T AVEBAOE DAILT OIBOOLAnDN ' for the MoBth of April, UM WEATHEB Fo! It of c. a. W 6,124 Baitford MMnlwr at Urn A om ^ Meotly flloney and probably Ugfit Bareeo of OM latloM iEtrtttum IfrralJi bowvrB tonight and Tneodarx not much ohoDge In temperatore. MANCHESTER — A CITY OF VILLAGE CHARM VOL.LVIL.no. 187 (fXaaoMUd AdvoctlMBg m Paga it) MANCHESTER, CONN, PRICE THREE CENTS “Faces Blindness or Death 11 MEN ARRESTED LEAGUE COUNCIL TO RECOGNIZE O’CONNOR ASKS HOUSE AFTER A RAID ON DUC^CLAIMS TO SPEED UP ACTION COVENTRY STILLS Majority Of Members Re- Bootleg Outfit Capable Of ported As Favorable; Brit- caMA i m i s ON HOURS-WAGES BILL Cheating Goyenuuent Out ain And France Co-oper- Of $2,000 A Day In Tal- NEIV SUCCESSES Food, Food, Give Us Food! ate In Drafting Final Plan. Chaimian Of The Rules Com- es; More Arrests Expected IN B A TH E ZONE mittee htroduces Resoh- Geneva. May fl,_ (A P )—A ma- jority of the League of NaUona Hartford, May 9.— (API— The Council members was represented tion To Permit Petitioo Guerrillas Continue To Har- . Dumber of arreata made tn the larg- toda.v as favorable to granting eat raid In Connecticut In aeveral France and Great Britain freedom To Be Called Up At Any years agalnat revenue violators was ass Lines Of Communica- raised to 11 today with half a dozen to recognize the Italian conquest of more expected In various parts of Ethiopia. Time; Passage Predicted. the state. tion; Japs Claim Two Mi- ’‘Realistic” diplomacy, as the Arraignment was begun here to- French and British term their cur- day before U. S. (k)mmlsaloner Wil- nor Gains In Central Area rent policy of temporizing with liam J. Wholean following the Premier Mussolini, appeared to have Washington. May 9.— (AP) round-up early Sunday of on alleg- swayed the League <3ouncll, at Its —Thairman O’Connor (D„ N. j ed bootleg ring which operated two opening session, against Emperor Y .), of the rules committed ^ stills In Coventry of a total capacity Shanghai, May 9— (API—Stalled Halle Selassie. of 1.250 gallons. proposed today that the H oum In their desperate and costly efforts If the Brl.Usb and French gain The bootleg outfit wa-s capable of expedite action on the con- I cheating the government out of to reach Surhow from the north, their point, as. Is expected. It «1ll be troverted Wage-Hour bill. n 42,000 a day In liquor taxes said the Japanes- today reported rapid tantamount to ousting the exiled Ethiopian ruler and his conquered The House has sigpied up a 1 Harold L. Hennebeny, head of the progress for two secondary thrusts Federal Alcohol Tax Unit, who with African state from League member- petition to force action on th® i. from the south toward that nerve ship. 16 agents and six state police seized center of the Central Chins battle legislation, but under exiatiti* li the still on the Coventrv farm area. Viscount Halifax, the British for- owned by Petetr Cappetta. of Hart- eign secretary, and Georges Bonnet, rules It cannot come up befor* Japane»> dispatches declared that May 23. ford. French forel^ minister, drafted the In a concerted swoop made In two columns driving northward plan which could be v ot^ down only O’Connor intrixluced a reao* three towns at the same time the through central Anhwei province by a majority of the Council. lution to waive thfe rules and local and state police together with along the highway from Pengpu had captured Mengcheng, 8.S miles And only five of the thirteen na- permit the petition to be call- Federal agents arrested three men tions were "on the fence" when Hali- In Coventry, three In Hartford, and southwest of Siichow after a des- ed up at any time. perate battle. fax and Bonnet sent the plan around five In New Britain. for Council consideration before its He said that if the Houm A twelfth man escaped tn a dcs Another column moving up the Tlentsln-Ehikow railway was ap- formal presentation at the Council’s leadership desired to advanc# perate chase when they were within closed meeting set for today. Here are some of hundreds of destitute 40 feet of his car. both automobiles proaching Kuchen, 70 miles south of persona who stormed the date of consideration h8 Suchow, Mild n J&p&ncsc army These five nations were Iran, CTeveland O., relief offices and Insisted upon receiving food, although traveling at 70 miles an hour In Soviet Russia. China. New Zealand would “ make every effort to Coventry, the unidentified fugitive spokesman. This, force-had gained no state funds were available and a $50,000 city stop-gap appronria- and Bolivia. r i ^ ^ s running low. Mayor Harold H. Burton promised: "NobSly^wUI prevail upon a majority of tb® jammed on his brakes and leaped 20 miles In 48 hours. out as the car left the road and de- Suchow, junction of the Tlentsln- d a u v ^ i ^ feared five-week-old Helalne Judith Colan (above) Statement of Fact committee on rules to report. molished a stone wall. Pukow and the cast-west Liinghsl either submit to an If the Franco-Britlah plan carries. out the resolution” waivlBff operation which would destroy her sight or else die within s few weeks Long Investigation. railway. Is the prize for which Jap- or gllomq, a rare tumorous condition of (he eve. However, X-ray treat- It means the Council wlU pass either the rules. The raid was the result of weeks an and CTilna have been contending s recommendation or make a mere WANTS BILL PASSEOi of under cover work and was aided nearly five months. •’statement of fact", ^vlng all Siby> right SMaker Bankhead oald: by four agents from the Boston al- But the Japanese could report no league members their freedom to JAP OFFICIAL PROPOSES "Of couTM the President la vorp cohol tax office. Eight cars In- progress for their prlmar>’ offensive recognize Italian conquest of Ethi- w t o u s to get the bill passed bo- cluding three trucks were seized. In southern Shantung province, opia If they choose. fore we adjourn." Total capacity of the vat contain- where they met a major reverse at Fifty of these League members Bankhead and other Congressiqa* ing fermenting mash was 16,000 voted to take restraining action Tslerhchwang April 6 and where a NON-AGGRESSION TREATY al leaders had conferred with t&a gallons. agalnat Italy In the daya be- r^ewed drive has been checked MRS. JOYCE DENIES GUILT President earlier on the leglslattfa Today the equipment had been b l^ U y on almost the same battle- fore "realistic” diplomacy, when the program. removed or destroyed. flald. league waa trying to check Mua- The Speaker aald he did not look Those arrested and awaiting ar- Chinese said they had repulsed aoUnl’a encroachment in the African For^ Mimster Hirota' De- raignment are: Joseph Amedio and nation. for any additional omergenej leglo* imrage Apanese attacks between IN MERRin TRANSACTION jatloa at this oesalon unleoa It ®«a Ralph Gamettl, both of New York TalerhehWang and Plhslen to the <r- Selaoale to be Present some measure dealing with th* city, Joseph Grove, Ansonla; Joseph aou^Mst, although the Japanese clares Many Of His Peo- LATE NEWS plight of the ralirnada Polce, Petetr Cappetta and his son Halle Selassie, anxious to cling bo used tanks and smokescreens. his empty UOe of "King of Kings” , Bankhead said l(e waa convlnoo® Frank (^ppetta, all of Hartford; Dispatches from Hankow, tem- Surrenders To The Superior, Aatonlo Mazzarella. Antonio Var- LIFE'DEATH JURY decided to come to Geneva a1th his ple Fear United States; the House would pass the mga^ porarjr Chinese capital, reported legal experta to fight the powers FLASHES! hour bill, probably without any aob* ^ csUI, Sanot Gultano. Vinoenzo Oon- stantial amendments. dolfo, Salvatore Demore, all of New new CTilnese successes from Chinese to I. Os pQp QjjQgQ g^y which once backed him In his op- Britain. guerrillas In their war of harass- position to Italy. No Interest In Philippines. ^ He told his press confereneo ha ment against Japanese armies In The odds, however, were over- ______ DECIDE ON OPERATION thought there would be no “Inoiv Oondolfo and Demore were ar- north C^Ina. rested at Talcott and West streets. Return From Florida; Says ___ whelmingly against him. Both the i Chicago, May 9— (AP) —A coun- dinate delay” In adjournment of New Britain, in a car containing 22 Great Wall CroMed French and British expressed the be- Tokjto. May 9.— (A P )— Foreign I medical spedallsta decided to. Congresa but that the date prob- ably wrould depend on the Senate’s five-gallon cans of alleged alcohoL The outatanding Instance was lief that nothing could affect the Ministers Kokt HIrota, Interviewed day an Immediate opersitlon ahonld 9 that of a mobile column said to action on the wage-hour bill. She’s Innocent Of Charges Nine Medical Experts And play of the "stacked deck” they today by the Associated Press, said be performed on baby Helalne Colan have crossed the Great Wall where were using at Geneva. whose parento faced the dilemma Bank holding company leglolatldB. It int^rs^cts the Polping^'Sulyuan that fear of the United States wor- Bankhead asserted, "seems to bs The Rumanian foreign minister. of letting her live In at least partial railway northwest qf Peiping and Bridgeport. May 9.— (A P )—Mrs. Three Rabbis To Decide ried "not a few" Japanese and posed blindness or die eventually of a rather definitely post:itponed by ths HITLER ON VISIT M.