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Hie StandarcbStar is on sale every afternoon at the Grand Central Terminal She Standard Star The Weather Cloudy tonight and Wednesday followed by rain or snow Wednesday in south por tion not much change In temperature fresh north and northeast winds VOL XO 199 ULL LEASED WIRE UNITED PRESS NEW ROCJLELLIL TUESDAX EBJUWIY 21 1931 4tw bureau or PRICE THREE CENTS PROBE VOTE ACES ASSEMBLY BACKINGER IW PUN Resolution May Succeed Despite of Westchester Eive PRECEDENT IS CITED Syracuse Republican Head Criticizes State Chairman's Methods With Ward ALBANY eb Westches five assemblymen Hatha way Gamble Goodrich Garn jost and Condon will oppose any resolution as proposed today which will seek to establish an as sembly committed investigation of New York City State Chairman Macy of the Re publican committee blocked in his efforts to institute a legisla tive inquiry of the metropolis through negative votes of State Senators Westall and Mastick of Westchester is now reported as planning an investigation by the Assembly without Including the Senate Ample legal precedent ex ists for this procedure it is said the Mazet committee of 1899 and 1900 being an assembly investi gating committee alone Mr Macy's plan is reported to be born on the view that the West chester senators are adamant for the remainder of the legislative session and because of the slight liepublican majority of one vote in the upper house any bill cannot pass there over their opposition May 1'ass Assembly But in the Assembly where the Republicans have a majority of 10 the Republicans might carry such investigation resolution on any day that a single Democratic member were absent and all Republican As semblymen In their seats even with Westchester's live voting against jt These five voted against the Hofstadter Story resolution in the lower house' ic was pointed out today but It still passed by three votes only to be killed last week in the Senate by Westall and Mastick Tiie Mazet Committee of 1899 and 1900 along which lines Mr Macy is now said to plan an As sembly Committee investigation of Tammany graft and scandal con ducted a general investigation of police corruption an angle which tho present Appellate Division in (Contlnued on Nineteen) OPENNEWCAMEO THEATER THURSDAY Modern Equipment Installed in Remodeled House The newly remodeled newly equipped Cameo Theater on Rose Street will bo formally opened Thursday according to William Rosenblum manager Announce ment of the date of the opening was made today The theater will be operated by the a Amusement Corporation New Western Electrio sound equipment has been installed In the theater and the walls have been treated with a special sub stance which renders the audi torium acoustically perfect The building is of fireproof construc tion throughout It is capable of seating 400 persons New chairs upholstered In velour have been set in place All of the theater with the ex ception of the two side walls and the rear Is completely new Both the lobby and the auditorium have been attractively decorated and a special lighting system has been Installed Adequate heat and ventilation are included in the equipment of the building The ventilation system Mr Rosenblum said Is capable of changing the air In the auditorium in one and one half minutes The Cameo Theater formerly the Hudson Theater was re modeled In ten weeks at an ap proximate cost of $40000 All pro jection and sound equipment Is new and efficient In outlining the policy of the new theater Mr Rosenblum said that only photoplays of leading produc ers will be shown Reads Decision OWEN ROBERTS 8 Supreme Court Justice COURTUPSETS DECISION Justice Roberts Reads Ruling Which Upholds Validity of Dry Law WASHINGTON eb 24 The Supreme Comt today up held the validity of the prohibition amendment It reversed the decision of Judge Clark of the United States District Court of New Jersey in which Clark held that the 18th Amend ment was invalid because the method of its adoption was not in accordance with the constitution Associate Justice Owen Rob erts who has served on the court only a few months read the decision The decision was unanimous The court was emphatic in re jecting every argument upon which the attack on prohibition was based Justice Roberts started reading the decision Immediately upon the The justice adjusting hie eye concenlng of the court after a three tveek recess at noon today glasses delivered the opinion largely from memory addressing the crowded little courtroom In the Capitol building He refened only infrequently to the printed opinion of the court He said the attorneys attacking the amendment asked the court to read into the of the fifth article of the Constitution amending a clause to the effect that the framers of the Constihjtlon did not trust legis latures to interfere with individual rights "This cannot be he said Roberts found the framers of the Constitution used hi writing that instrument and that they were experts In ex pressing themselves same arguments were pressed upon Roberts aid the national prohibition cases in 1920 in only slightly different forms" Roberts said limitation was In farming Article 5 Constitution was written to bo understood by the voters" he said Roberts said the court wished to reiterate that and it was modified by legislative proc (Continued on Page Two) Considerable excitement was created on Main Street at 10:30 this morning between Mechanic and Lawton streets when a colored woman suddenly started running down the street screaming: me save me! going to kill me!" A colored man was chasing her down the north side of the street near City Hall Pedestrians fright ened by the disturbance scattered quickly Several women wheeling baby carriages rushed out of the path of the woman The man caught up to the woman near Lawton Street and a crowd including a dozen or so of other negroes quickly gathered as the pair began a noisy argument Policeman Comes on Scene Motorcycle Patrolman Lewis Odell happened to be cruising past on his machine at the time and hearing the cries dis mounted and brushed his way into the group He ordered the crowd to disperse SCHOOL CONTRACTOR PLEDGES TO EMPLOY MOSTLY LOCAL Assures at Least Two thirds New Employes on Job COMPLAINT IS PROBED Meanwhile 0 Atiisant Says Conditions Have Been Misrepresented Assurance that at least two thirds local labor will be employed ou the construction of the new IVeyman Avenue School was given Acting Mayor Stanley Church today by A Williams general contractor for the work following an Investigation of a charge of discrimination filed with Mr Church last week by a union delegation Acting Mayor Church visited ths scene of the construction today and conferred with Mrv Williams the inspector for the Boaid of Ed ucation and Charles Attlsanl business agent of the Bricklayers Masons and Plasterers local NO 51 in respect to the complaint lodged with him Saturday by a union delegation headed by rank Bellizzi Promises 68 2 3 Per Cent Local Mr Williams assured Mr Church that at no time would the New (Continued on Pag? Two) JMTTEGDEEBS EES ORJERVICES irm Member Denies Charge of Excessive Rates on County Building WHITE PLAINS eb' Strong denial that the contract for services for the new $2000000 county office building In White Plains was excessive ae charged last Thursday by Minority Leader Janies A Sullivan of the Board of Supervisors was made here today by of the firm of Morris and New York City the architect for the building as Mr Sullivan made certain statements as to our lack of compliance with the customary practice of the New York Society of Architects which statements are In our opinion misleading I take the opportunity to point out these inaccuracies and to Indicate that if we were to follow literally the provisions of the New York Society of schedule of charges we would receive a materially higher fee than under the terras of our present contract" said Mr contract provides in brief that we are to receive six per cent of the total cost of the work and (Continued on Page Two) and took the two principals aside into Lawton Street the woman pro testing the while that the man had gun and was going to kill her Odell "frisked" the man but found no pistol They told him they were man and wife and the woman insisted her husband had threatened to kill her and she became afraid and started to run Odell took the pair to police headquarters where they were booked for creating a disturbance They were James Clay and lor ence Clay of 50 Winthrop Avenue As soon as Informations were made out against them they were ar raigned before Judge John Bfzel who was hearing civil case In City Court He elicited a story of marital troubles and fights from them in cluding one of a family battle last night in which the wife accused Clay of having threatened her with a pistol After hearing the recrim inations of the pair he ordered the husband to move out of the home his wife Is maintaining and not to molest her at any time under threat of a penitentiary sentence Detective Ruhl was assigned to accompany the pair to their home and see that Clay complied with the court's instructions LOWELL THOMAS IN PERSON Illustrated Lecture AND THE KYBER Tickets for sale at door Social Hall of irst Pres byterian Church New Ro chelle Pintard Avenue 8 TUESDAY EB 24 THE NEW ROCHELLE HOSPITAL LEAGUE OERS ITS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL RIDAY and SATURDAY eb 27th 28th Curtain Rises at 8:30 Box Hill Motors Corp 310 Huguenot St Open 10 A to 5 and 7 to 9 TICKETS $250 AND $100 1 Pair Nabbed On Main Street After Creating Disturbance Among Crowd Woman Running Down Street Screaming or Help With Man ollowing Hex Causes Plenty of Excitement Youthful Ttio Held As Amateur Bandits btr W3 tri iaMaamA jnM mkIoK wm Mm iM I JjLJ HrH Captured at Stamford Conn after police teletyje system spread alarm the three young bandlta who held up a delicatessen In White Plains riday night and were put to Hight by the proprietor with a meat knife and also held up another delicatessen in New Rachelle were photographed aftur a grill ing Left to right: Detective Sergeant Hay John Sites 19 Thomas Cordlgun 18 Janies McKenna Jr 22 son of a wealthy broker of Pelham Manor and Detective Sergeant Lynch Gun found on the prisoners are shown on the chairs In front of them Man Can Be More Than 32 Without Being 33 Ruling Thomas Kellard Lose In Mandamus Action To Keep Name On Civil Service List After Passing 32d Birthday A man who has passed his thirty second birthday Is more than 32 years of age even though he 33 yet Supreme Court Justice Jo seph Morcschauser ruled today in dismissing an application for a writ of mandamus filed counsel for Thomas Kellard to force the New Rochelle Civil Service Com mission to certify his name for ap pointment to the Police Depart ment Mr Kellard a resident of 54 Cen ter Avenue brought the action to make certain that he would be on ihe list of eligible submitted to the Board of Police Commissioners fur appointment to the patrolmanshlp vacated by the death of Daniel Sylvester Was Ruled Off I 1st The applicant was oue of tlu i applicants left on the eligible list but was ruled off because he had passed his thirty second birthday and was accordingly adjudged past the age limit of 32 years In upholding the contention of William Moran assistant cor poration counsel who handled the case that Kellard was "more 'than 32 years of and accordingly Ineligible for appoint ment to the police force Justice Morschauser declared that the rule of and common sense" must be applied to the question "I believe that after the peti thirty second birthday he became more than 32 years of ago and was Ineligible for appointment as a patrolman under section 324 of tiie Charter of the City of New Rochelle" Justice ruled 'ihe Justice quoted section 58 of the General Construction Law de fining tht term as a period of 3G5 days In making his ruling Aaron Simmons New Rochelle attorney argued case contending that his client was not more than 32 years of age legally speaking until ho had reached his tlibty third birthday decision ollowing is Justice Morschau decision: "In August 1929 the petitioner herein filed an application to take the examination for patrolman to be given by the local Civil Ser vice Commissioners of tho city of New (Continued on Page Nineteen) 5 PERSONS INJURED IN AUTO ACCIDENTS our SlrucL by Cars ifth Hurt In Collision ive persons were In lured In automobile accidents over tho hol iday week end two of thom ser iously and besides there were a number of lesser collisions our of tho persons were hurt when they were knocked down by cars Tire rjrost serious Injuries worn sustained by Charles Riker of 207 Barry Avenue Larchmont yester day morning when the delivery truck he was dilving was In a headdn collision tvlth a touring car driven by Miss Marie anelli of 68 Albermnrle Avenue Mishap On orest Avenue Tiie accident happened shortly before 10 on orest Avenue where Riker was driving a deliv ery truck belonging to the Colonial Market of Larchmont cast and Miss anelli was driving her large pleasure car west In what man ner tho two cars collided Is not' detailed In tho police report but Riker was in the Now Rochelle Hospital today whore ho Is suffer ing from a mild coneusslon of tho br al possible fracture of the COUNTY INDICTS TRIO AS BANDIT GANG IN HOLDUP Three Youths Held at Stamford Indicted By Westchester for Store Robbery Here and White Plains Attempt One Is James Mc Kenna Son of Pelham Manor Broker Janies McKenna Jr 22 Pelham Manor son and his two amateur bandit accomplices were in dicted by the Westchester County Grand Jury today on charges of robbery first degree in New Rochelle and attempted robbery first degree in White Plains for the delwatessen store holdups riday night 3 SUSPICIOUS MPMM CHASE Held at Mamaroneck on Charges of Attempted Rob bery Had One Gun Threu mon caught noting uh plclounly In front of Purry'a gaso llnu station nt the coinur of Pout Road mid Kinder Avenue In Ma maroneck on Sunday night were pursued by the police of that village and captured Inter in Ry It was found Hint they did not own the cur in which they were riding and one pistol wae found In their pusHuBstiiu They weie brought back to Mae muronock and buukod there on charges of attempted robbery for Which they were held They gave tliolr nauiea Stanley Tomkaleky of 231 lOffth Street lushing James Gibbons 119 ourth Avenue College Point and Arthur Gordan of 7611 Wood side Avenue Iffimhurat I Deputy Chief McGowan end Cap tain of Defectives Arlhur Sutton went to' Mninnronock yesterday where they looked over tiie tilo and took their finger pt Inta Tomkalsky and Gibbons said they wero laborers while Gordon des cribed bl nisei! as a Buleumnn Tracing the cur to lushing the Mamaroneck police found It be longed to a man who described himself as a friend of the trio and he would not prosecute Deputy Chief McGowan said that tire inon tidmllted they hud COllIO into Westcheater with tho Intention of staging holdups but these al logad statements ore the only Iden tification of the trio as a holdup band stomSms Meanwhile tho three young ban dits were arraigned today in Slum lord and held tor tho criminal Court at Bridgeport on charges of possessing guns Connecticut authorities huvo Indicated a dis position to turn tho prisoners over to Westchester It was said in tho district otllca ace 32 Year Terms The bandits each face terms ag gregating 32 years It convicted on tiie Indictments returned by tho Westchester Grand Jurv today At the sama time Now York police charged off a serlos of holdups in the Bronx ngnlnst tho trio and two of their girl friends arrested in an apartment in New York McKenna gave as his address At tho Stamford arraignment tiie bandits were simply bound over for tiie Supeilor Court in bonds of $10000 each When they are ar raigned in Bridgeport probably early next month It Is expected tho Weatchcstor Indictments will be presented and the prisoners turned over to tho Westchester sheriff fur trial McKenna Is the son of James McKenna of Pelham Manor After laavlng Notre Dame Uni versity in 1927 McKenna worked in Wull St rent brokerage house as a cloik but lost the job in November and drifted into coinpunlonalilp With John Situs 79 mid Thomas Cordlgan Id At the address 102 West 89th Street which McKenna gaee Now York Police Saturday night arrested Evelyn Arneson 23 who suld she was a registeied nurse and another girl Whose name Was not given Situs and Cordlgan told Stamford Police that McKennna made them accompany him on the holdlups They enlii tliey were the first Job beries tlioy had over commuted and that "tho girls told McKonun to get The Arneson gill admitted she knew McKenna but denied any knowledge his crimen She was arraigned in West arms Court and held as a ma terial witness Chief of Police rank Bermlrg ham and Deputy Chief McGowan and David Brinker owner of tiie (Continued on Page Nineteen) WOMAN SENTENCED C0MIWSS10N CALLED IN BANK SHORTAGE IN SPECIAL MEETING Constance Brown Must Serve 4 Months in Prison NEW YORK eb 24 Con stance Brown Chappaqua National Bank teller today was eentenced to serve four months in the Woman's Prison Harlem for mis appropriating $42000 of the bank's funds Miss Brown last week pleaded guilty to 18 counts contained in the Indictments returned against her by the ederal Grand Jury In a plea for leniency her attorney Ar thur Rowland of Yonkers told the court restitution had been made In full to the bank and submitted let ters from President rost and other officers of the bank asking that mercy be shown the girl When the case was called today in ederal Court Judge rancis Caffey took up one count of mis appropriating the funds of a bank under the ederal Reserve Sys tem After severely censuring the officers of the bank for failure to provide a system to prevent Miss temptation and miscon duct he sentenced the young woman to four months in prison on the first count and suspended a three year sentence on the 17 other counts The four month term will be served by Miss Brown beginning today In the Prison in Harlem to which women ederal prisoners are sent for terms under one year officers and directors of the bank" said Judge Caffey In pass ing sentence all intervened for this young woman whereas they might better have intervened for themselves They are to be censured for their lack of diligence which permitted the misappropria tions go on unchecked for two years" The Judge mentioned a check for $1155 which Miss Brown had drawn against her fictitious ac count In payment for an automo bile and for which there were no funds in the bank He pointed out that the check was passed In the Village of Chappaqua He pointed to another check (CcAStSgwd cn Page Two) Consider Organized Effort to Raise Relief unds A special meeting of the City Employment Commission tor tho purpose of adopting a definite pol icy in respect to an organized ef fort to raise funds for the relief of the unemployed was called for 2 today by Acting Mayor Stanley Church chairman of tho commission Mr Church said that he would ask the commission to map a gen era! plan either for raising addi tional funds for relief of families of the unemployed or somo plan whereby more jobs will bo created A check for $88 was handed Mr Church today by the manager of the local branch of Sears Roebuck Co representing contributions to the unemployment relief fund from employes of the branch Registration nt the free employ ment bureau conducted by the City Employment Commission today reached the total of 1382 Only one person a woman worker was sent out on a job today BOY KILLED Monitor in School Punched In Stomach Drops Dead GREENWICH CONN eb 24 14 year old schoolboy was in stantly killed today by a punch in I the stomach from an 11 year old pupil he had admonished for an In fraction ot rules Pulled out of a line of children In the basement of the Hamilton Ave nue School here during the recess period this morning Henry Toma cell! eleven punched Jerry Cicl rello fourteen in the stomach and the older boy dropped to the floor dead According to other children Henry said he would get out of line without being dragged but Clcl rello continued to pull him Toma celll wheeled and struck the older toy a blow in the stomach Physi cians said he died instantly of pa ralysis of the heart and aeute aclerosU of the liver skull and various bodily Injuries Ths front of tho truck was badly damaged Its steering rod and left front wheel broken by tho Impact The car driven by Miss anelli was owned by Leonard anelli of 91 Huguenot Street No complaint or arrest was made In the case The most serious ot tho acci dents In which tho victim was run down happened Saturday night in front of 234 Huguenot Street where Mrs Roy Hoffman ot 32 Park Ave nue thia city was knocked to tiie pavement 1 1 attempting to cross the street Victim In Hie Hospital Mrs Hoffman was rushed to the New Rochelle Hospital imme diately and was still there today suffering from a laceration ot the right frontal region and a possible fracture of the skull Tho automobile which struck her was driven by George Hoose of 151 Division Street and was pro ceeding west on Huguenot as Mrs Hoffman was trying to cross from tho north to tho south curb When the case was called In City Court this morning It was set over until March 7 pending the outcome of the injuries On Sunday night shortly after 8 o'clock a car driven by George Kcpple 131 Second Avenue North Pelham ran down Biagglo Marino of 206 Union Avenue on Webster Avenue in the vicinity of Grove (Continued on Page Nineteen) GENERAL ADVANCE Tratllng is Most Active Since Bull Trutlinir May 5 1 980 NEW YORK' eb 21 Tho stock market advanced I to 6 points today in tiie most active trading since May 5 when the turnover was 8279260 and paper values of various quoted issues were Increased by a billion dollars The new high speed In augurated after the tremendous bull markets ot 1929 anfl early 1930 were swamped by tho orders which cammo into tho market At one time they were running 10 minutes behind tiie actual floor trading Group uffer group of stocks shot forward There was of course profit taking but this served only to bring new buyers into tho mar ket All Stock offered was absorbed easily Around noon the tickers wore croowded and prices were at their highs of tho day The only groups which failed to participate largely were tho oils and rails but these were not driven under the previous close Gains of 1 to more than 6 points (Continued on Pegs Nineteen) Late News Bulletins LEAKY INSURANCE SUIT ON TRIAL WHITE PLAINS eb 24 Mrs rances Leary widow of Cor nelius Leary of 574 Webster Avenue New Rochelle today was the principal witness In her suit to collect $7500 fa Insurance from the United States Casualty Company ou tho death of her husband who died from an alleged overdose of laughing gas la a chair CLAIMS NEW AIR STUNT RECORD GLENDALE CAL eb 24 Tex Rankin of Portland Ore claimed today a new world's record after making 78 consecutive out side loops with an airplane ACES COURT CONTEMPT CHARGES WHITE PLAINS eb 24 Max Saiamon of Broad Street Mount Vernon whose wife Elsie obtained a divorce from him last April In a trial before Justice Morschauser may be called before the same judge to answer to charges of contempt of court for failing to pay ali mony of $20 a week it was intimated today when Mrs Saiamon ap peared to press the charge SENATE CHARGES GIVEN TO COMMITTEE WASHINGTON eb 24 (UP) Chalrman Nye of tho Senate Cam paign und Investigating Committee today said he had submitted to the Senate Lobby Investigation Committee all available information relating to charges that a member ot the Senate had had financial connections with aa official ot a domestic sugar company POLLS ARE GUARDED AS CHICAGO VOTES Police Armed With Riot Garni In Municipal Primary CHICAGO eb 24 Un der protection of 70000 guards and official watchers a million Chica goans swurraod to the polls today to decide the political future at Mayor William Halo Thompson Policemen with riot guns and pistols patrolled the streets and 45000 private citizens "watch ers" took up their posts in and about the polling places Today's municipal primary was the fourth in which Thompson had offered himself for the Republican nomination for mayor Tn the first three he has been nominated and later elected Never however had Bill" met such bellicose opposition as In the campaign lust ended Judge John Lyle regarded as the strongest opponent matched nil of swash buckling campaign tactics and then some Less strindut but no less deter mined were the campaigns of two other Republican aspirnts for Thompson's mantle Arthur Al bert tho aiderman and George Schmidt who re signed from th Mayor's cabinet to oppose him Extraordinary precautions were prompted by counter charges be tween Lyle and the Mayor that each was In league with gangdom to steal the election As If to confirm both conten tions "Scarface" Al Capone gang ster and camnaign Issue arrived In town from lorida on the eve of the election Lvle had che od that Capone contributed $150 previous Thompson camnalrms wns the behind administration The 'f in turn charged that the 1 was Louis gangsters to steal TREASURY NET BAL NCR WASHINGTON eb 24 The Treasury net balance on eb 20 was $15860881001 Exncndi tures for that day were $7658 77255 Customs receipts for the month to sb 20 were $19186 X197 Mil iWHHI I JjLJ HrH.