New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 29, 1924, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 PRESIDENT AND PARTY ARE AMONG THOUSANDS SEEING ARMY-NAVY GRID CONTEST Fully 78,000 Football MRS, INGA NELSON 1§ Fans Throng Munici- pal Stadium At Balti- more To See Rival Elevens Clash. Reads, Knits, Does House- work and Attends Church Regularly . Both Teams Battle to 0—0 Tie in First Period— Holy Cross Gets 7 Point Lead on Boston College in Opening Stanza. Mrs, Inga Nelson Is today quietly | ohserving the 93d anniversary of her birth at the home of a daughter, Mrs. John Olson of 55 Park street, where she resides, Mrs, Nelson was born in Sweden. She has lived In New Britain for the past 25 years, coming here soon aft- er the death of her husband. Her health 1s excellent and she performs many dally tasks about the house, as well as devoting a great part of her time to reading and knitting. She {s greatly interested in the fwezdieh Bethany church and at- tends services every Sunday, in ad- dition to going to the mid-week services, Her relatives say she is remarkably efficlent and she con- stantly surprisez them with the manncr in which she does her work. Mrs. Nelson has thres daughters, Mrs. Olson, Mrs. Charles O. son of Chestnut street, and David Lindgren c¢f Woodland stroot and two sons, Ulaf Nelson of Dwight strect and Gustave Nelson of Cherry street. JOHN BORG, 92, DIES AT HIS HOME ON CHERRY ST. ARMY KICKS GOAL IN SECOND PERIOD By The Assoclated Press, Baltimore Stadlum, Nov. 20— Love of football reached out today and gathered at the sidelines here for the Army and Navy game, per- haps the most notable crowd ever assembled for the annual gridiron encounter between the two service schools. The spirit of the contest reached far and wide in gathering thousands of cheering fans. Thousands on Hand. From all along the Atlantic sea- board and from far inland states, special trains and hundreds of an- tomobiles brought to the city thou- sands of fans and spectators to awell thec rowd that turned out from the city {tself. Half an hour before game time there was no doubt that the munici- pal stadium would be filled to its ca- pacity of 78,000 With 25 minutes hefore the open- ing whistle, it was estimated that I ium wae filled to three-quar- ters capacity, and thousands were pouring in at that time. Executive Party Arrives. Stroet For Many Years— Funcral Monday Afternoon John Borg, one of the Swedish resident In the today at his home, 53 Cher: He observed his 92d February. Mr. Borg kept a shoe repairing shop on Park street for a nun er of years and was well known. He fis survived by a son, Jacob S. Borg; a daughter, Mrs. Amanda Larson; 14 grandchildren and elght, grandchildren. He was a member of the Swedish Bethany church. The funeral will be held Monday at B. C. Porter Sons chapel on Court street. Rev. G. F. ihl will offielate. Interment will in F few cemeter: died street. birthday last Among the arrivals was President Coolidge, who temporarily put aside the government's business to join: with the thousands that the national | capital sent here to watch the en counter. He was accompanied by Mrs| o 1o and Mr. and Mra. Frank W. lie presidential party, which aft- er motoring from Washington, reached the stadium at 12:45 was served lunch on the grounds, and present to cheer and appland Loth the parades of the blue clad navy midshipmen as they marched on the gridiron to be closely follow- | ed by the cadet corps from West $300,000 JERSEY FIRE Third Disastrous Blaze in City Razes was Pler K of the Ponnsylvania Rail- adet band brought from the stands struck up the tune of My Maryland.” Much Cheering a real when it “Maryland, road Today. Jersey City, N. J, Nov. 20.—Jer- oy City had its third disastrous fire | as many weeks early today wl P'ier K of the Pennsylvania raflrc froight yards at the foot of Morgan street burned to the water's edge Starting at the far end of the 800 feot wood and metal sheeting struc- ture from an cause and driven by a northwest wind which forced firemen to give much of thelr attention to saving adjoining plers, the fire was subdued in two. a half ha with the loss set rough- No one As game time drew near, the over cast skies and somewhat chiliing breeze from Cheaspeake Bay proved no damper to the crowd's ardor and one cheer was followed by another. For the first half of the game, President Coolidge occupi a box on the Navy's side of the ficld, as the guest of Secretary Wilbur. Tor th second b he Secretary Weeks on the of the gridiron. The Army team took the fi 1:45 . they limbered with & snappy signal drili, the cadets | burst forth with prolonged cheers, A few minutes later the midship- men came in for their turn at cheer ing, as the Navy eleven trotted from the clubhoise Both teams batt first period and t eral field goals but period ended wit ing seored In the second period 1 three points on a fie unknown oined Army’s side an( 1rs, |y at half a million dollars, at | was injured | | n u,.i Giive Up Hope of Finding Two Missing »\ualors Sacket Harbor, N. Y., Nov, 29 {Hope for the safety of Carl Groby ed hard in the and ry Dionne, aviators, missing Army tried sev Sunday afternoon, when their failed and the disappeared from sight neither side hav- » passing o ), was ab when two ¥ | hoate which e Galloup 12 H caplane , whi score here, i returned report- fliers. Islands, scarch ing no tra The Holy Cross Scores Nov Holy three minutes when the Worcester team met Bos ton college at Braves field today in their annual football game. More than 000 spectators had ussem- bled in a mild rainstorm for the contest. The score came when Wal is skirted the Boston college right In Page e of the Cross fliers were from to Florida misfortune en route socred in of play | aga S henkthey met with tt DIES AT . N. Y., Nov 103 gl Mrs today in her > wan born in {in Rome si Switzerla (Continued 13) Heav_y Snow In Northern Section Of State; Snowplows Called Out Highway Department Keeping Roads Clear in Litch- field County—Three Inches Falls in Some Places 29.—State and vicinity today ng steadily all the ch blan clty early this aft- Hartford, Nov. high- | ited Torrington way department snow plows were |It has been snov ordered out today as thers was a |forenoon. A th heavy fall during the night in sev- | ket covered the eral . parts of Litchfield county. |ernoon Plows were also sent to Granby | vhere there was a fall of three| Oswego. N. Y. Nov inches. | snow of the season f [ this torenoon covering Danbury, Nov. 29.—Snow falling [to a depth of three inc steadily here since early morning | weather was mild covers the ground to the depth of thres inches this afternoon. —The first ell at Oswegc the groun The Olean, N. Y., Nov. 20 gus county is covered wi Torrington, Nov. 29.—The frst|of snow today as a result snow storm Of any consequence vis- | of several hours' duration. —Cattarau th a blanket of a storm 03 YEARS OLD TODAY ' |eration of the John- | Mrs. | Kept Shoe Repairing Shop On Park | oldest | great- | Mary | NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, HECTIC ROW OVER CANDY MACHINES Prosecutor, Police and Delense Lawyers Enliven Court Hearing NOT GAMBLING, JUDGE: SAYS |Devices For Distributing Candy Cross Word Puzzle In Church Will Be The Text of Sermon e Pittsburgh, Nov. 20.—Cross- word puzzies will hold sway in the Knoxville Baptist church Sunday evening, when members of the congregation will be called upon to solve a puzzle de- signed by tha pastor, the Rev. George W. McElveen. A large blackboard has been placed In front of the pulpit and today the minister was busy working out his combinations. After the open- ing prayer Sunday night, the church-goers will be told that the puzzle must be solved before the pastor ean preach—for, when the necessary words are supplied, members of the congregation will find that they have puzzled out the text of the sermon. PONZI IN CUSTODY ONFEDERAL COUNT Mints, Seized In Serfes of l(llll.’" On November 3, Do Not Violate Law, Hungerford Rules, Judge William C. police court today discharged store keepers who were charged with maintaining gambling machines | In their places of husiness, saying | that he could find element of | gaming, chance or lottery in the op- machines to back up the claim of the state that they were gambling machines. The decision | was given after a tumuitous session during which objections flew thick and fast, punctuated by arguments | between the police, d lawyers and the prosecutor. The device on trial is known as the Waco Vending machine, a larga number of which were distributed about the city the latter part of Oc- tober. On November 3, a squad of police, headed by Defective Sergean Willlam P. McCur, made a tour of | the city dnd selzed all the machines, Warrant Issued After Probe of His found in operation, summoning the proprietors of tho places into police court, They succeeded In getting 2 | machines, others who had them tak ing them out of service before the arrival of the police. Beloin In Test Case Jesse Beloin, Hungerford in no Deported From U. §. Record for 20 Years—Accused of Smuggling Alicns, Forgery and Using Malls to Defraud. Boston, Nov. 20.—Charles Ponzi proprietor of a res- | Promoter of the | taurant at 60 Church street in which | 5chema of four years i one of the machines was seized, en- [ tracted investments of many mil- tered a plea of not gullty to the|llons. was arrested early today charge of having a slot machine | IMmMigration authoritics on a war- used for purposes of gambling in his Fant charging that 18 i | possession. Prosecutor Joseph G, | country illegally. Deportation pro- Woods presented the state's case and | C0°dings will begin imniediately, it Judge George W. Kjett and Judge Saul Elsner of Hartford, appeared for the defendant. The Beloin case was mado a test case as all the ma- chines are the same, and when he was discharged, the court ordered a similar disposition of all other cascs, One of the machines was brought into the court room and demon- |strated to the court. Judge Elsner |told the court that it was simply an | automatic vending machine used for | purposes of stimulating sales of can- | { dy mints and the merchandise of the store keeper in whose place it is op- irmlm] It was demonstrated that hefore a person puts any money in Mh:- machine he can what he will obtain for the neckel by looking at {an ihdieator in the front of the ma- I enine. | When a nickel ts placed in the machine, the down a' lever that causes three wheels con- taining pletures of varlous kinds of frult to revolve. Ie then takes hold of a slide on right of the ma- chine and when wheel stops re- volving, he recelves his package of mints from the slide. Then he looks at the licator again to see what |he was sent he will get for another nickel, If |at Atlanta the wheels containing the pictures r senter of fruit stop at certaln posttions, the person using the machine an oh tain another nickel, a mint and go which at- sioner John P. Johnson. Canada Or Italy. Whether deportation will be Canada or Italy, in the event that tained, can be decided cn retary of Labor Davis. Ponzi came to this country from Canada, after being convicted there of banking ir- regularities at Montreal, ada objects to having him deported to the dominlon, officials of this of which he is still citizen. considered a No Detailed Charges. The warrant against Ponzi, tained after we ra) days of inves- tigas \ Into his actic'ties in the past 20 years, charges ‘nly that he in the country in vi tion of the law, and nisslo: Johnson sald that until Ponzl was given a hearing detatle uld not properly be 1 It s known, hor evidenee includes a ., ‘ord of Ponzi's convic- tion from smuggling allens into s country from Canada, for which 4 to serve two years the record of his three- ce for forgery at Mon- ayer y Co at (Continued on Iue H) Govt, Starts Action ( Have fim : NO DETAILED ~CHARGES get-rich-quick | by | was sald by Immigration Commis- | | to the charges against Ponzi are gus- ! ly by Sec- | but if Can- | country may order him sent to Italy, | NEW BRITAIN HERALD | NOVEMBER 29, 1924, -SIXTEEN PAGES. Ipumm NPFRATII, C[lMP "l “4da(1 3apy 93818 Imdpdauu0 ) His Works Include “The Girl of | the Golden West” OPERATION PROVES FATAL Suffered From Throat Famous Musiclan Came from Family Noted for Musical Talents —Very Popular with Americans, By The Assoclated Press. | Brussels, Nov. 29, —Giacomo Puc- | cini, famous operatic composer, dled at noon today from a throat infec- tion*following an operation, Coming f a family which for a century and a produced an uninterrupted line of famous musi- clana, it was not surprising that Gia- como Puccini early showed signs of | precocious musical lenta, | A Family of Artists, great-great-grandfather ucel born In 2, wrote chure muslc that was highly respected and was the master of Guglielml. Hls | son, Antonio, born in 1747, was less famous a8 a composer than as a the- orlet, while Domenlco, the taird In line, born in 1771, attained distinc- tlon as & church composer but was| mors fa for his operas. His| son, Michele, father of Giacomo, won fame for his compositions of sacred musie, which were admired through- | out north Italy. Upon his death in | 1864, he was honored by the com- position of a requiem by Pacint Pucinni was one of the few com- posers of recent times whose o successes wers numerous and la. | ing. As to numbers he is matched | only by Massen: quency of performances is concern- ed, the Itallan composer surpassed Massenet, in America at least. Glulio Gattl-Cassazza, general manager of tha Metropolitan opera house, once sald Puceini was the composer with Amearicana, Poor In His Youth, In his youth, Puccini was an artist whose riches were measured in terms of talent rather than in cold money. He lived in an attic, wh The of h | tence more baffling than | harmony and counterpoint. When Puccinl had learned | that that the schools of Lucca could teach him, his won him a pension from the of Italy. This enabled him to r the Milan conservatohy. His chief instructor was Amilcare Pochielli, at whose suggestion he undertaok the | composition of “Le’ ViIIL,” a one act { opora. This was 8o euccessful that it was later revised and expanded | ro nets Some Famous Works. inate efforts of " produced | b 4 9. Although he t nearly four year composer compensated for th th his “Manon Lescaut.” ok v Lo " and “The Girl of the proved such popular euc- those of all name | “La Bohe t(‘«rmurd on Page 14) a number of slugs, each slug g nl e ™ Master Mmds In ‘IH‘N‘:‘-nR on the f chine say that the slugs he for rerchandise nt of shall used for merchandise and not playin machine, Chief Tnterrupts Procecdings Chief Willlam C. Hart interrupted | the edings while the machine being demonstrated to Judge Hungerferd, saying that he would | show that the can be used fn machine ore slugs obtair cd by using them. It was on this | t that Prosecutor Woods based aim that the mach were gambling hines, hut Jvlk‘k"" informed the court that the direc- 10ns for using the machins specitice | F ! lly stated that slugs were not to | WCre be put back into the machine b iment started when this point, Ju g to the co ad closed its and th ts were oon d to mem bar and the chief should | pt proceedings or objection ned and the Several times while Woods was questioning a , defense at his tactics, | tc was arguing with and not questioning him McCue Protests rgeant MeCue was al the witness star mv' of counsel and court to tell his experiences with the machine He attempted to testify to conversations he self and men in the stores but the A otit as T After his test | rupted times, CROSSING FATALITIES procs Two Killed When Train and Automobiles Col- his s lide Near Eaton, Oblo. Nov ~Two persony her was pr ured in the wr £ mobiles at a crossing of including a party tresses appearing at ano! rt that [© 1se were bers of the Mrs. Charlea Fagen, not interri the 0 Ruth | Jea | Ghae jead w torneys iming that e wit Detective wed to objected to Dayte Dri was < by the Boy E mpelor nf China He(w lo Jap Legation gtoa several visited conversations ¢ Hsuan arsay evidence. | 7 boy em t Chiba, had been inter e a number of 1 don't em in this another point ir his testim Klett asked ‘How many prosecutors are thers in this case anyhow?" McCue told the court that he put the nickels into the slot of the ma chines and recefved a mint sometimes he received slugs said that he did not know before he Pt in his nickel that he was to ceive the slugs, whereupon J Elsner asked it he had the directions for using the mac before he started to play it. Mot answered that he had not and per then told the court that if he ] | had read the directions they THE WEATHER \} ot have been brought into c - ;‘{: _.):\Aa that if the ’;mw were g0 Hartford, Nov, 20—Forecast Ing to do their business fn that man for New Britain and vicinity ner no telling what they Unsettled tonight; Sunday fair and colder. | were ru mon vas yesterday gra v the naw g lay ok egation. It appare o = refuge in the s stated causs for nger. it SO r immediate da SAYS HUSBAND BEAT HER Alex ranklin et was arrested th ning on rrant i issued on her alsplaying s wife s to s saulted s W that she there is will be doing next (Continued on Page 14) Another Fatally Hurt. | Greatest Train Robbery Get 25 Years In Prison [Former Postal Inspector Fahy and James Murray, Chicago Politician, Sen- tenced—Others Be Sentenced Monday. to ipants of | 25 years each | Atlanta today rison at f Tuan | Monday of | Store St. Scare Fire in Furniture Causes Main Fire i t brought about 1 | Anten ¢ Heavy volu: through the & that a_serious building was the strest Y% | smoke. Infection— | t, but 8o far as fre- | most popular| ’1 he found the problem of bare exis-| his native | queen SEEKING HARTFORD TONG PROSPECTIVE BRIDE ~ EAST LYME BOY SHOT {Intended Hushand Left in Shotgun Accidentally Dis- Lurch—Rejected Suitor | charged—Brother Takes Believed the (ause Him to Doctor Ce " \ who disappearcd on t ght bifore her weddi om-to- be, and a were the principals | v which has ome to which may 1y to unr Miss Jane after be | tate ,d | disappeared beth Cor | from her Thank | Mrs As 'hr_‘ his bro to hold handker ving Conley r rom Ashland, ( House, who, it | mer suitor of Jane Jane's absenc | Would advise I'r 1 Will he ques wi | House's parents ar a farm near Ir. ) sald to Syracuse, cxpressed ve on and OLD MUSICIAN DIES Willlam F. Kuhn Played Bass Violin rd- sald | They ing to s mother > 6pent Wed at Russwin smith For 35 Years, Kuhn Toc Willjam E. cian and »me at 51 ng. Mr. and has been a S the past 4 mployed French Doctor Coming | With Pneumonia Cure ° Parls, Nov. 20—Dr. D, E. Gerin caving f today e ye years t the He 1d G ar both of Newark, N a son Charles F., of New B Mr. Kuhn was a member 1New England Order of Prot an Germ by which he claims to havs about cures in more than 600 pneu- monia cases, With no deaths to mar the rerord. He aiso intendg to dem- onetrate a method of treating per- nicious anemia without blood tra fusions. T bs conduct in the hospitals of New Yor occupy four months. born of Fri N. H, in tained his rsck Wyman, tain 1 of n Coneof In known { e tests, to his UEET will was | ¥ Russwin An 'CONSTRUCTIVE ~ LEGISLATION WILL NOT BE OBSTRUCTED BY DEMOCRATS Robinson nounces Stand — New | Muscle Shoals Is to Come Up for Action Senator Prnject | HELD UP AND ROBBED nia Motorist Is Relicved of $300 Ml Between Chapel St and Derby Ave, New Haven Muscle Shoals Plan GONE ON WEDDING EVE ~ WHILE HUNTING, DIES Theater—Was Lock- f the tion ety Average Daily Circulation For Week E n(hng 1 1 303 Nov. 22nd , PRICE THREE CENTS SLAYERS IN WATERBURY; STRANGE CHINAMEN BEING BARRED FROM CAPITAL CITY |Attempt To Identify Murder Suspect Thwarted When Chi- nese Refuse To Look At Prisoners. z New York Police Taking Drastic Measures to Put Down Latest Outhreak in Racial Warfare. Watere 1 to main= suspiclous ory that nd Leon a laun- esday eves that eity 100ting. Chinamen Frightened | king no to ba d are nlaces e laune pear the nd drawn s that One laune 5 reported services of a duty oute re to indle ) had pre= The son and left Boston. has s certaln to coma Hartford police the ¥oo Was Well Armed Under the pelice : Voo's bed oo taken recau- three and in escape was not. has been the car police police of il owner Barred to Chinese City g 1 not I per- this he tong satisface A of all gers in CHILD BADLY SCALDE