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Evening star., 1924-09-12
EAHY CASE PLACED
BEFORE GRAND Jury
Postal Inspector Accused in
Mail Theft Charged With
Framing Murphy.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September 12.-Assistant
District Attorney John Elliot Byrne
will go before the Federal grand jury
here today to seek the Indictment of
William F. Fahy, postal inspector, as
a leader of the Rondount, Ill, ST.
100000 mail robbery.
At about the same time Attorney
c. d. Reich, Chicago, will be pleading
with the Leavenworth parole board
for the release of Big Tim" Murphy,
sent to the penitentiary by Fahy for
the $3S0.000 Dearborn street station
mail robbery. Mr.. Reich announced
last night. just before leaving for
Leavenworth, Kan, that he will pre-
sent affidavits from various witnesses
OF the Pullman, ILL.,, mail robbery, for
which Murphy is still under indict-
ment, although the hold-up preceded
the Dearborn robbery by almost a
year.
The old indictments thus far have
prevented Big Tim from having his
petition for parole entertained, al
though he has been eligible for parole
consideration for five months.
The affidavitS which he will present
to the parole board purport to show
that Fahy framed the identification
which caused Murphy to be indicted
in the Pullman case, Attorney Reich
said.
Evening star., 1924-09-12
Road Taxes Centuries Old.

Autoists who feel abused at the
modern highway vehicle tax may find
some solace in the fact that coaches
were made to pay highway taxes as
far back as 1861. In that year more
than 400 coaches operating in Lon
don and vicinity had to pay taxes to
use the roads. and the money was
used to pave the London and West
minister streets
Evening star., 1924-09-12
RAIL CONCESSION GIVEN
IN LOWER CALIFORNIA
Line Will Be Built Between Mexi.
cali and San FeIpe-Work
Begins in October.
Ry the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
YUMA, Ariz., September IA 81
year concession has been granted by
the Mexican government to build and
operate a railroad between Mexicali
and San Felipe, on the Gulf Of Lower
California, it is. announced by H. H.
Clark, manager of the Colorado River
Land Company of Calexico.
The National Railways Of Mexico
launched the project in 1923. Con-
struction work will begin in October.
The project is to be completed and
financed by the land company, said
Mr.. Clark.
Evening star., 1924-09-12
SINO Cigars Are Insured!

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we make this offer:
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have received the best cigar value town. kindly return
the remaining cigars and will refund your money in
full (namey $225the price paid for the full box That's
fair isn't it. men? ...,,.....-.
Evening star., 1924-09-12

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and softens the beard instantly
Get a tube as you go home to-
night. Regular 35c size, special,
20c, at Peoples.
Evening star., 1924-09-12
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'The best nickel smoke in the h0use!''
SINO Cigars
Sc STRAIGHT. Boz of so. 1925

Sino Cigars are made of choice specially selected
Havana and Porto Rican tobaccos by skilled in the
art of cigar making These cigars contain the best Scent
quality but being sold in stores exclusively at
SC each.
New Britain herald., 1924-08-11
Capitol Park Swimmer
 Wins Race Across Sound

Bridgeport, Aug. ii.--Paul Zegger of Hartford, Hollands Olympic con- tender in 1920, set a new Long Is- land Sound swimming record yester- day in winning the race from Old Field Light, L. l.. to Seaside Park, Bridgeport. He clipped minute and 30 seconds from the time set by Wal ter Patterson in 1919. His time was II hours and A minutes. Norman Wigglesworth of South Norwalk was second with Walter Patterson, third.
 Zegger is a member of the Capitol Park swimming team of Hartford. Under the supervision of Coach Her man Hunt.
New Britain herald., 1924-08-11
TWO GRADE CRASHES 6 KILLED OUTRIGHT
Hamilton, O., and Rochester Ira sedies..COnn. Has Fatalities

Rochester x, fe Aug le.-fEe nlsn are dead, killed outright a hey <sHs 2 man are dgiRg, and five persons gre seriously injured as result of a light truck ln which they were riding with ten other persons driving head leng into an intsFuFban trolley at q crossing about IS miles east Of hare late yesterday afternoon, The party in the truck, composed af two women, eight children and ten men, were re- turning from a sedus Berry farm ia this city
 The ear tracks border the road Tor some distance from the scene Of the accident at which point the car tracks cross the road, The trolley was going east and the truck in the opposite direction as both neared the crossing, According to the moiorman, Herbert Murphy of sodus, who has been on the line for sixteen years, the ear had slowed down for the crossing and the whistle had been sounded, There were several automobiles along the road that slowed down for the ear but the truck came on al fast rate, Mnr- phy said he put on the brakes al once when he saw the truck did not row down. The trolley was almost at a standstill when the truck hit it, hesd-on. The heavy searchlight on the car was torn off hy the impact and then the truck with its load Of twenty lives tipped over and rolled 10 the side of the road.
 Ambulances from two Rochester hospitals were rushed to the scene. Eight persons were taken 10 hospitals and ten went to their homes. The dead men are Tony Giatuinto. %; Ironde Quott and Giuseppe cannaroz- 20. l2. of this city. Cannarozza's 10 year old son. Michael. is dying with n fractured skull and Michael Russo, 4s, of Ironde ouoit, Is expected to die from internal injuries.
New Britain herald., 1924-08-11
s5O,OOO FIRE IN JAMESTOWN
Boomers Have Difficulty In Escaping
 Furniture Stock Badly Damaged

Jamestown, N. T., Aug. 11.--Fire of unknown origin yesterday caused nearly s5o,ooO damage to the plant and stock of the Monarch Furniture company. Automatic sprinklers helped quench the flames but damaged un- finished stock.
 A dozen persons tonight escaped with difficulty from rooming house when fire broke out in clothing store on the ground floor. Police and firemen helped the tenants down fire escapes.
New Britain herald., 1924-08-11
Four Live. snuned Out

Hamilton, O.. Aug. 11.-Four per- sons were killed and another probably fatally injured late yesterday when an eastbound Cincinnati, Indiana and Western passenger train struck the automobile in which they were riding eight miles from here.
 The dead are: Roy Fawns, 20; Leila Fawns. Is. a sister; ]. F. Johnson, S5, and his daughter, Dolores, age IL; Mrs. Roy Fawns, a bride of two days was probably fatally injured.
 According to the engineer of the train. the automobile was speeding np a grade preliminary to crossing the track when he first noticed it. The automobile was half way across, he said. when the engine struck it, throw ing the machine about fifty feet. The gasoline tank exploded and the wreck age caught fire.
 Mrs. Roy Fawns was burned about the head and body and physicians de- clared at the hospital here that she will die.
New Britain herald., 1924-08-11
FATALLY HURT IN THOMAsTON

Thomaston, Conn, Aug. 11.-HoW- ard Crandall, Jr, six, of Cheshire, was fatally injured at o'clock yesterday afternoon by an automobile operated by Frank o. Babb of South street, Plymouth The accident happened on Main street in front of the residence of Edgar Brown.
 The youngster, who with his par ents had been visiting at the Browns, was playing in the street with an- other playmate and failed to hear the approaching automobile. In trying to avoid hitting one boy, Babb struck the Crandall child. The boy was picked up unconscious and carried to MT. Browns home, where he died before the arrival of the doctor.
 Deputy Sheriff Frqank H. Mattoon of Thomaston investigated the acci- dent but did not hold Babb because eye-witnesses declared the accident unavoidable.
New Britain herald., 1924-08-11
AGED WOMAN KILLED

Clinton. Mass. Aug. I1.--Mrs. Julia Reddy. sixty, died late last night at Clinton hospital from a fractured skull and internal injuries sustained earlier in the night when she was knocked down and dragged 5 feet by an automobile operated by George Priest of Maynard.
New Britain herald., 1924-08-11
Yankee Recruit Has New
 Record for Hard Hitting

New York, Aug. 11.-Albert (Bibbs) Raymond, outfielder of the Doherty Silk Sox semi professional team of Clifton. N. J.. who has been signed by the New York Americans to re- port next spring, established what is believed to be a semi-professional record for consecutive hitting when he made his 18th safety In 12 success sive times at bat yesterday. Ray mond's batting average is .510.
New Britain herald., 1924-08-11
NARROW ESCAPE

New Haven, Aug. 11.--Rev. D. J. Mccarthy of Hartford, had a narrow escape from serious injury yesterday when his automobile coIlided with 8 machine driven by Adolph Vitall in Whitney avenue. The clergyman is suffering from two cuts on the left arm and he was badly shaken up when his machine was almost over turned. yitali was arrested charged with reckless driving.
New Britain herald., 1924-08-11
MAN AND WIFE KILLED

Easton. Pa., Aug. 11.-Donald Eynon, an Easton musician and his wife were killed and Frank Opitz, also . musician, was seriously hurt yester- day when their motor car ran up steep embankment near Martins creek and then rolled down, landing upright. Opitz had his skull fractured
New Britain herald., 1924-08-11
EXPLOSION KILLS TWO
Philippine Constabies Die, Native Children Are Injured By Falling Debris, When Explosives Blow Up

nr Tho Afsa"iated Press.
 Manila. Aug. ii.-EXplosiyes stored on Talim Island, in the center of Laguna Dc Bay, blew up yesterday afternoon. killing two soldiers of the Philippine constabularly and injuring number of children in a native vil- lage on the island. The explosives were contained in the dynamite ma gazine of the Bureau of Public Works and constituted virtually all the high explosives in the islands except those belonging to the United States gov- ernment.
 The cause of the explosion has not been determined. A hole twelve feet was left where the magazine stood The magazine building and the bar racks of the constabularly on Talim Island were blown to pieces.
 Debris from the blast fell quater of mile away, injuring a number of children who were given medical treatment by relief party from the naval radio station on Los sBanos.
New Britain herald., 1924-08-11
DIES FROM INJURIEs

Hartford, Aug, ii.-Miss Agnes Moonan of Manchester died at the Hartford hospital yesterday afternoon as the result of internal injuries re- ceiyed Friday night, when an auto mobile in which she was riding struck truck on the road In Wethersfield. Miss Eleanor Hartnett. another oecu- pant of the car, which was driven by Louis Ginsberg of Hartford, died a few hours after the accident.
New Britain herald., 1924-08-11
ELECTROCCTED BY LIVE WIRE

Syracuse, N. I., Aug. 11.--Edward Kotas, six. met death instantly last night by olectrocution. when he fell afross the broken end of 1000 volt wire while wheeling his seven months old sister, Mary, in the street.
New Britain herald., 1924-08-11
KILLED BY FALLING TRUNK
Heavy Wardrobe Falls On Negro
 When Hoisting Rope Breaks

Atlantic City, N. J.. Aug. II. - Struck squarely on the head by a heavy wardrobe which fell as it was being hoisted to second story win dow, Carlos Young A. negro, was killed instantly yesterday afternoon. his skull being fractured by the blow.
 Young and his brother. Joseph, were hoisting the wardrobe from the ground with a light clothes line. When 1t had reached about half the desired height, the robe broke and Young who was directly underneath, could not jump away quickly enough to avoid being hit.
New Britain herald., 1924-08-11
COLBY PROFESSOR DEAD
Professor Lester. Prominent Historian Dies At Fathers Home in Syracuse

Syracuse, N. T., Aug. 11.-Claude F. Lester, 46. professor of American history at Colby college, Waterville, Maine, is dead at the home of his father in East Venice where he was passing his summer vacation. Pro- lessor Lester was a member of sev- eral historical societies. During the world war he was connected with the officers training camp at Seattle, Wash. Funeral services will be con- ducted Tuesday.
New Britain herald., 1924-08-11
SHOT AFTER ARGUMENT
Reward Lad Taken to Hospital With
 Bullet Wound in Chest

Newark, N. J., Aug. 11.--Resario hospital last night with a bullet wound in the chest which he told police he received at the conclusion of long argument among a group of boys gathered in Parkhurst street. Lagano said that without warning one of the crowd drew gun and fired at him point blank. Police were unable to learn the nature of the discussion. The wound is not serious.
New Britain herald., 1924-08-11
OLD VETERAN RUN DOWN

Boston, Aug. 1t.--John Contie, age s1, of Bradentown, Fla. 8 delegate to the national encampment of the e. A. n. which convenes here tomor- row, was knocked down by an auto mobile at street crossing in the Back Bay district of Boston last night. He was carried by passing automobile to hospital where physicians said that he had fractured leg and wrist and minor injuries
New Britain herald., 1924-08-11
SEES TRAIN KILL WIFE IN AUTO

Warsaw. N. Y.. Aug. 11.-Drving only 100 feet behind coupe driven by his wife, Edward New of this place saw his wife's machine struck by a westbound Erie passenger train at Clark crossing, southwest of here yes terday. The woman died instantly.
New Britain herald., 1924-08-11
SUMMER HOME DESTROYED
Fire of Unknown Origin Causes $6O. 900 Damage in Watkins Glen, \. Y.

Watkins Glen, N. Y, Aug. 11.-Fire of undetermined origin last night de- stroyed the summer home of Mrs. Bertha Engle Magee of New York. Bremen from Montour Falls aided the Watkins department in saving the lower portion of the structure. Dam- age was estimated at $60,000.
New Britain herald., 1924-08-11

Talim Island is ten miles long and four miles wide. It is in the center of Laguna De Bay, fresh water body in the heart of Luzon, connected with Manila Bay by channel.
New Britain herald., 1924-08-11

The "carrion plant" an English jungle growth, has a strong smell of tainted meat. which attracts flies to if.
New Britain herald., 1924-08-11

and physicians said tonight his chances for recovery were slight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09
LIMP TOCARRY
 BEVY OF PLANES
Novel Test To Be Made With Ainly's Biggest ] Balloon

\ 3fDAYTON, O., March Associated
 fSsss) 1.-The airship RS-1 which, when colbpleted, will be more than three times as large as any semi-rigid pal loon how in the army service, will be kAlfvered at Scott Field, Belleville, H., 3une l. Shortly thereafter the ballon
 ill be taken 10 McCook Fled for trials. NtThe RS-1, ofH720, 900 cubic feet gas capacity, will have as one of it's new Features the aerial hook which was de- ysleped at MeCook Field. This hook is aMed under the bag and will permit of an sairplane, to which a corresponding device is attached, to hook onto the bal loon and ride with it. The plane can leaye at the will of the piolt.
 This operation proved a success with smaller devices several months ago when the Sperry messenger plane at tached itself to. d small ballon, rode for while, and then returned to the field independent of the balloon.
 .& In time of war it is believed a great gas bag, could haul a large number of kmaH fighting planes over enemy ter xltory. The planes then could do their york and return to the balloon for Terry back to a central station. The 1dea is novel, but practical, army of- &tiAls say, because small fighting planes have only a limited cruising fadius occasioned by the small amount M gasoline they are capable of carry Ing.
 The RS-1 will be housed at Scott Field because there is no army hangar Elsewhere capable of covering it, but the tests will be conducted largely at Wilbur Wright Field.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09
MRS. ROOSEVELT
 TRAVELS LIGHT
Refuses To Burden Herself. She Carries Only Three
 Suit Cases

BERLIN, March S.-(By Associated Press. )--sW omen who travel with re- tinue of servants and enough baggage to meet the requirements of n grand opera star would have been greatly surprised if they could have seen Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt. wife of the former President of the United States, when she arrived in Central Europe after having completed tour of Japan and China and made the railway trip from Harbin, Manchuria, to Berlin by way ot Moscow, Petrograd, Reval, Riga and kovno.
 Mrs. Roosevelt and her son, Kermit, had with them three suit cases and a vacuum bottle. Strikes of baggage handlers would have made little differ ence with them as they could have car- ried their own luggage into their com I,artments aboard trains. The Roosc- velts were enthusiastic over the long journey across srow-bound Siberia, which Mrs. Rooseyelt's friends had warned her was too hazardous a trip for a woman to undertake.
 Mrs. Roosevelt and Kermit remained in Petrograd long enough to visit the Hermitage and other galleries. They also visited the Petrograd ballet school, where they were doubly welcome be- cause of the aid given the school by the American relief administrations. They also attended performance ot the Petrograd opera, where they heard an excellent performance of Carmen. 7 In Moscow, Mrs. Roosevelt and Kermit attended the ballet, but unfortunately the orchestra was, on strike and the great ballet had to struggle through the performance with the aid of pianist, who endeavored heroically to fill the enormous opera house with his music. : The six thousand mile train ride iron, Harbin to Moscow was relieved by fire. quent stops. At the stations peasants offered for sale different kinds of food and the dining car diet therefore was varied by the addition of pheasants and other game birds, which the train cooks prepared. European hotel keepers and the railway officials still are unable to believe that the modest little woman in black, who travelled 90 simply for years, was the mistress of the White House of Washington.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09

charges as they are to appear in this week issue of the Commoner.
 "Mr., Speaker" said Mir. Underwood, slowly and with deliberate emphasis, "the statements that are contained in that article are absolutely false" Again the democrats of the House gave them selves up to unrestrained enthusiasm. It was some time before Mir. Under wood could proceed. He said that if the statements were merely a personal reflection upon himself he would not take time to notice them. They con cerned, however, the control of the House by the democratic ma jority, ,s land as the representative of the leader upon this floor of this majority" con- tinued Mir. Underwood, II would be untrue to- my self and untrue to my party if did not arise here and stamp those utterances with the brand of falsehood, which you, MT. Speaker, know they are" Again the democrats sounded their salyos of applause.
 Branded As False
 Mr. Underwood grew more emphatic as he proceeded. He characterized as false the assertion that he had led the democrats of the House into unworthy lines.
 T know it is false," he said. "you, Mir. Speaker, know it is false and so do the democrats on this side of the House. But we must let the country know it is false."'
 Amid the enthusiastic commendation of his colleagues, Mir. Underwood stated that he had asked the ways and means committee to take mp the iron and steel schedule first because he came from a steel and iron district. The committee, however, decided that as this schedule had already been reduced by the repub- hcans, and as wool, with its 90 per cent protection, and cotton, with it's pro- portionately high duty, had not been touched for many years, these schedules should first be considered. Wool was a subject which related largely to manu- lecturers in the north, and cotton af- fected southern manufacturing in terests.. This program was decided upon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09
UPROAR CREATED ANIMOSITY
 AGAINST UNDERWOOD
Commoner's Attacks On Alabama Senator Ex plained By Events In 1911 When HouseSa
 Cheered Southerners Retaliation SS

statement given out in Lincoln, Neb., Tuesday night, and denounced it as . falsehood from beginning to end. In that editorial MT. Bryan charged that at the recent democratic caucus on the cotton bill Mir. Underwood, owing to his financial interest in the iron and steel industry, had defeated resoluF. ton proposing the revision of this schedule; that he had put himself at the head of the opposition to Speaker Clark's tariff program, and that he was on the outs with the latter. The Bryan statement also suggested that Underwood had been at last ''ur- masked in his attempt to lead the party astray and that he should be shorn of power.
 House With Underwood
 It was apparent from the very be- ginning that the House was entirely in sympathy with Nr. Underwood. For five minutes after he arose to his feet and announced that he intended to an swer the Bryan charges the hall of the House rocked with applause. The un- terrified democracy shouted, screamed, waved handkerchiefs, clapped its hands and stamped it's feet. Then as the majority leader proceeded with his statement, branding the Bryan arraign- ment as a lie born of the difference between Bryan and Underwood over the wool schedule, and proving, not only by his own statement but by testi- mony of all his colleagues on the ways and means committee, that he repeat edly attempted to secure revision of the iron and steel schedule ahead of cotton and wool, the democratic side went crazy. Not voice was raised in Mir. Bryan's defense. Even Claude Kitchen, the man mentioned in Bryan's interview who would substantiate his attacks on Underwood, repudiated the Nebraskan absolutely, declaring there was not word of truth in his charges against the majority leader, and sug- gesting that he was the most badly misinformed man in all the wide world" At the conclusion of MT. Un. derwood's statement he was forced to hold an impromptu reception on the floor of the House while practically every member of the democratic side filed by to congratulate him and shake his hand.
 During all the excitement Speaker Clark sat in the presiding officers chair, apparently forgotten. He nod ded his head when Underwood declared that he had never been on the outs with the speaker and that there was no possibility that he ever would be, over the tariff or anything else.
 Shows Telegram ?.
 When at tslast quiet had been restored MT. Underwood sent to the clerks desk the telegram from Lincoln, Neb., published in the Washington Herald yesterday, and containing MT. Bryan's
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09
GIVES GEORGIA
 TO UNDERWOOD
Senator Received Encouraging
 Reports Also From Ala ss bama Friends
fWASHTNGTON RUREAUl


 WASHINGTON, March S.-Senator Oscar ". Underwood. whom Alabam- ians will vote for as presidential nomi- nee Tuesday, was deluged with telegrams of confidence from many county headquarters today. He ex- pressed himself as grateful for the sup port of his friends. &s
 Regarding the campaign develop ments and the activity of his opponents, he had nothing to say. He will not go to Alabama for the purpose of speaking for himself, 1t was announced.
 The senator also had positive assur- arlce today that he would carry Georgia, March 19, by majority as great as he carried it over Woodrow Wilson in 1912. It was his information that W. J. McAdoo, his opponent, was going to Georgia to campaign for. himself March IA.
 Senator J. Thomas Heflin will imme- diately so to Georgia to campaign throughout the state for Senator Un- derwood. He knows the senator better than any other man in Congress. it is believed, and he will speak frankly of his merits. 3sfs
 In Georgia, as in Alabama, criticisms have been made against tho candidate, and Senator Heflin will answer aiI of them in detail In addition, he will de- clare that Underwood is the hope of democracy, and that his chance of se- curing the nomination is regarded as excellent. Information from South Carolina today was that whereas dele gates would be chosen by convention. Underwood would have at least half of them. With the situation as whole. the senator declared himself to be de- lighted. ssf