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New Britain herald., 1929-12-12
Four Inform War De- partment They Want to Visit Graves of Their Soldier Sons Killed During World War.
Forty in Hartford County Qualify for Trip Under Auspices of Government to Burial Place of Their Boy Heroes-Date for Journey Undecided.
By GEORGE II. MANNING

fWasAington Bureau. N B. Herald)
 Washington, Dee. 12-Forty Gold Star Mothers in Hartford county are listed by the War Department as eligible 10 make a pilgrimage to the graves Of their soldier sons abroad as guests Of the United States gov crnment, and l5 in the county have announced that they will make the trip this year.
 Those who have informed the de- pertinent that they wish to go are: Mrs. Catherine McGann, Manches- ter; Mrs. Anne Potz, Bristol; Mrs. hosina Pratt. Bristol; Mrs. Daisy E. Proctor, New Britain; Mrs. Cath crime Ahern, Hartford; Mrs. Ade- laide Bolton, New Britain Mrs. -Grazie Campanelli. New Britain; Mrs. Catherine Cassells, Pennington: Mrs. Albina Chaput. Manchester: Mrs. Jennie J. Knott, 131 Wilfred street, West Hartford; Mrs. Ellen Y. Holden, 290 Washington street, Hartford; Mrs. Fannie l.. Gaudette, o06 East Main street, New Britain; Mrs. Rose Friedman, Unionvile: All 7' " liiitIilI ENdillCIu, % RNOll street, Hartford; Mrs. William Raul limits, Hazardyille.
 The others listed as eligible are: Mrs. s, Costello Austin, Hartford: Mrs. Mary Battaline, Hartford; Mrs. Mary Bergin, Unionvllle; Mrs. Mar garet Brenan, Hartford; Mrs. George r. Chandler, Hartford; Mrs. Thomas Hickey, 206 Oakland street, Man. chester: Mrs. Michael Hanrahsn, tnionville: Mrs. John H. Felthan, Burnside; Mrs. Mary Dubey. 50 Bod we'll street. Hartford; Mrs. David R. Coleman. New Britain: Mrs. David F. Coughlin. Harttord Mrs. A. Landry, Manchester; Mrs. Regina, Mehl, Hartford: Mrs. Gus Newman, Manchester; Mrs. Theodore Pap pagallo, Hartford; Mrs. Selma Paul. son, New Britain; Mrs. John Rau, Burnside; Mrs. Bertha Zilke, Bris- tol; Mrs. Alice D. Whalen, 26S8 Main street. Hartford.
 Mrs. Fannie Weisman. 392 Frank lin avenue, Hartford: Mrs. Jacob Ubert, 9 Village street, South Man chester; Mrs. V. A. Swornsbourne, 123 Cheshire street, Hartford: Mrs. Barabara Strohecker, 70 Rhodes street. New Britain: Mrs. c. J. Reu All Sigourney street. Hartford.
 The Gold Star Mothers in New Haven county who have notified the war department that they want to make the pilgrimage to France this year are:
 Mrs. Ella T. Beauton, New Ha- ven: Mrs. Rose Clarke, Walling- ford: Mrs, Julia Conklin, Water
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New Britain herald., 1929-12-12

crashed or the stone floor and the conviGs and their captors were trapped in the rising vapor.
 Allowing an instant for the gas to take full effect, the troopers pluckeu from the temporarily disabled con- victs the warden and guards, and with them out of line of fire, began shooting into the disordered inmate group.
 The convicts, choking and gaspins. fed toward the cell blocks, with po- lice bullets cutting them down as they ran.
 The troopers, taking advantage of the situation, proceeded to shoot their way into the interior of the prison and the law had rcgained q ,foothold.
 The men who played the dual role of rcscucrs and advance attacking force were: Captain stephen Nc Grath, .Lieut. Trcmaine Hughes, Ser gcant John Roman. Sergeant NJ. F. Dillon. Ser gcant SOlv3y Perry. Ser. @cant r., C La Point. Trooper w. N. Stevenson, Chief Of Police Morris of the city of Geneva.
New Britain herald., 1929-12-12

bearing on the appointment of an official who shall devote his full tune to the office. This. however, will not Dc undertaken until the Lc . countants now making an audit of the clty's books complete their re- port.
 Mention is also being made of the possibility that School Committee man William II. bay of 3% Nolth Wellington street may be the new comptroller. Nr. Day is Il certitic public accountant with offices in the National bank building, and those who have suggested his name point to the fact that he would be readily available and that the city would have the benefit of an office org;.n- ization as we'll &s the official him. self, in the event that he is named.
New Britain herald., 1929-12-12
PRISONS TAKE STEPS
 ID PREVENT RlO7ING
State Police Augment Guards, Armament In-
 creased After Break

New York. Dec. 12 Rt-Prcca"- ionary measures were in force at all prisons in New York state today 10 prevent any possible spread of the Auburn riot to other institutions.
 At Sing Sing prison located alorg the Hudson river at OSSining, the armament was increased by three machine guns and G.0OO rounds of ammunition obtained from local units of the National Guard. Three heutcnants were assigned 10 the prison to instruct the guards in u.;e Of the guns
 Warden Lewis F.. Lawcs reported the prison quiet but predicted there would be "a good deal of buzzino' when the prisoners read of the Au burn outbreak. He said withholding or the newspapers would be even worse on the morale than allowing them to read them
 At Clinton prison at Dannemor3, known as "The Siberia of America" where all known dangerous prison- CTS are sent, 15O state troopers were assigned to reinforce the regular guards. In addition all state police men engaged in patrol work in the northern part of the state were or dcred 10 report to their headuuar ters at regular intervals so they would be available for quick trans fer Tn case of emergency. All passes and vacations of state troopers were suspended and all guards off duty ;t the prison were ordered to remain in town.
 At Great Meadow prison at Com stock. the inmates, mostly. short term prisoners, listened to radio ar counts of the Auburn riot and gen. orally deplore1 the outbreak, fear ing that it would result in greater restrictions. Warden William Hunt said sentiment among the prisoners was that such riots were foolish moves"
New Britain herald., 1929-12-12
FILM EXECUTIVES
 FACE FIRE CHARGE
Patbe Studio Officers Arraisned
 for Law Violations
STORED REELS IN BLOCK
New York Fire Regulations Alleged to Have Been Broken By Com pany-Both Out On Sl5.O0O Bail i,i Ma2slauchtcr.

New York. Dcc. r LPt - Two cNccluiios Of the Pathc studies were arrested today on charges of man. slaughter in connection with the death of 10 persons in the fire which destroyed the Manhattan film studio Tuesday.
 They are John C, I'linn. 10 years old of Nonkers a fice president, and Henry r. I.allcy, 40 years old, man aScr. They wer2 arrested after po- lice seized 1C0 containers, estimated 10 hold between 5G,00O and 100. GOO feet of film. The manslaughter charge is based on negligence grow ing out of alleged violation of a city ordinance prohibiting the storage of more than five reels of film in cer- tain types of buildings. The Man haitian studio was classified as com- ing under this ordinance by the fire mar3harS department.
 10 Burned to Death
 Tour chorus girls and six male members of a company of 100 were burned 10 death when fire broke out in the studio during the filming Of q talking picture.
 Officials of the fire prevention bureau said a sprinkler system had been ordered installed in the studio but the order could not be enforced because not more than five reels of film were stored in the building at one time.
 Finn and Lallcy were admitted to hail of $1J,000 each.
 Neither of the men would com mcnt on the case against them, but Fiinn briefly summarized his reac- ton to the disaster.
 My personal dlscomGture is noth- ing compared with the discontinue suffered by the families of the vic tims," he said. 'I will do as I have done-Whatever l can to alleviate the sutGclmgs of the victims of the fire"
 Has Not slept since
 He said he had not slept since the fire.
 First arraigncd in magistrate court, Finn and Lalley later were taken into homicide court and for nal charges Of suspicion of sec ond degree mauslaughter entered against them. Their $15.OO0 bail each was continued and a hearing set for December 19.
New Britain herald., 1929-12-12
Man Called 'Liar'' and "Perjurer''
 Freed In Liquor Case; Pal Fined

Although called "a liar" and "a
 pcrjurer" and accused Of "perpc- trating the biggest fraud ever per potrated on this court" Joseph Nicdzwicski. 40, of 4S Overlook ave nuc was discharged on the charge of violating the liquor law, in police court today. Assistant Prosecuting Attorney w. NJ. Greenstein tlayed him mercilessly. accusing him of being in conspiracy with John krausc, 60, of the same address, to manufacture and sell liquor, but Judge Stanley I. TraCcslli, after tining Krauso $200 and costs and i'm posing a suspended jail sentence Of 10 days on the charge Of manufac- turing liquor for the purpose of sale or exchange, declared that q case had not been made out by the state
New Britain herald., 1929-12-12
Clash Is Prevented

Auburn, H., Dee. l2 P>-Action of state highway police and deputy shcri1ts at the Panther Creek Mine No. 1 early today, prevented clashes between United Mine Workers mem- b,ls and strikers of the National .Iners' Union.
 Members of the National Miners Union. a rival faction which seeks to shut down all Illinois mines. an rounccd they would picket the Panther Creek mine to prevent the 75O men employed there from work ing today.
 Authorities said both factions were armed. State police deputies patrol cG the highways in the vicinity and as the strikers drove up in autom0- NlIcs, they were ordered 10 kee D moving, Tire Panther Creek en- rloycs went 10 work unmolcsted.
New Britain herald., 1929-12-12
Armed Peace Replaces Reign Of Terror-" "Coddlin8" System
 Blamed
TROOPERS ON DUTY TO
 ENFORCE GUARD ORDERS
Eight Convicts In Morguc, Others In Uprising Face Trial for Murder of Head kccpcr-Statc Begins In- vcstigation of Second Outbreak In Recent Months at New York State Institution.

Auburn, x. Y Dec. T. lPp-Sullon silence rcigned today throughout An burn state prlson where yesterday the walls echoed 10 the rattle of ma rhlnc guns and the crack of pistols The 1ant of tear gas had cleared from the corridors of the prison and an armed peace had followed in the wake of the mntiny which lasted the Gi cater part Of yesterday.
 The bodies of eight convicts, lyiag in local undertaking parIors, bore mute testimony 10 the marksman- ship of the New York state troopers who broke the back of the prison revolt, tore Warden Edgar s. Jcn- mngs and seven prison guards from he grasp of the mutmeers, ana finally battled the armed convicts to death or their cells.
 Face Murder Trials
 In the punishment cells of the prison q few of the rioters todpy were left to contemplate what prison officials declared to be their certain fate, trial for murder of Principal A.. q.
 State troopers from the Batavia barracks and National Guardsmcn from Syracuse and Geneva were withdrawn this morning. leaving be hind, however, sufficient of their number to aid the prison guards In restoring the routine of the convict discipline
 
 With the mercury standing at 70 degrees q cold wind blew through the cell windows which had been shattered by bullets and the convicts sat huddlcd in their blankets. mut- 1crng inproCHtiOnS alike against prison and prison riots.
 George A. Sullivan, sergeant Of the prison guard, who was appoint. ed acting warden by tho state com missioner of correction, today blamed prison lcniency and the Mutual Welfare league for ycstcr- days outbreak. He amplificd his statement by explaining that the con Ncts had been given too much lbcr- ty and had received too much "Coddling.'
 state starts Investigation
 Major Phillip G. Rossa. prison in NcStigatOr for the state department of correction, today was conducting an investigation of yesterdays riot.
 Ono of his first discoveries was that ten guns from the prison ar Senal were missing. A morning count of the prisoners showed that one of the dead convicts. previously identified as Luke J. BonnclI was in reality Julius Stefanek, from Queens county.
 The wounded guards and convicts were reported from the prison hos pital to be in the same condition, With little hope for recovery for
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New Britain herald., 1929-12-12
SUSPECT F|REbUG IN AIRPLANE FIRE
Tampa, Florida, Municipal Han-
 gar Swept by Blaze
IS CRAFT. ARE DESTROYED
S1O0, ,O00 Loss in IlamcS-Oh!CialS Find ships Saturated With Gaao- linc-Chy Authorities start In Ncst@atiOn Today.

Taupa. Fla, Dec. 12 lF-I'jrc swept through the steel hangar at the municipal airport here carly to- day, destroying F airplancs. The loss was estimated at $1o0.000.
 Blasts Awaken NcighborS
 The blaze was not discovered 1m- til explosions had awakened nearby residents and the buildings interior vas q mass of flames.
 One of the planes in the hangar was owned by Randall Norvcl of St. Louis. Norvcl also owned the two ships used in an endurance attempt which crashed here Sunday and killed two pilots
 The cause of the fire was not inn mediately determined, but Assistant Fire Chief Ben Torres said he found planes and equipment covered with gasoline and together with l.. Wal lace Davies, aviation commission chairman. began an investigation.
 Believes Blaze set
 The structure Of the hangar was not damaged and Torres said this indicated to him that the planes had been set alire.
 Because a night watchman was not employed. little insurance was in force on the planes. The airport is outside the city limits and water was not available to fight the blaze
 Pitcairn Airways Inc. operators of a mail route, lost one plane, ten of those destroyed were owned of Robert Ellsburg, Wimauma, Fla.
New Britain herald., 1929-12-12
"Dry" Clause Written
 In Restaurant Lease

An agreement not to sell in- toNicating liquors on the prem iseS is written into a lease given today by the Crown Realty Co. to Charles Bernstein. on a res taurant at 9S Church street. The lease is for five years. at $3.00O q year, with the priv ilege of q three years renewal at $3,G00 q year.
New Britain herald., 1929-12-12
GRUNDY APPEARS
 BEFORE SENATOR'S
Nye Immediately Attacks Gre
 dentiaIS From Floor
MOVES FOR INVESTIGATION
Excuses Willingness to Let PcnnssI-
 ,anian Take Oath Pending Scru- tiny of Eacts-AppointCc Smiles
 During Attack.

Washington, Dee. l2 Joseph l.. Grundy presented himself to the senate today &s the new senator from Pennsylvania 10 take the seat made vacant last week by the barring of William <. Ware.
 His ruddy face all agIow. GrTIndv smiled broadly as he stepped from the elevator on the senate floor into q group of waiting newspapermon. Advancing into the office of Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, just off the chamber, Grundy was confronted by host of photographers.
 Accompanied By Friends
 He was accompanied by dele Gation of sylvanianS who had brought his credentials from Gov. ernor Fisher and the presidential party assembled with Senator Reed. as an cNpectant senate awaited his arrival on the floor.
 Grundy was accompanied by Reed He temporarily took the seat of Senator Norris, republican, Nebras- ka, the author of the resolution which excluded Ware, who was ab- sent.
 Before he could take the oath of office, Senator Nye of North Dakota, republican Independent, offered a resolution questioning his crcden- tialS but at the same time express ing willingness that the resolution and the credentials be referred to an elections committee for consid- cration.
 Listens ill Silence
 With. q smile and in silence. Grundy occupied q seat in the chamber as the youthful looking North Dakotan spoke against his right to membership.
 The Nye resolution was read by the clerk. In the absence Of Vice President Curtis, Senator Moses, re- publican, N. IT,, the president pro tonporG of the senate, was pre- siding.
 After the reading of the resolu- ton Nyc said:
 "I have no misgivinGs of my abil-
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New Britain herald., 1929-12-12
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 Nanishes After Raid

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 NanisheS After Raid
 The arrests were made last Satur- day, krausc having been taken on the premises, while NiedzWieski, who vas present for part of the time during the visit of the police, drop ped out of their sight and was not located for several hours, when he reported at the police station with q bondsman. There were two l5- gallon stills" two gas plates. one 10-galton keg full of liquor and one keg of the same capacity partly full. besides three barrels of mash and a few empty cans. in the cellar of the house, where l\rausc has room.
 Sergeant r. ]. O'Mara testified
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New Britain herald., 1929-12-12
Concern Felt at Mine

Several hundred members of the United Mine Workers union. cm- ploycl at the mine, announced last night they would run the gauntlet of the rival unions pickets. This announcement caused considerable concern among law enforcement Of (ccrs. who feared that violence would follow.
 There were no state soldiers at Auburn, but ? state motorcycle DO the highways clear they believed much trouble could he aVortcd. In the vicinity of Kincaid, where the strike was most effective yesterday, the pickoting group parked their cars on both sides of the road lead ing to the mines, forming a bottle neck through which miners had to pass. This made picketing much easier.
 Believe Crisis Arrived
 Mining men here believed the strike crisis had arrived at Auburn today. The determination of the United Mine Workers 10 defy the picketers was the first definite movement made by the parent union group since the strike became ef- fectivc Monday. Heretofore the |. M. W. miners have made no effort to fight the strike of the new union.
New Britain herald., 1929-12-12
THE WEATHER

New Britain and vicinity: Increasing Cloudiness follow cd by snow late tonight or Friday: rising temperature tonight and Friday.
New Britain herald., 1929-12-12
SEVEN GOLD STAR MOTHERS IN NEW BRITAIN ARE ELIGIBLE
 FOR PILGRIMAGE TO FRANCE
ARNOLD DIVORCE
 REPORTS DENIED
Mrs. West DiSCIaiTnS Wood
 Lymph Role in Testimony
CLAIMS CONDUCT PROPER
Correspondent says Story of Daily Dozen SCantily Clad Absolutely Untrue - Indignantly RcpudiatcS Charges.

DOLeIl StalilllN tidu SD>OiultlN
 Untrue - Indignantly Rcpudiatc~
 Charges.
 New York. Dee. r. N'T) - The moment. for which q crowded court room had waited a week, arrived today when Mrs. Margaret CrenshaW West, correspondent in the Arnold divorce suit, denied on the witness stand that she was a Gymph of the Connecticut woodlands who trailed her lacy negligee through the Ar mold villa at Greenwich.
 She had been so pictured by preyi- ous witnesses in Mrs. Bessie Ar holds divorce suit aaginst Ray II. Arnold, wealthy broker of Washing ton and New York. And the DOT traits drawn by witnesses for the plaintiff usually sketched Arnold as q portly figure in linee-length nightgown playfully in pursuit of Mrs. West.
 Looks Nearer 30
 Mrs. West gave her age at 4l; She appears to be nearer 90. She was q vision in brown as she began her testimony, and the juror wh2 bears an uncanny resemblance to, George Bernard Shaw sat up on the edge Of his chair for the first time since the trial began,
 Mrs. West denied every charge that Arnold's son, William, had made in his testimony. The last time she had been nymph-likc, Mrs. West said, was back in 1909 when she ar rayed herself in a white dress and helped the girls lug the daisy chain across the Nassar campus.
 After her graduation from Nassar Mrs. West told how she married Lawrence Crenshaw of Los Angeles, q lawyer who died. TO them was born a daughter, Martha, now 19 years old, who was named as an- other correspondent in the suit. Martha's name, on the consent of counsel for the plaintiff, was drop ped from the complaint after the case went 10 trial.
 Just One Happy Family
 Mrs. West said she met the Ar holds in Los Angeles, and in 1925 met tlcm again in New York just before her second marriage. Tho Arnolds and the Vests she depicted
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New Britain herald., 1929-12-12
EAST SEWERS IN
 WINTERS BLAST
Zero and Sub-Zero Temperatures
 Common in New England
5 BELOW IN NEW BRITAIN
Tciry>iI!c and Manchester Report Low Marks .Nlso-OHiCial Figures Of 20 Below Received from Yer mont Town.
, BELOW HIRE IN NIGHT

M"rrury in New Britain thcr- momct"rs sank 10 fiv" degrees below zero during the night. The descent was prccipitatc, starting soon before midnight, At 1 o'clock the thermometer reading was three degrees be low. At o'clock this after noon it was 22 degrees above,
New Britain herald., 1929-12-12
By the As,ociltcd Press.

By the As-"ridtcd Press.
 Thermometers in the eastern states today dipped in salute to the cold wave which swept in yesterday from the west. Officials tcmpcra- lures of 20 below zero were record cd and unofficial readings in parts of New England were as low as 30 below.
 Weather bureaus officials predict ed generally rising temperatures, however, with snow tonight or to- morrow.
 The coldest spot in New England. according to the official figures of the weather bureau in Boston, was NOr+hficld, Vermont, where the mercury slid down to 20 below. Unofficial thermometers in London derry and St. Johnsbury, Vermont, read so below.
 Connecticut Frozen Over
 The Connecticut river at Turner's Falls, Mass, was completely frozen over, an unusual occurrence this early in the season. The Dcerfield river had been frozen for several days.
 Schools at South Mcrrimack, N. H., were closed because of the cold. Readings of 12 below zero were re- ported there.
 Albany, x. T., registered q low temperature of zero; Boston, seven; Buffalo. eight; Montreal, six below; Portland. Me-, six above, and New York city, If.
 New York Central officials at Syracuse, where q reading of three below established a new low record for the season, reported trains run
New Britain herald., 1929-12-12
Sheriff HurlS Missile and Arrests Two Men for Inciting
 Riot at Mine
CLASHES INVERTED TODAY
 AT PANTHER CREEK DOORS
Rival Faction Members Armed, Au- thOriticS Find As 150 Men Insist On Reporting For Work Despite Warnings of Tickets - officers Keep AgitatOrs Moving and Break Up Interference Attempt

West Frankfort, H., Dec. F Pl- Use of tear gas bombs to break the picket ranks of the striking National sheriff James Pritchard of Franklin county at the COcllo mine today.
 Two pickets. Martin Mazach and Henry ColsetJi were arrested chdl grd with melting a riot.
New Britain herald., 1929-12-12

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Evening star., 1929-12-06
SIX HURT IN SECOND
PITTSBURGH BLAST
Explosion Occurred Near Site of
Yesterdays Disaster, in Mum
hall Suburb.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH. December g. Six
persons we're injured today in an ex-
plosion near the scene of the blast
that killed five persons, injured more
than a score of others and wrecked the
post office yesterday at Munhall, a
suburb None of those hurt today was
in a critical condition, the Homestead
Hospital reported.
Several persons were said to have
been taken to the Homestead Hospital.
At the hospital it was said three in
jured had been brought there.
The extent of the blast was not de-
termined. Reports said the drug store
and restaurant we're wrecked.
The second explosion occurred as
postal officials, State, county and public
service officers we're preparing to start
a joint investigation of the post Office
blast.
Unofficially it was said that gas Leak
ing from a pipe under the post office
had ignited.
The second explosion, like that of
yesterday, was blamed unoficially on
gas leakage.