New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 21, 1924, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 7 ADRIFT AT SEA, FIVALLY RESCUED Struggled for 58 Hours in Open Boat 130 Miles Out ONE WAS WOMAN OF 60 Had Almost Abandoned Hope When Picked Up After Three Ships Had Passed Without Seeing Them— ' Seaman Saves Captain’s ILife | Boston, Nov. 21.—A stirring story | of shipwreck, long exposure in an open boat, hunger and thirst and the distress that sometimes comes to women and men who go down to lhu,‘ tea In ships was told today by Mrs. | L. B. Bishop of Malden, sea-going wife of the skipper of the Tern achooner Susan B, with Miss Kath- erine Woodworth of Rockport, her 18 year-old niece, Captain Bishop, John Bishop, their son, who was the schooner’s mate, and three members of the crew, the 60 year old woman who has been to sea 27 years, was landed here after her first shipwreck | by the steamer City of Atlanta,| which had picked up the party from | @ yawl 150 miles off the Virginia Capes. 1 Food To Fat The little group of seven, huddied | tn the open hoat for 58 hours, with food rendered uneatable by salt wa- ter saturation, attracted the aften- tion of their rescuers by waving a blanket. Three times previously other vessels had passed them, their | lookouts falling to ses skirts and | petticoats waved by the women. “We could not have stood it much | onger,” Mrs. Bishop said. orles that Miss Woodworth haa kept the spirits of the shipwrecked | nes allve by song had preceded her pshore. But this she "How could one sing under such | ircumstances But we did try to be | ‘was her remark. Saves Skipper's Lile | The Susan B's r ost thelr skipper as ftrom the schooner’s side. The ves- kel, owned in Providence, and laden | dith coal from Norfolk for St. tephen, N. B. had been wrecked | Isunday night by a northwest gale hid heavy seas and with cabin looded and seams opened, had to| pe abandoned Monday morning. Tt as off Winter Quarter lightship | hat Captain Bishop gave the word | ¢ abandon ship. The women first, | hen the crew and last the ekipper ent overside. Caplaln Bishop | pissed his footing as he left hjm- | It down from the pltching decks 4 fell into the water, The tossing cas engulfed him as he went down fhen Wilbury 8. Jerrod of Vineyard laven, a seaman, plunged overboard | rom the yawl, stroked his way to he drowning captain, and as 1 ose took him in tow. They we belped aboard. Almost Exhausted The heavy seas shipped awl spoiled food and flares hey drifted Monday and hrough succeeding day and night, he Susan B's people became ex- austed as they waved blankets and resses in futile attempts to aftract ttention. They had drifted 80 miles hen the City of Atlanta plcked \em up on her way from Savannah. ot ba , food and medieal atte on had restored them when they rrlved today. disclaimed. | almost | ot out | by the BEWARE OF AUTOISTS racuse School Girls Are Warned Against Accepting Tdes With strangers. vracuse &chools were Mar- irn their girl pu- automobile result of nts of kid me to the bis against ies with & epting rs as t¥ comp have cc recent hpping which jlic “The warning is intended chiefly 2t youngsters who line ots and flag g driv to pick them ef Cadin explained to the s ithorities, T i m the vie er schonl rous fro ngestion, but t worse nger from the tyy ho in t manne pply of inn FIRE DE%TROYS HONE gz men s ready mmer Residence of Lawrence Peck, Near Ridgefield, Razed — | oss Is About $10,000 the = of Ri The Mrs dren, a W 1 servant of the night clothes a nelghbor he fire started in the living room log rolled out of the fire- ce onto the floor. \Mrs. Peck was ed at 2:30 a. m. when smoke r room on the second floor ! i vant an nily escaped § the home of re a i she aroused t 1pants the house The R 14 and NXLT partments re to an but could do sidence as the of the h here were & ot tonal bnded alarm hing to save the s trozen and lakes or ponds an architect in water system se no near- New 't at his Ridg g% but was in | squad | there of Princeton orange RASCHKOW DEFENDANT IN $1,000 ACCIDENT SUIT| in Bridgeport in Writ Served Today. David Raschkow of this city has been named defendant in an action for $1,600 damages brought by Jullus Kulchas of Bridgeport, as a result of an automobile accident that occurred in Bridgeport, Au- gust 16, Cars driven by the plaintiff and | the defendant crashed at the inter- | section of Iranston avenue and State street, due according to charges of due, according to allegations of the plaintiff, to Raschkow's fallure to slow down and give a signal before crossing the street. The Kulchas machine was damaged to such an | extent that $353 was expended in repairs, it depreclated $200 and its| loss from business use amounted to $75 a week for a period of five | weeks, the plaintiff claims Property on Camp street was at- tached by Constable George A. Stark on papers issued by Bucking- ham & Bent of ervlgv‘pnr! FEDERAL BRY AGENTS AT TOMORROW'S GAME Will Be at Bowl, in New Haven and Nearhy Inns New Haven, Nov. 21.—A number of federal prohibition agents, said to | were here today for the | number 21, Yale-Harvard game to see that pro- hibition laws are observed. It understood that the agents will be on duty both at the bowl and in the city and that a quick moving will be used to watch inns along the highways. It was also reported that means were to be employed by the city | authorities to there 1s obse law: Men of Yale are giving more at- tention today to the night before the game than to the battle with Harvard in the bowl tomorrow as never before have there been so many social affairs booked on the eve of a big gam Every fraternity house will have tea and dance, and musical clubs of the i will give a concert at Woolsey hall | to be followed by dancing. For alumni and undergraduates who want a sports flavor to their “night before” Yale and Harvard polo teams meet at mory. make rvance that excise certain of color, the blue of Yale being inter- mingled with the crimson of Har- d with a liberal dash here and out ot sentimental regard for the Tigers, As for the game there s prac- tleally no discussion of it. Yale ex- pects to win. The squad will have signal practice at the bowl late to- v after Harvard has had its prac- ce there, and {ts work will be over. The ticket situatior of some was disposed tima ago when it was an- nonnced that more tickets asked for than could be supplied practically has been ned back. The football crowd hegan com- ing today, and its size tomorrow is tndicated in many one by the arrangements to care for more an- tomobiles than ever came fore, and another by the 65 trains which the N. Y., N. H H. rail- road bring into this city with those are to see the game were none t ways. here be- will who FLEF FIRE THWICE 20 Girl Students of St University Have Thrilling Fxperi- ences During Night Canto D Wy zirl students of Nov. St. La nts of the house, w Tw Pt Nu forced rters by fir and again at The fire, ¢ allreaid sorerity to flee fre their ast qu at midnight night tawn this mor o 1 attached to girls started in ho most aw cartied thetr to the streot of andihelasa fire, which was confined to About six hours after the e thought ed it broke 1s much blaze, but it trolied ALLEE ASKS DELAY Who Re- first Harrison Street Resident fuses To Pay Tax Wishes Oppor tunity To Look Up Law J. B. Allee clined to pay boar unless ar his pe altor, w taned t with prose the co Counsi asked a cor the law law Alles ha v dre n have t city, and He was given a hearing » en last M to pay court fer a te e New Britain Man Blamed for Crash I 15 | pleasures of the the Yale ar-| Both are regarded as excep- | | tionally strong. The city today hegan to put on | NEW BRITAIN, DEGLARES DOOR OF FURNACE WAS OPEN 'Som of Mrs. Sheatsley Changes Previons Testimony 'WAS A VERY HAPPY FAMILY Victim Says There Was Nothing in Domestic Life Tending to Sup- ; port Self Destruction Theory, Canton, Ohlo, Nov. further questioning Mre. Addie 21.—Hoping of relatives of Sheat. y, wife of C V. Sheatsley, pastor ¢ Christ's church, Bexley, a suburb of ( bus, Ohlo, who found the body of his wife in the | the Sheatsley home Monday might| bring some clew which will the mysterious cremation, m'or Jr-\w R. King, ot | co nty (Columbue) today r\‘(ummanun of Mr. 8h his four children. Funeral services for Mra, &\wfl!- Paris n mrv | cha | tircs [ ur Involve Prose. Franklin tsley anc I | | ey were e | yesterday. ' Was Happy Family, | Questioned by Mr. King, \!r! | Lyda Sponseller, 80 years old, moth- | er of the victim, in setatement, | clared of the Sheatsley famlly, hom she lived for a number years, 'a more agreeabls family 1 have never seen. Addle was good and kind to me and so was her hus- band."” Late yesterday in Prosecutor King, Mr. reiterated hie bellef that | had been a suicide vietim. Milton, the oldest s to Mr. King declared t entered the furnace room 1 first saw the body of his mother, a small door ahove the coal door was open. In previous statements to the prose- cutor he had declared that this door was closed. Mr. Sheatsley in a post- script to Milton's note said that “as you know I thought the little (told me the small door was open and that he closed it and is Bo W ing to testify.” Prosccutor King will go Into the phase of the case today, he eaid. H. H HOWARD ELECTED d at a note his wife the combined | Iversities | nversilie® | Local Man Named As Vice-President | Shea Aged Mother of Murder or Suicide | | sent Sheatsley | in a note | at when he | girl | turther | CONNEC ll( UT FRIDAY, | aco at| continued | de-| with | of | | | of Conn, Association of Banks and | | Trust Compantes, | New Haven, Nov. 21.—C. of the Seymour Trust C ed president of the C sociation of banks and panies, as a me here. H. H. Howard of New Brit- aln was elected vice-president; God tratford, secretary and W | 8. , Watertown, treasurer. One or more speakers suggested that if the bank commissioner's of- lco had a larger sta®f of examiners falcations in banks would be less to occur. ter Shippe deputy bank com- 2 a plea, after calling ent frregularities in anks, for a sufficient state appropriation to permit of two ex- aminations of banks a year instead of one. The tion next legis Boles as eled rt- nnecticut as- trust com- last night 'hml assoclation adopted a resolu- supporting a movement in tt for an increased a Mr. Shippee said unt was $75,000 and a $25,000 would enable two vearly, additior banks pay 40 per of examinaticr A poll showed.t wo-thirds ¢ cost present ¢ them em- | udits in addition Lawrence | Unsuccessful Candidate For Republi- can Nomination For Representa- tive Files Report in City Hall, {s who made an un National Grange Goes Against Amendment .\‘ccrvlai‘v Wilbur Not To Lo'no tho ( ahmcl w. E. | ‘| NOVE This {s the home of Rev. Columbus, basement moved Mrs. Sheatsley’s body - In Furnace he charred body of Mrs. Addison ey, 50, wife C V. atsley, was found in the furnace her home in ¥y, O., Luburb of Columbus, \IBI’R 21, 1924, e e BATTERED BY SHELLS WARSHIP STILL FLOATS Hull of Uncompleted Superdread- Washington Bombardment, ‘FARMERS W[lRRIEI] WELLS DRYING UP Gities Also Ave Watching Their | Water Supply Cavefully |, et v or. st—Batieren naught Withstands | by sheils from the big guns of the | battleship Texas, the hull of the un- completed superdreadnought Wash- ington was still afloat today on the . C. V. Sheatsley in Bexley, O., The fnset shows the door CONDITIONS LIKE DESERT Weather Man Reports That Air Is Dry or Drier Than Arid Regions But No General Rainstorm Is In Sight. L =-May Shower Tonight | New Haven, Nov. 21 raVn‘ will ondi- | tions in Connecticut and hel p out the farmer is vet in sight, W | | Forecast Observer Leonard M. Tarr said toda A little disturbance | | over the lake region may give Con- | necticut a shower or two tonight or | in the morning may damp down 'ha‘ flelds and hills of the state, but Mr. Tarr inclined to the bellef that the disturbance will pass off by way o! |the 8t. Lawrence which will leave | [the state in bone dry condition as it has been for weeks. A peculiarity of ths drought, | pomtod out by Mr. Tarr has been 'that the atmosphers this week has been as dry or drier than pertains | in desert reglons, relative humidity dropping as low as 14 per cent | which he says would be remark- ably low even for a great desert area. A minor disturbance over | | Nantucket today combining with the | low pressure over the lakes might moisten the atmosphere and relleve | the extreme lack of humidity in Connecticut air. Farmers Worrled. Reports from the farming tricts all over the state show farmers are greatly worried over the outlook. Wells are dry and small etreams have disappeared. |Some cattle raisers are carrying water for their stock. This week in the northern part of the state ice taken out of ponds has been used as a water supply for milch cows, and no farther away from this city than Oxford ice has been shoveled off brooks in the early morning and put into tubs to he available a few hours later as a water supply for cows. The drought which began early in September is said to already have! been of longer duration than any the state has ever experienced | | within record of the weather bureau. rt\‘n which relieve drought a suburb o furnace in the her body was re- was found in the through which 771e Husband dis- that | This is Rev, C. V. Sheatsley, a Lu- theran minister of Bexley, 0., whose wii2's bedy was found in a furnace jat their home, Bridgeport Has Plenty Bridgeport, Nov, 21.—Fears that Bridge; | Bight soon face serious a water Girl And Boarder Thought To Have Eloped Doris T. Grozier, 17, and 28, Missing From Home in Foxboro, Mass. Raymond Welton, Foxboro, Mass. g an unsu Her , Nov. 21 sful attempt to a marriage license in Mans old Doris T. Grozier, davz a4 Mrs. D W. ( 1 street niel 15 b m her liome Raymond G Welt to |18 HANGS OWN CHILDREN Canton, Ohio, Mother Kills Two and Takes Her Own Tifc Then Hanging This Afternoon Gas Fumes Kill Well Known Clam Peddler THE WEATHER Martford, Nov. 21 for New Britain and Probably rain late tonight and Saturday: not much change temperature, Forecast vicinity (WAS AT DAWSON HOME Tuesiay | {ed drought were allayed by Samuel [ P. Benior, president and chief en- gineer of the Bridgeport Hydraulic Lo. today. “The water {n the reservoirs from wh[ch DBridgeport draws her supply 1: low,” said Mr. Senior, “but there s still & good three months’ supply on hand. We are certain to get rain enough to amply replenish the supply before it is exhausted.” To New Britain SOBY A5 HUSBAND GETS 20 YR, TERM Harry Behan's Wile Declares “Love I§ Longer” ‘Woree: ster Worcester, Nc eeds More | 21.—Installation of a third pumping in addition to the two already in operation at the Wachusett reservolr of the met- ropolitan water system to furnish an auxiliary water supply to the de- pleted Worcester reservoirs has been recommended by the water commis- ys!mnr arrl the city council finance tee wi to the neil Mor that a loan be au for the 1ses incidental to ater supply, $15,000 sed to install an m\ co othe Prosecutor Says Comvicted Robber Norwalk Has Plenty Was Seen Leaving Murdered Girl's Norn rwalk has Home But Has Not Been Actually y of water ir Connected With the Slaying cording ng of the Howard Jot E Harry ving convicted Assistant Distri Epithet Murled Fatally Stabhed After Quarrel With Negro | fleet ort and surrounding towns | | shortage as a result of the protract- | drill grounds off the Virginia Capes. The Washington has successfully | withstood two of the tests designed by the naval experts to send her to the bottom in accordance with the limitation of arms tre: and |call was sent to Norfolk today from | the Texas to have the air bombing in readiness to move against | her tomorrow. Planes sent out will be equipped |with full bombing paraphernalia. | They will fly over the hull in battle formation, each plane dropping two bombs on each trip. Should the first attack fail to demolish the ar- mored hulk, a second aend even third will be resorted to, and then, i fthe plains fail the Texas once (more will train her guns and make |a final effort to send the great mass Ol steel to the bottom, BLAMES ARC LIGHTS IN FATAL ACCIDENT |New Haven Coroner Exon- | erates Woman Auto Driver New Haven , Nov. 21.—In exoner- ating Mrs. Olga Unger of any charge of criminal negligence in the killing of Margaret Walsh, struck by her automoblle on the night of Novem- ber 7, in Whitney avenue, Coroner Mix today pointed out that incan- descent lights on suburban streets are preferable to the arc lights used because they do not flicker and cast shadows. In this instance the coroner found that Mrs. Unger was operating her car carefully, Miss Walsh was in a shadow cast by a filckering are light, the roadway was | slippery from molsture and the ma chine slid along when brakes were applied and struck her, Mrs. Unger sald she did not see Miss Wals until the shadow was dispelled by the light again burning brightly, AGCUSED OF MURDER, WOMAN REMAINS CALM Nashville Widow Declines to Answer Any Questions Put Her By Interviewers Nashville, Tenn,, Nov. taining her composure, Baskin, a widow of charged with the fatal shooting at her home of Paul Patterson, 21, Cumberland university law student, of Springfield, Mo., declined today to answer questions of interviewers, When asked “why did you shoot him?" she replied. “I am not on the witness stand, am I?" She also declined to say she had known the stu . Mrs. B in, who is apparently about 35 years of age, was brought re Thursday night. She first came 1blic notice more than a year nection with the slaying dentifled woman on a road ashville. The body was first d as hers. atterson was a 6on of Ros: on, lawyer and forr , who with h 21.—Main- Mrs, Pearl Lebanion, how long oe C. er con- wife ar- anon s offere Chamb 1 a rew of Com- rd of $150 for the arrest of the man who soid or to Patterson, who, the police , was at the time of th SUGCUMBS T0 INJURIES Rockville Man Huort Last Sunday at Maple Hill, Dies at Hospital Here Today. SU]NG FOR DWOR(E Mre. Mathilde Gerry Starts Actt Against Husband, Senator Fre Rhode Island Parish Week Ending Nov. 15th ... RS, HARINfiJflINS i HUSBAND IN DEATH | Wife of Twenty-Ninth President Dies at 8:66 . m, Today FUNERAL ~ NEXT ~ MONDAY End Comes Peacefully — Clergyman Who Conducted Funeral Rites For President Harding Will Be In COharge—-Capital Feels Sorrow. By ‘he Asociatec Marion, by some dent Warren Kling Hardi peacefully today After funeral ernoon in the church in which Harding had r membe since girlho her probably will be borne to the tomb in Marion cemetery and laid L le that of her band, the 29th { executive of the naton, | The end came to Mrs, Harding at |8:86 o'clock this morning at White Aflak' {arm a sanitarium conducted W. SBawyer, gon of the nm prpsmem. personal physician, \m H'mlmg had been making her for several months ‘v\?’eu ahe was under the care of Dr. Sawyer. Was Operated Upon | while she had been in poor health for some time the fatal symptoms of a kidney trouble did not develop un- |til a few weeks ago when her con- dition was alarming. Two weeks tomorrow night it became necessary to perform an operation to give her temporary relief from the severe pain, which she suffered. Since the operation, her condition varied from day to day, but all the time the ap- |proach of death was apparent. Early last night she sank into a state of coma and stayed in that condi- tion until the end. The exact cause of her death as officially recorded in the death cer- tificate was chronic nephritis with myocarditis and hydronephrosis as contributing cause At Mrs, Harding's bedside when the end came were her brother C. B. Kling; George B. Christian, Jr., Mr. Harding's private secreta Mrs. Mary Sawyer, widow of Briga- dier General C. .\a\x)rr, Mr., Dr. 1 Press. 21.— Following , death of Presi- Har Florence his widow, died gervices Monday aff- Mrs, rehip body The body wus taken to !"m hor of Mrs. Frank J. Longsho in East Church street, whe remain until the funeral s |2 p. m, Monday in the Methodist scopal church the last rites will be conducted by Rev. Jesse Swank, mont | ago said the final s for t ]‘ ormer president. The Rev, My | Swank will be sisterd by Rev George M. Landis, pastor of Trinity Baptist church of which Mr. Hard ing was a member and sisted at the funeral s Harding. | Stmple Service ‘While the services are expected to be very simple, they will not dignity, becoming a widow of a for r president. Memb the As ted Ohio dailie tion of newspaper pul which the former presid of the founders, have hee ed to attend the funral This tribute fromn the n ternity is not solely h Harding's activity in the ne fleld, but bec worked for n 3 vmw Star office with Epwor i | who 1 servi lack rs of ws! wspape v At Capital aronsed al sorr Had Many Friend Mrs Harding ¥ 11,448 1 ¥