*. ' i V- M ■' '-.rv.;.- ■.-:■■•- y - u y ^ ' - y . ■'* ' .' ' •' ^ ' ■ THE WEATHER . Forecast by D. 8. Weather Butmu. NET PRESS RUN • - - Hartford. - -* AVERAGE DAILV OIROUIATION 'F air and slightiy colder tonight; for the Month of February, 1930 Saturday in cre^n g dondlness with slowly rldng temperatnre probably .< V*f^,-£j,« ■*® followed by rahu 5,503 rfsd-i 4 Ai.v»:is'•»■•-' Member* of the Anrtll Bureau ol ’• • j. **xf-x ’ ‘ ■ •• • .;/. •- ny>.. ■<■ • Circulation* _______ PRICE THREE CENTS SOUTH MANCHESTER, CONN., FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1930. EIGHTEEN PAGES (Classified Advertising on Page 16) VOL. X U V ., NO. 140. €- NEW YORK BETTER Southern France in Grip of Floods BLAINE MXES / X'*' ■■ V' V INTHTWITH UNDER DRY U W S G.O.P.IEADER u. s. I So Say Reports from Wefl Missionaries TeU Their E x-iFALL’S TESTIMONY Boston Wanted to Explain France To Build perien ces-A l Smilh Lost ’ ^ p y j RECORDS , Data of River Association t . Informed Quarters; if Ac­ Election Because of His | — and Senator Objects; May Its Own Guarantees cord Has Been Reach- ed It Is One of Outstand­ Wet Views. ' Prosecution at Doheny Trial Produce Records. Paris, March 14. (A.P)—French® The only hope expressed in official - -■ ^ circles was that some formula might ‘ --------- i official circles expressed toe feeling Reads Statements Made be found to prevent the London con­ ing Features of Confer­ Washington, March 14— (AP) Washington, March 14.— (AP.)— ; j.Qday that a guarantee of security ference ending in complete failure. "Little Old New York,” as they fre­ Claudius H<^ Huston, chairman o f. France or even a consultive pact quently refer to it on Manhattan At Probe of Senate. toe Republican National committee, j thoroughly scrapped at the NO NEW ORoilBS. en ce-W ill Mean a Three island, today entered the picture besame involved in a heated ex-1 London conference. Washington, March 14.— (AP) — Published reports that President of the House judiciary committee’s change with Senator Blaine of the i It was added authoritatively that Power Pact. Washington, March 14.— (AP)— lobby committee today over toe I France, having failed to o^itain a Hoover had sent new instructions to prohibition hearing and one who toe American, delegates-at the Lon­ Testimofiy that drew the country’s question of Huston’s obtaining rec- j guarantee security from toe other has seen much of the ne’er do wells don naval conference were denied attention in 1924 when the Senate ^ Tw% powers, must build up sucu a navy London, March 14.— (A P.)—The who drift along with the rest of toe ords of the Tennessee River Im- j after its own guarantee today at toe White House. oil committee was investigating the American and Japanese naval dele­ millions testified it was his opinion provement Association which com-! French figures have been "It added that messages were, be­ ing received from London as has gations were said in well-informed that as America’s first city has oil scandals were heard today by the mittee members had asked for, 724,000 tons. It was also mentioned been toe case throughout toe con­ quarters this afternoon to have grown bigger and bigger, it also has jury in the bribery trial of Edward Huston lost the calm that has that Italy while insisting upon a L. Doheny, toe prosecution reading parity with France had failed to ference .but that no messages of any achieved an ag^reement which is characteriZed his appearance be­ only dependent on confirmation lights along the “ Great Wh^e into toe record Doheny’s story be- j fore the Senate lobby committee present toe figures of her own re- nature had been sent to toe delegates fore the committee of toe $100,000 j quirements. 'within the last 72 hours. from the home authorities. Way” may sparkle just as brightly _______ _________ r ^ *u ' after Blaine bad intimated that he Senator Reed and Ambassadoi as a decade Igo, but In tbe opl“ o“ which he claims he loaned to Albert i Torrential swollen streams, sweeping down from toe foothills of the | jnjgijt object to a statement that B. Fall, former secretary of the in- Matsudaira, two. old friends whi of John Callahan, the chaplain at j Pvrenees cost hundreds of lives and untold property damage in southern i Republican chairman said he have been threshing out the .com­ the Tombs Prison, an | terior. France ' This first picture from the city of Cahors, in the heart of the ; ^yjghed to place in the record. plicated difficulties between toe The scene in the courtroom was change has taken place. He told flood region, shows how the community was innundated by the bursting Huston reminded........................... toe committee two countries, met again this morn­ the committee it was a change in sharp contrast to that before the of a dam on the River Tarn. Hundreds of homes were swept away and that he had offered to obtain mes ing and observers were led to be­ Senate committee. Doheny sat quiet y e l l o w p e r il, BUGAWIO, the better and he attributed it to surrounding vineyards xvere ruined. A recurrence of the floods has been wanted from J. W. Worthington, lieve that they had discussed final and relaxed today as the reading of threatened by the overflowing of smaller rivers. who is executive secretary of the details. , ^^“I'hopTto God toe dry law will the testimony continued, but in Tennessee River Improvement As­ Big Stumbling Block stay on toe hooks and be more 1924 after the committee pressed sociation and asked permission NELSON TELLS CONGRESS The big task which they are re­ consistently enforced,” . him about differences in testimony when he had done that to place in ported to have aU but accomplish­ words he left in the committee about toe note that Fall gave him in the record a statement explain­ ed included settlement of toe Jap­ record to combat toe previous testi­ return for the $100,000 v,hich the ing any of -he data. SLEVI FIGURE FASHION anese claim for a 70 per cent cruis­ mony by the ^ti-prohibition group government contends w^as a bribe be FIRST TO SEE NEW STAR Not the Custom HITS IRELAND HARD. er ratio. This* has been toe out­ that since enactment of the Eignt burst out: Blaine replied that it was noti Wisconsin Representative standing stumbling block since the cento Amendment crime has in­ “Are you trying to ge me to ad­ customary to premit witnesses to, Belfast, Northern Ireland, begfinnlng of negotiations. creased and conditions groivn worse. mit I lied about it? ” '' HE DESCRIBES SENSATION place statements in the record un-1 Says Japan Is True Friend March 14.— (AP)—The desire of Just what settlement is projected Bishop of the Bowery The Testimony less they were subjected to ques-1 I ' English women to retain a slim was not indicated, but well-inform­ Often referred to as the “Bishop The prosecution also placed before tioning concerning the statements. figure was given as a reaison for ed persons believed it involved, in­ of toe Bowery,” Mr: Callahan said toe jury today toe testimony before ‘“We haven’t asked you to do it,’ Of U. S.— Says Groups a slump in the potato demand, by , cluding concessions on both sides. the dry law had brought great the Senate oil committee of the late Blaine asserted. “It is your duty to Sir Edward Archdale, Ulster Observers say that if this agree­ o-ood” to toe Bowery district where Edwdn Denby, former secretary of Clyde Tombaugh Says He SEVEN OVERCOME have those records produced.” minister of agriculture in Parlia­ ment has been achieved, it is not he said ten years ago there had been the navy, in which he admitted that “All right, then, I don’t do it ,” Spread Propaganda. ment yesterday. He declared toe only one of the outstanding fea­ 44 saloons. Now, he added, condi­ he knew nothing of the details of Huston retorted, explaining that young,ladies of England would tures of toe conference but is of Was Greatly Excited As whether it was his duty was a mat­ tions had changed the Elk Hills lease which he signed. AT EVEREH FIRE not eat pdtatoes especially at paramount importance at this mo­ years as director of the Hadley The government planned also to ter of opinion. Washington, March ! holiday’ resorts. ■ ment. Rescue Mission has given the chap­ read today Fall’s explanation that “I volunteered to do work which Referring to what he termed the ] ^ __________ . ^ This is so because it would per­ lain much opportunity for observa­ he got the $100,000 from Edward B. He Saw Pinpoint of Light you can’t make me do,” he said. -I “Bugaboo” of Japanese imperial- . _ mit of a three power agreement be­ tion of those who do not walk on McLean, publisher of the Washing­ don’t think it is fair to go out and ism. Representative Nelson of Wis- ' tween the United States, Great Fifth avenue in fashionable clothes ton Post, an explanation which was On a Photographic Plate. Loss Estimated at Half Mil* I get this material and not be per consin, said in the House tod a y , Britain and Japan ifi the conference and he said that he knew many later proved to be untrue. : mitter‘to” "expiain it. I volunteered! tharnotoing"coiil’d be more groimd- j WOMAN PAYMASTER failed to settle the French question men, who ten years ago had lived Fall admitted that he got the lion When Chemical Plant: courtesy to the com-: the assumptloii that f^ee- j and the Franco-Italian problem.