New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 31, 1930, Page 11

Second Section NEW BRITAIN HERALD [rerex] 7 NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1930. Government Prepares Fireproof Vault for Secrets Gathered By 120,000 Census Takers In Visits Data Considered Sealed for Fifty Years When Records Become Geneo- logical, Custodians De- clare. March 31—(P—An fireproof, is being rushed to completion at the census bureau here to receive the 1930 cen- sus “secrets” which everybody will be telling within the next 30 days. “Strictly confidential” is the stamp placed by the president’s proclama tion on every item the people of the United States may tell to the 120,- 000 census takers, who will start circulating through city and coun- tryside Wednesday morning. Any one of a possible 20,000 ques- tions may be answered freely and frankly, because all answers will be locked in the vault. “There need be no fear that any disclosure will be made regarding any individual person or his affairs,” President Hoover's 15th decennial census proclamation read. He could make that assurance be- cause & the way the census burcau keeps secrets. The burcau itself is being housed, pending completion of a new department of commerce building, in temporary wartime stuctures down on the mall. The only fireproof structures on the lot are for the census schedules. All Data Secret Back to the' very first census, 1790, the reports are kept under lock and key in steel cases within cement structures. These are guard- ed by caretakers who give them anti-moth and anti-mould treat- ments. Miss Mary C. Oursler, for 21 years in charge of records, would not permit even one peek at a 1910 volume lying on a repair table. A census official explained sched- ules were considered sealed for 50 or 60 years until they ceased to be personal and became gencalogical. Thus what you tell the census taker this year may come out again in about 1980 or 1980. The 1930 vault, now under con- ®iruction, is far larger than any heretofore built. Tt will receive ali original records just as soon as the first swift tabulation squecczes out the “human interest” and subst tutes “cold statistics.” ~One trip through an amazing machine, and each individual becomes an ab- straction—just so many code-perfor- ations punched in a piece of card- board, to be tabulated as literate or illiterate, gainfully employed or un- employed, or whatever happens to be in compilation. MARION HAS DRY LEANING IN POLL Piladelphia Ballts Show Strong Repeal Desire New York, March 31 (UP) — Marion, 0., home town of the late President Warren G. Harding, is one of three cities with dry pluralities in the latest compilation of votes in the Literary Digest prohibition poll Four hundred and two of its citi- zens indicated desire for enforce- ment, while 274 voted for modifica- tion and 165 for repeal. The other two cities arc Spokane, Wash., with 1.310 favoring cnforce- ‘Washington, immense vault, 13 meat, 1,037 voting for modification, and 603 for repeal; and FElgin, 111, tabulation 9, and 319 in the three classifications. In each case, however, the combined vote of those favoring modification and repeal was | greater than the ballots for cnforce- ment. Philadelphia voted heavily wet. Those favoring enforcement num- hered 11,405; modification, 18,155; and repeal, 44.603. The latest compilations follow Snokane, Rismarck, Norfolk, Quincy, Tgin, T Canton, O, Marion, Wash. N, D. Neb. . IS Erie, Pa, . Philadelphia Wilkes-Bar: 5 Auburn, N o Three Missionaries Held By Bandits at Yuanchow Shanghai, March 31 (UP)—Mis N. E. Gemmell, an American, Mr., and Mrs. R. W. Porteous, Great Britain, have been held cap- tive by Chinese bandits after an at- tack on Yuanchow, according to re- ports here today. They were work- ers at the China Island mission. Reports said the bandits looted the towns killing many shopkeep- ers and tortured to death many others, including a Chinese pastor and the principal of a hool. PORCH March 31 Three persons were slightly injured last night when an automobile driven by Max Bornstein of Hart- ford swerved off Main street, ran over the lawn and crashed into the front porch of the home of A. D. Coffin. 1. PRINCE VERY ILL March 31, (A — Anxicty today for the condition of Prince Saionji, last survivor among the “Elder statesmen” of the Sho- gun days. His indisposition of the past few days had developed into pneumonia. | W.C.T. U. LEADER JAILED FOR RUM Woman Held for Possessing Liquor on Main Strest Pampa, Texas, March 31.—(UP) —Headquarters of the Pampa W. C. T. U. today were established in a cell in the city jail where Miss Beulah Allred, the ““Carrie Nation of Texas,” was denouncing both “demon rum” and District Attorney Clifford Braly. Miss Allred, a spinster whose cam- paign has carried her into cvery s tion of the Panhandle and who fo two years had waged a campaign against liquor in this boom oil town, was indicted by a grand jury for possession of liquor. The charge was presented by District Attorney Braly after she had paraded down Pam- pa’s Main strcet waving a bottle of liquor and telling merchants and business people of the “wetness of Pampa.” “I was jailed wrongfully,” Miss Allred said, “and it is the duty of Police Chief Downs to free me.” Sh said she had refused the of- fers of two wealthy farmers who last night offered the $500 bond demanded by the county authorities. or two years I've been fighting the liquor “menace in Pampa,” she said. “Do those officers and men on that grand jury think I'll give up just because I'm in jail? I'1l stay here until Pampa goes dry and when I get out I'll show people how they can buy liquor right here on their Main street.” Will Continue Writing Miss Allred said, “they may stop me talking” but the ink in my pen has not run dry.” She was referring to the mimeograph papers which she had written and had printed weckly and which were distributed in all parts of the city. These she said, would be continued as long as she reprained in Pampa. “I'll make. my headquarters right in this cell,” she announced. “This is my line of duty. Every martyr to a cause has to suffer.” Miss Allred’s only companion in the jail last night was a mongrel cat &vhich is the “official food taster of the jail.” The cat moved into the cell'when Miss Allred was marched into jail. She sent three instructions to her friends. They were for clean quilts for he” prison cot, for a sign paint- er to pajnt a W. C. T. U. insignia which would read & (en T e Headquarters,” and she asked for “size 42 wash dresses.” She said she may grow fat without exercise, Braly characterized her as “a half Carrie Nation idea of a hullabaloo” and criticized her liquor enforce- ment plans. declaring the majority of “cases” she prepared for officials failed because the witnesses which she would hire to buy the liquor failed to appear at trials. “It's just an effort to give Pampa a black eye,” the district attorney said. “She got into the jam and I'll prosecute her case like any other liquor trial.” YANKEE TOREADOR WILL FIGHT AGAIN (Syduey Franklin Leaves Hospi- tal, Plans Return to Ring Madrid, March 31 (®—Svdnoy | Franklin, Brooklyn bull fighter who was badly gorcd two weeks ago in an encounter with a fierce black bull in the arena here, surprised everyone yesterday by leaving the hospital and making arrangements for his return to the bull Ting. Ife announced that he was not only going to continue his career in a’bigger and better way than ever Dbut that the day of his comeback was only a fortnight hence—April 13 at Valencia. He said that first he must under- g0 an additional week of medical atlention, visiting his doctor daily, but that then he would go to a training ranch and come back to Valencia and show them he was “not done yet.” Tncidentally three persons were |injured Sunday in bull fights in Spain and Morocco. At Tetuan, Spanish Morocco, a spéctator could not restrain his enthusiasm, and jumped into the arena to show the matadors how to do their job. He was badly gored. At Cadiz a bandillero was gored and at Valencia a matador cscaped a tussel with a brindle beast with bruises and scratches. Ten Drowned When Boat Upsets on Lake Orchrida Yienna, March $1 (P—Advices here from Orchrida Jugo Slavia said that a motorboat upset on the lake there yesterday brought death by drowning of ten ocoupants. The boat was making an excursion tour of the lake. N Those drowned included Colonel Proti the military @®mmander at Ochrida; Greek consul at Kortcha and his wife, the secretary of the Jugoslavian consulate at Kortcha with his wife, the sub-prefect of Ochrita and one sailor. All raw materials for engineerinz work come from three sources—th. farm, tie forest, and the mine, PLANES MOBILIZE FOR MIMIC WaR Pacitic Coast to Witness Red and Blue Sham Battle Washington, March 31 (P—The war birds of the nation, mobilized on a pacific “front,” will start Tues- day to test their wings and unfold a picture of what an international fray would bring. For three wecks the largest and most modern host of sky fighters ever assembled in the west will carry on the fortunes of mimic combat in the 1330 air corps field exercises. It will be the proving ground for latest equipment and new schemes of combat evolved by Uncle Sam's en- gineers and strategists to keep air defense in step with the advances by acronautics. Radio will play a majof role in knitting the defenders, scattered in the skie on their separate missions, into a compact fighting force Will Test Radio Pursuit ships. three-mile-a-minute fighters, will test a new radio re- ceiver with suffifent sensitivity to operate on a six-foot antenna with a daylight range of 200 miles and cap- able of being remotely controlled. Lumbering bombers, the winged fortresses, and ground-combing at- tack ships will be linked by radio with observation and pursuit planes while in the air in the most extensive plane-to-plane and plane-to-ground tests ever tried. Centralized in Sacramento but rov- ing over the whole domain of Cali- fornia, more than 130 planes have been mustered from all parts of the country for the event. Commanded by Brigadier General illiam E. Gillmore as almost his final official act bhefore retirement from the service, the host will be scfrooled the first week to insure smooth and safe operation of such a large force. The second week will be spent in testing latest equipment—ships, com- munication, and photography — and new tactics mapped by strategists in the war department to utilize the developments. Hostilities between a phantom foe, labeled the *“red” force, and the air corps fighters combined as the “blue” defenders, will climax the maneuvers in imaginary battles over San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Southern California. CONNECTICUT HAS 2 ONNEW HONOR ROL League of Women Voters Pags Tribute to Poineers GEORGE 1. MANNING (Washineton Bureau. N. B. lHerald) Washington. D. €., March 31—A; recognition of their distinguished service is the cause of woman suf- frage, as well as a tribute to their citizenship achievements, the names of two Connecticut women have been offered for the National Roll of Honor, the National League of Wom- en Voters announced here today. The two *nominations” from Connecticut are Mrs. Isabelle Beecher Hooker, who lived in Hartford until her death in 1907, and Miss Caroline Ruutz- Rees of Greenwich. \ In its annoucement the National League of Women Voters explains that the National Roll of Honor is “a memorial plan of recognition in this tenth anniversary year of wom- an suffrage.” The special jury of awards, assigned to pass on nomina- tions for the Honor Roll will pre- sent its formal report on May 1 to the League's anniversary convention in Louisville, Ky. Names are nomin- ated by state lcagues of wemen vot- ers. and may be selected by the State because it is the birthplace, resident, or the State of service of the nom- ince. The list made public today carries the two Connccticut names, as fol- lows: “Mrs. Isabelle Beecher Hooker. of | Hartford, (died in 1907) first presi- dent, Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association; reformer in securing women's property rights and equal parental guardianship rights. “Miss Caroling ' Ruutz-Rees, of Greenwich, members of national board of National American Woman Suffrage Association; war worker in National Council of Defense. In the list of 23 names made pub- lic today are Susan B. Anthony of Kansas, Julia Ward Howe and Lucy Stone of Massachusetts, Dr. Anna Howard Shaw of Michigan, Mrs. Car- rie Chapman Catt of Towa. Mrs. Armenia Smith White of New Hamp- shire, and other names nationally and internationally known in the feminist movement. Classificd Ads in the Herald are an institution in New Britain. GIRL SCOUT NEWS Fourteen Girl Scouts of troop 1 of the South Congregational church went on a short hike to Kensing- ton Saturday afternoon. At the start each scout gathered a hand- ful of 30 pebbles. Every time she saw a tree or flower or something in nature that she could recognize she could throw away a pebble. The scouts built a fire and cooked kabobs, bacon, cocoa and toasted marshmallows. After the lunch half of the group followed a trail that had already been prepared. At the end of the trail they found a box of chocolates. Merit badge examinations for April are scheduled as follows: Cook in the Girl Scout office with Mrs. Jane Barker, April 7 and 14 at 4:30; craftsman at 30 Cedar street with A. D'Augustino Saturday, April 5 at 10 a. m.; dressmaker merit badge in the sewing room of the senior high school with Mrs. Idella XKnapp, Thursday, April 3 at 4:15; needle- woman merit badge will be held at the same time as dressmaker; handywoman and housekeeper merit badge examinations will be held in the Girl Scout office with Mrs. Logan Page Tuesday, April 22, at 2 health winner examination will be in the Girl Scout office April 16 and 23 with Miss Minna .Richter Wed- nesday at 4:30; laundress will he given by Mrs. Herbert O'Neil of Berlin at her home on Wilden road. Berlin, on Friday, April 23, at 2: musician will be given by individual appointment with the two examiner: H. J. Zahnleiter for violin and Mr; Ruth Schade Smedley for piano; wild flower'-finder and tree finder merit badge examinations will be given in one of the biology rooms of the senior high school with Miss Elizan=th Mackintosh, Tuesday, April 8 at 4: land animal merit badge will be given at the home of Charles Pratt on East Berlin road in Berlin, Saturday, April 12, at 10; hostess examination will be given at 91 Vance strect by Mrs. Garner C. oodwin Thursday. April 24 at 10; examinations in home nurse, first aid, child nurse, starfinder, will be given when course has been com- pleted. Examinatipns in garden flower finder and birdfinder will be given when cnough girls have ap- plied. . Mrs. George Lewis of Newington is assisting Mrs. Roy Miller, captain, with the first aid work in troop 10, Maple Hill. A state conference for all local directors, field captains and com- | missioners will be held in the New Britain Girl Scout headquarters April 8. Nrs, T.. Warren, com- missioner of the New Britain Girl Scout council. will conduct the dis- cussion of the commission and Miss Nellie West, local director of the Hartford Girl Scout council will conduct the discussion of the local directors and field captains. The session will be open at 11 a. m. and adjourn at 4. There will be discus- sion on the following topics: Camp its program; training course for camp leaders in Connecticut: gypsy trips: campfire programs; cooking by the girls in camp; council and their committees; how to secure new leaders, etc. DEATH LEAP ENDY ALLYN KING'S LIFE Failure to Win Retarn o Broad- way Causes Suicide New York, March 31 (®—Allyn King, whose blonde loveliness was once chronicled in the flickering lights of Broadway stage life, was dead today, a martyr to the harsh code Broadway assumes, that “they | never come back.” Convinced that her career as a stage star was over, {he former | Ziegfeld sttar died in Bellevue hos- arms and legs were broken and her skull fractured and only her last words, “T did it because T can never return to Broadway” remained to recall her carcer. Elevated by Florenz Ziegfeld from a New Haven cabaret girl to & star in her own right, Allyn King be- came one of the most popular of his stars. Then in 1921 came the craze for “boyish” figures, and her con- tract said she must weigh 115 pounds. She lived for months on strict diet and then finally she wa carried to a sanitarium, a physical and mental wreck. For two years she was there and finally recovered only to find she could mever regain her former place. She became despondent. Yesterday, after bréakfast with her |aunt in the apartment, she left the table and a few minutes later was picked up from the stone courtyard below the fifth story window. Savings Bank of New Britain Established 1862 Resources — $25,089,754.66 Deposits made on or before Thursday, April 3rd, will draw interest from April 1st. 5 7o INTEREST being paid Open Monday evening—7:00 to 8:30 Motorists Advised to Clean Cooling Systems The American Automobile Asso- ciation, in an official bulletin just issued, gives warning that budding flowers and the sweet twitter of woodland birds are the occasion for something more than moon gazing. Procrastination in giving the el tire cooling system a thorou spring house cleaning, the bulletin states, will result in trouble and expense gomparable to that cxpe enced by thousands of motorists who last fall let cold weather catch them unprepared. The advent of warm weather, like the approach of winter, should be a warning to the automobile owner to act. In addition to removing anti- freeze and cleaning the cooling system, winter oil should ‘Y changed to a spring grade light lubricants should be replaced in the transmission and rear cnd by grease suitable for warimer temperatures, the carburetor should be read justed, and if the generator charyg ing rate was t up last fall, it should be re ed for lighter loads. Nash “400” Series Give Good Performance Another chapter in the sto of motor car performance—the sub- Ject of paramount interest to the 1430 motoring public—was written today for officials of The Nash Motors company by no less an au- thority than Col. Arthur C. Goebel The famous flyer, who has been a Nash patron since the original 400" series cars brought him twin- ignition motor superiority on the ground to add to the twin-ignition reliability of his championship air- planes, made a fast air-land trip to Kenosha recently to take deli ery of a new and handsome Tw! Ignition Eight Cabriolet which hail been finished to his personal order. Leaving the Nash factori he swung his new car toward the south in an overland trip which took him first through an exciting bear huat in Mexico and then over the souta- ern route to Los Angeles. The results of this unusual new car test and the pleasure the new type car gave this master of mo- ters, is best told in his own words Following is a letter, Treceived at Nash headquarters from the Dol pital yesterday several hours after she had thrown herself from a Greenwich Village apartment. Both | Developments in Automobile Field as Described by Agents | for flight winner, trans-continental champion and mechanical ity inzended the Nash factory family every since my return the new Twin-Ignition riolet.” he wrote from les. “My trip home was cnjoyable in my experience. Tl new car was so comfortable and casy to drive that I made two sep- arate endurance runs just for the fun of the thing. The first Wa from Wichita, Kansas to Maso Texas, made ‘n thirty hours' driv- ing. On this run 1 stopped only 15, oil and an occasional sanii- have writing a few here with Eight cab- Los Ange- the mo wich. “The othcr was a non-stop run from Ozona, Texas, to Los Angeles —thirty hours behind the wheel, with stops only for gas and oil. Dodge Truck Line Is Now Complete Officials of the truck division o Dodge Brothers announced today that the company now has what is considered the most comprehensive range of units in the motor truck industry. Capacities range from the Merchants Express light delivery car to the heavy-duty - three-ton truck, and the various models and cembinations m the line meet per cent of all hauling needs. Six-cylinder engines and four- wheel brakes on all models, and radiator shutters operate! from the dash on all heavy-duty models are outstanding features of the 1930 Dodge Brothers commercial ears and trucks. Four-cylinder power plants are also available in the 3-4- ton and I-ton sizes. A four-speed transmission in the one-tone and heavier capacities insures more flexible operation under all condi- tions. Hydraulic, internal-expand- ing brakes are standard equipment on all trucks, school buses and mo- tor coaches. All brakes are com- pletely enclosed as a protection against dirt and dust, and afford positive control at all times. Forty-eight different types of chassis with wheelbases ranging from 109 inches to 155 inches are which when combined with fous body styles and vary- ing equipment, gear ratios, size of tives, etc., extend into more than 2,200 different truck types. In ad- dition, the special equipment divi- ere 1S NO finer 6ng1neer lflg e A ASH offers authovi- | { | | Nothing contributes more to the satis- faction of the Nash owner than the knowledge that a higher price could purchase nothing better in the way of engineering. 1t gives him pride in his car and sound assurance that his investment will re- pay to him the fullest measure of finest performance. Among the 30 models Nash offers for your consideration, including Twin- Ignition Eights; Twin-Ignition Sixes, and Single Sixes; you will find not the | second and high gear possible with | lines | ypjs car, | transmission | Plymouth Prices sion of the company furnishes cn order units that fall outside stand- ard specifications. Two Test Runs Support Claims Two fest runs made on the Pa- cific coast during last week grapn- ically demonstrate the ability of the new 1030 Willys Six to meet the claims made by Willys-Over- land, Inc., as to the speed both in The first run, with the transmis- | ion locked in second gear, was | made from Los Angeles to Saa| Diego, a distance of 132 miles, with Eddie Pullen, ex-champion dirt track ‘and road driver, as pilot at the wheel, the Willys Six cover- | this distance in two hours and 7 minutes for an average speed of 44.75 miles an hour. Allowing for city traffic and ob-| of traffic and road regu'a- | towns such as Santa T servance tiens in Springs, Santa Ana, Tustin, Cap- istrano and Oceanside, the mark | indicates that the advertised sec ond speed of 48 miles an hour a practical possibility and that | even punishing the motor ani| with 152 miles at top | sccond speed has no ill effect upoa the working mechanis: (Cause Sensation Instant public response reported from every city in the country has stamped the recent sensatfonal prica reductions of $65 to § on the Plymouth car as the year's most interesting development in the au- | tomobile industry. | The Chrysler-built Plymouth is| now one of the lowest-priced cars in the world, and its entrance into this market has resulted not only in attracting thousands of persons to Plymouth, Chrysler, Dodge and De Soto showrooms from coast to coast but also in an immediate stimulus to sales. Plymouth produc- tion schedules are being materially advanced. Within the industry this move on the part of Chrysler Motors has commanded top-most interest. In business and financial circles the new low prices, together with the fact that the Plymouth will soon be sold and serviced by more than 10,000 Chrysler, Dodge and De Soto dealers throughout the Unit- cd States and Canada. is regarded as one of the most strategic mer- chandising events that has by announced in the automobile in- dustry for several years and indi- cates the confidence with which | nrysler Motors views the future. | now CHARGES RAILROAD WOULD RUN STATE Grundy Opens Campaign With Attack on W, W. Atterbury Philadelphia, March 31 ) — Opening his campaign to succeed himself in the United States senate, Joseph R. Grundy has trained his heavy artillery on W. W. Atterbu president of the Pennsylvania rail- road, and members of the Philadel- phia republican organization's “war board.” Former Governor Gifford Pinchot, gubernatorial candidate, also has taken a fling at members of the “war board.” The local organization is supporting ¥Francis Shunk Brown | for governor. Pinchot is making the | fight independently. “By grace of the political machine guided by the so-called ‘war board’ composed of Hall, Cunning- ham, Salus et al.,” Grundy said in a statement last night, “Mr. Atter- bury is now republican national committeeman from Pennsylvania, and in his dual position as repub- lican national committeeman and president of the Pennsylvania rail- road, Mr. Atterbury has been and is the directing mind in the con- spiracy being carried out x x x by which the Philadelphia gang and the Pennsylyania railroad are attempt- ing to grab control of the state gove ernment and of the public treasury, dictate the personnel and policy of the public service commission, and dominate all the important relation- ships of this great state with the federal government.” Pinchot characterized the Phila- delphia organization as one of the “most corrupt on earth,” and as- serted that its leaders represented the “very worst” in politics. He add- ed that the election of Brown would mean that these men “would move into the capitol at Harrisburg and raid the state as they have raided Philadelphia.” Hospital Interne Finds Patient Is Own Father Bridgeport, March 31 — Dr. Ben- jamin Sherman, Bridgeport hospital interne, Saturday night discovered that a newly arrived patient in the emergency room was his own father, Morris Sherman, 60. The father was unconscious with a possible fracture of the skull and o long gash in the scalp. He had been struck by an automobile at Ogden street and Noble avenue. slightest variation in quality of manu- facturing method. They differ in size and body style but they are identical in the fact that each is built to preserve and perpetuate the Nash nameas a standard for excellence in the motor car world. A Few Outstanding Nash Features The policy of the great Nash institution encourages Nash engineers and Nash craftsmen to labor toward the highest ideals—and insists that those ideals be maintained strictly in each operation. Centralized chassis lubrication, built-in, anto- matic radiator shutters, and the world’s easiest steering in every model. Lifetime-lubricated springs with steel spring covers in the Twin- Ignition Eight and Twin-Ignition Six lines. 58 ELM STREET The priceless protection at no extra cost of Duplate,non-shatterable plateglassinalldoors, windows, and windshields thruout the Twin- Ignition Eight line. This glass is also avail- able atslight extra cost in all other Nash cars. 30 Models Ranging in Price from $935 to $2385 f. o. b. factory Attt NASH 400 A. G. HAWKER, Inc. TELEPHONE 2456 3—162%)