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NEW BRITAIN HERAL NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, JUNE. 18, 1929.—TWENTY-SIX PAGES ; Seate l.-mw.d = uulm“ |fl|.|.|NfiS e -RESULT IN TABOO O AGENTS'GUAS Dry Ageats Restricted to Pistols by Order of Assistant Sec- retary Lowman PRESIDENT BELIEVED T0 HAYE TAKEN HAND Plattshurg Official Sends Bitter Pro- test Against Gordon Killing—Cus- toms Officers Infer it was Acciden- tal—Clubs and Tear Gas Urged as Substitutes for Rifles—Situation is Tense in Several Sections. Washington, June 18 (#—Presi- HOOVER SIGNS FARM RELIEF BILL PAONESSA'S REPLY T0 KING . . MAKES CRYPTIC REFERENGE 10 ROOSEVELT SCHOOL SITE (BSGENE WORDS IN | Reason for His Opposi- HYMN BY STUDENT tion o Plt i st d Harvard Senior Dismissal for Members of Presemt Immoral Amgmn in Words = School Board,” Mayor SONG SUNG ON' SUNDAY| Ao, First Letters of 18 Lines of Verse Executive Says Allegation Public’s Intelligence Was NEW CENSUS BIL | AND HOUSE COUNT Beveral States to Lose Seats, While Others Gain Them—Number i ' House to be Kept Same—All Fu- ' ture Decennial Enumerations and WMMHIIIMCIMN Automatic. 8Bhot by customs agents as he fled from his wrecked truck, 20-year- | Spelled Out Indecencies, Authori. | old Arthur Gordon, above, died | tles Find—Punishment 1s Called | Washington, June 18 (M—Presi @ent Hoover today signed the census and reapportionment bill. The new act has a twofold pur- pose; provision for the regular de- cennial count of the population and the setting up of a plan for reoppor- tionment of the house of represen- tatives. This will be the first re- pportionment since 1910. The cen- “sus count will be for the calendar year 1930 and the house members will be apportioned upon it. Under this reapportionment a number, of states will gain additional representation, while several other slates will lose seats. The size of the house will be re- tained-at its present number, 435 | members. | Disposition of the census-reappor- tionment question was one of the wajor tasks listed by President Hoo- wver for the apecial session. This and farm relief now have been acted up- on. Of the others, the tariff bill is pending before the senate fimance committee and the sénate has re- | fused to approve a resolution to ‘ postpone operation of the national | origins clause of the immigration act. Continuing Arrangement The census act also provides a eontinuing arrangement whereby all future decennial census and reappor- tionments will take place automati- cally without further enactment of law unless the present statute is re- pealed or superseded. An army of 100,000 workers, chosen by the director of the cen- sus, will take the population count beginning early in May, 1930. The task must be completed within two ! weeks in the cities and one month in the rural sections and a report must be made {o congress ihe fol- lowing December. The act, in addition, authorizes & eensus of unemployment, agricul- ture and irrigation in the United Sates and its possessions. The work will cost in excess of $39,000,000, | sl Sa May Rewrite Tarillf YWashington, June 15 (P—The possibility was held out to congress today that the tariff measure may be rewritten in the senate by the (Continued on Page 14.) 1. S NOT O SIGN YOUNG AGREEMENT Unnecessary, Hoover Says, * Since Nation Not Party to It Washington, June 18 (#—Presi- @ent Hoover announced today that the United States will not sign the Young reparations plan fecently agreed upon by the experts’ con- ference at Paris. The president said that since the American government is not a party ¥ to the plan it will not be necessary for the United Btates to sign it. The plan will therefore not have to be submitted to congress for approval The only point which congress will have to determine, the president #aia, will be the granting of author- fty to the administration to make reductions in American claims for Rhine army costs. L4 France Approves Plan Paris, June 18 M—The cabifet at # meeting today unanimously ap- proved the Young reparations plan, evolved at the recent conference of experts here. It was decided to take steps for ratification in conjunction with other interested governments. The government also outlined a declaration that will be made before the various commissiohs of the chamber of deputics regarding both debts and reparations as a prelim- inary to the debate on these two qQuestions next Tuesday provoked by interpeliation. Nearly the entire session of the eabinct today was devoted to this oubject, as Foreign Minister Briand's report on the meeting of the council of the League of Nations at Madrid also bore necessarily on preliminar- fes to an eventual conference on evacuation of the Rhineland. university today prepared to out into the world and among men its newest class of alumni by gath- ering Into Woolsey hall the candi- dates for degrees in courses from the college, Sheffield Scientific school and its graduate schools who tomor- row will receive their diplomas. made commencement day which the great dates for degrees and their friends was too numerous to be accommo- dated in Woolsey Tall and the at- tendant exercises which have come | down through 200 years had spun| out the program almosts to the hmn‘ of physical endurance. Presentation of Diplomas” Tomorrow hulk, soon destined ghost ship in the graveyard of the Pacific, the skipper +flance at coast guardsmen who at- tempted to take him off as rescued the last six men of his crew of 32. while being taken to a hospital at Plattsburg, N. Y. Two uniformed men who brought the body left without disclosing their identity. Authorities at first claimed that Gordon was bringing in beer from Canada and that the officers' had acted only in the line of duty when the youth failed to heed their de- mands to halt. Now Plattsburg authorities are protesting that he was shot without cause. Customs authorities say that the gun was discharged by accident. NEW BRITAIN MEN WIN YALE HONORS A L A Medal Goes to W. B. Cobb, Nepbew of W. F. Brooks GOLLEGE CITES HAUSMANN Graduate of Local High School In- ded in High Orations Group— Colorful Procession of Students in New Hav P—Yale send New Haven, June 18 Growth of classes in recent year one in throng of cand 8o the exercises are now held on the Tuesday of commencement week and tomorrow diplomas will presented to the candidates and the honorary degrees conferred by Pre: ident James Rowland Angell be (Continued on Page 24.) Paint Spills Motor Cop And Spoils His Uniform Motorcycle Officer William O'Day met with an accident about 4:15 yesterday afternoon when his motorcycle struck a mess of paint which was spilled from a barrel at Main and W ter streets, He was making a right turn from Winter into Main and tried to work out of it by using his feet on the ground but the wheels of his vehicle slid and threw him ints the paint, covering his uniform with the substance. One handlebar and the fun- nel of the siren were damaged The officer was unable to learn who was responsible for the con- dition of the street. dent Hoover today called upon the communities along the Canadian border to help the treasury to pre- [vent the systematic war being waged by the international criminals jagainst the laws of this country. The president said that h® deeply deplores the Killing of any person but the treasury was making a con- stant effort to prevent misuse of firearms. Mr. Hoover expressed the epinion that all the trouble encoun- along the border was due to mech- anism of criminals who were trying to violate the law. Many Complaints Made Washington, June 18 (UP)—The loss of human life which has attend- ed prohibition enfarcement activities in the last few days is causing anx- ety at the White House and has unexpectedly presented a serious problem for Mr. Hoover's law en- forcement commission, which re- turned here today after a recess of several weeks. Protests from certain sections against shooting by officers has caused Assistant Secretary of Treas- ury Lowman to issue orders that customs border agents are to be armed only with service pistols here- after. Some agents hgd been using sawed-off shotguns and rifies. Such weapons caused the deaths in the shootings at International Falls, Minn,, and Mooers, N. Y. Nends Bitter Telegram Prohibition has /been through many crises in its 10 years' exis- tence but none which has aroused such strong feeling as now exists in certain sections. C. 8. Johnson, pres- ident of the First National bank at Plattsburg, N. Y., president of the (Continued on Page 14 LOWNAN TO FIGHT SMUGGLING DRIVE Tips Show Record Boot- legging Campaign Start- ed, He Says Washington, June 18 () —Assist- ant Secretary Lowman announced today that confidential reports from treasury agents indicated an un- precedented gathering of bootles- gers and smugglers along the Cana- dian border from Vancouver to the Atlantic seaboard to smuggle liquor into the United States. Guard Strengthened Because of this, he said, the ci toms border patrol across the entire country had been strengthened. | Lowman also said President Hoover !had not asked for any report con- | éerning the smuggling or prohibi- |tion enforcement situation and that | he had not conferred with or made |any report to the executive. The White House, he said. had |transmitted to him a telegram of Minnesota citizens protesting against 1lhv killing of Henry Virkkula by | customs border Patrolman White, Besides this 150 other telegrams (Continued on Page Seven) Captain Defies Rolling Seas On Old Hulk, Despite Rescue Offers North Head, Wash,, June 18 (UT) 8till riding the swaying stern of the freighter Laurel, which broke in two during 8Sunday’'s heavy gale in the north Pacific, Captain Louis John- I'son doggedly kept the “last watch™ on his ship today. A lone mariner on a battered old to become a bellowed de- they Pleas of No Avail the Pacific-Atlantic steamship Co., operating the Laurel, gave definite orders that Johnson was to come in with the next surf boat able to reach the wreckage, regardless of the skipper's personal wishes. Coast guardsmen did not believe it likely they could reach the Laurel again until high tide this afternoon. A southwest wind was blowing and mariners were of the opinion John- son would be safe as long as it held. But should the wind change his chances for lifc would be slim, they sald. Mother Mourns Son ‘While Mrs. Johnson waited at As- toria for her husband to be brought tered in the enforcement of the law | Calling it a “constructive start a4 bhoard to stabilize agriculture, in Curtis, sentative Haugen, Representative Kincheloe, Representative Pur nell, at agricultural re lie(™ ceremonies June 15 Left to righ President Hoover which creates Vice President signed the bill t: Senator McNar: nator Capper, Speaker Longworth and Repre- GENTRAL JUNIOR T0 GRADUATE 2&5 Diplomas to Be Presented at Exercises Thursday Alternoone | AHONG - LARGEST GLASSES Principal Fren of Pupils Eligible for Registration | at Senjor High School After Sum- | mer Vacation, Diplomas will be presented to 265 members of the Central Junior | High school graduating class at ex- | ercises which will be held in the school auditorium Thursday after- noon at 2 o'clock. Mrs. Effie G. Kimball, a member of school committee, will make the tion. Principal William C. nounced the list today. is considered one of classes ever graduated school. . The officers are Edward R. Mi rante, president; Anna C. Salina, vice president; Julia Charlotte Par- | sons, secretary; and Charles R. Ma- | guire, treasure List of Graduates The members of the graduating | class follows: Penna May Abraham, Clifton | Almquist, Edward Fred Anderson, | Eric Carl Anderson, Sylvia Ida -An-| derson, John Stanley Andrewluvi Jr., Verna Arline Andrews, Tessie Mary Autunno, Henry Wood Ayer, William Henry Barnes, Charles Francis Bass, Saul Jacob Bass, Ruth | Mary Basso, Lydia Caroline Becker! the French an- This class the largest from the (Continucd on Page H. 3, ENGLISH TEAEHER T0 GIVE UP POSITION Miss Helen H. Stahl Will | Not Return Next ! Fall MisssHelen H. Stahl. teacher of English at the New Britain Senior high school for the past three years, | has sent her resignation to Supt. Stanley H. Holmes. effective at the end of the present school term. She presenta- Will Leaves $56,000 Long at Interest || Indianapolis, Ind., June 18 () —Pubiic bequests of approxi- mately $160,000,000 to be avail- able in 2129 were made in a will filed for probate here yesterday which provides for $50,000 to be Kept intact for 200 years at com- pound interest. The will was that of Will H. Latta, Indianapolis street railway company attorney, who was kill- ed lasc Wednesday night when an automobile he was driving w struck by a passenger train neai carmel, Ind. At the time he was en route to Fort Wayne where he was to marry Miss Em- ma_ Marguerite Sander. Miss San- der was given one fourth of the remainder of the estate after the public bequests, VOLGANO ERUPTION ENDANGERS TOW Japanese Crater Again Active— 9,700 Floe llurby Yillages NEW ZEALAND SHAKEN :: Alarm Felt Shower | Reported Buried Under 10 Feet | as Five Inch Stones Houses—Lighting Plant | of Ashes, Also. Hakodate, Japan, June 18 (UP) —The Komagatake volcano burs into a new and more violent erup- | tion at 10 a. m. today, causing thou- | sands of persons to flee in terror. The railways evacuated | refugees from the danger zone. Thousands of others left the dis | trict by foot and by every possible means of conveyance. Fear Score Dead Official estimates today were that | | more than a score of people were | Killed xince the first cruption of the volcano early Monday morning and that the list of dead might reach a hundred. Thg electric plant at Isogawa was buri®l under 10 feet of ashes today. | according to reports reaching here. | The post office here has been advis. cd that the bodics of 30 victims had been found buried under six feet of (<‘ommuvd On Page 23.) MISS HELEN H. STAHL | has accepted a position in Massa- SEWER GAS KILLS FOUR LOWELL MEN Three, Trvmg to Rescue First Man Overcome, Victims Lowell, Mass.. June 18 (®—Four employes of the city sewer depart- ment were Killed by sewer gas in a manhole in Perry street today. Three of them lost their lives in | a vain attempt to rescue compan- | ions who had ventured into the man- | hole before them and had been | | overcome. The dead are Frank Donahue, Thomas Fitzgerald, James l\'r‘tne and Hugh Roarke. A ffth man, Maurice Fitzgerald, | was rescued, but is in a critical con- {dition at St. John's hospital, where | physicians said he had slight chance |of recovery. The five men had been assigned 700 | 'THREE PEANE DEAD STILL IN CHANNEL fSearch for Victims of London- Paris Flight Continues .|/ FOUR BODIES REGOVERED Calmn Sea Aids i Hunt for l'ns&' —Airplane Shown to Have Gone 260,000 Miles. Folkestone, England. June 18 (P e bodics of all but three women, ved drowned yesterday ip a sh of the giant air liner City of | | Ottawa off Dungeness while crossing | the English channel,™have been re- (o\vnd One of the missing women, ‘Miss Roberts of London,” was be- licved to be of American parentage. Search for those three bodies | nhangcd today from the cabin of the plane, which has been towed in near here, to the scene of the crash. For | hours the twisted metal ruins of the | | plane were \searched in vain, al- | though a member of the crew of the Belgian trawler which towed it in shore thought he saw two bodies in Casualty Lists list today d and body recovered Adolph E. Meister, 73, vice pml. | dent of the Garfield Manufacturin company of New Jersey. | Leon T. Malcolm, vice president of | ‘lhv Malcolm & Southern Furullure Hompan\ of Hamilton, Ontario. Alfred Smith of Melbourne, | tratia. | Mrs. Ickerson, address not given. | Missing: Mme. Bosiger of London. | Miss Roberts of London, Mrs. Koracki, Mayfair hotel, Lon- don, helieved to be the stage name of a Mrs. Gerzon of Amsterdam. The follows: casualty Dea A \m- (Continued on l‘azt- 20.) RETIRING PRINCIPAL - REGEIVES $300 CHECK Smalley School Association Honors Mrs. Grace M. Coholan President Walter Kosswig of the Parents and Teachers’ Association | of (hn Smalley Street school present- . Grace M. Coholan, retiring prmup-ll with a check for §300 last evening as a token of appreciation {for her work from the assoc teachers and the alumni. Mr. Koss- wig and Attorney David L. Nair, representing the alumni association. spoke highly of Mrs. Coholan’s work and praised her untiring efforts to start the pupils of the school on thc right road of life to success. Mr: Coholan has heen connected with (Continued On Page 23.) gers—All Three Missing Women | tion, | Drastic. | Boston, | Fitzhugh, of Boise, Idaho, author of |the Harvard collcge senior class hymn and prominent in student literary affairs, who was to have | been with his graduated class June 18 (® — Edward Insulted Is “Overworked When Better Arguments Are Lacking”—Defends | Record of School Con- struction, Thursday, has been dismissed from | the college, it was learned College authorities declined to cnm-: ment on the case. Anagram Immoral Fitzhugh, who was an editor of the Harvard Advocate, a student monthly, was dismissed because of | the injection, by means of an ana- gram, of immorality into the hymn. dismissal came at the height of the commencement week activi- | | ties which were ushered in with a | baccalaureate program Sunday. which included the singing nf | Fitzhugh's hymn. The hymn, a work of four verses | of four lines each, contained sacred sentiment. It discovered after the baccalaureate service, however. that it had been written in the form of an anagram, which if the first | letters of the 16 lines were roud downward, spelled out four obscene words. Started by Accident Fitzhugh was reported left Cambridge immediately after | his dismissal. Student friends "lld"'d however, that the anagram developed primarily by accident ‘and that after he realized the ‘sit\mhon he developed it further, believing that only he would be aware of it. The dismissal of Fitzhugh, while not ‘unparalleled in the history of | Harvard as regards its 11th hour ‘L‘hnrscler was the most drastic | punishment ever meted out for a morur\ offense in many years. " FELTOVIG MAY GET REPRIEVE 10 FALL | State’s Attornev Asks Stay Pending Hearing of Appeal in Case | to havi June 18 am H. | Bridgeport, P—8tat | Attorney Wil bull for a reprieve uril December for John (Spirits) Feltovic, con- | demined to die on the gallows the "\N\k of July 15 for the murder of Lester Jacobs, a chain store mana- | ger. \ Feltovie. who is 19, is in state rison at Wethersfield awaiting re- wnomx to the death house. He was | convicted of shooting Jacobs in a | holdup the night of March 23. The states attorney's petition for L Feltovic's appeal to the supreme | court of errors from the verdict of a jury in Judge Isaac Wolfe's su- | perior court. The reprieve would | have to be served on Warden Henry K. W. Scott at state prison on or he- | zore June 25 to be eftective. The | supreme court cannot hear the ap- | peal until the October session, which opens in Bridgeport October 22. Comley’s petition was accompan- |1ed by a copy of the formal appeal | and will probably be approved by the governor immediately. The re- prieve will give the 19 year old slayer a five months’ lease on life, Counsel for Feltovic said that if the | appeal fails he will make a fine plea {to Governor Trumbull for modifica- | tion of sentence from death to life imr‘nmnmrnt. | Althouzh the general aanb[\' has authorized the establishment of | a small claims court on July |vent the new branch of 1, de- | | lays are expected which will pre- | 'Small Claims Court May Not Be Ready In This Clty by July Ist | will be appointed to handle the bulk |of the work. Bills regarded as too small to warrant lawsuits will be accepted by the clerk, upon pay- today. | Comley today | petitioned Governor John H. Trum- | Echoes of the school committee wrangle over the proposal to buily |the Roosevelt school on the Ger- bach lot, east of East street, enter- ‘cd into the controversy between Mayor Paoncssa and President King | of the school board today. The mayor, replying to Mr. King's criticisms in an open letter to the press yeslerday, admitted opposition |to the school committee during the !Roo-mell school discussion, pointing , |out that objection to the plot was one reason, but passing over the | second by stating: “The second reason for my opposi- | tion at that time is known to cer- | tain of the present board’ members. | I prefer not to discuss this matter, | awaiting such publicity as these | concerned might wish to give it.” Mayor Paonecssa recited the his- [ tory of school construction during his administrations as an answer to Mr. King's declaration the mayor has opposed school bullding plans of the committee, R | him that all public officials must expect their actions to be reviewsd by the taxpayers, the mayor asserts: “To say that a citizen is mot'a friend of education because he does not agree with the findings of & cer- | tain group is inconsistent with s | tundamental principle of govern: ment and savors of ege.” King's Attitude Surprises Mayor His answer to Mr. King, which | (Continued on Pu- 20.) >F|MN[IE 10 AWARD -~ NEDALS TO FLIERS Clunge in Attitude Toward Yellow Bird Crew Noted | Paris, June 18 M—The crew o: . | the transatiantic monoplane Yellow Bird will be received at fhe cham. ber of deputies, the senate and the Hotel de Ville, tomorrow, the high. est honor that a Frenchman can re- ceive. Of all these honors a reception te- day by M. Laurent-Eynac, alr minis- ter, is probably one that gives the fiers the greatest satisfaction. The minister had refused to el or recognize the Yellow Bird's at- tempt. It was said at the ministry even after the hopoff from Oid Orchard that if the flight succesded 1t would prove nothing and that the ministry frowned on all such at. tempts with machines not fitted with floats, Recognises Flight was only at the last minute when the fliers’ arri was a mat- ter of an hour or #0 that the minis- ter decided he could no longer re- fuse to give ofMcial recognitien of the magnificent success. Today's visit-does not mean that the gov- ernment has changed its viewpeint as to transatlantic flights by ether than water planes, but it ameunts to official recognition of the fiers’ performance. The crew of the plane today re- sumed their round of receptions and visits while Arthur Schreiber, eof Portland, Me., their stowaway, west | out to get measured for a full dress | suit. He still is treated more or Jess as a member of the crew, though b force of circumstances his share in the festivities is detached and ec- casionally embarrassing. Fliers Kind to Him The airmen themselves continue to trecat him with great kindmess but other people are less inclined to consider that his proper piace 8 (Continued On Page 23.) Stowaway to Those six had remained on the chusetts where she will be nearer '!v investigate complaints that sewer the legal | ment of a $1 fee, the person named Pool at Willow Brook To Be Open Wednesday Because of the extremely warm weather, Park Superin- tendent Clyde Ellingwood has decided to open the municipal swimming pool tomorrow fn- stead of waiting until July 1, ‘was originally intended. The hours will be as followy: Mixed bathing from 10 a. m. ta 12 and from 1 p. m. to 5. Adults from 5 p. m. to 10 p. m. Sundays. everybody from 1 p. m. te 10 p. m. drifting stern as it was buffeted about by the towering seas before the cutter Red Wing finally was able to reach them. They entreated the skipper to leave with them, but true to the tracitions of the seas, he wanted to stick to the lakt. Beafaring men differed as to why he remained when all others had been saved. Some telieved he intended to go down with her when she finally broke up. Others thought he hung on to Protect the claims of her own- ers should it be possible to salvage some of her parts. Buperintendént N. H. Anderson of ashore, a mother in Dorchester, Mass., mourned for her son. Russell Smith, 19, who begged Captain Johnson to take him aboard at 8an Pedro and allow him to work his passage fo Philadelphna, was the only man who went down. A huge comber swept him from the Laurel's deck. 8mith’s mother had written him she was lonely. She begged him to ccme home. That's why he was so | persistent in becoming a member of the Laurel's crew. He was taken on without having to sign the artcles and was working only for his pas- sage and food. her home in Berlin, N. H. Miss Stahl has been one of the most efficient teachers in the im- portant English department of the school. She was offered a contract to return next year at a recent meeting (Continued on Page Seven) | New London 8:30 am.8:40 p.m. | | N. Haven 10:42 a.m.,11:03 p.m. gas was escaping from the manhole, which is situated near the tannery of the American Hide and Leather company. Donahue, the first to enter (Continued on Page Seven) THE WEATHFR New Britain and vicinity: Generally fair tonight and | ‘Wednesday: not much | change in temperature. * system from becoming operative for | some time. New Britain asked for such a court in a special act introduced by | Representative Thure Bengaton. This | bill was laid aside when a general enabling act was presented which would allow all citics and towns to have such courts, operating along lines to he sct up by the supreme | court. Judge M. D. Saxe and Stan- ey J. Traceski have not been in- formed as to the procedure favored by the supreme court and can take | no action until this information is | received When the court is created, a clerk | as creditor being given an oppor- tunity to adjust the matter without going into court. In cases where dispute arises, an informal hearing will take place before a judge of the city court. The change in the maximum amount over which the local courts | will have final jurisdiction will be- | come effective July 1, and from that time on, no appeal can be taken to higher court uniess the amount of judgment given is more than $500. | excepting on questions of law which may be taken directly to the court w:; errors. The maxlmum is now 00, U Home on Paris, June 13 UP—Arthur Schrel- ber of Portiand. Maine, whe stowed away on the French transatigntie airplane Yellow Bird last and made the flight to Spain, will by sent home on Thursday abeard aithe ermnurhvhtmu\hh- dent Harding. YA“rmev;“mg ":r.. backer of ellow 's t, whe has Schreiber with every m today followed the suggpestion American friends that it was for the airplane’s burdensome unweicome passenger 9 990 "Im he came, e