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New Britain herald., 1927-10-17
Chicago Neighborhood, Arouse d by Sharp Bark of Revolvers, Discovers Staying and Suicide. ..
Mother Believes Youth Shot Daughter Because She Wouldn't Marry Him Were Friends in High School.

Chicago, Oct. 17 R-Two 1s-year- old girls were shot to death early today and then thrown from an au- tomobile which sped on for a. block before skidding to stop against the curb, with a dead man at the wheel.
 The driver. bullet through his right tempE was Wilfred Winters. @2, onetime taxicab driver but re- gently unemployed. The girls who wore killed were Catherine Stadler and her chum. Margaret Martin, both high school graduates of last year.
 The triple shooting took place on Rhodes avenue on the south side. The neighborhood was aroused by he roar of revolvers about l a. m. 1t least two householders living on the street went to their windows and looked out in time to see the bodies of the two girls pushed from the automobile.
 Car Strik cs Curb,
 The car zigzagged ahead and finally struck the curb. bounding back into passing automobile which it struck on the rear bumper. Winters body was hanging over the edge of the car. A revolver was found on the floorboard near his feet
 A block back, lying face down on the pavement where they had been thrown, were the bodies Of the young women. The Martin girl had been shot twice in the back. One bullet fired at Miss Stadler entered her body under the right arm and lodged near her heart.
 Winters had been casually atten- tive to Miss Martin for several months. her father said, but he did not believe the two were in love. Winters, according to the girls father and to his own rcla tives, had Teen in poor health for some time. He only recently returned from the vest where he had gone in the hope his ailing lungs would be bene- lited.
 Asked Girl to Marry Him.
 Mrs. William J. Martin offered the only suggestion as to a. possible mo- tive for the shooting of her daughter she said she believed Winters had killed Margaret because she would | not marry him and that in a mo- ment Of anger or unbalanced mind l also had shot the Stadler girl and l hen himself.
 Winters lived next 10 the Martins l while attending high school and was l we'll known and liked by the girls family. police were told.
 The two girls had spent Sunday !! together. going to church in the | morning and spending the afternoon l and early evening at the Martins.
 About 9 o'clock last night, Mir. Martin said. Margaret and Catherine decided to go to a dance hall. They 1 were unaccompanied, he said, and ! he did not believe they had an en- sagement with Winters.
 Police, piecing together the his 1 tory Of Winters, learned that his 1, father had disappeared when the boy was only two years old, and ! that his mother had re-married and moved to Brooks. Ind. Winters, his friends told officers, was industrious and quiet. though he was said to have been morose of late because of his health
New Britain herald., 1927-10-17
OFFICIALS REFUSE TO RECOGNIZE
 FRENCH BAKERS CHANNEL RECORD

No one has questioned Gertrude Ederle's lime. The writer was among many newspaper men and photographers who accompanied her throughout. The fact that she swan under the auspices Of an American newspaper made most correspondents observe her critically.
 Nobody seemed pleased today over Dr. Logan's confession that she swim to expose the ease with which false claims could be made.
 Dr. Logan was sorry. newspapers were denunciatory, and the notary public firm that recorded her af- tia1vit of her swim was so annoyed that it slammed up the telephone when asked if Dr. Logan might be proceeded against.
 Miss Mercedes Gleitze. Mrs. Ivy Gill and E. II. Femme, three Rritons among the successful chandeliers, affirmed the authenticity of their swims. Miss Gleitze offered to swim it again under official supervision.
 
 cipally over the fact that Gertrude Ederle had sent her warm congratu- lations.
 T didn't intend to claim that had broken her record" pr. Logan said. But as l lay in our launch dawn broke and l was afraid l might be seen if l didn't start In.
 Originally intended to keep my hoax secret for q month, but the fact that it was overwhelmed with and was given $5,o0o prize made the situation too serious.
 T believe I have made further faking impossible"
 British opinion agreed generally with the last statement.
New Britain herald., 1927-10-17

London, Oct. II U-P)-Gcorges Michel, French baker whom some record books credit with the record for swimming the English Channel, is not recognized as champion by the French swimming federation be- cause he swan in secret. it was dis closed today.
 This sequel 10 the confession of Dr. Dorothy Cochrane Logan that she hoaXed the world in claiming to have lowered Gertrude F,dcrlc's time was brought out today by a state ment of the federation's official recorder.
 The French official said federation members generally believed Michel's swim was authsntic. but it was held to be impossible to recognize it because no official observer was present.
 The disclosure was interesting here because Of the surprise occa- stoned when Michel, arriving at St. Margarct's Bay, Dover. on Septem- Der 10. 1926. announced with his companions that he had swum the channel in Il hours ! minutes
 Only ten days before. Ernest Nicrkotter, German baker. had claimed 12 hours 43 minutes.
 Nierkotter's record generally was credited. Since then he has won the S25, ,OO0 Toronto marathon. He had been German champion for a long time.
 Was SloWcSt Swimmer
 Michel had been known as one of the slowest channel swimmers, though steady one. with nine previous efforts 10 his credit. It was thought possible that strong currents had carried him to Dover in such surprising time.
New Britain herald., 1927-10-17
TAX CUT, FLOOD
 CONTROL MAPPED National Chamber Of Commerce
 Outlines Legislation Plans WOULD RATIFY 1928 TREATY
Urges Acceptance Of Lausanne Treaty - Co-Operation Between Farmers and Business Men Merchant Marine Transfer,

l West Baden. Ind, Oct 1T.-fPl- I Downward tax revision, Mississippi flood control as a measure of na- tional defense, scientific postal | rates and regulation of business by busincas itself" were cardinal points in tentative legislative program 1 for American business enunciated by 1 Lewis E. Pierson, New York today He addressed the opening business meeting of the national council of l the chamber of commerce Of the United States, of which he is presi- i dent.
 In addition to those main blanks in his platform for business he ad- vocated private ownership of mer- chant marine, approval of voluntary railway consultations. opposition to growing bureaucracy in govern ment," workmens compensation for accidents as private and not pub lie enterprise. swift disposition of sequestrated alien property, ratifca- tion of the Lausanne treaty with Turkey and wholehearted coopera- tion between the business man and farmer for farm relief.
 Income Tax Revision
 Launching into the question of a permanent peace-time federal tax program, Pierson urged equitable revision of corporation income taxes, repeal of the federal estate taxes with view to returning this source final wiping out of wartime excise taxes that are an anomalous, even ludlcrous hang over of war happily now ten years in the background" lie recalled tho announcement of the chamber at it's annual meeting last May condemning taxation that produces 'surpluses so large they necessarily mean that there is being taken from the taxpayer more than IS necessary to meet the current ex- penses of government
 Discuss Merchant Marine
 AC Is ilOl tIlt luIlCLlOn Dl organized business, he said, to accept supinely the defeatist propaganda that gov ernment ownership of merchant marine Is the only way 10 keep the American flag on the seas at the tar- trails of an American marine" He counselled sound measures to en- courage private investment in ship ping enterprises
 Reiterating the chambers stand in favor of the transportation act of 1920. Pierson advised that the or ganlzation continue to present to congress its views advocating voluntary consultations of rail- way systems" in support of a ma tional policy fostering an adequate system of rail, water and highway transportation at the lowest cost compatible with efficient service"
 Urges Treaty Ratification
 Ratification of the Turkish Amer l ican treaty of 1923 would be Gen. tirely consistent with the American | open door policy" he said, and ! would terminate the insecurity of relations between the two countries that adversely affects "our foreign trade with that nations"
 MT. Pierson said that the federal
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New Britain herald., 1927-10-17
TUNNEY TO GIVE ADDRESS

Wallil.gford. Oct r GP-Gene Tunney. worlds heavyweight cham pion will give talk on keeping fit 10 students of Choate school on the evening of October 22 according to an announcement made here today by Dr. George c. St. John, head master of the school. Bernard Gim- bel of New York and part owner of the famous department store bear ing his name, will accompany Tun- ney. Mir. Gimbel has son prepar- ing for college at Choate.
New Britain herald., 1927-10-17
BOOTLEGGER AT l9
 SENTENCED ID JAIL Youth Convicted for Second
 Time Gets 30 Day Term WEEKEND RAIDS FRUITFUL
Detectives Mop Up Evidence fin Washington Street Pool Room With Handkcrchief-Lay in Wait For Woman ReStaurateur.

Found guilty of being a second offender against the liquor law, Sal Natore Battaglia, aged 19, of 26 Franklin street, was fined 315o and costs and sentenced to jail for 80 days by Judge NJ. D. Sake in police court this morning. after he had made an absolute denial of the truth Of the testimony of two po- llcemen who claimed to have seen him carry burlap bag containing three one-gallon cans of alcohol into a tenement at 50 Lafayette street. He said he had gone into the tene- ment to borrow an automobile from man named sam" intending to keep an engagement with young woman named Helen" who lives on Spring street. He did not know the last name of either, and he was positive in his denial that the po lice had not only seen him carrying the bag through a driveway but had found his clothing covered with lint from the bag.
 Scoffs At Lack of Warrant
 Prosecuting Attorney J. G. Woods accused Battaglia of attempting to practice deception, in addition to being q "bootlegger and a rum run- ner,' Replying to Judge W. F. Man gan's criticism of the police for en- terlng the tenement without having a warrant MT. Woods said that point was the weakest in the arg,l- ment Of the defense. The police at all times have the right to enter any place on speedy information of the commission of crime he said. and 1t does not matter whether 1t is "a livery stable or an apartment" Yea rs ago, policeman was found to have been justified in smashing with his club, window in a saloon. to arrest a man who was seen tending bar on Sunday, MT. Woods said. Had the officers failed to follow Bat taglia into the tenement they would have proven themselves unfit to wear the uniform, he said.
 Judge Mangan, representing Bat taglia. said the action of the police was an Outrageous procedure" The constitutional government under which the people of the United States live is based on the sacred ness Of the privacy of the home. he said, and in this instance, the po- lice rushed into an apartment and seized three gallons of alcohol which they brought into court and offered as evidence. This Is going ! little too far" he said.
 Seen Entering Building
 Officers Walter Malona and Ed ward F. kiely testified that they were on the west side of barn on he Booth estate property in the rear of Main and Lafayette streets about , o'clock Saturday evening md saw two young men come through driveway leading from Lafayette street. One. wearing & blue suit, ran away at sight of the but the other. who was identified as Battaglia, went upstairs 4nd opened a screen door and en- cred a tenement on the second floor 1t the old Meehan building. The of- icers followed and found the three
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New Britain herald., 1927-10-17
One Third Of Gasoline Supply Dumped in Ocean as Plane
 Starts to Drop
PLANE POISED READY
 FOR SECOND TAKE-OFF
Pliers Consider Failure of Much Value as Test Fiight-Ship Takes Air In 52 Seconds and Succeeds In Dumping 260 Gallons of Gas In Less Than Minute - Tide Delays second Attempt.

Old Orchard, Me. Oct. F LP,-- Less than quarter of an hour after the Dawn took off hopefully for Europe today. it was back on the sand as the result Of improper bal ance when she was in the air.
 The plane was nose-heavy, and Pilot Wilmer Stultz said that it was impossible to keep her I'D. His navigator, Brice Goldsborough, pull ed the wire which dumped 260 gal Ions, almost third of the load into the air where it sprayed back in a great white cloud
 Orders More Gas
 The first word of Mrs. Frances w. Grayson as she stepped from the plane was to Captain Harry M Jones. we must have 260 gallons of gasoline at once, We will shift 50 gallons aft to give her better balarce and try it again."
 They stil had almost two hours before the tide would block the at tempt.
 Faced by the fact that all of the needed gasoline was not available and that much time was needed to load it, it was decided after q con- ference that the flight must be post poGed from this tide. Since the next low tide, tonight, will be after dark. opportunityfor another attempt The plane was returned to it's position high on the beach.
 The Sikorsky amphibian had risen easily from the beach after a run of less than mile. Scarcely had the nose been pointed toward it's European goal, however, when it was seen that she was rapidly los- ing the altitude gained.
 20 Feet Above Water
 The plane was barely 20 feet above the water when the gasoline was dumped. T. took less than to ease the plane of the con- tents of the two tanks which stream line the motors, just below the up- per wing.
 The ship then climbed as though an anchor had been cast off and was nearly lost to view over the ocean as it sped east past Prout's Neck. Then the cry went up from the hundreds of watchers on the beach: She is coming back"
 Mrs. Stultz and Mrs. Goldsborough were standing on the sands. Never word did they say during the criti- gal moments before the gasoline was dumped. Only when the plane was again over the beach did Mrs. 'ioldsborough eXclaim:
 Didn't they drop that gas quick yo"
 After circling ahout 10 the south- ward. Pilot Stutz brought the Dawn town to a perfect landing and came 10 stop in front of the hangar where the plane had awaited it's chance for exactly a week.
 Takes Air Quickly ;
 Navigator Goldsborough said that he plane took the air in 5o seconds. | The dumping Of the load, which saved the ship, took 40 seconds. AL 1 ,hough all three flyers were obvi- ously disappointed at the false start, { Ioldsborough said:
 Tt was Of much value as a test light, for everything functioned ! beautifully. We will correct the bal !
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New Britain herald., 1927-10-17
NEW YORK GREETS LEVINE, WHO RODE ACROSS ATLANTIC Metropolis Welcomes Home First TTans-Oceanic Flight
 Passenger
WILL REVERSE JOURNEY;
 PLANS 7-ENGINE PLANE
Taken From Leviathan on City Tug Macon, Where He Is Met by Mayors Reception Committee and Several Relatives and Friends City Hall Program q Brilliant One.

New York, Oct. 17 LP-Charles A. Levine. the only transatlantic air passenger, came home today. He announced on his arrival that he would fly the reverse Journey, from Europe to America, next sum- mer, and that within two years he would have in operation an ocean air mail service carrying letters to Europe for 50 cents a piece.
 Levine was taken from the Lcvia- than at quarantine on the city tug Macon, which carried the mayors reception committee headed by Grover Whalen and relatives and friends of the flier. Clarence Cham berlin, Lcvine's pilot on his ocean hop, was not on the Macon. No req son for his absence was given.
 No Interview On Arguments
 Levine accorded reporters a lengthy interview on the Macon as 1t steamed up the bay. but friends stopped all questions dealing with arguments in which Levine got en- broiled during his four and one-half months in Europe
 "How about the fight you had &ith an American on the street in Paris?' was the first question of this type asked Levine opened his mouth to answer but Samuel Wenchler of the Rockaways interrupted.
 There was no truth in that re- port,' he said. we won't talk about that"
 Tells of Flying Alone
 In like manner Levine was asked and prevented from replying to questions about his differences with the French pilot he hired to fly him back to America. Levine did talk some about the time he stole" his own plane at Paris and flew It to London.
 Tt was the first time I had ever been in a plane alone" he said with q smile. And some of the journey was very amusing. When I got over l Croydon airdrome- had a laugh to i see them run out the ambulance for me"
 The Macon had 10 wait at quar- antine almost an hour before Levine | was transferred, and during this | time Mrs. Levine went aboard the , LeVlathan, so their meeting was missed by reporters.
 The Macon was preceded to the battery by two police launches and | Levine was checred by a crowd Of several hundred when he stepped ashore. Because Of the early hour there was no parade to City Hall. I.evine proceeding with his wife and laughter 10 hotel under police es- 2ort. The formal reception at City Hall is scheduled for noon.
 In his interview Levine would | barely sketch his plans for future ,ir enterprises
 I've got all kinds Of plans" he said. But let other people do the talking. I'll do the flying"
 Among the crowd at the battery vas q process server waiting to give Levine papers in a suit brought against him as president Of the Col lmbia Aircraft corporation by the leronautical Digest Publishing cor ooration.
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New Britain herald., 1927-10-17
THE WEATHER

New Britain and vicinity: Unsettled this afternoon and tonight, probably light rains. Tuesday slightly cloudy, not much change in temperature.
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The Washington times., 1927-01-26
To BE
RE-ENACTED
By international News Service

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MAUSToN. Wis.,, Jan. 26.--WI.
liam N. Coffey, confessed slayer Of
his bigamous bride. Mrs. Hattie
Hales, was to be taken from the
county jail here today to Eagle
Point Park, near Dubuque. Iowa,
to re-enact the killing.
Before he leaves here, he will
be questioned by District Attorney
Allen ]. Kane. Of Dubuque county,
Iowa, to determine whether he viii
be tried for murder in Iowa, which
provides the death penalty for muir.
der, or in Wisconsin. which does
not.
District Attorney Kane brought
with him a warrant charging Cot.
fey with murder, and will serve It
upon him If he admits that he com.
mitted the crime in Iowa.
In his confession he steadfastly
maintained the crime occurred in
Wisconsin, because, authorities be.
lieve, he wishes to escape the dan.
ger of q death penalty.
The Dubuque county authorities
brought with them a broken base.
ball bat, believed to be the one
Coffey used in Staying his bride.
It was found at Eagle Point Park
on October IA, on the Iowa side, by
the caretaker, G. A. Heyne, who
identified a picture of Mrs. Hales
as one Of the visitors at the tour
lists camp.
The Washington times., 1927-01-26
NOSE CL0GGED FROM
4 COLD OR CATARRH
Apply Cream In Nostrils To
Open Up Air Passages

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nostrils open right up, the air pas.
sages Of your head are clear and
You can breathe freely. No more
hawking, snuffling, mucous dis
charge, headache, dryness - no
struggling for breath at night, your
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Don't stay stuffed up! Get a
small bottle of Ely's Cream Balm
from your druggist now. Apply a
little Of this fragrant, antiseptic
cream in your nostrils, let it pene-
trate through every air passage of
the head; soothe and heal the
swollen, inflamed mucous mem.
brane. giving you instant relief.
Ely's Cream Balm is just what
every cold and catarrh sufferer has
been seeking. It's just splendid.
The Washington times., 1927-01-26
DC. INCOME TAX
IS URGED

Important changes in the District
tax laws, including probably the
establishment of an income tax, are
to be recommended by the House
District Committees subcommittee
on District affairs.
The income tax, 1t is planned.
shall take the place of the present
tax on intangible property.
The three members of the sub.
committee who were present at a
hearing at the House Office Build.
ing last night had indicated they
favored an income tax. District
Tax Assessor Richards also ad.
mitted 1t to be a more modern form
OF levy. He told the committee
that few States collect more than
10 per cent Of the intangible tax.
Richards recommended the sepa.
rate taxation on automobiles and
motorcycles as personal properfv
with provision that this tax should
be paid before tags and registration
certificates are issues. He said many
owners escape now because this is
included in the personal property
tax and is not collectable when tags
are issued.
Representative Gibson, Of Vermont
chairman Of the subcommittee, told
Richards that he would ask the
House Appropriations Committee to
give him more employees Cor the tax
Office. He also said Richards should
have more salary. you have a
$4,000 job" Gibson said. Richards
draws 5000.
Harmon Burns, clerk of the iurv
commission. was quizzed regarding
the method of selecting juries for
civil, criminal and condemnation
cases.
The Washington times., 1927-01-26
No Fear Now Of Offense!
So Sweet and Clean Tnsidel
No Offensive Vapors
From the Pores

Once person realizes the wonderful
properties in oGscnrd, no other laxa-
tive In the market would ever be con-
sidered.
It's no trick to ''clean out the bow
elE." Dozens of things will do that.
But little natural cascara purifies
the system clear through. Cleanses
even the pores of your skin. Renders
perspiration as inoffensive as so much
dew! The old-fashioned way was
salts" They get action, but they take
the mucous membrane along with the
waste matter! Mineral oils are gem
tier, but they leave the bowels with a
film of poisons for the blood to carry
Off through the pores But when yoS,
cascarize the system, you get rid Of
all the poisons By normal muscular
action of the bo4cels.
If you have the habit of taking
medicine for constipation, or even for
administration, stop it. For a candy
cascaret Ia a delightful form in which
to take cascara children love them.
and the taste tempts most grown-ups
to have more"
And what a comfort to know You are
In that clean, wholesome condition that
does away with any need Of deo-
dorants. even in warmest weather !,
Try. a cascaret tonight-~see how YOU
feel next day, and for days after /
with the skin fresh and fragrant, Ali
druggists, 1Oc and csc.
The Washington times., 1927-01-26

lima man whose conviction on the
charge Of willful refusal to file In
come tax returns was reversed BY
the Circuit Court OF Appeals. He
admitted engaging in bootleggins
and that some OF his income was
derived from that souce.
According to the Justice Depart
ment. the defendant coEtepded that
unlawful gains are revenue within
the meaning Of the revenue act and
that he was relieved from the duty
Of making a tax return by the
provisions Of the Fifth Amendment
to the Constitution, holding that no
person shall be compelled in any
criminal case to be q witness
against himself.
The higher court held that written
statements under oath ''in the re-
turn Of the taxpayer must be held to
be the testimony Of q witness and
amount to self.incrimation as they
would disclose the commission Of q
crime"