S T O R E S IN MANCHESTER rt 1WB WEATBEB ------------- n e t p b e s s b u n FoftBonat pf 0. & Weather Bureau, Hartford ATEBAOE DAIL.S CIBC7U1AT10N for the Month of November, 1930 . Snow or ndn this afternoon and- twefiftt; WaAieeday olon^; not "it 5,572 jpny3i in temperature* Members of the Andlt Borean tttftting of Ohxsnlstions. (^K?TBBNPAGE5) PRICE THREE CENTS (Glassifled A d v ertin g on Page 14.) SOUTH MANCHESTER, CONN., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1930. VOL. XLV., NO. 71. CHRISTMAS COVE IN REPUBLICAN TANGLE AT FEDERAL FUNDS NOT XMAS COVE UNEMPLOYMENT ' WASHINGTON 0 . P. When Santa Claus Comes STATE SURVEY BANKS CLOSED FOR ROAD WORK Around It’s Not There — OVER SEN. NORRIS But It’s There When Santa F O L L O m R U N NOWAV^IE Claus Isn’t. NOWJNWORKS Christmas Cove, Me., Dec. 23. — (A P )—This viUage’s name is Riverside Trust Co. and Pal- FLARES UP AGAIN Christmas Coe but its a Christ­ Leaders In All Branches of Connecticut Gets $520,491 mas cove only in summer. That is to say it’s not a Christmas lotti, Andretta & Co. h| Cove at Christmas. It—oh, well, Business To Be Invited To Chairmair Wood Denounces Which It Will Match With figure it out for yourself. The founders named it Christ­ Conference Soon To Be Difficulties — Bank Com^ Independent As a "Con­ like Sum— Enough Work mas Cove when they settled here TO EXTRA SESSION on Christmas Day some 200 missioner's Statement, years ago. Held; Cross Gets Invitation summate Demagogue” * To Planned To Use Up Money There is a postofEice only in summer to serve the many Hartford, Dec. 23.— (AP.)—Two Back Lncas To the Limit wealthy seasonal residents but Hartford, Dec. 23.— (AP)—Gov­ I Senator Borah, However, Washington, Dec. 23 — (AP) — the 200 natives get their mail at Hartford banks, the Riverside ernor John H. Trumbull hsis invited State highway departments were South Bristol the remainder of Trust Company and Pallottl, An- Governor-elect Wilbur L. Cross to Says Congress Ought To On His Stand Against Ne­ notified today that their respective the year. dreta and Compjmy, were suspended So there is no Christmas Cove, meet with industrial and commer­ portions of the $80,000,000 emer­ today by Bank Commissioner Lester so far as the' mails axe concern­ cial leaders of Connecticut and E. Shippee following runs on both Adjonm At End of Work. braskan — Independents gency highway construction appro­ ed at the time when Santa comes chose a joint committee to study institutions which have been in priation is available Immediately. around with his pack. this State’s unemployment problem progress since last July. Suspension Defend Norris and Brook- The Federal aid money is to be and co-ordinate the efforts of vari notices were posted on the doors of officially apportioned today by Sec­ Washington, Dec. 23.— (A P.)— ous organizations dealing with the the banks before 9 o’clock this retary Hyde. problem so that some solution may morning and customers found the Opposition to the extra session of hart Attacks Sec. Mellon. The action will make all of the be reached. Congress called for by Senator $80,000,000 available to the states EXPLOSION ROCKS doors closed at that hour. The unemployment conferepce is Pallotti, Andretta and Company Borah was expressed today by for use in matching their regular a result of the recent meeting of Federal aid apportionments, includ­ own control of the Riverside Trust Chairman Wood, of the House ap­ Washington, Dec. 23.—(AP.)— the Connecticut Chamber of Com Company. Commissioner Shippee propriations committee. He had just ing those for the fiscal year 1932. NEWPORT NEWS, VA. The Republican controversy over merce and officials of cities, indus­ announced that the Riverside Trust been In conference with president Captain C. D. Curtiss, chief of the trial concerns and various organiza­ control of the Bureau of Public Company “is unquestionably sol­ Hoover. ;>arty repudiation of “ men like Sen­ tions. At this meeting it was sug Roads, pointed out that to the ex­ vent,” while the assets of Pallotti, Administration leaders on Capi­ ator Norris," flamed anew today. tent that states have plans ready gested that a state-wide study of Andretta smd Company “are some­ tol Hill are seeking ways and means the situation be made. After talking about the situation for work, the appropriation would No One Seriously Hurt But what frozen, but it Is likely that the of avoiding necessity for an extra Meeting Soon to President Hoover, Chairman mean nearly double that amount or depositors may be adequately pro­ session, Borah said yesterday he Wood of the Republican Congres­ $160,000,000 of New highway con­ The meeting, according to Gover­ tected.” The runs on both banks be­ Big Property L oss-W in ­ nor Trumbull, will be held some felt legitimate reasons for one exist- sional campaign committee de;- struction. came acute last week. nounced toe independent Norris as Half To Labor time in the near future. The com­ Crowds Gather “ So far as I am concerned and so a consummate demagogue.” He He estimated more than one-half mittee to be selected, he said, will Several hundred persons passing dows Broken All Over City be as representative of all branches far as my committee is concerned,” announced intention to back to toe of the money would go directly to Pearl street, stopped to read the Wood said, “ there will be no reason labor and that a large portion wo\ild of Connecticut economic activity as suspension notice posted in the win­ limit toe stand taken agsUhst Nor­ is possible to secure. for an extra session, as the House ris by Robert H. Lucas, executive go to labor indirectly. dow were Italians who had money will be able to pass all the neces­ The government, under the plan Newport News, Va., Dec. 23.— Governor-elect Cross has accept­ of toe Republican National commit­ deposited there. sary appropriation bills during the contemplated in the legislation, will (A P .)—A terrific explosion in the ed the Invitation and will partici­ Anxious men and women waited tee. short session. Wood is the first of the adminis­ carry the full amount of the con­ acetylene gas plant of the Virginia pate in the deliberations of the con­ at the doors for permission to go struction bills of the states on work ference. House Oppdeed tration regulars in Congress to Gas and Products Company early into the bank and take out their se­ with done to September 1, within the Governor’s Letter curities and other valuables deposit­ “I I can even speak speak ou t The issue now seems today hurled people from their beds, The following Is the letter Gov­ placed before President Hoover, but limits of the emergency approprla Here are the principal flgfures in the Republican political tangle re­ ed in the vauts. Two policemen were catapulted furniture around rooms ernor Trumbull se:.t to Governor- (Oontinoed On Page 2.) has said nothing. tion. sulting from disclosures in Washington by the Nye senatoriEil campaign stationed inside the bank to keep Captain Curtiss said an informal and sent hundreds fleeing into the elect Cross inviting him to attend expenditures invest^atlng committee. Senator Gerald P. Nye is shown order in case of an emergency. Meanwhile, the Republican Inde­ survey indicated the states have snow and frigid atmosphere in their the conference: at top holding one of the “barroom" posters which it la alleged were used Those who had vcduables in the pendent group in the Senate was enough work projected to absorb all “A t a recent meeting of the night clothes. in the November campaign against Senator George W. Norris, of Nebras­ sEifety vaultii were permitted to take preparing for a serious dispute. of the emergency appropriation to­ Police S8dd no one was killed and Chambers of Commerce, mayors of ka, pictured lower right Robert H. Lucas, lower left, executive director them out. Men and women were to h a p p y CHRISTMAS Senator Norris himself issued a gether with a like amount of the cities and members of other repre- that only minor injuries were suf­ of the Republican national committee, admited that he financed the print­ be seen this morning carrying statement last night denoimciag regular Federal aid apportionments. senattive organizations, it was de­ fered. principally from flying glass. ing and circulation of letters, circulars and cartoons attacking Senator papers and securitlea-trom the bank. Lucas, and today Senator Brook- The apportionments to the states cided to request the governor to Several depositors'Itad sums of Dahrla from the wrecked building Norris. Defending hla action, Lucas declared that Senator Norris was FOR POOR FATHER hart Republican IndejMndent o f include; Connecticut $520,491; appoint a committee representing waa thrown more than a quarter of not * Republican because he had supported the Democratic presidential mosey with them ready for deposit Iowa, issued a statement saying Maine $715,789; Masaachusetts $1,- a mile. The main offices of the New­ the State to work with a like com­ 141,460; New Hampshire $400,000; ticket in 1928. Secretary Mellon “has no right to port News Shipbuilding and Dry mittee elected by the industry in T h » State manual for ’1980 gave set uiT’a Republican comxnittee with New Jersey $1,107,807; New York the of tlio Riverside Trust | Dock Company, just across the the matter of studying the imem* money to override any 'RepubUean $4,050,566; Pennsylvania $3,612,943; street were badly damaged.