New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 6, 1923, Page 16

ELKS CONTRIBUTE 5200 T0 GAMPAIGN Yote to Help Community Drive-- Brown New Exalted Ruler Past District Deputy Patriok . Murray, last evening installed officers of New Britaln lodge, No. 057, B. I 0, B, James M, Curtin who retired aftér 18 years as treasurer and Dud- ley.T, Holmes who has compicted the same period as secretary, were award- ed life memberships, Lockett, the retiring exaltea ruler The officers installed were as follows: Photo By Murray RICHARD C. BROWN Exalted Ruler, Richard C. Browa; esteemed leading knight, Thomas I, Jackson; esteemed loyal knight, iTen- ry W. Rice; esteemed lectaring knight, Thomas H. Gibson; secretary, Arthur E. McEvoy; treasurer, Clar- ence L, Pierce; tiler, John T. Foley, trustee, John II. Downes. Exalted Ruler Brown announced his appointments as follows: Esquire, Da- vid 1. Dunn; chaplain, William W. T. Squire; inner guard, John F. Gill; or- ganist, William H. Bishop; finance committee, Thomas F. Jackson, chair- man; Henry W. Rice and Thomas . Gibson; house committee, William Dobson, chairman; F. V. McDon ugh, secretary; Edward J. Dyer, lke T. Hills and Harvey T. ‘Walrath; social committee, W. W. T. Squire, chair- man; Charles Duffy, O. Lambert Jord, Otto Miller, Edward Lindberg, B. J. Boyle and Stanley J. Traceskl, The exalted ruler announced that he would name members of the enter- tainment and auditing committee at a future meeting. The lodge voted to contribute $200 to the United Community corporation campaign. LOCKED UP IN SAME JAIL HE DYNAMITED IN 1905 i e Same Janitor Who YFoiled His Escape Is Guarding Him Once More. Somerville, N. J., April 6,—John, alias Hack Lahey, convicted dyna- miter, highwayman and Jjailbreaker, was lodged in jall yesterday after an absence of 18 years. The last time he was arrested in Somerset county . was in September, 1905, and two days after his arrest he blew with other prisoners nearly ohtained his freedom. He was stopped just as he was leaving the jail by Billy Moore, court house janitor, who had been placed on guard with a revolver was John W, | out | almost one whole side of the jail and | RULES WEDDING PARTIES MAY BLOW _flTl) SIRENS Washington Official Says Most People | Marry But Once and May Celcbrate It washington, April = 6.—~Wedding parties, in the opinion of the District of Columbia, police commissioner, should not be held to the decorous standards of street traffic regulations. | The commissioner yesterday ordered the release “In time to catch thelr train” of Edward Dean and his bride, after they had fallen into the clutches of an unromantic traffic policeman, | who took exception to the tinpan din| and cxcessive horn blowing and es- | corted their entire wedding party to | the police station. | “That's just foolishness," the com- missioner told the policeman. ‘Most people only get married once, and ilhr'_v ought to be free to celebrate it. | They can blow forty horns if they want to." HERRIN TRIAL HEARING | Witnesses Are Called By State Today In Attempt To Refute Alibis Given By Defense. Marion, 11, April 6, (By Associat- ed Press)-—Witnesses were called by the state today to give rebuttal testi- mony in an attempt to refute alibis offered for each of the six defendants in the second Herrin riot trial. The defense rested its case yester- day after calling witnesses to give alibi testimony for Hugh Willis, mem- ber of the state executive board of the Illinois minz workers, Both the state and defense planned to condense remaining parts of the trial as much as possible so that the jury might be given the case by Sat- urday night. . . Dynamite Explosion Does Great Damage to Village Nashville, Tenn., April 6.—A sup- ply of dynamite for sewer excavation work in West Nashville variously es- timated at from 168 to 300 sticks, exploded from some unknown cause | today, badly damaging dozens of homes and injuring several persons. First reports were that many frsons were killed, but later investigation failed to develop any fatalities. HEALTH CONFERENCE. Plans Under Way for Movement to Make Women More Physically Fit. Washington, April 6.—Formulation of plans for a nation wide movement to promote the health and physical fitness of the American woman and girl in overy walk of life was the| object of a conference for which edu- cators and experts in physical train- ing gathered today from all parts of the country under the auspices of the national amateur athletic federation.| The conference was called by Mrs.| Herbert Hoover, wife of the secretary| jof commerce, as a vice-president of“ the federation. These three major topics were on the program for discussion: Physical standards and tests and their co-or- | dination; mass activities and their leftect on the individual and the field of competitive athletics. The broad jaim of the movement was declared to be the formulation of a definite and nationally standardized program of physical fitness for women and| girls, stressing the forms of athleties| !and excrcise most suitable for women. POLITICS IN VISIT | Loucheur's Trip to England Believed to be Significant i April 6.—(By the Asso- | ciated Press)—Political writers are making capital out of the visit to i}:ngland of Louls Loucheur, former | French cabinet minister. | The announced purpose of the so- !JDUTI\ is the transaction of private London, outside. As soon as Moore recovered | pusiness, but he has been in confer- from his shock. of seeing the side wall | ence with Premier Bonar Law, David of the jail disappear he opened fire| 1 loyd George and Stanley Baldwin, at the hole in the wall. Lahey and| chancellor of the exchequer. his friends did not attempt to run| poucheur is credited in some quar- through the barrage and were finally | tors with a willingness to go much secured and anchored with ball and | gyrther than Premier Poincare in en-| chain. Tonight Billy Moore, NOW| jeavoring to find a modus vivendl nearly 70 years old, is again pacing iith Germany, and his present ef- up and down in the rain before the| ortg it is suggested, are directed to- jail, his revolver ready in case Hack| yards “a new orientation in French again tries to escape. politics.” Lahey was arrested in Trenton on G Wednesday by Detectives of the BANK INSURANCE GAINS, Pennsylvania railroad on a charge n(‘ 2 R e S bhine A freighit oav at Btiliman sta-| Boston; April 6-—The Savings Bank Life Insurance division at the State tion of $15,000 worth of silk. When Lahey was brought here yesterday by |house reports that the amount of bus- iness in force March 31 was $22,- Detective George Totten he asked if |1 Billy Moore was still on the job, and | 703,284, representing insurance on the This is A! when he learned that he was, asked |lives of 38,860 persons. to see him. When Moore came in, Lahey said: “Hello, Billy. You look natural.” “So do you in here, Hack,” the janitor answered, and then showed the prisoner the place in his mouth where a tooth was knocked out on that exciting September night 18 years ago. Lahey is 68 years old, and admit. ted yesterday that he had spent much © of'that time in jail. | net gain of $2,682,990 of business in| | five months, which is very significant | in view of the fact that the maximum | amount of insurance which any one person can have is only $6,000; i. e.,; ‘ $1,000 in each of the six savings banks | which have established insurance de- partments. 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