VOL. XU., NO. 70. Olaaallled AdTertMng on • MANCHESTER, CONN., WEDNESDAY,' DECEMBER 22, 1926. C o o o - PRICE THREE CENTS - L k t «- ACADEMY 'WINS 310 The Capitol Puts on Its Winter Coat. SPAIN LOTTERY PRCZB HUGE RAID m s Madrid, Dec. 22.— ^All Spain TEARS OF RAGE OVER was in a fever of excitement to­ N.Y.NIIirLIFE day, as the annual lottery was drawn. More than a thousand persons waited all night before SCANDAL OF DIAMOND S i m W B L O W the mint at Madrid to • witness ■A the draw. Half a million people invaded the streets to scan SEEKS TO STAY ~N JAIL t FOB CHRISTMAS PEED various lists of the winners. The WALSH TELLS king and the government shared C O B B W EEPS 58 Famous Clubs Shut Down a ticket in the lottery. The first Bridgeport, Dec. 22.— Tonie prize of 15,000,000 pesetas went INSIDE TALE Tuckey, tailor, would be guest AS HE DENIES At Holidays By Padlock to Beaux Arts Academy, a of Sheriff Simeon Pease on ticket held by that institution Christmas Day. Tonie wi’l have as a whole. OF EXPOSURE finished a twenty-day jail sen­ Proceedings — Driest tence on Christmas ’’’ve, having PART IN PLOT The second prize of 10,000,- been sent up for drunkenness, 000 was held by two persons, and claiming he has no money one resident in Madrid and the Christmas, Says Officials. and no home asks to be permi other in Orense. The third prize Blowoff Doe to Hany HeO- ted t, sta; in jail until after the 'Tor Honor of Baseball”, of 5,000,000 pesetas was held in holiday is ended. Cuba. No'Pf York, Dec. 22.— ^United mann’s Sense of Doty; I (The value of the pesetas is Declares Landis; Nobody States prohibition forces, on tho about 20 cents, U. S. money.) eve of the holiday season of gayety, Big Enough to Be Exempt struck their hardest blow against New York’s night life early today. DID NO WRONG From Publicity; Leonard Seven parties made up of assist­ FAMILY OF 7 ant United States attorneys, police­ It to Navin; Expose Proves KNEW NOTHING, men, federal prohibition agents Said to Have Received and deputy United States marshals, all acting under direction of Unit­ PROBABLETOU That Baseball Is Clean, INSISTS TRIS” $20,000 For Famous Let­ ed States Attorney Emory R. Buck­ ner, served pei^n al Injunctions Says McGraw. ters. and bills of complhlnt In padlock OF LEAKING GAS proceedings of flfty-elght of the Speaker Declares He Isn’t city’s best known night clubs, B Y DAVIS J. W ALSH cabarets and restaurants. Chicago, Dec. 22.— “The good ' Three Months Preparing. name of baseball was at stake.” A shining white cloak replaces the summer garment of green lawns and trees in which the United States New York, Dec. 22.— Harry Heil- Mentioned In Ball Deal The raids followed an Investiga­ All the Children, 5 in Nnm- And so Kenesaw M. Landis, high tion of three months carried out by s S i l l . ' ' ' ' ' ' ' PHotograph was made just after Washington Tad Rs first heavy mann, who is not a league execu­ agents posing as “rich butter and tive, under oath, to preserve honesty Letters Simply Because commissioner, was willing to light egg men” and distinguished visit­ ber, Dead, Parents Near nor a $65,000 commissioner who, is and toss the bomb which has rock­ ors from abroad. Directed by Major committed to the same purpose, nor ed the game with its third great Chester P. Mills, of the prohibition JEANNE EAGELS, He Wasn’t In It. Death at Bridgeport From yet a disgruntled conspirator, but scandal and blotted the escutch­ enforcement branch, the agents In­ JERSEY TROOPERS ONE DISCREPANCY just a man in the ranks trying to gratiated themselves by lavish use TED, MAY PART eons of four of its one-time famous conduct himself in a manner con­ of money and easily gained all the Open Jet. Cleveland, O., Dec. 22.— Tris players, two of them among the sistent with nis honor, is the in­ evidence they needed to start pro­ BESIEGE FARMERS Star of “Rain” and Football Speaker, former leader of the IN STORY OF WIFE dividual who faced baseball’s latest greatest figures that ever pranced ceedings against many night clubs Hero Expected to Arrange a scandal to a show down. Cleveland Indians in a statement upon a diamond. and cabarets in and on the fringe Bridgeport, Dec. 22— ^An entire Paris Divorce. John J. McGraw vouchsafed this issued today declared that he had of the bright light district. For that same reason he would Bridgeport family may be wiped information to the Avriter today in Places visited included such well been made the “goat” in the alleg­ not let the seven years that have out as the result of escaping illum­ Thirty of Them Surround New York, Dec. 22.— proof of his sincere belief that the known clubs as Texas Guinan’s 800 Mrs. Probasco Urged Police ed “thrown” game between Detroit inating gas. Five of seven members Broadway today was talking game was and is fundamentally elapsed since the incidents con­ Club, the Club Dover, Helen Mor­ are dead and two others are in dy­ ibout the alleged . arrange­ honest. McGraw would allow no and Cleveland with only the word cerned occurred stay his heavy gan’s Fifty-fourth Street Club, the Quartette Who Abused ing condition in a hospital. ments between Jeanne Eagels, Be Not Called, Says Su- other construction to be placed of one man to substantiate the Cafe De Paris, Dinty Moore’s Club, hand. The dead, all children of Mr. and star of ‘■‘Rain,” and her hus­ upon baseball’s position, in spite of charges.’ the Club Anatole, the Palladium Mrs. Albert C. Ayre, are 'William The name and fame of Tyrus Cattle; Perhaps Kill One. band, Ted Coy, for a divorce the sensational disclosures involv­ Speaker insisted that evidence in Club, the Club Richman, Barney’s 8 years old; Winslow, 7; Richard, — that is everyone was talk­ perintendent of House. ing Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker, Judge Landis’ hands should prove Raymond Cobb and Tristam Speak­ Del Fey Club, Mori’s restaurant, 5; Jessie 3 and Irene, six months ing but Jeanne am. Ted, and halloAved idols of young America, that he had no knowledge of the er were not great enough to saA-e Texas Tommy Guinan’s Play­ old. they woulr’n’t say anything. supposed crooked game. The state­ Somerville, N. J., Dec. 22.— One and Joe Wood and “Dutch” Leon­ them when he thought that tho ground, the Embassy Club, the Ayre and his wife are in critical In fact they . were “not at ment follows: New York, Dec. 22— Further in­ ard, first class pitchers in their day. good of the game demanded piti­ Club Biarritz and the Hawaiian condition, according to hospital au­ farmer is believed to be dead, and home” to inquirers. “Entirely Innocent” , quiry today into the tragedy of Behind the Confession less publicity because the finger of Club. thorities. three other persons were barricad­ The temperamental star “ I have been made the goat of A'clghbor Breaks In Sunday was directed by Robert H. It Avas Leonard’^ confession that suspicion had pointed toward them. Worked All Night. ed today in a house on Jugtown and her former football hero that game. Charles Aigeltinger, who occu­ Ihgersoll, founder of the dollar brought the expose into the light of In the eyes of Kenesaw M. Lan­ The raiders set out at ten o’clock husband, according to the Tvatch, on the theory that a third “I want the public to know and pies one section of the two-family mountain, 20 miles from here, day, but behind that confession is dis, anything is justified that Arill last night and at dawn today they rumors, are all set to-sever person fired the shots that killed believe me when I say I am entire­ house, smelled gas this morning while state troopers were planning the story of a man who held honor keep the name of baseball clean. were still busy. Prohibition officials the martial ties via the Paris his wife and sei’iously wounded ly innocent of any wrong-doing in and tracing it to the section occu­ to use tear bombs to rout the be­ and the good name of his profession "B y George, that was the hard­ described the offensive as “a com­ route. Jeanne is scheduled to Wallace M. Probasco, wealthy bus­ connection with the alleged throw­ pied by the Ayre family, forced his sieged men. above friendship. The man who plete success” and predicted that sail soon to appear on the iness executive. The tragedy occur­ ing of that game or placing a bet est job I ever faced!” he said, re­ way in and discovered the tragedy. The siege started when the troop­ took his unassailable position in this would be the driest Christmas stage in London, and the re­ red In Mrs. Ingersoll’s apartment, on the result. I didn’t know any ferring to the hundred pages of He summoned aid and ventilated ers agproached the house to press the face of the tragic consequences and New Year’s New York has port is she will go to the The police, however, hold to bets bad been made on the game typeAvritten testimony which he the house. a complaint against the men of he kneAV must he suffered by two French capital first.