New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 20, 1925, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 MINISTER FLAYS IMMODESTY, BEAUTY CONTESTS AND LACK OF MORALS BY YOUTH OF 25 Rev. Dr. Ahlquist Digs At New&papers And “Silly Girls Who Have Inherited Pretty Faces.” Attractive- Young Women Invited to Atlantic City to Be Exhibited Like Prize Stock at County Fairs. A scathing denunclation of young women who parade their beauty to the admiring gaze of the public, was administered yesterday morning by the Rev, Dr. A. A. Ahlquist, when members of Everyman's Bible class attended service in the First Luth- eran church, Dr, Ahlquist sald in part: “People today are absorbingly busy with trivialities, We live in one of the most needy and critical generations in history, A shaken civillzation is striving desperately to get on its feet again. There are great enterprises to serve, great books to read, great thoughts to think., And yet we are allowing fhings that do not matter to crowd REV. DI A, A, AHLQUIST out things that really matter, “I sat one morning in a raflw h. The man in front of me cpened his paper and turnec to the two sport pages. For nearly an hour he read read, cvery erap of & x»m‘\ news, vrize fights, the standing clubs and such. Only th and othing more. As he neared his sta- on he crumpled up his paper and srew it on:the floor. What did he we for Smyrna? for the martyred hristians, for Turk versus Greek, for the illuminating ily bread from God's own rinted on an adjoining r at m spiritual ter temperature of untold thous They will not put first tennis, word And per Vhen Soloman wnities—all in va rgotten that in h great 1 to create ing. Just now the newspapr ng the very same ‘In their plcture galleries very lit- e attention is paid to Impre h of the old saw ‘Handsome handsome does,' but we ted to pay t si ho by accident ve inherited pretty faces. Much is made of the oman who happens to have an al- perfect physique, often played in to ance of mode nd decency. It seems to is are in miost have bhecome quite {ad to conduct contests in rder certain icst girl in town and th ummoned to some City to put the bibition and have whom the prize for eauty should be nuch as birds and fowls e exhibited at to a Wlarges th intry rs and (Continued on Page 13) FIRES IN NEW HAVEN $1,000—Another Causes Loss of $5,000 to House, New Haven, the tug Jam Haven Towing Co., 4 here, early today did about $4,000 damage, chiefly to the deck house. Fire in the New Haven Art Shop in Washington avenue, spread to the tenement above irove out shop-keeper's family there, bullding damage was about $5 Louls Kroop, told the firemen that in the store stove and \\\\ ch was dock- T w 000, owner of store, a fire nt ug tairs to breakfast ghbor rushed ir re wae afir the stre at once | devouring | of the| verses of | that sort of | s the | ais- | RON .., " ENGLANG Most of Sir Hartwell’'s Liquor Is Gontiscated INVESTORS ARE LOSERS Bri Press, Commenting on Losses Sustained by Booze Baron, Offer ed at Results, London, April —The Dally Mall | | asserts that Sir Broderlck Hartwell left England a month ago to super- intend delivery to an yndicate of his scventh and largest shipment of spirits, but that the consignment has met with a scries of misadventures and most of it is now in the hands of the American prohibition authorities. The paper prints a telegram al- leged to have been received from the baronet by his London office, as fol- lows: “Visit discloses appalling situ- | ation. Over 30,000 (?) sefzed. Balance transferred to three schoon- ers, At present safe, but cannot reach or communicate. Message of Fallure “Few thousand unloaded, but re- sulting funds paid ount for charter- ing vessels. No funds available un- less schooners land goods, at pres- ent impossible owing to intensive campaign, sible, Communicate with - deepest regrets. The Daily Mail rema 800 persons who supplied the funds | to buy the whiskey are hardly likely to get much return, Sir Broderick is | expected to arrive In London today | or tomorrow. It is recalled that to the baronet's circulars inviting the public to par-| ticipate In his ventures promised a profit at the rate of 120 per cent. The reported failure of his ex- | pedition causcs another paper, the Star, to remark that “previous little | mpathy need be wasted” on him and his supporters, adding:" We be- lieve most of the English people will | regard it as quite a satisfactory sit- vation.’ Would Respect Laws “This country,” the paper tinues, | tion, but it does believe in respecting the laws of other countries, and the | organized effort of this British baronet and his friends to defeat the extremely interesting and respect- worthy experiment of the United States is key running affair is a sneaking, furtive affront to a friend- ly nation which is trying out a noble experiment. put an end to it.” Washington Gratified Washington, April 20.—The r ported failure of Sir Broderick Hart- well's latest effort to dispose of huge b e | amners . 8 { quantities of liquor to rum runncrs | Stelctes, Enforcement: Nost Suns | oft the Atlantic ccast was described | today by Prohibition Commissioner | Haynes as outstanding evidence of an increasingly successful war on the rum smuggler. The work of smugglers is daily | becoming more difticult, Haynes sald, and in time that problem will be | solved. He avowed that the Hart- well exploit in the fight. Profits of the Iritish syndicate, Haynes added, are | to have been *“very unsatis in fact, until last year.” liquor own ory, | No Sympathy—Washington Pleas. | Returning soonest pos- | ‘inquirers rks that the | scandal which is far too | ‘We hope this blow will | merely an incident | | all gasoline filling stations, all candy | No N. &J. Co. Stock lncrease to Finance Purchase of T. & H. Co. Conjecture concerning the nancing of the purchase of | Traut & Hine Mfg. Co. by North & | | Judd Mfg., was partly set at rest |today when President Frederick M. |Holmes of North & Judd told a fi- | Herald representative that his com- | American | pany would not Increase its 1",\[|||’|H“”z,| ion stock. In some eircles it was as- sumed that an Inercase in capitali- | zation would be made in order to raise funds for the purchase. It W, . HARTRETIRES A5 PRES. OF Y. M. C. A, —Plans for New Build- ing in Embryo At the annual meeting of the | directors of the Young Men's Chris- | | tian Assoclation this afternoon, Mor- hmer H. Camp, a prominent lawyer, ‘ua! elected president, succeeding | Walter H. Hart, who asked to be relieved of the office after three years' service. Although he did not desire to retain the post of presi- dent, Mr. Hart agreed to become chairman of the building committee | which will consider ways and means | of giving New Britain a modern | | bullding with up to date equip- ment. The new building will not be crected immediately and ground may not be broken for three years but | the directors decided that it would be advisable to begin planning now new home delay will be eliminated. | During Mr. Hart's presidency the | association has forged ahead. Un- der his guiding hand, it has made trides unparallelel in its history. | In addition to the election of Mr. Camp as president, the directors chose Malcolm Farmer vice-presi- dent, W. H. Rattenbury treasurer, | Sherrod E. Skinner recording sec: | retary and P. B. Stanley chairman of the finance committee, BLUE LAW (W IN GUILEORD Two Candy Stores Closed Yesterday | day is Predicted. | Guilford, April 20.—Burgesses of the borough yesterd closed two candy stores at request of the local law enforcement league who asked that Sunday closing laws be en- | forced. Tt was forecast that Sunday steps would be taken to close | and drug stores within the town and | borough limits, a Sunday fish and | oyster shop and stop the distribution | of Sunday newspapers. | ‘Guilford Point House Is Razed {Was Old Time Summer Hotel With Accommoda- tions for Hundred Guests —Origin of Fire Is a Mystery. Iford, Conn. Point House summer hotels on sland Con tot out i “onn., April 2 one of Gui the old the Long o'clock this B Two an offic building, the laun and lce hous which stood in a group apart from the main house were saved. Trees which we k fire and from the town they looked like big torches as the flames went into the The origin of the fires is a The loss is quite heavy estimate being made this morning by Mrs. 8 M. Bryan, the owner, shora burned of was es, re close by the house toi air. mystery At End of Point The hot end of Gui is at the Guilford s land. Tt with roc | about occ od on Point the extreme which point spot along the h is not marsh ymmodious house It had been u nter but in reecnt ad been ch ord only wi Mrs lays ago ! By Flames Early This Morning !but so far as known there had been | no one in thehouse for four days. There had been no fire in the place since September and the electric | wirs were disconnected last fall. The fire, first seen at 4:40 this morni apparently started in the main din- ing room. Tire Apparatus Useless The five pieces of fire apparatus In Guilford responded to an and the volunteer members wo hard to save property, The hyd at the Point was stopped up and water eould not be obtained from it. tide low and water ould not awn through the ve been impossi- ) save the main house as it was cntirely ablaze when tha apparatus arrived. In the hote The was be sea dr blete was much furniture, silver and linen and all the equip- ment needed In place. 1In the upper story also was stored. considerable furniture be- longing to the family, some of it having been family a long time. Apparently, little or nothing was saved from the main house. Was Very Old House The hotel had been previously burned in April 1897, Tt had been in thefamily since 1544, when Robert Hunt came from Glas- tonbury and » Point prop- crty. Mrs. 8 ., who now owns theplace, is a grand hter of Mr, Hunt, and her son who has assisted nent of t hotel gor ia fourth v show t a hotel Polnt as early at 1§ 21 the | ‘Succeeded by M. H. Camp | next | maintaining the "PLANT OF TRAUT & HINE MFG. CO. | {is not the present plans of the company to make an increase in its | capital stock,” Mr. Holmes said to- | {day without equivocation, North & Judd is in position financially. of $2,500,000, it had a ~urplu.s of $612,060.55 on July 1, 9 This would be eufficient for |2 cash payment for all the stock of | Traut & ¢ Hine, of which thers are 4(\ 0"0 shares, at §S a share, the ce agreed upon, according to a ‘«[fllcmr\nt sent out to stockholders | h) the board of directors of Traut {ine. If North & Judd paid cash mvl acquired all the stock in the | company, the purchase would cast 1$820,000, In addition, it would be | necessary for North & Judd to as- sume bonds of § 000 {ssued by Traut & Hine. According to the grand list for 1025, the plant of the [Traut & Hine Co. Is assessed on | $668,000, \ The theory that North & Judd | { will pay cash for the Traut & Hine |plant is strengthened by the tone |of the letter sent out to Traut & Hine stockholders in which no men- | tion 1s made of any proposed swap- | ping of stock or other arrangement of this nature. The letter follows: “You are {speclal meeting of the stockholders {of the Traut & Hine Manufacturing | company will ho held at the office of | {the company in New Britain, at 1 P. m. on April 24th, 1925, |rectors recommending to the stock- holders that the company sell sub- | stantially all of its assets, including |the good will of the busin 6 [North & Judd Manufacturing eom. | Pany, all as st forth in written pro- |posal of the buyer to be submitted | {to the special stockholders’ meeting, \”‘“ directors .estimating that from con- |0 that when it is desired to pro- |t Proceeds of this sale and of the | “does not believe In prohibi- |ceed with the comstruction of the |T¢Served assets that stockholders will eventually receive an equivalent to cight dollars per share or better, “In the event that it is {ncon- | venient for you to attend this meet- 1mul & Hine Manufacturing com- pay, so that the same will be re. {ceived by him on or before 23rd, 1925, The company, acting as your agent, will affix the necessary ‘rc\‘ IMI‘ stampes, ORG W. TRAUT, Presiden lflN{i [SEAND'S BOOZE SCANDAL BEING AIRED In\'cstiga{ion Starts as to Rum Running and Hijacking Riverl eral N. state ¥ iny bootlegging and hij April 20.—Fed- and stigation into king activities on Long Island got under way toda: v)m.’ore Justice of the Peace Robert Burnside in the Suffolk county court house. Four of gang which is ¢! ive members of a ged with attempt- ing to remove part of a - $250,000 liquor cache April 11, admitted on he stand the part t! played in the operatio Willian d in a | fro rd during the removal He said ad been offered e part he played ed that another trooper had t | appro: for same pury Telm testified that O'Keefe, another former ad played leading role expedition. O'Keefe i3 be on a warrant extortion of the also eir lea sald that when home of I'r lq ig¢ the himselt and forced to kn groun® while his shield hat en souveni The leader of the liquor g he said, was a “Captain who was subpoenaed b THE WEATHER Tor New Britain and vic Fair tonight and Tuesday; (ly warmer Tucsday. a strong| With a capl- | herchy notified that a | to vote | n a resolution of the hoard of di- | to the | April | v ! Average Da'ty Circulation For Week Ending 1 2’ 1 65 April 18th ., T I]AWES" THREE TO 16 INCHES OF SNOW IN FANOUS RIDES ARE| NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND STATES; WEAMCTEDTONY| ~ SEVERAL KILLED IN CENTRAL WEST This I One Spectacular Part Battle Anniversary J Program VIGE-PRESIDENT DRIVES OVER HISTORIC ROUTE, Big Parades and Pageants r«-nnm-; ;Six for Conviction, Six for Insanity During Delib-| eration Lasting 101‘ 1515 ours, 150th Observance of Firing of eclal to the Herald.) | Providence, R, I, April 20, Shot Heard *Round the World— | oo 1o0diocked after Spectacular Is the Staging of the |erated for 1545 hours, the jury at the trial of Archie Thornton, of Hoxsle, Hope- Clash at the Old Bridge at Con- former Warwick policeman charged with murdering his sister-in-law was discharged from tion of the case by Judge Antonio A. | Concorn, Mass, April 20.—The Capotosto in the Kent county super- | ior court, East Greenwicl alut 50 booming of a salute of 150 guns Judge Capotosto’ early today signallzed the beginning oniy after the foreman informed the celebration of the | court that in his opinion there was 1150th anniversary of the battles of no pbssibility of a verdiet. Follow- | Concorn and Lexington. Although |ing dismissal it was 1 d from preliminary observances were held | memtbers of the panel the vote, dur- in Boston and many Middlesex ing the iong period of deliberation, county towns on Sunday, the actual | Was six for conviction and six for not nniversary date, the main events guilty by reason of insanity. This were reserved for today. vote, it was said, remained the same | Go Over Famous Route {from the time the jury started its | When the 100th anniversary of conslderation of the case at 12:30 |the opening of the Revolution was | o'clock Friday afternoon until it re? observed here President Grant was ported its disagréement. the guest of honor. Today Presi-| Thornton showed no outward sign | dent”Coolidge was unable to attend, of emotioin as the disagreement was { but Vice-President Charles G. Dawes reported and Judge Capotosto re- {had arranged to visit Concord, Lex- manded him to the Providence coun- ington and other towns which !ty jail without bail. Assistint Attor- figured in stirring scenes of 1775, |ney General Benjamin M. McLyman, The vice-president planned to ride|who prosecuted the case, said in an automobile, accompanied by would probably be brought to trial general John J. Pershing, over the at the October session of court. route followed on Horseback by his ancestor, Willlam Dawes, Jr., from Boston through Brookline and Cambridge to Lexington. Took Different Roads The two riders, Dawes and Paul Revere, went over different roads, warning the inhabitants of the proach of the British troops. From | Lexington they rode together into Lincoln, where Revere was captured by a British outpost and Dawes ' escaped by tprning back, while the {alarm was carried to Concord by | | Dr. Ssamuel Prescott who had ac- companied them from Lexington and | ovaded the soldiers by leaping a stonewall and riding through a | swamp, cord. Between. Militiamen, and Grenadiers, ot a spectacular (}l]MES BY AIR 70 SEE MOTHER ON BIRTHDAY | \Capt. Mitcheli Makes Trip From Washington by Airplane Mrs. T. W. Mitch 10 | street haa the happy Vine surprise on | her birthday which she is observing oday, Wil Greet Riders Vice-President Dawes had ar- ranged to grect at Lexington shortly after noon two horseback riders ot the Marlne Avia- from Boston impersonating Revere | Jliterally dropont ot and Dawes. After reviewing a|Clouds for a visit of felicitation on | military parade in that town in the | th® vp caslon. ~ Captaln early afternoon he was to proceed Mitchell, w ‘3 statloned in Wa {to Concord with General Pershing | M8ton, D. C., was piloting the 1 [to attend literary commemorative |Which flew about the city Sat exercises in the state armory at § Some time lig | o'clock. g mother and told her tha Battle of Concord make a visit 10 Hartford and when he did, he would fly over is home her 1 her 1t watch out Chptain Mit his mother was day tod the mc to pay of having her Ralph Mitchell tion Corps, son, Captain the e irday. wrote t he p ne ago, his inned to soon e most impressive part program arranged for Con- cord was a reproduction this fore- |noon of the fight at the Old North | Bridge over the Conce river, | Members of the 101st | Massachusetts National Guar in the blus and buff colc | form and part garbed as 1 | grenadiers, wera detaile jhow the minutemen embe 4t t propitious her a visit. ed a bi-p Vought more « Jown as a pursuit plan started north marched down to the ! He made the trip in a very drove back the British regulars. v hours and came directly to New ‘ Big Military Parade Britain a r his home. After this pageant came sive military parade ti Concord streots and past t ground. Major Ger Edwards, who ¢ | kee divisio | chiet m: Dw assistant secretary of the Sesquic appointed by Governor Fuller including the gove states, were assig Saturda ring t G r birt it would be time for Shia Accordingly type, ov an ex- rough battl to Hartford Mite} library Military ciation were long line Guard tre organizati bands w from Washir sion floats dents e REFUSED NEW TRIAL were depictin volu 1 in Other Fyents of ln\ Bantl coneiris John Farina, Under Senteneo Death in New York, Loscs Appeal to Supreme Court At Lexington afternoon para Lexingt athletics and For the thonsan m.v,w e two towns e me were nts were m merous rooms GOLF CHAMP 1S DADDY if the Leingon-Goneord | THORNTON JURY DISAGREES OVER VERD]CT FOR MURDER ed Behind Snow Drifts having delib- | further censidera- | s decision mame | he | Autoists Are Maroon- — Several Fatalities BOSTON MARI"H[]N IS ' Are Reported—Litch- WON BY CHAS, NELLOR. e Has lee Storm !Driving Rains Add to De- | struction in Other States —High Winds Fan Rag- ~Buildings Are Mllinois A. C. Flash Beats DeMar, Four Times Win- ner, hy 100 Yards ing Fires n, April 20.—Charies T.. Mel inois A. €. won the 25th an- Boston A A today, def | Unroofed. lor, 1 nual marzthon road| Boston 0.— April 2 forecast for England sought recovery from With clearing New the ched the southern section with morc than an inch of {rain and buried three northern states under from two to 16 {nches of snow, yesterday. The storm wasm accompanied by high shifting winds which reached gale force in many places and caused extensive damage to communication lines. Marooned In Snowdrifts Many places experionced rain, snow, hail, thunder and lightning within 24 hours. Hundreds of motorists on week-end holiday trips standard marathon distance of 26 |in northern New England points miles 385 yards ends at the B. A. A.| were marooned behind heavy drifts club hLouse in Boston, | today. At Wolfboro, N. H., where men entered in a winter carnival last February had to start because to be postponed for lack of snow and t weather. Because of | jce, scores of motorists who arrived rold the crowd at the starting yesterday to enjoy summer-like | point was smaller than in other | weather will participate in the car= years, nival today. The program includes snow shoe and ski races, | The swirling snow at Concord, N. H, caused an automobile to nge off a highway 25 feet to the edge of the Merrimack river. No one was hurt, Fatality In Boston In Boston one fatality resulted when a man became confused and drove his car through a bridge rail to drop 20 feet to the railroad tracks. Several Boston firemen injured slightly in accidents to engines responding {o & m fire and in Quincy three were injured possibly when their truck skidded verturned, Tee Storm in Litchfleld Winsted, April 20.—An ice storm swept through the Litchfield hills during the night. North Colebrook reported three inches of snow and ice on ponds. Tt is not believed the storm damaged fruit trees as buds have not yet fully developed. | Mar, ating Clarence De- | weather today, four times winner of the event and holder of the world's record for the d by 100 yards, His time storm which drex {ance, was 2:33 3-5 Meilor took, the lead in the hard climb over the Newton bills and held it to the end gradually increa his advantage over t tiring vele DeMar's time was 2:33:3 Last year the Melrose printer won the race in 2:29:40 1.5 In a flurry of snow with a bleak wind blowing In thelr faces, 95 run- ners started from Hopkinton at noon | today. The course which {8 of the | an the the e J 30 COWS ARE BURNED tnu on Lucas Fstate fn Norwich Razes Barn and Registered Cattle Die in Flames. Norwich, April 20.—Twenty head | o' cattle were burned early today in the two story frame barn on the Lucas estate which leased by | George 3ullard. The cattle were registered. A 25 foot silo and con- | tents of the barn were lost. The Norwich department respond- an alarm but the fire had d d the barn before their ar- state police were called the theory being tramp may have dropped a ted match, or that it was set. property loss was $6,000 di- vided between the estate and Mr. Bullard. Three years ago Mr. Bul- lard lost a' barn and some cattle by fire. - SUICIDE IN WATERBURY Fred Weller, were three fi four-a firemen fat and one the fire High Winds Blow A severe wind and rain storm, approaching the pro- s of a tornado in some locali- ties, swept a d clive cou from Wisconsin to New England yester- Sever ns were killed and ¢ two score ‘were in- jured, property damage was | Wife Finds Body. stimated at more than $1,500,000. | New England was deluged with snow | 20.—Fred Well- |3 o & rae el street, comm polnts f buildi or 10, Takes His Own .o approxim | Life By Drinking Poison—His while 1 low ratt me o'ele rres poison were hone, ligh raph a places in the ake and driving rains co: Are l\llh 1 Several Two PErsons we Oldest Free Mason in Conn. Is I)Cdd at ‘)" Years W f Storm ol ‘11‘!1\&'1'\ Hit High Cost of «raduation Dresses ~ . Brist \t