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New Britain herald., 1929-04-03

correspondence between Perry X Bishop, architects. and the state board of health, adding letter from MT. Fish, who is also New ington health officer and chairman of the school building committee. Mir. Howard added that there might have been few telephone calls MT. Holt failed to get.
 As health officer cooperating with the state health department, Mr Fish must object to the sewerage sys- tenn installed for a building Of whch he is building chairman. which ev- eryone admitted is not adequate but which was built within the appro- priation.
 MT. Howard argued for an ade- quate sewage disposal system. On vote of Mir. Pape. Mr. Fish will con- fer with the state health depart ment and a satisfactory system wall be installed.
 Objects to Heating System
 D. J. Kerr, q plumbing contractor, objected to the acceptance of the report Of the engineers because nothing was said about the heating and plumbing and electrical work He said vacuum vapor system ha been changed to two pipe steam system.
 MT. Welch's motion 10 adjourn was defeated in loud tones. Mr. Papc moved to accept the report Twice this motion was lost. Three times Mir. Welch moved to adjourn and the motion was defeated. u finally was voted that complaints against the plumbing and heating De given Mir. Holt who will ask the en- gineers to file an additional report,
 MT. McKenna objected, Tt will he all wasted, they will wash it the same as they did the other report" he said.
 MT. Welch objected 10 arguing over trivial things. We have sav- ed $500 and wasted about sG000," he said.
 motion that the present sewerage system be used until summer vaca- tion, when it can be changed 10 the system recommended by the state, and that the school be put to inn mediate use, was lost,
 Mr, Howard asked on behalf of the school committee, just where they stood in respect 10 the use or the building. He was informed that another town meeting was necessary
New Britain herald., 1929-04-03
SIGN OF TIMES

Hoquiam, Wash. April 3 UP)- ''The little white church. of Ho- 0uiam's early days. which has stood for more than 40 years as a testi- moniaI of the faith of the city's founders. has been razed to make way for a row service station.
New Britain herald., 1929-04-03
BLACK ON LAST LAP

Rome, April 3 P1Nan Lear Black, Baltimore publisher took off aL a. m. q d. m.. E. s. ID on what may be the last lap of his air trip from Capetown to Croydon. He expected 10 reach Paris or London before night fall.
New Britain herald., 1929-04-03
IIOyOR PRICES STEEP

Birmingham. Ala. April 3 UP)-- Since inauguration day liquor prices here have been boosted more than 400 per cent. according to George Lewis Bailes. Jefferson county solici- tor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-14

OIL Co. and director of the Associated
Oil Co, was called as the first witness
today. He said his company had COM
piled with the request of the depart
ment to shut down on production and
had entered into q non drilling agree
ment with the Government subject to
six months notice.
Mr.. Roberts obtained an admission
from Shoup that he had learned nothing
of the Pan-American leases until some
time after its execution Although he
said the Associated Co. would have been
interested in lease of the Elk Hills
reserve. he testified he had no oppor-
tunity to bid.
J. NJ. Atwell. general manager of the
Standard Oil Co. of California, another
witness, also testified he had no knowl-
edge of the negotiations conducted with
the Doheny Co. His company also
would have been interested in a lease
he added.
Hogan scored for defense when he
brought admissions from both oil men
that their companies were not prepared
nor were they interested in constructing
storage tanks and pipe lines for the
Navy as provided for in the Doheny
contract. Both witnesses testified as to
overproduction of oil in California fields
in the Spring and Summer of 1922.
Hogan laid the foundation for one of
the principal arguments Of the defense
when he questioned Shoup about 20
Offset wells which the Association Co.
had drilled along the border of the
naval reserve and a strip leased by the
Standard Oil. 1t is the contention Of
the defense that drilling was necessary
in the naval reserve to prevent complete
drainage of this oil by Offset wells of
rival companies.
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street, the Government itself should
recognize such restrictions when 1t
places value on his property for taxa
ton purposes.
Coordination of assessments with
zoning Is to be left in the hands of
Tax Assessor Richards, in whom the
Commissioners have placed confidence.
The bss!c value of coming, 1t has been
pointed out, lies In It's permanence,
despite the fact that changes In coming
of individual parcels of land are chang
ed from time to time, due to changing
conditions in the city'S growth.
One reason why assessors here and
In other cities have hesitated to give
weighty consideration to existing zon-
ing. aside from the possibility that
coming restrictions might be changed,
Is that developer may acquire num-
Der Of residential properties, for ex-
ample, as the site for q large hotel or
apartment site, which for such possible
Use, would have a greater market value
@an as individual home sites.
u On the other hand, 1t Is pointed on:
to The Star, the assessor then can
revise upward his assessments on the
assembled site for the tax levied dur
ing the ensuing year.
The situation, however. admittedly
presents a dificult problem to the as
SCISSORS since sale prices in section.
the primary guide to the assessor, may
definitely indicate the possible future
use of a property In question, which,
they feel, should not be overlooked.
The possible serious conflict between
zoning restrictions and assessments IL
strikinely Illustrated In Washington in
the situationAon lower Sixteenth street.
II was revealed in the study made by
NWaa- -.
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GIRL STRANGLED !.
ON NIGHT PARTY
Man Companion Held on
Charges of Slain Wom-
ans Friend.

by Jne AASOGlhIeu FTeSS.
CHICAGO, october 1.-THE price
John Preston was paying today for a
Saturday night party with two young
woman companions was jail and muir
der charge against him. One Of the
young women, Miss Agnes Johnston, 20
years old. was, dead. She had been at
tackled. then strangled.
Preston, who is married, denied
knowledge of how Miss Johnston was
killed. Two men held them up, he said,
and drove away with her q.
Miss JohnstonS body was found In q
ciump of bushes not FAR from the spot
where Preston's rented automobile had
been abandoned. 1t was on q Unlicensed
roadway near West Chicago. The young
woman had been severely beaten. There
were finger marks on her neck.
Cousin Tells Events.
Miss Mathilda Murphy, cousin of Miss
Johnston and her companion on the
Saturday night party, told of events
preceding the Staying.
They had gone with Preston, she
said, only after much insistence. and
they became alarmed at his behavior
after he had several drinks at q road
house.
Upon their demand that he take them
home, all three got into the car. Preston,
Miss Murphy said, continued his OBJ
jectionable manner, and both women
leaped from the machine and ran. Miss
Murphy escaped. although Preston
struck her in the face, she said.
Girl Carried to Car.
When she picked herself up Preston
was carrying the struggling Johnston
girl to the car, and shortly afterward
he drove away.
Preston was arrested several hours
later. long before the body of Miss
Johnston was found, because OF suspi-
cion aroused by his bruised and
scratched face. Police were questioning
him when Miss Murphy reported the
Johnston girl missing. A search led to
the abandoned automobile and then
to the girls body.
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tContlnued from rlrSC Faee.D
Though reluctant to discuss the matter,
Mrs Wells said Higgins had been her
closest friend for several years She
said they never had been engaged.
Mrs Wells stayed at the Higgins
apartment until all hopes OF reviving
him were abandoned, She was obvious
~ distressed, but retained her COM
posture.
Tells Of His Last" Words.
TT is all SO terrible" Mrs. Wells said.
only last night l had long talk with
Jimmy Howell, an engineer at the
Western Union, who was close friend
of Mr. Higgins. We made plans at that
time to get a nurse for him today and
to send him to a hospital II necessary.
I was with him three hours last night.
He said at that time that there was
nothing left for him to do but to COM
NIT suicide.
II pleaded with him to give up all
thought of such q thing and finally
went home, when he promised me he
would go to bed and go to sleep. Be-
fore leaving the building, ! visited the
manager as q precaution and told her
of the state of Mr.. Higgins mind. She
promised to do all she could and to
notify me IL anything happened"
Higgins left another note for Stull
Holt of 26 jackson place, close friend,
in which he directed that his property
be divided between Mrs. Wells and his
mother. q patient in st. Elizabeth's
Hospital. He specified that his mother
be well provided with clothes and the
other necessities of life.
Dependent for = Week.
In q note addressed to Howell, Higgins
told CT his plans to take his life be-
cause OF his dependency over Ill health.
He left his automobile to Howell and
5000 in cash.
Higgins addressed another brief COM
munication to n friend Of his mother
requesting that she visit his mother.
Higgins had been particularly des-
pendent for about q week. He had
been in good spirits until he suffered a
nervous breakdown last Spring. His
condition had been so aggravated since
early in September that he had visited
his Office infrequently.
Born In Ithica. N. X. Higgins was
graduated from Cornell University when
about IS years old. He won Phi
Beta Kappa key. He was an instruc-
tor In economics at Cornell for sew
eral years after his graduation. He
came to Washington about 10 years
ago TO supervise new methods. Of eco
Monies in the bureau Of ef1ciehcy. He
subsequently became the editor Of the
publications of the institute OF econon-
les and was q regular contributor to
the American Mercury.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-14
SUPREME COURT REFUSES
TO DECIDE ON RENT CASE
Tenant Would Not Surrender His
Apartment Unless Given
3o-Day Notice.

The Supreme Court today refused to
decide whether under the District code
tenant who has failed to pay back
rent can be ouSted without receiving
30 days notice in writing.
The controversy arose when Harold
NJ. Smith refused TO surrender an apart
ment in the Portland Hotel unless gwen
30 days notice in writing.
Pauline v. Boyer brought suit in
January. 1929, to GUST Smith, explaining
that his lease had expired in Septem-
Der, 1927, and claiming that Smith had
failed TO pay rent since the expiration
OF the lease and was four months IN
arrears, owing s242. She insisted that
as Smith had failed TO pay rent. she
could recover possession Of the apart
ment without giving him written notice
TO vscate. The lower courts held, how
ever, that under the District code writ
ten notice was necessary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-14
FOX URGES TALK|ES
TO HELP EDUCATION
Plans to Put Sound Fins in
All Schools, Churches and
Homes in rs Years.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, Octohr "A program
for the expenditure of $e,O00,00 during
the next rs years to put talking pic
lures in,o every schoolroom. church and
home in the country was announced to-
day by William Fox, motion picture
producer and theater owner.
The announcement was made by Mr.
Fox in connection with the celebration
Of the twenty-flfth anniversary of his
entrance into the motion picture
business, 1T
Another feature of his plan Is the
recording on talking picture films Of
major operations accompanied by lee
ture by a specialist for the use OF medi-
cal students, doctors and surgeons.
Mr.. Fox said that a system of visual
oral education made possible by Aims
would cut the present six-hour school
day in half.
we shall try to install talking pic
ture projection machine in every class
room in the country. We shall get the
best available persons TO record q series
Of lectures on celluloid and distribute
ShCh WIuCOPkCdu I'll t1c tlGOEy tHht
one picture Is the equivalent Of eight
words and that each word uttered by
o proved educator Is greater in effect
than that, 1t Is easily understandable
how valuable lesson In geography or
arithmetic would be to the student.
This Is easily appreciated when such
men as President Butler Of Columbia.
President Lowell of Harvard or DR..
Hibben of Princeton or any other great
educator lectures on. a subject in which
he is well versed.
ION the theory. that every man,
woman and child will be finer citizen
If a God-fearing one, we shall make
talking pictures OF the great religious
leaders to be shown on screens in every
church"
Fox predicted that his plan would
cause the Is 900 900 church seats in the
country to be filled each Sunday where
now Is per cent of them are vacant
He said his plan for films In schools
would permit 100000 to 10000 900
school children to spend more time
out-of doors when the sun was at Its
height.
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PLANES IN MANEUVER
$4,000 FEET IN AIR

Using supercharged motors and oxygen
equipment, pilots of the 9lst Pursuit
Squadron. Army Air Corps. at Rockwell
Field. Calf, have carried on military
pursuit maneuvers at an altitude Of
$4,000 feet, or nearly 5 miles above sea
level according to report received here
by Maj Gen. James e. Fechet, chief Of
the Air Corps.
The planes we're put through combat
maneuvers by Lieut. Kirtley j. Gregg
and Lieut.. Irving A. Woodring as test
of the capabilities of the standard Army
pursuit planes at the extreme attitudes
which would prevail in the case of an
other war. Machine gun FIRE and fuel
consumption were tested under service
conditions.
Twenty-Five thousand feet Is above
the normal range of the P-l type OF
pursuit plane used in the tests. Through
the use of supercharged motors the
pilots Were hble to push the service cell
Ing Of SthA&lit fighting planes from
II 900 feet To point far above the nor
NAL absolute ceiling Of a. $50 fea1g
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-14
AUSTRALIA LABOR
VICTORY CONFIRMED
Party Apparently Has Won "A Of
IS Seats, Although Figures
Are Incomplete.
nv the Assnciated press

BY the Associated Press
MELBOURNE. Australia, October IA.
Continued tabulations of returns from
the general elections of yesterday con-
firmed the Labor victory, but the final
figures still were unavailable late last
night.
1t appeared that Labor had won A
OF the rs seats in the new House, Ma
tionalists l6. the Country party 10. In
dependent Nationalist 3, with two other
seats held by other independents. Some
ministers OF the late Nationalist gov
ernment were defeated, and it was not
even certain whether former Premier
S. M. Bruce would be elected.
Although it appeared that James
Henry Scullin, the Labor leader, who
will be the next prime minister, would
have a workable majority in the House.
the Labor government is not likely to
be able to indulge in extremist legis-
lation, because there still is q strong
Nationalist majority Senate.
The chief issue Of the election SIS
the attempt Of the Nationalist goverS
ment to modify the present arbitration
system for labor disputes in a way
which the Labor party commended re-
vealed an aim to reduce wages.
Two former Labor state premiers
were elected, and probably viii be con-
sidered in the formation of the cabi-
net. They are former Premier Z. G.
Theodore Of Queensland and former
Premier j, A. Lyons of Tasmania.
Observers today were specializing as
to the attitude in the coming session
Of three former Nationalist who helped
to defeat the last government. These
were William M. Hughes, wartime
prime minister; Lieut. Walter Marks
and George A. Maxwell.
Three of the ministers in the last
cabinet were believed to have lost their
seats. They were Postmaster General
w. @. Gibson, Minister Of Health Sir
Neville Howse and Minister for Home
Territories c. w. Mari
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-14
BOARD DESlGNATES
FARM COMMODITIES
Ten Products and Groups. Listed.
Data Awaited for
More.

BY the Associated Press.
Ten products and groups of prod
ucts have been designated as agricul-
tural commodities by the Federal Farm
Board under the provisions of the ag-
ricultural marketing act.
The. designations were made to as
Sist the board in dealing with cooper
atives and other marketing organiza-
tons handling the various crops. The
board later will designate additional
agricultural commodities when suf-
ficient information is available upon
which to act.
Those designated are:
Cotton, dairy products, including fluid
milk. cream, cheese, condensed milk,
butter, ice cream, evaporated milk,
whole and skim milk powder; grains,
including wheat, rye. corn, oats, bar
ley, fax. grain sorghums and buck
wheat: rice. live stock, wood and mohair,
tobacco, poultry and eggs, seeds, includ-
ing alfalfa, clover, timothy, red top and
grass and other field seeds, and potatoes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-14
PROBE CONTINUES HERE.
Nurse and New York Doctor Question
ed at Length.

$NuEDe anu NeW IOrk DOctOf &ucstiOh~
ed at Length.
The Department Of Justice conttNued
today its examination Of witnesses CON-
necte6 with the preliminary investiga-
ton Of the Mcpherson case.
Among these was Miss Martha Berry,
nurse, who was q close friend Of Mrs.
Mcpherson. Miss Berry previously had
been questioned by justice agents on
several occasions. She declined to dis
cuss with reporters the reason for her
latest visit to the department.
Miss Berry was one OF the principal
witnesses before the grand jury which
indicted Robert A. Mcpherson, jr., for
the murder of his wife. She is said to
have given information concerning sew
eral alleged attempts of Mrs. McPher-
son to end her life. The grand jury
apparently was not impressed by the
reports Of Mrs. McPherSons previous
suicidal tendencies. for 1t discarded the
suicide theory and held she had been
strangled 10 death by her husband.
Miss Berry and DR.. Thomas Ballard,
another former friend Of the dead girl,
were Questioned ct length &aturday at
the Department of Justice. Ut was I'M
derstood that Or. Ballard was back In
New York toGaNs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-14
REV. JOHN J. BRADY
DIES SUDDENLY AT SO
Priest Won Fame at Mt. Hope
Retreat at Baltimore by Work
With Insane.
BY the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. OCTOBER l4.--The Rev.
John j. Brady of Niagara Uni
versity, Niagara Falls, N. Y. died sud-,
denly Of heart disease at the uni
versity Saturday night, friends were in
formed today. He was SO years old.
Born in Milwaukee, Wis, Father
Brady entered the Vincentian Order
and was ordained priest in 1895. His
early work was in connection with
social activities at the Mount Hope
Retreat for the Insane at Baltimore,
where he remained for seven years He
was credited with having been the first
TO introduce games, plays and enter
tainments, in which the patients them
selves participated, In institutions for
the insane.
He was widely known as a missionary
and for 20 years had conducted mis-
sions IN Baltimore. Chicago. Cleveland
and other cities.
The funeral will be held Wednes-
day morning at 10 o'clock At Niagara
aArsa
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-14
DYNAMITE BLAST KILLS
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT
Several of Hiking Party Injured
by Explosion, Which, as Yet,
Is Unexplained.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WASHBURN. Wis, October IA
Tragedy marked the climax Of high
school hiking party yesterday afternoon
when q stick OF dynamite exploded. kill
ing one student and injuring three
other persons.
Walker McManus, 16, high school
sophomore, who carried the dynamite,
was killed. Those injured were Mrs.
Leora Watson, local high school teacher,
who had chaperoned the party; Dolly
Holman, Is. and Gertrude Peterson, II,
juniors.
What caused the dynamite to explode
has not been determined, but II Is be-
lieved It was set of when McManus
red q gun he was carving.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-14
CAMPBELL TRANSFERRED.
ouartermaster Corps Captain Is
Sent to Fort Meade.

Capt. Stuart D. Campbell, Quarter
master Corps, a member of the Ameri-
can Graves Registration Service in
Paris, who is accompanying the bodies
of American soldiers from Russia to the
United States for reburial at Detroit,
Mich, has been ordered to take station
at Fort George c. Meade. Md, on the
completion of that duty: Capt. Clarence
George G. Meade. has been ordered
to Fort Mcintosh, Tex: Mai. Francis
p. Hardaway, Coast Artillery Corps,
from New York City to st. Louis; Capt.
Ray S. Perrin, Field Artillery, from
Boise. Idaho. to San Francisco: Capt.
Sumner H. Needham. Field Artillery,
from Fort Sam Houston, Tex, to Fort
sill, Okla.
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nature Of the trip or to say to what
city he had been. It was believed, how
ever that he probably had been at
Chester, s. c., to consult with A. Hurley,
Mrs. McPherson's father.
Although the elimination has aroused
the interest of the populace and resi-
dents of the surrounding country are
anxiously awaiting the result of the
autopsy, few persons visited the grave
yesterday.
Local physicians apparently have not
been consulted in regard to assisting in
the examination OF the body. It Is be-
lieved that skilled medical assistance
will come from an outside source, pre-
sumably Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-14
POLO TROPHY AS GIFT.

Argentinian Attaches Donation
for U. 8. Army Competition.
BY the Associated Press
Lieut.. Col Angel Maria Zuloga, mill
tary attache from Argentina to the
United States, has donated polo
trophy to the Army to be known as the
Argentine Army Trophy" to be con-
tested for annually by military polo
teams in the vicinity of Washington.
The trophy, which Is a handsome silver
cup, is the personal gift of. Col. Zuloga.
II will be presented to Gen. Charles r.
SumInerall. chief Of STAFF, Wednesday
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-14
T0WB0AT STRIKE OFF.

NEW YORK, october IA (P}.-Union
towboat workers at meeting last night
voted down strike proposal and agreed
to accept new agreement offered by
the New York Towboat Exchange, Inc.
The agreement provides for a 50
monthly increase for crews, $40 for
officers, increased pay for overtime and
larger Allowances for h1ucla rnnnan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-14
AIR PILOT DIES IN CRASH.
Sport Model Plane Drops From AL
titude of Only so Feet.

HUNTINGTON, w. Va, October IA
H1.-John H. Ike" Stewart, 80, Gin
cinnati pilot, was killed YESTERDAY when
his plane crashed on the Huntington
Airfield at Chesapeake, Ohio.
Stewards small sport model plane
fell from an altitude of only approx
mately so feet while he was endeavor-
ing to perform q barrel roll in connec-
ton with stunting program at the
field.
Stewart, who was to have performed
the same stunt at Cincinnati tomorrow
IN connection with the arrival there of
the national air tour, was married and
the father of four children.
He was employed as q sales repre-
sentative and test pllot for the Mnno-
Aircraft flnrr,nrakin1s ~ AHnli,aa m
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-14
ZONE REGULATIONS
TO BE LINKED WITH
TAX ASSESSMENTS

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MRS. McPHERS0N'S
BODY IS EXHUMED;
PLANS KEPT SECRET

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SCIENTIST KILLS
HIMSELF BY GAS;
HEALTH is BLAMED

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FALL TRIAL ENTERS
SECOND WEEK; SH0UP
AND ATWELL QUlZZED

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HELM DEMANDS
SCRIVENER PROBE
ON SENATE FLOOR

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