New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 28, 1926, Page 1

PPy PP PO News of the World y verage. Daily Circulation For By Associated Press e ra 12,953 PRICE THREE CENTS REVOLTING TALE OF WHITE Aveagry a;u, ‘ leolm(l‘, ESTABLISHED 1870 JANUARY ‘UNDERHAND WORK’ CHARGED BY MAYOR AT BUS FARE R NEW BPITAI\I CONNECTICUT, ’lHL‘]\\l)\\ NEAR $12,000,000 28, 1926 ~EIGHTEEN PAGES Death Takes George W. Klett, FRANC[ ENfi[ANI] Leader in Law and Po[tttcs INSISTS PUBLIC WAS Says Transfers Were Promised In Connec tion With Increase ln Conlon Points Out Nair! Did Not Vote Against Council Decision Protest to P. U. C. to That there was “underhand work” in connection with the filing of a petition under which local jitneurs toped to bring about an increase in was declared by Mayor A. M. Poonessa at a learing before the | >ublic Utflities commission late yes- erday afternoon, | Before the mayor had opportunity o amplify his remarks he was cut airman Richard 'T. Higgins commission who a moment und himsclf engaged in re e with the city's chiet execu- ares, chairman ended the mayor's | arks abruptly by asking If it was | a fact that the city had been | rr\el with notice of the hearing. replied in the affirmative ggins then asked if there was| rention of y Taatters c ore the commission of ‘hose pertaining to fare ing claimed the public 1 to believe there was nroposal to be offered. dmitted there none, newspapers and jit idd such was to be the c The exccutive again began lls| shifting it slightly to say: e with the Public Util- Commission.” Once again | rman Higgins cut in with a re- Lurk “We know tLiE “No doubt yon do,” v s remark ending the cen the two officials, The mayor assured the comm on the eity of New Britain would | » hand if it was understood that | necessity of increase for (Continued on Page 13) PRINCE TOSSED AGAIN, BREAKS COLLAR BONE this Was His Second Fall| From Horse in ‘ Two Days ming be- | er than Paonessa | was mis- | ster | The mayor | but sald | curs had | se. tra e may- | discusslon | 28 (A uffercd o, 1 when he was horse today while | hounds. | at Lit The prince breaking collarbons own from hi ng with the Fernle coldent occurred this afternoon, on his left should r coll: me on t irning to Loudon f relton stood well that nt as he was An telephon: is hurt. 1t is not be- v in a hos- | \ot he broke his a similar fall in #24 and made o v recove Prince Wales fall to was the second in two days, as he t} n yesterday at Melton Mowbay when his horse fell dead mder him. It m: I iling accident since the 920. On one previow ghto Buzzard, in suffered ‘hile training in spee sone autumn sion, neur quence of ¢'s ac- has been tho subject of con- discus- rre is a to the irone shou s0 disregardful | his persons Recently it was sald oge to the royal family that the latter part of 1925, while| Mother Alexandra was ap- r end, the prince con- »d lis hunting activi- du n as active as evet | owing the hounds. his last trip to America in s quoted as replying t he was such an I never fell oft | » 12 years I have ! , races and polo- ro; a horse. | ve had a tumble it 'v‘.h that went down len while the horse wvery time 1 have ne vas standin Most o riding acei. | hunting, prince’s ients have occurred wh although he has been tarown ence hile playing polo and several tims | ing racs. His latest accidents in- | e ve during a | owhrook, R. T., I near ‘Toronto, Dboth during his 1924 visit to Amer- Iton, where today's mc- Is in the Notting Meiton Mowray, y nting head- . Lord Stalbridge is the master of the Fenle pack fox- hounde, the kennels of which are at Great Bowden, Market Harborough. Little §h ere of | that the; | estate will go into the prot | company B, | leers and saw service with General | dent, DEATH SHOWS 0L [lLl] COUPLE WERE RICH Mr. and Mrs. George Gilbert of New Haven Both Dead ALWAYS LIVED FRUGALLY Bank Book Found in Cupboards in Family Home Show Several Hun- | dred Thousand Dollars on De- posit. New llay family bibl Jan. 28 t Friday Mrs In the Ang {line Sherman Gilbert made the note that her husband, George, o veteran of the Civil war, had died in his $5th year, On Monday her daughter made the final entry that her mother had died in her §2nd year. The bible gave the family record of both from cradle to the grav Mr. and Mrs, Gilbert had lived frugally, simply, all their married lives and today they were buried in the same plot of ground, Bank Books Found It has been presumed by those who knew them and had visited them in thelr flat in Sylvan avenue, were in moderate circum- stances. Today, bank hooks were found in cupboards which would in- dicete that they had on deposit in six banks seve hundred thousand dollars. On these deposits interest had not been comiputed for years. So far as known neither Gilbert nor his wife made a will, and their : court for settlement. 1862 Gteorge T, was courting Angelie Sherman, who lived at Oyster river in Mil- ford. Romance of Civil War When the call came for soldi she promised to wait until he r turned from the Gilbert joined 20th Conneeticut Volun Sherman on the March to the lana afterwards at Gettysbu was mustered out in 1565 an ed home and was married. Gllbert then began life's tasks a carpenter which trade he followed until age compelled him to give it up. It Is belleved that the frugality of and Mrs. Gilbert accounts ings accounts which are revealed. GARELESS AUTO[STS IN He hur- ‘\h N. Y. KILL 540 YEAR. 54,308 Others Are Injured In Lm pire State, Commissioner Tells Conference Today New TYork, Jan. or selfish automobile drivers on New York state highways exacted a toll of 2,120 killed and 54,398 in- jured fn the last year, Charles A. Ha te commissioner of mo- told the deleg: conference of ctors here today. figures were taken fr port of the bureau's statist ston, and the purpose was to nc out that violations of the motor were responsible for 25 (M Careless "rn ve- aceldent. Recommendation to improve the law, advanced by the commissioner, inc! Extension from six month jto one year of the period of man atory revocation of licenses for the following offenses: ile drunk, leaving ne of accl- without off disclo {dentity, and three wictions of w ing cor for ¢ speeding; and mandatory sus;u‘*v‘.‘me |of thirty da of the ¢ convicted a rond t river wi > for o is speed Asks Honm‘ Medal for Lost Battalion Member: Washington, Jan. 28 (A—A con- gressional medal of honor for every member of the first battalion of the | 77th division Rattalion,” Thirtieth known as the infantry, “Lost in circles |asked In a bill introduced by Rep- |t resentative Vaile, Colo- rado, The of the ferring to it {durance, supreme of life beyond the call of duty. republican, measure recited the exploit Lost Battalion in Franc as an example of ANOTHER COAL CONT Phlladelphia, Jan. 28 (- |coal miners and operators resumed {009 srnoon in an ef- |1 , with no (nr-‘ mal program in sight, all proposals | {having been rej negotiations this af fort to end the s ed by one side or the other. Blind Baskethall Team Trounces Boys Who See Tlinois, Jan. 25 Ul team from the Scheol for the B ted the Centenary am, compose with normal vision, 2 night, one of the playe state school team scoring points. All of the players o state s am have impairéd vision The bl Shooting tet, by the sa before. Jacksonville )—A basket Tlinois State lete schoo! Sund boys last s the the ool badly boys defeated a newsboys' e score the ars, quin- Gilbert in (14 niotor | the | any | Driving | erifice and risk | m PROPERTY HERE DI EXEMPT PTFROMTAX Total Is 811 919,740, lncrease of $3,026,108 in Four Years, Dug to New School Buildings CITY REALTY 8,395,800, Parochial or Evangelical Schools Valued at $305,000 — Churches Listed at $3,025,000 Excused From Paying Assessment—School District Holds Tite to Land and Buildings Valued at $1,048,800, A quad empt properti the board o fal report of tax-ex- s completed today Ly ows an 32 over the state properties totalling 3,108 wore exempted, while ties worth $11,919,740 now come within this classification. Construction of the State Normal school, new city the New Iritain il hospital addition, Polish Home for the Aged, and new parks, added considerably fo the list during the year per Properties of the Unit and State of Connecticut as follows: Dot office, 000 buildings $90,000, total 000; State Normal school, I buildings $770,000, total $8¢ 000; Camp school, land $20,000, Luildings $100,000, total $120,000; State Armory, land $18,000, by $40,000, total $58,000. The total of ! vernment property s $160,000, of state property value of hools, Ger od. 3100 000, | City l‘rn[x ty Worth $8 fire station, $200,600; par water department, unieipal garag housc | i $50,00 {town farm, 10; miscel $11,000; city 1 statc normal school, Ihe total valuation of city of city buildings and the grand total | v Britain iustitute :d at $70,090, the bullding 000 and the total 000. ht buildings ma Britain General $740,000 ued at $60,000 and th tion is $800,000, Four parochi school, $15,004 at ing up the hospital plant the land is | total vo evangelic follows: §t. An ands reach a to- al valuation of § the build- 5 of $270,000, a total of $305,000 Other Properties Exempt Under the heading of propertics a4 for scic crary or be following , $202,600; Y. W. F MOITEA S e B of Children of Mary Conception, $3 hciation, Britain totals are: 5,000, purposcs the M. C. A 75,0003 | nevolent | pear: eie e The (Continued on Page Fifte §862,364 IN' CLAIMS AGAINST GILPATRIC - Pa |Referee in Bankruptey Also Approves Dividend | of 7 Per cent of Creditor Hartford, Jan. 28 (@ —Claims M,.umv:m $862,564 against the state of G. Harold Gilpatric were {approved by Referee in Bankruptey Saul Berman at a meeting of credi- ors today, and a aividend of T per ent recommended b Gilpatric's bankrupt Howard, Jr, w ! ee reporte divi declared £60,369.48, In fon to the ay 1s presented by ereditors, 1 Berma allowed $3,000 f | Howard, counsel for the which leaves a balance of 1 on hand of approximately $10,- From this will be deducted the r' and trustee and 000 for a cer- t which | estate, Arthur [he of amount the amounts to roved claim Referee n 's of the 1 so the ifieq for t} amount will be forwarded to the warden at the federal penitentiary at Atlanta {Ga., to guarantee the expenses of the {bankrupt ex-state tr lto be brought Hartfor: |month for examination Of interest in connection with th i tion of a divid s of the Gilpa ouncement made today accountants from the office of Sco- vell Wellington and compa ston, were cxpected at ational bank of Putna lay to start work in the s to be made of the tra Gilpatri he bank, and w report of a pre- 1 fous @ d, may extend | amo check to next audit that sactions of ] | ppropriated ac- 3 of Gilpatric prop 1 not yet becn convert- { lue of ty which had ed into cash STATE AND U. §. 81,173,000, in | land $100,- | ing | reet de- | Juation is | Sucred Heart | s school, stee of | of Law- | Succumbs at General H pital After Long Fight for Life—Funeral Satur- day Afternoon. George W. Klett, Guarter of w cen most promine in this ci | ot repub | died last for more than u ry one of th t members of th and a recognized leader - political forces here, night at the Ne hospital, Lis death foll ral months | operation fo months General wed beginning with gall stones three t the afterward he re- turned to his home, but was subse- admitted to the local hos- be pol- an | seve treated for septic s hovered be- death. Favorable ropo followed by vora tins as medical and | surgle ! exerted every effort to| him in one of the most per- or life lccal medical tween Nunicrot itions of a wature afforded him temporary re- fef and six biood transtusions did much to prolong the fight for Funeral serviees will be held Sat- urday afternoon at 8 Mark's Eplscopal Samuel Sutclifie mony lodge vices at the church, will offlciate. Har. | bo in charge of | rwin chapel. Burial | be In Fairview cemetery, Judge Kiett was widely known as an attorney, in public life, both as ber of the legislature and in his score of years of affiliation with the courts, and as a keen lover of sports, and in his school days | an athlete. Ho was a native of New F | He was born in the old Kictt home |stead on Arcfl street on Washing- birthd in 1874 and hi parents sele the | Washingt Prominent Tn H. In the old school hie ¢ scholar and an athlete. The name of Klett was prominently identified with the rivalry existing in the days when there were two High schools her, ain High and the Playlng with ball teams of the former and its track teams, George Kiett glit many honors to the school in the carly days of its athletic tory. ' When he completed his prelin training he was admitted to vale Law school. He participated track events at that institution ade an enviable record in the cgiate athletic world. Receiving his degree, he nd was successful i > bar examinations and practice of law here. Follows Father In Politics About that time fa the Leopold Klett, was one of the cading figures in republican politics The senfor Klett had served | i‘\s a member of the republican town | committee and was, from 1883 to i | ot patron—George Athletics {tain at once entered ate o 1890, a member of the common council, oung attorncy follos 1in his s footsteps. He was named cr of the town com- mittee, which post he held up to re time being its ma | tion the lar to th | earporatio: dutieg of which v began his officlal connection with courts, fations which con- tinued for nearly a quarter of y. In that year was elec :d prosecuting ney. In 1 rc ‘u'mwl that ofiice and in the r was elevated to the assc a he (Cm’"lm; 1 LOVERS 50 YEARS AG0; | COUPLE FINALLY MARRY| Parental Objections Broke Romance | Years Ago—Now Seck | “Lost Honeymoon” cago, 23 (M —More v half cen ago, Frank T % and Fannie Rodenberg sweethearts in Richmond, Ind. { planned to be married t | strike out for himself in Kansas. So the e took the land, McDonald. In 1573 he rd had married. Two vears la he was wed. Their mates died n 1918 and his in 1923, A nths ago the girl Mrs, wrote to ter In Santa Ba knowing she had was forwarded channels to Leebr! were Th ded to | ke land separated and ey | the Tol nce the two had parted in F d they had not secn each other ntil last Sunday, but Leebrick lost | o time in rencwing his suft they were married yesterday they were Today nsas, going K in search of, bridegroom € a lof eymoon.” as THE WEATHER Hartford, Jan. 28—Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Fair and much colder to- ulght with a cold wa ri- day fair and continued cold. | #— bar | | Hartford hos ; | | | | | less fa- | m the name | High | stinguished himself as a | the | his- | w Britain ( tllness of | GEORGE W, KLETT “ MINNESOTA TOWN HAS 24 BELOW ZERD T[ll]AY o'clock at St. | Rev, | {Mid-West in Grip of Cold ‘ Wave, Heavy Snows and | Blustering Gales 28 (M) ta r -2010 | withir fortnight, : sccond temperatures garuished wi was on the ther me cat Lakes arva 5 Two fishing tugs, cach four men, spe night langer of breaking up in the | Mich Muskegon, | The Alabama, lice = M known as it to the rescue, but to stand by helpless. A field of grinding iee and snow, storm jdriven Ly a 5o gtle, added to the hazard. The same steamer breaker, {was forced gale, sweeping out Minnesota | Wisconsin, a chil |£ast to northern Tiinols . With the prospect |eration would rot come | tomorrow Saturday. | At Bemidji, Minnesota, mometerisprached ‘24 hetow rly togay apd three other ported, minus 16, Elscwhere the state wind and snow bus bound f to Mason | wa 1« buried in o's . dived wis of and bre and I that mo until late poit umpered m Albert Towa drift on a side, Cit luge frozen vrairle on Chicr » south |as the mercury itinued cold broke windows ) snow but recast for to- Wisec downware ero at Green At Wolsey, Chicago, Lt [when a r the frigidit. the line for ranged to below B 12 vaukee and freight train were der split under the for Traffic was delayed on five Jan. 28 ost her as sub- I rop ro Aluska to- tion for blasts from | brought degrees below Duluth, Minn, and seven below to Chicago. Moder: was expected be Chicago, iay had ada 210 to tion, however, fore ie cold wives of the er have had their origin anada, the latest one east of | Mackenzle river basin, Pro Henry J. Cox, 1 d of the C striet weather bureau said. cold wave was of extensive western Dakotas and th ntain region escaping witi of zero temperatures pass from east to west in the thr northern 1 Illinois and thence a wa-Missourl boundary. Advices from Alaska show yesterday enjoyed of 38 and a maximum present in the ong 1d wav al typeograr riving at noon harbor and sour bad sea, and at out exposi h "Ducl\\ Pond Now May u of the northwest and | 2610 in | Rocky | WELCOME 1. 5. T0 WORLD TRIBUNAL (Briand and Chamberlain on- sider Senate Action In- portant Development GENEVA IS ADVISED OF HMERIGAN PARTICIATION Reservations Are Discussed and Oplnion Expressed is That Ameri- cans Over-Estimate the Value of the World Court Which Handles Questions of Law. Not Matters of Tnternational Politics, . th ris, J United ing adhesio ernment to t international ROV~ conrt of st fm- "qn\ Tt's “First Step” et us hope 1t is the Ir At more pr st step,” . asserted Iperhaps’ 1t s ak it too loudly Both statesmen expres: > that all pending prot ng Germany's demand fon of s of “hut not n 1dent oms, for re- the foi occupat ineland, vithout friction, be sett Geneva Advised J: 8 (- formed hy ssociated Press of the senate's ation of American adh world co George W, srsham announced the news V'S ses ratifi to the crene internatio; it is expected will vas ulness of the sts, representing ted the announcer ciston 1 a code o many ent of the Ameri ions of gr with expres- he m am, who advoc to the court in addr nany parts of th i ced h1= personal satisf |the sen ction. | | Explains Reservations 1 | He expls the resery hug far ci ava added {mended by the 1 i tion ipparent- two to those recom Har of § on Preside formes Secr fl ing t {ates permission to withdra he court at time, and the ond specifying t o adviser's | |opinion shall he 1 by the court | until after a hearing and ne nited States | | ed from &iy publ REVEALS DIDGIFT OF - $10,000 BY P, E[]RBIN% Kling‘bcr;r Tel of Contribution Made Years Ago Re\‘. Dr. that ilip Corbin had contri in two ch home, Have Ty |)ho|d F e\ or| Jan ymond The at this afternoo as threatened that with ‘LL ON OLYMPIC Jan. 28 (A —Repo the White Star liner Olympic | s in dist est today by a wireless mes ived from r con der by Associated d at 10:5 a. m., Greenw time, the message ss were defnitely aid “Olympic's he Scilly position 1 1sl isey of East Hav Mrs. Grace was el at annual Eastern Star, ses- on here today. dding that t tons each tes meat | lay and has One family in dor y Satur 20 yea s all i sec- £ | SLAVERY TOLD BRIDGEPORT POLICE BY ALLEGED VICTIM SPEEDY AGTION ON 125 Yea; Od New York TAX ISNT ”KELY N —ccuses Three Prompt Work Opponents Anoounce They Wil By Police Results In Resist Attempts at Haste | Arrests. v SMOOT EXPLAINS MEASURE (hild Says She Was Held | Prisoner in Park City Not Much Chunce of Vote By Febru- y and Then Was Taken o Providence, R, I, ary 10, Necessary if Changes Are to Become Effective on March Vigures Are Given Out, Washingion, nate ope x bill tod re de action, claye Ct Slay 15 Year Old Gigl be possible to got W in tim reh 15 payments paymen April 1 or provi suggested th poned until fon |in respor | phone * The thre proposals w wle by ot persons lieved of m.l and that the cenue on Mar 0,000 in Soveral tles took port for a pro or |p would he | story to rcoms York siona ation of the officers from Hapt- Smoot Opening th plains M debate rm senat two n biil, Ck o tim but war; the mes hill must by ustment house other Peter Klachorian, Commercial Bridgcport 5, propristor 621 Water Klachor- held in bonds of $1,000 ana 1 is held in bonds of $2,000, are charged with against the gir), Came To Bridgeport Jan. According 1o the irl, men ar Honse, and of street, 639 Mike the Plaz i Watir of - by the sent to conference fferences d senat senat statutory Tonches Principal Points » commitiee chairman d 1 principa the tax reduct points of the il particularly thosc provisions by, Which committee uu- ier a (‘Oll\pru!h ement of r )u.t, increased 14, told came story the s she te Bridgeport January 14, was detainedy for seve s ano 'Lll tuken to Providen R. I. 81 ‘Yu d experie liouse or Jefferson stre fron arue i finally home, hut UTFHFIEH] LTS ~ NOBARRIER TO TRID and of nt o would this year, | livided as an §1 "$219,000.000 Smoct said, w ncom. 200,000; 000,000, Replies To Criticisms tlcipating attacks on the new rates gave too iction on incomes over $100,000 | Three a slash in the maximum surtax | te from 40 to 20 per cent, and not | nough on incomes between £10,000 | nd $100,000, Senator Smont | In princ ound ec was involved which looked | Jarn 28 rther than to the interest of g ey individual or group. 5 G The | I Prisoners Make Their Escape During \mht omic . » Thres " county during the night Bell, 32, negro of ome . 0 was servi rom divid made no cut in It is only proper |\yi dividends should be |+ surtax redue- corporate e {d. ¥ orporat that oy ths for an e Jul 10aitis, To tax the 12 Histr the (s s succeede 1d not bes their cell: woul . : ltr~nm|l lm‘“m(‘ Taxes, window, comes as follows Incomes of nes in ¢ exce to search stigatior 1 Morris an sary at orning is morn. “Yellow Snowstorm” From Herald Office About were rele office aga lar; FIRE IN HARTFORD 100 Two Men Driven From Noom Scan. was a tlly Attired—Blaze Was In Store At 1234 Main Strect lo on wk person who to &0 to the itol theater and R offic ich Hart bring a fricnd be sig Ma g Furlong and from their beds arous their gained some eadway bofore department ar rived but three lines of hose were quickly brought into action and the was soon under control. rth and south hound trolley vas held up for about half ur and hundreds of people | who were on their way to the down |town insurance offices were forced to walk the remainieg distance. t filled roor [he fire had 2