New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 19, 1924, Page 24

[EMCHMARSA A NEW BRITAIN AY WIN FIRST PLAGE Chamber of Commerce After High Honors in Fire Prevention An attempt will be made to have New Britain win first prize for fire prevention and reduction of ilre losses in the United States in 1024, according to a statement iniule this morning by Miss Mary E. Curtin, secretary of the Chamber of (‘om merce, Last year second place 'n between all the cities 1nd towns with a poru- lation of between 50,000 and 000 in the United States. The test was conducted under the spices of the United States Chamber of Commerce T year went to Hoboken, N. J This year on Fire week, which is the weel 5 to 11 have the city clir A meeting of the be held early next for the week's a lined up. It is planned as last year, to have tives from o tions such Rotary. Kiwanis ness and Professional Women's this city was awarded 2 contast 100,« con- au- Prevention of Octoher an effort will be maile to b into first p ¢ itt week ntk will n plars tivities will - De Lions cinuhs, Tusi- farewell to General John J. Pershing on the lat ter's retirement as chief of staff. representa- | Wearing the insignia of a colonel in the reserve corps. s ave Adjutant General Robert G. Davis; Colonel Quakemeyer, Pershing's aide, and Major | G Will H. Hays, former postmaster general, now czar of the movies, is seen bidding Hays is In the background, from left to right, eneral Frank T. Hines, Pershing's successor. the Toman's By Bible class. and other eral ecommittee 1 a permanent cotr throughout the y.a This ¢ mittee consists of Louis W. Yo chairman: & M. Davidson. W. L.| Hatch and Johnsione Vance, | e % organizations. func by fire department offic schools, a geaeral plan of nicipal co-operiticn on a much larger scale, snceches. and strations of fire ex* educational progral fire alarm box:s and th demonstrations of the vs alarm boxes, putlic demonsteation | mu demon- of fire fighting apparatus. methods and other communitics in this vicin- |scale. T ity Aepartment boy and personnel of e fire prevention activities of scouts, a drve against th> prom cuous throwinzy vy of matches, cigarettes and cigar butte, sprakers at luncheon slibs,-a gen tien of public buiidings theaters, hoteis and g hazards and (he distribution of fi prevention po.icrs. 2l $nspac- upon which | 1 wiil be thcughont | the contest will he the reduction in fire los the year. BERLIN NEWS (Continued from Page Seven) en have taken an active interest the project. The local members of the Scouts will attend a ‘meeting o their troop at Rerlin this evening. | Mr. and Mrs. R, W. N Elizabeth, N, J. are the relatives and friends in town The ladies of the Methodist church will serve a peach short- | cake supper in the churc ment next Friday evening, Se ber 28, from 6 to 8 o'clock The ladies of the Sacred church will give their first social of the season in the church parlors Monday evening at 8 o'clock. Mrs. George Pollard act as hostess. All are invited to attend. Miss Edna McCorkle entertained & number of her young friends at a party at her home on Wilcox | avenue Thursday afternoon, the o casion being the eighth anniversa of her birth. Games and refres ments were enjoyed by a prize for the peanut hunt by little Raymond Rich of Wi avenue. Mr, and Cottage street will the entertainment program at € Community club meeting next Wed- | nesday evening. Boy rson of guests of base- Heart whist will Mrs. L. F. Turr have charg Emeralds are among- the Jewels that appear as beautiful b artificial light as during the day His Goodbye General Pershing mation prepared for wha happen in his farewel Washington, Defense Day day he retired as besd American army. 3 MT SHASTAHAVINE |Creck canyon and again cause great |tify before the governor is the fam- ' ’umnmion below. ily's problem, the attorney said. = Caliornians Much Perturbed as a result of a cay on Mount Shasta yesterday when ap- proximately of the s io roc ‘ The landslide caused the collapse of the for a distane | melting snows which |earth over {the stream of mud that has flowed i“l“:'\ the mountain's | mittently |stream of mud and rocks far down |on to the plains ater and mud ac in ‘melting snows would B T DTSRIy RPN At . NSRSk s | broken ana weakened wails of Mud|expenses of twenty witnesses to tes. Krauser, who first implicated Grant and now says!Grant had no connection with the killing, is ready. to appear before the governor in Grant's behalf, Mr, Swanson said. Meanwhile letters from many sec- tions of the country have been re- ceived expressing the belief that since Richard Loeb and Nathan Leo- pold, millionaires’ sons, were given watching the huge clevation closely |!lfe imprisonment for the murder of land many holding | Robert Franks instead of death, | themselves in readiness to leave {f |Grant should not be hanged. the disturbance is rsumed on a large - |Girls Hurt in Smashup In Serious Condition ;M, of Barnum Terrace, Anna and | Katherine Kusy, sisters of 124 Prince street, who were thrown from a car Mount Sflasta, although of volcan- ic formation has long been quies- {cent. The mountain is one of the | °st in the United States. Its al- [titude is 14,380 feet, It is one of the Sierras Nevada and located in central northern California about fifty miles from the Oregon state line. Geologists and laymen today were BAD LAND SLIES Over New Outbreak 3 residents were Dunsmuir, Weed, Calif., Sept. 19.—Resi- s of McCloud, Dunsmuir felt considerable anxiety today \d Tandsiide | | 15 acres of the surface ’ astern slope crashed | wn into Mud Creek canyon, floed- | countryside with mud and Chicago Youth, Fighting Against Execution, Handicapped By lit collided with another driven by | | Toseph H. Dyer of Danbury at Main | e | street and Fairfleld avenue { cig iles. Chicago, Sept. 19.—Lack of money [ Thursday morning were reported as thuted to recently | niay handicap Bernard Grant, 19, fn | having spent a “poor” night at St. | loosened the |y plea for a commutation of the | Vincent's hospital where all three | territory and o dea(h sentence imposed on him with | are confined suftering from multiple | Walter Krauser for killing Police- |injuries. Miss Lapitz who is suf- man Ralph Sar according fo |fering from a fractured skull is the "homas E. Swanson, Grant's attor- | most serious of the three, The other ney two will recover, it is believed, Be- ‘'he boy's family exhausted its | sides being hurled foreibly from the funds in the trial of the son who|car the girls were showered with mnst die Oct. 17 unless he receives | plate glass when Wright's car drove exceutive clemency. How to pay the |into & store window. 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