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News of the World By Associated Press NEW BRITAIN HERALD Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending June 29th ... 15,097 ESTABEISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 19 20) —TWENTY PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS AL i NGE Urits: i SIBLE Furniture Blown to Bits-in.Los Rngeles Grain Market Early This Morning FINANCIAL DISTRICT HIT BY TERRIFIC PERCUSSION Two More Unexploded Infernal Ma- chines Discovered in Closet, Both | Failing to Go ON—Ofmicials of Concern Taken to Police Station For Questioning—No Reason For Attempt Discovered. 2 (P)—A bomb ght o'clock Los Angeles, July explosion shortly before this morning wrecked the offices of the Los Angeles grain exchange on the fifth floor of the I. W. Helman building, at Sixth and Spring streets in the financial district. Plaster Knocked Down The blast echoed up and down the district and rocked the building. The offices wer attered. Furni- ture was blown to bits, partitions torn out and plaster knocked from the walls and ceilings The explosion occurred just before the arrival of a staff of clerks. Offi- cers traced it to a closet where two other bombs found, both of which were ignited but had failed to | explode, They want to fin rs followed to h blazing the al tragic death. Williams here are shown in the cal land, Me., receiving a wreath which the transatlantic eraft Old Glory ws fromOld Orchard Beach. After d crew—Philip A. Payne, Lloyd Ber Yancey hope to car were No Reason Given No reason for the plot could be learned immediately. Officials of the exchange were taken into custody for questioning. The offices were vacant at the time and no one wi arboro Airport this believed hurt. 0ld Orchard, Main Pathfinder” said tods fore the end of the we | the motor. He said he July that a tak ek because o hoped to brir i afternoon. (7. r trail which a year ago three ofher Capt. Lewis A. Yancey and Roger Q. sin of thew plane Pathfinder at Port- they will drop 100 miles at sea, where 15 1ost on its attempted hop to Rome pping the memorial to the Old Glory taud and W. H. Hill—Williams and on to the same goal. wis A. Yancey, mavigator of the -oif for Rome could not be made be- f the replacement of rocker arms on 1g the plane to Old Orchard from the FOREST FIRE LOSS NEARS MILLION AS FLAMES HIT TOWN (Mill Valley, California, Summer Homes Destroyed in Disas- trous Advance of Blaze COSTLY ART TREASURES LOST IN MANY. HOUSES | o 209 Buildings Destroyed in Village— i Breeze Aids Fighters of Blaze —Fire Beaten Back to Sides of Mountain After Leaping Canyon— Soldiers Called to Aid in Fight and Do Guard Duty. San Francisco, July 3 (P— fire which cut a wide swath through the residential section of Mill Valle: across the bay from here and razed many beautiful summer homes in the wooded canyons nearby, apparently was under control today, tinued to hurn upward on the slope of Mount Tamalpais, ground, Loss May Be Million The extent of the loss remained to be determined, but unofficial esti- mates ranged from $500,000 to §1 | 000,000, Rire department estin Jindicated that about 200 homes, in- | cluding several that contained costly art and literary collections, had been | destroyed or badly damaged. | A Stiff breeze, which made its ap- | pearance when the flames were lick- {ing the fringes of the business dis- [ trict, aided the army of 4,000 fire {fighters in turning the conflagration away from the town shortly after The fire then leaped up yon, along the west slope of Mount Tamalpais. but firemen be- its | midnight. Cascade ¢ FASCISTI SPONSORING * THRONE SPEECH IS EXPEDTON T01TALY -~ DEBATE SUBJECT New Britain Boy Among| Gousel‘vatives, Liberals and La- 165 on Visit Abroad TRADES DISPUTES POINT of Sebastian Puzzo, 15 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Sebastian Puzzo of 195 Winthrop street, will leaye to- morrow with his parents for New York city where he will embark upon a voyage to Italy, together with 164 other boys and girls who are to be the guests of the Fascisti League of North Americ The expenses of the trip are being jorne by the league which is spon- <oring a movement by which it hoved to have the United | Socialistically Inclined Members | Parliament Go of Into Question Unemployment and Aid For Poor of Nation. London, libers ction of the July 3 (P—The conser Is, and the advanc labor party have all ziven notice of amendments to the ddress in reply to the speech by Sir Henry Page Croft, member (o) Bournemouth, challenges the gov- crnment’s position on the safeguaid ing duties inaugurated by the con- scrvative government, Another, (o | be moved by I. A. MacQuisten (con- rvative, Argyll) will express ve- gret that the government intends o | amend the trades disputes act and | thus “disturb the legal position tives, CENTURY LD BOOZE " CACHE IN EXCAVATION il(}i) Bottles of West In Rum Found Under Wall Street SEBA N PUZZO w York. July ing 40 feet below adt river in the a 33 story office building at 120 Wall street found 100 bottles today which |officials of the construction ecom- hurses and nuns as well as super- visors who will provide for the en- [pany said contzined West Indian rum at least a century old. tertainment of the boys in Italy, | where they will be the guests of the | The men were working under 21 ltalian Boy Scouts. The trip to Italy | pounds of air pressure when they will be made on the “Augustus,” and |found {he first bottle. They dug into the return voyage on the “Counte |the side of the shaft and had col- C ndes.” lected 100 bottles when the 100 ton caisson in which they were workini undermined by the side shaft, Wrop- | ped three feet and cut off the “rum (P—Sandhogs and Ttaly exchange the level of girls annually for visit. The entourag 2,000 boys and | wee |2 asix includ doctor The Puzzo boy is ral Junior High s Je has been ctive in s i Tairs. His father is well known | mine.” ternally and is president of the Ca-| The building is being Vitattini Mutual Beffefit society. Jon filled land near South Al S it avas supposed that the liguor may. Danbm‘y Police Hunt e been part of the cargo onc Husband on Rampage d in the river and that the had gradually settled in th Danbury, July 3 (®—Danbury po- ($Oft bottom much to the place wher fce are s hing for William Sher- | they were found. weod, a city employe, who ye: tent to the home of his wi Mr. and Mrs. Martin and, it is all d, after as. +aulting his mother-in-law, he seiz ©d his wife, from whom he was arated and foreing her into his e ilrove away with he. No trace of Sherwood or his wif has been found. A warrant has been I'sued charging the man with @ sault and breach of the peace constricted street and ar Com- | Chic July 3 (UP)—The which in years past he help- hud was i & hand, given to many a fallen brothe extended today to Rev. David Brown, wearer of four medals for distin guished service in the Dritish army picked up as a drunken derclict in street gutter on Chicago's west side | A patrolman, seeing a man sprawled in the gutter, took him, un- conscious, to the station where he was charged with intoxication. Papers in the prisoner's ~pockets entified him as Rev. Brown, 60, a AMethodist minister for Judge Calls in The prisoner was accorded (igarette Is Blamed For Fire in Aw believed to have been start i dropping of a cigarette by a nt in the Lewicki building, y rday afternoon, used the burn ng of the awning at John Smolak's jtore at 99 Broad street. Mr. mo- k was out to dinner and wh returned, two policemen were z ng the flames. They extinguished the fire and it was reported today | ‘that the damage was about $50. /ning I7ire w the 8 med- hor Insurgents Suggest Changes foundation for | . } 400 Natives Flee as Big Volcano Erupts Kiji, July 3 (A—Pr Commissione Jo of the Hebrides nds, west of this group, reported today that the big voleano on the island ot Ambrym had become so active that between 300 and 400 natives had taken refuge on the island of a, 3 miles distant » commissioner has for provigioning of the This is the first uption on Ambrym whe nearly half -the is destroyed. Suva, dent W rang refu- t islands, d volcanic zetation. They ard jointly & by I'rench Br rnm and are jited chicfly by Melancs comy with (he nts the VOVIGE MOTORCYCLIST SPEEDING WITH GIRL an Hour On Drives 55 Miles First Day Vehicle ting a William (08 Main stre motoreycle Tomc ime, zalk, went th 15 last evening rough Stan- t about 4 at d said by loy stro rate of spec Officer liarper to have hacn “very, very " and when the officer overtook Bim in Clayton after a chase fron W point opposite Mary's cenie- tery, Tomezak was unable to turn his vehicl AT 1d without puching 50 unfamiliar was he with nner of operating Ofticer Harper testified in police court today that the attention of 1 lurge number of people the street was attracted by Tomecezak speed. A youngz woman was ridir behind him on the eyele as it cut and out of traffie which was movin, in hoth directio The officer had lis motorcyele parked opposite the cemetery and at once he took up Tomezak's trail, turnin into Allen street and then into Clayton. Clayton road he clocked him miles an hour Tomezak, according (o the ked fc chance” hut the vointed out to him the impossibility f ving it to him in view of the manner of his driving and the wide }spread attention he had attracted. Tomezak pleaded not guilty to the ol of reckless driving and sait | he had not driven a motorcycle prio it, at ol officer officer (Continued on I Eight.) Fallen Pastor Rescued In Gutter Civen Chance to Regain Manhood ttention and every possible cars instructions of Judge Joscph Burke, World War veteran, befo whom he ws tigned today. Judge Rurke called in Methodist les to him to socie s and heglth.” a vest pocket were found four medals for distinguished service with an Essex regiment of the DBritis) army in the World War. there a letter from Brigadier General Robert L. Howze of United States army commending the hearer for his conduct while unoffi- cially attached fo the American (Continued on Page 18), restore the on | aders to | Then | the | {lieved it could do little damage in that dircction, Still Bu San 1 m Fiercely Cal., July | Fire in the jue town of Valley, bay north of here, | continued to burn fiercely ioday d | spite the cfforts of a hastily organ- |ized hody of fire fighters, who were | handicwpped by lack of water. | “Shortly after midnight the Dblaze was said to have been diverted from {the business section of the town, | which has a population of about {10,000, but continued burning through the kirts where | was scarcc e engines in {tive. Th that time wasesti- mated at $500,000. About 60 some of them | libraries ana rui neisco, pictur across the 3 (P~ v ou and f loss art treasures, lay in Two Reported Missing William ger of the Muir Woods railway, a irl and a housemaid | reported missing, found The lon the Thot sistant mana -year-old were at but later blaze broke out latc of Mount Tamalpais, about 3 1-3 miles from the down- town district. Sweeping down the mountain it roared through Blvihe- dale canyon. Soon it was menacing business district. Mayor Adolph crhart of Mill Valley appealed to utside towns for help. Soldiers from. the Pre meisco, part of the & department, firemen from yesterday lope fire a half (Continued on Page l:n:ht) " FILE REMONSTRANCE 10 ANI]RFWS’ STORE anele Ploper O\m- ers Formally Object to Its Reopening | | i SOy | Stanley Quarter property owners who object to reopening of Charl S, Andrews' store on the plot adjoin- ing the State Normal school grounc huve brought their protest to the hoard of adjustment A list of objectors was given today Clerk Thomas Linder, ther with a formal request that Andrews’ application for a permit to open the store be den Mr. Andrews conducted a business i the which is one th smallest in the city, for many years. He later the premiscs Kolodney Brothers, who struct not been used for five years under the terms of their y were required to pay The plot has been zoned for resident purposes and one of the | provisions of the law that no | building which does not conform | with the zone regulations may be re- opened if it h: not been in ope imn within a period of year. | Andrew ntly notified Building | Inspector Arthur N. Rutherford |nis intention and the protest came almost immediate to toge store ot leased o say the ! THE W New Britain and Thursday inci ness and showers Thur: NO HERALD TOMORROW | In accordance with fts'us- ual custom the Herald will print no edition tomorrow, Independence Day. The | but con- | its scenic back- | Mill | water hories containing valuable and | '1[‘ In Detroit Home Killed in Second | Detroit, Evangelistia, 40, and _their found slain Aubin avenue [noon today. All apparently | vietims of an axe sla The children were | Margaret, 6; Jean, 4, 115 months. | The body of the Italian 3 P his w four children in their home here shortly July 4 ntina. were in St befors W Angeline, 8: and Mario, Evan neighborl know in ood as a Six In Family Hacked to Death By Fiend, Police Believe, as Neighbors Find Bodies Religious Healer, Wife and Four Children Apparentlyj Victims of Axe Killer — Bodies Terribly Disfig- ured—Man’s Head Severed—All But Father Floor Bedrooms. ligious healer, and a mystic, was found his desk on the first floor. were folded across his chest. others were md in floor bedrooms Discovery of the by Vincent Elius, a dealer, through whom yesterday completed ! (Continued on Page something of ted behind His arms The second fc th bodies was made real estate Evangelis arrangements Eight) Fall Fruitful for All Citrous Family Chicago, July 3 (B — Or. Apple faw down and went cr vesterday and wound up in hospital || Orange is only seven asked him his name and he “Orange,” obl brought him one. 3 him again and he said and the nursé got pecked into a phon found Orange Apple called him up, and he vas little Ogn day. They asked tfih ge, Jr., how he happered to faw down. He said he slipped on a banana peel Altozet ervthing consid 1, 1t vwas a fruitful event. sh the 4 said nurse aske App! picious. book liste so the | ! She and She enougl EN[]URANEE PLANE CONTINUING EFFORT - Cleveland Fliers Near End of Filth Day in Air No More Orange Juice or Coffee Wanted By Aviators—15th Con- tact for Refeuling Made With ft. Cleveland, July 3 (A—Nearing the end of their fifth day in the I’ilo(< Roy 1. Mitchell and Byron . Newcomb shuttled back and forth | Lmou Cleveland airport tod |zl apparently going well the wonoplane City of Cleveland [ which they hope a new refuct- endurance flight record. to set nee The pilots condition when scemed in excellent the 15th re lem | contact was made this morning, | though weomb had droppe (1 a |note that he was sieepy. They too! aboard T llons of gasoline. They refused hreakfast offered them in a bag hung from the refuc ing plane, | | i crew not to send any juice or coifec “We arc out ir note, “and ake on what we really need.’ At 11 o'clock this morning, {he ‘<'m of Cleveland had been alott 112 {hours and minutes. The pilots | must stay up until 12:11 2 Sat- | urday to set a new mar JURY TRIAL BENAND IN TUNNEY MWSUIT ‘No chl\ Yet to Answer | Denying Charges in Complaint more orang to record,” only want for a we | | | \ | Bridgeport, July 3 (A—Katherine King IFogarty for $500,000 against James J. (Gene) Tunney, former heavyweight hoxing champion of the world, hefore a jury. This was decided today when \or counsel filed with the clerk of the superior court a jury trial claim, in Mrs. Ilogarty's suit in which she alleges that Tunney failed to his promise to marry he | Colonel Lewis 1. ven attorney for Mrs not yet filed the reply to Tunney's lanswer, in which the retired boxer denied promising to marry the wom- lan and in which he chs [with an attempt to exploit quaintanceship with him, though he |already had paid her more than 000 to waive any claims on him. suit comes up in the September court. keep 1d, New H Fogarty, | The term of superior |June Bulldmv Pelmlts For Work Worth $136,935 Continued activity — in building cireles is reflected in the June re- vort of Build Inspector Arthur N. Rutherford, showing 101 permits |issued for construction estir 1 10 | cost $1 Included 45 frame structures costing four brick buildings, costing ), and alteration jobs which are estimated at $28,150. The rev- enue from permit wa 14, were $98,43 $10,- fec HIGH TIDES—JULY 4 New London | New Haven 9: *. —te el \MEN REFUSE BREAKFAST luh‘ will present her claim | . |about MRS, BUNDY LOSEY . INENGLISH MATCH Wmner of Title 24 Years Ag 0 Bows to You hiul Player HUGE GALLERY WATCHES Campaigner of Generation Ago Finds She Match Speed With | Cannot i Opponent—Loser Mother Children, 3 (P— winner of Wimbledon, England, Ju Mrs. May Sutton the Wimbledon women Bundy, singles ago. was climinated in the quarter-finals Lidley, young scores of 6. Plays Courageous Game The old tennis campaigner Santa Monica, Calif., mother of hv« children, played courageously and cll, but could not match her youth- ful opponent in stamina and speed of foot. A huge gallery Miss Joan lawyer, by by lish today I from of thronged into the Wimbledon stands to see in action lone of the leading favorites of | generation ago, Mrs. Bundy is daughter of a former captain in royal navy and great favorite here. Long lines began forming at d: | break for the big semi-final an | when play began the public stand were packed with policemen guard- ing the lines in which were hundreds \mn secking admission Opens Strong Game Bunc opened lish t Iy lost (Continued on 3 KILLED, TWO HURT IN'GENEVA ACCIDENT - and asked the ground Crash C Ia“ns High Dcath pital Yo s e Toll—Auto Turned Geneva, men woman died in Gene were N. Y., July 3 P antly killed, a on the operating table a hospital, and two other badly injured, one seriously, w left the road An! urncd in a ditch in the rloo- neva highway early today The dead Auburn; Thomas Miss Catherine Ma Riley and Heffe of paint and v Mackin was tore. Mrs. Eleanor [ Mrs. Tda Riley, w | ously injurcd. She | iy injured back. | of the ageaa acerations and from Aut Carlton L. street, Woonsocke the car, 1 | and bruises and | from the hospital to have been the Accordmg to G n route from ( the car leaving t vocds Corners, tween the Cor®ner county said t would b 1d today in the death of Miss Mack who died in the hospital. Two were insta their over, are: ward Riley Hefferen and teca Talls proprictor Miss en's n arc all pa clork her in stores a He Lewis, siste the sustained M t man, e bruises, most L 116 Mair, owner of escape discharged Riley was said dariver. Iden the parly was neva to Waterl road ne about mid two place o Flint ir Pack be- Geor of an inques 1 | Boston, July & (&) noises of American cities retard growth. Experiments demonstrating thi Colgate University were describer the National lome Iconomics sociation here today by Dr. A. ‘Laird, director of the gical laboratory. Rats Used in Tests “For more than a year,” have been following the effects of city noi rats—yielding results it 30 years ol | humans to obtain. a to as psycholo- he said, through on whit “we servations upon Rather startling effects have been recorded For instance, the rats relative quiet, eat two or three per nt more food than their brothers ters that are kept unler the kept in *rlcclncullx duplicated ey noises; of Five | young | City Noises Retard Growth, Tests With Rats Show, Scientist Says Donald would take | || Would Stamp Out Crime CANON W, MYSTERY MALADY PUZILES DOCTORS ‘Thiee Children Turned Goeen| Before Death—21 Stricken POISON MILK SUSPECTED S. CHASE of Drink Tails | to | | Show | Forcign Substance — Only One Adult Sk and He Blames Milk— Jersey Investigates, 7 mysterious malady three children her them green, h ldren and a si adult cll, chief health of: : an investigation as a precaution against an cpideme. | Dir D. 3owen of the state health department will cooperate in the July (UP)—A hat killed urning each of ricken has | | | stricken med milk. Although analysis failed | poisonous mineral in the ar examined, the theory een abandoned. i itest death was that of Gloria Dunning, six weeks old who | was stricken at her home here |terday afternoon and died Gn Monday, Shirley Shaddow, old, and Jean Shaddow, seven weelks old, died at the Cham- |bersbure hospital a few hours af they stricken. All three childre iliness could diagnosed. physicians said the |indicated intestinal poisoning. | Child of 3 Tecovering | Marjorie Me ated at the Chambersbu fter she was stricken and turn green ponded to tr nd will re- cov | samu adult wert ) 1 chemi- show | milk thus has not 215 n died before their In each nptoms | i rshon, 3 1 to tr hospi n atment 1 Bleek be afil 37, the to the only known tor with the dis- hos- im- | case. was remo (Continued on Tage Bight) ?sunfifs*r SUBPOENAS FOR AUTO LEADERS. Four Manufacturers to Be| | unless [ the { ties w | cial the | Given Chance to Appear | | (PI—Advis- | nas to com- | before a sen- | committec four | wutomobile ors to | eir views on a tariff on and trucks, was discussed today at the capitol Although no official announcement | made, it was said subpoenas | be issued unless the manu- | facturers accepted the invitation ex- tended Monday by Senator Reed, re- | piblican, Pennsylvania, chairman of the Is sub-committee, to come to Washington July 11 to testify. Pord Among Offcials i invitations were sent to Henry Alvin Macauley, president tional Automotive Ch and head of the 0. Alfred P. W Wbility mand t wshington, is \ppen sub- e of or bein cars wi would a met ( 1 N of | wrd merce Motor ( Pack- Sloan, (Continued on Page Light) g but with only this small appetite advan in | | con- | the | | as shown by the ! conditions grow ound Chese scientific: servations on nd confirmed ity | veal of food sumption, rats kept under | auiet somewhat 10 per cent more rapidly. illy controlled ob- | are paralleled ments of | which re- | ter rate | ¢ boy animals by mes and country childr almost invariably s growth among the count Tear Reaction Results in gre intensity than reard on the inside of a high grade motor car travelling 40 miles an hour over concrete, precipitates the fear reaction.” nber | (Continued on Page 18) GANON CHASE ASKS REFORM MOVEMENT AS CHECK ON CRIME Public Must Support New Atti- tude to Tmprove Gonditions, Givic Clubs Told WAR ON LAW VIOLATION APPEAL T0 PATRIOTISM Churchman Says Free Speech is Ime perilled By Alleged Monopoly in Radio and Motion Picture Fields —Invisible Government Largely Controlled By Liquor Interests Supplanting Authorities. Positive plans for crime preven« tion were outlined in an address to t meeting of the Rotary and Kiwanis clubs at the Burritt hotei today by Canon William 8. Chase of Brooklyn, N. Y. Canon Chase, who of the Christ church of Brooklyn is president of the Inter- national Reform Federation. He based dent Hoover's pointing out a joi is pastor his address on Presi- crime that commissicn, method of prevention can be successful the public of it. Bducation was suggested as one of no crime is back methods. Control of financial s of the major political par- advanced as another. Canon Chase spoke as follows: Herbert Hoover, our Quaker president, calls us to the greatest war our nation has ever fought. His summons to war against crime ap- peals to all that is noblest in us. It appeals to cautious business men. he thieves of America cost us 1hout seven and a half billions of lollars each year. A high commer- authority gives the following (Continued on Page Four) resourc RAILWAY ENGINEERS THREATEN TO STRIKE Employes of Western Roads Demand Sepa- rate Representation Chi engine! six © considering the car vidual grievance r international 3. Edrinaton, of the night En; () — Locomotive western railroads strike to compel ognize an indi- agreement with brotherhood, R. assistant grand chiel brotherhood, revealed, last t > Mi 4l Railroad association of and the Chicago, Milwau- St. Paul and Pacific railroad a! ly have voted. Kdrington said] and the vote now is being tabulated. Negotiations between the en- gineers and officials of the Union Pacific, Southern Pacifie, and Atchi- son, Topcka, and Santa Fe railroads have come o an impasse, Edyington clared, predicting e vote by the engineers of those carriers with- in a short time. Other railroads in all parts of the ountry have become involved, Ed- rington and the strike threat might b national in signifi- cance, Question of Individualism The controversy is based on the refusal of the 1ailrouds to deal with neers independently of the firemen and enginemen. Officials of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En- gineers contend their organization has the sole right to represent en- ginecrs, regardless of whether the latter belong o the engineers’ or firemen’s and enginemen’s brother- hood. Under red in hoods wit! ing griev ing hood St. Louis, ome a joint working agreement 1913 by the two Broth- the Railroad, the work- nees of engineers belong- {o the Enginemen's Brother- were to be settled through a committee representing the brotherhoods. The agreement, did not become wide- 1919. The Chicago of the Engineers’ ay issued a the organi- of the ter- \greement, joint two it was said, spread until headquarters Brotherhood statement t tion took ating cl ester in 19 ivantage Lure of Circus Proves Stronger Than Police The lure of the circus and the call of the sawdust ring, with its siae shows and other attractions, proved stronger than the arm of the law for Bruno Zaurotney, 17, of Kensington, who was arrested in connection with a copper theft on New Haven railrozd property last week. The youth was awai ing trial when the timely arrival of the Sells Floto circus last week oifered a means of escaping pun- ishment at the hands of the law, ind he has not been seen since the circus pulled stakes and de- paried. Just what will be done about bringing him back has not been dGecided. \ Zaurotney, now appar- ently a roustabout, failed to ap- pear jast night in the Berlin town court, it was his second fade-out in {wo weeks, for at the previous session he had failed to show up when visions of reform school turned him away after he had actually set out for the court.

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