New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 13, 1930, Page 10

LITHUANIA OUSTS DISLIKED DICTATOR “ron Woll” Woldemaras Faces Prison or Exile London, Sept. 13.—“The Biter Bitten,” a delightful comedy of the little country of Lithuania, has just had its' third act written in the| shape of he serio-comic arrest of the ex-dictator Alexander Volde- maras, on the order of his former friends, who last year toppled him trom his job and have now depriv- | ed him of his freedom | Perhaps the only do not appreciate the Lithuanians cause they rcugh time of teen years. The World War r province of run many an who are people e comedy a over- C man port, R. L, instead of off Sandy armies which forth ‘When the Lithuanians awoke their sense of nationality and pro- claimed an independent republ Back in the theirs had been one of the most |] powerful countr in Europe. One | of their grand dukes became kin of Poland, and later Poland the war seme king. Had Further Conflicts The new republic of 1919 was not at the end of its froubles. Russian Bolos invaded it New Course Selected for Am'rica’s The new locale of the America’s Cup races, to be sailed off New- Hook, where all previous compe- sursed | titions have been held, is shown in this map. Here, beginning \ their armies, but the Lithu . licked them and got an indemnity |the other evening from a - stroll from them. Then there were con- |OBlY to find himself confronted by flicts with the Poles and a peace |2 T of armed police with a num- e e in i Bolandbeecs i of waiting cars. They took ing the ancient Lithuanian city of | him into his house and showed Vilna as capital of its neighbor. |him a governmental order for his But. shortly atterwa a Polich | banishment from Kovno, the cabi- general, on his own, occupied Vil- He merely snorted. Then AR Do la g it denied him. v pulled ther document— Then, with a hunger for the impos order for his arrest. Overcome tant city it welcomed him. And the | with fury, he rushed to the tele- League of Nations, framed do |phone, only to find that the cops justice between the jons. gavg|had cut the wires. Then more its blessings to the action by hand- |like a comic opera dictator ghan ing over Vil to Poland. That |one in real life, he screamed’and has given Li a an everlasting | stamped. shouting that the war- grouch and grievance. It has [rant was not in order, as he had never been on speaking ferms with | never legally given up his posts of Poland since and has closed its |premier and foreign minister and frontiers to Poland and refused to }thn warrant omitted those titles. do business with it When the police mildly suggest- |ed thew might be compelled to use | force, he consented to sign a re- ceipt stating he had read the war- rant, but insisted on signing with |his full name and with the titles |of premier and fdreign minister. | He was then taken avay to gn ob: |scure farm village | many miles |trom Kovno, wher? he has only |the company of a priest, who is a | personal friend. Later the govern- ment proposes to prosecute him. The officials are still debatiny with themselves whether it will be better to send him to the hoose- |gow, where he sent so many others. or country. \CITY WITHIN CITY first u; to boot him out of the | T | |In 1924 the then mayor and 13 | others, including a police lieutenant, were convicted of liquor conspiracy. HANS FINGERPRINT BAFFLES EXPERTS Letters BESN Finally Found on % His Steering!lheel Lyons, France, Sept 13 (P—The | steering wheel mark has . been | added to the list of Fnusual finger prints. L A taxicab driver arrested after an accident showed a thumb print in which the letters B E S N*stood out as if written in white ink. Nothing was visible on the thumb, but repeated prints showed the 'same mysterious letters. The case for a while stumped the police laboratory of Lyons, one of the most noted in the world. The riddle was solved by a voung Chi- nese, Leung Yui Fan, assistant to the director of the bureau, Dr. Lo- card. | Leung found on the driver's steer- ing wheel raised letters of a trade mark, among them the telitale B E S N combination. He found also that in gripping the wheel this driver's hands were usually in the ne place, and that the balls of thumbs had these raised letters $ Mrs. Frapk B. McNiell . | VInuT dictator of Lithuania, Prime Minister Voldemaras, above, drove many persons from the coun- try with his administration. overthrown, he himself ma; exifed V But even then Lithuania's trou- | Rudolph G. Tenerowicz, bles were not over. It had a govern- ment made up of a coalition of Populists and Socialists. Suddenly on December 17 1926, a military | cabal overthrew the government, | set, up Antony Smetona as presi- | dent and Professor Voldemaras as | prime minister. The latter the virtual dictator. In addition to mili- tary support, he had he active backing of the Iron Wolf, a Fascist arganization. The chief Tron Wolf | ruled with an Iron P: Martial | law was prociaimed. There was a | censure on the press and on public meetings. There were proseccution of his political enemies. There was a decided immigration of Lithua- | nians, fleeing from his reign of terror. But he had one big card which had the whole-hearted sup- port of his countrymen. He re fused absolutely to give up Vilna He kept pegging away at this ques- tion. Every time the League of Nations met in Geneva, he storm- | ed away on this, subject, making himself a nuisance to the bored western Europeans and the South Americ; cptember, in his mier, dictator and g nister. he once more went to Gene and once | more orated all over place. Women S Trouble In his ; petticoats brought a downfall. Pres- ident Smeto a politic M. Tubelis, married sisters. Madame Tubelis suggeste her sister Madame Smet how T would be if were made | premier. People dictator anyway was carried scunded the a found everything change, and skids from under little stocky man head and close-cropped I storming home, but fou to get ba offended too m. But he refused residence minister. and planned with h to pull another putsc ident Smetona stronger police tt So the weaken resting Then it concluded Wolves 0 e nd the tator the some Iron of i Rction Akin to Detroit’s | call bug has bitten Detroit's + pressed against’ them for long pe- ' TURNS T0 RECAIL = Interference with blood pressure ounted for the letters leaving their impress in the thumb prints. Leung's study of ecriminslogy is | part of a seemingly undying quest |to track down a forger. He was horn’ in Canton, China, came to rance in 1919 to study agricultural | science and then went to Indo- | China. There he was fleeced by a forger, against % | set legal redress. The 00 entirely | gcciged him to return to is following | | study criminology. of the metropolis by g recall its mayor, Dr. Hamtramck, Mich, May Take Detroit, Sept."13 (A—Now the re- “eity within a city.” | The suburb of Hamtramck, a city | of approxiniately 50,000 surrounded by Detroit, the example seeking to experience France to Sugar Creck, Ohio—A grass fire was reported here recently and the fire,* department's one truck, all shifed up, started ‘out proudly for the fire with siren shricking. It was its first fire in more than a year. A short distance from the engine house, the motor coughed and died. The truck was out ef gas. An obliging motorist towed the truck to the fire. Two of the truck’s tires blew out on the return trip. PUTTING ON OCEAX london—A chance suggestion of | the ‘Prince of Wales will result in ~| putting greens on ocean liners. attending the launching of the ®ms press of Britain recently, the Prince suggested that the top deck of the liner would be a good place for a putting green. E. W. Beatty, for whém the ship was built, agreed, and provisions are being made for | construction of a green, whom " he failed to | In | NEW BRI’J.‘;&IN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, SEP’I.‘EM\BER‘ 13, 1930. HAYOR, 3, WEDS VAR OLD G | \Paris, Tean., Upset by Offiial's| Wooing'of Youngster | Paris, Tgnn., Sept. 13.—The town | may be excited, relatives may storm |and a committee of citizens may | protest, but the wealthy 63-year-old mayor of Paris has a 16-year-old bride. and both he and the bride| don't care what' folks say about it. The mayor is Frank B. Me-| Niell, a wealthy retired merchant. | His bride was Miss Myrtle Pauline | Clark. : | September 13, Sir Thomas Lipton’s Shamrock V will meet the | American defender, Enterprise, in a match to be decided by the | .| best four out of seven races. The first race, and every alternate | fourteenth century | one therafter, will be fifteen nautical miles to windward, or to | eeward, and return. The course for the second, fourth and sixth | races will be a triangle with ten nautical miles to the side. The starting point, as shown, is nine nautical miles southeast from Lithuania were united under the | Brenton Reef Light, near Newport. In this map, the dotted con- | centric arcs indicate the outer limits to which the two styles of | | courses will be laid, but the direction of sailing will vary each day according to the wind. Member of Dn IHorn’s party 'Andree’s Camera Recovered fomnd in Andree’s camp on White Island. NATHAN HALE PUPILS PLAN YEAR'S SOCIAL ACTIVITIES List of Approved' Organizations Will be Made Public Next ‘Weck Considerable activity is being dis- played at the Nathan Hale Junior High school,- looking toward the formation of various school clubs and extra-cirricula associations sponsored by the school. The lists of clubs is being pre- pared by Miss Jackson who has been placed in charge of these af- fairs and will be offered to the pupils during the early part of next week so that they may make their choice. . Thesé clubs -are formed so. that the” pupils may explore flelds of work not included in the regular | school curricula. They offer a means | of soclal activity that holds a close relationship to that enjoyed. by | adults in community life, and’ this |is given in the informal way rather than through the morl formal edicts of the classroom. The teachers at the school have | already signified their choice inthe | matter of clubs they prefer {o | sponsor and in the-event that the pupils desire some club other than those contained in the prepared list | these will be formed and Miss | Jackson will name one of the | schaol's teachers to sponsor the or- | sanization. ! ; | BRUISED IN CRASH holding the camera which was| Manchester, Sept. 13.—An auto- mobile drivéh by Ralph R. Russell, THIRD LA FOLLETE ENTERS POLITICS Philip, Younger Son, Contests Nomination for Governor years old | Having moved their wedding date | ahead to foil objectors, the‘two are now establisned in their-home, and they remark: “We're going to stay right here and face the music; if we went away, people would say we were |afraid.” On the day Milwaukee, Sept. 13. (A—Anoth- er son of Robert Marion LaFollette seeks to follow the politicat foot- steps of his father and brother, Robert M. LaFollette, Jr., United States senator from Wisconsin. Philip F., younger of the two “LaFollette boys,” is contesting the before the an- {nounced date for the wedding a committee of citizens met in & lawyer's office and called in Mayor | McNiel!® requesting that the mar- | riage be indefinitely postponed. The mayor’s brother, Henry, was a mem- ber of this group. with Walter J. Kohler, millionaire | 3 : manufacturer and incumbent. September 16 republicans of the state will choose between the In November the winner will seek election ' over Charles E. Ham- mersley, ggmocratic candidate who is village attorney for Shorewood, . M| |a Milwaukee guburb. N E In pre Sprimary i v speeches of both factions, proh tion, ‘'prosperit the tariff and other national issues almost have overshadowed state issues. All groups have favored state control of liquor to replace national prohibition. All likewise have de- plored the chain store and chain bank “menace” and suggested va- rious ways of curbing alleged eco- nomic ills from such amalgama- tions. republican nomination for, governor | two. | Jr, of Manchester, last night col- Y | lidea with a parked car owned by Gustave Schaller. Russell was bad- ly bruised and was treated at Man- chester Memorial hospital. GIVEN AB!P‘ 'E LEAVE Storrs, Sept. 13.—Prof. James L. Hypes, head of the sociology depart- ment of Connecticut #gricultural college has been granted a 10 months leave of absence so he may join a factual committee studying to de- termine whether missionaries are making any progress in India. | There being no United States senator race, Senators John J. Blaine and LaFollette are devoting their campaign efforts to nominat- ing the second son of the late Sen- ator LaFollette. They mention the failure of the Oshkosh conservative republican pre-primary conference, at which Governor Kohler was endoysed for re-election, to \nsert the asual plank in its platform endorsing the Hoover administration. Conservatives, on the other hand, AUGUST IMPROVES POTATO PROSPECTY | Blight Decreases Crop In Maine Kl Vines Boston, Sept. 13 (UP)—Potata prospects in all New England states except Maine improved during Aug- ust as result of favorable weather, according to a bulletin issued by the New England crop reporting service. On the basis of conditions pre- \vailing September 1, the New Eng- land potato crop is expected to to- tal 50,775,000 bushels compared with 52,955,000 bushels expected a month ago, 58,988,000 bushels har- vested last gyear, and 47,400,000 bushels the five-year average. “In Maine,” the report said, “tha outlook is for 41,360,000 - bushels, about 6 per cent less than expected a month ago, 18 per cent less than harvested last year but 7 per cent more than the five-year average. In Aroostock county the attack of late blight during August was very se- vere and the vines on September 1 yin nearly mll instances were eithee dead or dying very rapidly. In cen- tral and northern Aroostook coun- ty the blight is being followed by material damage.from rot, the ex- tent/ of which cannot be accurately, determined until most of the crop has been dug.” * For the United States as a whole a total of 339,278,000 bushels is now expected compared with 372,557,000 bushels expected on August 1 and 359,796,000 bushels harvested last year. MAY GET OPERA Hartford, Sept. 13.—Arrangements are under way to have the Metropoli- ton Opera company, most famous operatic organization in the United States, appear in the Bushnell Me- morial, November 25, it was learned last night. Negotiations are still in a tentative state and nothing definite has been reached in the way. of the akreement. are raising questions of a “LaFol- lette dynasty” and pointing to “Phil's” youth. He is 33. Ten of the state's republican congressman seek re-efection and in the place of the eleventh, the |late Florian Lampert, Oshkosh, a lively progressive-conservative race is apparent. Congressman John C. Shafer, former progressive, is cam- paigning for the re-election of Gov. Kohler, and for his own re-clection. ~KEY~; [====ys.ARMY/ SEPT. 1924 MODERN SOCRATES London—When Serge Vasilanko was sentenced to death in Estonia, a republic on the Gulf of Finland, he was given his choice of dying by hanging or poison. He chose the latter. He took a big dose of poison and suffered for three weks without dying. He finally recovered and | the government wanted him again | to take his choicé. But he claimed that he had taken his chance of death and that it was not willed Routes of East-West Flights that he should die, so he refused both the noose and poison. | 1 Here are the routes followed by ‘the five planes that have crossed the Atlantic from Europe to North America. Coste’s plane was the first to reach the United States on a non-stop flight from continent to continent. USE HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS Mayor Frank B. McNiell . years old What the . 63 not | mayor said is | known, but late that night he and Miss Clark were married at fhe home of a friend, with jyst four people present. Two of those at the wedding were Mr. and Mrs. James Bishop, the girl's uncle and aunt. Mayor McNiell says he met Miss Clark when she was a little girl | waiting “on table at the house where he boarded. “I thought there was too much difference in our ages, so I moved and resolved 1t to see her,” he says. “I dodged her when I saw her |on the streets.” Then, one day, he met her acci- dentally and changed his mind. “I decided it would be better i we ‘did see . each other,” he said. “We went on an auto ride and, ! proposed. Two weeks later were cngagec.” Mayor McNiell, bachelor, gave his br | mobile as an eng o wears three ven her. She Mr. McNiell,” “Polly i I but we wealti au ent gift, diamonds he h still calls hi while jie calls he a 5 old HOBBY FALL FATAL London, Sept. 13 (UP)—Mrs. An® Arthus, 75, died of injuries {tained in a fall from a hobby hor: |in a park here. DR. RUDOLPH G. LEROWI Petitions in circulation ask his | removal on 11 grounds. Sponsors of Hamtramck's move 10pe 19 have an election called for | Septemicer 9, the date of Detroit's mayoral vote, the result of the re- call of Mayor Charles Bowles. ck, uniquely located so e is no access to or egress | the suburb except through | Detro’t streets, frequently has been | turbulent politically | out Hamtram, m 4 per cent of its popula- | ion, wh experienced a record icrease from 3,559 to 48,615 from 1910 to 1920, is foreign born, mostly Polish, The recall situation in Ham- mek closely parallels that in De- | troit. es against Dr. Tener- ofvicz include allegations of squan- dering of public funds, toleration of ¢. creation of unnecessary offices, | istent tax assessments, and | to elecsors of the right to/ of the city controller. <'s recall movement is the suburb’s real estate | its taxpayers' associa- a physician | office has been nt political quar- 1 all charges out- tions. He is serving s Adventurers in S pace old . Life would be full of detours without it. The Old Bus HE paint may be scraped off here and there and probably the mudguaeds bear the dents of care- less parking or even more careless fellow parkers. The engine may miss now and then -and shifting gears may not be the smooth easy matter it once was, - the old bus i5 still a good old friend. It has served you well. Down to the office; quick, pleasant shopping trips; cool, refreshing evening drives’ through the country; week-end journeys to see the folks back home, wonderful vacations—all this and more the bus has given you. You know all this of course, but did you ever stop bus? to think how much the oft-discussed business of adver- tising has had to do with the fun you’ve had out of the - Didn’t advertising tell you of many things that made your car run ehsier and more economically? Didn’t advertising help you plan your pleasure trips? - And when you are through with the old bus, won’t advertising help you dispose of it advantageously and enable you to select the new one more intelligently? And that’s just the motor-car department of life. Advertising means qdite a lot to you, doesn’t . straight road to satisfaction and economy t [ ’ it? Read the advertisements regularly and follow the | IToused inside a hermetically sealed gondola of a balloon, as pic- ik ek tur_ed h_ere, Professor Auguste Piccard, physicist of Brussels sked state police aid| UNiversity, is to attempt to soar to a height of 52,500 feet above up” the suburb in m:x.lAugsburg, Germany, as soon as weather conditions permit. At ccme to Void of his ow icir Now Faces Arrest [ The little professor came home [t hayor. ty council 0 ‘“clean