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New Britain herald., 1926-02-18
SNlPER- MANIAC SPREADS
 TERROR IN OMAHA CITY
Prominent Doctor Killed and Sey- eral Pedestrians Report Being
 Fired Upon From Ambush.

Omaha, Feb. IS tPl - Police 10. day began a search for a snipeI- maniac. whom they hold responsi- ble for the shooting to death O. nr. A. D. Searle, a specialist, in his office last night.
 They say that the sniper has spread terror in neighborhood bordering the downtown district where numerous shots have been fired at pedestrians, resulting in the death of one.
 Dr. SCarle. the police said. ap- peared 10 have been shot as he was preparing 10 leave his office. The body was found today. Police attention was first called to the promiscuous shooting by X pedestrian who reported that he had been shot in the lip. Sunday night William McDevitt. a dairy man, was found shot through the head. On Tuesday several persons reported that they had been fired upon.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-18
PRESIDENT TODAY IS
 CONFINED 10 HIS BED
Condition Not Regarded as Alarming Simply Has
 Heavy Cold

Washington, Feb. IS (P}-Presi- dent Coolidge was confined today 10 his bed victim of q heavy cold.
 Major James F. Coupal. the presi- dents physician Is in attendance.
 Mr. Coolidge from time to time has taken treatment from a Wash ington specialist for a nasal trouble, but of late has not appeared to be bothered in this respect. All engagements for the day were cancelled.
 Rciterating that there vas no 1 cause for alarm or any relapse in the | presidents condition, Secretary san ders said Mir. Coolidge had decided to remain in bed in the hope that the cold could be controlled. First effects of illness were in evi- i dcnce Tuesday night when the prcsi- dent, at the last moment decided not to attend q dinner given in his and Mrs, Co0lidEe'S honor al inc , home of Secretary Davis ot he War . Department. Yesterday. after q bri"t iurn at his desk, engagements were cancelled and he retired 10 the . White House to rest, Later, how i "rer he rcturend to his office for au l hours work and afterwards took d short stroll around the White House ground.
 II was officially announced at tho White House shortly after noon that although President Coolidge was confined to bed, he is suffering from just q cold" and his condition was not serious.
 Secretary Sandcs rolaycd the worl from the bedside that the presi dents pulse and temperature were normal
 Mir. Sanders explained that th, president as taking extra precautions 10 safeguard his health, because ho has an engagement 10 deliver ; WaShington's Birthday address herr next Monday night, hoforc the dc partmont Of sup"rinicni"nts of tn National Education association am was anNious 10 he in good physiCa ! trim for this event.
 After if had hcon definitely estab
 ishcd today that the prosidrn l would remain in bed and probabl would not visit Ms office, all en agreements for the day were can - cenod
New Britain herald., 1926-02-18
CHAPMAN'S NEXT MOVE
Attempt To Get Supreme Court To Act In Case Is To Be Made Within Few Days, Lawyer Says.

Danbury, Conn., Feb. IS P9-The next move by attorneys for Gerald Chapman will be to ask the supreme court of the United States to issue a writ of ccrtiorari in the matter, it was stated today by Charles w. Mur- phy, one of the attorneys for Chap man.
 The motion Hill be presented within a few days by Judge Fred crick J. Groehl of New York. This writ, if issued, will call for a re- ] view Of the entire proceedings in the Chapman case. Attorney Murphy states. before the highest court in the country.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-18

Passaic, x. J.. Feb. IS CF9 --- Archbishop John Felix Cieplak, of Wilma, Poland. once the center of world d-wide sympathy and interest because Q soviet tribunal sentenced him to death for resisting seizure of church property, Is dead.
 The noted prclate died last night at the age of 69 in St. Mary's hos pital after weeks illness from pneumonia and influenza. Consul General Ciruska and members of the Roman Catholic clergy were at his bedside.
 The archbishop, who had been In this country since last November, expected to sail Saturday for Po- land.
 Mgr. Cieplak, formerly Arch bishop of Russia, was sentenced March 26, 1923, in Moscow to be shot by a firing squad, Vicar Gen eral Butchkavitch was tried and sentenced with him. and later exc Cuted.
 The United States. joined with other countries in protesting the sentences. and the archbishop was commuted to 10 years imprison. ! ment. Through the efforts O | Premier Mussolini of Italy, and th' 1 Roman Catholic church in tn, United States, he was released iron prison in March, 1924. He was tn guest of Pope Plus in Rome for 1 months.
 Archbishop Cieplak visited number of American cities after hi arrival. including Bridgeport an' New Britain, Conn, Webster an' Worcester, Mass, Detroit and Greer Bay, Wis, and New York, He va
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New Britain herald., 1926-02-18
NEW POSTAL MEASURE
Sub Committee Approves Bill ES-
 cluding Pistols, Lotteries and
 Fraudulent Literature From Mails.

Washington. Feb. IS tP - Bills excluding from the mails pistols revolvcrs and literature concerning fradulent devices and lotteries were approved today hy sub com- mittcc of the house post office com mittee.
 The measures represent a con- certed attempt 10 tighten up postal regulations in an effort 10 combat fraud and crime.
 Exclusion of pistols from the mails has been sought by various organizations for several years on the ground that the state anti-pis- tol laws will prove ineffective as long as the mails are open to con- vey such weapons.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-18
Archbishop Cieplak Passes Away
 Almost On Eve Of Returning Home
Pneumonia Fatal to Fa- nous Polish Primate, 69 Years of Age-Visited This City Several Weeks Ago and Was Accorded Wonderful Welcome.

Speaking today to a Herald reporter concerning the death Of Archbishop Cieplak, Rev, Boj nowsld pastor of the church or the Sacred Hcnrt, said with emo ton: "Tho death Of Archbishop CicpIak is very great loss Everybody in the city who me. him on his visit here feels docT ly sorrowful" Other promineu men who attended q banquet giN on by Father Boinowski in homo Of the Polish prcIate, likewise eN pressed their sorrow. A mass fo' the rcpose or Archbishop Cicp laks soul will be sung tomorrow morning nt 7:45 o'clock at th' church of the Sacred Heart Father BojnowsN will be th' celebranl
New Britain herald., 1926-02-18
RALNlMAN'S QUICK ACTION
 PREVENTS WORSE ACCIDENT
Pulls Emergency Lever, Slowing Down Passenger Train Just Before It Crashes Into Freight Near
 CastOrland Station, N. 1.-Two Killed, 20 Injured

Watertown, x. Yo Feb. IS tFl -- In crash between Il passenger and freight train on the New York Central railroad, near Castorland station today, Engineman Will Bell and Fireman Richard Quinn Of the passenger train were instantly killed and about twenty other trainmen and passengers injured today.
 Wallace Jones, Of the passenger train crew, saw, as his train ap- preached the Castorland station, that there was no train on the sid ing usually occupied by tho freight, He pulled the emergency lever. lesscning the speed Of the train and greatly reducing the force Of
New Britain herald., 1926-02-18
Slayer of Girl Sentenced
 To Hang on April 18th

Springfield, 1l1, Feb. lS tE9 - Raymond Costello, of Chicago. convicted Of murdering Madelinn White. aged l6. Is 10 hang Aprh 16. the supreme court today con- frming his sentence.
 The girl was found gagged be- meath the steps of a house near her Chicago home July 10.
 Costello has Contended that q man named Mulholland was re- sponsible for her death. although he had been with them shortly be- fore Miss White was attacked.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-18
WIDOW WILL FIGHT FOR HER CHILDREN
Mrs. D. King Peck to Ask Pro-
 bate Court to Act
HUSBAND LEFT S1OO,OOO
Plainvtlle Manufacturer Died In testate and Miss May Morgan, Town Clerk, Is Now Guardian Ad Litcm of Two Small Children.
Special Co The Herald.l

Bristol, Feb. 18--A situation which is creating an unusual amount of interest locally arises out of the death last September of King Peck of Plainvile. Mr. Peck founded the Peck Spring company in that place and operated it with unusual suc- cess. In later years his father. D. c. Peck. of PlainVile, was an officer, stockholder and active worker in the concern. King Peck was married, and on his death in September left i his widow and two small children, 1 but no will. The business as oper- ] ated by him has been great finan- i cial success for a number of years past and has furnished hair springs 1 to a large market in the east with central sales agency in New York city.
 i D. C. Peck, the father, and Mrs. Bertha C. Peck, the widow, were appointed joint administrators on the estate, which will represent np- wards of sl00,000 in value. The controlling stock in the company was substantially owned by King Peck. On September 29nd, 1925, Judge Ryder of the probate court in Plainville appointed May Morgan of Plainville guardian ad litem Of the two Peck children without the knowledge of the widow,
 Relatives Come On Scene
 Lester Peck, formerly of New York or New Jersey, another son land a son-in-law, a Atr. Harris, oi New York, have both come on tC Plainville and are actively partici' rating in the management of tho business, neither of whom, 1t IS al. llegcd, have heretofore had any tinan. cial interest in it whatever. Mrs Peck Is about 10 apply for her ap
 pointment as guardian of her OWL children, and there seems 10 be concerted movement on inc part O the Peek family 10 prevent her ap pointment.
 Mrs. Peek, who for year hefor' ihor marriage, was intimately ac 'quainted with inc nannlaclurlhl
 details of hair springs has retained Judge William J. Malone of Bristo O
 10 care for her interests and vii oppose with the utmost vigor an I attempt on the part of any bank 0 individual 10 secure the appointmen as guardian Of her small childrer
 in the belief that the sole purpos
 of such a move is to deprive he , husbands heirs Of controlin
 voice in the property and bushes
 which he built up after years of in !dustrious and persovering effort.
 The preliminary moves will b
 heard in the probate court in Plain
 vile, and the matter promises il furnish some unusual and interest Il ing litigation.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-18

the impact as the passenger crashed into the freight, His act is believed 10 have prevented much more serious accident.
 Three locomotives, two of them on the freight and the other on the passenger train, were crushed like so many cylinders of paper, Two mail cars on the passenger train were topplcd into Il ditch, ana George Ashmore, mall clerk, was injured, possibly internally.
 The freight train was standing on the main track, ready 10 pull on to the siding when tho crash came. All Of the freight crew jumped to safety and escaped sc rious injury,
New Britain herald., 1926-02-18
Rum Runner Chaser Cop
 Is Back on the Beat

Darien, Conn, Feb. IS OPt-Motor- cycle Officer Amos Anderson, hurt January 16, has returned 10 duty. He made new start on patrol duty at last midnight and in half an hour he nabbed John Conrad, 13S Nine teenth street, Brooklyn, in an auto mobile with los gallons Of alcohol. The court placed Conrad under &1,0RO bonds for s hearing.
 On January IS Anderson, in chas- ing a suspicious looking automobile was thrown from his machine and ! had a broken collarbone.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-18
N DEBT FOR MORE
 THAN ONE MILLION
Oliver MorOSco, Theatrical Pro.
 ducer, Bankrupt Today
LISTS ASSETS AT S20O
Lost His Wealth, Estimated once al Five Million, in Failure of Moros- 70 Holding Company in California. Bankrupt in 1923.

New York, Feb, IS tPt-Ollver Morosco, theatrical and motion pie ture producer, filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in the federal court today. He listed his liabilities at sl,0SS,0O and assets at s20Q.
 Morosco, whose fortune at one time was estimated at about s5,OO0,- 000 lost his wealth in the failure of the Morosco Holding Company which went into bankruptcy in 1923.
 The federal receiver exonerated him of any responsibility for the failure of the company, saying that Morosco had been the victim of the fraudulent activities of men promot- ing "Morosco town" his dream vil- Iage near Los Angeles.
 It was found that without his knowledge the promoters had paid about $340,00o in dividends which did not accrue from profit to pro- mote the sale of stock.
 seven Were Arrested.
 Seven of the promoters were in- dicted or charges of using the mails 10 defraul. Four of the men were found guilty, and upon appeal their sentences were confirmed. Three others were eXonerated.
 MorosCo never was involved In the legal trouble, but at the trial he testified that he had been stripped of everything he owned by the ac. tivities Of his associates. Among the holdings he lost was a part tc "Abies Irish Rose" which has ru1 here four years and has yieldet heavl profits from touring compan ies.
 The producers wife and Pegg Hopkins Joyce are listed as two O his chief creditors each being credit cd with claims Of S15,000 Banks il Los Angeles and New York both ar listed as creditors for large sums and among the items is hotel bil of S4,000 for which Morosco pledge, ! his jcwelry.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-18

Bingham, Utah, Feb. IS CT -- Thirty-fve known dead with an equal number Of persons missing was the toll early today of the avalanche that overwhelmed the Highland Boy mining camp to Sap Gulch, near here, yesterday.
 Officials directing the search Of the scrambled ruins of a score Of buildings, one a three story frame boarding place housing 50 persons, expressed the belief that in the neighborhood Of 70 lives had been lost.
 Checking Up On Victims
 Frank A. Wardlaw, superintend- ent of the Utah Delaware Mining com pany, which operates the High land Boy workings, made up list of 29 missing persons, which includ- ed only the owners and lessees Of houses destroyed. He was unable to say how many other persons might have lived in the cabins, al though it is known that there were some alien boarders not employed by the mining company,
 Only IS of the known dead had been identified and there was the possibility that the F unidentified bodies were those Of persons listed as missing and believed dead, On that basis, with only 35 missing, the final death toll would be in the neighborhood of 55.
 Rescued After II Hours
 The rescue workers, numbering more than 50, were spurred on in their attack upon the debris by the finding alive of Jimmy Mcdonald and his wife, owners of the board ing house, after more than 14 hours imprisonment under the wreckage
 The McDonalds were brought ont late last night after all hope had been given up for those remaining buried.
 Gibb Campbell. miner. first heard their faint cries coming through the snow and splintered timbers Calling for aid, he dug and chopped his way to them botf were conscious. Mcdonald with. { badly injured hip, had borrowed hi' way a distance of several feet to hi wife, who was pinned into the wreckage by timber over her lief arm, which was broken.
 Every effort thus far has beeI bent toward recovering those hurict beneath the debris and succorini the injured survivors and those wh' { have been made homeless.
 Slide Crashes Onward
 The slide began two miles iron the little settlement more than mile above sea level In the Oquirrl mountains, when the freshly fallc snow slipped from it's resting plac on an earlier fall tat had becom
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New Britain herald., 1926-02-18
Question Jp Today

The question whether the senate
 is 10 supplement the department of justice and federal trade connis- sion investigations was a special or der of business for today. Involved in the controversy is the whole Quos- ton of the extent to which senate inquiries are 10 be ordered in the future.
 Republicans fin a party conference yesterday decided that the brakes should be applied on investigations and the aluminium case furnish the first test of strength Of these who hold the senate, particularly during the last two years, has far exceeded it's rightful functions in the matters ot inquiries.
 The original inquiry into the Aluminium company was ordered by the senate in 1922. Two years later, | in the midst of the last presidential campaign, the trade commission held )that provisions of the consent de
 cree entered into in 1912 between the government and the company
 had been violated This report wal
 transmitted to the justice depart
 ment which nearly year ago start
 ed the investigation now concluded
New Britain herald., 1926-02-18
THE WEATHER

Hartford, Feb. 1S.-ForCCast for New Britain and vicinity: Rain tonight and Friday; somewhat warmer tonight;
 colder Friday night
New Britain herald., 1926-02-18

Santa Rarbara, Cal, Feb 1E tPs- santa Barbara was shaken hy a sharp earthquake shock a 10:lS this morning. There was no damage. Some persons ran from buildings. In general, the direction Of the shock was the same as that of June 29, II lasted perhaps five seconds.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-18
NINE RESCUED IN TWO
 BURNING STRUCTURES
Leominster, Mass, and Burlington, Vt.. Have
 Spectacular Fires

Leomlnster, Mass, Feb. IS Pl-- Two helpless persons were carried 10 safety through smoke-fillcd halls of the old Wood block in Monu- ment Square when fire swept through the building early this morning causing damage of s15,0o0. A general alarm was sounded and the firemen fought for nearly an hour before the flames were control led.
 James Noble, 13, who was confin- cd to his bed with q fractured leg was carried from the third floor by Richard A. Drumomnd and Mrs. ! Johanna Glayson, an invalid, was carried from the second floor by | Patrolman Robert Gallan and Her bert K. Burbank, a deputy income | tax assessor at Worcester. Five other tenents had to leave 1 the building and were taken 10 the quarters of the Leomlnster lodge o' Elks.
 A hot air explosion was the first warning of the fire and Capt. David r. Corkum who was patrollng near the building sounded an alarm.
 Burlington, Vt, Feb. is tPl- Fir' broke out in a business and residen. tial building on Church street earll this morning. Mir. and Mrs, George Coftis and five young children, wer' carried down ladders from thri apartments on the third floor, SeN
 eral other families made their es capes hy fire escape and over roots
 An unidentified man was hadl.
 burned.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-18
DEATHS MAY TOTAL SEVENTY IN UTAHS
 AWFUL AVALANCHE
S5 Known Dead as Landslide Sweeps Highland Boy Mining <, Camp to Oblivion
ONE COUPLE RESCUED
 WERE BURIED IA HOURS

Slide Begins Two Miles From Little Settlement and Gathers speed and Momentum as it Zig-Zasgcd Its Way Down Canyon-One Man Carried Half a Mile on Crest or Avalanche is Uninjured.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-18
QUAKE AT LOS ANGELES
Santa Barbara, Ventura and Other Southern California Places Rocked No Damage Reported.

los Angeles. Feb. 1S tPs-A long slow earthquake shock rocked Los Angeles and vicinity starting st l0:l7 o'clock today.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-18
Chairman CunminS Convinced Contempt Proceedings Could
 Not Be Maintained
SEES SERIOUS THREAT
 TO U. s. FORM OF GOVT
If Action Is Continued It Win Re
 suit in Subordination Of Executive
 or Judicial Branches to Legisla-
 tive Branch, Head of Senate Ju- dietary Committee Says. Presenting Report Today.

Washington, Feb IS tP' -- After full investigation the department of justice has reached the conclu- sion that contempt proceedings against the Aluminium Company Of America cannot by any possibility be successfully maintained.
 The announcement was made to- day by Chairman Cunlnins of the senate judiciary committee, in a minority report opposing the senate investigation as to whether the Aluminium company, in which Sec retary Mellon is a large stockhold- CT, has violated federal court de- crees of 1912.
 Senator Cummins said the de- partment was 'in possession Of all the information known or believed to exist, including not only every thing that was available to the federal trade commission, but ast
 many items Of information not sub. mitted to the commission.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-18
Questions Legal Rights

After carefully considering the entire case and exhausting every available source of information, '' Senator Cummins said, "the de- partmcnt has reached the conclu- sion that contempt proceedings cannot by any possibility be suc- cessfully maintained"
 In view Of this finding Senate. Cummins challenged the legal right of the senate to make a fur. ther investigation.
 Tt is the judgment of the min, ority of the committed" the repoc ! added, that there Is no constitu tional authority for the resolution of investigation) recommended il the majority report, and that if tn course indicated in the pron0set l resolution becomes the "( practice of the senate, the ov !, throw of our form of governmeu is the certain result.
 Sees Threat to Government
 "The struggle which must ensu, will end either in the compIet subordination of the executive O judicial branches of the govern ment to the legislative branch 0 in subjecting the legislative powe to the executive power. Stripping the proposal 10 enter upon this in Quiry of everything save it's bar essentials, it means just this-n more and no less.
 "The senate, because it doubts th conclusion reached by the depart ment of justice, is to try the Alumi mum company for the alleged viola tions of the decree. If it finds th defendant guilty, 1t will then s' about discovering lawyer Wh holds the senate opinion and direC the president to employ him.
 We deny the right or power ( the senate to try this case, " deny the jurisdiction of the senat or any committee of the senate summon and hear witnesses upc the issue of violation of this d. rroop
New Britain herald., 1926-02-18

Santa Monica, Cal, Feb. A CP'-- A slight but distinct earthquake was felt here at 10:19 a, m,
New Britain herald., 1926-02-18

Ventura. Cal, Feb. IS LPy -- An earthquake lasting half a minute was felt here al 1o:1S o'clock this morning. No damage was reported, Reports from the southern Pacific were that the earthquake was felt with some severity at santa Suzanne,
New Britain herald., 1926-02-18

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The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-07-29
NOTICE TO

Sealed proposals will be received
nv the Board of Trustees OF
School District No. %, McCone
County, Montana, at Wolf Point
up to 6 o'clock p. m. on the 18th
dav. Of August, 1926 for furnish
ing materials and constructing a
school building for said School
District. plans for which r on
file at the residence of A. l..
Burch.
Proposals must be addressed to
the Clerk of the Board Of Trustees
of School District No. %, McCone
County, Montana, and must con-
tain a certified check or its equiva-
lent, made payable to said Clerk,
in an amount equal to three (3l
percent Of the amount of the bid.
Plans and specifications may be
eel and blank forms for pro-
posal procured from the clerk of
the Board of Trustees Of said
District.
The right is reserved to reject
any or all bids.
A. L. BURCH, Chairman.
MRS. A. L. BURCH, Clerk.
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The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-07-29
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Anton Geisler, de-
ceased.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN,
by the undersigned, Alvin Jurica,
Administrator of the Estate of
Anton Geisler deceased, to the
creditors of and all persons hav-
ing claims against the said de-
ceased, to exhibit them with the
necessary vouchers within four
months after the first publication
of this notice, to the said Admin
strator at the law offices of Mar
ron & Foor, in the City of Wolf
Point, Montana, that being the
place designated by the said Ad-
ministrator for the transaction of
all business pertaining to said
estate in the County of Roosevelt.
ALVIN JURICA, Administrator
of the Estate of Anton G%eisler,
deceased.
Dated July &c, 1926.
Marion & Foor, Attorneys for the
Administrator, Wolf Point, Mon
tana. 24-4t