New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 26, 1926, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 THREE AGED WOMEN CALLED BY DEATH Mrs. Ida Laubenhermer, 74| Found Dead in Bed Today MRS, FREDERICA LINN DIES Willam Street Resident Taken While Preparing Sunday Dinner ~—Mrs, Adeline A, Yeager Passes Away in Athol, Mass, Mrs. Tda Lauhenhermer, 74 o, found dead in her bed at the home of Mre. | Lillian M., Freeman of 58 City ave- | nue, this morning at 7 o'clock. Death to heart fallure ' brought on by old age, in the fin ings of Medical Examiner John Purney. She had been In excellent health was out of doors time. She entertained ng the day, and it is over-exerted he night n ap- was her daughter, wae dne J. and yesterday she for some company d believed that she selt, At about 11 o'clock last e retived for the night wrent good health, Mrs, TLaubenhermer was widow of Philip Laubenhermer and | was a resident of Brooklyn, N. Y., until she came to live with her | iaughter in this city at the death of her husband, Surviving her be- | sides Mrs, Frecman are Mrs. Vir- | | the | ginia. Middlestend and Mrs, Pearl | R dangh Forest Edwin and 1 x'l\ml‘mrn\ln sons; Miss E Nevins and George d N ther With th, ption uan, all residen Funeral arran B. C. Porter & plete, It is expected will be taken to burial. While prog meal in anticips slatives in Bridgeport, Mrs. Fred- | vrica Linn, 64 years old, died sud- denly in the Kitchen of her home at i7 Williams street yesterday, Medi- aminer John J. Purney viewed the body and decided that death was | due to stomach trouble. She was born in Europe and came to this city at an early age. vins, of M < of 1ents in are incor that the body | Brooklyn for | nd ¥ bro ex r Sunday noon visit from ring th tion of a She !to spend our money buying proper- s ling his first meeting of a municipal | ticipants in rep | that {t is designed for two families MRS, FREDERICA LINN 4 live herasfor over 50 years During this time she was an activ or of St. Matthew's Germian ran church and was fumbered members, all graduate . survive her, as Mrs. James Hanna of aport and Mrs. Dono- Miss Minnie and Miss Ottilia nn of this city; two sons, Fred and \ Linn: a sister, Mr: Rurlkhardt this city, and t grandehildren also survive. ces will be held to- t the home at 2 and at Matthew's Ger. man Lutheran church at 2:%0 a'clock., A. €. Theodore Steege pestor, will officiate, Interment will | be in Fadrview cemeter Death of Mrs. Yeager was received today cline A. Yeager, formerly passed vy last night Mass age of 71 had been indisposed for ad refused to have » Mrs. H. T5. Parker of icoln street, this cify, notified, the r Goath shock, Yeager was horn in Milford in 1855, and was a member old colonial Chapin family. married Joseph T. Yeager id and moved to Baldwinsville, Mr. Yeager died in 1912 and she came with her daughter | in iding in New Brti- | ong ite charte IFour Bridgeport follows Rrid Niors, « of hospits ian of o'clock It L and as a Mrs. Mas otiine She news of her G came to i thiz atate. © since 191 1 was exceptior had r S for amusement nting and othe husband idle bu this ta purpose. Of recent devoted her ability the making of silk had heen employ this fleld at the this eity and Hartford she returned in Athol and re. is survived by r. and Parker. friends ly artistic and often done oil work, When, would not lly pa a her she remain & good the had to d and structor in in stores ago Bos- | store her | dia to her one | She ghter, andson, sessed of tine will be | Miltord, Mass, | at " briage, ' Asks Hawley and Perry to Pre- | meeting, lanswered. |Hawley | telegraph pole in Queens Bouley 10y, | hos, |Woman Thought Dead, o) ‘pIojMITI '-;da(] APV ATRIQVT IS JRR1IUUD ¥ BRITAIN HERALD Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending 13’472 April 24th . NEW BRITAIN, Conn. River Flood Is Assuming Grave Proportions At Hartford' East Hartford Meadows Appear As Vast Lake—Hud- son and Other New York Streams Also Overflow Banks—Car Traffic Stops in Some Towns—New Hampshire and Mass. Rivers Overflowing Too. Conn,, [ Lower State strect from Commerc:: street to the dock, lowlands on the north of Fast Hartford meadows on the east bank of the river and the valley stream flows the annu Hartford, April 28 to surpass in extent freshets of the last few averaged 2087 1| Adams, me- United States years whic Harry E. teorologist of the weather bureau here, reported to ¢ that the river will go up slow ' for the next 12 or 18 hours, and en will probably reach its maxi- mum, There fs nothing to indicate a Dbig flood for conditions are nor- mal for this time of the year, he oot side the territory along through which were flooded today ¢ spring Connecticut river treshet neured its height. w 20 Feet Deep The water this morning rose to fect, a rise of more than five feet since Saturday when the river overflowed its banks and began to creep up Btate street hill. How- ever, indications pointed to the end of the flood and it is not expected meadows of East Hartford, Dock 15 Marconed Harttord and New York Transportation company’s building and lower dock are marooned cept for one by way of the railroad tracks overhead. The buildings on the south side of state street, just below Commerce strest, have their cellars flooded some soveral fect deep. On the eg Nk, the river has flowed far into The entrance morning the water risen more than a foot above ground floor of the yacht club. Riverside park is transformed into large lake, Windsor LEftect “The island distriet,” in Windsor also affected by the inundation. it were not for the improv ments made by the Loomis insti- tute, that eection would be cut off from the main portion of the town by water, The Farmington river has *nrapldly, The freshet has reached frunk line highway between dietown and Cromwell, but ific not yet been impeded. This is not expected to be affected the state highway covering stretch "between Middletown and the Little river: bridge was raised last fall, | Middletown fishermen are getting their nets ready for the annual run of alewives, Falling Off Soon | Meteorologist Adams falling off of the freshet soon, bas- ing Nis opinion on the fact that at the Holyoke dam the flow has become Bellows Falls, where begun to reeede, The freshet {s not steamboat ' service. The Hartford of the Hartford and New York Transportation company ar- | rived on time aturday and eft again at 4 o'clock in the after- noon. The steamer Middletown up in dry doc I probably not week. the a serve Order at Gonference NAPLES CASE IS AIRED Mayor Present When Property Own- is It - the er Objects To Statement of Archi- Mid- tect He Could Have Avolded Hart road | becay the Street Dispute, A statement by Architect D. K. Per nce in the build- ing department this afternoon that B. A, Hawley and other remon strants could have ayoided the Hart at a con street building dispute by purchas- | ing the Naples site, brought an in- dignant reply from Hawley, which Mavyor Gardner C. Weld, who at the meeting. ‘ou’re not the ¢ man of this Mr. Hawley shof back at Architect Perry after the latter's statement had been made. I re- | ent that remark. We don’t have ionar; the to protect our rights, I'l have you understand.” “Weil T have foun to do so in the past, it necessary the architeoct fs latd for repair and will run before next “Yon're out of order anyway,” Mr. added to the discussion. At this point Mayor Weld, attend- his inanguration, rose | and asked Building Inspector E. J Hennessy to assume charge of the meeting, meanwhile asking the par- artee to assist in pre- serving order at the mecting. Inspector Hennessy asked the re monstrants to suggest where changes might he made. Charles B. Parsons, who with Mr. Hawley, opposed il present Naples honse on the ground board stnce o Spring Though still rising Do erate freshet experionce barring heavy rain, further rise. banks in farther than the high Alarmed at Springfield Mass., April 26 (@) Connecticut river s today and “mod- conditions prevail, river men predict that, idden warm weather or there will be no great The river is over {ts plac here but is usually reached in water period, The high- between Northampton Tom Junction A8 covered for ort time today. Southern Ver- points report only a slight in the last 24 hours. At I Falls th was 11.2 feet of er on the today, the although in a one-family district, re- plted: "I'm no architect, I'm sorry to say."” “If one family lves fr ita a one-family house, Perry aske Attorneys for hoth parties agreed that this was not tr determining factor, explaining a dozen families might live in a house designed for one family and be within the law, | whereas one family living in a elling deslgned for three would put the house outside the pale of law. Mayor Weld asked Tnspector Hen- nessy if any plan had yet heen sub- mitted to him that he regards properly M a sh mont rise lows the house isn't it?"” Mr, o w dam Roads Are Blocked Montpelier, Vi, April » The flood conditions that fthreat- ened district of Mon oelier disappeared dur- ing night when much cooler weather developed, causing the wa- ter to drop about four fect fn the ms passing through this city. No secrious damage has been re- ported in central Vermont. Roads were blocked in some sections Sunday because of the high water but were open to traflic this morn- ing. water was about seven feet normal yesterday. ve as | gr FATAL AUTO CRASH Killed. above Two Critically Tnjured | = The Hudson Also High Albany, N. Y, (P—AL- though rivers streams in northern and eastern New York e il at flood stage today, weather burcau officlals here snid | the sitnation was *not alarming, and that they did not expect the waters to attain the height reach- ed three years ago when consider- able property damage was done. Reports from Glens !'n'ls said | that the Hudson rive Mch e rising rapldly two feet by noon today, Jing toue! flood stage. At Albany foot above the time, but fee over R s i Sele- | eturning From Wedding Cele e bration in New York. and New York, April 26 (P—Two per- were killed and two seriously injured early today when an automo- ile in which they were returning from a wedding celebration struck s The dead are Michael F. Me( 28, and Miss Alice Fanning, both of Brookiyn Frank Hunter, 26, and Miss Mary O'Rourke, lo of Brooklyn, taken to o al, where was said both nay die A 20, Mm‘\‘\, it g the river was not flood stage at that Troy it registered 1.9 that mark. River front the mouth end here Sued to Clear Title Augusta Silkin, who e thought to be deceased, is nam ed in an action brought in the city court by Alphone Rores to clear the title to a piece of property which was mortgaged | the lower temperatures that pre- in 1911 to secure a note for $200 | valled throughout the northern and given by the defendant to Ma- | ®astern parts of the state apparent- thilda Ostrowski. In the event |I¥ had c d the rise and a re that the fact of the death | cession of the waters was expecte Mrs. Silkin is established, her thin a few hours. husband, her heirs, representa- — tives and creditors, will be Tactorfes Shut Down brought into court as defend- | Watertown, N. Y., April ! ants. 1\ rise ral feet in the Blac Bores & river during the last 48 hours which wa |forced many industrial plants in gage wa [w and vicinity to shut [4 lown t streets in flooded The Adirondack streams still in full flood this forenoo; were were cke of »— of sey ts forth that t secured by the pald in full | Lut the mortgs he land recor tha e Mote mort- Mre, ertown This clty's strect pelled to stop nerating pl water ¥ was n; s car gystem was service when it was closed by along the river b tnun- fourth Monday ir ex- | streets | predicts a | 8.9 foot over- | not | and | e !nuwn‘l after have | cd a point alightly below | a CONNECTICUT, NDAY, APRIL 26, 1926. —EIGHTEEN PAGES S‘XETDIIS,H“MAIII]SEEII{% | BRHJ&E‘Q“%FRENBH WAR DEBT PRUPUSAI.S FAIl New Britain Residents to Assist Defense Witness Alleged Paid m‘ TU SATISFY AMER'CAN BUMMISSIDN in It Gonstrucllon | Whnlemore Case GoA WIL ST SI80000 TOBULD ACCUSED HAKES DML Haven Cop I St Through : . ' | Hand By Alleged Rum Runner | Wil Discussions Are Not erminated However, ut France Must Re- WELD WAL ASKBAL | vise Her Settement Held at Point of GGun and Tu REMMN IN []FHEF Finally All Three Fugi- First T\u) Rcappoimmcnls Today Are Democratic Commissioners Man Who Appears In Behalf of Ban- Be Housed In l'vrmmu-m' dit Suspect Denies Mrs, Whitte. Bluecoat Res- Brother Officer, Wounded Memorial To John Hanson and more Paid Him To Testify—Fvi- cues John Morton, dence Is All In Now, Early Patriots, of New Britain of | 1 nativity or descent will con- toward the Hanson-Morton museum Residents Buffalo, Y., Aprll 25 (@ mpeach the testin An —— Swedls attempt to ny of “Safety Clause” Certain to Be Eliminated — Initial Payment Must Be More Than 25 Million Dollars. tribute the Alfred Gugginsberg 4 he star w rial of Ric for the ina$ ber, marked ¢ day. Gugginsberg had te he talked with Wh Bank of Ru erection of of Lancast ness rd tor in the se Whittemore | & hank employe L Octo- court 1th Historlcal tives Are Arrested. building at Philadelphia which will be constructed in connection with the Sesquicentennial celebration and which will be continued as & per- manent memorial of Swedish achievem in America. At & mesting of spor project. yesterday at the First Luth- eran clurch, Kev, Dr. John E. Klingherg was elected chairman of {tne ghooting, the New Britain organization, Rev. | Denies Being Bribed Dr. A. A. Ahlquist was elected vie Mike Melandinos, re chalrman, Fimll L.arson was elected | or."togtificd in rebuttal of the secretary und John A, Erickson was | gishurg testimony, that the lat ncted tre d told him he expected a reward | Prof. Adolph Benson of Yale uni- | oy $1EG0 R Tor tis St e raity explained the purpose of | oy huy a car with the mon : ; e ot he building, tracing the history of | " Questioned by Distrit Attarney | 2" R T W today he has no S irore gl the Swedes in Amerlea from thelr | zrgore, Malandinos dented that : Ll arly settlement. at Wilmington, |yau’ neen brived with tnones Del e ieh was then called New {brought to Buffalo hy Mrs, Whitte 1 e o Haamsipl! Thia® hlech of {imoreyay . g y nsporting lignor. Vausio is chars Tn {ha 1 W o PRET | In giving his reason for his pres- i only with illegal t {a on museum will he to preserve for | o g%, T FEEOT T TS BEC | e ry stat vosterity a knowledge of what the | R B BALIER IR O 0L Clash Comes Unexpectedly. Swedes have done In helping 10 uP- | (oo wiiting to make a deposit. The | TH build the United States, 1t will be mLae s e i eoted o named after John®Hanson, chajrman AN s of the first Colonial Congress, and & evosbror oo John Morton, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, It M4 Whitlomiore Prosent will cost $180,000 and will contain | o Hle S ATSION TOCH ooms in which will be exhibited ‘m(‘m '“ was. the defendant's wedish contributions to engineer- | n o S ing, agriculture and the fine :\r{sz‘]l‘(“:‘:\fl“m:” Vo AT TIOR8 Erch room will be named affer |MOF®: PP [some famous Swedish person who | Whittemore recelved this mornt {vili. | ® letter advising him to pray and as. las assisted in the progress of civili- | fo e g prog serting that it he did everyth zation in Awmerica. The room in | would come out all right. Jaller which engincering attainments will S e IR L ¢ |9 be shown is to be known as the | '_”"]‘”’_ s s John Ericson room. That INIBOYE WAL ST CER L devoted | The taking of test was final- will b known as the| The tgune of teslimony v i v concl®ied with the questioning of | o;lln \“-\x\ Britain executiva com. | Detectives J. J. Cronin and Walter | ! f A Bl g ©. Sullivan of New York clty, and | mittes will send out to Swedish ; { . Attorney W, Bartlett Sumner began churches and organizations invita- | |y Lo I nis summation for the defense, itions to send delegates to a ma i + el Tmolves Two Others e D L O O R aetealiVias et (adliial whitas Q | iall at 3:30 p. m. on Sunday, M 1oes ¥ 1 o [16th. At that time the project will |'more when in a detention cell in the i e ariees) . |Tombs asked if he were to he | | Dr. Klingberg stated today thate"rought to Ruffale. When t ge: the executive committes will make Dlied in the afftmative, ey e a special effort to nterest the | Whittenore asserted: “If T hurn, young people, belleving that the mu. [WOR't burn alone. Those other two seum will be for their benefit and [F!s Will burn too. W e for the benelt of their descendants | The """("Y Iyes et o Lemore rather {han for the present older |°XPlaincd that he referred to AR tion thony Paladino and William Unkle- Ly {hach, members of the Kandy Kid's |gang who have made confessions. 62 Year Old New Yorker | vnder cross-cxamination by Attor [ney Sumner the defectives asserted Weds Young Phone Girl |that neither Paladino nor Unklehach | New York, April 26 (A—The mar- “\v\d mf'mmw! the Bank of Ruffalo eds Yom Plons CAR GOES DOWN BANK old vice-president of the American ‘\\‘)u‘v'murl\ had made no confassion \uto 1 Submerged b: S b Car and ¥oundry company, to Ethel [t pariici voung telephone operator at B 3 = Housatonic River Near Danbury aldorf Astoria hotel was re. o New Hay ad been shot had front of e holdup utes befora th ted and later s ors of the ¥ ission de- 1 today., taurant keep e declsion was reqched 2 meetiy commission t the American propos:! second ost ctary unbas tions are resum Discussions Will Continue Ithough Fr ity the Hanson-Mor- by nato shooting aoth §s to remain ard fi 1 of that commission ) it was explained today ive offices city hall Hall today expressed 1688 to remain in 1 under the administrat Weld Senator Hall, who is a republican, became chalrman of he finance board under the admin- of A. M. Paonessa, demo- The former mavyor frequently t o the work of sto ers who i mok 1 b rRonIe been cast oY the exee made ers had gone to the in where t of 1 two ¢ one of aimed bes leaviy 1 aragey ading to the buil men saw the police they volvers, police said When Officer ir to th n submit t rrest n. He and fired neh. The latt ng that & merey of 1 | 1or cove {into ¥ he latter to Ruckl in polic murder of H bloody pool cue Dobson is l.””m' ) g eriod. ‘lerm yn.mvm ave b killed {he in | comn 5|x MISS DEATH AS . v's home unde payr Hope For Agreement hopes at rstood to hich or first court DARLLEY nator his v fir to wt red in 1 When drew e Issiorn to work ding ha ing a co submission by of w of Ayor a sis mt formally s {slratl do an stration n B Lynch ordered crat, Qow voly of depend ety clause France of fts ¢ in the event of to meet fts repa The Amerfean two ro- publi announced democrats, ilure of Germa ration payments debt commission has expressed ftself firmly agafnst this and Ambassador Berenger {8 not axpecied to insist on such a guarante the re an admini today and George R. Dobson was numed to succeed hini- self as a member of the board of wjustment i the administration of ing act, and Virgil M. Pal er was reappointed cemet Bots gistered | suit was a strati ¢ compantor oth who had Law n welled | or. d and taken xunpnn h Assured it The of 1! v was han t0-the 1 ar Paris, 2 committee |ties manerally Ber: ing n Promier tor Porot finanea amber of depu pproved Ambassador s tactios debt fund- gotintions at W neton after Briand and Finance Minis- had explained the eftua- fon th Consequently, it is learn Mr. has | ed, the flnal ord with the United the board was | States will find a favorable majority [in the committe i d| M. Perot told the hree years. He was t he was leaving cemetery committec American accord rved continnous| plished, probably es Al | negotiate with " POLICEWAN SHOOTS OFF ™" & SEVERAL OF S 1085 TO START PAYMENT N ix per One of Its Own Members as ommissio the lemocrats, o The appointmer nson when . | en |op of Com sev. ission - year oard of ad- | are the longest of any city rission, there being seven mem- ers the term of one of whom ¢ for 0 the 18 on the each year ac mber sin Dobson Commissioner Palmer committ for a term of named to the lin 191 A has om or London the was accon fon In the erime here, Auto Is Identified | Max A, Satz, a druggist who op- | vealed today when it was learned | ‘M‘Ilhs a store In Columbus Cirg \-’.‘ they are on a honeymoon trip 1o [five blocks from fthe place where | Furope. . Whittemore s alleged fo have heen | The ceremony was performed on ! jiving a short to the | Thursday and they sailed 8hortly | robbery here, testified he haq!| Dar afterwards. Aside from confirming | today identificd the automobile nsed V28 1 | reports of the marriage, neither the | by the robbers as his m hotal authorities nor Hedgeock's ses- |y, | was stolen September 3 retary would give details of the mar Distriet Attorney Moore was per | riage. er the objectla {ner to introdnce in cards of matehes which in the abandoned machine cards bore the name of a at 21 Broadway, New York listrict attorney safd thes | were gotten by the robbers from a place near which tha Whittemor: gang had admitted frequenting. time previ ot tod Ran wry. Cor ore v 1l arned sons missed by a narrow mar- —— First Casualty sin lay rnoon, w France to Begin at Once, hill Says in Ex- plaining Budget mobile in which ti April 26 (T The new L e el cun patrol, inaugurated by Ros- | Chun o 08 ¢ f this n authorlt was 1y town CAPTURES RUM CAR Danbury, Cenn., April 26 State Policeman T.co Carroll, Ridgefield barracks, pursued a flee- | rom a point a few miles east of this city, through New town and Into Sandy Hook early this morning. Overtaking tha car he earched it and 120 one-gal- | Two pictures of Whittemore lon cans of alcohol. The driver of {introduced in evidence hy the the var, who sald he was Rosario |and a picture of Harry Harris, Terrase, of 35 Central street, Anso- |leged gang leader who was nla, was b to Danbury and mentioned ag a suspect locked up. {In evidence by the de ence f today to check hold- sul » — of the a automobile man trolman 1 from thefts, victim, wis R. Murray, s \n automobile to exan of youthful suspects, larged his riot gun and aid T SN amputated S8 ut started at 2 . udget h two officers frov poli company t as its The matches city. L Lot I3 gin to pay itain Arthur Walker cal yi foun ty hospital it was to b Gt veral toes Exc sta ! today e Chur oW D to initia ning, wi was 1tion the city in au- ! and his companion A pe- plac overing fense. . Chur two youths who acted in | = - EE A | | ACongress Must Act lf Dry Laws Are To Be Effectually Enforced T s Irs {unit and policy so as to o entration against | |and place i Legislative Aid Is N 5 Transfer of alec if Enforcement |the intcrnar roy | prohibition unit. Branch Is to Do More| Co-ordination Than “Plug Along.” |collectors | | rmit cor trafiic | A1l e or local en- | submersion “How Dry VI Am” R.('(‘ul‘d Leads to Wet Discovery tileboro, M April 26 (@ Says | |Secretary Andrews ré8po Neces- |forcement on . control bures rom to th e W railroac nogr of the coast and smy guard prohibi- ling, r tion Middletown Man Stricken And Dies in His Office and customs to re “practical tion unit sulting in “rum row." asury orders fc nual review (A —Respon- |of all permits, new control of in prohibi- [mental wine, and limiting the conditions now |whiskey In the manufacture the opinion |ent medicines. tn cha Organization of the 1 brewery squads. Negotiation of treaties with Me |c0 and Cuba covering smuggling & introduced the |extradition. drawn up by the| The nss designed to tight- | policy of cor Ak ia bad decreased v | wholesome et e Tectuee of " high the lera fore T : committer, said | | elimin of | Washington, sibility for improvemen {tion enforcement Irests with congress ctary Andrews, the work. Coincident Chalrman Cummins ndiclary committe > billy recently L nforcement chie len the prohibition i Mr, Andrews, in roflectin LU]v the hearings conducted nate investigating that if the to do more th the April o Sact rplus use of of pat 14 H wtion wa Manenit general was improving but that basic special alcohol potless Town Dm(‘ Here Week of May Dr. Richard W. Puilen, Inter P with his of senate ty laugh and Lady Asto super tant secretary entrating in said is havi Jaw er present taxation for said that furthe s was imper- THE WEATHER April 26—Forecast t committe New Britain and vicinity res v ¥ the | it s, att v - ¢ uld cont ;'”.::l“‘m. tonight and Tuesday; | 1 esimates o rising temperature ? mprove tk the militar Tuesday | ¢ v n rom an tic ndpoint vs would be considered jolntiy t as in & move ¢ prevention, have legislativ 1celie Hartford, for Fair g slowly chea o Efficiency Plans nization ¢ f fire (Contlnued on Fourth Page)