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New Britain herald., 1927-01-19
ALIENATION OF LOVE IS
 BASIS 0F $I0,OOO SUIT
Patrolman O'keefe Sues Lewis Sinskie for Theft
 of Affections

John O'keefe of this city, a member of the regular police de- partment, today brought suit for S10,00o against Lewis Sinskie, also of this city. alleging that the lat ter has alenated the affections of the plaintiffs wife, Mrs. Margaret O'DeIl O'Keefe. The action is re- turnable in the superior court the first Tuesday In February. Attor- ney Thomas F. McDonough is counsel for the plaintiff and the writ was served by Deputy Sheriff Martin H. Horwitz, who has at tached money of the defendant in 9 local bank.
 The principals in the action are we'll known. MT. O'Keefe at pres cnt Is under suspension from the police department. having pleaded guilty to the charge of drinking while on duty. MT. Sinskie was for some time a clerk in the store con- ducted by members of his family at the corner of Main and Elm streets.
New Britain herald., 1927-01-19

Horace Wilcox Booth, son of the late Horace Booth, died today at Bellingham, Wash, after an illness of three days. He was about 7s years old. He had been visiting with his son-in-law, Charles Morse of the Morse Hardware Co. and had been making his home at the Hotel Leo- pold.
 He was a native of New Britain and was & leader in the business life of the community for many years, retiring more than score of years ago. He retained his residence in New Britain until he sold his South High street proprety now oc- cupied by the Business and Profess sional Women's club, and he then moved to Short Beach. For several years past he has wintered in Bel lingham.
 Mir. Booths schooling was ob- tained in New Britain. When he was a young man he engaged in the drygoods business on Main street a. few doors north of Church street in the building which was the pre- decessor of the present New Britain Trust Go. bank.
 His birthplace was on Main street
New Britain herald., 1927-01-19
STARVATION AND A BROKEN HEART
 BELIEVED TO HAVE KILLED YOUTH
Iowa Young Man Found Dead-Letters Containing
 Flaming Love Passages From Magazine Found

Marshaltown, Iowa, Jan. 19 F9 - Flaming love passages culled from a magazine and incorporated in let tcrs his sweetheart wrote to test his love figured in a coroner's investi- gation today into the mysterious death of Charles Elrod of Lewellen, Nebraska, who was found lifeless in his hotel room here recently.
 So far, the authorities have been unable to learn the cause of death or to fix motive. They have prac- tically abandoned a theory of sur- eide. The only possibility advanced has been that death was due to star vation and a broken heart.
 The girl Veda Bellefeuile, 19 year old high school student, told in vestigators that she wrote letters to Elrod and signed them "Dexter Or ten" and Keith Clayton" fictitious names she selected from a magazine love story, in an effort to learn If he really loved her. The letters told of the great love of "Orten" and Clayton" for Miss Bellefeuille.
 One of the letters for which the
New Britain herald., 1927-01-19
Illinois Senator -Desig- nate Appears Today, Demands Oath of Of- flee and Contest Is Im- mediately Started.
Deneen Argues That He Be Admitted and Bingham of This State Also Rallies to Defense of Adminis- tratiOn.

Washington. Jan. 19 ,Pp-Frank L. Smith of Illinois made his long, expected bid for place in the sen. ate today but was kept on the anx- ious seat while senators argued whether they had a constitutional right to exclude him.
 As a debate over legal technicali- ties stretched out through the after- noon hours, with the Illinois sena- tordesignate listening from a seat in the rear of the chamber, the lead- CTS began to despair of vote today and to lose some of their previous confidence over the outcome. There were multiplying predictions that the vote would be close.
 With few exceptions, the senators divided into two groups, one bent on denying his admission pending further inquiry into the financing of his primary campaign, the other asking that he be sworn in as a senator and his fitness investigated afterward
 As the fight developed, those con- tending for temporary admission. appeared to be conceding that they were beaten. They were led by Deneen of Illinois, and included many of the other republican gu- lars. The exclusionists were led by Reed of Missouri, chairman of the campaign funds committee, and in- cluded in their ranks most of tho /, democrats and republican insur- gents
 Meeting an hour earlier than usual, the senate hoped 10 reach its | decision before adjournment tonight. 1 There was an unusually large at- | tendance on the floor, and the gall 1 leries were damned.
 Comes With Deneen. | Smith remained at his hotel suite ! until just before the senate met. when he proceeded to the capitol to ! join Senator Deneen who took him ! to the chamber to offer his creden- | tials.
 The senator designate took seat in the rear of the chamber. Imme- diately after Vice President Dawes called the senate to order, quorum call was demanded by Senator Cur tis of Kansas, the republican leader, and the clerk called the, roll.
 Smiths certificate of appointment 1 from Governor Small then was pre- 1 sented to the senate by Senator l Deneen. As he sent the paper to the (Continued on Page Twelve)
New Britain herald., 1927-01-19
KELLOGG CAUTIOUS ON
 ARBITRATION POLICY
Declines to Commit Him. self on Mexican Situa-
 tion Today

Washington, Jan. 19 P)-Despite Secretary Kellosgs statement last night saying he welcomed" tho Robinson resolution for arbitration of the oil dispute with Mexico. the state department gave evidence to- day Of desire not to commit itself too far on that subject.
 Department officials interpreted the secretarys statement as mean- ing only that MT. Kellogg would wel- come an expression of opinion from the senate, and did not wish to cx- press any opinion on the form of the resolution.
 Prospects for arbitration of the dispute with Mexico have brightened with the announcement by Kellogg, after conference with President Coolidge, that he approved of that method in approaching q settlement.
 President Gales of Mexico, has in- dicated unofficially that he might look upon arbitration as way out of the controversy.
 The sudden switch of the spot light from the civil war in Nicaragua to Mexico came last night when tho secretary of state, after q half hour talk with the president, declared in a formal statement that he approved of resolution introduced by Sena- tor Robinson. the democratic floor leader, calling for submission of the Mexican dispute to arbitration or to some impartial tribunal.
 The Arkansas senator's resolution has been referred to the foreign re- lations committee. which tomorrow plans to take up resolutions seeking withdrawal of American naval forces from Nicaragua and to decide whether it would make public . corrected" copy of Secretary Kel- logg's testimony on Nicaragua which was delivered before 1t in executive session.
 The arbitration resolution, intro- duced after the Mexican -Nicaraguan debate had bobbed up with renewed tContinued on Pags 1S.l s,
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girl said she got her ideas from the magazine story said:
 When you are with her, do you have to tighten your muscles to keep from sweeping her into your arms? That is the heat of my love. Does yours equal it? If not, stand aside and give me a chance.
 II am the kind that stops at noth- ing to gain what I want and I want her so much that at times I wonder if l am suffering from a new kind of insanity. Just the sight of her and her sweet, childish characteris- tics set my blood racing through my
 veins at an incredible speed. I ask
 you again, does your love equal
 mine? ?"
 Investigation has disclosed an apparent absence of a motive of TOD
 bery and murder as Elrod was al-
 most penniless alter gift Of dia
 mond engagement ring to tha girl
 A suicide theory was shattered when
 chemists could find no poison in the l young mans stomach.
New Britain herald., 1927-01-19
NUMEROUS BILLS
 BEFORE ASSEMBLY Second Avalanche of Proposed
 Laws Introduced ONE BARS INTER-MARRIAGE Would Provide Penalty Where Negro and Caucasian Wed-Another Asks Three Judges Sit On Trials Where Death May Be Penalty.
ONE BARS INTER-MARRIAGE

State Capitol, Hartford, Jan. 19 LP1 The 1927 general assembly today received it's second avalanche of bills. Many of the measures had to do with appropriations and restoration of forfeited rights.
 On the desk of each legislator to- day was copy of speech given by Governor Trumbull before the sec ond New England conference here in November. It is entitled solving our own problems"
 Members of the lower house found their permanent seats today with the aid of the journal in which the seating arrangement announced yesterday was printed.
 Senator George r. Hall of New Haven presided in the absence of President pro tempore F. C. Wal colt, who is out of the state on busi- ness this week. Lieutenant Cover nor Brainard is acting governor in the absence of Governor Trumbull.
 Law On Hotel Keepers An amendment to the act concern ing hotel keepers whereby the pro- prietor would not be liable for the loss of or damage to valuable be- longing to a guest unless the guest had deposited the property in person at the hotel office for safe keeping and received 8 receipt therefor, was introduced by nator Shaw in the senate today. The propreitor would not be liable for more than $500 damages for loss of or damage to property delivered unless there is an agreement in writing that the liabil- ! ity shall be greater. The bill was prepared by the Connecticut Hotel Keepers association.
 Senator Burrows introduced a bill calling for a s2.0o0 appropriation to remove the headstone from the grave of Colonel William Ledyard in Groton to the rotunda of the capi- tol building. Col. Ledyard was a Revolutionary hero.
 1 Another appropriation bill calls for s20,o00 for maintenance of Put nam camp at Bedding for two years and s22,o for improvem ents. i Prospective home builders are en- couraged to make plans for a dwell ing within the next three years un- der bill introduced by Senator Gu belli. which provides for the exemp- tion from taxes of any one building a dwelling before 1880. Senator Gu belli holds that this would increase i the grand lists considerably by 1880 | Oil Burner Bill
 Written permission from the chiet of the fire department or of the first selectman would be necessary for in- stallation of an oil burner under a 1 bill introduced in the senate by Sen ator Smith.
 Senator Hall. twelfth. introduced (Copt1pued m pora 1e\
New Britain herald., 1927-01-19
400 Bridgeport Factory
 Workers Go on Strike

Bridgeport, Jan. 19 (UP)-Charg- ing their pay had been cut 50 per cent, 400 employees of the Salts Tex tile company of this city went on strike today.
 The strikers are both men and women. A huge mass meeting was held this morning at Textile Work CTS hall here.
 H. L. Smith, general manager of the Bridgeport rlant refused to make any statement regarding the strike They employees who went on strike were weavers.
New Britain herald., 1927-01-19
EDEL IS BLAMED
 IN MURDER CASE Coroner Finds Him Responsible
 for MaStrian0'S Death S20 BILL IS VITAL CLUE
Grand Jury Gets Facts Against Meri- den Hotel Employ-Coroner Says He Found Bill Like Victim Had Was Used by Alleged Slayer.

New Haven, Jan. 19.-(P-Fred w. Edel, of Meriden has been held 'criminally responsible" for the death of John Mastriano, Jr. of that city whose body was found in Mt. Carmel on December 23rd and who had been shot to death the previous Sunday, by Coroner Eli Mix.
 A special grand jury sat here to- day and Coroner Mix went before it Afterwards he made public his find ing. The grand jury had before il the Edel case.
 Coroner Gives Details Coroner Mix in his finding went lengthily into the conditions sur rounding the finding of Mastriano's body and of the evidence offered which placed Edel in his company some hours prior to the time he was killed.
 , The body, found at D. m. was ly- ing downwards in woods sixty feet from Shepard avenue at Mt Carmel
 
 ing drawn over the head, both arms extended, trouser hip pockets turned inside out, stocking on the right leg pulled down and torn, overcoat anG undercoat unbuttoned. vest pulled up in front to about the nipple line and the front flap of shirt pulled UT and stuffed into deceased's mouth 1 In the pockets were 72 cents, two keys and a few papers. There was blood trail from the roadway to the place to which the body had beer dragged. Upon a bank on the road was was Mastriano's blood soaked cap and handkerchief.
 .3S Bullet Caused Death
 An autopsy showed death to hay. been due to a gum shot wound 1T the left side of the face. A .3S calibrt l bullet was taken from the head, I had entered the upper lip, penetrat cd the skull and caused death.
 Mastriano had been employed 1T Hotel Matis, Meriden and was ire quently in company of Edel Int latter was employed in a clubhous known as Dudley's in Hamden, op posite Shepard avenue and was ia miliar with the surroundings, H, also had been employed at Hote Matis but had left that place ant was interested with others in a res taurant. in Meriden known as tn, Right Lunch.
 Edel Lost, Other Won
 On night of December IS, tn coroner said, Edel told Austrian,
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New Britain herald., 1927-01-19
.ESTATES NVENTORIED
 HAVE S32,I25 VALUE
Mrs. Mary A. Smith Left S21,363 and Miss Hildur
 Torell S10,762

The estate of the late Mrs. Mary A. Cmith is valued at $21,S6S.GO, and t.. of the late Miss Hildur J. E.. Torell at s10,762.2l, according to in- ventories filed in probate court and approved today by Judge Bernard F. Gaffney.
 The estate of Mrs. Smith, which Wa. left in it's entirety to her daugh- ter, Mrs. Harry P. Battey, was ap- praised by Stanley R. Eddy and Will liam J. Coholan. It is itemized as follows:
 10 shs Conn. L. t& P. Co.
 stock. TO at 112 .... S1,12O.0o 10 shs Conn. l.. & P. Co.,,
 S9o at 12o ........ 1,200.0o 73 shs Colts Pat. Fire
 Arms at 2S1s .. 2,0So.5o 40 shs Union Manufactur-
 ing Go. at 27 .......-. 1,OSO.oO 10t shs American Hard
 ware Corp. at S6 ..... S,94400 20 shs Torrington Co. at
 70 ................. 1,4Oo.o0 30 shs North & Judd Mfg.
 Co. at 25 .......... So5.oO 13 shs Ohio Power, pre-
 ferred at 901a ...... 1,254.50 12 shs Rochester Gas and
 Electric pfd. at 103 ... 1,2S6.0O 12 shs American Super
 power Corp. pfd at 9S 1,116.0O Deposit, Savings Bank of
 New Britain ......... 1,127sO
 The itemized account of Miss Torell's holdings, as filed in the probate court, is as follows: Deposit, Savings Bank of
 New Britain .......... s1,551.7S Deposit, Berlin Savings
 Bank ............ 1,975.ss SS shs Stanley Works, pfd.,
 at 27 ............... 1,O26.0o so shs Carlson & Torell 100000 Automobile ......... S00.00 Bond, Fourth Liberty Loan 5000 Cash from Vega Lodge .. 10000 Cash from Vallyria Lodge 10000 Cash due from Carlson S
 Torell ............ 1,159.O5
New Britain herald., 1927-01-19
H. 5. Basketball Team Rent Asumder
 as l3 Players Go on Outlaw List
Zaleski McGrath and Sculy Admit Activity With Out
 side Clubs and Cannot Play

games for the rest of the season. Only John Matulis and Edward Sowka, guards are left for Coach Cassidy to reorganize a team for the game with South Manchester high school on the school gymnasium Sat urday afternoon.
 Zaleski and McGrath admitted playing in a game with the Corbin Screw team against the All-Middle- town team on Saturday evening, De- cember Ii. The season for the high school officially opened that after noon In a game with the St. Thomas Seminary team. Scully ad-
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New Britain herald., 1927-01-19

Captain Marion Zaleski and Frank McGrath, forward and center, re- spectively, on the New Britain High school basketball team, and James Scully, first substitute, were today numbered among the 13 members of the squad who confessed to playing with outside teams during the pres cnt season and were barred from further participation in athletics un- der headmasters' rules during the present basketball season.
 Zaleski and McGrath, who with Al Havlick, made one of the strong est center and forward combinations in the history of the school, are now lost to the team during high school
New Britain herald., 1927-01-19
AMERICAN MARINES UNDER
 ORDERS TO PREPARE FOR
 DUTY IN CHINA WAR ZONE
Woman Observes Her 9Sth Birthday With
 Getting Boyish Bob

Hastings, Nebraska. Jan. 19 R To be in style. the modern miss has bobbed hair, and Miss Ellen Harn believes in being in style. Therefore she celebrated her 9Sth borthday yesterday by hav- ing her locks shorn in the latest mode.
 When airplanes first began carrying passengers for pleasure, Miss Harn kept abreast of the times by being, at the age of 90, one of the first persons to take a ride over Hastings.
New Britain herald., 1927-01-19
BURGLARY IN BRISTOL IS LAID TO BANDITS
Trio on Rampage in This City Linked With
 Store Break
Special to the Herald.)

Bristol, Jan. 19.-Bristol police are of the opinion that the three youths who exchanged fusillade of shots with New Britain policemen on Monday, are the ones who were i'm plicated in the robbery of the An derson and Bloom store in Forest vile early Sunday morning. The car used by the burglars, which be- longed to Paul koletzke of Pond Hill, Wallingford, was found Tues day morning deserted in Plainville and it is understood that some of the articles taken from the Anderson and Bloom store were recovered by the New Britain police who took the car back to New Britain.
 It is said that the car in ques- tion was seen in Bristol early Mon day morning by Officers James Keith and William Thompson and it is believed that the burglars waited until Officer Victor Chabot on the Forcstville beat had departed for his home at 4 a. m. to commit the burglary.
 It is reported also that the care in question was seen in Meriden, at which time three youths were in it, and then again in Southington, at which time there were only two. This leads local police to believe that one of the men had been iu- jured in an exchange of shots with the New Britain police and had been left somewhere for treatment. The police are now exerting their efforts toward locating the injured member of the bandit trio.
 That the gunmen who have run the gauntlet of Meriden and New Britain police since last Sunday eve ming in a stolen automobile, com mitted burglary in the Anderson and Bloom store in Forcstville is also be- lieved by the local authorities. who learned last evening that the socks. pipes, stickpin, baseballs and har- rnonicas found In the car after 1t NdS dbdlluolitu piI l'ldhlo SNi' V Plainville, are part of the loot miss ing from the store. It Is probable, the police say, that the revolver used by the thieves when they returned the fire of Supernumerary Officer James M. McCue on West Main street Monday night, was stolen from the store.' as the list of missing ar ticles includes revolver and box of bullets, besides cigarettes, cigars, harmonicas and other merchandise. The store was entered last Sunday night.
 The automobile has been returned to the owner. Paul Koletzke of Wal lingford, who came to this city last night and claimed 1t. He told the police that the mark on one side of the body was caused by a collision before the theft. The police had be- lieved it might have resulted from an accident since the thieves began their trips between New Britain and Meriden, as the driver was known to have taken a number of risky chances in traffic.
New Britain herald., 1927-01-19
SEN. REED SOUNDS WARNING AGAINST CORRUPTION WHEN
 HE OPENS FIGHT ON SMITH
Married Teachers Not Wanted by Officials
 Of Allentown Schools

Allentown, Pa, Jan. 19 P- Women teachers in Allentown schools must remain unmarried or quit teaching.
 This edict has been issued by the school board. The new order will! not affect women teachers already married. 'Disorganiza ton of the teaching staff be- cause of the frequent invasion of Cupid was given by the board as the reason for it's edict.
New Britain herald., 1927-01-19
BEWARE THE KISS
It's the Kiss and Not the LipstiCk That's Dangerous, According to Dr. Mahoney.

Boston, Jan. 19 tT1-Don't worry about the lipstick, but look out for the kiss. Dr. Francis x. Mahoney. Boston health commissioner. said to- day that blaming the lipstick for the spread of disease was all wrong.
 Its no more harmful than good butter" he said. Our pure food and drug inspectors examined cos metics on the market and found them all right. You can take my wo~d for it that lipsticks are harm less, but kissing-there' the danger to warn our young people against" !"
New Britain herald., 1927-01-19
VETERAN FIREMAN DIES

New Haven, Jan. 19 P-William H. Johnson, 7S, retired fire depart ment captain and first official drill master in the New Haven depart ment died at Norwich yesterday from old age disabilities. He re- tired in 1902. after serving q years
New Britain herald., 1927-01-19
Forces at Guam and San Diego Held in Readiness = England's Military and Naval Machinery Active.
Chinese Nationalists Re- ported Defiant and Chal- lenge All Foreign Pow CTS Which Seek to Main tain Concessions.

Washington. Jan. 19 (UP)-U. S. marines at San Diego and the Island Of Guam were under orders today to prepare for immediate service in China, where the anti-foreign demonstrations threaten American lives and property.
 At a joint conference between Secretary of State Kellogg, Secre- tary of the Navy Wilbur and Rear Admiral c. B. McVey, it was decided to prepare for evontualities, but to delay actual dispatch of additional troops pending further official re- ports from China.
 Consular reports confirmed press cables that many Americans have fled from Hankow, Ruling, Kiuki- ang, and Foochow to escape native m0bS.
 Policy of RctrcnChmcnt.
 Many missionaries and others from the interior are gradually with drawing and the general trend in the interior, as it is in Hankow, is towards large retrenching of all missionary and business activities by Americans" a cable from Consul General Lockhart at Hankow said.
 John Van A. MacMurray, Ameri- can minister, reported he was leav- ing Picking yesterday with his family for Washington. arriving in San Francisco on February g. MacMur- ray was ordered home last week by Kellogg to confer on q new Chinese policy necessitated by the rapid rise of the nationalist movement. His critics are insisting that another minister be appointed, though kel- logg says MacMurray will return ta Picking.
 Administration Undecided.
 The administration is frankly un- decided on a policy to meet Chinese demands for immediate application of the so-called Washington treaty surtaxes and abolition of eXtraterri- torial rights under which American troops and courts are maintained in China.
New Britain herald., 1927-01-19
Foreign Powers Defed.

London. Jan. 19 UP)-In the face Of an impressive British naval gesture, the Cantonese government, through It's foreign minister. Eugene Chen at Hankow, has detied all for oign powers which seek to maintain concessions in China
 The challenge, issued in mes sage to the Daily Express from
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