New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 13, 1926, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 NEK uno) ‘pIojyvy '-Mau ‘JAPY SR WS JHRIIU0) MAYOR PROPOSES CANVASS TO LEARN PATRONS’ STAND ON INCREASE IN BUS FARE | Will Ask Aldermen To! Take Poll In Their| Districts To Deter- mine Opinion of Peo- | ple. Paonessa Rushes Plan for City-Wide Vote Because ! Time Will Not Allow Public Hearing on Quos-“ tion, Mayor A. M. lotters from six aldermen vass their the sentiment cir toward a proposcd ole-cent inerease in fure on all bus lines in the city, | The mayor has adopled this meth- | od of learning the wishes of t ‘ bucause the date assigned for hear- | lng on the jitneur's will not | allew sufficient time for o public huaring to tollow the regular com- o council ting { It was UrIL,I planned to he the hearing th)u) ot this w Muyor Paonc wrote the sion on public utilities expla wish for a later date and su | the week of Jan. 26, In th o) thme the commission hud s | I as t earing date 4 The muyor ist upon the later dute, clieves it would be to dvantage bad more time lowed to counsider the matter., It the jitneu allowed to in- crease their fares one cent, em will be installed vor believes a majority of patrons of bus lines prefer to have the pre cut fare kept in effect and an extra ciarge made of those wish transfers. If the aldermen abide by the niayor's wish and visit their contitu. cuts, the eouncil wiil be in a position to take iInteliigent action on the pro- posed increase at the regular ing next Wednesday night, mayor belleves, constit commis- s are | who the FIGHT FIRE IN GOLD Millerton, N. Y., Has Bad Blaze And Firemen From Surrounding Towns | Called Upon for Help. Millerton, N, Y, Jan. 13 (#) — orking in a temperature only five i grees above zero, fire companies | om several places aided the local partment last night in holding & | @ to the Krooner block in Muin | -ect, when property on either side & threatened. ‘The aggregate loss was § b Apparatus came from Amenix, N. Canaan, Lakeville and onn., and stayed on the veral hours. The fire started fn the basement | { the Krooner block, a three st rame structure, from a heater t read to the roof. Mrs. W, Whalen, the owner lived on the ond floor, and other tenants were a market on the street floor and the Yilks club on the third floor. Busi- ness bulldings were on either side, The fire destroyed all the block ex- cept the fu which was left in- 1aet. All tenements had insurance, From JaT)an to \:\\:\ork In Just Fifteen Days | Jan. 13 (®A—A record | train loads of | 000, task for Chicago, sitk shipment, raw material valued at reaches its destination in N [ afternoon just 15 leaving Japan The shipme two York is days after hou- trains o1t 1t comprises ten sand bales, The two rattle Sunday to make the about value of $1,650 morning expecting trans-continental trip $6 honrs, Inte 1 the silk a day 10 nearly Jealous Bo\ \lurr'vrer Gets 50 Yrs. in Prison Cherokee, lowa, Jan. 13 (P—FEd- Flickinger, year old farm shot killed Morris | former conv erday need to im- risonment. He it of Miss Gere cher who he ward boy, W Hardy, ho fifty years HIT BY COASTI Marlboro, Muss., Jé Allce Gertrude Morse injuries she received last night when a sled on which a 14 year old girl s coasting, struck h reets Chew rlin, hungry their w probably fatal Bitterling had chew baby's arn ) ht gnawed and wo year lay in ed off nd ore Two cage wed old Katie as she her cril They two of th bitten her ams finger W e par uts unconscious from Ic physicians w said baby ably would die | theless { actions, | more than nin { Dwyer of Tor BRIGHTER FUTURE \hlhur Wants Stevandoa's 'Blast Wrecks Shaft p FOR MOVIES SEEN Prof, Burton Finds Fault With: Industry at Present e T BUT THEYRE IMPROVING People at Top of . Busir Are | Learning Slowly, Speaker Tells Woman's Club—Belieyes Children Are Harmed by Melodramas, | Charging that the majority of mo- | n pictures being screened :my\ armful effects upon those hem and urging enlighten- | 1 dircetion or control by munieipal. Ities and states as a means of abol. | ishing these effects, Prof. Richard |* Burton of Hartford, formerly of the | Unive Minnesota, addressed | the Wom he Multitude | and t its meeting yes. terday afternoon at St. Mark'’ copal church, Stressing the e than the good points, he never- gave praise and blame alike | inample fagshion where he felt them | to be due, making a plea for toler- | ance on the ground that the movie is still a baby art. 20.000.000 at Theater Daily, conserva estimate of the | er of pe attending the | during day would be | 20,000,000, Prof, Burton stated, and witness a movie | some result or refle carried out in life for " he sald, “The movie | has come to stay and it is the dom- inant art, as few people have the | money to spend on the spoken very time they want relief rom 1H-x|~ own tiresome affairs."” » cffect on the human e first defect he mentioned, that a new optic disease was developing. This is largely because of | malmanipulation on the part of op- | erators, Prof. Burton med, the Images on the screen being blurred, v and too fast. e movie Is unable to do three- | quarters of the things it attempts,” he went on, “Through visualization, | it can tell a simple pictorial story, | but it cannot give the heights and | lepths of spo never. | theless 1t continually butts in.” Citing Conrad’s “Lord Jim" as the greatest novel of the greatest novelist of the generation, Prof. Burton termed it ¢ “profound analytic study con (Cflnti mnd on l‘dg»\ T vho see me num ons ate one most of show, “All get or wors r“t‘) [or the {the Shenandoah's NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, NAVAL SECRETARY FAVORS CRAFT 10 - REPLACE ONELOST Suceessor With Capacity of 6 Million Cubic Feet of Gas ESTIMATED COST ALSO PUT AT SIX MILLIONS Plans of Navy Department Call for | Expansion of Aviation With at Least 10 Per Cent of Personnel Serving With Air Force—Aban- donment of Lakehurst Naval Sta- tion 1s to Be Recommended. \\'mhinmon Wilbur | committe he of an airs doah. The secretary explained, {new airship should hs gas capacity than the Los Ang y he estima! Jun, told favorcd 1o replace 13. the (P —Secre- house naval construction the Shenan- that the a greater Shenandoah cost craft, d at about $6,000,- CURTIS WILBUR and he suggested a cap.-ity of 000,000 cubic feet, compareu with 2,100,000, Mr. Wilbur outlined his views be- fore the committee at a hearing on Chairman Butler's bill for a new dirigible to cost $5,009,000, Naval Aviation Plans ! plans as tentatively drawn or the fiscal r 1927 call for ex- pansion of atlon with at least fen per cent of the navy's enlisted and | officer personnel serving with the air force, 000 Continued on Page Five) CONVICTED BANK CLERK BLAMES FORMER BRCKER FOR HIS THEFTS‘ far George an. Once Trea urer of Norwich Institu- | Testifies Ag Gabriel C. Berker in Em- | bezzlement Trial. | tion, ainst | Norwic 13 - stock Gabriel €. b xi\ r, former broker here, ind ‘through whose office George A. casurer of the ust company No 1 losing stock market trans. ©d on trial in superior previously | r a plea of to Superior Court s city of was 1 ement ourt today ed gui dge Al Finn on an ry i made I¥n L. Brown of t To Be Witness, Finn, who was sentenc prison for not less than ling 104.0 own on January 6, wn from the probably be use of guilty to ste vo fellow townsmer ed ising out of on trial separately Norwich People Interested keen nn's t and w s of } n was befc erh»y hal fled from t 1924 was when Finn | no rendered on » Finn had re seen Jar was spe having aide Iinn in the stealing of ), and he furnished a bond 000 t hrough Lawrence 1 ngton as known has never indicating X which Finn carried | stock market trans- involved him S0 far statement in zh the actions which leeply No Depositors Lost, tood th ss with 1 1 a single Finn's stea Park o great fail 1t is unders had busin cmpany 1 throug dent s as Presi- | company inn, gave | months, t tion to be company. treasurer of the trust | Lebanon, | North § prison | ¢ The tended case d heen ex- the | son for n stated. The for the present term were summoned re- of Berker h through two but 1 not bee terms of superior court the the delay case and talesmen cently to be on hand today. After Judge Brown had epened court today the case of Berker was called and a jury selected with lit- tle loss of time and few challenges. Jury Ts Selected The jury selected was as follows: Charles W. Dow, Norwlc McCli and Willard Preston; Frank C. lllsworth C. nington; Willlam Henry C. Hol Sturgis L. Hazen, Sprague; A. Mell, Lisbon: Floyd L. her and Thomas A, Day, Salem; and Willlam Jarvis, Volun- town. Berker stated before the cast that a New whom he had en in his 1 and omas M. Shields of Farl F Mathe is the United this who spe was set Spicer, Kilroy, Frank- opening York at- aged to with- engaged this city to The late States commis- district. ssis awn, ter sioner of nn, night in . was engaged for two hours be- the case was opened in goin | e trust company's hooks Bank Commissioner . Byrne and Deputy Bank Lester E. Shippee. The complaint on Berker rled was offered and the 1 calling witnesses just the which ‘s Attorney Brown laid Arthur In as evidence at t outsct the charter of the Banke company and the records of ection of officers in 1924, Finn Takes Stand was called at once as a witness. neatly dressed, cheerful in tituds and answered smartly whe juestioned and cross examina- tion. ¥inn said he became acquaint- ed with Berker when had an office for a brokerage firm, Later Berker opened his own office in the Thayver bullding and he, the witness, hegan buying is through him part of 1924 Finn said he conti ings with Berker unti rest. M. Finn to the He w his state on in 1923 hon in the early his own ar- Bought on Margin All 1) stocks he on margined with _ Berk ught were acco fter doing business for two ss said, the GAnie th ment t hich wit £ s ntinued on Page 18) of the | n | Pows he | : stocks and | SR £8P R A § B Average Daily Circulation For ‘W BRITAIN HERALD == Jan, 9th . T 10“() ~TW I“\"l\ T’\( ES. MOST OF 105 MINERS TRAPPED BY - EXPLOGION ARE BELIEVED KILLED PASSENGER TRAIN COLLIDES . Near W||burton, Okla. Some of Victims' Still Live And Con- | verse With Those | Trying To Rescue | Wilburton, Most of the 105 men worl Degnan-McConnell mine st of here three miles ! belleved to |been fnstantly Killed today in a ter- |rific explosion that wrecked the wain shaft and entombed them. A rescue crew started wor 10:30 2. m. and will attempt to r e trapped men through the alr- which is still open, Some of e vietims stlll uiive and con- versed with reseuers through the airshaft. They were advised to re- main near the shaft J. B. Hynal, chief of the United States bureau of mine rescue crew at MeAlester, was in charge of the work. Lnipped with helmets, he and two helpers entered the shaft The blast wrecked the tipple and destroyed the hoisting Emergeney hofsting appars being installed to bring out the vie- ims after they are reached, clatives Are Frantic A frantic group of the entombed 's relatives gathered about the Word of the lesion spread Iy and crowds of sight-seers from nefghhoring towns assembled. The shaft was roped off to hold back the crowds and expe work. Warkmen from other mines in the | Wilburton valley rushed o the soenc d volunteered their assistance in he reseue work | Rescue Work Hampered | Rescue work was being hindered |somewhat the ard are [ raine, | auic! It | the | | hy blocking of the |main passageway into the mine. The |first rescue erew was |back a sccond time unable to squeeze t fhe debris hlown |by the explosion, 5:.1‘1 turned ba after they were into the m Previously they k to don smaller gas masls larger ones were found to be burdansome and in the way. Four doctors and a corps of nur es were standing by for serviee event any of the i miners hrought to | the surface are alive. Others are on the way from Hartshorne and | MeAlester. " Dr. T. L. Henry, com- | pany physician, who has served the {vietims five previous mine {asters was in charge of medical {service The local chapter of Red Cross has started erectfon of a tem- porary hospital and members are serving hot coffee and doughnuts to the workers. Thompson, horne, of mining enginecr who was here do- ing_survey work Degnan- McConnell company, among |those entombed, for (he | for th was . B. NORTON ESTATE - HAS §324,117 VALUE Greater Part of Wealth In- vested in Industrial Stock of $324.17 | b d represented lag been court in th Norton, late James J. immons W. Mildrum were the Their report follows: tate, Be a6 ‘mlH me |in $12.50 erty Hart the in reported in probate ostate George T ot and Jerlin, Ernest uppraise Real R rest mete $9.38; in 10; ob's ow posture, of one-cighth interest adjoining d c lot, or It one-quarter interes |1edge, $ one-fifth ains lot, $44; Iishing clu interest in mortgage in one-fifth §40; Hills rest in in. | terest one- [sixth Blue note |8 $ | state | before | 10 Amercan 8 American 250 American Hardws Anaconda Copper, an Tel. and Tel can Type Founder rvice bon Clectric, $940; 1¢ $1,190; 150 Conm 1han tional & R Empire Petroleum, $5 ; 10 Fuller Brush, Cannea Copper, ord & Western R. R., 18) THE WEATHER S Hartford, Jan. 13.—Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Increasing cloudiness prob- ably followed by snow to- night and Thursday; some- what warmer tonight. reseue | oreed to turn | | dis- | { Coolidge, mchot Wnll Seek To Have Mines Declared Public Utility, He § ays Penn. Governor Blame Jperators For Break—Wilkes- Barre Mayor to Appeal to Coolidge—Conn, Situation All Right, Trumbull Thinks Jan. 13 (- stateme Goy. | to- | gotiations in New ors, announced York his passage by the ‘ inia Jegisiature of a bill making acite mining a public utility. Wilkes-arre, Pa, Jan. 13 (P An ditectly to President | be made by Ma Hart of this clty, days, inviting rvention In the 1lock Hart sald today that liop* of settlement thr I se yor wihin the | an- Danicl 1 t ext fow president Mayor s no he 1gh leg- iartford Trumbull fs g Governor iation in this + ciicational campates 2 the people how to use low | i-bituminous coal, ment lssued by the mber of Commerce on made in his g howeve T conl th coal sit ac- spectfy volatile, 1 Governor e gaseous Of course the honse know | volatil | poorest qualitic lave a Juster resembling anthracite, Such coal | |ar |a purchase « The best semi-bituminous coal has no uster, is unattract app d crumbles s not iffere low ive in wrance of s coal sily. of bitumi So is not_only poorer i holder | quality but often dangerous to u EUUTIB[HE NELLON BODY IN 10} GRIP NAMED IN PROBE DISCOVERED BY BOY - Muminum G, Investigators Plainville Workman Stumbles to Discuss Wlme House Gonler ence. STATEMENT lS EXPLAINEDTNTGHT STARCH DonOvan Says Dept. of Justice I~- sued Statement Jan, 2 fn Order to Off-set Attack — Homest Job 4s Being Done, He Declares, Washington, Jan, House conference 13 (P—A White between President fellon and before the department of justic sued its statement concer vestigation of the Alumir pany of America, was mad. ject of inquiry today by a m com- the suh. committee, | | the attorney genera of | company in which Mr. | pected.” tary | van became anklyn | i the Tells About Statement ant , who id the Attorney Ger s before the committe statement was presented to early in the aft- ernoon and issued late in the day. | He added that he did not know ther the White House confer > referred to by Senator Wal democrat, Montana, had taken place Did not the conceding appea * demanded Senator Walsh “I don't know when the confe o was held whether be ter T gave the statement to the rney general," D The &tatement of the said that the investication of Mellon is a aid not *kholder, thus rt the oft-repeated charge the consent decree entered 12 by t company h violated. The senate comm'ttee s lircoting its attention to the ques of whether the depar investigation, Was Reply to Attack Asked why th sued, Colone! Donoy men in charge of had prepared it t seen “ap advertisem paper,” that an made on the connection with “They told n was not faced of the departm mora severe Donov reed with the to the attorney gen ement be given to I know we are doi job on this finve tion r1 think we job.™ sup. tment cuting its Hot Words ¥y As Senator Wal Mellon's conne minum company atic. ressed S Al emph “I don't give a damn is a Mellon company concern,” he said fact, beca it is government T wouid e more meticulov i sing investigat “And I want T have learned t untry in otk tabls whet point It to say another t » obligations to my r places than (Contlnued on Page 17) Death Crossing Bridge FUTILE Carmena Pietro Monica Tither Dies while ral Dono- | ¥ Yrom TInjuries or Frow After Dropping Through Span Carrying Railroad Tracks, Plainvill re n Farmington rail on his way night, Carmena f 121 Jordan ith on the vzen in , was Lincol lives om Pic road below soake from work tro fell His circle ¢ his body, fo early Murphy across et morn schoolboy, from In whic will never Mc arned ars that as on ock Co. on which e railroad ties the the | Moniea | f | kind PRICE THREE CENTS 25 PERSONS ARE HURT WHEN WITH ENGINE HISTURIB PARKER HOUSE COLLAPSES Seven Workmen Are Tnjured in Boston Building Crash WO FLOORS TUMBLE IN [Thrd Floor Above Main Room Slides Down, Carrying Sec- ond Floor With Tt—Dust Clowds Hamper Workers, Boston | workmen w | of the nist | beir 2 7 way a modern hotel building. | was | collapse Two Tloors Cave Tn floors of the old \d been dn proc bullding, 8 of suddenly | workmen Men n carrying a g of down in a heap of debris 0 wer at 1 floor above the of the terrific erash, floor with it. ayv ) of were work wt on the roof the hirc ne said the linfng ' with a second in the imber cond floor, at Clouds of Dust Greot clouds of t arose as an- | clent plaster was shatiered by the | collapse, and it some time [fore rescuers could sce thelr about. Then they attacked summit of heap of debris on the ground floor and thefr way to their buried comrades. on workmen, alded hy and firemen, dragged out the some of whom were held by heavy beg Rescues Own Brother George Malloy, himselt siightly injured in the fall from the second floor, did not w \ment hefore hur- aid his brother Robert, of the victims. He dug in the ruins until he found his brother and aided in havling h ome way the the throu, One poli demolition said the casualties vould have been much greater, but that a gang of men employed on the first floor had bheen withdrawn 1 few minutes before the crash, Only One Missing While the rescue efforts were in orogress a careful check-up of the employes at the building went on. who at first were be- missing rre discovered at homes, having failed to re- | vr~r' for duty this morning. Seeond Serious Collapse collapse of the buflding was cond serious accident of the within a year. In the wreck- [ ing of the Pickwick club last July 44 persons lost The work of te old hotel to make r modern ure progr several places the walls down to the first Priest Give Lawre of admi church me ved men down the room for a large had been in weeks, and had been carried floor level. Last Rites ce P. Morri James Catholic ered the last rites to several of those es were serious, rendered similar pastor urch, of the ster when the of July vor Nichols re his offi st o eity nall and other 1 in provid Repre- 0ss also as- ! » work. Two \vrhnul\ Injured atrick I and two workmen, Ivie James Sex- wer relief ospital a pronounced in critical condi- Both nconsclous, released by of the were Sex- lay ¢ across a compound his suffer of the 1 Michael H ge Malloy, J frac- Wlnle Balfer Is In Jatl Wife ls Alone And Il In Southern Town confine- waitir Petersburg, ¥ deral au , to surrender to the { horites. Mrs. Baker's bre to her ikdown, accord- Miss Mildred Gal- Mass,, was k that the 's pecula- Hartford today made in Put- the same course in for the releasc of Baker consideration leral court ase of Gilpatric. ing 1 to follow iring ba ling the the certain total possible his release. of Baker's bond was make {The ount Guy Baker came up her early this |fixed at $20,000. Dining | be- | 1 to safety. | Is in charge of the work of | m | shoring | as | a sufficlent | AT WORCESTER Locomotive At Jack- | son Street Bridge En- veloped In Steam And Not Seen By Engineer —Clear Track Signal ' Alleged. {Three Victims Taken to | Hospital While Others Suffer Chiefly From Shock and Minor Cuts and Bruises. for | cster, Mass, Jan, persons are in a ho others were 15 ital here, more or less injured, chiefly by broker klass, when the 8:05 a. m. Provi- -bound passenuger train crash into a ymotive that stood on the track under the Jackson stree | bridge, and was enveloped in steam | The engineman of the passenge: rain says he had a signal for a clea | track ahe The List of Injured, | The fnjured | Habib Lahage, 35, 40 Seneca street Boston, at City hospital with possible |internal injuries. Mrs. O. R. Parker 56, 10 South | Lenox street, Worcester, has fractur cd nose. | Mrs. Margaret Lor |insville, at City sible internal ir Mrs, Walter Shackleton, Worces ter, slightly Injured, taken home after treatment for wrenched back. Ouisto Tavano, 34, Worcester, teeth broken and nose injured, Frank Ferrls, 42, Worcester, back and shoulder injuries, | Joseph Salem, 35, Wocester, {injured. James J. Fryer, Worcester, seraped. Charles Yagilan, 49, Woonsocket tack and face tnjur Willlam B. Nichols, 202 Hanore street, Providence, bageaen |laceration of the face and legs, Miss Marion Palmer, 22, Worces | severely of Whit lospital with pos ires. lege K Katherlne Donoghue. 2 Worcester, shaken up, Philomena Loughlin, ter, shaken up. Mrs. Grace Grauf, shaken up. Miss Floence Donoghue, cester, shaken up. Mrs., Mary McCann, shaken up. A. O. Davls, Worcester, shaken up Joseph MeGrady, Worcester, necl vies. tdward G. Moulton 26, Worces- 38, Worcester, 21, Wor- Worcester 30, Worces | (Continued on Page 17.) | BOY, PAGE SOLOMON, HE'S NEEDED AT ONGE Alcohol, Collision, Decep- tion, Flight, Figure in City Court Suit Another chapter was writt in & unique automobile case in whict |two cars were smashed, one drive was arrested and subsequently jump- |ed his bond while a man who had no knowlege of the Iriver's lfcense suspended, and an tomobile sales concern was sued mages done by a car which the company claims, was taken without fon. Attorney Edward A. Mag has in- stituted the civil court action in his ywn behalf, and has named the Superlor Automobile Co. as defend- ant. Mag's car was damaged in West Hartford several months ago by a machine driven, according to allega {tlon, by Herman Sims, a salesman | defendant company. Sima was arrested for operating under the fluence of liquor and placed In bonds of $200 to appear in court. He ve the name of Fred Larson, a fel- salesman. Sims did not appear |and the bond was forfelted to the town of West Hartford. A report was ;wun according to custom, lepartment of motor vehicles Iy afterward Larson was notifie the suspension of his license w)rr!fld to the state capitol w after a serles of conferences, the or |ror was rectified. Attorney Mag's claim {Superior Auto Co. is )able will he contested In clty court this afternoon the company alleging Sims did not have permission to take the machine. en today for the ow that tt Wants Mother to Go To See Dying Child g Herald has been asked to in locating Mrs. A, V. DeVoe, formerly of Torrington, who is believed to be living in || this city. Mr. DeVoe telephoned | the management of the 1d last night and stated that { 4 in the family lo dying and he is anxious to get in com- munication with his wife or have her go home immediately. The it bt