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News of the World By Associated Pres ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, MON NEW BRITAIN HERAL Average Daily Circulation For Week Endmg l 3,23 3 Sept. 11th . DAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1926.—SIXTEEN PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS PEOPLE ARE RESCUED FROM SECOND STORY WINDOWS IN FLOODED KANSAS DISTRICT Heroic Phone Operator| JONFS SWOOPS IN Sticks to Post, Broad- WITH SG[]RE I]l: 7“ casting Warning and Saving Many Lives. \Champion of Links Tops Rivals in Title Play Rainfall in Some Sections Totals 14 Houses Washed Away bV Surging Tol'l'ent in Until Georgla Marvel Came in With 3 His Remarkable Score, Upson Was the Icader Among Qualificrs To- | Day. 13— | One County. Emporia, Kansas, Sept. 1 s e Short Hills, N. J., Sept. 13 (#— e e Mefe om0 | Bobby Jones, Georgla's wizard of lost their lives, hundreds were home- less or marooned In their houses and damage to livestock and build- ings was mounting steadily today as flood waters of the Neosho, Cotton- | wood and Verdigrls rivers swept southeastern Kansas following rain vesterday and last night, which in approached cloud- the links, today played the difficult | Baitusrol course in 70, under par, of the qualifi tional amateur championship. Two clever chips saved t} pion at the first and second greens, Bobby's approach at the first was in long grass at the left, he ball within six feet of the cup |and dropped the putt for a par five. Jones was also slightly sh second green, but again he drop- his chip dead and sank his putt {for a four. He was straight down the fairway, on in two and took the conventional two putts to make his | four at third. two strokes in the first 18-hole round cham- some sections burst proportions. Tloods Swirl Onward Starting at the headwaters of the ee rivers, the flood swept south through swelling in volume 4 threatened househol. for| Playing machine-like golf, with lives. Many, taken unawares, |drives straight down the fairways ued in row boats from the [and approaches dead to the pin, Jones continued his parade to the |sixth in par figures, of their econd stories l;nn;vlp Forced to Roofs Bobby was on the edge of the| A section of the town of |green with his m niblick at the Neosho Talls, about 35 miles south- short fourth. His approach putt sported as virtual- | rimmed the cup, robbing him of a Iy inundated at midnight, with some [birdie two, and his second was down sidents forced to the roofs of the |for par three. 1ses. A banker who reported the | The champion, followed by a gal situation to Wichita sald he stood |lery of 2,000 spectators, brought off in water on the sccond floor of a |a tremendous clout of 250 building while telephoning the re- from the fifth tee to the left of the T falrway. He was on again in two, |twenty vards from the flag, and down in the usual two putts. Jones again barely missed a birdie at the ng about ten miles |sixth and had to be content with here and cxtending more |his par four. miles southeast, along the | Bobby was i ; ; and Cottonwood v ys. |a fine drive and spoon " _.¢ on the Neosho was reported at the |seventh. He chipped 12 feet past the point in the hi of Tola |pin and took his two putts for a par as ri torrent | five. cast of here, was re yards Hits 25 Mile Strip n hardest hit apparent- | st over the green with g s i past the flag had not reached ion in Jones pitc (i e A o L e a Tong drive had from their homes el stern residential district 11 Tnches of Rain Neosho Fails broke all | y spoon, th 14 inches. | cross on the short sixth hol: reported 11 |placed him on the green, five yards & hole. He took two putts for cutting In to the inches. At Florence seven inches. |from th About four inches was reported {4 par three, here and at Bu Cottonwood | J outgoing card: Falls reported and one half| 544 344 543- r California in- making inches. Junction City reported six |lauren 1 inches. Definite records were not |tercollegiate star now. veported at Tola but it is estimated |ome at Englewood, N. J., showed that upwards of 10 inches fell there. way o the morning s in 20 Farm Houses Gone® the first round of the 36 hole quali- fication test for t! Fourteen miles southeast of Bur- ton, on the Neosho, the towns of ard hit. Dan | for Coffey golf championship, negot difficult Baltusrol links in Upson's card included tenth, but he a 6 on the three count Arcaliastinient sl 0 RRERNIRE A EREE S G RIS farm homes were completely washed | /TAIES 8¢ W e AR away in this neighborhood with " Sk (I puen e heavy losses of livestock. et e o leasotroe | The 8] n i Briington yan st i E SR LR caused when the waters of Rock [} e e Ctook, cutting through the heart of | @& MG HERAE S IER S the business district, could not emp- [{’F S (IR ty fast enough into the Neosho, [ noit? AT 4 backed up and inundated the busi-| 1 0 pod s ness district and about 50 homes. Scores of Finishers The Neosho was rising early to-| 1 1. Driggs, Jr., New York, 43- day after subsiding somewhat yes- | 41" 'gy. G Ross Somerville, London terday afte Canada, 41-39—380; Roland Macken- The Neosho is fed by the swollen 51, v ngton, D. 40-41—81 Cottonwood river'at a point south- |gjlas M. Newton, Baltimore, cast of Emporia. $0; Lauten Upson, ewood, N. ., Sees Flood, Drops Dead 37 J G Charles Rodgers, 60, a farmer 45-46—91; James Manion, St. near Burlington, who served as |Louis, 36-45—81; S. Davidson Her county commissioner during the dis- | r | astrous floods hera of 1922, dropped ad yesterday morning when he Philadelphia, 41-36—S8 Fow Pittsburgh, 45-4 Chris Brinke, Louisville, 41-4 peered from his bedroom window |Roy M. Moe, Portland, Ore., ? - to see the tide rapidly encroaching |78 Wolcott Brown, Spring Lake, | on his front steps, IN. J., 44-44—s8 | HOLDEN WITHDRAWS Herole Phone Girl The herolsm of a telephone girl, | Mrs. June Chubb, who stuck to her | post in spite of the rising waters to | spread the alarm probably saved the | A ; , Candidate for Com- | lives of many Burlington residents 1Artford Man, Candi | who slept unaware of danger. She| | anger-in-Chiet of Veterans u(J was rescued in a row boat from | the second story of the telephone| Foreign Wars Won't Run Now. exchange, Sante Sept. 13 (A—Benedict andidate for command- nsas, Texas| Hartford, e, Missouri- and Rock Island railroads abandon- | M. Holden, padidete don Sonmancsl ed service to many towns. Burling- | °¥-in-chief eteran: e ton, Madison and villages in this|Wars, has announced in a letter to Commanded James Daley of Robin- | son Post, of this city, withdrawal of |} his candi Th state of his|_ | nealth and his consequent fnability | to make the long and arduous trips | Socialist Deputy /| reauired he gave as his reason for Rome, Sept. 13 (P—The socialist Withdrawal. Delegations from sev- | deputy Attillio Suzi was clubbed by | eral eastern states had pledged thelr | a band of Roman Iascisti yesterday | Support to Mr. Holden. at his villa at Santa Marinela, thi ty miles outside the capital. Suzl is said to have admitted to the band that he was in relation with Cesare Rossi and Carlo Bazal, who are cred- z ited with directing the anti-fascist | Norris G. Osborn, editor of the campalign in France. He was cluty. [ 11aven Journal Courler, bed when he denied possession of | DY former Congressman Augustin | documents from Rossl and Bazzi. |Loncrgan as democratic nominee | o s s for U. S. senator, said today that lm; i | had always felt kindly towz Mr. Loses Her Hair and Sues | /0c'gan and he would support him | For Damages of $55, 000 | it nominated for sen Newark, N. J., leging that her hair was burned oft while she was having a permanent wave, Mrs. Lillie Stiles, of East Orange; filed suit for $55,000 dam- ages against Jennie Levine, trading | section are completely cut off from | railroad rvice. Band of rFiasciet'i Cfilh Col. Osborn Emphatic in | Declining to Seek Office New Haven, Sept. 13 (F) — Col. ew | sted | born) name for office so carelessly as he had done he would be unwill- | ing to support him (Lonergan) for any. office. The colonel eaid he was not a as the Le Grand Beauty Parlor. Eu- | candidate. He is registered as gene Stiles, her husband, asked, $10,- | democrat, he said, when asked as | 000. to his politics. InChes-ZO‘UPSON RLSO GOING WELL! tion test for the na-| but he tossed | - | guard from her cell in the c rt of |5 : 5 | give his this borough, report by 8 |tary of the local board of health. source of the disease. MRS. WPHERSON I Woman Says Evangelist Ofiered $6,000 for False Testimony NEW “KIDNAPPING” CLUE |Tos Angeles Seamstress | she Was to Get Money for As- | Asserts Ormiston. Los Angeles, Sept. 18 () — The “Examiner” in a copyrighted story today says Mrs, Lorraine Wiseman | McDonald Seilaff, $18 a week | scamstress, has confessed that her story of having shared a seaside cottage at Carmel, |the anonymous “Miss X, | Kenneth G. Ormiston, former An- gelus Temple radio operator, was la fake for which she was to re- celve $5,000 from Aimee Semple McPherson, the evangelist. The admission was made in a | sworn atement. Chey Mcet Dramatically | The alleged confession end dramatic meeting between Sellaff and her twin sister, Virla Kimball, of Oakland. met in the newspaper office under ilaff ha been taken | s ving jail where e since her arrest charges of issuing we checks. The sisters kissed and aft- er a consultation with Lwyer, rs. announced he tion of “making a clean br: the whole thi She cceded to dictate st of | her statement, which was aeknowledged later by a notary. Offcred Fasy Money Mrs. Seilaff began her affidavit by ing that she was approach- cd in San Francisco on about July 30 by a man who gave his name {as “Mr. Martin,” and who ed her it she would come to Los An- | geles on “some work which would pay good money and would only t a few weeks or not all of that tim A he said the man could give her few details, but informed that the work offered was in connection with the McPlerson o She said that she was in- structed 1o send a telegram to District Attc y Asa Keyes at Los Angeles, declaring that her sister, who was in the east, had been with Ormiston at Carmel and that she ad wired the sister to return im- mediately. day Ki ed 3 anc said over, the te \vplmzm upon her arrival, she ald she went to Angelus Temple, Tells of Conve tion some time getting in be- cause no one knew me, but I told them it was in reg: to the Car- mel case and t I had come to help M erson out,” Mrs. I talked with Mrs, Kennedy and Mr. Vieteh, one of her attorne statement continues. “I could tell them much because I did know how to go about it until hiad got some information. I met McPherson for just a few minutes that day. M Seilaff said she remained in town two days during which me she went out to the temple e a number of times” talking with Mrs, Kennedy and Mrs. Mc- Pherson. “During these two days 1 at no time talked with Mrs. McPherson alone, with the exception of just a moment when Mrs. McPherson told me it was all right to go ahead,” the woman related. “They told me to go ahead,” she continued to dictate, “and they would pay all my expenses and I that if I could do this I would be well paid PARKER DROPS DEAD | Veteran Superintendent of Parks fn Hartford Dies Suddenly at Age of | 73 Years, Hartford, Sept. 13 (#—George A. Parker, for 20 years superintendent of parks in Hartford, collapsed this seated on a bench in a street restaurant and died while on y to the Hartford | hospital in the police ambulance. | Death was ca tack. Mr. last April. Mr. Parker had been in poor | h for some time, und it was at | his own request that he was relieved of the duties of superintendent of parks in January of this year. He| had been suffering from angina pec- | oris. Relicved of the burdensome | details of his post as park superin- | tendent, Mr. Parker was given the| title of landscape architect of Hart- ford parks, and was thus able to| ull time to the work he| | most enjoyed and for which he was | | best fitted—that of planning the new improvements in the city’s park He was a former member of Un‘ state park board. | sed by a heart at- Parker was 73 years old rPII) \H(' OF TYPHOID Haddonfleld, N. J., Sept. 13 (®— ghty cases of typhoid have been | ator but if he |raporteq to health authorities in this | Sept. 13 (p)__,\“ (Lonergan) kept on using his (Os- | vicinity. An area of approximately | {25 square miles, embracing. beslde Haddon Heights, Bar- | |rington, Audubon and Oaklyn, is| said to be affected, according to a| Harry G. Griffith, secre- | Polluted water is given as thel ACCUSED OF BRIBE serting She and Sister Were With | with a sister, | and | ten- | DO | the others were expected to rec | having no home. lin Connecticut or Provide | | |Defense in $2,000,000 Boston Y‘raml% | Politlcal Effect. Bridgeport Woman, Enthusiastic Boston, Sept. 13 (P surprise | Angler, is Drowned in Housatonic move instituted by counsel s |several defendants named in the WAITED MORE THAN MONTH FOR CHANCE {Mussolini’s Assailant ~Carried Bomb Since August PREMIER IS THREATENED Tries %o Blame France For Not Within Year, League Feels Board of Directors ; New Officlal Flas Had Three Years' Today's Session of Disarmament | Stopping Anarchist Plotting—Also | Expericnce in Business Associa- | Commission Is Devoted to Decl- | Boasts He Was Not Afraid of tion in Home City, Speclalizing| sion as to Calling of Farlier Con- | } Bomb. vention on Arms, 13 (P—The ass; the Pre Rome, Sept who attempted the life 1| Ralph Benson of Springfield was in Retail Merchants' Division, } | % elected secretary of the New Brit-|ence of Pr Chi second Mussolini Saturday by throwing a 4 ain ¢ ber of C erce today, | son of the emperor of Japan, as bomb at his automobile as it was 2 ADEERO; “"““u‘"v x ; r of Japan, as a passing the Pia Gate into the city succeeding Ralph L. Gould, who ed the sessioh of now is believed to be Gino Lucetti, resigned recently. armament | 26, a native of Avenza, Tuscany. Mr. Benson is expected to take commission t ‘When seized at the scene of the ; B | tmme charge of the work| Senor Vil Chilean attempt he gave his name as Er- : : mete r:«io\.m'f‘ml and said he was ! here and will be at his office with- | chairm, the Germar The : g = n few d {e come to 1 S o) born at Castlelnuovo Di Carfagnana. | 1» & ys. He will com ed by Count Von He explains, the police that he | NeW in at a salary of $4,000 Ambaasadn gave a false name to avoid compli- | & ¥'a ; was assoclate t Von cations for his family. The ¥ /was; assocla Bernstor P on Arrived on August 2 or: ot PHINE- | for the we According to the new account d o 0! \“""' : or i given by the prisoner, he arrived in ee years. During tI ur b Rome on 2, took had charge of retail August 2, lodgings in a third class hotel under a false name, and began patrolling th streets through which he thou the premfer might 7 He constantly carried two bombs in his belt, with a piece of emery, for paper strapped to his wrist, th to set in operation the detonating ap paratus on the missiles. The fact that the premler's car was driven over different routes division and the reporting. Later hie was on the staft of the Norton Co. of Worcester, M and recently has bgen in busine in Springfield, the JLeat suggested tha ms of traffic in arms and t private manu >|be taken up by the com sion for the ament conference. icture thereot policy to pu 1, will depend v e new secreta (Continued on Page 12) Lpolicy of t arrive at ons. He pleaded for the unl control of all phases of ;Alcorn Sllent on Scope of Hls Investigation in Barberi Case armam Meeting in Future the whole general question iment which must be f you believe, as I d at ament confc e called in the not too dis- then we can abandon aking up minor problems now.” The Irench delegation final roduced a resolution that a gen- Ul disa lent conference be before next September, If it found impossible to t Nict it within that period, two will bring | fer Hartford police arn | di State’s Attorney However, Begins Work On This Mur- { der and Its Ramifications This Week—Prisoner Ex tradicted From New York. convoke 13 (P meet Dete Gallichio, Barberl back t station tomorrow Hartford, Sept. torney Hugh M. working on the 'l se this week, probably are Barberi, who i3 charged with the murder, is returned from C ona, L. L, where he has been held since his capture there by Hartford sp s soon as meanwhile manutac re should b pursued in to fac Y., Sept. 13 (A—The f Connecticut : Barberi, Albany, request of for the ex ral confer- detectives, last Tuesd, M-, Alcorn |wanted for t 1 has S would make no statement, now b Eanted by Governot Smitn it S kel of the scope of the inve tions nnounced th executive hat he will set in motion. ser today. Barberi is under < ; l‘)tv‘(}t"\'m‘c Sergeant John F. i- rest at Coron L | Sounds Warnir gan of the Hartford police dopart-| Word was rec from Hartford v ment, left for Albany, Y., early [tod th today, where it is 1 will | would be in Alb obtain Governor Smith's s ure |tain the extr on the extradition He will [would retur then go to Corona wh he will [them, preparatory considerable fliculties shou Barberi with commission time to not BEGGED 15 CENTS T0 PLAINVILLE OFFICIAL ed pessimist ed by predic ting su; fon to the rece ment on the W nt pronounce- subject by the Ameri- House spokesman. De Brouckere elgium Five Dead From Poison School Committeeman Bul- Booze in Newark— len Puts Attachment R Five Others Il on Her Property -Bone the ed on 1t words expr e day of did not Ger- push ti 1 call | Newark, N. T, Sept. 13 ten men ho on Satu drank denatured alcohol al to the Herald) i lor general thin a t woull be fatal for its pres and for its future. | RMERICAN CAPTURED of | (Sp confe ay n H‘ Plainville, Sept. 13—School Com- ed | mitteceman Fred Bull nd ' most > of with water, were dead today residents of P held prominent ville where he public of The two latest vic John Gal- , has brought in his wife, lagher and an unidentifi Mrs. Martha J. W s Bullen for | e died last night. The other $7,000. | New York Businessman Touring in occurred a few hours after one of g . | men had succeeded in & s Ix'\w o, ‘r"‘“‘]“\';“:“ Mevico Falls Victim To Brigands RosnS RV HICh L0 L VAREL sent writ of attachment| Across Border. poison. was issued. Mr. Bullen returned to | . Included Philip D among the victims er, aged 37, and liste Police toda informed that he formerly w the grain and feed bus her home du to hear of he Mrs. Bullen rd about t (M d to spé : R 1o | the Plainville c and that he was worth a consider- yro g able sum of money at one time, week-end | Mexico Ci action Ros ng th husband pa Jacob York city to Mexico oner by er about it. At icus this evening en will be up for r ation as a member of {1 committee. A drive is bei womien to take his place FIND WOMAN'S BODY from Mexico ( omin- Case Insists Action Is Only For bandits Lane, under alleged $2,000,000 city of Doston fraud case, halted the hearing on Goorge Lewis of T Indictments before Judge Raymond | who has been missing fron in the superfor &iminal court to-|summer cottage on the bank of ¢ day pending a hearing assigned for | Housatonic river at Sandy Hook, 10 Sept. 13 (P | | for the | for the | | can emt bile. | Wednesday on pleas of abatem miles east of this city, was recover- | . Claiming that the entire proceed-|aq from the river early this a ing had been undertaken for poli- |noon. Secretary nf \m\ S tical effect and that the grand jur-| Mg Lewi Daughter Is Teacher ors were improperly influenced by |tic angler, N s the district attorney and his assist- | o'clock Sunday 2 RAAIIBur AR lehbar ot aee ants, Damon E. Hall, representing | fish upon the river. The boat wa £ havy. Citis D. Wilbilr the Warren Brothers Co, and for-|found last evening partly filled with |y *3 el 1akt Tune toitace | mer Judge Frederic *hase and | water. litea N iodats |Thomas Mahony for the Central Construction Co. filed pleas of abat State policemen from the Rid fleld Barracks grappled for the hody er of the facult has crganizc a met high sct ment and summoned the mMemDbers | throughout the forenoon. The body | 1y s tton h of the Suffolk grand jury for the |wag brought from the bottom of the |Tns school venr hus Vet purpose of ascertaining what t00K [river this afternoon. A pair of vy | s % lace at the investigation which led | rubber boots which had be o ATl RIS ’ L eeome | Falls OFf Merry-Go-Round, Springfield Candidate Elected by Disarmament Must Come Up SALARY WILL BE 84000 DELAY WOULD BE FATAL to the indictments filled with water apr | 3 e — kept.it below the surface. The indi-| Milford Man Is Killed | — cations were that Mrs. Lewis, grasp. Al Milford, Conn., Sept. 13(— infi a paddle, had fallen over | George Stanton of Bridgeport who THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity— Generally fair tonight and \ Tuesday; cooler tonight. at o point about 30 feet from the|fell from a merry go round at Myr- shore. |tle Reach last night, died in the Mrs. Lewls was 26 years old. Her | hospital here early today. Stanton, husband is chief inspector of the|who was manager of the merry go Americap Aluminum company of |round, stepped from the machine Fairfleld. The family home is at 284 | while it was in motion and tripping. # South avenue, Bridgeport, fell on his head, + 1 | | | | * I RALPH BENSON IS WORLD CONFERENCE ALLING’S FRIENDS PREPARE C. OF C. SECRETARY BEFORE NEXT SEPT. BOOM FOR HIS NOMINATION FOR ‘OR ATTORNEY GENERALSHIP BRAINARD LEADING GT° K Ha"f°§d Today IN S'I'ATE [;[]NTEST o Sound Sentiment Of Delegates to State Branford Man Believed fo Be Convention. | Strongest Candidate New Britain Man Report- WADHAMS BOOM GROWS‘ ed Willing to Enter Race | == if Evidence Indicates Ha Contest For Lieutenant Governor of Has Fighting Chance | Chief Interest in Republican Con- w1 vention Opening Tonight—Alling & Political friends of Judge Benjas | Possibility For Atty. Generalship. min W. Alling are in Hartford this afternoon secking light on the situ- Hartford, 13 (A—Workers ation surrounding the nomination for t delegates to attorney general at the republican ¢ opened in state conventoin in that city, it be- Fo t, and many ing generally acknowledged that rest in c loor s late th ling’s name will be presente ion if prospects for vice oright. Major John Bucke who was considered the strongs candidate for the nomination, anges in the outlook announced that he will not run. sceedings. The t L. Darbie of Danielson and tenant Gover- Charles E. Williamson of Darlen rd of Branford have announced that they will came o TORALNE e for the place on the ticket. n, for the Meutenant r Judge Alling will enter ths and the race depends, it is said, on whether ites Attorney there is sufficient sentiment in his ing, 15 fore Over the we unexpeeted ck for the convention Acting 1 or J. Edwin Bra former § ms of °nd there had heen ry o omination, United § John Buckle ot t 4 name | f2Y0r among tho state conventlon o be put forward for attorney gen- | delegates. ral had given zest to the situation,| Judse Alling has been mentioned o months | 0T S0me time as a possible candl- te for the nomi.ation but, it is reported, he would not enter a con- test with Major Buckley. Now that | Buckley eliminated himself from the race, Judge Alling's supporters believe that he would make a strong -/candldate and would help the ticket. Slbert L. a respon for nomination as at- 1 at the close of ral assembly Ruckley Darbi M Judge Alling this morning said he the major had s was not in a position to say definite- ferred to be in his ly that he will be a candidate, but s Instcad of running for a state|ne admitted that a decision one way elective office, tossed his bonnet or the other will be arrived at to- night. He has been approached by prominent republicans relative to be- 2 coming a candidate and as develop- e nomination. Williamson | ments always occur the night befors had a long legislative carcer. |the day of the convention on which the house in 1909, 1911 nominations are actually made, he and 1 and _in thelwil make a decision before morne in 1917 and 1919. When the |jne ‘ closed he had expressed would Withdraw From Senate Race, pes to his friends that he could| " 1p yne event of his nomination for crown his expe 'S with nomination the office, Judge A lling will witha ; ’V‘w‘:‘l“’“‘l“'- Il“;f draw as the republican nomince for B B BN senalor from the sixth district, he vould not seck renomination. |gaig 1 uSly wdhinak se dissolved members | 4¢ tho prim, &ty 380 o the ri esentative g only to find that Rep- Charles A. Williamson Darien was ready to contest for season 1S attorne j\f*" " land is generally regarded the strong- S 00 est late for office, in view < ‘m I‘i- of his popularity and the record he o o the state|Made as leader of the house in the A Al on of the legisiature. The epublican town committee has the \min | PONer to fill vacancies in the ticket. majority |, Lhat Judse Alllng would also re- |tire from the judgeship of the city {and police courts of this city, in the W from the ling of New d be a third house, Ben Britain, Senate Strong For Alling ! {event of election as attorney . n te republicans 100king | general scemed prebable to: the 11 ; .1 ‘prr dicted that Mr. AllNg | Whether or not he would retire fme pouligpe isebarty. o m”;w"ror' A mediately on receiving the nomina- torney cra Since that time|(ion, or walt until atter howev Mr. Alling’s law partner, siar SlecHiod man being discussed today. When Judge Alling was a candidate for mayor two years ago, he Geor W. Klett died, and 1t 1 become known that his politi- | known that announced that al Lileng ; \‘u‘ “!‘rl-'";”\l‘h:' ;’;N in the event of his election he would it e follo 1s e " |retire as judge anc S T ge and it was pointed out today that he would probably, do =0 in this instance. New ritain's delegates to the res ey : oublican state convention will vote L ””;:"“m”-]‘;'l'”-:"“' s & unit for J. Erwin Brainard of ; ] candidacios of | Branford, for the nomination for Darhic and Williamson dropped_out | ICU(eNaNt governor, and will be eht o A, mron copped Ot reparediite hack Jufige Alllngy e e ot Mo Ntiiagos Eave 10 IK- | this city for attorney general should g 1 his senit frienaa e decide to be a candidate. ol L e The delegates will leave this eves les dectiiation to|nIng for Hartford to be on hand ¥ r for the convention opening. Ernest \irce names to the f irman of the the other two immed &0 0f <tho el He had alre: for senator in dy been nomin- the sixth d LTS D IS her delegates aret Aereactys . Selma Johnson, F. 0% . James J. Sposato and d's Friends Confident h B. Walther. ant governorship The delegation has not been fin« 3rainard’s riends 3 b [rien9S [structed for Brainard, but is 100 per claim week that he had a lit-| oo o0 ST BEEAR, DUE tle the > outlook in spite 5 ‘ i of t or SR Holcomb nator Wadh, r's strength was said to Hartford and Litchfield le Brainard was hoping 1l of New Haven county, a con- erable vote from New London ounty, a scattering vote from Wind- am and better t 3 Fairfield county. believed he would ¢ SCORES OF FAMILIES FORCED INTO STREET Bursting of Refrigerating System in Hartford Spreads ms, Fumes Throughout District Hartford, Conn., Sept. 13 of fami (- Iving in the vicine vention nee e S e : Pha e hanges which 1Y of 302 Pleasant street forced to ik outlook | Yicate their tenements about 1:30 this afternoon,. when a pipe in the itomatic refrigerating system at the Hartf, Provision ~company burst so that the building and streets len of Merid ams and wo surrounding it were flooded with tion would be | g ! ; d ) sl vhta ofithe] ot nmonia fumes. The pipa a deadlock, p t without warning and all the New Haven city delc t it - ployes orced o in the building were ide before it was possible > turn off the ammonia tank that wpplied the pipes with fumes. Several of the employes made their way back into the bullding was to have voted for Wad- gqon enough to let loose a dozen for governor in the conven-|eows that were awalting slaughter. n g st Hiram Bingham but| The cows were turned out into the Major Buckley who had sponsored | st and though their lives wers him, withdrew the name and the saved, their presence on the street New Haven de tes voted for to the confusion. Bin, . s sent for Squad A, of Wolcott “Dark Horse department. The firemen When the legislature readjourned e of the axplo- there was some discussion among |sion equipped with smoke masks. his fellow-members as to the lik They went to the cellar and shut off hood of Senator Walcott, who ha been chairman of the finance com- ¢ potentially, a candi-| FOUR FINGERS ANMPUTATED licutenant governor. At | Antonio Simeone, aged 32, of his name is given as that of | Farmington avenue, Berlin, cut his one “dark horse” while the leader | hand while sawing wood yesterday of a faction in the party is said w'md it was necessary to amputate have brought up the name of form- | four fingers of his left hand at New | Britain General hospital. His condi= tion today was comfortabla an- mean be for Wad ements wer ainard would not the s own county Two o the New Haven city dele- the fire arrived at the date fc present (Continued on Page Twelve)