New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 7, 1924, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 OOLIDGE EW NEW BRITAIN, N T i3 HOLDS BIG LEAD NORTHAND SOUTH OVER JOHNSON IN CAL. AND | METHODISTS JOIN ALSO IN INDIANA PRIMARY (., oo, s vt v w Almost Complete Re-, MIB TOURNAMENT FOR ’ cation Resolution turns In Hiram’s Home|, TRIP T0 SEASHORE | FINAL YOTE IS 82 10 13 _ State Show Him Trail- ing By Nearly 17,000 Votes—McAdoo Dem- ocratic Choice. | s President’s Advantage in Hoosier State Is Over| whelming—Jackson Leads | for Gubernatorial Place: | San Francisco, May 7.—Overnight | returns from yesterday's presidential primary election gave the following results from 4,618 of the state's 6,- 974 precincts: Johnson 208,634; | Coolidge 212,943; McAdoo 78,033; | democratic no preference 13,793, On the foregoing tabulation the | Coolidge ticket had a majority of 16,259 over the Johnson delegates. Fifty-two of the 58 counties are rep- resented in the figures. | With 4,400 precincts delegation favoring nomination of Willlam G. McAdoo as the democratic candidate was leading a 115t of unin- structed delegates 74,5649 to 13,281, reported, & | Herald and Junior Achieve- ment Council Want to Find Best Player Wanted: To find the best mib player | in the city of New Britain. Sounds like a classified ad. but it sn't, not at all, It is a real request that the Herald and the Junior Achievement foundation in this ¢ity are making for a real definite purpose. That purpose is nothing more or less than an effort to select a local champ at the game of marbles, who Wwill be sent to At- lantic City to play in the national contests there for “the glory of old | New Britain.,” Gosh! Wouldn't it be | great if we could find a boy or girl from the “Old Home Town” who could go down to the national tourna- ment and beat out all ‘of the other fellows for the championship of the United Btates? Players, polish up your | favorite taws, go into intensive train- ing in the backyard with anyone that will play with you, even your best girl, and get set, because we haven't a great deal of time to get ready, we | are a late entry now. It is a sure thing that the best player, boy or girl, | from this city will go to Atlantic City for a week early in June, will get all his expenses paid and will be sent in | B urisdictional conferences. Every vote | which was the date carried in the bill | the court as It had not been taken company with a companion to be picked by the champ or selected from | the Herald staff. It will not cost him a cent and, after he gets down there | Methodists Vote at Springfield for | Unification with Southerners, End- Staried Over Slavery. By The Associated Press. Springfield, Mass, May unification of the Methodist Lpiscopal church South was ratified by the | Methodist Episcopal general confer- | ence here today by a vote of 342 to 13. | southern church, will end a schism | that was created /80 years ago by a | southern bishop's ownership of slaves. The report on unification was made ;by a special commission appointed by | the general conference at DesMoines {in 1920 and headed by Bishop Wil- liam ¥. McDowell of Washington, D, | C. 1t met with a similar commission appointed by the southern church at Cincinnati in January, 1923. A joint | committee of reference there appoint- ‘and it was accepted by the joint com- :mmee at Cleveland the following July. United as One Church. The joint report in essence unites | with a general conference and two n the general conference shall be by | jurisdictions and shall require the ac- tion to be effective. | ing 80 Year Old Breach That Was ; | 7.~The church with the Methodist Episcopal | The action, if confirmed by the| BRITAIN CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1924. —SIXTEEN PAGES. FIGHT ON JAPBILL WILL GO 70 SENATE President Objcts t0 s Becoming Rlctive July 1 DESIRES MARCH 1, 1936 | Wants Plenty of Time For Diplomatic Arl‘lngemenu ‘With Japanese Gov- ernment—Hopes For Few Months’ Delay at the Least. tration fight against the immigration bill provision making Japanese exclu- ‘sion effective July 1, will be carried i tion. President Coolidge informed con- | gressional leaders today that he re- | garded the date set as entirely to:. |soon to permit the diplomatic ar- rangement he wants to make with 'Jl.vln. and steps were taken imme- diately afterward to line up those }who sympathize with his view to op- | pose acceptance of the conference re- | port, Favors March 1, 1926.. | The President favors March 1, 1926, at the effective date of the exclusion ed prepared the plan approved today, | provision and he is hopeful that at 5 least a delay of a few months beyond !‘nd & judgment of 9500 damages tor the date fixed by the confereces finally will be agreed to by cengress, It was the 1926 date which Mr. | Coolidge suggested to the conferees, the two churches in one church, with |and he manifestly was disappointed | < { counsel for Kolod two jurisdictions under a constitution |at the agrcement of the conference | syat the .ppe:l"‘::y"':'l&:em;l:‘;:‘l:l:: | committee on July 1 of this year, ‘)Il it passed the house. Under the |senate bill, the provision would have ‘Washington, May 7.—The adminis- to the floor of the senate and house ' when the bill comes up for final ac- ' HER evmliul Cireula " KIDNAPPING PHILADEL PHIA CHILD " SOSHE COULD FOOL HER HUSBAND i | BELVIDERE DISPUTE. VALUED AT §29,182 Estate $10,000; Nelson Estate $3,850 peal and Begins Another Action The appeal taken by Edward 0. Several inventories were approved | Kilbourne from the issuance of the today in probate court, the largest be- permit to Ralph Kolodney for constyuction of a building on Stanley | which the appraisers repor: shows to strect in the Belvidere section to be D€ valued at $29,182.53. | used for store purposes and on which | a hearing was held Monday afternoon in city court before Judge Benjamin | W. Alling was withdrawn by counsel | for Kilbourne this morning and a new | action entered. | The new action asks for a tempor- ,ary injunction against the construc- tion of the proposed building, a per- manent injunction, an injunction di- | recting that the building be removed shares Lexington Hill Mines, no value; {500 shares Northwestern Oil prefer- red, no value; 200 shares Northwest- lern Oil common, no value; |$148.28; 8 shares New Britain Ma- |chine preferred, $680; 22 shares New | Britain Machine commion, $264; 9 ishares Bristol Brass, $81; 26 shares |Stanley Works common, $2,418; 12 | shares Stanley Works preferred, $330; {2 shares Niles, Bement and Pond common, $88; 119 shares Landers, Frary & Clark common, $7,675.50; 12 | shares Colts, $515; two shares Masonic | Temple, $50; 2 shares Sovereiggs Trading, $140; bank deposits, $6,- | 769.85; Savings & Loan certificates, $582.90; automobile, 1,300; property {on Park street, $9,000, The inventory of Harmon E. John- son shows property on Esther street, |valued at $2,250; the Barbara Kahl !the plaintiff, Judge Alling granted the temporary injunction this morn- ing and the hearing on the action will be held May 19. At the hearing Monday afternoon, law and should not be recognized by | within five days of the issuance of the ‘Kilbourne Withdraws Ap- Johnson Estate $2,250; Kahl the | ing that of the late Samuel H. Stearns, | | The Stearns inventory follows: 1000 cash, | ! cepted majority vote of each jurisdic- pecome effective immediately. | permit as the city ordinance pro- | vides, |Inventory of $10,000 is made up of real estate; and that of Louis Nelson NEW INJUNCTION IN 'S, H, STEARNS ESTATE [But Police Scofi At i . Story And Couple, At ' Whose Home Modell's Infant Is Found, Are | Both Arrested. Abductor’s Version How= | ever, Is Partly Substan- tiated by Doctor Who Says She Consulted Him. Philadeiphia, May 7.—Ten weeks old Corinne Modell, stolen on Monday as she lay asleep in her coach in front of her home was found by the police today in the house of a woman who admitted she took the imfant to fool | her husband. The oh¥d was in good | eondition. The woman, Mrs. Mary De Marco and her husband, Gorman De Mareo }wen placed under arrest. The house where the child was found is at 5136 Warren street, West Philadelphia about a mile from the Modell home, | Both Arrested | Mrs. De Marco told the police that she brought the baby home on Mon- day and that shel had told her hus- "WOMAN, ANXIOUS FOR BABY, ADMITS % | it will be up to him to play miggs like ey - la good fellow and bring back the The new complaint filed this morn in fixed at $3,850. ing aljeges that the defendant started | band it was born that while he Indiana Primary. Provision is made for a judicial By The Assoclated Press. . Indianapolis, May 7.—Unofficial re turns from 1,686 of Indiana’s 3,409 precincts give Coolldge 127,049 and Johnson 20,892, The returns from 1,422 of the 3,409 precinets in Indiana show the follow- ing standing in the democrati¢ con- test for governor: McCulloch, 37,431; Cravens, 15,639 Crittenberger, 14,339; Batt, 7, Durgan, 20,005; Risk, 2,996; Priest, 2,737; Holt, 10,326, Jackson Leading. Ed Jackson, leading candidate in the republican gubernatorial primary contest in Indlana, maintained his majority over five opponents when the vete from 1,673 of the state’s 3,409 precincts was unofficlally tabulated today. The vote stood: Jackson, 84,- 648; Toner, 26,380; Davis, ' 4,01 Shank, 84,200; Bush, 10,854; Dul- berger, 1,452, Transit of Mercury Over Face of Sun at 5:43 p. m. New Haven, May 7.—~The transit of {he planet Mercury across the sun be- ginning at 5:43 this afternoon and lasting seven hours and 50 minutes in regarded by Prof. Frank Schlesin- ger uf Yale observatory as the astron- omieal event of the year. The tran- sit wili be almost central in this vi- cinity but will be visible only while the sun is above the horizon. The sun sets here at 7:51. A piece of darkened glass may be used with pos- sible success in observation of the phenomenon. MARCH TO SAFETY Willimantie, May 7.~~When fire was discovered in the cellar of St. Mary's parochial school, a new brick bulld- ing on Valley street today, the 200 pupils were out of the bullding at recess. The fire gong was rung, | however, in another sehool for higher | grades, a wooden structure nearby, and the pupils, 600 in number, were marched safely out. The fire which apaprently started among some waste | paper, was confined to the bullding where it started and did damage es- ;chlmpwnlhlp cup to New Britain, Any boy or girl who will be under the age of 15 years on July 1, may enter the tournament which will be held here to decide who is the best player in New Britain. After a series of games here, in which each player will meet and elim- inate another, the best player, or the winner, will be given the chance to go to Atlantie City to play champs from 60 other citles. Any boy or girl in the city of New Britatn Is eligible to enter the tourna- ment, there is no entry fee, all that must be done is to send in the entry blank which you will find printed on another page of the Herald, to W. W. T. Squire at the Americanization bu reau headquarters or to the Herald office, After the entries are all in the detalls of the play will be arranged and players will be notified through | the Herald when the matches are to take place. There is no expense at all attached to the tournament. The winner's expense account will be paid at Atlantie City for one week, June 1 to 10, together with a companion. The game to be played is “ringer” and the same rules will govern the tournament in New Britain as at At- lantie City. We shall print those rule: inK day or so for the benefit of tho who do not know all about them.l But, by all means, enter anyhow, be- cause we do not wish to see the boy or girl who might be oity champ left out of the matches. fes will be played after school hours in various parts of the city. The win- ners of the district contests will then meet in the true city championship. The Herald will award a medal fo the eity champ and one to the “run- ner-up,” in addition to the trip to At- lantie City the champ will get. This tournament is distinctive, it is national in character, and is unique in that it is about the only national tour- nament which is barred to players over 15 years of age. It is a true “youngster's event.” Now elip the coupon, mail or send it in, and we will | o 00 o apee MoCrary of Southington; | tell you when the matches are to be held, But do it at once, because wWe | oo o ns rour daughters, Mrs, Elsie | are late and many matches must be fimated at between $500 and $600. played between now and June 1. The preliminar- | { council to pass upon the constitution- ality of the acts of the general con- { terence and the jurisdictional confer- | ences, either on appeal or on its own motion, its decisions to be made by a majority vote of its total membership. The council 1s to be elected in equal | number by each jurisdictional confer eral conference. | By restrictive rules in the proposed | constitution the general conference is | forbidden to “revoke, alter or change ! our articles of religion or establish | | any new standards or rules of doe- | | trine contrary to our present existing | and establish standards of doetrine.” | anges or alterations in the church rnment 50 a8 to do away with | the Hpiscopacy or destroy the plan of | our Itinerant general superintendency lare not allowed,” | Ci 'WILLIS §. HOPKINS ENDS | OWN LIFE WITH REVOLYE West Main Street Man Had Reen H Despondent Becanse of ol Health, Willis 8 Hopkins, aged 53 years, committed suiclde this afternoon about 2:30 o'clock at his home by | shooting. | About two months ago he retired from the Stanley Rule ¢nd Level Co. where he had been employed and ! bought a farm in Canton in the hope ot improving his health. His ven- ture did not prove successful, it is said, and he became despondent. Mr. Mopkins was about the house this morning and early in the after- |noon went into the house and into & | bedroom. Taking a revolver from a burean drawer, he placed the barrel in one nostril and pulled the trigger. Death was instantaneous. Those who survive are his wife, his ! four sons, Otis, Willlam, George and | Cochran, Mra. Idlllan Balley, Mra. | Parker and Miss Lucy Hopkins, | ence at the first session of the gen- TROOPS ESCORT SIX . CONDEMNED SLAYERS New Orleans Men Taken Under Guard to Place of Execution New Orleans, La, May 7.~The sta Ital s sentenced to be hanged Kri- day were taken from the Parish rerisn oated n & eetion ot vas | FAGAN DECLINES POST IN CHARITY DEPARTMENT | been developed exclusively for re dential purposes and the building un- | der construction is an unsightly struc. :;:rs t)lnt will cause a depreciation in | 2 value of the property of th: - v it in that section " Of e PRI Decides He Does Not Want 1o Be | The plaintiff further claims that the permit issued by the bullding com- missioner could not be issued legally under the circumstances and that the | | construction of the store by Kolodney | is unlawful. It iy thought that Kil. | bourne's counsel will attempt to show | that the proposed bullding will con- Superintendent—Gill Will Not Serve. John Fagan, democratic town com- | mitteeman from the ffth ward, to whom an appointment as superin- tendent of charities has been tender- | . |dress, he found that Roy Leona of | prison here early today and started | stitute a nuisance inh the neighborhood | on their journey to Amite, La., where | and therefore come under the law re- the executions will take place. They | garding nuisances. were escorted by a troop of National | ed, has declined the offer as has ex- Alderman John I, Gill of the second ward who was first slated to succeed William C, Cowlishaw, ¢ - Announcement that the republican | Guards, | When Warden Rennison l'lk'nnd: cmn mwl sm-E"cED | !tho condemned men at 4:15 o'clock to | members of the council have planned to cut the salary of the charity supe | Brooklyn, N. ¥., had stabbed himself | five times with a three-inch dirk, One wound, in the lung, is regarded serious, |ing of Dallas Calmes, who attempted |to frustrate a bank robbery at Inde- pendence, La, three years ago. ‘The men will be held in the Tangi- pahoa parish jall until Friday noon, |when the executions are to begin, Guards forcibly dressed one of the | prisoners while another had to be { taken from his cot. The three others Leona confessed to the slay- | — Imtendent, coupled with threats of | 14.¥, . ! split in the democratic party if Gill, a [ 14-Vear-Old Waterbury Girl. Guilty | republican, was named under a demo- | of 10 Burgl , Goes sl cratic administration, caused the for- - il » o | met alderman to advise Mayor Pao- for Girls. | nessa he would not take the job. e | Fagan was then called into confer- Waterbury, May 7.-~The strange ence with the mayor and an ofifer was life of a 14.year-old bobbed-hair |made to appoint him if he would re- Waterbury grammar school girl was sign his place as an assistant foreman radically changed this morning in at the Stanley Works. The prospec- | Juvenile court, when she was sen-!tive appointee declined to quit his fac- dletown, for an Indefinite period. | ministration is now confronted with The child was arrested Monday after- the problem of fAinding a suitable man tenced to the school for girls at Mid- | tory position, however, and the ad-| | protested they were going to their death unjustly and marched to the| ] train, The soldiers, deputies and con- | demned men filled a special coach, noon at the school she attended after the indiscreet flashing of a $5 gold | plece to classmates. After Amite, La, May 7.—8ix sentenced to be hanged for the mur. | der of Dallas Calmes arrived this past few months, She may be de-| | morning from New Orleans and were |tained at the industrial school until | placed in individua! cells in the Par. she is 21 years old, or she may be | | 1sh prison, to remain until Friday, | paroled within a few years, all de- | the date of the executions. The men |pending upon her conduct while at were accompanied by a troop of Na- the state school. The girl's name | | tional Guard. A big crowd was at the and address were not disclosed by | station. the police and court authorities, 00P AS BARTENDER Baby Carriage Stolen = As Owner Visits Store Mra. Classey of 49 Sexton street | Bufialo Patrolman Arvested In Rald | oot nto a Main street department And Vaces Dismissal As Well As store yesterday afternoon, taking her for the job, That a democrat will be named is being | practically assured. Gill, who is a re- ! | taken into custody she admitted to bDublican, was slated for the appoint- |40 was very excited. Italians |the police having committed at least ment only because of his energetic | ,;oq the city detectives and ordered elght burglaries in this city in the | Work for Paonessa in the last election, | 4 ar out of the house. it is explained. CASHIER ARRESTED Ofticial of Recently Robbed Bank At Bellmore, N. Y., Accused of Misap- propriating 84,900 of Its Funds, New York, May 7.~—Charles Vanderoef, cashier of the First {tional bank of Bellmore, N. Y., which was held up and robbed on April 4 X was at work, Her husba®d she said, | believed her story, The police how- | ever were skeptical and immediately | placed handeufts on the husband and {took him to a police station along | with his wife, | Mother is Overcome | Mrs. Harry Modell, mother of the infant gave a shriek when informed | over the telephone that her baby had ! been recovered and fainted in the larms of a brother-in-law. Shortly | afterward her husband rushed into | their home with the child in his arms and handed it over to the mother. “Oh, my darling, my darling; thank God 1 have you back,” Mrs. Modell | erled. b Neighbars Give “Tip” Fhe police were led to | Mrs, De Marco by & "tip"” { bors who said they sew her enter her ! home on Monday carrying a “large bundle.” The house was placed under surveillance last night and when the police questioned the woman, she " maintained the child found there was | hers. She referred the police to & | physiclan some distance from her home who she said, had the birth | certifijcate. The doctor, however could inot recall the case and accompanied | the police to the Warren street house | early today. Throws Daring Bloff “How dare you come ioto my {home and try to take my child?" | screamed Mrs, De Mario, who was in [bed. “Do you think I would have | this baby if it were not mine?” Her husband, a contractor's Ia- He threat- “My wife has just had a child and you come in | here and try to take it away,” he | exclaimed. g | Doctor 1s Called in | The physician, Dr. M. C. Thrush, could not identify the baby. He told the police that the woman came {to him about a month ago for advies, declaring that her husband insisted ! that she must have a child. Further inquiries by the police in the presence of the physician caused Mrs. De Marco to admit the child | was not hers and that she took - | from the perambulator. Father Gets Child LS baby with her and leaving the car.|DY #ix bandits who shot and killed | State Scout Meet Scheduled For Walnut Hill Park May 17 | . G | NOT $0 TOUGH AFTER ALL New Yorker, Trying Wild West Stunts | | in Hold-up Mects, Nemesis in Two Cops. New York, May 7.—An attempted | wild west hold-up came to prief ear- Iy today when Thomas Meyers, would- | s bandit, according to the police, dis- played more enthusiasm than castion. Meyers dashed into an upper Third avenue restaurant early today, held up at a revolver's point 15 patrons, took $15 from the cash register, fired 1 shot, cow-boy fashion, into the floor and raced 1o the street. There, he shouted to two rough- iooking persons standing near a taxi- cab. “1 just gave the wop upstairs the works; start your boat and let's make a getaway.” In answer, the twd men drew revolvers and an- nounced they were policemen. Meyers was arrested, charged with telonious assault and carrying @ weapon, The shot he fired inte the floor of the restaurant ricocheted and | Wit the proprietof in the heel. Bosch Magneto Cuts Hours Springfieid, Mass., May T—An- nouncemant wzs made tofay that lhl American Bosch Magneto Co. has re- doced its working schedule from six to five days a week, or 40 hours. as an alternstive te laying off work- men The company employs 2.200.| The new schedule will continue untdl | busincss improves. {tions because of | trained men, 10 enable the officlals of | repres ntative from the 18th Tilinois lone section to act as judges in the distriet. lm‘ “ hm m Hfi {other section. At the New Brifain Between 500 and 600 Boys to Take Part in Compe- titions Showing Skill, Speed and Strength. New Britain will entertain between 500 and 600 Bey Scouts in a state | CUNGLEJOB" IS 88 | e | . ; | Buffalo, N. Y., May 7.Patrolman | Veteran of Many Political Campaigns | yichael E. Culligan today faced a fed- {eral chas of possession liquor and | <ages. |the result of a raid on a soft drink ——_— 25 | establishment by federal prohibition Danviile, 111, May 7.—"Uncle Joe" |agents and police, who haled Culligan | Cannon, former speaker of the house |before a United States commissioner, | of representatives, 88 years old today, | charged with tending bar in the place. is spending the anniversary quietly at | A bottle of whiskey was found in a |home with his family, the day being |backroom, the agents said. Culligan |teatured by the return of his daugh- (was held in $1,000 bail. * | ter, Miss Helen Cannon( from Europe, —_——— |Cyclone Wrecks German | “Unele Joe” enjoyed his usual daily automobile ride, and tonight a few Village of Fifty Homes Berlin, May 7.—A windstorm of cy- friends will spend the evening with | {him in a game of cards. Questioned {as to what game might be played, clonie proportions wrecked Kiein- “Unele Joe” replied that it might be | berdten, a village of 50 houses near Spends Day Quietly at Home—Gets | ooy gigmissal from the force as | riage outside. When she came out of the store she found that the car- | riage had been stolen. GIVEN 8310 A DAY, Stamford, May 7.—A strike of elec- triclans begun on May 1 was ended today by agreement which gives the |m"' a 310 day wage schedule. Help- ers will have $5 a day for an eight- hour day. The men had received $¢ & day and helpers $4.50. The de- |mand was for wages higher than the figure granted. ! STOLEN AUTO RECOVERED { D. H. Ellison of 265 South Main street reported to the police today that his antomobile was stolen from | Trinity street. Several hours later Scout meet 1o be held in this eity on | Tl 0T eually ended in & dis- | Nordhausen, Saxony, says & dispateh | e recovered the machine on South May #t Walnut Hill park, accord- ing to arrangements being completed at the office of Scont Executive Wai- ter O, Cook. The meet will opsn at 2 o'clock in the afternoon of May 17 and will clos® about § o'clock. Boy Scouts will | be here from New Haven, Meriden, | Hiartford, Norwich, New Lendon and other places. This will be the first session or the eastsrn section of the state meet. The second session or the western section will meet in Bris- itol the following Saturday and w1l include Scouts from Bristol, Torring- ton; Waterbury, Naugatuck, Ansonia, Bridgeport and Stamford. This prob- ably will be held in Rockwell park. The meet is divided into two sec- the secarcity of meet Mr. Cook will be in charge and will be assisted by John Roberts of | Meriden and Frederick Hill of Hart- |fora. Mr. Cook; who has been Scout exdeutive here for somme time is com- pleting a course in scouting at Yaie and is considered one of the best (Continued on Page 13) received here today. The town is said to have been levelled as though by cussion of the “rights of property.” Mr. Cannon received scores of con- | Matn street. gratulatory telegrams, including one | artillery fire. No fatalities are re. ! from President Coolidge reading: “My ported. cordial greetings and best wishes go to you on your anniversary.” Washingion, May 7.—Uneie Joeo| Bouts; New Haven Likely Cannon, 15 years old loday was ve. New Haven, May 7.—It was jearned 'membered by the house over which here today that the State American he presided for many years. Legion whose licensé to stage boxing At the suggestion of Representative pouts was changed from Hartford to Garrett, Tenncssee, the democratic 'thin city has tentatively chosen May {leader, a measage was sént 1o the for- (g3 at the date and the Nutmeg A. C. {mer speaker felieitating him and gadium here as the place for the |wishing him continded health and pouts 1t was also stated that sfforts "happiness were being made to arrange as the A brie’ aibute was paid to ?‘lxv Can- gemture of the card a bout between non by Representative Holaday, re- | Stribli B2 oppon- publican, who succeeded him a8 a :,;";:‘ to b.":':-“:.f ot | { T W—— - CITED FOR CONTEMPT. New Haven, May 7-—Because Irv- ing Hough, defendant in a case in which the charge is use of the mails ‘to defravd. was two hours iate in' teaching the federal court from Meriden today, he was cited for con- fempt by Judge H. R. Howe and Divorced, Married, _ Jailed In 24 Hours Washington, Pennsilvania, May 7. Divorced, remarried and sentenced to jall, all with- in 24 hours, Mrs. Ivery Merry- man today was spending her honeymoon in the Washington county prison. She pleaded guilty to violating the prohibi- tion law at the fashionable tea room she conducted here and was sentenced 1o serve two monthe, A few hours earfier the court granted her a divoree from Willlam G. H and she immediately married Jo W. Mer- Mrs. Merryman swooned in_her hushand’s arms. Her ma to Merryman was her fifth matrimonial venture. | Brnest Whitman, bond salesman, to- day was arrested, charged with misap- propriating $4,900 of the bank’s funds. Vanderoef was sald to have been at lunch at the time the bandits car- ried out their holdup on April 4 The holdup men escaped with $8,000 after having shot and killed Whitman who happened to be In the bank. He had entered the door as they were running to get away with their loot. Vanderoef was arrested in Bellmore by national bank examiners who were going over the bank’'s records. Ar- 1aigned before Federal Commissioner MeCabe in Brookiyn he pleaded not guiity. Bail was set at $25,000 pend- ing an examination Friday. 150 MOTORS DESTROYED Fire Does Damage Amounting 10 Quarter of Million Dollars in Bronx Garage Today. New York, May 7.—Fire today de- stroyed a garage which covered square block in the Bronx, ruined 15 motor cars and cavsed a dozen gaso- tene explosions which rocked the neighborhood. Damage was estimated at $250.000. No one was injured. Sparks started fires on nearby roofs and made #t necessary for police to order temporaty evacuation of a num- ber of nearby tenements. THOMPSON FUNERAL TODAY. New Haven, May 7.—Many friends of the days when he was as well known at Yale university as Presi- | dent Hadley or any members of the faculties were at the funeral this | afternoon at the home of Lewis 8. | Welen, ot Everurd Thompson. The bearers were close friends, several being professors. Interment was in the Grove street cemetery in & plot owned by & member of the Yale fac- Meanwhile the infant lay asieep in !the bed covered by the same blue plald blanket in which it was wrapped when taken from the coach. The | father of the child was summoned and identified the baby and made & frantic effort to seize it. The however, held him back. The chil ‘was finally placed in his arms and surrounded by the police he made his |way through a ecrowd that had ; gathered in front of the house. Men, women and children cheered As & police auto with the father and the baby sped home. Cheers again greeted the father as he tearfully rushed into his home and restored the baby to its mother. At the police station Mrs. De Marco sald she saw the baby in its coach in front of the Modell house Monday morning. 1 had to have a baby to satisfly my husband whom I told 1 was going to have one” M. De Marco said. “1 walked by the baby again and again and stayed in the neighborhood. Then in the after- noon, when I saw the baby alone again, 1 just picked it wp and ran” Total $6.009. Rewards aggregaling $6,000 bhad been offered for the return of the child. Of this Mayor Kendrick, in behalf of the ecity, offered $1,000, the Mutual Trust Co. $1 Street Businessme: association | 81,000, and the Philadelphia Tnquirer 193,000 for exclusive information. |ing had been com| ’h!n'u shown him was baby. Police say Mra | conflicting | cluding & |“a womian handed hold” and that her home when