New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 9, 1929, Page 1

“ v News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 ESCOBAR RALLIES HI5 REBEL. FORCE T0 MEET CALLES Fate of Mexican Revolution Depends on Outcome of Sonora Battle INSURGENT CHIEFTAIN HAILED AS PRESIDENT| Proclatmed Head Government, He Names Bey as Minister of Treasury and Leaves With 6,000 Well Equipped Troops on Three-Section Train for West of Provisional Chihuahua Mountains. Ariz, April 9 (P—The Mexican revolution ap- Nogales, fate of the peared fo hang today on the ability of the commander-in-chief, Gen. J to coordi- nate his forces in Sonora in time to rebel Gonzalo Escobar, meet the advancing federals under Gen. P. Elias Calles, federal general- issimo. Indications that the opposing commanders were gathering their forces for a supreme effort against each other in Sinaloa and Sonora ap- peared when it announced here it Escobar was expected to arrive in Nogales, Sonora, today from the state of Chihuahua by airplane, pre- ceding his principal army, which cing westward from Juarez r Chihuahua points. This, together with word from Mexico City that General Calles was headd for Cueliacan, Sinaloa, to take personal command of a drive north- ward into Sonora, the heart of tte rebel country, indicated that the principal theater of war has been srifted to the west. At least two important obstacles appeared in Escobar's path. The first was the uncertainty as to whether his main army will be able 1o enter Sonora from Chihuahua be- fore it is intercepted ‘ by federals. Forces from General Cardenas also were reported to be heading toward Pulpeto Pass, through which Esco- bar's rebels were expected to enter Songpey, . by Obstacle At Naco Another obstacle to the apparent rebel consolidation move is the fed- eral garrision at Naco, Sonora, on the Arizona border east of here. Less than 1,200 loyal federals une der Gen. Lucas Gonzalez have held the Naco fortifications against re- prated attacks by the rebel Geners al i'austo Topete. The latter made (Continued on Page 10.) Iy » DEFY TOWN MEETING . of its being nnsafe, O USE OF SCHOOL Newington Committee Plans to Have Struc- ture Occupied When voters of the town of New- gton assemble in the third town meeting tomorrow evening for the purpose of discussing whether they will accept the new junior high school building, which has been com- pleted since February, they will find that regardless of any action by the town meeting, the school department has accepted the building and has gone ahead in making arrangements for occupancy. Becanuse of criticism by individuals who were not satisfied with the building, a reslution was adopted early in February not to accept tha building until it was approved by competent engineers, Former Highw, Commissioner Charles J. Bennett and Philip A. Mason, ding inspector for the city of Hartford, were engaged 1o inspect the structure. They appros- ed the building The report was not satisfactory to the same faction opposing it and at a meeting last Tuesday it was voted to ask for a further inspection of the heating, plumhing and electrical work hy the same engineers. It also voted to give the auditorium floor 2 test of twice the maximum strength required The test has not been made. The echool Aepartment in the meantime has accepted the building and voted to occupy it “We would not con- gider putting children in the building 1f there was the shightest possibility said Chairman Harry H Howard today. Tomorrow evening when the town meeting convenes it will be told that the company which installs seats fn (Continued on Page 19) League of Nations To Protect Whales Geneva, April 9 (A—Protec- tion of whales is to be a new aim of the league of nations. The economic comwittee of the league today appogited a delegation to meet at Jondon on April 18 with experts of the Council for Exploration of the €ea, of Copenhagen, to devise measures to insure the preserva- tion of certain species of whales and. 1n general, to prevent the rapid destruction of all species, which now regarded as a near possibility. The project of prevention of extinction of useful sea animals was that of Professor Buarez of the Argentine. NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1929.—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES Loyal Mexican troops at taken during height of battle by Associated Press cam eraman aco, Sonora, repulsing attack by rebel forces of Gen. Fausto Topete, Picture was (Transmitted by tclephoto from Los Angeles.) POSTMASTERS OF STATE MEET HERE Business Session and Banquet at Anpual Gonvention W. R. Yarrington Speaks on Devel- opment of Planes as Carriers—As- sociation Pledges Support to Pres- ident Hoover and Brown. town and city in Connecticut having a post office are assembled in New Britain today attending the annual convention of the Postmaster's Asso- ciation of Connecticut. Sessions are Leing held'in the Burritt hotel. They -~ POSTMASTER H. E. ERWIN opened shortly after 10 o'clock this morninz with Postmaster H. E. E win of this city, state president, in the chair. Mr. Erwin, who had (Continued on Page 11.) DAWES PICKED FOR ENVOY TO BRITAIN {Name Proposed to London as Ambassador to Court of St. James Washington, April @ (—Although the White House was silent, ¥ was learned todav that the name of Charles Gates Dawes, former viee president, has been proposed fo the the Court of St James. Formal announcement of the ap- pointment awaits word from London that Dawes centable as the sue- cessor to Alanson B Houghton, who is to feave London for the United States on April 27 There is little doubt here that Gen- eral Dawes, one of the most pictur- esque characters in America, and (Continued on Page Three) FUTURE OF AIR SERVICE' Postmasters from practically every | British government as 2mbassador to | Farmers Find Wives Are Not Like Horses Lincoln, Neb., April 9 (UP— Two DBennet, Neb, farmers learned today that the formality of divorce is a legal prerequi- site to the trading of wives. On complaint of “strange go- ngs on” registered by neigh- bors, county authorities arrest- ed Otto Slade, 31, and Horace Reed, 29, who admitted they had traded wives by mutual consent ten days ago. The | wives, Mrs. Zola Slade and Mrs. Martha Reed, each the mother of two children, were detained by juvenile officers. Mrs. Slade asserted her hus- band advanced the proposition of exchanging wives by telling her he did not love her, and that he was attracted by Mrs. Reed. After a conference of the four persons concerned the “trade” was effected March 31. HIT-AND-RUN BOAT LEAVES 3 TO FATE Sinks Fisherman and Speeds Away, Ignoring Cries for Help Hull, Mass., April 9 (P—An un- identificd vessel rammed and sank 1a 35 foot fishing boat shortly before |dawn today and pussed on. leaving her crew of three struggling in the frigid water. The sinking occurred near the Graves Light as Battista Aeillo, his son Leonard. and his brother Samuel were making their way out to sea to haul their trawls |in a little vessel their savings of $10,000. The three fishermen were taken from the water two hours later by a passing lobster fisherman, who found them floating on their life belts, He landed the men at Bos- ton Light. where a roaring fire and hot drinks returned life to their numbed limbs. A coast guard boat later took them to Boston, their home port. Although the fishing boat was | badly damaged it sank only to the 'surface of the water and may be salvaged. Shouts Vainly For Ald Aeillo, the father, was at the wheel of the fisherman, the Italia, when |the unidentified vessel hore down the liftle craft amidship. He and the other two men, who were over- | hauling fishing gear at the time, were thrown to the deck They shouted for aid as the ofher vessel veered off and disappeared in the gloom, heading out to sea The three men hastily donned lfe jackets as they felt their own deck |sinking deneath their feet. Although |ed their limbe they were able to |cling to their submerged craft and in that manner kept from being | washed away. | Throughout the two hours that | | for help. Drowsiness was overcom- |ing them as Tony Madeiros, from his shack on the Brewsters. a rocky ledge at the outer harbor, came by in his lobster boat and took the m |aboard He landed the trio at Box ton Light where Captain Maurice | Babcock, the keeper, cared for them | until they had sufficiently recovered o return to their homes in Boston in a coast guard boat. New York, April 9 (UP)—Thomas Heflin, Jr., advocate of state’s rights fn the matter of prohibition, nursad a black eye today—the price he paid for a flaming picce of research work on the workings of the Volstead law he conducted along Broadway last night Young Heflin, son of the dry sena- tor from Alabama, ended his tour of the “Whoopee™ belt last night at the Wesg 30th street police station. Yes- terday he arrived on the liner An- con from Pan:ma, announcing that the six bottles of Scotch with which he started out had proved insuffi- cient, but that he had met many f;ur; H;flfn;A‘;Wet in New York,” Declares Al Smith is All Right generous and kind-hearted persons aboard ship. Today Heflin was in charge of his father's secretary, J. L. Thornton, who was sent here from Washing- {ton to guide him back to Washing- ton. Just One of Those Things “l put him to bed last night,” Thornton told the United Press to- day. “Remember that he is just a boy and what happened yesterday and last night is just one of those things.” What happened last night was (Continued on Page 32.) that represented | | upon it out of the darkness, striking | {the chill of the water quickly numb- | followed they in turn sent up shouts | GUNNEN LEISURELY RO WORSHIPPERS Gursing Robber Band Holds Up Synagogue in Chicago \GET AWAY WITH $75,000 Members of Rumanian Church Llnedy Up and Stripped of Money and Jewels—Vice Consul Escapes Loss —Rabbi's Purse Returned. Chicago, April 9 M—TFive snar- ling, cursing thieves, masked and armed. held up §0 members of the First Rumanian Synagogue congre- {sation last night, taking $75,000 in money and jewels. 1t was the first Instance in Chicago police records of a holdup inside a place of wor- ship, Laurence Bungardean, Rumanlan vice consul, was among the few to escape loss. He was mistaken for one who already had been searched and was ordered to one side. I'or mnearly half an hour robbers, some with pistols, some with shotguns, moved among the congregation which had been order- ed to line up against a wall. From {the arms and hands of the women |the robbers snatched bracelets and rings. The men's pockets ylelded | bilifolds and watches. Curses Resound in Church The robbers, frequently breaking| the silence of the church “Itl!: b (Continued on Page 22.) TEXAS GUINAN IN HOT GOURT FIGHT Night Club Hostess on| Trial for Running Liquor Nuisance New York, April 8 (®—Ten co-| defendants of Texas Guinan pleaded | guilty today to charges of maintain- |ing a nuisance in connection with| | operation of her Salon Royale, but the night club hostess herself plead- ed not gnilty and went on trial. “I will fight this out.” she said in conrt, “if it is the last thing 1 do in my life After sentence on her co-defend- ants had been deferred, the court | { heard 11 additional pleas of gwilty | | from employes in two other night | | clube, and sentence on these also was ! deforred As Miss Guinan was called to trial the jury hox was filled by the first |12 men whose names were drawn | Then Federal Judge Thomas ex- plained the action, saying it was one {in which the defendant vas charged with maintaining & common nui- | sance, a mght club in which wines | ana tquors were sold Almost immediately four talesmen | rose in the box and voiced a prejn- | dice against night clubs of the varie- DENOCRATS FIGHT TOKEEP CONTROL IN 5TH AND TH Lack of Organization and Re- sentment Against Smith De- feat Handicaps Minority REPUBLICAN YICTORIES IN 4 WARDS CONCEDED Pajewski-Zapatka Battle in North End Features Off Year Election Contests—Republicans May Make Inroads in Sixth — Democratic Gloom in Morning Replaced With Spirit of Hopefulness in Ml.nnotm Lack of sufficient. organization in the democratic party, and open re- sentment, first against what has been presented to the voters as persecu- tion of Peter J. Pajewski, fifth ward republican aldermanic candidate, and second against the defeat of Al- fred E. Smith in the last presidential election, today threatened the two democratic strongholds, the fifth and sixth wards, All three elements of weakness had been feared by the democratic forces, but leaders said today they had done all in their power to com- bat them but were frankly appre- hensive of failure. Concentrate on Two Wards As the voting continued through the day, the democrats appeared more hopeful than during the carlier morning hours and expremed con- fidence that the fifth and sixth ward tickets, particularly the latter, would be sustained at the polls, but made no promise of invasion into the solid- ly republican districts “below the tracks.” The first, second, third and fourth wards were almost totally ignored insofar as headquarters activities were concerned, both town commit. tees concentrating their efforts on the fifth and six precincts, being sat- isfled to allow ward committees to (Continued on Page 19.) PULLEN'S RESIGNATION ACCEPTED BY BOARD Health Commission Re- grets Retirement of Superintendent Expressing its regret to Dr. Rich- ard W. Pullen, retiring superinten- dent, the board of health today ac- cepted his resignation and consider- ed several reccommendations made by the retiring city employe who is soon to enter into private practice. when the board has elected a suc- The resignation is to take effect cessor. Advertisements will be in- serted in medical magazines and when applications have been receiv- ed, a meeting witl be called to make a selection. Chairman John J. McBriarty especially regretful of the necessity for making a change in the superin- tendency. After the meeting, he ex- pressed a feeling that the city is losing the services of one of its most valuable employes and that the retirement of Dr. Pullen is a evere blow to the department. Dr. Pullen left with the board as his recommendations, early study of the need for public health nurses to be attached to the department of heaith, construction of an isolation hospital, erection of an incinerator, additions to the staff of sanitary in- spectors, and adoption of ordinances to license food handlers. His letter of resignation follows: (Continued on Page Three.) MRS. MARTHA P. HART DIES AT AGE OF 91 Beloved Resident Was Oldest Member of South Church Ity of “Hello, Sucker.” a phrase used | | by the hostess in greeting her pa- | [trons Federal Judge Thomas ex- | | cused the four. | “In pursnance of her particular| function of making whoope As- | sistant I'nited States Attorney Nor- man Morrison told the jury, “Miss Guinan made everyone feel at home | in a jovial way, and there was en- tertainment consisting of the silliest of songs and jokes | “This exhioition was going on while people were getting liquor, imbibing it, and becoming thorough- 1y instilled with the spirit of whoopee. One of our agents will tell | you about an intoxicated patron be- | ing thrown out and a comment, by | Texas Guinan: ‘He i from Chicago. | That's what he gets for bringing his own.'"” THER !' New Britain and vicinity: In the hours fust before dawn this 1norning, with members of her fam- ily at her bedside, death came to claim one of New Britain's hest lov- ~4 and most respected residents, Mrs. William H Hart. Seized with iliness last Friday on the threshold of her 92nd birthday, pneumonia de- veloped and the end came peacefully this morning about 4 o'clock at her home at §6 Lexington street. Mrs. Hart, widow of a husbani around whose name 1s centered a great deal of the history of this city, and mother of a family which ha consistently kept intact the inspiring record of work established by its sire, was born in this city on May 12, 1837. She was the daughter of Elnathan Peck, a pioneer resident of the city. She spent her entire life here. She received her private seminaries and Yonkers, N. Y. She was for over 70 years a mem- ber of the Bouth Congregational church and in point of membership, she was the oldest. She joined it in 1857 and from then until the time of her death, she was an active education in in New Haven (Continued on Page Three.) Lyman Street District Bombarded With Steel Bullets Which Pierce Walls and Windows in Homes Missiles Believed Fired by Youths Stationed on Hill Who Make Target of Neighborhood — Police Working on Several Clues—Boy Overcome 3 by Fright, Faints on Street. Bullets were whistling through |another through a window casing. Lyman street about 9 o'clock lasi |Whether they were discharged fror. night, at Jeast nine having been |a rifle or a rcvolver was not known. fired, of which five found their| Officer Walter Wagner was at the mark In a house at 95 Lyman st~ corner of Broad and Smith street a and one at 136 Booth street. Wort time after the shooting, and police had made no arrest- v a boy on the sidewalk on Smiti Lut an investigation was * °t, unable to get up. Examin- into two or three clue «& him, the officer identifled him by Ofticer Charles V |2 book in his pocket, in which hig fied that a bullet {name, Harry Krystynski of 16 Hayes window in th- |street, was written. The boy, who is kas at 136 |16 years of age, had taken a spell he learn |and the officer, in his report, men- through a PON |tioned the possibility of the weak- |the teneme) (& " seph Barretta of |ress having been induced by fright 95 Lyman s unother had im- |from the staccato report of the fir- bedded itse!f in a window casing in |ing which aroused the neighborhood the same tenement, and a third had |for several streets on all sides. gone through a sink wall, striking| Detective Sergeant G. C. Ellinger, a wail on the other side of the room. |who lives in the vicinity of the The officer recovered the bullet that |shooting. heard the report but saw went through the chair and the on: [nobody who might be held responsi- that stayed in the casing. and found (ble. The shots seemed to come them to be of .22 calibre, steel {from Lyman street hill and in the In the tenemert of John Moziliski lopinion of the police, they were in the same house, one bullet went probably fired by boys or young through a window and a curtain and |men. SOUTHERN GROSS _ NAUGATUCK JUDGE REPORTED FOUND, QUITS UNDER FIRE Said fo Be Located 30 Miles Below Drysdale Mission RUMOR IS NOT VERIFIED Western Australian Station Advices Say Bost Stands By to Take Of Kingaford Smith aud His Three Flying Compaaions. 8ydaey, N. 8 W., April 9 W—The airplane Southern Cross, missing for nearly ten days with Captain Charles Kingsford-8mith and three com- panions on an attempted flight to England from Sydney, was reported today by the Drysdale Mission sta- tion in western Australia to have | been found on the coast, 30 miles | southwest of the station. | A boat was standing by to take | off the aviators, according to the Mission report which was forwarded by way of Derby. Caution in ac- | cepting this report, however, was | P%nd later & ' had gone id a chair in Names Tolles as Successor ACTION IS UNANIMOUS | Senate and House Expedite Appoint- | ment to Prevent Vacancy—short- age in Accounts As Borough Clerk Alleged to Have Been Found " Naugatuck, April 9 (P — Frank A. Scars, sent his resig- nation as judge of the borough court to Governor Trymbull to- day to take effect immediately. He also sent a letter to the gov- ernor and returned his commis- sion which reappointed him as judge for two years, Judge Sears said that under the conditions it was only pro- per that he should resign. The resignation was accepted. State Chpitol, Hartford, April (@—Prosecutor Claremont I. Tollcs of Naugatuck was appointed by the general assembly today as judge of the borough court to succeed Judge Frank A. Sears, who ‘resigned be- cause of alleged ghortages found in his accounts as borough clerk. The appointment is for Judge Sears’ unexpired term and for the full term of two years beginning in July. Senate Leader Peasley of Cheshire, and House Leader Johnson of Man- (Continued on Page Three.) ‘COWBOY’ BOUND OVER T0 CRIMINAL COURT' Di Battista Held Without' Bail as Slayer of Hart- | ford Grocer (Continued on Page 21) STATE BUDGET 1§ PASSED IN SENATE ‘Anticipated Fight Against It by Minority Fails to Develop Hartford, April 9 (UP)—Arraign- ed on a charge of murder, Frank Di Battista, 25, alias “The Cowboy,” was bound over to criminal superior court without bail today by Police | Judge John L. Bonee. Arthur J. Crapuli, charged with “aiding and abetting the murder.” was bound over under $10.000 honds | which he was unable to furnish i Police announced last night they had obtained a confession from Di | Battista that he shot and Wlled | Samuel Kamaroff. Jefferson street | giie Capitol, Hartford, April 2 grocer. during an attempted hold- p 4y expected battle by the min- oA ority failing to materialize, the sen- Di Battista. who had been ques- |ate today passed the state budget. [tioned repeatedly since his arrest | caliing for a total appropriation for {Saturday night. said he hadnt In- ipe 1929.31 biennium of $39.642.- {tended to murder the storekeeDer. gy Tho budget for the first time | police said, but the gun discharged ;i1 "isiory of the state divided [while he was struggling with Kam- , ooropriations into two one-y {aroff. Kamaroff died defending periods, showing a total for 132 | cash register containing about AF R TH7 sha analdor 180T of i s o atrey 312835502 Senator Christ, of New | i Battista's confession came after g,y - appropriations chairman | Crapuli, youthful “pal” of the sus- | _FRTL ":w“““mm s e | pect. broke down under grilling, took e e twe detectives to a church and there ;hou' 1,600,000 20T jtola HlEpariain the ",:“ h°'d'm;," What seemed fo promise fulfll- [tempt He drove the automobile W s promise BTl in which Di Battista escaped. he o"‘“-;' "‘“" '::“::"Pa:":':: 'Oh“'”'lf:; said .an:rdla'er fitow i iwencon Cxir e MIKEL ST e £Ce "('ra;:;n insisted he did not know minority leaer, flr‘}:fivn‘!kpd’tjn; tdo his room mate's attempt had result- question Senator Christ on 1 | tn murder until he read the morn- g+t Senator Bergin inquired con. ing newspaper cerning inclusion of eapital outlay After obtaining Crapuli's story. special items and increases in the [the detectives went to Di Battista who then told his story. | $50 (Continued on Page 21) Sears Resigns and Assembly Average Daily Circulation For e 15,371 WATKINS SAYS HE GAVE $200,000 T0 EGAN IN 3 MONTHS Kept No Record of Huge Pay- ments Out of Funds ofN AL 'TELLS OF CRILDLIKE BELIEF IN ATTORNEY 1Bmker Convict Asserts He Would Have Trusted Egan “With Last Suit of Clothes"—Also Relates on Witness Stand How He Had Falsi- fied His Marriage Intention By Giving Wrong Age. Hartford, April 9 (P—Roger W. Watkios, convicted stock broker and investment company manager, under Cross examination in the trial of William E. Egan, Hartford attorney, lcharged with conspiracy, today tes- |tified that he gave Egan over $200,- 000 in cash between November 19, 1927 and April 4, 1928, when Wat- kins fled, of which he had no record in the National Associated Investors Watkins said that the only record of the money he paid to Ega funds taken in by the concern were in his own personal accounts which | Egan took from his office after Wat- | kins became a fugitive. Watkins was asked by Henry J. Calnen of defense counsel, why, be- ing & business man himself, he had |such implicit trust in Egan. Wat- kins replied that, at that time, he would have trusted Egan with his last suit of clothes.” Watkins was asked if he thought Ithe N. A. L. was perfectely legal and |he replicd that when he was pro- | moting a concern he had no inten- |tion of defrauding anybody. This |was during the neriod of October. |November and December, 1927. | Watkins added: “If we had differ- |ent legal advice we would have done a perfectly legal business.” Seth Hadfileld's Visit The witness was asked about money he had taken from the N. A. 1, and whether it was taken legally. and he said that Egan had peinted (out to him how the money could be taken legally. Watkins said that when Seth Hadfleld called to make an examination of the books in N (Continued on Page 19) FIRST POLISH SETTLER INNEW BRITAIN DEAD Thomas J. Ostrowski Brought Family Here About 1877 When Thomas Ostroski came to New Britain 51 years ago he was the first Pole to settle here. After years of work during which he helped found the Sacred Heart parish and establish his fellow countrymen here, |he died at the home of his daugh- iter, Mrs. Henry Belair of Ward street, Bristol, last night at about 7 o'clock. He was about §0 years of {age. | Mr. Ostroski was born in Sieene. | Poland, and came to this country |when he was a young man. He set- |tled in New York city and after he |had established himself there he |sent for his sweetheart, Miss Ma- |thilda Hoffman, who lived across the border line in Germany. They | were married and lived in New York for about three years | The family came to New Britain |about 1877 anH at first it settled on East Main street at the corner of Center street where the Bovs' Cllb |is now Jocated. Mr. Ostroski es- |tablished himself in a shoe making {trade and was one of the three in {that business. A man named Tobin | had an establishment on Main street, facing Fast Main and there was an- other establishment on North street where a cobbler, Mulconery, a for- mer apprentice of Mr. Ostroski, had a place of business | There were no shoe stores and practilcally all the shoes were made by hand The well-to-do people of | New Britain engaged Mr. Ostroski |to make leather hoots which were the style The late George M. Lan- ders, §r . one of the founders of Lan- |ders, Frarv & Clark. lived across the street from the choe maker and all of hie work was by Mr. Ostroski He had been in retirement from active husine: | Mr. Ostroski done for 35 years bought a house (Continued on Page 21) Guest Hurt in Automoi)ile Wreck Awarded $2,500 Damage by Court In one of the first court aecmom:whwh Hart's pleasure car and an interpreting the automobile guest |automobile truck figured, was the jaw enacted at the last session of the | basis of the lawsuit. legislature, Joseph A. Meyer of this| Judge Dickenson's city has recovered damages of 2.- | reads 500 from Harold F. Hart, also of | ‘The construction put upon Sec- New Britain, in whose automobile |tion 1 of Chapter 308, of the public the plaintiff was injured several | acts of 1927, in Silver vs Silver, 108 months ago. | Connecticut, is that a guest may re- The case was tried before Judge | cover when ‘heedless or reckless dis- Edwin 8. Dickenson in superior |regard of the rights of others' 1s court. Attorney S. Polk Waskowliz |shown in the conduct of the opera- brought the suit in Meyer's behaif |tor. and this expression is said to and Hart represented by the law mean somathing more than the mere firms of Day, Berry & Reynolds and failure to exercise the care of a rea Woodhouse & Schofleld A crash on Shepherds hill, in memorandum (Continued on Page 10.) Prince in .-\men'ca- To Learn “English” Washington, April 9 (A—Be- | ing a prince “is very agree- | able”” Prince Cyril of Bulgaria | observes, although being a king “is a very different business.’ The prince, 2n automobile | enthusiast, fs making a brief visit in Washington after a tour of centers of the American au- tomotive industry since his ar- rival in January. He will viait sevaral other cities before he “afls May 1. “I have never been to Eng- and." he remarked. “because I ‘ould not speak their language. T dacided to come to America o learn the Fnglish language hecause 1 thought it would be much easier {n this country. Yoy are so democratic—like our own people.”