New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 12, 1923, Page 9

MINSTREL PROGRAM BY UNIVERSAL CLUB Perlormance Wil Be Helda . 0. 0. P. il Tomorrow Evening flongs and jokes, new and old, will feature the Universal elub minstrel show atyOdd Fellows' hall en Arch street tomorrow evening at § o'clock, The play will be followed by a dance, musie to be furnished by Mac's nov- etly orchestra, The program will be as follows: Opening chorus, entire compang, “Down Where the Watermelons Grow,” baritone solo by James Deg- nan, "My Home Town, tenor solo by Harry Nuberman; “You Remind Me of My Mother," tenor solo by Ed Gloeb; “Lovin' Bam,"” bass solo by Willlam Humason; “Why Bhould 1 Cry Over You?!" baritone solo, Olaf Anderson; “Buckwheat Cakes," tenor solo, Willlam Fowlar; “Call Me Back, Pal O'Mine,” baritone solo by George Ward; “Coo-Coo," tenor solo, Arthur Anderso ‘arolina in the Morning," baritone solo, Larry Willlams; “Ship- mates O'Mine,” bass solo, Arthur An- derson, and closing chorus by the en- tire company. B. W, Clark will act as interlocu- tor. James Degnan, Willlam Huma- son, Willlam Fowler and Arthur An- derson are end men. James MecAr- thur will accompany on the plano. The balance of the troop includes Ernest Hoyle, C. L. Wilcox, Harold Harrison, Leo Fitzsimons, Ben Holt, George Spooner, Ray Begley, John Bjorklund, Lincoln Danlelson, Wil- lam Heine, Emil Restella, Arthur Butcher and Charles Cooper. ELOPERS ARE FREED FROM BEING HELD BEHIND BARS Couple Caught in Boston Finally Pro- duce Marriage Certificate and Arc Forgiven. Boston, Feb. 2,—William De Groot, 18, of New York, and his bride, who was Miss Sigrid Schroeder, 17, of Trooklyn, were rcleased from prison yestorday afternoon after they had proved to the girl's mother that they were married & month ago by an Ypiscopal minister in North Cam- bridge. They had been arrested Sat- urday night in a room in the South 1nd, at the request of the New York police, DeGroot and the girl eloped to Bos- ton because they wanted to be mava|~ ried and were afraid their folks would object. They had known each other since they were children and always intended to be married, so when the boy got to be 18 and the girl 17, they concluded that the time had come. They got jobs after the weddings, DeGroot in a garage and the girl in a store. But last night they went back to New York with Mrs. DeGroot's mother. Drivers Blindfolded in Race, Several Injured Montévideo, Feb. 12.—An automo- bile race between three cars, in which the drivers were blindfolded, resuited disastrously yesterday when one of the drivers swerved from his course and plunged into a crowd of specta- tors, seriously injuring twelve ‘of them. The race was 500 meters and was intended to test the capacity of the drivers for ‘orfentation” and also provide a carnival spectacle. Each driver had a woman passenger in his car who was to warn him in ease he lost his bearings. Two of the cars kept their courses successfully. The woman in. the third car,” which crashed into the crowd, hecame con- fused and misdirected the driver when he stepped on the accelerator in an effort to win the race, ,SEEK STRIKE SETTLEMENT Strike Leaders State Oficial and In- dustrial )l(.l Trying to Reach Agreement # Ludlow, Mass. Ludlow, Mass, Feb, 12.—Fred M. Knight, agent of the state board of labor and industry went into confer- ence today with Selectman Thomas Hyland, mill officials and strike lead- ers in an gffort to adjust the wage controversy that resulted in a strike of carders a week ago at the jute plant of the Ludlow Mfg. associates. Agent H. W. Morrill of the associates, agreed Siturday to submit the wage Guestion to the board, The entire plant was closed today, partly owing to curtailment of production due to the strike and also because it is cus- tomary to close on town meeting day. STILL SEEKING DEAD Already Seventy Have Been Taken I'rom Dawson Mine and Week \)lq ‘ Llapse Before All Are Found. Dawson, N. M., I"eb, 12 (By the As- sociated Press)—The task of remove ing the bodies of those who died in the explosion of Dawson mine No. 1 owned by the Phelps-Dodge corp. probably will not be completed for a week according to Manager W. D. Drennan. Fifty remain to be found, two living and 70 dead having been taken out thus far. Of the bodies so far recovered all but one has been identified and many of them were buried yesterday. HOSPITAL FOR NEGROES Colored Men Who Were Injured in World War Are to Reccive Treat-| ment at Institution. ! Tuskegee, Ala.,, Feb. 12—On a upot’ made memorable by the life and works of Booker T. Washington, the| government of the United States today | formally dedicated here to the serve ice of its heroic sons, a rehnh""allan‘ hospital costing $2,000,000 an institu- tion second to none in the country inl point of plant and equipment, Werld war negro velerans will recelve care and treatment for all classes of physi- cal infirmities or injuries incldent to thelr service at home or abroad, Vice-President Calvin Coolidge, and Governor Willlam Brandon attended the opening ceremonies. i NAVY DEPT. TURNS DOWN'T. A EDISON Every One of 43 Inventions Re- nsed, He Assers ! West Orange, N, I, Feb, 12—Thom- a8 A, Edison, today declared he had pftered the navy 456 Inventions since he had been president of the naval consulting board, but that everyone of them had been turned down, “Navy officers seem to resent ldeas for the betterment of the navy rather than to welcome them,"” he sald, The occaslon was the electrical wiz- ard's annual birthday interview with news writers. He was 70 years old [1old its regular meeting Wednesday [yn one of these Schleifer wrote that yesterday, Edison began the interview In his|of the meeting a children's party Will [ing anarchism and distributing liter- laboratory office by Kicking over his head to prove his assertion that he was still young. . “I am doing more work than ever,” he said, “I am interesting myself in business theories as well as mechanical and clectrical construction.” Mr, Edison jumped nimbly from in- ventions to politics and as readily from politics to flappers, education and prohibition, “College men,” he said, ‘“don't know what, is going on. They are too dense, « Newspapers are a great force and the'college boys overlook them.” “Does Coue do any good?” he was asked. “Yes. I can hand something him. I don’t think he's a fake, seems to be in earnest.” “What do you think of prohibi- tion 7" “Sober America,” he said, raising both hands, “I'm for it by all means. I know prohibition is a failure in the cities but when wood alcohol kills off all the old soaks prohibition will have its day. The boys and girls of the next generation won't have any taste for the damned stuff.” ““The newspapers print too much scandal,” the inventor declared. ““We all like a little of it, but I think the papers over-do it." B. &P. W. CLUB SOCIAL Valentine Party to be Held Tumor‘row Night After Address by Marion Lee Bishop of Hartford. to He The regular monthly?meeting of the Business and Professional Women's club will be held tomorrow night with a supper at 6 o'clock at the ciub house on High street. Miss Marion Lee Bishop, director of Girl Scouts in Hartford, will be the speaker and Mrs. Leon A, Sprague, Girl, Scout com- missioner of this city, will be a gucst. After the business meeting a Val- entine social will be held. Miss Ruth Larson is chairman of the committee in charge. Others assisting her are Anna Foberg, Anna Olson and Ruth Anderson. . “An Upsetting Drill”_ with Ruth Larson, Edith .Brooks, Ruth Ander- son, Anna Foberg, Anna Olson, Grace Hatton, Dorothy Stiquet, Ciara Lar- son and Mabel Wallin will be the first number on the program. The second will be a vocal selection by Anna Ol- son to be followed by a trapeze act by the “Ruths.” Mabel Wallin will then give a recitation to be followed by a musical comedy playlet entitled “A Lady's Day in Society.” The cast follows: Man, Ruth Ander+ son; morning girl, Ruth Larson; luncheon girl, Anna Olsen; tennis girl, Dorothy Stiquel; motor girl, Clara Larson; golf girl, Grace Hatton; din- ner girl, Edith Brooks, and night girl, Anna Foberg. Mabel Wallin will accompany at the piano. NEW ORLEANS IS GAY Greatest Throng of Visitors Ever At- tend Mardi Festivitles Louisiana’s Leading City. New Orleans, Feb, 12.—With the city already crowded with what is said to be the greatest throng of vis- itors that ever attended a New Or- leans ‘Mardl gras carnival, regular and special trains continued today to bring thousands of sightseers from all parts of the country to witness the final two days festivities of the annual celebration. Traversing the route of Momus, which opened the carnival season last Thursday night, with a gorgeous pa- geant of 17 floats depicting “Alice in Wonderland,” proteus will parade to- night. The proteus ball will be given at the Athaneum following the par- ade. Seek Clue Here to Man Killed in Thompsonville Captain George J. Kelly received word this morning from the chief of police at Thompsonville, that a man supposed to be Wladislaw Pratonczak was ground to pieces under the wheels of a train there early this morning. On the person of the man was a card bearing the name of Wil- llam Sanik of 404 Farmington dve- nut, this city. Sanik was unable to give the local police any information about the man. Fraternal Order of Eagles’ Fair to Close Tonight The four night's fair of New Brit- ain Aerie, F. 0. B, will be brought to a close this evening in Jester's hali onn Arch street, The award of three automobiles will be made. A large attenidance is looked for on the cles- ing night. Gras in WANT MONTHLY REPORTS Washington, Féb. 12.—The inter- state commerce commission would be required to submit to congress or to the president monthly reports as to the condition of railread equipment and what steps it had taken to remedy defective equipment nder a resolu- tion introduced today by Senator La Follette. revublican, Wisconsin. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1923, e City ltems Sonoras at C, L, Plerce & Co.—advt.| Universal Club Minstrel and Danee, | Tuesday, Feb. 13, Odd Fellows' hall, Areh Bto-advt. The regular meeting of the New Hritain Lions' elub will pe Leld to- morrow noon at Jr, O, U, A, M. hall on Hungerford court, Valentine dance, Grange hall, Ber- lin, Tuesday, Feb, 18, Orchestre dvt, The Chamber 8f Commerce direc- tors' luncheon will be held Wednes- day noon of this week at the New Brimin elub, Miss Ruth Avery May, vielinlst, will appear as soloist with the Orpheus Concert elub to play at Fox's theat Thursday evening, March 1, under the auspices of the New Hritain Lions' club, | The Y, M. T. A, & B, Drum Corps was awarded a silver eup, the first prize, for playing at Forestville Hat- urday night. The events were under| the auspices of the Plainville ¥ife and | Drum Corps, The Maple Hill Bridge club will meet with Mrs, N, E, Mann of Rob- bins avenue, Tuesday afterneon at 2:30 o'clock, Lady Wallace lodge, D, of 8, will evening at 7:30 o'clock, At the close be held, Mrs, Walter Kingsbury of Maple street will entertain members of Alex- andra lodge, No. 24, 1. O. Daughters of St. George, at her home Thursday afternoon, A majority of the offices at City Hall observed a half holiday today, closing at noon, Cyril J. Curtin has entered the em- ploy of the Parker-Buckey Baking Co. A meeting of the bullding commit- tee of the Y. M. T. A, & B. soclety will be held tonight. Herman Satler of 93 Arch street and Miss Mary Herman of Wolcott street took out a marriage license to- day: A license was also taken by Simon J. Valentine of 27 Dwight street and Miss Jennie Mierzejewsky of 148 Farmington avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Johnson of 446 West Main street are receiving congratulations on the birth of an eleven pound daughter. D. J. Mullin of Hungerford Court| is recovering from a severe attack of grip. Miss Annie Coffey of Tremont street was badly shaken up in a coasting accident at Waterbury yes- terday. Gerstaecker lodge, 1. 0. O, F., will exemplify the first degree on a num- ber of candidates at the meeting to be held this evening at the Odd Fel- lows hall on Arch street. Miss Florence Stiver has returned to Philadelphia after visiting her cousin, Charles E. Weldon of Moun- tain View. Patrolman Walter Malona returned to duty today after a three-weeks' absence occasioned by illness. The regular meeting of the board of police commissioners will be held tomorrow evening. A son was born yesterday at the New Britain General hospital to Mr! and Mrs. Robert Erwin of 6 Erwin Place. Mrs. Waterman Lyon of Walnut street has returned from a trip to New York. Heath Bartow of the Copnecticut Light and Power Co. has”resumed work after a two-weeks' vacation at Atlantic City and Lakewood, N. J. The president of the State W. C. T. 1., Mrs. Wilgon, will speak tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Methodist church. Members are es- pecially urged to attend. CHILDREN ON SLEDS HIT AUTO TRUCK OX EAST ST. Three Little Tots Escape Injury Al- though Police Received Word of Serious Accident. A hurry call was sent to.the police station shortly before 2 o'clock this afternoon, that some children had been hurt in a coasting accident on; Fast street, Investigation showed that Caroline TFord, aged 5 years, of 550 Church street; Ruth Johnson, aged 2 years, of 521 Church street and Fran- ces Cayer, aged 5 years, of 518 East street, were riding on two sleds which collided with an automobile truck owned by Sam Roscn. The children all escaped injury. . DEATHS AND FUNEKALS Leon Protass. The funeral of Leon Protass “was held at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon at his late residence, 15 Main street. The obsequies were largely attended. Rabbi Abrabam Nowak of Hartford conducted the service, Burial was in Beth Alom cemetery. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our many friends and neighbors for their kindness and sympathy shown during the illness and death of our son and brother, Howard Clifton Milliken, and also for the| beautiful floral offerings. Signed EVERETT, KATHERINE AND MARION MILLIKE POPE'S ANNIVERSARY Just Year Ago Today Pope Pius Was Elevated to Head of Catholic Church in World, ! Rome, Feb. 12.—The first anniver- sary of the coronation of Pope Pius was celebrated today with a pontifical mass in the Sistine chapel at which Cardinal Bonzano officiated. The pon- #ff was present with the members of the sacred coilege, the diplomatic corps at the Vatican and numerous prelates of high rank. Among the 1ast were Archbishop Fumasoni-Bion- di, the new apostolic delepute to the United States and.Monsignor O'Hern, rector of the American college. STANLEY GIRLS WIN. The girls’ basketball ‘team of the Stanley Works defeated the girls' team of the Bristol High school in Alpha Bteing | | SEEK TO LINK UP AGCUSED WITH nms; New Haven Trial of Men Accused s Radicals Continge | New Haven, Feb, 12.—~Trial of Er- nest Behleifer, charged with inciting siriking shopmen of the New Haven road to aets which might interfere | with operation of trains, was resumed in eity eourt tuday, There have been | many adjournments of the hearing | sinee: his arrest In the carly winter, | Today there were offered in evid- ence copies of letters made by photo- static process of correspondence in 1917 purporting te have been con- dueted between Sehleifer and Willlam Judin of Brooklyn, N, Y, in which frequent refercnce is made to Alex- ander Berkman, deported by the fed. eral government as a radieal that Bchieifer knew Proseouting At~ torney Whittaker obtained an admis- sion from Schleifer that he wrote the letters, coples of which woere offered, he was in a peculiar position “preach- ature among the moss grown A, F. L. craft organizations but then it is not a fertile field,” This letter was signe: “For a revolutionary success, E nest Schielfer.” In another letter signed “for the revolution” and addressed to Judin as “dear comrade” he referred to Berk- man and the latter's wife, after men- tioning certain radical literature, as “putting over thg geod stuff for the use of these who are trying to spread the propaganda of soclal revolution,"” Counsel for Schleifer who was on the stand at the time, made vigorous objection but the coples of the let- ters were admitted. Counsel also de- nounced certain comment which State's Attorney Alling made last week agalnst the shop strikers and others, but Judge Caplan sald that he had not read what Mr, Alling had sald and that Schleifer was being tried on the charges against him without regard to other events since the com- mission of alleged offenses as set forth in the complaint. DEPORTATION IS DEATH, IS WAIL OF RUSSIAN Col. Erarsky, Vormer Czar's Friend, Declares Family Must Die If Returned New York, Feb. 12.—Awaiting de- portation, which, he declared, would mean his death by a Russian firing squad, Col. Nicholas Erarsky, former- ly of the imperial general staff of the Russian_army, is held in first cabin quarters at the Ellis Island immigra- tion station. With him is his wife, Olga, and her mother, Mme, Kitkins, formerly of Petrograd, and who may share his fate if returned to Bolshe- vik hands. Col. Frarsky, formerly an officer in Gen. Wrangel's anti-Bolshevik army, as well as a former member of the Czar's staff, arrived here from Constantinople a week ago, fleeing from a death penalty by Soviet au- thorities. Of Lithuanian birth, the officer found on his arrival that the immigration® quota from that coun- try had been exhausted and that he and his family must be returned. “It means my death, and that of my family,” he said. #T am regard- ed as a rebel and will be turned over to the Bolsheviks by the Turks! as soon as we are returned to Con- stantinople. The Soviet and Turkish governments have agreed on this course in regard to all loyal former Russian officers.” Allin Kj—émith Succeeds E. L. Smith as Dist. Atty. Hartford, Feb, 12.—United’ States District Judge Edwin 8. Thomas an- nounced the temporary Dppoil\tm(‘nt} of Allen K. Smith as U, 8. district at-} torney. Judge Thomas was in Hart- ford today to attend the funeral of Jjudge Edward L. Smith, the U. S. attorney for the District of Connecti- cut who died-Friday morning. Judge Thomas has notified the department of justice at Washington of his ap- pointment of a district attorney to look after the office of the department | of justice in Connecticut until a per- | manent appointment is made. Allen K. Smith w assistant to the U. S. at-| torney under Thomas J. Spellacy, John | I". Crosby and Judge Smith. | RN, | Stanley -i-lrS:mi-Finals At Pinehurst Tourney (Special to The lierald), | Pinehurst, N. C, Feb, 12.—A. W.| Stanley of the Shuttle Meadow club of New Britain, Conn.,, won his way through to the semi-finals in the un:| defeated handicap divisions, at the expense of A. H. Cassels of Quebec,| yesterday. They played on even handicap | teams, and Stanley won by one up| at the end of a hard uphill struggle. | | | | washed ashore there. WALL STREET STOCK EXCHANGE REPORTY Quotations furnished by Putnam | & company, | Btoek exchanges were closed today, because of Linecoin's birthday STATE POLICE ASK FOR CO-OPERATION Aid of Olliials and Public in| Coal Crisis Needed Hartford, Feb, 12.~In confermity with a poliey which seeks co-opera- tion of oMecials and the public meet- ing the fuel crisis, Superintendent | Robert T, Hurley of the state police today lssued a statement dealing with this phase of the question. Chief Hurley sald: “We are first taking up the matter of coal in transit and in order that the dealer may at all times have a supply, we are forwarding a letter to the mayors, chlefs of police and fire marshals in all eities, asking | them for their co-operation. It is my desire to bring this down to a system that will be under the super- vision of the local fire marshal, chief of police and superintendent of state police. My letter asks each chief of police to instruct the officers on the beat to recelve any request submit- ted to them by the public and sub- mit same to their chief at once. The chief will be concerned by the na- ture of the request and take it up with the local fire marshal or the superintendent of state police. In this way we will have the matter well in hand. Tn real emergency cases affecting the poor and the| needy we will call upon local char-| {tabe institutions, both private and municipal to render any assistance necessary.” SHOOTS WIFE AND SELF Former New Britain High School | Teacher Kills Woman in Sleep Then Puts Bullet Into Own Brain. Claiming, it Is understood, in a note left for the coroner that he “had to do it,” E. L. Durfee, a former New | Britain resident yesterday fatally shot himself and his wife at their New | Haven residence. Durfee was mana- ger of an automobile agency and is said to have stated in the note that he was a failure and could not go without his wife. | Durfee was a substitute history | teacher in the New Britain High school ahout 13 years ago. He was a graduate of Yale, class of 1896. New Haven, Feb. 12.—The bodies of Edward L. Durfee and his wife which were found in their home, 95 Cottage street, Saturday, were buried today. Durfee killed his wife and himself and left a note in which ref- erence was made to ‘“financial diffi- culties” and that he could not bear to leave Mrs. Durfee behind. Coroner Mix continued his inquiry today and aside from saying that he would find that Durfee killed his wife and himse!f he had nothing to offer to clear up the exact reason for the act. It would appear that Dur- tee had enough property to cover his debts. N VESSEL OF FISHERMEN Parts of Natalie Drift Ashore; Cap- tain and Crew Went Down Is Belief Edgartown, Feb, 12 —Wreckage shed ashore on Naushon Island in Vineyard Sound which was found by a searching party yesterday, proved | clusively that the fishing sloop | atalie, missing for several weeks, was lost with her captain and crew of three aboard. Captain Robert Jacksdn the | hooner Hazel Jackson today | sniled to Naushon from this port with | 28 volfinteers to search tha island as a result of reports that reached here yesterday that wreckage had been The ! search of } the several miles of the islands coast- | line had barely begun when, just east of Tarpaulin Cove near the westward tip of the island, the fishermen came | upon wreckage, among it a part of a/ broken dory bearing the name “Nata- lie.” Other wreckage was identified | as part of the missing ship's equip- | age. Fisher folk here last night were of the opinion that the Natalie was ram- med by a larger ship in the sound as ghe was on her way home after a| of Stanley was two down at the turn but overtook his opponent near the end of the round and finally won (\ul[ when Casseli slipped up on the| playing of the 18th hole. A TOO FAITHFUL TIME-LOCK. | Fxperts Can’'t Open the One (-‘u-!lrd-1 ing New Hampshire Funds. Concord, N. H., Feb. 12.—~The time-lock of the safe which holds and guards the funds of the state of New Hampshire apparently sense of reckoning of utes. The safe is locked, state’'s money is inside. A derrick and a battering ram were called into service yesterday by exe perts at work attempting to persuade | the safe that it was time it was open-“ ed, but all efforts to jostle the lock’s | machinery into action was fruitless. l The trouble was discovered late Sat- urday, and machinists have been.at| work on the stubborn machinery. | fleeting min- | and the | ACTRESS TAKES POISON Neow Haven, Feb. 12.—Miss Georgi- anna Hewitt, member of a stock com= pany playing at a local theater took poison last night and today was be- lieved to be dying. She had a nervous | Bristel Saturday evening Ly the score of 11 to 10. . collapse, while playing in the cast Saturday afternoon. fishing trip and had sunk almost im-| mediately, ying down her captain | and crew. It has been definitely es-| tablished that she left Newport for| Bdgartown on January 24 and her| route would have taken her past| Naushon, | The men believed lost are: Skipper | Patrick Kelley, Frank and Charies; Doyle and Robert Taylor, all of Ed- gartown. Skipper Kelley was well| known in the fisheries and elsewhere as the hoider of the bronze medal of has lost all|the Carnegie Hero fund and the sil-| BPR AW0 o oheld, New York and ver medal of the Massachusetts Hu- rmane society for his part in the res- cue of the erew of the schooner Mer- | tie B. Crowley, wrecked off the south| coast of Martha's Vineyard uary, 1910, The Natalie was one of the smallect | units of the Edgartown fishing fleet, | but was considered a seaworthy craft. She registered but 28 gross tons a was 45 feet long and 15 feet wide. in Jan- T0 EUVLOGIZE LINCOLN. New Haven, ¥eb, 12.-—Lincoln's birthday will be observed here by the| Young Men's Republican ¢iub tonight | as it hae been for many vears and| the guests at the dinner in the club-| house will include Lieut. Governor Biugham and a number of state offi- There will be several speak cials. i Daly at St. {New Scout Papei-ié | UTNAM & CO. Members New York Stack Fachange Menbers Hartfond Stock Exchange (hucoessors o Hichier & Ca) lankey Fady, Maaager 81 West Main 5S¢, Tel, 2040 50 Stanley Works 50 Landers, Frary & Clark 50 American Hardware JUDD MF ' BRITAIN: CO. Members New York Stock Exchange EMBERS HARTFORD STOCK EXCHANGE HARTFORD: Hartford - Conn, Trust Bldg., Tel. 3-6320 23 West Main St, Tel, 1815, NEW BRITAIN New Britain N Teleph 80 Hartford Stock Exchange ational Bank Bldg. We Offer and Recommend B!CELOW-HARTFORD CARPET CO. STOCK Thomson, Tem & To. HARTFORD 10 Central Row Telephone 2-1141 Members New York Stock Exchange Donald R. Hart, Manager We Offer: LANDERS, Waterbury Danbury Middletown . G. F. GROFF, Mgr.—~Room 509, DARING AERIAL RESCUE AT FIRE IN NEW YORK Brave Fireman Takes Woman ®From Fourth Story — Others Jump to Ground, Fleeing Flames. eb. 12.—A fireman's daring aerial rescue of a woman from a fourth story windoy yesterday thrilled spectators at a b in a West 53rd street apartment house occupied by negroes in which eight persons were injured, two of them, seriously, by jumnping from windows. A girl jumped three stories to a snow bank and was hurt only slightly. Scores of animals in a cat and dog hospital next door, were overcome by smoke, but were rescued. Fireman John Dornsies, suspended by his feet from the roof by other firemen, grasped a frantic woman in his arms and hoisted her to safety. Access to a window where she stood screaming, was impossible from the ground because of the flames and of elevated rail v tracks. Several fire- men reached the roof from an adjoin- ing structure and Dornsies was let down to save the woman. His com- sades said the rescue outdid any feat in the department'’s records in montha. A man a a woman leaped from the second floor to the pavement. Toth were seriously hurt. Another woman, being taken from a ledge, | slipped and broke her arm. | GILLER-RILEY New York, F Pastor of St. Joseph's Church Unites Well Known Young Peopie in Mar- riage—Will Live in Newark., N. J. Miss Catherine Riley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jobn W. Riley of 117 Camp street and George A. Giller, son of Mr. and Mra. George L. Giller of| 63 Trinity street were married this morning at § o'clock by Rev. Patrick Joseph’s church. They were attended by George Ol- cott as best man and Miss Esther| Riley, sister of the bride, as brides- maid. Miss ara P, Farrell sang. "he bride was attired in a three-piece blue veldine fox and wore a pink taffeta hat. The bridesmaid wore a duvetyn and caracul cloth suit trimmed with black x fur and wore a hat of pink or- id. Yollowing the ceremony there a reception at the home of l)h:‘ bride at which there were about 70 people present including guests from | ch Bristol. The couple left on an extended wed- | ding trip to Atiantic City and upon| their return will make {heir home in| ewark, N. J. where the groom iy employed Mrs. Giller, before her | marriage was employed as a sten grapher at the e tanley Works. Published by Troop 4 JOHN P. Member Consolidated Stock Exchauge of New York STOCES BONDS Direct Private Wire to New York. uit trimmed with black | T | legs FRARY & CLARK NORTH & JUDD COLT’S ARMS We Do Not Accept Margin Accounts KEOGH Bridgeport New Haven N. B. Nat'l Bauk Bldg.—Tel. 1018 gt ————— PSS Proposes Joint Parley On Important Measures Washington, Feb. 12.—Joint consid- eration of the administration shipping bill and the British debt payment set- tlement legislation the latter during the “morning hour” each day and the former during the remainder of the session was proposed today by Sen- ator Jones, republican, Washington, as a solution for the senate's legjsla- tive problems. Senator Jones who has charge of the ship bill made his pro- posal with the approval of other re- publican leaders after Senator Wil- liams, democrat, Mississippi, had blocked a unanimous consent agree- ment for limitation of debate on the shipping legislation beginning Friday. No Two Platoon This Yeary Is Chairman Hall’s Belief Prosident indications are that it will be'impossible to provide funds for a two platoon system in the fire department this year, Chairthan E. 1. Hall of the board of financeé and taxation has stated. If all the funds now sought were to be granted, it would require a 30-mill tax, Mr. Hall says, while to reduce to 25 mills will necessitate the lopping off of request- ed appropriations to the extent of some $450,000. On this account nothing but maintenance expenses can be thought of this year, Mr. Hall explai The finance board chair- man heartily in accord with the principle of a two platoon and under more favorable financial conditions would favor its adoption this year, he assures. AUTOMOBILES WITH LEGS s. Washington Inventor Says His Ma- chine will “Walk" 81 Miles an Hour. Washington, Feb. 12.—The inven- tion of an automobile equipped with four legs instead of weels is claimed by James William Bryan, a Washing- ton man, who says he ' has forty patents, some of them basic, for such a machine. He has designed a five- passenger clutchless, —gearless and springless car of half the weight of wheeled models, which, he says ex- pert engineers have declared feasible. now being made to det sible weakenesses and errors Declaring that he, and not a Ger- man inventor who recently announced production of a “walking” model, is the pioneer in the automobile-with- fietd, Mr. Bryan says his ma- chine is operated by two engines de- veloping 49 horsepower and theore- tically capabie of making a speed of 81 miles an hour The legs have the same action as those beings. Mr. Bryan says, negotiate a perpendicular rige or drop of one foot without mov- & the automobile from a horizontal plane. iy an can French Reported Today In Clash With Germans 12.—(By Associated A Boy Sceut semi-monthly paper. entitled, “Troop 4 Trail” is being| pubiished by Troop 4. Boy Scouts,! of the Tirst Congregational church.| K. Parker will be editor iroop scribe, The paper is turned out on a mimeograph and is a newsy report of doings of the troop. policemen clashed wch today at Gelsen- kirchen, but there were no fatalities, according to reliable advices. One of policemen and two French officers reported to have been taken to & ! Lospital with wounds.