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New Britain herald., 1929-12-17
FIREMEN WILL DINE:
 AT HOME CHRISTMAS
Chief Noble Arranges Schedule to Permit
 Family Gatherings

Members of the fire dcpaltmon! Cn duty Christmas Day Will be per mitted to have dinner with their families under an arrangement made by Chief William J. Noble to day.
 December 9 is "loI'g day" in the department this year, which means that the shift reporting at ' a. m Wednesday will Worl|24 hours. be- ing relieved at |. m., Thursday. Long day" occurs each week when the shifts change day to night duty and vice. versa. The squad which will enjoy d 24-houIs' holiday on Christmas worked Thanksgiving day and night.
 Each man on duty will Be given one hour, between l a. n.. and ? p. m., or from to 6 o'clock in the evening. On hose companies 1, ,. i and f, and ladder companies 1 and ,. two men will be allowed off ct the same hour, if they wish, but on hose companies ,, G and :, which have but four men to each csm pany. only one man will be allowed off duty at any time.
New Britain herald., 1929-12-17
MISS MACAULEY TO BE
 CHRISTMAS DAY BRIDE
Will Wed Milton l.. Church Before Parents Go south for Winter
 SOjOufn.

Just prior 10 the departure Of hcs parents for d four months vacation at Temple Terrace, Fla, Miss Bea- triCC Lee MacaulCy, the daughter Of Mir and Mrs. George K. Macaulcy of 76 Dover road, will, on the afternoon of Christmas Day, become thc bride of Milton E. Church, son of Nlr. and Mrs. A. E. Church of I43 kepsinGton avenue.
 The wedding ceremony will take place at 2;50 o'clock at the parson- Ggc of Trinity Methodist church on Russell street. Rev. William II. h- dcrson, pastCr, will be the officiating clergyman, and only members ot both families will be present. After January I, the couple will be at homo at 56 Dover road.
 Mir and Mrs. Macauley will leave after inc holiday for their winter none, located about nine pilcs ou' of Tampa, Fla.
New Britain herald., 1929-12-17
ICY STREETS TRAP
 CARELESS DRIVERS
Autos Pirouette on Highways
 Glazed by Freezing Rain
SAND SPREAD ON HILLS
Public Works Department Send, Out Trucks and Gangs to Sprinkle Grit on 1nclncs-Slcpard's Hill Invites Disaster.

Traffic signal lights were switch. ed off and sand trucks dispatched 10 all hilly sections of the city this morning when q light fall Of snow was followed by rain and temper aturc drop, coating paycmcnts with q glaze of ice.
 Five Autos Block Highway
 Motorists soon learned the wis dom of proceeding with exceptional caution. Those who did not founI themselves in traffic difficulties with their cars flashing back and forth over icy highways. bouncing over curbstones and frequently Crowding other vehicles into web of tangled traffic. One notable in- stance of this happened on the Shopard's hill section of Stanley street, at 9:30 o'clock when five machines became locked across the highway, tcmpora arily tying up the roadway and requiring cars at cith. CT side of the jam to remain stu- tionary while drivers and mechanics labored to right matters. No actual damage was done in this case.
 stops Against House
 Early this morning, a driver pro- cecding northerly on Hartford aye nuo, applied his brakes to slow town for . car coming down the Mll and his machine Skiddod, then darted over the curb, across the lawn and came 10 a stop against q house at No. @27.
 When reports of highway diff cultles began to reach the office of City Engineer Philip A. Merriam, he ordered all city trucks and others being used for street purposes. load cd with sand and sent to centcrs of congestion and 10 sharp doclin' s. Many hills were treated in this m;n. ner before noon, probably resulting in a less, nlns of accidents.
 Franklin Square Collision
 Autonobiles driven by samuel .lohansen of 735 East street and John B. IIoppe of 50 Governor street. collided at Franklin square and Pearl street shortly after s o'clock this morning. causing slight uamaGe to both machines.
 Johanacn was driving west on Pearl street and Hopre was driving south on Franklin square. Both cars slid on the ice as the drivers tried to stop, and Officers Cronin and Saunders, who investigated, re- ported no cause for police action.
 Truck and sedan Meet
 For the sccopd time in two days, the intersection of Spring and Win ter streets was the scene of ar automobile collision about 1 o'clock (Continued on Page TWo)
New Britain herald., 1929-12-17
TWISTED MAN DEAD.
 SON-N.LAW INJURED
Sleet Causes Fatal Auto Accident This MOrn-
 ing in City

Wnstcd, Dec. 17 tP(-Reuben Ar thur, 43, was fatally injured and his son-in-law, Kenneth Lord. suffered a serious injury to his spine in an automobile accident attributed tp to- days icy rainfall. They were struck by machine operated by Albert C. Griffin, farmer of Robertsville and former state representative from Colcbrook. Arthur died shortly after being admitted to the Ltchfeld County hospital. The condition of his son-in-law. who was taken to the same hospital, was reported as ser iouS.
 Griffin told the police he failed to see the two pedestrians in the high way in time to avert the accident. because of sleet on the windshield of his car,
 Arthur is survived by his widow and six children.
New Britain herald., 1929-12-17

Mexico City, Dee. 17 (Pt-The Mexican government today struck back at Laredo, Texas border city. for the attitude taken by John Walls, district attorney there. to- ward General plutarco Elias Gales. former Mexican president.
 The foreign office announced that, effective today, the Mexican consulate at Laredo would be clos ed. The department of interior an nounccd that permission granted to the Laredo Chamber of Commerce to issue tourist cards for entry into Mexico would be resCinded.
 lnasmuch as Laredo is the princi- pal port of entry of American pro- ducts and of American tourists into Mexico, it was expected here the action might serve to divert some traffic hitherto passing through La redo to other ports of entry.
 Merchandise to Be Transferred
 Closing of the consulate meant
New Britain herald., 1929-12-17
Crash In Rio Grande Do Northe Province, Aft CT Flight From Spain, Many Miles From Nearest Village De- tails Still Meager.
H6rsemen Discover Avia- tors and Help Them to Reach Town-Trip Con- stitutes Sixth Successful CrOsSing-Plane Covers 3,600 Miles.

Rio Janeiro, Brazil, Dec. r R)- Major Tadeo Larre- Borges, Uru- suayan flier, and his French con- panIon, Lieutenant Leon Challe, made a forced landing last night on the northeastern coast of Brazil after q 3,600-mile flight from Se- vile, Spain, across the south At lantic.
 Although the Uruguayan legation. issued a statement this afternoon reporting both the f1iers to have been seriously injured in the land- ing. later adVices indicated that the hurts of both men were less than had been feared and that Major l-arre- Borges had been able to start for the town. of Santo An tonic.
 To make certain, however, that the fliers were given every attention, physicians and others left Natal for the scene of the landing this morn ing to render any aid that might be needed.
 The transatlantic plane turned over on landing in "a wild spot near the village of Maracuja and was wrecked.
 1 Make Forced Landing From the meagre information which trickled to the outside world from Maracuja over 8. private tele- graph line. it appeared that the airmen reached the Brazilian coast | from Spain some time last night. ' lost their way and then made a i forced landing at point about 60 miles from the coast. The landing was believed to have been between 9 ?. m. and midnight, Brazilian ! time. The wrecked plane was at con- siderable distance from any habita- l ton. and it was not until band ] of horsemen on their way to the ! coast reached it. that word could 1 be sent to Natal of the forced 1 landing. The Brazilian authorities immediately made every effort to send aid to the airmen.
 Make sixth Crossing | Although the fiiers failed in their purpose to make a nonstop 5000 mile hope to the capital of Uruguay, they achieved the sixth successful crossing of the South Atlantic and
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New Britain herald., 1929-12-17
Mother Identifies Son

Mountain View, Ark. Dec. r tP) A mother and her missing son, a robust farnt hand of 33 who sings mountain songs and then plays them on d French harp" have been reunited, but despite the sons claim that he is Connie Franklin. the courts were ready to proceed today with the trial of four men accused of murdering Franklin.
 The mother. Mrs. Lily Baker, came here last night from Clarcn- don, Ark, and embraced the son she had not seen since last Christ mas. She said his correct name was Marion Franklin Rogers and her child by q former marriage. She Identified him as the M. Frank lin" who was an inmate of the State Hospital for Nervous Diseases and who escaped in 1927.
 Mrs. Baker said Franklin is mar ried and has three children, but has been separated from his wife for five years She said he probably changed his name to prevent his wife from knowing his whereabouts and also to prevent capture au an escaped inmate of the hospital. She recognized a newspaper photo graph as her son several days ago.
 Appearance Not Needed
 Her appearance was not regarded however, as particularly material to the case because the Franklin the state contends was slain has not been definitely identified as a for mcr inmate of the hospital.
 Though five men arc charged with the torture" murder of Franklin, only four are being tried. They are Herman GrecnWay, Hu- bert Hester, Bill Younger and Joe White. The fifth, Alex l'ulks. is named in a separate indictment.
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New Britain herald., 1929-12-17
HUGE BOMBING PLANE
 FOUND AT AIRPORT
Reported Lost During Night Landed
 in Safety

Norwich, x. Y, Dec. Y tP}-The giant army bombing plane Which had been reported missing during the night when it failed 10 reach Mitchell Field from Buffalo late yes tcrdav, landed at Norwich airport shortly before 4 o'clock ycstcrday afternoon.
 Captain Rust, the pilot merely said he and Sergeant King were cold" It was said at the airport that flying conditions were bad.
 Captain Rust said he wired last night to Buffalo telling his whery- abouts. He planned to take off for Mitchell Field this morning. At the airport it was said visibility was very bad.
 The plane is of the Condor type designed for army use and built to carry pilot, co-pilot, twos machine gun operators, and a bomber.
 During the night there had been some mystery as to the whereabouts of the plane, as it had been report ed making a forced landing some where in Connecticut" but Con- nccticut state police and officials at the Brainard flying field at Hart ford said they knew of no plane landing in that state.
 Word reaching the operations Of flee at the army field here today sail that the plane had made a sarH landing, that neither it's pilot, Cap tain Rust, nor the mechanic. Ser the ship was undamagcd. Officers at the field were without defint. word as to whether Captain King WoulA proceed to MitchcI Field to- day. They said that unfavorable flying weather had been reported,
New Britain herald., 1929-12-17
Master MasOns Party
 To Be Held Saturday

The annual Christmas party q, Nhich all Master Mason are present, will nc held Saturday night at x o'clock at the Masonic temple on West Main street. Deputy sheriff Martin II. HorWitz, monarch 1aS Gsked that everyone present contrib ute a 10 cent gift.
 To make It a real Christmas party with the necessary atmosphere there will be a Santa Claus and q Christ mas tree.
New Britain herald., 1929-12-17
70 Per Cent of License
 Applicants Are Reflected

Boston, Dec. l7 tPj - Seventy per cent of the applicants for automobile drivers licenses here in effect yesterday failed to pass. Under the former method of cX- animation failures were about 40 per cent.
 The new tests, which have been described as the strictcst O. any state m the country, include an oral legal test, reading test. an eye test, a brief character examination. ;L veiIicuIar equip mcnt test and g road test.
New Britain herald., 1929-12-17
BARNES CRITICIzES
 NEW FARM BOARD
Chamber Head Says Wheat Production Over
 Stimulated

Washington. Dee. y (Py-Iulius Barnes. chairman Of the board of the United States Chamber of Com mercc. and grain exporter. testified today before the senate lobby com mittee that the activities of the farm board were tending to ovorstimulatc the production of wheat.
 Barnes said he was sorry that farm board policies had to be dis Cussed because "business was willing to give the board a chance to gHt Started.'
 He said he objected at a confyr- cnce with Chairman Lcgge of the farm board to the boards plan of loaning money to wheat CooperatiVeS at the current grain prices with the understanding that the producers were to share in any subsequent in- crease.
 Barnes was called by the lobby committ"a after reports that he lad protested the boards grain policIe> to President Hoover. This was sub. soquently denied at the White House and today Barnes testified tha: he had never discussed the board with Hoover and that he had had only one conference with LcgSe. ! He said he arranged this becausa or growing Bitterness" ." among sraiu Men and that at the meeting there were three Minneapolis grain dealers
 As t result, he testified. tho board announced a policy unG T which loans would be extended to lc. cal elevators at tho same rates as tC farm cooperative members,
 in answer to questioning by Chair. man CaraWay of tn" committee Barnes asserted that he favored ; policy hat would let the producers of wheat 'live' but he also said h, wished to preserve the ndcpcnden
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New Britain herald., 1929-12-17
Water Shortage Faces
 Citizens of MiddletOWn

MiddletoWn, Dec, 17 P}-G. Allen Schaeffer, superintendent Of public works, today issued a warning 10 householders 10 conserve their water supply as a break in the main at Mount Higb. which occurred last month threatened the city with d serious shortage.
 The reservoir. Middletown's chief water source, has now q supply Of only S5 million gallons. It has a capacity of 335 million gallons.
 Laurel Brook reservoir, used ia emergency, and with d supply of 22O,o00,O00 gallons, has also been rendered useless by a series ot breaks in the 63 year old concrete ma,n.
 The last break in this main was discovered yesterday.
New Britain herald., 1929-12-17
Linc0ln's Friend Dead;
 Once Grants COmrade

Mountain View Cal, Dec. r CP-Captain Charles H. Roland. 97 q personal friend of Abraham Lincoln and wartime comrade Of General |. $. Grant, died here yesterday after a short illness.
 Captain Roland became ac- QUaintcd with Lincoln in the na- ,uonal capitol, while he and Grant had desks side by side in the war department. After being muster ed out of the army Roland moved to Nevada. coming hcre in 1916.
New Britain herald., 1929-12-17
66 MEN ENTOMBED !. IN MINE DISASTER;
 ATTEMPT RESCUES
hCAlesteT, OkIa1 Explosion Closes Victims in UndeT-
 ground Tunnels -One Dead
FIRST AID CREW CALLED,
 SECOND SHAFT IS SUNK

Old Town Officials Say Two Of Men
 Who Entered Property Left Be-,
 fore Blast -- Uncertain Whether
 Any More Of Group Were Killed
 Group Believed in Runway Im-
 mcdiatcly Under Railroad station.
 McAIcstcr, Okla, Dee. r (P,- Fate of GG mon, trapped by an ex- plosion today in the Old Town Coal Company's mine at North McAlester. remained in doubt as rescuc crews rushed efforts 10 reach the slope where most Of the men were known to have been working.
 Fear was expressed that flow of the cntombcd men would he found alive because of poisonous gases which were believed to have spread through the mine following the blast.
 One Body Recovered
 The body of Prank Parker Of krrss. a mining engineer. who WAS not with the othor men. was brought from the mine shortly after the cX- plosion.
 First word of the disaster was brought out vixen two miners Charles pcnflcId, and Joe Griffin. sigualcd Fred Benson, hoistng en- gincor. and rode from the mine on the trip. The two who were 5000 feet down the slope. said they were driven out by smoke from the cX- plosion which, they said, occurred 5000 feet down the slope, where most of the miners were working.
 SiXty-nine mon were known 10 have gone to Worl1 in the mine this morning. Only three of these, the two who came out alive. and Parker, had been accounted for at 1 D. m.
 Rescue equipment was rushed by 1 trucks to the scene from the bureau of mines station here and rescue workers recruited hurriedly from | throughout the coal mining section.
 Gas slows Up Work Wrockagc in the mine and the danger of poisonous gases slowed the work of rescue crews as they at i tempted to reach the barrier Which 1 imprisoned the workers. Many hours, it was estimated. would be required to dig through. A crowd Of several hundred per sons, many of them frantic wives and children Of the cntombed men, had gathered at the minG entrance. Screams of the women pierced the air as the rescue work went for [ ward.
 Unable to enter the mine through the opening, the rescue crews started sinking a shaft near the old town depot of the Mssouri-kansas-TcNas railroad. The imprisoned miners were believed in tunnel almost under the depot.
New Britain herald., 1929-12-17
Laredo, Texas, Loses Consulate and
 Tourist Rights as Mexican Revenge

that merchandise entering Mexico through Laredo must be approved by the consulate at some other point, possibly Corpus Christi San Antonio, or Houston. Similarly tourists would have to seek entry cards at some other city.
 The foreign office announcement said, the department of foreign relations has sent instructions for closing of the Mexican consulate at Laredo effective Tuesday, December
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New Britain herald., 1929-12-17
NEW SAFETY WORK
 REVEALED BY NAVY
Submarine Devices Near
 PerfectiOn-U-5 Is
 Launched Today

New London, Dee. v UP)-New safety and salvage devices make it probable that the United States never again will suffer q great sub marine disaster, navy officers told the United Press here today on the second anniversary of the sinking of the S-d, with q loss of 40 lives.
 If a submarine had sunk q year ago. officers admit, the chances of rcscuing the crew would have been scarcely any better than when the coast guard destroyer paulding slic- ed through the S-4's double hull off Provincetown, Mass, and sent the submarine crashing to q muddy grave, 105 feet deep, off an unshel- tered coast.
 some still Secret
 Today a score of new devices. some Of which were revealed and some of which are still a govern- ment secret, would be brought into action.
 Regardless Of greatly improved savage ana rescue methods. the chance Of the trapped crew saving themselves have been increased many hundredfold by such develop ments as the lung and the escape hatch.
 The reaction of these inventions upon submarine personnel from commanders 10 torpedomcn is marked. The glum. fataljstic hope lossnoss of many pig boat" men after the S-4 sinkings has given way to a chcery confidence in the in creasing safety Of the undcrsca boats.
 Facilities for emergency escape have been installed upon almost all
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New Britain herald., 1929-12-17
State Tax Commission CT Writes Stinging Let ter Hitting at Mayor and Common Council Committee of Inquiry Puzzled By Situation.
Would Issue Warrant for Paonessa, if He Fails to Pay-Declares Local Of- ficial Is Performing His Duty and Has Support of Public.

Sharply crtiCizing Mayor raOn- essa, and giving complete backing to Tax Collector Bcrnadottc Loomis in his work of collecting taxes due the city of New Britain, Tax Com missioner William II. Blodgett has written to Mir. Loomis at some length relative to the situation which has arisen in this city through the appointment of q Spc- cial committee of the common coun- ci to look into the need for cm- plOying civil officer to collect taxes due on personal property, and the advisability of employing q male assistant to the collector
 'Thc charter of the city of New Britain requires that the warrant shall be signed by the mayor" Mr. Blodgett wrote. "When you obtain cd this warrant, it was your obliga- tion forthwith to collect all taxes due thereon, even as against the mayor himself. There is no provi- sion in the warrant that the mayor shall be excused from paying taxes Now if the mayor or other ~city of tiCialS do not wish that there should be warrant given 10 you accord ing to law, the mayor should not have signed such a warrant. In fact, if he did not wish to sign su1h a warrant or did not wish to pay taxes and have other citizens pay taxes he should not have run for mayor.
 The letter, which Was shown to Mayor Paoncssa by Mr. Loomis and mentioned at the committee meet ing last night, was released for pub- licaton today by Alr. Loomis after commissioner Blodgctt had given lis permission. Mr. I.oomis did not want 10 publish it, he said, but at the request of the press he did so after the commissioner had been consulted.
 Blodgctt'S Letter
 The letter, in full, is as follows:
 Hartford, Conn, Dec. If, 1929
 "Bernadottc Loomis,
 "TaX Collector.
 New Britain, Connecticut.
 "Doar AIr. Loomis:
 My attention has been called 10 news items appearing in the press or New Britain giving publicity to and shoWng that the common coun- eli of New Britain is sharply criti- csing you because you employ the means set up by the state for the collection of taxes. It appears to me you arc applying inc usual methods of bringing about collrc- tons by which to meet the budget ot the city set up by legal authority. It appears your critics do not un- derstand that you have been given D warrant directing you forthwith to collect all moneys shown to be due to the city on your rate bill. There appears further to be the oversight that you are bonded 10 the faithful performance of your duties.
 Now the question arises as to just how the bills of the city are 10 be met unless you proceed with such | means as you have been furnished by the laws of the state 10 bring those who arc determined not 10 pay thclr taxes to understand that tax payments, although they may appear hard to meet, must be made The tax gatherer has always been in trouble with the class of people who do not desire 10 pay if they can
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New Britain herald., 1929-12-17
JURY COMPLETED
 IN OZARK MURDER
Mountain Farmers to Hear
 Strange Feud Death Case
FIFTH MAN STATE WITNESS
Mother of Man Who Says He Is Connie Franklin Identifies Him Positively as Anothcr-Trial E,i- dcnCc Begun.

Mountain View, Ark, Dec. 17 tRj A jury of mountain farmers was completed today 10 try four men on charges of murdcring Connie Franklin, farm laborcr, near here last March.
 Tho 12th juror accepted was the jSth ycniremdn questioned.
 The jury Was chosen entirely from mon iii the northern section oI Stone county. Tn" rcpuId crime took place in the southern part. The jurCrs are mostly middlc-agcd mon. They are C. Paris. A. NJ. Stephens, Tom Moore, Ia Martin, Floyd Ram sey, (. $. Iinu, !. NJ. Lee, Tom Fox, Tom Copeland, l.. l.. Stewart, Rex Barnes, II. w. Branscum.
 Fifth Man to Be Witness
 In calling the list of state wifi n"sses. Prosecuting Attorney Hugh Williamson revealed that Alex FuIks, one of the five men charged with murdcIin@ Franklin. but not Ecing tried with the other four, is to be a witness for the state.
 He is charged with the same crime as the others, but is named iu q separate ;ndictment.
 On the list of defense witnesses CaAed, appeared the name of Con- nie Franklin" the man who says he is the one the four men-are accused of murdcrinG.
 Prosecutor Williamson said there was no significance 10 the calling of Alex Fulks at u state witness. It was indicated his testimony for the state would bc of an unimportant nature. He was called also as q de fGnse witness.
New Britain herald., 1929-12-17

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