New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 30, 1925, Page 1

| | | News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 SHALLPOX DANGEL,- AT CAPITAL NOW THOUGHT SERIOUS Al Govt, Emploes There, Num- bering 65,000, Urged to Be Vacoinated PHILA. HAS 500,000 WHO HAVE BEEN INOCULATED Discase Prevalent But Under Control Quaker ~in City—President's Friends Decline to Say Whether He Actually Has Been Al- or Not Vaccinated—Many Officials ready Are. Washington, April 30.—All gov- ernment employes in the District of Columbia have been requested by the public health service to submit to vaccination against smallpox and there were indications today that President Coolidge was among the first to signify compliance with the yequest, 65,000 Are Affected. As a result of an order by Sur- geon General Cumming department heads today sent ecircular instruc- tions to all employes advising them that the vaécination should be ac- complished at the earliest possible moment. The order affects approxi- mately 65,000 government workers, 19 Deaths Occurr There have been nineteen deaths rom smallpox here since January | 1 out of 4 cases. Two of the deaths | ucdurred” yesterday., Dr. Cumming considers the discase to be in, a virulent form. The public health service® has | anged to send surgeons to the varfous departments so that the ad- tainistration of vaccine can be ac- ¢omplihed with the least possible tnterference to government business. In the Veterans' Bureau, where sev- vral thousands are crowded to- gether daily, vaccination began gcveral days ago because a woman | erk had continued to come to work after she had been exposed to small- pox. While White House officials re- fused, to discuss President Coolidge's | vacclnation, itwas pointed out that he recelves and shakes hands dafly with several hundred people and oc- casionally attends public gatherings here, Cancels Engagcments The president had a number of | engagements today hut was late in appearing at his office, and cancelled | plans to attend the basball game this | afternoon. A number of the officials and clerks at the executive offices have | been administered vaccine within | the last few days. Major J. A. Coupal, the White House physician, Secretary Sanders and E. B. Clark, personal sccretary to the president all flatly-refused to gay whether Mr. Coolidge actually | had submitted to vaccination. If such a step has been taken, Dr. Coupal sald, he would not feel at liberty to discuss it. 500,000 Tn Philadelphia Philadelphia, April 30.—Nearl five hundred thousand persons have besn vaccinated against smallpox in Philadelphia since the first of the year, Dr. A. A. Calrns, chief of the bureau of health sald today. disease has been more n for some time, control, it 1s avowed. bureau is advising all citizens who have not been vacelnated within five years to have it done at once. BIG JEWELRY ROBBERY Five Armed Men Raid Store in New | York and Make Away With Loot Valued at $30,000. New York, April 30.—Five armed spaoitH . ) 5 l'w\' st TS0 Years Culminates When Man 78, Weds Woman of 66 Atlantic City, April Stella DeBarry, 66, and Willlam Boehm, 78, Civil war veteran, both of Somers Polnt, near here, culminated a 50 year romance here yesterday in marriage. The couple had known each other since early childhood. Mayor George Goll of Somers Point, served as best man, 80.—~Miss | 4 BRIBERY CHARGES IN SHEPHERD CASE Sate Witness Accuss Attorney for Delense | OFFERED $10,000 HE SAYS Former Employe of Star Witness Declares He Was Asked to Sign an Aftidavit He Had Never Even Read Over. Chicago, April 80.—Earl P, Clark [testified today in the resumed in |quest into the death of William N McClintock, that he had been offered 2'$5,000 bribe by an attorney for ‘William D. Shepherd, under indict- ment charged with the murder of | McClintock by typhold inoculation, | to sign an affidavit which Clark said l he never had scen. Clark is a former employe of |Charles C. Faiman, who has operat- jed a sclence school, where Faiman | testified he taught Shepherd how to ladminister typhoid germs, He testificd at Shepherd's bail I hearing after Shepherd's attorneys | charged Clark was being coerced. Today Clark said that he had two interviews with W, 8, Stewart of | Shepherd’s counsel, arranged by A. | B. Benziger, reported for the Chica- {0 Evening American. All Had Drinks Clark asserted that Stewart at one | interview appeared in the newspaper | office with some whiskey and that all three had a few drinks, Stewart and Benziger told him, Clark alleged, | that he was likely to be charged with | murder as a result of an illegal op- |eration but that they could get prominent attorneys to defend him. Clark testified that Stewart and { Benziger said they wanted him to sign an affidavit that the accusation against Shepherd was a frame.np I between the state's attorney, himself, 'l-ahn'n\ and J. P. Marchand, former agent for Faiman’s school. Later, Clark said, Stewart called ‘hlm to his office and offered $5,000 if he would sign the affidavit. Clark | sald he refused to do so. | Guaranteed $10,000 | Clark sald he was next approach- | Nl by John E. Jones, head of a prl-] vate detective agency, whom he said | | he had first met in company with (m-, reporter, “Jones sald he would guarantee me $10,000 at least,” sald Clark. *T | refused. Jones finally told me that [if T didn’t sign the affidavit T would {never be able to get employment.” | When the inquest was resumed to- day into the death of William N.| McClintock, William D, Shepherd, charged with having murdered his foster son by typhoid | fnoculation, | and his attorneys, declined to at- tend, Althongh Shepherd fs in fail pend- Ing trial sct for May 18, he was giv- | en an opportunity fo attend the ses sion today which was expected to | {conclude the inquiry into the death | .. | Of voung The | prevalent but it is under The health With the finding of a verdict in | {the McClintock case, the jury will |take up the inquests into the deaths | of’ Mrs. Emma Nelson McClintock, [ mother of Billy McClintock, 16 years | |ago, and of Dr. Oscar Olson. The | |coroner's chemist already has re- | |ported finding enough poison in the | |body of Mrs, McClintock to cause | idr.-nh within 10 days. (CHECK FOR $500 TOBE ' SENT T MRS, NOWICKI Senate Votes to Forward Safary of | Deceased Assistant Clerk | to His Wilow | Hartrora April 30.—On motion of | Senator Bdward F. Hall of New | Britain, the scnate today adopte men today held up Henry Fisher's | ry store in St. Nicholas ave- nu Washington Height d es- caped with the entirc stock in the store, of an estimated value of $20,000. The proprictor of the store and two clerks were hound and gagged and threatened with pistols by two of the thieves while the others ransacked the place. Asks $20,000 for Loss Of Eyebrow m Accident | Jersey City, April 30, — Asking $20,000 for the loss of an eyebrow, Ralph Rogers of Weehawken flled sult in court of common plea against Michael and Catherine B: er, who operate a bakgry in West New York, N. J. Rogers said he would be permanently disfigured as | the result of falling over a roll of steel netting on March & and plung- ing headfirst into a glass show case In their bakery. “Drunken Dr;\'ér" i%ill Is Effective in Mass. Boston, April 30, — Governor Ful’ r today signed ‘the so-called “drunken driver” bill which pro- | vides that courts must impose Jjail sentences upon persons convicted a second or subsequent time of driving while under the influence An emergency preamble measure operative at once. oftanse, .as defined in the new law, one occurring within six years of the firet conviction, A second of liquor. makes the | is | ‘n solutions of regret upon the death |of Asststant Clerk Henry Nowicki. | The senate also ordered the | retary of state Sh to have the resolu- tions properly engrossed and sent to |the widow. The resolution was adopted on a’ rising vote Senator Hall also moved, and the scnate by unanimous vote decided { to order the comptroller to draw an ?nrd»‘r on the treasurer for § | that amount representing the salary {to become due for the office of as- | sistant clerk. A check for fthis amount will be forwarded to Mrs. Nowickl. Br: akeman gl;;\I:vllliv—i{urt | In Fall at Cedar Hill| | New Haven, April30. — A fan| | from the top of a freight car which { was being switched in the Cedar | Hill yards of the New Haven road | 1s believed to have been the cause | of injuries which resulted in the | death this morning of Charles Sher- | | man, 31 years old of 140 Cedar Hill | avenue. Sherman a brakeman on | the night shift, was found seriously injured shortly after midnight. He was rushed to the Grace hospital where he died T45 a m His { injuries consisted of fractures of | both tegs, fracture of ribs, scalp | wound and a crushed hand | McClintock last December, | 1 WOMEN LOSE OUT IN HOUSE FIGHT FOR JURY RIGHTS Lower Branch of State Leglsla- ture Adberes to Its Previons Rejgction of Bill SENATE RESOLUTIONS ON DEATH OF NOWICKI P. F. McDonough Replaced on State Board of Mediation and Arbitra- tion By Senator Lawler—Confer- ence Called On Stamford Judge Contest — Governor Makes Ap- pointments, By The Assoclated Press. State Capitol, Hartford, April 10 —The house today voted to adhere in its action of rejecting the blil to make women eligible for jury duty which the senate adopted yesterday in spite of the unfavorable report of the judiciary committee, This ends the matter this sesslon, the senate having refused to reconsider its ac- tion in adopting the bill. The jury bill is thérefore left in practically | the same status as in 1923, Judgeship Conference On the Stamford judgeship dis-| ngreemcnt over Samuel Young the house which passed it voted to ask the senate for a conference com- mittee and Mr. Sturges of Woodbury and Mr, Averill of Branford were named. Miss Cheney of Manchester | tried to have Representative Gurley | of Stamford named but the speaker sald this was fmpossible as Mr. Gur- ley had not been in the vote which adopted the bill, Mr. Gurley re- marked also that he could not serve | as he was not in the vote for Young. The senate yesterday refused to ac- cept Young’s name 13 to 12 then refused to reconsider its ac- tion, Appointments Made Governor Trumbull sent to Willlams of Hartford, Martha H. C. Mitchell of Norwich, and Harriet I. Jones of Hartford to be members of the public welfare department for fours years from July 1 next; also | appointments of Charles E. Beach of West Hartford to be member of the state board of agriculture from the first congressional district and Wil- son H. Tee, of Orange, ag 2 member from the third district for years from July 1 next; also Frank A. Hagarty of Hartford, Patrick F. O'Meara of New Haven and Joseph H. Lawler of Waterbury to be mem- bers of the state board of arbitra- tion and mediation for two years from July 1 next. Of the appoint- ces on the last named board Sena- | ator Lawler takes the place of Patrick F. aln. All appointments require sen-| ate confirmation after a report from | the committee on exceutive nomina- | tlons. Resolutions on Nowicki The senate adopted a resolution and | the | senate appointments of George C. I. | four | McDonough of New Brit- | on the death of Assist, Senate Clerk ! Henry Nowickl ordered it spread upon the records and engrossed and sent to members of his family, An- other resolution provided for pay- ment of the balance of his salary to | | his widow. The bill adopted in the senate vosterday to provide a sword for feut. Leslie P. Arnold, a round-the- world army aviator, was sent at once to the house to expedite pre- sentation of the gift. Senator Pler. son said that the committee had just | been advised that Lieut, Arnold is to go to the Panama canal zone at an early date, Favorable Reports Favorable reports were on bills extending time for organization of the Lordship Rallway Co. and for construction of its railway; provid- ing for method of distribution of un- clalmed dividends and assets of cor- porations which have been dis- solved; and providing for consollda | tion of burcaus of streets, sewers, water, collection and disposal of garbage, etc., office for six years from June 1 An unfavorable report came in on a bill for an appropriation not ex- ceeding ten per cent of cost of con- | struction of the new bridge across Yellow Mill creek at Bridgeport. Poth branches adopted the resolu- tlon appointing Frank A. Waters of October 1 to succeed F. L. Gaylord, Action in the House The house recommitted the bil previously rejected, which provided that the state board of control may appropriate not more than $1,000 for each county farm bureau, on re- quest and motion of Mrs, Vinton of Mamsfield. Bef the house voted to adhere jigefection of the jury | bl there was some debate. Mr. Johnson of Kent saying that therc would be better jurles It women served on them. Miss Cheney said there was proof that jury service was sought by women as the senate “the popular branch” and favored the bill, She said that Mrs. Averill, wife of on2 of the chief opponents of the bill was a worker for jury service, Several spoke for the bill Mrs. Hooker and Mrs. Alsop both smarking that the Macri case at w Haven was an instance worhen should be on juries. There was some debatd in opposi- tion and the previous question was (Continued on Page 15) in Waterbury and ap- | pointment of a superintendent of H\"v | new bureau to hold | Britain, will be observed In fitting 75th Anniversary The T76th opening of the first school in Connecticut, anniversary of the state normal that In New {I\Bhlol on Friday afternoon, 22, at 2 o'clock, and the new $75 000 bullding ln Belvidere will bL‘ formally dedicated at the same time. Governor John H. Trumbull will preside at the exerclses, and the principal speaker of the afternoon| will be Dr. James E. Russell, dean | of Teachers’ college, Columbla uni- | versity, New York city. A committee of the state board of education, consisting of its chair- man, Dr. F. 8. Jones, dean of Yale college; Principal Marcus White of the normal school in this city, and | Albert B. Meredith, state commis-| sloner of education, is making| preparations for this unusuale and | significant event, and formal invita- tlons are being printed. The blil for a normal school was passed by the general assembly 1n 1849, and several towns entered the lists to secure the institution. New | Britain, then a parish of Berlin and | having only 3,000 inhabitants, was| selected because of its central posi- tion, its offer to have all public| schools placed under the principal of the normal school, and the $16,- \n. | 1 260 raised here by public subscrip- the site of the present Central junlor‘ Of Opening Of State Normal School Here To Be Celebrated On May 22 PR“SE@N PI.ANi First Institution of Its Kind in Connecticut Formally yBUl‘S[S Into Tears When Told | | Launched in Thi is City in 1850 high school, was purchased and| converted into a school bullding. It| was opened on May 15, 1850, with| the high school and intermedlate| | and primary grades also in the bullding. The first principal was| Henry Barnard of Hartford, and his pupils comprised 37 girls and 30| men, | A better site and bullding NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY APRIL 80, 1925, —EIGHTEEN PAGES MAGRI GIRL. SOBS AS SHE HEARS OF | Widow of Slain Man Will g Denounce Her | SELECTION OF JURY IS LONG DRAWN OUT TASK were | Twelfth Man is Named Today But sought in 1881, The' state nppmv‘ | priated $75,000 and the r-ready | ¢he Court Grants Request of No, | New Britain added $25,000 more. ! The site on Hillside terrace was | 11 that He Be Excused — Big purchased and the structure which | served as a normal school until last | fall and which is now the Wainut | Hill school was built. Marcus \\’hlle; became principal in 1894 and has | continued to the present, making a splendid record of progress over these 31 years. | This bullding, too, was outgrown by the increasing number of pupils | and the legislature appropriated | $760,000 for a new one in Belvidere. Construction was begun in August, | 1922, and the new school one of | the finest and most up-to-date bulld- FINANCE ASSN. SOLD TOSHIELD AND NOREN {Hardware City Company to Change Hands August 1 1 At & mecting of the stockholders of the Hardware City Cooperative | Assoctation last night, it was voted to accept the offer of Frank I. Shield and Roy L. Noren for the | purchase of the organlmmn, em tive Augnst 1, - A story descriplive &7 “ne lflcmas irg power of money, accumulated | over o period of years, is behind the rise of the assoclation, which has | become an important cog in the fi- nanclal machine of the city. Ten | years ago 50 young men formed what they called the Tquan Alsafa | club and agreed to contribute $1 | aplece for a decade. Thls money, as | {Have Right to BRITISH FIRM GIVEN RUSSIAN CflNCESSIflN‘ Exploit Hundred Million Dollar Gold Fields strenuous for a long trial. He sal¢ » had beel : By The Associatod Press. ald l‘:a.t he had been worn out Moscow, April 30.—The soviet| UPon his return to his home yester- e d e i day. He also said t his bust- government today ~made he ;oe5 required immediate attention, |largest concession it has ever grant- ed In signing a fifty-year camraclw with the British Lena Gold Fields| | eorporation for the exploitation ‘o |the Lena Gold Fields of which are estimated to contain more than $100,000,000 worth of gold. | American banking Interests will par- | ticipate to the estent of 50 per cent in the investment. | Thoe Lena mines, which ara now| operated by the soviet government| will be taken over immediately by ‘of morality and that a girl had a Siberia, | Bursts Into Tears Crowd in Courtroom Today—Sev- eral More Barred From Service, New Haven, April 30.—The morn- | ing session of court to select a 12th | [ Juror necessary before the testimony cam be taken in the trial of Olympia Macri charged with murder, brought | forth an additlonal talesman accept- ROBERTS HANGS 10 HOSE| able to the opposition counsel, but also saw the dismissal of one of the two selected yesterday. |ings In the nation, was thrown| The juror named was N. and Forced to Flec in \l.v,vml open to classesat the start of the | Cranshaw, 57, an accoun 3 z | 1924-1925 term, on September 8, | Merlden. He said that he Clothes—Damage About $7,000. | with an enrollment of 201. A bill | daughter 21 years old, a (Spectal to the Herald.) | to appropriate $250,000 more for | normal school student and Bristol, April 30.—Falling into a tion. The town hall, then located on | the ercctlon of dormitoriea ts now | 21, employed at Harttord. He sald | 7.root werl whit before the general assembly, | that he believed in a single standard | Wwhile fighting a fire right to protect her honor, even to | the point of killing. He was the 144tk talesman called. Asks (0 Edward L. Cole, accepted yester- | day as juror No. 11, was the one| excused. Immedlately after court Daner! this morning he had asked | Judge C. L. Avery to be excused but the judge withheld his deciston un- til after another juror had been se lected. | Mr. Cole told the eourt that he 4id not belleve he could stand the be Excused The largest crowd since the open- | ing day milled about the corridors | ot the courthouse today trying to e | get seats within the courtroom. The | | crowd inciuded many women, Miss Macrl who has appeared calm throughout the five days of the selection of jury, broke down this morning before court opened and fo several minutes sobbed on the arms of friends. Through questions put| by newspaper men it was learned | | that the defendant had been told | Fireman Frank Roberts had narrow | { after sliding a short way, secured a | fire W S IR R S 50 Drinks a Day Too Much, So Dry Officer Resigns His Duties L San Francisco, April 80.—Don Okle, former United States Army captain, today resigned from the federal prohibition enforcement :h»p{ll"nNH' a8 an “under cover || agent,” ostensibly to enter busi- ness for himself. Unofficially, however, Okle cloacd that as an unde *nt,” he found it ne 10 an average drinks of iiquor daily, the number of drinks necessary | | for him to obtaln evidence lad || totalled about 36,400 in two years, | FIREHEN FALLINTO WELL 70 FEET DEEP Bristol Captain Catches on Projection 30 Feet Down dis- v cover || a® of Routed By Early Morning Blaze that left the home of Frank Smith on Smith street a total ruin this| morning about 6 o'clock, Captain Morgan Farrell of Hose Co. I and escapes from death. Captain Farrell was saved from the deep water at the bottom of the well when he was caught by a projection in the wall about 30 feet from the surface. He uifered a wrenched shoulder and | lacerations about the head, but was| able to go to his home after receiv- ing treatment, Roberts grasped the fire hose as he fell into the well and | good grip and held it untll other rescued him. He escaped with minor cuts about the face and hands, The blaze, the origin of which is | unknown, resulted in $7,000 damage to the property, the firemen being | handicapped in their efforts to get it | uhder control by low water pressure, and by the fact that it had gained considerable headway before it was discovered. | The upper part of the house was | ccupied by J. C. Alderman and it | was members of his family who dis- | covered the fire when they were | awakened by the odor of smoke. In- | it accumlated, was invested and the |the = British operating company, iy caroline Bagnano, widow of the | VeStigating the origin of the smoke | outgrowth was the Hardware City | Which explolted the flelds before | guin"man wiil denounce her on the | 2nd finding the lower part of the | Cooperative Assoclation with offices | the Russian revolutlon, = The con-| yyineeg siand, Shortly after the|house enveloped in flames, the oc- | at 122 Main street. In the past few | Oeasion covers mining operatlons| 100 entcred the courtroom she | cupants had to fiea to the strect | years Shield and Noren have played | Over several milllon acres of the gy, way to another tearful out-|ciad In only their night clothing, 1t | an active part in its administration | Lend river country tn Siberia. | burst which lasted a few minutes. | Was impossible to save anything | |and have contributed in no littie | 3 = | After Albert M. Rice, 70, farmer | from the burning building, { measure to its progress. ‘LEGA“TY OF BOND ISSUE | of Cheshire had been opted as| Saved By Projection In Well | e e | the 12th juror, Stat Attorney Captain Farrell was directing his FROST DOES DAMAGE MAY BE OPEN TO DEBATE| At votunteered the intormation |eompany b its onsangit wupor e that he knew Mr. Rico and that he | Plaze, when ha fell through the | S had been a r-"ut;v‘n{.‘h\‘ np.ms“\:w (\rfin\,,.'r]:n;u the well was located | Middle West And Southwest Report | Afajority of City Mecting Board pr?:::rr‘m; 'Pl\“ ‘:\ m'yv‘m:w‘m (\Irl Rice | Plunged dow firv‘hr. (:m:,‘;\: ),‘fl"»] ““Ix"y Gonsiderable Damage And More 13| Members Desirablo to Pass On | 5 that he had served on a_grand | DUt a profection ahout 30 geet down, | | and also on jury which had|caught him and held him until his | Fearcd Tonight. School Financing. a verdict of second de- |fellow firemen could rescus him, | Chicago, April 30.—A KIIng frost | Unlegs 2 majority of the membera| S Tordtr: @ and e I K‘:" L F]f“:]{qm by his colleagues, | spread over much of the middle west | ot thatalty. me AL Poacd atlead fot W‘“: C s 8 S e il u'wv‘;“-‘: .",'r,;‘!“" .u | tand southwest last night, and, it} ° "= ? - e SRl s R R ke and it was |clouds hovering over the section | night's session to act on the fssuance Of the 50 talesmen subpoenaed to A tpihaii e ..‘I‘x‘ mained in the [ clear away today, more of the mid- | of achool, sewer and subway appear in court this morning 41 re- jwell a ew minutes longer, he wor dle west will be visited by frost to- and the transfer of | ported. have dropped the rest of the w night. water and park boards th C. W. McLean, 72, a real MMW’“"V’_‘:"‘ “yvtfr at the bottom, and Fifteen Nebraska towns reported | be some question as to t dealer of Branford, the first onc A\~‘ ould probably have been drowned. | treczing temperatures and three | of the actione amined, was pror challenged by ol ‘l{: N. Whipple was called to | severe frosts last night, causing fears | The several prc the st when he d that he w | attend Captain Fa of his for tender vegetation, although no| consideration, w the excepti agalnst capital punisl t for a| les werg pronounced serfous | report of extensive orchard or early | the school bond issue, can lega under 21 years of a e whole fire | crop damage had been {ved to- | be decidel by a majortly vote of th Carleton B. Woo 2 ar cd out to the day. | members who are assembled, but the 1ge, was excused A spe Kansas and Missouri were not 80 ' kchool bond iss in the ¢ ion of h mitted thal g int | fortunate, although the southwest | Judge John M. Kirkham. corpora- t fire, but were sav-| Missourl strawberry crop, reported | tion counsel, might require a ma- sec rious damage. The fire | worth $3,000,000 was only slightly | jority vote of the entire board Clis me had gained un- damaged. | re are 144 ward re ury, was called. 2y, before the ar- —_— tives, 30 council me sed Robert Z. Haw so that [New London Woman Dies | members of e boar ber ot Oxf , to save it xation on 3 o : overs the On Her 90th Bnthdav R P o S ey s Al e iR New London, April 30.- - | measure requiring a mapority opinions in the INJURIES FATAL Maria E. Squires, an aunt of ‘ 4 The school board asks a bond is A. Beckwith of Niantic, state senator | sue $650,000 $150,000 each ure AUTO AND TROLLEY CRASH SO | nryr:”:n;! ath h. "]M‘:k”nt ‘”f 1 :f,l‘l:‘,m ' y o M’ ’]“‘"‘ % ; Waterbary Man, Badly Crushed in | 131 Ocean avenue, on her 80th| permission to sell a part of its ho 1- Factory Accident, Dies at St birthday anniversary. | ings oft watereheds, retat ining Stanley Cooper of Vine Strect Pain. y i Middlebury, commissioner of New | Haven county for four years from | where | —_— Dividend Distribution Will Total $1,375,000 Action of the dircctors of the American Hardware Corporal in declaring two special divide of §1 each and a regular divid ot 75 cents will result fo the ¢ an water- s a pro #trips of ch land as is fully Cut In Collision Near St Mary's Cemetery This Afternoon. nd at the Willow park boundary, which fn the! A Packard & ¥ opinion of c als, is advan- | Stanley Cooper of V tageous to th BONDS PUT AT $10,000 1 with a sck Mary's aging Mr. tribution of $1, 00 by the 2 cuts abou 11 corporation between May 15 and Paquette, Nichisti and Jezeskl, Local o005 oo c June 30, There are 500,000 shares Moy street was t ¥ hel v Men, H Middles ) ety X St toch wion eld in Middlctown on e s = A special dividend of $1 share, payable on Ma stockholders of record A will mean the distribution of per Charges of Robbery. Middletown, April Britain youths wer atom from the Baby Carriage Robbed Mary's hospital Today. a million dollars. On June o G e ‘ner s Movies sl ] RS e e > O“nef“ iefi Movies Unfrocked € lergyman Is Do mate, remmtine 1t toe el 112 clty court hearing on Saturday Sconia by s S Held) \ftor \lan’laze Rno tion of $875,000 They are Ernest Paquette, Daly Y S ) aven seph Nichisti, 19, 17 Law- - 16 et, and Simon Jezeski, 18, (2 » — g nont street g | ey are charged with holding up Probation O T | THE WEATHER | ! and robbing the New Eng | —0— [ | cery store here last Saturday v Hartford, April 30.—Fore- [ Isaac Altman, owner of store | cast for New Britain and vi- three in A rear rc wore cinity: Rain tonight and prob- > bu ree rto T n O ably Friday; continued cool, | v r 1 after ritted A s e % about $100 they escaped of Dr. James F. Dobs w has wlives 8 | April 25th . | Norwich |1y populated strip of land, | foury miles wide, | West Brookficld, Average Daily Circulation For eek Ending 12,186 PRICE THREE CENTS ABDUGTED CHILY AND EX-CONVICT REPORTED FOUND Granville, Vt., Kidnaper Believed Man Who Fled When Fired at in West Brooklield ARMY OFFICERS LEADING CRACK SHOTS ON TRAIL University Volunteers Scouring Woods for Tugitive == Searchers Early Today Find What They Believed to Have Been Evie dence of the Missing Gift and Yormer Navy Man. Granville, Vt, April $0.—A man and girl, believed to be Earl Wood« ward and Lucille Chatterton, abduct ed from her father's farm here last Friday, were located today in East Brookfleld by one of the searchers. Both fled when the searcher fired at the man, Discovery of the pair was made by George Jerd, Randolph, who wase searching alone in the general vicin- ity of a farm from which cream had been stolen early this morning. Jerd, who was armed only with a pistol, fired two shots, neither of which he believed took effect. When the couple fled he ran to a general store in East Brookfield and telephoned for help. On the Dan Howe place, an aban- doned.farm, were found a camping outfit and provisions abandoned by the man and the girl when they ran from Jerd. Marksmen On Trall. Northfield, Vermont, April 30.— A force of Norwich University ca- dets, crack riflemen, under the com- | mand of United States army officers, started into the wooded hill country south of here early today to join the man hunt for Earl Woodward, navy deserter, former conviet, and farm laborer, who is believed to bave abducted 11-year old Lucille | Chatterton from her father's farm in Granville last Friday. Armed wWith a rifle, Woodward disappeared in {the hills where, so far, he has | baffled pursuit by armed posses from Granville and surrounding towns. Volunteers Solicited The call for volunteers issued by President C, A. Plunley of Norwich University, resulted in a unanimou$ response from the 250 students. It was considered impracticable to use the entire student body and a force of 120 men was chosen to go south. The district to be patrolled and searched by the students is a sparse- about running north and East Roxbury and where Woodward was reported scen last. In charge of the expedition are Captain Don- ald Young, Captain Arthur Lacey and Captain Charles Dissinger, in- structors at the university and regu- lar army officers, and Lieutenant John C. MacDonald, U. 8. Cavalry, ommandant of the Norwich cadet corps. south between New Trail Picked Up. Granville, Vt., 30.—The hunt for Lucllle € 11 year old Granville girl sappeared from her father's farm last Friday and Earl Woodward, navy deserter, former convict and alleged kidnap- per swung in a new dircction today when it was reported that a man had raided the dairy of a farm be- April teron, who d tween North Randolph and Brook- field just befo: daw The barking of dogs awak 1 the farmer and his wife by one was seen, This morning a can of cream was missing and a man's f s were found. liately start- od from R, 1 known as 1e time in the 1 sec- tion where sear 8 ted by Aol 1ment com- 4 out pointed cut and six W s alive clues West s of & tered & rom an ad- Whether these L child as seeking te capture ie by the nge