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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-27
WILL CALL Is.
WITNESSES in
SINCLAIR CASE

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (P)-Spring-
ing a surprise in the contempt pro-
ceedingS against Harry F.. Sip,lair,
wealthy oil operator, W. j. Burns,
founder of the Burns detective agency
and four of their associates, District
Attorney Gordon began today the prep
aration of Approximately rs SubpoenaS
calling as government witnesses nearly
every person who testified during the
grand jury investigation into the
charges of tampering with the Fall
Sinclair oil conspiracy trial.
Sinclair, Burns, the oil mans con-
fidential associates, Henry Mason Day
of New York and Sheldon Clark of
Chicago; w. Sherman Burns, manager
Of the Burns agency, and G. L. VeitSch,
Burns Baltimore manager, have been
cited to appear before Justice Siddons
in the District of Columbia supreme
court, December 5, to show cause why
they should not be punished for con-
tempt of court
The government charged in it's petit
tion upon which the rule of contempt
was issued, that Sinclair sent Day and
Clark to Washington where they en-
gagged the Burns detective agency to
'syp upon, to bribe and intimidate
and to do anything calculated to in
terfere with the impede" the Fall
Sinclair jurors in the unbiased dis
charge of their duties. 1t was further
charged that the purpose Of the sur
veillance of the jury was Ito impede,
pervert and prevent the due admins
tration of justice in the court, either
by corruptly influencing said jurors to
decide the issue of said prosecution in
favor of the defendants, or to disagree
as to said issues" and that sin case
such a course should seem advantag-
eous to said defendants in said cause
to bring 'about mistrial" of the
case. z
In calling as government witnesses
those who appeared before the grand
jury the district attorneys office let
it be known for the first time that it
would use the Burns operatives in at
tempting to prove that contempt of
court had been committed. The Burns
detectives carried on the shadowing
of the trial and their reports, seized
by the district attorney, disclosed that
they had kept up an intensive sur
veillance.
When the grand jury witnesses
testify at the contempt hearing the
evidence collected by the district at
torney against those cited for contempt
will be disclosed. These witnessed
include Charles G.. Ruddy, manager of
the Burns Philadelphia office, who
directed the shadoWing of the jury,
and former Governor Pinchot of
PENNSYLVANIA, t oWhOm w, j. McMul-
lin disclosed what the government
charged was plot to bring about a
mistrial. McNIullin, who, while work.
ing on the case as an operative of the
Burns agency, became government
informer as kept the district attor-
ney's office in touch with the Burns
plans probably will be the most i'm
portant witness.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-27
ABANDON HOPE
FINDING PAIR
STILL MISSING

SUPERIOR, Nov. 26 (#9-SiKty hours
after fire had razed more than 900
feet of tifnbering in No. 2 shaft OF
the Magma Copper company mine
here, officials tonight had given up
hope for the safety of three miners yet
unaccounted for. It is believed that
their bodies will be found at the bot
tom of the 2,5O0-foot shaft.
Four bodies of the seven men trap
ped in the disastrous Thanksgiving
morning fire have been recovered. Of
ficials tonight announced that work
being done will probably make the
mine available for complete eXplora-
ton within the next 48 hours Debris
in the charred shaft had prevented
searchers from penetrating the shaft
below the 1,600-foot level tonight.
While no definite estimate of the
loss occasioned by the fire had been
placed by mine officials today, it was
estimated it would reach $500,000.
Bodies of the three missing miners
are believed to be at the bottom OF
the burned shaft, which was destroyed
between the $3.50 and 1,600-foot levels.
The missing are E. Olmas, r. Rod
riquez and Zeno Daley, the latter an
Apache Indian, who voluntarily re-
turned to the 5O0-foot level of the
blazing shaft after he had once reach
ed the surface in safety He de-
scended in the cage, which is thought
to have dropped to the bottom of the
shaft.
Other miners who were working in
the mine at the time believe that Oh
mas and Rodriguez were eating their
dinner in the station on the 1900
foot level and that when the shaft
supports were burned out, the station
dropped down the shaft.
While mine rescue crews from the
Globe Miami station in charge of Orr
Woodburn, are standing by, most OF
/ the work of removing debris is being
done by an organized crew of Magma
miners
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-27
SAY ARIZONAN
RECEIVED $500
OF LOBBY FUND

WASHINGTON Nov. 26 4? = An
inquiry by the house ways and means
committee into reports that $500 had
been issued to pay expenses Of wit
nesses recently appearing before 1T in
favor of reau of the federal Inherit
anc tax was demanded today by Rep
reSentative Johnson, republican, South
Dakota. He declared that if no COM
mittee member initiated such action he
proposed to introduce a resolution de-
manding an investigation.
The South Dakctan said that he had
advised Speaker LongWorth of the re-
port that "a well financed antrim
heritance tax lobby had been operated
in the capital. He added that he also
had written the speaker that if the
committee, at the time of the recent
tax hearings, had possessed authority
to investigate, it could have ascertain
ed what he said was fact.
Had this committee possessed legal
powers" Johnson's letter continued,
sit could undoubtedly have proven
that the payoff man of this group at
the Raleigh hotel recently had ap-
proXimately $4,000 in hundred dollar
bills and paid off those hired to be in
Washington make the demonstration
before the alleged committee.
Had it legal powers it could have
shown that approximately $3,5O0 was
paid to Oregon men alone and that
$500 to one man from Arizona. About
$500 was, as can be shown, paid to
men from my own state Of South Da-
kota, who were brought here to con-
vince the alleged committee that that
state desired repeal Of the inheritance
tax. II
1T could have been shown that
100000 was contributed to this fund
by one Montana corporation or in
dividualS interested in it."
Mr.. johnson, who is undergoing
treatment at Walter Reed hospital
here, said that in his letter to the
speaker he had argued that the recent,
tax hearings of the ways and means
committee were illegal, inasmuch as a
resolution to give. the committee auth
ority to sit during the adjournment OF
congress had failed of enactment last
session.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-27
7 ennis Ranking In
California Placed

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 26 N9 -
William M. Johnston, of San Fran
cisco, former national champion, and
Miss Helen Jacobs of Berkeley, are
ranked first in the mems singles and
women's singles, respectively, in the
1927 state tennis rankings released to-
day by the California Lawn Tennis
association. ~
Miss Helen Wills of Berkeley, Amer
ican and all-English champion, re-
ceived no ranking. as she did not ap-
pear in California tournament.
Johnston, veteran of many tennis
campaigns, won his position by cap
turing the Pacific coast singles event,
while Miss Jacogs stroked her way into
leadership by victories in both the
Pacific coast and California cham
pionshipS.
The 1927 ranking list includes play
ers from all parts of the state. 1t was
made possible by a decision of the as
sociation to rank players if they ape
peared in either the Pacific coast or
state events. In previous years no
player was ranged unless having par
ticipated in at least two sanctioned
tournaments.
Honors were well divided between
northern and southern California. The
north taking the two top places, but
eonceding the next two to the south
ern section. John II. Doeg OF Sants
Monica was ranged second In the men
singles, and Mrs May Sutton Bunoy
also of Santa Monica, won second
position in the womens singles. g
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-27
MUSIC AS MEDICINE

LONG BEACH, Calf, Nov 26, R)-
Suffering sudden attack OF am
nesia thirty minutes before the
death of her husband, Roy H. Bald
win, "a, has been unconscious here
for more than $50 hours.
The husband died last Saturday
night. The attending physician, after
using all known cures, has turned to
music and today reported progress
on the case. At the sound of music,
the patient opens her eyes and a
slight movement of the, lips can be
distinguished.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-27
MADDUX MAKES
RECORD FLIGHT
UP WEST COAST

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 26 Especial to
The DiSpatch0- the establish
ment within the last week of a record
for passenger planes of three hours
and 20 minutes between San Francisco
and Los Angeles by the Maddux Air
Lines NFord ship clinches plans for
extension of the proposed passenger
air line to the Golden Gate metropolis,
was the announcement today by Jack
Maddllx, president of the lines.
President Maddux said
"The splendid speed record made by
our pIane-an average of better than
100 miles per hous for the entire dis
tance with complete complement OF
of passengers demonstrates that a
regular four-hour schedule daily can
be maintained with ease. Our in
spection visit to San Francisco and
Oakland proved to us, too, that the
facilities for flying are ytNy superior
in San Francisco and Oakland.
"Both these northern cities have
splendidly equipped fields. Their pro-
vision for weather reports and other
essentials to the commercial aviation
corporation are unquestionably the
best in the west. The prospects for
capacity passenger loads between the
north and southern California appear
to be excellent.
Hence, very shortly, just as soon
as another Ford plane arrives, our
ships will be flying regularly from
San Francisco to San Diego, via
Los Angeles; and soon thereafter all
the way through to Ell Paso, Texas.
We shall have at least half dozen
12-passenger, all-metal planes in
operation within, I believe, 60 days"
The weekend flight to San Fran
cisco and return had a dual pur-
pose. President MadduX and Vice
President Charles H. Lathrop, with
Traffic Manager Will N. Fox made
the trip to inspect the facilities for
the proposed intercity service. Other
passengers were Southern California
business Undergraduates and former
athletes of the University of Cali
fornia-who flew north to see their
Alma Mater tangle with Stanford on
the gridiron.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-27

pairing the school or library build
ing in which moving picture show
was in progress at the time the
riot started, was begun today af-
ter representatives of the district
attorneys office had taken pictures
for use at the trial of the convict
terrorists This work is expected by
the warden to cost more than $500.
as many large glass windows were
broken by shots fired by the guards
and possemen, and benches and
chairs we're broken up in the rush.
1t also developed today that the
revolters who also planned to escape
and whom the warden believes had
plotted for a wholesale delivery af-
ter gaining their own freedom, had
planned and hoped to take Willard
Shannon, condemned prisoner, with
them. An investigation showed the
lock on the heavy door leading off
the old cell house and into the
death chamber and been attacked
with some heavy, instrument. How
ever it resisted the efforts and Shan
non is still in his cell in the death
house.
Shannon is awaiting the outcome
of his appeal from death sem
tence for the murder of Harold
Lage, Stockton automobile salesman,
near Jackson, Amador county, early
this year.
The death of Frank A. Carlson,
Ventura county convict, from gun
shot wounds in the right shoulder
0oI I1ool/ 0IoI A,,,soo1 NRoIo1-0xy;oIo
San Francisco, from bullet wound
in the skull, brought the death toll
to 13, two of whom were guards.
Carlson died this morning and NAL
akovich late this afternoon.
Three other convicts are reported
to be seriously injured and their
condition still grave. One of these
men has a gunshot wound in the
back, another has a, wound in his
back and a second in his skull, while
the third has wounds in an arm
and in his chest.
In addition to the dead-one OF
the guards was slain and the other
died of heart failure adduced by ex-
citement-there are four prison Of
ficialS and 26 convicts recovering
from wounds. The prison officials
injuries consist of bullet and knife
wounds, while those suffered by the
convicts in the main are bullet
wounds suffered either from direct
hits or from ricocheting bullets dur
ing Thursday afternoons hail OF
lead laid down by the besiegers after
the revolving cOnvicts had fired upon
police endeavoring to rout them with
tear gas and had wounded Barret
Huse, secretary to Warden Smith
Among the six men pointed out
by Warden Court Smith as the ring
leaders of the insurrection are some
Of the most desperate characters in
the institution The warden was
able to name these men as ring
leaders upon information furnished
by guards held captive.
Perhaps the most notorious OF
these are James H. Gregg, serving a
life term for the murder Of the
constable at Kinghburg, and Albert
M. Stewart, better known to Cali
fornia and Arizona peace officers as
Zephic Saunders.
Stewart, notorious forger and rob-
ber, made three successful escapes
during his checkered career. He was
shot in another bold bid for free
Folsom three years ago, has twice
tried to escape. Both attempts were
frustrated.
With term in the Missouri state
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-27
ruCsoN BOY PRESIDENT

GLOBE, Ariz., Nov 26, P)-Select-
ing Phoenix as the, next convention
city the fourth annual Boy Scouts
conference today elected Paul M
Roca, Tucson, president; Thomas
Summerfield,, Globe, vice president
and Ralph Knowles, Phoenix, secre-
tary.
Delegates to the conference today
visited the Inspiration mine and
teaching plant at Miami.
The conference will close ton1or-
row morning.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-27
FIRE an FIsHERMAN

VIENNA, Nov. 26 (P-EXchange
telegraph dispatches from Sofia say
that Rumanian frontier guards yes
terday fired on several Bulgarian
fishing boats approaching the Ru-
manian shore of the DanuDe. One
man was reported killed, several
wounded and several made prisoners
The Bulgarian minister in Buch'
Arrest has been instructed TO protest
to the Rumanian government, the
dispatches said.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-27
FInons mn ALGIRRs

ORAN, Algiers, French North Afri-
ca, Nov. 26 P-Heavy loss Of lives
at Mostaganem, near here, is reported
in consequence Of torrential rain
storms,
The Oran region is flooded. A
torrent rushing out OF railway tun-
mel swept away SO houses. First re-
ports place the casualties as high as
300, many bodies were said TO be
floating in the harbor.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-27

lOO oGdl ICU dI1Q Wdo 11OOO1llS UlAC etA CLIO
before the game was finished
Statistics OF The Game
First downs: Notre Dame, IL; S. G
8.
Yards gained from scrimmage: Notre
Dame, 2l7; S. c., 143.
Forward passes: Notre Dame COM
pleted 2, missed 2, 81 yards gained
S. c. completed 2, missed 8, intercepted
l, 18 yards gained.
Individual yardage: Flanagan 13s
yards in 25 attempts; SIS average
Drury is yards in % attempts; 81
average.
Punts average: Dahnan AS yards;
Drury- Hibbs, 40 yards.
Penalties: Notre Dame 4, total &c
yards; S. G. 2, total 20 yards.
Lineup and summary:
U. S. c.. McCaslin, lie; Hibbs, 1t;
Anthony, lg; Barrager, C; Heiser, rg;
Scheving, rt;. Tappan, re; Drury Co
qb; Saunders, lhb; L. Thomas, RIB;
Edelson, fb.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-27

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men at the head Of the riot, obtained
the revolver he used in shooting
Walter Neil, turnkey, has not been
determined. Brown, in the course OF
an investigation by the warden, adj
nitted having the weapon for about
ten days, but would volunteer no.
thing as to where or how he OBJ
tanned it. M
The work of cleaning up and re-
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-27
ANOTHER KOYNO RuMoR

BERLIN, Nov. 26 (P-An rlncon.
firmed news agency report from Riga
says that military revolt has oc-
CURED at Kovno, Lithuania. and that
the Waldemaras government has beer
overthroWn.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-27

You'll find it in Dispatch want-ads.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-27

Dispatch Telephones-8l and 50.
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-27
OTHER DEADS

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NOTRE DAME

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New Britain herald., 1927-10-04
TRlRIY.NINE PLANES
 IN WORCESTER PAGEANT
VIII Be Feature of Dedication of Whittal Field, North Grafton,
 Saturday Afternoon

Worcester, Mass, Oct. R - Thirty-nine airplanes have been en- tered for the Worcester air pageant which will officially dedicate Whit tall Field, North Grafton, Saturday afternoon. The entry list includes Clarence Chamberlin, who made q nonstop flight from this country to Germany, and Thea Rasche. noted German stunt aylatrix.
 Word was received last night that Heustis I. Wells, son of Street Com missioner C. Arthur Wells, will be at the air pageant. Wells piloted the first air mail flight from New York 10 Boston. One Of his recent feats was to fly 100 miles off the coast, pick up pictures taken at the Amer can Legion convention in Paris from the deck Of the Leviathan and returned to New York 24 hours be- fore the arrival of the steamer.
New Britain herald., 1927-10-04
City Items

The police were notified today of the suspension of the operators li- censes Of Edward Bazylewicz of l51 Lyon street, Frank Avells of 51 Franklin street, Burton Miller and Donald Stockwell.
 The police are Investigating g complaint by Manager Mccormick of the A. & P. store at the corner of Kelsey and Fairview streets that boys had smeared the sidewalk and the front of the store with grapes.
 The recently elected officers Of Daly Council, K. of C.. will be install led into office this evening at the regular meeting at 8 o'clock. Dis trict Deputy Robert Simpson Of Southngton and his staff will be in charge. A smoker and social will follow the meeting and an enter tanment will be provided.
New Britain herald., 1927-10-04

Chicago, Sept. 30 P>-The effect of a big city's noises on the ef- ficiency of office workers has be- come a subject for scientific study in Chicago.
 Over a period of q week, Prof. A. " Kornhauser, business rsy- choiogist of the University of Chi cago, and Dr. Paul E. Sabine, ex- pert on acoustics and head of the Riverbank laboratories at Geneva, H., studied q group of stenogra- phers and other employees in a loop office.
 Samples Of work performed in a quiet room were taken. Then the girls were given work 10 do in a room filled with mingled sounds of the clack Of 'typewriters. whir of calculating machines ianalo of telephones, and noises of the street waited through open windows.
 kornhauser approached the prob lem from the angle of business eff ciency and Dr. Sabine from the viewpoint of acoustics. They will make their conclusions from an accumulated mass of evidence con- sisting of samples of office workers efforts.
 Dr, Sabine is carrying on work started at the Rivcrhank lahora- tories by the late Prof. Wallace C, Sabine of Harvard University.
 The laboratory was founded hy Col. George Fahy9n, capitalist. whose hobby is acoustics. It is con- sidered the most complete Of its kind in the country and IS purely an altruistic enterprise.
 Dr. Sabine has found that cefl- ing or wall containing 9 myriad of crooked channels virtually ab- sorbs the ordinary sounds of a room, while smooth surfaces send back noises as revcrherations.
New Britain herald., 1927-10-04
GRANDMA SMITH 100
Venerable and Beloved Inmate of Bridgeport Protestant Widows Home 8 Century Old Today.

Bridgeport. Oct. 4 tEl-Mrs. Emily smith, lovingly called Grandma Smith in the Protestant Widows Home here, which has been her home for 3o years, today was given a party because it was the one hun dredth anniversary of her birth.
 On the table at which was served the luncheon was q cake Of gener- ous size such as was needed to hold the one hundred lighted candles.
 There were many callers, and Grandma Smith was the center of the reception group, and she en- joyed every minute Of it, for she is in good health and quite spry physically.
 Mrs. Smith, widow of Miles Smith, was born in Norfolk, Conn, in 1927. Her memory is keen and she has frequently told Of incidents of her girlhood, and from those years on- ward she has recalled many occur rences which have been a part of the community, state and national history.
New Britain herald., 1927-10-04
NOTICE


 Taken by virtue of an execution to me directed, and will be sold at Public Ven Gue to the highest bidder at the public sigh post in the Town of New Britain, fourteen days after date. which will be on Tuesday. the 18th day of October A. D, 1927 at 10 o'clock In the forenoon. to satisfy said execution and my fees there on, the following described property to wit:
 cases 0, soda. 10 bars of Grana!s soap. Pkrs. Rnso 80 bars Wool soan. 15 Pkgs. Octagon Chips, 10 bars Fels- Naptha, % hars lHirbman soaD, 4 bars of Life Buoy, l Doz- cans cleanser, 5 pkgs. powder, SC Pkgs Kirkman's chips. s cans cleanser, Is cans of i've, boxes of soda straws, 1 lot of malt and hops. 1 case Of Palm-Ollvs soap. so bags of salt, lot of paper bags bottles of buine. q bot ties ammonia, 30 pkgs. of hoIax, lot of toilet paper, ' boxes of cream of tartar. cans of Good Luck, Pkgs. Taploca, 1s Pkgs. pie filling, 9 Pkgs. cocoanut, 10 boxes spices, 10 Pkgs, Jell-O, 3 jars mus tard, 10 Pkgs. rice, @is lbs. coffee, Pkg. flour lot tobacco. ' jars of hominy, F boxes tooth picks, l cash register, Pkgs. matches, l cigar case. 1 candy case. ten foot counters, l desk, medicine rack, l soda fountain, II boxes Writing paper, l ire box, , pipes, 12 bottles mag nesia, bottles castor oil. 3 Pl;cs cotton, PEgs, Epsom salts syrup dispensers. Pigs. oatmeal, 15 Pkcs, cornflal,es, boxes Telogr's bran. 7 cans molasses, q cans of squash, . cans of beans 2G cans of milk, bottles Of salad dressing. 12 bottles of jelly. 16 cans string heans cans of cocoa. 2 jars Libby beaf. jarz cocoa malt. cans of baking powder. bottles catsup, bottles jam, bottles honey, % cans of Canphells soup. 12 PkEs Argo starch, Pkes poultry sea sentng. Pksa. Mince meat rkgs. nut meg.
 Dated at New Britain this 4th day of October, 1927.
 MARTIN 1T. HoRWITZ, De7uty Sheriff
New Britain herald., 1927-10-04
LIMITATION or CLAIMS


 At Court oc Probate holden al New Britain within and for the District Of Berlin in the County of Hartford and state of Conaecticut. on the 2Sth day of September, <. D. 1927,
 Present. Bernard F. Gafnoy, Esq. Judge. on motion dN John C Barrett, Jr, of 5Si New Britain avenue Hartford, Conn, as Administrator C. {. a. on the Estate of Lillian NJ. Barrett, late of New Britain, within said district deceased.
 This Court doth decree that six months be allowed and limited for the creditors of said estate to exhibit their c!1lms against the same to the Admin istrator 2. [. q. and directs that public notice be given of this order by adver- Using in newspaper published i'll said New Britain, and having a circu1aton In said dtstrct, and by posting a copy there If on the public sign post in said Town of New Britain, nearest the place where the deceased last dwelt.
 Certified from Record,
 BERNARD F. GAFFNET, Judge
New Britain herald., 1927-10-04
Defends School Building
 On Outskirts of City

Several arguments have been ad- vanced by Committeeman Joseph NJ. Halloran, chairman Of the school accommodations committee, in his defense of the school boards policy of building property for proposed school sites in the outskirts of New Britain.
 Among arguments Mir. Halloran brought out in an interview this morning were the dangers of traf- fc to the children if they are forced to go to school in the center of the city, the chances of buying property cheaper in the out -the-Way places and the incentive toward develop ment Of surrounding property which a new school makes in a locality.
 Mr Halloran has found that peo- pie planning to establish a residence often seek a site near school.