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New Britain herald., 1927-03-01
GIRL WIFE SLAIN
 IN CHICAGO HOTEL
Adnirer, Best Man at Her Wed-
 ding, Is Suspected

Chicago, March 1 P,-Strangula- ton caused the death of Mrs. Mabel Wood. IS, found dead in bath-,ub at q hotel here, it was annOunl"d to- day by Dr. M. l.. Trainor, corOner's physician. The doctor said finger prints were found on the woman $ throat and chin.
 Carl Wood, the husband, was re- leased by police but ordered 10 ap- pear at the inquest. Al Prevoe and Homer Cameron. residents of tn" hotel. were held for further ques- tioning Police said they admitted having been in the Wood room prior bathroom across the hall
 Mrs. Wood was a waitress in a restaurant nearby and her husband is a chef at another hotel. She went to her room about seven o'clock and at eight her husband and brother, Ray Temper, came in. Find ing the door locked, Temper went to the desk for a key and Wood stepped into the bathroom to find the body of his wife. None Of her clothing was in the bathroom, while the bedroom was in disorder and her pass key was on the bureau.
 prevoc had made advances to- ward Mrs. Wood several days be- fore, police said. and had quarrelcd with her husband.
 preyoc was best man at the wed = ding of the Woods, the bride being Mabel Tremper of Evansville. Ind. He and Cameron had been friends of Wood for some time.
 Cameron told police that Prcroc had been in his room. q few doors down the hall from the one occupied by the Woods several hours before the body was found. They had been drinking, he said. Cameron went to dinner and left prevoe. who lives with his parents, in his room. On returning, he found a note from Prevoc saying he had gone out for more liquor. Cameron was in his room when Mrs. Woods body was found.
 pravoe said he was at his home when the tragedy occurred. but po- lice say the times given by him and those by his parents vary by half an hour.
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EiBBI kEAsS ON JAZZ AGE

Rabbi Nathan Nrass of Temple Emanu-El. New York city. who spoke in this city few weeks ago under the auspices of the Probus club. will be heard from Radio Sta ton WNYC, New York, next Mon day evening at S:@o o'clock in a talk on "'The Jazz Age" The talk is ono of series delivered by prom inent individuals under the auspices of the Board of Education of New York;
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Auction Sale

pf household goods consisting of R. ds. Bureaus, Piano. Chairs. Tab!"e, N.ctrola, Stoves. Kitchen ware and frockcry, the property of one John Sage will he sold nj Public Auction dt my Warehouse" 1t Green" ool street. New Britain. Conn. on inc 18th day of March, 1927. at 2 A. M. to satisfy q lien thereon for storag and other charges.
 Sale subject to payment Of sad charges previous 10 day of sale.
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Evening star., 1927-05-04
LAWYER BARRED FROM CLIENT
American Engaged to Defend Mime.
Borodin, London Is Told.

LONDON, May A GP).-An Ameri-
can lawyer engaged to defend Nine.
Borodin and other Russians about to
be tried with her on charges of con-
spiracy against the Northern Chinese
government has not been permitted
to speak to the prisoners. said a
Peking dispatch to the Daily Express
today. The name of the lawyer was
not given.
The Westminster Gazette's Peking
correspondent, reporting the arrival
at Peking of Nine. Borodin and the
other prisoners, said they were under
military escort and a strong guard.
1t was stated that the Northern au-
thorities had not yet decided whether
these prisoners, who We're arrested
when the Soviet steamer Pamiat
Lenina was seized, should be tried to-
gether with the agitators captured
when the Soviet embassy compound
in Peking was raided by Marshal
Chang Tso-Lin's agents on April 6.
Evening star., 1927-05-04
NATIONS BUSINESS
CALLED FAVORABLE
General Conditions Salts.
factory, U. S. Chamber of
Commerce Is Told.

Generally satisfactory business con-
ditions throughout the country were
reported at today's session of the
fifteenth annual meeting of the Cham.
Der Of Commerce of the United States.
While the Midwest is facing a crisis.
and New England Is in the midst of
one, the South and far West have
solved their problems and are on the
threshold of a new era, speakers for
the four sections said.
Thousands of farmers in the Mid
west today are struggling to save
their farms and homes from fore
closure, Silas H. Strawn, chairman
of the board of Montgomery Ward
& Co., Chicago. declared.
1.-THE farmers are not enjoying the
almost unprecedented prosperity that
prevails in the industrial centers Of
the country" he said. THE trouble
which began in 1920 still persists in
tho Central and Western States and
in the cotton-growing country of the
South.
Alternatives Are Cited.
"There is no considerable difference
of opinion as to the cause of the
trouble, 1t is only when remedy is
sought that the discussion widens.
Although Congress was flooded with
measures, eliminating in the McNary-
Haugen bill, no one has as yet pre-
scribed panacea for the difficulties. -
One observer, he said, has declared
that unless something is done, one of
two things must happen: The farm
ers will organize to control the food
supply of the country, or they ill
accept their position as hopeless and
settle back into a form of peasantry,
and either alternative will be a ma
tional calamity.
The situation as to the farmer In
the Middle West may be summarized
as discouraging. Mr.. Strawn con,
cluded.
New England has reached the stage
of industrial maturity" John s. Law
renee of Boston said. AS the birth
place and first home Of the factory in
America, he said, it was the first Sec
tien to experience conditions that
come with carrying assets and LA
bilities of long established, and in
some instances antiquated. business
methods into modern era.
However, he predicted New Eng
land would not be the only section
that must face these conditions. Far
sighted men in other parts of the
(Continued nm page 13 Column AZ
Evening star., 1927-05-04
w. A. LOKER WINS ORATORY FINAL
IN STAR AREA FROM D. C.. PUPILS
LeonardtoWn, Nd, Youth Is
First National FinaIist
to Be Selected.
Graves of Eastern Second,
and Catherine Birch of
Tech Third.

William Alexander Loker of Leon
ard Hall School, Leonardtown, Nd,
today won the oratorical champion
ship of The Star region in the fourth
National Oratorical Contest.
Speaking on "The Constitution, !"
this 17-year-old orator defeated nine
other district" champions in this
region in the third unit of The Star
finals held in the auditorium of the
National Museum.
Alvin Graves, Eastern High School
representative, was adjudged second
best with his Grafton on America s
Contribution to Constitutional Govern
ment." delivered in the first unit of
the finals, held in the Central High
School Auditorium this morning.
Catherine Birch, spokesman for the
Mckinley High School, won third
place with a speech on "The Constitu-
ton" also delivered in the first unit
of the finals.
Shared Program With Loher.
The contestants who shared the
speaking program of the last unit
with Loker were John Bell, jr., cham
pion of the Virginia schools district.
and Miss Bessie Cush, champion of
the Washington private and parochial
schools district.
The rating Of the winners of the
first three places in the contest was
decisive but not overwhelming. Loker
was a definite winner in the judg-
ment of the jury. Two gave him first
place, while the third rated him Sec
ond, making his total 4, according to
the low-point total system. The
Graves boys total was 10, while Miss
Evening star., 1927-05-04

Birch followed closely behind with a
total of -.
AS champion of The Star region,
"Aleck" Loker will represent this
area in the national finals May 81 in
the Washington Auditorium. In addi-
tion to that honor, the young Mary
lander will travel for two and a half
glorious months through European
countries with the other six ma
tionalistS.
Wins Additional Award.
Along with the European tour,
which will begin July 2, with passage
on the u. S. s. Leviathan, Loker, as
champion of this region wins also an
additional award of $500.
The meeting in which Loker was
declared victor was held at noon at
the Museum. The first section was
staged at Central High School and
the second in the Dunbar High
School. 1t was by far the most en-
thusiastic unit of the whole of the
finals. School yells and loud cheers
bid fair to split the building before the
Continued on Page 1S, Column %
Evening star., 1927-05-04
LINERS IN CHINA
WILL CARRY GUNS
All Dollar Ships Touching
Shanghai to Be Guarded,
Officials Announce.
IN the Assneiated preas

BY the Associated Press.
HONG KONG, May 4--With the
arrival here today of the American
passenger and freight steamer, Presi-
dent Lincoln, it was learned that plans
are being discussed for placing armed
guards and machine guns on all Dol
lar Line steamers touching at Shang-
hai
This step is being considered because
of the firing on the President Lincoln
from the native section of Shanghai
May 1.
Indiscriminate firing on British war.
ships in the Yangtze river continues.
The gunboat Cockchafer was under
rifle fire today near Nanking, while
conveying steamers, but there were
no casualties. The destroyer, Wand
erer was fired on at Kiangyin, mem
Der of the crew being slightly wound
ed. Both warships returned the fire.
The United States Destroyer Pope
arrived here today from Manila.
Evening star., 1927-05-04
46 NATIONS OPEN
ECONOMIC PARLEY
U. S., Turkey and Russia
Only Mon-League Countries
at Conference.
By the Assoclated Press.

By the Associated Press.
GENEVA, May 4.-The great inter
national economic conference, SUM
moned to evolve plans to stabilize
economic conditions throughout the
world. was opened today in Reforna-
ton Hall.
Some $500 delegates were present,
representing As nations, including the
United States, Soviet Russia and Tur-
kew as non-members of the League of
Nations, and the hall presented an
even more animated and crowded
scene than during meetings OF the
League Assembly.
Former Premier Theunis Of Bel
gium, president Of the conference. IN
his opening address declared there had
never been meeting so comprehen-
siyely qualified to study the problems
which ieopardiZe tthe two precious
boons for which mankind is eyer
yearning-peace and prosperity.
Need of Guidance Stressed.
The conference. he added, must help
maintain peace by providing guidance
| in the economic field in the face or
| difficulties which made the world url-
comfortably dangerous and sensitive.
M. Theunis emphasized that the
/ conference primarily must survey the
worlds economic situation to deter
mine the economic causes OF the pres
| emf instability. 1t must also examine
economic tendencies which may influ-
| ence world peace, giving particular
attention to the problem OF CONNER
cial and tariff policies and interna'
tional industrial agreements.
The last point was probably specii'
| cally European, he remarked, but tne
| delegates must not forget that IN
terdependence of nations means tnat
every measure affecting the economic
life of one nation produces effects IN
all other countries.
NJ. Theunis expressed the opinion
that it would be found that disloca-
tion of economic relations because OF
the World War has had more serious
consequences than the material havoc
wrought. He believed that the cruS
of the existing difficulties was that
trade, particularly in Europe, had
been unable to keep pace with The
developments of means of production
which have equaled and even sur
passed the pre-war level.
The first task of the conference was
to elect a vice president, nj. LOUIS
| II0Uc0GuT. 1OEIIlGE II
finance. being unanimously electec
for the post.
Soviet Attitude Watched.
AS the delegates assembled, Interest
was focused on the attitude OF tne
Soviet delegates. All were. anxious
to learn whether the Soviet wouio
display moderate attitude.
All the countries of the world, with
the exception Of Spain and Liberia
are represented.
American representatives were con
cerned chiefly with the question
whether the conference would adopt
, policy of selling combines" and Il
so, how far the policy would be carried
Under such a plan, they feared eft
forts would be made to compe
America to accept fixed monopo
listic prices on European goods.
Another fear entertained by the
Americans was that the conference
would go on record as fostering state
subsidies to companies exporting raw
materials required by the Unitee
Continued on Page 2. Column Sd
Evening star., 1927-05-04
BELIEVE BOY SLAIN
TO COVER Up CRIME
Officials at Fredericksburg
Probe Theory Killer Feared
Exposure by Albert Baker.
BY DAN RING.
staff Correspondent Of The Star.

FREDERICKSBURG Va, May A.
That 9-year-old Albert Baker, whose
body was found in a stone-weighted
sack in the Rappahannock River
Monday, after a 10-week search, was
brutally murdered by one who feared
some sort OF exposure from the boy,
was the theory tentatively adopted by
authorities here today as the search
for the murderer commenced in ear
nest.
The tangible facts in the hands OF
the investigators are meager. Their
only clues thus far are the two
smooth round rocks, weighing four
or five pounds each; the burlap gunny
sack, weighted by the rocks, that
held the body of the boy; the 8-inch
cord that secured the mouth of the
sack and the knowledge gained from
the autopsy yesterday.
DIR. John G. Cole, coroner, in COM
plete control of the immediate inves-
tigation, discovered at the autopsy
that the boys skull had been frac-
tured at the base in a position which
indicated that the blow must have
come from below, as though through
blow.
Hemorrhage Followed Blow.
DiscoIoration Of the brain establish
ed that a cerebral hemorrhage had
resulted from the blow. Coroner Cole
also found black line around the
neck which, he reported, opened the
possibility that death could have been
hastened by strangulation with
cord.
With these slender indications at
hand, police officials here by process
Of elimination endeavored to build up
a theory as to the cause of the murder
and the motive. Two theories of
motive for the apparent brutal murder
Of the 9-year-old boy are put forward:
1. Possibly because he knew too
much; possibly because he had been
watching bootleggers in an operation
in one of the alleys near the place
where he was last seen and had been
discovered by them.
2. Possibly a person accidentally
causing the head injury, but In ~
position to explain 1t, had hastened
his death and concealed the pody.
The theory that the boy was
knocked down by an automobile by
one who secreted the body later and
disposed of it was discarded after the
autopsy. since it was found that an
automobile injury could not have pro-
duced the condition of the skull as
shown in the autopsy
Town Profoundly Stirred.
Profoundly stirred by the murder,
this old American town CROPPED about
aimlessly Monday night and yesterday
for a definite starting point into the
mysterious maze of circumstances
surrounding the case.
The autopsy really started the of
fetal machine in motion yesterday aft
ernoon. Chief of Police A. s. Perry
called in Conway Apperson, the IL
year-old playmate of Albert Baker,
who was the last known person to
have seen him. Conway. who was
brought to fredericksburg by his
father, w. II. Apperson. who moved
to Stottsylvania, shortly after the dis
appearance of Albert, told the story of
his associations with Albert ON the
afternoon that he was last seen.
Conway said he had been playing
with Albert at about 4:30 on the after
noon of February 22. The boys were
CONTINUED on Page 2. Column 70
Evening star., 1927-05-04
OFFICIAL, AT DESK, TELEPHONES
TOFLYING PLANE DURING STORM
MacCracken Warns Party En- Route From
Quantico of Thundershowers and
They Land Safely.

ressed, took on an unusual feature
when the storm broke few moments
after the airplane had called Mr.! Mac.
Cracken on the telephone.
Designed specifically to communi-
cate weather reports to airplanes in
fight, Mr.. MacCracken took advan-
tage Of the opportunity to inform
the planes passengers of the storm
over Washington and suggested that
the plane return to Boiling Field. The
reply, clear as over a normal tele-
phone. with the exception of a little
static. was that his advice would be
Continued on Page Is, Column 6)
Evening star., 1927-05-04
u. S. Manufactures Gain 163 Per Gent,
Report Covering 26 Years Indicates

electrical, steam or other energy in
creased 229.6 per cent
There were only two classes of in
dustries which We're not producing
more In 1925 than in 1S99-liquor
manufacture and ship building. No
legal liquor of any kind was found
to have been manufactured in 1925,
while in the ship-building field, IL the
1899 output is represented by the fig.
ure o. the 1926 output dropped to
but Z.
gle industry was reported in that de.
voted to automobile production, which
had an index figure in 1899 of and
in 1925 had scared to 23S.
Evening star., 1927-05-04
inv ihn Associated presa.

BY the Associated Press.
Strides made by the United States
as an industrial Nation were strik-
ingly Illustrated today in data pre-
pared for the Commerce Department
by Prof. T.. Z. Day of the University
of Michigan and Woolief Thorne OF
the Federal Reserve Board. The data
covers the advance since 1899.
The quantity of manufactured goods
produced by the country in 1925 was
found to be 1884 per cent greater
than that of 1899; the number of
wage earners employed was increased
by S8.2 per cent and Horsepower Of
Evening star., 1927-05-04
GOVERNORS DAUGHTER
RUNS AWAY AND WEDS
Michigan Executive Absent When
Peggy Green Becomes Bride
of Fellow Student.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LANSING, Mich, May 4.--Miss
Peggy Green, only daughter OF Gov.
and Mrs. Fred w. Green. eloped yes
terday with Norval TyrrelI Of Detroit,
a fellow student at Michigan State Col
Iege, and the two were married at
Bowling Green, Ohio, it became known
today.
Choosing a day when the governor
was absent from the capital, the
young couple left East Lansing by au-
tomobile yesterday forenoon, drove to
Bowling Green and were married by
Rev. Paul j. Gilbert, pastor Of the
First Presbyterian Church, returning
later to Detroit.
The bride, who is 10, and Tyrrell.
son of a Detroit investment broker,
plan to return to school to finish their
studies.
Evening star., 1927-05-04
BY the Associated Press.

By the AssocIateu PFess.
CAMBRIDGE. Mass, May 4.-"The
Tanning of the Shrew' is the latest
Shakespearean play modernized.
An ultra-modern adaptation, which
saw the actors In 1927 costumes and
the original plot reinforced by Jazz
music and lyrics, was given last night
before an enthusiastic audience by the
Harvard Dramatic Club ana bevy
Of Radcliffe girls.
Costumes varied from cowboy out
fits to evening dress. Kingsley Perry
played an uprto.date Petruchio. with
leather chap, cerise shirt and other
trappings OF The cowboy. who twined
a long cattle Nhip about the shoulders
OF the shreW3sh Katherine, played by
frances Small,
Evening star., 1927-05-04

While an electrical storm ragged
overhead at noon today William P.
MacCracken, jr., assistant secretary
of commerce for aeronautics, from his
office in the department at Nineteenth
street and Pennsylvania avenue, en-
gagged in a two-way conversation over
his telephone with four occupants of
an airplane flying between Quantico,
Va. and College Park, Md.
The demonstration, given to show
the extent with which the depart
ment's radio-airplane telephone COM
munications experiments have prog
Evening star., 1927-05-04
Petruchio, in Cowboy Chaps, Uses Whip
On Modern Shrew in Shakespeare Play

She, far from resenting his tactics,
retaliated in tuneful defamation to
his II Can't Get Over Girl Like You,
Loving Boy Like Me-" In the we'd
ding scene. the finale of the first act,
the band blared forth, You're in the
Army Now"
Padua, as the setting, yielded to
Gotham"
Dramatic critics were critical In the
main only of the chorus, which they
thought worked too hard" and OF
the. chorus girls. who looked little
too sweet" for their parts.
Patrouesses included Mrs. A. Law
renee Lowell. wife of the president Of
Harvard.
Evening star., 1927-05-04
REVOLTS ARE MINIMIZED.
Gales Says Rebel Movements Lack
Capable Leaders.

MEXICO CITY, May 4 CP).-Presi-
dent Gales declared last night that
the present revolutionary movement
in Mexico is absolutely unpopular
and lacks capable leaders"
The government, he added, is con-
fronted with two problems in this con-
nection-the local Yaqui uprising in
the State of Sonora. and several
"gangs Of Catholic extremists headed
by Catholic priests in the State of
Jalisco.'
But, he said, these gangs never
controlled zone, city or town in the
State of Jalisco.
Evening star., 1927-05-04
Kill Sc Mexican Rebels.

MEXICO CITY, May 4 CP).-Eighty.
six rebels were killed when several
bands were dispersed or eXterminated
in the States of Guanajuato, Guerrero
and Zacatecas Monday, says a state
ment issued today by the presidential
bureau. -...----..
Evening star., 1927-05-04

The Stars carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi-
ton is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
Evening star., 1927-05-04
WEATHER.

w. .. WsatnSF bureau coFccdetJ
Showers this afternoon, followed by
generally fair and cooler tonight and
tomorrow.
Temperature-High SO, at 4:30
pm. yesterday; lowest, go, at am.
today. Full report on page 8.
Evening star., 1927-05-04

CONTINUED on Page 1s, Column 81
Evening star., 1927-05-19
COMMODITY NEWS
WIRED STAR FROM
ENTIRE COUNTRY

MANCHESTER, N. H, May 19.-
The Genstill Manning Shoe Co. has
reduced wages 10 per cent. The COM
pany moved to Manchester from
Lynn two years ago. 1t manufactures
| women's shoes. The Emo & Blood
Shoe Co, which started operations
January 1. is working at capacity.
DETROIT.-Tn addition to its four
lines of motor cars. the Chrysler Cor
poration is now we'll engaged in the
manufacture of marine engines. This
motor boat engine is of the 6-cylinder
type which weighs 835 pounds and
develops 100 horsepower.
NEW ORLEANS.-Distribu of
merchandise by jobbers and manufac-
turers has fallen off here owing to
the flooding of Central and Southern
Louisiana, which sections buy almost
exclusively in this market. Jobbers
feel there is little hope of improvement
until the floods subside.
UNCOMFORTABLE. J. Rainey, Inc,
has bought the properties of the
Union Connellsville Co, including
100 acres Of coal lands, $50 coke ovens
and SO houses.
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. - The
American Bemberg Corporation an.
nounces it will build another $3,000..
600 unit to its rayon plant, which will
be in operation by October, 1928. 1t
will have 7.200-pound daily output.
YOUNGSTOWN.-A healthy demand
for steel from the railroads during
the last half of the year Is antici-
pated by James A. Campbell, presi.
dent of youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.
Evening star., 1927-05-19
cradle speculation in the financial

cradle speculation in the financial
district.
For several months this issue has
been one of the most popular specu-
lative shares. Western Maryland
loomed into prominence last January,
the price at that time being 13% /.
That was before 1t became known that
the Baltimore & Ohio had acquired a
more than 35 per cent interest in the
property.
1t Is believed that the Baltimore &
Ohio has within recent weeks added
to it's holdings. The Baltimore &
Ohio wants to merge the Western
Maryland into its system, providing
there Is no considerable opposition. If
strong objection to consolidation of
the two properties is shown the finan-
cial district would not be surprised If
the Western Maryland were turned