-•-Vv: ;/.s4. , -•.•■. •. '-./r-.V S i*'-'-!.’ V .-i ’ !i>r'Y ■ ■'' V ^ ^ J ^ S s S T S S ^ W THE, " ^ ^ ^ S S t FKBSS RUN Forecast of AVERAGE DAILY OIBOULATION Hartford for tile Hontli of December, 19S0 F!Wr tonight .sad colder' 5>593 tonigfa^ HAiidwrs Of Ow A a«t Bnresn of Clroolations. (TWELVE PA^ES) PRICE ^ R B B CENTS (Classified (d v e rtl^ g on Page 10.) SOUTH iWA^^CHEST THURSDAY, JANUARY 29. 1931. VOL. XLV., NO, 103. TWENTY-NINE DIE Dickens’ Son, 82, Lives Quietly u. s. IN AN EXPLOSION FOR GEN. BUTLER’S REMARKS But Nine Miners Escape WARNS C i n FOLKS Blast— Victims So Badly TO REMAIN THERE General Is Ordered CHIEF OF MARINES Burned and Mangled That To Arrest Identification Is Difficult. Will Go Broke Quicker In the IS O R D ^ TRIED Washington, Jan. 29.— (AP) — day and was informed of the action. Country These Days and Major General Staedley D. Butler Butler was quoted in his speech Linton, Ind., Jan. 29— (AP) The as sajring he had been told by a Celebrated Soldier Made Speech Derogatory To Premier Uves of 29 miners were snuffed out of the Marines has«^ked himself friend that the Italian premier’s in an explosion at the Little Betty Then It's Very Hard Work into a court martial. motor car stmck a child and that coal mine near her late yesterday. Secretary Adams ordered it today the Duce drove on. Mussolfni Mussolini, Charges Read— Butler Sends Explanatory quickly informed his Embassy here With the rescue of two men last after reading the fiery Marine’s ex­ Concord, N. H., Jan. 29.— (AP) — planation df a speech in PhilAiel- that he had done no slich thing. night and seven more this morning The “Back to the Farm” dream, in­ phia which aroused Premier Mus­ The specific charge against Butler Letter To Secretary Who After Reading It Orders a all of the men in the mine had been creasingly cherished during these solini of Italy. was not made public, nor was his accounted for. letter. Identification of the victims pro­ hard times by cijy workers who are Butler’s commander. Major Gen­ Court Martial and Apology Follows — Alleged Re­ eral Fuller, immediately ordered He has had to explain speeches ceeded slowly. Many of the bodies sick of pavements and of pay cuts, before to the Navy Secretary, but were so badly burned and disfigured Butler to place himself under arrest. is apt to prove a nightmare if sub­ did so satisfactorily. The general a check of the dead was made dif­ He was also told to confine himatelf marks Were Made In Speech In Philadelphia On Jan. jected to the test of actual experi­ to his barracks at Quantico. But­ returned to his Quantico post after ficult. , another speech in Philadelphia last The cause of the explosion had ment. ler commands the Marine Post there. night 19— Butler-Who Is Now Confined To His Quarters Re­ not been definitely ascertained this This warning was sounded today | g, comfortable English setting such as his father so well loved, morning. Soon after the blast, it Italy has registered a formal pro­ Marine officers there, however, by State Commissioner of Agricul- Sir Henry iPielding Dickens, son of the late Charles Dickens, most famoiis test against General Butler’s re­ said he “was unable to come to the was understood the accident had of British novelists, is shown here in his latest picture, at his uome in fuses To Make Statement of Any Kini been caused by a spark igniting a ture Andrew L. Felker of New marks and the address has become telephone.” Chelsea, England. The frame of small pictures over the hearth bears Shortly after the Italian protest. quantity of blasting powder. Later Hampshire. ser- an international incident. snapshots of his father. Sir Henry, who is 82, has been “ common Italian Ambassador De Martino General Butler declined to com­ reports, however, stated the explo­ The commissioner gave the public Washington,,Jan. 29.— (A P )—The sion had been found intact and that geant” of the city of London since 1917. called at the State Department to- ment. the disaster was the result of a gas the benefits of his observation in a United States government apolo-1 Caused the Trouble explosion. „ , , series of comments on inquiries gized today to Premier Mussolini o f: The dreaded “black damp” quick­ from urban residents of New Hamp­ SPACE PEETTY EMPTY- Italy because of a recent speech in mine ly filled the passages of the shire who think that farming would STARS ABE FAR APART Philadelphia by Major General | and hampered the work of rescue ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS lEXONERATES BEARS be helpful or profitable to them. He Smedley D. Butler, of the Marines, j crews. , ... Mt. Wilson, Calif., Jan. 29.— The men who were rescued this said that he was informing most in which remarks derogatory to the ; How empty is space? Here is morning had barricaded thernselves of his correspondents that they OF MARKET CRASH premier figured. j in an entry off one of the main cor­ TAKE POLITICAL TINGE one answer: , Secretary Stimson, in a note ■ had better weather their financial The mean distance between ridors. handed Italian Ambassador de Mar- j storms in town, not in the great nebulae, that is, universes of tino, formally apologized to Signor i SCENES AT MINE open spaces of rural New Hamp­ stars like the Milky Way, is es­ Mussolini and the Italian people f o r : timated by Dr. Edwin Hubble, lead of Stock Exchange Ex^ Linton, Ind., Jan. 29.— (AP.) shire. Democrats May Ask Probe the remarks made by Butler. Only The Little Betty mine, scene of yes­ ENRIGHT INDICTED ! Mt. Wilson astronomer, at near- a short time before, Secreta^ i “Life on tlA soil is more complex terday’s explosion, has been worked j ly 2,000,000 light-years. Adams had ordered a court martial i than it used to be,” he said. I They are not distributed regu­ plains For First Time steadily for the last two years and for a celebrated Marine officer, ' “The unemployed factory or busi­ of State Institutions— Re­ larly, however, some being about its employes had escaped the misery ON FRAUD CHARGE Besson for Apology ness worker, with his slender sav­ one-tenth of this distance apart- of unemployment suffered by many Butler had been reported publicly ings as his only financial backing, What Caused the Drop. because of closed mines. publicans Say Measure Will as saying he had been told by a can go broke quicker in the coun­ friend that Signor Mussolini’s auto­ Throughout the night a con­ try than in an environment with stant stream of ambulances plied mobile struck a child and that the which he is more thoroughly Not Be Passed. Ex-New York Police Com- Boston, Jan. 29.— (A P.)—Richard premier drove on without stopping. their way from Linton to the mine, familiar. TWELVE OVERCOME Whitney, president of the New York Secretary Adams, while not di- i four and a half miles west. Just Hanging On vulging Butler’s -ixplanation of the A t the mine mouth serious-faced piissioner Named With the Stock Exchange, disclosed today in­ j “Experienced agriculturists, with incident, said today that on the men and women huddled in groups. state Capitol, Hartford, Jan. 29— vestigations of alleged bear raiding large and fertile acres and With (AP)— Legislative proceedings un­ IN $45,000 BLAZE strength of the order for court A slime covered the clay and spec­ farm organizations perfected by had resulted in the exoneration of martial it seemed fair to assume he tators sloshed about, seeking to der the golden dome today on a Ex-Govemor of Oklahoma Gen. S. D. Butler trial and error method, are just political tinge. Democ.atic leaders the bears and the Indictment of eco­ had admitted the "substance” of his break the chill of a penetrating hanging on in this state and else­ were here for conferences, probably nomics. alleged Philadelphia remarks critic­ Trades and Labor Council wrote wind. where in New England. The era of to determine party action on cer-, 29—lAP)— He addressed the Boston Cham­ izing Mussolini. A whistle screeched once, a mine low prices for farm products is by tain measures which must be in the OklalKUBa O ty, Jan. 29.— (Air') ber of Commerce aind. publicly ^s- . ^ Fpriual fetotenaenti- Curtis D. WiflMir.. then- Navy secre­ cage shot downward, carrying its no means over and the farmer who handis of •..le^slative clerks tonaor-:- -X pamphlet “Why Investors Lose; In cussed for the first time what Wall A formal statement'from Stimson tary that-tthe address was Anach- quota of rescue workers. T»jen _the yAirvives witt be the one who devel­ OU” has led to the indictment o f an street called the “bear hunt” dur­ said: Istic and inflammatory.” The secre­ whistle gave four sharp blasts. TOW. '£ i i e ^ Ttf Flee For Lives; tary did nothing about it however. ops a salable speciEilty or who has The lirhlt on Introduction of new ex-governor, a former New York ing the declining markets of 1930. “Having learned from the Navy “They are bringing up a body,” resources to take a ticking tempor­ business will be set tomorrow. There He said the Ehtchange failed to dis­ Department -that Major General police commissioner, an editor and someone said. “Four blasts means arily. was every indication today that the Ten Firemen Hurt. cover any facta to Support allega­ Smedley D.