New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 9, 1926, Page 26

EXTOL VIRTUES OF LATE JUDGE KLETT Adopt Resolutions Today | The ideals of George W, Klett & expressed in his professional and | public life, are extolled in resolu- | tions adopted today by the Hartford | County Bar assoclation. ' Judges B, W. Alling and Bernard | ¥, Gaffney of this city a com mittee of the bar assoclation to pre- pare resolutio which read as fol- | lows: | “In the death of George W. Klett of New Britain on January 2 the bar of Hartford county a useful, active and efficient ber. His was a life of ber advantage to the public and fee to the city of New state of Connecticut ieorgef W, Kiett was horn in | New Britain on February 2 1874 Was educated in the public schools of the elty of New Britain and th Yale Law S8chool, securing a degres of L.L.B. In 1805, Immediately be- z!nning the practice of law in the eity of New Britain he at once xe- cured the trust and confidence of the people. His clientele and practice increased until his death, in prime of life, when he was in the ront rank of trial lawyers of the siate, “He held many public offices dur- ing his life, all the dutles of each he performed with fidelity and thor- oughness. He was clerk of the po lice court, and also judge of the city and police court of the city of New Britaln, He was prosecuting attor- ney for the eity of New Britain for ¢ years. He was clerk, and aft- crwards judge of the probate court for the district of Berlin, Thriee he was state senator from the sixth district. As a leglsiator he was in- strumental in securing the passage of many heneflcial law He was trustworthy and effective in accom- plishing results in 1eg!slative affairs, “He was trusted as a leader of the | vepublican party of the city of New | Britain and state of Clonnectieut, and was & valuable factor in many politi- cal achievements in New Britain and at large In the state. “In politics he was dynamic, He worl 1ate and early, often sitting ay head of the judiclary committee af the general assembly until one| and two o'clock mornings in order | {n hasten legislative action. He was a tried and true leader in politics and he often saw what others did not, and led where others would not. “He had a large faculty for in- | dustry and eontinuity. These two | motivating principles urged him on to a life of action. His intense aotivity was manitest in everything that he undertook. | “His zeal for the ecause of his clients never lessened. He worked for his clients before himself, With cqual zeal he cared for all clients vlether their interests were large He never stinted his ef- were has | mem- nt and of sery aln and the or small, turts | In court, tactful, deferential and | cous, no one ever complained | s fairness, Always thoughtful careful he never lost poise. ous and keen, he had a firiliar, intimate and closs knowl- ~dge of human nature, This knowl- ¢ of human nature was avallable in all legal political and public af- a He seemed to be able to read | o minds of the court, jury or wit- i nesses. Never idealistie, but always prac- | tical, he perceived and followed the | successful way for a cause, He was a doer, and not a dreamer. Only actualities of life Interested him. “His experiences were many and | extensive and gave him that sound practical judgment which was so advantageous in business or political affairs. “But fn all his undertakings, in | private or public 1ifé enthusiasm atimulated and quickened his spirit. He was enthusiastic in hours of work and play. and he be- «ame Adespondent or hopeless. “The legal profession was dear to as the open door of opportun- | He loved the companionship of of men of affairs. 1In never him, cers, and Saturday Eve. (April 10) ARCADIA BALLROOM Fxoellent Floor Music Admission 30¢ Free Parking #fii WHEN IN HARTFORD DINE AT THE HONISS OYSTER HOUSE STATE ST. 25c, 30c and $1 Store 22 Under Grant's Also. Always a Fresh Supply to Take Home Auto Electric Service C. A. ABETZ TEL. 1185 114 FRANKLIN SQ. New Britain Sign Co. CPOING BETITIR WHAL NMANY DO WL CHURCH SITREE1 Telephone ~91 3N land a law Hartlord County Bar Members | April 9 () — NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1926, soclul and other gatherings he was present with abundant good wll), good fellowship, and lively quips nd ropartec, | “RESOLVED: That we mourn the sarly death of George W. Klett sing. 11 was a lader | of worth and r has lost energetie, antonable LABOR ISSUES WET CHALLENGE its (Continued from Page 1.) practitioners, and rogret his 'he active, nee ona of nost ind a most 3o it further “RESOLVED insceribed “Can you glve us the number of | state tederations that have asked for put in Senator Walsh, demo Montana “All of them coincide in the action of the executive council,”” Roberts sald. “None of them has protested.” | William J. McSorley, president of the bullding trades department of the American Federation of Tabor, | - i urged amendment of the Volstead Britain “Tabs” Lose nctasa mateer of justice. | . Rich Can Get Tiquor To Meriden Invaders —mhe vich can get liguor.” Mesor New Britain Y. M. T, ley safd, “hut the workingmen car the worst get the heer they want “The great majority of g trade men belleve in oxpecially when we law s working out," t “Tustices of the dlstrict attorneys and | foreed to resign.” | “What for?” asked Senator Reed. “Ifor cooper with enforce ment officers and hootleggers, Why | in Cuyahoga eounty, Ohlo, the dis- | trict attorney lias compelled several istices 1o resign.” Replying to Senator Teed, ley said that if the workme to drink now he had to pay a hoot- | legger $10 for a quart of whiskey, “If he could get beer he would not do that,” the witness eaid, “Thoss who ecan’t huy whiskey make hom yrew which In the end is nothing but a lot of sour slop.” “Can they get drunk on 112" ask- ed Reed. “Oh, T suppose so. Fach s own formula. T know merons cases of men who never 3 . who dring it now bottle of whiskey; gets ¢ friends and then don't stop until it is all gone.” Theory Was Failure Next the wets called Andrew Fur- useth, president of the Inter Longshoremen's unfon, who said “the reformers” had started early to work on the seamen by cutting off their grog at sea “The theory was” he gald, “tha it the men did not get their grog at sea they would lose their taste for it. The theory did not work out. g opposed the saloon and always will be, The real men among the seamen take the kame position. “\We vou know, are rakings ipings of hell pedlam. Some go down and feome back. We represent strata of society. The veteran lahor fo say that a month affer enactment of Volstead act he found in Porfland, Ore, a condition whicl made him an ardent supporter of the | act. Seamen were sober and fnde- pendent. cont cltizen, That this minute b records of upon crat Superfor conrt of this co sent to the family of 1y, copy | “R. W b - "B ALLING GAI'FNEY Committee New [ he B. soch of the « took the huild modific sce how contin- are | Your ou the games were lost, and the tall of the Mardware ¢ short of the Silver City Howeye o sot back, pinochle and ms succeeded in win- ning by ymbined total of 47 to 42 points, ol Meriden ost 1o t) six pool | total pin- team fell team's hest points of Ly efforts the wing are the pool Captaln (Doc) Regan lost Jack Daley lost, 11 H. Riley, Jr., lost, 14 Cle- ment G lost, 42 to Frank LaHar 0 to 42, and Martin Walsh won, 50 to Thess EoOres: 9 to 50 50: MeSor James wanted to | won Ir ; were the last gamies of the tournaments. Middletown heads the league, foll 1 by Meriden, Wal- ord and New Britaln respee- 0 has of m Awakened by Smoke, Family Escapes Flames Westerly, R. 1., April § (P—Awak- ened by smoke early today to find the only stairway leading from their sleeping rooms on second floor of the house in flames, four mem s of the families of Harry mes and Frank mback of ach street escaped through the second story windows down a ladder obtained by the two men who had dropped to the ground, Mr, Trim- ta recefved a burned hand and his hair and eyebrows were singed. The fire was believed to started from an overhes near the furnace doing damage $6,000, have e of m to AGED DOG SAVES MISTRESS the and some Re “Fudge,” 15 Years Old, Bli Deaf, Warns Her of Fire, New Rochelle, N, Y., April 9 (P A fifteen year old fox terrier known as “Fudge” yesterday saved its mis- tress, Mrs. Henry T. Brooks of Woodland avenue, from possible death by fire. The dog is hoth blind and deaf, but barked so londly when a fire started in the hasement of the Woodland that Mrs Brooks awoke, She- ascertained of the animal's barking and ealled the epartment. The damage amou to about §2,000. I an d every leader went on the 35 Conditlons Worse Two years later,” he continued “T returned to the same port and found conditions worse than it was in pre-prohibition d The hoot- lesgers then were organized, and the amen conld get lquor, it seemed, n no one else conld. Tt was ter- o stuff they drank i If seamen could go into a restaur- properly condu and get A glass of beer or a glass of claret, not ten per cent of them would ser q liquor, That's the wz worked out in other countri avenue house the s RUSH TO DIAMOND FIELDS Johannesburg, The Tr r Ventersdorp, soutl watersrand mountains, was today of a final rushi to the '} Iy discovered diamond ficlds, The stampede included not only land. Canada and Ttaly. Iventurers and unemployed, but| “Men Who work in hot places professlonal men and farmers. !marine firemen, can’t drink w 1t makes them . They n have beer or else oatmeal in their water. Furnseth then gave the commit- tee a chapter out of his own life [Hinetrate his point that there is “no sense” in present situation, “I have Lwen a prohibitionist.” i after T he claret, the llke BLOOD POISON FATAL Pa., April 9 (P —The William wtelle, First Pros ian church, from hlood poisoning, loped after an operation to th Seranton from in Brooms Seranton, Rev. Dr. tor of t lied today which deve Dr. Sawtells hout eight 3 Bl Hr¢ pas came ime sixty They took was K Some county. 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Ru-ber-oid Distributors for New ) PARK STREET ritain and Vicinity 25 BIGELOW STREET | prohibition | tion | maley !l(vwfirll. former state prohibition |residents out of Berlin, the police commiselon=r, on & charge of con- |commission reports spiracy; the recent conviction of I While the number of American « in Cinelnnati and the convi visitors to the capltol increascd last Pre o tion of 39 Ollo policemen working |vear, the Ameriean colony of 2,087 more strongly opposed to the return | With dry agents, is about half of what it was hefore of the saloon than organized labor | “Don't you think those convictlons |the war, Most of them are here on lie declared, 1t 18 not a question [Will have a wholesome effect? business or for study with me whether should have |ator Walsh. [ e e LY FALLS 10 DEATH law s operative, Reed, Lyceum told the committee there seemed to an effort to make it appear that organized labor favored the return | S{ the saloon, men soclety be we wine, present “My FFar from it." ohservation s that it ts not. “All the way from the {commissioner down to stables,” I'rey said, Disvegard For Law “T should think these convictions wonld indicate a desire to enforce in your state,” sald Senalor “This law {8 being violated onen- nd flagrantly by every class of | soclety, Tt is violated more freely | by some classcs, because they have the money, Prohihition Ts Big Topic “Everywhere T go, and I travelling one.third of my fa the one subject on the tralns; in the home, “Most evarywhere you go you can ¢ buy liguor; in the hotels, in the nube and in the saloons, They are not called saloons now hmt ot | long ago 1 was in a large city and invited to a club, There were 1 the trappings of the old saloon to the brass rall for Carried After Theater Employe Unconsclons To Ground Narrow Fscape, Michael Rip an attache of the Lyceum theater, had a narrow es- cape from death yesterday when he slipped at the top of the fire escape theater building and plunged His foot caught in the iron rating, arresting his fall, but caus ing his head to strike the metal |stairs with great force. e was ed unconscious to the Ermlwl‘ Councilman Frank Zapatkn, as ant manager of the theater, and Dr. George W. Dunn was called, he injured man was taken to the | Nospital where it was found that his | condition was not serfou Boy Who Fled Police Is Sentenced to Jail Hartford, Conn., April & &) | James Ramos, 19, of Hartford, who made his escape from the Hartford poliee court room yesterday, and was captured near his home a few hours later, was charged with being | ped prisoner when present- rt 1oday., He was sentenc to jall for 60 days. The boy was ar- rested on Wedne for alleged theft of ar itomobile and the court had ordered a continuance in his ease for further investigation when hie made his dash for frecdom, "he theft complaint will be disposed he had served the 60 da am | time, of the they for the have hrought gard law by the people g Iy, ¥rey nsisted, omen have heen used as in Ohto, Frey sald these some of the methods hrought the antl-saloon | Volstead act into disrepute, these women of good moral ked Reed. I have no acquaintance with (hem,” said Frey, and Senator Har- 14 put in that he didn't think “we necd any evidence on that.' “Oh, they might have been sane- | {ified by contact with a prohibition agent.” retorted Reed, I'rey continued that the trades union in Ohlo “want the law modi- | fied and Jome brew and the il removed from their homes.” “You were to the eigh- teenth amendment?” asked Senafor Walsh “Your state legislature ratified the on the down, conversation hotels; in have and the “We repute ‘1\\‘ even your toot.” iat was a comfortable situa 4 Senator Tteed this hecanse it may in old timers.” O'Conne the crowd Unenforceable O'Connell gave it that the preeent enforeed “You can't regulate the habits of people by law.” he “You ean't | regulate their drink any more {han .eteonth amendment can prohibit by law smoking | wyes by a large vote. omans | “Before that had a “We coming nor-fan the question asked Senator th Reed this, thin Afterwards there was a vote and | he state voted against prohibition,” veplied Dey Planks Mean Nothing. “Both the republican and demo- cratie parties in Ohio have planks, but they do not mean any- tion,” ohserye “T recite terest you and Law replied ho as his econvie L opposed law cannot you by you vote after 18 how was put the people. T don't helieve it ever | could b . “Thiz law can't enforced,” | O'Connell deelared, I don't eare how much money you spend or how John T. Frey, president Ohio Teration of mind o committee ti from the state Saloon league has ifs headquarter says Workers Need Beer There over on fone ag Prey BERNDT—SEIPEL M. Berndt of 2 Green- wood #trect and Miss Bmelia Seipel | heen elected in Ohio | of 189 Curtis strect were married | ature ratified the!yvegierday afternoon. 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