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New Britain herald., 1929-07-02
NEW ORLEANS HAS
 STREET GAR STRIKE
Men Turn Down Agreement
 Unanimously Out

New Orleans, July 2.-tP)-An possible motor buses and taNicabs were pressed into service today to furnish transportation in a general strike of street car employees here.
 Approximately 1,S00 men were ar- .ected by the surprise suspension of work order issued last night by Ed win PeyrouX, president. and other officials of the local carmen's union. ordering activities to cease on the claim that recent arbitration with New Orleans Public Service, Inc. over alleged dsmissals and suspen- sions of employees had proven unsat- isfactory.
 The trect car men pposent in mass meeting unanimously turned down, clause by clause, a new three year contract proposed by public service and accepted the order 10 walk out on completion of their runs. The or der became finally effective at 5:2O o'clock this morning, the time for the last night cars to enter the barns.
 Meanwhile city officials were seek ing to smooth over the differences and preserve order. Mayor J. Okeefe called the city council in special session today in an attempt at reconciliation and Superintendent of Police Theodore Ray called back to duty all policemen on vacation to preserve order at the barns.
New Britain herald., 1929-07-02
PATTERSON FIRST
 FULL TIME MAYOR
QuitS Insurance Business to
 Devote Time to Hartford

Hartford, July P-Walter E. Patterson has become Hartford's first full time mayor, as he has ter. minated his connection today with the Travellers Insurance company, which his grandfather, James G. Patterson, founded.
 The major was assistant secretary of the Travellers Fire Insurance company, formed five years ago. His father was for many years resident director of the Travellers in New York. MT. Patterson says he finds the duties of the mayors office re- quire the greater portion of his time.
 It is known too, that the mayor has become keenly interested in politics and that he would like to go
New Britain herald., 1929-07-02
Crime Problems, Tax Rela- tions, Prison Employ ment, Aviation, Some of Topics.

Live Oak, Florida, July Ry- Crime problems, the employment of prisoners, federal government and | state tax relations, the gasoline tax promotion of aeronautics, individual i responsibility in government and the | segregation plan of taxation are to De the major topics of discussion at the annual governors conference to ! he held at the Grswold hotel, New London, Conn.,, July 16 to IS, inclu- Siye.
 Details Announced i The details for the business ses- Sions of the conference were com i nleted here today by Cary A. Hardee. i of Live Oak, former governor Of Florida, and now secretary of the conference, and reveal a list of notable speakers, including II gov crnors, Harry F. Guggenheim of | New York. president of the Guggcn- helm fund for promotion of aerO- nautics. and Tax Commissioner Will liam H. Blodgett of Connecticut. At the opening session Tuesday morn | ing. July 16. Governor George H. l Dcrn, of Utah. chairman of the con- ! ference executive committee, will 1 preside. Governor John II. Trumbull of Connecticut will make the address o fWelcome, to which Governor Hen " s. Caufeld of Missouri will re- spond
 What is expected 10 be the fea- l ture of the conference will be the discussion "Cooperation of Governors on Crime Problems" by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt. of New York Governor Roosevelt is scheduled to | follow Governor Caufeld and open | the general discussion and business ! program after the opening formali- ties
 The other speakers on Tuesday morning will be Governor William Tudor Gardiner of Maine, and Gov o. Max Gardner of North Carolina. l The former will have Employ ment of Prisoners as his topic, giv- ing particular attention to the effect
  HaWes bill concerning prison labor.
 To Discuss Criminals ] Governor Gardner will discuss "Youthful Criminals"
 At the next business session, which will be devoted to taxation and avia- ton and will be held Wednesday morning. July r, Governor Albert i Is tchie. of Maryland. will preside.
 Tax Commissioner Blodgett will be the first speaker. discussing federal government and state tax relations. Next. on the Wednesday morning program, is Governor Harry Flood Byrd, of Virginia, who will outline "The Segregation Plan of Taxation" ,"
 Governor George F, Sharfer of North Dakota, will deliver the next address, speaking on Gasoline Taves"
 i The session will be brought to a
New Britain herald., 1929-07-02
Chamber Drive Starts
 With Receipts of S70

X total of S7O was received .the first day of the Chamber of Com merce drive for unpaid dues, accord ing to reports at headquarters this morning. The organization is con- ducting a weeks drive to clean up approximately $500 in unpaid dues. Miss Gladys Weir. assistant secrA- tary, in charge during the absence of Secretary Ralph H. Benson, OK poets to collect at least $100 a day throughout the week.
New Britain herald., 1929-07-02
COUNTERFEIT BILLS
 EPIDEMIC IN STATE
Several Turned In-SeCret
 Service Investigating

Hartford July P)-An epidemic of counterfeit bills, deceptive photo graphic reproductions of s10 Federal Reserve notes. has apparently been put into circulation throughout the central part of Connecticut within the past few weeks. United States Attorney Buckley stated today.
 During the past week, he said, some eight or 10 specimens have been turned over to his office by Hartford, New Haven and Ansonla banks, all of approximately the same type, though he was unable definitely to state tha, they had come from the same manufacturing source.
 Makers of, spurious currency, the attorney pointed out, customarily sell their product, in effect as a commodity to those who later pass it off.
 All complaints received at the at torney's office have been turned over to the federal secret service bureau at New Haven, which is investigat- ing.
New Britain herald., 1929-07-02

being notified that the will could
 not be found, Attorney Nair recon
 structed one from his notes. Some of the memoranda was in his own 1 handwriting and some in Mir. Hig- by's.
 Mir. Wooster asked Attorney Nair , if it was customary for attorneys to keep notes on wills drawn in their offices, and the attorney ,an- swered that the practice is to re- tain copies but MT. Higby did not
 want any copy made in this in stance, so the notes were placed in the file. Ten years from now, the
 notes will still be in our files,' At | torney Nair said.
 City Clerk A. L. Thompson and | J. w. Roche testified that they wit
 messed Mr. Higby's signature 10, the
 will. They could not recall the date
 or the year but believed it was
 more than three years ago.
 Estate Worth About S1O,Oo0 Judge Gaffney asked the heirs if
 they had any objection to the ad-
 mission of the reconstructed docu- ment and Mir. Wooster said there
 was objection to the appointment
 of MT. Andrews as eXecutor, but Judge Gaffney replied that MT. An drcws was named in the will and
 there was nothing for the court to do about if. Mir. Andrews qualified
 at once and Judge Gaffney fiycd his bond at s15.On0 after MT. An drews said he believed the estate
 would inventory at approximately $1O,000.
 Undue Influence Theory Rejected
 MT Wooster's mention of the proba blity of undue influence hav- ing been brought to bear on Mir. Higby drew statement from Judge Gaffney that the testimony
 of Attorney Israel Nair as to the circumstances the time and the place disproved such a' condition.
 As to Mr. Higby's need for a con- Servator, Judge Gaffney said he re-
 called him as being strong five years ago.
 One of the heirs inquired as to i the matter of handbook which
 was turned over to someone during Mr. Higby's illness and Judge Calf ney replied that the inventory of the | estate could be examined when pre- scntod and if there was a bank ac- count it should show in the invcn- tory. Another of the heirs said Mir Higby had told her privately several years ago that he had S10,000 saved up for his nioccs and if that was so i she supposed t must now be greatly | in excess of that figure. Judge
 Gatfney replied that this matter also would be attended 10 in the inven- l tory.
 The heirs nominated John A. 1 Lindsay as an appraiser of the esta7e hut later they telephoned to Judge Gaffney 10 appoint Col. W. w. Bull
 len. Appointment of appraisers will be made shortly.
New Britain herald., 1929-07-02
CIVIL SUITS RECORDED

Edward Meshken has brought suit for s250 against Stanley Krupp through Attorney Bernard L. AL pert Constable Fred Wrinkle made service.
 Property Of Louis Horwitz on East and Belden streets was attached by Constable Fred Wrinkle today in g suit for $500 brought by Louis Cro'I. Attorney Edward A. Mag represents the plaintiff
New Britain herald., 1929-07-02
SUBSTITUTE HIGBY WILL IS ADMITTED BY PROBATE COURT
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funeral expenses is also directed.
 Will Nan;shpS After Funeral

funeral expenses is also directed.
 Will Nan:shes After Funeral
 At the outset of the hearing, At- tOrney David l.. Nair. who, with At torney Leo V. Gaffney, represented James F.. Andrews of this city. proponent of the reconstructed will, called MT. Andrews 10 testify and Judge Gaffney intcrrogated him as to the circumstances surrounding the lost will. MT, Andrews said the heirs gathered at his home after Mir. Ttisby's funeral and he read the wil!, afterwards passing it about among them for inspection. That was the last he saw of t.
 Judge Gaffncy asked him whcth- CT he had searched the house for it and he replied that he had look
 ed through his insurance papers and other papers where it might
 have been put but no trace of it could be found. He made affidavit before Attorney David l.. Nair, in which he set forth that he had laid the will on desk or table in
 the room and could not find it afterward.
 Attorney Israel Nair testified that he drew a will for Mr. Higby | in July 1925, in his office and kept notes in his files. He recalled that the will was signed between and 6 D. m. when MT. Highy was able to leave the elevator in city hall.
 which he operated for years. On
New Britain herald., 1929-07-02
GOLF PRO INJURED

Philadelphia, July ? P}-Harry Cooper, pro golfer of Buffalo. who came to Philadelphia for the Penn sylvani open golf championship starting today, will be out of the tournament because of an injured ankle. Going in taXicab to the Whitemarsh Valley Country club late yesterday where the tournament is being held, Cooper was hurt when the cab collided with a bus
New Britain herald., 1929-07-02
Plans For Governors Conference At New London Include Speeches
 By Many Notables of Country

close with talk by MT. Guggen- helm. who will tell the governors of tions in aviation.
 Governor Clyde Reed of Kansas will preside at the final business ses- sion Thursday morning. Governor Myers Y. Cooper of Ohio is the only speaker scheduled for this meeting. taking as his topic, Individual Atti- tude Towards Government"
 General round-table discussions of the various subjects reviewed dur ing the convention will follow. and the customary executive session will conclude the session and conference.
New Britain herald., 1929-07-02
FIREWORKS EXPLODE

Portland, Me, July ? LP}-Two amateur chemists were under treat mcnt for painful burns at a hospital here today following a premature explosion of homemade fireworks which they were preparing for the celebration of the Fourth of July Those hurt were Warren Newbegin, 19, and Jeremiah Paine, s.
New Britain herald., 1929-07-02

old child, died on June IS, shortly after neighbors heard her scream- and found her in convulsions.
 An alleged confession by Nix that he fed her capsule of poison waa fense pleaded for leniency on the ground that paralysis had left Nix partly disabled and mentally un- balanced
New Britain herald., 1929-07-02

to congress. being especially de- sirious of securing the republican nomination in the event that Con- necticut is given a sixth seat and the post of congressman-at at-large is created. He was chairman of the republican town committee of Hart ford for seven years.
New Britain herald., 1929-07-02
Man Who Poisoned Wife
 Gets 99 Year Sentence

Boston, Tex, July ? R-Ocie Nix, young Malta farmer was con- victed of the poison murder of his r year old wife. Neinta, and sen fenced to go years Imprisonment by a jury here last night.
 Mrs. Nix, mother of a five month
New Britain herald., 1929-07-02
BANK CALL ISSUED

Washington, July ? P,-The comptroller of the currency today issued a call for the condition of all national banks at the close of busi- ness on Saturday, June 20.
New Britain herald., 1929-07-02

MT. Higby died June g and the loss of the will occurred a few day later. It is said to be the first time such an incident occurred in the his tory of the propate court in this district.
New Britain herald., 1929-07-02
Personals

Ex-Fire Commissioner T. J. Shanahan of Hart street spent the week end at Indian Neck.
New Britain herald., 1929-07-02

Park Commissioner A. F. Berg ~ returned from Milwaukee where ae represented the kiwanis club at the national convention. Mr. Berg in- spected a number of prominent parks cn route,
New Britain herald., 1929-07-02

Miss Betty Gravaleck of North Burritt street is enjoying a vacation of one week at Myrtle Beach, Mil ford.
New Britain herald., 1929-07-02

Miss Betty Gravaleck of North Burritt street is enjoying a vacation of one week at Myrtle Beach, Mill ford.
 Philip Q. Riley of North street is vacatoning for two weeks at h. dian Neck.
 Miss Mary McEvoy and Loretta Caufield, teachers in the Nathan Hale Junior High school. with Miss Mary Meehan and Alice Stiquel, teachers in the Smalley school left yesterday to attend the Yale sum- mcr school They will make their home a: Prospect Beach.
 MT and Mrs. Edward Johnson and baby daughter are spending two weeks vacation a Saybrook Manor, William Patterson of Washington street is on an aut omobile trip to Detroit, Michigan.
 Mrs. William Geary of Beaver street returned yesterday from St Francis hospital, Hartford, where she underwent an operation d few weeks ago.
 Sergeant r. J. O'Mara of the de tective bureau is taking his annual two weeks vacation. Mr. and Mrs, James T. I'itzGerald Of Detroit, Mich. are the guests of Mrs. Mary NJ. Lookliss, 4S9 Park street. Mrs FitzG Gerald. before her marriage was Miss Anna NJ. Look liss of this city.
 Mrs. John J. Holloway and daugh- . ter, Eunicc, of Murray street have days with Mrs. Holloway's mother, Mrs. James Fox of Naugatuck. Miss Catherine Riley of Washing ! ton street left Sunday for the Berk- shires where she will spend part i of her vacation. Mr. and Mrs George Pratt and son l of Lisbon Falls, Maine, are guests of Mrs. Ella Preston of 23 Bradley street.
 l Mir and Mrs. John Kalinowskas and Helen kalinowslias of 21$ Nor h street are spending the week at i Montreal, Canada. l Miss Ida Moore of New York is spending spending a two weeks vacation with her parents, Mir. anl Mrs. Louis. Moore of 97 Hartford avenue.
 Mrs. George Hildcbrandt Of ,,'iine- decker lane was in New York city yesterday.
 [ Mrs, John Sullivan and daughter, | Rena, of 26 Wilson street are spent
 Ing the summer at the Rena cot tage in Indian Neck. Branford. , Miss Marjorie Senf of Chestnut street, a member of the office force
 of the New Britain school depart | ment. is on her annual months va i cation.
 Mrs. k. J. Vance left today 10 i spend the summer months at her I home in Clinton.
 Walter o. Cook, former Boy Scout 1 executive of this city and now filling similar position in New Bedfor !,
New Britain herald., 1929-07-02

Walter o. Cook, former Boy Scout executive of this city and now filling similar position in New Bedfor !, Mass, is renewing acquaintances III New Britain.
New Britain herald., 1929-07-02

Philip Q. Riley of North street is Nacationing for two weeks at h. dian Neck.
New Britain herald., 1929-07-02

Miss Mary McEvoy and Loretta Caufield teachers in the Nathan Hale Junior High school, with Miss Mary Meehan and Alice Stiquel, teachers in the Smalley school left yesterday to attend the Yale sum- mcr school. They will make their home a: Prospect Beach.
New Britain herald., 1929-07-02

MT and Mrs Edward Johnson and baby daughter are spending two weeks vacation a Saybrook Manor,
New Britain herald., 1929-07-02

Mrs. k. J. Vance left today 10 spend the summer months at her home in Clinton.
New Britain herald., 1929-07-02

William Patterson of Washington street is on an automobile trip to Detroit, MiChigan
New Britain herald., 1929-07-02

Mrs. William Geary of Beaver street returned yesterday from St Francis hospital. Hartford, where she underwent an operation few weeks ago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-05
Magnetic Crane in Moscow Steel Works

ton has been the Moscow "Persim-
phans," a large orchestra which,
plays the classics without conduc-
tor. Other Soviet cities have also
adopted the leaderless orchestras.
The Soviet Union has developed a
number of young virtuosos that have
attracted attention abroad as well
as at home, notably, O5orin, Gins
burg, Neuhaus,, Yudin, Kamensky,
Miklashevsky, and Kerner. Foreign
performers and conductors have been
invited to the U. S. S. r. and have
played before enthusiastic crowds,
including Walter, Klemperer, Vein
gartner, Monte and Fried.
The attempt to find new express
ion for the Revolution in the opera
and ballet has taken two different
directions. The Ieningrad opera bas-
es itself on contemporary music, on
the conviction that only contempt
rary music is fit for the new audi
ence. 1t specializes in Schreeker's
distant Bells" Strauss "Salome,"
Prokofiev's "Love of the Three Or
anges," and the ballots of Strayin-
sky and Kshennick. On the other
hand, the Bolshoi Theatre, with its
branches, deeply rooted as it had
been in the imperial regime, moved
much more slowly toward modern
ism. 1t revived and tried to improve
its productions of Boris Godunov,
Faust, Carmen, Lohengrin, and sim
liar classics. The enormous size of
the Moscow opera confines it to two
or three new productions year. 1t
ATTEMPTED to make up for its con-
sentative repertoire by modern stag
ing and by rewriting the librettoes.
It's orchestra and ballet retained
high standards.
While giving excellent productions
of old and new classics, the Soviet
opera has experienced great Difficult
ty in creating new operas reflecting
the Revolution in music. Several
were indeed produced in Leningrad
and Moscow, but none of them went
beyond the experimental stage.
Among the more successful were
Pashchenko's Eagles Revolt" the
libretto of which was based on the
18th century peasant uprising; and.
Zolotaryev's "The Decembrists,"
basing his plot on the revolt of Rus
sian army officers in 1926. The sit
uation is little better in the eau
casus, where the Soviet Govern
ment's policy toward the culture, of
minor nationalities gave rise to the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-05

ton created an immense musical
audience which demanded the best
possible concerts. To satisfy this
mass demand for music, the Com
missariat of Education created a
special department which rapidly
organized orchestras, singers troupes
and concerts.
The new audience of Red Army
soldiers, students and workers were
not satisfied, however, with the old
! pot-pourri type of program, making
a hash Of opera selections, western
classics, and Russian music from
Glinka to Prokofiev. There arose a
need for a new repertoire and a
musical content, more in accord
with the new times. There was a
demand for songs and orchestral
pieces suitable for the great revolu-
tionary open-air festivals. The ear
Hest efforts in this direction were
made by the Proletkult, a workers
organization for encouraging a spe-
officially proletarian culture. Later
Moscow saw the organization of the
Composers Association, which sought
to express the Revolution in music.
At present the State Publishing
House issues many new musical
compositions, and has the collabora-
ton not only of the talented musical
youth, but also of older composers
like Krein, Gliere, and Gnessin.
While encouraging new Revolu-
tionary music, the Soviet Govern
nent felt the necessity of continuing
the rich heritage of the past and
making it accessible to the people
of Russia. Operas and concerts
throughout the country bring to the
worker and peasant the compost
lions of Glinka, Rimsky- Korsakoff,
Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Borodin,
Stravinsky and Prokofiev as we'll as
the German, French and Italian
classics. The Moscow, Leningrad and
Odessa opera houses flourish on a
subscription basis. Many of these
subscriptions are taken by trade
unions which distribute the tickets
among workers. Symphony orches-
tras have developed in workers clubs
from Moscow to the remotest prov
inces. Moscow, Tiflis, Leningrad,
Odessa, and other cities celebrated
the Beethoven festival with splendid
concerts.
One of the most interesting ex-
periments introduced by the Revolu-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-05
Music old and New In Soviet Russia

THOUGH one of Russia's youngest
arts, music is among its most
highly developed. 1t originally grew
out of the demands Of the old aris-
tocracy in the seventh century, seek
ing to initiate the aristocratic cul-
ture of western Europe. 1t was ma
tural, therefore, that the first branch
of music to reach excellence in Rus
STA should be the opera, closely re-
lated as it was to the imperial court.
Musicians of the Neapolitan school,
such as Arraya, Galluppi, Cimarosa,
and Paisiello, serving at the Tsar's
court, produced Russia's first operas.
These were followed by French i'm
portations. 1t was only toward the
end of the 18th and the beginning
of the 18th centuries, when the ma
tionalist sentiments famed in Europe
by the French Revolution found an
echo in Russia, that native compos-
ers began to transform the maternal
of Russian folk songs into operas.
The greatest Of these early 2ussisu
composers was Mikhail Glinka,
whose works were composed for the
court, the nobility, and the new
merchant class.
These early composers found
themselves burdened by the atmos-
phere of feudal disintegration of the
court and the nobility. They were
creating over the heads of their audi
ences, and some of them, like Rubin
stein and Tchaikovsky, were forced
to succumb to western Influences.
However, stronger men, Xix Mus
sorgsky, Borodin and Rimsky-Kor-
sakoff, cut loose from the debilitat-
ing influence of the upper classes,
and drew power for their compost
tions from the folk songs in which
Russian people voiced their aspira-
tions. These two lines of develop
ment, one rooted in the sophisticated
music of Western Europe, the other
in native popular music, persisted
throughout Russian composition up
to 1914. By that time Russian music
began to achieve a synthesis of the
two strains in the musical symbol
ism of Scriabin, the gay experiments
of Stravinsky and the neo-classicism
of Prokofiev.
On the eve of the World War the
leading Russian composers were
known throughout the civilized
world. The works of Mussorgsky,
Tchakovsky, Borodin, Glazunov,
Stravinsky, Scriabin and Prokofiev
were performed in European and
American cities. Russia possessed a
rich musical tradition. The Revolu-
ton of 1917 found the musical intel
lectuals unprepared to grasp the
significance of the historic change.
Composers like Rakhmaninov, Stra-
vinsk, Prolsofiev, and Metner; con-
ductors like Kussevitsky; pianists
like Orlove and Borovsky; singers |
like Shaliapin remained abroad.
Some of these attempted to work
under the Soviet regime, but the
musical world was weakened for a
time by the civil war and the IA
mine. At the same time, the Revolu- |