New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 25, 1925, Page 12

FINAL STAGE OF CROKER WILL 1St Florida Is Al Set for Closing Arguments Jacksonville, Fla, Sept. 25 (P— Involving the legality of the own-| ership of certaln properties front- ing on the ocean at Palm Beach. the famous Croker will case, one of the most involved and extended in the anpals of the Florida courts, 18 expected to bo brought to a con- clusion early this fall. The sult was Instituted by heire of the late R former Tamm Hall chieftain, to have declared null and void the deeds of conveyance of the ertles to Bu cond wife of the wealthy politic leader, They contended that they shouid be decreed as owners of the prop- ertles with Mrs, Croker, who would then share a dower right as widow. Under a ruling handed down by Federal Judge ke Jones, the de- fendants have until October 1 to file a reply to the declsion. of I'ed- eral Judge Rhydon M, Call, - dis- missing their motion to quash the bill of complaint, the Croker, s hard Croker, | prop- | have attempted to exercise that option by depositing a sum of money in the registry of the Palm Beach county circult court, The bill of complaint asks that Richard Croker be decreed to have been the head of a famlily residing in Florida at the time of his death and that the land be decreed th | homestead of Croker. It aske m.u | the deeds to and from Alice cleston be declared null and \nM and that the children of Croker to | gother with his widow be declared | the heirs of the estate. tula Croker moved { complaint be dismissed in a ment filed January The | defendants presented like motions on Icbruary 4, at which time sought to strike out c allegations in the bill. T | tlon to dismiss the bill, | ker declared that the | in it are insufficient to | relief asked by the and that holds | the lands. The two motlons to complaint were denied Judge Call, da that the docu- 1) other they rtain her mo- Mrs. Cro- facts st out tify the complainants, Id title to | also she dismiss the | slon by HANY CHANGES "~ OCTOBER SHIES Numerous Stars Found in New e ————— 1MW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, QEP’I‘FMBER 25, 1925 PIONEER SEES DREAM REALIZED First Scouted Famous Canyon in o New Mexico i 1877 Washington, D, C., 8¢ o ing a fortyscight year old geographic prophecy come (rue, 18 the privilege of Willlam 1, Jackson, veteran geo- logist, who has been the guest of (tional Geographie society's ditlon which is exploring the historic Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, Juckson, with the Hayden in 1877, scouted down Chaco canyon and mapped the many deserted puchlos of this winding eut in the hills. Pueblo Bonito, he re- ported, was the largest in the can- yon and the only one which still Dad walls standing higher than two :kson is an artist as weli | us a geolo photographer and | plainsman, » drew a picture of I'ueblo Bonito as it might have ap- peared In its prime. il M. Judd, in charge of the | expedition took with him | Jackson's mind's-eye 1aap, when the gEging begu PArS Every |sear of excavation has confirmed the prophetic vision of his original con- party stories, J rooms. These were the tribels mgm places of worship, At Pueblo Bonito Jackson munnl much of his prophetic drawing re- | created in solld, duvable stone. Dr. Judd has carefully cleaned out the debrls of centurfes from the great mlm. sifting it spadeful by spade- | ful for clues to the life of the dead dwellers, The breaking walls he and his workmen, nfany of them Zuni Indians and probably blood de- | scendants of the very occupants of Pueblo Bonlto, have repaired, using | the same Kind of brick. They are | trying only to preserve the remains, | not vebulld the vast dwelling, but the work accomplished glves the vis- itor a clear fdea of the original pue blo and the life its inhabitants lived Jackson s one of three survivors which went into Arizona and New | Mexico in the late seventles, dar- ling the danger of Indian attack to explore this little-known tervitory of the United States. Dr. William H. | Holmes now of Washington, 1. C. was associated with Jackson in this pioncer |\|)nlv|hn\ | Bold British Mariners In Odd Llfe Boat T London, Sept. 25 (A—1In order to test a theory mnccrnlng supplies which should be compulsorily car- ried by ships' boats in case of dis- ter, and how far wireless equip- ment can ald seafares who are com- |pelled to take to their boats, three Cornish mariners and a wireless op- erator have started on a 38,000 mile | £hips have been made, Lawyers Would Like Naming of Judges Seattle, Scpt. 26 (®—Contending that the average layman does not now the qualifications of judielal cundidates, the Washington State Bar association 1s proposing amend- ments to state election laws where. by members of the legal profession could Indicate their preferences in candidates for the bench, The proposal, which originated at | u recent state convention, would not Interfere with the present method of voting, members of the associa- | tion explain, After filings for judge the lawyers would take a vote on the candidates and made an endorsement. This ree- ommendation would be printed on the official ballots under the name of the approved candidate, The association belleves thou- sands of voters would be gulded by the endorsements, A counter suggestion, a local newspaper In a humorous vein, would exclude luwyers from voting for judges on the ground of | | prejudice, | | proposed by Storm (Ioud Has Re.tl silver Lining in Nev. Nev.,, Sept. 25(P-~A re- cent eloudb on the land of L, L. Loony, of Roche ster, Nev., washed away a good portion of the ground | around his house. When the storm was spent, a vein of mincral was ex- | Tonopah, Soe No, 9574 Patent Leather one strep, Spanish \ Heel, Bal locn Last $3.50 See No, 0565 Patent Leather Flapper Mode) Pump, Buckle Urnamen tations See No, 9377 Black Satin Sleshed Strap, Military Heel . $3.50 See No, 9671 Smart Black Suede Patent “lrinived Ore Strap. Flapper Ty Model ) $3.50 See No, 9551 A Charming Patent Gorea Strap -ttt ot 00 ‘Come tomorrow low wzll be fascinated, thzs Grand Fall | Opening display of our aonderfid neuk smart exclusive styles inv The complainants, Howard Cro- ker, Ethel Croker White, Richard Croker, Jr, all citizens of New York state, and Florence Croker Morris, a British subject, set out in their bill of complaint that they are. entitled as heirs to properties dn the vieinity of Palm Reach which have been appraised at ap- | proximately $15,600,000, These were acquired by the political lead- er in two deals. the first on Octo- ber 24, 1910, and the sécond on July 81, 1917, Recltal of transactions between Richard Croker and his wife and Allge Tccleston involving the first | tract is contained in the complaint, Croker and his wife attempted to transfer the land to her on No- vember 7, 1877, and It was subse- quently réconveyed to them, the complaint set out. It was declared furthet in the bill that there was no consideration to the {ransac- tions, A portion of the property was conveyed by three special deeds fo | Mrs. Bula Croker. Croker and his second wife subsequently entered into a contract with J. B. MeDon- | ald, authorizing him as agent to well part of the properfies and turn the proceeds over to Mrs, Croker. The complaint sets forth chat none of the properties was 80ld under this contract, however. Tn the contract with MeDonald, Croker gave him the option of pur- chasing the property if no sale for it should develop. After the of Croker, McDonald and Palm Beach istates |coption of the prehistoric apartment house, “The ground plans and descrip- tive information prepared by Jack- son,” Dr, Judd says in a communi- fon to the society, “still stand | posed, | Step In He started to dig. At a depth of | 20 fect he opened up a veln of ore aseaying ssu to the ton. He was {s0on on his way to the smelter with | s of accuracy. | stuffs. the first carload. ! visiting the scene of some of | The party expects to be away nm} Cloudbursts are common on the his earlier explorations for the first |to three years, during which they | Nevada desert and are generally | time in 48 years, Mr. Jackson, now | will go through the seven seas, mako | cOnsidered plagues i cighty-three years old, enjoyed him- | ea)ls at 50 ports and visit practical- | selt to the utmost. He Sought oul |jy cvery part of the British Empire. old stairways and pictographic in-| "+ ‘loader of the expedition, | scriptions he remembered e dis- [y 00in George Hitehins, declded fo played a strong, active interest in A T e the current explorations and devoted | qrorings and privations endured by a portion of each day watching the |y 0 600014 erew of the Tre work." Instead of a ruln of broken-down | ¥NeN that vessel was lost. walls, Jackson visualized in 1877 what exploration has since revealed, a structure of trim brick shaped like {he horseshoe end of a great stadium, Irom the interior arc of space left for games and religious festivals, the terraces rose, giving each apagtment a view of the “play- ing field.” The oufside wall of the arc was a sheer drop of four stor ‘The ends of the arc were joined by a Inwer defensive wall parallel with the dry creck bed. The whole com- munal dwelling lay under the shad- ow of a huge cliff. As in the adobe rooms of Pueblo Indian buildings today, ladders gave 1ccoss to the prehistorie apartments, By pulling up their “stairways,” the oceupants could present a solid front to an attacking enemy. Above a iin safe limif, all the walls were punctured by windows to admit light to the apartments. Also ind ted in Jackson's dr: ing and established heyond doubt by been | Dr, Judd's excavation, are the estu- voyage. They left Newlyn, Cornwall. I1n a converted lifeboat, 40 by 10 feet, | hny.,,n. :d with power by a 15 \mrnfi—‘ | power internal combustion engine. The boat carrles five tons of food- Positi mns lington, P — Just a lot of folks, October is moving time with the stars. Above | the eastern horizon soon will ap- pear the brilllant stars of early winter. The fall trek is in order. On October 7, Jupiter will be in with the sun, that fs, 00 degrees east of the sun and on the meridian due south at sunset. | Mars has left the evening sky and is on the far side of its orbit from the earth 000,000 mile The big dipper will be far over the northwest. milky way may be traced on dark evenings in October diagonally across the heavens from the northeast to the western izon, Far over in the so appear the brilliant [the constellation T Australis. the Southern Ifish, which is visible in American latitudes only for a | briet period in the fall and early winter. IFomalhaut is one of the brighteat stars in the heavens. | Octoher star gazers, says a bull letin of the American Nature as- sociation, will find 1 the stellation of Capriconrus, the goat, and Aquarius, the { bearer, two constellations of zodiac that contain no stars er than the third magnitude taken the places of the brilliant zodiacal groups of Scorpio a Sagittarius that were conspicuous are said in the southern sky during the {summer. Venus, which has isible in the western &ky unset since Jate in Jun seen as the evening roin !southwest for abont two ho {after suneet Saturn will he seen for a time after sunset a little fo | northwest of Venus, but before has passed it will bhe {elose to the st to be &cen in the Tupiter still is direcfly of the little Inverted milk dipper, and it will be next to Venus | the most brilliant object in view In the southwestern heavens in the {early Sopt YOU TELL ONE “Columbus was a prophet as well | as a discover,” said the American tonrist, glumly, “Why?' asked the “When he saw | shout, quadrature Englishman. America, didn't he ‘I see dry land' 2"'—Tit-Bita. | Tomorrow we shall signalize our Fall Opening with a presentation of Kall Styles at $3.50 that surpasses in richness, novelty, beauty and ex- clusiveness anything of the kind ever seen in this city. Style after style, 57 of them, each one so strik- ingly beautiful you will hardly know which one to choose. 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