New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 21, 1924, Page 11

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, RIOT GUNS FOIL | MAIL CAR BANDITS | Government's New “Battleship on| | Wheels" Wins “Huge Vicory” ——— Tilly Foster, N. ¥, Aug 2L ~=With viot guns belching blank cartridges in all directions while brilliant ealeluim fdames lluminated the scene, six bandits” were routed here last night | during their attempt te hold wp & | New York Central train conlaining one of the post office department’s newly equipped bandit-proef mauil cars. 'The attack of the “desperudos” and the subsequent sham battle \\uu‘l staged in the presence of government ' offielals, pholographers and newspa- permen to demonsirate the efficloncy | of the car's defensive devices As @ result of the showing made iy the defenders of the ear, agents of | the government said that 3,000 mail coaches will be cquipped with simi attachments. These consist of ¥ guns, firing shields, battlefield flares and shot spreaders, superimposed on a car built of steel The holdup was repulsed without casualty to the train erew, but of the ix make-believe bandits, three were “killed,” two were “captured’ and one “escaped.” | The “robbers,” all of them cm-/| ployees of the New York post oifice on special duty, made their attack in a lonely spot of jutting crogs, soragglry bushes and waving gross Miami, ¥a After the train, consisting of an en b’ insials’ on fiihe hisin gine and four mail coaches, had been {ooa™c T i S s been known brought to a stop by the waving of A a red lantern, a “bundit” jumped into the couplings which fastened the lo- | comotive to the train, e e e - As the engine puffed along the alone, the five remaining “rol PLAN ’l'O {‘(\HSTR”GT blazed awgy with rifles at the mail £ o s car in which were tha two clerks | ready for battle. At once four riot| guns protruded through portholes at | the side and spread shots in all di- |, " st i aRiioie - AL thunsting flime: the nkle| s, s Boscrveiand Pan-American clum flares were thrust through | other portholes and gave the scene | a midday brightness, { The “bandits” then decided to close | in and rushed benecath the car. As| they did so, guns appeared through the floor of the coach and directed line streams of theoretical huckshot which were caught two feet from the ground by conical deflectors. These sent the lead flying in all directions at the height of a man's knee. | By this time, three of the attackers . This Is Satupday night for "8 r which is poet raccoon of little Misy to profest imilar herself, Petrolemm Field To Be Connected Up By Doheny Interests Los Angeles, Aug. 21.—Plans for 140-mile pipe American the construction of a connecting the Par Petrolenm company's Los Angeles re- finery with the 11k Hills oll flelds of Kern county were revealed here yes- v with the organization of the Los y Tipe Line company, subsidiary of the Pan- ed For Grain—101 Degrees At Lin- coln—Humidity High in Omaha. A rain gauge consists of a small metal cylinder, the 1id of which is in the form of a funnel with a specified diameter, were “dead” beside the rails and two |’ > : s ¥ of them surrendered.. The bandit ]\'!"'”'m" heRdeiaby UL who had stood guard over the engi- | . pow corporation will neer and fireman was driven off and | ;55 ghares valued at $50 GIepERAreR. - he. sheat i)y e nounced at the Pan-American offi mail robbery had heen foiled, o : o | pleted for the purchase of the pipe Reporta cireulated in Wall street S ——— |that the Royal Dutch intgrests. are seeking to purchase interests in the Giant Rattler Attacks Emplove at|p. sy crican Petroleum and Trans- County Fair and Victim is Not Ex- [port company, were denied by Mr. pected to Tive. Doheny. Waterloo, N. Y., Aug. 21.—Bitten by a glant rattler at a concession at FINE CORN WEATHER the Seneca county fair, Howard Seip of New York is at a hospital here in such critical condition that his moth- | Nebraska Now Has Climate Best Suit- er has been advised to come at once if she wishes to see her son alive. The big snake sank hoth fangs into the soft flesh between the second and third fingers of Seip's left hand yes- Omaha, Neb., Aug. 21.—Bright sun- terday afternoon while the show was|shine and hot winds, the kind of in progress, Seip immediately ap-|weather in which Nebraskans claim plied a tourniquet, preventing the|they “can hear the corn grow,” pre- poison from spreading, and cooly re- fvailed in ern and southern Nebra- moved the fange from his hand. He [ska yes ay, bringing maximum beljeved the fangs had been removed |temperatures of 101 at Lincoln, and from all snakes used by the show, |93 at Omaha. whére he was employed. Omaha experlenced a weather freak when the atmosphere held with- in three per cent of, its saturation point of moisture, a relative humidity of 97 per cent, showing on govern- ment instruments. Don’t Fool Yourself Keeping ‘money, jewels or valuable papers behind a loose brick in the fire place is not a wise thing to do. No place in a house or office is be- yond reach of the smooth-fingered burglar—.you are only fooling yours self to think so. The cost of absolute safety in our safety vaults is so small it is not to be counted. Stop in and talk with us about it, TRUST CO. NEWERTAIN [y, THE BANK OF SERVICE Open Saturday Evenings 6-8. Standard Time. D. W. GRIFFITH'S “AMERICA” Reserved Seats Now Selling At Star Confectionery " | enrrying his gow " |the larger half. lana negotiations are now being com- | ‘UNCLE JAGGERS HOURNED BY AL Deat of Negro Preacher Brings| Sorrow to Columbia, §. C. Aug. 21,—Columbia y and privately, mourns passing of “Uncle Jaggers,” Columbia, K €. today, offieial 1 the three quarters a century has held | the love and » et of high and low- ¥, white and blaek Mayor W, A, Coleman, by proela mation, set aside 30 minutes, from 10 until 4 o'clock, the time of the funeral, for suspension of business ae- tivities throughout the eity, and repre- | sentatives of all walks of life, from boothlack to mest prominent eltizen, arvanged his a to enable him to pay tribute to the negre’s memory, A fund has heen started for erection of a memorial in his honor. Born a slave, the Rev, Charles Jag- |gers of the African Methodist Episco- pil ehurch, began preaching “from {the fence corners,” as he put it, when he was 14, and for 76 years he has never wavered from his one text, “Let this mind y you which was also in Tesus Christ,” from Philliplans 2:5, With contributions from | triends, he established a mission for his people, and an “old folks' home," | both of which he loft free of debt, and devoted much of his time to pl, once more “from |tha fence corners,” to the prisoners | working In ehain gangs, At the end of each year he |a salary of one cent; his insisted, belonged to God, Not until the death of his wife several weeks ago did his health fail, and the hest of hospital eare was unahle to restore his rugged voice to his calling. SAID SHE WAS BOSS ccopted vices, he Wife and Hubby Disputed Three Hours on Who Was to Turn Out Light—\Wishhone Starts It. New York, Aug. 21, — It was & chicken wishbone that cast the first shadow on the married life of George and Bertha Beyrouty of Brooklyn, according to an affidavit filed by the husband in answer to his wife's ac- tion for separation in the Brooklyn sup y court yesterday. Mrs, Bey- routy charged her husband with hav- ing aten her, “Three days after we married,” an- swered Beyrouty, however, “we pulled a wishbone of a chicken and I got My wife told me later that this was to determine who was to be boss and she was distressed 1se 1 got the larger half. hat night on retiring, I went to bed first and when my wife went to bed later she wefused to put out the light. T requested her to do so and she refused again and insisted on my getting up and putting out the light. We disputed over it for three hours and finally my wife put it out.” Beyrouty’s answer also informed the court that his wife had told him that “thls is the United States where women are the hosses.” " TRADED WIVES | Didn’t Think it Was Anybody's Busi- ness So Long as Exchange Was Agreeable, But Judge Was Heart- less, Buffalo, N. Y, Aug. 21.—Chester Williams, of Olean, who traded wives with Hugh Omar, formerly of Eng- land, couldn’t understand what busi- ness it was of anyone else so long as the exchange was eminently agreeable So reported a probation officer when Williams was tried in police court charged with assaulting Ara- belle Omar, with whom he has been living since February. “I'll tell him why in a few minutes, remarked Judge Keeler, who sent Mrs. Omar to jail to await an inves- tigation by the immigration authori- ties . 're sent to the workhouse for 60 days on the assault charge, said to Williams, Omar and his wife lived four years |in Canada before they came to this country in 19 Banana Boom Vienna—The popularity of “Yes, We Have No Bananas” in Vienna last winter has led to a tremendous boom in the sale of the fruit here. Whole shiploads of bananas are being con- signed to Venice through Trieste, the nearest port, and they are being sold for 8 cents each instead of the old price of 20 cents. Blondes! Shampoo Hair This New Way Light Hair From Darkening— Keeps Lightens Faded Blonde Hair. not delighted Blondesx tcday at all good dealers, such as: Fair Dept. Store, and The Clark & Braig-=4 ~a. y3-year-ald negro preacher, who for | \\hlh-‘ THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1934 REFRIGER ATO AT REDUCED PRICES IN OUR MID-SUMMER SPECIAL SALE — ) EVERY REFRIGERATOR REDUCED and this includes styles of the three hest makes Baldwin Enamel Lined Hardwood Refrigerators | 100 T TOP ICER, reduced from $29.00, to ...,..... 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