New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 8, 1924, Page 3

e e e —— Judge Fitzpatrick One of Youngest Men to Sit on (Epecial to the Herald.) Southington, Oct. 8. — Harold D Fitzpatrick, recently appointed judg: of the Southington police court, | one of the youngest ‘maglstratel | the state. His promotion to th post so ably and justly filled by hi predecessor, Judge Thomas | Welch of Sonthington, was, at th same time rapld and .the result o a career of honorable service at th har, Judge IMitzpatrick was born Meriden 31 years ago and attend: the public schools there, He pre pared himself for college at th Meriden high school of which he ir a graduate, He began his law studis at the Chatanooga College of Lav in Chattanooga, Tenn., and upon hi graduation, was admitted to the ba in the state. He practiced law ther untll the entrance of the Unite: States into the world war and most at the first call, he enlisted | the army. A Following his discharge from th: service, he became connected with the legal department of the De- troit United Railway Co. and in that | capacity, handled and worked on | many important cases. In 1920, he returned east and was admitted to the Connecticut bar. He | practiced in Meriden and then opened an office in Southington. His work in the town in hls many ap- pearances for his clients earned for him a reputation as an unusually good lawyer. He was chosen as| prosecutor of the police court by | Judge Welch on January 1, 1924, HING T0 RETURN IN GOVT. GRISIS Coming Back to London 1o Watch Events By The Assoclated Press London, Oct. 8.—Public interest in parliament and in its expected mo- mentous sitting today when the fate | of Great Britain's first labor govern- ment depends upon the result of a conservative motion of censure and a liberal amendment to the motion, | was further increased by the an-| nouncement this morning that the | king was cutting short his holiday at | Balmoral, leaving there tonight to arrive in London tomorrow morning to be available if a crisis comes| which would necessitate the minis- ters' calling upon him. Long before the house of com- monswas scheduled to open this af- ternoon, a huge throng had gath- | ered outside of the parHamentary building. During the morning the parlia- mentary labor party held a sesslon to decide upon its final course of ac- tion In the house and at this meeting Prime Minister MacDonald intimat- ed that the government intended to resist the llberal amendment to the | conservative motion which deals| with the government's withdrawal of | sedition charges against James I{O“i Campbell, acting editor of the Workers' Weekly, a communist pub- lication. The premier’s attitude was unanimously approved. When the speaker of the house took the chair at 2:45 o’'clock, an air of suppressed excitement and grave expectancy pervaded the chamber. Heated exchanges between the government and opposition benches during the usual afternoon routine of interrogations showed the tight state of nerves of the members. Bupporters of the ministry cheer- ed Attorney-General Hastings and Prime Minister MacDonald when they entered the house, one of the labor members shouting: “Go to the country now."” Among the spectators in the peers’ gallery was the king's private secre- tary, Lord Stamfordham. | At the labor party conference this morning, the chairman of the stand- ing orders committee announced the | withdrawal of a set of resolutions| which had been proposed protesting against the practice of the laborite The home that | pure, rich suppl GRADE A PASTEURIZED & CLARIFIED MILK » one obtaining the most Lt us supply pure miik United Milk Co. 49 Woodland Street New Britain Phone 1610 Connecticut Bench1 HAROLD D, FITZPATRICK and was the Instigator of a number | of ralds in an effort to close up many of the “blind tigers" and | other dens with which the town abounded. Upon the resignation of Judge Welch from the bhench, Lawyer Fitzpatrick was thought to be his logical successor and he recelved the appointment on Septemher 15 of this vear He 1s prominent member of the Meriden lodge, B, P. 0. E. and of Kiltonic post, Ameri- can Leglon of Southington | mihisters in attending court in full | court regalia. It was stated that the | delegates who moved the resolu- | tions, urging abandonment of the practice, felt strongly about the matter but would let it rest for the time being. 8ir Rohert Horne, conservative | leader, in introducing into the house | the conservative motion sald that if the administration of the | law became to any consid- | eratton of political expediency, jus- tice as it had been known in Eng- land for centurics would disappear. | of censure, subject Cotton Crop Decline Is Noted in Report Washington, Oct. 8.—The cotton | crop declined to the extent of 97,000 bales in the two weeks from Septem- ber 16 to October 1, the Department of Agriculture indicated today in its forccast of a total production of 12,- 9,000 equivalent 500-pound hales based on the condition of the plants | October 1. Last year 10,139,671} bales were grown. | The condition of the erop on Oe- | tober 1 was 53.5 per cent of a nor- | mal, indicating a yleld per acre of 148.0 pounds, compared with 55.4 per cent, indicating a yield per acre to 149.2 pounds on September 16 this year. Fairest for Fair Brockton of Massach annual Mass., went etts' fairest Brockton fa in search for the | and selected | NEW BRITATN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1924. ————— HILLING A MAN ® " VERSUS HURDER Witness in Cronkhite Case Says Pothier Was Curious Jordan sald he had no remem- brance of “any of the stuff" Navar- 1o and Hoeckley narrated IR, COLLEGE CLUB TOBE ORGANZED "igh School Girls Tnterested in| Further Study Eligible | Quick Action for Plle Rosenbluth’s Steange Power Navarro testified that Potiijer while In the restaurant sald that Major Cronkhite was a “pretty good fellow™ but that Rosenbluth had a power over | stran him Much of the session yesterduy lad othicr Providence York elty, Murch, 91921 Government wit | nesses kaid that e was taken there to identity Rosenbluth but the fense hinted in its questions that t was to confront Poth- to do with the removal of to New of the highest positions In Industry, { polities and the foreign trade to | women. Viscountess Rhonda, an English mine operator, argued that women should go into husiness with the man's ideals of making money. A woman member of the League of ntion held In Christiania. Mrs. | Nations assembly pleaded for menta touglas A. Johnston presided | disarmament and international The treasurcr read a letter from | mindedness, . dr. Rowe, bursar of Bates college,| Mias Brugger was Wwhich he ackiowledged the re-|gkiliful in describing her impres-|in the Providence, R, I, jail by clpt of $175 pald to the account of | sions of Scandinavia. She remarked | Pothicr, who is on trial in the Miss Dagmar Carlson, recipient of | upon the rivalry hetween Scandina- | federal court for the murder of Ma- | * the club's dcholarship for 1924-5. | vian countries, Christiana, for ex- Alexander P, Cronkhite Mr, Rowe commended the generons ample, intends to change its Danish | Camp Lewis nilitary reservation | “pirit of college clubs. name. Asa delegate she saw all thee| Octob, 1915 | Miss Gladys Day, chairman of the | gights, including the viking ship| Major Cronkhite program committee, presented the | which discoversd America and the | death while on vear's calendar, Karly events will be screw skle jump. Unexpected | With the 213th Engineers, hie scholarship bridge at tho Shuttle | was the presence of many ple | and ( Meadow club on October 23, and the | who had heen to the United States| e 8 of murder as a re- address by Mrs. I'rances Parkinson | and therefore spoke English. The |#ult of the mysterious death of Ma- Keyes. children in school learn German,|Jor Cronkhite. Rosenbluth will be The acholarahip committee repott- | jranch and English so well that | tried later. od a plan to organize a Junior Col-| they are capable of guiding lege club among high echool girls| gtrangers. The presence of women in | ferenc interested in college . Similar clubs| politics fs a matter of course—there | * have been formed In scveral Connec- | are 14 women on the Stockholm | ticut cities. | counci; on the other hand, the sight | Iollowing the business meeting, a | of o woman driving an automobile iy Swedish program was presented. | 50 unusual that it will attract a| Mias Mildred Buglund compan- | crowd, ied by Miss Day, sang ck Verm- |y land, du Skonde,” “When 1 Was|gers report, Mre . seventeen,” : and he Norwegian | committee, ~ which Echo Song." Oscar Carlson played | Misses Hungerford, Miss Frances on the accordian n th The Cuckoo | yerguson, Mra. R. H. Hubbard and Waltz” and several folk #ongs. Miss | Mre, Emory Corbln, served Swedish Mabel Wallin played and sang. All | refroshments, the soloists were fn Swedish costpme L and the songs were sung in Swedish murder Miss Florence Brugger, who went O B oCIRATERHIE, ”1-':, i to Christiana as a delegate to the| Philadeiphia, Oct. 8.—FPrepara convention of the Tnternational Fed- | tons are under way at the local eration of University Women, spoke |Navy yard to strip the tially informally on “A Forcign Norway |completed superdreadnought Wash- and Sweden. |ington for nse as a target at the | The convention itself was decided- | southern drill grounds in December. ly interesting, according to Miss Use of the ship for gunn Brugger. The delegates, who came|tice is in compliancs with the declared ina New York eity rest from as far away as Shanghai and [nuval armament treaty. ant on March 25, 1921, that he had Australia, were women of rare abil-| Her preparation for target work, |killed Mujor Cronkhite at the inti ity. They discussed the opening up|it s estimated, will cost $100,000. |gation of Rosonbluth, | from in An interesting Scandinavian pro- am was carried out at the meet- | % of the Collego club at 8t. Mark's | irlsh house last night, with Swe- ish music and a report on a con-| Tacoma James J. | Wash., Oct a Conngeticut gara ge man and|yeql purpose ler with Mrs. Adalbert Gponknhite, | mother of Major mnm«hu‘ Jordm to lutements alleged to have been |\ .’:r\:‘\;w'!u:'m.n Ju\,:z\.ul:“l".t‘«‘v)h‘ I‘[r’ V'u the made to him in New York by former | 12! e Lol Sergeant-Bugler Roland H. Pothier| ™™ i and of a purported confexsion to him former department of justice agent, was ready to testify this morning as one occasion others Willlam A N expert on firearm particularly was put on effort to! hite's wound inflicted stify yester ards, former ior the | Al on | #how that Major Cre en self to to conld not have h The first day was witne John J ier was shot practice mar Pot :rt Rosenbluth are ptain R 1 on char Pothier was curious as to the dif- between “killlr and | lering” a man, David N. Jor- Provide L, testified | yesterday Heard No Admission, Jordan, who formerly was a dep- | ty United States marshal at Provi-| lence, sald that he never had hearg | Pothier admit murdering Major | C’ronkhite. Other witnesses have tes- tified that Pothier made such an ad- mission a the conclusion of Miss Rrug- Leland Hoar's included Jordan = that he had without avarro of Brooklyn ‘rederic ph N. v“ Hoeckley, of Ne Agents of the depart ment of justice at the time Pothier | vas first arrested fn March, preceded Jordan on the star of them said that Pot 'Y Prac- | presence and York, special in their present, Jordan S — No Approvals No C. 0. D's. 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Mr, Richards sald that the letter was taken as evidence against Pothler after he wrote it and It was never mailed, Mr. Richards created a mild sen« satlon in the crowed court room when he testified that he gave cre- nee to the? alleged statements of IPothier, that the Board of Inquiry which Investigated the death of Ma« the state- | jor Cronkhite was “in on,” the al me, if I were gullty| leged conepiracy and did not delve 1 would not be at home but very to the bottom of the latter. letter closed with “pelieve (raw/ord Cooking Club . STAT (RAWFORD The State. The hand. somest range ever built and it cooks as well as it Is your family out of luck? The last minute rush for membership to the Crawford Cooking Club indicates that a good many families in this town are going to have bet- ter cooking for years to come. Don't leave your own family out. Join the Club before Saturday and have a Crawford set up in your kitch- en right away. You can pay for it on special easy terms to members only. 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