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New Britain herald., 1930-09-23
.RA|LR0AD OFFICERS
 STAGE DEATH DUEL
Western Maryland President
 Dead, Vice President Dying FOUGHT IN BALTIMORE
Maxwell C. Byers Succumbs and Dudley D. Gray Seriously Wound ed-DifTercnccs Between Men Traced to Recent Litigation.

Baltimore, Sept. 23 P)-Maxwell C. Byers, president of the Western Maryland railroad, was shot and killed and Dudley w. Gray, vice president of the road, was seriously wounded in pistol battle in the companys offices in the Standard Oil building today.
 Police who were hastily summon ed said the two apparently had locked themselves in the office of the president and there shot it out over some differences.
 Police Break Door The first patrolman on the scene. called by office employees who heard the shots, said he was forced to break down the door to gain en- trance to the office of MT. Byers.
 The fatal shooting was discovered by occupants of neighboring offices in the building who entered after hearing several pistol shots. MT. Byers and MT. Gray both were on the floor, the former dead and the latter unconscious.
 Gray was rushed to hospital and placed immediately on an operating table in an effort to save his life.
 A pistol was found on the floor beside Gray with five shells explod- ed. Police said all doors into the executives office were found locked. At the hospital physicians said Gray had been shot once in the back and once through the chest. Byers' body bore three bullet wounds, police said.
 Gray 61 Years Old
 Mir. Gray, 61 years old, casle to Baltimore in 1914, one year after he became connected with the rail- road. Previously, he had started his railroad career with the Baltimore X Ohio railroad after attending pub lie schools in his native state, Ohio,
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New Britain herald., 1930-09-23
Berlin allingford
 Road Opened Today

Traffic on the new trunk line highway from Berlin, near the Meri- den town line, and Wallingford, was opened tiday when work was com- pleted on a bridge which has held up use Of the route for several weeks. The bridge spans Broad street.
 The new concrete roadway makes it possible to proceed from Berlin to Wallingford without encountering the traffic in the center of Meriden, and it also eliminates the turn at Dead Mans Curve" at Yalesville. About midway along the route, an intersection with the Meriden- Mid dletown road is reached.
New Britain herald., 1930-09-23
Frank zapatka, Trapped in
 Second Floor Room, Injured When Forced to Jump
INVALID MOTHER SAVED,
 QUIETED BY NEIGHBORS
Home of Jacob Zapatka on Kit Lane Destroyed by Flames Early This Morning With Loss of $4,O00- Family of Eight Lose All Clothes and Personal Effects-Excited Boys Delay Giving Alarm.
Especial to the Herald)

Nopetidl lU lle TlelfAluJ
 Newington, Sept. 23-Jacob Za- patka, his invalid wife, and their six children were barly able to escape in their nightclothes when fire de- stroyed their home on Kit Lane early this morning and one son, Frank, was trapped on the second floor and sustained an injured leg in making D forced jump to the ground.
 The fire was first noticed at about 4: 10 o'clock by Jacob Zapatka, Jr., and his brother, Frank. The boys stated that the fire apparently had started in the upper hallway from defective electric wiring and had made much headway before the discovery They shouted and arous- ed the otherMembers of the fam lily, which consists of the father and mother, five sons and one daughter.
 All barely escaped in their night clothes.
 Frank, whose bedroom IS on the second floor found that escape was cut off from the stairway. lie climbed through a window onto the roof of a porch,and jumped to the ground, straining his left leg.
 Excited Boys Delay Alarm
 The family having no telephone and the boys being excited they drove their cars to the center to the home of Charles Andrews, g. distance of about miles, to give Fire Chief John Walsh, doing po- lice duty at the Circle, was aroused by the barking of dogs, and going out to investigate, he saw the up per part of Zapatka's house Tn flames. He went to the home of MT. Blim, from where the alarm was sent in.
 All these delays gave the fire a headway of more than 30 minutes, and when Fire Go. 1 and 2 arrived the entire upper floors were com pletely in flames. It was necessary lU lay lyUUO lSSl oL Ilooc ehliu e"o streams of water were played upon the blaze.
 Mrs. Zapatka Distracted
 Mrs. Zapatlla, who has been ill for the past eight weeks, became hysterical, and it required the aid of three ncighbors to hold her in Constraint She was taken to the home of relatives at Wilson's sta ton.
 The house was built by Mr. Za- patka three years ago at a cost of $7,000. It was an eight-room structure and modern throughout. All the clothing belonging to the entire family was destroyed.
 The property was covered by s5,- 900 insurance and the furniture was insured for s1.000.
 The estimated loss is about s4,- O0o.
 Mir. Zapatl;a was formerly en- ployed by the Corbin Screw Corp. in New Britain but has been out of employment for the past eight weeks.
New Britain herald., 1930-09-23
Negro Held In New York Girls
 Disappearance On Last Thursday

New York, Sept. 2S tPl--A 15-year- old school girl. missing since last Thursday, was sought by police to- day while they held negro res. taurant employe in connection with her disappearance.
 They also sought man and his wife named by the negro as the couple with whom he left the girl the day she disappeared.
 Eugene S. Hill, 30, and without marked negro features, told police he was a neighbor of the girl, Ther- esq Gallant She lived with her par |ents, John and Agnes Gallant, who
New Britain herald., 1930-09-23
Democrats Make Plans
 For WOmen's Meeting

Women affiliated with the demo- cratic party have been called to a mass meeting, to take place Friday night at the party's headquarters in the Erwin hotel on Main street un- der the leadership of Mrs. Nellie K. McCrann, member of the state cen- tral committee.
 This is the first general meeting of the democratic women in prepa- ration for the November election. Each of the several delegations sent to the convention this year has had several women as members, but no meetings have been held exclusively for the women of tn eparty.
New Britain herald., 1930-09-23
YALE SCHOLARSHIP FOR OSCAR STEEGE Ministers Son Wins New Britain
 Yale Club Award GRADUATE OF N. B. H. s.

Four Year Course-Chosen Be-
 cause of High School Record and
 Good Character.
 Oscar A. Steege, son of Rev. A. c. Theodore Steege, pastor of St. Mat thews Evangelical Lutheran church and Mrs. Steege. has been awarded the annual scholarship for a course at Yale by the New Britain Yale club. He matriculated yesterday and will take a four year general college course.
 Steege will be IS years old next December, He was graduated from New Britain High school last June after an enviable record for high marks in his studies. He was treas urer of his class.
 When Steege was employed in the mailing department of the Herald few years ago, he developed a de- sire to enter the field of journal ism. This inclination has survived and he will study the end in view Of entering nc wspaper work after he completes his Yale course. The New Britain Yale club, for several years, has awarded scholar ships to g New Britain High school graduates who have shown by appli- cation to their studies that they have ambition to enter higher fields of learning. Sound chara cter is a requisite. also. Steege satisfied the scholarship committee of the club that he was qualified for the ap- pcintment.
 Martin Steoge. his brother, has re- turned to Columbia university in New York for q post graduate course.
 Extra Year For AzarO
 Valentine C. Hart, chairman of the Yale club scholarship committee, said today that the club had voted to extend the scholarship awarded to Joseph Azaro four years ago. Azaro entered Yale art school, the course in which is for five years.
New Britain herald., 1930-09-23

came her from Fall River, Mass, more than year ago.
 Hill said he had known the girl about a month and last Thursday morning he met her on her way to school and took her in his car to the apartment of a man and his wife named Anderson. There he left her, he said. Inquiry showed the Ander- sons had left their apartment the next day.
 Hill said he came here from North Carolina. Police learned he had not reported at the restaurant where he was employed since the day the girl was missed.
New Britain herald., 1930-09-23
SECTION HANDS KILLED
 IN BLOOMFIELD ACCIDENT
Icn Delay Too Long Before Getting Out of Speeding Trains Path
 on Construction Job.

Brookfeld, Mass, Sept. 23 (UP)- Two section hands were killed tn- stantly here today when struck by a Boston-bound passenger train of the Boston & Albany railroad. The victims were:
 Maurice Kenney, AS, of Boston.
 Angelo Sanella, 35, whose address was not inHnediatoly ascertained.
 ksnney and Sanclla were among a group of GO men engaged in track work here. According to fellow la borers, the victims were struck when they delayed too long before at tempting to get out of the path of the train.
 The bodies were placed aboard the train and taken to Worcester station, from which they were re- layed to Worcester City hospital, where they were pronounced dead.
New Britain herald., 1930-09-23
CRATER CORPSE
 HUNDRED FOUND Body Recovered From Bay An- SWers Description, Police Say SUMMON ATTORNEY GRAIN
Man Removed to Staten Island Morgue Has NIutilated Right In- dex Finger Same As Missing Magistrate-Other Liknesses.

New York, Sept. 23 lR - A body answering the description of Su- preme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater in numerous details, includ- ing a mutilated right index finger, was recovered from the upper bay today and taken to a Staten Island morgue. Justice Crater has been missing since August 6.
 The body answered description of missing jurist in height and weight and seemed to be that of man of about the judges age. District At torney Thomas c. T. Grain, who has been conducting grand jury in- vestigation of the disappearance, was immediately notified.
 Description of Body
 The full description of the tody, as given out by the police of Totem vile, Staten Island, was:
 About 45 years old, five feet eleven inches in height, 175 pounds; brown hair and brown eyes; clean shaven; brown check shirt, white cotton underwear and brown socks; black sho2; no teeth.'
 Police headquarters in New York, however, said the body had full set of teeth. Justice Crater had false teeth.
 Search for the missing jurist has been pushed vigorously by police and county authorities since his absence became publicly known about 8
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New Britain herald., 1930-09-23
No Canvass of Teachers

No attempt would be made to ob- tain the sentiment of the 500 teach CTS, MT. Vessels said. Any action taken or any discussion held will take place at the council meeting, the council decided.
 Following are the members of the teachers council: School Supt. S. H. Holmes and Elementary School Supervisor Mary A. Campbell, ex- officio members; Senior High school, Principal Louis P. Slade, Edith A. Adams Newell s. Ames, Amy C. Guilford, lone D. Proctor, Jesse D. Sallee, David B. Swift, Bertha K. Tallon, Ernest F. Upham and Mill dred G. Weld; Central Junior High school, Principal William c. French, Anna M. Geissler, Walter E. Haley, Caroline F. Stearns; Nathan Hale Junior High school, Principal Harry Vessels, Dorothy Shapleigh, Doris Rideout; Junior High school shops, James H. Ginns, Ethel I. Little hales, Ruth M. Tupper and Arthur F. Groth
 Washington school, Principal Mary A. Tormay and J. Irene Mo Hugh; Smalley school, Principal Vincent Sala and Margaret Quinn; Elihu Burritt, Principal Raymond B. Searle and Catherine M. Egan; Chamberlain school, Principal Ed ward E. Weeks and Rose Himberg: Lincoln school, Elsie M. Miles and Margaret Middlemass; Roosevelt school, Principal Edward E. Weeks and Grace Burns; Levi o. Smith school, Principal Mary c. German and Elsie P. Gamerdinger; Bartlett school Eileen Griffin; Northend school, Mabel Steele; Rockwell school, Mae c. Payne: Israel Put nam school, Alice Zevin; Walnut Jill school, Helen O'Brien; Benja- min Franklin school, Adele Bassett and Mary Stack. There will also be representative of special teachers and directors.
New Britain herald., 1930-09-23
HOOVER NAMES KINCHELOE

Washington, Sept. 23 R-Ap- pointment of Representative Kinche- Joe. democrat, Kentucky, to the fed eral'customs court was announced today by President Hoover.
New Britain herald., 1930-09-23
REMINGTON COMPANY
 CITED AS DELINQUENT
Water Co. Late in Filing Report Subject to
 S175 Fine

Hartford, Sept. 23 P-Four pub lie utility companies in Connecticut were delinquent in filing reports with the public utilities commission of the state and have been certified as such by the commission to the at torney general. The companies are required by law to furnish, annual reports to the utilities commission on or before March 31 and failing to do so are subject to fine of $25 for each day of delinquency.
 The Litchf1eld Electric Light & Power company was reported as 10 days delinquent, the Ridgefield Elec- tric company 10 days, the Newing- ton Water company, seven days, and the Simsbury Water company 15 days.
New Britain herald., 1930-09-23

The Newington Water Co.,, in com mon with the other districts of Newington and other towns sur rounding Hartford, was taken over by the metropolitan district on July first.
New Britain herald., 1930-09-23
OU|GLEY INVITED
 r ID EXPLAIN FUND IDEA TO TEACHERS
Council Holds Meeting and Votes to- Ask Mayor to
 Speak
PROPOSITION NOT CLEAR
 IN INSTRUCTORS MINDS

Launching of Project Prior to End
 of Vacation Season Makes it Diff
 ficult for School Faculties to Un-
 dcrstand Purpose of Per Omt
 Wage Contribution, Explanation
 Given.
 Mayor George A. Quigley will be invited to address 500 school teach CTS and other school department employees and explain to them the need of the two per cent contribu- tion of their salaries to the Christ mas fund for needy during the win ter months, in accordance with a vote taken at a meeting of the teachers council yesterday after noon.
 An invitation was sent the mayor today by Secretary Caroline F. Stearns, acting under the Instruction ot the council The members felt that Mayor Quigley would be best qualified to explain the details of the plan. After the teachers have heard him speak the council will hold a meeting at which it will vote on acceptance or rejection of the project. The time for the meeting has not been set, the members feel ing that he mayor should be given an opportunity to choose a date convenient to himself.
 School Fund Would Be S5, 400
 According to President Harry Vessels of the council, many of the teachers were still on their summer vacations when the matter of con- tribution of two per cent of salaried city employees for September, Octo- Der and November to a fund for aid Of the families of unemployed dur ing the winter came up. The fund from the school department alone would amount to $5,400.
 Mr. Vessels believes that the best way to get the information to the teachers would be. to hear of the mayors plan from the mayor, him self. According to the council presi- dent the only other way the teach CTS could get their information is from the back files of the news ,,anore
New Britain herald., 1930-09-23

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New Britain herald., 1930-09-23

Average Daily Circulation For yss,' %ss4 ssts 5as''s ': 15,103
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23
Our Victims

When the last charred body from the Ohio state
penitentary fire is counted-the number is above 300
and still mounting-will the public forget?
When all the stories are told of heroic convicts who
gave their lives to rescue Others and readers are
thrilled more with the horror of that wild night
when 5000 men fought behind molten bars then will
the public forget?
When the official Investigations and alibis are fin
ished. will the public forget?
For the people of Ohio, like the people Of other
states share heavy responsibility for the conditions
causing these tragedies In the long series of prison
reyos during the last few years-such as the recent
ones in Colorado Kansas New York and Rhode Island
one factor has been common to all That is over
croWding and the evils connected with it,
We cage our offenders like beasts but we deny
them the care we give animals in ZOO And in those
close crowded cells the wrecks of become beasts
indeed Maddened and driven by hopelessness, they
welcome death by uneven fight with guards Or by
firing the prison.
Ohio state penitentiary was like that Here is the
recent indictment of the place made by the National
Society of Penal Information after careful nvesti-
alton:
THE ancient plant at the state penitentiary in
Columbus, of the largest prisons in the country
suffers from condition of overcrowding worse than
than n any other large prison not only Column
bus not for an increased population but already
is too large prison to lie operated on any other lines
than those of blanket treatment
Even with the completion of the present building
program it will be able to care for its present popu-
laton only under conditions that fall far below ac-
cepted modern standards for housing prisoners"
Why this oyercrowding in Ohio and in practically
all other prisons, state and federal? Among many
reasons one stands out Prohibition and crimes con-
neced with it have been filling the prisons to over
flowing. This charge is not made simply by wet ex-
tremiss 1t is fact attested by virtually all official
and semi-ofhcia penal studies made during the last
decade.
Attorney General Mitchell just has testified to a
congressional committee that an increase in prohbi-
ton sentences has created such prison conditions that
not rapid and large scale paroles relieve the
oyercrowdng. He said prohibition prosecutions could
not be further increased until prison space was ex-
tended.
For such conditions there is no excuse. AS long
this country continues the folly of prohibition,
minimum of decency requires that adequate prisons be
provided for the army of criminals created by it,
Why is this not done, when the need has been
demonstrated often? Is it hypocrisy which refuses
admit this price of prohibition; is it stinginess of
the wealthiest nation in the world is it caousnes
to The fate of the condemn to these dungeons?
Better that men should be executed outright than
forced to exist in the hell that many prisons today
Who blame them Tor choosing probable death in
these repeated revolts nlassacreS and fires?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23
The Prosecutor

-,s Office ~ prosecutor for this county is an i'm
rortant one In the hands Of tool OF poA1lcai
machine it might easily become the means u oei1e
ropunitv n criminals In the hands OF an lneIlceH'
snd secretly controlled man, it become the lhsfu
ment Of Injustice and Of failure Of justice
The presert prosecutor asserts quite boldly that
the reason the attorneys Of the city are against INN
is the fact that he has refused to NIX cases Iof
That is serious charge. It needs, however some
qualification and there should be demand Tor par
ticulars.
If LAWYERS have tried to FIX cases, they should be
disbarred If lawyers have secretly pleaded Tor faVorS
for criminals they should be exposed.
T. is difficult TO see how the bar association can
remain idle under such public statement IRON
nube official inasmuch it reflects on the integrity
of the entire profession.
IF there are lawyers who are trying to nix cases
and Prosecutor Stark says that he is opposed pecSe
he refused to listen to their pleas then these lawyers
must be driven from the profession Inc pIeoen'
prosecutor can do no greater public service ana i'H
~ M Greater proof Of his fitness than to name these
men by name to tell what cases they treo 70 Il@' 70
take all citizens into his confidence as to when ana
where he protected justice py ms Iel"o"4 " -F'
with such requests.
This CITY and county needs lawyers who Try 20
defeat Justice by protecting criminals whom they know
to be guilty Specially there no need OF any lawyer
vho tries to bribe coerce cajce public prosecutor
from the plain path Of duty
The Times is not convinced that the best interests
Of the people lies in a dynasty founded on elther
real or pretended hate OF Cof1nsm. The Times has
fought Cofnism and Will continue to tight it, in what
ever form and in whatever party it appears But 1t
does not believe that mere opposition to Cofhn the
boss without opposition to what Cofhnsm stanoS lor'
is the perfect plea for confidence
In the coming campaign The Times Womo very
much like to see two candidates for office who have
M secret alliances and who possess qualifications Tor
the ion It would like to see in that office who
has courage enough not only disregard the whispers
of secret influences but TO prosecute those VINO Try 10
beguile him from his duty
The test is easy Prosecutor Stark has mace the
onen charge that lawyers oppose him because he mas
refused to listen to illicit pleas. What lawyers? What
cases? When?
II Prosecutor Stark gives the names, the oateS Iae
cases he will he entitled to consideration. Unless he
does it is difficult to see how the bar association can
refrain from demanding specifications. Perhaps the
urinary campaign can be useful in driving from the
profession the unfit or in exposing buffers
Quite incidentally, it may be remembered that
when all the politically fearful were trembling ana
covering before the Watson presidential fake, Law
renee Henderson, the Republican opponent OF STARK
had the courage to head the Hoover campaign mat
took more than courage. 1t took conscience which Is
always guarantee.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23
Infantile Paralysis Still a Puzzle

It is established quite certainly
that a virus is responsible for the
disease, that this virus is located
in the upper portions of the nose
and throat, and that it has spe-
cific affinity for the nervous system,
which causes it to reduce the
paralysis that is the most significant
symptom in infantile paralysis.
Since neither the exact cause OF
the disease nor the means by which
it is spread is known definitely, the
prevention of infantile paralysis is
an extremely difficult problem.
Attempts have been made to in
oculate against the disease with a
form of the organism that has been
alleged to have causative relation
ship and with the blood of persons
who have recovered from the
disease.
At present, the latter method
seems to be the one most in favor
as a means of preventing the dis
ease, or as a means of control in
cases when seen early.