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New Britain herald., 1927-11-15

Reading, Pa. Nov. l5 - For q quarter of a century, since he was T years of age, J. Henry stump, former cigar maker, has voted the socialist ticket.
 This year some 12,145 other in habitants Of this industrial city di5l likewise with the result that stump was swept into the mayors office at the head of a socialist city admin istration-the socialist party's most notable victory since it's capture ct Milwaukee,.
 "To give good, efficient admin istration, free from graft and fire" from politics, and to stralghtcn oU. the inequalities between the work ing man and the apitalist-that'3 my program said stump.
 "Thosc on the public payroll at present may bo assured that it is the official policy of the socialist administration to diSplacc no one except for cause.
 "No one will be taken on as q public cmployc simply because his or her political views or service 10 the socialist party or trade unions in the past. We can stay in power in Reading only if We make rec ord of public service superior to the records made by other party groups. We say the spells system must and does interfere with efficiency in any branch Of government. be it city. state or na.ion.'
 habitants, Of whom 3r,U0O are in
New Britain herald., 1927-11-15
CUBA AND EUROPE
 AVERT SUGAR WAR
Take Steps to Avoid Crisis in
 Industry

Paris, Nov. 15 LP-A crisis in tho sugar industry that would affect the consumer as we'll as the producer has probably been avoided by an agreement now practically complet- ed between the Cuban and European sugar industries, in the opinion of Col. Jose Tarafa. head of the Cuban Sugar Defense committee, who has just had several olng and arduous sessions with representatives Of European sugar interests.
 "The principal European export CTS of sugar." Tarafa told the Asso- ciated Press, "have realized that ab- normal conditions prevailing at pres cnt are likely 10 cause disaster some where in the sugar industry, and that it would be better not to play game of the survival of the fit test.
 Present production Is now so far in excess of consumption that refn- cries somewhere will have to shut down if the situation continues. So III oil oN II IIIi'I'Sl anu III tllC ''Nhl- ual interest of the consumer 1t has been agreed to take measures to gauge yield to demand
 If Rctincries shut Down If many retners shut down many growers will cease planting and then production will become deficient. Prices would soar but that is not what the Cuban sugar interests want; they want only stable condi- ton that will enable them to work steadily"
 Cuba overdevoloped its sugar in- dustry in order 10 comply with pressing demands of the allies to produce all the sugar possible dur ing the war. Tarafa explained. The result was that after hostllies ended and the allies began to supply them- selves elsewhere the Cuban rctiner- ies felt the pinch Of lowered de- mand.
 Tn three or four years,' said Tarafa, consumption will again have caught up with installations, but, if oyerproduCtion continues, then there will be such a crisis that the industry will be dcmoralizcd
New Britain herald., 1927-11-15
DEATH SENTENCE
 IMPOSED ON LEE
Man Convicted of Dismembering Woman to Die January 2

New York. Nov. 15 CP-Luduig Halvorsen Lee. Norwegian carpenter, was sentenced yesterday by Kings County Judge Mclaughlin to die in the electric chair in the week be- . ginning January for the murder of Mrs. Selma l.. Bennett. whose dismembered body was found last July in the cellar Of a roomng house of Miss Sarah Elizabeth Brownell at 2s Prospect Place. Brooklyn
 Miss Brownell was killed several days before Mrs. Bennett Miss Brownell's body also was dismem- bered and scattered In various sec tions of the city. Leo was convicted only of the murder of Mrs Bennett but an indictment still pending charges him also with the murder of Miss Brownell
 "All that I have to say is that I am innocent" Lee said in Nor wegian after an interpreter had re- peated to him a question put by Court Clerk Asip as to whether he cared to make any statement re- garding the imposition of sentence.
 Your punishment is fixed by law Judge Mclaughlin said. q sentence you to be committed to the custody of the warden at Sing Sing prison, there to be kept in solitary confinement until the week of Janu- ary ?, 1928. when you shall be put 10 death in the manner prescribed by law"
 Lee looked solemn while the judge was speaking but he smiled as he was led back to the detention pen. He pulled out of his coat pocket two crumpled roses which, hc said, had been sent to him by nurse in the Norwegian hospital Brooklyn. He had stuffed them in his pocket when he entered the court room. When he emerged h" held them in his hand and smiled while news photographers "shot" him in the yard outside the pen.
 He will be taken to Sing Sing to- day. He will not actually be put to death in the week of January as an appeal will stay execution Of his sentence.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-15

dent of the Reading Federated Trades Union.
 He is tall, silent, gray haired spare man. He takes several slow puffs on his corn-cob pipe before he answers a question.
 Every morning of his life he rises at five o'clock and walks for an hour before breakfast, combin- ing thinking and keeping fit.
 He and his wife live in . very modest home which has . radio, a phonograph. birds, flowers and many. many books. l am told that though Stump had little academic education. he is the best informed man in Reading"
 stump ran for mayor twice be- fore and was badly defeated on both occasions.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-15

with subsequent reaction that will cost the consumers pretty penny.
 Denies Price Control
 q know that the tendency is to suppose that negotiations such as We have been engaged in are intend cd to control prices. This supposi- ton Is entirely erroneous because an agricultural product Of that sort cannot be controlled. There are too many uncertain factors. Planters and ref'ners are only too glad 10 have a steady market at reasonable prices.
 "The, point had been reached where Cuba was faced with the al- formative Of getting cooperation with other sugar producing countries in the .stabilization of the industry or
New Britain herald., 1927-11-15
Germany Still Owes
 Large Sum to America

Washington, Nov. Is P}--A bal ance Of s224,221,39S was still due the United States from Germany on June $o. 1927 for costs Of the American army Of occupation. The figures are given in the annual re- port Of Major General Kenzie w.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-15

Walker. chief of finance of the army. which shows also that Germany made payments during tho pre- ceding year through distribution of Dawes plan annuities of $s,91s.Sl9.
 General Walker also fixed the to- tai amount of army surplus sales in foreign countries at $S25,231,735.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-15

of relying on the doctrine of the sur vival of the Attest, but that is not a good doctrine for sugar."
 Tarafa said that in his opinion present conditions are temporary and that in due time normal devel- opment will regulate relations be- tween production and consumption.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-15
List of Patents Issued
 To Connecticut People

PdCentS issued by the |. S. Patent offico November s, 1927. to Con necticut investors. Nist compiled weekly from the Official Gazette by 1he office of Harold G. Manning, at Manning Bros. Shoe Store, 2l1 Main street, New Britain)
 Tonjes A. Both. Stratford. assignor 10 the Conn. Electric Mfg. Co.,, of Bridgeport. Insulating switch shell. Tracy M. Crowell. Middletown, as- signor to Wilcox. Crittcnden x Co.,. Inc. Fortnight screen and the like.
 Huntington English, New Haven, assignor to Sargent X Co. Lock.
 Benjaman r. Fitch, Greenwich. Apparatus for handling freight.
 John E. Freysinger, New Britain. assignor to krischer's Mfg. Co.,, of Brooklyn, x. Y. C patents) Bath ing belt buckle and snap hook.
 Benjamin E. Getchell, Plainville, assignor to The Trumbull Electric Mfg. Co. Electric switch.
 Henry J. Grener. Bridgeport, as signor of F to B. Jacobs. Cue tip.
 Monroe Guett, Hartford, assignor 10 The Hart & Hegeman Mfg. Co, Receptacle.
 Nathan w. HendryX, New Haven. assignor to the Andrew l.. HendryE Co. Bird cage.
 Ebenezer Hill, North Stamford, assignor to The Hill Compressor & Pump Co.,, N. I., \. |. Rotary pumping machine.
 Ector r. Marceu, East Hartford. Ink agitator.
 Hans A. Philips, Stratford. Mar row woven trimming.
 Charles s. Schroeder, Stamford, assignor to The Yale & Towne Mfg. Co. Industrial truck.
 William R. Scott. Springdalc, as signor of ]. to F. Stevenson. Auto matic starcher for raw-gum ma terial.
 Joseph A. Nolk. Jr.. Norwalk. as signor 10 The Neco Mfg. Co. Elec- trcal fixture.
 Charles g. Wackerman, Bridge port: e patcnts)., Marrow woven trimming.
 Alexander G. Whitehead. Hart ford, and E. J. Sullivan. East Hart ford, assignors to Pratt & Whitney Co.,, x. T., x. Y. Follow rest for lathes.
 Trade. Marks Registered
 The Ashcroft Mfg. Co.,. Bridge port, assignor to Manning, Maxwell & Moore, Inc, \. r., x. Y. Measur- ing appliances.
 Columbia Monograph Co.,, Inc, Bridgeport. Monograph records.
 Landers. Frary te Clark, New Brit ain. Meat, beef, and breakfast carvers.
 Meigs & Co.,. Inc, Springfield, Mass. New Haven and Bridgeport to Meigs & Co.,. Bridgeport, success sor. Boots and shoes.
 The National Silk Co.,, Inc, South Coventry. Silk, rayon, cotton, wool cn, and linen threads.
 Norma Hoffman Bearing Corp, Stamford. Roller bearings and their parts. Simmons Hardware Co.,. St. Louis, Mo-, to Simmons Hardware Co.,, New 1taNell. tL reElStTdtICilS) tul- lery and edge tools; and Tools. Therm os- -Gesellschaft m. h. IT., Berlin, Germany. assignor to The American Thermos Bottle Co.,, Nor wich, Conn. Double walled glass yes scls with vacuum between the walls. The Trumbull Electric Mfg. Co.,. plainville. Soap holder, tumblcr holders, grab rails, etc.
 Prints Registered The Stanley Works, New Britain. ! @ registrations) What Gift Gives | the Most Lasting Pleasure? For | Tools; What Gift Is Offered at a Range of Prices to Fit any Purse? For Tools; What Gift Offers Most | for the Money? For Tools.
 Trade Mark Applicants
 The Bridgeport Chain Co.,, Bridge 1 port. Tire Chains.
 Coever Mfg. Co.,, Norwalk. Nigga zine.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-15

dustrially employed. This is an un- usually high percentage. The actual average wage in Reading is said to 1 he S22.50 week. Mayor Elect stump regards the city, therefore, as an ideal place in which to try out his theories of government - theories intended to give the less fortunate citizens better break"
 Tt was because the women reg | istcred and voted that we were able to win." stump told me.
 The socialists who were put iR power in Reading all are of Amer ican birth. Stump's family has lived in this country for six generations
 To all his neighbors and con- rades Mayor Elect Stump is "Hen." He decidedly is a self-made man, having begun working at tho age of l3 in a cigar factory in Reading. | He helped support five brothers and sisters at that time.
 "rhat struggle for a living. con- tact with the working class, and the constant sight of their injustices Iand problems. made q socialist of me while l was in my teens" he explained
 How He Started For years h" was a cigar maker. Then in 1918 he took over tho man agomcnt Of the Labor Advocate. and two years later founded the Peo- ple's Printing company, of which concern he has been president ever since.
 For 1o years he has been prcsi-
New Britain herald., 1927-12-21
SHOOTS INAM0RATA
 AND KILLS HIMSELF
Father of Two Children Victim
 Of UnWiSe Romance

Trenton, N. J.. Dec. 21 (UP)-A romance between a wealthy widow and an unhappily married. small salarisd salesman. which ended in bitter jealousy and death. absorbed detectives here today while hospital physicians struggled to save the life of Frederick Piani
 Ptani, the salesman, and father Of two children. last night shot and killed Mrs. Isabelle James Shedake., his inamorata, then fired a bullet into his own head.
 The entrance Of a second man in the romance. stealing the widows love away from Piani and shatter- ing the salesman's dreams Of an elopement to Europe with Mrs. Shedaker. was said by detectives to have goaded him to the staying.
 Mrs. Shedaker was S9 and the widow of a wealthy seed grower who was killed in an automobile accident Her affair with Piani, a Columbia university graduate, had caused Piani's wife to say she would bring suit for a separation.
 Driving home last night with a woman companion, Mrs. Shedaker suddenly became rigid with terror as a car pulled in front of her and forced her 10 the curb. A man with a revolver emerged.
 "My God. it's Fred"" the widow exclaimed and started to flee. Four shots brought her down.
 Die! Die." Plant shouted.
 Then he turned his weapon on himself and fell beside her.
 She broke up my home, then told me she had thrown me over for another man." Chief of Detec- tives Ellis H. Parker quoted Piani as saying today.
 T cant live with her and I can't live without her." Patrolman Oscar Morley of Burlington said Piani told him. Mrs. Shedaker had told Morley to keep close watch on Pianl, fearing his jealousy would madden him to desperation.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-21
ADMIRAL MAGRUDER
 AGAIN ASSAELEp
Has Offered Nothing Construc-
 tive, Says BTitten

Washington. Dec. 21 R-A short but heated discussion between mem bers of the house naval committee today over whether Rear Admiral Thomas r. Magruder had proved his charges against the navy department ot over organization and waste in the administration of its activities.
 While tho admiral, who vas re- ieVed of his command of the Phila- delphia navy yard after publication the charges. sat quietly in the wit ness chair, several members argued that he had failed to make q case and others contendded that there had been merit in much he had said.
 Just as the meeting came 10 close. Acting Chairman Britten started to say something.
 T don't know whether l should say this with the admiral present." he began.
 Do you wish me to ioarc7" in quired Magrudor.
 Brtten hesitated and then as sey- eral committee members urged him to continue, Britten said.
 The admiral has not offered one constructive thought In five days.
 T don't agree with that" inter- posed Representative McClintic. democrat Oklahoma You and only one or two other members have had a. chance to question him"
 T don't agree with that either" said Representative A. Plat Andrew, republican, Massachusetts. T don't think we should have that state ment go out in the press
 Representative Einsou, of Georgia, the ranking democratic member. then cut off the discussion by de- claring that the committee should discuss such matters in executive session.
 Just before the tilt. Vinson had asked regarding Magruder's views Of how he thought economies could be effected:
 Tt Is primarily a guess on your part and it is not backed up with specific figures" Vineon said.
 Not guess" replied Ma agruder. but a statement of my views backed up by personal experience and sound judgment"
 Britten interrupted 10 say that emphasis should he placed on the words sound judgment"
New Britain herald., 1927-12-21
SLAYER OF PARKER
 CHILD AT LIBERTY
 DESPITE bIG HUNT
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Another part of the same picture was a cool and daring youth. who on Monday morning. with thousands of officers combing Los Angeles and the vicinity for the child's slayer, drove an automobile over county roads with no effort of concealment. At that time he was seen driving d small car through Culver City a suburb. He hailed a motorcycle agent to whom he was known and told him he would be in the next day to buy a machine. He failed to keep that appointment. Although the 5000 police who had been set on the trail were unable to run to earth the man whom they accused of being "the fox" in the atrocious murder case, they def initely located his lair which he had occupied during the days that little Marian was kidnapped and until Sunday. several hours after the child's dismembered body had been exchanged for her fathers $1,500.
 DNh dy lVl u0Ss
 While the maze Of false reports that Hickman had been seen here and there in various parts Of the metropolitan area forced them to work on the assumption that he still was within the great guarded zone, the last definite clue as to his whereabouts disappeared yesterday. This clue was picked tip by garage emp!oye who said a man answering Hickman's description had driven away from the place without paying for gasoline he had bought
 What was thought to be hot lead in the search for the kidnapper- killer suspect and resulted in posse being organized in Redlands. Cal, turned out to be youthful escape from a detention home in San Bernardino, near there. Mar ian Bussy, 13, stole an automobile from in front of hospital in San Bernardino. after his escape from the detention home. drove 1t to Redlands, wrecked It. and then stole another car in which he continued his flight to Capazon. 15 miles east of Banning. where he was captured.
 Thus. one by one, the police have watched hundreds of clues melt into nothing as they sifted them.
 His Friend Released
 Another angle of the police case collapsed last night when Milton Ja- kowsky. 25 years old. friend of Hickman, was released from custody after having been held in jail as accomplice.
 By finger print and photograph identification the police have deter mined that between the time of the and the climax of the case Hickman occupied an apartment un-
New Britain herald., 1927-12-21
City Items

Give him 6 box of Muller's cigars Mozarts arc always appreciated advt.
 Philip Corbin of New York. for. merly of this city. Is renewing ac- quaintances here.
 Johnston's clean coal Is good coal City Coal & Wood Co. Tel. 2l7.- advt.
 New lunch specials at Crowells.- advt.
 Prescription service at The Fair. Prompt, reliable and economical.- advt-
 Chinese Rings at Mrs. Ponds Shop, New Britain Dry Cleaning, s6 West Main St.-advt-
 See the new Ford car on display tomorrow at the Berlin Auto Sales. -advt-
 Books are ideal gifts. Hundreds to choose from. Dave's Circulating Library. 131 Dwight street.-advt.
 Excellent Ribbon Candy. Candy Canes and Baskets. McEnroe's, w. Main street.-advt.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-21

der the name of Donald Evans. Led by an Identification mark found on towel left with the body of the slain child. . hundred police officers descended upon the apartment house Sunday. the day after the body of the little girl was dumped from the mysterious automobile.
 According to the landlady. Mrs. Ethel Frederick. Hickman strolled by her in a hallway after the police had searched his room. dropped a casual remark and left the building, He did not return. But the officers. having identified Hickman as the hunted fox" returned to the apart ment yesterday.
 On this second more minute search. the officers found stains which they ordered analysed to de- termine whether they might have been caused by the staying of little Marian in thas apartment. They also found a shirt bearing the ini- tials H. B. c. The name, H. B. Ger Der had been found linked on the neckband of a piece Of a shirt used to tie the bundle that was a part of the slain school girls body.
 Articles found In the apartment had come from Kansas City, the for mer home of Hickman.
 Carried Bundle to Rooms
 Although the police said they had found no absolute evidence that the child ever was taken to the apart ment, two witnesses had been dis covered who identified Hickman from photographs as a man seen carrying bundles and suitcase from the building to an autom mobile.
 This was Saturday night when the hdnaper delivered Marian's body to her father. The next day the miss ing parts of the slain child's dis membered body were found in bundles scattered along the roadway into a Los Angeles park,
 The revamped police theory is that if the apartment was the scene of the captivity and fiendish staying of little Marian. the kidnaper probably utilized the stolen anaesthetics to keep her from being heard. Such theory. does not agree with the letters written by Marian and for warded by the kidnaper 10 her father. For in them she spoke of crying all night" and obviously had not been under an anaesthetic while penning the notes.
 Facts showing more of the dual character presented by the police in- was gathered from the boys Sunday school teacher and the woman at whose boarding house he lived for some time,
 Seemed Gentleman
 The Hickman boy seemed a said Pervy Peek. his Sunday school teacher. He had oc- casional fits of melancholy though"
 '"He was such a neat, quiet, or derly boy" declared Mrs. M. C. Dris- kell, the manager of the boarding house In Alhambra, a suburb, where Hickman lived for four months.
 He went to church and Sunday 1 school. He never stayed out late st night. He was always carefully 1 groomed. extremely polite, used good ! grammar and otherwise was a model i noy."
 Such Is the picture of the youth ! who is the object of what is declared l 10 be the greatest man hunt in the [ history of southern California. A formal charge of murder and kid
New Britain herald., 1927-12-21
SOUTHAMPTON HAS
 S75,0OO FIRE LOSS
Oxley Building Destroyed at Midnisht-CoupIe Carried Out
Especial to the Herald)


 Southingtop. Dec. 21-The OXley building was gutted by fire at mid - night last night with q loss estimat- ed at more than s75,0oo. The build lnG which is situated at the corner of Main and Center streets, in the heart of the business section Of the town. was swept by flames which started in the cellar and ate their way through floors and ceilings to the roof despite the efforts of, the members Of the four fire companies.
 A. W. Dudley. who has been con- fined 10 his home for some time by illness, and his wife. occupied d tenement in the rear part of the sec ond story and both had to be car ried from the building from which volumes of smoke were pouring Neither suffered serious ill effects from their narrowing experience though both were considerably a:- fccted by the smoke
 During thn heIght Of the fire, Charles Link. member of Hose Co. No. 1 was struck on the head by a. piece of falling timber and suf- fered a deep scalp wound. He was treated by Dr, A. g Oman and la- ter returned to his duties at the sCone of the disaster.
 The ONloy building is three story frame building and has occu- pied an important business corner in Southington for more than 40 years. II was occupied on the ground floor by the Oxley Drug Store, on the second hy Dr. Ausus- tus Reed, dentist. and Charles Null lins insurance and real estate agent and on the third by the OXloy As semhly hall.
 Pharmacy Completely Destroyed
 The drug store vas a mass of wreckage and will be q total loss. Valuable records from the office oi Mr. Millins were saved though con damaged by water and fire. while the flames left nothing but charred embers from the cellar to the roof
 The fire broke out in the cellar from an orcrhoated furnace, it is thought. An alarm was turned in at 11:30 o'clock after q passerhv had seen flames shooting out Of the front cellar vindows. Hose Co No. l responded and after 2 short rimo. q second alarm calling the Plants vile company, was turned in. The cellar was q roaring furnace and soon general alarm. bringing
New Britain herald., 1927-12-21
ACCIDENTAL DEATH

Middletown, Dec. 21 Pl-Coroner l.. A. Smith today handed down a finding of accidental death in the case Of Joseph A. Magee Of Boston. a New Haven railroad brakeman who died at the Lawrence Memorial Associated hospital at New London, on December $. Msgee was knocked off q pile Of coal by an overhead bridge near the Saybrook station and died a few hours later.