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New Britain herald., 1929-01-12
SCALDlNG CAUSES DEATH
 OF FOUR YEAR OLD. BOY
Child Who Fell Into Pan Of Hoa Water Succumhs to Injuries
 Today.

Anthony. four year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Majocha of Erwin place, died this morning at 2:3O o'clock at the New Britain General hospital as the result of scalds re- ceived q week ago when he fell into a pan of hot water at his home.
 The funeral will be held Monday morning at s o'clock from the Holy Cross church and burial will be in Sacred Heart cemetery.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-12
Mrs, Wood Is Held
 In Bonds of $50. GOO

Detroit. Mich. Jan. F N>-Ar- raigned today on a charge of as- sault with intent to kill her wealthy husband. Mrs. Grace M. Wood was held in S50.00O bail for examination Monday. January Fl. Taylor Pierce and William Thompson, who accused Mrs Wood of employing them to kill the husband. Ralph A. Wood. also were held for examination with bond i'll like amount.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-12
EIGHTH VICTIM OF PLANE CRASH DIES Last Hope of Learning Cause ol
 Accident Fades STARTING INVESTIGATION 6hip Reported to Be In Perfect Condition When She Left Penn syivania Field On Flight That Ended tn Disaster.

Middletown. Pa.. Jan. IF R-The toll of the army airplane crash at Royalton, near here. yesterday was raised to eight early today when Sergeant Patrick Conroy, of New York City. died in the Polyclinic hospital at Harrisburg.
 Conroy had been the sole sur vivor of the crash in which one of- ficer and six enlisted men were killed. He was taken to the hospi- tai with a fractured skull and did not regain consciousness
 His death removed the last hope of the war department to find out the cause of the tregedy.
 Treo Evidence
 4 broken and shattered tree on the edge of . vacant lot in Royal ton. stood today as mute evidence of tho fatal crash.
 Captain F. F. Christine, acting commandant of the airport. an. nounced that the Fokker plane. 6 sister ship of the famous Question Mark and of tha machine in which Commander Richard E. Byrd made hts flight over tho north pole. wal in perfect condition when 1t Jeff tho field here on its fatal flight His announcement. he said. was based on reports of mechanics whc had examined the ship after 1t ar. rived yesterday morning from Washington.
 The tattered and torn fuselag' and the tangled mass of the tri' motored craft gave little hope o1 offering any clue to tho cause o1 the crash. A part of the wreckag. was hacked to bits to permit tht removal of the body of Lient. Hen ry R. AnEell. of Birmingham. Ala
 Lieutenant Angell was the onl, officer to lose his life in the fall which came after the airplane had gone a mile from the airport hert on . return flight to Boiling Field Washington.
 The other officers who had com, here in the plane avoided tho tre1 edy when they decided to return {, Washington in another plane. whicl left here an hour before the ill tated Fokker took off. They ar Captain H. A. Dinger. who pilote' the ship here. and Sergeant Charie Atayland. . passenger.
 The bodies of the victims wer to be sent to Washington today ant from there they are to be sent t their respective homes for burial. Those Killed Those killed in tho crash In ad dition to Lieut. Angell were: Staff Sergeant Henry Cronan Washington. D. c.
 Staff Sergeant Rudolph J. Lehut ta. Washington, D. C.. Sergeant Patrick Conroy. Nev York.
 Master Sergeant Joseph D. Nc Carthy. Washington. D. c.
 Private Samuel P. Jones, Bel buckle, Tenn. Boiling Field me chanic.
 Private Mike D. Kelly, New ter sey. formerly of Minersville, Pa.
 Private Clarence E. Birch. Chi cago.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-12
K. l. PHYSICIAN [
 IS SHOT ID DEATH
nntd Diseases Hospital Htad
 Slain by lnsant Mn
POSSES SCoUR STATE
Dr.. Ramon II. 6aFtWcll 0ttttnG It Oeak h Riddled With Buckahot- Wife and Young Daughter Near Collapse After Tragedy.

Providence. R. l.. Jan. F OP'-Dr. Ransom H. sartwell. superintendent of the state hospital for mental dis eases at Howard. near this city. was shot to death late last night by ! man who discharged two loads of buckshot through . window near which Sartwell was sitting in s.ts home.
 State troopers and police of the cities of Cranston and Providence to- day were seeking a former inmate of tho hospital who recently was heard to threaten ito get" Dr. Sartwell or his assistant, Dr. George B. Coon.
 Tall Man
 Two burlap bags. crudely sewed together, found against tree II feet from tho window through which the shots were fired. were believed by police to have been used by the as- sailant as 8 cover for his weapon.
 Authorities are working on the theory that the killer was . tall man and a crack shot. as the window through which Dr. Sartwell was mur- dered was i've feet above the ground and the buckshot struck him in the left temple which had been turned toward the window. The superinten- dent was sitting in . chair 1b feet within the room. Some of the shot travelled on another Is feet, spray ing the opposite wall and window.
 Hears Shots
 Mrs. Sartwell heaid the two shots fired. Sho rushed into the room to find her husband slumped forward. dead. The two Sartwell children. Morgan, Is. and Frances. 1:. were upstairs. The boy, who had been i'll, was on a sleeping couch. and slept through the shooting and the sub- sequent confusion. The girl and her mother were near collapse.
 Mrs. Sartwell immediately nott- fled Director Louis H. Putnam Of the state institutions and he sound ed a general alarm that brought police from here and Cranston and state police barracks.
 The siren atop the nearby state prison was started and shrieked out 8 warning that aroused tho coun. tryslde. A gang of 50 institution em' ployes in groups of two and three were searching the surroundins fields and woodlands within half ar hour.
 When Dr. Sartwell was found his right hand clutched a pencil with which he had been writing a tele- gram to Morris. N. J.. address The superintendent had earlier in the evening gained permission oi MT. Putnam to go to New Jersey to advise a friend whose wife waz suffering . mental affliction. He planned to make the trip Monday. Straight Line
 An autopsy today revealed that the shot had entered the head and passed through. travelling almost or level line. Other shot was shat tered against the skull.
 An employe of the institution re. turning at the time of the murder told police that he saw 0 machine circling about the driveway near tha Sartwell home. Another employe heard the two shots fired and saw man run from the doctors house The employe pursued but lost sigh, of the man.
 Born in Worcester | Born in Worcester, Maas., 1T 1886, Dr. Sartwell was educated ir (C0Nf1nMAd m p0Uo 14t
New Britain herald., 1929-01-12
Big Jim" Morton Is
 Eigible for Parole

Columbus. Ohio. Jan. 12 Ne"Big Jim' Morton. Cleveland bank rob- ber. was made eligible for parole from the Ohio state penitentiary to- day when Governor Donahey com mutes his IS year sentence.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-12

Forced to acompany two men where she was to entertain men and divide her earnings on 6o-50 basis. according to her statement to the To- cal police. Miss Rose Pichetti. aged 20. of SS6 Park street, Hartford. was held today in default of $500 bonds on the charge of improper conduct. and an investigation into her story is being made by the authorities of this city and Hartford. Giuseppe Pennicio, 3s, of 70 Pleasant street,
New Britain herald., 1929-01-12

Man and Girl Arrested at Gun Point As Police Invade Beaver St. Room;
 Investigate ''White Slave" Charges
Waitress In Restaurant on Ter >et, Hartfol Claims to Have Come Here T..... 70 eThree Men Loaded Automatic fL2, >esl esn c1>.
 Under Pillow-Man Reported "bs.s 21pH

Hartford. who waa arrested her in a bedroom at IS Beaver street shortly after 2 o'clock this morn- ing. is also held in default of $500 bonds on the charge of improper conduct, but there is 8 probability that . more serious charge may be preferred If the young woman's al- legations are found to be true.
 Sergeant J. c. Stadler and Of.
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New Britain herald., 1929-01-12
POLICE NAn STILL

Rraintree, Mass. Jan. IF h1Po-
 lice yesterday seized a still valued at $30.000 and 1.500 gallons of alcohol
 in the Pens Hill section of East
 Braintree. The only person found on the premises, John vaber, 3s. of Toulouse street, New Orleans, La., was taken into custody. |
New Britain herald., 1929-01-12
GEN, BOOTH MAY
 REFUSE ID RETIRE
Salvation Army hld9 Night
 Tlke Matter to Court
SEE PROPERTY DISPUTE
King's Counsellor Waaham A. JoWitt Retained by General aAd V to Address Members Of Counc1l- Lawsuit seea h O2lnS.

AAW8Q11 0UG49 1W O&s8s
 London. Jan. l3 1eThere was some indication today that General Bramwell Booth might refuse to rs- tire n head of the Salvation Army and take the matter to the courts.
 The high council of the Army rs- quested to allow William A. Jowitt kings counsellor. who has been re- tained to act for the general. to at- tend the council session and address the members. It was felt in some circles that tho engagement of Ar. Jowitt might mean that the dispute was to end in . law suit over con- trol Of the Army's property.
 Win Fight
 Dispatch to the Daily Herald from Southwold, where General Booth Is ill, said 1t was understood there on good authority that he intended to fight to the last ditch against the high councils efforts to retire him. It was stated that If the council de- cded to dismiss him he was prepar- ed to take the matter to the law courts.
 General Booth promised the seven officials who presented a resolution asking his retirement that he would answer their request on Monday. In the meantime the deputation was to report to the high council meeting at Sunbury-on-Thames.
 Brigadier General Smith. the gem erals nurse, said his answer to the council probably ould be conveyed either by Mrs. Booth or by his daughter. Catherine. She added that she was entirely convinced the gen. eral would have a complete recovery and would return to his work with new inspiration.
 The deputation was understood to have insisted that the general must reply plainly ''yes'' or mo" Mem- bers of the deputation were known to be deeply impressed with the emaciated appearance of the gen. eral. It was said he looked very old, although he was well able to converse with them.
 Each official was allowed to shake the hand of tho general.
 Before the return of the deputa. ton Commander Evangeltne Booth sister of the general and leader of the reform clement. drove to South wold from London and asked to seS her brother. She had decided to sup port with her presence the Nigh council:Ss Reputation and to persuade her brother to retire. She was not allowed to see the general, his nurse refusing permission with the ex- planation that the ordeal might prove too much for him at present
 Her Statement
 Miss Booth said of the incident:
 T did not press my request tc see the general. realized his strength must be overtaxed and ] myself suggested that 1t might be better if I did not go up to him."
 Miss Booth. however. did have . conversation of an hour and a half with the generals wife and his two daughters Catherine and Olive. Il was believed in this conversation she impressed upon them the sincerity of her desire to spare her brothel all possible distress while maintain ing her belief that 1. would be ad- vantageous for all for her to have
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New Britain herald., 1929-01-12
MAN sUCCtrMBS

Springfield. Mass. Jan. 12 W- Nickfor Zuck. 36. of this city, who suffered a fractured skull Tuesday when struck by wagon shaft after an automobile in which he was . passenger, hit a milk wagon. died last night in Mercy hospital. The shaft pierced his skull.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-12
IAjoR COOLIDGE WILL
 ATTEND MILITARY BALL
Rfoapecetvo 1no-1a-lAW of 0oves1os TyIbal Wla Do At 2ssdge-
 noet Festival

Bridgsport Jan. l3 0s-Aajojr John Coolidge. newly appointed ma for of the governors stan. has ac- cepted aa invitation to attend ! mili- ,tary hall at the 0tratfleld hotel. this city. Friday. February n. in com pany with Governor John H. Trum- bull and stan.
 Governor Trumbull's acceptance has also been received oy Col. John B. schoenel, head of the ball com. mittee. The adair is being given hy officers of the 1%3 c. \. c. and re- serve officers of Bridgeport and vt' cinity. Officers from throughout the state arc expected.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-12
SIX PEASANTS KILLED

Warsaw. Poland. Jan. IF N-8ix peasants were killed and several others seriously wounded today in an affray between a peasant group and . police detachment at Bacia- tycxe near Lwow.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20
MILL WORKERS
SC0RN SCABBER||Y
OF ASSOCIATED
.NTW Delegates Point
Out Fakers' Record

PATERSON, N. j., Dec. 10
Delegates assembling here for the
national convention of the National
Textile Workers Union were inter
ested today in the fairly plain an
nouncement of the heads of the As
ISOLATED Silk Workers, a reaction
airy group formerly having some
membership in Paterson, that the
Associated would scab in the COM
ing strike of silk and dye workers.
Cornelius Post and Patrick Quin-
Ian, takers in the Associated, have
announced in the local press that
conditions in the business do not
warrant a walkout." N. 7. w. dele
gates point out that conditions in
the business" mean at present
wages as low as $18 a week with
a 15-hour day for dye house work
ers, in the most unhealthy of trades,
and that they more than warrant
serious struggle under the mill
tant leadership of the National Tex
tile Workers Union, for more
wages, free medical attention and
sick benefits.
The silk mill workers are suf-
fering from a terrific speed-up, with
doubling up of machines, new de-
vices on the machines, fresh divi-
sion of labor always to the work
ers' disadvantage, and the killing
piece-work system.
The National Textile Workers
Union delegates feel that the well
known history of the New Bedford,
Gastonia, and other strikes in the
last year, and the great organiza-
tional conferences held in Charlotte
and other places, where representa-
tives of tens of thousands of work.
ers were present, abundantly give
the lie to the Associated Silk Work
ers published charge that the N.
T. w. is mot a real union"
The N. T. w., the delegates point
out, has given plenty of proof of
activity in the workers interests in
the last year, the first year of its
existence, whereas the Associated,
the United Textile Workers, etc.,
have only a record of selling out
and betraying the workers, as in
Paterson, Marion and Elizabethton.
They are confident that the plea
of the Associated that workers
scab during this silk strike will be
disregarded.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20
Mobilize Tenants
to Fight Rent Raises

The tenants of New York City,
and particularly the Negro tenants
of Harlem, are faced with a very
serious situation at this time when,
with the scrapping of the so-called
emergency rent laws by the State
Supreme Court, the landlords are
preparing an onslaught of rent in
creases and dispossesses. At it's
last membership meeting, the Har-
lem Tenants League reported great
progress in the work of organizing
the tenants for a rent strike in
January, and voted for the holding
of a rent and housing conference in
December and protest parade to
City Hall in January to demand the
enactment of rent law which
would give real protection to work.
ing class tenants.
AS part of its drive to mobilize
the Negro and white tenants of
Harlem for the struggle against
rent increases and evictions, the
Harlem Tenants League is holding
gala unity dance this Saturday
night at st. Luke's Hall, 125 West
both St.
The famous John c. Smith Union
Orchestra has been engaged for the
occasion, and all arrangements
made to ensure a good time for
those who attend. The price of adj
mission is limited to IS cents to
enable the lowest paid workers to
take advantage of the occasion to
have good time while at the same
time supporting the fight of the
League against landlordism and its
extortions against working class
tenants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20
MILITANTS OF ALL WORLD CABLE
GREETINGS TO N,T.W, CONVENTION
Build Mighty Army" Says Red International; 100000
Organized in Soviet Union Hail Textile Delegates

ton will serve to further crystalline
the class line of the National Textile
Workers Union, to rally the broad
working masses around the slogans
of irreconcilable struggle against
the mill owners and their assistants
for organizational reinforcement of
the unions growing influence. We
send our greetings on behalf of the
revolutionary textile workers of all
countries
Over the signature of Voronova.
secretary of the central committee
of the Soviet Union Textile Workers
Union, a radiogram says:
"Fraternal greetings to the dele
gates to the convention of the Red
National Textile Workers Union.
We are firmly convinced that the
American bourgeoisie will not scare
you, neither with prisons nor electric
chairs. The terror developed against
the leaders and all active members
of the N.T.W.U. proves its growth,
and its danger to the class enemy,
and your loyalty to the proletarian
cause. Continue the merciless strug-
gle against the American Fedora
ton of Labor, the worst traitor to
the workers interests. Follow I'M
deviatingly the path of revolution
airy methods in the trade union
Mobilize under your
banner the millions strong army of
American textile workers. Rally
them closely around the N.T.W.U.
and lead them to new struggles and
victories. We greet you on behalf
of 100000 organized textile workers
in the Union of Socialist Soviet Re-
publics."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20

Greetings to the Second Nationa,
Convention of the National Textile
Workers Union, meeting in Pater,
son, Saturday and Sunday, have
been received at the unions national
office, 104 Fifth Ave, from the Elk
ecutive Bureau of the Red Interna.
ticnal of Labor Unions, from the
Textile Workers International Com
mittee for Propaganda and Action
and from the central committee of
the Textile Workers Union of the
Soviet Union.
The RLL.U. radiogram says:
"The R.I.L.U. Executive Bureau
sends militant and heartiest greet
ings to your convention and all tex
tile workers. 1t greets the militant
defense of the Gastonia strikers
and expresses the conviction that
your convention will prove a great
factor in uniting into a mighty army
the white and colored unorganized
textile workers under the banner of
implacahle class struggle, struggle
against imperialism, against the
menace of new imperialist wars and
all forms of class collaboration
against corrupt leaders, against cap
italist naturalization and boss-class
justice, against racial prejudices,
These tasks confront all class unions
everywhere, especially in the United
States of America"
The radiogram of the Textile
Workers International Committee
for Propaganda and Action states:
eve send revolutionary greetings
of proletarian solidarity to the mill
tant vanguard of the American tex
tile workers. We hope the conven-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20
Vel Anti-Religi0us
Dance Tues, Dec. "a

The Young Communist League,
District 2, is holding the largest
dance of the year at the Webster
Manor, 125 E. 18th St., on Christ
mas Eve, Tuesday, Dec. "a. This
dance is being arranged as an anti
religious affair.
The dance will not only have one
of the best orchestras in New York,
the John c. Smith "Harlemite"
Band, but will also have the live
liest and youngest crowd in New
York City.
All young workers, and even
adult workers who can be youthful
for one night are invited. Tickets
are sold for so cents, and should be
taken now before they are all gone.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20
Red Rust" a Powerful Drama
from the Soviet Union

The gigantic strides of the Soviet
Union toward the goals of the Five
Year Plan have effectively an
swered the question asked in the
drama, "Red Rust" produced by
the Theatre Guild Studio, a
youthful offshot of the Theatre
Guild, at the Martin Beck Theatre.
To the worker the play thrusts a
powerful but exaggerated, distorted
picture of the lives of Young Com
munist students in Moscow about
1927. To the worker acquainted
with the struggle against the Right
Danger about that time-against
the "pessimism" which welled up
among certain of the student ele-
ments-the play is a powerful dis
sertation on the problems confront
ing young Russia two or three years
ago.
The silk-hatted bourgeoisie, out
for a nice evening, opened their
eyes and BIZ I'd number of times.
Several seems calling for death to
the bourgeoisie failed to give them
thoroughly pleasant night. The
Soviet habit of making synonymous
the terms "bourgeoisie with phrases
denoting falsity, stupidity, cruelty,
hypocrisy" caused some Of the
starched shirts to ruffle.
The bourgeois critics who keep
their moutl chut about the sordid
dramas of murder in half a dozen
different forms parading as plays
on Broadway today termed fred
Rust" "melodramatic." To them
all that happens outside boudoir
is "melodramatic."
But the working masses, for
whom the play must have originally
been written, although suffers many
times in the translation and rendi-
ton, the drama bore with it a pow
erful QUESTIONABLE which they
obliged to answer.
1t contained a hatred against
bureaucracy, against careerists
scheming for their own advance
ment. 1t scotched the petty bour-
geois conception of the Soviet GEN.
sorship because there were mo-
ments of most harsh self-criticism.
Yet the ideas behind the play
the picture of Soviet spirit--the I'M
conquerable faith in Communism
the vivid hatred of the bourgeoisie,
got across to perfection.
The role of Terekhine, the bully
ing careerist, whose huge, coward
ly frame was completely masked be-
hind his militant phrases, was most
excellently taken by Herbert ]. BIZ
herman, who also directed the pro-
duction for the Theatre Guild
group.
One Of the most powerful scenes
was the hearing before the Central
Control Commission consisting of
four workers in their traditional
caps, whose quiet strength and will
carried across the footlights a sug-
gestion of the indomitable spirit of
the Communism-simple, plain, but
unswervingly direct.
These questions were asked about
1926-1927. They are completely
answered in 1929-with the sweep
ing surge towards socialism en-
bodied in the gigantic successes of
the program of industrialization.
JOE NORTH.