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New Britain herald., 1929-07-27
NEW MILFORD BANKS
 FUNDS ARE MISSING
Death of Official Reveals Shortage-Probe
 Begun

Bridgeport, July v P-The Bridgeport Telegram today sad that a partial audit of the books O. the New Milford Security company at New Milford. an IS year old in sttution. has already shown q de- ficit. The audit began this week, follc wing the death of Edwin Justin Emmons, manager of the company for the past F years. He died on July 16, the day after he had been discharged by the directors of the company
 The Telegram quotes Medical Ex- aminer Dr. Frederick E. King, as saying that death was due to acui': indigestion and myoraditis. Powell G. Seeley of Washington, Conn, newly elected manager Of the cont pany and director for years. also stated that d complete audit of the books may require months. A state ment of condition will be made next Thursday at a stockholders meeting Residents of New Milford have liberally used the security company for their banking house, placing with Mr. Emmons of the security company money for investment so that it is estimated that most of the loss will fall on these customers. Some 53 residents had an aggregate of S50,00O in the company and 4U others had deposited a total of abont $l00.0O0 investment. Most Of the loss is due to "frozcn' assets in the form of mortgages on weste ern lands.
 There was also a loan of about S100,000 without security an another company of which Emmons was treasurer. Mir. Seeley said that col lection of the loan did not seem likely.
 Emmons had been. for IS years teller and treasurer of the New Mill ford Savings bank and for years Il director of the First National DanH of New Milford.
 There is an appeal pending in superior court. over accounting or an estate in which the security company was eXeCutor the allpGa- ton having been that S175.00O of the trust funds were missing. Tho accounting had been asked for by George Allen of Buffalo, N. Y, all heir to the estate in question.
New Britain herald., 1929-07-27
BRLAND EXPECTED
 ID FORM CABINET:
 P0|NCARE RESIGNS
Health Forces Head Of French Government to Quit-Whole
 Cabinet WithdraWS
PRESIDENT MAY CALL
 , NEW PREMIER TODAY

Impending Operation Causes Pres
 ent Leader to Make Decision-
 Impassioned Fight for Debt Ac-
 cords Settlement Drained Strength
 of Veteran Statesman -- New
 Choice 10 Times in Office.
 Paris, July 27 PD-The French cabinet resigned in q body shortly before noon today after Raymond Poincare, premier, refused to recon slider his own decision to resign. An impending operation, made neces- sary by exhaustion and fatigue from his long fight for he debt agree ment with America, was behind the premier's action.
 The cabinets resignation was handed to President Doumergue, who presided at the meeting, by Louis Barthou, acting premier, who drafted a letter reading as follows:
 The efforts We have made with NJ. Poincare to persuade him in the interests of his country 10 retain direction Of public affairs has not met with the result We had hoped.
 Bow To Decision
 "We must bow to his decision with the regret of not being able 70 continue a collaboration that was accompanied by our admiration and respectful devotion. Therefore We beg you, M. President, kindly to ac- cept our resignation and the express sion of our profound respect"
 The letter was signed by all the ministers and sub-secrctaries.
 Prior to appearing at the cabinet meeting, Aristide Briand. foreign minister, and Louis Barthou, who is vice premier, had gone 10 the home of NJ. Poincare and sought 10 have him change his mind about leaving the ministry Their quest was hope less, however, as they returned with their bad news.
 NJ, PoinCare himself had sent let tcrs announcing his resignation last night both to the cabinet and to President Doumcrguc. That to the president read:
 "The fears that I expressed to you have been realized. It is impossible for me 10 be restored to health com | pletely without q surgical operatio I the preparations for which and the convalescenCe will condemn me 10 enforced rest for twe-- or three months.
 Cannot Complete Work q cannot therefore. especially un- der the present circumstances, full i'll as I should the functions that you have been good enough to en- trust to me the last three years, and I find myself to my deep regret in the necessity of presenting to you my resignation.
 T remain profoundly grateful to you for the good will you never ceased to show me and I beg you 70 receive. M. President, the renewed assurance of my respect
 (Signed)
 "RAYMOND POINCAIRE."
 President Doumergue. after the usual exchange of compliments ac- cepted the ministrys resignation, asking them to continue their work
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New Britain herald., 1929-07-27
CONTROVERSY OVER NAVAL CUT LOOMS.
 IN NEXT CONGRESS
Hoover Will Face Fight on De- CiSi0n to Curtail Cruiser
 Program Soon
PRESIDENT DETERMINED
 TO GARRY OUT PROPOSAL

Chairman Hale's Statement That Chief Executive Is "Entirely in Error'' Seen As Significant Indica- tion of Fight Before Both Houses When Legislators Meet Again King Approves.
 Washington July 27 P)-'Th2 prospect that cruiser building again will raise a point of bitter contro- versy in congress is rapidly becom- ing more and more definitely indi- cated in the discussion which has arisen over President Hoover's right to suspend construction to match the similar action of Prime Minister MacDonald
 The discussion already has dis closed the White House under Mr. Hoover holding much the same at titude toward the efforts of many members of congress who advocated mandatory construction of the ves- sels within fixed time limits that it maintained under Calvin Coolidge during the last two years of his ad- minislration while the 15 cruiser law Was under consideration.
 Coolidge In Dispute
 Coolidge's desire that the presi- dents hands be not tied to a rigid construction program in the law was the pivot of most of that two-year dispute, and the comment which has followed President Hoover's action Suspending construction indicates that the conflicting viewpoints which marked that contest are about as strongly opposed as ever at least as far as the leaders are con- Cerncd.
 The presidents opinion that the act gives him authority to delay construction of all 15 cruisers until the end of the three year period June 30. 1881. is held by Chairman
 
 committee to be "entirely in error.' Senator King. democrat, Utah, who opposed the cruiser program, i3 ready, OF the other hand, to move for specific congressional approval of the presidents action If the advo- cates of the laws time clause de- eide to challenge it.
 Situation May Change
 Although that indicates one line of cleavage which might be expect ed, predictions of what may actual ly develop after congress reassem- bles are not being made, since the conversations being conducted among the United States, Great Britain and other naval powers are recognized as holding the possibil- ity of producing new facts which
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New Britain herald., 1929-07-27
SOClETY'S LEADERS
 JAILED AS RADICALS
Daughter Of Former Governor
 Arrested in "Rel" Raid
ATTENDED AS SPECTATOR
Other Socially Prominent PhiIadeI-
 phia WCiien Hcld-55 Taken By Police ct Strike Sympathy Meet

Philadelphia. July 2 tF}-Forty- five of the 5 persons arrested last night when police raided an alleged radical meeting in Grand Fraternity hall, spent the night in police sta 'jon cells The others were released on copies of the charge.
 Among the prisoners, many of whom were women. was Miss Anna Pennypacker, daughter of the late Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker, of Pennsylvania. Miss PennypackeT was offered her release on a copy of the charge. but declined to accept unless all the others were given their freedom. They were released early today on copies of the charge.
 Had No Permit
 The prisoners were charged with holding a meeting without a permit and some of them with disorderly conduct and distributing scdtous literature.
 The meeting was called by the Workers International Relief to de- wise ways and means ol helping a group of textile workers in Gastonia, N. C.. who are charged with the Killing of q policeman during labor disturbance in that city. A quantity of alleged radical literature and a card announcing a meeting to be held next Thursday night under the auspices of the Communist Party of America and the Communists Youths league, were seized by the raiders.
 Miss Pennypacker said she had at tended the meeting merely as a spec tdtor.
 A>tCunded At Arrest
 T went to the meeting" she de- dared, "because l was interested in the Gastonia affair. I would not have believed it possible that this could have happened in philadel- phia, the cradle or liberty. My an- cestors camo to America more than 200 years ago in the cause of free dom, and 1 thought surely we had it in this good old Quaker city,
 Other women taken into custody included Miss Kate Kelsey and Miss Helen Mallery, both of whom are socially prominent here.
New Britain herald., 1929-07-27
REPORTS CONFLICT
 IN CHINESE TROUBLE
Moscow Dispatches Tell Of More
 Atrocities to SOYiets
MANCHURIA TALKS PEACE
First Conference H2lI, NaaGcr h. formation InG.ca.cs-Disordcrs in Shanghai Rumored By Cables "Ecd" Plans Revealed.

London. July 27 tP-Moscow dis patches today continued to relate stories of atrocities" by Chinese in ManchEria on Soviet citizens there, and to tell of demonstrations throughout the Soviet union seeking redress for insults to the Russian proletarian state.
 AdviceS from China put an entirc- ly different aspect on the situation in Manchuria, and emphasized the feeling of Sino officials that the al tercation growing out of seziure Of the Chinese Eastern railway would be settled peaceably.
 Conference Held
 There were only meager reports from either country, but those from China were taken as indicating I preliminary conference took plare . Wednesday between Chang TsO- Hsiang, governor of Kirin division of Manchuria, and the Soviet consul general at Harbin. E. N. Meinikov.
 NJ, Meinikov zas said to have started thereafter for Moscow to re- count the events of the past sevaT weeks to his government. Tho Chinese were reported in one des- patch to he determined on peace and to be pleading that the seizul @ of the Chinese Eastern was an un- authorized action of the road $ president, Lu Yung Huan.
 This explanation clashed obviously with earlier Chinese statements re- garding the seizure.
 Disorders in Shanghai
 In Shanghai there were a series of disorders and dem onstratiOnS which it was believed were for%- runners of other disturbances on August 1, Soviet holiday,
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New Britain herald., 1929-07-27
Sill Going Strong

St. Louis Mo-, July 27.-(UP)- Completing a fortnight in the air with as much apparent ease as it did the first day, the St. Louis Robin at tained 333 consecutive hours at 4:17 a. m. today.
 Good for another week at least and hope we can go beyond that" was the amazing assurance sent down by it's co-pilots, Dale Jackson and Forest O'Brine
 Their air-cooled Challenger motor "sounds as good as ever," said Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor com pany, and with apparent conviction he added:
 II came here from Buffalo to sec the St. Louis Robin land, hut I'm go- ing home to get in a couple of days work and return sometime next week.
 5 Weeks Possible Coal
 Everyone appeared to feel the same way about this longest flight in history. and as the weather held almost unbelievably calm the fliers' goal of three weeks, 5O4 hours" was taken seriously.
 Red" Jackson summed up the situation in a 14-word note 10 his parents, Mir. and Mrs. Henry ("Shucks") Jackson. who flew here yesterday from their dairy home at Faribault, Minn.
 Everything is fine" he told them but you'll have to wait a long time to see us"
 The Jacksons. a bit air-sicll but
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New Britain herald., 1929-07-27
ENDURANCE PLANE IN FIFTEENTH DAY;
 TEXAS ACES DOWN
'Robin" Passes Two Week Mark and Sets Hopes on
 300 Hours AlOft
BLOWN CYLINDER HAL1S
 HOUSTON PLANE EFFORT

Jackson and O'Brine Take on Light
 Load of Gasoline and Pass 336th
 Hour Above Field-Competitors
 Forced to Land-"Ma" and "Pa'
 of Pilot Arrive to Share Triumph
 With "Hero" Son.
 St. Louis, July 27 tP>-Dale (Red) Jackson and Forest O'Brine, pilotng the monoplane "St. Louis Robin" rounded out 336 hours or two tdll weeks in the air at 7:17 d. m. C. $. ID today. They took on a light load of fuel and nosed the plane into it's fifteenth day aloft.
New Britain herald., 1929-07-27
THE, WEATHER

New Britain and vicinity: Fair and slightly warmer to- night; Sunday fair and con- tinued warm.
New Britain herald., 1929-07-27
Plane Forced Down

I'TttIIt T UTTVU DUWH
 Houston, Texas, July 27 P@A blown cylinder" forced the endur- ance monoplane Billion Dollar City" 10 land at the Houston airport at 6:45 a m. today The ship had been aloft 233 hours and A min uteS.
New Britain herald., 1929-07-27
HIGH TIDES-JULI HS

New London 2:26 .m., .,3:O4 pm. New Haven 3:43 am, ,4:21 p.m.
 JULY 20
 New LCndCn 3:1S a.m.,3 J5 p.n. New Haven 4:36 a.m.,5:13
New Britain herald., 1929-07-27

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New Britain herald., 1929-07-27

RAYMOND pOINCAlRE.'
 President Doumergue. after the usual exchange of compliments ac- cepted the ministry's resignation, asking them to continue their work
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5 Weeks Possible Coal

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Disorders in Shanghai

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-31

Miss Mary Isabel Dwight, in their
home on Twenty-first street.
Miss Mae Vance has recalled invita-
tionS for a New Year eve party at
her home.
Mrs. Michael ]. Gormley will give
a tea dance tomorrow in the palm court
of the Mayfiower Hotel for her daugh-
ter, Miss Jane Gormley, who is pass
ing the holidays in Washington.
Mrs. Frederick Mccormick Goodhart
will be at home informally tomorrow
afternoon in her home. Langley Park,
on Ridge road, Md. Mrs. F. Hamilton
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT will receive with
the hostess.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. Matthews Dick will
entertain q party of 10 this evening at
the Club Chantecler.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter A. Drury will
entertain at dance this evening.
Mrs. George Herman will entertain
at tea this afternoon in the palm court
of the Mayfower, having 10 in her
party.
Mrs. Lewis Turner, jr., will be hostess
at tea tomorrow in her home on
Woodley road for Miss Betty Richards,
schoolgirl daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ralph Richards. About 200 guests have
been asked. Assisting the hostess
daughter will be Miss Doris Heaton.
Miss Jeanne Richards, Miss Louise
Hoehling and Miss Lucille Elliott.
Miss Mary Stuart Birdsall, subdebu-
tante daughter Of DR.. and Mrs. Gregg
Birdsall. will be the guest in whose
honor her parents will entertain at a
tea dance tomorrow In the Chinese
room OF the Mayfiower.
Mrs. Patterson and Her
Son Give Dinner Dance.
Mrs. Rushmore Patterson and her son.
Mr.. Rushmore Patterson, a student at
Princeton, entertained at dinner last
night IN their home on Massachusetts
avenue, and later took those dining with
them and number of additional guests
to their dance in the Willard Hotel
There was q delightful profusion Of
Movers in the home of Mrs. Patterson
and in the Willard ball room were palms
and Christmas decorations.
:, Miss Loranda Prochnik, daughter of
the Minister Of Austria; Miss Elsie w,
Ekengren, Miss Laura Tuckerman and
Miss Margaretta Bayard Wright were
the guests OF honor, and besides them
at the dinner last night were the Grand
Duchess Kira, Countess Alice Szechenyi,
Miss Ellis Bostrom, Signorina Vittoria
Catalani, Miss Dora White, Miss Emily
Frelinghuysen, Miss Florence Myer, Miss
Natalie Pulsifer, Miss Caroline Roebling.
Herr Zu Putlitz, secretary of the Ger
man embassy; Mr.. George Duca, at
tache of the Rumanian legation; Mr..
Henry w. Keyes. jr.: Mr.. Robert
Hinckley, Mr.. Mitchell Carroll, Mr..
Cuthbert Train. Mr.. Harry Mitchell,
Mr.. Hilbert Sabine, Mr.. Ashland Dunn,
Mr.. John Sweeney, Mr. Frederick DON
aldson and Mr.. Walcott Andrews.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter r. Tuckerman
entertained at buffet supper last eve
ming in the Mayfiower preceding the
concert and dance given by the Har-
ward instrumental Club. About rs
guests were present, including the sea-
sons debutantes and other members of
the young society group.
Judge and Mrs. Josiah A. Van Orsdel
will return in q short time to their
apartment at the Hotel Roosevelt from
Nebraska, where they have been passing
the holidays.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson Compton viii
have as their guests over New Year Mr.
and Mrs William w, Cumberland OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-31
EX-SENATOR'S DEATH
HAD NATURAL CAUSE
Physicians Rout Suggestion That
George Lafayette Finn Might
Have Been Poisoned.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, December 3l.-Dr.
Frank Murphy. physician to George La
fayette Finn, late millionaire ex-Sena-
tor from Iowa. told the district attor-
ney's office yesterday that an autopsy
upon Firms body had shown that he
died of natural causes. Investigation
into the wealthy 89-year-old mans
passing last January. was started by
intimations by relatives. who are fight
ing for his estate, that poison might
have caused his death.
Daniel Beecher, assistant district at
torney, said DR.. Murphy affirmed that
he was present when DR.. Holden Jones
performed the autopsy in a mortuary.
The physician also said that the post
mortem examination had been requested
by Finn in the interests of science. The
death certificate had given cancer as
the cause of death.
Mrs. Gladys McAfee, grand niece of
Finn, has advised Beecher that Finn
said before he died that he was being
poisoned.
DR.. Jones, who also was questioned,
gave substantially the same testimony
as DR.. Murphy.
a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-31
ENGINEER DIES SUDDENLY
Death overtakes Wilfred Lewis, on
World Cruise With Wife.

PHILADELPHIA, December 81 DR.
Wilfred Lewis, an engineer and presi-
dent Of the Tabor Manufacturing Co.
until his retirement q year ago, died
at sea, near Egypt, while on q world
cruise with his wife, according to word
received yesterday by his son, Leicester
Lewis Of Bryn Mawr. He was rs.
Mr.. Lewis was awarded a gold medal
by the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers in 1927 and the Longstreth
Medal Of the Franklin Institute in 1927.
During the war he served in an adj
viSory capacity in Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-31
VATICAN SENDS BLESSING
TO KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
Apostolic Benediction Cabled From
Rome to Order in q. s., Canada
and Neighboring Countries.

ana Ne1ghbor1ng Countries.
BY the Associated Press.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, December 81.
An apostolic benediction for knights
of Columbus in the United States,
Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Porto Rico and
the Philippines Is contained in a cable
gram received yesterday by Martin H.
Carmody, supreme knight, from Cardi-
nal Gasparri, secretary Of state for the
Vatican.
The cable was in answer to one from
Supreme Knight Carmody, in which he
extended, in behalf Of Knight Of Co
lumbus, Fluctuations to Pope Plus XII
on his completion Of so years in the
priesthood and on the many consola-
tons that have come to his holiness
during the jubilee year.
THE holy father appreciates the
assurance Of devotion and loyalty ex-
pressed by the knights of Columbus
and their greetings on the occasion OF
his sacerdotal Jubilee" the message
from Cardinal Gasparri read, "he re-
turns thanks and cordially imparts
apostolic benediction on them and their
good work."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-31
Navy Relief Ball Thursday
To Be Brilliant Festivity.


The Navy Relief Ball. postponed on
account of official mourning for Secrc-
tary of War Good, will be held Thurs
day evening in the New Willard Hotel
at 8 o'clock. It has lost nothing by its
postponement, as now there are many
more young people home for the hoN-
days and large attendance Is expected.
Admiral Long heads the floor commit
tee and has as honorary assistants the
naval attaches of all countries. Miss
Elvira johnson will be assisted by the
seasons debutantes. The box holders
are the Secretary of the Navy and Mrs.
Adams, the Assistant Secretary of the
Navy for Aeronautics and Mrs. ingalls,,
Mrs. Eugene Hale, Mrs. Charles Bough-
ton Wood, Mrs. Henry w. Fitch, Rear
Admiral and Mrs. Mccormick, Rear
Admiral r. H. Jackson, Rear Admiral
and Mrs. Willard Rear Admiral George
c. Day, Surg. Gen. and Mrs. Riggs,
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Kennedy, Rear
Admiral and Mrs. Cary Grayson and
Capt. Theodore Richards.
Mrs. Charles F. Hughes is chairman OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-31

Caroline Mckinley, brought her her
first successes. Mr.. Shafer was with
the Rams Head Players and was seen
in productions here when Mr.. Robert
Bell had his little theater in the old
Bell mansion. Mr.. and Mrs. Shafer
will be the guests Of the latter's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel G. Chace,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-31

Mrs. Phillip Metz has arrived In
washington, coming from her home, in
Buffalo, and Is at the Carlton for sew
eral days, accompanied by her two
children,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-31

Chinese have started ptnonograpn
factories in Shanghai.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-31

Miss N. O. Maiden Of London, Eng
land. is spending several days at the
Dodge Hotel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-31

The first secretary of the legation of
venezuela, Senior Don Luis Churion. will
be host to party of six at the New
year eve supper dance and carnival
tonight In the grand ball room of the
'A'e
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-31
ArmstrOng-WiIIiams
wedding Last Evening.

hIHIsGFUnB-WuI1amS
Wedding Last Evening,
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell B. Harrison have
sent out cards announcing the marriage
OF Lner daughter, Marthena Harrison
Williams: to Mr.. Robert Lewis Arm
Strong OF Providence, r. !. They win
De at nome at the Broadmoor here after
January IS. The wedding tooIr nisce
last evening in the apartment of the
brides mother in the Broadmoor. in the
presence OF small company of rela-
tives and intimate friends. Rev. DIR
CHARLES Wood, former pastor of the
Church Of the Covenant, performed the
ceremony and there were no attendants
The apartment was beautifully deco
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-31

The military attache Of the Spanish
embassy. Mai. Victoriano Casajus, will
entertain at the dance this evening in
Ine golo room OF the Wardman Park
Hotel. There will be 10 In his marty
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-31

Judge and Mrs. Rush La Motto Hol-
land have returned to their apartment
at the Wardman Park Hotel after pass
ing Christmas in New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-31

New York City. Mr.. Cumberland was
formerly economic adviser to the State
Department.
Miss Eugene Omberg Of New York,
formerly OF washington, mas been the
guest through the holidays of Miss Al
berta Perley, debutante daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Clarence w. Perley. and Miss
Margaret Jose, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Rudolph Jose.