New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 4, 1924, Page 1

) | Claim That Tomoka Is of = ews of the World By Associated Press ABLHED 1870 BRITAIN REQUESTS THAT CREW OF RUM CRAFT BE RELEASED FROM BONDS TROUBLE IN BUNGHES FOR WEST HAVEN AN Canadian Ownership And Was Seized Beyond Three Mile Limit State Department Ques- tions the Truth of the Registration of Vessel Which May Really Be -American Owned. —Wife Gets Divorce on Same Day New London, Jan. 4.—That the owner of the 50 foot motor lavnch Columbia, which grounded late Sun- day night with a cargo of 480 cases of liquor on Fisher's Island, is not one of the three men apprehended by customs officials was brought to light when the survivors were arraigned be- fore Solicitor of Customs Barnes in New York yesterday. Andrew and John Jensen and John Sarvarese of West Haven, the crew members, were -fined $500 each for smuggling the liquér. They say that By The Associated Pressp London, Jan, 4.—Great Britain has asked the Umited States for the re- : lease from ‘bail of the British and | the man who owned the Hquor’ and Canadian members of the crew?of the | the Columbla herself was Shorty Cos- British schoon Tomoks ““,.‘,.d!ll‘llo of Bridgeport, who escaped im- rum-runner seized last November be- | Mediately when the boat grounded. pond o oe-mile off New | by i'..'.'k' the three-mile limit off N AN RS R AR The requsist for the release of the|8en of West Haven, arrested at Fish- erew 18 being made through Henry G, | *F'8 1sland, N. V., as an alleged rum Chilton, the charge d'affaires in | runner after the launch Columbia had Washington, at the' instance of the | Deen wrecked and 480 cases of liquo; Canadian government, bought with $18,240 hard earnes #urther information also is being | Cash, seized, probably realizes that sought by the British government re. | troubles do not como singly. specting the circumstances attending|Judge Wolfe granted Mrs. Jensen a the seizure of the Tomoka beyond the divorce with custody o! two children, three-mile limit, According to Jensen's story after Taken On High Seas | bis arrest, he with his brother and Investigation by the British authori. | @nother man, after the launch which ties, it is stated, showed the Tomoka |Nad cost them $6,000 had been of Canadian ownership and | Wrocked, swam a mile to shore and outside the threesuile | tramped 12 miles to the lighthouse only to be arrested and taken to New York. . MISS CONROY RESIGNS POST IN HOME SERVICE BUREAU Will Ieave New Britain Tomorrow to Accept Position in New York City. Miss Gertrude Conroy, for the past |two and one-hall years secretary of the Munieipal Home | at eity hall, will retire from that of- fice tomorrow to cept a plage with a New York city voncern. Miss Conroy was in government service during the war and was thor- oughly famillar In the handling of | servicemen's clating, war risk insur- | ance, ete. When the common council ostablished the Home Berviee burcau #he was nvited to come here and act as secretary and she accepted the offer to seizged well limit While British officials here are en- tirely out of sympathy with lquor smuggling they feel they have no al- ternative but to protect the rights of British-owned vessels outside the tra- d!liwml three-mile radius, which they say mugt remain the law until the new !rl‘*l_\ extending the limit to an | hour's steaming distance from the shore becomes e¥ective, Investigate Registry Washington, Jan, 4, Officials here huve had some doubt whether: the Pritish registry of the rum runner Tomoks was boni fide and they have wade an investigation into the sub- Jeet with results that they are not yer ready 1o revenl he Tomoka had becl walted for wocks before sho was seized by rev-| enne cutters, and treasury official belleve there is evidne that she wi »lulfiu the American prohibition g * Whether that fact Jjustified her syimure at time when she was ountglde the th mile limit however B a question which the courts event- ually may have to declde. Should 1he® vessel prove to have Been operating wnded a fake registry the view here s that her ecapture every claim mgde by a New Britain Inr\"r'-man was handled by her at ‘some stage or another, a great many {new claims being put through while would fall in the same categor s |8he was in the office. Tn addition to thut of the schooner Henry L. Mar. | the bandling of re ts for govern- shall, also seized outside tne terri. |Ment ald and insurance, Miss Conroy torfal waters of the United States, | D48 taken an active work in welfare The British governmgnt when an | WOrk among soldiers and salors. facts become known, dropped its ob- | i A feetion to the action taken, against PE’”‘Y THEFTS FROH AUTOS the Marshall by the Washington gov- crament. ! Mate and jistice department off IN WEST END OF CIT cials declined to comment’ In any way on the British request for re. lease of the Tomoka, Have Copy of Bill of Sale The state department is known, however, to have a copy of a bill of sale of the ship, showing that the | Lourd of directors of the company I8 composed of clerks working in a ship chandier's office In Nova Seotia. Other papers in the depariment’s pos- sesston, it is sald, tend to prove also that William 8, McCoy, an American a fur lined sheep skin coat was stol- captured aboard the Tomoka, is a en from his machine between the Leavy Investor in the ship If not its hours of 6:30 and §:30 o'clock either actual owner, Some legal authoritics examining Lincoln street. W, L. Hatch reported the ease belleve it a paraliel to that that a tail light and marker were growing out pf seizure by the British stolen from his machine last night, government in 1917 of the Amerlean’ A motor meter was stolen from ships, Genesse, Hocking and Kagha- the machine of 8, A, Montague of 44 kee, These threc vessols were n*. Hawley street while it was parked in ated by the American Trans-Atlantic | front of Forest street last night. ocmpany and were cngaged when seiz- | Five Complaints Filed at Police Head- quarters All From Streets in Sar » Section A number of petty thefts from aue tomobiles which were parked in the west end of the city last night were reported at police headquarters this morning. O. K. Swift complained that W. W. MeKirdy of 37 Lincoln street ed in carrying food shipments from reported that a combination tail light the United States to Scandinavian was stolen from his car which was countries. These case was placed be- parked on Harrison street last night fore British prize courts where it Was The rear markers were badly bent, charged that aithough the ships he stated. Mrs. Michael Hannon of rominally were American owned, Ger- Walluce street reported that someone man ecapitalists actually werc. financ- stole the chains off of ing the organization. while it was parked in front of 64 P —— Harrison street. 1l Cracksmen Attacked Three Buildings in New York New York, Jan. 4.—Cracksmen to- FIGHT WITH MANIAC stones’ throw of Columbus Clrele, #4- Crazy Man, Armed With Ase. Holds ped with about $750 in cash and b R e Tos oo Fort William, Ont.. People At $ay jewelry obtained from two safes but tailed to get severn! thousand dollars . yoeugys ¢ " Fort William, Ont., ‘ resting in two more safes they were unable to open. To enter two of the buildings the tecking force of rallroad section men robbers broke through two allegedly | fought two hours before they could burglar proof doors. They failed In grerpower & manise armed with an an attempt to work their way throngh ace, who took possession of the tele- A ba window to the Gotham Na- | graph office at Conmee Junction sft- Uonal bank. er the operator barsly escaped with . his iife. The siege disrupted traffic Sent Poison (‘.“y to Swinging a two-bitted axe and Make His Wife |howiing Vike a wild beast, the de- !mented man, Tony Krusiski, stormed Yonkers, N. Y., Jan, §.—Huow! Van- the little junction house and barri- degenschte was arrested today ecaded the door. The telegraph ope charged with sending candy filled with | tor ran for help. Reinforced by sec- polson to his wife. The wife did not [tion hands, the party resortcd to eat any of the candy and six persons | battle tactics of ancient Rome and to whom she offered,it. also refused. | brought a battering ram into action. According 1o the police, Vandegen- The door was smashed in, pinning sehte confessed 10 removing the In- | the manise under . He fought side of the candy with a nail file and | feroclously until spikes - had been substituting the poison. He said he driven through the door and he had hoped oy 1o make his wife rveal been virtually crated. In this cmer- slek so thal she would stop ‘nagging’ gency cage he was held until police him snd feel more dependent upon arrived from Fort Willlam with a him, | straitjacket. Fined $500 as Rum Runner | Today | | Serviee Burean During her term of office practically | in front of 13 Forest street or 185 | her machine | NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT. FRIDAY, JANURY 4, 1924. QUESTIONS LAWIN "5 s FREQUENTING CASE Memphis and Topeka Censors Act— Laiger Tor Ten Men Ammested i "5 or v recveme ' Raid Ready for Battle = | Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 4—John M. Dean, chairman of the Memphis F A BT |board .of motion picture censors, | tates that fillms in which Mabel Normand appears will be barred here { permanently as a result of the con- JUDGE ASKS: FOR BRIEF ; | | I |ing Tuesday night of Courtland 8. | n | First Test of Statue Passed in 1911 § by | To Be Made in New Britatn Court| The ban, Mr. Dean said, will be | erdered at the next regular meeting —Ogonowski Fined $300, Jail Sen-|of the board. The chairman said y | other members of the board were tence Suspended. agreed that the Normand films would | ¥ | “have a disastrous effect upon the Prosecutor Joseph G, Woods, rep youth of the community.” | resenting the state, and Attorney 5 = 44 { Michael Sexton, representing 10 men | EXhibition of films in which Edna |arraigned in police court thid morn- | Purviance appears will be suspended “lng on charges of having entered n‘:nul the Dines case is “cleared up,” | place where it is reputed Jquor was | MF: Dean stated, | sold, were ordered hy judge B. W.| |Alling to file griefs in the case with | him within a week and decision was | 4 . {roserved until January 19, Stanley | auested by Attornex General e Cgonowski, proprictor of the store in | " (L) l\'ormn:m L mar;‘”‘ in which which the men were found *at the| “py h | The attorney general, in a letter to corner of Grove and Lafayette streets, | S % was fined $100 and costs on a reputa- the board, stated that his action was : byt | taken as a result of the shooting of ?1“0({"':‘;:”1"{ ’,:';‘L‘Nf,;""“;“’:’r e o | Courtland . Dines at Los Angelcs by [Sab to Ml ind’ Eiver 4,80 Ak gue liss Normand's chauffeur, 4 also { mention of hername in the of | pended jail sentence. Judge Alling | (ny o o Hor. [stated that the next man brought in | v |1am Desmond Taylor. Oy, from this store who is found gulity “ & 4 | ! New York, Jan. 4. he l:p:";’(‘]"";’:f the liguor law will bel . 10 moving picture commissic.. H;g, | Arrested Under Old Statute :g‘.ke no action to_wlr-l ronllder'ln, | . & arring firms in whiech Mabel Nor- | The 10 frequenters were arrested d d Fd i under Section 2813 of the general| MaNd @nd Tdna Purvlance appear, | |unless complaint Is made, officials “(:::-’): ;’:’";:""“"'“'a;_ “_‘(\n;“r':"::;"_":::uld today. The commission, as a ndg Ty rule, passes on the film itself and not {any person to whom the sale of liguor | 5 |18 forbidden who shall enter a place | \"dividual actors and actresses. where it is reputed that liquor is . [sold, shanl be fined mot more than | Manchester, N. $50." Attorney Michael Sexton stated | that this law was passed in 1911 and | |was meant for minors and persons iwho had been posted by the select. | mlcn. He sald l:lmt it r’i’onun't seem | this state in the future pictures by [that a law passed before the advent | Mabel Normand. lof the Volstead act can include the arrested men. He further stated that | it is no crime under the state or fefl-i eral luws to purchase liquor, { Judge Alling remarked that he Topeka, Kas., Jan. 4.—The Kansas motion picture censor board has been H, Jan. 4.—Al- Hampshire motion picture owners assoclation today announced men posted as much as it was in- |tended to protect the dealers in liquor at that time from being imposed {upon. Tie said that as he remember- NAVY Dept. Also Active and od the time when the bill was enacted | ' Starts Plans for North he thought it was established to pro-| tect saloonkeepers, who up to a few | years ago were doing a I#xfl(flmlnl Pole Tl'ip business by keeping away from thelr | e stublishmert, minors and others to ! | whom the sale of Hquar was forbid- | den, { " P S " {of th viee Bl { Virst Test in Connecticut e alr service technical school | According to Judge Alling the ques. | Chanute Field, 11l has begn selected [tion as to whether or, not this saction | 10 command the army air squadron [is applieable in this case or in an“hlrh will attempt an around the ilar cases has never befors been rajs. | WOrld flight next spring ed in Connecticut. He said that it is Lm:Ammm Lowell H. Emith, Rock- {one of utmost importance and stated well Fleld, San ; Diego, Cal, Lieu. that he presumed his ruling will be | tenant Leigh Wade, McCook Field, | followed 'in court. He said that he|1’ayton, Ohio, and Lieutenant Erik H. did not want to pass on it hurriedly Nelson, air service liaison officer as- {and suggested that both the prosecut. | $18ned to the office of chief of atr or and the council for the accused service, will aet as pilots. men file briefs with him within a| Jdeutenant Lesiie P. Arnold, at Bol- week, | ling Field, D. C, and Licutenant L. D, | The men who are charged with | Schulze of Mount Clemens, Mich, alr 'being frequenters ard Belante Kullg, | field, were designated as alternate pi- | Peter Olescaviez, Adam Pawelezyk, | lots. |Charles Kordek, Domonick Seinon. | The officers have been orde ock, Tony Pozhnawics, Adam Dren. | Proceed immedidiely to Langley Field, 21k, Adamn Rambis and Stanislaw Rej- | V8- f0r 4 special course of training. Eaatned. | They are all record holders and,pilots | Sume Bene Oourt Missiwit {of wide experience, having had from Ogonowski and the 10 men were 1,400 to 1,700 fiying hour® an in some heard separately. In the latter cases| INStances having flown more than Policeman Patrick O'Mara testified | 100,000 miles. !that he went to the store on Decem.| Pesigns for two airship tenders Iber 20 and npon arriving saw a num. | 1t1ed with mooring masts to secura Ler of men in the place. He sald that Mips of a type represented with other officers he proceeded to henandoah have practically find liquor and the concealed tank in | Peen completed in connection with the place and after the liquor had |P!an for ar Arctic expedition by air- been found, placed the 10 men under °raft nextesummer, the Navy depart. arrest as being frequenters. .He said ment announced today. fthat others who were present were The vessols sclected for not there ufter the liquor found | are the Ramapo and Patoks and therefore were not arrested. Of | Present in use as fuel ofl sh | those brought in, he said, some have |been convicted in the New Britain court for violating the liquor law and others have been seen in the place on previous occasions in a drunken con ldition. Officer Thomas Feeney cor- {roborated the statements of Police. (man O'Mara. ! Chiel Takes Chief Willlam . Hart stated that figured in the rald and went to (Continued on Page Twenty-two) Washington, Jan. 4.--Major Fred. alteration both at Case Against LuFlfinme Nolled in Hartford Fugene LaFlamme of this city, ar- rested several days ago for alleged participating in an armed holdup at Milldale and also for burglary and theft from the person in Hartford, was arraigned in the Hartford police | court this morning. Attorney Saul Waskowitz of this city represented the gecused man and 'on the establishing of an alibi the state nolled the case. This after- noon at 2 o'clock lLaFlamme was to be tried in the Bouthington town court for the Milldale affair. Part in Raid he $32,500 Loot Is Taken by Kansas City Armed Bandits Kansas City, Mo, Jan. ~Five bandits i up two messengers of the Centropolis State Bank at 15th and Belmont avenues here today and es caped with 500 in cash intended for payrolls All Mexican Oii Lands In Hands of Insurgents Galveston, Tex, Jan. 4.<All of the Mexican ol fields are in the pos- msion of the rebels, according to an official despateh received here today by Adoife Jiminez from e Ja Huerta | headquartegs at «\Vra Cruz “Human Fly” Quits Risking Life to Become Bell-Hop as His Little Boy Begs Him to be Careful Pittsburgh, Pa.. Jen. 4.—"Fearless Phil” Phiilips, Internationally known ‘human fly,” who performed acrobatic stunts with narrow ledges of sky- scrapers for his stage, has quit the thrill business, “Fearless Phil” this week became a beliboy in a Pittsburgh hotel becanse his five-year-old Glenn pleaded with him to giveup the dangerons life, daddy, don't do that any you'll get killed,” the little fei low sobbed after watching bis father elimb up the wall of a tall office build- ing in New York recently. 2 Phillips aceordingly cancelied all his contracts for dare-devil stunts and has returned to his former profession. ! BANKRUPTCY PETITIONS New Haven, Jan. 4 petitions today: Ernest E. Bace fleld, debts $4,68¢ and aseets §3,306 New York-New Jersey Rum | ¥r. siruch, Waiiingtord, acits $4,055, {Row to Operate All Winter = """ | New York, Jan. 4. —“Rum Row"| | will continue its activities through the | | | winter, J. B. Girard, s passenger on | {the Fort George, sald today on his| | arrival from Bermuda. Nine vessels | cleared from Bermuda a wesk before| | Christmas, he said. each ecarrying| ‘nbon! 5,000 cases of liguor. Two re- turn last week after having sold their cargoes to rum runners of New York. +* Bankruptcy Suf- THE WEATHER 5 % ! e Hartford. Jan. {.—Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: ! el 74 Org, phones Couture, treasurer of the New | theater | that the assoclation would bar from | aid not think the law in question was| 3 meant to protect the minors or the | erick L. Martin, commanding officer | 1 to] !;huvl'm at the eastern end of t B e T e em— Average Daily Circulation Week Ending 10,026 Dec. 29th ... —TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. PRICE THREE CENTS MORE THAN SCORE SARCOPHAGUS OF KING TU VET 10 BE FOUND BROUGHT TO LIGHT AFTER Mary Boties il in Wreekige ol BEING HIDDEN 3000 YEARS i Gorn Products Plant e SR i RS T o s mvmmmmemmfl o b vty b SINKING IN PACIFIC Of Antiqity, Carved | From Pinkish Granite, | Most of the Injured Will be Totally Lies Within Fourth | Casket Seattle, Jan. 4.—A message report- | ing the sending vessel to be sinking Howard Carter, in Presence | TP . but giving no clue to the identity of | 4 | deaths of upwards of 40 employes 88|y vessal was plcked "p’ by tha of Prof. Newberry and Others of His Staff, Un- serious injuries to 28 more. H 3 5 K _|tle harbor radie station today, Resousrs, working in the Aes-00v-1, oo™ ooy beltoved to have gome | bolts Doors of Last Rest- ing Placé. | Blind, Even if They Recover Fro % R ! Sabalingds T But Gives No Name—Two| | Pneumonia, With Which They are | stricken, | Ships Known to Be Rud- derless in Fierce Storm | Pekin, 1L, Jan. 4—More than a | score of bodies still are buried in the ruins of part of the plant of the Corn { Products company here, where an ex- { plosion early yesterday caused the | ered debris of the wrecked buildings e . Aol st are in constant danger from !oucri:g {;;':m ]({hv h"fi": “:‘""' bedboi g i ‘“’AT":P; l.l:dd‘ll 308y take darw 19 rovater - '1“7114- :{r;o:qlv' :m.il .lhv Dollar were | & e bodies. | { 2 said to be in about the same posfion, |, One building ofy the $20,000,0001 S0 " O e B N bout 1,000 | | plant collapsed and two adjolning| iy off the coast of Washington and d'\“':“z,'"f;; i, g kil i beind | each to bo in distress. The message f:;:ugm Shely today. Sirenins of water|SSEDS HY Se BAGOE. pudlo WAsim {ny, The AmeutA oy L ol | dire e p 5 gl . SPe.. Hg > o it e rulng| Clcaking badly, rudder chain |phagus of Tutankhamen has been ".2d4ds to the difficulties of broken. Sinking condition. In im-|brought to light after remaining hid- Ut -modfilatn need help. Empress n{_lum. |den for more than 3,000 years in the g Sy, sla 200 miles away. Longitude 174:10 [tomb of the Pharaoh in the Valley A ecast.,” {of the Kings, Carved From Granite The long sought for treasure of an« | tiquity, carved from pinkish granite, probably assuan stone, lies within the fourth casket of blazing gold—a | casket even more brilliant than the |other shrines enclosing the sarco- ) ot Known. ¢ 27 € 1. B. Lawton of the | conz, Co, Jould be ssible | = [to denniill, she .mmr:::p:';!l";::. San Francisco, Cal, Jan. 4.—Each {dead untll ali .. o bodies were recov.| Vith @ broken steering gear, the | ered, as no check was made of the|JaPanese steel freighter Kyosei Marn, men leaving the plant after the blast, | 3728 net tons, and the Harold Dol- Throughout the nights knots or\h"' 2,825 tons, _of the Dollar steam- watching women waited in zero|SPIP line, are drifting in a storm r: . weather outside tho steel fence sup. I8 in the mid-Pacific, according to | phagus, its doors covered with car- rounding the plant. They are being radiograms to the Federal Telegraph oushas o th Shas, SRR, cared for by relief organizations, {company early today from the & 8, |rounding a figure of the monarch. Soveral explanations of the explo.|Fresident Cleveland. Neither carries | Edaboratety ; sion are offered. A spark from a | PeSSCngers. | The SaCoiams. WSS drive wheel igniting dust from starch | Th® Japancse vessel gave its posi- Sarved and thers i ruamon S BUenE . 1t will prove to be of greater artistio | was the cause, in the opinion of R, & | 1O a8 latitude 49.41 north and lon- | . Sherwin, chiet chemist for the com. EItude 171:15 cast. The Harold Dol. |yalue than the pink sarcophagus of marshal, ditributed It to an explo-|EmPress of Russia I rushing to the |CoIn OF Hett 1. in the Soane museum slon of accumulated dust similar to | 8ssistance of the Kyosel Maru [ Doors Are Opened recent explosions in plants of the! ; aay's v py s s |of the fourth casket the search was F‘\.‘“' ‘KEL GOES To m DEATH | proceeded with and in the presence | “very precaution had been taken, | of Prof, Peroy B. Newberry, the noted | Buperintendent Lawton said, En-ploiv-n.' nnri the othfl: members * 2 € his staff. Howard Carter in charge Nearly all the dead were Americans — | . and at legst 25 of them had famillon, of the exploration, unbolted the doors | na; h d finally plant, which covers 20 acres, employ- | s He Walks to Soaf- ,|h:“;:.|nfl::t ‘::, u,,:‘llr,,),u::‘:'l:l:":,s ed 750 men in three shifts, fold Tutankhamen had been really dis. One hundred men worked through | : Folsom, Cal,, Jun. d-—Alex A, Kels, a i with the primary purpose of putting [ confessed sl ring out the fire, { worker near Lodi, Cal, September 1:‘G, J_ PREST D[Es FRO“ Stanley Street Business Man Was Hurt pany, John G. Gamber, state fire 8T I8 In the dame vicinity, The liner | Harmahib or the famous alabaster same company at ‘Argo, Ill., and Des | Pollowing up yesterday's gt 35 Teavo. Fansition WITH SMILE ON HIS FACE x |according, to the Red Cros. The California Slayer §s Not at All Affected | 0f the fourth shrine disclosing the ltho night clearing aws wreckags covercd of an aged wapde | Pititul acoounts came from the bed. | last, was hanged at the state prison | side of survivors who are tighting for | here today, MHe went to his death |Ife at Pekin and Peoria hospitals, | smiling. 1!\!0'4! of them may never soe again, | Kels, involved financlally to the ex- {even if they win the battle with pneu- | tent of $70,000, conducted a meat | monia. market at Lodi, Cal. He told the court | Force of the concussion or the na-| when he appeared for sentence that [ture of the explosion seems to have | he had more than $75,000 in life. in entirely destroyed the sense of sight.|surance and that he killed the man | Eyes of nearly all survivors were | he had hired to work on his farm and | swoilen shut and puffed. burned the body in hopes that it [ [ would be tdentified as his own He disappeared Sept. 12, 1028, The body later was buried as that of Kels, On October 4 Kels was arrested at Kureka, Cal, with the muzzie of & gun in his mouth, just as he was about to pull the trigger. Kels pleaded guilty, refused to em- | ploy legal counsel and Oect. 10 was | sentenced to death. A few weeks ago in Collision In Sonthington on December 20 Injured In an automobile accident at Plainville on December 20, when car he wus driving was involved in a collision with another car said to have been driven by Peter Koza¥es of $1 East Maln street, Meridan, George Jo. seph Prest of 581 Stanley street died at his home this morning as a result of complications. Details of the accident are lacking although Dr. Waterman Lyon, medi- A . «he | €81 examiner is investigating the cause the wife gave birth to a boy she| .. 4o in The collision is .:m to have named Alex A. Kels, Jr o el Mra. Kels waged & vigereus rum-[nc' urred at about 4 45 o'clock in the aign (0 have her hushand's sentence | 2ItorD00n and Kosakes reported that paigh " . . | Prest had no lights on his car. Spmmued. | Mr. Prest was 46 years old and One insurance company announced - » - , | leaves a widow and one daughter, it would pay Mrs. Keis the tnsurance | o Sl Tl 0 pate siaten, Kels carried, but another recently at- (oot T P00 Pt ol T e ums. This she refused to do {49 GuS CU0rPY 5. Gronn o Wuiheven ton, D. C. 3 N He was a member of Phenix lodge, ' 1. 0. 0. V. Trinity Methodist church : ‘x [’,LOWN To PIECES and Everyman's Bible class. Mr. Prest was a resident of New Britain for 20 years and had been en« gaged in the tea, coffee, butter and egg iness practically that time, was the proprietor of the Union + Co., at the corner of Stanley and Pleasant street and had a routs through Plair Forestville and Southir was driving small ek lent occurred. Funeral services will be held tomors . t 3 o'clock at the Stane John L. Davis will be Faire ATTORNEY SCHUTZ DIES Hartford Lawyer, Aged 50, hies From | Investigation To e Made Washington, Jan. 4.-Investigation | of the Pekin explosion will be made by three engineers of the department |of agriculture’s bureau of chemistry, Investigation of a large number of similar explosions has leg experts to conclude that under certain conditions they can oceur in any industrial plant or manufacturing establishment were cumbuetible dust is created. There are | more than 21,000 establishments ir the United States manufacturing pro- ducts with an annual value in excess | of $6,000,000.000, that are subject to |the dust-explosion hazard. FIRE DEPT. WRANGLE Shelton Chief and Ex-chief in Legal Fights as to Which One is Entiti 4 | To The Position. —— " Sseventh Man Died in Hospital Follow- Bridgeport, Jan 1 % |8heehy, Jr., appointed chief Shelton fire department on 1, succeeding Thomas G. Ward, chief for the past years has been cited to appear in Superior Court here on January 11 in quo warrante proceed- tngs today instituted by Ward to re- cover the office. Ward claims that hie appointment in January for two year term and that Fire Com- I missioner Burns of Shelton was with- Ioul right in appointing Shechy to sue- {ceed him at this time and that Sheehy |18 holding office without ljegal war- {rant | '~ JUMPS TO HIS DEATH e ing Terrific Eaplosion At Welsh ol Januar T Coal Mine, 2 Hile He when the a s, Ju piec: hospita explosio Wa 4 and today midnight Rhosam- the Six 1 another as a re- tr Swansea were | man died in & sult of a the riverbank adjoining the man colllery at Brynamman, I Swansea valley. The gaged in driving the d " tor coal when t explosives 1o use ite The force of the the whole nelghborhood a e nolse was heard six miles away Soft Coal Miners to Meet To Negotiate Wage Terms i d 1 W . men were ¢ in were explosion shook Injurics Received in an Amtomobile dddenmt Waterbury Man. Despondent, Leaps From Third Story—Lands on Head on Sidewalk Ja d at te rning. Waterbury ‘ 26, who b | committed sui {o'clock this i third sto window the sidewalk below calied and he ordered 1) moved 1o the hosp Kis in the police ambulance there. 1t wah said this morn relatives that Kiselius was despond- ent because of the fact that a g woman to whom he was engaged to be married had recently ged her mind. Death was due to a fractured skull 202 Al shortiy umping fro an Jing A physic ghway and a \l1l_’l\\ SATLOR DS by Milfe B 5 ey Schutz 1 steps: tz of Hartford o his home. He Hartford Brainerd, offices und served France in the as a member of the firm of Schutz, Cramer yo and i t the hom sday. Mr. Proct elieved he wa He had years. unsel of a Mayor hter r et year 4 ! Waterbury abou | Taken From Burning Home Montreal, Jan. 4. Three aged and infirm patients QUEREC FIREMAN KiLLen e fireman Jer 18 PLRSONS DROWNED 1. Eighteen per- . if the port today ing beat was capsized by were saved. hundred Gameli Quebec - ty killed ing wal | which swept the oceupied by the Woolen company an n red us a while fighting a fir Jan our story ilding English and Scotch | were remaged without mishap arly today today while fire swept the hLospita bulldings. All were removed o city institutions. when hug a fsh wa s