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New Britain herald., 1930-11-03
CONNECTICUT FIGHT l. FOR POLL VICTORY WILL CLOSE TODAY
Rallies Tonight Mostly Local T, Character Both Candidates
 Issue Final Statements
ELECTION WORKERS READY
 TO GET OUT RECORD VOTE

Rogers Says Reception Given Him
 Throughout State Convinces c. O.
 P. People Want Republicans to
 Continue in Office-Cross Asserts
 He Approaches Test of Ballots
 With Supreme Confidence By the Associated Press.
 All the heavy ammunition pro- yided for Connecticut's biennial po- litical campaign in the of year. has been used up. Today the duel from the breastworks of the oppos- ing party c-.mps was mostly of light artillery and small arms caliber.
 The standard bearers of each po- ,itical army dropped into everyday life pleasantries and each thanked his public for the courteous treat orous weeks.
 Rallies Mostly Local
 The few rallies which will wind up the debate tonight are local in character. The burden of effort has passed from the nominees for office 10 the party workers, who yesterday delved into the party check lists to sec how many voters would turn out and how many of the diffident, the halt and the lame needed convey ance to the polling places.
 The campaign closed with a num- Der of big rallies yesterday, those in cities having the largest attendance and the chief speakers. Each side expressed confidence in the outcome. Claims were many ranging from one by the democrats of cleaning up New Haven, Hartford, Bridge port and Waterbury. the aggregate vote of.which makes up large part of the whole. to one by republicans which did not yield all those city to the democrats. Waterbury especially being mentioned as likely to be found in the republican column.
 The democratic forecast from state headquarters mRle Saturday night did not go into figures, mar gins or personalities, but State l |ChaiAaan Rorabaclz Of the republi- cans got down to figures. He said the republican margin would be G5.000, that republican congressmen would be elected in each district and that republican majorities in each branch Of the general assembly would be increased.
 Rogers Issues Statement
 Today Lieut.. Gov. Ernest E. Rog-
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New Britain herald., 1930-11-03
Arrests at Buffalo

Buffalo, N. Y, Nov. } Pl-Headed by Roy A. Darling of Washington, federal narcotic agents and police of Buffalo and Niagara Falls last night smashed what they claimed was one segment of an interna- tional narcotic ring and arrested six men and two women. Details of mar cotics seized were not disclosed but it was intimated the seizure was in excess of s1O.OOO.
 The raids in Niagara Falls cul- minated secret investigations over several weeks by narcotic agents assisted by special investigators from Washington.
 Those under arrest are all but one from Niagara Falls Anthony Nio- lante, 45, who has served II years in Auburn state prison, according to police, for killing a Niagara Falls policeman; Archie Renda, 30, who Mas served one sentence in Atlanta, according to narcotic agents, for il- legal traffic in narcotics; Bruno Palowicz, 40, of Philadelphia; Domi- nic Dagostino, 3S; Philip Lascola, 30; Charles De Diviso, 25: Bertha Ness, 47. Negress, and Miss Lela Apperman. 34.
 The arrests were made at the Falls hotel in Niagara Falls and it's annex. Despite careful osting of guards at all entrances, about 15 persons were reported to have es- caped and police today were seeking hidden exit.
New Britain herald., 1930-11-03
Smith Predicts Demo- crats Will Carry City By 50O-Ginsburg Ex- poets Substantial Re- publican Majority Apathy Anticipated.
Workers at Polls in 10 Pre- cincts Chosen-Opposing Sides Expect to Be Amply Provided With Automobiles to Carry Electors to Machines.

Confident of success. but some what worried because of the lack of interest manifested by the electorate. republican and democratic party workers today were awaiting the opening of the polls at o'clock to. morrow morning. Fleets of auto mobiles will be turned loose in all sections of the city and an army or drivers, checkers and canvassers will do battle to get out the vote which admittedly is expected 10 be difficult.
 Chairman Thomas J. Smith of the democratic town committee made the following statement: T expect the democratic ticket to win. We have a splendid ticket and I believe the voters of New Britain will sup port it at the polls. I expect vic tory by at least 5O0."
 Chairman Harry M. Ginsburg Of the republican party made the fol- lowing statement: The republican party offers as it's candidates men of ability and experience and I beliey the voters will recognize their quail fications and elect them by a sub stantial majority"
 Democratic Expectations
 The campaign which closes to night has been a puzzle to political observers from the outset. The bus | mess depression. which has thrown a throng of wage earners out of em- ployment, is counted on heavily by the democratic party throughout the state and nation to send many re publican voters to the polls in q spirit of protest against the repub- hcan administration. In New Brit ain the campaigners for both par ties have sensed this situation and the democrats have stressed il in all their pleas for support.
 Among the other issues whicr have been taken up in New Britain are the proposed repeal of the 1Sth amendment, the enactment of the old age pension bill, abolition of the law which imposes a l2 per cent penalty for taxes remaining unpaid .or more than a year, abolition Of the law which taxes married womer S2 Q year, alleged failure of the re- publican administration in the state to give proper relief to tuberculosis
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New Britain herald., 1930-11-03
Man Fears for Safety;
 Shot Down in Streets

NeW York, NOV. 5 W-CatII10 Cappola Of Coney Island had been going home every night lately by :; different route, lodging into shl- dows and crossing the street 10 avoid strangers. The neighbors mo- ticed it, and surmised he was mark cd for death.
 This morning he was waylaid and killed in front of his home. Polic2 said he was a "policy" gamcstcr and interested in other ''rackcts."
New Britain herald., 1930-11-03
Yale Student Writer Attacks
 Gothic Architecture of Buildings

New Haven, Nov. 3 P-The Gothic architecture of all of 9ale's newly erected million dollar build ings was severely denounced today in the second issue of the Hardness Hoot, a literary magazine sponsored by two Yale undergraduates
 In an essay of eight pages and q supplementary picture section of eight more pages, William Harlan Hale. one of the editors, berates the university for not building in the architecture of today and thus try to express the people and the ideas of living world and not of a dead world. He finds the greatest inspir- ation in factories, power houses, bridges. sky scrapers, all Of which he sees as American and alive. as opposed to what is medieval and European.
 i In particular, the new Sterling li- | brary, considered the architectural
New Britain herald., 1930-11-03

pride of the university, is challenged. The essay says: Few works can equal it as a monument of life lessness and decadence; none can surpass it in eXtravagance and fal- sity."
 Jibing at the "girder-Gothic" which has turned a modern library into a Fortress" and modern gym nasium into a cathedral" the es- say says, No man and no nation who possessed a life giving creative sense ever dreamed Of copying the work of a previous age" We as sociate the phenomenon of imita- tion with people who are sterile, with eras whose tendency is retro gression and atavism."
 The architects are attacked for their inability to see that modern students have no natural desire to be quartered in bogus Elizabethan mansions" and for their inefficient extravaganza"
New Britain herald., 1930-11-03
49 SEEK PARDONS IN
 PETITIONS BEFORE BOARD
Watkins and Leopold Among Men Who Want Freedom-Others. Two
 of Them Lifers. Also Plead.

Hartford, Nov. (Pl-Forty-nine applications-among them that of Roger W Watkins, one-time Hart ford stock broker convicted of de- frauding the public of nearly S150.- coo, were heard by the board of pardons meeting today at the state prison in Wethcrsfeld.
 Louis N. Leopold. former Water bury furniture dealer, appeared ca his own behalf. seeking a pardon for the sake of his family. He was convicted of second degree murder and arson in 1928. Others who pe- titioned were Joseph Polce of Will limantic- serving two to four years for burglary; William l.. Howell Of Rockville, 212 to 315 years for lar ceny; Rocco Panucci of Waterbury, serving life for second degree mur- der; Henry Allen Of Waterbury, sentenced to F to 15 years for manslaughter in 1924, and John Yurasz, 5S, sentenced 10 life for murder, in 1908. who has appeared -3 times.
New Britain herald., 1930-11-03
MAN IS UNCONSCIOUS IN GAS FILLED ROOM
Found Senseless When Friend Calls to Accom-
 pany Him to Work

Louis Gentle, age 55, of 419 Myr- tie street is at New Britain General hospital in critical condition fol- lowing his removal to that institu- tion shortly after 1G o'clock this morning after he had been discoV- cred unconscious at his home from the effects of Illuminating gas.
 His plight was discovered by Wit torio Diddario of All Myrtle street. who went to the mans home to call him for work. When he arrived he found him apparently dead and inn mediately notified the police.
 Several officers were detailed to the address and the nan was later removed to the hospital vhen Dr. John Purny, medical examiner, who had been notified by the police, pro nounced the man alive.
New Britain herald., 1930-11-03
BARRAGE 0F WORDS
 CAMPAIGN WINDUP
Rival Parties Make Last Minute
 Appeal for Support
MANY WEEKEND RALLIES
Republican and Democratic Candi- dates Speak at New Britain Meet ings in Effort to Swing Over City at Election Tomorrow.

In frantic drive for votes re- publican and democratic party ora tors went about the city Saturday night and yesterday eXtolling the qualifications of the candidates Tor office at election tomorrow, and to- day they resumed the offensive which they will bring to a conclu- sion tonight.
 Democratic speakers held forth on street corners and Sons of Italy hall on Walnut street Saturday night, and again yesterday at Central Ju- nior high school and Rialto hall. The republicans staged an old-fash- toned Dutch supper at 50 Chestnut street Saturday night and a rally lest night in Rialto hall. Tonight the republicans returned to he fifth ward, their final rally to be held in Rialto hall.
 The estimated attendance at the Central Junior high school rally, under auspices of the Italian Amer lcan democratic club, was 400, anl approximately the same number at tended the afternoon rally in Rialto hall. The republican rally last night was attended by approximately 200 and towards the end of the program almost one-half of the audience left.
 Loncrgan Speaks Twice EX-Congressman Lonergan ad- dressed the democratic party ralli,7 5 yesterday afternoon, hurrying be- tween them anr rousing his listen- CTS to a high pitch of enthusiasm. He went into the various issues 4n detail, scoring the republican ad ministration for it's conduct of the government and contrasting condi- lions as they exist with the prom ises made by republican campaign CTS two years ago.
 The tariff rates made by congress when President Hoover lost control of that body have caused several countries 10 become so incensed at the United States they have set up rates of their own which have al- ready driven industries out of this country, he said. The United States needs it's foreign markets, he de- c!ared, republican assertions to the contrary notwithstanding, and the effect of the tariff wall which has been thrown up will continue to be felt as lcng as the tariff remains as 1t is. American labor has not been given a square deal by the repubii- cans, he said
 Relating his experience as con- gressman from the first district for
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New Britain herald., 1930-11-03
SMALL GIFTS NEEDED
 BY COMMUNITY CHEST
Sprague Believes Public Will Heed Appeal for
 Required Funds

Leon \. Sprague, treasurer of the United Community Corp. which pro- vides funds for 10 welfare agencies. joined today with other officers in an appeal for funds for the com munity chest and expressed the opinion that thousands of small pledges received heretofore will b" forthcoming in the present cam. paign. MT Sprague's statement fol- lows:
 TO Community Chest Contributors
 For over ten years now the peo. pie of New Britain have given free ly to the organizations in the chest Every economy possible has been used in the distribtion of funds Each organization has worked out it's yearly programme with the thought in mind that expense should be watched and unnecessary expansion curtailed With this fine spirit of cooperation the chest wss able to build up a reserve fund which so far has proven its value, for in no other way could We have functioned for this first six months of the Community Chest year. Now. even with the splendid response from the first mail campaign ir May, We must have the united sap port of the New Britain people II these ten organizations shall con tinue their excellent work. It is mol the big gifts, but the thousands oi smaller pledges that will make this continuation possible. As treasurer, I feel sure you will do your paIt Pledge cards can be had at any bank in the city, or you can mai your check directly to the treasurec at the New Britain Trust Co. Don't let the welfare work go unsupported q this year.
 Yours for New Britain.
 LEON A. SPRAGUE,
 "Treasurei,"
 The report up to date follows: Bal. reported Saturday ... s35,0f5. Pledged today ............ 12a ] Total to date .....,..,.. Ss5,140
New Britain herald., 1930-11-03
30 ARRESTED IN
 DRUG RING RAIDS Narcotic Pe(hlers in Many New
 York Cities Held WORLD SYSTEM INVOLVED
Six Weeks Investigation After Rob- bcry of Wholesale Concern Results in Captures Higher Ups'' Sought By Agents.

Syracuse N. Y, Nov 3 LP - guard in a vault in federal building here and 30 men are under arrest in Syracuse, New York, Utica, Buffalo, Albany and Schenectady, as the re- suit of a six weeks investigation of a so-called drug ring. The operations of the group federal officers said, extended throughout the state.
 Seven of those arrested were talk cn in Utica and in this city Saturday night as a weekend climax to the long inquiry, said Malcolm Beach, narcotic inspector of Syracuse. Ar rests in other cities he said, were kept secret while the government agents trailed the higher ups" Drug House Robbed Burglary of a wholesale drug house at Utica. government officials reported, paved the way for police and government operatives to close in on the men they suspect as being the ring leaders of the band. The men under arrest here are de- scribed as Leo Falatico, Utica, Louis Galgano, Albany, and Anthony Zito, Utica.
 Those held at Utica headquarters were identified as Emilio De Vito, Michael Tafolo, George H. Drew, Negro, all of Utica. and d man whose identity is withheld.
 The drugs recovered from some of these men included all but forty as- sorted stamped packages stolen.
 1'alatico and Galgano were ar raigned before George M. Haight, United States commissioner, here today and held for examination. Charges of possession, sale and con- spiracy will be placed against most of the 30 now in custody, the fed eral officer said.
New Britain herald., 1930-11-03
Transatlantic Pioneer Observes
 2lst Anniversary of His Flight

New York, Nov. 3 R)-Walter Wellman. whose airship voyage from Atlantic City 21 years ago was the first attempted transatlantic flight. celebrated his 72d birthday in his apartment on upper Broad way.
 That airship voyage of 1909 wasn't a success, but Wellman and his crew did succeed in flying 1000 miles in 79 hours, and the veteran still main- tains that If we had hit south west gale instead of a nor'easter'' the America's crew would not have had to be rescued by the steamship Trent in the d-Atlantic. Two years before his transatlan-
New Britain herald., 1930-11-03
Broker Denies Fraud
 In Candy Stock Case

Cambridge, Mass, Nov. LP - Isaac Hart of the brokerage firm with II others in an indictment charging conspiracy ito defraud in the sale Of a $2.O00,00o stock issue of Page and Shaw, Inc, candy manufacturing firm, testified in his own defense today.
 Hart denied allegations he had instructed salesmen to tell other than the truth in their represent ations. He said that all information concerning the company in his pos session was furnished by Otis E. Durham, president Of the company. who also is a defendant.
New Britain herald., 1930-11-03

tic venture Wellman had projected a flight to the North Pole in his same airship America, but the cquilibrator broke and before the flight could be achieved Peary had found the pole.
 The flight failed largely because of motor imperfections, Wellman said today. but the failure was not the important thing-the gesture was what mattered, and our prin- cipie was correct"
 Wellman has long since retired. A robust, moustached man, he lives quietly now, dropping into the Ex- plorers' club occasionally to join in "reminiscences.
New Britain herald., 1930-11-03
Dave" Dunn Drives Over SnOE- Covered Roads to Aid
 "Bill" Mangan
SHOVELS HIS WAY OUT
 AS DRIFTS BLOCK WAY
Football Coach At University of Yer mont Motors Home to Vote for Democratic Candidate for Judge Of Probate-Arrives Here From Burlington at ? o'clock This Morning.

An automobile trip of 23S miles over covered roads and in dis agreeable weather was undertaken by Attorney David L. Dunn who drove from Burlington, Vt, to this city so that he might vote for his lifelong friend, Judge William r. Mangan, democratic candidate for the probate court judgeship. He ar rived at o'clock this morning.
 In some places it was necessary for Attorney Dunn to shovel his way out of drifts but he continued under all the handicaps so that he would do his bit in aiding Judge Mangan in the lattor's first attempt for elective public office.
 Attorney Dunn is coach at Yer mont University and because of the fact that the team is preparing for important games, it will be neees- sary for him to return to Vermont immediately after he casts his bal lot tomorrow. He will vote the straight democratic ticket, his friends say.
 Judge Mangan and Attorney Dunn have enjoyed close friendship for many years. Both were graduated from Fordham University and they have been co-workers in the ranks of the democratic party. Until re- gently Attorney Dunn was vice chairman of the democratic town committee. Both have been on many city commissions and they have q common interest in athletics.
 Attorney Dunn, who formerly coached the New Britain High school football team has been at Vermont University as coach for the past two months.
New Britain herald., 1930-11-03
Urges Jobless to Join
 U. $. Army for Year

New York, Nov. P-The sug- gestion that unemployed men fit fos military service be invited to enlist in the army for one year was telc- graphed to President Hoover today by Julius Hochfelder, captain in the army reserve corps He propose l that such men could learn a skilled trade during their period of service.
New Britain herald., 1930-11-03
CAMP PALGNS REACH
 l. HECTIC CONCLUSION
Both Parties Positive Other One
 Will Be Loser
FINAL ADDRESSES TONIGHT
Hoover Maintains Silence as His Ballot Speeds By Plane to Ills California Home-Has Been Made Issue In Speeches.

The political campaign of 1880 came to it's final pre- election pause today with party aIignments still in tangle, and the result warmly in dispute.
 Tomorrow, as the nation becomes one vast polling place, the voters will write the answer, electing th2 full embership Of the house oi representatives one-third of the senate, governors in 32 states, and hun reds of lesser officials in COun ty. ward and township.
 How far the returns will go, also toward solving the riddles propound- ed to the electorate in the criss- s-cross of party appeals. must remain foC time to tell. Both republicans and democrats have made Presiden, Hoover the issue nationally, espe- cIally in their discussions of the business decline, the tariff and farm relief. But other considerations, not ably the dispute over prohibition, have added local complications to the task of the voter in many states
 In one respect alone did today'.S last-minutc phophecies agree. They all foresaW a recession of the re- publican tide which rose so high in 152S-a scaling down of the present oyer-grown republican majorities in congress and perhaps. too, an ac- companying turn toward the demo- crats in some of the elections to minor office.
 Democrats Optimistic
 Closing up shop after one of the most determined campaigns they ever waged for congressional con- trol, the democratic managers pre- dlcted their party would elect . majority in the house. and would reduce the republican senate major ity almost. if not entirely, to the vanishing point.
 The republicans, declaring their final field reports showed an eleventh hour trend in their favor claimed control of both senate and house, but by the reduced majorities which often fall to the lot of the party in power in the off-years mid
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New Britain herald., 1930-11-03
10000 Gallon Reser- voir Bursts, Throwing Liquid Fire Oyer Wide 1 Area Blaze Shoots
 300 Feet In Air-Burn- ing Rivulets Feared.
Ten Other Huge Contain
 |. CTS in Danger Area-One Man Killed, Hundreds Ordered to Evacuate Homes in District-All Help Available Called.

Kansas City, Mo, Nov. UP)- Thousands of gallons of oil and gaso- line were menaced by fire today when the explosion of 20, 900 gal lon gasoline storage flank sprayed liquid fire over large area of Kan gas City's warehouse district.
 Flames shot 300 feet in the air from the demolished tank and blaz- ing rivulets of gasoline flowed m every direction.
 All available fire fighting appa : Tatus was rushed to the scene.
 Ten huge storage tanks near the one which exploded were in the cen- ter of the nenaced area. Other val lAble property was in the path of the flames.
 Smoke flinders Bremen
 Clouds of smoke hung over the area, hindering firemen who were using chemicals to fight the blaze. Residents of the district began leav- ing their homes. taking their furni- lure and belongings to other parts Of the city.
 One man was injured critically in the explosion. He was identified as Joe Myers, a mechanic for the White Eagle Oil company. Witnesses said his body was thrown 50 feet by the blast.
 Gasoline poured into storm sewers and ignited, flames shooting high from manholes and blowing the covers into the air
 A second detonation led firemeE to believe that another large, tank lad exploded and added additional thousands of gallons of gasoline 10 the flames. Dense smoke blocked the view toward the center of the area.
 Residents Ordered Out
 Police ordered residents who had not already done so to leave the district at once.
 Employes said the explosion oc- cured when a motor truck, backing from garage, broke gasoline line. It came just as a passenger train on the MKT railroad was passing the plants.
 "Dishes were blown out of the walters hands" said W. P. McCon- nell, conductor. "The train rocked so that I thought we were going to leave the rails.
 The train probably would have been wrecked had it been travelling faster"
 Smoke from the fire caused semi darkness throughout most ot the city, although it was 8, cloudless day
 A string of tank cars, loaded with paphtha. were on a siding near the plant when the explosion occurred A box car attached to the string caught fire. and an explosion was prevented only when an engineer hacked his switch engine into the heavy smoke to draw the cars to a point where firemen could beat out the flames on the box car.
 Power Wires in Street
 Danger in the fire zone was in creased by live electric power wires in the street, the intense heat haNlng melted the wires.
 The first casualty among the flre fighters occurred when Chief Dan Donovan, directing the work at close quarters, was burned on the face and hands He was given emergency treatment and again took his posi- ton.
New Britain herald., 1930-11-03
MILLS ON FULL, TIME

Greenville. s. C., <ov. 3 Vo)-Four of the largest textile mill groups in the Piedmont. Carolina, section to
 day returned to full day time opera ton after a period of curtailment.