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NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1927 SIXTEEN PAGES
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PRINCESS READY
FOR HOP ACROSS
ATLANTIC OCEAN
Intrepid Woman Plans to Join
Captain Leslie Hamilton in
Flight to Canada Thursday
REDFERN'STARTDELAYED;
FLIGHT TO JAPAN DISCUSSED
Royal ATiatrix is Sister of Earl of
Mexborough and Files tndr
Maiden Name, Lady Anne Savillc
,Husband Met Death Fighting
American Forces in rhillippines
Holds a Air License.
London, Aug. 24 W) A dispatch
to the Evening Star from Bristol
says that it has been learned that a
princess -will go as passenger with
Captain Leslie Hamilton and Col
onel F. F. Minchin on their project
ed transatlantic flight which Is now
scheduled to start tomorrow.
"This intrepid woman' is the Prin
cess Lowenstein-Wertheim, herself
almost a pioneer in aviation, for she
made long distance nights before the
war," the dispatch said. "For near
ly 3,000 miles she will keep her
lookout from a cane chair that has
been fitted into the fuselage of the
plane.
Princess Lowenstein, who is a sis
ter of the Earl of Mexborough,
usually dies under her maiden name.
Lady Anne Saville. In 1897 she was
married to Prince Ludwig Lowenstein-Wertheim,
who, the Evening
Htar says, was killed in 1890 in the
Philippines while fighting against
American forces there.
The princess, who has held a fly
ing license for 13 years, has flown
with Captain Hamilton a number of
times. She was a passenger in his
entry in the 1923 king's cup race.
Two years ago she and Captain
Hamilton attempted a London to
Paris flight. Their plane was not
seen after It passed Folkestone. A
channel search was begun. After
an all night search, craft participat
ing in the hunt found the plane near
Pontoise, France. It had been
forced down by engine trouble.
The princess was born in 1S66. In
1SSS she became a German subject,
but regained her British nationality
in 191S.
For some time there have been
rumors that a woman would accom
pany Hamilton, but her identity was
a. mystery.
Solo night Planned
Chicago, Aug. 24 UP) A proposed
r.on-stop solo flight from Tacoma,
Wash., to Tokio, Japan, a distance
of 4400 miles, which would shatter
all existing distance records if suc
cessful, was disclosed here today by
Gerale J. Smith, aviator of Tacoma,
Wash.
Smith, en route to Denver from
New York by air, said the feat
would be attempted next June, fi
nanced by Tacoma business men in
a plane that will cost $55,000.
"The object of the flight," Smith
said, "is to prove that it is safe
and practical. It will be made in
an Amphibian biplane, motored with
three engines."
Smith will fly, he said, over the
great circle route, which will put
the plane within 300 miles of land
(Continued on Page Thirteen)
Mrs. Roosevelt Buys
General Putnam Inn
Providence. R. L, Aug. 24 UP)
The historic General Putnam inn at
Brooklyn, Conn., was purchased
yesterday by Mrs. Theodore Roose
velt, who will operate it as a hos
telry. The property, known as Mort
lake manor, was deeded by Morti
mer Marlar to Miss Marian P.
Thompson, who will be associated
with Mrs. Roosevelt in the venture,
and the latter in turn. deeded it to
the late president's widow.
Since her return from a trip to
South America last winter, Mrs.
P.oosevelt has lived in Danielson,
Conn. She is reputed to be an ex
cellent business manager and is
said to have managed with a firm
hand the household financ'es of the
Roosevelt home at Oyster Bay, N.
Y.
Lindy's Epic Flight
Theme of Symphony
New York. Aug. 24 (UP) Colonel
Charles A. Lindbergh's epic flight to
Paris has been put to music.
The bedlam of an ocean storm;
the roar of an airplane's engine and
exhaust; the lyrical exhilaration of
success are the rlements which
make up the symphony. It will be
rendered for the first time next Sat
urday night at the Lewisohn sta
dium. John Phillip Dunn, the composer,
has named the symphonic polm
"We." The first theme signifies the
courage of the airman. The tempo
changes. Percussion instruments
bang their description of tuning up;
the spin of the propeller. Then
comes the hammering of mechanics
and the fueling of the "Spirit of St.
Louis."
The plane "hops off." The shrill
of fire engine sirens depicts that
stage in the chronological symphony
and follows representation of storm
and sleet. Then triumph in the
landing at Paris comes as the finale.
Station WRC will broadcast the
music from Washington.
STILL HOPE
While ships and planes hunt the Pacific for traces of the plane
in which Miss Mildred Doran was lost in the transpacific air
race, her two brothers and sister still cling to hope that she may
be saved. They are (left to right) Floyd, 14; Helen, 10, and
William, 24.
NEWSPAPERMEN OF
WORUMNGENEVA
Trying to Be of Even Greater
Service to Public
D, S. WELL REPRESENTED
London Daily Telegraph Proprietor
Addresses Conference Asking
Journalists to Break Down Bar
riers of National Exclusivejiess.
Geneva, Aug. 24 UP) Men who
are managing the news agencies
and the newspapers of the world
gathered at Geneva today under the
auspices of the league of nations in
an international conference to study
problems connected with their pro
fession. t
Improvement in the means of
communication, telegraphic, tele
phonic and wireless, more reason
able rates for the transmission' of
news, better facilities in the collec
tion of news, the removal of cen
sorship in peace time and examina
tion of the general problems of the
legal protection of press informa
tion were subjects of the agenda.
The Associated Press was repre
sented by Kent Cooper, general
manager, assisted by Charles Steph
enson Smith, chief of the foreign
service, and Joseph E. Sharkey,
correspondent at Geneva, as tech
nical advisers. Other Americans
were Karl A. Bickel of the United
Press; M. Koenigsberg of the In
ternational News Service; Frederick
T. Birchall, acting managing editor
of the New Y'ork Times, assisted by
Edwin C. James, its Paris corre
spondent and Robert P. Scripps of
the Scrlpps-Howard newspapers.
i There also was a large represent
ation of the Latin-American press.
Opening the conference. Lord
Burnham, proprietor of the Daily
Telegraph of London, who presided,
declared that the functions of news
papers in affecting conditions of the
supply and demand of commodities
of which mankind stands in need
are so important and are increas
ing to such an extensive scale that
the economic section of the league
of nations must devote more at
tention to them than hitherto if it
wants to increase commercial in
tercourse and, break down the bar
riers of national exclusiveness.
"The brotherhood of man already
has been made the subject of an
organized campaign of publicity in
the United States." Lord Burnham
said, "and the league of nations
must tAke into account the expand
ing utilities of the newspaper press
as the intelligence department of
international exchange."
;At another point in his address
Lord Burnham said: "Our indepen
dence is our power and we must
hold fact to our governing princi
ples of public service and enlightenment.''
THINK BOY MAY HAVE KILLED SELF
AFTER FINDING OF MOTHER'S BODY
Chicago, Aug. 24 (UP) Every
known acquaintance of Harry Hill,
suspected of killing his wealthy
mother in Streator, 111., was under
police surveillance today as addi
tional circumstantial evidence was
revealed tending to link the youth
with the crime.
Detectives advanced the possi
bility that Hill had committed sui
cide by jumping into Lake Michigan
when he learned yesterday after
noon that his mother's body had
been found buried under the floor
of the cellar of her home in Streat
or, 111.
A warrant formally charging
young Hill with the slaying was is
sued today by State's Attorney Rus
sel Hanson of La Salle county. From
evidence gathered by investigators
in Streator, Hanson advanced this
theory of the shooting:
"Hill and his mother had been
qvarrelling about money matters.
We know of five checks, on which
Harry either forged, his mother's
name or signed them 'Per Harry
Hill.' They were cashed between
July 22 and August 13.
"On the latter date, Hill register
ed at a hotel and stayed there two
days. It is probable the shooting
was committed a day or two before
that time.
"The slayer evidently waited un
til Mrs. Hill had gone into the base
ment of her home. As she ascended
FOR MILDRED
NO CLUE ON SEA;
SEARCHNEAR END
Little Hope Left lor Finding of
Missing Fliers
THORSDAYJSJAST. DAY
First Prize Winner and Companions
to Return Home After Week of
Triumph In Honolulu.
San Francisco, Aug. 24 (.P)A wo
man and four men seven days lost
at sea one more day of search.
Hope for the missing Dole race
fliers. Miss Mildred Doran, John
"Auggy" Pedlar, Lieut. V. R. Knope,
Jack Frost and Gordon Scott, who
left the Oakland municipal airport
for Hawaii a week ago today, glim
mered wanly on the seventh day of
silence.
Chances were as faint for the re
covery of Captain William P. Erwin
and A. H. Eichwaldt, who flew out
of the airport Friday in search of
their missing companions and were
believed to have crashed into the sea
after sending out a frantic SOS. on
their radio.
In the face of discouraging re
ports from the 42 submarines, des
troyers, airplane carriers and their
searching "eyes," ever flashing the
colorless, laconic "nil-nil-nll" peri
odically by radio, came word that 15
additional destroyers and one light
cruiser under command of Rear Ad
miral Luke McNamee, were ordered
to join the search.
Pacific Fleet Searching
Rear Admiral Richard H. Jackson,
commander of the Pacific fleet, or
dered these boats into action with
the idea of scrutinizing uncovered
sea area before falling of the "zero
hour," Thursday.
Seven destroyers, deployed, across
a 21 mile front, are continuing the
well nigh hopeless search along the
great circle steamer lane between
San Francisco and Honolulu, land
and sea planes dispatched from the
the decks of the airplane carrier
Lang'.ey and the aircraft tender
Aroostook are scouting an SO mile
patch of sea and every effort is be
ing made to trace down recurrent
reports from land or ocean. The
latest of these, a story that a green
flare was seen to rise and die down
about 8,000 feet up the rugged slopes
of Mauna Kea, in the island of Ha
waii, Sunday night, has thus far fail
ed to result in definite word that any
of the fliers has been found.
With the approach of the "zero
hour" set for Thursday night by the
navy department, when all Its ves
sels shall abandon the hunt, doubt
was expressed by mariners and ex
perienced navy fliers that any of the
Dole flight planes could have re
mained afloat this long, even though
favored with a week of mild weather.
Victors To Return
Honolulu, Aug. 24 UP) Arthur
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the stairs to the first floor, according
to indications, the slayer fired a shot
from behind which struck her be
hind the ear. The bullet lodged in
the wall but had been removed.
"Then the body was dragged
across the cellar into a remote
corner and buried.
"Hill stayed around town a few
days and then left for Chicago. He
told everyone who questioned him,
including Alice Sawyer, whom he
was to have married next month,
that his mother was out of town."
While evidence was being gather
ed against his son, Dr. H. C. Hill, di
vorced husband of the dead woman,
employed two attorneys to assure
Harry a fair trial if he is captured
in Chicago.
. Several addresses found in a note
book belonging to Hill were watched
by police but none of the persons
whose names were in the book had
seen the suspect within the last 24
hours.
He was last seen at the home of
William Brydges, which he left yes
terday afternoon after spending the
night, less than an hour before de
tectives arrived to search for him.
Hill attended Knox college, Gales
burg, 111., for part of the 1923-24
school year. Records show he left
school because of illness. He had
no fraternity affiliations and was
reported to have run awy to Texas
when he left college.
Woman Proves Herself
Good Traffic Officer
New York, Aug. 24. (UP)
Benjamin Rosenthal's taxicab
struck a man and ripped his
pants off. Otherwise left him un
harmed.' The man leaped into a taxicab
and disappeared which would
have been the end of this story
if Miss Helen McAllen, ot Chica
go, had not intervened. Miss Mc
Allen was one of hundreds
among theater crowds who wit
nessed the incident.
"If you were driving in Illinois
you wouldn't get away with
that," she told Rosenthal.
Rosenthal expressed himself re
garding Illinois in a manner ob
jectionable to Miss McAllen.
"Say that again and I'll slap
your face." she told him.
Rosenthal did.
So did Miss McAllen.
Then she had Rosenthal ar
rested for reckless driving.
Magistrate Brodsky fixed bail
at $200.
PROTEST POWER HERS,
EDNA MILLAY CLAIMS
Traces Ancestry Back
First Settlers of
New England
to
Boston, Aug. 24 C) Six persons,
four women and two men, who ap
pealed from convictions of saunter
ing and loitering in connection with
their picket line in behalf of Sacco
and Vanzetti in front of the state
house, were at liberty t6day pend
ing further hearing of their cases.
Miss Edna St. V. Millay, Miss
Katharine Huntington, and Miss
Ellen Hayes told the court they be
lieved they had a perfect right to
protest as they did particularly as
each was descended from early
settlers in New England. Miss Mil
lay said she was born in Rockland,
Me., and was a graduate of Vassar.
Miss Hayes, a former professor of
astronomy and mathematics at Wel
lesley, is now engaged in writing.
The other three who fought the
charges against them were John H.
Lawton, New York playwright:
"Mother'' Ella Reeves Bloor of San
Francisco, and William L. Patterson,
president of the American Negro
Labor congress. Arthur G. Hays of
the American Civil Liberties union
defended them.
Another demonstrator who was
free today was Powers Hapgood, a
Harvard, graduate. His attorneys,
not knowing that he had already
teen released from the psychopathic
hospital where he was sent for ob
servation, yesterday said they would
attempt to extricate him by court
proceedings. Hapgood had been ar
rested four times for inciting riot
and lesser offenses and was facing
a six months' sentence from which
he had appealed when he was again
taken by the police on Monday and
sent to the hospital.
He had no comment to make after
his release.
WEDDED FOR 49 YEARS;
BRINGS DIYORCE SUIT
New Britain Woman, Aged
65, Is Plaintiff in
Action
Mrs. Aler.a. M. Atkins. 65. who
might celebrate her golden wedding
anniversary next January. . is suing
her 90-year-old husband for divorce.
The couple have a son, Frederick E.
Atkins, Jr., 43.
Mrs. Atkins resides at 10 Com
mercial etreet. She has lived here
about 35 years, having come here
from Hartford, where she resided
for more than 30 yeais.
She refused today to discuss the
action, saying that it was a matter
winch combined only her family.
She refused to divulge her reasons
for bringing the divorce, but she
did say that it was an action that
should have been taken long ago,
only a certain thing prevented it.
Joseph G. Woods is her lawyer.
TOBACCO SHEDS BURNED
Windsor, Conn., Aug. 24.
Fire of undetermined origin today
destroyed four seven-acre tobacco
sheds of the American Tobacco com
pany. Three of the sheds were full.
The loss was estimated at $100,000.
The sheds were located on planta
tion No. 2, near Griffin station.
Mayor Walker Laughs
At Germany's Hisses
Berlin, Aug. 24 (UP) Mayor
James J. Walker was greeted with
scattered hisses today from a
group of Sacco-Vanzetti sympa
thizers as he entered the city hall.
Walker countered the hisses
with:
"Hello boys."
HIGH TIDE
(Aug. 23 Daylight Time)
New London 8:58 a.m., 9:12 p.m.
New Haven 10:55 a.m., 11:11 p.m.
THE WEATHER
Sew Britain and vicinity:
Partly cloudy and cooler to
night; Thursday fair.
I.
DAV PUSHING PLAN
FOR SINKING FUND
Will Make Report to Special
Committee or Go Direct to
Board of Education
PROTECTION PAYMENT
FOR FIVE BUILDINGS
Investigator Advances Claim Econo
mies Hae Been Effected Else
where By Communities Setting
Aside Fund Annually to Fay For
Damage to, Or Destruction of
School Houses By Fire.
Only five school buildings in this
city would be protected by fire in
surance if the recommendation today
of School Committeeman William H.
Day to a special committee of the
school board is passed. He proposes
that the insurance money be put into
a sinking fund which would be cared
for by the school department itself.
According to Mr. Day. who since
the June meeting of the board, has
made an exhaustive study of insur
ance systems in other cities he will
bring the matter before the special
committee cf the board which was
appointed to act on the proposition,
but if a meeting is not held he will
bring his recommendations directly
to the board. H6 proposes to dis
continue insurance on all the school
buildings except the academic build
ing of the Senior High school plant,
the older of the two buildings in the
Central Junior High school unit, the
old Burritt school, the Smith school
and the Bartlett school.
The other buildings are built of
fireproof material and the dangers
of fire loss are not so great, he
claims. He favors having the rest
of the appropriation put into a fund
which would take care of its own fire
losses in years to come.
Until this year the Consolidated
School district has been paying $12,
000 a year at the rate of 37 cents
per $1,000. This, according to Mr.
Day, is too high a rate o insurance
and after a study of several months
ho brought the matter to the atten
tion of the school board in June.
He had figures to show that the
rate New Britain should pay was
25 cents per $1,000. The board voted
to leave the matter in the hands of
the finance committee acting with
Mr. Day as a special committee.
Mr. Day has been working alone
on the proposition. No meeting of
the committee, of which George W.
Traut is chairman, has been called,
it is said.
Mr. Day has communicated with
J. L. Sherard of the state legisla
ture of South Carolina and found
that that state has a system where
by the cities contribute to a fund
which takes care of their own fire
losses. This has been a great saving,
it is claimed.
If the school board fails to ap
prove the possibilities of the plan,
I Mr. Day is planning a compromise
I plan by which the school buildingc
I would be insured on a mutual basis
i as is the case with 14 school dis
j tricts in Pennsylvania. He has com
municated with several authorities
on the matter and will probably
I have all the necessary data with
i him before the next meeting of the
I board. In this plan the buildings are
'said to have as much protection at
1 four-fifths of the cost.
LIQUOR LAW VIOLATORS
00 IN ROGUES' GALLERY
f
Capital to Class Notorious
Rum Runner With
Other Criminals
Washington. Aug. 24 UP) Fla
grant prohibition violators in the na
tional capital are to be placed in the
police rogues' gallery."
The finger printing and photo
graphing of persons arrested for ma-
i jor liquor charges will aid .the po
llice in investigations of other crimes
and will act as a deterrent to other
I prohibition violators, the authorities
believe.
Explaining an order issued yester
day for the procedure, Major Edwin
B. Hesse, police superintendent, said
"rum runners often graduate in
other types of criminals" and the
fingerprint and photographic record
would facilitate the police greatly in
their investigations and also will
identify old criminals. He also be
lieves the ordeal of being "mugged"
would frighten many would-be rum
tunners from participation in liquor
traffic.
The police tried out the effect of
finger printing and photographing of
prohibition violators recently during
a convention here, Major Hesse said,
and at the next convention there was
a noticeable absence of liquor ped
dlers. "They didn't like the rogues'
gallery at all," he declared.
The violators to be photographed
will be left to the discretion of the
various police official's under the or
der, but transporting in vehicles,
selling and illegal possession of a
still were characterized as major
violations.
43 IX HAKBOH SWIM
New Haven, Aug. 24 UP) Forty
three swimmers are entered in the
cross harbor swim from Savin Rock
to Lighthouse Point this afternoon.
The contest is an official three mile
state championship race.
SACCO COMMITTEE TO DEFY HEALTH
RULES AND PARADE BODIES THROUGH
BOSTON'S LARGEST STREETS SUNDAY
PAONESSA RALLIES
TO QUIGLEY'S AID
Ex-Mayors in Agreement on
Sewage Disposal Experiients
CALLS IT STATE'S TASK
Former Democratic Executive Says
He Advised Mayor Weld on In
auguration Day to Do Nothing on
Sewer Question.
That 'he thoroughly agrees with
ex-Mayor George A. Quigley in the
latter's campaign agajnst the con
struction of a sewage disposal
plant at the expense of the city and
that on the day of Mayor Weld's
inauguration he told the mayor not
to do anything about sewers until
he had consulted either ex-Mayor
Quigley or himself, 'was the state
ment of ex-Mayor Angelo M. Paon
essa, who declared today that every
public spirited citizen should sup
port Mr. Quigley in his campaign.
"The great problem of the" city at
present is not school building con
struction, water board improvements
or even the construction plant, but
the reconstruction of the storm wa
ter sewers which are inadequate,"
Paonessa declared.
Mr. Quigley's proposal that the
state build the sewage disposal
plant and if it functions success
fully have the city purchase it, also
meets with the approval of ex
Mayor Paonessa. According to Mr.
Paonessa he made a similar propo
sition before a committee of 35 in
a conference before Judge Markham
in Hartford two years ago.
On the day of Mayor Weld's in
auguration, Mr. Paonessa said that
while in conference with Mr. Weld,
he explained to him in detail the
sewerage situation In New Britain,
and his advice at the time was not
to do anything in the matter of
sewage disposal until he had con
sulted either Mr. Quigley or him
self. He said he had confidence in
Mr. Quigley because of his consci
entious study of the matter.
In 1919 the common council pass
ed a resolution recommended by the
state that an appropriation of $10,
000 be given to the state to experi
ment on the New Britain sewerage
system. Mr. Paonessa, then alder
man, fought a losing fight against
the proposition and when the vote
was taken he alone voted in opposi
tion, he said.
In 1920, Mr. Paonessa claimed, he
went to Mayor O. F. Curtis and ask
ed him to stop the further expendi
ture of the $10,000. An investiga
tion by the mayor brought the In
formation that the state had spent
$T00 more than the amount appro
priated and Mr. Paonessa claimed
no relief was brought about.
As ex-Mayor George A. Quigley
stated in his reply to Engineer S. H.
Wadhams of the state water board.
Mr. Paonessa agrees that the city is
willing to cooperate with the state
in reasonable measures but that it
is tired of experiments.
BANKER FLEECED OF S250
! Reported to Have Given Mtxney
! from Personal Funds in Rcturu
for Worthless Check.
Although details are lacking, it
became known today that an in
vestigation is being made into an
alleged bad check deal through
whica a prominent local bank offi-
jcial lost $250. According to the re
! port, the banker loaned the money
I personally and took a check in re
! turn, having been assured that the
j paper was negotiable. Having been
drawn on an out of town bank, a
j few days were required for the
I passing of the check and in the
! maontimo tV.a wnl'flp Via H Tff the
city. Consequently, the banker found
himself cheated.
It was reported today that the
incident is not ended, although it
was impossible to learn whether or
not there will be prosecution.
OHIO CONVICT TELLS OF BURNING
SHRINE AT ST. ANNE DE BEAUPRE
Columbus. Ohio, Aug. 24. (UP)
Church robbery was something
never tried before and that was the
reason why Ray Marsden, mow a
convict in the Ohio penitentiary,
claims he started on his career of
robbing altars.
In his latest "confession" made to
newspapermen today he said that he
had obtained more than $300,000 in
loot from various churches over the
country in the last 2 8 years. He
claims to have some of the loot yet
Including a $10,000 crozier stolen
from Cardinal Daugherty in Phila
delphia. Prison authorities have not been
able to substantiate his story even
though he was taken to the Cana
dian border recently to find some of
the buried loot. He has admitted
robbing a number of churches In
eastern Canada.
WHOLE TOWN SOLD
FOR 91 THOUSAND
Houses Bring Average of $970;
Some for $400
COST MILLION TO BUILD
Greatest Sale Bargain Is Two and
One-Half Story, Four Family,
Twenty Room Brick House for
$100.
Manchaug. Mass., Aug. 24 UP)
j Practically the entire village of
i Manchaug was sold at public auc
jtion yesterday for $91,000 by the
i Knight Finance corporation, on be
! half of the B. B. & R. Knight, Inc.,
i owners of the three mills and 7S
i parcels of real estate which in
i eluded TS heuses.
The houses brought an average
' of $970. and the three mills went
I for $23,100.
Architects and ruilding contrac
tors who were at the sale said it
I would cost at least one million dol-
jlars to duplicate today these prop
erties that sold for $91,000.
Mill 1 was bought by George
'Litehman, a woolen dealer of Woon-
socket, R. I., for $9,000.
Mills 2 and 3 went to W. J. Brady
of Uxbridge, for $4,S00 and $9,300
respectively.
Mill 1 is a three and four story
cut granite structure, having a
floor area of 125.000 square feet,
is equipped with elevators,, sprink
lers, toilet rooms, fire towers,
steam power plant, water wheels,
generators, strongly fenced and in
fine condition.
Included with Mill 1 is a ru
story cut granite warehouse, built
in 1919. All flowage and riparian
rights necessary to protect the wa
ter for this mill were included in
the sale.
Mill 2 is a three story cut granita
mill with a one story weave shed
and 50,000 square feet of floor
space. It is fully equipped and in
cludes several other buildings and
riparian rights.
Mill S is a four story cut granite
mill with 125.000 square feet of
floor space and is equipped with
elevators and steam power plant.
What was considered one of the
greatest sale bargains was a' 2 1-2
story, four family, 20 room brick
house that went for $400.
Mill 1 is to be put into operation
within three months, as a woolen
factory, according to the new own
er. Mills 2 and 3, which were bought
for the Waucautuck mills of Ux
bridge. will be put to some use
soon, but Just what has not been
determined.
NEW HAVEN AND HARTFORD
RAILROAD SERVICE HURT
Heavy Downpour Floods Tracks In
Many Places and Causes
Several Washouts.
. Providence, R. I., Aug. 24 (UP)
A heavy downpour that caused many
washouts seriously affected service
cn the Shore line of the New York.
New Haven and Hartford railroad
today.
Near Providence station, water
was several feet deep. Streets in
the vicinity were flooded and auto
mobiles stalled.
At Elmwood, a washout 25 feet
long and four feet. deep, was report
ed. Three carloads of gravel had to be
used at a washout at Silver Springs.
A 100-foot washout occurred at Red
Bridge.
All trains between Brighton ave
nue and Wuburn were diverted.
Other washouts were reported at
West Warvvlek, Arctic Plympton,
Bristol Ferry and Whittenton.
Gravel was washed onto the tracks
at Monoponsett.
Trains were delayed from 10 min
utes to an hour, eastbound trains be
ing held at New London, Conn., for
half an hour pending track repairs.
All trains were being operated at
restricted speed.
"I started stealing in 1S99," he
said today. "I was flat broke and
saw a wooden box in St. Patrick's
church in Janesville, Wis. I opened
it and found $6S0.
He continued robbing churches
from then on. Every now and then
his gang would be forced to burn a
church, according to his story.
"Whenever we had a hard time
robbing a church in the regular way
we would burn it," he said. "Then
during the excitement we would
rush in and take everything valu
able. When the priests rushed out
from their houses to the church we
would loot their property too."
He told reporters once that he
burned St. Paul's cathedral at Mon
treal, a Catholic church at Brum
mond, Que., the shrine at St Anne
De Beaupre and the Basilica at Quebec
200 "Official Mourn
ers" Chosen-Prepare
To Have Death Masks
Of Corpses Made
May Erect Large
Monument.
Will Hire Hall and Have
Radicals Lie in State in
North End District
Vanzetti's Ashes to Be
Carried Home to Father.
Boston, Aug. 24 (UP) Defying
police and health officials, the de-
Ifense committee announced this
afternoon that the bodies of Nicola
Sacco and Bartolomeo lanzetti
would be borne through the- city's
streets Sunday. ' ' ' ,
Boston will be given this final
opportunity to pay tribute to the
dead anarchists, "permit! or no
permits," according to the commit
tee.
Mourners will assemble at North
End park at 1:30 p. m. The funeral
procession will leave at 2 p.
passing through many of the prin
cipal streets to the Northern mor
tuary, under plans virtually com
pleted today.
While it was said there would be
only 200 "official mourners," it vu
predicted that hundred! more
would join the procession.
Boston, Aug. 24 (UP) Though
legally closed by death, the Sacco-
Vanzetti case clashed again today
with the laws of the commonwealth.
Funeral plans for the humble
shoemaker and fish peddler who
were electrocuted early yesterday
for a seven-year-old crime of mur
der were the cause o fthe post
mortem controversy.
Loyal friends of the cause wanted
to give the public an opportunity
to pay final tribute to the "mar
tyrs." But the law cast a shadow
on the elaborate plans of the de
fense forces to honor Nicola Sacco
and Bartolomeo Vanzetti even in
death.
Arrangements for a mammoth
funeral procession for Sunday aft
ernoon conflicted with the regula
tion that bodies shall be interred
within four days after death.
Thus, burial or cremation of the
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RADICALS FAREWELL
LETTER IS PUBLISHED
Addressed to Defense Com
mittee Thanking Them
for Brave Battle
Boston, Aug. 24. (UP) Nleela
Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanietti
wrote a farewell letter, which has
been made public by the defense
committee.
The letter, dated August 21 and
addressed to the committee, was as
follows:
"After tomorrow midnight, we will
be executed, save a new staying of
the execution by either the United
States supreme court, or by Gover
nor Alvan T. Fuller.
"We have no hope. This morning
our brave defender and friend,
Michael Angelo Musmanno, was
here after his return from Wash
ington, and told us he would come
back this afternoon, if he would
have time. Also Rosa (Sacco's wife)
and Luigia (Vanzetti's sister) were
here this afternoon. But now it is
5:30 p. m. and no one returned yet.
"This tells us that there is no
good news, for if there were, some
of you would have hurried to bring
it to us. It almost tells us that all
your efforts have failed and that
you are spending these remaining
few hours in desperate and hopeless
efforts to prevent our execution.
"In a word, we feel lost! There
fore, we decided to write this letter
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Black Bottom Gives
Way to "Kinkajou"
New York, Aug. 24 (UP) "The
Black Bottom is dead; long live the
Klnkajou!" '
That is what the dancing masters
of America, meeting In New York
today, hope will become the ball
room cry of the nation.
"Good dancing or none" was the
slogan adopted for this year's cam
paign. The klnkajou is the beat
dance of the year and will help keep
the art on a high level, leaders said.
But they also praised, the Yankee
Prance and another dance In honor
of the aviator, called the Lindbergh
wave waltz.
Twenty thousand booklets describ
ing correct postures and positions of
the various approved dance will b
distributed.