New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 21, 1926, Page 16

PAY TRIBUTE 10 THOMAS . FAGAN Tourth Degeee Knights of Colum- | bus Form Funeral Escort Speclal exercises by an escort from the Bishop Tierney Dranch, Fourth Degree, Knights of Columbus, fea- tured the funeral this morning of Thomas W. Fagan, one of the liest members of the and a trustee of St, for over & AT, At 8:30 o'clock an escort of eight members of the org \tlon in double file in front of the hom ack Rtock wl the aken from the v stood in double flle in front of Mary's church a few minutes before 9 o'clock with sword drawn as the body was borne to the vestibule of the church and then preceded the casket down the middle alsle of the edifice, The escort consisted of Michael J Kenney, Gerald B, Leghorn, James Welcl hn Ryan, §r, John Ryan, Ir., John O'Neil, John O'Leary and John J Ish A high was ¢ organization Mary's church stood avenue s of requiem thew J. Tray- Walter J. Luddy Pliney Cooncy, sul deacon, Rev. Walter A, McCrann master of ceremonies, The follow- s were present in the \ v. Thomas J. Itaymond Clabby, Rev, John Rev, Joseph W. Barry, a John . Donohue. Father B and ¥ were former cur- ¥'s church, 15 being borne into church Mary's quartet sang Lead Kindly Light” and at the of- fertory Mrs. Mary T. Crean and Mr Tohn Connolly rendered “Ave M The quartet rendered “Nearc o casket, pre- 18 being taken n m by nor, ¢ deacon; It As th eceded by Its escort, from the church, "The active pall bearers B Do James 5 M. Coughlin, lerkin, 1. Conlin, and Conlo Committal servi Father Cooney assi t the grave were John Daniel Johr v Clabby meter: PONZI GIVEN YEAR And Judge Adds “At Hard Labor™ to Penalty of Financial Wizard in Iorida. , April 21 (M) Charles Ponzi, former Boston “finan- cia. wizard" was sentenced to serve one year at hard labor in the penitentiary at Raiford by James, M. Peeler In criminal today. He was convicted April violating the rida lav: duct of husiness declaration of trust. Judge Pecler denied Ponzl's new motion for a new trial. Ponzi, who {s now in condu h to p the cor Cngag Land sixty days in appeal, New Coal Company Is Formed in Th 1 new coal com- The ion o 1 v, 1o he pany in « Johnson (onl nounced today. not incorpg for fncorn company So f; O DICIDY REDUCTION IN COST OF HOSPITAL TREATMENT (Continued From First Page) clects to take the course, wiil re- turn to the hospital where she will have the advantages of the training ool and its supervision and in- but will take her tients and will assume ity for them the same as does when she goes Into a private graduation, This is expected to give additional train. ng in psychology, the handling of different types of patients and other s of the which as stu- hey do more or less mechan- Wly with the floor supervisor or head nurse assuming all the respon- lity. The uetor private y sponsih she n home aftor work be the Hax course will fon with it the New Yale univer » compell , but eventually nurses will be private patients, They will be a salary while taking the The members of the staff, including the physicians and sur- ons and nurses’ alumni, are sald in favor of {he course, and of s who have already com- 10 have asked econducted course in n school of . Nurses to take the only experi- permitted to paid ta b a for it GET MURDER SUSPECTS pleted their course, Two Youths, Believed Slayers of Boston Cop, Arrested This Morn- ing at Lee, Mass, Boston, April 21 (T'—Boston po- lice officers left today for Lee on re- ports that two youths answering the descriptions of Robert Samburski and Albert of Roxbury, sought in connection with the mur- der of Patrolman Frank . Comeau of Boston, were lice of that town. | The youths were taken Into cus- tody by the state police on the cha of driving an automobile | without a license. They gave their mes s Leo Juneau and Albert rtin of Nashua, N. H. Because of their resemblance to descriptions broadcast by the Boston authorities of the youths the Lee police com- | municated with this city. | perintendent of Police Crowley, Captain Bailey of the Dorchester station, scveral officers and a stenog- rapher left at once for the western part of the state by automobile to attempt identification of the boys. | A VISITS NEW BRITAIN (Continued from Page 1.) of Countess Bisping, was first unc taken by her a broad sca 1916 when she ) s who w about to begin a car course in the Warsaw nors mal school. Prior to that time man young women who were tempera- mentally fitted to become teachers Wl who desired to play a part in the spread of wtion could not do cause they had not the money homes in the locality of The work of the coun- has made it possible for scorcs of young women to go through the n1try advancing learning. Complimented By Pope. work was recognized recently wrote her upon her st on i school. or by donating a plot w dormitories. ning course iene, soctal these the normal school tr 3 training in Ing stre be in Poiand are requl o anse where 4 hav ed before and w! @ pea- opposed ta edu- necessar for the kil in ral lines; 5 the good graces very o n are it ma ntess Bisping to casic by her de- Lueyan I Heart parish card much, 18 0 ned Hnow: nd tired arel | and she wore 4 materi- r in um- ish fluently. Tells Passale ntermyer Strike Not to t on Y own | the | opened a home for | red to | in | | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1926, JON BY RADIO! This picture, transmitted b; "Hoopuloa, a village that was completely wiped out by the eruption. The photo is MAUNA LOA ERUPT e S e st P radio and teleph@to, is of a stream of lava from Mt. Mauna Loa, Hawaii, engulfing a house in the first ever transmitted commercially by radio, and was sent from Honolulu to San Francisco by NEA service, then telephotoed east and rushed by fast trains to The Herald. The picture is forerunner of a photo transmitting process, now in infancy, that may eventually circle the world by air. Brown University Professor Obtains | PHUTOGRAPHS HETEORS ~ SEATS 1 tained by the po- | N NEW YORK'S CONCERT HALLS INADEQUATE THIS YEAR Excellent Pictures In Heavens |Progent Season Has Been !cring the sides and rear of the red | | Last Evening. Providence, Using & came inch telescope and covering square degrees of the he: inton H. Currier of Brown univer- | 21 (P | | 6 vens, Prof. in That Many Take Intere: the Programs. Unusual So 4| st in <ty last night obtained what he be- lieves will prove excer veloped. The photographic process was por- mechanism, {formed by elockwork tior 1 photo- zraphs of a meteor shower when de- | the telescope heing aimed at the 1 |tained each night for the la { nights and while none have | veloped, the astronomer said he w | practically certain that last nigh | negatives would prodt scope was focused. ice tain more pictures tonight, | M | hy Chief Ernest Bristol police Szamier, who home. He is helght and 1 wearing long trou vn\fll'c‘n"l( when last T E to s | DELANEY'S AUTO | The automobile wh Delaney of 19 Barne ported sfolen in morning was recove time later at the that town. The fons are missing. S INSPI 3elden locatn 10 fch red RING b fs missing from inches It halr. He was rs and a brown en in Bristol. | viation fleld battery and cush- rey oy named the baby Bo! For his father?" “No, for his mother's hair."—Life. evening {8 of taffeta houffant skirt with f] lining the waistline in not in the front. model for th WU\ [aius point of the shower and follow- i |ing it across the sky. | Four photographs have been ob- t thre n de- excellent | photographs as the shower was visi. fer. | Dle with the naked eye in the region n {ot the heavens at which the Prof. Currler will endeavor to oh. e saic FROM BRISTOL The local police have heen asked of th Jol h i RECOVERED Lawrence street Yalesville th sho! i a ful t- ot ck, bu tele. re- i (By The Associated Pr New York, April 21 (P)—The ent season of music, approaching its ) pre close, in retrospect reveals that the argest of the city's concert halls are frequently inadequate to the \mands of its ever-growing music-lov- ling public, This, say the eritics, is not the age of great voealists, of instru- mental virtuosos, or of genjus in composers or conductors. But box- office receipts testify that the has been one of large, even great, audiences. People have crammed into ile space in Carnegie Hall, the opolitan Opera House, Aecolian I, the Brooklyn Academy of Mu- and other highly pa musical centers as never he The pressure of a sprouting con- 'cert-going public is having its in ning, too, in real estate circles. T! Metropolitan ~ Opera Real [ Company, having decided the ope house is antediluvian, mechanical and producing ment go, has purchascd a site for ¢ new opera house, Carnegie Hall | carnegle Hall, New York's con- cert center since 1890, was gold last vear by the Carnegie estate. The owner, Robert E. Simon, sald he time that Carn e would he rt continued as a concert hall and that » were no plans to rai it and ce it with a modern structure It begins to look, however, as if {there already s a demand for a new |and more spaclous home in d th strumentallsts may 1 de- e sie, 1 n is n o n the symphony & jor singers and give their concert From the night formance of the ways the official 1. opening of the musical season, ni at the Metropolitan Opera Hor have found enthu s bar about the large horseshoc | of its first per- 19 year, al- | plush parquet—all standing and con |tentto do so. ptional cas |vivals, or new operas invariably fill- ed the old Metropolitan, Two debuts in particular, those of |Mary Lewis and Marion Talle; |tracted such mobs that tho lance of the police assist- lof these two American girls drew the est crowds cver scen. | cats All Sold impossible to purchas Philadelphia Sym- at Carnegle Hall, The orchestra plays its New York concerts customarily on Tuesday nights. O1. these evenings begins to form ecarly a line would ¥ they available. But Carnegle’s capa- is only 3,000—small these da. 50 0 Jing room remains. The orchestra's standee to be such a large concert of the phony Orchestra it following grew and impertant clement of the audiences that tickets |Ifaven Greys, company A selling regulations were instituted £8r their benefit. | The New York symphony society gave most of its concerts at Mecca Temple, & new structure seat many more than the older Acol Tiven theffe, however, sell outs were frequent and the S R. O. shingle was hung in the foyer. The season lias seen two younger musical societies spring suddenly in- to pon favor, They. are the League of Composers, which glves programmes of unheard music. and the Internatfonal Composers Guild, which glves encouragement to and plays music of composers of all 'lands. The trend to modern music re- | MERGER DISCUSSED | Plar | com | Mee | New Tor Rebuilding of Nickel Plate nbine Are Talked Over At ting Held Today. v York, April 21 (A)—Plans to | [rebuild the financial structure of the | Nigkel Plate rallroad merger, disap- , ate |proved by the interstate commerce commissglon more than a month ago, : required to |hegan to take shape today when O. p peacc. The initial appearances | P, and M. J. Van Sweringen, spon- sors of proposed $1,500,000,000 con- | Marqu | | of prople who Now Haven Military Company Nlingly purchase seats were | Asked to Attend Celebration 5 \ City the opera had solidation, held conferences with B | N. Brown, chairman of the Granville Pere ette, and Kane, | Tor the last two years it has been | chairman of the finance committes {s for a | of the Erle ilroad. “GREYS” INVITED In of Philadelphia. | New Haven, April 21 (A-—Invita- [tion h 102nd lqui ee delphia next June, as been extended to the New of the regiment, to attend the S ntennial exposition in Phila- Putnam Phalanx and the first and sition, | The I niverse {laratio: 2 |second companies of the governor's n oot Guards as nall, where it played for so many Haven and Connecticut at the expo- will represent CGreys attended the 100th an- of the signing of the dec- n of independence in Philadel- phia in 1876 and at that time were Imade |1esgton. |June 1 which lowing day. a retired member of the Gr also b members of the centennial They will lcave here on 3 to participate In the parade opens the exposition the fol- Mayor John B. Tower, 3, will will e invited to attend as has given thesé socleties audiences of (Governor John H. Trumbull. unacenstomed size. Standees over- whelmed them. The society of the Friends of Music is another reput- ahle musical organization which may |have to move to a larger hall for its programmes, reisler seldom advertises his vio- lin recitals any more. The mere hint of an appearance sclls out Carnegie Hall for him. The same popular: abtains for Hoffman, |and many others. ETHEL A T i EW ~ O Accessories e i GYORT | | Men ical cl ner for Dr. Shuttle Meadow club this Fromen Europe on an Dr., WILL GO TO EUROPE risers of the New Britain Med- ub will have a farewell din- T. Fromen at the evening. il soon for trip for E. plans to extended three months. vi Paderewsk! 1I‘U"/:\l"b HT | TRALD CLASSIFTED ADS FOR YOUR W. S “WHAT DICKY LADKIN' DPRACEIETS Y WONDER? oW YOU GO_APOUT GETTING- A PR LKE THAT/? " SYIETS ACL Ok - DU NOT SYORT SYERVE O ye AONSY WIS PROTECTED / AT ALMOSY GINE, PRACELETS - GET NOVELTY LOYIS Y CuT” IO PESNRLE TIMES —AND T UISIALY WORKED ITo YOuRP COLLECTION Ts They with the | New | INTERIOR OF SUD [ BADLY WRECKED (Continued From First Page) class, who escaped from the sub- {marine after being slightly gassed, Spontancous Combustion According to McShane an over supply of hydrogen gas ignited (hrough spontaneous combuston and caused the blast, Ho said that Ylarie 1D, TFellds, first class electri- |clan’s mate, entering the battery | compartment to take a battery rcad- ing, turned a battery valve and tho | was the opinion that when the bat- tery was cxposed the hydrogen in pocket which formed on the surface lof the battery came in sudden con- |tact with the oxygen of the com- {partment and spontancous combus- |tion resulted. Fellds took the |blast almost in the and |hurled against the overhead |with both arms and legs frac and his faco cruclly hurt. | The bodics of Theodore Holst, Jr. chief hoatswain’s mate; Ollie J {Cooke, seaman, first class; and Ralph 1d at the base hospital from the res of their Injurles were held at undertaking parlors of Robert Byles today awalting orders as was deck 1ts t f ment. The next of kin of the dead sailors have been notified of thei Holst’'s wife, Mrs. Martha 29 Monument str MeCormack w deaths. Holst lves at Groton, Conn. married and his wife, Vera |Cormack, resides at 51 street, East Lynn, Mass. survived by a mother, |Cooke of Danville, Va. | A scene of complete wreckage | greated the members of the board ot inquiry inquiring Into the facts surrounding the explosion. The {compartment had heen ecaled sinc the bodles of the injured werc re- o, 1. Me- Prospect Cooke 1 Mrs. Anna | moved, to prevent fire which broke | out from epreading and, to kecp the | gases confined. |~ The members of the board en- tercd the submarine via the torpedo room hatchway and entered the | battery compartment from the tor | pedo compartment. It was antici | pated that much gas would still he | confined in the bat®ry compartment and every precaution was taken by |the entering officials to guard against another explosion. How- | ever, little gas was encountered | There was considerable eleetric dis- | play experienced, the battery spitting and fuming venomously. | The compartment was a conw plete | wieck. The steel deck plates were |torn and twisted and the heavy | wooden mess tables and benches that lined the walls were réduced to splinters. The floor was covered with fragments of piping and other metal, aud, judging from the ap- pearance of the compartment, it is considered miraculous that the erew trapped in the compart- ment escaped with thelr lives. The members of the board of in- quiry made a brief preliminary s vey of the compartment without ar- | riving at any conclusion as to the | causo of the explosion. The con | partment was left open to permit all of the gas to escape and tomorrow, when it has been' sufficiently cleared, the members of the board will again penetrate it to make an intimate in- vestigation of the battery equipment in thelr efforts to determine the cause of the biast. At the submarine base this aft- ernoon it was eaid that the body of Seaman Ollie J. Cooke, | 1ast night from injuries received in the explosion, had been claimed by | his mother, Mrs. Anna Cooke, and | would be sent to her at Danville, Va., accompanied by a guard of [ honor. It had not been declded this | afternoon as to whether the body would be shipped tonight or held | over until tomorrow, when services would bo held over it. Up to a late Tour today the navy department had | not been advised as to th ‘r\' the bodies of Chicf Bo: | Mate Theodore Ilolst, Jr., of Groton, |nar Edward McCor- M Conn., and Ralph mack of East Lynn, other two victims, | At least two members of the crew of the S-49 had figured in other sub- | marine disasters. Dewey G. Kile, fireman, first class one of the | three survivors of the $-51 disaster, | when that vessel was struck by the | steamer City of Rome oft Block {Tsland last September. Kile 8 | asleep in the battery room. Clad lin his underwear, he was abls to | climb to the deck through the con- I ning tower before the ship went down. After swimming in the cold water | for over an hour he was picked up by the City of Rome. Kile was in the engine room of the §-40 when the | explosion came yesterday morning. | He was thrown to the floor by the sion, but quickly recovered \bled to tho satety of the vla the engine room concu | and scra outer deck hatch. Louis Sykora, man was also in the engine room of the §-49 when the blast cam was slightly gassed. Sykora w member of the crew of the R- when that vessel struck a fresh w ter pocket and went down off Pana- ma several years ago. He was also on the S-19 when she grounded off Nausct, Cape Cod in December, 1924, At the submarine base late this afternoon it was said that the threo men mentioned as being in critical condition have “a fighting chance for life." Anxiety Felt for Fliers Lost Over Sea April 21 (@ — Great y is felt here as to the of naval lieutenants Moriera Neves T who left 1 vesterday on a flight to Made and the Azores. I are | overdue at the varships have found ir plane, and it machine founded at | aviators. “ Great isl trace of no is fearc with sea 1l ada, Azores Islands, belleved herc | | Ponta Delg April 21 P — Tt is that the Portuguese seaplane w started yesterday on fligy Lisbon to Madeira and the and return ha been lost | plane was in command of tenants Moriera and Ne riera. from T! Lic GRADUATION AT GENERAL HOSPITAL (lass of 20 Will Finish Training Gonrse May 14 s g Twenly nurses will graduate from the ning school at the New Brit- in Ger tra ral hospital on May 11, ac- 1 announcement mad cording to this morni oxplosion fmmediately followed, It|wiil he full | ed | ard MeCormack who dicd | to| their disposal from the navy depart- | nine months | meets Tues The nest class of probationers wdmitted on July The hospital will have room for 12 in t} new cluss and will uve opening for others in the near future, prob- ably ‘before fall, It is understood that all the va- cancies for the next class of proba- crs have not yet been filled, In r to qualify girls must havo the cquivalent of a high school educa- b Lol o are under way to fi- \ff in the laboratory. ! it, which now is Jun ever before, is inereas- of work o rapidiy present staff 1s unable to , even with a considerable wunt of night work The laboratory is in charge of Ed- rd pathologist, Miss § ind another helper, be- nurse who is assigned t Another w engaged within seope by will nest few days, Surgical Dressings Needed I. Eben R is seriously subject of surgi- for the summer. Most ssings are supplied by nizations during nine or 10- months of the y The women in organizations meet in the cwing room and make dressinge In the summer from June to tember irganizations do mee year shortage dres: Ac to a letter recelved by Dr. Reeks from the secretary of the woman's hospital hoard 13 groups ot vomen working two days a week > these dressings during the of the year. The work- rooms are open at all times and in- dividual women often drop in to the sewing rooms and make dressings Two paid seamstresses are on duty all day and the ing room {s al- ways One group of women y eve 5 preparing to make an 1 to the women friends of the hospital to continue supplying &ur- gical dressings throughout the sum- mer, The work of sound proofing the institution has heen under way for several days. fome of the smaller rooms in the maternity ward have been finished and a marked differ- ence In the carrying of sound, with practically a complete loss of echo has been noted. The halls and cor- ridors as well as sink rooms, kitchens, ete, will be treated simi- ek cal dressin these not, of gr 8¢ ope Dr Miss Pearl Glrard, a graduate of the trainifg school of the St. Mary's hospital at Waterbury, has been added to the force of department heads and will be night supervisor in the maternity department, EX-NAYOR DIES ON who died | first class engine- | 28TH ANNIVERSARY OF INAUGURATION (Continued from Page 1.) father's farm and so pleasant were lils associations of th after he had made busine. A succe industry, politics and - he returned to the surround- ings of his boyhood as a “gentleman the | farmer." After leaving the primary school at Harwinton, Mr. Webster entered Winchester Institute, then a military school in charge of Col. Pettibone. s first employment away from the farm was that of a clerk in a gen- eral store at Terryville. Soon after~ ward he went into busin in Hart- ford, then went to Milwaukee and later returned to Terryville. From that town he came here to enter the employ of the Malleable Iron com- par Disliked Term “Politician” Although he had been successful in his quest for public office, Mr. Webster at all times disclaimed any dcsire to be a pol n, asserting that he never cared for that term, nor was he cut out for such a position in life. However, he often told friends he would follow the had he his life to live w same lines over Mr. Webster visited New Britain v, ho and W. L. Hatch hav- the Horace ving large real es- s In the northwestern n of the cit n of office as mayor ard, Nr. Webster r consolidation n governments, hock Last Wednesday health had been Wednesday, after to the Bristol dation of Harold B. Wood- He continued to 3 spell nday night, from rallled and appeared a lif- r Tuesday morning. Dur- . however, he gradually until the end, which last night. narrled in 1878 rwinton, who A son, Walter Web- He is survived by ah Barher Web- L. Wel both of Booth es! tatathaldln sinkin which } strong s will be held Fri- 3 30 o'clock. Rev, ans, pastor of the Ter- al church, will ment will be fin recently people virt ecanse they to their health. Britis t the majori it sulcid little attention