New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 18, 1925, Page 1

ews of the World By Associated Press LSTABLISHED 1870 MASS. FUEL ADMINISTRATOR CURTAILS COAL DELIVERY T0° PREVEN Issues Special Orders To Dealers and Ex- pects to Keep Retail | Price of Anthracite! Unchanged. Rhode Island Discloses Enough to Last Citizens Up Until First of March. Survey in § (P—Deliy cite coal to con- who kave haif thelr winte in stock and delivery of mor hree tons at & thne to 180 holders was prot ¥y ergency administra- f order also | of domestic si 18 employed to tend the fur- To R-v‘p Price Same, adr S CT O anner ase in r =5 \tman, and his appointed by vise the distribu & AmonE It should tail price r Fuller to on of fuel in 1t of the sus anthracite as point was decid- tionary mea- and equitabls = this coal ating apps achusetts a ion of 8 in Pr »ut that ipon to insure 7 P work eyt ed ed atetn i having small h as wide bution ¢ Fnough In R, T Providence, R I, Sept, 18 (F— land has enough anthracite ble substitutes to meet re anirements to March 1, it was an- rounced here today by the state fuel 24ministration, based upen a survey and reports of dealers. consumers 53 per and dealers have t of the ring the e Domestia have in thelir bins, hand and sold, 75 per c¢ anpply usnally requived d coal burning menths HOUDINF'S TEST ARE 100 HUGH FOR MEDIUM She Fails {0 Answer Ques- tions, But is to Try Again 18 (A Dooley, of pastor Div e er three ques Houdini, magician 1 acc illenge to | prove hers Admitting stions & t and Ho t her eptod ) ng the ex \d for a ta pa q No date wa pted to answ stions but did ch upon the 1ining rong tory to me. ‘I fafled.” s e to try a The questior “What chief of police whom I met in "Not quite clear yu' was t 1 that Answer Houdini announce h ce on th was an effort fo “srove th are honest m Houdint 703 red and publi ring the total to $30 1tHons L Trains C'rash in Tuennel In ()hm ()nc Man West Virg on into a tunnel inie coal BIUTJACKETS SATL TOMORROW 180 Lat hetr 1 e tom o ted States | of | Bridgeport Rarhers and Firemen at NE T A SHORTAGE CERTAIN SECOND MAN WAS KILLED {No Trace Found of Pratt Who Was in Wrecked Plane | 'HARTFORD FLIER DEAD' | |Harry M, Ludwig Killed When Sea- plane Falls Into Connecticut River And New Haven Man Thought to | "“”““"“‘BRITAIN HERALD w BRITAI\I LO. 133 AUTOISTS 1N FATAL ACCIDENTS 101 These, 8 Ave Held Criminally Responsible \RECORD FOR SIX MONTHS |88 Were Held Blameless, 16 Were | Killed, 11 Evaded ll('qu'nilhfli()—} a Commilssioner Bitter Drunken Drivers on Roads, Hartford, Sept. 18 (P—Cou roroners investigating fatal automo- bile accidents in this state in wh 133 operators were involved in the first six months of this year, k rs criminally responsible, It is closed in the et nt issue of t! ate motor vehicle department bul- etin. Eighty-eight operators were held blameless, 16 were killed and 11 evaded responsibility. Courts Too Lenient. It is the opinion of the department that some of the coroners and courf dri Have Perished With Him. Chester, Sept, 18 (#—Search for | the body of Brewster Pratt of New Haven who, it is be °d, was in th seaplane that fell into the river here |vesterday, was continued today, with a statement by Coroner L. A, Smith {of Middletown that he was pr i- Iy sure that Pratt in the ited in the ig, of Hart- A M. Lu ford. Coroner §mith came here from n to direct for the body. He said | talked with aviators in all rts of the state and had searched lin every availabla place for Pratt but had been unable to find him. River Bring Drag The river here was being dra 1en and residents too. found and it v to pro!w-;: the ; mith eaid would post h he had call- e search he had Coroner he Ipone the inquest wh {ed for Monday Ludwig, it became known on his way to Hartford to tak lot's examination when the sea- plane crashad info the river Pratt’s automobile was found at {Branford last night and it was the belfet that he had intended to ac- | company Ludwig up the river in the seaplane. It was said here nm morning that it he was in the plan. his body will be found in the chan. \ inel of the river which is 40 feet | {deep where the seaplane landed. All | in' the plane with the exception of |the tail and wings are under water. Not Strapped In Tt 15 not belleved that Pratt was | strapped into the machine, if he was a passenger for the finding of the body of Ludwig disclosed that e | [was not held in by a strap. It is |thought that bhoth fliers, if thera | |were two, were pitched out | when | |the seaplane took a nose dive 1nm| {the today | river. Residents whe saw the aceide rflv were not certain whether thera were |two persons in the eeaplane or not |when it fell, : | | Missing In New Haven Haven, Sept. 18 (A—Efforts {made here today te learn whether or not Brewster Pratt was in caplane that crashed at sterday were sueees ! e of the missing man being | d. None of his relatives had ¢ word from him E. B. Joyce, & ten r at his home here safd this | morning that Pratt and _another g man whom she belleved to be ery Ludwig. the accident yesterday Pratt's room on Wedn about a fii Chester ‘ IN NEW YORI( SEPT il Stanley M. Cooper And Miss lllm-‘ heth . Hubbard to he Mar- ried by Dr. Gutherie, Special to the Herald.) Yorn, ' t. 18 — Stanley M. 9 Vine street, New ritain, and Vliss Hlizabeth Hubbard, 24 of 107 High \'ru\r,‘ | w Rritain, will be married Sept. t Dr. Gutherie in St. Rouwerie, 1 k obtained their Ii- at the marriage | | s born in Mid- | the daughter of | Alice T.. Gafes Hub- | Cooper was horn fn | . the son of E Margaret Miller Cooper, AT RAZOR POINTS i 1 N 29 by Marks-on Conn ha | | Odds Because Latter are Said to he Cutting Rates as Well as Hair. | 18 rs’ ®) union The of members | barbe me of th partment are ged violation licensing law. at ra art l to school h"-.:";.' hair cut- | me of the fon covery that in at s rates ot the ng attent | men have no the | tin shows, ! ihis the | ( line |could | Miss Vieta's letters {o me | bee |learned that Miss Ederle in €0 are too generous In their interpre tlons of then law, especlally with re- ard to motor vehicle operators who en drinking, “A Kk and thereafter attempt to car" says ought not to fon. He is not have any fit for the September bulletin, which Is devoted to “fatal accident that such accldents are decreasing larger towns and cities a creasing in the smialer plac that this is due to the more supervision of traffic in the | T P belie caref la leh | 1d 18} Commissioner | NNECTICUT, o Agalnst | asks for {Republican Opposition in Official Home of Govern- man who| FRIDAY, TEMBER 18§, COMPELLED TO SAMPLE BOOZE, DRY AGENTS BLINDED, OTHERS MADE ILL Cleveland, Ohlo, Sept. 18 M—Per. | Kennedy, 1ods of blindness and serious stom-| Akro ach disorders are among the al 8 ments federal ohibitio oree. ment agents here attributed to thelr sampling bootleg liquor to ob tdence, X agents in this distr suftered fr and stomach Detroit; Jullus Deboskey, apsed yesterday as he federal building, 1 evidence in a ad just returned weeks' leave of ab- t of blindness. into convulsions| ter sampling liquor T duty since. Mac- 58 of sight with | Kennedy reported | Debroskey's phy- his stomach serious- | | an assistant nent burcau here, e was | | ro Hopew ot have re- blind- | oss hospital f Drf s0ld 18 & ne ts sald on of the a bottle to tak of llquor 18 used in court, ing but lquor dis from Ingitatrrad) poison b foods before atment uor at essary | Addams rey partial r impaired an T e r ac 50 us not e it s to arousc sicl or W to Rrennan bottle 28 evidenc d stomach from t greasy Dles. ANTI-LAFULLETTEMMEN AP DIET BUILDING THEMSELYES INSPLIT 1S RAZED BY LANES Wisconsin Has Two | (Candidates ment Body at Tokvo Totally Destroyed | | The percentage of accidents which | resulted fatally was 1.4 for the first | elght months of this year. That was he percentage for all of last “‘n‘ it was 1.6 and in 1 t was Pedestrians Suffer Most, trians are tb suffer- ers from fatal accidents, the bulle- pointing out that 1 of this year, 105 pedestrians uding 61 children were killed in The whole number of children killed in 1923 and each was 62 Parents are exhorted “impress upon their children the dangers of the highway and the desirability of not heing upon it any more than is | necessary” . wors Sept. incl MISS EDERLE BITTER AGAINST HER GOACH cause She Did Further ot Swim New York, Sept. 18 (A —Gertrude Ederle, the American swimmer, said today on her arrival from Europe on the Mauretania that had not trainer, Jabez Wolff, ordered taken from the water too soon sl believed that she would have been able to have gone much farther in or attempt to swim the English her erle was within six miles e Dover coast when the attempt andoned. She said she was not certain whether she could have | 7 completed the distance even if she had been allowed to continue Miss Toderle was at first held on ship incommunicado by her haperon Miss Elste Vieta, who sald women's swimming 1id not wish Miss Ederle to make ainy statements “until after certain matfers had been cleared up.” Upon newspaper reporters " association nsistence by |and Miss Charlotte Eppstein assoc Women's Swimming ! allowed erle was finally veral questions. vou have gone on?" to “Could she as asked Yes, T could have,” stant reply “If vou had. do vou “I could have gone on.” put whether T would have was her in think you sald she finished Ino one can tell.” caused you to stop " e Helmy (the Egyptian |swimmer) touched me, and that was disqualification.” “What m him “Ask Wolffe," she Miss Ederle said Ika to try to swim the Channel again ind that she had not lost confidence in herself because of her first fail ure Miss Eppstein was asked why she had notified Miss Vieta not to allow Miss Ederle to talk. jecause 1 did not baked statements made had been thorough ’ do that? answere she won want any half eversthing r reply. Eppstein hings which In one of ve been many investigated | “there should \ stat- ed that Wolfe came in cne day and told Miss Ederle that sharks had seen in the channel. This nat v frightened the girl. How coull anythir > Anyoue annel knows that exist there and porpoises.” was asked i€ the water sald no re coughed hut arm her nra it have done who knows the sharks cou at Wol When she not aw were Miss Eder! be w h in come sick may hav enough to and exhau plied that she that it was not oach From several it was passengers or- sation had attributed the loss of her chance to having become diazy [a tight band about her head which held on her cap and glasscs. Miss E he nolse and rle was m confusion growing o refusal of her menters and (Continued on Page Twenty-8ix) up tof 1024 her | [Blames Jahez Wolfe Re-|! | | flow James | turne | legitima sh excited at| {oanino | from €0 ' Real Beer Gurgles Into Sewer, 18 UP—The tmperial | Are | was destroyed by blaze ng buildings, it in che spreed but lack of wind to s less apparent paign United me after a conf during the for Stat 3 o a < The Dict was not In session hav- purpose of unitin adjonrned March 31 last date, two candidates Roy P. Wilcox, ition of anti-La at man to carry ary ing selected by Iolletta 1 Oshkosh ternization of an attempt to har- al archi rambling & rep istered as an ruming. in definitely Arthur Bar filed eliminating ively to of peers and the house of Tts two chambers cramped ga e proved i teady wear of the on T Il e d by the great earth JonRs iake of 1 | an | 1 The bullding stood in the ward of g Koilmachi, which s most of | the government bulldings. Tt was on | Iga of the official quarter, and across (he street on which ft faced, is a row of garages and small shops. | Ahout 100 vards to the southeast is office of The Associated Press, tha Tmperial hotel for | of Tokyo, Is| as an i avowed wet can Ont of the tu heated confe ment from Wilcox ert M. La Follette ination senfatives. atuffy moil of 1 & rences came dofeat dilapldatian which that race to the finish as candidata and fhat compromise. Dithma bound his 1 signed his resiznation make the race. Tn the background sitnation clarify, Woodward, with the endors the Ku Klux Klan making any apparent campaign the primary. ran a good third AnnAlincentthatiiarwill et e it he 1t ne aithough he d to maka he int 1s doing this in v of the fact that he has not segiste ed as an independent and on the ticket in ing to the opini less he has his supporters name. William Gearg ldate pendent | 9 fused to I8 he is| 9 by word to those who | patition the to| | | SaitInE fon to gits Daniel ! without | Whil aenter in He ary who the foreien community about 400 yards away. The Diet was partial - officlal residences. and a block northwest ara temporary ings of the forelgn office. The palace s about & quarter af The open in buflding was partial- the | | Iy surrounded finds to . the o ot narth car space 1 % I0] guns captured in Tusso-Japanese war BRADLEY MAY RESIGN IF SALARY IS NOT RRISED | ~ prim of t atic can RobrRlioEais election. will also r lent. John nomir socialist City man is | Bacterfologist, Now Recefving 1,800 Annual, Has Offer to o1, Go Flsewhere speaking amy ioft B his services may t th department, Dr, superint t of of health Ivised M Paonessa today at a confer- in the latter's office. Rradley | receives a salary of £1.800 and rstood He prov for erlologist Leon lost to Richard | ens' point. 20 French Ay i:|(m'<w.\ro Reported Brought Down Spokane, Wash 18 0P | Charles Swe 3 | ayor an Inerease of $600 | i fighting o, in a =, 1. Finue that Riffian erac nty Fre afrm s an offer to go ased salary of retaining ad to 1 vears of ex- Rradley worker depart- Pull hers conversant with the de s work. ne of Spok ch litlon a bacteriologist publle health a valable sot to the a tratned and first “You may judge have alr 00 to 1 Ty Gien 000 feot g in the opinfon of Dr to 170 miles French twenty avintors Destroyed by Court’s Order [144 Cases and Two Half Barrels of Stuff With Kick Disappears Forever from t Thompsonville Death Trap ;| Eliminated by New Road s pt 18 (P—A road at Depot feh motorist, opening highway from Depot Hill to Enfield over Prospect Hill in Warehouse Point Police recor: hat 1 ave ed at the any point on Hartfora. 1d highway. 1t is also a very travelled highway. The new shorten the di. two cities by a mile John Barleycorn a , but as 142 quarters to: t \ r Patroimen and Herbert C. Lyon 1 into the sewer in accordanc order by Ju police ¢ er was the athal fell ant angle tu has grief to many climinated with soon of the concrete a W McCabe with min b P pre Rlum 123 into 11 erty of of Willow | it oca poli 1 fluid the t al take, Besides e THE WEATHER = Hartford, Sept. 18.—Forecast for New Britain and vicinity Unsettled tonight: Saturday partly clondy | Fail to Flle List nf Needed Quthreak Also Occurs at | Death { Colonel E | ar | maining office {the Civil { career at the | camp of ¢ | Man Finds Body of 25, —~THIRTY-TWO PAGES Avelige Daily Circulation For Week Ending Sept. 12th .. 12,045 PRICE THREE CENTS NAVAL AVIATOR FLIES 302.3 MILES AN HOUR IN MITCHEL l Corp. Smith Honored With Croix De Guerre Almost Seven Years After End of World War S Nearly seven vears after the close of the World war, Thomas J. Smith of ‘mith street, today received a citation from the French government and with it a croix de guerre for meritorious service, Smith, a corporal in infantry, took part in several of the chief engagements in the closing days of the war, In one of the skirmishes after the lieutenant of his company had been killed and other ranking officers were missing, he led an entire company to safety. His act was brought to the attention of t French government and in ap- preciation official recognition was given him. He served with Company H, 9th infantry, attached to thr‘ second division, ALDERNEN SILENT 0N TONG WARFARE AGAIN INPROVING STREETS FLARES UP INW. H‘RK 6 | | | I | | | | 1€ | Repairs With Chair- | man Conlon Wilkinsburg, Near Pittsburgh | | | opporty Possibil rec 18 (k- on n four mal t was | York xn‘ne in the Tong own, ots most ir of pair L b in 13 to the six alder m | have tailed man F. L. Conlon of t public works with and the bo its own co nge disert off- out t tr from embers wo! further in co-op this Money fora ¢ grade r road e throv Yo po! cderal operatives, 1 a round-up or step toward making street 10 mir abl, k ratior week York this country g the sa i v assembly most exte methoed ot plan ev Mo members of the re arrested, of whom about he r pre ion for further portation taxati came before t a4 to ac of alderm for the head of eact were : iry or for o o w ek was allowed ward : 18 (A—Marking out Wah Lee, a s shot and Pt ieve tion to hear the wishes of his con ents and board. lice is another Tong warfare, laundryman, and his body Ked with a at Wilkinsbu a suburb, Attracted by shots, 1 emiploye, found Lee's ement of the laun- told two or throe 0ss a vacant lot a after the shooting and | an automobije. The 4 open & window and are be- eved to have waited fn the base- ment until Lee descended from the first floor. Fach was T six streets, While a have since been mad not a single list was fi lay, and City Engineer | Wililams {s now ! ha to the 1 work! VET OF VETERANS DIES time fied in slayers Col. Fuller ¥iad Tongest Seryvice Record of Any Officer in the declared their beltef men wera secking Fat Les by mistake. An at- was made on Fat's life re- and detectives sald he is ex- d be a principal witness st Tee Toy, who is in jail \waiting trial on a shooting charge Tol is a reputed member of the Hip and Fat told police that ind Lee wera®members of e On Leong Tong. NEW COACH AT YALE United States Army. that wnd 5t &ho! cer of ad Leavenworth, Kas., Sept fed the c a B. Fuller, who longest service record ever attained an officer in the United States ny. He dled at Fort 1 ast night. He was r s ago after mo entury in the army. The Colonel of the has as worth thre: ng Ton rs who saw sor began 18 om W 1 to 11 He | in his n 18 S h { Point iEaiaf was graduated st and was assign George Taylor of Croshy High of Amer! youtl = famons rides harmonica o tunes; Jennle Ludrf, ade by th ler in 18 Blue's Basketball Team. N Athle t Go il | ! w Haven 18 M—The Ta assoclation announced today ge 1. physical di- he Crosby High school for the past six year 1 basketball ¢ he late Joo Fo- Willlamsport, ppoint to take miles five way ough a cou < Springfield DREAM SOLVES MYSTERY Missing o pia il and basebal 56 and baseball at Ya ® up his new work Oc- Girt since December By Following Up Tax Collectors Lenient “ ith Hard ( ‘oal Miners 18 @ 1\\ “the anthracite to have larger ex- this year than strange Clue. 18 Sopt A dis A o body Stockton dream led 0 to t covery Lenora cember The body was 3 h Agullar, missing sin or- en- box fn Pz Mr I's stepfat wood > ¢ s the time when most of the the chi for erly lived Nt 1 the Mrs. representat} su Mill Addition to Give W nrk to \I.\n\ ‘\lm e Men An Ties Stt;l'ekecpél'. Puts Up Closed Sign, Steals 18 P—A ho Petrd Pacinfic into a was closed firm's money. nd several o8 t was able to free M’vtr f and give an alarm by pound- | iIng on the windows of the atore. the door bek three, which has prevalled f the past year \Although 1 to be Gumn's | violence, | liminary ex- | School | at | * fonel Willlam Mitchell, *lclear by of the inter-| FIELD TESTS Unofficial, This Establishes a New Record For Speed, Being Check- ed by Curtiss Offi- cials. Lieutenant Williams Makes Great Time in Air While Preparing for Pulitzer Races Next Month, chel Fleld, new W York, Sept. 18 tal world's speed was established today when Alford J navy avia W at the 3023 miles an hour, Starts at 300 Feet, The flight was a for the Pulit. wr to be held here next month Wil time was careful. |1y checked by officiais of the Curtiss Afrplane Company. He flaw one t |kilometer in 7.4 seconds. The ,world’'s record for airplane epeeding fs 278 miles an hour, held by France. | Williams started his flight by div |Ing from a helght of 5000 feet nyar Tield and then levelled off for the 1 kilometer distance. Later without alighting, he flew at an |average of 2 miles an hour on 1t \J’\ A | record unoffy ay Willlams, rats of aces tams' iss The tiss racer which Lieuten- ant Williams used, was designed and {bullt to make a speed of 260 miles lan hour or more. The body is less [than 20 feet leng and the plane stands only eight feet high. The urtiss V-1400 motor in the nose can develop 613 horsepower. { The facer fully equipped welghs Bronze used in con- tensile strength of 200 pounds. [ struction has a {105,000 pounds. ! The wing type radiators are thin- ner than the average shest of paper and 12 gallons of water pass through them &t the rate of 75 gallons a minute, The propeller, which fs made of duralumin, and fs not at fectad by hail, vain or high grass. be bent without bLreaking d forr further use. To {make the pléne veuld atand the [terrific air prossire {ha wings wera Itasted upside dowh as well as in nor- mal fiving positioh with bags of lead ishot equalling tha wolght of fiftean small antomobiles DAVIS T BE FIRST AIR PROBE WITNESS |No Doubt That Col. Mit- chell Also Will Be Summoned | Washington, Sept. Secretary of War Davis probably will be the first witness before the president’s speclal war board, The board in an informal meeting |today decided to call first upon the [war department for testimony on alreraft subjects and fnasmuch as it |was Mr. Davis who first proposed the inquiry, it {s thought he will tart the presentation of the depart. ment's position, when the board bes gins hearings Monday. Although the request that officers |0t the department appear before the |committee made no reference to Col- leading figure it was made board members that he be called If he was not in- in the representatives appear ing for the army. 18 (M—Acting | /in the controversy DISRESPECT T0 FLAG | Young New Yorker Serving Ten Days Because He Refused to Doft Hat as Colors Passed. 18 (A —For fail- emove in salute to the Granctzer, a young Lith is serving a sentence of 19 a Brooklyn jail. saded of disorderly while hing & Marit Gras parade at Conay lsland. Coney name Mardf Gras to a post New York | nanian days in gui wa ant in his complaint averred that when other spectators told him that Granetzer was Ignoring the flag. warning was given that his be taken off the next time faile fy flag fs t Ioposed »f the magistrate who was guilty 150 of his off his hat he created The sentence was im jesday after fatlure to 1 to obey the warn ing, saying he red flag.” the sergeant In the view 1 him orderly refusal to tak a disturbanc posed last T pay a $25 fine anets onduct b | GERMANS SAIL FOR N. Y. | Rremerhaven, Germany, Sept. 1% (P—The German delegation to the Interna al parliamentary union confe Washingten lett tor New York today on the steamship Rremen. The delegation I8 headed /by Paul Loebe, president of the Relchstag. - nce in