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New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
Nash "4OO' Series
 Give Good Performance

Another chapter in the story of motor car performance-the sub- ject of paramount interest to the 1880 motoring public-was written today for officials of The Nash Motors company by no less an au- thority than Col. Arthur C. Goebel
 The famous flyer, who has been a Nash patron since the original 400" series cars brought him twin ignition motor superiority on the ground to add to the tNin-ignition reliability of his championship air planes, made a fast air-land trip to kenosha recently to take deliv- cry of a new and handsome Twin Ignition Eight Cabriolet which had been finished to his personal order. Leaving the Nash factories, he swung his new car toward the south in an overland trip which took him first through an exciting bear hunt in Mexico and then over the south- ern route to Los Angeles.
 The results of this unusual new car test and the pleasure the new type car gave this master of mo- tors, is best told in his own words. Following is a letter, received at Nash headquarters from the Dole
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
CHARGES RAILROAD
 WOULD RUN STATE
Grundy Opens Campaign With
 Attack on ". ". Atterbury

Philadelphia. March 31 P - Opening his campaign to succeed himself in the United States senate, Joseph R. Grundy has trained his heavy artillery on w. W. Atterbury. president of the Pennsylvania rail- road, and members of the Phi!adel- pha republican organizations war board"
 Former Governor Clifford Pinchot, gubernatorial candidate, also has taken a fling at members of the war board" The local organization is supporting Francis Shunk Brown for governor. Pinchot is making the fight independently.
 By grace of the political machine now guided by the so-called war board composed of Hall, Cunning ham, Salus ct al.," Grundy said in a statement last night, MT. Alter bury is now republican national committeeman from Pennsylvania, and in his dual position as repub- lican national committeeman and pl CGiptIl VI LIZ dllld Idlls road, Mir. Atterbury has been and is the directing mind in the con- spiracy being carried out x1 by which the Philadelphia gang and the Pennsylvania railroad are attempt ing 10 grab control of the state gov- ernment and of the public treasury, dictate the personnel and policy of the public service commission, and dominate all the important relations ships of this great state with the federal government"
 Pinchot characterized the Phila- delphia organization as one of the most corrupt on earth" and as- serted that it's leaders represented the very worst' in politics. He ada ed that the election of Brown would mean that these men would move into the capitol at Harrisburg and raid the state as they have raided Philadelphia"
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
Dodge Truck Line
 Is Now Complete

Officials of the truck division ot Dodge Brothers announced today that the company now has what is considered the most comprehensive range of units in the motor truck industry. Capacities range from the Merchants Express light delivery car to the heavy duty three-ton truckH and the various models and combinations Tn the line meet 56 per cent of all hauling needs.
 Six-cylinder engines and four wheel brakes On all models, and radiator shutters operate. from the dash on all heavy-duty models are outstanding features of the 1931 Dodge Brothers commercial cars and trucks. Four-cylinder power plants are also available in the 3-4- ton and l-ton sizes. A four-speei transmission in the one-tone and heavier capacities insures more flexible operation under all condi- tions. Hydraulic, internal-eXpanj- ing brakes are standard equipment on all trucks, school buses and mo- tor coaches. All brakes are com- pletely enclosed as a protection against dirt and dust, and afford positive control at all times.
 Forty-eight different types of chassis with wheelbases ranging from 109 inches to 1S5 inches are offered, which when combined with the various body styles and vary ing equipment, gear ratios, size of tires, etc, extend into more than dition, the special equipmen divi-
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
DEATHLEAP ENDS
 ALLYN KING'SLIFE
Failure to Win Return to Broad.
 way Causes Suicide

New York, March 31 Rl-Allyn King, whose blonde loveliness was once chronicled in the flickering lights of Broadway stage life, was dead today, a martyr to the harsh code Broadway assumes, that they never come back
 Convinced tlRt her career as a stage star was over, the former ziegfeld star died in Bellevue hos , pital yesterday several hours after she had thrown herself from a Greenwich Village apartment. Both arms and legs were broken and her skull fractured and only her last words, q did it because I can never return to Broadway" remained 10 recall her career.
 Elevated by Florenz Ziegfeld from a New Haven cabaret girl to a star in her own right, Allyn King be- came one of the most popular of his stars. Then in 1921 came the craze for "boyish" figures, and her con- tract said she must weigh 11S pounds. She lived for months on strict diet and then finally she was carried to a santarium. a physical and mental wreck.
 For two years she was there and finally recovered only to find she could never regain her former place. She became Respondent Yesterday, after breakfast with her aunt in the apartment, she left the table and a few minutes later was picked up from the stone courtyard below the fifth story window.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
GIRL SCOUT NEWS

Fourteen Girl Scouts of troop of the South Congregational church went on short hike to kensing- ton Saturday afternoon. At the start each scout gathered a hand full of 50 pebbles Every time she saw a tree or flower or something in nature that she could recognize scouts built fire and cooked kabobs, bacon, cocoa and toasted marshmallows. After the lunch half of the group followed a trail that had already been prepared. At the end of the trail they found box of chocolates.
 Merit badge examinations for April are scheduled as follows: Cook in the Girl Scout office with Mrs. Jane Barker, April and II at 4:3O; craftsman at 30 Cedar street with A. D'Augustino Saturday, April at 10 a. n.; dressmaker merit badge in the sewing room of the senior high school with Mrs. Idella Knapp, Thursday, April 3 at Ais; needle woman merit badge will be held at the same time as dressmaker; handywoman and housekecper merit badge examinations will be held in the Girl Scout office with Mrs. Logan Page Tuesday, April 22, at 20; hoo q in the Girl Scout office April 16 and 23 with Miss Minna Richter Wed nesday at 4:S0: laundress will be given by Mrs. Herbert ONeil of Berlin at her home on Widen road, Berlin, on Friday, April 25, at 2; musician will be given by individual appointment with the two examiners, H. J. Zahnleiter for violin and Mrs. Ruth Schade Smedley for piano; wild flower finder and tree finder merit badge examinations will be given in one Of the biology rooms of the senior high school with Miss Elizabeth Macintosh, Tuesday, April 8 at 4:15; land animal merit badge will be given at the home of Charles Pratt on East Berlin road hostess examination will be given at 91 Vance street by Mrs. Garner c. Goodwin Thursday. April A at 10; examinations in home nurse. first aid, child nurse, starfinder, will be given when course has been com pleted. Examinations in garden flower finder and birdfnder will be given when enough girls have ap- piled.
 Mrs. George Lewis of Newington is assisting Mrs Roy Miller, captain, with the first aid work in troop 10, Maple Hill.
 A state conference for all local directors. field captains and com- missioners will be held in the New Britain Girl Scout headquarters April s. Mrs. E. l.. Warren, con- missioner of the New Britain Girl Scout council, will conduct the dis cussion of the commissioners and Miss Nellie West, local director oi the Hartford Girl Scout council vii conduct the discussion of the local directors and field captains. The session will be open at II a. m. and adjourn at f. There will be discus sion on the following topics: Camp it's program: training course for camp leaders in Connecticut: gypsy trips: campfire programs; cooking by the girls in camp; council and their committees; how to secure new leaders. etc.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
MOBILIZE
 FOR MIMIC WAR
Pacific Coast to Witness Red and Blue Sham Battle

Washington, March 31 P)-Tha war birds of the nation, mobilized on a pacific front" will start Tues day to test their wings and unfold picture of what an international fray would bring.
 For three weeks the largest and most modern host of sky fighters ever assembled in the west will carry on the fortunes of mimic combat in the 1880 air corps field exercises.
 It will be the proving ground for latest equipment and new schemes of combat evolved by Uncle Sans en- gineers and strategists to keep air defense in step with the advances by aeronautics.
 Radio will play major role in knitting the defenders, scattered in the skie on their separate missions, into a compact fighting force
 Will Test Radio
 Pursuit ships, three -mile-a- minute fighters, will test a new radio re- ceiver with suffident sensitivity to operate on siX-foot antenna with a daylight range of 200 miles and cap able of being remotely controlled.
 Lumbering bombers, the winged tortresses, and ground-combing at- tack ships will be linked by radio with observation and pursuit planes while in the air in the most extensive planet plane and plane ground tests ever tried.
 Centralized in Sacramento but rov- ing over the whole domain of Cali fornia, more than 130 planes have been mustered from all parts of the country for the event.
 Commanded by Brigadier General iuiam E. Gilmore as almost his final official act before retirement from the service, the host will be sc1ooled the first week to insure smooth and safe operation of such a large force.
 The second week will be spent in testing latest equipment-ships, con- munication, and photography - and new tactics mapped by strategists in the war department to utilize the developments.
 Hostilities between a phantom foe, labeled the "red" force, and the air corps fighters combined as the blue" defenders, will climax the maneuvers in imaginary battles over San. Francisco, Los Angeles, and Southern California.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
MARION HAS DRY
 LEANING IN POLL
Philadelphia Ballots Show
 Strong Repeal Desire

New York, March 31 UP) = Marion, O., home town of the late President Warren c. Harding, is one of three cities with dry pluralities in the latest compilation of votes in the Literary Digest prohibition poll.
 Four hundred and two of it's citi- zens indicated desire for enforce ment, while 274 voted for modifica- ton and 165 for repeal.
 The other two cities arc Spokane, Wash, with 1,3l0 favoring enforce ment, 1,037 voting for modification, and eos for repeal; and Elgin. H., tabulation 357, SS9, and 519 in the three classifications. In each case, however, the combined vote of those favoring modification and repeal was greater than the ballots for enforce ment.
 Philadelphia voted heavily wet. Those favoring enforcement num- hered 11,405; modification, 1S,155; and repeal, 44.60S.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
Developments in Automobile
 Field as Described by 4 gents

flight winner, ans-Continental champion and mechanical authorl- ity:
 T have intended writing the Nash factory family few lines every since my return here with the new Twin-lgnition Eight cab r!olet," he wrote from Los Ange- les. My trip home was the most enjoyable in my experience. The new car was so comfortable and easy to drive that l made two sep arate endurance runs just for the fun of the thing. The first was from Wichita, Kansas to Mason. Texas. made n thirty hours driv- ing. On this run I stopped only for gas, oil and an occasional san1- Wich.
 "The other vas a nonstop run from Ozona, Texas, to Los Angeles thirty hours behind the wheel. with stops only for gas and oil.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
CONNECTICUT HAS 2
 ON NEW HONOR ROLL
League of Women Voters Pays
 Tribute to P0ineerS
By GEORGE IT. MANNING

(Washinetop Bureau. N. B. Herald)
 Washington. D. C., March S1-As recognition of their distinguished service is the cause of woman suf- frage, as we'll as tribute to their citizenship achievements, the names of two Connecticut women have been offered for the National Roll of Honor, the National League of Wom- en Voters announced here today. The two 'nominations" from Connecticut are Mrs. Isabelle Beecher Hooker, who lived in Hartford until her death in 1907, and Miss Caroline Ruutz- Rees of Greenwich.
 In it's announcement the National League of Women Voters explains "a memorial plan of recognition in this tenth anniversary year of wom- an suffrage The special jury of awards, assigned to pass on nomina- tions for the Honor Roll will pre- sent it's formal report on May 1 to the Leagues anniversary convention in Louisville, Ky. Names are nomin- ated by state leagues of women Tot- CTS. and may be selected by the State because it is the birthplace, resident or the State of service Of the nom- inee.
 The list made public today carries the two Connecticut names, as fol- lows:
 Mrs Isabelle Beecher Hooker, of Hartford, (died in 1907) first presi- dent, Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association; reformer in securing women's property rights and equal parental guardianship rights.
 Miss Caroline RuutzRees, of Greenwich, members of national board of National American Woman Suffrage Association; war worker in National Council of Defense"
 In the list of 2S names made pub lie today are Susan B. Anthony of Kansas, Julia Ward Howe and Lucy Stone of Massachusetts, Dr. Anna Howard Shaw of Michigan, Mrs. Car rie Chapman Catt of Iowa, Mrs. Armenia Smith White of New Hamp- shire, and other names nationally and internationally known in the feminist movement.
 Classified Ads in the Herald are an institution in New Britain.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
Government Prepares Fiireproof Vault for Secrets Gathered By
 l2O,OW Census Takers In Visits
Data Considered Sealed for Fifty Years When Records Become Geneo- logical, Custodians De- clare.

Washington, March S1.-(P)-An immense vault. fireproof, is being rushed to completion at the census bureau here to receive the 1880 cen- sus Secrets which everybody will be telling within the next 30 days.
 Strictly confidential" is the stamp placed by the presidents proclama- ton on every item the people of the United States may tell to the 120,- 900 census takers, who will start circulating through city and coun- tryside Wednesday morning.
 Any one of a possible 10000 ques- tions may be answered freely and frankly, because all answers will be locked in the vault.
 There need be no fear that any disclosure will be made regarding any individual person or his affairs, " President Hoover's 18th decennial census proclamation read.
 He could make that assurance be- cause 6 the way the census bureau keeps secrets. The bureau itself is being housed, pending completion of a new department of commerce building, in temporary wartime structures down on the mall. The only fireproof structures on the lot are for the census schedules.
 All Data Secret
 Back to the very first census, 1190, the reports are kept under lock and key in steel cases within cement structures. These are guard ed by caretakers who give them anti-moth and anti-moud treat ments. Miss Mary c. Oursler, for 21 years in charge Of records, would not permit even one peek at 1910 volume lying on a repair table.
 A census official explained sched- ules were considered sealed for 50 or 60 years until they ceased to be
 Thus what you tell the census taker this year may come out again In about 1880 or 1890.
 The 1880 vault, now under con- struction, is far larger than any heretofore built. It will receive all original records just as soon as the first swift tabulation squcezes out the human interest and substi- tutes ''cold statistics" One trip through an amazing machine, and each individual becomes an ab- straction-just so many code -perfor- ations punched in a piece of card board, to be tabulated as literate or iliterate, gainfully employed or un- employed, or whatever happens to be in compilation.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
Hospital Interne Finds
 Patient Is Own Father

Bridgeport, March 31 = pr. Ben- jamin Sherman, Bridgeport hospital interne, Saturday night discovered that newly arrived patient in the emergency room was his own father, Morris Sherman, 60.
 The father was unconscious with possible fracture of the skull and q long gash in the scalp. He had been struck by an automobile at Ogden street and Noble avenue.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
". |. .T.U.LEADER
 JAILED FOR RUM
Woman Held for Possessing
 Liquor on Main Street

Pampa, Texas, March 51.-UP) Headquarters of the Pampa w. c. T. U. today were established in a cell in the city jail where Miss Beulah Aired, the Carrie Nation of Texas, was denouncing both demon rum" and District Attorney rClifford Braly.
 Miss Aired spinster whose cam- paign has carried her into every sec tion of the Panhandle and who for two years had waged a campaign against liquor in this boom oil town was indicted by a grand jury for possession of liquor The charge was presented by District Attorney Braly after she had paraded down Pam- pas Main street waving a bottle Of liquor and telling merchants and business people of the "wetness of Pampa."
 T was jailed wrongfully," Miss Alfred said, and it is the duty of Police Chief Downs to free me-"
 Sh said she had refused the of fers of two wealthy farmers who last night offered the $500 bond demanded by the county authorities.
 For two years I've been fighting the liquor menace in Pampa," she said. Do those officers and men on that grand jury think I'll give up just because I'm in jail? I'll stay here until Pampa goes dry and when I get out I'll show people how they can buy liquor right here on their Main street."
 Will Continue Writing
 Miss Alfred said, "they may stop me talking" but the ink in my pen has not run dry" She was referring to the mimeograph papers which she had written and had printed weekly and which were distributed In all parts of the city. These she said, would be continued as long as she remained in Pampa.
 "1'll make. my headquarters right in this cell" she announced. This is my line of duty. Every martyr to a cause has to suffer-"
 Miss AlIrcd's only companion in the jail last night was a monsrel cat which is the official food taster of the jail" The cat moved into the cell when Miss Alfred was marched into Jail.
 She sent three instructions to her friends. They were for clean quilts for her prison cot, for a sign paint CT to paint a w. C. T. U. insignia which would read "W. c. T. U. Headquarters,' and she asked for size 42 wash dresses" She said she may grow fat without exercise.
 Braly characterized her as "a half Carrie Nation idea of a hullabaloo'' and criticized her liquor enforce ment plans. declaring the majority of leases" she prepared for officials failed because the witnesses which she would hire to buy the liquor failed to appear at trials.
 '1t's just an effort to give Pampa black eye," the district attorney said. "She got into the jam and I'll prosecute her case like any othe, liquor trial"
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31

Three Missionaries Held
 By Bandits at YuanChOW

Shanghai. March 5 (UP)-Miss E. l.. Gemmell, an American, and Mir. and Mrs. R. w. Porteous, of Great Britain, have been held cap tive by Chinese bandits after an at tack on Yuanchow, according to re- ports here today. They were work CTS at the China Island mission.
 Reports said the bandits footed the towns killing many shopkeep- CTS and tortured to death many others, including a Chinese pastor and the principal of a school
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
AUTO HITS PORCH

Windsor Locks, March 31 - Three persons were, slightly injured last night when an automobile driven by Max Bernstein of Hart ford swerved off Main street, ran over the lawn and crashed into the front porch of the home of A. D. Coffin,
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
JAPANESE, PRINCE VERY ILL

Tokyo, March Sl. tP - Anxiety was felt today for the condition of Prince Saionji, last survivor among the "Elder statesmen" of the Sho- gun days. His indisposition of the past few days had developed into pneumonia.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
Ten Drowned When Boat
 Upsets on Lake Orchrida

Vienna, March Sl R-Advices here from Orchrida Jugo Slavia said that a motorboat upset on the lake there yesterday brought death by drowning of ten occupants. The boat was making an excursion tour of the lake. \
 Those drowned included Colonel Protic, the military commander at Ochrida; Greek consul at Kortcha and his wife, the secretary of the Jugoslavan consulate at Kortcha with his wife, the sub-prefect of Ochrita and one sailor.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31

All raw materials for engineerinc work come from three sources-tt. farm, tie forest, and the mine.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31

sion of the company furnishes On order units that fall outside stand ard specifications.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31

Classified Ads in the Herald are an institution in New Britain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-24
LAY DEATH OF MAN
TO EMPTY PISTOL !"
Women at Fatal Party Tell
Coroner'S Jury George Hale
Was Shot Accidentally.

Two young women told coroner'S
jury this afternoon how they "just took
it for granted the gun was empty" when
22-year-old Charles Edward Mullen, jr.,
pointed it at their heads during card
game last night, shortly before the
weapon exploded and killed George
Hale, Is years old, of 456 r street.
Mullen, son of Headquarters Sergt.
Charles Mullen, on three separate occa-
sions leveled gun at hsr and laugh
ingly pulled the trigger, 22-year-old
Margaretta Scotson, of 1853 Church
street, assured the jurors.
Thought He Was FoOling."
eve Just thought he was fooling, %
Miss Scotson said, land went on play
ing rummy The four of us we're play
ing rummy in the kitchenette of an
apartment at 2127 California street.
Mullen had two pistols lying on the
open door of the stove within easy
reach. AS the cards were being dealt
he would raise the gun and snap it
at me-"
The other girl to testify was Mrs.
John Rosseau, fourth member of the
took place. Mrs. RoSSeau's husband
was away from home at the time play
ing in the Shoreham Hotel Orchestra.
Mullen had been playing with the
gum" Mrs. Rosseau said. HE snapped
it at Miss Scotson, but I thought, of
course, it was empty, and didn't pay
any attention. 1 didn't see him raise
the gun or hear him say anything when
the explosion came. Through the
smoke l saw Hale fall forward. Mullen
was on his knees trying to raise him
and sobbing My God! Have shot you,
Buddy?"
Fired to Kill Himself.
Mullen grabbed the other gun then
and said he was going to kill himself,
but when he snapped it that gun was
empty. I grabbed it out of his hand
and told him not to mind, that every
thing would be all right. ran into the
corridor to ask the elevator boy to help
with Hale and then on to a telephone
to get an ambulance"
Both girls were questioned at
length.
The shooting occurred at 11:45 pm,
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column 10
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-24
MINERS ARE ATTACKED,
ONE SLAIN, ONE WOUNDED
Truck Carrying Workers to Mine,
Operating Under Injunction,
Fired on From Bushes.
az the Associated PICS.

BY the Associated Press.
JACKSONVILLE, KY. December "a.
An attack on a truckload of miners
going to the Trio Coal Co.'S mine to-
day resulted in a colored miner being
killed and another wounded.
A group Of men opened fire on a
truck in which miners were being taken
to work, firing from bushes near road
intersection. Robert Springfield, II,
was killed and Roger Samuels, 20, was
injured. The truck was turned back
and the wounded colored man was
brought to a hospital here. 1t was be-
lieved he would recover.
The mine, one Of those operating
under Federal injunction against vio-
lence to employees and property during
the extensive labor trouble in Western
Kentucky, has been taking its en-
ployes in trucks to work daily.
Sheriff Charles E. Barnett and depu-
ties got bloodhounds in an effort Il
trail the assailants. Mems tracks were
found in a clump Of bushes near the
roadside.
The Trio mine has been working
about 200 men.