New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 4, 1929, Page 1

News ‘of the World By Associsted Press ESTABLISHED 1870 NEXICAN REVOLT WANES AS REBEL FORCE IS ROUTED Army of North Is Nearly An- nibilated in Slaughter at Leforma “MANY HUNDREDS OF INSURGENTS ~KILLED| Almazan, Federal Field Commander, Wires President Gil “Butchery” of Opposing Troops Was Stupendous —Calles Calls Battlc Greatest .o Mcyico's Revolutionary History and Definitcly Decisive. La Licforma, Chihuahua, Mexico, April 3 (Night)—(de- layed)—(®—The back of the Mexican revolution in the north was broken today when 2,100 rebels failed by a hair's breadth to cscape from federal cavalry, As a result 800 rebel dead lay piled in three stacks beside the rvailroad tracks tonight. One thousand revolutionists were wounded. Fortyt-wo federals were Killed, The rebel force was the last to leave Jimencz about 6 o'clock yesterday. Mexico City, April 4 @ — The month-old Mexican rebellion emerged today from a four-day encounter in southern Chihuahua a Wavering shadow of the movement which on March 3 threatened the existing Mexican government. Penned like rats in a cage by the fire of coordinating units of federal cavalry, infantry, artillery and air service, the army of the north yes- terday at Lefornia, Chihuahua, was almgst annihilated in what was de- scribed in government dispatches as 2 “horrible slaughter.” Many hun- dreds of rebels were belicved to have been kille Considering his sanguinary work in the north well done, General Plu- turco Elias Calles, federal comman- der-in-chief, announced diversion of 5,000 of his troops to the states of iuanajuato and Jalisco, to wage & similar war of *“extermination™ against the so-called religious insur- gonts of those states. “Those of the rebel infantry who were not Killed are our prisoners,” General Juan Andreu Almazan, fed- cral field commander, wired Presi- Jdent Emilio Portes Gil. “The veri- table butchery among them was stupendous.” General Calles wired the president that the encounter at La Reforma was “the greatest battle in Mexico's revolutionary history.” “It was definitely decisive” he added. “In it the rebels paid dearly for this infamous revolution.” Federals Get Some Sleep More complete field reports today vermitted a fairly comprehensive account of the action. After the (Continued on Page 13.) WUHAN ARMIES IN GENERAL COLLAPSE Retreat on All Fronts Be- fore Nationalist Forces in Hankow Region Hankow, China, April 4 (®—The Wuhan armies which have been op- posing the advance of the National- ist government troops on Hankow, collapsed today and were retreating on all fronts. The Wuhan general commanding the Hwang-Pei sector has gone over 10 the Nanking government, thereby permitting Nanking troops to pene- trate the defensc line of the Wuhan forces. Wuban troops are retreating in confusion. Panic reigns in the Chinese city of Hankow. Refugees streamed into the for- eign concessions arca. Martial law has been proclaimed. GIRL BITTEN IN FACE Armand Gaudette of 14 Orange street complained to the police today that his eight year old daughter, | Geraldine, was bitten in the face by a dog owned by a man named Damoret who lives at the corner of Grove and Broad streets. An in- westigation is being .made. Hoover Gets Tired Of Shaking Hands Washington, April ¢ P — Word went out from the White House today to members of the house and senate that they must be more considerate in sending their constituents to the execu- tive mansion to march in the semi-weekly presidential hand- ahaking line. Yesterday 1,775 people filed through the execufive office and grasped President Hoover'’s hand. The muscles of the hand became 80 sore that he was able to write only with great diffi- culty for some time afterward. Although the secret service agents keep the line moving at high speed, about 43 to the minute on an average. yester- day's reception occupied nearly three-quarters of an hour. ‘This. Mr. Hoover feels, is too much, and the legislators on Capitol Hill have been asked to 1imit themselves to 10 constitu- ents at each reception. | cipal family. (boro. Vt. in 1898. He received his isufl(‘rtd from what | W. Parsons of New Britain has been | They T A RO S g A IR ———— NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1929.—TWENTY PAGES Dr. Pullen Submits Resignation as Health Dept. Superintendent Tenders Resignation Will Retire From Office at Earliest Convenience of Board to Take Up Pri- vate Practice. Dr. Richard W. Pullen, superin- tendent of health for the past six years, has forwarded his resignation | to Chairman John J. McBriarty of the health board and will open offices here for the practice of his profes- sion. The retiring superintendent ha: expressed willingness to remain at |} his post until the health comm sion determines who his successor | will be but he has requested that this action be taken as soon as possible. Dr. Pullen today expressed regret ' that it becomes necessary for him to | sever his associations with the muni- | He has taken -offices | in the Commercial Trust Co.. build- | ing on West Main street. While in | medical school, he prepared to | specialize. and with the sanction of the health board, he has been doing | NEW ASSESSMENT Pledges Eiforts {o Revaluation of Filth Ward Property \OPENS DRIVE FOR VOTES Dr. Pullen was born in Brattle- tepublican and Democratic Candi- DR. RICHARD W. PULLEN college education at Lawrence col- lege, Appleton, Wis., and at the University of Wisconsin, graduating from the latter institution with the degree of bachelor of sclence. He attended Yale Medicd! school from which he was graduated in 1921 with the degree of doctor of medi- cine, After graduation. he entered the surgical service of New Haven Gen eral hospital and remained there until 1923, at which time he was as- sistant resident surgeon and a mem- ber of the surgical faculty of Yale School of Medicine. Shortly after this, a vacancy occurred in the health department. and in July, 1923, Dr. Pullen was appointed superintendent of Thealth. He has served In that capacily since that | date. One of his first problems as super- intendent of health was the handling of the smallpox epidemic of 1924, which through its satisfactory con- | trol saved New RBritain from what could have been an extremely disastrous occurrence. During that year, more than 35,000 persons in | the city were vaccinated. | During his term of office he has been active in pubic health work locally and has fostered such im. [atked for support for himself anJ provements as the addition to the |his associates at the polls met refrigerating plant at the municipal | Tuesday, promising that if elected abattolr, and has strongly urged the (li¢ Will fight for the re-assessment construction of an incinerator for |°f the fifth ward in the council. He garbage disposal. ssured his listeners that he had the welfare of his fellow citizens at He g secretary of the Connecticut | |heart and that 1if successful, he State Public Health association. |\owld look after their interests and in October, 1928, in recognition | yhife in the council. of his service and professional stand- | Attorney B. J. Monkiewicz, chair- ing was elected a Fellow of n\e‘m,,n of the fifth ward republican American Public Health association. [town committee, also urged the peo- Dr. Pullen took the position of ple to go out on election day and superintendent of health at a salary vote fos Pajewski and the other of $3,000, and in a period of five rcpublican candidates for the coun- years, it was advanced to $4.500. cii, and stressed the fact that Pa- The health board’s recommendation |jcwski had never before gone back that a further increase to $5.000 be jon his promise to look out for the effective April 1, of this city, was re- [citizens’ welfare. The speaker re- jected by the salary committee of [minded the members of the club the common council. that it was in their power to give !the candidates their full support and AGE" w”MEN FwNn that they should poll a 100 per cent SLAIN IN CHICAGO | S e iredsyirer o7 s club, and Joseph Miynarski, co-run- ner with Pajewski and Luther Ab- rahamson, ala:fif)_ohr, asking full Mystery in Killing of Rich ! T —— Widow and Eccentric 5 T“REE MEN Pfl“s“ -t IN BURNING PLANE Doctor, Salesman and Pilot Killed in Scott City, Kans., Crash dates For Common Council Speak From Same Platform At Polish- American Club Rally. With a little less than a week to g0, the republican candidates for the ouncil from the fith ward, Peter J. Pajewski, candidate for alderman, and Joseph Miynarski cai. "‘ote for | councilman, launched on a cam- paign last night, making their initiai addresses at the regular meeting of the Polish-American club No. 1 at the Falcon hall. Affer the regular business of thc |club was dispensed with, Pajewski made @ short speech in which he (Continued on Page Two) Chicago, April 4 UP—What at first appeared to be an attempted mur- der followed by suitide had turned | today into a mystery in which a! third person may have played a| murderer’'s part. Two aged women—a wealthy | widow and her maid—were found in the former's apartment yesterday. The maid, Mrs. Ida Peterson, was| dead, a bread knife plunged in her neck: her mistress, Mrs. Helen Kel- | %0, 70, was near death from ham- | Shar blowi; The dead are Dr. C. C. McGinnis, Scott City surgeon; Chester Riley. m:":fl’:;" ;;‘C”" ot ‘,’:“’"f T ';"“ibcou City, a traveling salesman, and : vears oid, had beateh yonn Ylournoy of Wichita, the Mrs. Kelso over i the head with a | lot. hammer and then had taken her Pl own life. Mrs. | Peterson, who had | < A longing to Bert Schmidt, a Wichita been maid for Mrs. Kelso for 27/ . operator, into the air to warm yegrs, at one time was an inmate of | |it up preparatory to starting on & the state hospital for the insane and | !fishing trip to Colorado with a hor puysiclalt |ty of men, After circuling the city, the plane crashed from an al- titude of about 500 feet, catching firc as it struck the ground. By GEORGE H. MANNI} Sthmidt and two other men, who (Waslington Correspondent, N. B. Trerald) | were to have been passengers on Washington, D. C.. April 4—Stuart [the trip to Colorado, saw the crash. cbuld ascribe no cause for {the accident Flournoy had been Schmidt's perzonal pilot for several !momhs. Man Hurt in Factory Must Remain in Bed Motionless for Two Weeks Frank C. Humphrey of School strcet was seriously injured yester day at the Hartford plant of Har & Hegeman, when an emery wheel broke and a corner of the heavy grinder struck him in the forehead. He was taken to St. Francis’ hos- pital where it discovered that he has a cracked skull. Had he been bending over the wheel at the time it broke, surgeons believe he might <4 Scott City, Kan, April ¢ ®— | Three men were burned to death to- day when a monoplane crashed to the ground and burst into flames. (Continued on Page Seven.) PARSONS GETS PATENT granted a patent by the U. §. Patent Office on his invention of door catch, it was learned here. have been killed. The wheel had been turning at the ate_of about 2,500 revolutions a minute. Sections of the broken wheel went flying through a win- dow for a distance of about 100 feet. Treatment of the peculiar skull crack will require him to lay on his back with his head motionless for about two weeks, doctors say. Flournoy had taken the plane, be- | ACCOUNTANTS TEL OF TANGLED BOOKS Egan Trial Witnesses Say Wat- kins Records Were Muddled HADFIELD URGED COUNSEL | Declares He Advised Watkins m! Cousult Lawyer and Latter Said When He Waated To “Put Some- thing Over” Hc Saw Egan. Hartford, Apri! 4 (®—Public ac- | countants as statc witnesses testity today in the trial of Willlam . Egan, Hartford attorney indicted for conspiracy in connection with mismanaged affairs of investment companies promoted by Roger W. Watkins, now a state prison inmate, deseribed to Judge Isaac Wolfe the “haphazard” condition of the books of those companics, These witnesses testified that they found records where stock certifi- cates had been turned over to Egan and sold fer him when originally they had been bought for the in- vestment companies. accountants, Seth Hadfield. having failed to straighten out the muddle in the books of both the Winthrop | Gregory company and the National Assoclated Investors, Inc., to a point | where a balance could be struck, | voluntarily advised Watkins to got an attorney to straighten things out. Watkins' reply, Hadficld testificld, (Continued on Page 17.) ! PROPOSE TO EXTEND | EAST MAIN STREET Bersons and Erwin Offer| Land to City With out Cost Announcement was made today | by George and Nathan Berson and Richard H. Erwin, ewners old Elihu Burritt property rear of Main street, Main street, that they will offer to | tt city, free of charge. a strip of land 355 feet long and 40 or 50 feet wide, through which E street could be ¢ nded. The ican Hardware Corporation owns a small piece of land on Washington street, on which there is a wooden building and a parking space for automobiles of employes of the of the in the opposite East | could be obtained. it would be pos. sible to extend East Main strect through to Washington street. One of these | Russell & Erwin division, and if this | MAN SHOOTS AND STABS WIFE; WOMAN’S CONDlTlOM, ne Pavano, 18, | hospital about 3:45 o'clock this aftery bullet wound in the left side and a husband, Salvatore Pavano is under a dangerous weapon. He will be AMrs. Pavano is expected to recover. Woman Accused of _ Robbing 110 Banks W York, April ¢ Lhar‘b\_d with having ummnfld from 110 banks about $250,000 on forged checks, Mrs. Florence Garland, 38; Miss Bessie Farrell, and Julius Goldberg, 40, were held in $100,040 bail each today By Judge Jonnellan in gencral sessions court. They have been indicted for second degree forgery. M#ts. Garland, first of the trio arrested, told police that Gold- | berg was an expert penman, and that she and Miss Farrell had passed checks. The specific complaint against her was made by Louis Smiegel, whose forged signature appeared on a $14y check drawn March 16 on the Title Guaranty & Trust Co, VACGINATION BILL 15 LOST IN HOUSE. {Optional Measure Rejected Alter Reimers Fights for It 35, \PECK WARNS OF “MENACE" Bristol J.udgc Holds Smallpox Peril Js Too Great to Permit Personal Willingness to Enter Question of Tnoculation. State Capitol, Hartford, April 4 0P —The house today rejected the “op- tional vaccination” bill after its sponsor. Mr. Reimers of Durham half, telling the body that the judi- committec's unfavorable port was “‘unconstitutional.” Mr. Algorn, of Suffield, member, said the bill was moved from #e table, on ‘which it was lgyesterday because of Mr. | absence, and he moved re- ection on the grounds that the pro- | visions are medical, ciary re- ! and medical | ‘usumony had opposed the bill. Mr. Reimers said he supported the bill because he had taken an h to support the constitution, which gives people the right to have opin- licns and to reject religious, medicat Berson Brothers ~nd Mr. Erwin recently purchased the property and they may erect buildings on part of .it at some future time, but | |for the present they wish to have the city make the cxtension if it is thorities. To have a street or 497 or (Continued on Page 17.) STATE POLICE WORK ON WILTON TRAGEDY Bodies of Yates Girl and Farmer Await Order From Coroner Wilton, day salient facts which might further explain the tragedy of late yesterday when Edwin Melhuish, a farmer, killed his daughter's chum, Yates. 18, and then killed himself. The bodies were viewed by Dr. Ernest Smith, medicak examiner or Accepting the offer of friend’s father to drive her home from school, the Yates girl was shot {and killed when she resisted his at- tentions. Melhuish had stopped at the Nor- walk high school for his daughter and the Yates girl. who were school- mates. He took his daughter home and then drove toward the Yates (oCntinued on Page 13) 300 Animals to Act In “Talking” Movie New York, April 4 (UPY—Up at the Bronx Zoo, 300 unrelated forms | of jungle life are rehearsing their parts for the first all-animal, al- | talkie movie ever produced. Under the skillful directing of Dr. Raymond L. Ditmars, curator of | animals and reptiles at the Zoo, the crick of the cricket, the squeaky 1yric of the tree toad and the sounds of more brutish animals will be reproduced and filmed for lecture purposcs Of the 300 actors, Dr. Ditmars maid, Slithers, the hyena, is the most lemvenmenml. “Once he starts laughing, there's no stopping him,” Ditmars said. 1 | | THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity Mostly cloudy tonight and Friday, probably showers Fri- day; somewhat warmer. ‘ i #*. » considered advantageous by the au- | April 4.—State police to- | were at work clearing up the | Mary | lor other ideas not acceptable to | them emotionally or intellectualiy i {Ho said “optional vaccination” | would not do away with vaccination | but would allow those who believed in it to follow their beliefs, whne those who did mnet belicve could |eschew it. Judge Peck of Bristol, said small- pox is too great a menace to allo vacelnation to be discussed on th tasis of personal willingness or pinion. Mr. Delacour of Stratford la World War veteran, said the war proved the efficacy of inoculation. House Leader Johnson, chester, expressed surprise that a |committee report could be attacke:l lon the basis of its constitutiogality He said medical opinion is favor- able to vaccination and as such | opinion can be the only basis for the retention of a vaccination law, the (Continued on Page 11) FIREMAN BREAKS WRIST WHILE CRANKING ENGINE ' hmu.- Licutcnant Kenney lmuml ' | Testing Apparatus at No. Redding and removed to Georgetown | to await an order from the coroner. | her girl | Engine House. Acting Licutenant Patrick Kenney, attached to No. 4 cngine company fractured his right wrist last night while cranking the fire apparatus for a motor test. Kenney, house in the Thomas Hinchey tiome, had just | revolution when the motor compr sion threw it back with great force. Dr. Frank Zwick placed the wrist in splints and X-ray pictures were t | en today with the result that a fra ture was found. Fireman will be required to remain aw duty for eeveral wee of Lieut, is ill at his absence Alleged Gunmen Held [ In $10,000 Bonds Each | stamrord, April ¢ —T'our of {seven men and boys arrested March |27 after a running gun P'ost road between Stamford and Greenwich with the police of both towns were held in $10.000 cach for the superior court to charges of carry | weapons, resisting theft of an automobiic Two other men arc if pital and one boy Jjuvenile court. offic BLAST KILLS WORKMAN Marietta, Ohio, April ¢ (UP)— Willard Cronin, 50, bluster for the Marietta Torpedo company, v as kil ed today when the co ¥’s nitro glycerine magazine at Lchanon, near here, exploded. Cronin was loadir his truck with expiosives when the blast occurred. ste had made a staunch fight in its be- | Judiciary | of Man- | who was in charge of the | e 201} 51y23Y" sritain General _ious condition with a wund in the forehead and her &t on the charge of assault with + aigned i police court tomorrow. | | | Pavano is said to have been liv- | |ing in Hartford, apart from h | wife, for some time, and he cam ito 387 North Burritt strect, w |she has been living, to demand that | he return to live with him., She is said to have refused and he shot {her and stabbed her. He fled through the yard and was | {caught by Officer Henry Zajkowski, wlio lives nearby. The officer was asleep and his wife awoke him. He gave chase, firing one shot in the |air and overpowt posering Pavano. JACKSON SLAIN BY ‘PERSON UNI(NI]WN" | Coroner Bill Releases Find- ing in Killing of County Detective | | ®r- released Danielson, April Arthur G. Bill toda | finding on the inques oronce his t in connection | with the murder January 28 in Wil- Wil- purport of it} to his ldeath as the result of shooting by | some person or persons unknown The inguest ended yesterday fol lowing Coroner Bill's interview witn | Deputy Sherift Trenor ce, who has heen held as a s The inquest started February Under Connecticut law, the coroner | must submit his findings to the su- | perior court. limantic of County Detective E. the | being that Jackson ||am Jackson, came 13. | ing yesterday and has filed it with | the clerk of the superior court. The | | finding is as follows Text of Finding | | “Tne undersigned. coroner with- | lin and for the county of Windham, having received notice that William Jackson of Willimantic, had been found dead at his dwelling house in | Quarry street. in said city of Willi- nantic on Tuesday, January 29, | 1929, about 6:30 p. m., I viewed the body of said deceased, and ordered | an autopsy made therein by Henry ' | N. Costello of Hartford, and on the | |13th day of February, 1929, at 10 la. m. T held an inquest as to the | jcause and manner of said death at the police station in Willimantic and by adjournment at my office in | | Danielson, Conn., on the 15th, 29th | land 30th days of March, 1929. | | “On the testimony taken at such | inquest on the report of said autopay, |1 find that said Willlam E. Jackson died in aid city of Willimantic on | the 29th of January, 1929, about 6:30 p. m. from a gunshot wound in the | head. 1 further found that said wound was inflicted by some person or persons unknown. “I delivered the body of said ceased to his family for burial. “l | file with this finding the report of | said autopsy and a copy oi the testi- mony taken at said inquest. Dated at Danielson this third day April, 1929 (Signed) Arthur G. of Windham county. Bill, Corener {Woman Doctor H—;\gs Herself at Niagara Niagara Falls, N. Y. April 4 (P —Miss Marguerite Schleffinger, ars old, a doctor of science and aduate of the department of cherm isters of the Institute of Technology Cambridge, Mass., ended her life to- day by hanging herself with a dress belt in her room at a local board- [ing nous A member of the 4l industry. Bas Miss Sehleffinger c try in 1421 sh \ a local chen 6 but lost t Mo . t¥ of chem~ Switzeriand to this coun- secured a position al concern 11 ~ position b 44 (‘ atche?(gld By sleepmg on Deck @ — Kello of state. who is visiting E « vacation, was abed with a cold when the lle de France reached ! cold while £ He was unable ito sce re Mrs. Kellogg said ¢ ss were impe was no caus caught hat rest and . but th “Tha Kellogg party od to Havre en route re 12 proce to Paris. Jlenna Collett Wi To Finals in South [ 3% April 4 (P al wonie fir slenna Collett champ wvon her way 1ot of t north and south tournament today with a thr £ one up victory ot of New Orleans in a not decided until th natio s |chairman of the [tee from |place in Berlin with a New | further explained |was a natural one The coroner completed his find- [residents of New Britain regard the : Ameri | be FRANCE BOWS LAST HONORS Average Daily Circulation For| it 15,407 IN GRIEF AS ARE PAID T0 HERRICK AT PARIS EMBASSY VALIDATE WEDDING . BY ASSEMBLY AIJT‘ ol Ny Halt Busingss to 0. K. Ashley- , McKirdy Nuptial Contract BILL IS RUSHED THROUGH Scenate and House Put Aside Aff: of State to Take Spec Wedding of Couple Now on Hon- cymoon, [ Ha proceedings were side- capitol today, to give clear sailing to Senator E. W. Christ's bill to c the marriage of Stanton E and LI McKirdy, both of Britain which took place he Shuttle Meadow club, Berlin Ashicy New a st afternoon Majority Leader Peasi judiciary commit- ich the validating act liad to explained to senate that the marriage which took Britain license was technically illegal. He that all parties and the error because i ginate, acted in good faith, Shuttle Meadow club a part of thut feity. After the senators heard Sen- ator Peasley he moved for a suspen- [sion of the rules in order that the measure might be immedia transmitted to the house of repre- sentatives for passage. When the bill reached the hous:, Majority Leader Raymond Johnson of Manchester explained the me ure, saying that the couple we now on the high seas and could not reached. Following the exol |atiowsin the house, the bill was or- \dered to the office of the engrossing | |cler. and them to Gavernor John | H. Trumbull's office for his signa- ture. Senator Christ followed through both houses to the gove: nor's office and will have the p pers when he arrives in New Brit- {ain. after the appropriations con mittee hearing scheduled for th lafternoon. MINISTER ANNOUNCES HIS OWN ‘SURPRISE” Parish Presents Automo- bile to Rev. Dr. A. A. Ahlquist Although he didn’t know it at the time, Rev. Dr. Abel A. pastor of the First Lutheran church, announced his own It was at the Aliiquist pulpit K nounced i ning. which evening. church sewing socicty would hold its meeting. He advised everyone present and said among ot things that they should not fail to be for the “surprise num- * on the program. He was not in- formed what the surprise would be. Last evening at the meeting, dur- ng e course of ti enterta nt it was announced that the surprise number had been ed. At this point School Committeeman Aaron Danielson advanced to the front and nanded the minister a kev to a 1 five pass the latter would f age garage when he ret The ca pletely equipy last Sunday. Dr. We last ster service. = that on was re irned home ninister bis fersor Ly Methodist Had Ly ‘Captam Mlssmg and Crew Drunk, Schooner Seized by Coast Guards‘ Atlantic City The schooner yacht the colors of the New club, was seized by the coast guard and towed to the harbor at Cape| May this morning. The craft, cording to 1928 registry. of Bureau of navigation, is owned Leland Ross of New York city John B. Scofield, Cape May. said | ‘to be the sailing master of the ac- by York Yac h(’ vacht, together w issing. Tour men were abin of the yacht ed condition and are ed by coast gua to learn what In wottles of n intoxicat- ng question- Isin an effort te the c were found 40 h whiskey four in D in (Continucd on Page 18) 1 Action on | thie b!lll Ahlquist. | gift from the ! "l'llousands Stand With While s are Pro- nounced By Pershing and Poincare—Both Visibly Affected. People and Government Pay Affectionate Fare- well to Beloved Ameri- can Envoy Whose Body Starts Home on French Cruiser Friday. for aris, April 4, ®—Still grieving loss of their gi man Murshal Loch, the peopls and government I'rance today | poure d out unbounded tribute to the (emory of Myron T. 1f beloved American ambas so greatly at the t war com- der, ck. deeply sador who endeared himself to the hearts of all Frenchmen in the days |of the World war. iathered around his brier, draped with fle stars and stripes in the on of the American Em- French cabinet, the army diplomatic corps and many cans now in Paris paid their last affectionate farewell to the late American ambassador. Notable Gathering No more notable gathering ever aid their respects to the memory of a forcigner in the French capital. With the exceptions of Marshals Joffre and Lyautey, too aged to ex- [pose themselves again to fatigue, all the leaders of the french army’ |were present, including such noted figures as Petain, Franchet D'Es- Gouraud, Dubail aid Laseon. [Members of the government ~Were there in full, headed by Premier Poincare and Foreign Mip#ier Bri- and, Mose of the members of the dipio- | matic corps were present while as many other notable figures of France, the United States and other nations as could crowd into the em- bassy salon also attended. The ceremony at the embassy was lof the umnost simplicity. The short (Continued on Page 11) FLORIDA INVESTORS SUE FOR $1,450,000 Du Pont and Livermore Named in Boca Raton Real Estate Action sunny bassy, t and perey, New York, | 81,450,000 was court today b tha 10T pril 4 (P—Suit for iled in the supreme Maximillian Morgau- . son of the former ambassador v, and 92 other investors m iton real estate i. Florida, 1. Coleman Du Pont, Jesse vermore and others, who officers of zner D clop- corporation complaint N that the in salcs, corporation ankruptey s of only $56.- charges Mizner tary b with ass te development pro- alled for a hotel, canals n ficlds, theaters, similar enterprises me to sell the creatly in ex- > compluint I cware Pont, former senator nd Livermore, the ison Izner, presi- corporation. Wilson cretary. George S. Graham wire, directors. more were dire members of the fina is Cairns of Ik is among ca Mi- the Earl of Balfour to Sell Famous House April 4. —(P)—An- that the Earl of s decided to sell his n Car'ton Gardens, Lon- has been the home of famous statesmen for a cen- the s London nce 1871, has given rise to reperts that the Earl ie \ public life, aged st in his §1 withdrawing l duties nce h don, on, which esman, who s vear, has been gradually from and public life last mission to ates in behalf of at Britain, the Waghington lhisarmament conference in 1921, Tor some time it has been \ticipated that after the gene election. the Farl would re- sign his post as lord president of the council even if the Bald- n government should he re- turned to office. but his advice will continue to be weicomed in conservative quarters as long he lives. ow er