a chance.” In court cir ching the case, timony of s that have been opments in the the note found In Kkson's pocket was belicved to dis- credit the assertions of Mrs. Jackson that she committed the crime of killing the detective. She said her notes that Rice Wife's NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1920,—TWENTY PAGES DENTIST ON WAY .~ TO EXAMINE Bl]I]YI 16irl Found Dead in (}onnecucut‘t River Unidentified MAY BE ALICE CORBETT { Whether Corpse Is That of Frances | St John Smith or Other Coliege ' | Girl Who Vanished Be Determined. Remains (o Springfield, Mass., W. ¥ dentist, March 30 (UP) +—Dbr. Woods of Pelham, N. a informed local au-| thorities today that he would :\rrnc! at 3:20 p. in an cffort to identify the taken from the Connecticut vesterday as that of Miss Frances St. John Smith, missing Smith col- lege student. At the same time, Dr. H. M. Clapp of Utica, N. Y., requested a Spring- Tfield dentist to join Dr. Woods in| an inspection of the dental work of | the dead girl in the possibility that the body might be that of Miss “Alice Corbett, who also disappeared from Smith college more than three years ago. It was understood that Dr. Clapnp took this action at the behest of Miss Corbett's parents. | Both Vanished on Tridays Both Smith college students appeared on a 1'riday the 13th Miss Corbett in November, 1925, and Miss Smith in January, 1928, Employes of the Merritt Chap- man and Scott corporation found the | young woman’s body in a fleld one mile below the S nd bridge in | Longmeadow afternoon They were searching for the body of here, m. ds- | (Continued on Page 17) GOLD, RAIN, SNOW EASTER FORECAST S'I'IMSON IS SWORN IN sident Hoover's cabinet was completed this week when Henry L. body of a young woman Stimson took the oath as secretary of statc. river | administered oath as Frank B. Kellogg, former secretary, looked on, Chief Justice Taft (left) THRI]NfiS DESCEND ONTAX GOLLECTOR, 4,000 Expected to Pay Persona] | Tax On Last Day CITY HALL IS CROWDED Special Arrangements Made by, Average Daily Circulation Fos Mareh 23va. 15,559 March 23rd PRICE THREE CENTS 24 HOUR POLICE PROTECTION FOR CITY BUSINESS SECTION 0 BE TRIED OUT ON MONDAY (' He Succeeds Curt |Clnef Hart to Experi- Loomis to Handle Loung Llncs——‘ Force Will Remain on Duty Until 9 o'Clock Tonight. With a steady stream of personal taxpayers passing through the office of Collector Bernadotte through the morning hours, the col- lector estimated at noon today that more than 4,000 persons wili have settled their close of the da Four Cent Tax on Gasoline is Proposed as One Solution to Problem of Highway Finance Abolition of Auto Property Levy Forms Part of Road Construction Project Now Under Legislative Discussion — Senator Christ Declines to Comment. State Capitol, Hartford, March 30 (#-—What is hailed as a solution of | the problems of dirt road construc- tion, motor vehicle property tax col- lection and highway financing is in the process of formulation at the state capitol, with the chair the general assembly’s finance, roads, rivers and bridges, and appropri ' of | tions committees, Secretary of State | William L. Higgins, Commissioner Robbins D. Stoeckel and Tax Commissioner William H. Blodgett co-operating in the effort. Motor Vehicle | | purpose. The solution, gequiring in its de-' termination the joint efforts of all {these officials and legislators, would Weather Prophets Dampen Prospect for Display of Finery Tomorrow ashington, March 30 (®—Unless | {he weather man is forced to change | bis mind, this year's crop of light | flowery Euster frocks. like many of | its predecessors, will have to burst| into bloom indoors, or be hidden be- | neath the protecting folds of spring | coats during the annual parades in many eastern cities, For colder weather, with showers, and even snow flurries in some can sec in prospect for Easter Sun- day along the Atlantic coast as far south as Georgia and as far west as | Ohio. Al because a low pressurc | area had moved down feom the Arc- | | tic to northern Minnesota last night, and still was moving in this direc- tion. i “The eastward advance of the | western disturbance,” as the weather burcau puts 1t, “will be attended by showers over the greater part of the | Washington forecast district Satur- day and Saturday night, probably continuing into Sunday. Mild tem- [peratures Satarday will be followed by change to colder weather into Sunday, and in the Atlantic States Ohio Vall Tennessee and the low- | er lake region Saturday night and Sunday. The weather will become | | much colder Sunday.” | in| was not a sub- | ject of controversy in the argument | she had she shot him. Girl Knows of No Trouble Eleanor Hanna, whom Mrs, son mentioned in one of her notes dirceted to Attorney King as being | one person that knew she % ("on‘inund on FIRE IN TROLLEY I]AR CAUSES $800 DAMAGE ehicle Standing Barn When Blaze Breaks Out A trollcy car used on the Mcriden | line was damaged by fire to the ex- | tent of $500 this morning while standing in the Connecticut compa:.y rd just west of the car barn on The fire was dis- covered at 4:30 o'clock by one of the company's employes who call-d the attention of Zygmund Gwia foreman of the repair crew, and he the car barn bhox. uperintendent W. J. Bryan of the local division of the company made an investigation and was satisfied that the fire was caused by the wir- ing. He learned that the electricity had been turned on for the purpoze of heating the car before taking it as is customary, and veral minutes later, after other cars had been worked on in a similar smoke was discovered. When the firemen arrived, the en- tire interior of the car was blazing, and the reflection of the against the windows of other trolley cars near it gave the yard the ap- pearance of a big fire, Superintendent RBryan said the the car were badly burned, but the car can be repaired. with her husband before had been | Near | turned in an alarm from Box flames | | | i | | about $2,300,000. be in the form of a substitute for the bill now before the general assem 'bly, providing $500,000 be appropri ated from motor vehicle department receipts for the improvement of | rural or town gravel roads. Under the present bill the im- provement work would be done by the state highway department, the towns paying 25 per cent of the cost, | the state the rest. Secretary Higgins. who led the fight for this bill, is taking an active part In the formulation of the sub- stitute. All thgse cooperating say it {is still in the “talk’” or “argument” | Pearson of Cromwell. The others are Senators Parson, of North Ca n, finance chairman: Christ, of Ne Dritain, appropriation chairman, and Arrigoni of Durham, roads, rivers and bridges chairman. Would Double Gas Tax The chief elemens of the proposed solution are the increase of the gas- | oline tax from two to four cents and the abolition of the motor vehicle property tax. The increased gas tax, it was pointed out, would bring an additional revenue to the state of | tax never exceeded half this sum. In return for the loss of the auto property tax the towns would be cn- titled to a share of the gas revenue for the improvement of dirt roads. One of the objections to this plan, | creased gas tax results in a higher annual payment than the auto pro some motorist: on the substitute municipalities wou money than they need, practically cities auto property tax dirt or gri.vel roads lose by discrimination. son declared it might be possible to | make some arrang: municipalities bill, would without In anticipation of continuing | throngs of men and women, hasten- ing to avoid the extra tax of $1 for |delinquency, arrangements were ‘made to keep the office open until 9 o'clock tonight. Two months hav- ing been afforded thosc liable to per- sonal tax payments in which to visit city hall and make their $2 deposit, it was the feeling of city officials that ample notive has been given and sufficient time allowed for all. Today, the staff of the collecto office was augmented by the installa tion of an auxiliary offic in the cor. ridor nearby. Persons who came to make payment but who bring their bills with them, rected to this bureau Lills were typed. Thousands found (Continued on Page 17.) VALUE OF FACTORY is that some get more while others, lose their | and not having to be improved, Senator Pier- | uld ement whereby | dirt road problems might get their share of | the tax money and u enator the tax collectors w larly worried over auto property tax collection would no longer have this worry tax would be abol Parsons thought se it for zmo(h(’r Decline in Number of Es- tablishments and Wage Earners ho are particu- | their losses'in | as the, ished, and the gas tax paid by the very ones who would pay property make up the differ perty tax, for | cording to Senator |stage, and that nothing is ready for g " (O | pregentation. Among the most active | o¢'y o0 states, is all ths weather forecasters | VOrkers for the substitute is Scnator | | little to upkee pof roads. { { i these auto owners would pay small- for dirt penses, than they do under the pres- | er assessments _ent plan, Tax On Tourists Senator Pierson also said that a great revenue ! state from the and wou lectors trouble over ty tax collection. pointed out that thousands of auto highways and roads ists use state every day who contr As many autoists [the state to buy gas whether they (Continued on THE WEATHER I The auto property | | voiced by one of the officials working i THIS WEEK'S AFFAIRS Cloudy. probabl rain tonight a slightly warme moderate o f mostly south an inc very ones giving tax col- New Britain and vicinity: By (Washin Washington, (Connecticut” RGE H. MANNING on Correspondent, B. Herald) D. C., March industrial output in 1927 increased in value by almost $10,000,000 over the 1925 output, despite the fact that both the num ber of industrial establishments ani tax, more than ence. If the in- ac Pierson, then road ex state's industries declined during | the two year period. During 19227, Connecticut's 2,877 industrial establishments turned out finished products valued at $1 .563, as contrasted with the put of $1.274,951,562 produced 3062 establishments in 19 The state's industries, in 1927, em ployed a total of 240,806 wage earn ers, who received for their labors that r a compensation of $304 3,91 whereas in 1 a largs 1d come to the eased gas tax out ationists, some by the auto proper Senator Pierson ibute nothing or have to stop in | .. joq only $301,109.566, an indi cation of the upward trend in cost of labor since that year, cording to figures taken from 1927 census of manufactures by spartment of commerce. Materials entering into manufac , including factory supplies, fuel power, cost the industries of | nsiderably less the totals for the respectively, $596,- | 2,642,343, The value (dded by manufacture in 1927 was as compared with ac- the the | Page 17) y occastona nd day; er tomight; resh winds, d southwest. two years being, WIiTH ALDERMAN T-GUSTAVE JOHNSON ON ONE END ANU TH® BOARD OF F(2& CCMMSSIONERS AT The OTHER -THIS RAIN- COAT DISPUTE GETS MORE - LAND MORE EXCITING — _ WILIAM T .GLEASON OF TORRI PRINCIPAL SPEAKEQ Ar weurv.%%fim N/WAL GAQUET OF N.8.8 ATTExDANCE, %nam':&uns before the! failed to| were di- | where new | number of wage earners—242,362— | 111‘ ] Loomis | | | Former Governor Will Be Named - PRODUGTS INCREASES CHOICE PLEASES HOOVER l‘rf‘\ldl‘m Tells Governor Reed His Political Matters. Washington, J. 30 — ! Kansa tional many Curtis in the senate, the wage earners employed by the |relinqui was elevated I7~r1.\|on to fill the Governor Clydc after President attended war dep Burke, nationa nient | saic stat | the | Governor Reed s MMOTHER AND SON ARE KILLED BY BANDITS Maryland Home | Fire After Occupants [ Are Eikton, Anna Ldwa IO! building closely. He Mrs. Chidister, of in turn called was destroyed. | Henry Cons r | Logan and Coroner Howa son ha The body of the and firemer | | ruins | mother's body GROSKO CASE NOLLED Arrsted With John J. Man | satisfies State’s Not Guilty of Extortion, iggins represc ‘ federal officer. Higgins left ! before he was to {ed in been seen-in the warrant for his sued court. EU"“O Iy \._” i Seleetion Curtis and Allen Long at Odds in after T | ment With Plan Ex- tending Arrangements to Other Districts it Common Council Cbanges Law, Ordinance for An Eight | Hour Working Day for Needed Be- fore Program Can Be Carried Out in Its En- tirety. Patrolmen T HENRY J. ALLEN ,*u:::,lu'rn w . ! - meen © by Chicf Hart of t department that a trial will be made, ef- April 1, of a plan whereby busin of the city and territory diately surround- it will be protected 24 hours and it is intended to make vision for similar protection in scetons as the need grows, vomnion council sees the ordinance whicn vorking day of nine r poli e ing dail pr for Four Year Term hour e on to be cove includes in three Main street, enuc. West Main street the post office, Arch Main street and Park No. 1, including Main side, south of the rail- chs to Chestnut street, will putrolled by Officer Joseph Ken- v irom 7 a. m. to 4 p. m.; Officer Peter McEvoy from 3 p. m. to mid- night; Officer Cornelius Keough from 11 p. m. to 8§ a. m. Beat No. Main strevt, west side, from the railroud *ks south to the Na- tional corner and west on w as far as the post office, patrolled from 7 a, m, to 4 p. 1. by Officer Charles Ander- i Officer William J. McCarthy . M. to midnight; Officer ierney from 11 p. m. to § at No. 3, Main street, west from Court street to Franklin ire, will be patrolled by Officer Walter Malona from 7 a. m. to 4 p. m.; Officer Maurice Flynn from 3 p. m. to midnight; Officer M. J. Moore, 11 p. m. to 8 a. m. Beat No. 4. railroad arcade and Church street, Officer Clarence Lanpher from T a. m. to 4 p. m, including attendance u‘, ts Hartford & as as street, South street, Beat streot, Affords Gratification— road tra March 39 (P—Hen- former go of in na- for Allen, and prominent figure politics and will or journalism suceeed filling out the unexpired term Curtis when he vice presiden- years, Charles v the Mr. o the '8 of hed by appoint Mr. Allen to vacancy was anr 1eed by M. Recd of Kansas, conference yesterday with Hoover, also was by iry Good of the rtment and Jame 1" counsel for rey an committee, appoint- will be made, the governor as soon as he returns to the capital at Topela. Talked Wit Hoover making the announcement id the appointment side, a s which Seeret (Continued on Page 15.) AIR MAIL SERVICE T0 INDIA STARTED Plane From C roydon, Eng- land, Leaves Le Bourget for Switzerland (Continued on l‘hzfl 18.) Set On 0 (P—Air s inaugurat- an Imperial Airway t re with Samuct tary, aboard as v as Egypt. ried 364 pounds ef d. where it ail train Er March to India Croydor M ihoney, Ie secr M. rd, a e r[ \\1 liams, told police was awaken- ots early tod: and inaf saw the Mahoney h said that the t for him to approach v of Bagdad Persian Gulf to 1S¢ iry cou 15 day nd to India. l‘ll“l Stop in Paris is. France, Marct motored British ating an air mail ser:- en London and India, ar Le Bourget shortly after ¢ and several hours late: ection of Basle, 8wit7 1. where 364 pounds of ma be transterred to a mail tra Genoa s Plea firer notified Mrs rd Gr making beliey ad been an anv Sleet Spoils Easter Vacation for Hoover Washington, March 30 UP— ecty rain early today ster hollday plans ent Hoover. Mrs. Hoover, and their olmates, Eecretary and bur, and the president's , Lawrence Richey, the 14 planned to spend of today on an trip 20 miles into 1s of Virginia to new trout fishing the Rapidan river Madison cour to e been hix ng since he entered the rch 4, and last night carly =0 as to get a start on the excur- 1 he arose, however, adition of the as most un- v kind of out- larly so for ar auto trip into the moun- tains, he cailed it off. of t Higgins Attorney He Was for t vis C 19 John J nolled cases March osko of H collecter r who New superior ty = nch Wolfe by Judge rior | onite |