Egan Told Watkins He'd Square Courts
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THE WEATHER NET PRESS RUN . PoKoaat by U. a. Weather Bareaa, AVERAGE DARiT CIRCULATION Mew Baveo for the Month of March, 1020 5,326 Showers tonight and probably UembM of the Aadit Onrcan of Sunday morning. Circalatlona PRICE THREE CENTS (Classified Advertising on I’age 12) SOUTH MANCHESTER, CONN., SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1929. FOURTEEN PAGES VOL. XLIIL, NO. 147. <$>- FRENCH POLITICIAN STATE SOLONS DRINKS ONLN WATER RIOTING IN SOUTHERN TEXTILE STRIKE ■Paris, April 6.— “ He only < j> - EGAN TOLD WATKINS drinks water,” is the political ARE FACING slur that may defeat Leon Blum, wealthiest Socialist in France, who is candidate for deputy in the Department of the Aude. A B M WEEK American prohibition is al HE’ D SQUARE COURTS ways considered a joke in j P’rance, but it is doubtful if the citizens of the Aude ever heard General Appropriations Bill of prohibition or imagined it Broker on Stand Swears possible. *New Freedom * Theory Blum was a little late in de Up for Passage— A Re ciding to run and the Depart- j That Attorney Told Him ment of the Aude was all the | party could offer him. Opposi- I Wrecks Wedded Life He Had Used $25,000 for sume of the Week's Work tion cartoonists have fired their j broadsides. One depicts Blum I of Our Legislature. emerging from a bathtub, a bot That Purpose— Egan Got tle of mineral water in one hand | New York, April 6.— Married^years- ago,” declared Miss Murray, and a stick of rouge in the j men and women in America are fa social worker for 18 years. they don’t like the way things are | $325,000 of Watkins other. With the rouge he is giv showing an increasing tendency to Bv CLARENCE G. WIL^ ARD ing his nose a color that could | going at home they get out. Ourl [ never be acquired with drinking > take “ P’rench leave” of each other. desertion cases are on the increase. Funds and Advised Brok Although the past week in the water. Miss Virginia M. Murray, executive 1 guess it’s this new freedom we Connecticut General Assembly was --------------------------------------------— ---------------------------------- <S> secretary of the Travelers Aid so- ^ hear so much about.” an exceedingly quiet one marked ciety, said today in discussing the The statistics of the society, just chiefly by the disposition of a large organization’s annual report-which , compiled, show that 5,319 persons er to Leave Town. amount of unimportant routine reveals an Increase in the number ran away from horn in the United business, the coming week will -wit of persons who run away from . States in 1928 as against 5,195 in j The high spot in the trial of ness action on one of the major BIG STEAMER home. 11927. New Orleans is not included- Attorney William E. Egan of Hart bills, not only of the current ses “ They pack up and leave over, in the 192 8 figures, that city hav-' ford. charged with' conspiracy In sion but of every meeting of the less provocation than they did ■ ing neglected to send in a report. frauds perpetrated by Roger W. legislature. This measure is the GOES AGROUND Watkins, now a convict in Wethers general appropriations bill which field prison, came yesterday after provides for all expenditures from noon when Watkins, testifying as state funds for the next two years. the state's star witness, swore that The general appropriations bill OFF BROOEYN HOOVER ORDERS CAPITAL INCREASE Egan told him he had used $25.- will be starred for action upon the 000 of the money handled by Wat calendar of the Senate on Tuesday, kins to “ square'’ the courts and q'he measure is not far different ‘ NO ROUGH STUFF MEANS PROSPERITY that Egan had indicated Superior from the general budget prepared French Liner Paris With 1,- Court Judge Edward M. Yeomans in advance of the session by the as the person with whom the money Board of Finance and Control. It had been used. Watkins also swore is a bill drafted by the conimittee 000 Passengers Aboard j that Egan told him that Superior itself to cover all of the individual President Wants Dry Law Millions of New Capital for j Court Judge Allyn L. Brown had appropriations bills which it has Fast on Mud Flats— May i been “ seen” by Judge Yeomans, and thus far deemed worthy of favor State Corporations Ap j that he. Watkins, had “ nothing to able action. It does not contain all Enforced But With Less I worry about." of the appropriations which will be Be Refloated Today. j Not His Knowledge made during the current session, Gun Play. proved by Our Assembly. 1 At no point did Watkins testify for there will be a few other ex I to any knowledge of his own that penditures. yet to be decided upon New York, April 6.— The French i Judge Y’eomans had received any by the committee, which will un ! of his money or that Judge Brown doubtedly be recommended to the liner Paris went aground in a fog i Rioting, minor injuries and arrests came thick and fast in Gastonia, N. C., when workers of one of Washington, April 6— Strict en Hartford, April 6.— The Legis on the mud flats of South Brook-nation’s largest textile mills went on strike and five national guard companies were sent to quell mob forcement of prohibition— but no had been consulted concerning his Assembly in a small supplemental lyn early today. violence. The upper photo sliows rioting in front of the mill as officers sought to drive back the crowd. lature of 1929 will go down on the affairs, his testimony having to do appropriations bill to be submitted ( There were almost 1,000 pa-ssen-1 pj^j^dreds of women took part in the demonstration and lower left j'ou see two of them trying to disarm rough stuff. records for the number of corpora only with what Attorney Egan had later. I gers aboard. ja guardsman. At the right is shown the arrest of a woman strike leader. Center is George Pershing, That somewhat slaiigily describes tion capital increases it has permi’u- told him. Watkins had not finished .Awaits .Action The steamer had left her pier a t! g^nt as a representative of the Communist Party to Gastonia to organize a local of tlie National lextile the prohibition enforcement policy ted. Millions of dollars of new his direct testimony when court ad The measure has already been of the Hoover administration, as capital has been approved, ranging journed yesterday and is to return accorded a favorable reports by the West 14th street a few hours be- Workers’ Union, repudiated by the A. F. of L. He claimed to be a cousin of General John J. Pershing, fore she vrent aground. outlined today in thj most authori from the Southern New England to the stand on Tuesday for the committee and is now in printed tative quarter. Telephone Company s propo^e^d completion of his direct testimony form awaiting action. It is more First reports to the office of the Melodramatic gun-play by Feder $50,000,000 increase Vrni..n I ori/'land to itnrlQt'O'Oundergo ot'oeccross ovoexamination. m i r. ♦ i on voluminous than, ever before, since, French liner were meager. The exact position of the grounded liner al agents, unnecessary violence, the_ capital. at $100,000,000 down a Says Egan Got $325,000 with the advance aid of '■be Board j PACKAGE OF CAVIAR and rou.gh-house tactics in conduct- few thousands to be issued by some of Finance and Control, the com could not be immediately obtained. Watliins testified that, up to the Passengers aboard the ship, FEDERAL ARMY MOVES ing raids without legal sanction ‘ concern that in years to come may time of his flight from Hartford two mittee has been able to delve into will not be tolerated. Orders to stand among the state's leaders in details on a greater scale than in which was outward bound, included years ago yesterday. Egan had re John Erskine, author; Arthuro Tos this effect have been Issued and industry. ceived from him $325,000. of which past session of the Assembly. LEADS TO ASSAULT sent trickling down throughout the Members of the Legislature say Moreover, the 1927 appropriations canini, conductor; and Mrs. W. H. $200,000 was in cash and the rest Woodin wife of the president of the INTO NEW WAR AREA personnel of the Federal enforce that Connecticut’s prosperity has in checks. Ho said that Egan had bill is considerably more easy to ment machine. never been better illustrated than interpret than past measures of ex American Car & Foundry Co. manipulated the $200,000 note The liner went asround sliortiv Hoover .Against It by the business of the session now which convinced the bank commis penditures. The committee has Custom Guards Thought It President Hoover wants no drawing to a close. Very few re been able to locate every item of after three o’clock. .A.t eight o'clock sioner that the sales agreement be half a dozen tugs were standing by. Aurora Incidents involTtiis Federal quests for the right to increase cap tween the National Associated In state expenditure in its proper Now Waging Campaign for TEN PERSONS DEAD agents. The deplorable circum ital have been refused. After care place and to show exactly where While the ship was reported to be Liquor — Wealthy Men vestors and Winthrop Gregory & solidly lodged in the mud flats, the stances surrounding tfie killinig of ful study the Legislature has found Co., was a legitimate transaction.