New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 24, 1925, Page 1

— e News of the World By Associated Press g, Il ?!’o ESTABLISHED 1870 ,},.IF ec ').5“\ N°—?3\’d C\\!\S‘\W\a‘ NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, GENEROSITY MARKS | FORMER SEC. OF WAR WEEKS CHRISTMAS GIVING| IS AMONG THOSE HURT IN Needy FamMen Care of FA TA~L _llEAD'ON CO_LL_ISION by Organizations G0OD CHEER BROADGAST Day Nursery, Elks, American Leglon, Welfare Association, Visiting | Nurses and Salvation Army Bring Gladness To Adults and Children Tomorrow for will be a Merry Christ- ma everyone in New Britain it the welfare associations have any- thing to do with it. Needy families will all be taken care of in one man- ner or another, and in some cascs | have already been taken care of. | Day Nursery About 60 youngsters at the Nursery greeted Santa Claus and | era delighted with gifts of toys, | candy and clothing yesterday after- | noon at the annug entertainment wnd exercises, 1e entertainment consisted of a JOHN W, W song and nove dance by Miss Fthel Kosswig, a demonstration of “The Charleston” hy Miss Virginia a “fairy” dance by Miss burg, in costume; a gyp- v dance in costume hy Miss Fstelle Giould, violin solo by Rocky Manu- | clla, and singing by Francis DeLoy, | willie Kopie, Josephine Marino and Joseph Picklick. All the entertain- | crs were children, some of fhem be- ing patrons of the nursery, One of the features of the after \00n was a visit from Mary. s the little girl who blossomed forth s a modern Cinderella a few days 120, Motherless, neglected, living in | o home amidst squalor and poverty, | Chicago, aover even owned a dolly of her own | Weidemeic ntil she was seven years old, Mary ' notice ntly through 1ddenly found herself possessed of | in St. Louis with the doll, & complete outfit of new |cago furrier, ha clothing, & new home amidst pleas- | “professional hu t surroundings. a new mother and | been married at least 48 times, 1 things pleasant fincluding a | testimony in an annulment nee to go to scliool under proper | brought by one of hi ipervision and desirable environ- | Mys, Iisther Wexler Brooks, uent. eert violinist, aid she 1 Mary Weidemeier in 192 crday afternoon using the name since her transformafion. She was | yiooks told Jud dregsed dn o handsome new Dink |yhag she was the dresy and wag accompanicd bY her | forty pinth wife, w “mother,” Mrs. John Hancock | which, and {he Plainville, and her pleasure was | annuihent would be plete as she found that Santa| ., us had already provided her witi I've been carriage in which to wheel her|fbout th As ghe entered the room all | !MUsician, “and little friends in the nursery | VOU sides of the sca R R R land professional Lusband in unisor Weleome Mary.” Mary cnly sta fERaxg eolt minut e when she returned i ¢ new home in Plainville. Arthur Hotchkiss in the i Claus passed out v gifts to the youngste tributio: were neceived ollowin anley Works € Corbin Girls PROFESSIONAL HUBBY said to Have Million From Deluded Women Dee. 24. (/P)—John who came Into re wife been and,” who ves. who s d ma appeared at the nursery ves when for the first tim ried in vas of forty-cighth she wasn't indic granted. man,” said the t two years ent name A nore or I m." Three vays under A he money 1 managed to g from guise s8 each toys and e onths a Des Moines, Towa, wishand deserted her ¢ foster prete lish the Mrs. Broo The plaintiff, Weidemeier ry'" photogr of his Res mund 1 and & from Hee ten ter defr: of $13 Wer sociefy; ngshcr PaTENss it he mshine . City Coal lodge i Woorl 1sh for children); Mrs. W N Abbe, Joscph | 4 Lever and m in of her money wen S of her money went, too, sigh from a “Rogu: ph, told the aliases wer verbrook n e ne (Continued Page ’ S0 Cornelius GILPATRIC I PRISO mora than d wome “ormer State Official bdid} o Be Willing to Aid in Muddle Wall he $1,000,0 His right wnd Tng vried, she Martin of Washir Burkin, New York L Milwanke ve obt from n name as onen he m d rgin M 1 THIN [CE FATALITIES o Little nd M Pr-A Reterd Judge the Hartford, I be h nkruptey Berman Howard, kis connsel, a view to s to the with ference with ti will be hield t that time decided ity of 11 24 : oys Tose by wil witl in Suburbs of Boston trusfee o Harold ( Gilpatrie. ents { o Waltham two both v At dist police it whet Gilpat nefited by Gilpa to confey vith ric Jocision nkropt rowith hi today v noticed 1 1 in ice m it brok d out an prison the de yrding to Was} ied by "Q i \u of chec and which In areat this happiness of a star a Redeemer, ago, pour into ever Ng pregnating all with the Wy reverence and happiness. season [5 MARRIED 48 TIMES Obtained |, V. public this arrest of a Chi- termed a has | in suit | con- he Arthur Lewis yesterday or stire ted the collecting information pretty “and 1 find he is known on s a defrauder 1 in touch with nine whom he has married in the a differ- | aid her ud would es; movies. Soume Lord in- de- was Among | ned Mrs Mrs Their Lives This Morn- nt | ndants and madc old Medford, s old, po eded HERALD \K 18]’]65 YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS 1 joy. bore a message of the birth nineteen home sp | Fireman Killed When | Trains Crash At Gail- lard’s Cut, South Car- lina. Another Man Is Missing and Several Hurt—Re- lief Trains With Nurses and Doctors Sent Out. C., Dec. 24 known to be | Charleston, S ) ‘Three men ar {one is missing and several were in- Jured, including John W. Weeks, former secretary of war, as a result {Coast line passenger traing early to |day at Gaillard's cut near Monck's corner, A relief train, with doctors and nurses, is en-route to the scene, Herbert T. Parish, cngmur of the northbound train, No. 76; J. E, Cum- | mings of Savannah, Ga., engineer of south bound tr y M‘» Baxter of Ilorence, fireman of lthe south bound, were found d lin the wreckage, Fireman Wil {of the northbound, has not yet been |located No details were given in reports received here of the wreck as to the extent of the injuries to | Weeks, | The locomotive, a Pullman and club car of No. 76 and the baggage car and locomotive of No. 85 were lerailed. 1t is believed {Wlocking of the i freight train, which was d iled night, the two passenger uing were running on the south- bound track at the tme of the ac- {cident, 'BURGLAR GETS 810 IN ' HARTFORD AVENUE STORE Belicved To Have Entered Bernard that due to the northbound track Berkowitz's Market With Key Early This Morning. was taken from cash of the Puritan ket, 112 Hartford avenus early is morning by a thiet who evident- | v had a key to the front door. ket is owned by Bernard Berko- who says he was at his place | ness until 3 o'clock this morn- Seventy how the thief 15 both doors anc the windows were locked. He is o he opinion that the money was ken by a man who Is conversant with the market and who spends & reat deal of his time there. He re- 1 the robbery to the police at 4 o'clock this morning, and the ¢ ated by the de 'BRANDS WOMAN WITH IRON Berkowitz can't ot into the stol Masked Bandit Strips Woman, Sears Bare iron, In Theft. 2 (B Me southeast s Mrs. Charles Sibley, 40, on a ranch south of there, hound to a chair by a masked d her to the waist back and shoulders to force her to | letter | San Francisco, Dee. Dispatehes from here, who strippe ned hot and bue her poker the whereabouts o had received. | Mrs. Sibley said that ti ound the letter and left Child Iiurncd —loAI‘)ealh. \ther ()nc I Dying | N. Y 24 (@ as mH ed to death, an from burns and {heir Edward Boyle, has buc for recovery foic ont,, with a reveal a man is dyin Mrs, chance X 1 their Prescott, home fire ed m the mother in the house, menacing hibors broke mother and unable to reach t ated the mot for recove find the reason for everlasting may all May and a nd of quarter centuries every heart im- the Yuletide, — WWWM |Both Engineers And| dead, | of a head-on collsion of two Atlantic | Mr. | ’1'.\» i California || Back With | slept unaware | _ {would fimx%ymmr SEALY HOLY DOOR ATST. PETER'S AS BlG; CROWD GAZES Pope Pius Omcmtes ot Tmpres- ! sive Religions Ceremonies at Vatican Today |CARDINAL HAYES AHONG THE NOTED ATTENDANTS Brings ) \ ™ d of Holy Year— Bejeweled Silver Trowel Is Used In Rite—Bells of St. Peter's Booms | News, Which Is Immediately Taken Up By Bells of Rome's 400 Churches, | Rome, Dec. 24 (P—FPope Plus X1, picturesquely clad in pontifical robes of rich medieval and sur- |rounded by ecclesiastic e sumptuous attire sions is famous the world over, today performed the ceremony of closing the Holy Door of the Basil of St Peter, mammoth mother chureh of Catholics. The cersmony officially brought to a close the year of penitence and pardon specially marked on the Catholic calendar once every quarter of a century, The Holy door had remained open since one year ago today, when the Pope was the central figure in a similar opening ceremony, Sincs that time, more than 3,000,000 Cath- olic pilgrims from every corner of | s world had crossed the sill and | kissed the door posts of that sacred aperture as a sign of devotion and {humility. Most of them likewise kissed the celebrated fisherman's ring on the right hand of the su- preme spiritual leader and received medals commemorative of the Holy Year from the pontif’s own hands Cardinal Hayes of New York w a prominent fizure among the dinals at the ceremony, while roup of bishops in the proc cluded Bishop Lillig of Kansas City, Bishop Hoban of Scranton, {Bishop Druram of Des Moines, and | Bishop Lawler of Lead, South Da- | | kota. | Thousands Present thousands of pigrims, to- 1des of Romane positions of for the ssion | Several |gether with mul {men occupring high state and members of the histori | noman aristocracy, composed the 170,000 persons who filled the great {Lasilica and its massive portico to- ay to bear witness to the time- I honored solemn ceremony. Other housands without number congre- tinued on I‘axn 13) AUTOS GUT GAPERS AT POST OFFICE CORNER Hill Finally Sanded, Trucks | Diverted Via Cedar Street (C | | | | | i | | | | | me automobiles s , others landing against the and sidewalls, bumping s and po others sliding backwards, and somé of them entering into collisions with other victims of the slippery high- |way, scenes along the hill on W Main street, just west of High street, |this morning bizarr pic- turesque. A crov {foot of the ing vishes descend, |eracks and chuekles; tomobiles had no time {being too frightened to see in life for the moment. W standing on end autoist steoring wheels as if av doom., The worst majority, however, iness due to ) that accompan- were and at the W at assembled 1 to walch the mixed wi those in th for eithe crack it came to the s no more tha unexpee ed the “chut Most tators seemed inc mtoward occurre t the corne the sign comir -chutes and down the hill could do a g but stop, due to the coating of ,w on the highway. Brakes| ocked readily, and then the cars continue & but not | straight forward. Most of them at-} tempted to do @ i |careening down turned compy a T 1 {not stop until 'fn‘l with the The autolsts perforn who got th e situation. driving | hil d worst—or at b thrill out of t clamp on the brakes while de the hill at a fair clip meant ng less than the execution of a autiful curve that required the en- idth of the street for its exe- another automobile got | in the way, or a tree or a pole or + curb interfered, there would be some olts. Al of which atly. To | | nd- | | | tire W |cution, 1f | | | 13 crow al upshot was that a police car arrived 1 off the But that did not prevent slip! when an offi at the | mobil Irivers we s from re compeiled to slow dow of other though it stopping mac viated (Coatioued on DE | four | company Some |1t did |t flash sig-| | W BRITAIN HERALD CEMBER 24, I—()Idest Twins in U, S, To Spend Christmas Together; 93 Yrs. Old Fairfleld, Dec. 24 (®)—The oldest twins in America will obgerve their 93rd Christmas here and two wecks later, on January 9, will mark their birth- lays as they start on their 94t} year, Mary Sophia Maria Seymour ting both ome” (o their street, Grenflel distance from the where they were Dowd and Sarah will, in celebra- occasions, be “at friends on Burr Hill & short o!d homestead horn, THREE FIREMEN DIE WHEN TRUCK SKIDS: Two Others Badly Injured at| Scituate, Mass., Today BOSTON HAS BAD BLAZE Tulton Street Fire Does Damage of $65,000 And Fifteen Firemen Are Overcome — ir - Alarms Sounded To Secure Fresh Men, Norwell, Mass., Dec. 24 () volunteer members of the fire department were killed and two others knocked unconscious when their truck skidded and overturned while speeding to a fire lLere morning. The dead are: orge Barrows, children. Hugh MeDermott, single. Yrank Hall, father of five children. The injured: Malcolm Hall, William Tobin, The three men stantly. Efforts of quired to lift the h the bodies of the victims. Hall and Tobin, who were off the side of the truck were vived after medical attention. not believed their injuries will serious. Thre father of threc father of Frank, were killed in- 0 men were re- avy truck from T 1t is be Family Escapes was in the home of Ar- nhur Smith. Smith, his wife and six children, the eidest 12 years old, vere aslecp on the second floor he house. /The fire apparently started from sparks from an open rate on the first floor and Smith did not awaken until the lower fl0o; was in flame With the aid of hls wife, he rous- ©d the children and helped them to escape. The house was burned to The fire | the ground, Neighbors are carlng for the Smith family. Chief Michael Stuart of the tuate police department, Cor] pcrul | elletier of the state constabulary and Chiof George Osborne of the Norwell fire di rtment have sta ed an inve ation into the fire accident. Boston Firemen Overcome Boston, Dec. 24 (P—Fifteen fire were overcome while fightin alarm fire which did $65, damage to a six-story building 40-42 Fulton street on the e market dist t this morning. Two of the men, Timothy Sullivan James Callahan, were trapped third floor and were brought v & rescue company which d its way into the flames, Licut Young, another of men had been rend scious by ammonia fumes in earlier fire, collapsed while leadi his men and had to be taken to the 0006 at the red uncon- IFred overcome, I ity relief hospital where he was re- vived but is being held Ralph Melgard, an employe s company, was carried out a had risked his life by turning off gas connections on the first, second \d third floors. The fire started on the th and rapidly to the roof, dangering for a time the adjoining buildings. Three alarms were sounded in quick succession and a ourth was later turned in to bri those who had of the vept en- resh men to replace ecn overcom Occupants of the ed the I. M. George roducts; Chamberl confectionery; Fidelity and C. H. Mu dairy prodv origin of tl building includ company, d ain and Choco company, The been determinc Bangor Maine Bangor, Dec, women wer rd when fire Largay floor with smolic street th Archibald 1s carried down ief LaBarrow elow ch NO HERALD TOMORROW —— heing Herald, will not lished Christmas according be pub- Tomorrow, Day, The to custom THE WEATHER Hartford, Dec. 24.—Forecast for New Britain and vicinity Fair tonight. Friday increas- ing cloudiness, probably fol- lowed by snow or rain Friday afternoon or night. Not much change in temperature D L — Are | Scituate | this | of . UNDER NOSE OF POLIGE al edge of | rd floor | Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending Dec, 19th, .. 12,801 —_— 1925. —~EIGHTEEN PAGES \CHRISTMAS PAYROLL TAKEN BY SIX ARMED BANDITS IN DARING ROBBERY IN PENN. Holdup Occurs Near‘l Pittsburgh — One Guard Is Senously " Wounded And $47,- | 900 In Cash Stolen. Chicago A Held on ) Ha\'ing New Crime Epidemic in Which Bandits Do Their i ‘ | Xmas Robbing Early. Pittsburg -— | Christm, rmi as taken armed at ing settlement The tomobile. The guard, | tion Dec 5 payro Coal .} The | 2 Pittsburgh $47,900 by six a min- Pittsburgh, to- ped in an au- men n robbers esc MICHALL NORCIA HOLDUP AT GUNPOINT | IN PLAINVILLE STORE: bandits shot 1. I in the abdomen is cr al. Gump His condi- Leroy Hutton, paymaster for the | company, and Gump and another guard, had just alighted from a [special Pittsburgh and West Vir- | | ginla railroad p: car to go to [ Mine No. 3, nearby, when the rob- ers drove up. The bandits opencd | 3 its K ler | fire fmmediately, The first volley \B‘md]ts Keep the Clerks brought down Gump. Hutton drew | Covered and Set $94 pistol but forced to drop it. | | One of the robbers jumped from in Cash the machine, took the bag contain- i | ling tha payroll andthen returnad Si¥ to the ca As the robhers away ards Library, another mining settlement, they fired parting volley of shots Hutton and the guard, City police, county and deputy sheriffs were | to gnard all roads in the |an effort to lo Plainville, Dec, 24 out today for the three men who held up t |of the Atlantic and Pac Whiting str e cast ster of $94. police, drove Biialion o Hope is hield carly arrest of the tow a 5 enployes store on rifled state on the | they know who s and will bring suspect here for ager of th and detectives g 1Y The sent out reglon in | e bandits, who | believe that one of the bandits w a photograph of the identification by the store, Myron J. Treado. he robbery occur 30 o'clock last night, when ind John Bergen, his cler one in the idently been hanging around {hours in wait for An oppoirtun- lity. When the time came and the store was empt one of m drove a s n automobile up in front of the s nd kept th | motor ru od the S5t | Chicago, D {men did their early here, starting than usual with robberies reported | ending early today All the robbers e {one was believed shootings that r A yourg girl was knocked down n the hallway of her home. Several | | 0ld women were beaten. One robl posed as a truant officer to take § |from two high school pupils | other acted as a clerk in store while his companion held up | the manager. | iok t CRACHSMEN GET $300 () -— Holdup | Christmas robbing a day sooner more than fifty in the 24 hours ped vounded Ited. and only in the place & ;| up your han | Treado thought 1t was a | when ho saw the two| t business he complied with the | and he and Bergen w o0 a back room and mad keep their arms raised while one | the bandits w h register. ‘V»z[ur[f\ give i ute | Istart, t then da out to the | i sped away toward South They overlooked a sum of 's money which Treado had | |Break Open Safe Store Near Bristol Station m in his poclets, 1do ly gave poli the a quic! state undir the arm | those of | g towns were notified to lookout. Tt s believed ) car was that owned by A, | 9 North Main street, W was stolen in | § 1 to the Herald.) the Bristol, Dec. 24—The imme vicinity of the police scene of early morning v, when over $500 was from fe of the City d, and of 25 North Main str The burg- foday that had entered the store by : em and would rear cellar door and then throug him again p door into the store man thought to | Bars and in other similar rob- | prying open t cado to iden ind, it was sta taken, besides sh re T | P. Squires of ation wa Fast Hartford, rol v ry the Treado & opportun ho entered store | ted | to know | The | frult storc suspeet in 't v 1 and expect Tr from a jimmies used door were tify | him Carhon Monoxide Gas Is Fatal to Man in Garage Wayland, Mast body (GGordc found today in od that over $500 was £25 in cl None of th store, as could be d morning the proy for busin sh register, vas disc Jo H. his & of when Gardekas, one of store to t1 e ¢ nd it empty to the garage car wa ised immed fho follow of the od revealed pon which th Tt s th sonie clews polic » working opinion of the police joly was done by persons who arized thern Durham Child s Gored By Cow, May Lose Her [,\c Dar T Further investig: that the robbery time pre ks lead urg tr The 1 Ars oir picked for t burglary, a Mr. Gardekas bank de "Twas Loaded and Worked: \Nln" l‘ "”l(‘l \n\\ Dead | .28 large is owned by Kiamos and is of War The safe whict Gardel Tocat which Page 224 771 AUTOS REGISTERED IN "24, PLACING CONN. 21st IN NUMBER cticut 2 Hating stands 21st N gross 1924 were & registra registrations 224,77 Increase in was 19.5 per ¢ regis nt over 1923, or only of |a | quarters t) derer or ¢ with crimes of | his clothes three {mu |hotel on the evening | Mahar t | scemea |he told the \ | shot C PRICE THREE CENTS RAWRET TIGHTER AROUND TUGITIVE Norcia Admits Being at Scene of Sthcnef uus Mueder PRISONFR GRILIED AGAIN Sergeants McCune And Maher Satls- fied He Can Furnish Solution To Slaylug of Captain Albert Youmans On Novembher tering questioning John Mg persistent rgeant henectady po- clive Sergeant acl Norcia, Schenectady, police head- was inside the hotel t before of the murdered in 1 MecCue, Micl ic William P, L 249 1 Jast night adm |in that city a n A hile scher he night of N Evident serlousness Wi hotel to 7 to work. 0 was an al- repute, owned by 10 is thought to be ang of hiack hand- ! enectady, Troy At the present time h pleurisy, but he fs bond for an alleged for whi three members ang have already been sent to prison, clothes before referre il hotel of up, s reia is being held here because it is thought he is either the mur- ted with murder For many years ve been ter- New York cities 1ge proportions, Admits Being In Hotel nne the captain, Latiso and I Norcia said last in the hotel at 9 o'clo of the murder to ¢ to go to work at could not explain that he was k the evening ange his clothes midnight. He why he changed hours before he in- tended to work. Noreia elaims that he heard a shot, and rushed down siairs where he reported the r to police, and was on the ofticers arrived. of the question- ing Norcia said he was not near the the crime, He told McCue and at ‘was afrald that Lat- iso would “squeal” on him. Through- out the grucling Norcia seemed to want to tell something but when he to realize he was going to tell somet: minating, he would char subject. However, s again last night that he would tell them everything after he w aken back to Schen- ectady. Thinks Norcia Has Guilty Knowledge Sergeant Mahar does not think that Latiso, the alleged master mind of the blackhanders, is the man who ptain Youmans, He believes orcia knows who did it, or he i guilty himself, e sergeant stated last night that altbough his depart- he wa | ment has been searching the east in n effort to find the murderer, no suspect thus far has seemed as promising as Norela Previous to the shooting of Cap- tain Youmans, Norcia admitted hav- ing been employed by Latlso. On the night of the raid the police were trying to find evidence at the hotel which would convict Latiso and his g ers, who had managed to evade conviction for any alleged | crime, Officers says that the hotel at which the crime was commited was a speakeasy, and a disorderly house. Another Taken Into Custody Sergeant ) r yesterday went to New Haven where he took into cus- today & man who he alleges, is one of the Lativo gangsters, The two prisoners will be taken back to Schenectady this afternoon. Sergeant Mahar is confident that the mystery ounding the Youmans murder will be cleared now that Norcia has apprehended. displayed papers to the give evidence that he 1 States army dur- 1 war but he only saw s side of the ocean. He n in New Britain four weeks iring whic he was employed New Britain Machine Co. is fearfully rvous, and he ed throughout a grilling again asted well after of the last on the man s under his ills at some to hang article moved witk imselt up ility of Norels possible | U. S. Radio Fans May Hear Stresemann on Jan. 1 rlin, D 24 N an ra- on New voice of minis ns in the orelgn min by phono- record 1s & German em which has ar sting. HITS JAPAN 4 (#—A report from ¥y stated n which n Dee. 1% poles and building and_ wireles teatior spended tor u ort time while repairs were being made. Dur storm a wind of l:“\,y—‘lh veloe was reported, ac- | companted by v 20 feet high. TII\-\I w \\ e Tokyo,