New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 15, 1930, Page 1

News of the World By Associ.ated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN HER i Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending Sept. 13th .. 15,099 BROTHERS FIGHT FIVE POLIGENEN * ATHEADQUARTERS Freg for All Fracas With Seven ineBattle Staged After Midnight PRISONERS ARE FREED AFTER COURT HEARING Judge Traceski Asks Officer Harper | Pointed Question Concerning His b Attitude Toward Albert and Ed- " ward Wohinz—Blow With Black- fack Opens ant’s Head. ' ‘Wound on Combat- Police headquarters early today | Wwas the scene of a rough-and-tumble fight between five policemen and two prisoners, one of the latter sustain- in\a painful cut on the head when he was struck by Officer Louis E. Harper's blackjack, and in police court today Judge Stanley J. Traces- ki, after taking a hand in the cross | examination of the policemen and | stating that he felt they were much at fault as were the prisoners, dis- charged the latter. Albert Wohinz, 41, of'197 North | street, and his brother, Edward Wo- hinz, 51, of the same address, were charged with breach of the peace and resistance, and pleaded not guilty through Judge Williarh F. Mangan and Attorney B. J. Mon- | kiewicz. | Officer Louis E. Harper, the first | Witness, testified that he was driving . past 197 North street about midnight | when he saw Edward Wohinz's wife | on the sidewalk and heard her screaming. At the same time he | heard a woise in the yard and the | Wohinz brothers came out, Edward demanding that his wife be arrested. Both were greatly excited, the offi- cer said, and after returning to the garage in the rear of the house, Al- bert started an aytomobile and pre- pared to drive awfy. Says Men Abused Him | Officer Harper tried to talk to them, he testified, but they were very noisy and excited. He asked Al- bert for his license and registration, and Albert gave them to him. The officer asked Albert how old he was and Albert replied that his age was on his license. An argument ensued Officer Harper said..and the brothers abused him verbally, threateming to assult him and calling him vile | names. | Leaving them he went to summon | Bssistance and when he returned | with Officers Stephen Coffey and James Sullivan the Wohinx brothers were backing out of the yard. Near Erwin Place the police car overtook them and Officer. Coffey ordered | |GANDIDATES DECIDED UPON BRUENING | Levitt Wil Attend as | Spectator— | Social Democrats Still Largest Group ! . NEW BRITAIN, CQNNECTICUT, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1930. —TWENTY PAGES | Associated Press Dieudpnne Coste and Maurice Bellonte, French transatlantic fliers, will visit, 29 cities on their good will tour of the United States. - Map shows route they will follow. Today they started their tour, varying it by stopping in Hartford. G.0.P. DRY STAND - GERMAN FLECTIONS EAGERLY AWATTED ~ RESULT IN CHADS Yoters Inquisitive ConcerningQFascist-Gommunist Landslide Party’s Attitude-on Prohibition | . Gives No Party Lead SURE 10 FALL In Reichstag, But Unlikely to Be Burlington Delegate Will Name | . % Able to Formg Workable Coali- | | Redding Professor and Waterbury Publisher. ' tion. | Hartford, Sept. 15 (UP)—The re- | Berlin, Sept. 15 (P—A startled | publicans stand on prohibition was ' Germany today swept its littered | awaited eagerly today as delegates | streets free of political handbills and | i gathered for the opening night of |set to studying what to do with a | the republican state convention at|reichstag in which Adolf Hitler's | Foot Guard armory. | fascist party suddenly had been | With Lieutenant Governor Ernest |multiplied by nine.to a representa- | E. Rogers, reputed personally and |tion at least of 105 members. | politically dry, scheduled to make| Press and politicians, still some- | i — L INearly in Two Races v o e e N THOUSANDS WATCH FRENCH AIR PILOTS LAND IN HARTFORD Coste and Bellonte - Rushed by Enthusiastic Crowd at Brainard Field TRANSATLANTIC HERO MUCH PLEASED WITH GREETINGS | Pair, Entertained &t Luncheon, Leave for Boston Later on—Capt. .. —_——— Bridge- | port and Leads Way Into Capital | Generous. Meets “?”" at The fall campaign came near be- ing a busy time for Albert W. Noone, 84 year old manufacturer of Peterboro, H. He was at first | believed to have won both the dem- ocratic nomination for governor of Hartford, Sept. 15 (A—Dieudonne New Hampshire and the democratic Coste and Maurice Bellonte, trans- |nomination for the U. S. senate, and atldntic fliers, arrived - here this | insisted he wou)d campaign for both afternoon in the Question Mark on | JoPs. Now it turns out he won only City—Movie and Press Camera- | men Get Photos. | NABBED IN CHIGAGO ] PRICE THREE CENTS PRIVATE DETECTIVE *BY SECRET SERVICE Man Who Shadowed Nye| e THIN GIRLS TRY " ENGLISH CHANNEL MEMBER OF M'CORMICK STAFF ALSO SUMONED | enice gng Phyllis Zittenfeld Hope to Conquer Passage MOTHER THEIR TRAINER Says Daughters Have Been Eating Scnator Nye Reopens mittee Investigation Into Political Activities of Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick at Chicago—Witnesses Subpoenaed Include Some of City's Social Lights. Chicago Sept. 15 (#—R. F. Bash- ford, one of the detectives who shadowed United # States Senator | Gerald P. Nye for Ruth Hanna Me- | Beef to Strengthen Them and Make Them Immune to Cold ‘Waters of Districty Dover, 15 (A—Ber- the first leg of their good-will flight around the country. | A stirring tribute was paid the | French airmen as they landed at Brainard Field at 12:10 p. m. (E. 8. T.), five minutes after their red biplane was sighted oevr the air. port by more than 7,000 spectator: who awhited their arrival from Cur- | tiss Field at Valley Stream; N. Y. ‘ Band Plays for Pilots | As the Question Mark soared over the crowd the Governor's Foot | Guard band began playing the Mar-l seillaise. Thirty motorcycle state policemen kept back the crowd as the biplane taxied to the National Guard camyp. | Just as the planes were sighted the sun broke through the clouds. | Captain Harry Generous landed | first in the state Vought Corsair and | fifteen seconds afterwards the | French fliers flew over tha heads of | the people a few feet over the hangars and landed for the first | time on Connecticut soil at 1:10 p. m. one nomination. He is a wet. NAVAL LIEUTENANT COMMITS SUICIDE ' Phelps Son of Rear Admiral Shoots Sell in Temple - FOUND DEAD ON VESSEL i Licut. Woodward Phelps Apparent- | 1y Had no Cause to Take Own Life —Captain Refuses Self Destruction Theory. 15 (A—Lieut. to Believe 8w York, Sept he gubernatorial race against Dean Wilbur L. Cross, the wet democratic | candidate, political interest centered on the question of what disposition of this delicate question the G. O. P. platform committee will make. Con- necticut sentiment has long been overwhelmingly wet. Political observers believe that for the first time since 1913 the repub- lican nomination for governor will not be equivalent to dlection. It was in that year that the-democrats re- nominated §imeon E. Baldwin for a second term. Cross has been hailed by democrats as another “strong candidate” can attract the independent voter. J. Henry Roraback, state, chair- man, national committeeman and power magnate, Who has ‘held~the | whip hand in Connecticut republican of Baldwin’s type Wwho | | what stunned by these sensational and unexpected gains, which more [than doubled the predictions of the | | Hitlerites themselves, were forced | |to turn their attention immediately | to the problem of finding a parlia- mentary majority with which the governmient could be carried on in | the face of radical opposition from | both left and right. 34,000,000 Cast Votes Germany saw more than 4,000,- | 1000 of her inhabitants. vote on Sun- | | day in the most interesting and pur- | | prising bajloting within the five eleo- | tions under. the repubjc. | Chancellor Bruenin®witnessed the | | diminution of his centrist move- | | ment and the ascendancy to the top iot the list, with not less than 143 | of the socialist party in | delegates |the next reichstag. Together with The people in their enthusiasm | Woodward Phelps of the United | cheered and ran, first toward the |States Navy, eldest son of Rear Ad-| plane and then toward the speakers |mMiral William Woodward Phelps, | platform in front of the Connecti-|Was found dead last night aboard cut Aeronautics building. the U. S. S. Northampton, in dry- Close to Safety Lines ;dock . at the Brooklyn Navy vyard | The -plane traveled very close to |With a bullet wound in his temple. | the edge of the safety lines and stop- | Captain Vernou of the cruiser ped to be met by thousands of peos }sald no reason.was known the young | ple who rushed to the stopping point, | officer should have committed sui- | cager to get a first view of,the two |cide, and .declined to call the death Frenchmen as they descended from |a suicide until an official report the plane. Police. formed a chain |Was made. However, the lieutenant in order- to suppress the crowd. |Wwas believed to have shot himself. Newspaper men and .photographers | He was found on the deck about immediately rushed to the ramp as, |1 o'clock, the captain said, when thé plane halted. The two fliers |fellow officers went to his quarters. Stood up in the cockpit while |Death had been almost instantane- photographers took pictures. | ous. | Motion picture cameramen locat- | Lieutenant Phelps was graduated Cormick, was taken into custody by department of justice agents today | shortly before Senator reopen the senatorial investigation into Illinois campaign expenditures. Bashford, charged with ignoring a | subpoena issued by the committee at | Fargo, N. D., for “B. F. Bash,” was held in bonds of $1,000 by Commis- sioner Edwin K. Walker. He is sub- ject to a fine of not more than $100. Federal officers have been looking for Bashford ever since the first hearing opened in Chicago on Sep- tember 2. He and C. C. Albers, who has tes- tified, are the two operatives who | were shadowing Nye after the ‘com- | mittee returned to Fargo from Gla- cier National park. The two were subpoenaed at Fargo and Albers ap- i peared. Became Mystery Min Bashford became the mystery man lof the Chicago hearing two weeks |ago. Senator Nve insisted that Al- | bers and Bashford were agents of the Dannenberg detective office, al- | though W. C. Dannenberg testified he did not know the “B. F. Bash” registered at Fargo. He said he hgd employed an R. L. Bashford sevefal years ago. Bashford explained that he did not respond to the subpoena because he was half asleep when officers called at his hotel room in Fargo, and he “didn't know what it was all about.” The second mystery man of the hearing was a go-between who, the Dannenbergs charged, had bribed their operatives for information to | be carried‘to Sénator Nye's investi- | gators. This man has not been pro- | duced. Witnesses subpoenaed to appear before the committee today werq W. Eng., Sept. |old New York twins, were engaged today in an attempt English channel. for the distapt French shore. that twins would be successful. “We came over two years ago,” she said, “But the girls were not in shape for the ordeal. Have Plenty of Stamina “Now I am confident that they have the strength and vitality to go through with it. They're all muscle and I have fed them beef steak and roast beef so that they can endure any amount of cold.” The twins, effort to win the Dover gold cup, were taken to the starting point by a motorboat and ¢ommenced their swim under fairly good conditions except that a smart northwesterly | enice and Phyllis Zittenfeld, 15-year- | to swim the | Entering the water at South Fore- | land at, 5:50 a. m, the girls drew | slowly away from land and headed | Their mother expressed confidence | who are making an | ENTERPRISE CROSSES LINE FAR AHEAD OF SHAMROCK V TO WIN SECOND YACHT RACE |Ameritan Boat Draws | Away From Challen- | ger Easily, Under the . Skillful Pilotage of | Skipper Vanderbilt — | Demonstrates Supe- ‘ riority. | Brush in First 10 Mile Leg of Triangular Course, With Frequent Tacks, Gives Defender Advan- tage — Irish Ch:;llenger Loses Steadily. Aboard U. S. Kane, Off New- port, Sept. 15 (UP)—Enterprise de- fender of the America’s Cup, won the second race of the series for the historic trophy today, leaving Shamrock, the challenger, far be- hind. It was the second straight victory for Harold §. Vanderbilt's vacht, and was more one-sided than the first. The defender crossed the finish line, in a din of whistles and cheers t 2:41:31, four hours, one minute and 31 seconds after the start. 8. wind was blowing which they may | . & 2 A possibly feel when they get farther| U S Kane, Off America’s Cup out into the channel. | Course, Sept. 15—(By Radio to the As_the girls struck out, an |Associated Press)—The Enterprise American flag used by Mrs. Amelia | rounded the 20 mile mark in her Gade Cfml'sokf“ inrl‘hfl _00':“?90; ReT | race in defense of the America’s Cup successful channel swim in 1926 was | v > hoisted at the masthead of the ac- | 25210t the Shamrock V at 1:22:25 companying motorboat, Spartan, in | (E. 8. T.). She was two miles or which the pilot and Mrs. Zittenfeld | more ahead of the British boat. rode.” Mrs. Zittenfeld will attend to| Enterprise, slim marvel of a racing the feeding of her daughters while | yacht, led Lipton's boat by six min- they are in the water. | utes at the end of the first ten miles Reported Well Off Shore of their second 30 mile race in the (At 10:30 a. my, the twins were re- series for the America’s Cup. ported four and one-half miles di- | Loser From Start rectly off Dover, swimming strong- | . Outmaneuvery® at the start and ly but being carried westward .0y | outfooted in the 10 mile beat into the tide. The sea was choppy and | the wind, Sir Thomas’ boat appeared the swimmers apparently had a|to have no chance against the Amer- politics since the World war, will |this-a wholly unexpected increase call the convention to order at 9 p.|in communist strength was manifest- m. and introduce United States Sena- | ed, the result being the election of ed on the. platform about 100 feet | away from the state building took | pictures of the plane as it circled the feld and landed. While the photog- | raphers were at work more than ten | name officers from the United States Naval acad- emy at Annapolis, Md., in 1924. He e 29 and was married to a young Maryland woman whose maiden of the Northampton did not recall. I R C. and Earl Dannenberg, owhers of | 1214 8&ht ahead (Continued on Page Two) them to pull over to the curb. Of- | (o1 Frederic C. Walcott as temporary ficer Harper asked Albert for his|choirman and “keynote” speaker. license again and Albert refused 1o |yyalcott's pronouncements on pro- give it to him. A dispute arose and | pipition are expected to give fore- the brothers declared that they|\varning of the platform to be pre- would go to the police station and |gented to the convention tomorrow. make a complaint. Candidates Picked Ofticer Denies Being Scared The candidates for all places on Judge Traceski interrupted Officer |(pe state ticket except attorney gen- Harper to inquire his reason for not | era] were decided well in advance ot arresting them when they abused |tomorrow's nominating session, State NMm in the first place. “You were not afraid of them, were ydu?” he asked. The officer replied that he wanted to get assistance as the men | were very excited. He was not afraid | of them, he said. Asked why he| did not arrest them when Officer Coffey and Sullivan were with him. | (Continued on Page Two) NEW BRITAIN G. 0. P. ® Officer Harper replied that Officer Sullivan suggested that inasmuch as | the Dbrothers were determined to drive to the police station, it would be better to allow them to go and when they reached headquartqrs i would be time enough to act 1 Pe- cessary. Seven in Free for All Fight Continuing his story, Officer Harp- er said he reached the police station Mayor Quigley to Lead Delegation at Hartford | Meeting Mayor Quigley will lead tMis city's AT STATE CONVENTION! & short time’ before the brothers and | delegation to the republican state | convention which opens tonight at | (Continued on Page Two) | SUES T0 COLLECT BONB ON MISSING SALESMAN Foot Guard hall, Hartford, wit United States Senator Frederic C. Walcott as the keynote speaker. Voting with Mayor Quigley at the convention tomorrow will be Attor- ney Angela Lacava, sécretary of the delegation; William J. Quigley, at- tending as proxy for Attorney Mon- roe S. Gordon; Mrs. William H. Van Oppen, vioé chairman of the repub- lican town committee; Alderman | 76 members under that banner. The forthcoming German parlia- | ment will be one in which two huge | coalitions must decide Germany's course. According to corrected official fig- | ures reichstag seats will be distrib- | uted as follows: | Socialists, 148 | Fascists, 107. Comdmunists, Centrists, 68. German Nationals, 41 People’s Party, 29. Sconomic Party, 23 State Party, 20 Bavarian Parties, 19 Farmers' League, 1§ Christian Socialists, 14 Peasants’ Party, 6. | Hanoverians, 3. | Landbund, 3. | Consenvatives, 5 i Bruening Badly Beaten | 76. In such a lineup the middles par- | ties, upon which the Bruening cab- inet relied in the last reichstag are hopelessly in a minority. A com- parison of strength as related to the last reichstag shows the sogialists | (Continued on Page Two) WANTSTAX EXEMPTION FOR ALLIED VETERANS Disabled Men’s Chapter thousand eager eyes were centered | on the two aviators and keenly | watched ‘every move they made.| Baltimore, Sept. 15 (P—Lieuten- |School children were walking |dnt Woodward Phelps, who was | through the crowds proudly waving | found dead on the U. S. S. North- the tri-color of France. | ampton in New York last night, was | Coste expressed himself as being |the son of Rear-Admiral William | very much pleased with the recep- | Woodward Phelps of Baltimore, | |tion and the last words of his inter- | former member of the naval board. | | view were “do not forget to thank | He was graduated from the naval | | the people of Hartford.” He stated |academy at Annapolis in 1924 andi | ‘ (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Two) ‘ ; e -Stern Wheel Steamer Set Afire | RETIRED RULE SHOP VETERAN PASSES ON Howard B. Frost, 79, Worked in Plant for 29 Years Howard B. Frost, 79 years of age, a pensioner of the Stanley Rule & Level division of the Stanley Works since November 1, 1928, died this morning at the Starr home. Mr. Frost was a native of Farm- HUGE X-RAY TUBES |ican defenders and what may prove | to be the Irish baronet's last attempt “ac the “silly old mug” seemed to be [ another lost cause. | Harold S. Vanderbilt, wealthy | amateur sportsman, who skippered | the Enterprise, handled his white | hulled boat like a master and put | her on the mark straight and true. | Ernest (Ned) Heard, veteran Eng- Ten Foot Device Practi-|lish skipper at the helm of Sham- | rock, fought a losing battle from the cally Produces Radium start and lost precious minutes at the Rays ~ WILL BENEFIT SICK turn when he reached for the mark |2 bit too early and was forced to pull |up the challenger so hard that she T | almost lost way. Pasadena, Cal, Sept. 15 (P—A| Ahead of him all the way from the new giant X-ray tube which design- | Starting line was the towering mast ers believe will unleash healing pow- [ and wind filled sails of the Enter- ers which cannot be surpassed by use | Prise and tack as he would, that bar- of radium has been developed at the | ricade of sail stood between him and California Institute of Technology |the breeze. | here. | The Shamrock crossed the line on | The tube, measuring 10 feet in |the weather side but she was out- To Halt Floating Distillery Probe St "Louis, Sept. 15 (P—The char- | red hull of the stern-wheeler steam- boat Iilinois lay at the bottom of the | Mississippi river today, supposedly | burned by incendiaries who sought | craft as a floating distillery. Just as federal prohibitionists | were about to -investigate the boat, cohol hergabouts. Estimates of its daily capacity ranged from 600 to 1,000 gallons. The old vessel had a long and hon- orable career on the Mississippi and | to cover up the operations of the old | Illinois rivers, first as a packet and later as a fish and game conserva- tion boat. It was equipped with length and 12 inches in diameter, was designed and developed by Dr. C. C. Lauritsen and his associates Dr. Robert Millikan, _noted physicist, acted in an advisory capacity. In appealing to physicists to device |ington but had spent most of his | |life in this city and for more than 20 years lived at the Church street | hostelry now known as the Stanley [hotel, but which was the Beloin hotel when he came to New Britain. | | Prior to his entry into the employ of the Stanley Rule & Level Co., he [a more powerful X-ray tube, Dr. conducted the Globe House in |Rollin H. Stevens, of Detroit, secre- | Kensingtan. He lett that business to [tary of the Radiological Research |enter the toolmaking department of |Institute, recently said ““we now pro- | footed by the Enterprise which | quickly crossed her bow and held | that position to within sight of the | 10 mile marker. | The Enterprise rounded the turn at 12:21:30, p. m. (E. §. T.). just one | hour, 41 minutes and 30 seconds {after the starting gun sent them on | their way. i Makes Faster Time | With the wind on their beam on |large tanks, formerly used to car- | it disappeared from a dock at Alton, |ry live fish. the local plant, January 17, 1901, | duce X-rays of from 6,000 to 250,000 | volts and if we went to 300,000 or| (Continued on Page Three) Ill, early yesterday and was sent floating down the river, a towering mass of flames. It was the first floating distillery ever to come to the attention of fed- eral operatives here, and théy sus- pect it was the largest source of al- Suspected in August The Illinois first came to the at- tention of prohibition agents in Au- sust, when it was found anchored between two barges, one of which (Continued on Page Two) BRIAND'S PLAN WILL 3IX VIOLENT DEATHS |orking there for nearly 29 years. ociate editor of the New Orleans Times Star and a nationally known short story writer. A daughter, Mr Charles J. Young of Verona, N. J., also survives. The body has been taken to the C. Porter Sons' undertaking par- B. | lor where it will remain until the | |hour for funeral services, which is | radium rays from an X-ray tube and | we know results would be much bet- ter. But we cannot go that high for we lack the tubes to stand it."” Dr. Lauritsen and his associates |sald they were producing X-rays with more than 600,000 volts. The tube, experimented with for | the last three years, recently was re- | | built by Dr. Lauritsen to allow ob- | He was the father of Meigs Frost, | 400,000 volts we could get practically | 'HURRICANE’S DEATHS ESTIMATED AT 2,000 6,000 Hurt in Storm—Best e St i etz Produce Merchant Brings +|3 o'clock tomorrow atternoon at Er- | "Nt Y Df: Tauritsen t Sends Petition to Com- | Walter R. Falk and Fred Beloin. $1,000 Action to Cover ‘Alleged Losses Failure on the part of Walter Porkowski, one of his drivers, to turn in approximately $1,000 collect- ed from customers and refusal on the part of Walenty Lech, who gave a bond to pay for the losses, is al- leged in a suit for $1,200 damages brought by Manoog M. Krikorian, & fruit and product merchant. It is claimed by the plaintiff that| on April 2 he engaged Porkowski | for regular emploment. Prior to this time, according to the plaintiff, the man was working on a part time | basis. Krikorian claims he insisted | on a bond to protect his business| and Lech is said to have furnished bond to insure him against etween May 1 1930, and August | 12, 1930, it is claimed, the money was colected but was not turned over to the employer. When an at-| tempt was made to find Porkowski on August 14, he was missing. De- mands for payment by Lech have met with refusal, according to ‘the complaint. Attorney Andrew S represents the plaintiff and stable Fred Winkle served papers. | Aharonian Con- the The republican congressional con- vention will be held in Hartford Septembér 22. Mayor Quigley will be one of the candidates in a field | which, it is claimed, is led by At- torney Clarénce Seymour with Coén- gressman E. Hart Fenn second in the number of claimed delegates. | This town and the town of Burling- | ton are pledged to Quigley. In the event that no candidate has a suf- ficient number of delegates to win in mon Council In a communication addressed to the common council, the Hard¥are City chapter of Disabled War Vet- crans today asked that exemption from personal tax payment now granted to veterans of the United States forces be extended to men and women who served with the | | armies or navies of the allies. The letter is signed by Adjutant | Raymond B. Kincaid. The grgument | |is advanced that many of those who !'served with the forces of other | countries had first offered to join the Americans but were rejected be- cause of inability to read or write. Kincaid’s recommendation fal- lows: | nomination to the position of “That the common council of the constable at the republican,cau- | City of New Britain make an cus tonight, it was reportéd in | | Newington political circles to- l (Continted on Dage Two) the early ballotting it is understood that the Fenn strength will be shift- ed to Quigley. Rice Reported Back In Republican Ranks (Special to the Herald) Newington, Sept. 15—E. Floyd Rice will be a candidate for day. Efforts to keep the an- = nouncement secret were made so that the news would first be | learned on the caucus floor, it | was said. Last year Rice sought | | | | % I' THE WEATHER ‘ —_— {_ New Britain and vicinity: | | | Local thunder showers to- | night and Tuesday; slightly | cooler Tuesday. | nomination for the same post on the democratic ticket and failed to attain the post. Before that he was the successful re- Publican capdidate for the same Pposition, \ G0 TO COMMITTEE Resolution Will Be Offered to Assembly of League of Nations Geneva, Sept. 15 (A — Foreign Minister Briand of France and Arthur Henderson, Great Britain's | foreign. relations chief, prepared to- | day a resolutiont to place M. Briand’s federation plan in the hands of a committee of .European interested | states for action next year. | The resolutidn will ‘be offered for | adoption by the assembly tomor- | row. TWe proposed committee after amining. the plan for a “united states of Europe, will then r¢port its recommendations to the assem- | bly of the league at next year's| session. * | Minister Henderson and Briand were closeted for a long session this afternoon after Minister Marinko- | vitch of Jugo-Slavia had proposed a similar procedure to the assembly. | Mr. Henderson who originally | wanted the plan to go to the sixth. (Continued on Page Two) IN STATE WEEK-END One Possible Murder, Four Auto Victims, Last Hurt in Play By the Associated Press. Connecticut’s highways, wet and slippery throughout most of Satur- day and Sunday, due to rain and |mist, were the scenes of numerous to inquire into the procedure automobile accidents which resulted in four of the six violent deaths re- ported over the week-end. and in injuries to several persons. A probable homicide was included in the week-end fatality list. A baseball which struck a boy in the | chest, causing cardiac paraylsis, Was | ment responsible ‘for the sixth death. Two of the yictims whose deaths involved automobiles were unidenti- fied. The others killed in motor v hicle accidents, were Lillian Gow. 13, of Willimantic, and George Sher- man, 55, of Hitchcock's Lake. A unidentified man was struck and killed by an automobile driven by Anna A. Wilcovitch of Hartford (Continued on Page Two) win chapel. Burial will be in Fair- | view cemetery. NVESTIGATORS CHOSEN 10 STUDY LIGHT RATES Council Rays from the tube can be de- tected through two inches of lead and are apparent through more than | two teet of concrete. |Waterbury Laborer Has | Leprosy, Doctors Find | Waterbury, Sept. 15 (UP)—A case |of leprosy has been discovered here. | The victim is an unnamed Italian | laborer whose affliction was discov- | |Committee of Common Members Will Put X-Ray on Charges Here. A committee of six members was | appointed today by Mayor Qulgl;v v | which electric light and power rates |in this city are arrived at and to |learn whether reductions are pos- | sible. | Councilman William D. Boyle of the sixth ward, sponsor of the reso- |lution which resulted in appoint- of this group, is the first Inamed and will probably be elected chairman at the organization meet- |ink. Others on the committee are: Aldermen Clesson - W. Parker, J. Gustave Johnson and Walter R. alk and Councilmen William W. Greene and Lucian Maciora. Councilman Boyle has quoted costa of electric light companies else- | where showing ‘ local prices to be | considerably’ higher than the avgr- |age ered when he went to a medical clinic for treatment of a cold. He has been isolated and a roommate plac- ed under observation. Dr. H. J. Stettbacker discovered what he believed were leprosy symp- toms Friday. He summoned state health department experts who are making laboratory tests before or- | gring final disposition of the vic- {tim's case. Office Workers Pursue Gotham Purse Snatcher New York, Sept. 15 (UP)—With at least 1,000 office workers in pur- suit, a purse-snatcher was chased from Grand Central terminal dur- ing the morning rush hour today and captured wien he sought refuge in the Hotel Bélmqnt. . The prisoner described himself as William Jensen, 47. a hospital or- derly of Boston, Mass. Guesses Still | Vague | | Santo Domingo, Dominican Re- | public, Sept. 15 (P—The casualties | from the hurricane which wrecked | Santo Domingo more than & week and a half ago were placed today at 2,000 dead and 6,000 injured by Commander L. W. Johnson of the United States navy, chairman of the committee on Red Cross and medi- cal relief. This figure, contrasting with the 4,000 dead estimated shortly after the storm, was reached by physi- cians as probably the nearest ap- proach to an accurate estimate in view of the fact that no early records were kept. Commander Johnson pointed out to President Rafael L. Trujillo that the true number might never be- come known. He added that of the 6,000 injured, 2,500 are in-need of hospitalization. The American officer also told the president that the relief work now was so well in hand that it could be carried on by a willing and com- | petent personnel here, and that he” would return to his post in Haiti shortly. 1 To printed reports that he was (Continued on Page 1f.),