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Ayerage Circulation For Week Ending Mar. 15, 1931 43,780 Cloudy Tt)day; Fair Tomorrow Full Report, Page 7 ESTABLISHED 1764. VOL. XCIV HARTFORD, MONDAY MORNING, MARCH 16, Mil. -22 PAGES Mfmhrr ol the Asuoc-imed Prrst PRICE 3 CENTS Hoover to Visit Old Pirate Haunts On Caribbean Trip, Starting Soon Brothers Admit Shooting 2 Men, Both Surrender Rich Rum Cargo Sinks In Sound, After Chase, Second Boat Beached oo Dr.

Oora S. Davis i Former New Britain pKumhoat With $100,000 Pastor Dies At 64 1 Founders, Crew ji Rescued, $80,000 Liquor on Craft Ashore Unearths Doorway To Palace, 2 Busts of Nebuchadnezzar Basra, Irak, March 15. (AP.) The French archaeolist, Rene Watelin, who has been excavating at Kish on the banks of Euphrates near the tomb of Nebuchadnezzar, has found the doorway to the King's Palace which is of the Sas-sanian dynasty dating about 600 B. C. Two perfect busts of the king, part of a set of 14 on columns wearing crowns and with the hair curled, also were unearthed.

Warns Taxis Against Use Of Flat Rate State Commission Head Says Meters Are Now Mandatory Despite Appeals Pending Yellow Cab Buys Smaller Company Gets Stand in Union Place Alley in Deal City Service Won't Enter Price War, Chief Avers The City Cab Service, will decline to enter into any rate cutting competition with other taxicab operators in Hartford, Samuel W. Gallagher, president of the company, declared Sunday afternoon. This statement and disclosure of the fact that the Yellow Cab Company has acquired the certificates of the Hartford Cab Company, which formerly operated a flat rate business from an alley on Union Place, were the sole new developments in the Hartford Taxicab situation Sunday, the first full day of metered rates for all taxi-cabs in the city. A warning that taxicabs cannot south mecka i rr I i VIRGIN ISLANDS? Ni Vx 1 John and Dominic Pulitano Say Victims Falsely Accused Former of Theft of Money Claim They Were Menaced By Pair Morabito's Condition Still Serious While 1 Keeps Silence After East Side Affair John Pulitano, 38, of 40 Winthrop Street, who for 24 hours has been sought by detectives for questioning in regard to the shooting of two men Saturday night near the tenement in which he lives, walked into Police Headquarters early Sunday night and surrendered. He was accompanied by his brother, Dominic Pulitano, 42, of 49 Elliott Street, and the two men admitted, according to police, that they fired the shots which resulted in serious injury to Louis Morabito, 45, of 14 Goodman Place, and the severe wounding of Dominick- Fulco, 32, of 54 Pleasant Street.

Lieutenant James H. Moriarity, in tharge of the detective bureau, questioned the men. John turned over to him a automatic, with which he is said to have admitted firing two shots into Fulco's body. Dominic told Lieutenant Moriarity that he tossed his gun, a 32-ealiber revolver, into a vacant lot while fleeing from the scene, after he had shot Morabito three times. Held In $10,000 Each.

Charges of assault with intent to kill were placed against each man, after their statements had been taken, and they were held in bonds of $10,000 each, to be presented in Police Court today. Meanwhile, no change in Morabito's condition was noted at St-Francis's Hospital, where he was taken in a police ambulance after he had been found in a semiconscious condition in the courtyard in front of 40 Vinthrop Street at 6 p. m. Saturday. Physicians Sunday tirr.

Kullotq frnm thp Virdv of Fulco, who is not dangerously in-J-jred. and are waiting for Morabito condition to improve before operating on him to remove three bullets disclosed by X-ray pictures. The original cause of the shooting, according to the Pulitanos was unjust accusations of theft, made by the victims and by their friends against John Pulitano. After giving statements at headquarters the brothers expressed relief at having "avenged" their "family honor." The victims are Sicilians, while the Pulitanos are natives of northern Italy. History of Shooting.

The Winthrop Street section was thrown into a furore Saturday night when several shots, fired in quick succession, were heard by residents in the tenements at Nos. 40 and 42. Facing Winthrop Street is five-story tenement house, known as No. 42. In the rear of it, separated by a 50-foot courtvard.

is another tenement known as No. 40. An alley leads to No. 40 Residents rushed to their doors and Windows, to find Morabito lying in the courtyard, bleeding from three bullet wounds. The police were called, and prior to his removal to the hospital the man was reported to have msntioned a "John" as the man who shot him.

This he told to Detective John J. Me-Kiernan and Policeman Daniel McCarthy Fulco had meanwhile staggered to the street and urged a nearby motorist to take him to the hospital At the hospital Prosecutor Franz Carlson, Detective Sergeants Peter B. Gavin and Peter A. Anderson, and a corps of detectives and policemen were unable to learn details of the shooting from either victim. Fulco insisted that he had been ordered to throw up his hands and that nhnnf.

was struck 11C 11 JC the head with some instrument, being knocked unconscious. Morabito in a statement gained bit by bit by detectives and pieced together, due to his serious condition, likewise covered up the real motive for the shooting He said he was about to enter the building at No. 40 when he heard someone behind him and, as he turned, he was shot. Shooting Unobserved. No one saw the shooting, as far as police could learn, and only a few toys in front of the two buildings saw the assailants flee, their descriptions of the pair, being meager.

Police set out for Dan Minicucci, 38. a letident of the second floor at No 40, to whose tenements the victims said they were going before the His wife, Anna, 27, could offer no help. It then became known that John Pulitano, who was a boarder at the Minicucci home, was also away Minicucci returned home late Sat-lue'ay night, and was immediately taken into custody by police. He established an alibi, and was released tt'ter giving some aid to police. Their search for John Pulitano was spurred on when Mrs.

Minicucci said that it wfcs the first night that her boarder not returned to his room. Early Sunday morning Sergeant Sheren went to the home of Domtnrc hoping to find John, and found that Dominic, also, was Police of Springfield, whore the Pulitanos were known to have friends. i (Concluded on Paje 2.) Issues First Half Billion 1 Group Policy Metropolitan to Insure General Motors ('orpor-, ation Dealers and" Their Km ploy ees 150,000 Eligible Under Agreement Company Now Ksti mated to Be Carrvinjr' Near Billion Line Already in Force New York, March 15. tAP.1 Tn? General Motors Corporation has become the first half-billion dollar policyholder in the history of life insurance, Alfred P. Sloan, president, announced today.

Already the largest group pol.ey-holder with $347.000 000 life Insurance in force on it.s 160,000 General MMors has arranged Tit.h the Metropolitan Lite Iitsnranc-' Company to Insure all G. M. C. dealers and their employees In the United States and Canada. Mr.

Sloan said that under the agreement 19.235 o.a!crs and employees, a total of approximately 130,000 persons, will be eligible for life insurance benefits without medical examination. The amounts or Hie lnsurnncc art; graded according salary, the minimum being $2000. The participants will pay but a few cents a day, M' Sloan said. In a letter to dealers announcing the plan, Mr, Sloan revealed, t' since group Insurance was established by General Motors in 1926. more than $7,000 000 has been paid to the beneficiaries of employees.

No Reinsurance. Hartford companies are not likeiv t.i share in the new group wiit.cn by th? Metropolitan on and dealers' employees of tin1 General Motors generally do when a very la rye Jt-tiinary life policy is written by a company on an Individual. writing large group ponce carry the entire insurance themse'ves since the spread of risks is so wU'e, being 150.000 in the case of the tuvv General Motors policy. The avenuje amount under this policy i a over $11000 an individual. Most of the leading companies writing group l.Ie insurance have an individual of $20,000.

Insurance men Sen-day night c'tiimtted that with addi tions which probably have been mtdo in the group life policy written on its employees, the General Motors Corn-oration Is now carrying near a billion in group insurance. Peace Agreement Reached in Peru; SquUi Junta Yields Lima, Peru, March by a series of revolutions which caused a change in government three times in a fortnight, Peru appeared on the brink of ix-nre today when the southern military forces at the Arequipa Rflrrlson telegraphed that they would support 'he Lima junta headed by David Ocampo. Woman Supposed Dead Revives Within Three Hours of Burial Chile. March I.V- At' 1 A dispatch to Ln N'icioii truii l.os Angeles it) the province of Bunt.) laid a S2-years-old worn in. ap-t eni'v dead for two days unci nihi.s, to life" today in her coffin and escaped burial alive bv three hems.

A physician said the young woman Miss Acuna Castillo. Miff from prolonged ra'alepy, he added thai she undoubtedly would hnve irviv-d in 'he coffin If she hid been buried The families and friends nf tiir woman had neared the end rf a pe-r od of mournnu when she moved her arms and head and oiened her tiehtly closrd lips, then In a olce sh said: "Please give me a of Furs Valued at Stolen From Window Six silver fox neck pieces valued at $1500, were stolen from a window of the Connecticut Furriers store, located at 2 Church Street, late Hundiv night. Shortly befne midnight the A D.T. system warned that a wludow had been broken. Detective Sergeant Cnarles F.

Daley and Ilftertive J'te J. Grady rushed to the to find thut a front i window ivid Ir-u broken, and thst the thieve i hed e6caocd. Coast Guard Fire Forces Grounding Landing Planned at Eastern Point Hotel Dock, Where 50 Men, Trucks Waited, is Belief New London. March IS. (Special.) The mast daring attempt of rum runners to land liquor on the Connecticut shore in many years wa.s frustrated early today by two Coast Guard patrol boats.

The trawler "Notus," was captured after being beach-d in Port Pont Bay on the south side on Montauk Point L. I iu crew of three men made prisoners and liquor seized with a value estimated by Commander M. J. Ryan chief of staff or the Coast Guard destroyer force, to be $80,000. $100,000 Cargo Lost.

Another rum runner, the "605-H." carrying 1065 cases of liquor, worth $100,000 according to Commander Ryan, sank in 120 feet of water in Long Island Sound when it became swamped while attempting to get away from the G. 808." which pursued it. a considerable distance and came alongside just in time to rescue the crew of four men. Trucks Waited at Dock. Both rum runners In the belief of the Coast Guard officials, had plan-' ned to land their cargoes on the dock of the Griswold.

exclusive summer resort at Eastern Point, almost across the harbor from the Coat Guard section base. This belief was based on the fact that at 2:43 a. m. today" Sergeant George charee of the state police barracks at Groton, received call from the Groton town police that a band of 50 men, two trucks and several automobiles were gathered at the hotel dock. A squad of state police, reinforced from the Groton department, sped to th hotel, to find that the gnus had fled.

Warned By Heavy Firing. The police learned that the sound of heavy firint? out, on the sound had warned the pans; that their plans had oeen found out. i The firing came from the machine gun and one-pounder on the G. 212." which met the "Notus" Irad-iinn in toward the race" a few joff The patrol boat ordered the rum runner to stop but the "Notus turned and fled Immediately the Coast Guardsman went into action, firing several shots after the speedy trawler. The cha.se continued for several miles, ending on the beach of Fort Pond Bay.

The crew of the "Notus'' were unable to get ashore and were taken aboard the patrol boat and brought to New London Tonit'ht. the tug "Nemaha" was by the stranded smuggler to take it otf the beach and tow i'. to New York The crew will be turned over to customs officials there Monday. SniUKRlrr Almost Awash. While th luise was tro'na on.

ths C. G. 808 21" encountered the "fiO.i-H" into the harbor off Battler's Reef. The smucsier was almost, awash, the water being over its exhaust pipes, within three inches of freeboard. It was moving slowly due to its heavy loud, but it refused to surrender when a warninst shot was tired across its bow.

No attempt was marie to hit the "605-H" in the (iid.se that followed. The patrol boat realized that it could overtake the slower craft. Before the capture could be effected, houcwr. the rum runner besan ti h19vv. wi 1 1,..

itiid he put n. oy us attempt to escaix' forcing it lower the water. The crew of four were taken oil just In time and the "650-H" sank to the bottom of the Sound The crew bf taken to New York with the crew of the "Notus." Income Tax Period Will End Today Today i.s the last day in which to pay income taxes without, a penalty. The local offices in the Internal Revenue Bureau, located in the Hartford-Connecticut. Trust Company buildtnif.

r.ill be ojicn until 9 a. and mail marked not later than midniaht tomsht will be received as on time. who file their returns on Incomes Tuesday or liter will be fined 25 per cut of the tv and in addition w.li forfeit the privilege of paying the tax in quarterly Installment. It i.s expected that approximately 100.000 residents of Connecticut will file income taxes this year. Cirard Seeks State Fresters' Chieftaincy Putnam.

15 AP.) Th--ennd d.uy of Edward P. Girard. sub-ch ef ranger of Connecticut, State Lodse, Foresters of America, for the office of chief ranker, was announced last niehr at a meeunn here Th" name will lie proposed at the s.n'.e convent ion to be held in Water'oury, May 16. iff! DR. OZORA S.

DAVIS. Kansas City. March 15. AP.) Dr. O.ora S.

Davis, president emeritus of the Chicago Thcobgical Seminary, died on a train var Topeka. tonisht on his way to his home from Los Angeles, where he had spent the winter in an effort to regain his heal tli Mr. Davis was moderator of the CongregnU.rr.al Church from 1027 to 1929 The body will be taken to Chicago immediately. Rev. Dr.

Davis was f4 vears old. He was formerly pastor of the South Congregational Church of New Brit-1 ain to which city he went from New- ton, Ma.ss. He is a graduate of Dart-mouth College and th? Hartford Theological Seminary. He was elected president of the Chicago Theological Seminary in December, 1903. while hold ng his New Britain pa to-rate.

Hs visited Hartford for the installation ct Rev. Dr. Robbing U. linrstow as president of the Hartford Seminary Foundation Inst, October. 81,084,75.3 Paid Out To State Vets Major T.

.1. Banninan Reports 2700 Have Received Loans to Date Under Bonus Act Connecticut World War veterans to the number of 2760 have received $1,084,753.71 In adjusted service certificates, commonly known as the bonus, passed the law pei mitt in.t them to borrow up to 50 per oi the face value of their ccrtiUcates. Major Tlnmu.s J. tiator of Veterans Affairs in Connecticut, announced Sunday nitfht. Tabula! un of the loan nuu.es made Suntlav when the local Veterans Bureau officials enjoyed breathlnn six-ll for the lust time after 11! ivs of almost constant bnriaac on the Hertford ollice for bonus loans.

It was estimated that approximately 15.000 Connecticut veteran-; have applied for loans in tills period. Stall Works Overtime. The average loan granted to vet- mans applyius to the Hartford re- Ijionnl oll'ue has been $1192. accord- ins to Major Bunnisiui. A much larger numlxT of veterans arc apply- i Ill- inr lli.si H.au.s law than wa.s ant icipatcd, I Uannlaan said Sunday plac- all estimate of 20 cent or Uh-m Hpplyui't in tins cl.i s.

Ordcis Wen- by the Regional Olli-T Suntluv nii'in that until lurJiri' notice the main otlicc in Haitford nud sub -office-; in the Posr nffi HmldiiiR, New Haven, and in tiie County Court Bmlrinrj, will remain open Horn 8:110 a in untd fi p. in. in; tend of the re office hours, 8 HO m. to 4 p. "Piiyment of loins, through the H.utlord office in the pa-t t2 days has been almost unprecedented," MaHr mnnwnn said.

"This is par t.ruMily true for a regional office of this si-. This recird mud not have been made lud not the already overworked personnel of the bureau labored eaVly and late to (jet bonus checks to veieran.s ui-vtcni need of financial nss tanee Needy Given Preference "Our main object has been to sraed relief lo the most needy cases by a kln'i th se who could wait tc 1:1 ve Wiiy to the ones who were imperatively in no. of cash. This reis not. only been stressed by the bird i.

but by the Veterans organizations and the Red Cra-s. which have be 11 men in obtaining loans. has Ucn generally adhc eci to. Many CHinectu'iit vf lio have applied have rxpre.s.scd then to wait until thoio woo aire in n--d li i an cpportiunty i Concluded on Pate 2. i I Washington, March 15.

(AP). President Hooer was looking forward to a ten-days rest in the warm climate of the Caribbean Sea. He plans to sail from Norfolk Wednesday oi Thursday on the battleship "Arizona" for a visit to Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. With the exception of conferences on administrative prob.ems with Governors Theodore Roosevelt, of Railroad Claims First Coach-Jail Cincinnati, March 15. AP.) The mobile age is asserting itself event in jail styles.

The first coach-jail" in the world is claimed by the Louisville it Nashville Railroad. It has capacity lor about. 100 persons whose egress would be restrained by steel barred doors and windows, its first duty as a portable bastile was in transporting Federal prisoners from Frankfort, to the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. Mistake Mail For Rum Car; 2 Men Slain Truck Driver For Uncle! Sam Battles With Offi cersFatally Killing; Deputy Cei'S Fatally Shot After Wilmington. N.

March 15 (AP.) Five county officers mistook a mail truck for a rum runner today, precipitating a gun battle in which the truck driver and a deputy sheriff were slain. Leopold Roberts, 28, of Dudley, N. a driver under Governmerft contract, and Deputy T. Starling, 35, one of the raiding party, were the victims of the ghastly error of early morning. Sheriff John R.

Morris of New Hanover County, speaking for the deputies who "themselves declined ti) comment, said the five raiders had set out on a police tip that a load of liquor was being run into the city. They mistook the mail truck for the runner and called on the driver to halt. Roberts jumped from the truck Sheriff Morris said and oxned fire. Starling was shot twice and fell. The fire was returned and Roberts wa, bowled over with tour shots in hh body.

Both men died before they could be taken to a hospital. The truck was loaded with mail being, brought from Goldsboro to Wilmington. The deputies said Roberts ffred five times. In the truck with Roberts were three young Wilmington women who gave their names as Dorothy Jackson, Betty Gibson and Elizabeth Hines. The deputies said one of the girls was driving the truck.

The girls told the authorities they were riding with Roberts as passengers. Relatives of the dead man said he not infrequently carried passengers on his trips as a contract mail driver. IT. S. Consular Offices Robbed.

Algiers, Algeria, March 15. (AP.) Burglars ransacked the American consular offices during the night, carrying off nearly $3000 In cash and a quantity Of fine silverware. East Hartford Couple In Leap Before Middletown. March 15. (Special An East Hartford man end woman escaped death early Sunday by leaping from the automobi'c in which they were riding a moment before a fast Boston-New York expresi train struck and demolished the car on the tracks at Westbrook.

The couple were Charles Nather of 1559 Main Street and Miss Elizabeth Brecn of Prospect Street, East Hartford. The two were driving from Say-brook to Hartford and at Westbrook last their way. Mr. Nather drove down what he thought tuw the main highway, but. found it was an abandoned road that ended at the railroad tracks.

As he drove on'o the tracks the wheels became caught In the rails I I I i I Building Plan Is Deferred By Baptists Sentiment For Relocation in West Hartford Cause of Delay Repairs Would Cost $73,000 The Asylum Avenue Baptist Church, at a meeting held immediately following the services in" the West Middle School Sunday, voted to defer action on rebuilding or relocating their church for at least two weeks. Although the building committee of" the church, through its secretary, Henry Warren, made a complete report of plans for reconstructing the old church which was badly damaged by fire on the morning of February 1, considerable sentiment has arisen among members to relocate the church in West Hartford. The delay was to permit the building committee to investigate this proposal more closely. The cost of reconstructing the old edifice at Asylum Avenue and Sig-ourney Street would be approximately $73,000, members of the church were informed. For this sum altera tions on the chancel could be made a new three manual organ could be installed, new equipment purchased to replace that damaged by fire, numerous changes would be made in the appearance of the Asylum Street entrance to the building, a vator central heating system with oil heat could be installed and many minor changes made.

By eliminating the tower which formerly topped the structure and introduction of minor economies the cost of reconstruction would be lowered to approximately $67,000. Estimate New Church Cost. Several oersons addressed the meeting, both in iavor of securing a new site for the church and favoring the reconstruction plan. At the close of the discussion it was voted to postpone action to permit the building committee to consider available sites, obtain tentative plans for construction of a new church and estimates of the cost. Among the sites which are receiving consideration is the Butler property on Fern Street, and it is under- stood that the committee has several other sites in mind.

L. M. Robotham was elected vice- chairman of the building committee. and the following new members were elected: Mr. and Mrs.

Kirby A. Pratt. George W. Lillard, Burt K. Spencer, Albert I.

Prince and Mrs. L. M. Robotham. News Index Page 2.

Illiteracy drop noted in decade The Courant's Washington correspondence. Page 3. Gandhi aid to speak at meeting here. Page 4. Obituaries.

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Page 8. Features of Interest to women. Page 9. Sunday sermons and church programs. Tage 10.

Editorials, The People's Forum. The Lighter Side, Guest poem. Page 11. Society, personal and club news. Feminine Topics.

Steamships. Page 12. World news in pictures. Faje 13. "My Experiences in the World War," by General John J.

Pershing. Pages 14. 15. Sports and sport comment. Pages 16, 17.

18. 19. Finance and business. Page 20. Real estate news.

Page 20. 21. Classified advfrtirements. Page 22. Open shop ners.

Porto Rico, and Paul M. Pearson, of the Virgin Islands, the trip will be devoted to rest and relaxation, Mrs. Hoover will not accompany the President but will go to Asheville, N. to visit her son, Herbert Hoover, who is recuperating from illness. Dr.

Paul M. Pearson (right of Pennsylvania, is the first American (Concluded on Page 2.) Two Deaths State Motor Vehicle Toll Pedestrian Killed in North (Irosvcnordalc, Fatal Crash in Hrooklyn Hartford Man Hurt MoLir vehicle accidenis Sunday whose clear, mild weather brought thousands of automobiles to the highways resulted in two deaths. The fptnl accidents occurred in North Grcsvenorclale and Brooklyn, both in Windham County. North Grosvenordale. March 15.

AP.) Napclenn Bergeron, 51, father when struck by an automobile while walking along the highway'. with two nf hie mik mi1 a nio-hlrv TT taken to Day ICimball Hospital, Put nam, nut was dead upon arrival. The oihers escaped injury. Charles Arablk, 42. of 8 Island Street.

Jewett City, driver of the car. told police he was blinded by lights from an appioaching machine and did not see the men on the highway imt.il his fender struck Bergeron pushing him several feet and him the car and a fence. Dr. F. E.

Morrell, Putnam, said death was caused by a broken neck. Coroner Arthur G. Bill will hold an inquest Monday. Arabik was not held. Collision in Brooklyn.

Brooklyn. March 15. AP, Frank CavanauRh, 22, of White Rock. R. was fatally injured early today when he was crushed between his automobile and another driven by Rusol! Davis.

21. of Contra! Village, while changing a tire. Ciivar.nuc.h was taken to Dav Kimball Hospital at Putnam suffering from internal Injuries and two fractured leps. He c'ied several hours later. State police who Investigated the.

crash said Davis was driving at a high rate of speed and crashed into the rear of, the other car where Cavar.augh was removing his snare was not he'd. Coroner Arthur G. Bill of Danielson will con duct an inquest Monday. Hartford Motorcyclist Crashes. Branford, March 1.5.--(AP.)-Rid-ing on a motorcycle Michael Gcrglck.

of 330 Hud on Street, Hartford and John Ganbol, this town were seriously injured tonight when they crashed head-on into an automobile while rounding a curve on the Post Road two miles from here. The nifiuore thrown from the cycle and both had fractured legs, and scalp wounds. They were taken Grace Hospital. NiJw Haven. Police Mild upon his recovery Gcrglck will be arrested on a charge of recklofis driving.

Charles W. D.mceol West Haven, driver of the automobile, wa.s not held. New Haven, March 15. AP.) (Concluded on Page 2.) Escape Death Train Wrecks Auto 9and he heard the ro(r of the on com- ing cxpresf. Unable to move the car In either direction and without a moment to lo, e.

Mr. Nallier first assisted Mi.ss Brccn from the car and then himself jumped to safety. The tra'n struck the auto with terrific force and carried it along the tracks for a considerable distance. The auto was overturned, burst Into flames and was The train was brought to a stop, but the crew could locate neither Mr, Nather nor Mis, Breen. The accident later was to State Polite at the Westbrook Barracks.

State Police lorn ted Mr. Nather at hh home Sunday noon through the auto number, and found tht both had be-n uninjured in their to escape dath. lawfully operated upon a flat rate! basis in any of the six cities in which the Public Utilities Commission i ordered the installation of taximet-j ers was issued by Richard T. Hig-1 gins, chairman of the Commission! Sunday. Mr.

Higgins said that hej has been advised that although the Commission's rate order is not effec- tive in the cities in which appeals! from the rate are tending, it is is understanding that the previous or-j der requiring the installation of taximeters is still in force. Although the matter had not been officially called to his attention, Mr. Higgins! said that he understood from news- paper dispatches that one company had put in the flai rate as a tempo-' rary measure. Yellow Cab Deal. "The Hartford Cab Company, which operated 13 cabs from an alley in Union Place just south of Allyn Street, sold its certificates to the Yellow Cab Company some time ago.

it was learned Sunday, but the transfer was not untii midnight Saturday. At that the company withdrew its cars from service "and the Yellow Cab Company occupied the alley. The acquisition of the Hartford Cab Company leaves the Yellow Cao Company as the largest owner of taxicab certificates in the field, witn the City Cab Ssrvice, as, itoi closest competitor. These two com-! panies are the only firms of any size in the taxicab Held in Hartford, since the Yellow Cab had previously acquired Independent Taxicab Operators, a small association, leaving the two concerns in the field with only independent taxicab owners as competitors. Mr.

Gallagher's Statement. "We have absolutely no intention of entering into ruinous rate competition with any operator or company," declared Mr. Gallagher in discussing the matter Sunday. "We have investigated and determined a rate which wo believe will offer the public as reasonable rates as are possible for a comfortable and safe taxi-cab ride. Nothing will Induce us tu drop out rates merely to meet competition.

"Our investigations have shown us that we can operate on the '15 and 5' rate and make a reasonable profit, without neglecting the care of our equipment and plant, the quality and training of our drivers, and with proper allowance for depreciation of equipment. All these things, must be considered if we are to remain in business, and I want to assure, the public that the City Cab Service. intends to remain in business, offering the public transportation at reasonable rates so long as we are permitted to charge them. "We expect to be able to show the Court and the Commission, as a result of this opportunity to operate at the rate we requested permission to use that it is possible to operate under conditions in Hartford with our type of equipment, a taxicab service which will make a profit without jeopardizing safety and reasonable operation of taxicabs. 'Deplores Impending ''War." In discussing the matter Sunday, Commissioner Higgins deplored the fact that the very thing the Commission was seeking to prevent a taxi rate war will apparently prevail In Hnrtford.

New Haven and, Bridgeport until the question is yet-tied in the courts. Although officials of the Yellow Cab Company to dUcurs its drop In prices to the. "15 and 5" rate measured in quarter-miles, Mr. Higgins said that it was his understanding that the meters on these cabs were adjusted by quarters rather than by fifths and that the difference is apparently indirectly caused by this fact. Meanwhile three different rates still prevail in the city, the Yellow Cab Company rate of 30 cents for the first mile and 20 cents for each succeeding mile, the City Cab Service; with the same initial mile rate but a charge "of 25 cents for each thereafter; and the Independent opnators, charging the Commission rat" of 40 cnts for the Jirst mile and 30 rents thereafter.

No -Iro'Tinc; off in burlrip- wni re parted cy any cab ctmrcrn Sunday. 4.