New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 18, 1923, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1928 —SIXTEEN PAGES, PAONESSA FLAYS COUNCIL Two Charged With Murder, Accused GOVERNMENT OPENS DRY CAMPAIGN ATTACKING ITS ATTITUDE | Of Starting Fatal New York Fire [y NEW VORK: 54 CAFES, CABARETS ON POLICE APPOINTMENTS|,.. prisoner was Relative of Keim, Playwright, Who| AN RESTAURANTS T Q BE CLOSED R ey Y {9 . | Was One of Six Vietimg — Brooklyn Fire Marshal | ‘ RN g ks donhiamong | U. S. Dist. Atty. Hay- Is Becoming Tiresome”™ e, Clams to Have Confession. ' FIVE BUILDINGS IN COLCHESTER'S and st 1 g, LUDORE'S FATMENTS """ MAIN STREET DESTROYED BY FIRE | o 4 Fies Inronci :mm in Glty Fall Ovor Bl . And Common Nuisance NAMES MRS, STOKES AS | e = o +— B gusting”’ Mayor Says i Rncitao’s Plats WOMAN IN MAN'S FLAT Suits in Federal Court W Iteson ey G gy | Today New York Lawyer Gl.ven Was Not Made When City i But Corporstion Counsel Replies That | Claims Evidence Against Damaging Testimony Was “Wide Openu and A‘.‘mt Defendant \ It Can't Be Done—Whero Is Oity's| Crime Was Rampant, s £ L iy x::.:‘-'llr-.r"r:}m(:::} 1—Horuce . 1,100 Resorts—Beer at 20 : to 25 Cents, and 25 to 50 it a Mystery. | States diplomatic ..";upm Rumania, Describing the situation as | {Bulgaria, Bolivia and Peru, today g ) o Architect Henry F. Ludorf, who/testified at the retrial of W. E. D, CGII'B fo “disgusting”, Mayor A. M't, P:"‘ drow plans for & proposed addition to Stokes' sult for divorce agatnst Holen r Alleged Whis- nessa ugsued a statemen Or‘;).e town home, yesterday made de-| Elwood Stokes, that he had seen Mrs, k ey, publication this afternoon in|mand on the eity for payment of the|Stokes In 1914 on the stairs leading “which he takes the common | first installment of his fees, payment|to the apartment of Edgar T. Wal- council to task for its blockade | of Which was voted by the common ince. gortaet o | councll at it special sesslon last week. Knowles, now a practicing lawyer, | tactics when legislation which | the mayor believes is for the At the suggestion of Judge John H.|[sald he knew Wallace and that in Kirkham, corporation counsel, pay-(1914 he had visited a man with whom city’s benefit comes before that body. ) ment was withheld, it being contend- | Wallace shared an apartment in 35th ed that no part of the fee Is now due. street, Asked whether he had seen : The contract states that 40 per cent| Mrs, Stokes there, after the defend- The statement is the result of | o¢ the fee, amounting to about $2,400, [ant had been pointed out to him in last night’s meeting when the|shall be payable provided the city de-|the courtroom, the witness answered: il 1 i cldes to use his plans, as soon as con- “To thé best of my knowledge and c,ounm} +|e‘?:“;z g’ chlr:;dea; tel:z tracts are executed. Tho charity belief I did see her on the stairs case o o y beard accepted Ludorf's plans after|jeading to the apartment and fn serviceman who wants to be re-| ne had submitted sketches in compé- | company with Wallace.” instated in the police depart-|titioff with other t;mmte::u. 'ut‘a :: wnér Clarence A. Smith, process server, ment hut who canno! in his voted to award the contract to the C./and Charles Murphy, deputy sheriff, ambiti?m because 0: ?:’f;lt:lordl- L. & D. Co. of this city. When #at|to)q of having made frequent and P et recommendation was sent to the coun- unsuccessful visits to the tea room in nance limiting the age of eligible |cil, a second resolution was brought|the house where Wallace had . his candidates. The mayor also re-|in so that payment could be made Lu-| gpartment in an attempt to serve a fers to the blocking of the rec- cmmendation of the charity board for a contract for a town home building, ecriticizing the council for its attitude. YETABLISHED 1870 PRICE THREE CENTS New York, Oct. 18—A sensational artermath of a fire which early last| i st dat o s saeors| T0WM Has Only Old-Fashioned Engine Which Was Use- less, So New. London Fire Dept. Sends Apparatus, came today with the arrest of Willlam | A, Ford, a rea te broker and son- But Then There Was No Water. | 1in-lawof one of the fire ' vietims, and Raymond Anderson on charges of orew laid & hose to a brook some dis- tance away the fire could not be murder and arson, A third man, James R. Lynch, an fought and the bulldings were entire. Iy sonsumed by noon, The fire in accountant, w held as n witness and a fourth, whose |dentity is known to the police, was being sought as an London's garage spread so qmrhly\ that nothing in It was saved, but in the storos and tenements most of the | accomplice, Ford is the son-In.law of George Keim, playright, whose death in the fire eame on the eve of the production of his fAirst play,! accepted after vears stock and furniture was taken out in of endeavor, time. The two-family house was own- Grilled All Night ed by Louls Solomon. He also owned | The arrests followed an all-night the smithy which was rented by A. grilling of the prisoners by Iire Katrosser, and the bullding In which Marshal Brophy, who declared he there were two stores. One stors was | had obtalned a confession from An- used by A. Alpert as a meat market derson, Tll-feeling between Kelm and grocery. Two families lived up- stairs, In the second house B, Mieses had a barber shop. In federal court, under the Volstead All machines in the private garage |act, to close alleged wet saloons, were removed, cafes, restuurants and cabarets in this and his son-in-law was sald to have existed for several years, according to city, Hayward's Statement SHVEREIENS fll“[;“ Mr. Hayward issued this statement: Brophy, and Keim, it was understood, was to have appeared in a Hempstead, “I have filled this morning 654 in- Junction suits asking for the closing of (Hartford Men to Pay About $100,000 for Main Street Long Tsland, court to testify against that many saloons now running wide Property Colehester, Oct. 18.~Five bulldin in the main strest of this town w burned today entalling & loss ef about $30,000, The fire started in the public of H. London, in Lebanon probably from a blow torch which |was In use, and under a very heavy wind It spread to the two.story frame house adjoining, then to another buflding in which were two stores, to a blacksmith shop in the rear and ended at a private garage of the Dr, Cragin estate, The town has only an old fashioned engine which was of no use in a fire of this size and New London sent a machine. There was no water avafl- able and although the New London SERIOUS SHORTAGE OF WATER IN NEW JERSEY [;ong Drought Also Having Dangerous Effect in Towns in Mass. New York, Oct, 18.—United States Attorney Hayward today filed 54 in- Junction and common nulsance suits Ford In an assault case the day of his death, Anderson, according to Brophy, ac- cused Ford and the unidentified man, also a stranger to him, of having open In the Borough of Manhattan, “This is the first of a series of simi- lar actions which will be commenced as rapldly as the clerks can get out the papers, the clerk of the distriot driven to Keim's home early Monday morning after they had spent the court can file them and the marshal can serve them. | Bunday evening with two girls, and | with having fired the house. Keim, | three women and two other men | perished in the flames. Ford and his father-in-law, for- merly partners in a Manhattan theat- Police Have Co-operated “Since the repeal of the Mullen« Gage act, prohibition agents acting Sovereigns bullding, one of the most [ under the supervision of my assistant, valuable pleces of Main street real es- | Major 8. H. Clark, have been making tate is shortly to change hands, a bond & survey of all the places in which rical enterprise, were sald to have broken business relations svveml‘ for a deed having been passed by | &rrests have been made since the Vol- years ago. Had Girl Companions Anderson, Ford and the unidentified man, accompanied by two telephone operators, spent Sunday evening In (Continued on Thirteenth Page). DOCTOR BY CONTRACT Boston, Oct. 18, — Thousands of persons throughout Massachusetts are faced with the necessity of drinking stead act went into effect. dorf immediately upon the execution|subpoena on Mrs. Mary McNuity, Referring to the “police de- of the contract. The council rejected par tment investigation,” Mayor y terms of the contract. Kirkham Holds Up Check Head of Baldwin Locomotive Works When it was proposed yesterday driving about in Ford's motor car. After the girls had been returned to. water from unprotected ‘ponds and streams in consequence of the long continued drought, sald to be the which Joseph H. Wiegel and Barney Toretsky of Hartford, will take posses- The po- lice have co-operated by giving us 1ists of all arrests made by them under the resolution pertaining to the award of the building contract, and took fa- Paonessa’s: statement says: “I| | cannot avoid realizing that in vorable, action on the matter relating sion of the property about November | former days when the town was 1. Mrs. Helen Kelly McCabe is the present owner. The sale price is sald to be about $100,000, COlaims Rebate Every Time His Health Suffers Relapse, their homes, Anderson was alleged to have told Marshal Brophy, Ford drove to his home and went inside, worst in a decade, The towns and cities of Newtown, Woburn, Ipswich, and Athol have already been forced the Mullan-Gage aot.” 1,100 Open Saloons. In describing the scope of the dry that a check be issued for $2,400, the corporation counsel refused to sanc- tion the payment, pointing out that and a to Ludorf's fee, ordering that pay- ment be made in accordance Wwith ‘wide open’ and New Britain was the subject of much unfavor- able comment throughout our | entire state, laxity in enforcing our laws was the rule in certain districts, and even when honest | and energetic officers were kept in parts of the city where they would not annoy or apprehend the wrongdoers, there was no investigation of police affairs.” The statement follows: “The bickering and qulbbling of the common council is becoming tiresome to me and T am of the opinion it is affording amusement to many of our citizens, ¢ “We have on our charity board men |be used. contracts have not as yet been entered into with bullders. There is a sec- ond clause in the contract that might result in further delays. It is pro- vided that if the buildings cannot be erected within the architects figures, which are $63,000, the plans will not In view of the fact that members of the chdbity commission favor advertising for new bids, it 18 that the bids may be beyond that figure, although all bids recelved so far have possible, though not probable, been below that amount. .Where Is Oity’s Contract In the meantime, the city is without a signed copy of the contract. Mr. Ludorf has a copy signed by the com- missioners and himself and from his by copy a duplicate las been made Philadelphia, Oct. 18.—Five years have now elapsed since Samuel M. Vauclain, president of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, made a'contract with a physician to keep him in good physical condition for ten years. Mr. Vauclain sald today he agreed to pay a flat sum every year for belng kept well, increasing this sum each year on the assumption that the older he grows the more difficult it will be for him to keep well. Under the contract, if Mr, Vauclain falls sick, a deduction is made from | the doctor's annual retainer accord- ing to the length of time of his {ll- ness. “I have been sick,” he sald, “and I didn’t like it. I did not want it to happen again. Since the inception of this contract I have kept my part of returning soon with a can bottle believed by the prisoner to have contained kerosene ahd gasoline. The trio then drove to the Keim home, Anderson”was alleged to have charged; and Iford and the stranger disappeared behind the house, leaving Anderson in the car. They ran back to the car fn a few minutes, Brophy said he was told, and flames shot up from the rear of the house. Lynch’s only connection with the case, Brophy said, consisted in his having been present at Anderson’s home early Sunday when the uniden- tified man believed to have accom- panied the alléged arson expedition called on Anderson. Was Accused as “Yellow.” Anderson, according to Brophy, said he refused to take part in the arson to augment, their water supply with water from outside sources, according to the state department of health. Hoboken, N. J., Oct.’ 18, — Many thousands of workers will be thrown porarily out of their jobs and hun- reds of the largest manufacturing: plants in North Hudson and Bergen fcounties will be forced either to shut down altogether or to curtail their ac- tivities sharply today when their water supply is shut off. This section of the state is facing a situation which grows worse with every fair day, and no rain is prom- ised. The Hackensack Water Co., has announced it will be forced to close its resagvoirs this morning, the water is so low. In Union Hill, West Hoboken, West The prospective purchasers are con- nected with the Outlet Millinery Co., conducting stores in Hartford! New Britain and elsewhere. ‘The property Is located at 162 Main street, and is five stories in height. The first floor is.occupied by James )smnettn who conducts a grocery and meat store. The store was formerly the old Sovereigns Trading Co. site. The second and third floors are occu- pied by business offices in” the front and rooming houses in the rear. The fourth floor is used by Stanley Post, G. A. R, while the rear is a rooming house, and the entire fifth floor is oc- cupied by the Kenilworth club. throughout and to that end will begin The new owners are planning to| make the building a business block | offensive, Mr. Hayward said he had a locality card index of some 1,100 open saloons. “The survey will be ocontinued throughout the southern district of New York,” he asserted. . “'These saloons are of the old type. Drinks are sold quote openly—10 cents for near beer, 20 to 256 cents for real beer and 25 to 50 cents for what passes for whiskey. Girl “Rushing the Can." “In one saloon, a little girl of seven was observed taking out a can of beer. It was a small can and the price was 40 cents, but it is indica- tive of the whole situation. “The old saloons are with us still {and have taken a new lease of life since they defeated the efforis of the State of New York to put them out the éity. Originally, two copies.of the contract were drawn and signed,, Lu- dorf retaining one. Several days ago, Charity Superintendent W. C. Cowli- shaw delivered to City Clerk A. L. Thompson, several papers including the slgned contract, he explained this afternoon. Col. Thompson says he cpened none of the papers, but car- ried all to Mayor A, M. Paonessa's of- fice where he left the several pack. ages. He saw nothing of the contract, he says. When the charity superin- tendent called at the mayor's office to examine the contract it could not be found, For several days the officlals have been endeavoring to locate the missing instrument, but without sue- cess, plot beyond driving Ford's car. He said Tord accused him of being “Yellow.” Ford, Brophy said, denied Ander- son’'s story. Officers who went to arrest him had to enter the house through a window, they said, and found Ford huddled ll\i bed, with the blankets pulled over his isaid. He screamed hysterically on|poiq0rs will be affected. Orders have seeing the police, they sald. A news- |y ... yoqued to Farike’ OWRELY ToLAE paper clipping of an Ecco!mt of ?he|wush ny Sutsmoblies ORs. Tatea fire was found in Ford's pocket, BantpRNY AN nCRoHAtINE €5 HAVs: Wkten Frophy A shipped to its factories, of intelligence and of ability., They are giving their time and thelr efforts free of charge to the city of New Britain, In order to do this they are losing out financlally at their own work and are crowding up on them- selveg efforts which, but for their sense of public duty they could avold end the thanks they receive for it is a direct and premeditated slap in the face from the common council. “This board centered all its efforts recently on the awarding of a con- ct. They discussed the situation from every angle and unanimously de- cided in favor of a,certaln concern of | New Britain buildérs. Then an out of town attorney makes a trip to New Britain, talked to some council mem- bers and the council, sidetracking its - | own previously declared policy of | | | trading at home, ignoring completely | DRY[NG UP WINDHAM [ the efforts, and insulting the judg- | RN o ment of our own charity board and | | deliberately turned down their recom- | mendation, thereby refusing to back alterations shortly. The property is centrally located and it was with & |gurrendered to -them. view to providing for increasing de- mands for offices that the Hartford | Arrested Many Times men made negotiations which will he| *In many of these saloons thers consummated shortly in the transfer | have been more than 10 arrests and in of title, some as many as 25. One saloon- keeper boasted that he had been ar- rested more than 25 times, Some of the worst places started in business the week the Mullan-Gage act was repealed. “Tt is my intention by sults against all the open saloons, probably more than 2,000 in Manhattan and the Bronx alone, to bring the whole situa- tion to the attention of the federal district judges. The fssue will, of R ccurse, be In their hands, It is my { own opinion, and T hope it will be it, and my doc! goanad t};"ice’tgr]&u",‘:kbc:etn)x:(.nz(‘c:f; of business, and this great state has not less than every two weeks and have guided myself entirely by the doctor's instructions., In that time I | have not lost & day from business, nor have I been ill in‘any way. I am heavier, stronger and more active than I was five years ago.” New York, Hackensack, FEdgewater, Weehawken and scores of smaller manufacturing centers at least 800 plants will be affected. + Many . con- cerns of national reputation wiil be closed. If rain does not fall for a full day within the next 10 days even house- INFURIATED WOMEN MAKE | poe to 1t | ATTACK ON IRON WORKS and is so far unaffected, has agreed | gaqiy Damage German Factory When to scll water to Nutely and Kearney| . j at $90 for 1,000,000 gallons, * {Bodies Buried 10,00.0“ Years Ago Found in California Santa Barbara, Cal,’ Oct, 18— Fossilized remains of a mastodon, an elephant of a later era, and skele- { tons of human heings buried for 7,- 000 to 10,000 years have been un- covered at Point Magu, Ventura coun- ty, by John P. Harrington of Sants Barbara, a representative of the Smithsonian institution of Washing- ton, D. €. The excavations were | made on the site of an anclent In- A series of excava- throughout 'SUDDEN SEA UPHEAVAL Hushands Are Not Patd’ — Six Cielsenkirchen, Rhur Valley, Oct. | padlock.” women attacked and | 1 badlv damaged the administration | . [EDWARDS MENTIONED 8.~—A mob of New Haven Negro-Indian Pleads One Boat Wrecked, 15 Res- cued—Other Craft Be- County Saloonkeepers Mus < | " ust Dismantle| 4.1 rancheria. tions will be continued southern California. to Manslaughter—Choked | Works here today. The assault was up the work of a fine board of men and throwing down. one of our best New Britain attorneys. “And then they went further and All Their Bars, State's Attorney | Orders Today, | Willimantie, Oct. 18.—-An order was| C orinne Griffin Divorced; lieved: to Be Lost | " Guilty | Woman Companton to Death, New Haven, Oect Gibbs, 34, pleaded guilty to 18.~—William man- | in protest against the non-payment of | wages die the women's husbands. The {officials of the works pleaded lack of currency as the reason for their fail- | - AS HEAD OF LEGION Eddie Polo Seeks Decree without any power to do so, tried to T 2 the charity board to enter into a contract which the charity board had already decided was not as good | Tor the city of New Eritain as the one the common council refused to ratify. Comments on Police Probe “There is also a great stir tssued today by State Attorney Searle | to the effect that all saloonkeepers in| Fort Worth, Tex. Oof, 18.-~Arriv- Windham county must dismantle|ing in Mine Wells unannounced their bars. Enforcement of the order | Mrs. Willilam M. Campbell, known in was placed with county detective | the movie world as Corinne Griffith, Jackson who started at once to serve|appeared in distriet court at Palo the order, | Pinto Monday and was granted a di- The so-called “wet” ‘towns of the|vorce from her hugband, Willlam M. county are sald to be Killingly, Put-| Campbell, a moving pleture director, nam and Windham, it was learned here today.' T.os Angeles, Oct. 18, —FEdward Weyman, better known as.Fddie Polo motion picture actor yesterday filed sult, for divorce against Pearl E. Wey- man charging desertion. {Kaceys Present Methodist Pastor With Masonic Ring Olean, N. Y., Oct. 1%,—Olean coun- | eil, No. 338, Knights of Colnmbus, last | night presented the Rev. G. R. Wil- ure to pay the men’s wages. | New York, Oct. 18.—An unidenti-|Slaughter in‘choking to death May| The women also raided food shops fied fishing smack broke up in u“"""_"~ with whom he had lived here, | heavy sea off Coney Island today, its before Judge Jennings today and was anq afterwards visited .nearby farms crew of 15 men being rescued from |Sentenced to state prison for from 10|gearching for food, in one instance small boats by a tug. A number of |0 15 vears. Gibbs, who is of negro|gcizing a peasant’s cow, pigs and launches went Lo the assistance of the and Indfan blood, had been on alohickens smack, but were tossed to sea by the|drinking spree with the woman in waves., Some of these rescue craft|heir rooms In Oak street last May|my The Assoctated Press | were believed to have foundered, |And there was a quarrel, a fight and| Mannheim, Germany, Oct A search along the coast for the| then Gibbs choked the womnan. Gibbs|From six to eight persons are reported missing hoats was started by coast|tWO days later walked into a police |dcad and many others wounded as the guard and police craft. The sea was|Statlon and sald he had killed a wom- [result of yesterday's food riots in turbulent, the high waves {an and the body was then fonnd Mannheim during which frequent dashing clashes occurred between the demon Today's session of the national con- under the hoardwalk at Coney Island,| — | flooding a number of places on the G'RL SU 'Mratr\rs and the police, | Y 0 | The trouble was the outgrowth of |vention was seething with politics, - the high prices of food, resulting in a| Opposition to the recognition of beach front. There was hardly any wind and seamen were puzzled by the ] e wition 1 strange actlons of the deep. L % b general strike Soviet Russia an emand for o Old timers aid they never had|Ne-Year-Old Negrees Aske Damages | the water, gas, electrie and street car|annual reglstration of all altens in the | witnessed such a high tide at Coney|. From Italian Neighbor, Who Struck |services. A state of slege was declar. | United States formed the high lights Island In 40 years, Her in Faoce, "04 by the police last night and the |©f the American Legion F\" .x‘nwrivmtn Attorney David L. Nair, represent. |5I"eets were cleared at nine o'clock |:?YT fl:y'r“g‘v""v: o'n'n‘i-?.'.:uii’. ;:::qododuo ear-old Theresa Smith, a| X eneke stables, a Darien landmark, The action of the waves at the| | Hamson, D. D., former pastor of the . b 4| First Methodist Episcopal church, |\9and have been the cause of spect-| ing nine 1 of Sedgewick avenue, has| B ARl B brought &nit against Amedeo Bonola BIG FIRE m NORWALK completely demolished by fire early | B Property Damage Placed at $50,000 interfered in a quarrel among chil- - Firniture and antiques owhed with & 82nd degree Masonic ring, The |1ation for several weeks. About the | negro of the same neighborhood for $1,000 | dren in the neighborhood by F. H. Norton, president of the| &nd Fire Chief and Two Firemen time of the Japanese earthquake occasion was 2 public farewell recep- Bl 4 patere Lreey ‘ tion for the clergyman, who has been | Neavy swells, of a nature unexplained, damages, alleging that Bonola assault | ed and injured her. Bonola was con-| B " " | Piraeus, Oct. 14, rAflkll\rkn Land Co. who is un“A!n‘ Seuador were ameng the ruine, Fire ‘onvention Opposes Recog- nition of Russia—Would List All Aliens and 18, — | ®an Francfsco, Oet. 15 —General |Clarence R. Edwards of Massachu- setts was prominently mentioned to- day as a candidate for national com- mander of the American Legion, (Continued on Thirteenth Page.) ;'ord, Who Specl;ied the Earth With i'livvers, Has Ideas That May Fill the Air With Them Sperry should try to sell his plans to city boys first. The three-cylinder air-cooled mo- | tor with which the Sperry filvver is equipped interested Mr. Ford a great deal and he viewed it, Mr. Sperry said, from a standpoint of quantity production, expressing the bellef that in large numbers the engine could be built for $50. “If he is right, and he ought to be,” Mr. Sperry sald, "the first air L | | he Associated Press, By The Associal and the cutting off of Farmingdale, N. Y. Oct. 18— | Henry Ford, who speckled the surface of the earth with filvvers, has ideas that may fill the air with them. Mr. Ford's theorles on the future of the air “Lizzles”, as heard by Lawrence Sperry, American father of. the flying flivver, were reported by Mr. Sperry today on his return from f« 2,000 mile trip in his tiny plane, The Messehger, with a wing spread of only 20 feet, | A month ago Mr. Sperry left Farm- lingdale on his tour, during which he visited Washington, Dayton and St Louls. On the return journey he [1ad occasion to stop off at Detroit ‘lv')r a couple of gallons of gas and [while thera was Invited (o talk to Mr. I"ord in his Dearborn Deinicile. At the very outset of hs conver. [sation, Mr, Sperry said, Mr: i ord vis [impressed by the fact that a flying flivver could go further on u sallon ot gas than an earth filvver. Famous Darlen 7l',;;1'dmnrk Is Destroyed by Flames | C V' H rd O - appointed pastor of the First Meth- ":“'h"" o, 'TA‘:‘"."‘ (’;’;‘" on the| tamford, Oct. 18.-~The old Tok- odist Episcopal church, North Tona- | ’®Ch on several occasions. flivver could be put on the market|wanda, Dr. Willlamson was present- for less than $1,000.” } |ed also with a purse of $1,200 and a More advice ahout the construction | goid watch by the people of Olean. of the various parts of the engine, | i - the observation that the bones of the Pub“c Dfi“kl“g me's Shut Off in New Haven bird are hollow, fin fllustrating a point of engine welght and Mr. Ford asked Mr. Sperry about his father,| New Haven, Oct. 18.—Conservation | Elmer A. Sperry, Inventor of the|of water suggested by the New Ha-| Gyroscope, ven Water Co. led Difector of Publie Works Lane to order water shut off in public drinking fountains today. 1o . | victed and fined in police court yes- + STEAMSHIP ARRIVALS | terday for striking the girl, when he|t°12¥ With an estimated loss of $35,- Arrived—Fuerst Bulow, Hamburg, Oct. 15, New York. Sailed-—Madonna, New York, Asla, Marseilles, Oct Are Tnjured. South Norwalk, Oct. 18.—Fire in the Gottlieb block in South Main | street early today caused about $50,- | 000 damage, the loss falling mainly on Mrs. David Gotilieb who kept a cloth- ing store and owned the three Story | frame building and on George Pettes, confectionery store operator. In fighting the blaze, Chief Bogard- uy and Harold Burr, firaman, wers overcome by smoke and George Gains, another fireman, was cut by glass, Defective wiring in the basement 18 thought to have started the fire, 2 department authorities stated they | believed the fire was of incendiary origin Outbreak in h;axoll_\' May Be the Result | The Assoclated Pross, {| Berlin, Oct. 18.—The government | lof Baxony, having lgnored the wuiti matum of General Von Mueller, com- Providence, Oct. 18.—The extreme | mander of the Reichswehr in that| penalty of 20 years a4t hard labor in state, expiring at 11 a. m. today, tife!state prison was imposed upon Syi- general sent a second letter to Pre- | vester Whiteley, 24, by Judge Hahn mier Zeigner saying: in the supreme court today and Eimer “As you have not thought it fit to Watts, 22, was sentenced to 15 years |answer my letter 1 beg to inform you at hard labor when ghey pleaded Jahat T have referred the affair to the | nolo to indictments chirging assault 15, New York. ——T GIVEN EXTR ¥ PENALTY. THYE. WEATHER “Is he associated with you in avia- tion?” asked Mr. Ford “No, sir.” “Quite right. It would be unfair The ecity boy, Mr. Ford thought, |to have a new medium of transpor- as quicker to accept a new idea than |tation held back by the prejudices of he country boy, as proved by tho|an older generation.” country boy's reluctance to give up Whereupon they shook hands and he plough-horse for the new-fangled | Mr. Sperry cranked his flivver and ractor. 8o Mr. Ford ihorght Mr [sailed away New Yorkward. —— Hartford, Oct. 18.—Forecast ' | WASHNINGTON 1S SELECTED for New Britain and vicinity: ; { | Springfield, Mass., Oet. 18—The next biennial meeting of the national | | council of Congregational churches in ! | Becoming unsettled with rain tonight; Friday rain, not much change in temperature; strong northeast winds. 1925 will be held in Washington, D. €. by vote In today's session of the conneil i NFS . — % | minister of Adefense.” | with inten} to rob. | SRS VRS