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New Britain herald., 1927-04-22
Aged 13 and II Years-Playmates Hurl- ing Stones Into Water. Upset Platform - Third Brother, Older, Makes Vain Effort to Rescue Youngsters.

Stamford. Conn.,, April c2 UpA-- James Sullivan. 1S. and his brother, John II. living at la West Henry street, were drowned today while playing on a raft in the Rippowan river at the foot of West Henry street.
 Both Boys Drowned
 While the boys were playing q group of other youngsters stood on the shore throwing stones in the water close by the raft. These stones were aimed at doll which was floating through the water The waves created by the stone fusillade swamped the raft and when it rocked and went below the surface both Sullivan boys tried to make for the shore. John could swim but James could not and jumped on Johns back in hope of being car ried 10 land. The distance was not great, but both the boys went down.
 Rescue Attempt Fails
 An older brother Joseph, heard screams and jumped into the water to try and reach the others. He swam around in an effort to locate his brothers bodies. until he ap- peared weak and those on shore told him to come ashore and they assisted him 10 do so. Officer George Gavighan who lives in that vicinity also went into the water but he could not find the bodies.
 Meanwhile the raft had foaled away and was carried some distance down stream.
 Another Sullivan brother, Francis. i2, who had been playing closely was thought to have been drowned but an hour later he appeared al home.
 The parents Of the boys are Mir. and Mrs John C. Sullivan, the father being an electrical worker. They had lived in Wes, Henry street about six weeks and last night mem- bers of the family say, the father warned the boys to keep away from the river. All the boys attended St. Johns parochial school.
 Several hours after the boys were drowned their bodies were recovered by policemen and civilians who were dragging the river from rowhoats.
New Britain herald., 1927-04-22
TWO STAMFORD BOYS, BROTHERS, ARE
 DROWNED WHILE PLAYING ON RAFT
WYOMING SHERIFF IS
 SHOT DOWN BY THIEF
Bandit Himself Killed by Deputy-Dead Officer
 Ex-Reporter

Laramie. Wyo.. April cs LPl-Sher- if Charles NJ. Crosby Of this GAL hany) county. and Frank Bray. sus- pscted auto thief Of Denver. were dead today after a shooting affray in lonely draw in the hills three miles northeast of Laramie.
 Quick shooting by Bray ended the sheriffs life within a few minutes. and three we'll aimed shots by q deputy, Robert Welliever, fatally wounded Bray as he sought 10 kill Welliever. Bray died al a Laramie hospital.
 Informed that a man was dis mantlins two motor cars in the hills, Sheriff Cosby, who lef, New York and Denver newspapers to become a Wyoming homosteader. and his dep uty drove along little used trail and came upon automobile tracks freshly made. They found Bray working on one Of the two cars. He made no show Of resistance.
 As Welliever stopped over an en- zine block to obtain it's number. he heard q succession of shots. He (Continued on Page c0)
New Britain herald., 1927-04-22
NO OVERDRAFTS IN
 CITY DEPARTMENTS
12 Commissions Have Balances
 as Fiscal Year Ends
S5,S29 TO BE TURNED BACK
Collecting to Appropriation Excesses By Comptroller Curtis Partly Credited With Success in Abiding By City Allowances.

No department Of the city govern ment exceeded it's appropriation !n the fiscal year 1eo6-1927, and 12 turned back balances out Of appro- priations aggregating s5.s29.4l, Comptroller Hantord l.. Curtis will show in a report which he is now completing.
 City officials attribute much Of the department success in remain ing within their allowance to the insistence Of the comptroller that overdrafts be eliminated Through a system Of accounts prepared by himself orar a period of a quarter of century in the office, Comptrol- Ter Curtis has an absolute check on every expenditure. however large or small. making it impossible for boards to unwittingly get beyond their appropriations. So thorough is his set of books that the state Of Connecticut has adopted the idea almost in it's entirety.
 Balances Reported
 Balances reported at the close of the fiscal year are: General govern ment salaries. s6.90; general govern ment incidentals. s9.9o; street light ing, s1q.19; permanent pavemen. s55.75: fire department. slo3o: health department, Sl.o27.44: sewer maintenance, SASS; charities, SS,- S55.o5: schools. sSl3.16; interest and discount, So53.06; taxes, sl7l.o3: special appropriations, si0o. Total. s5.S2941.
 Receipts from taxation and all other sources during the year were S5.1Sl.5io.S5. of which s635.756.al remained after total expenditures of s4, were made. Of this amount s1S7.56c70 is chased as re expended making the net s4,35S,- 19l.24. Items making up the Ire expended" account are those which appear in the regular budget as an appropriation to a department ot fund and later expended by that de- partmenr making q second disburse- ment entry.
 Bond moneys and funds held by self-sustaining departments and not already expended total s6c9. .9o7.50.
New Britain herald., 1927-04-22
Doctors Find Woman With
 All Organs TranspOSed

Chicago, April 22 RrWhat doc tors describe as an amazing case of transposed organs has been found at Michael Reese hospital where Mrs. Anna Rethblatt, 36 years old. is recovering following an operation. pr. Emanuel Friend believes her case one of the strangest in medical history.
 The womans internal organs all are on the opposite side from the normal, Dr. Friend said.
 Her heart is on the right side, and her appendix is on the left he said. Even her liver and gall bladder are in reversed positions. Yet her health has not been affect ed. and she was unaware Of the con dition until brought to the hospital.
New Britain herald., 1927-04-22
Stratford House Struck By Lightning, Stunned Inmates Saved From Flames By Arrival of Neighbors.
Uncasville Church De. stroyed With Loss of 50,000-Several Thou sand Phone Stations Put Out of Order.
FISHERMAN IN BOAT
 IS KILLED IN PENN.

Bridgeport, Conn. April 22 LP- 4 tarritlc flash Of lightning which, 1t is believed. entered a four family home in Stratford by means of a radio aerial wire during the height of last nights electrical storm. the first of the season, endangered the lives Of a mother and her five chill dren and set fire 10 the house.
 The mother, Mrs. Cordelia Shea, and her youngest child. Margaret, four, were occupying a bedroom on the first floor when the flash entered the room and in some manner was conducted to their bed. Both were stunned and were only saved from the flames which broke out irnme- diateiy after the shock by the arrival Of neishbors.
 The Shea home is at 1763 South avenue. Stratford.
 Neighbors were attracted to the Shea home when they heard the terrific crash. followed almost im- mefiately by the screams of the Shea children.
 Hurrving to the scene they ar rived in time to save Mrs. Shea and the child from the flames which by that time had enyeloped the bed.
 The fire was extinguished with minor loss.
New Britain herald., 1927-04-22
HytlrnplancS s>exl.

Washington. April aa R-Three navy hvdroplanes have been order- cd from Pensacola to the lower Mississippi river flood area to as- sist in removing persons from inun. dated sections.
 The federal government entered more actively into tho Mississippi river flood relief work today with appointment by President Coolidgs of four cabinet members to cooper ate with the Red Cross after he had issued a proclamation appealing for funds for the task.
 Secretaries Mellon. Davis Of the war department. Wilbur and Hoover comprise the committee. They ap. ranged an afternoon conference with Red Cross officials to outline tho course ot government cooperation during the emergency.
 Funds Are Needed.
 IL Is emphasized at the White
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New Britain herald., 1927-04-22
MILLS CRITlCIzES PLAINVILLE BOARD
Retiring School Head Says Poh-
 tics Forced Him Out
TAKES FLING AT BRASlOW
Phillips H. Lord Also Retired As Principal of High School-Leon c. Staples Is New Superintendent of System.
Especial 10 the Hs-s.d)

Pla.nville. April c2.-Charses that politics was responsible for his being forced out oe office were made today by Superintendent of Schools Lewis s. Mills, whose resignation. to take effect on July 1. was accepted by the town school committee at & special meeting held last evening at the Broad street school The appoint ment Of Leon c. Staples. superin- tendent Of schools in Sufield, to succeed him as superintendent here and 10 act as high school principal was also made and means the re- tirement of Phillips II. Lord as principal Of the high school. Five further reSignations were accepted by the committee and one or two more are expected to be handed in shortly ln the greatest upset which has ever occurred within the school department here.
 Board Bars Reporters
 The meeting held last night was
 
 Of the star chambe variety, the press being told that it was not admitted 10 school committee ses- sion. Secrecy was continued by the committee today when Joseph Nc Carthy. the chairman. announced . that MT. Mills submitted his resig- nation and it was accepted and l refused 10 ampiity his statement. He : 'eclined to say whether the res.gna- ton had been requested but did authorize the statement that no charges whatever had been made against the retiring superintendent i and that the committee regretted to have him leave after the splendid work he had done here for the past l4 years.
 No dissatisfaction with MT. Mills was eS rcssed at the meeting. ! Mills Accuses Brastow Mir. Mills today claimed that un- l fair tactics had been used by the school committee to force his hand. placing the blame on the shoulders of Committeeman F. T. Bras,ow W. ,, he said. had been dictating the 1 polil' Of the committee and was fe- sponsihle for the present situa ton MT. Brastow is employed at the , Trumhull Electric Mfg. Go.
 Mir. Staples, MT. Mills said, had 1 been holding secret meetings with 1 the committee for some time and i had been through the school build ings here at times when MT. Mills was away. This was all without his knowledge. he said. until recently he learned that his successor had 1 been secured and that nothing re- , mained for him 10 do but to submit | his resignation.
 The retiring superintendent was born in Canton Center on Septem- her 5. 1874. and attended elemen- 1 tary schools in that town, then grad uated from Collinsyille high school and Willimantic Normal school He received his R. s. degree at Colum- ] (Continued on Page 2o)
New Britain herald., 1927-04-22
SLEEPING SICKNESS IS FATAL TO CHILD
Monroe Street Boy Suc- cumbs After Few Days
 Illness

Seized with an attack Of encepha- litis Sleeping sickneSs) following a few days illness. Blaine Merwin. the two year and four months old son of Mir and Mrs. Herbert Parsell of 179 Monroe street. died last night at the home of his uncle. Herman was visiting with his uncle when he was stricken ill. He leaves his brother Rollin. The funeral will take place at the home on Monroe street tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. Rev. William l.. Ross. pas tor Of the First Baptist church. will ofIiciate. lnterment will be in Fair view cemetery.
New Britain herald., 1927-04-22
Flood Situation in Ar- kansas and Lower Miss. Valley Growing Worse-Sickness Con- tinues to Spread in Relief Camps.
Secretaries Mellon. Davis, Hoover and Wilbur to Cooperate With Red Cross-2S Known Dead -l9 Others Drowned on Govt. Launch.
By the Associated Pres.

By the Associated rre@
 President Coolidge today issued a proclamation calling for aid for the more than 75.o00 refugees from floods and appointed four cabinet officers to cooperate with the Red Cross in its relief work in eight states
 Fair weather, absent so long in the Mississippi valley. replaced rain and cold of recent days.
 Conditions Are Worse.
 Conditions were worse in Arkan- sas and the Mississippi delta as the flood waters moved out 0. the up- per valley.
 Three breaks. within the last Ss hours of levees on the Mississippi and Arkansas rivers added several thousands from their homes Into refugee camps. Water was washing over the levee at AlbermarIe Bend. Mss.
 cS Known Dead
 Twenty eight were known to ha dead and the fate of the government launch Pelican. with IS persons aboard, was unknown
 Six thousand refugees and :he 12,00o inhabitants Of Greenviile Miss, faced short food supplies as the municipal ieNee broke, inundat- ing most Of the city.
 Illness Is Spreading.
 Illness spread in concentration camps in Arkansas. despite efforts of state health authorities to bring 1t under control.
 Conditions in western Kentucky. southeastern Missouri and southern Illinois improved today. Beards- town. III. protitins by q similar ex- perienee last year. was going about business as nearly usual as possible with the town under water. Schools however were closed.
 Flood Eccr<1ing.
 Hickman. Ky. fighters saved the Reelfoot levee after several days of continuous placing of sandbags on top and topping sand boils," New Madrid. Mo, where water was three or four feet deeper than in the Mississippi channel. reported the flood was slowly receding.
 The Mississippi fell four-tenths of a foot at Cairo in the last e4 hours.
New Britain herald., 1927-04-22
Church Is neStroyed

Nontville. Conn. April 12 LP)- The Methodist church at Uncasviile. was destroyed by fire, early today. The loss will be close to s5o,0oo, it vas believed.
 The fire started when the beifry was struck by lightning, the bolt following down to the rear Of the building.
 The church. located about midway between Norwich and New London on the main highway, has long been a landmark in this vicinity. It was colonial in type.
 The pastor of the church. the Rev. Charles Smith, and his wife are at tending the Methodist conference at New Bedford Mass. ....
 The electric and power lines Tn the vicinity were put out of commission by the bolt.
 \ small cottage. near the church. was damaged slightly when struck by debris hurled from the church.
New Britain herald., 1927-04-22
NINTH JUROR SELECTED
Panel Which Is to Try Mrs. Snyder and Gray Now Is Three Quarters Completed.

Queens County Courthouse. New York, April 9 Pl-The Snyder mur- der trial jury was three-quarters completed just before recess this afternoon. The ninth juror was Everett Nanriken. 4S years old. sec retary of a manufacturing concern.
 After three hours futile examina- tion during which 46 talesmen were rejected. suddenly two in quick sue cession were accepted to serve as jurors eight and nine.
 Juror No. s is Lewis Ruchdaschal. the father of two children. He is a widower living in College Point.
New Britain herald., 1927-04-22
Mother Who Killed Daughter Gets
 10 Years On Manslaughter Charge
Judge Gives Her Scathing Condemnation, Saying He Regrets He Cannot Impose Longer Term Thinks Jury Was Some what Misled.

Freehold, N. J., April 22 (UP)- Ten years in prison Is the punish ment os Mrs. Christina S.oole for shooting to death her ls-year- old daughter, Rosa. when she found Rosa, unwed. had borne child.
 A jury Of II men and one woman. all Of them parents of families of their own, debated all night long without rest, over the question Of Mrs. Stobie's guilt or innocence.
 Convicted of Manslaushter
 Finally this jury ruled that Mrs. Stoble was acting under stress so great that her responsibility was much the same as perhaps the re- sponslhllity Of an automobile driv- CT who unayoidably kills a person on the streets, and they convicted her Of that degree Of crime, the crime of marslaugh:er.
 Judge Disapproves Verdict
 But the court, on the other hand considered the crime atrocious, de- nounced the woman. and declared the jury had been "Inislead."
 "A crime Of this kind is commit ted only by fend incarnate," the court told Mrs. Stoble. My regret is that the court cannot give you a more severe sentence.'
 The jury brought in its verdict Is minutes after it had asked instruc- tions as to the various phases of the insanity plea.
 The court gave the instructions and told the jurors that If no yer diet were returned in l5 minutes. Judge Lloyd would leave for Tren- ton. N. J. In Is minutes the jury came into the room.
 Mrs. Stoble was called back from the county jail. Her heavy features were accentuated in their pallor by her garb Of black. There was no delay.
 Given Extreme Penalty
 "The jury finds the defendant guilty Of manslaughter," announced the foreman.
 Judge Lloyd turned to the prose cutor.
 What is the extreme penalty for manslaushter? he asked.
 Ten years" said the states at torney
 Mrs, stoble sat unmoved and stold.
 The defendant Mrs. Christina stoble. will come forward" pro nounced the court Slowly. without assistance, the woman walked 10 the bar.
 "I am about to sentence you. Mrs. Stoble." said the court. "have you anything to say?" Scored sy the Judge
 Y cannot understand; I cannot understand" she answered In a high pitched voice.
 Well. you have been found gull ty Of manslaughter and" began the court, but Mrs. stobe inter rupted.
 T cannot understand" she cried.
 Yes, you can understand fired ! back the court. You cannot mis- lead the court although you have succeeded in misleading the jury to some extent.
 This killing Of your child by you was one of the most atrocious things that ever has come to my attention went on Judge Lloyd, evidently
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New Britain herald., 1927-04-22
ROO stations In Trouble.

New Haven, April 22 GP-Lisht- ming and rain last night did some damage to communication lines in Connecticut. but it was not par ticularly serious, officials of tele- phone and telegraph companies said. The Southern New England Tele- phone company had about zoo lines and 5000 stations in trouble after the storm, but repair work was inn ,nediately begun so that effects were not expected to be lasting. Water caused trouble in cables under ground at Bridgeport. Stamford.
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New Britain herald., 1927-04-22
MORE PETITIONS FOR
 SACC0 AND VANzETTI
|. s. Atty. General Ex. plains President Has No
 Power to Act

Washington. April 22 PN-Con- trary 10 reports that thousands Of protests in the Sacco-Vanzeti mur- der case had been received by the department of justice. Attorney General Sargent declares that only 333 communications Of any nature have reached the government in the number Of years the case has been the subject Of public attention.
 This number, including 216 post cards which were sent from Holland includes those addressed to Presi- dent Coolidge and other government tai agencies.
 The department has replied to those communications which were signed, the attorney general says, pointing out that it could have no authority to take any action in the natter as the case was one for the state courts of Massachusetts where the two men were convicted of murdering paymaster. and must be disposed of in and by the courts of Massachusetts"
 Mir. Sargent said an apparent misunderstanding existed on the part of those who have not become familiar with the American system of government and that these per sons did not understand that neith- CT the federal government nor the president has any right to interfere with such case.
 Boston, April 22 (UPl-Addition- al pleas for clemency in the Sacco- Vanzetti case were received by Gov ernor Fuller today.
 Thirty-seven members of the fac ulty and admistration of Amherst college urged the governor to see that justice Is done. Most of the prominent faculty members. includ- ing President Olds, signed the peti- ton.
 Prof. James P. Richardson of the
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New Britain herald., 1927-04-22

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Evening star., 1927-10-20
U. S. IMMIGRATION LAW
EXPLAINED AT MEETING
Descendants Of Mayhower Urged TO
Promote Americanization and 70
Establish Headquarters Here.

The Society Descendants OF the
Mayflower should lend their support
to the Americanization School In
Washington, and should establish ma
tional headquarters here. Gov. Thomas
r. Whittelsey, told the members at q
meeting held at the Washington Club
Tuesday night.
The present immigration law was
briefly explained during the meeting
by Mr.. Harry +. Hull, commissioner
of immigration. who was the principal
speaker. Mr.. Hull spoke of the large
number of Mexican aliens in this coun.
try as compared with those from the
adjoining northern country. and said
that a problem OF Canada is TO keep
within her borders the better element
of aliens coming under the Canadian
government from abroad.
He related some of the many prob
lens which daily confront his office
and declared that the aliens admitted
by the United States should be dealt
with fairly and justly by our citizens.
A report of the recent congress held
in Plymouth when Frank T.. Briggs
of Washington was elected deputy
governor general of the general So.
ciety, and Carter B. keene assistant
governor general, was read by Mrs.
Bertha NJ. Robertson recording secre,
| tary. Music was furnished by the or.
chestra from the Americanization
| School.
Evening star., 1927-10-20
TH0s 7 OWEN & SON, AUCTIONEERS
Aho'' I4S5 Eve Street Northwest.
Trustees Sale of Valuable Resi-
dence at the Corner of 10th
and Varnum Streets, WASH
ington, D. C., Being Premises
A224 18th Street NV.

virtue ssnt ssrtan n,4sen assa 9i 'sHst Ho S4 $685.
the re0uest OF the party secured thereby. the
understand trustees will sell at nTiIEnhY nTInES avs
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per plat bs cfsd pcs in o4 he conbs Sss "a n be @
two t9 q 0 Seins described as follows: Bcsin;;
nns fo fer the hmssped ss t one ae IN said
of said lot numbered two t2l ~ Ises " tneafiSd saiS
lot Iot numbered two (2l 80 feet: thence north II,
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feet 10 place of beginning: together WIN , !ne
improvements. consisting OF a's'orS of'cA
sae oso sSd sqhisct ttp,s.p to prior desc
drs Hf srfs nf wSIeS fSr viii Be az
Of sale: the purchase price ABOVE sai6 ,,ance tus
20 be payable Qne:third ~ casn ana paiamre n, nne
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per snnum. nayahle semi -annually from from Gay aas
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required at time of sale. All eonveyarcing: cr.,
5f saIs to be eompes Gss' with days
IRON day Of sale. otherwise the trustees re- re.
the right 20 resell the ssSsssr proSSsrss at atee
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snme % Newspaper published in Washington.
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Evening star., 1927-10-20
ADAM A. wEsCHLER & SON. Auctioneers
Trustees Sale Of Modern Brick
Dwellings, Nos. 120, 122, Ia
and l26 Eighteenth St. Sc.

By virtue Of certain deeds o 9f trust q d1ly
io and il9 ss Et shs land and sseofSSs nt tSs
request OF the party secured thereby, the
undersigned trustees will offer for eaIe Dy
Ds suec%G tsGps Of frAE fhs
SIXTH DAY OF OCTOBER. 1927; At FIVE FIVE
O'CLOCK PM. the following -descrioed lang
and premises. situate in. the District q g,
Goqmsb nIsnb S, Enb0 Fo,: at 5 % q foS io.
per plat l.cords rsGoroffd of ,he e oee 1aes
Of the surveyor for the District OF Coium.
bIa each improved ny two'Etory ana cellar
groom and bath brick dwelling. hot-water
He1s Terms ama Of ses sals Each of the above prop
critics ,,,, viii be '0s sSSsoee' . dee
oe,oseT is Iaa7: balances cash: 4 , deposit 81
at time Of sals, An eonyeyancIns; record .ni
Terms of sale TO be complied with within
thirty days from day OF sale, otherwise the
trustees reserve the right to Hesell the rrop.
pulchaser. rtny az | after i've DAYS advertisemsnt oi
such resale in some newspapeT pubiisheo
in the City OF Washington. g,
LEO A. ROVER,
oc15-d&ds.ezsu Trustees.