New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 6, 1929, Page 1

ESTABLISHED 1870 LABOR APPROVES - LEGISLATION OF fit to Workingmen PERMANENTLY INJURED 10 BE REAABILITATED Becretary of State Labor Federation Reviews Rills Passod and Reject- ed—Tenement 'Fouse Elevators and Mattress Renovations Subjects of New Laws—Old Age Pension Sought by Organization. - Hartford, May ¢ (M—Labor legis- lation of the general assembly which 8 now in ita clos\ng days has much {nterest to the industrial worker be- cause of the bearing it has on his relationship to the employer. John J. Egan, secretary of the Connecticut.Federation of Labor has made the following review of labor legislation for the Amociated Press: “Compensation amendments were to increase the amount for the loss of an arm from 208 weeks to 225 weeks. The section pertaining to hernia has been changed so the in- eapacity of the Injured workman may take place within one week from the date of the accident pro- vided he pPoves the hernia arose out of the Injury; that it was accom- panied ‘by. evidence of pain; that he made a report within two weeks after the date of the accident; that he did not have a pre-existing her- nia at or prior to the time of the accident. “The change is from the inca- %y ‘being instantly' to a period of one week. The change pertaining to the injured workman being entitled to the first week’s compensation is ‘provided that he is injured for & period of four weeks' instead of ‘be- yond a period of four weeks.’ The change in the stoppage of compen- sationis such that now compensa- tion cannot he stopped unless the injured employe and = the commis- sioner have been notified. These are the mportant changes in the com- pensation law. To Rehabilitate Injured ‘Another bill that passed the leg- fslature this year ant is considered by some as more important that the changes in the compensation act ft- self, is the one known as the re- habilitation of fnjured workmen. ‘When & man is now injured in in. dustry and becomens totally incapaci- o (Continued on Page 14) FEAR VIOLENGE IN 'BERLIN WEDNESDAY Communist Leaders Vote : Monster Demonstration and General Strike Berlin, May 6 P—Threats of new violence Wednesday loomed today to mar hopes built on last night's peacefuiness in Neukoelln and Wed- ding districts where police were in full control after four days’ bloody communist rioting. At a secret meeting 1,200 com- Munist leaders, obtaining admission only by giving a special passwerd, , voted to bury 21 of their fallen com- rades in a single grave, and turn the funeral after interment into a monster political demonstration. A resolution was passed calling on workers over the city to begin a gen- cral strike at 2 p. m. Wednesday. Although the strictest measures were adopted to prevent the public know- ing of what happened . inside the megcting it was known that there was in evidence no disposition to accept the truce thrust upon them by the police. Meanwhile the state of siege con- finued in both Wedding and Neu- koclln districts, although there had leen no fighting there since Satur- day. No one was allowed abroad on Hermann strasse after 9 p. m., and until after 4 a. m., today. While at first it had been believed this restrictions would be lifted today, continued evidences of sullen dispo- sition of the residénts of the two areas made it probable it would be continued temporarily. But one incident was reported Sunday, the fifth day of the distuib- ances, that being an attack on a policeman. That and occasional shots by po- lice clearing the roofs where snipers had held out constituted the only firing. There was no repetition of the open street fighting of the first four day Tear Gas Driv: Out Audience Pawtucket, R. I, May 5 (P— For the second time within 10 days tear gas, released e- bedy unidentified, drove Part of the audience attending the tol theater in this city to the street for relief tonight. About 75 persons were forced to leave the theater. On April 27 several hundred patrons were driven out of the same theater by tear gas. Similar incidents have occur- fed in the Liberty theater in Providence. Managers of the two houses have charged that their refusal to employ union help is the underlying cause of the outfages, but labor leaders Bave denied any responeibility, Couple Once Divorced Decide to Wed Again Frederick J. Miller and Jean Hoffman 'Miller, divorced some time ago, called at the office of Town Clerk Alfred L. Thompson Baturday evening, anneunced their intention of being re-mar- ried, and made application for a license, Both gave 635 Arch street as their home address. Mr. Miller is a mason, and Mrs. Miller a housekeeber. GANGSTER TELLS OF THREE MURDERS POLICE SEEKING OTHERS “Big. Korney” Gang Killed Mem- ber Who “Knew Too Much” and Body is Found Where Confession Said It Was Buried, Buffalo, N. Y. May 6 P—The story of three slayings und a seriza of robberies covering a period of three years, related in a confession by a member of the Big Korn2y gang, caused the police today to redouble their efforts to captuve other members atill at large and to establish, if possible, to what ex- tent they figured in other major crimes in New York, Chicago anl other cities. Two men and a woman are un- der arrest. The men prisoners are John Kwiatowski (Big Korney) and Anthony Kalkiewicz. The woman, a companion of the latter, did not participate in the holdups, nor did she take part in the conferences at the gang rendezvous in Depew, a suburb of this city, where holdups were planned and where one of their number was executed treachery. The gangster killed was Victor Chojnicki. His Dbody was taken frgm a shallow grave in the lot bec- hind the Depew house yesterday at a spot where Kalkiewicz, who made the confession, told the police it would be found. The First Job The first pay roll hold up com- mitted by the Big Korney gang, ac- cording to Kalkiewicz's confession was at the offjce of a- foundry in Howard street'in 1925. The loot amounted to several thousand dol- lars, The sensational holdup of the Art Works shop and the slaying of Ward J. Plerce, the paymaster, fol- lowed. Kalkiewics said Chojinicki worked at the plant and tipped off ‘Big Korney to the possibilities of committing & successful payroil holdup. Chojnicki did not, how- ever, take part in the crime, After this robbery Kalkiewicz sald the gang went to New York, Chicage and ' Philadelphia spending the money the stoye. It was Chojin- ick's knowledge of the crime that cost him his life. Returning to this city, the Big Korney gang resumed operations, at- tacking an armored pay car as it pulled up to the Duffy silk mill. Kal- kiewicz said the guards on the pay roll car came within an inch of Ge- ing riddled with bullets because they did not throw up their hands quick- ly enough. The loot was many (Continued on Page 13) BRISTOL BANK MERGER YOTED BY DIRECTORS National and American Trust Boards Approve of Combining (Bpecial to the Herald) Bristol, May 6—At a meeting of the directors of the Bristol National bank and the American Trust Co. this noon it was voted to recommend to the stockholders at a meeting to be held in the near future the mer- ger of the two institutions which will be put through when approved by the state authorities and the stock- holders. A new institution will be organized under the laws of the state of Connecticut to take over the business of the two banks. The combined capital and surplus under the merger will be approxi- mately $800,000 with resources of over $6,000,000, Six Patients Escape Are Saved From Burning Asylum Morris Plains, N. J., May ¢ (UP) —Two inmates of the New Jersey State Hospital for the Insane at Greystone, N. J., scene of an early morning fire today which destroyed two floors of a building erected in 1871, were the object of police search over several counties today. 8ix inmates escaped. Four of these wére recaptured a short dis- tance from the asylum before dawn. Neither of those at large is danger- ous, according to hospital authori- ties. None of the inmates was in- jured ip the fire. Commissioner William J. Ellis of the state department of institutions and agencies reached the hospital while the ruins were still smoulder- ing and started an investigation. He telephoned Gov. Morgan Larson at the latter's Perth Amboy home and made a report on the fire. The gov ernor will visit the hospital tomor- for | NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, MAY 6, 1920.—EIGHTEEN PAGES GUARDSMEN READY |Fritson, Member of Byrd Forces, AS MILLS REOPEN Elirabetbton, Tean,, Quiet as Rayon Workers Retura MACHINE GUNS ON ROOFS Forces Practically Complete in De- partments That Started—Pickets | Before Mills, But Only Fist Fights Result, Elizabethton, Tenn., May 6, P— With five companies of National Guardsmen on duty and machine guns mounted on roofs of buildings, the mechanical and chemical de- partments of he American Bemberg and American Glanzstoff plants re. sumed operations today after a strike that began April 15. Company officials reported the forces in these two departments were virtually complete. Reopening of the various other departments was planned gradually, officials ex- plaining that the greater part of the 5,500 idle workers coul? not be used until the mechanical and chemical processes start. Some fist fights between atrike pickets and workers were reported, but no serious disorders occurred. About 200 pickets marched back and forth in fron of the huge tex- tile plants. Approximately 200 volunteer po- licemen, called into service by the Elizabethton city council yesterday while union leaders were addressing a mass meeting, went on duty at 1 o'clock this morning. They guarded the city in special zones arranged by the police department. The policemen were supplemented by 100 extra deputies sworn in by Sherift J. M. Moreland, who also took over their patrols at 1 a. m. Highway approaches to Carter county, of which Elizabethton is the scat, were being patrolled by special deputies sworn in by the sheriff of the adjoining county of Washington. All former employes were to be permitted to return to work, it was announced by cobpany officials. Sections of the plants can he oper- ated with a minimum of 100 work- ers. The majority of the workers are mountaineers, and their sympathies in the strike situation are divided according to geographical location, company officials said. Elizabethton, Tenn., May 8 (®— Orderly resistance through ‘peace- ful picketing” has been announced by®leaders of the 5,000 striking workmen of the American Bemberg and American Glapzatoff Rayon icompanies,. whose officials have an- peunced that their plants would be reapened ‘today. Meanwhile five companies of na- tional guardsmen sworn in as spe- clal deputies were stationed at the plants as a precautiomary measyre against possible disorders, feared by authorities after union leaders de- clared at a mass meeting yesterday that “not a wheel will be allowed to turn in those plants tomorrow.” Ap- proximately 800 national guardsmen, deputy sheriffs and policemen were on dut; “8everal thousand” members of an organization known as “Loyal Workers of Bemberg"” were expected to return to work today by F. D. Rhea, the organization's president, (Continued on Page 13) BROCKTON ASKS HEFLIN'S ARREST City Councilman Charges| Senator Lacked Permit to Speak Brockton, Mass, May 6 (#—The arrest of Senator J. Thomas Heflin of Alabama on a charge of violating a city ordinance was asked today by Howard R. Coleman, member of the city council. Coleman has filed his request for | a warrant for the senator's arrest Iwith the city clerk in prescribed form and it will be presented to the | city council for action tonight. It is charged by Coleman that Heflin, during his recent visit here, delivered a public address without having obtained a permit. The sen- ator has since raised his Voice in protest against bottle throwing, of which he was the target. as 1400 row. Dr. Marcus A. Curry, superintn- dent of the hospital, said that 60 wards and rooms had been rendered useless and that much valuable equipment had been destroyed. In addition, the personal belongings of nurses and doctors who lived in the damaged wing were destroyed. The stairs of the ancient wing of the hospital were of slate, but built in a well through which the flames found an excellent draft. The floors | of the bullding werd of weod. The board of managers of the hospital were (o meet today to de- | jtermine what to do with the pa. ients whose quarters were débtroy- | {ed. Tt is not thought that it will be necessary to transfer them to other ming Hor Suffered From C Zealand, Has Reached Suffering from rheumatism and unable to stand the rigors of Ant. arctic climate, Frank Fritson of 328 Bouth Main street, has been forced to leave the expedition of Command« er Richard E. Byrd who is nearing the South Pole, and he is on his way home, according to a: letter he sent to his mother, Mrs. Aurora G. Fritson. He is at present in San Francisco where he plans to visit several friends and he will then make his way across the continent to his home in this city. Fritson left this city in August, 1928, to become a member of one of the crews of the ships whicn formed a part of Commander Byrd's expedition. He sailed from New York for the Antarctic regions and reached the base of supplies at the Bay of Whales. He worked as a members of the boat crews in trans- fering supplies and equipment from there to the farthest point possible south. His experience with airplanes led‘ Commander Byrd to assign him to the base within the ice barrier to ist in unloading the planes to be used by Commander Byrd and his companions. It was here that he was seized with the rheumatism which finally forced him to seek his release. He was given permission to leave for home last March and since that time he has been en route to this country. | Home From Polar Regions; Rheumatic Attack South Main Street Man, Released by Commander of Expedition, Working Way to This City Via New San Franciseo—’!‘ime of Arrival Here Not Known, TRANK FRITSON In the letter received by his moth- er Kritson stated that he had reach- ed New Zealand from the south and there he had found the crew of a ship bound for San Francisco. He worked his way in payment for his passage. His mother does not know when he will arrive home. HUGHES’ SON IS SOLICITOR GENERAL President Surprised Poli- ticians by Naming Son of Friend Washington, May 6 (M—The ap- pointment of Charles Evans Hughes. Jr., as solicitor general, was an- nounced today at the White Houn&t President Hoover's selection was a surprise to political Washington as Mr. Hughes' name never had been mentioned in connection with the gossip 24 to a possible successor 10" Wiillam D. Mitchell, who was elevat- ed to the post of attorney general on March 4. Mr. Hughes is the son of Charles Evans Hughes, former secretary of state, a friend of the president and one of those upon whom Mr. Hoover has leaned for advice both, during the pre-inauguration period and since he entered the White! House. The new solicitor gencral is con- | nected with the law firm of Hughes, | Rounds. Schurman and Dwight of | New York city. He is a graduate of Brown university and the Harvard law school. The solicitor generalship {s the first of the important posts in the department of justice to be filled by the president since his inauguration. An assistant attorney general to suc- ceed William J. Donovan'is yet to be selected and the slate of assist- ants to the attorney general has yet to be made up with sicdes- sors chosen for several of those who served under Attorney General Sar- gent. The position of solicitor general of the United States is considered the most arduous in the department of justice. The solicitor general pre- pares briefs for all government cases that are presented to the su- preme court, reviews the briefs that are prepared for other courts and attends to all the legal business of the government. The new solicitor general was ad- mitted to practice before the su- preme court in 1920, and has ap- peared before the highest tribunal several times, generally to assist his father. Boy to Receive SITMO For His Broken Leg A settlement out of court was reached today in the action of Wil- liam Scaringe vs. Alexander Hill, the boy being given a cash settlement of $1.000 as a result of a broken leg suffered when he was struck by Hill's car, at West Main and Wash- ington streets, June 20. Attorney S. Polk Waskowitz represented the 12- years old plaintiff, and Maxwell & BroSmith were counsel for the de- fense. The case was to come up for trial in superior court tomorrow. Falls in Yar] at Home, Fractures Collarbone | Matthew Clark of 33 Crown street suffered a serious fracture of the collarbone last evening when he tripped while walking through the yard near his home.- He was taken to the New Britain QGeneral hospital where the injured member was set, and then returned to his home. Several months ago Mrs. Mar- garet Clark, mother of the injured man, fractured her hip in the same THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: institutions. Dr. Curry said the rou- tine of the hospital will continue as (Continued on Page 16) Rain tonight and Tuesday; cooler Tuesday. I FAMOUS RANCH: UNDER HAMMER Auction Today of Three Rivers Property of A. B. Fall Beverley Hills, Cal., May 6 (®— Announcement that the Three Riv- ers, N. M., ranch of Albert B. Fall, former secretary of the interior, would be sold at auction today by the sherift at Alamogordo, N. M., in a mortgage foreclosure action and that representatives of Edwarl L. Doheny, oil magnate, planned to buy it for $300,0¢9' was made here by Robert Sands, personal secretary to the petroleum operator. Sands declared the famous ranch which figured in the naval oil re- serve leasing scandals, had been es- timated worth $800,000 and that it was to be sold to satisfy a loan of $170,000. The M. D. Thatcher es- tate of Pueblo, Colo., holds a first | mortgage for that amount and Sands declared that Doheny held a second mortgage by reason of the $100,000 “loan” made to Fall by the oil mag- nate shortly before the interior sec- retary leased the Elk Hills, Calif, naval oil reserve to a Doheny col pany. The fate of the big ranch thus was to be decided as preparations were being made in Washington to execute the jail sentence imposed upon Harry I". Sinclair, central fig- ure in the oil lease scandals. The 700,000 acre ranch figured not only in the dealings between Fall and Doheny but also between Fall and Sinclair according to the testimony of the latter before a jury in Washington & year ago. Sinclair then testified that he had purchased a one-third interest in the property for $233,000 in Libery | bonds. He declared he gave the bonds to Fall a few days before the interior secretary gave him a lease to the Teapot Dome naval oil re- serve in Wyoming. Sands declared that Anson Lisk, superintendent of ranches for Do- heny, would bid on the big acrcage in behalf of the oil millicnaire. He also declared that the ranch recent- ly had been surveyed for mineral and oil possibilities, M. D. Thatcher, whose holds tha first mortgage on ranch, is a son-in-law of Fall. SENATE WILL LIMIT FARM RELIEF DEBATE Wednesday at 3 O'Clock Set as Time When Members Will Be Restricted. Washington, May 6 UP—The sen- ate agreed today to limit debate after 3 o'clock on Wednesday on the export debenture plan of the farm relief bill. Senator Walsh, democrat. Massa- chusetts, sald today he had been importuned to “pair” with Senator Shipstead, farmer-labor. Minnesota, for the votc on the export deben- ture plan and that he was inclined to accede to the request. Shipstead has been represented as being” in favor of the debenture plan. estate the HUSBAND ABSOLVED | Waterbury, May 6 —Mrs. Mary Perilly of 90 Ridgefield avenue is held criminally responsible for the death of Mrs. Catherine A. Reed, 26, illegal operation of 9 Chase Park avenue, acco='in~ ta o finding released today by Deputy Coroner Walter W. 8myth. Mrs. Alfred Reed died April 13. Alfred Reed. husband of the late Mrs. Reed. who has been held un- der bonds of $2.000 as an accessory to the illegal act, is absolved from blame by the finding. FIRE BOARD LAUDS DEPARTMENT HEAD Chie! Noble Credited With Con- trol of Year's Fires IMPROYEMENTS SUGGESTED, Commission Again Asks For New Station, Ladder Truck, lnflnera-; tor, etc.~Bureaus Report On tivities of the Fiscal Year, i | Out of 476 fires fought by tne fire department in the fiscal year | 1928-1929, none progressed beyond |the atructures in which they were | discovered, the annual reports of that department, completed today, set forth, | Members of the board, in their re- port, give Chief William J. Noble the major part of the credit for this success and compliment him upon i his efficient direction of the depart- | ment. ! Recommendation is again made !tor the purchase of a ladder truck {for service In the northern districts iof the city, erection of a Barnesdale fire station, construction of a munici- i pal incinerator, and for more pow- {erful pumping equipment for fighting fires in the eastern section of the city, 496 Alarms in Year In the year brought to a close | March 31, 154 bell alarms and 312 still alarms were received. 20 of |these being false alarms. Chief Noble reports damage to buildings | and contents of $146,253.46, with property at risk being $3.179,295, In fighting fires, 81,130 feet of hore were laid, 1,099 gallons of chemical used and 3,661 feet of ladder raised. | The force at the close of the year | numbered 93 men. This has since been increased to 99. 1 The chief acknowledges the co- operation given him by his assist- ants, the men in the ranks, the| mayor, common council and board. Appended to his report is a | detailed statement of fire alarms re- | cived, fires fought, the cause and damage done in each case. \ Men Well Drilled | Deputy Chief Eugene F. Barnes | reports having instructed the men *n | 42 evolutions of fire department | work, the new drill tower In the rear | lof Station 7 having aided him ma. | terially In his work. He has taken ' classes compoged of one man from | cach company during the drill sea- | (Continucd on Page Four) | BIG L. 0. 0. F. PARADE T0 OPEN CONVENTION More Than 90 Lodges to Be Represented May 14 More than 90 lodges of Odd Fel- lows will have delegations in line in the street procession which will open the 1929 grand lodge convén- tion of the I. O. O. F. here May 14, according to plans made public to- day by the parade committee. Places of assembly have been as- signed to each lodge with orders to move at 7 o'clock, traversing the principal streets of the city and dis- banding at the Palace theater where a show will be presented. l.odge members will be attired in dark trousers. light shirts, will wear caps and carry canes. Out of state 0dd Fellows will fall in line with the | local lodges, A request has been made that all homes and places of business display the American flag | on the evening of May 14th. | The first unit of the parade will form on Franklin square, with suc- ceeding divisions falling in the rear, cxtending through the west side of that street, and circling through Bas- sett and Glen streets, the rear units | being on Rockwell avenue, ‘The nroute of march will be as fol- | lows: Rockwell avenue to Gl»'\! street, to Locust street, to Arch| street, to Main street, to East Main | street, to Spring street, to Winter street, to Main street. Orders have been issued to com- inanders of divisions that. in the event of firc in the parade area, necessitating the use of any part of the route of march by the fire de- partment, the entire column will be halted and commanders make the (Continued on Page Four) 2, by N T Comma n i CHIEF W. J. NOBLE TWO BALLOONS ARE STILL UNREPORTED Pilots of Others Tell of Sorms and Stress ONE OVER NEW ENGLAND Navy 1 Pilot Drops Note Passing North Adams, Mass,, and Detroit Times Craft Also Has Not Re- ported Landing. Pittsburgh, Pa, May 6 UP—Two balloons that left herc Saturday in the National Elimination Balloon race had not reported to race head- iis quarters here today. The ten other | entries were down at points Pennsylvania and New York. Of those reporting the Goodyear \IL apparently had covered thz greatest distance of 405 miles, al- though all figures were unofficial and were based on cursory estimates. The Detroit Balloon club entry’s pilot, 8vend Rasmussen, reported to headquarters this morning that he had landed yesterday near Cam- den, N. J. He estimated the dis- tance traveled roughly at 300 miles. Camden, N. Y. May 6 P—The Detroit Balloon club’s entry in the National Elimination Balloon, race which teft Pittsburgh at 6:35 p. m., Baturday, landed at Empyville about about seven mifles northeast of Cam- den, at 9:15 a. m., yesterday, ac- cording to pilot S8vend Rasmussen. The balloon had bad weather and went through rain and sleet. At times, he said, the balloon (Continued on Page 14) BUSSEY RELEASED IN LAWYER'S CARE Torch Slaying “Witness” to Be Produced When Wanted White Plains, N. Y.. May 6 (®— gene Bussey, Baltimore student arrested as a mate#al witness in the slaying of Mrs. Dorothy Peacox, for which her husband is charged with first degree murder, was releascd by Supreme Court Justice Arthur 8. Tompkins today. The release was made after Bus- sey's lawyer agreed to produce the student at any time he was wanted by either the prosecution or defense. Bussey entered the case when it was reported he had been friendly with Mrs. Peacox and had aroused fhe jealousy of Earl Peacox, the husband. District Attorney said today he had spent Sunday visiting the various scenes of the crime, the house where Peacox haa confessed he beat his wife, the thicket where her body was hidden and later burned, and the place where the husband burned his wife's fur coat. Photographers Arrested Bussey's release was the indirect cause of the citing of three news- (Continued on Page 14) Frank Coyne Geneva, May 6 (#—The prepara-| tory disarmament commission ad- journed today wlth the next move toward disarmament awaiting action by the big five naval powers. In adjourning, the commission left the date of the next meeting open, but with the understanding it will be convened anew when the naval powers announce they have achieved enough progress towards a naval agreement 1o justify summoning of what is expected to be the last ses- sion of the commission hefore con- vention of an international confer- ence on disarmament. N. Sato, Japanese disarmament spokesman, told the preparatory (ommission on disarmament today | that his government has authorized {him to say Japan accepted the ould be effective reduction in na- ional armaments. American point of view that there l N. 8ato’s announcement was made Disarmament Conference Awaits Agreement by Big Naval Powers in the course of a proposal to ad- Journ discussion of the naval ques- tion until some future meeting of the disarmament commission — a proporal which had been forecast to permit the five great naval powers to find a common ground for naval reduction before jeopardizing the cause by premature open discussion in a League of Nations forum. Count Massigli, French delegate to the conference, announced today his government would withdraw its pro- posal for international control of armaments. Count Massigli said France still believed in international supervision, but realized it was not feasible for the moment. He said - his govern- ment Jater would offer ideas for cen- tralization and exchange of informa- Uor. regarding armaments. Ambassador Gibson paid tribute to his spirit of concession and cempro- mise, FURY NAL Three-Miis Torsado Doss | $100,000 Damage in Conter TWO FIRES BREAK OUT gl - Floe—Twister Mises Rosidoutial District; No Persomal Injury. Berlin, N. H., May ¢ (UP)~—This little metropolis of the north eun- try was recovering todsy from the disastrous effects of a tornado which swept up the Androscoggin river val. ley late yesterday and loosed ity fury upon Berlin's main atreet. More than a dogen buildings, in- cluding business blocks and masu. facturing plants, were ravaged by the twister, which caused damage estimated at $100,000 during a brief three-minute period of destruction: Only the fact that the freak wind- storm concentrated fts force upon the business district along Main street and left the residential section unscathed prevented finjuries or decaths among the inhabitants. It was the second time in less (than a week that a northern New { England community had been struck by a tornado, a similar storm having caused $200,000 damage in Swanton, Vt., last Friday. The business” district was veped cff here today and police and fire- men guarded windowless stores. Main street was cluttered with shat- tered glass, fragments of roefs and chimneys, and other debris. Approach of the tornado was watched with trepidatign by towns- people yesterday afterseon. It was reported that the black, low-hang- ing clouds of two storms appeared ito converge over Berlin, loosing the wild wind that spread destruction in the business section, The Berlin House, the Interna- tional Paper company's plant, the Sheridan and Hodgdon blocks and the Northern Auto company's plant were considerably ‘damaged. Electric light wires croased by the storm started a fire which partly destroyed the Abramson bleck. De- spite the furious wind, the flames were confined to that bullding. Another fire broke out in the 8teady building when wires became itwisted, but this blaze also was ! quickly controlled. The roofs of the Morin building and Berlin House were dislodged but were not carried away. Guests in the hotel were badly frightensd but there was no panie; Half an hour after the twister struck. an ironical sun was shining over the city. The t ndo took & inorthward course after hitting Ber- lin. Communities to the north re. ported no damage. INEW TARIFF BILL - PUBLIC TOMORROW Congress and Press Will Get Copies Simul- taneously Washington, May € (M—Chair- man Hawley of the house ways and means committee announced teday the new tariff revision measure in all probability would be introduced in the house as soon as it convenes tomorrow. The bill, which has been in the making four months, will be made available to newspapers and mem- bers of congress simultaneously with its introduction, It had been planned by Chairman Hawley to furnish the newspapers with advance coples of the bill for publication when introduced, but some members of congress protested and it was decided to make it avajl- able to both at the samc time. 8everal days will be allotted mem- bers to study the measure before it is taken up on the floor. Mean- while, the democratic members of the ways and means committee, who took no part in the writing of the measure, will be called in to vete on reporting it to the house, and & republican caucus will be held to determine procedure to be followsd during its consideration, The text of the bill is estimated to embrace about $5,000 words. At the time of its introduction the com- mittee will make public a repert on its provisions and also explanatery statements by the chairmen of ths Isub-committees on each of the 15 The report schedules of the law. also will show the changes propes- ed in the existing Forney-McCum- ber act. A tentative print of the measure was completed last night. corrected, and sent back for final printing. The job is expected to be finished to- night. Copies will be placed in the mail tonight for delivery to mem- bers of congress at noon tomorrew and not before. Tows Lightning Through Streets Pittsfield, Mass., May ¢ (UP) —A portable “thunderboit-hurl- . er” was towed by an automebile through the countryside here yesterday while General Electric company engineers caused 1. 000,000 voits of man-made lightning to strike the oom- pany’s service lines. Tha. expert- ment was conducted §o test the lines - fof residtance %0 natussl - N