New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 1, 1930, Page 9

LABOR CRUSADER AGAINST PARKER Mother Jones Watches Battle in| Senate—100 Today Washington, May 1 (UP)~—From her sick bed in’‘a Maryland farm- house, a little Irish woman who for 85 years has fought tirelessly for the cause of labor-—even defying ma- chine guns—is watching the battle in the senate over the nomination of John J. Parker to the supreme court. Even the bustle incidental to pre- parations for today's celebration of her 100th birthday annivérsary, fails to distract Mother Jones from her consuming interest in the Parker debate. For this is labor's fight sees it, and the outcome is just as important to her as that of any of the historic struggles she partici- pated in during her picturesque ca- reer. Was Good Man *As I remember John Parker, wag a good man,’ Mother told the United Press today. “But these ‘vellow dog' contracts! It's things like those that got me start- ed fighting for labor when T was only 15 years old. I haven't chang- ed a whit since.” Mother Jones, whose full name is Mrs. Mary Harris Jones, hasn't been able to read newspaper accounts of organized labor's fight against Parker, as her bright blue cyes are failing. However, Mrs. Walter Bur- gess, with whom she lives, keeps her well informed on this on all other affairs of the day Mother Jones is confident will win this fi all the more explains, bec her old friend Senator Borah, is leading the oppo- gition to the North Carolina jurist Lived Hard Life “Y've lived a hard life, but I'd be illing to go through 50 more years of it to see Senator Borah in the White House,” the aged labor cru- sader said. She then told how had first met Borah in Idaho years en he was a vouthful state's he Jones labor t use “cll aware of the aged woman': toward prohibition—s s the law a “humbug” and th affliction the country has—the pointed out rhaps the most zealous drys in the senate “Oh, we could make that." she settling pillows. Torah was pe of 1h n get over retorted with a chuckle hers2lf better among h:r Mother Jones is looking forward | to the party pectation of stated often if she with all the a child, for would happy could only live to be veass olid. Knowing this. Dr. H. H. How- latt, who has attended her since her near-fatal illness last December has décided to allow her to celc- brate the day by leaving her bed. To Receive 100 Guests She will receive her guests—mor2 than a hundred. Many high in of- ficial life and labor circles, plan to make a pllgrimage to the little out-of-the-way heme for the occa- sion Mother Jones was vigorous in dis- cager ex- she she a “The damn brutes! launched into another t prohibition, which she blamed for overcrowding the country prisons. Served Three Sentences Mother Jones knows quite about prisons, ade against a bit having served sen- tences in three after being arrested | She toll today | ding more than three months | on occasions. oi spe a Colorado nprison because wouldn’t go down on my knecs the governor.” I just told him to go she said, laughing at the tion As her birthJay falls on May 7, a day famous in labor annals, she w asked what May day stood out mos clearly in her mind. “I'll ngver forget my the West Virginia swered quickly. Tt was on that oc casfon that she walked, alone,“ove a hill in the face of a machine-gun and bluffed a crew of strike-bréak- ers into thinking she had 600 armed miners nearby NTI-GANDHI STEP EXPECTED AT ONCE in g | he olle:. May day in mines,” she an- Lack of News From India Attrib- | ' uted to Censorship London, May 1 (P~ Br papers toaay said that t stood that the Indi administra- tion, working with thc approval of ome govern nt, would take strong action to put civil disabedience cam paign of Mahatma Gandhi and the all-India national congress 1t was believed, the papers said that Gandhi would be arrested. In | some quarters it was recalled, how- | ever, that Mahatma's arrest | often has been reported as immi- nent but never had materialized. | There is a widely held view that the | government's refusal to grant the Stayagraha leader the martyrdom of arrest has strengthened its position Bombay dispatches - said that Gandhi had another plan to harass the government which will be re- vealed on the banks of the river Tapti at Surat. The nature of the plan was a mystery but a special | messenger was understood to have | taken Gandhi's instructions for car- | rying it out. Suspect Censorship Lack of important news from Tndia after earlier constant advices of sensational incidents in connec- tion with the civil disobedience campaign and the general unrest has Jed to general suspicion that news | is being withheld by the censor rather than that the situation is im- proving. The London Daily Express today demanded sharply that the public be | taken into the government's con- | fidence without any concealments. The paper declared that the worse ish news- v under- | the -|apparel, and | officials off to the Senator | has | the sltuation is the more imperative that the nation should be informed. Gandhi Aide Sentenced Madras, India, May 1 (®—C. Rajgo Palachari, one of Mahatma Gandhi's foremost lieutenants, ar- rested at Vedaranyam for violation |of the salt act, was sentenced today to six months' imprisonment and fined 200 rupees, or about $70. His sentence carries a three months’ longer prison term if he fails to pay the fine. At Poona yesterday police dis- | persed an unruly crowd which gath- |ered near the court where the local Satyagrahi leader was being sen- ment for infringement of the salt Foreign owned shops on streets closed for fear |act. | main | rioting. of Calcutta, Bengal, May | press which prints Liberty and Bangabasi decided to- |day not to publish any further. rather than pay the 5.000 rupees (about $1,800) demanded as secur- ity for cach paper under the vice- {regal press censorship ordinance. This followed the example of A | vance, Keeper of the Press, and {Indian Deily News here. 1 (#—The the papers PAYS RECORD FINE * FOR DUTY EVASION Mrs. Dodge Assessed $218,286 for Customs Frand Attempt ¢ | New York check for $213.286, representi | 1argest customs penalty ever impos- ed by an attempt to evade duties {the hands of collector of today. It was paid over by Mrs L. Dodge, president of | company, to cover duties and pe ties on a quantity of furs jewelry, which Mrs | Dodge and her husband brought | with them on the liner 1lle de | Franee April 15 and on five prev | ous trips. The informer, the was in Robert a cosmetic ho tipped cugtom contents of the 2 by Mrs. Dodge The person cl in a { 12 trunks brought Il receive a0 was indicated to b Parisian store | When the Dodges landed they | clared $17.000 worth of baggage An appraisal by customs men place ual value of the merc between $80.000 and $1060,00 Of the total sum paid, $41 represented duty and fines on 5 on furs. A as collected on jes breught into country pre to April 15. The rest on clothing which included 52 orig- inal Paul Poiret gowns The United States attorncy, Chas H. Tutti a d d the ious the | 1] women's | tional was the levy | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1934 MARCONI SPEAKS OVER 4,400 MILES Noted Inventor Interviewed by Wireless Telephone New York, May 1 ( Guglielmo Marconi, wireless, was interviewed last night, {and aside from the news value of the inventer's remarks, the inter- | UP)—=Senator developer of tenced for to six months' imprison- | view was one of the most unusual | len record. The interviewer, Karl A. Bickel president of the United Press, spoke from a room in a Fifth avenue building and Senator Marconi Iplied from his yacht, Electra, an- chored in the harbor of Civita Vec- chia. Haly, 4.400 miles away, while radio listeners of two continents lis- tened in For half an hour conversation was carried on between persons in a Na- tional broadcasting studio and the party aboard the Electra clearly as though it were over an ordinary |telephon» line. The talk was re- |sincerely think his holiness, the | pope, will use the radio as a means | of ‘addressing the world, but I am |unable at present to state whether he will do so in the near future.” | The interview began at 6:04 p. m. [New York time. In Italy it wae |11:04 p. m. CONVIGTS IN OHID * THEIR OWN BOSSES Have Sell-Government Since Fire —(Gollege Grad at Head By BRUCE CATTON Columbys, ., May 1 —Ever since {the terrible fire that took the lives of 322 convicts the Ohio peniten- tfary has been like no other peniten- tiary that cver existed Inside. the priseners are supreme | 1t i hardly exaggerating to say that {they are running the prison to suit themselves. They have their own or- |ganization which regulates the | minutiae of daily life. Except for the |fact that they bar the way to free- | |robbery and who has 35 years of |servitude to leok ferward to— Quinlan was taken into custody by a group of guards the other day in the prison yard and led dewn to sol- itary confinement. He was a ring- leader in the prisen parliament. As the guards led him across the yard | they passed the prison chapel, where the parliament was in*session. Quin- |lan calmly walked away frem his |guards, went into the chapel and {made a speech. Finally, in his own |g00d time, he came out and sub- {mitted to arrest again. Guards Are Powerless Or this: An armed guard is seated in the |rangeroom at the entrance to a cell | block. A convict comes in frem out side and fails to clese the doer be. hind him. The guard orders him to shut it. The convict wheels. spiis out 2 stream of profanity. laughs meck- ,ingly. and walks on—leaving the door epen. Nothing happens. In plain fact. the guards inside prison are almost pawerless. Jn no prison. anywhere, was there ever such a complete breakdown of dis- |cipline as there is here. The other night the convicts in “White City” sat up all night playing cards and talking—and no guard dared do any- |thing about it. They tore the steel the broadcast o American listeners over | dom. the guards might about as well | 400rs oft of their cells and threw | the NBC network. | Believes Pope Will Talk | Senator Marconi revealed that he |believes Pope Pius eventually will luse the radio station now being | erected for the Vatican City state as | though the inventor could not say | how soon l The senator conversation also said television betweerr the United States and Italy is likely in the near | decidedly, arc not ignored—to those genegal, on the African and could under | tuture, today bhe accomplished proper transmission that international broadcasting will |improve and consolidate the next 25 vears will see as great ¢ port|Or greater progress in radio than|under its own rules. the last 25 Listeners-in got an unexpected morsel of news of another kind later in the program when David Sarnoff, president of the Radio Corporation of America, was speaking to the scientist's wife, Dona Christina Maria Bezzfa Scala Marconi. “Have vou heard the news?" Marconi asked. “I have,” Sarnoff replied. “Is it a boy or a girl?" “I don't know said. laughing. | “Well. I hope it's whatever you want it to be.”” Sarnoff said. Others Give Addresses Others who talked across 4,000 miles of land and ocean were M. H. Avlesworth, president of the Na- | Broadcasting company, and | Charles Horn, general engineer, from New York, and Edward A. Storer, !United Press staff correspondent, and Gaston Mathieu, Marconi'a sec. retary. from abroad the yacht “When do you think that we may Begin to hope to receive programs from Ttalv? ““Soon. The first short-wave ltaliar yet,” Mrs. Marconi said he would not prose- | hroadcasting station near Rome is cute Mrs. Dodge for smuggling, as|practically complated.” il fines 1 also because he considered the cient punishment ! Mrs. Dodge. who is | 'her home in Mill Neck, L LINDBERGH AGAIN RESUMES JOURNEY Leaves Panama to Fly to Nica- Tagua Airport Cristobal, (‘anal Zor | Colonel Charles A. Lind his stay in Panama the first air mail on ne lap of its seven Buenos Alfres to New | Taking off from | a. m. the fanious aviator planned to land i shortly after noon at Puerto Cabe- zas, Nicaragaua, and continue to- morrow to Miami. where he will de- liver the mail to New | York plane. His fiight from Puert Miami will be directly across the { Caribbean, just as s his f | from Miami last week-end. At that time Colonel L | first mail from America on the schedule After val at ‘Mian b colonel’s plans A it was believed he would fiy early Saturday to New York, and Engle- wood, N. J., where his wife, the for- Anne Morrow, 15 with her par- 10 the last trip from York a ular Cabezas to to South n day the n. but 2 FOR $30.000 Bridgeport. May 1—Mrs. Louise Wilkins of Stamford yesterday filed a suit for $30.000 damages against Michael Drot Stamford, . Wilkins t Drotar as. saulted her with his fis to kill 1 iron pipe. A s filed again husband cd wiiiy “uit for §5,- ¢ th rand 1 ar secorn ol for woman IT PAYS TO ,P i y R TO MILLER' SECOND FLOOR Schulte-United 219 MAIN ST, suffi- | ead of the Har- | yge of the riet Hubbard Ayer company, is ill at| hig holincss today to take | \dbergh carried the | “We understand that a short-wave |transmitter is being crected for the Vatican, Is it true that ill use this as a means the world ™ o right. A station der my direction Cit | of addressin | “Yes heing put | the stat up of t Vaticar Just Mrs. | | not be there at all | Have Own Government Tn the great cell house known as “The White City,” there are some [ 1300 of the outcasts of sociely. These | outcasts, cut off from the normal |a means of addressing the world, al- | world. have set up their own gov-| ernment. They have a parliamant | which passes laws, holds the power of lif land issues ultimatums—which, most in authority | Two men are elected in ecach ckll May 1 UP—A certified | conditions. He expressed the belief block to membership in this parlia- | ng the | ment: this strangest parliament, existing | perhaps, that was ever organized on | der, at treasury department for | friendship between nations, and that |earth. The its debates, It posts in the prison hallways its rules. Tt |sends delegations to talk with pris- | on oftictals. In fact—most | parliament has startling of all— |this prison parliament has defied |the state of Ohio! And, to date, it |can almost say that it is getting away with it Lonsider, for instance, the scane |at the governor's recent investiga- |tion of the fire | Attorney General Bettman of the state of Ohio was chief investigator. | Around him were other high state | ofticials. In the witness stand was |one of the bigwigs of the prison |parliament—Murray Wolfe, doing itime for forgery, boasting a degree |from Leland Stanford University, I holder also of “degrees” from Fol- |som and San Quentin prisons. | Euave and at ease in his chair, Wolfe told the state attorney gen- |cral what the prisoners would and | would not do. They would carry on esgential prison servicas—kitchens, hospital. laundry, heating plant and the like: but they would net be locked in their cells, and they would not go back to work “If it takes us 60 vears”” he raid cooly. “we won't work until ‘The Pig' is removed.” “The Pig,” he explained. was the prisoners’ name for Warden P. E. omas—who sat in the room while | Wolfe was testifying! 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He said he would resume his flight as soon as the leak was ree paired. oped (05 NEF} ST Week phonograph needles at your newsstand ’ RECOHMENDS RISE IN PLANE FARES Danielson Man Makes Sugges- tion at U. §. C. of C. Meeting By GEORGE H. MANNING (Washington Bureau, N. B. Herald) Washington, May 1.—The sugges- tion that zirplane passenger fares increased “just a trifle” to help oper- | ators of air carriers out of a finan | cial hele was put forward by W. Irving Bullard, of Danielson, Conn., chairman of the committae on aeor- nautics of the United States Chamber of Commerce at a luncheon here to- | day of the National Association of Commercial Organization Secre tarles, held in connection with the {annual meeting of the chamber. | Mr. Bullard pointed out that a “tremendous stimulation of travel® | followed the recent reduction in | tares of the transcontinental planes | to the level of raliroad rates. The | gains, he said, had been from 60 to 300 per cent a month. He suggest- ed five cents & mile which, based on | 14 passengers carried in a2 multi- | motored plane, would bring in a | revenue of 70 cents a mile. The cost of operating such a plane, he said was from 90 cents to $1.15 & mile. | He also suggested further cost- | cutting. Tdleness of the plane on the ground is a big factor in operation of a fleet of planes, he said. Mr. Bullard was ever the tuture of the aviation fndus- try. He said it had passed out of its romantic period and was strictly 1n | world. Adventure and the business | risk. he waid. have virtually disap- | peared. The aviation industry, he as- | serted. is rapidly recovering “from those air-pocket shocks of last fall [ in Wall street.” | He said there should be caret | planning 4nd good performance and of your optimistic that the industry should provide the best planes, the best pilots, the best | ports, the best routes, for the surest all-around profitable service. Other. | wise, he said, the great gift of air- line speed will lose in value, The aviation industry, Mr. Bul- lard declared. is absolutely vital to | the nation, if only for defense. It| has made vital progress, he said but not enough. . st 4 He safd the new “yardstick” for | Aglmst Five in Bmldmg basing alr mall pay was a hopelul| sign. The substitution of mileage for | poundage as a measure for pay, with | Ncw York, May 1 (®—Five em- | readiness to serve counted as a pay | Ploves of the Fraternity clubs build- factor, should eliminate much of the | ing, headquarters for 18 Greek let- present financially dangerous [ter socleties, were under charges of gambling on the probable flow of |violating the prohibition law today mail, |as the result of a raid by federal The one great present need of the |drv agents posing as college men. industry, he said, is for financial| Moving with the suave decorum acumen anagerial skill, opsrating | befitting surroundings. the proficiency, cost scrutiny, and proper |raiders arrested a captain of wait- [ rate adjustments, |ers. a valet, 4 headwaiter, a waiter pi 2nd a man who they said was in HAYES TO TOUR EUROPE Charge of a bar. Lockers and the John B. Hayves of Murray strect nt of the club were searched will leave aboard the “Homeric” on 1§hottlenfbelzed Friday night for a four meonthy | The raid was made. agents said, pleasure trip to Europe. visiting |3(1€T several of their number rep- gland and the continent. Mp |Tesenting themselves fratern Hayes, the son of Mr. and Mrs. M had visited the club ard pur- F. Hayee, has been with the New [CDased liquor York oftice of the Union Carbide & | _Oficlals o club refused to | Carbon Corp. since graduating from |COMMent on the raid. Members sasd | Lenigh University several years ago. | (heY were at a loss to understand | He has been granted a leave of ab- [NOW the agents, even in the guiac sence by that firm. He will be ac. |of college men, gained admittan cempanied on his trip by Hubbard|t0 the club, which is by card only. | Lee of Los Angeles. Cal, who was | OF, if they obtained cards, how they his schoolmate at Choate. They ex- |escaped being detected by employes |pect to return to this country t: {38 non-members. | september. The club occupies part of & 29 | T — story building in East 3&th street, MAY LOSE DIPLOMAS |omned by the Allerton house &ys- New Haven, May 1—Be tem. eral students went for a luncheon at| Prohibition officials would not say what ms a “night club” W |whether they plannad padleck pro- | B. Spencer. principal of the Cori.|ceedings against the club as has mercial High school. has ruled that|been the case in recent raids on the offenders be denied their diplo. &everal large hotels and restaurants. | mas. The students, he claims, weat —_— |to the restaurant after a dance | In 1874 a law was passed in |tace of a warning to close all fes.|France ordering the manufacturers tivities wi ance. 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