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BB e ——— ARREST DOCTOR IN b SOMERVILLE CASE: Raymond Tmery. in Hospital, Accused of Murder | | Somerville, Mase, Aug 11.~Dr. Raymond D, Thiery was placed under arrest late last night in Massachusetts Bomerville General hospital by the police, eharged with the murder of brother-in-law, David M, Noble, who was shot Friday night as he entered | ghe Thiery house, The arrest of Dr immediately arter the ritle concealed in the The find was made by a searching party of local and state police, ac- | companied by a state fire arms expert, | who had been making a minute |n~] spection of the residence all evening, | A Somerville policeman was sta- tioned at the hedside of Dr, Thie Dr, Thiery was placed under arrest ot 11;30, about an hour after the the police had issued from the Thiery | house with a long object wrapped in a sheet, They went immediately to the local police headquarter: d then no- tifled the district attorney's office, The rifle was described by the pol. fce as a Mannlicher, stralght pull, eight millimeter gun, but refused to tell where they found the weapon, saying that they wished to assemblo | their evidence, | Doctor's Wild Story, Dr. Thiery, who was taken to the Massachusetts General hospital at his own request, told the police the night of the shooting that he was in his| bedroom upstairs when he heard a| shot, He went downstairs, he said and met a stranger carrying a bundle. They grappled and fell down the cel- lar stairs, Dr. Thiery said that he was dazed and unable to move until his father, Willlam O. Thiery found him. His father, who gave the alarm, was unable to give the police any informa- tion other than that he had found his| #on stunned and moaning at the foot | of the stairs, Dr. Thiery insisted at the hospital that he had been badly injured during the fight which he had described to the police. He sald that his skull had been fractured and that he had suffered A rupture. At his request he was operated upon but no rupture was found on X-ray examination failed to reveal any injury to his skull. Such bruises as were found on him, the physiclans eaid might have been caus- ed by a fall down a flight of stairs. The superficial cuts on Dr. Thiery's arms and face, the physicians said might have been caused by the small penknife found in the cellar near the stairs, Medical Examiner George B. MaGrath of Suffolk county, who had been called into the case by Aesistant District Attorney Warren L. Bishop admitted yesterday that the wounds might have been self inflicted. Was Drug Addict. Thiery was made finding of a Thiery house, oy would not of e of the rifle. The pol said that they would attempt to establish definitely If the finger inte found an & small guantity of siiver found collected in one room were made by “anyone outside of Iy llml) s own family,” Mr, Thiery yesterday statement to the press that and son-in-law were the friends, mentioning that Dr, Thiery was the benefieiary under Noble's life insurance poliey, Louise Thiery who heeame the wife of Noble, died last April, the death certificate Indieating lobar pneumenia and pericarditis as the causes of death, She was ill enly a few days " GAN YOU BLUSH? "ARE YOU FICKLE? the hi ice made the Personal Questions Included in| Columbia Questionnaire — New York, Aug. 12-=TFor the an- nounced purpose of determining the value of the questionnaire method, Miss Ethel Goldwmith of Cincinnati, o student at Columbla university, has prepared a questionnaire contalning 111 questions, coples of which have been distributed to 2,000 students at the university summer session. The answers to the questions, which are of a persoual nature, and many of them dealing with sex, will enable Miss Goldsmith to discover, she be. lleves, what degree of reliance may be placed on ahswers to question sub- mitted by questionnaire, With this in view, the mimeographed questionnaire blanks are sent out with instructions that those answering place their names at the top of the sheets, When the answers have been sent ir and noted, the name will be torn off and the questionnaire returned with the suggestion that inasmuch as no names will be used, some of those who have previously sent in thelr answers might wish to make some changes. Some of the questions submitted are: Did you ever run away from home and stay overnight? (For men )Do girls usuvally find you attractive? (For women) Has any man ever made love to you? Do you thimk that pcople like you as well as they do others? Are you fickle? Are you too hardened to blush? Have you often stolen things? 4Are you better at making friends than keeping them? T'o you contribute to eharity? T'o you consider yourself an experi- enced flirt? FORD'S NAME INCLUDED Unless 1t Is Formally Withdrawn To- day It Will Appear On Michigan's Primary Ballot. The police sald found evidence that Dr. Thiery was addicted to the use of a drug which they refused to describe on the same HOT INSTALLS HOFFMAN_ Gas Watéf Heater ¢ I tonight that they | ™ | advices from Sudbury, Mass., | books w | than 119 of the FOR A SHOTT | TIME ONLY | C. J. Leroux Tel. 1330 | Symolon, | others, | tion in Den ‘lhan 26, | eharging y The Assoclated Press. Lansing, Mich,, Aug. 12.—Certifica- tion of the names of varfous candi- dates who will appear on the primary ballot in Michigan, September 9, prob- _ |ably will be completed today and will include that of Henry Ford for the re- publican senatorial nomination, unless he formally withdraws before the cer- tifications are placed in the mails. This announcement was made today by Secretary of State Deland, who added that after the certifications to county clerks have been placed in the \mails, only court action can remove the name of any candidate certified. Despite the ruling of the state at- torney general’s office that Mr. Ford had ten days after the filing of peti- tions in his behalf to withdraw, Mr. Deland held that he would not with- hold the certification of all candidates against the possibility of formal with- drawal of any one of them. While intimations were contained in where Mr. Ford is resting, that formal re- | quest to remove his name from the | ballot would be made to the secretary | of state, no word had been received {from him this fornoon. BROAD ST. PAVING Pubile Works Board Will Have Hear- ing On Debated Matters Hearing will be given by the hoard of public works at its regular meeting tonight on petitions calling for the Jaylng of pavement on Broad street nd on increasing the building line om | West street from eight to 15 feet. Bids will be recieved on the widening of Stanley street and for paving Park sireet from the rallroad tracks to Stanley street. There is a controversy over the lay- ing of the pavement on Broad street as a petition was placed before the last meeting of the city council asking that a subway be installed on the strect before the pavement is layed. Some of the city officials hold the opinion that a subway Is not necess- ary on the street. The petition for the subway was signed by Dr. Mendel Volkenheim, Maria Wisk, Jones Gold- smith, Joseph Mylnarski, Kalmar Kalmanowitz, Stanislaws Symolon, Joseph Bogdanski and 1S SEEN. BIG VOTE Largest Fver Cast Predicted In Den- | ver Recall Election, 12.—Registration of mayoralty recall elec- presages Denver, Aug. the er today largest vote the city, when poll more it was said found to contain ) names Bafley, Dewey former mayor, 18 the principal candidate aligned against Mavor Benjamin F. Siapleton n the elec Other candidates are Barney Haughey and Frank H. fon "NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, his son | best of | the | ever cast in the history | TUESDAY, PLANS TRIP FOREST FIRES BUR T0°SCUT CAMP! INTO VIRGIN WO0DS Boys' Department to Have Over- 11 Major Blazes Threatening Four States = night Outing An overnight trip to the Boy Seout :m:'" :‘"":':"‘ :l" 13 _‘L‘Iet“" . 2, or forest fires, blazing n Califor- ‘nlmy In Portland is being planned | ,..- Nevada, Oregon and Washington by the I‘m_\I department of the loea! | today, continued to bura into virgin | Y. M, C. A, in conjunction with the |timber and one was eatlng Its way Hike elub, The trip will be made along the scenio banks of the Merced by bieyele, the boys leaving New |river toward Yosemite National Park, Britain,on Thursday meorning at § The Merced river fire, which wae o'clock They will cook their own |five miles from E| Portal entrance to | meals and sleep in the open Thurs. [the Yosemite Valley, this morning | day night, returning home Friday noon, Boya' secretary, Robert Loomis will be in cha Many activities are planned by the boys' department for the season open. ing next month, There will be an orchestra, a radio club, & dramatic club, a hikers' club, and the usuar Bible classes. The HI-Y club will be | continued and it s hoped that a Boy :’bu convieta from & road came nears | oy 12,000 acres, ineluding 4,000 heavily timbered lands in the Sierra national torest, At Riverside, Callt, one hundred men are fighting a forest fire which haa burned in the Ban Jacinto moun- | tains for the last week, AUGU was boing fought by 200 civilians and | The fire already has burned over | Heavy showers lessened the fire | hazard in some parts of the mmmmln, range, although no rain fell near nw | scene of the present fire, In Oregon the forest fire situation | within the White Mountain national | forest and adjoining timber assumed | a serious aspect when five new fires were reported to the office of the (or- est supervisor, Probably the most acrious of these | is altuated in an fnaccessible region four miles north of Anthony Lake and about 20 miles northeast of Ba- | ker. All the fires are belleved to have | been caused by lightning. In Washington, forest firas in north- |ern Whatcom and Kittitas counties and Rainler and Chelan national for- ests were reported. In the Chelan Natlonal Forest, what was reported to be the largest blaze | of the aeason in this district, a fire | was burning on Trout Creek, a lrIb-‘ utary of the west work of Nethew | river, | It has already burned over 600/ acres of timber. Power and telephone lines of the Assoclated Press were put out of commiasion for a few hours yesterday when the forest fire neaf the Nevada-California state line jumped the Truckee river. The fire, which had been sweeping down the Truckee river canyon to- ward the little lumber town of Verdi all afternoon, swerved last night and was heading for Crystal Peak, on $he sides of which lies valuable timber. Forest rangers took charge of the sit- uation and put a forece of 200 men to fighting the fire, | Bcout troop can be started, Boveral educational trips to large factorles |and places of interest throughout th- state have been planned for the mem. bers, With the present enroliment of over 300 boys, the secretary feels that all these activities can be carried out successfully, There will be a state conference of the HI-Y clubs at Camp Hazen on September 10.12, About 100 local members are expected to attend, The regular season of Camp Hazen closes on August 27, About ten New Britain boys are there at present, .The boys' department rooms are closed this week for cleaning and re- pairing; they will be oper again on August 18, ARKANSAS PRIMARY Democracy Goes to Polls Today to Nominate Party Candidates for State and County Offices. Little Rock, Ark, Aug. 12, — Ar- kansas democracy went to the polls today to nominate the party's candi- dates for state and county offices from governor to coastable, The voters cast their ballots for a full state ticket with the exception of United States senator. Senator Joe T. Robinson, minority leader in thu senate, had no opposition and was declared the nominee of his party by the state committee. The choice for governor was .nade from a fleld of six candidates. Each of the six claimed victory last night as the campalgn closed in a whivl- wind of rallies over the state. There were two or more candidates for each of the other state offices, with contests in four congressional districts. Injection of the Ku Klux Klan {s- sue into the gubernatorial contest focused attention on the six men who would succeed Governor McRae, Lee Cazort finally won the Klan n- dorsement, which was pledged to him publicly yesterday in a paid adver- tisement in a local newspaper. Tins bearing condensed milk or tomato labels have been used for smuggling forbidden liquor into the mining flelds of northern Ontario. CINDERS FOR SALE A. H. HARRIS —=General Tracking— 89 WEST ST. TEL. 2979 CR()WLEY BROS. INC. PAINTERS AND DECORATORS 267 Chapman Street Bstimates cheerfully given on all jobs TEL. 2013 LOAN PAYABLE IN WARTIME, New $22,000,000 Loan to Japan Af- fected by Recent Exclusion Act. New York, Aug. 12.—Payable in time of war as well as of peace, ir- respective of the nationality of the holder, a $22,000,000 loan to Japan is being floated by New York bank- ers, The phrasing of the contract is sald probably to have been brought about by the Japanese exclusion act and the expressed fears of American investors that war between the United States and Japan is a future possi- bility. " CAPITOL STARTING SUN. NIGHT thtle Robinson mau Crusoe Special Shows For Children Each Day, 4:00 p. m.—10c AMBULANCE FOR HORSES, New York, Aug. 12.—Mrs. Willlam K. Vanderbilt, owner of Barazen, one of the outstanding winners of the present racing season, has notified the managers of all racetracks in the metropolitan circuit that she will provide each organization with an ambulance to remove horses from the A BUNLIUER ‘WETDOW. CLEANING CO. fleld when they are injured. Her decision was reached after seeing the Steeplechaser S8ea Master being led out of the infleld at Saratoga last Saturday to be shot because of a broken leg. $5,000 Accident Insurance With $25.00 Weekly Indemnity for $10 a Year, Covers Automobile Accidents, DeWitt A. Riley Co., Inc. National Bank Bldg. General House Cleaning Store Fronts, Window Cleaning At Your Service, Call 1180 Wednesday Special Copper Tea Kettles, reg. $2.00 at ..... $1.29 (6 quart heavy) Wearever Fry Pans, reg. $1.20,at ..... Wearever Colanders, reg. $1.55,at ..... 98¢ Wednesday Morning Only 79¢ The recall election 18 the outcome | flling of petitions for the re pleton, containing more 00 names and charging Sta- incompetency leton’s opponents that his administration dominated by the Ku Klux Klan, while friends of t mayor in the | campaign allege the use of the recall | has been brought into play as a result | of & conspiracy among political bosses | alleged to have been connecied with the Bailey administration. call of pleton with ficiency, & and inef- | are | s | ./A. MILLS Phone 381 80 West Main St. Plumbing — Heating — Sheet Metal Wrk l 12, 1924, | Wednesday Special » 22C STEAKS PORTERHOUSY SIRLOIN SHORT AT NEW BRITAIN'S LARGEST, MOST SANI. TARY MARKET, EACH ITEM REPRESENTS A GREAT SAVING-=DO NOT FAIL TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS EVENT, 25¢ HAMBURG FRESH CHOPPED 3 lbs for SHOULDERS & Fresh 140 smokedlzl/zc FINEST CREAMERY Butter 2lis 83 CHOICE LAMB OR VEAL CHOPS PURE LARD ... BEST NEW NO, 1 REAL OLD FASHBIONED Crullers DINNER BLEND COFFEE ... CONFECTIONERY SUGAR C | 2 Lbs, 150 On Sale Wednesday Morning— When In Hartford Dine With Us LOBSTERS, CRAB MEAT, SHRIMPS, OYSTERS, STEAMING CLAMS Honiss Oyster House Co. Temporarily Located At 25 CENTRAL ROW, Hartford Opposite Parsons Theater Ib 25¢| .+ 2 Lbs, 31c WHOLE MILK CHEESE Lb. ? TO 11 A, M, POTATOES 15 1b peck 27 C POUND CAKE Doz. 19c|Pies ........ Ea. 25¢|Cookies.. 2 Doz. 25¢ Sound Yel. Peaches, Lge. Bas. 39¢ | Native Blueberries ....Bas. 29c SUGAR Fine Gran.,, 7 lbs 50c. 25 lbs $1.73 Choice Legs Veal ..... Lb. 18¢ Lean Pork Roast......Lb. 20c Lean Pork Chops ..... Lb. 22¢ FRESH WESTERN EGGS 2 doz 69c 27¢ PEANUT BUTTER GREEN THOMPSON Seedless Grapes ..5 Lb. Bas. 45¢ XATVE Tomatoes . ... Lb. 10c Onions ....4 Lbs. 15¢ b 19¢ ASSORTED MOHITAN DELICIOUS PLAIN RAISIN AND MARBLE BAKERY SPECIAL THIS WEEK | FANCY MOHICAN FRUIT MOHICAN MAYONNAISE . NEW ELBOW MAOCARONI ... " 5 cans 28€C st 21€ ...amars 18€C Ldme 17¢€ FRESH CAUGHT FISH A COMPLETE VARIETY OF Just what you are looking for isn’t it? A brand new three family house on Winthrop Street with steam heat, hard wood floors and everythihg which naturally goes with such a layout. This section is building up rapidly and is : getting better, day by day, in every way. CAMP REAL ESTATE CO. 272 Main Street Phone 343 Rooms 305-6, Bank Bldg. For Quick Returns Use Herald Classified Advts. THE OLD HOME TOWN NO MORE FUNNY BUSINESS~IM NOT GOING To LET GO THS ROPE TLL “You BRING /N SIXTEEN MORE PAILS OF EA_WASH WATERY i ncranilily J AN i BY STANLEY SHes Too EASY, ON HIM, ms WIFE, DID AOT 60 FISHING THIS N MORNING AS HE HAD INTENDED

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