New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 11, 1925, Page 1

of the World l By Associated Press J0JEH [ESTABLISHED 1870 i e Y | VS ;mmuuo 2 BIGRALROADSIN _waoe Kth, With OW Age Creeping [il[iAN'n[} MERGER On Has Little To Show For Being Bt Lonis Southwestam Taken Over by C., R. L, and P, WALL STREET IS SURPRISED Combined Assets of These Two| Roads is Close to Six Hundred Million Dollars and Mileages ):x-‘ ceeds 10,000 Miles. New York, March 11.—Control of the St. Louls Southwestern Rallway company has becn asquired by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Rallway Co., Charles Hayden, chair- man of the Rock Island, announced today, Given Freely to Charities. w York, March 11.—The New York Evenlng World today prints the following article from its special correspondent at St, Detersburg, Florlda: | “Babe Ruth has very .little to show today for his arduous years of tolling in the big leagues. “This was learned from a talk with Ruth on the steps of the The Rock Island's acquisition of | Yankees' club house at Crescent the §t. Louls Southwestern brings! Lake park, together two important roads in the A country home in the shadow | southwest with total combined as- sots of close to $600,000,000 and more than 10,000 miles of track. of the famous Inn at Sudbury, where he might farm in his B years, is all that Ruth really ‘pos- Comes As Surprise. sesses today, with the exception of The announcement was & com-| hjg wire's Tioldings. plete surprise to the Ananclal dis- | Has Passed His Peak trict, which had been expecting that! wpyth has passed the shadow line the ncxt move In the regrouping of| op i youth. He is growing fat and Southweatern railroads would be the| 519, youth Ls collcoting its toll. His anncxation of the Rock Island byfpact g0 ot = S0 IR the Bouthern Pacific. At the same} * y BV 858 POLRE B time it was belleved the “coltom|p,i; was known as the highest bolt” system was destined for inclu- Rock Tsland-St. Louls Southwesterg j€18l status car M e D) properties would be drawn into thed DeinE sued in New York for a rac- Bouthern Paclfic system or form tifif 108 debt incurred last summer at nucleus of a new consolidation, 4 the tracks in and around New York, The Goulds Are Ont. % “The suit was brought by Harry The change in control of the Sfi E;hmmtnln, to whom the claim was Louls Southwestern marks the pass-|Besigned by Edward J. Callaban. ing from the Gould management pf Admits the Debt the last important western rallrgp “‘Yes, T owe the money’ Ruth| suld today. ‘I made the bets last| which had still remained under their direction. Recognition wasim-| May, T lost $7,700. T went to Galla-| mediately given to the Rock Isfand [han, who was making a book, and| futerests by the elcction of Charles | told him T could not meet the ob- | ligation just then, but to give me un- Hayden, Marcus L. Bell, J. E. Gor- ‘cot- | til the end of the season, when I! man and N. D. Amster to the * ton belt” board of directors. { had some more money, and 1 would | The Rock Island, which emerged { pay him. from recelvership in 1917, has a, *‘He said .‘all right’ A few combined capitalization and funded | months later forgetting or disre, debt of $383,038,119 while that of | garding hie agreement, he demand- ed that 1 pay him. he smaller road, $103,633,500, *‘I sald T did not have the money. “Alllance with the Rock Island,” | Mr. Gould said, “commends itself on | 5q t0la me ‘all right, I'm, going to expose you. I'll have it published geographical, traffic and _economic | | in the papers.’ ON WATTING STATION public advantage, as well as a logl- Asks Ald. Judd to Consider with me and violated it squawking t vealed tl ,and by T welched, and re- t he is a gambler, T be- operating on New Yodk tracks, “‘T would have pald the debt had he kept his word.’ Has Given Freely “Ruth's money has been away from him by ‘sharks.’ given freely to charity. Just a few days ago he was having his finger taken cripple came in, dollar and remarked, ‘Gee, here 1 am complaining of a busted finger. “In his career as one of the great- est southpaw pitchers in the game and unquestionably the greatest of hitters, Ruth has earned a small | fortune, But today, with old age creeping on, he has very little to show for his being the most colorful ! baseball player in the history of the ! game."” MANGLED TODEATHIN | BRICK YARD MACHINE - 0. eal development of legislative policy which favors natural and voluntary sclectlon as against arbitrary or eompulsory grouping. “Security holders of all compantes may be congratulated on this devel- opment of interest in that property | on the part of a great railroad or- | ganization and its eminent and able management.” Employe Killed at R. ~ i Mol 7o 2 To A s : Common Terminal for Clark Yard in §t. Louis, March 11.—Reports on Gy East Berlin scquisition of stock contral of the Carriers iast Be St. Louls Southwestern Rallway company, (Cotton Belt), by the tock Island system were received | Mayor A. M. Paonessa has written e with surprise today by St. ILouis| Alderman Willlam H. Judd, chair- ..‘,‘ T Bouthwestern ofilclals lisve. Dan< |00 ot the somimon councll com: | o he was fel Upthegrove, president, left for | | < New York Monday, ostensibly on |mMittce on a waiting station, urging|marigled by a disintigrating machine routine busineses. Recent rumors | that an effort be made to establish |4t the plaut. 5o far as is known, no was to blame for the working around occ the had connected the Cotton Belt with | a Frisco merger. a common stopping place for jitne ma- | busses, which is one step in the o A O e L S S e ot et S g e LS e S g S e gy i e S e e e e The Cotton Belt operates approxi- and w into it, mately 1,500 miles of track in Ilii- | rection of providing for a v-mnmlwn, to the & nois, Missouri, Arkansas, lLouislana !station. { Rotta was marr 1 is surviv- and Texas. It has conncctions with Alderman Judd's committee has|® his wife and six children. He the Rock Tsland at St. Louts, Little | held but one meeting since its ap- | DROSIEI ey ards in Fast Rock, Brinkley, Ark, and Fort|pointment several months ago, 1{1 e body viewed this Worth. has prepared a report to be sub-| BYEComDLTs e { mitted to the next meeting of the wn and common council in which it is sug- SIS o [ mon stoppt ui: place, no station b GHELSECE Ry I ral | erected at this time and| Mayor Paonessa has offered a sug- | gestion that the stretep between Church strect and the | south of the I hotel fover to a bus parkir reh strip, th » departmer 3 onen thel s ufficiently long but other lete, Etratford Drug Store Visited | ments ' Millionaire Married to Waterbury Store Owner Youths Recently Confessing Simi- lar Crime Arc Sought. M: rly today foree ¥ Stratford, Conn Burglars ¢ polic s ad- | wide door of Onkey's drug store, en- | spa coming i 8. Ie tered the back room and carried | cent ke unnecessary | \iss | L Oliver, pw tor » the store f containing ! the ces NOW in Use | joea] 3 ot S about 3 of wh $100 repre-jont Central Park. | yestera i 1 [ ¢ sented United States post office sub | Th does not ask that this |y S sate hip etation receipts, Stamps and taken over without c Meganti A wi , announcing order blanks and ahout & on to ideas that may the marr w took place 1 ®hange left in the after ed by rested ¢ Balhc presence of officers bulk of the day's recuipts had t in the of any better!or the s 1 nds of th taken to Bridgeport last night, were | plan, he belleves this idea might be | ¢ was T the office wleo taken. adopted, he explained today ¢ N 1 New York The burglary and safe robbery| The mavor is not pleased with this wlyweds con- was carried out fn e v the same | the movement to drop the fdea of ¢ ¢ oh is sched way that a robbery was committed | waiting tion without the 1 r York on on April % 1424 Police are looking | thorough study. he has stated March p's nt pu for the youths who were arrested | ser-acted as i ! following the other robbery th 1 Lewis r, recently nection with today's robb H t ose who confessed to parti former Merwin Ty cipa 1 eral Prosecntor Tells New York- Fred Smit e robbery in John Prince. 25 and Alfred Gritman, | ers They Must Sce to it Their | 18, alt of Dridgeport. All recelved | qpropgnes po Not Violate Iaw ghort jail .sentences | New TYork, March 11 —Unless PnpetoHold ccnct e i e el a liquor, they need expec March '10 t ne co Consistory Rome March 11Tt wa ation when the government itself is el S iy force a p ock he premisns, ed today that Pope Plus would hold | 10" 1 '\.-‘,1,’\ ~ln‘). i v‘ e a sccret consistory on March 30. Tt “";-’» orn al . announcem given out . ) = atine il eom e estate | § ! A g el fani Age ¥s the archbishops of | Hhuckner sald e e T i Bev anada, Spain will be | O e S P ‘m p 1 Ur s I 5 s Innopen D All they ha WILL SELL FARM LAND \I\Il\l(ll\lni\l\l wf" o 1 et ‘ll:‘h"fl" ! \_-'k‘ Capite . \ i Mayville, N. Y. March 11.- Ao s thesenthing fartford cou Ry Bentley. 21 years old, was Killed by advance of fe ag |ed tor Cetounly fumes of vinegar vat at the Gravitt | proof t | expenses and in ad R a Trothers vinegar works - today. | Ing xica sa * portion o a & vat alone in an effort to save Bent- | padlock court would giv fate [ wit ised ley, but was taken Gui amd is ex-]action on all such proceedings as e ) pected to live soon a8 filed w timated @t § ighest Salaried Baseball Player “Bambino” Admits That His Sudbury Farm is About All He Possesses—Discloses That He Was Unable to | Pay His Gambling Debts—Has Earned Small Fox- tune But It Has Slipped Away, Though He Has Also 3 | salaried baseball player in the I slon In a new merger to include the | g0 JFER AT PRAEE R | BABE RUTH Kansas City Southern, Missouri- 000 o season. It is sald that Ruth | —————— }":":“'T““" Trisco and other|y,y ono_third of his salary withheld | *I said ‘all right, if that's the ; by the Yankée owners who are in-| kind of a fellow you are, o ahead, he Tatest development immedi- D SE54s | you are, go ahea el e e B Festing it for him for a ralny day.| “‘[ feel that inasmuch as Calla- | Btreet as to whether the combined ‘The revelation of Ruth’s finan-|han had a gentleman's agreement | lieve that he should be parred from | He has | | X-rayed in a doctor's office when a | He handed him a | NEW BRITAIN, (,ONNECTICUT WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1925. —EIGHTEEN PAGES FIGHT FOR$300,00 WILLED TOE. HAVEN (Cousins Claim Estate of Late Isaac Hagaman \FILE HEARING REQUESTS i New York State People Making Formal Application For Dequests that go to Shore Town Under Terms of Wil New Haven, March 11.-—Mrs, "t"mollnl Swartout Nagangast of " pugakeepsle, New York, her two ) brothers, Samuel M. Swartout and and John W. John J. Swartout, ing to be cousint of the deceased, | have, through atiorncys, flled re- | quests to be heard on claims in the | probate eourt here in the estate of Isaac Hagaman,of East Haven, who died recently, leaving a will, | queathing his entire estate to the town of East Haven. The estate {s now said to be valued at about $300,000, The will provid- for erection of a memorlal ibrary and its maintenance in per- petuity by the town, where Haga- man had lived alone in the fam Dec: was a member of an old York family and with brothers formerly conducted the Hotel Alhrm:\r'(‘, New York city. ANERIGAN WONDED BY BRIGANDS IN GREECE Attack on Theological Students By The Aesociated Prees. Athens, March 11. Reuter's Agency announces advices from Janina, fn northwestern Gr near the Albanian border, reporting an | attack by brigands in Albania on a motor car containing students | the American Archeological echool | “w. whom fifteen shots were firad, an | American student named Logan he- | mg wounded. fter escaping from the brigands | | by spomnng ap their car the stud- | anq abandoned the automobile and haggage and hid in the woods, Later the brigands found the car and took there cameras and some ring arel from The nts afterward retur and motored back cek border. Albanian government the its across the ( « The earching for s expressed | British and Am 1s perpetrators and | ) regrets to the The attack occurred near Kathou- tou region. 1, in the Val .1 ' State Police Called on To Quell Factory Strife Conn March 11.- ged to have s on strike in onc the Hyglenie Fik here { red with Varsallles girls who applving for their | nositions 1 mill resulted in & call for the state police today. State Policeman Henry Albright of the Groton barracks responded and up- on his arrival, the strikers, who had | at the mill, dispersed and | t to thefr homes. s strikers went out neariy two | They claim that they protest ag a 80 7 ction in w ©§ on plece work, notice of was given | em by . Mosher of the mi sirl I)no\\ néd \\'h’en Auto Backs Into Deep Pm\d Mass. S har Marct Vottari Indicted for First Degree \lunlcl ary gra extraordi Qulek, of Rhinebeck, N. Y., cmlm-1 be- | old | homestead for many years. | his | | ‘Bandits Reported Making | el of | NEW BRITAIN HERALD 'T[]l]l BURGLAR IS | Florida Caddie Uses Sleeping Boy’s Head As Tee; Death Likely || Pensacola, Fla., Uso of his head as Johnnie caddy at the Pe club, to the hospita tured skull, Play was dull on the course and Johnnle was taking a nap. A fellow caddy, lugging golf aticks, placed a ball on his head and after taking a couple of swings, drove. He missed the ball Doctors today despalred of sav- Ing Johnnie's life, March 11— tee sent old negro Country with a frac- A ola Peculiar Burglar 1 bing Machine Shops—Breaks Hartford, Waterbury, Plainville, —— | | | { He gave the name of Georg | brose and said hie Tremont street, Boroughs Decides on April 7 B | rs old and a ste e | | The total value of the goods al (8pecial to the Herald., leged to have been etolen Hartford, March 11.—The date ot | brose 1s estimated at several [the hearing on amendments 1o (he |$and dollars. He is charged adas Tarifon charter of the clty of New Britain | C"t°FP8 8hops in Tlartford, Wi h bury, Meriden, Plainville, West {has been changed from March 24 | Hartford and Eimwood. |to April 7. Chalrman R. J. Smith Headquarters in Hartford | of the committee on cities and hor.| The police are checking up on| oughs acceded 1 o % { “breaks” of a similar natur I'n sindlee e a0 i ans hvoughicu: Lo e | Jepresentative F. O. Rackliffe of | 15e to1d the police he came New Britain for a postponement 80 | city and established his that all wno are interested may |quarters” here about 2 mo have ample time to prepare for the i st oot hearing. wges and other es | The city of New Britain is inter- | ments as well as to shop employes. |ment of Landers, Frary & Clark is- |ested in House Bill entitied{Tnfonasing; ancePHElRCIC RDIHCRE T iied e } v | “Taxation of propertics owned by |employee of a shop that he is al-| a ’ 4 municipalities.” The bill, which |leged to hive visited during the ®UTPI ne g 30 will be given a hearing tomorrow { night. [ ey A | before the finance committee, affects | Ambrose this afternoon confess- |climbed to $4,152,561.50. [ | New Britain fnasmuch as it provides ed to all burglaries €harged| The surplus account is as follows for the taxation of dams, nstinim here s wellias A nums : houses and improvements a | ber in Wats rbury. ‘ £3,178,616.50 | Burlington where New Britain ha e ‘,rx(«-nsivrz water worlm Inlu ‘h‘ : H taxed for acreage and not for ’ provements. It s an old bill orig. | inating in smallitowns to tax cit ies | IN MUT[]R [; | which own land{in that particuls |town. W. L. 1Hll(‘" St o ) he New Britaln board of water | . o commissloners, Wil appear at me New Haven Youth Has| A 2 i | hearing tomorrew to 3 < Sy e e ) Fractured Skull—Ma- e House Bill §13 entitled “An act f 4 q folox) concerning state athletic co:m;;s-; chmes Sldcs“.lpe et | lons” will B® given a hearing be- fore the judielary eommittee Frid lay | ling Steamer Stella Maris Crush- ol in Ice off Newfoundland But Crew s Saved, Visitors at cluded A. ex-Se It Marsh of i After 50 Years Higgins Higgins Di Living Here B racet ars. street was hought frc Daly, first pastor of Mrs. L. P. Burns will b 1 Friday interm t Lose Appeals and Must Te tify in Dnnw 'llml Davison's E ~(alc Is Set \( 0\ er | lghl Million ¢ 1 A g1 widow, Mrs, Kate T I Wy £ Wounds 11 Year Old Gitl, | Waterbury Lawyer Chief He Then Commits Suicide Owner of Trolley Co. w Y Mar¢ 11.—W 1T M A T ¥ T I years ol today sh i s s i ghtly wounded ¢ year old Kate Patina, v m he was i and then i su 3 THE WEATHER [ ng at girl's v s N 1 —0— | h. Mer s of P rney ¥Yor New Britain and vicini- | y 1 1 him from t sed ¥ ty: Clearing and colder to- s s« . Gharlea H night; Thursday fair Cort A fired two shots mer pres HELD INHARTEORD Gearge Ambrose of Boston Was | HE ~ CONFESSES CRIMES Has Been Making Speclalty of Rob- Average Daily Cireulation For M 7an . 12,170 March 7th PRICE THREE CENTS WARREN SEEMS DEFINITELY OUT OF RUNNING AS-PARTY MEMBERS ADVISE COOLIDGE Presldent Wamed Not To Resubmit Nomina- tion As Attorney Gen- eral Since Confirma- Seeks Job 8 Months But Drops Dead as He Is Hired Today N March 11 elgl ths George ars old, has walked of Haverstraw and nelghboring communities sceking For the last Bower, m the streets AR ] work. Invartably the ansver to || fion lS lm ossible { Meriden, and West Hartford, {| his request for a job was no, p 2 1 ! Today he Q@ a 0 3 % it ‘NEW DATE SET FflR Hartford, Mareh 11.—A speciallst | | Mouwtain Pa [1' ,,‘”-.n:“ [.,I'H“ | in tool shop burglaries, who for || Palisade 1 il berisoan | ‘roeshec! HEARINfi []N EHARTER weral weeks sncceeded in elnding | | 1 " ‘ Iv:-‘,‘.\ 0”,' :RUHK, Groesheck and Me- | the police authorities of a number || swered yes redintmetia |0 | of Connecticut eftics and towns, was || job of watc At '_1'“ ”1‘:":\1‘( | Camant Among Those captured lere today as he wa courts but hefore he eould uce | G ey . : i ‘vwmplmn fo elsponsl oflsome ofithe || el Arenrdd i heaat o | Mentioned as Possibili- Committee on Cities and | stolen articles fn a business place. || sald death was due to shock, | ties—Defeated Nominee Called to Washington. SAPLIS OF L. TOTALS $4.182,361 Increase of $1,004,045 Be- tween Jan. 1, 1924 and Jan. 1, 1925 1 March — Presi vas adyised today by cra in the senate mot t Coolidge an lea public because it could who visit in {1 ed the White carly day, sald the had given them no indica- a3 to what his course would be House president in surplus of $1,004,- s noted in the nancial state- CHARLES B WARREN | This act has for its purpose (he New Haver 1:.—Winifred ; L — establishment of a boxing commig. Grey, 18, who sustalned a fractured | { but some of them were of the op sfon. P. H. Corbett of New Brit- |skull when two cars crashed shortly ¢ oA et i ot ldaake ot aln will speak in favor of its en- | before last mid it on Derby ave- o ,“(”Hn‘ sl bl BT AL | actment, nue, injuring nine others, none seri- 40550 . o Hest oAt IRtabrae it The house today passcd a bill au- |Ously, Was said to have improved | InY" ta 1 Sub S e e thorizing New Bri 10 issue sewer | Slightly at a local ho today b Rl D ‘-W“_Nf 3 hon ‘he bill has|to be still i-cons 3 e e s sed the . vestigation was being mad the | 4 [t e o 1,‘; ] srd county delegation |accident today. Miss Gre 1| S e ek ay with Senator R. J. Smith [to have been in the machin p iy S ir chair and v to 1 by €. C. Meir of New York a | ffia e DATEC R BENR O ARIn 0N X $175,000 by levying a county tax. | Student and others in s 201 SIE Ao This is a reduction of 25,000 from | Vivian Allen, HR ”":”””, ! | Rugg and Groesheck last year. It s o« { t this city 5 4 Indications that a W nan county expenditur T ! mig eent to the senate revived $205.000 and the difference } e discussion among senator as to the {made up by the sale of the county |car tried to pass eble Aoy possibi confirming such a se farm 1 wington 2nd receipts | Fitzgerald of Ansonia and lection, 1 made from from t musement tax. House it, causing both cars to mong the 1i en who Leader B. V. Alling of New Prita thet Ficarald e under conside ed th Anna Costello and Cather ren was included the money | Arthur P [ stice of the | B W. Both cars were badly wrecked The annual me Massac ts RESSEn holders will be } 11 a. m. or Henry T. Burr lers. Frary ot it ol s st i ) SAILORS RES(}UED McCamant_ Sugsested Britain, ASSIST. DIST. ATTORNEY COHEN GIVES EVIDENCE on i A udge MeCa nt, who set Hartford Lawyer Calied Upon To | s 79188 Metamn S Tell of Conditions In Rickard tion in 1 b Movie Case. i sident and J.. Mar == et 5 $ 1o i G X Warr S s ) was S to € Y o N I S tipon ¢ H.|s of N of t s - ( c s : New s A\S W s Called 10 Capital N 3 £ 1 Ethel Barrymore Today . In Critical Condition W £ ey