New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 21, 1923, Page 1

NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1928, —TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES, OSCAR UNDERWOOD | 4 MEN%&%%% i‘ R;fl(‘/gn”% ' PUTS ASIDE LEAGUE| AS SP. e Rt Drng e s AV70 POLE IN E. HARTFORD Chnget HisMind | ARRIAGE IS SLAVERY, |Trasedy Occurs on Bou- b RESULT OF FOREIGN TRIP GIRLS GIVEN WARNING levard and Two Victims = s i | Ate Hurled Over Rail: |Mys. O. H. P, Belmont Says| . D ' She Would Not Recom. | '8 '"'9 Meadow Below g mend It for Any Woman *| 1. . Guard Rails Ripped OF by Impact — Hartford Man Who Tried to Aid Is Hurt in Fall. News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 FIGHT 70 FINISH, GOV, WALTON SAYS Okla. Execative Appeals lor Punds {0 Wage Anti-Klan War THPEACHNENT PROGEEDINGS Lower Fouse of Assembly Will Moot | Tribune Quotes Him in Saying That Next Wednesday—Walton Threat- | i ens to Arm Fvery Antt K. K, K. S : Observation Was Convinoed Wim it Man tn State to Quell Organtzation, 15 a Pallure, . 21 —~Benator Oscar | he ed Prese Chicago, Sept. .'o‘;u.;:,;:l.;:flyr Bept. 21 ._.1,“1.1..‘ W. Upderwood, Alabama’'s candidate tors seeking the official head of J, C. |18, exporter; Henry Banks, 40, machinist; Chas. F. Keele', 50, tarmer; Arthur Yourg. 65, bullder; Napoleon Major, | for the democratic presidential nom- Walton marehed on today in their |5, elothier; Alfred A, Llovd, €0, retired, Back row: Ivay P. Flood, 40, secretary; David Horton, 80, manufacturer; | ination 1a no longer a strong advo- ans for impsachment while the ex.!3tephen P. Batchelor’ 55, retired grocer; Adolph Loeschir, 50, butcher; G. Wesley Tomkins, A5, werchant. Lloyd |cate of the league of nations, he !s utive gathered strength for.a final|Birdsell, 35, realtor (head to be seen behind juror In rea: row,) retused to pose credited by the Chieago Tribune to- B e e at Sx Boskan ?OYEAEOLB;LAYER (E : i 3 i g gl A Aagld o I KILLING IS RETOLD sbout him vocate of the league, who was in Aipyn Man, | Sherill Relates Tale of Grappling, dinando Laudati, formerly of New|!hink thé league would be an fssue Threat For Governor, way to Washington Allenists Olaim Bridgeport Then Fatal Shot |in the approaching campaign. The lower house of the legislature vacation at FEagle} will convene at noon Wednesday to ributed the fol- However, Was Sane When He Struck Her Down With Axe, ‘TWO OTHERS ALSO FIRED R E— Haven and Stamford, today found m.[ “Th S g iinibtratiod's Taok tongue t 4 " e present administration's lac After | g o plea guilty’ before of'a danita: fardien DoLGY ( anaY ite | consider charges that Walton has set| at naught constitutional government | #nd It the governor interferes with| the moeeting he “acts at his peril” Bridgeport, Sept. 21-—8teve Pellath, aged 70, who on August 10 last fa- | tally wounded his seventy year old wife with an axe, was adjudged to | Judge Arthur F. Els in superior De- | court here to count of mnnnl:unh- fallure toachleve any notable ac- |ter, and was sentenced to from four to 16 years in state prison This was the pronouncement of legis- letors who will seek his impeach- ba of sound mind in superior court here today, and upon his plea of scribed Just How Shooting Oc- On March 10, 1917, Laudati shot curred. and killed his father-in-law, Ernesto ment, gullty was sentenced to no less than White Plains, Sept. 21,—Counsel for | Pompi, while the latter was in his Walton's lagislative enemies are confident that he wonld not carry out four or more than ten years in state's prison by Judge Arthur I. Ells, e.defense in the trial of Walter S.|Stamford home giving a music les- and a l' | 'j" Bleandecots fi ot 10!’"0‘&4«! Interview fn Chicago This {8 the jury of Walter 8. Ward's peers who are siting in judgmert on the son of the milllonaire baker on i firet degree murder charge at White Plaina, N. Y, for tie death of Clarence Peters. First row: Charles Sehilling 91.~Chiety | Colorado Springs, Sept because ‘marriage s a sort df slav-| ery,” Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont of New York, president of the national women's party, declared here yester. day that she would not recommend | marriage for any girl i “I would not say in so many words| that marriage s a fallure,” she sald, “but it seems to me that statistics speak for themselves.' Most of the opposition to the equal right movement comes from the women “of the clinging vine type Mrs. Belmont said, “Intelligent men are with us Among the men our only opponents are the ‘small town man’' and the church organizations. Mrs. Belmont is here to preside over the western state conferqnce tomorrow of the nationa! party and attend the equal rights memorial pageant which is to be given in the Garden of the Gods Bunday afternoon. Modern economic conditions, Mrs. Belmont sald, have much to do with the fallure of marriage. “Too many girls of these days have supported themselves before marriage and when they marry they feel that someone clse is supporting them and they be- come discontented,” she said. | | ad | Chicago on his ACTED AS DUMMY 6 YEARS 0 AVOID PUNISHMENT 555 s, |lowing statement: “I am no longer a strong advo- | cata of the league of nations. My | original views are well known. How- Man “Finds Voice" to Plead ever og my trip abroad I saw the | league¥at work. Developments then » Guilty to Manslaughter | and subsequently have changed my Bridgeport, Bept, “___E‘.Mm‘inm'ud-. The fallure of the league punishment for causing the death of| !0 function in the dispute between his father-in-law and the ,,,,“M‘"‘i‘nnly and Greece had much to do of two others for more than six years| With the change.” by playing the part of a dummy, Fer.| The senator giso sald he did not OWNER OF CAR WAS FROM STATE OF IND. Hartford, Sept. 21.--Four men were killed, two of them outright, and two serfously injured at 2 o'clock this morning when the car in which they were driving toward Bpringfield crashed int> a trolley pole just east of the Connecticut river bridge on the boulevard In East Hartford and was reduced to a mass of twisted wrecks Irofmn New Haven and Stamford Came to Aid, Is Hurt. A fourth man, John Leary, of 27 Williams street, Hartford, fractured ' several hones when he fell off the dry | bridge to the rocks 30 feet below, in an attempt to extricate the injured men from the wrecked automobile. Two Hurled Off, Two of the men were hurled off the causeway into the meadow land be- low and the iron rails ripped off by the force of the impact along with several bits of*wreckage from the car were tossed below also. Indiana Man in Car. A registration card on the foot« board of the car showed Steve C. Pac~ lini of Bedford, Indiana, to be the owner of the car, and it is thought: that he was the driver as well; he was in such condition at Hartford hos- pital this morning that the authorities were unable to question him. 1If it is found that Paclini was driving the car he will be arrested, according to the East Hartford police, who made this statement before the man .died this noon. Those Killed and Injured. ¥ The dead are: A i AR Jammes Beninate, 33 Crystal avenue, Springfield. Antonio Lalli, 195 White » street, Springfield. Pascieo Lalli, 195 White street, Springfield, Steve C. ;"sdcllnl, 720 North O street, Bedford, nd. Nicholas Placido, 39 Wendell ave enue, Springfield; in Hartford hos- pital; expected to recover. Defense Witness Says That his threat to jall the house members A report of a commission of three | Body Was Fo A 1 If they attempted to assemble. Since veleing his threats the governor's le- gal advisors have urged him to per- alienistd read by State Attorney Ho- mer 8, Cummings informed the court that although they deemed him as heavily upon him, the governor sent out an appeal for funds, asking those who believe in a representative form of government to send contributions to Mrs, Aldrich Blake, Oklahoma City, wife of the executive counsellor. Blake now is ahsent from the state on a mission for the governor, The governor was defiant. *T have erossed the Rubicon; it is a fight to the finish,” he declared. He said that if it proved necessary he would arm every man in the state who, Is opposed to the “invisible em- pire.”’ Broadside at Klan, A broadside was turned on the| klan by the governor last night when he released a portlon of the testi- mony taken before a military court| here showing that county Attorney J.| XK. Wright, Sheriff Tom Carver and| District Judge G. W. Clark had been obligated to the klan and detalling charges made by Dr. A. A. Maupin, a dentist and former member of the organization, as to the connection of the “invisible empirg” with mob vio- lence. Tt was Judge Clark who issued a call for a special grand jury to in- P - OSCAR UNDERWOOD complishments at home will furnish | the best democratic ¢ampaign mater- ial," the senator was quoted by the Tribune as declaring. Assails G. O. P, Actions B vestigate charges that the governor fllegally had used state employes to check names on an initiative petition to which he was oppused. The grand jury was dismissed when 8 . s e i Cassidy’s Policies question as one held by Peters in his/ " hand at the time of the shooting. i Cody said he had made every ef-| Edward (“Pat”) O'Brien, a letter- fort to trace the number and source man in three branches of athletics at of the gun he had given Ward but the New Britain High school, quit the The republican party in the com- ing session of congress “will do little except mark time, fill the pork barrel and study its various candidates for the presidential nomination,” Sena- od this morning by County Sheriff Hartry F. Sergeant New Britain police department on Detective the and McCue Michael Delizla, 39 Wende]l av- enue, Springfleld; in St. F‘ra.nc}n hos- pital with cuts and bruises; expected to recover. John Leary, Williams street, Comstock William- P. of 22 hench warrants issued by Judge Kel- logg of the superior court on charges of violating the liquor law. Schuman, it is claimed, was driving a truck from Bristol to New Britain ubout threé months ago with a cargo of alleged beer destined for Fodt's pface of business. As the truck was being driven through Plainville it was spled by County Detective Edward J. Hickey who ordered the driver to stop. He procured a quantity of the llqu¥r of which an analysis has been made and it is stronger than the 18th amendment allows. Fodt and Schu- man were taken to Hartford where it is expected their cases will be heard within a day or so. DEPORTED 10 GERMANY tor Underwood declared. “I don't think the' republicans are going to do anything except drift until the election next year,” de- clared the Alabama senator, ™ whose friends are supporting him for tl‘e democratic presidential nomination. The league of nations, he sa§, will not be an issug “but the fact that the republican: party flunked com- pletely on European affairs will be.” “There was nothing to prevent Am- erica from keeping up «to American diplomatic traditions even if mem- bership in the league was objection- able to republicans,” he added. Tn- stead of doing this, he declared, "the republicans have muddled around on the military authorities trained ma- chine guns on the court room at the orders of the governor. wlton charges that a ‘“klan judge” and a klan grand jury were attempting to interfere with his war on the “in- visible empire." Was Once Initiated. Judge Clark summoned the grand fury when a petition for the con- vening' of the hody was submitted to Hartford; in St. Francis hospital with fractured arm and legs; will recover. Pavement Was Slippery The report of Patrolman Willlam M. Cooney, Jr., of the East Hartford police department who responded to n call just after the accident and was first on the scene, declares that, according to evewltnesses, the wrecked car skidded on the southern- « most trolley car track on the boule= vard, careened to the south and struck the pole. It had been raining earlier in the evening and the tracks were wet and slippery. The car was turned almost directly toward Hartford probably by the power of the rear wheels, and jack-knifed around the , pole. (Continued on Eleventh Page.) Citj Sues Property Owners For Debts on Water Improvements SILENT FOR 20 YEARS Second Car Involved A second car with Massachusetts registration and supposed to be from Springfield, figured in the accldent. The two parties, the men in the In- ,Corporation Counsel Kirk- ham Issues Writs AgainstE 25 Householders to Collect | Out of Bonds. | Spokane Woman Acks Divorce Be- (Continued on Page Twenty-Two) cause Husband Has Not Talked to Earlier in the Summer. , Stamford, Sept. 21.—George Weig- 1in of this eity was deported to Ger- many on order of the immigration | authorities and upon advice of State Head of High School Discusses United | Attorney Homer . Cummings as an undesirable, yesterday. He had been| N Meet- et in the county jail awaiting trial on/| the charge of assault with intent to HEARING MONDAY FOR RAILROAD DISGUSSIO B . Her in Fifth of Century. | - Spokane, Bept. 21.—Because her husband has been on a ‘silence sfrike" for the last 20. xears, Mra. Nettie F. Hammerly ask¥ a divorce from Henry Hammerly. Mr. and Mrs. mit the session as they declare it/ would be fllegal and without effect. However the final word remains to be spoken and the threat has not yet been withdrawn. . Appeals For Funds. Admitting the flght was weighing having been responsible for his act at | the time it was committed, he was| now on the border of insanity. One| s m;”]:":::f:y‘;'e:';ely’"“‘;‘:":s;‘“:‘:'e? of the doctors on the commission |l 3 n ' g stated he believed Pellath had but few | Ward, charged with the murder of |80n, wounded Pompl's wife think what they are doing and go years more to live. ¥ | Clarence Peters, today further inter- music student. into it with their eyes open. Mar- Pellath after giving himselt up to rogated Frank Cody, New Rochelle| Commnitted to the insane asylum at| riage will be more successful when the police followlng his attack upon|Chief of police, who testified yesterday | Middletown, Laudati assumed the| | women are more independent. Men his wife, made confession in which he | that a revolver identified by Ward as|role of a half-wit, ‘refused to utter ' goon tire of the clinging vine ll.:ll!e- stated that she had nagged him until| ©ne With which Peters threatened m’n sound and defled efforts to induce They like the intelligent girl best. he had lost his temper, when he im- | kil him, looked very much like a re. | him to conversation by means of Mrs. Belmont said she opposed portuned her for 50 cents to get a|‘olver which Cody gave Ward short- | chloroform and pins. Escaping from | smoking by women on economic shave, ly before the killing. !the asylum in December, 1917, Lau- grounds. “In this day of compe- Police Chief Called. | datl was apprehended in Long Island | | tition those vn;a ;vant :}?elsetbr‘;?:::” {last year and upon return t | | cannot afford to drug r h Cody was asked by Attorney Camp-| o, "0r 1o oy 0 to the | she said. I don’t think girls smok- bell, for the defense, where he had| g, o0 " s (‘;lme proved less ob-| - i:"“' |‘a crime but 1 don’t like to see oblatied:tie pistol he gave to Warld,1 g, SongeeRd. |1£% dspecially to see a girl smoking PR At 4 He said he took it frofi a safe in| ST 7 W B oo { Which there were a number of old\SE(;flNI]N B H | IS e, Into Mud in Nerragansett Bay— | Pistola. The witness said he had never U ke U | s b | seen the pistol before and B.dmmed‘ | TAKEN 0“ BENGH WAR_RANT Passengers Transferred. | he had never had an opportunity tn§ | 2 e vi‘d e e become familiar with it since. } BALL TEAM RS rovidence, Sept. 21,—The Colonia! Cody testified that before he took ! 3 Louis W. Fodt And Joseph Schuman line steamer Lexington from New| {no gtand yesterday, Dist. Attorney s | rz"k went t':"“;““"" 1? “fl“}:‘:k f“‘: in| Chambers, who is conducting the OB Arrested Today For Transporting arraganse ay early thls morning.| prosecution, had asked him if he| i * £ The passangers were transferred to a|could not make more positive hi ‘ rien, :rhree Letter M:m, Beer Stronger Than Law Allows. small steamer and brought to this|iqentification of the pistol. | Dis 2 oL city. The Lexington is believed to be | ward in clatming he shot Peters in agrees With Coach Louls W. Fodt, propristor of the undamaged and-after being lightened | soif defense produced the pistol in restaurant and. former s ok of part of its cargo it is expected that | 4 street, and Joseph Schuman, emp! ?y! she will be floated at high tide and | by him' as aitruck drivel, were aresty able to make her return trip this| evening. | y Ex-Gov. Shoup of Colo., Is |without success. { football squad this afternoon in pro- Willing to Be on Ticket |- Admitted He Was Lucky. g:;rafn.:‘rl\stcthe‘d policies of . Coach Colorado Springs, Colo., Sept, 21 -— | @ Coroner Edward Fitzgerald testi-| “'"hBfiluvbacakss“;\;,“;:osg' dérterc.nlces Oljver Shoup of Colorado Springs, for- | fled that he had talked to Ward on| tain of this vear's ‘s ulmd xce‘:xl;‘t ccldF- mer governor fo Colorado, who has|the day he had surrendered. :McCue's resié’nulio:y :lhi;; ;\'ee)s( ed A {been mentined in recent articles in| “I sald ‘vou are lucky they dldn's|investigation hy David I, Do o eastern papers as a possible running|get you''” he testified, “and Ward re-| ¢opmey player and coach w:'hosem" h“ mate for Calvin Coolidge on the 1924 | plied ‘'ves, and I might not be 80| of the athletic esituation oon\-‘)’;zos republican ticket, would accept the |lucky later on’.” him, he reported, that McCue had not vice-presidential nomination if it were | Questions as to the state of mind of heen accorded the respect and fair offered him, he told the Associated | Ward during the conversation as to|piay due a captain, Press Jast night. :-‘:x‘::lo:;a:v"t];:nfiosfv they” were " Agked this afternoon why he had The defense Introduced as an ex-| "oy hye hetning 1o Teplled: hibit, a copy of a statement in Ward's mmu::iw\\"‘l?h ‘:fi ir‘:fnyrl‘::els ;?agplor:: :)“hfl'llf given to the sheriff after lhg‘ that Cassidy has control over; I don't ‘Zgé:fif Wilnes Thol oLl “dgtmnk that Bill McCue or myself was | BT i Wptin b . given a ‘square deal' in athletics by ]'_‘:{’lf'“”if‘},“:“’ 8 "““’S‘“"“ of the|the coach. With us it 15 a question |the method of approach to the prob- Bol a4 tola it to hi Rmmey Camp- | o principle and we are opposed to|lem and fallen down completely on ik R R his home in | fayoritism.” the main objective which was to HOHe S Ward and others| o'Brien was in the backfield in|protect and conserve the interests of |8 ,‘I’,: ’w‘:t o ’MS‘QI“"?. t practically all the big games last sea- | the United States in Europe." i ”::d ne.~s"sa h.lrv Camp ell de-lgon Through his display of game-| He said he probably will® resume Stamford Farmhand Ordered Sent “””' ed ":;"’ S etween JVard and |pegg and his ground gaining abilities | efforts to repeal the present Canadian e ! J“'jf o “"”d"f,‘r“f Charlie Ross. he won favor with the fans and was | tariff bill or commit the democratic| Rack—Had Tried to Kill a Woman | ”‘?f \Vh‘l(t]gel‘;r l“" I(‘HP “P}f"”” Ol one of the most popular members bf | platform to its repeal in 1924, i e Tri,“fh'r‘:f:" m‘:n"‘sp’ 0‘; the | the team. He is tall, rangy and fleet AR AT fArge hutomoblle and ‘Ward was in|Cfic0t Which qualities won o fegular q 4 s 1s first ye t r t] his coupe. “Pete” got into the small :’:;,:' RIS b v g PRINCIPAL SLADE SPEAK» car with Ward and drawing a pistol| 1o pockerbalt he won his “NB" with el ol N little diftienlty and in track he cap- (Continued on Page Twenty-Five) |tured a letter for guarter mile sprints, He is a junlor, \ McCue, whose resignation waé handed to Manager Robert Sneide- Twenty-flve property owners were to- day named defendants in civil suits brought by the city of New Britain, States Constitution at ing of Lions Club. through Judge John H. Kirkham, cor- | poration counsel, the actione being in- stituted to collect out of bonds fur- nished by the property owners guar- anteeing certain payments to the city if water main extensions were made, debts alleged to be due. Under the city charter, water mains will be constructed or extended when- ever property owners guarantee the city annual payments aggregating eight per cent of the amount invested by the city, less the amount paid for water rentals. Six water main con- struction jobs are involved in the suits today, the city alleging that there are deficits existing in each case. The bonds are joint and several bonds, so it will be possible for the city to col- lect the entire amount from any in- dividual signer of any bond if it is not possible to collect their propor- tionate share from other signers, Constable Fred Winkle served pa- pers this morning notifying the de- | fendants to appear in city court on the four Monday in September to | city's complaint The defendants, bond fu leged deficit, damages claimed main involved are: E. O. Kilbourne and A. Gorbach on | Eeptember 19, 1919 furnished a bond of $2,200 for 1,190 foot extension | in East street, and the city alleges a| $370.44 deficit for which damages in the amount of $450 are cilimed | H. C. Doolitt'e, John Skritulski, Ig- | natz Wieczorek, \Thomsz * Tuskowski, | Charles Bowen, Joe Carpenter, Mary J. Mullen, Tadewicz Logwin and Ram | ished, al- and Hammerly were married at Luverne, Minn., in 1898 and have ten chijdren. Mrs. Hammerly avers that her hus-| band has refused to talk to her for a fifth of a century except in cases of absolute necessity and that they have| carried on their conversation through | their children. | 500 Special Police to | Oppose Klan Initiation San Antonio, Sept, 21.—As a - pre- caution against masked members of {the Ku Klux Klan appearing on tha| gy 100 toda 3 s Wat- P g and fined $1 oday by Judge Wat | High schoo! eleven 2 streets of San Antonio, 500 epecial | policemen were sworn in by city au | thorities on the eve of a big initna- tion ceremony by the klan tonight at | the San Antonio speedway. . i Aged Man Has Shoék as He| Turns on Gas, Is Suffocated Norwich, N, Y 21.—Charles Cox, aged 93, was found dead on the fioor of his kitchen today from as phyxiation Investigation indicated that he had suffered a paralytic shock just as he turned on the gas | Sept Lack of Newspapers Holds | Up Big Financial Deals| New York, Sept. 21.—The omission of financial advertising by the New York newspapers because of the| pressmen’s strike has resulted in a postponement of two large railroad equipment trust offerings, a $12,000,. | 000" {sue of Union Pacific 'and a $10,- | | common man Wednesday afternoon and which was received by Coach Cassidy short. ly afterward, today received from the coach a letter of acceptance. The let. ter was. brief, containing no request for his return to the squad nor any expression of regrets A team of High school alumni, com- posed practically in its entirety of players who won their letters with the championship teams of several years ago, has already offered McCue and O'Brien places in ite backfield. It has been planned to pit the présent ainst the alum- rous, after a declaration that driving | J1Eh 56 00% £ mm";':r:u}:- Thome While drunk was getting to be too) .y " play in the backfeld with McCue and O'Brien are “Dixie” Grif- fin, * former All-Connecticut quarter- 'back, and “Battler’ Murtha, former Italians Begin to Leave | All-Connecticut fullback Corfu Today, Ahead of Time! Donald McGuire, a member of the 21.—Althouegh the|squad, quit the team last night, it d As was DRUNKEN ADTOIST JAILED New Haven Motorist Hits Pole But is Not Hurt—Judge Says Drunken Drivers Are Too Common. New Haven, Sept. 21 —An automo- bile driver who while drunk sent his machine into a telephone pole and broke it off, being nnhurt, although the pole held him and a companion in the car, was sent'to jail for 20 days London, Sept conference of ambassadors fixed Sept, | VA8 learned this afternaon 27 as the date for the Itallan evacwa. | the case with McCue and O'Brien, Mc- tion of Corfu the Ttallan actually be.| Guire claims that he was not given gan th#r evacuation today, says ¢ |©qual opportunities gn the Central N dispatch form Athens Artillery brigades, guns and ammuni- tion have already been embarked. with his former captain, hence his de- |elsion to retire. McGuire has been anucuc;llv conceded a permanent position at end this year. OLD ACTOR DIES, New York, Sept. 21.—Harry Rra-| ham, 738 year o!d actor, associated | with Tony Pastor and William H.| Crane in the geventies and eighties, | dled yesterday in Staten Islamd hos-| | pital THE WEATHER —cr Hartford, Sept. 21 —Forecast for New Rritain and vicinity: Showers amd cooler tonight; Saturday fair and cooler,” south shifting. to northwest win NO CLEVELAND GAME. { Washington, Sept. 21.—(American) | gridiron, | and he has also expressed sympathies | Principal Louis P. Slade of the| New Britain High school was the speaker at the regular meeting of the Lions club held this noon at the Flks club on Washington street. He| | had as his tople “The c.msmutmn"g kill a Miss Case of Newfleld avenue June 30 on farm harm hold of her Body of Missing Boy and asserted that if the flag is the symbol of our country then the con- | stitution should be the slogan i | President Carl W. French presided |at the gathering treasurer was read by cock and James O'Brien, i | The next regular meeting will | held on Tuesday of next week with a | Massachusetts congressman as the | speaker. 1 " WARE RESTITUTION Conzequently Two Bridgeport Men Will Not Have to Face Charges of Theft in Superior Conrt. Bridgeport, Sept. 21 —Charles and Isadore Birnbaum were released from court today upon making restitution the bfnkruptcy of a hardware con- cern which they had operated. When| their concern went bankrupt the paqr} were accused of removing goods to| {a warehouse and disposing of them illegally. Today they paid $3,000 to Is Found in Two Tree Is. | New London, The report of the|of Robert Montgomery of Norwich, | Harry Han-| one of the two bove who disappeared secretary, | September made geveral announcements in re-| fishing off Millstone in the town of| gard to future activitiee of the club. | Waterford, was found this afternoon be| on the shote of Two Tree island near| where they were last seen L C. C. Will Meet in Boston To Take Up Desires of New Englind Roads Weiglin, who was a hand, threatened to do her| with an axe after he had seized -~ Hartford, Sept. 21 -—Whether New England wants ite rallroads controlled by New England or by the trunk lines is a question to come before the in« terstate commerce commission at Boston next Monday, September 24, according to word received by E. Kent Hubbard, chairman of the Connecti- cut committee on raillroad consolida- tion and press of the manufacturers | of Conneeticut, . from J. J. Storrow, chairman of the joint committee. The Sept. 21.—The body 10 while out in a canoce Two Tree island is a small bare! Bocton hearing will be held in Ford island Iving three-quartets of a mile| naj, from to Niantie Bay { Auto Knocks Down Child Enrico Fumiatti of 39 Oak street reported to the police this afternoon that | Winter | summer street, Helen Keevers, geven- facing charges of theft in superior| yvear-old daughter | stoner John E. R. Keavers, for frauds alleged in connection with | front of his macihne. knocked down but not badly hurt, he| sald TWO GAMES SATURDAY, Phi —Chicago-Philadelphia adjoinin, st e Millstone point at the ‘entrance s m,, djaynsy_-,!g th:m:n.;e az:l: “-nl,: questions to be dealt with are of | more far reaching importance to the industrial future of Connecticut and New England than any that have ever been before the commission and a large attendance i expected of repre sentatives of the commercial and ine dustrial organizations which have prepared statements for presentation | to the commission. The government | of the six New England states will be | present and will in all probability be | the first to be heard. | Of Fire Commissioner | he was driving east on intersection of whiel street at the of. Fire Commis- ran in The girl was . Providence, Sept. 21.—Consolidation | of New England railroads with the ex ception of the Boston and Albany and trunk linek is favored by the cham- ber of commerce, 388 to §5 The minority voted for consolidation of all The vote was the heaviest 21—(American) game post- ladelphia, Sept reimburse losses to creditors and to raing double-header tomor- | lines pay costs of investigation. poned; rew. | i i 000,000 issue of Great Northern rail — Cleveland-Washington postpoped road. Y ar rain the history of the chamber. (Continued on Pageé Eleven)