i A - NET PRESS RUN THE WEATHER A.VEKAGE DAILY CIRCULATION Forecast of D. S. Weather Bureau, Hartford tor the Montti of December, 19S0 5,593 Fair and warmer tonight and Members of the Audit Bureau IwEttittg Saturday. of Circulations. (EIGHTEEN PAGES) PRICE THREE CENTS VOL. XLV., NO. 92. (Classified Advertising on Page 16.) SOUTH MANCHESTER, CONN., FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1931. “DEVIL” SCARES AT 3, HE’S MENTAL GIANT JOBS HERE BACK YOUNG AUTOTSTS AUTO TRAVEL ■ V- CONTROVERSY MARKS Farm Boy With Horns, Tail TO NORMAL IN and Hoofs Cavorts Along ON DECREASE, Highways in the Moonlight. NEXTjMONTHS Hltterdal, Minn., Jan. 16.— RETOTSAYS (AP.)—Washington Irving’s SESSION OF CONGRESS Headless Horseman’s reign over Sleepy Hollow has had a Accidents In Nation In­ Sub-Bodies’ Reports To modern counterpart on the Hit- Night Sessions Proposed As terdal-Ulen highway lor two weeks creased 12 Per Cent and City of 50 Thousand Emergency Committee In Midnight motorists and Means of Avoiding An youths returning from country Accord On Early Restora­ dances reported seeing a “ dev­ Deaths Four — Increased il" with horns, tail and cloven Destroyed by Quakes Extra Term— Democrats hoofs, leaping and cavorting Speed the Cause. tion of Good Business. along the highway in the moon­ In Senate Propose |25,- light. Several young men re­ Mexico City, Jan. 16.— (A P )— Oaxaca three deaths were reported ported to clay county officials Pretty Oaxaca, four centuries old all these were in Mexico City where That the employment situation in they lost control of their cars, Hartford, Jan. 16.— (A P )—Statis-' Spanish and Indian city of fifty an old woman was buried under 000,000 Fund For Red which were ditched, while the tics on automobile accidents cover­ thousand lay in ruins today. Sol­ falling masonry, a four pear old girl Manchester will return to close to ; received injuries from which she nerves of feminine companions ing the entire country for last year, diers searched the debris of its normal within two months was the buildings for victims of Wednes­ died yesterday, and Nicolas Peni- Cross To Provide Food were shattered. prepared by statisticians of the consensus at a meeting of the Investigation revealed the day’s earthquakes. aqua, a chemist, was fatally injured. Travelers Insurance Company and executive committee, municipal con­ ‘‘devil’’ appeared one and a Eleven bodies were in morgues Six others here are gravely injured and estimates on the number of and some of the six probably will and Clothing For Needy; tact committee, and chairmen of a ll, half miles north of here. A completed today for public use, in­ deaths ran as high as 48. The injur­ die. Fifty persons received minor sub-committees of the Emergency' farm youth who admitted a dicate decreased motor vehicle penchant for mimicking the ed list was much larger and esti­ injuries. Dry Fund Bill Starts Bitter Employment Committee, held at the ! mileage of at least fifteen billion mates of damage to the city ranged From ' Mazattan, South Sinaloa, ‘‘Satanic spirit" was taken into Hotel Sheridan this noon. A gen- > miles or about 10 percent while ac­ came reports today that a sub­ custody, and produced a close- from fifty to ninety percent. eral tone of optimism pervaded the About 24 miles of the railroad be­ marine volcano was belching smoke fitting costum.e, horns, tail, cidents increased about twelve per­ Dispute. reports made at ‘the meeting, called tween Oaxaca and Puebla and Mexi­ and steam' some distance ftom the hoofs and all. No charges have cent, deaths more than four per­ by the general chairman, Stephen C. cent and the injured 13 percent. co City were torn up or covered with shore. Dead fish, believed to have Hale. been preferred. earth and stones by landslides which been killed by the fumes or shock The greater number of deaths and Washington, Jan. 16.— (AP) — The meeting w‘as called to dis- ---------------—-------------- injured and damage to property was j caused damage in every state of of the seismeic disturbances have cover the amount of progress that _ _ _ _ reflected in fully $300,000,000 in I Southern Mexico but seemed to cen- been thrown up on the beaches for Night sessions were proposed in the has been made since the committee , W A T K \ IMpDCACrC claims paid by the insurance com­ ter in Oaxaca state. Outside of ten days. Senate today by Senator McNary was organized and to discuss the ; I ^ ^ 1 lllvlI'ljrttJLikJ prospects for further alleviation of j panies writing automobile, casualty, of Oregon, assistant RepublicEin life and accident insurance. the unemployment problem. It was leader as a means of avoiding an reported that 416 persons were reg-1 BECAUSE OF TIMES On State Highways extra session. istered at the Unemployment Regis-1 From the figures it is shown that WEALTHY PACKER SHEPPARD DEFENDS He presented an unanimous con­ tration Bureau of the Chamber of although more than 40 percent of sent agreement, the adoption of Commerce as being out of work. Of ; all accidents causing death last which he will ask tomorrow, calling this number 171 have been supplied C l l P P year, of 32,500 persons occurred at FALLS TO DEATH PROHIBmON LAWS tor sessions three nights a week be­ with work, although a number were ^ M2lt6 uO VBm O r odi^S street intersections, nearly twice as ginning Monday. short time jobs. many persons were killed m mis­ Meanwhile, issues bristling with It was brought out that the Board I haps on state highways as imder controversy absorbed the attention of Selectmen have done particularly \ Public Works To Create any other single set of conditions. A of both branches of Congress. fine work in aiding the situation, j Three-year-old Van Dyke Tiers of Downers Grove, 111., a Chicago study of the occurrence of automo­ Head of Armour & Co. Top­ Tells Senate 18th Amend­ In the Senate, Democratic leaders having employed 127 men, in addi- j suburb, is acclaimed as one of the most brilliant youngsters in the nation bile accidents as to locations show­ prepared to seek approval of a pro­ tion to the regular force of about, Jobs Will Not Raise Rates, i —and for reason enough, too. He can read and write English extensive­ ed that about 22 per cent was by posal to provide the Red Cross ^ t h forty. These men have been put to ly, is studying Greek and Latin, is familiar with mathematics and knows mishaps between street intersections ples Out of Seven Story ment Will Stay In Consti­ work in rebuilding roads, in Center ^ a good deal about georgraphy Above, he is shown demonstrating his $25,000,000 for food and clothing to and 21 percent at street intersec­ be distributed to the needy. Springs park, and in snow removal, i Boston, Jan. 36.— (A P .)—Gover­ ability to point out any place cn the map; in the inset, he is shown prac­ tions. Under the same classifica­ under the $50,000 appropriation' ticing the Greek alphabet. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Tiers. Window— Had Been 111. tution Forever. In the House nor Joseph B. Ely is confident that tion it was shown that nearly 70 The House began general debate voted at a special town meeting. taxes in Massachusetts will not be percent of the more than 960,000 Improvement at Mills i on the appropriation bill for the increased as a result of expendi­ persons injured became accident vic­ Justice, State, Labor and Commerce A report from Cheney Brothers i Washington, Jan. 16.— (AP) — tures in public w'orks to relieve un­ tims within corporate limits of Chicago, Jan. 16.— (AP) — The Departments. The first of these, in­ showed that conditions at the plant employment. towns and cities. career of F. Edson White, multi-mil­ Marking the eleventh anniversary of have been improving steadily and in-1 cludes prohibition enforcemept The governor expressed this con- PRINCE OF WALES HOPS With exact figures as to speed at lionaire who worked his way up National prohibition one of the au­ funds, bitterly opposed by the ene­ dications are that they wdll continue members of the Massa- to do so. Although there is still time accident incomplete the indi­ from the ranks to the presidency of thors of the Eighteenth Amendment mies of the dry laws. chusetts Real Estate Exchange at a cation was that increased rates of much unemployment, it has been Armour & Company, packers, was told the Senate today the dry clause Meeting at I I —an hour earllfir i , -., __ _ . dinner last night. He also said that speed played a part in the occur­ than usual—the Senate ordered an ON FIRST LEG OF TRIP rence of fatal mishaps in rural sec­ ended last night in a seven-story fall would stay in the Constitution for­ and the BoardnrH ofnf Selectmen<?f>lpctr^pn to pronro -1' „ ,,believed that the administration. .. .. Inquiry into bread prices voted the tions. from a window of a bedroom in his ever. penniless Nye campaign funds com­ vide work for the neediest cases, a relieve the present situation. He was Senator Sheppard, Demo­ policy that met with the hearty ap- ^ President Hoover, he said rec- Most On Sunday North Side home. mittee $50,000 to continue its inves­ crat, Texas, making the first Senate proval of the General Emergency i °n^n^e°ds ^ a t m times of depres- His neck was broken and many tigation and resumed its argument More accidents resulting in both speech on the liquor question this Committee at this noon’s meeting.