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The Washington times., 1930-02-19
Women Customs Collectors Here for
Meeting Called BY Secretary Mellon

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State Of Utah, Is Col
lector of Hawaii Port
Collector of the Port of
Hawaii is the imposing title
borne by Mrs. jeanette A.
{ Hyde, Republican national
committeewoman from Utah,
now in Washington attend
ing the customs conference
called by Secretary of the
Treasury, Andrew ]. Mellon.
Mrs. Hyde is one Of the
four women collectors Of
customs in the United States.
All four are attending the
conference. The other three
are Mrs. Nellie Gregg Tom
linson, of Des Moines; Mrs.
Eddie Mccall Priest, of
Memphis, and Mrs. Jennie P.
Musser, of Salt Lake City.
Senior In Service
Mrs. Musser has the distinc-
tion of being the senior of the
four women in service but Mrs.
Hyde claims the honor of being
the only woman collector of
seacoast port. Her job is one
of the biggest in the Bureau
.pf Customs, handling as she
does the greater part of our
Eastern imports.
Smuggling Of narcotics, ac-
crding to Mrs. Hyde, is her
Greatest problem. Just recently
he tells Of catching one enter.
RriSing Oriental, who had
planned to bring q ton of opium
anto the islands disguised as
dried prunes and plums. A
Her success, and her chiefs
agree that Mrs. Hyde has made
q most successful collector, Is
due, according to the lady, to
the loyalty and enthusiasm Of
her assistants. Mrs. Hyde has
over a hundred employees, the
greatest number calling a lady
BOSS" in the service.
Prior to her present post,
Mrs. Hyde had never held any
Government position. She had,
however, been interested in
politics for many years and is
famous in her home State Of
Utah as a clubwoman. She
was appointed Collector of the
Port of Hawaii in 1925 by Presi-
dent Coolidge.
First Political Post
Also appointed by President
Coolidge was Mrs. Nellie Tom
linson, of Des MoineS. Mrs.
Tomlinson also is occupying her
first political post, although
she declares she has been lin
politics since a child.
Mrs. Musser, of Salt Lake
City, and Mrs. Priest, of Mem
phis, are both well known to
the women of their States as
capable leaders. Mrs. Musser
is an old friend of Mrs. Hyde's,
but the other women met for
the first time at the confer
ence this week.
: Yesterday the four were the
guests Of honor at luncheon at
the Willard Hotel of Mrs. Mar
tina Clarke Griggs and Miss
Catherine Pike, chiefs of di-
visions in the Bureau of Gus
toms. Other guests were Mrs.
r. x. A. Eble, wife of the Com
missioner of Customs; Mrs. Ber-
nard Wait, wife of the deputy
commissioner in charge of in.
vestigationS, and Miss Jessie
Dell, United States Civil Service
Commissioner.
Delegates to the conference
Svill close their three-day session
with a dinner and dance to-
night in the small ballroom at
the Willard.
y r y
First Lady
Mrs. Hoover is attending the
concert this afternoon being
given by Rosa Ponselle, Met
ropolitan Opera soprano, at
Polls Theater.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-22
DELLA
JJEE ANN MOORE 4fa4p s22

other girls in her house are ready
to back that statement up, and one
of them says Salila Rick told her
you had threatened to break her
head if she didn't stop running
around with some other fellow"
"W'at the ellis that got to do wild
murder2" demanded Snake sudden
ly. Wen a bird says he's goin' to
break a skirts head, he means he's
goin' to crack 'er on the jaw wild
is fists, don't it?" =
The detective ignored the ques-
ton. "Who was this other fellow
you didn't like?" he asked quietly.
swat other fellow? Did say I
told 'er I'd break 'er head? Did
say anything about another bird?
You're dom the talkin', Cap, not
me-"
"All right, "the detective replied.
''Now about the red mask. This
Red Mask has been preying on I'M
armed and defenseless parkers.
That's the sort Of thing you'd be
doing, Snake. It's your kind of
work. We never suspected you, but
now that we've got this far, we can
see how you might have been the
guilty bum every time And to sew
things up, Mrs. Noodle finds a red
mask in the Rick girls trunk. Can
you explain that?"
me? Me explain that cap? Why
me, I'd like to know? I amt never
had red mask in my life, and if
I had, w'at'd I be dom givin' it to
skirt like Salila Rick? What
would I, now?"
''Then you won't come clean, eh,
Snake? Well, that's too bad, be-
cause there's a rope waiting for
somebody up in Hartford and the
courts not likely to be too 1enient
with a fellow who makes all the
trouble possible instead Of trying to
deserve a little mercy. 1t might
help little, Snake if you'd tell
us who this other fellow was thai
was hanging around the Rick girl.
XK7oMAIN hesitated. "That's
| wv sense, Cap" he said. "Only
can't help you much. I seen i'm
but 7 didn't know is name. But
honest to God, Cap, you got the
wrong bird now. I done plenty OF
dirt in my time, but I amt never
had the nerve to croak nobody. And
Salila Rick-well, was pretty soft
on Salila, Cap. I don't mind tellin
you private, I was pretty soft on
'er and I wouldn't of hurt a hair on
'er head"
Gould you identify this other fell
low if we brought him in, Snake?'
asked the detective.
well, I wouldn't say could, Cap
just got eye full of i'm once, anc
not much of one at that. No,
wouldn't pin it on some other birt
on what I saw of i'm. I amt thai
dirty, Cap"
ooh, no, of course not. the de-
> tective laughed. you're nice
clean, honest mama's boy and vol
wouldn't hurt anybody's feelings
Not you. But what about the alibis
Where were you the night the Rec
Mask slugged a couple on the Mid
dlebury road?"
"On the way to New York, Cap
Honest. read about it in the New
York papers next day."
Can you prove that statement?'
"Well. I didn't know nobody OF
the train and I put up at dirty
boardin' house that night. Don't
remember just where it was now.
Ito Be Continued)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-22
BY Blosser
BY Crane
By Small
= NllsLLIhATS EASYC
Cowan

But MaTbihn was of giant strength and
stature and he was brutal Slowly he subdued
the girls fighting fury Meriem still fought
back but she was growing weaker from the
choking fingers at her throat. Her cries
awakened Jensen. Long suspicious OF his part
ner, he guessed rightly what might be happen
ing. With a muttered curse ne dasned from
his tent. out in the jungle. another heard
family the screams and broke into rapid run.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-22
By Martin

During this hard trek across the African
plains, Malbihn feasted his eyes upon the face
and figure Of the beautiful captive. His desire
to possess her for himself became even greater
than his greed for the ransom money. The
fourth evening they pitched camp. Meriem be-
gan to give up hope. Why did not Korak come
to herr She had been left alone until near
midnight, when MaIbihn entered her tent. The
look of beast was on his face.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-22
Like trapped creature Meriem shrank from
w NEVER I
RRO UaRT /
9lEASURE /
NO -

Like trapped creature Meriem shrank from
the approaching man. She saw his hands ex-
tended claw-like, to seize her; heard his breath
come quickly. Then she screamed-oud and
shrill, once, twice, third time before Malbihn
could leap across the tent and throttle her cries
with his brute strength. Then she fought him.
Beneath her rounded curves and fine, soft skin
lay the muscles Of young Honess. The man
found her desperate.
New Britain herald., 1930-02-25
SEES OWN CAR STOLEN
 THEN GOES TO SLEEP
Owner Unaware of Theft of Auto Until This
 Morning

Peter Baba of 50 Concord street looked out a window at his home la st night and saw an automobile part lv stuck in the mud being finally propelled to firm ground and two young women, who were waiting nearby, step in and being driven away. Then he went to bed
 Going to his garage this morning he was surprised to find that the lock had been pried off the door and his car taken out. In it's stead was a car ot different style and make and he immediately reasoned that the car he saw being driven away was his own.
 The police were notified and De tective Sergeant O'Mara took the registration number of the car which was left in the garage and found it 10 be registered in the name of James P. Monahan of High street Thomaston. He was notified and came here to claim his car, telling the police that the lock had been pried off his garage last night and the car stolen.
 The police theory is that someone wishing to drive to New Britain stole Monahan's car and fearing detection on the return trip, left it in Baba S garage and banked on reaching Thomaston before Baba missed his car. Had Baba investigated last night the thieves might have been caught A search for his car was being made by the police about the state today
New Britain herald., 1930-02-25
TRACTORS NEEDED
 AS BERLIN VOTES
ToWnspeopIe Cast Ballots on
 Junior High School Building
EARLY VOTE IS HEAVY
Average Is One Per Minute for First Hour-30O Votes Cast by Noon- Tractors Haul Autos from Muddy Roads-Town Meeting Tonight.
lSnc.ial tn thc IicraId1

Berlin, Feb. 25-E,arlV voting was heavy this morning as the question of building # new $120,o0o junior high school was placed before the voters at tho polls. Within an hour after the voting places had been opened, almost 150 electors had registered their choice This was an average of almost one voter per minute for each of the three poll ing places and was better than the showing during the corresponding period al the annual town election ih October.
 Bitterness marked the voting. particularly in the kcnsington dis trict, where the leaders of both faVoring and opposing groups worked ceaselessly, bringing voters 10 the polls and taking them back 10 their homes. Those living in the neighborhood of Blue Hills found it impossible for them 10 make an ap- pearance at the polls 1t was said, for the muddy roads prevented 'H'il lIOlli luIIlS ny tllIltF auto or wagon. As 1t was, early this morn ing. tractors were used to pull out several cars stuck in the mud, and the vote was almost literally dragged ont Of the toWnspeople.
 300 Vote During Morning
 By noon the vote had reached the
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New Britain herald., 1930-02-25
CHILD IS AFFLICTED
 BY MYSTERY DISEASE
Former New Britain Girl Bitten by Bug in
 Palestine
iSpnriai to the Herald)

Baltimore, Md, Feb. 25 P)-Suf- fering from a strange disease affect ing her skin believed to have been caused when an insect bit her while she was visiting Palestine, Clara Crosse, 10 year old, is al Sinai hospital possibly dying.
 Physicians at that institution and specialists from Johns Hopkins hos pital and Hopkins medical school have tried in vain to diagnose Clara's case. Numerous remedies have been applied, all in vain, it is said.
 The ailmen. first appeared as Clara and her family were return ing to the United States after a stay in the holy land. The Crosse family formerly lived in New Britain, Conn. A. Crosse, the father, decided to settle in Boston upon their return from Palestine.
 The child's illness had developed more acute symptoms after the familys arrival at Boston and her mother brought her here.
New Britain herald., 1930-02-25
OFFERS TO TURN BACK CI7Y'S COMPENSATION
Injured Laborer Says He Has Not Been Given
 Light Work

Felix NarriChionC, street depart settlement of $55O, medical bills Of $50 and a promise of light work when it was\available, in compcnsa- ton for an injury aggravated by his municipal employment, has offered 10 return the money paid him and has asked Compensation Commits sie11er Leo J. Noonan to reopen his case
 To offer defense to this motion. city officials were summoned to the commissioners office in Hartford to- day. The specific complaint made by lie works has neglected to carry out it's agreement with reference to em- ployment and it is on this ground that he asks to have the contract de clared void and the entire question reviewed. He is represented by At torney S. Polk Waskowitz.
 Narrichione entered the citys en- ploy last fall, and in October was taken from street work to his home, complaining of a strained back. It was found, upon investigation, that he had suffered a serious back in- jury while employed in a Hartford factory in 1925, and medical author ities agreed that the latter injury was a recurrence of the first, agsra
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New Britain herald., 1930-02-25
BLOOD OF MOTHER GIVEN ID INFANT
Heroic Efforts Made to Save Child Ill With ErysipeIas
TRANSFUSl0N DECIDED ON
Mrs. Frank Rogers, wife of Labor Bureau Director, Takes Action to Prevent Death of Youngest Of Her 10 Children
Her 10 Children.

A mother Of 10 children last night gave d pint of her blood in a trans fusion operation performed in an effort 10 save the life of her young est child, a five months old infant.
 She is Mrs. Frank Rogers, wife Of the municipal employment bureau director. whose baby is critically ill with crysipelas. Unable to obtain a bed at the New Britain General hospital or at the Hartford isolation hospital, according 10 Mir. Rogers, the child was isolated in q room at the Rogers home at 152 West street, and every effort made 10 provide substitutes for disqualification.
 Yesterday, Dr. Vincent Smith de- Cided a blood trans(usion was dcsir- able and Mrs, Rogers submitted to the operation last night.
 Today, Dr. smith continued his ef- fort to gain for his infant patient admission to an institution and was successful in obtaining a bed at the isolation hospital in Hartford.
New Britain herald., 1930-02-25
HITS WIFE ON HEAD,
 JUMPS OUT WINDOW
Tidewater Director Con- mits Suicide in Eight
 Story Leap

New York. Feb. c5 lPt-Richard H. Jones, a director of Tidewater Oil Corporation of New Jersey, was kill ed today in fall from his eighth floor apartment on Park avenue. Po- lice listed the case as suicide, and said Jones jumped to his death after striking his wife on the head with an electric lamp.
 Employees of the apartment house heard the body strike the courtyard and called the police. An ambulance surgeon was called and pronounced Jones dead. The surgeon attended Mrs. Jones for lacerations of the scalp and she remained in her apart ment.
 Mr. Jones. who was s years old, was graduated from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md, in 1916 and was a member of the Army and Navy club, Washing ton. and the Engineers club. Mrs. Jones is the former Louise H. Con- key,
New Britain herald., 1930-02-25
SENATOR'S SAY SPIES
 ARE TRAILING THEM
Watson Orders Investiga- ton of Surveillance in
 Capitol Building

Washington, Feb. 25 OF)--Pre- cautions beyond those of war times have been put into effect in the senate wing of the United States capitol because of complaints of numerous senators that they are be- ing trailed by mysterious spies, the United Press learned today.
 A special squad of plain-c clothes men has been organized by David Is. Barry. sergeant -at-arms of the senate, to police the galleries and Hobbies and an investigation has been ordered by Republican Floor Leader Watson.
 The complaining senators believe the snoopers may have a connection with the recent charges made in the senate against the prohibition enforcement personnel. There also
 arc reports that the spies are try l ing to ascertain if senators person. ally arc living up 10 the prohibition | law.
 The side door Of the senate wing ] has been closed and all those | who enter must come through a single main entrance where a uni | formed policeman always has been
 stationed. The senate's own detec- tives follow any strangers who en- ter.
 From time 10 time senators have charged that their offices were ran sacked, or that they were being sub ject 10 espionage, but never in re- cent years has it been found neces- (Continued on Page 1Sl
New Britain herald., 1930-02-25
ACTION ON AIRPORT IS
 NOT ON MARCH DOCKET
swanson Fails to File Man as Or dcrcd by Board Of Adjustment
 in Preliminary Hearing.

Because A. w. Swanson. petitioner for a zone change that would per init operation of a commercial air port on Osgood avenue, did not file a map of his property with the com mon council, as requested by the board Of adjustment, the flying field question will not be determined al the boards next meeting, March ,.
 The board Of adjustment heard the petitioner in part, then post poned action awaiting the filing of maps to show the Swanson proper ty and the plots which adjon as we'll as other material requested by the board.
 Scheduled for action at this meeting are two requests for zone changes to allow business uses in territory now restricted for residen- lial purposes. One is at the corner of Oak and West streets. and the other in the block bounded by Booth, Martha, Capitol and Burritt streets
New Britain herald., 1930-02-25
Girl Who Played First '1Little Eva,"
 82 Years Old Now, Recalls Show

Belmont. Mass, Feb. @5 OP) - Little Eva, who made 100 trips 10 Heaven on a telegraph wire back in 1852. has lived to sec those celestial journeys vanish from the American stage.
 Last week, in New York, the Actors Equity Association announe- ed that for the first time in TS years. not a single theatrical com- pany is playing Uncle Toms Cabin anywhere in the United States.
 Most newspaper readers probably skinned this story and then allow ed their eyes to wander to othor columns; but a, charming little lady who lives in a big yellow house Cn Oak avenue in this Boston suburb read and re-read the Equity's an nOuncement.
 Played Premier Show
 Her memory carried her back n that notable night of September @7,
New Britain herald., 1930-02-25
WON'T DIVIDE BERLIN
 TO AID CORN GROWERS
Farmers May Appeal, Ex. pert Says-Meeting in
 Glastonbury
Special to the HeraId)

New Haven. Feb. @5-Hopes that the town of Berlin might be divided in some way so that corn could be shipped to New Britain. it's chief market. while the federal and state quarantines remained in force in other portions ot the town were again blighted today by state agriCul- tural officials. When the suggestion was made that a tentative division might be made of the town because the corn grows in one end and the corn borer was found in another sec ton at some distance. Dr. w. E. Brit ton Of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment station here said that he was doubtful if the quarantine would be lifted in Berlin or any part of that town.
 Dr. Britton said that the great in tcresr of Berlin corn growers was manifested by the presence of Berlin farmers at meeting of corn growers in Glastonbury last night. At that meeting he announced that, for the first time in the history of the state, an agricultural quarantine had been lifted so that Glastonbury corn could be sold in Hartford.
 The corn growers of Berlin may make the same appeal Glastonbury farmers made" said Dr. Britton, but l doubt if it will do them any good. The federal authorities would not approve of dividing town. If that were done other towns would request similar privileges and the work would be complicated and in
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New Britain herald., 1930-02-25
MERCHANTS WARNED
 OF SPURIOUS sIO BILLS
Police Hear Counterfeit Money Is Being Circu-
 lated Here

Counterfeit BIO bills arc in circu- lation in New Britain, the police an- nounccd today, and storekeepers and others handling money during rush periods are on the alert. It is said the bills are poor limitations and can be readily detected if careful watch is kept of all paper money offered.
 Gealo Davisina, proprietor of a store at Beaver and Broad streets, reported to Captain Kelly today that young man offered a S10 bill in payment for cigarettes last night, and he gave him the change without noticing that the bill was counter felt. The detective bureau is investi- gating.
New Britain herald., 1930-02-25
CITY PAYR0LLS STILL TIED UP WE'LL
 EFFORT IS MADE BY MAYORS COUNSEL
 TO SOLVE C0MPTR0LLERSH|P DISPUTE
Gardiner Insists on His Appeal
 from Six Months Term He Served
 in Jail; Case in Supreme Court
Files Demurrer to Motion to Dismiss Proceedings Quoting Law and Legal Authorities. in Reply to Assistant States
 Attorney Gafney

Insisting that his appeal to the supreme court Of errors from the finding Of Judge Isaac Wolfe when he was a superior court judge, be heard, Henry F. Gardiner Of this city, who served six months jail sentence on the charge of criminal libel of Police Chief Hart, has de- murred 10 a motion filed by Assis- tant States Attorney Donald Calf ney for dismissal Of his appeal, and the case has been set down for ar gumcnt before the supreme court Tuesday. March 1.
 shortly after being released from Jail, Gardiner communicated with Clerk LuCius Fuller of the superior court relative 10 the appeal and was informed that before the evidence
New Britain herald., 1930-02-25
Schmalz Rejected Urge to End Life While Hid- ing in Woods in West End-Pohce Think He Intended No Harm to Wife.
Woman He Married En- braces Him in Cell and Assures Him of Her Sup port-WilI Choose Trial by Jury - McDonough Says Client Is Wreck.

George F. Schmalz, 44-year-old factory foreman who confessed 10 the police that he shot Miss Mary \elicka, also known as Mary Walicki and Mary Mason, 17, of 1 Ann street, Sunday forenoon on Summer street, and fled without knowing that all of the three revolver bullets took effect and killed her. looked on suicide as "too cowardly" and when nc was arrested by Sergeant NJ. J. Flynn and Officer w. s. Strolls in front Of his mothers home at 39 Armisticc street, he had resolved to notify the police 10 come after him. It was learned today.
 That he had in mind q plan 10 harm his estransed wife when he called at her home, $50 West Main street, shortly after the shooting, is doubted by the police who talked to him about all angles of the murder, although the revolver still had three bullets in it. He wanted 10 tell his wife, he said, that he had broken away from his paramour even though he had to commit a crime to do so. As it happened, his son was at home and his wife was out of the c'ty, but admittance was refused him because the boy was afraid of him,
 F'ntcmpiat tS Suict .c
 Crossing to the wooded area in the vicinity of Jerome and Armistice streets, Schmalz stayed for almost an hour contemplating his predica- ment. He did not know Miss Nclicka was dead and as he had not
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New Britain herald., 1930-02-25
STATE POWER CO,
 VALUATION CITED
Committee Told Of Questioned
 Items in Power Reports
RUSSELL DEFENDS ACTS
senate Committee, Given Figures On Northern Connecticut Power Co.,, Doubts St,050,O00 Properly In c|udcd As Value.

Washington. Feb. 21 lP,-Morc than $210oo,ooo now standing in tho valuation accounts of power compan- ics seeking permits from the federal power commission. has been quost- toned by accountants of thc commits sion.
 Tho total was madc public by n memorandum inserted in the records Of tho senate interstate commerce committee as if resumed its investi- Sation today of the affairs Of the fed cral power commission.
 Bonner Files Papers
 r. r.. Bonner. executive secretary. who has been charged with favoring tho "poWor iutercsts' brought the memorandum in response 10 the de mand Of the committee last week for q complete list of all items question: cd hy the commission accountants.
 Bonner brought the memorandum with a summary which showed that the following accounts are in dis puto:
 Aldhal1ld pN'I tpIlIp pdllN M I .. . O3$.
 Carolina Tower X Light company $522.919.
 chelan Electric company SS52,167.
 Clarion River Power company $5.@59,736.
 Columbian Electric & Power com pany $646.040.
 Cumberland Hydro Electric Pow CT company $50O.0oo.
 Empire District Electric company $&2,$19
 Lexington Water Power company $456.o07.
 Minnesota Power and Light com pany $769. .lo5.
 Niagara Falls Power company $l,- 800, 900.
 Northern Connecticut Power com pany $1,05O000.
 Northwestern Power and Light company $1oS,025.
 Pacific Gas X Electric company S562,23S. Penn Power X Light company S759.4l%.
 Rocky Mountain Power company Continued on Page Two)